“Chloe King” Meets Very Mean Mai

THE NINE LIVES OF CHLOE KING - "Girls Night Out" - As if being responsible for the San Francisco Mai wasn't enough pressure, Chloe meets Nikki (Melanie Kannokada) and Lilah (Floriana Lima), who are both members of the South American Mai. (ABC FAMILY/BRUCE BIRMELIN) SKYLER SAMUELS, GRACE PHIPPS, FLORIANA LIMA

The Nine Lives of Chloe King (Tuesdays, 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, ABC Family) is heating up as Chloe (Skyler Samuels) begins to unravel the secrets about her Mai culture.

As you’ll see in the video below from the cast members, Chloe is about to meet two Mai who are not interested in promoting peace.

It will take Chloe‘s strength…along with the dedication of her good friends to stay safe.

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GLENN BECK PULLS UP STAKES, LAYS HIS CLAIM IN DALLAS

Glenn Beck attribution: Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)

Glenn Beck said he is creating a new radio and TV compound in Dallas.  “I can’t wait,” Beck said on his radio show yesterday.

Of course Beck will be keeping and nurturing his New York offices as his empire grows.

Beck recently sold his Connecticut estate and is now looking for a comparable living arrangement in Texas.

 

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DVD Releases – July 12th, 2011

 

Movies on DVD

 

Rango is an animated feature about a chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt. Rango realizes it’s a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. Rango is voiced by Johnny Depp.

Special Features: Never-before-seen ending, uncover 10 deleted scenes, filmmaker’s commentary, meet the real creatures of Dirt featurette, view with storyboard reel picture-in-picture, behind the scenes with cast and crew, plus an Interactive trip to Dirt.

 

The Lincoln Lawyer stars Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller, a lawyer who conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

Special Features: Making The Case: creating the Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly: at home on the road, one on one with Matthew McConaughey and Michael Connelly, plus deleted scenes.

 

Insidious is a creepy thriller about a family looking to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further. The pic features Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and the talented, but underrated Lin Shaye.

 

 

 

 

 

Arthur is the remake of the 1981 classic romantic-comedy that starred Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore and Sir John Gielgud. In the updated version, Russell Brand takes on the title role, while Dame Helen Mirren assumes the Gielgud part of Hobson, Arthur’s keeper/nanny.

 

The plot is the same…a drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn’t like.

 

TV on DVD

 

Entourage: The Complete Seventh Season continues the adventures of film star Vince Chase (Adrian Grenier), who navigates through Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty, albeit unctuous agent Ari (Jeremy Piven).

Special Features: Inside the Hollywood Highlife – behind-the-scenes of the making of Season seven, The Shades of Sasha Grey – look into the world of adult film star Sasha Grey, plus audio commentaries by Creator/Executive Producer Doug Ellin, Executive Producer Ally Musika, series stars Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly (Eric), Jerry Ferrara (Turtle), and Jeremy Piven.

 

Damages: The Complete Third Season is the further plotting of the successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator Patricia Hewes (Glenn Close) who mentors bright and sharp law school graduate Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne). Boy is Parson getting an education – and nothing is what it seems.

 

 

 

 

ER: Season 15 is actually the final season of the successful medical drama that follows the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago.

 

The series made stars of all its cast members including George Clooney and Julianna Margulies.

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CANADIAN COUNTRY GREG HANNA TOURS U.S.

'Greg Hanna' photo courtesy Webster & Associates PR

The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) nominates country artist Greg Hanna for the Rising Star Award for the 2011 CCMA Awards, which takes place on September 12 in Ontario, Canada.

Past Rising Star Award winners include such acts as k.d. lang and Emerson Drive.

A native-born Canadian, Hanna grew up in Eastern Ontario on a dairy farm where his passion for country music evolved.

His current single, Makin’ Love Real from his self-titled album (Pheromone Records LLC / MRI / Sony Red) made the Billboard Indicator Chart in June. The video for the single is currently playing on GACTV.com and streaming heavy rotation on all online video networks. Hanna’s past songs that climbed the U.S. radio and video charts include It’s a Man’s Job and What Kind of Love Are You On.

This summer, Hanna has been busy on an extensive radio and press tour throughout North America.

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THE ACADEMY VISITS THE ‘FORBIDDEN PLANET’

Leslie Nielsen (l.) and Anne Francis in 'Forbidden Planet'

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will explore the technology behind Forbidden Planet (1956) with a discussion and screening highlighting the production methods used to create the sci-fi classic on Saturday, July 16, at 7 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.

Presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, the program will be hosted by Oscar®-winning visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar-winning sound designer Ben Burtt.

Prior to the screening, Barron will examine the film’s breakthrough effects sequences that used miniatures and matte paintings, as well as explore how Joshua Meador created his animated “id monster” effect and combined it with live-action photography.  

Burtt will explain how the electronic score was created, using newly discovered source tapes from the film’s composers, Louis and Bebe Barron (no relation to Craig).

In the 1950s, when science fiction films were usually cheaply produced B-movies.  MGM made its first major venture into the genre with a big-budget production, “Forbidden Planet.” Directed by Fred M. Wilcox, the film conjured another world, with crowd-pleasing flourishes that included the now-iconic Robby the Robot.

'United Planets' ship lands on the 'Forbidden Planet,' ©Metro-Goldwyn Mayer

Set in the 23rd century, Forbidden Planet tells the story of a United Planets mission to the mysterious planet Altair-4.  The crew soon discovers that the planet’s only inhabitants, Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira, are the lone survivors of an earlier expedition, and they have uncovered the secrets of the planet’s vanished race, the godlike Krells.

In conjunction with the program, the Academy will present in the foyer of the Dunn Theater a three-week display that will feature the “id monster” concept art, miniatures used in the movie, a hand blaster, and one of the film’s most memorable characters, Robby the Robot.  The display also will include the original recording equipment used to create the film’s all-electronic musical score.

Barron and Burtt will give a free gallery talk in the foyer of the theater on Sunday, July 17, at 2 p.m.  Reservations are not required.

Admission for the display, which will be open to the public from July 17 to August 7, is free.  Viewing hours are Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 6 p.m., and whenever Academy public programs are hosted at the Linwood Dunn Theater.  For more information, visit www.oscars.org or call (310) 247-3600.

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Ashley Rich and Chris Koehl – Cut from “So You Think You Can Dance”

Cat Deeley (C) with eliminated contestants Chris Koehl (L) and Ashley Rich on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. ©2011 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Adam Rose/FOX

Chris Koehl and Ashley Rich are already looking toward the future after getting eliminated from So You Think You Can Dance Thursday night.

The dancing partners tell EntertainmentHeartbeat.com in the video below that they’re staying positive – with the help of loving family members and friends.

And they are taking the skills they learned during the competition with them – and applying the new talents to their careers as performers.

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GHOST DOG WEBISODE, EPISODE TWO: LADY IN THE OCEAN

'Ghost Dog' Addison Rathbone, friend and mealticket for partner Carny Mike Cartel

Carny Mike and Addy investigate a demon-infested beach where they discover there really is a Hell after death.

With the assistance of his human friend, Mike Cartel and their ghost-detecting equipment, Addy and Mike find and eliminate spiritual intruders and paranormal terrorists – for a price.

Addison’s talents were first observed when he woke his companion Mike from a sound sleep with his now famous ghost-detecting growl and ‘spook bark.’

Mike is a former mercenary and carny.

Click onto the video below for episode Two of Ghost Dog: Lady in the Ocean.

 

 

 

 

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JAMES SPADER JOINS ‘THE OFFICE’

James Spader in 'The Office,' Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC

Multiple Emmy Award winner James Spader will be joining the regular cast of NBC’s The Office (Thursdays, 9-9:30 p.m. ET) as CEO Robert California of Sabre, the parent company of Dunder Mifflin.

“James will reprise his role as Robert California, this uber-salesman that has a power to convince and manipulate, like a high-class weirdo Jedi warrior,” said Paul Lieberstein, one of the series’ executive producers and a series regular.  “He’ll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted.  Within days, he took over the company.  James has an energy that is completely his own, and ‘The Office’ has no tools for dealing with this guy.  We’re thrilled he’s joining our cast.”

Some of Spader‘s credits include: Steven Soderbergh‘s sex, lies and videotape,” which won him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival; David Croenenberg‘s Crash, which won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes; and Steven Shainberg‘s Secretary, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature.  Spader will be shooting Steven Spielberg‘s DreamWorks feature Lincoln later this year while he is shooting The Office.

From 2004-08, Spader won three Emmy awards for his seminal role as shameless attorney Alan Shore in The Practice and Boston Legal, making him the only actor to win consecutive Emmys playing the same character on two different series.  He is represented at ICM and Melanie Cook.

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Matt Richtel’s New Novel, “Devil’s Plaything” – Embracing a Cautionary Thriller

Matt Richtel takes technology and wraps it neatly into a thriller in the new novel Devil’s Plaything.

 

The author tells us in the video below that his make-believe conspiracy in the story involves a reporter and a grandmother with dementia – a pairing he’s never see before.

 

Richtel also sees his novel as a cautionary tale about the dangers of technology – and yet he’s still created an exciting thriller out of his concerns.

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Miranda Maleski and Robert Taylor, Jr. Looking to the Future Post “SYTYCD”

Top 8 contestants Chris Koehl, Clarice Ordaz, Marko Germar, Miranda Maleski, Mitchell Kelly, Ryan Ramirez, Sasha Mallory and Tadd Gadduang perform a Jazz routine to "Hit The Road Jack," choreographed by Tyce Diorio on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. ©2011 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Adam Rose/FOX

Miranda Maleski and Robert Taylor, Jr. were both adjusting to being eliminated from So You Think You Can Dance last Thursday.

 

The pair are excited they got as far as they did (top 16) and have the war wounds to prove they were committed to the competition (blisters and cuts).

 

They show off their bumps and bruises in the video below – and discuss the plans for the future.

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