April 2008 Archives - StayTuned Magazine

Gene Wilder Receives Honors From TCM This Month

April 30, 2008 StayTuned Staff

Say his name and you’re likely to conjure up any number of images. Young Frankenstein. Willy Wonka. Leo Bloom of Bialystock & Bloom. Gene Wilder has been a fixture of moviegoers’ memories for decades, and this month, TCM honors him and his work with Role Model: Gene Wilder. In an extensive interview, Alec Baldwin engages Wilder about his storied career. The tribute also will include screenings of two of Wilder’s most famed collaborations with writer/director Mel Brooks, The Producers (1968) and Blazing Saddles. We couldn’t wait for Role Model, so both to promote it and celebrate Wilder ourselves, we got […]

8 Questions With … Elizabeth Berkley

April 22, 2008 Channel Guide Contributor

What has been your strangest fan experience? Elizabeth Berkley: At the stage door of a Broadway show I was doing, a young fan came up to me and launched into a full scene from Showgirls right there on the street. Choreography and everything. What was even crazier than that is that he was actually amazing! He nailed it. It was rather shocking, but he nailed it! You’re at a magazine rack and can pick up three magazines — what are they? Definitely Time. I love InStyle — it’s so much fun. And probably Vogue. If your television only carried three […]

We Fire Away With Jonas Armstrong Of “Robin Hood”

April 19, 2008 Ryan Berenz

When BBC America premieres Season 2 of the hit adventure series Robin Hood, viewers will see a more mature, wiser Robin. They’ll also see a more mature, wiser actor playing him. Jonas Armstrong learned the hard way just how physically and mentally taxing a six-month shoot in Hungary was during filming of Season 1. “I was totally exhausted halfway through the season last year after three months. They gave me four days off in the middle of it because I was just exhausted,” Armstrong says. “I was a nervous wreck as well for a lot of Series 1 because it […]

MLB 2008 Preview

April 17, 2008 Channel Guide Contributor

Opening Day is full of limitless possibilities for baseball fans. Right now, you’re thinking, “If everyone can stay healthy, if all our veterans can maintain their level of play, if our top free agent acquisition performs as advertised, if our top pitching prospect develops on schedule, if we can get just the right batting order, if our closer recovers from Tommy John surgery, then we just might have a shot at a pennant.” But you can take heart in one certainty: Your team is zero games out of first place … for now, anyway. Our MLB preview looks at each […]

We (Un)Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

April 10, 2008 Channel Guide Contributor

You’ve gotta hand it to the writers strike — it’s done a ton toward helping April shake that whole “cruelest month” rap. Especially for us TV fans. Along with the crocuses and tulips, new episodes of virtually all of our most beloved comedy and drama series are springing up through the wintry pall of reruns and slapdash reality shows that have made even the most ardent fans queasy like too much party on your birthday. Heck, we’ll admit to the occasional TV-obsessive version of beer goggles. Some weird stuff can look good when you’re drunk on boredom. April will shower […]