StayTuned Staff, Author at StayTuned Magazine

Eric Johnson of SCI FI’s “Flash Gordon” Series

August 6, 2007 StayTuned Staff

Eric Johnson isn’t what you’d call a slacker. As we talk, it’s only a little before 7am his time, and he already sounds upbeat, focused and ready to attack the day — which is fitting for a guy who’s taken on the title role in SCI FI‘s new Flash Gordon series (premiering Aug. 10). And even though he’s already many weeks into production, he maintains that for him, this new adventure just gets more and more exciting. “I was a little worried that after we got into the realities of making this show, that the enthusiasm would wane,” he says. […]

Get Fresh With Your Wedding

July 21, 2007 StayTuned Staff

Discovery Health Channel‘s resident natural living specialist Sara Snow is known for sharing tips on how to live a more wholesome and organic lifestyle. This month, Snow takes her crusade for all things natural to one of the biggest events in the life of any couple — the wedding. In an hourlong green wedding special of Get Fresh With Sara Snow, airing July 25, she reveals just how perfect — and how perfectly green — a wedding day can be. For the bride, a vegan, a green wedding was a natural idea. For the groom, an Italian who knows nothing […]

No Longer A Lost Boy, Corey Feldman Finds Humor In Being Himself

July 10, 2007 StayTuned Staff

With apologies to Corey “I wear my sunglasses at night” Hart, only two Coreys really mattered in the ’80s: Corey Feldman and Corey Haim. Beginning in 1987, having already established some serious child-actor credentials independently of one another in films such as Lucas, Stand by Me and The Goonies, the Haimster and Feldog forged a union that generated the teen flicks The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Dream a Little Dream, and rendered their last names unnecessary. There was a time when the Coreys were everywhere. That time has passed. Now, an A&E comedy series called The Two Coreys, […]

8 Questions With … Jake Thomas

May 19, 2007 StayTuned Staff

1. What’s the strangest fan encounter you’ve ever had? Jake Thomas: I can recall one, when I was at Universal Studios with a couple friends. It was years ago, but I still remember it. This little girl runs up to me and screams, “Matt McGuire!” and she actually, like, body slams me! My friends had to, like, pry her off of me. 2. You’re in front of a magazine rack that has everything. What three do you grab? Macworld — I’m a big Apple buff; TopGear magazine. I’m a gearhead — I love foreign cars. That’s big with me. And […]

Explore The “Cities Of The Underworld”

April 6, 2007 StayTuned Staff

As any sanitation worker can likely attest, there is a lot going on under our streets. But it isn’t all modern pipes and recently constructed sewer access tunnels. Instead, many of the great cities of the world have beneath them labyrinths of old catacombs, hidden water supplies, dungeons, tombs and even forgotten cities that have miraculously survived the ravages of time and formed the foundations — often literally — of the modern cities above them. These range from ancient ruins beneath Old World cities to the hidden places beneath modern American ones. Each has its own hidden wonders, many of […]

Paul Blackthorne Plays A Magic Man In SCI FI Channel’s “The Dresden Files”

January 31, 2007 StayTuned Staff

If you’re familiar with Paul Blackthorne, it’s likely from his days as a biological terrorist. The 37-year-old Englishman threatened to unleash a deadly virus on Los Angeles as villain Steve Saunders on the third season of 24. Now Blackthorne’s back on TV, playing a good guy — at least, relatively speaking — as crime-solving wizard Harry Dresden in the new SCI FI Channel series The Dresden Files. “He has an element of reluctance to him,” Blackthorne says of Dresden. “He’s not your out and out ‘let me save the world’ kind of hero; he’s more of the ‘well, I suppose […]

Nora Roberts Discusses Her Lifetime Films

January 16, 2007 StayTuned Staff

If romance novelist Nora Roberts were not a writer, she says she would probably have to work in retail for minimum wage since, she asserts, “I have no other talent.” Fortunately for Roberts’ many fans, she sticks with what she does best and, with over 100 novels published, is one of America’s most prolific writers. Now her fans can see four of her books come to life onscreen. These Lifetime original movies include Angels Fall, premiering Jan. 29 on Lifetime, and Blue Smoke, Carolina Moon and Montana Sky, airing on the network in February. Roberts was happy to discuss the […]

VH1’s Tribute To The Decade Is “Totally Awesome”

November 16, 2006 StayTuned Staff

In case you haven’t noticed, VH1 loves the ’80s. We’re not just talking about the dozens — or is it hundreds? — of hours of programming the network has devoted to allowing celebrity panelists to wax nostalgic over every toy, trend and trinket the decade produced. VH1’s “celebreality” phenomenon will not allow the ’80s to die — or its has-beens to go unemployed. (And for that, Tina Yothers, C.C. DeVille and Hulk Hogan are thankful.) Now it’s time to take things to the next level. A totally awesome level. On Nov. 4, VH1 will premiere the purportedly “lost” ’80s comedy […]

Wes Craven Says The Roots Of Monsters Are Within Us

October 13, 2006 StayTuned Staff

Wes Craven has made an entire generation of moviegoers cringe with such groundbreaking horror films as The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street and the darkly humorous Scream series. But Craven never intended to pursue a career making scary movies. As a matter of fact, having been raised in a fundamentalist family in Cleveland, he never even saw any movies at all until he was in his 20s and never saw a horror film until after he made what has become a classic of the slasher genre: The Last House on the Left. This month, Craven joins fellow […]

Ice-T Tries To Teach Privileged Prep-Schoolers How To Rap

October 12, 2006 StayTuned Staff

Last year, VH1 borrowed the British series Gene Simmons’ Rock School — itself an adaptation of Jack Black’s 2003 film School of Rock — in which rock legend Gene Simmons instructed a class of uptight, privileged kids on the finer points of rock ‘n’ roll. Now, the network is giving the show a hip-hop makeover complete with a new teacher, Ice-T. Here’s what the rap legend had to say about Ice-T’s Rap School, which premieres Oct. 17, immediately following the third annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors, hosted by Ice-T himself. What made you want to do reality TV? Ice-T: I […]