"It’s not very often that you have a character written for you and the powers-that-be let you run with it. And I’ve reached a point in my life where I have nothing to lose, but run with the storyline. And even take it a step further at times."
Narrow Margin: AFTRA Ratifies Primetime Contract by 62.4%
AFTRA has ratified the primetime contract, but SAG's assault had great effect. The margin - the percent of yes votes - was only 62.4%. The percentage of no votes was 37.6%. Turnout was not released.
In contrast, the margin on the somewhat similar daytime pact (the AFTRA Network Code), ratified April 30, was 93%. In other words, SAG drove the margin down by 30 points - well over what I (I had predicted 20 points) and other expected when SAG's anti-AFTRA campaign began.
Former soap hunk Martines to appear on THE CLOSERTHE CLOSER star Kyra Sedgwick (ex-Julia, ANOTHER WORLD) will have a new antagonist when the TV crime drama returns for a fourth season. Former soap actor Stephen Martines will have a recurring role as a Hispanic news reporter who asks tough questions about how Sedgwick's police interrogator, Brenda Leigh Johnson, and her Los Angeles Police Department colleagues do their jobs.
The character played by Martines, whose credits include GUIDING LIGHT and GENERAL HOSPITAL, reflects an attempt to keep up with changing U.S. demographics, series creator James Duff said in an interview.
"You have some older white people and a lot of young minorities," Duff said. "The audience looks for itself in these stories. They look for someone who articulates their point of view."
INTERVIEW: Departing HOLLYOAKS star James Sutton
"I was always very keen for Guy [Burnet] to come back and I know that Bryan Kirkwood and the writers, everyone was always keen for him to come back. It was just a question if the logistics of it could work out because Guy’s been living in L.A. since he left the show, so it was just a case of scheduling it in and making sure that if I was going to leave, he could come back and film. It’s worked out perfectly."
Phillippe's Stop-Loss Out on DVD
The DVD for Kimberly Peirce's Iraq film Stop-Loss, starring former ONE LIFE TO LIVE actor Ryan Phillippe, came out yesterday and she sat down with Popwrap to discuss it, as well as some scenes of interest that were cut.
Said Peirce: "It's really funny, there were one or two more scenes written without his shirt and when we got there, it was like, 'don't you think he has too many shirtless scenes already?' But I don't think I can have too many shirtless scenes with him. Ryan's really fantastic and he got himself into such great shape. I think it was funny that all those scenes got cut because a lot of the girls were craving them."
EVENT: AMC's Jacob Young to attend County Fair and judge Pretty Baby Content
The Marion County Fair Board has been working hard to make this upcoming fair, Thursday through Sunday, relevant and exciting for residents and those from surrounding areas. Fair visitors may meet and greet Jacob Young, who plays J.R. Chandler on ALL MY CHILDREN. Mr. Young will also judge the KBZY Pretty Baby Contest and the talent show finals.
More golf for Jack Wagner
The 19th edition of the American Century Championship, a nationally-televised celebrity golf event, begins this week at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline
THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL star Jack Wagner, one of six celebrities to participate in all 19 tournaments, has long been one of the field's best golfers and finally broke through and claimed the $125,000 winner's check of $600,000 prize purse in 2006.
PHOTOS: Fun with Hansis and Silbermann
Columnist Greg Hernandez posed for pictures with Van Hansis and Jake Silbermann at last month's SOAPnet "Night Before Emmy" party.
From GL writer to Middlebury Town Hall Theater Executive Director
Douglas Anderson has had a few moments in the past 10 years when he thought the Town Hall Theater might never reopen. One of the more recent moments? "Today," the Town Hall Theater director said Monday evening as he stood at the back of the stage while cast members of the Middlebury Actors Workshop rehearsed a sword-fighting scene from their production of "Cyrano!"
"There were 80-some contractors running around."
Anderson took on the Town Hall Theater project a decade ago. He was commuting at the time from his home in East Middlebury to New York City, where he was a writer for GUIDING LIGHT. He figured restoring the old performance space would take two years or so. That was before he and his fellow organizers of the project realized what shape the space was in.
Clearing the air with MVP star Dillon Casey
"The tattoo [on the billboard photo of him] is actually photoshopped on there! What's funny about it, is that there was actually a different one there before (Trevor's real tattoo of a Cree dream-catcher.) The network just thought "MVP" would be better for the billboard."
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