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General Hospital (Gh) spoilers note a new face is about to pop up in the land of Port Charles, who could possibly become the new man in Trina Robinson’s (Tabyana Ali) life. Actor Jens Austin Astrup will be joining the ABC soap as Kai, very soon. Learn more about this exciting casting news, below.

General Hospital Spoilers – Kai’s Debut On The Canvas

Astrup will be playing the character Kai, who is set to debut sometime during November sweeps. He’ll be introduced to fans when Trina meets him at Port Charles University.

Not much more has been revealed about the character or his potential ties to the little town, so fans will need to stay tuned to Gh and Cts for more information as it trickles down the pipes.

A newcomer to daytime drama, Astrup is a native of LA and graduate of Vassar, where he studied literature and acting.

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After Sam Raimi’s darkly playful 2009 fright fest “Drag Me to Hell” came out, star Alison Lohman said she faced a question. “It was kind of like: Do you want to be a household name?” she remembers in a recent phone call.

She didn’t. “I don’t think I really really wanted that, to be in the public eye,” she said.

If you had told film fans in the 2000s that Lohman would have essentially vanished from the big screen in 2024, they might have a hard time believing you. The decade offered Lohman an incredible run, starting with her breakout role in 2002’s “White Oleander,” Peter Kominsky’s melodrama, where she played the daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer. She played the love of Ewan McGregor’s life in Tim Burton’s “Big Fish,...

It’s official: Young Sheldon is leaving Medford, Texas, to pursue his Big Bang Theory future in Pasadena, Calif.

In the sixth-to-last episode of the prequel series, a recently published paper co-authored by the future Dr. Cooper led to a frenzy of grad school recruiting. Harvard, M.I.T., Princeton, Stanford and the University of Toronto all came a-knockin’ with generous offers. But the 14-year-old scientist, who hates change, strongly considered continuing his education at East Texas Tech.

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There is another face change in Port Charles as actress Nicole Paggi has temporarily replaced Kirsten Storms as Maxie Jones on General Hospital, beginning with the December 27 episode. As first reported by Soap Opera Digest, Paggi will take over the role of Maxie, the eldest daughter of Frisco Jones (Jack Wagner) and Felicia Cummings (Kristina Wagner), who has been a part of the long-running daytime drama since 1993. Storms, who was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2009, has portrayed the character since 2005. This isn’t the first time the character of Maxie has changed faces. Robyn Richards first portrayed the role from 1993 to 2004 before Storms took over in 2005. In 2011, Storms took extended medical leave, with Jen Lilley temporarily taking on the role. Storms also had temporary absences in 2016, 2017, and 2018, with Molly Burnett frequently stepping in in her place. Paggi is perhaps best known for playing Jennie Bradbury on Mike White‘s critically acclaimed Fox series Pasadena.

When developing her on-screen friendship with co-star Christa Miller, “Shrinking” star Jessica Williams said she positioned it as if they were hanging out “like a ‘Real Housewife of Pasadena.’”

In other words, she approached the relationship between her character, Gaby, and and Miller’s character, Liz, through the lens of her fascination with reality TV and obsession with the “Real Housewives” franchise. In this episode of Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast, Williams and Miller share how that TV friendship has developed into a real-life, off-screen one as well.

In separate interviews, Williams and Miller discussed the dynamic of their characters’ evolving personalities and what they hope for the second season. Listen below!

“Shrinking” focuses on therapist Jimmy Laird (Jason Segel) and his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell), after the loss of their matriarch, Tia (Lilan Bowden). The half-hour comedy chronicles as the therapist develops a much more hands-on approach with his...

The White Lotus has become one of the biggest shows to come out of the pandemic. The show’s creator Mike White has earned Emmy Awards for his work on the show, as have stars like Jennifer Coolidge and Murray Bartlett. But White has a history on screen dating back much further than The White Lotus.

Mel and Mike White from ‘The Amazing Race’ | Monty Brinton/CBS Mike White competed on ‘The Amazing Race’

Mike White was an accomplished screenwriter in the 2000s before making the jump to reality TV. In 2009, Mike joined The Amazing Race‘s fourteenth season, competing with his dad, Mel. Together, Mel and Mike traveled several countries, incuding Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Romania, Russia, India, and Thailand. They won one leg of the race in Romania before being eliminated in Thailand, ending the race in sixth place.

A few years later, in 2011, Mel and Mike returned for The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business,...

Maer Roshan is out at Los Angeles magazine.

The editor-in-chief has been ousted after more than four years in the job, during which time he steered a major rebrand of the publication through buzzy, high-impact cover stories and features while expanding the title’s social media footprint.

Roshan’s exit comes directly on the heels of massive shifts on the business side. In December, Los Angeles was acquired by power lawyers and business leaders Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas through their newly launched Engine Vision Media in a deal that also covered Pasadena and Orange Coast magazines. At the time, the pair said they planned to invest in the titles and “provide the resources needed to take them to the next level,” per Geragos.

The deal was welcomed as a shot in the arm by Los Angeles staff, which had been decimated in recent years amid challenges to the media industry.

Exclusive: Sarah Jeffery (The CW’s Charmed), Emmy nominee Jane Adams (Hacks), Jake Weber (Those Who Wish Me Dead) and Balthazar Getty (Twin Peaks) will star in Year of the Fox, the latest feature from award-winning director Megan Griffiths, which has wrapped production in the state of Washington.

The film written by Eliza Flug is a fictionalized depiction of teenage experiences and personal encounters she had while growing up in Aspen, Colorado, during the last of its utopian heyday. Set in 1997, it tells the story of 17-year-old Ivy (Jeffery), who was adopted as an infant into a wealthy and notable Aspen family and is now navigating the fallout of her parents’ bitter divorce.

Ivy’s mother, Paulene (Adams), prepares to relocate to her native Seattle, taking Ivy with her. But Ivy’s influential and controlling father, Huxley (Weber), pulls Ivy ever closer by inviting...

Dustin Lynch offered up a pair of new songs on Friday. The surprise releases “Pasadena” and “Not Every Cowboy” are the country singer’s first new music to appear since his fourth album, Tullahoma, was released in early 2020.

In comparison to the Tullahoma singles “Good Girl” and “Ridin’ Roads,” both of Lynch’s new songs feel like back-to-basics, fiddle-friendly productions from collaborator Zach Crowell. “Pasadena” plays on the musicality of the California town’s name, its four syllables mirroring an ascending guitar and banjo run while Lynch, who co-wrote the...

HBO’s The White Lotus marks quirk-and-cringe auteur Mike White’s first TV series since the existential-crisis classic Enlightened, which ended its two-season run back in 2013.

TV is better for having White working in it, though it’s worth warning that the six-episode The White Lotus is, in many ways, more a successor to his subversively trashy 2001 Fox soap opera Pasadena than to Enlightened, the rare HBO classic that’s genuinely underrated. A snapshot of awfully rich people doing awfully awful things, White Lotus is delightfully mean-spirited and unexpectedly big-hearted in ways that will probably polarize some audiences. I found it vibrantly messy and ...

HBO’s The White Lotus marks quirk-and-cringe auteur Mike White’s first TV series since the existential-crisis classic Enlightened, which ended its two-season run back in 2013.

TV is better for having White working in it, though it’s worth warning that the six-episode The White Lotus is, in many ways, more a successor to his subversively trashy 2001 Fox soap opera Pasadena than to Enlightened, the rare HBO classic that’s genuinely underrated. A snapshot of awfully rich people doing awfully awful things, White Lotus is delightfully mean-spirited and unexpectedly big-hearted in ways that will probably polarize some audiences. I found it vibrantly messy and ...

Who got signed, promoted, hired or fired? The Hollywood Reporter’s Rep Sheet rounds up the week in representation news. To submit announcements for consideration, contact rebecca.sun@thr.com.

Having a ball

Pose star Mj Rodriguez has signed with Bwr PR. She's currently in the running for the Critics Choice Awards' Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role as house mother Blanca on the FX drama, and this fall she starred as Audrey in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Rodriguez continues to be represented by Gersh and Perennial Entertainment.

Pilot of pilots

CAA has signed Andy Fleming,...

Who got signed, promoted, hired or fired? The Hollywood Reporter’s Rep Sheet rounds up the week in representation news. To submit announcements for consideration, contact rebecca.sun@thr.com.

Having a ball

Pose star Mj Rodriguez has signed with Bwr PR. She's currently in the running for the Critics Choice Awards' Best Actress in a Drama Series for her role as house mother Blanca on the FX drama, and this fall she starred as Audrey in Pasadena Playhouse's revival of Little Shop of Horrors. Rodriguez continues to be represented by Gersh and Perennial Entertainment.

Pilot of pilots

CAA has signed Andy Fleming,...

There are a lot of perks to living in California, but one of my recent traditions has become the various screenings held by the fine folks at Street Food Cinema, who bring out a cavalcade of food trucks for each film event, as well as live musical entertainment, special guests, and more. Sfc is a great way to experience some of your favorite movies underneath the stars, and if you live in the La area, I highly recommend checking out what Street Food Cinema has to offer.

Sfc recently announced their 2018 slate of screenings for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas in California , and here’s a look at the various genre-related movies (and some other films I thought readers might be interested in) that will be playing from May through the end of October. To see the entire Street Food Cinema schedule, check out their site Here.

May 5th – Get Out,...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: In light of the recent “Roseanne” revival news, which sitcom would you like to see a revival of? (Let’s assume this is feasible from a network, talent, production, etc. standpoint.)

Liz Shannon Miller (@lizlet), IndieWire

So many great sitcoms are personality driven, which makes it hard to remember great premises worth reviving. (And also, when I think about some of my ‘90s favorites, like “Step by Step” or “Friends,” it’s like… Oh, maybe there’s nothing new under the sun.)

But, beyond my eternal wish that someone would remake “Almost Human” as an adorable rom-com about Karl Urban and Robot Michael Ealy falling in...

Gene Gene Dancing Machine from The Gong Show, Gene Patton, died Monday in Pasadena. He was 82. Gene Patton Dies Patton’s family announced his death Friday. A spokeswoman at the local Woods-Valentine Mortuary confirmed his passing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Patton had long suffered from diabetes, losing both of his legs to the disease […]

The post Gene Patton, ‘The Gong Show’s Gene Gene Dancing Machine, Dies At 82 appeared first on uInterview.

Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC’s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family announced. He was 82. Patton died in Pasadena, according to a spokeswoman at the local Woods-Valentine Mortuary. He had suffered from diabetes. The Gong Show, dreamed up and hosted by producer Chuck Barris (The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game), aired on NBC in daytime from 1976-78 and then in syndication. Acts — most of them amateurish and just plain awful — auditioned for three celebrity judges, who banged a gong on

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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley Temple, and Oscar movies: Library of Congress’ March 2014 screenings (photo: Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in ‘Capote’) Tributes to the recently deceased Shirley Temple and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and several Academy Award-nominated and -winning films are among the March 2014 screenings at the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater and, in collaboration with the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, The State Theatre, both located in Culpeper, Virginia. The 1934 sentimental comedy-drama Little Miss Marker (March 6, Packard) is the movie that turned six-year-old Shirley Temple into a major film star. Temple would become the biggest domestic box-office draw of the mid-1930s, and, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Loretta Young, and Madeleine Carroll notwithstanding, would remain 20th Century Fox’s top star until later in the decade. Directed by Alexander Hall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan, My Sister Eileen), Little Miss Marker — actually, a Paramount...

The Pasadena Playhouse announced Academy Award and Emmy nominee Taraji P. Henson Starred on Person of Interest on CBS, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and new No Good Deed oppsite Idris Elba to star as Jane in the World Premiere of Above The Fold, the fourth production of its 2013 - 2014 Season. Written by Bernard Weinraub and directed by Steven Robman, Above The Fold plays January 28 - February 23, 2014. Opening night is February 2, 2014.

Even with a midseason return and a shorter run this time, Dana Delany is happy her latest series still has life.

It actually can be considered a new life, since the ABC medical mystery "Body of Proof" will reflect significant changes as its third season starts Tuesday, Feb. 19. Delany's Dr. Megan Hunt will be without several colleagues who were present from the show's start: Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop), her investigator, who was stabbed by an enemy of Megan's in the Season 2 finale, and homicide detectives Bud Morris and Samantha Baker (John Carroll Lynch, Sonja Sohn).

Police work will remain a factor in "Body of Proof," though ... a bigger factor, in fact, given the main cast addition. Mark Valley ("Human Target," "Boston Legal") worked previously with Delany on the short-lived Fox serial "Pasadena," and their reunion makes him Tommy Sullivan, an investigator with whom Megan has a personal past -- a...

Dana Delany doesn't mind "Body of Proof" proving itself again a bit later.

The "China Beach" Emmy winner's medical-mystery series begins its third season Tuesday, Feb. 19, on ABC ... two weeks later than initially planned. Had it stuck with Feb. 5, it would have been pre-empted the next week for coverage of President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address, so Delany is quite content not to have her latest run interrupted just one week in.

"I get to have a little more rest before I go out on the p.r. trail," the grateful, typically good-humored actress tells Zap2it. Several of her original "Body of Proof" co-stars were let go -- Nicholas Bishop, Sonja Sohn and John Carroll Lynch -- and Mark Valley, who co-starred with Delany earlier on Fox's short-lived "Pasadena," is joining the show as a police detective who has a past with her Dr. Megan Hunt.

Hiding under a cap that declares Life’S Rad, Mike White sits in a Los Angeles café, biting his nails and perusing the menu’s vegan options. “Hey, man,” says the 42-year-old Pasadena native, rather dudelike, when I arrive. He speaks with the endearing crackle of a postpubescent boy, but as a writer-director-actor-producer, White’s honed a deeply resonant voice, sharply attuned to the mortifying horror of becoming an adult. Over the past fifteen years, he’s delivered a memorable array of earnestly embarrassing fuck-ups. After writing for Dawson’s Creek and Freaks and Geeks, he helped broaden then-neighbor Jack Black’s blunderbuss appeal with the scripts for School of Rock and Nacho Libre. White had a Sundance hit in the dark 2000 comedy Chuck and Buck, in which he played, as he puts it, a “lost, gay predator retard.” People walked out of the first screening, and he left the...

Body of Proof returns Feb. 5 with more action, romance and a greater sense of urgency.

Discussing the show’s Season 3 revamp Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, exec producer Matthew Gross said viewers should expect an amped-up Body. “We wanted to make stories that were more thriling, that have more stakes,” he said. “Inject more octane into the show.”

Related | Body of Proof: Who’s In and Who’s Out in Season 3

The addition of Mark Valley as a police officer and former love interest of Dana Delany’s Megan will add an...

What’s up with Justified‘s Winona? Is Patton Oswalt sticking around? And do Raylan and Boyd even like each other?

During a panel at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena on Wednesday, the FX series’ cast — including Timothy Olyphant, Walton Goggins and Joelle Carter — and creator Graham Yost dished all about what’s to come on the drama’s just-launched Season 4.

Busted Bromance | Estranged pals (?) Raylan and Boyd may finally, officially become foes by Season 4′s end. “There’s one line, that Boyd has never said in the previous three seasons, that he says this season.

Jeanne Tripplehorn ("Criminal Minds," CBS, Returns Sept. 26): No television novice after multiple seasons on "Big Love," the co-star of such movies as "Waterworld" and "The Firm" will play a profiler with the Behavioral Analysis Unit.

Natalie Martinez ("CSI: NY," CBS, Returns Sept. 28): It's about time Detective Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) got some lasting happiness ... and wouldn't you just know the source of it apparently will be another cop, played by Martinez, who has experience in such characters from her stint on "Detroit 1-8-7."

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Kristin Chenoweth ("The Good Wife," CBS, Returns Sept. 30): The spirited Broadway veteran and Emmy winner (for "Pushing Daisies") seemed an ideal match for the role of a political reporter zeroing in on Peter (Chris Noth). Unfortunately -- having been injured in an on-set accident -- her planned story arc won't last past the season premiere. Still, it would have been great.

*Updated with dozens of new locations* It was recently announced John Carpenter’s Halloween will return to theaters across the country this October and the first list of participating theaters have been announced.

“This October, John Carpenter’s immortal classic, Halloween, will be making a return to theaters nationwide. This will be the biggest run the film has had since shocking audiences in 1978, and makes for the perfect early kick off to next year’s 35th Anniversary celebration.

Screening before the film will be You Can’T Kill The Bogeyman: 35 Years Of Halloween, a new mini documentary written and directed by our own Justin Beahm, focusing on the undeniable impact the film (and series) has had on culture and the genre. The documentary will run at all screenings coast-to-coast.”

*Note: More locations will be added over the course of the month. Although most of the screenings are expected to start on October 25th,...

Dana Delany thinks she soon might get to the bottom of "one of the all-time-best practical jokes" ever played on her.

When the "China Beach" Emmy winner's ABC medical-mystery series "Body of Proof" begins its third round at midseason, she'll be reunited with Mark Valley, previously her co-star on Fox's short-lived "Pasadena." He's resurfacing as a police-detective ex-flame of Dr. Megan Hunt (Delany), and the actress maintains that as straight-arrow as many of his characters are, Valley is a world-class prankster.

"I was so happy to see him," Delany tells Zap2it. "We did a little screen test together, and he's a great guy. I feel there's a side of Mark that people need to see. We saw some of it in 'Pasadena,' but not a lot of people saw that show. He's usually cast as the handsome a**hole, and there's more to Mark than that.

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Dana Delany is reuniting with her Pasadena co-star Mark Valley on her latest series, Body Of Proof. Valley is in final negotiations to join the ABC medical drama as a new regular. The former Human Target star will play Det. Tommy Sullivan, a sexy former NYPD detective who has transferred to Philadelphia to try to rekindle his relationship with Megan Hunt (Delany). They broke up twenty years ago because he cheated on her. Tommy is one of two new regular roles that Body of Proof is adding in the wake of the departure of three regulars whose options were not picked up in May: Nicholas Bishop, John Carroll Lynch and Sonja Sohn. Valley, repped by Wme and Untitled, most recently co-starred on NBC’s Harry’s Law.

Body of Proof has its sights on a Human Target — as in Mark Valley — to fill one of two new roles being added for Season 3.

Sources tell TVLine that Valley, whose TV credits also include Fringe, Boston Legal and, most recently, Harry’s Law, is in talks to play the series regular role of Det. Tommy Sullivan, a onetime love interest of Megan’s who transfers to Philadelphia to win her back. The rugged cop will give his strong-willed ex a flirty hard time as they work together to solve cases.

“Things between them are not good,” a chuckling Dana Delany...

There's something inhumane about networks announcing mass cancelations all at once. It sort of denies the viewer a chance to mourn each and every show that's killed the same way we watched them -- one at a time and with our undivided attention. 

So now that the execs have gone home with blood on their hands, we finally have a moment to really think about the loss of one of our favorite shows, ABC's "Brothers & Sisters."

As we mentioned in our finale article, there are a few reasons to believe that the series that defined family dysfunction could have gone on. But, if it ended with that episode (as we now know it does) and the series was truly about surviving the sins of William Walker, then that chapter can now be closed. That doesn't mean we won't miss the things that "Brothers & Sisters" did so well. 

So, allow us...

"I have another year to go on my contract. And, I can say to you that I have just begun - just begun - shooting material such as I have never done before as an actress. Things Erica Kane has never done before. It's very exciting material and that story arc is a long arc that is written to at least next Fall. That much I can tell you! Of course, the show is not just my storyline, it's all the people there - and that's what we're hearing from all the executives at ABC, is how enthusiastic and excited they are by the writing. We had a head writer who was let go a year and half ago - he was just not the right match for our show."

America Ferrera: "My Heart is Very Close" to Good Wife Guest Role

"I certainly didn't expect to jump into...

Miguel Arteta knows a thing or two about being out of place. After all, he’s a man of Puerto Rican descent that has made Cedar Rapids, a film that lives and breathes the Midwest. In the film, Ed Helms plays a man from a small town moving up to the “big city” of that Iowa town. And the concept of being alien isn’t foreign to Arteta, who also has movies like The Good Girl and Youth In Revolt in his filmography.

I sat down with Arteta in a roundtable interview to discuss Cedar Rapids, the film’s Midwestern pride, the tone of his movie, and how his past has directly informed his taste for moviemaking.

Can you tell us what drew you to the project?

Well, as a small child growing up in Puerto Rico, I had a dream of making a Midwestern comedy. [Laughs] I think Ed [Helms] really liked Youth In Revolt,...

What initially appeared to be just another Twitter-spawned celebrity death hoax has turned out to be a sad reality.  Teena Marie, the R&B singer known best for her hit songs "Lovergirl" and "I'm a Sucker for Your Love," has died at 54. Following a rash of tweets proclaiming Marie's passing, her manager, Mike Gardner, confirmed the death of the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sunday, after she was found dead in her Pasadena home by her daughter. Pasadena police say she appears to have succumbed to natural causes, but the official cause of death won't be determined until the Los Angeles County coroner performs an autopsy. Marie, born Marie Christine Brockert in...

Oh, "Brothers & Sisters," there's very little sibling drama fans won't put up with. After all, we've met siblings who aren't siblings, siblings who appear and disappear, ex-siblings that get married then divorced... 

The Balthazar Getty rollercoaster, though? We wish we could quit you. But, alas, we're sticking around for the ride.

An ABC Spokesperson confirms to Zap2it that Getty will be returning for the series' 100th episode airing sometime in January 2011.

According to E!Online, Tommy isn't coming back to Pasadena alone. He'll be joined by a new gal pal. So, it seems that reconciliation with Julia didn't quite happen over the one-year time jump, huh?

In August, an ABC spokesperson confirmed to us that he wouldn't be returning as a regular for Season 5, but they didn't rule out a possible guest star appearance.

Could a Walker family reunion be in the works?

Who else should return for the...

Legendary producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actor Stephen J. Cannell died at the age of 69 this past Thursday evening of complications associated with melanoma at his home in Pasadena, California. Cannell created or co-created more than 40 Television shows, including The Greatest American Hero, 21 Jump Street, The A-Team and Baretta.

Cannell formed his own independent production company, Stephen J. Cannell Productions in 1979, he wrote more than 450 television episodes, produced or executive-produced more than 1,500 television episodes. Cannell also wrote 17 novels, the majority of which focused on the fictional Lapd Detective, Shane Scully.

Cannell most recently served as Producer and Creative Consultant for the big-screen adaptation of The A-Team, and appeared as himself in the pilot and a season 2 episode of the ABC television series, Castle, where he joined fellow authors James Patterson and Michael Connelly as one of Castle’s (Nathan Fillion) poker buddies.

Stephen J. Cannell Productions

Cannell is survived by...

The following is a list of Los Angeles-area stage and film acting schools, teachers, and coaches organized by category and alphabetically.Each of the entries contains the following information, if applicable: name of teacher or school; address; phone and fax numbers; email address and/or website; average number of students per class; whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced students are taught; whether auditing is permitted; whether a work/study program is offered. Descriptions of the class, school, or coaching are provided by the instructor of institution and edited by Back Stage.Schools of teacher who have been omitted may contact, in writing, Listing, c/o Back Stage, 5055 Wilshire Blvd., 6th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036, so that we may include you in our next list.  Acting Technique/Scene StudyAARON McPherson STUDIOWest Hollywood, CA aaron@aaronmcphersonstudio.comwww.aaronmcphersonstudio.com310-918-5335Class size varies, 12 max. for auditioning class, 40 max. for scene study; day...

It looks like there's trouble in Pasadena. Luc may have received his visa last week on "Brothers & Sisters," but the road to a happy home life looks rough in the next episode on Sunday, May 2 at 10 p.m. on ABC.

In fact, all the Walkers look like they're hitting a challenging period in the next episode. Justin will be struggling with whether he feels enough passion for medicine to go on. Thoughts of joining the service again keep popping up. I thought hindsight was 20/20? He was such a mess after his tour of duty!

Also, the family is still spending money Ojai doesn't have to figure out what valuables Narrow Lake may hold. And Kevin is beginning to the get the unemployment blues.

With only three episodes to go this season and Rob Lowe's impending exit storyline, what else can go terribly wrong?

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First, I know I’m probably setting myself up for disaster by putting up an Underground Film Links post three Sundays in a row. There’s going to come a Sunday — I predict at some point — when I don’t have time to do this, people will come expecting a links post and … nothing. And they will be mad and disappointed. But, until that day, here’ some more links for you, including a few I forgot to post last week:

Mike Plante of Cinemad fame has created a Google map pinpointing all of the microcinemas and oddball screening locations he knows of from around the world. There’s a few on there I need to add to Bad Lit’s own theater, non-map list. And if you have a location that you want added, you can contact Plante at Cinemad. I meant to do a full post on this bit o’ news,...

The following is a list of Los Angeles-area stage and film acting schools, teachers, and acoaches organized by category and alphabetically.Each of the entries contains the following information, if applicable: name of teacher or school; address; phone and fax numbers; email address and/or website; average number of students per class; whether beginning, intermediate, or advanced students are taught; whether auditing is permitted; whether classes are ongoing or by sessions; any special emphasis used in classes or coaching; whether a work/study program is offered. Descriptions of the class, schoool, or coaching are provided by the instructor or institutions and edited by Back Stage.Schools or teachers who have been omitted may contact, in writing, Listings, c/o Back Stage, 5055 Wilshire Blvd., 6th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036, so that we may include you in our next list.Acting Technique/Scene StudyAARON McPherson STUDIOWest Hollywood, CA aaron@aaronmcphersonstudio.comwww.aaronmcphersonstudio.

Mark Valley left his bike in Vancouver. It's there with his radio, some clothes, and hiking gear. He left the items for good luck, and, he admits, so he can playfully brag later if his show Human Target gets picked up for more episodes beyond its current 12. ("I'll say 'Oh, of course it got picked up,"' he says in a faux haughty tone, "'I left my stuff there."') They haven't heard anything yet, but he's hopeful. "I think there's more story to be told." The same can be said of Valley's personal rise to fame. Sitting down with EW.

Dana Delany is still a regular on "Desperate Housewives," but she's also being courted for a pilot at the network.

The producers of "Body of Evidence," an ABC drama about a medical examiner with a background in neurosurgery, have approached Delany about playing the lead in the pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. No deal has been signed, and even if one is, the pilot would still take second position to her role on "Housewives."

Her "Housewives" character, Katherine Mayfair, has had a bit of a rough year after her erstwhile fiance, Mike (James Denton), left her for Susan (Teri Hatcher). That left Katherine unhinged for a good portion of the season, although things have been looking up in recent weeks as Katherine has developed a relationship with another woman (guest star Julie Benz).

Delany has been a regular on "Housewives" for the past three seasons. Prior to that, she...

One of the most fun things of any press tour is getting to sit down with Chi McBride and just talk, about anything. Politics, baseball, cigars... when you're talking to Chi, the conversation can go just about anywhere.

The drawback to seeing McBride on so many tours is that he's always there with a new show to promote. Because he's able to handle drama and comedy with equal ease, he's cast in a lot of pilots. The problem is, most of the resulting shows rarely last more than a couple of years. In the last six years, since his four-season run on 'Boston Public' ended, we've seen McBride in 'Killer Instinct,' 'The Nine' and 'Pushing Daisies.' Now he's co-starring with Mark Valley and Jackie Earle Haley in the Fox popcorn-action series 'Human Target.'

I sat with McBride as he held court at Fox's...

Planning to TiVo the Golden Globes so you can fast-forward through the awards and watch Ricky Gervais? So is Mama. Here are some more shows to add to this week’s DVR schedule: * “Human Target” (Sunday, 8 p.m. and Wednesday, 9 p.m., Fox): Mama has been waiting for Mark Valley to have a hit series ever since seeing him in “Pasadena,” now more than 10 years ago. There have been plenty of opportunities (“Keen Eddie” chief among them), but sadly,...

Victor Fleming directed two of the greatest films ever, The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind. Yet he has rarely been given credit for their success. As the first critical biography of him is released, Philip French reassesses the legacy of the combative and intruiging director who created film magic with Judy Garland, Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh

Seventy years ago, on 15 December 1939, one of Hollywood's most legendary movies, Gone With the Wind, a celebration of what the American South endured as a result of the Civil War, had its whites-only world premiere in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stars were there – Vivien Leigh, who played the brave, capricious, head-strong, thrice married heroine Scarlett O'Hara, and Clark Gable, Hollywood's democratically elected king, who played the handsome, pragmatic hero Rhett Butler; and also present, of course, was its producer, the "boy wonder" David O Selznick, who had been developing the film for three years,...

Dana Delany has opened up about turning down the role of Carrie in “Sex and the City.” The actress and multiple Emmy winner, who first hit it big as Nurse Colleen McMurphy on “China Beach,” is enjoying currently stardom again on “Desperate Housewives.” But the “Desperate” star also passed on the role of Bree on the hit ABC show before agreeing to play newbie housewife Katherine. Delany told the L.A. Times: “I'd hate to be thought of as the person who turns everything down,” and says she has an explanation for how she goes about choosing roles. Turns out that the Irish-American actress was simply trying to avoid type casting. “[‘Desperate Housewives’ creator Marc Cherry] had offered me the role of Bree, but I had just done ‘Pasadena,’ and I thought the role was too similar to that, and I don't really like to repeat myself,” she said. “I've never ever been in this for the money.

Burbank – Chat Fatigue is coming.

Forget swine flu (or H1N1); Chat Fatigue will be the sickness that will overtake millions this fall. The group most susceptible to this are NBC viewers. Now that Jay Leno will be taking over the 10 p.m. slot from Monday to Friday (starting Sept. 14) on the Peacock network, viewers will get four hours of people sitting behind desks and talking directly to the camera.

Can the average viewer really handle going from Leno to local news to Conan O’Brien to Jimmy Fallon to Carson Daly? How many guys in suits and ties sitting behind a desk do you want to experience after an 8 hours of work day with guys in suits and ties sitting behind desks? They’re all going to stare at you through the boob tube and jibber jabber. Kinda like the doofus with the desk next to you at work.

The stars of Fox partied the night away after a successful day of TCA presentations in Pasadena yesterday. Joshua Jackson had Diane Kruger with him all day and at the party, though she stayed out of the spotlight. Diane almost blended in with the crowd as she sipped a beer while Josh fielded questions about Fringe. He also talked about how much he loved going to Comic-Con and interacting with all the fans. The cast of Glee took it all in as everyone wanted to congratulate them on their upcoming show, though Lea Michele said she was mostly looking forward to everyone finally seeing more than just the pilot. Meanwhile, Buzz was off at the So You Think You Can Dance finale, where she chatted with the winner Jeanine - check it out here! View 45 Photos › Lots more from the party so read more. View 45 Photos › Images include: Brendan Hines,...

  "Drag Me to Hell" reviewby Steve Ramos (4/5)   Sam Raimi returns to classic horror with Drag Me To Hell and delivers a midnight masterpiece.   Smack in the middle of 3-D gore and slasher remakes featuring Halloweens Michael Myers and Friday the Thirteenths Jason, director Sam Raimi revisits grind house horror with Drag Me To Hell, a wild, scream out loud, old-fashioned scare featuring a pretty bank manager (Alison Lohman) fighting a curse from a vengeful gypsy. Recent horror hits like My Bloody Valentine 3-D and the Last House on the Left remake rely solely on escalating series of grisly deaths, often at the hands of a madman, to shock moviegoers into a bloody stupor.   Now, some 22 years after the last film in his Evil Dead trilogy, Raimi returns to classic horror and the result is a midnight pulp masterpiece with enough screams and laughs to fill 20 Halloween remakes. As Christine Brown,...

Sam Raimi returns to the horror genre with Drag Me to Hell, a demonic scare-fest with gags, spooks, and old school monsters. This marks the first time the director, now a household name through his Spider-Man films, has stepped back into the genre since making the cult classic favorite Evil Dead films. Dread Central was invited to attend a rather exclusive set visit to witness some of the filming of the big climactic scene, and I considered myself lucky to have been able to attend!

The film is a fairly simple cautionary tale about a young woman who makes an unfortunately poor moral decision and pays one hell of a price. Alison Lohman, playing the lead character, explained it to us, “I play Christine Brown; she’s a loan officer, and she has to make this very fateful decision at her bank. This old elderly woman comes in who wants an extension on her loan.

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