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Exclusive Interview: Edward Asner joins the WORKING CLASS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/25/2011
Ed Asner in WORKING CLASS - Season 1 | ©2011 CMT

On CMT’s half-hour comedy WORKING CLASS (airing Friday nights), seven-time Emmy Award winner Edward Asner plays Frank, a grocery store butcher who is gruff and blunt. In real life, Asner is cordial and thoughtful, but he still speaks his mind, as he has all his life. Pretty much anyone who has ever watched television remembers Asner as Lou Grant, who started out as the heroine’s boss on THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW and then, when that series’ seven-season run ended, moved over to his own hour-long newsroom drama, LOU GRANT. What many may not remember is how and why LOU […]Read On »


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Movie Review: SUCKER PUNCH

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
SUCKER PUNCH poster | ©2011 Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, Oscar Isaac, Scott Glenn, John Hamm Writers: Zack Snyder & Steve Shibuya, story by Zack Snyder Director: Zack Snyder Distributor: Warner Bros. Release Date: March 25, 2011 There are some worthwhile ideas roaming around inside of SUCKER PUNCH, but like the film’s heroine, they are trapped several layers away from reality. Just to be clear, SUCKER PUNCH’s director/co-writer/story creator Zack Snyder made his feature directorial debut with one of the most compulsively watchable movies ever, the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD. Although zombie movies […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BONES star John Francis Daley has a Sweets time

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/24/2011
John Francis Daley in BONES - Season 6 | ©2010 Fox/Brian Bowen Smith

On BONES, shady guest characters have a tendency to underestimate the professional skills of Dr. Lance Sweets, the youthful clinical psychologist who works with the team in profiling suspects – and occasionally profiles his colleagues, much to their discomfort. John Francis Daley (of FREAKS AND GEEKS and the Broadway production of the Who’s TOMMY), who plays Sweets, evaluates his work on the show for us. ASSIGNMENT X: Did you do any research into being a mental health professional when you got this part? JOHN FRANCIS DALEY: I just made sure to hang around a lot of mentally unstable people. In […]Read On »


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Book Review: SERPENT’S STORM by Amber Benson

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/23/2011
SERPENT'S STORM by Amber Benson

Writer: Amber Benson Suggested Retain Price: $7.99 Publisher: Ace Mass Market Paperback Original Publication Date: February 22, 2011 SERPENT’S STORM is the third novel in Amber Benson’s Calliope Reaper-Jones series, which began with DEATH’S DAUGHTER and continued in CAT’S CLAW. While there will reportedly be more books to follow, SERPENT’S STORM feels very much like the conclusion to a trilogy that it in fact is, paying off many elements that were set up in the earlier installments. What’s really gratifying here is that as our heroine Callie has grown and matured, so has her ability to process what’s happening around […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS star Shay Mitchell is to die for

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/21/2011
Shay Mitchell in PRETTY LITTLE LIARS - Season 1 | ©2011 ABC Family/Andrew Eccles

ABC Family’s freshman series PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, based on Sara Shepard’s novels about four high school friends sharing a variety of dangerous secrets, has been a breakout hit this season. With the season finale tonight, we talk with Shay Mitchell, who plays Emily Fields, about the show and her character. ASSIGNMENT X: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS has gone beyond being a hit TV show and actually turned into sort of a cult phenomenon. When you first were cast as Emily, did you ever think it was going to turn into something this big? SHAY MITCHELL: From reading the breakdown and [knowing […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS star Troian Bellisario keeps secrets

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/18/2011
Troian Bellisario in PRETTY LITTLE LIARS - Season 1 - "The New Normal" | ©2011 ABC Family/Randy Holmes

On ABC Family’s hit PRETTY LITTLE LIARS, which has its first-season finale Monday night, Troian Bellisario plays Spencer Hastings, one of a group of four high-school friends keeping secrets. Spencer is the perfectionist of the quartet, who is under a lot of stress from both outside forces and her own personal drives. Although Bellisario has had a recurring role on NCIS as the sister of the character Tim McGee, played by her real-life stepbrother Sean Murray, and her parents are television industry veterans – her father is producer Donald Bellisario (NCIS, JAG, QUANTUM LEAP) and her mother is actress/producer Deborah […]Read On »


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Movie Review: LIMITLESS

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
LIMITLESS poster | ©2011 Relativity

Rating: R Stars: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Anna Friel, Andrew Howard, Johnny Whitworth Writer: Leslie Dixon, based on the novel THE DARK FIELDS by Alan Glynn Director: Neil Burger Distributor: Relativity Release Date: March 18, 2011 There are (and will continue to be) a lot of science fiction thrillers that desperately want to be smart and snappy. LIMITLESS is the movie that those are trying to be. There is only one genre twist here, but it informs pretty much everything else that happens, which gives the movie a sound foundation. What makes LIMITLESS work so well, though, […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE LINCOLN LAWYER

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN
THE LINCOLN LAWYER movie poster | ©2011 Lionsgate

Rating: R Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, Josh Lucas, John Leguizamo, Michael Pena, Bob Gunton, Frances Fisher, Bryan Cranston, William H. Macy Writer: John Romano, based on the novel by Michael Connelly Director: Brad Furman Distributor: Lionsgate Release Date: March 18, 2011 THE LINCOLN LAWYER, adapted from L.A. noir mystery master Michael Connelly’s novel, comes to the screen as a thoroughly enjoyable courtroom drama, with plenty of twists and fake-outs. Although the movie doesn’t get maximum mileage out of the central notion that its protagonist uses the inside of his Lincoln Continental as his law office, director Brad […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: BONES star Michaela Conlin deals with remains of the day

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/17/2011
Michaela Conlin in BONES - Season 6 | ©2010 Fox/Brian Bowen

Michaela Conlin is in her sixth season of playing Angela Montenegro, the artist who reconstructs what corpses looked like as living humans, on Fox’s hit BONES (Thirsdays at 9 PM). While Angela works with forensic evidence, she’s not a pathologist like her good friend Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel), nor law enforcement like FBI Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). However, this week, audiences will get to see a whole different side of Conlin as she plays LAPD Detective Sobel in THE LINCOLN LAWYER, based on Michael Connelly’s novel, which opens Friday. Conlin is very excited about both gigs, as she […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: FACE OFF host McKenzie Westmore makes up

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/16/2011
McKenzie Westmore hosts FACE OFF | ©2011 Syfy/Evans Vestal Ward

McKenzie Westmore seems the perfect choice to host Syfy’s special effects makeup competition series FACE OFF, which has its season finale tonight at 10 PM (the show was just renewed for a second season). As an actress, Westmore has the personality to keep things lively on the air – besides FACE OFF, she can currently be seen on the online soap opera THE BAY – and she actually has makeup effects heritage. Her father is legendary makeup effects artist Michael Westmore, of the famed Westmore makeup dynasty. She talks past, present and future with ASSIGNMENT X in this exclusive interview. […]Read On »


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