Project Runway's addictive drama hinges on the appearance of Tim Gunn, the competing designers' mentor who adds doses of advice, wit, and professorial integrity to the workroom. Movieline caught up with Gunn to discuss his new book Gunn's Golden Rules (and that chapter about J. Edgar Hoover's Vivian Vance drag), "crackpipe"-smoking judges, and even his favorite film scene of all time.
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The season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm left Cheryl Hines in an interesting position: Would her character rekindle a relationship with her estranged husband Larry David, or was her habit of not using a coaster too much for him to bear? When I ran into Hines at an Emmy party recently, I tried to pry her for information about how involved she'll be in the upcoming eighth season, but as you'll see, she had a spoiler policy even Matthew Weiner would be impressed by.
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Here's one notable difference between France's film industry and America's: Vanessa Paradis is among the country's most famous actresses (not to mention a well-known singer and the wife of Johnny Depp), and yet she had never really made a romantic comedy until Heartbreaker, opening in the States on September 10. In it, Paradis plays a cool and collected woman about to be married who meets a romantic rogue (Romain Duris) hired by her father to seduce her and break up the wedding. She told Movieline how she lobbied to make the script more romantic, how she manages to balance all her separate careers, and why she didn't end up in the Pirates of the Caribbean role that sounded tailor-made for her.
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Glee may not have taken home the Best Comedy prize on Emmy night, but at least Jayma Mays can console herself with a trophy boyfriend in the form of John Stamos, who'll be appearing as Emma's love interest (and Will's rival) over the next season. Prior to the Emmys, Movieline caught up with Mays to discuss the new character, what's in store for Emma this year, and what she'll be doing in the show's Britney Spears episode.
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Turns out that being the son of a 90210 star doesn't necessarily mean you believe acting is your calling -- just ask Zander Eckhouse (the son of Walsh paterfamilias James Eckhouse), who only recently discovered he loved the work. Ahead of his ABC Family series Huge's first season finale, Eckhouse talked to Movieline about his studly "fat camp" counselor George, working with Jeremy Piven on a new movie, and the incredible statue he helped David Hasselhoff put in his study.
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On a sanguinary series like True Blood, there are all sorts of bursts of shocking red, but none pops more than the brassy hairdo on top of the equally brassy waitress Arlene, played by Carrie Preston. This season, Arlene's had plenty to deal with, including an unwanted pregnancy from her bad seed ex, a vampire coworker at Merlotte's, and the mysterious machinations of Holly (Lauren Bowles), who seems oddly invested in Arlene's pregnancy. Preston talked to Movieline about those juicy moments, her character's "drag queen" looks, her husband (Lost's Michael Emerson), and her impressively Law and Order-studded resume.
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Don't hate Vincent Cassel for having it all: If it wasn't enough that he's one of the biggest matinee idols in France, he's also married to Monica Bellucci. It's fitting then, that someone of his stature would play a criminal like Jacques Mesrine in the new filmic diptych Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 -- though the murderous Mesrine did a lot of bad things in 1970s France, he somehow became one of the country's most popular celebrities.
The charming and candid Cassel sat down with Movieline this month to discuss his interpretation of Mesrine, his own love of celebrity, and the pair of English-language films he has on the way: Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.
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Community earned a lot of buzz in its first season on the air, but there's still a lot of people who have yet to discover it, and Joel McHale met almost all of those people on the red carpet for the Chopard pre-Emmy bash in Los Angeles last weekend (among the odd questions he had to field: "Growing up, did you prefer the Backstreet Boys or N Sync?"). Needless to say, he was happy to actually talk about the show to Movieline, and dished on the cast's recent Comic-Con sojourn, guest star Betty White, and his favorite unaired pilot.
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Jesse Bradford has toplined projects ranging from Flags of Our Fathers to Swimfan to Bring It On, and now, in his first consistent TV role since The West Wing, he plays an Ivy League-educated upstart working in a law firm alongside former Supreme Court justice Jimmy Smits on NBC's upcoming drama Outlaw. Movieline recently caught up with Bradford to discuss his new role and grill him about his favorite film scene of all time.
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It isn't easy to lose an Emmy, but it's even harder to lose it your archenemy, as Kathy Griffin found out this past weekend when My Life on the D-List lost the reality series trophy to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, produced by her nemesis Ryan Seacrest. The next night at an Emmy bash at Cecconi's, Griffin rehashed the loss to Movieline.
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It feels like Jane Lynch is everywhere these days, even though Glee doesn't return until next month and her highly anticipated Saturday Night Live stint isn't until October. Last night, the ubiquitous star popped up at a Chopard pre-Emmy bash at Cecconi's (that's her in the Audi R8 Spyder above), and Movieline grilled her about new Glee adversaries, SNL jitters, and the iCarly gift she made to her daughter.
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As vampire king Russell Edgington, Denis O'Hare has always been one of the best parts of True Blood's third season, whether he was seducing vampires to the dark side, wooing Sophie-Anne into marriage, or calming his tempestuous companion-for-life, Talbot. Now that Talbot's death has sent Russell spinning, O'Hare's work has reached new, dizzying heights, culminating in last week's instant-classic monologue about vampire superiority, which O'Hare delivered while holding a bloody spinal cord. The Tony-winning actor told Movieline all about it.
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The upcoming Emma Stone vehicle Easy A is all about how one simple thing can change your reputation overnight, so what will the highly anticipated high school comedy do for director Will Gluck? In advance of the film's Toronto Film Festival premiere, Movieline talked to Gluck about his postmodern approach to comedy, his next movie Friends with Benefits (which is competing against two other projects that want to use that title), and the asthma attack-inducing power of the female orgasm.
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There are bad guys, and there are bad. Guys. Veteran Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn plays the latter in Animal Kingdom, the Sundance-winning, Melbourne-set crime drama currently wowing moviegoers in limited release. Much of that reaction has focused on the quality of the film's evil double-headed, awards-worthy hydra, with the terrific Jacki Weaver smiling and snarling on one side and Mendelsohn -- as bipolar (or monopolar, really) robber ganglord Arthur "Pope" Cody -- on the other. As Mendelsohn candidly and readily admits, it was not a beast you wanted to mess before or during the grueling Kingdom shoot.
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Contrary to what you may have seen on Funny or Die, Adam McKay and Will Ferrell didn't find Chris Gethard living in the woods when they were looking to replace Jon Heder as the lead on their new sitcom. They just remembered the auditions for The Other Guys.
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