December 2007

Here are some of the entertainment celebrities we lost this year: Yvonne De Carlo (b. 1922) (actress) Most famous as Lily on the classic sitcom The Munsters (1964-66), but also had notable roles in Salome Where She Danced (1945) and The Ten Commandments (1956). A beauty who was Miss Venice Beach in 1938. Anna Nicole Smith (b. 1967) (actress/model) Noted Playboy and GUESS jeans model. Infamous for marrying oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, 62 years her senior, in 1994. Had unmemorable acting roles in movies such as Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, and had her life chronicled […]

It seems like just yesterday that General Hospital fans the world over were in a lather over Luke ‘n’ Laura, the soap wedding of the century, but life has changed considerably for Genie Francis. After spending most of her young life in front of the GH cameras, Francis eventually stepped away from the Hollywood spotlight, taking comfort in a new life with her children and her husband, actor Jonathan Frakes, on the opposite coast. After making a short return to GH last year, she appears on the small screen once again this month in Hallmark Channel‘s The Note, premiering Dec. […]

He spent five seasons — and earned an Emmy — transforming average Joes and their average homes into works of workable chic. Now Jai Rodriguez has teamed up with Style Network to bring Ultimate Style to everyone with a taste for “the latest” and a half hour to spare every Saturday night. Tapping the wisdom of fashion and lifestyle trendsetters wherever they happen to find them — on the catwalks and on the streets, in the salons and in their homes — Jai and his cohost, fellow beauty-on-a-budget guru Daisy Fuentes, use their own expertise to help you translate the […]

There are no happy endings for superheroes. If there were, comic books would cease to exist, and — more importantly for masses of moviegoing fans — superhero film sequels would become horribly boring. Not a chance for that in Spider-Man 3, with its plethora of nasty villains and Peter Parker at war with his own expanding ego. Not that he doesn’t have reasons to be egotistical. After all, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst) is going to marry him and the city finally considers his web-slinging alter-ego a hero. But it’s not long before a strange entity from another world takes hold […]

Adaptations can be hit or miss. They come with a lot of baggage, from audience expectations to inevitable comparisons with the source material. So, if you’re going to mess with a classic — as SCI FI Channel has chosen to do with its three-night, six-hour programming event Tin Man — you’d better do it right. And it certainly doesn’t hurt to assemble a talented cast that includes Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Raoul Trujillo, Kathleen Robertson and Richard Dreyfuss. Premiering Dec. 2-4, Tin Man does both. Directed by Nick Willing, whose previous credits include TV adaptations of Jason and […]

Forget your idyllic images of the Old West. In 1850s Texas, you’re more likely to get scalpings, rattlesnakes and tuberculosis than deer and antelope playing. An all-star cast of Val Kilmer, Steve Zahn, Rachel Griffiths, Karl Urban, Linda Cardellini, Elizabeth Banks, Wes Studi and Adam Beach team up in the six-hour miniseries Comanche Moon, a prequel to author Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove saga, airing in three parts beginning Sunday, Jan. 13, and continuing Jan. 15-16 on CBS. Comanche Moon is written by McMurtry and Diana Ossana, and directed by Simon Wincer, who also directed the 1989 Lonesome Dove miniseries. Comanche […]