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Ask Stacy -- Week of May 26, 2012
DEAR STACY: Whatever happened to the cute child actress who did all the Pepsi ads with the grown-up men's voices, and was in the movie "Paulie"? — Brandi R., Binghamton, N.Y.
DEAR BRANDI: Hallie Kate Eisenberg — a sister of …Read more.
Newhart Finds the Old New Again With 'The Bob Newhart Show;' 'The Client List's Alicia Lagano Prefers to Play Dirty
Newhart Finds the Old New Again With 'The Bob Newhart Show;' 'The Client List's Alicia Lagano Prefers to Play Dirty
The Hallmark Channel is running a 12-hour "The Bob Newhart Show" marathon this Sunday (5/27) — in honor of the …Read more.
Ron Perlman Surprised by Survival of His Brutal Clay on 'SOA;' 'Falling Skies' Drew Roy Likes the Action Despite the Bruises
Ron Perlman is back to work on the set of "Sons of Anarchy" this week — and admits he's surprised to be there. As followers of FX's acclaimed series about an outlaw motorcycle club are aware, his character, the group's ex-president …Read more.
Noah Wyle Enjoys Daddy Duty After 'Falling Skies' Production; Kim Kardashian Gains Actor Cred With Castmate April Bowlby
Noah Wyle says he's been enjoying a little down time of late, doing daddy duty and decompressing after wrapping four and a half months' worth of production of his TNT "Falling Skies" series' second season. Sounds like he needed it.
After …Read more.
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Soldier-"Real World" Star Conklin: Tough Returning To Iraq/"Suburbia" Ideal Situation For Saget, Says TV Wife StevensonSoldier-turned-reality-TV-star-turned-soldier Ryan Conklin is adjusting to life on the base where he's tried to keep his TV experience under wraps. "Being back in the Army, I didn't want people to think of me as a guy on 'The Real World' because we're all in this together. I would rather them look at me as a soldier and respect me for my knowledge and experience, but obviously I couldn't keep it a secret forever," he notes. "I went about two weeks without anyone knowing but then an interview popped up in the 'Army Times.' They're like, 'You were on a TV show?' I'm like, 'Yeah, and look where it got me!'" In the episode that aired last week, Conklin got a phone call in which he was told he was being recalled into the Army. It also meant he'd be returning to Iraq. Now, he admits to this column, it's tough going back to a war he believes should have been over a long time ago. "Even when I was in Iraq in '05 I didn't think we were doing a whole lot. I thought we were doing a lot of driving around and getting blown up and then reacting to that, which I thought was stupid. This many years in, I don't know how much it's changed since then," says Conklin, who had hopes of going to school for filmmaking before getting the news. While he is grateful for his time on the long-running MTV show, he admits it was hard enjoying the last month of filming. "I tried to make the best of the worst situation and have fun, but it was constantly running through my head. Hearing all the other roommates tell each other what they were going to get involved with after the show was a bummer because I couldn't do any of that." THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: Cynthia Stevenson, who plays Bob Saget's wife in the forthcoming ABC series "Surviving Suburbia," believes that the comedy premiering April 6 is the ideal intersection between Bob's nice guy TV dad persona and his edgy 'n' salty stand-up mien. "That's why I think he's so happy to have this role. This is the perfect role for him," she claims. "He's so not sweet in this show.
In fact, Stevenson tells us the show is something that many people will relate to. "I think the show is so powerful in that it really explores relationships. They dissect what an 18-year marriage looks like and I find it to be very truthful," she says. "Maybe 15 years ago people didn't really care if the relationship on a show was as truthful, they would rather go for the joke perhaps. Our creator Kevin [Abbott] goes for the truth of the relationship. I was actually surprised when Kevin told us, 'I don't care if you get a laugh. Just play the story.' That's heaven to hear as an actress. I just hope that it finds an audience because I think it's such a worthy TV show." FAMILY AFFAIR: Oscar winner Patty Duke takes to the San Francisco Orpheum Theatre stage tonight (3/24), joining the cast of "Wicked" there in the role of Madame Morrible just vacated by Carole Kane — and son Sean Astin is glad. "My mom is never happier than when she's working. It's a great piece, and it's a good long run, too." Sean and family will be on hand to see Patty perform, and then, he says, "We may stay an extra day and take a look at Stanford." His 12-year-old daughter Alexandra is proving to be quite the stellar student, and even though Sean doesn't want to turn into a hyper-pushy parent — "I'm not Rick Moranis in 'Parenthood'" — he and his wife Christine like the idea of "those moments when you look seriously at the future and make it more real." HERE 'N' THERE: Barbra Streisand was a visitor on the set of hubby Jim Brolin's forthcoming comedy "The Goods: The Don Ready Story" with Jeremy Piven and Will Ferrell. Jordana Spiro, who plays Brolin's daughter in the flick, tells us with a sigh, "I didn't get to meet her … which is probably a good thing. I would have been too tempted to ask her to sing 'Hello, Dolly.'" With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster. To find out more about Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith and read their past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 MARILYN BECK AND STACY JENEL SMITH DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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