| CLARKSON TO RECEIVE TOP NEW ORLEANS HONOUR | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 1:29:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Two-time Emmy Award winner PATRICIA CLARKSON has been named the 2007 celebrity monarch for the Krewe Of Orpheus parade in New Orleans, Louisiana. A celebrity is chosen each year to lead the parade - founded by HARRY CONNICK JR - and past monarchs have included WHOOPI GOLDBERG, GLENN CLOSE, STEVIE WONDER, TOBY KEITH and JAMES BROWN. Clarkson and Connick Jr are both natives of New Orleans. Krewe's captain SONNY BOREY says, "As our city rebuilds and rediscovers itself, it could not be more fitting that Patricia Clarkson be honoured by the Krewe Of Orpheus and our city." The SIX FEET UNDER star will lead 30 floats in the parade, which is scheduled for 19 February (07), one day before Mardi Gras celebrations on 20 February (07). 09/01/2007 03:31 .... | |
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| | | Ed Bradley of '60 Minutes' Dies at 65 | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:33:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | Ed Bradley, 65, a suave and streetwise reporter considered one of the best interviewers on television and the winner of 19 Emmy awards for his work on "60 Minutes" and "CBS Reports," died of leukemia Nov. 9 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He lived in New York. Bradley, the first African American at CBS to be a White House correspondent and a Sunday night anchor, covered a broad array of stories with insight and aplomb during his 39-year career, from war to politics to sensitive portraits of artists. He won virtually every broadcast news award -- some of them more than once. .... | |
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| | | 'Price is Right' host to step on down | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:28:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Multiple Emmy Award winner and U.S. game show icon, Bob Barker, announced Tuesday that his 35th year as host of "The Price is Right" will be his last. Barker, who turns 83 in December, will retire in June after five decades on television, TMZ.com reported. He made his debut as host of "Truth or Consequences" in 1956, launched his storied career with the popular "Price is Right" in 1972 and in 2002, broke Johnny Carson's record for continuous performances on a network TV series, Daily Variety reported. In an interview, CBS Daytime Vice President Barbara Bloom noted Barker's appeal reaches across generations. "It doesn't matter whether you're a grandmother or a college student, you've watched 'The Price Is Right' and had fun doing it because of what Bob brings as a host," she told Variety.... | |
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| | | Bruce Willis Gets Hollywood Walk of Fame Star | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:17:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Emmy Award-winning actor Bruce Willis was honored for his film work Monday with star No. 2,321 along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His three daughters and former wife Demi Moore, her husband Ashton Kutcher, and friends Kevin Costner, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Don Johnson and Sylvester Stallone were among the crowd watching the ceremony, TMZ.com reported. "I used to come down here and look at these stars and I could never quite figure out what you're supposed to do to get one," Willis said. "And time has passed and now here I am doing this, and I'm still excited about it. I'm still excited to be an actor." Willis rose to fame in TV's Moonlighting and won the Emmy for outstanding lead actor in 1987. Since then, he has achieved fame as a big screen action star, counting among his credits 'Die Hard,' 'Pulp Fiction,' 'The Sixth Sense,' 'Sin City' and 'Armageddon.' 'Over the Hedge,' in which Willis voiced RJ the raccoon, comes out on DVD Tuesday and his fourth 'Die Hard' film,' Live Free or Die Hard,' is scheduled for release next summer.... | |
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| | | Somehow Mill Valley brings out the modesty in stars who light up its annual film festival | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 3:13:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | Forest Whitaker knows what it's like to have the phone not ring at 6 the morning when major award nominations are announced. "Nobody wants to call to tell you that you weren't nominated," says Whitaker, who heard only the sound of silence after assurances that he was a shoo-in for an Emmy nod for "The Shield" this year and for an Oscar nomination for "Bird" in 1988. So the genial actor is downplaying the Oscar buzz for his performance as Idi Amin in "The Last King of Scotland," which opened the Mill Valley Film Festival on Thursday evening along with the British drama "Breaking and Entering." Coming onstage to a prolonged standing ovation, Whitaker told the crowd, "This is real and tangible and something I can take home." Being a guest of honor -- along with "Breaking and Entering" star Robin Wright Penn and producer Sydney Pollack -- at a Bay Area festival has special meaning to Whitaker, who studied acting at the Berkeley branch of the Dramatic School of London in the early 1980s and lived on Telegraph Avenue with his great-aunt.... | |
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| | | Catholic Publisher Sponsors 2nd 'Ignatius Night At The Movies' Season With Exclusive Showing of Pope John Paul II Film | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 7:32:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Following a successful first season last spring, Ignatius Press is kicking off its second "Ignatius Night At The Movies" series this fall with a national premiere of the never-before- seen-on-big-screen "Pope John Paul II" film, starring internationally renowned actors Jon Voight and Cary Elwes. Voight was nominated for a 2006 Emmy Award for his performance in the film. The film will be shown in select parishes, shrines, colleges, Catholic conference centers, and schools throughout the U.S. and Canada, beginning the weekend of Oct. 27 and continuing through the weekend of Nov. 17. Organizations interested in scheduling a showing should contact Diane Hanson at 734-453-8487. The new DVD version of the film will be provided free-of- charge for the showing. The critically acclaimed, 180-minute epic feature film - which follows Karol Wojtyla's journey from his youth in Poland through his late days on the Chair of St.... | |
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| | | DAVIS SUES AGAIN OVER EMMY AWARD AFTER-PARTY FIGHT | | Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:12:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Former Denver Broncos star TERRELL DAVIS is suing an insurance company for refusing to defend him over an allegedly racist attack at an Emmy Award after-party. It is the second lawsuit Davis has filed over the incident, which occurred at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The ex-footballer previously sued the operator of the hotel's bar for racial discrimination, assault and battery after the 33-year-old, who is black, was asked by the owner to stop talking to a white waitress. A scuffle ensued and the athlete claims the bouncers choked him and forced him to the floor. 11/09/2006 17:22 .... | |
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| | | Comedian, Award Winning Actor, And 'Dancing With The Stars' Finalist Joins The 2006 Fall Season | | Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:24:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of People Magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive," is set to become the new host of the the Emmy award-winning program, Family Feud, which originally launched in 1976. The program will be re-vamped for the 2006 fall season with a new look, new set, and a new host as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. .... | |
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| | | Emmy Award Winners - LIVE RESULTS | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 9:29:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Hey, the Emmys are on NBC right now! Keep refreshing your browser if you're not watching the show as we'll have the winners as they're announced. (Winners will be in bold and underlined.) OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES Grey's AnatomyThe West Wing24HouseThe Sopranos OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES The OfficeArrested DevelopmentTwo and a Half MenScrubsCurb Your Enthusiasm OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)Denis Leary (Rescue Me)Christopher Meloni (Law and Order: SVU)Martin Sheen (The West Wing)Kiefer Sutherland (24) OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES Lisa Kudrow (The Comeback)Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle)Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)Stockard Channing (Out of Practice)Debra Messing (Will & Grace) OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)Geena Davis (Commander-In-Chief)Mariska Hargitay (Law and Order: SVU)Francis Conroy (Six Feet Under)Allison Janney (The West Wing) OUTSTANDING MINI-SERIES Bleak HouseElizabeth ISleeper CellInto the West OUTSTANDING REALITY COMPETITION SHOW The Amazing RaceAmerican IdolSurvivorDancing With The StarsProject Runway OUTSTANDING MADE FOR TV MOVIE Mrs.... | |
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| | | Desperate Housewives is not for Emmy comedy award | | Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:07:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Desperate Housewives is not set to win an Emmy comedy award, according to one of its stars, quoted by Digital Spy. The hit series failed to pick up at least one single nomination in the Best Comedy category. James Denton, who plays Mike Delfino, thinks the show is not suited to a particular genre. "I don't think the show is a pure comedy or pure drama and last year, particularly, it was very dark. So, when you're nominating yourself or presenting yourself as a comedy, there's certai more... 23.08.2006 - Almodovars films re-shown in US 23.08.2006 - David Hasselhoff to make London his home 23.08.2006 - Is Mel Gibson joint to anti-Jewish organization? 23.08.2006 - Ricky Gervais to make a fool in front of De Niro 23.08.2006 - Indian actor to co-star Jolie in Mighty Heart 23.08.2006 - Clooney and Soderbergh to end their partnership 23.08.2006 - Douglas doesnt care of Hudson's private life 23.08.2006 - Anistons first film with Andrea Buchanan 23.08.2006 - Aniston and Vaughn to mock at engagement rumors .... | |
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