Eve Plumb, aka ‘Jan Brady,' tries to avoid the limelight
McClatchy Newspapers
11/21/2008, by Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Eve Plumb is not the "Brady Bunch" daughter who's been in the headlines. That would be Maureen McCormick (who played older sister Marcia) with her lurid memoir "Here's the Story." Plumb also isn't the one who displayed his love life on reality TV series and is hosting the ...
Chicago's grit and glamor co-star with Patrick Swayze in FBI TV series
McClatchy Newspapers
11/21/2008, by Robert K. Elder
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - "So, did you miss me?" says actor Patrick Swayze, walking past the chess pavilion on North Avenue Beach. Bundled up against the encroaching cold, he says: "You carry this job with you, and there's no washing it off." Swayze is talking to co-star Travis Fimmel in a scene for ...
Frank Caliendo says he isn't a people person, but he sure can mimic a lot of different people
McClatchy Newspapers
11/19/2008, by Luaine Lee
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - Comic Frank Caliendo wrecked his knee as a high school running back. The injury convinced him he'd have to be somebody else besides a great athlete. So he became EVERYBODY else. Five minutes with him at the lunch table and he transforms himself into Jay Leno, ...
Kal ‘Kumar' Penn is one of the newest doctors in the ‘House'
McClatchy Newspapers
11/19/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Kal Penn's character of Dr. Lawrence Kutner on "House" was introduced last season through a game of elimination. Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) needed to pick a new medical team. He started with a room of potential team members. One or more got eliminated each week. That's ...
After seven gripping seasons, FX is handing in its ‘Shield'
McClatchy Newspapers
11/19/2008, by Diane Werts
Newsday (MCT) - Critics know the drill. You watch the preview screener of a new show, and it's usually good or mediocre. Sometimes, it's horrible. (Fun to write about.) Or more occasionally, superb. (Even more fun to write about.) Only once in two decades has a series pilot climaxed with a twist so ...
Sizing up Jimmy Fallon, Conan's heir apparent
McClatchy Newspapers
11/13/2008, by Kevin Pang
hicago Tribune (MCT) - Watching Jimmy Fallon strut his stuff onstage is two cans of Red Bull and a caffeine pill chaser for the psyche. He is a blur of boundless energy, elastic voiced, a troubadour satirist with a guitar. Exhibit A: During one bit Saturday night at The Improv in Schaumburg, he did ...
If you choose wisely, television can make you smarter — and some research finds no harm to kids
McClatchy Newspapers
10/29/2008, by Steve Johnson
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Parents, you can keep those flash cards and alphabet books. But there's another device in your home that can help develop language and visual skills. It's called _ hold on to your remotes _ the television set.
Instead of being simply society's whipping boy and the root of ...
Greg Evigan returns in Hallmark Channel's ‘Mail Order Bride'
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Luaine Lee
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - Most people remember Greg Evigan as the swell fellow from "B.J. and the Bear" or "My Two Dads." But no more Mr. Nice Guy for him! The one-time teen-idol has been going for the throat lately, and it's a beautiful sight. On Nov. 8 Evigan shows up as the devil ...
Ups and downs of new TV shows
McClatchy Newspapers
10/27/2008, by Tom Jicha
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (MCT) - TV is getting to be like the movies: You open big or you're dead. "Do Not Disturb" didn't, and Fox pulled it within two weeks.
The season is barely a month old, yet there has already been at least one other cancellation _ "Opportunity Knocks" by ABC, which had ...
William Petersen is leaving ‘CSI' for the city — and the theater scene — that spawned him
McClatchy Newspapers
10/17/2008, by Rick Kogan
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - The 14th hole at the Highland Park golf course is a 443-yard par four, slightly uphill from the tee before twisting right and heading downhill toward a green that is protected by a winding creek. It is a cruel hole, and one afternoon in the late summer of 2000 four ...
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