‘OAK RIDGE BOYS’ ATTRACT 84 MILLION LIVE CHATS

Posted on September 21, 2011 by admin

"Oak Ridge Boys It’s Only Natural©" album cover courtesy Webster & Associates

The Oak Ridge Boys have launched to new levels through the power of social networking by generating about 84 million impressions during last night’s TweetChat (#CMchat).

A live chat was hosted by Internet powerhouse Jessica Northey in celebration of the award-winning group’s release of its new CD, It’s Only Natural and the 30th anniversary of “Elvira”.

Northey, founder of Country Music Chat on Twitter and owner of Finger Candy Media, LLC, says teaming with the mighty Oaks for the action-packed event proved an unparalleled and remarkable success. “My fingers are still so sore from trying to keep up with the chat last night. Any artist or band could learn from the Oak Ridge Boys about how to engage with their fans,” she says.  “I am still receiving thanks and tweets from people talking about how incredible the OAKS were. I don’t know if my Tweetdeck has recovered from the volume of tweets,” Northey adds.

Hosted weekly, #CMchat (Where Country Music Meets You) has generated more than 300 million impressions. The entertainment forum is the first and only registered live Country Music Chat on Twitter.

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Poppy Montgomery – Memories are “Unforgettable”

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

Poppy Montgomery stars as Carrie Wells, an enigmatic NYPD detective with a rare ability that makes her physically incapable of forgetting any memory. Photo: Robert Ascroft/CBS © 2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Unforgettable revolves around Carrie Wells (Poppy Montgomery), an NYPD detective who remembers every single day of her life…in detail.

 

Sounds farfetched, but the star of the show says she spent time with actress Marilu Henner, who has the gift…and was willing to share stories with Poppy Montgomery.

 

It didn’t take long for Montgomery to realize that, though her memory can be exceptional, it’s hardly comparable to Marilu Henner’s recall abilities.

 

“It depends on what day,” she jokes. “Some days it’s really good. If I eat right and sleep right it’s good. It’s not as good as Marilu Henner’s…there’s no question there.”

 

And apparently total recall is a gift rather than a learned talent.

 

“Certainly for Marilu, when I talked to her, it’s how her mind works,” Montgomery insists. “She’s fantastic and she’s got so much energy and bubbly and she’s bright and interesting. I think I drilled her so much on memory that she was exhausted, the poor thing.”

 

Still, the actress wouldn’t necessarily want to remember each day, but she claims she wouldn’t mind taking a test drive for a short period of time.

 

“I would like to try it for a day and see how I did,” she relates. “I’m  one of those people who if my boyfriend told me I don’t look good in a dress and I could never forget it, it would probably not be good for our relationship. So, I’m thinking maybe I would like to test it out first.”

 

Memory isn’t the only quality that Montgomery appreciates about her character Carrie. The Unforgettable star can’t resist a chick with beauty, brains and brawn.

 

“I like that she’s a badass, but she’s really very vulnerable underneath it,” she begins. “And I like seeing a girl who kicks some butt on TV…it’s cool.”

 

Unforgettable debuts 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Zooey Deschanel is a “New Girl” to a Weekly TV Series

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

NEW GIRL: The new comedy starring Zooey Deschanel as an adorkable girl who moves in with three single guys, changing their lives in unexpected ways, premieres Tuesday, Sept. 20 (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX. ©2011 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Isabella Vosmikova/FOX

Zooey Deschanel is making her way to television in a sitcom tailor made for the actress. Though the part of Jess in New Girl seemed like a good fit, a weekly TV grind wasn’t at the top of her career path list.

 

“I hadn’t thought so much about doing television before probably partially because there hadn’t been a character that I’d read that I’d connected with as much,” Deschanel confesses. “I really, really connected with this character. It just felt like a very easy decision.”

 

But just because she hadn’t really considered a series until now doesn’t mean she’s a television snob. As a matter of fact, the actress is nothing short of an addict.

 

“When I go home at night I watch TV. I love TV, she gushes. “Some of the best stuff is on TV now. So, I just felt like it was a really awesome opportunity.”

 

Her character Jess is quirky and naive, which is why Deschanel is so smitten with her. It also helps that Jess seems a bit familiar to her.

 

“She has a rich fantasy life,”  Deschanel says of Jess. Then eyeballing similarities between herself and her character adds, “I think a 13-year-old me is very, very similar to Jess. When I graduated 8th Grade I got an award that is Maybe Life Really Is A Musical ‘cause I kind of had this feeling like I was in a musical all the time – and I sort of feel like that’s very much Jess.”

New Girl airs Tuesdays, 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.

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Dana Delany – Adding Humor to Her “Body of Proof”

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

ABC's "Body of Proof" stars Dana Delany as Dr. Megan Hunt. (ABC/BOB D'AMICO)

Dana Delany is back for a second season of her genuine hit TV series Body of Proof.

Delany tells EntertainmentHeartbeat in the video below that her character Dr. Megan Hunt will be a little more friendly this year. But, she also cautions that Megan won’t change too much, which should be a relief for the fans who enjoy her often gruff personality.

Besides, Megan has plenty to be snarky about! After all, her ex-husband is dating her boss and Delany says that will certainly add fuel to Megan‘s fire-breathing attitude.

Body of Proof airs Tuesdays, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

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Jason and Sam Get Hitched on “General Hospital” – But Don’t Expect a Flawless Ceremony

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

Kelly Monaco (Sam) and Steve Burton (Jason) in a scene from ABC Daytime's "General Hospital." The show airs Monday-Friday (3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/Patrick Wymore) KELLY MONACO, STEVE BURTON

Now that the wedding day for Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) and Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco) is here, the couple are about to embark on their new life together. But like all the drama you’d expect from General Hospital, the nuptials were riddled with excitement and the couple is gearing up for the next chapter.

And in the video below, the actors explain what we can expect from their non-traditional marriage and they promise General Hospital fans will be completely satisfied.

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DVD Releases – September 20th, 2011

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

 

Movies on DVD

 

Bridesmaids is the raunchy hit comedy about, Annie (Kristin Wiig), a woman who is picked to be her best friend’s maid of honor. Lovelorn and broke, Annie looks to bluff her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an oddball group of bridesmaids. Melissa McCarthy is a standout.

 

 

Spooky Buddies is the Halloween installment of the Buddies franchise. Is it possible to resist cute puppies that talk? Probably not. Plus, it’s a fun holiday comedy that won’t scare the little kids too badly.

 

 

 

 

Dumbo 70th Anniversary Edition is the beloved tale about an elephant with super-sized ears, who is ostracized by the other elephants until he learns how to fly. He realizes his full potential with the help of his pal, a circus ringmaster mouse. One of Walt Disney’s best animated features – tender, sweet with a terrific soundtrack.

 

 

Setup revolves around a group of friends become involved in a potentially deadly diamond heist. The pic stars Bruce Willis, Ryan Phillippe, Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson.

Special Features: Commentary with Director Mike Gunther and Actor Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, making Setup featurette, interviews with the cast and crew, the weapons used on the set of Setup, plus the trailer gallery.

 

TV on DVD

 

Modern Family: The Complete Second Season continues with its satirical look at three different families and the trials they face in each of their own uniquely comedic ways.

Special Features: Disc one – deleted family interviews, deleted and extended scenes, Strangers on a Treadmill – table read through, Mitch‘s flash mob. Disc two – deleted family interviews, deleted and extended scenes, Imagine Me Naked music video. Disc three – deleted family interviews, deleted and extended scenes, a gag reel, Modern Family holidays, waiting for Oprah, chatting with Steve Levitan, at home with Modern Family.

 

Castle: The Complete Third Season features the paring of mystery writer Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and his muse Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) as they solve crimes in New York City.

Special Features: Deleted scenes and bloopers, Murder They Wrote — follow a roundtable discussion as mystery-solving icons discuss tricks of the trade with Castle star Nathan Fillion and Executive Producers Andrew Marlowe and Rob Bowman, Castle Goes Hollywood — To Love And Die In L.A., spend time with cast and crew as Castle and Beckett investigate a crime in the Hollywood, Murder Board 101 — victims, persons of interest, evidence and clues, developing the character weekly, cast and crew commentary, music video Get On The Floor.

 

The Mentalist: The Complete Third Season continues the saga of Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), a phony psychic who insinuates himself into the police department to help solve crimes…including the murder of his wife. The series co-stars Robin Tunney.

 

 

Hawaii 5-O: The First Season is an updated version of the long-running TV classic that began in ’68 and ran until 1980. Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father’s killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-O). Steve‘s team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), Danny “Danno” Williams (Scott Caan) and Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park).

 

Body of Proof: The Complete First Season is emerging on DVD just in time for the premiere of the second season. Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) is a medical examiner back from a life-changing accident to solve crimes using her forensic skills. She’s gruff and to the point, which ruffles feathers, but her crime-solving ability makes her invaluable.

 

 

Raising Hope: The Complete First Season stars Lucas Neff as Jimmy, a young man who becomes a single parent to an infant after the mother he had a one-night stand with ends up on death row. Jimmy has help raising his daughter Hope from his oddball family. The series co-stars Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt and Cloris Leachman.

Special Features: Pilot commentary, the unaired network pilot, Don’t Vote for This Episode – extended episode, adorable stars: meet the different Hopes, moments with Mrs. Chance, taking Chances: shooting the season finale, a gag reel, plus deleted and extended scenes.

 

Mike & Molly stars Melissa McCarthy as Molly Flynn and Billy Gardell as Officer Mike Biggs, a new couple that meet at a weight-loss support group. McCarthy just took home the 2011 Emmy award for her performance on the sitcom.

 

 

Law & Order: Los Angeles – The Complete Series is the short-lived spinoff of the successful Law & Order franchise. This time the series is set in the City of Angels and apparently not enough people were interested. After changing the dynamic of the cast, the series never did catch on with viewers.

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DOLORES HOPE, BOB’S WIFE OF 69 YEARS, DIES AT AGE 102

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Bob and Doloros Hope, hometown guests-of-honor celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of Toluca Lake, California. ©Michael Cartel

“I’m still recovering from my 100th birthday bash, so I’m going to keep this year’s celebration much quieter,” Doloros Hope said of her 101st birthday last May.

Today, Four months into her 102nd year, Manhattan-born and Bronx-bred as Doloros DeFina of Italian and Irish heritage, Mrs. Bob Hope died peacefully in her Toluca Lake home today.

69 years of her life was one of the success stories of a high profile Hollywood marriage.  In 1933, DeFina was introduced to Bob Hope after she had performed as a singer at the Vogue Club in Manhattan.  The couple married a few months later and lasted until Hope died at age 100.

The Hopes adopted four children where Doloros changed careers to become a full time mother, then provide for them by helping with Bob‘s investments to become one of the wealthiest couples in Hollywood.

During the first Gulf War, as she was assisting her husband entertaining the troops (as she had for 50 years) Doloros Hope was the only woman ever allowed to perform in Saudi Arabia.

But it is her philanthropy that Doloros Hope will be most remembered with her humanitarian organization and charities where she was most generous.

 

 

 

 

 


 

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KAT DENNINGS ON BEFORE AND DURING ‘2 BROKE GIRLS’

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Max Black (Kat Dennings, pictured) serves up her to-die-for cupcakes on 2 BROKE GIRLS on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Despite an overflowing film career, Kat Dennings decided to take something of a break, leaving behind A-list scripts and unsigned contracts to commit to the small screen.

At the recent Television Critics Tour press conference, Dennings, merely beautiful on camera is something more striking in person, explains why a popular cinema actor would take the leap into the minor leagues.

“…things were actually picking up, and I was getting really exciting things, and “Thor” was just coming out, and I was doing really interesting projects, but I think it got to a point where I have done so many small films, and I’ve worked really, really hard, and these things some ‑‑ they just disappear,” Dennings says, looking across the table like a classic ’40s ingenue with long wavy-dark hair, full technicolor lips and full figure.  “Four months of your life never get seen, and you start to feel kind of tired and sort of, you know ‑‑ this came right at the right time for me because I had just finished the most intense shoot of my life in a really amazing way.

Now her thoughts come easily and Dennings exhales, finds her range and explains as if reading from a well-rehearsed teleprompter.  “Drama, so intense, complete physical transformation, and I was really drained in a great way, but that emotional, mental drain that only comes by playing someone bipolar, and this fell into my lap, literally, right at the right moment, right when I was feeling, ‘What I do now?  I can’t do another one of these for a really long time.’  I want to do something where people will definitely see it, because I’m a hard worker, and I want to work hard, and I want people to appreciate it, not because I want people to look at me, but because I’ve been doing this since I was ten years old…”

So rather than the TV actor aching to claw into motion picture, Dennings has had enough of her day in the Klieglight and craves (now at least) to experience a less glamorous medium, like an award-winning legend who keeps returning to the little theater.

“I lived in the woods, so this ‑‑ I hadn’t thought about doing TV.  It wasn’t something I had intended to do, but when this came and it was Whitney (Cummings) and Michael (Michael Patrick King), and having that Michael gave me my first sort of big job (Sex and the City), it almost seemed like a gift, like this perfect thing that was just at the right time, and I was, like, God, this is exactly the answer to everything I’ve been wanting.  I’m just really lucky that this came along.”

Dennings pulls most everyone’s eyes deep into the hallway as she leaves where tonight her made-for-herself television show, 2 Broke Girls will debut at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.  Lucky too that no matter the outcome of the program, Dennings can always fall back on merely being a world-class film star.

 

 

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ASHTON KUTCHER FILLS SOME INTERESTING SHOES TONIGHT ON ‘TWO AND A HALF MEN’

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

Men men men men, manly men men men! (l-r) Angus T. Jones, Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer star in TWO AND A HALF MEN on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Matt Hoyle/CBS / Warner Brothers ©2011 CBS BROADCASTING INC. All Rights Reserved.

Ashton Kutcher makes his debut on the popular CBS sitcom Two And a Half Men tonight, seamlessly (producers hope) eclipsing deceased Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) as Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones‘ new roommate, broken-hearted billionaire Walden Schmidt.

Kutcher‘s contract, which is for one year is believed to be worth nearly $20 million.

Two And a Half Men, now in it’s ninth season, premieres for a two-hour special tonight (9:00 p.m.) on CBS.

 

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DWTS KRISTIN CAVALLARI AND CARSON KRESSLEY ON THEIR NEW DANCE LIVES

Posted on September 19, 2011 by admin

DANCING WITH THE STARS - KRISTIN CAVALLARI & MARK BALLAS -- are paired up for the premiere of "Dancing with the Stars," MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/CRAIG SJODIN)

Dancing With the Stars celebrity dancers Kristin Cavallari and Carson Kressley talk with Entertainment Heartbeat about how their intense dance training has given them some old age aches on their young, athletic frames while altering their eating styles – among other things.

Dancing With the Stars two hour special premieres tonight, Monday, September 19 (8:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

 

 

Click onto video for more from Cavallari and Kressley on their DWTS experience.

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