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Update

Hi everyone,

I’m still in Maryland on vacation. Well, can you call it a vacation when you’re visiting family?

This may be the last time I come back home. As soon as I get on a plane, Farrah dies. I get off the plane and Michael Jackson dies. Then Billy Mays is gone. The wonderful Harve Presnell and now the incredible Karl Malden.

I’m hoping the slew of Hollywood deaths stops as soon as I hit the West Coast.Or at least Vegas when I’m there this weekend.

Regular postings will start back on Monday and look for some cool things to happen on this site very soon!

Have a Safe and Happy 4th of July!

TV Shows Currently Shooting - Updated

Here is a list of television shows currently in production.

24
90210
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
BIG LOVE
BLUE MOUNTAIN STATE
BREAKING BAD
BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
BURN NOTICE
CALIFORNICATION
CAPRICA
CLEANER
THE CLOSER
CRASH
CSI: NY
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
DARK BLUE
DEXTER
DROP DEAD DIVA
ENTOURAGE
FRINGE
GARY UNMARRIED
GHOST WHISPERER
GLEE
GOSSIP GIRL
GREEK
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Daily Actor Update

Hey everyone,

I’m going back home for the next week to visit family so I just wanted to let you know that there will be sporadic updates while I’m there.

Keep checking back though. And don’t forget, I have some cool new features I’m adding to this site!

Thanks!

Lance

Clips from ‘Public Enemy’

I can’t wait to see this movie. Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Michael Mann? It’s got to be fantastic.

I’m not sure of the order of these clips in relation to the movie.. but watch and love.

First Look: Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together again. How could you go wrong?

Courtesy of Slashfilm

TV shows currently shooting

24
90210
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE
BIG LOVE
BLUE MOUNTAIN STATE
BREAKING BAD
BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
BURN NOTICE
CALIFORNICATION
CAPRICA
CLEANER
THE CLOSER
CRASH
CSI: NY
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
DARK BLUE
DEXTER
DROP DEAD DIVA
ENTOURAGE
FRINGE
GHOST WHISPERER
GLEE
Click Here For More »

Luis Guzman: The ultimate character actor

Luis Guzman can be in a single scene in a film and you walk away thinking he was in the whole movie. That’s the mark of a great actor.

From kansascity.com:

On his career:
“I’ve been really fortunate, because I’ve worked on so many good movies with so many good directors. It helps a lot to have been in so many memorable movies. Also, not to take anything away from other actors, but you can have one line in a movie, and nobody will remember it. I’m one of those guys who can have just one line in the movie, and people remember me from it.”

On auditioning for his new film, The Taking Of Pelham 123:
“I met with ‘Pelham’ director Tony Scott, and he said, ‘I’ve been wanting to work with you for the last 10 years, but every time I want you, you’re working on something else. I didn’t have to formally audition or anything like that. We just hung out for two hours, and he talked to me about this project. I love the original movie — it’s a classic — but Scott made me understand this was not going to be anything like the original. It’s a whole lot bigger picture, and the style of performance is a lot different. So it worked out great.”

On stealing a movie with one scene:
“Many years ago, I did a really bad movie — I’m not even gonna tell you the name of it — and I had one scene. (We’re guessing it’s Eddie Murphy’s “The Adventures of Pluto Nash.”) When it came out, it got panned by everybody. But one review had one little paragraph that said the most notable performance in this movie is by Luis Guzman. That gave me a certain level of pride, because it felt like I had done my job and got noticed for it, even in a bad movie.”

Fake Adam Sandler movie clips for the film, ‘Funny People’

In the new film, Funny People, Adam Sandler plays George Simmons. He’s a stand-up comic who segued into films and eventually awful ones like below.

Kinda like Eddie Murphy?

Watch this trailer and save yourself $9

There’s no way I would see this movie in the the theaters but after seeing this trailer for Love Happens, there’s no need.

They give away the whole movie in this trailer. It’s completely ridiculous.

Larry David does ‘Whatever Works’

Larry David makes his film debut in Woody Allen’s Whatever Works, this weekend.

In the film, he plays an eccentric New Yorker who abandons his upper class life to lead a more bohemian existence. He meets a young girl from the south and her family and no two people seem to get along in the entanglements that follow.

From thewrap.com:
Woody didn’t make that call. Were you nervous working with him?
Yeah, I don’t want to screw it up, that’s for sure. You’re aware of that. On the other hand, you know that if there’s something that’s not to Woody’s liking, he’ll get it to his liking. But there was a little more pressure doing that, certainly, than there is in doing an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

This character seems a lot like the guy on “Curb.”
The character on “Curb” is normal compared to this guy — he actually wants relationships and sex and things like that. This guy’s way out — he wears shorts, OK? Never would the character on “Curb” wear shorts, or would the person that’s talking to you right now wear shorts. So I think that’s a very disturbing thing right there.

How did they get you to wear shorts?
It was actually my idea.

Woody wrote the script 30 years ago with Zero Mostel in mind. Did it have to be rewritten for you?
No, the only thing … there was a character description on the first page of the script that described Zero Mostel to a T, but that was it.

When there’s a Woody Allen film without Woody in it, the lead actor usually ends up doing a Woody impression.
Even Kenneth Branaugh …
I know that’s a trap to fall into, cause others have done it. I am saying his words, but at no point am I doing him … though, for that matter, you can say that everybody’s doing him, because they’re all his words.

What about Woody’s directing style? Did you get nervous when he didn’t comment after takes?
No, no I didn’t. When there was something that wasn’t to his liking or to his tastes, he would certainly point it out to me, but it was in a very easygoing way. I suppose the worse you are, the more he’ll tell you. But if you’re that bad, he’ll replace you.

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