Jaclyn Smith, Shear Genius
Let's cut to the chase: Jaclyn Smith is pure heaven. And now that the former Angel has spread her wings into reality TV — as host of Bravo's hairstyling competition Shear Genius (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET) — we decided to have a little coif-y talk.
TV Guide: First off, you look amazing. You have the body of a 20-year-old.Jaclyn Smith: Boy, you're sweet. I like hearing that on a stressful day.
TV Guide: Now obviously, you know hair....Smith: Well, I definitely have a point of view, and I've learned a lot from [Shear judges] Sally Hershberger, José Eber and
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Las Vegas' Cheryl Ladd ages gracefully in Though None Go with Me (inset).
Cheryl Ladd, grandmother? Have we come to that point? Sort of, but not really. In the Hallmark Channel presentation Though None Go with Me (premiering Saturday at 9 pm/ET), Charlie's onetime Angel disappears behind old-age makeup to play Elizabeth Leroy Bishop, a woman who relates stories from her colorful and oft-times turbulent life — Amy Grabow plays Elizabeth as a young woman — to a grandchild. As anyone who has seen Ladd on Las Vegas knows, it must have taken a lot of powder to make this heavenly beauty look anything but robust.
TVGuide.com: Look at you, playing grandma to some twentysomething girl!Cheryl Ladd: [Laughs] Yep!
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Cameron Diaz has won her civil lawsuit against a photographer who blackmailed her with topless pics taken when she was 19. The Charlie's Angels star was awarded an undisclosed amount in statutory damages.... Jessica Alba dropped her demand that Playboy pull its March issue, featuring a bikini-clad photo of her on the cover, after receiving a letter of apology from Hugh Hefner. "This was never about money," Alba, who had claimed the image suggested she appeared nude inside the mag, says in a statement. "It was about setting the record straight about something that was done without my knowledge or consent."
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Loni Anderson, So Notorious
When VH1's So Notorious premieres this Sunday (10 pm/ET), it may leave some viewers a bit confused. They may think, "Hey, I never knew Loni Anderson was Tori Spelling's real mother...." But no, that's not one of Hollywood's best-kept secrets. Anderson, of course, is only playing the part in this fictionalized version of Tori's life. While Tori's real mother is Candy, Anderson is "Kiki," a twisted version of Aaron Spelling's wife. "Candy is a really nice lady," says Anderson, best known for her classic role as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati. "And, as we all know, being nice isn't funny. So Tori needed a nemesis, and I am the mother you love to hate."
TVGuide.com: How did this role come about for you?Loni Anderson: I had to kind of fight to get in because they didn't want a celebrity name for the part. They wanted Tori to be the only celebrity because th
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Sources tell the Hollywood Reporter that producer-director McG (Charlie's Angels) is shopping around an unscripted series about the Pussycat Dolls and that the new CW network may be nibbling at the vittles. Hmm, tough call for CW: Give airtime to an insubstantial girl group, or renew the brilliant Veronica Mars. Coin toss.
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Rene Auberjonois, Boston Legal
Before "snark" was even a word, Rene Auberjonois was wonderfully full of it as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III, the fancy-speaking foil to Robert Guillaume's titular manservant-turned-civil servant on the '80s comedy Benson. These days — and a sci-fi-fabulous run as Deep Space Nine's Odo later — the veteran actor is sharing a set with fellow Star Trek universe alum William Shatner on ABC's Boston Legal (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET). In fact, Auberjonois' prickly Paul Lewiston recently embarked on a juicy new story arc, one of the many topics covered in this Q&A with TVGuide.com.
TVGuide.com: Long before there was The West Wing, befo
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Matthew Fox, Lost
Matthew Fox has sealed up his plans for summer hiatus, and this time he's taking on a real-life airline tragedy. The Lost star has signed on to join Matthew McConaughey in Charlie's Angels director McG's as-yet-untitled big-screen drama about the 1970 plane crash that killed members of the West Virginia-based Marshall University football team, most of its coaching staff and many others. Both Matthews will play team coaches.
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The Book of Daniel's Garrett Dillahunt and Aidan Quinn
Surprisingly — or not? — the American Family Association, which has smote irreverent series dating back to Charlie's Angels, is taking issue with the new NBC drama The Book of Daniel (premiering Jan. 6), in which Aidan Quinn plays a clergyman with a colorful clan and who, by the way, occasionally chats with Jesus (played by Garrett Dillahunt). AFA biggwig Rev. Donald Wildmon slams Quinn's character for being a "drug-addicted Episcopal priest whose wife depends heavily on her midday martinis," takes issue with (shocker alert) the show's portrayal of homosexuals, and pegs the drop-ins by Jesus as "very unconventional." Wildmon's obviously a Willem Dafoe loyalist.
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Question: I have a question that could only be answered by a great one, namely you. In a rerun of Charlie's Angels (I know, I shouldn't admit to such things, even when home with the flu), the Angels were talking to a dark-haired man who was very familiar. I think he was a regular on the show. Who is he, and could he possibly be the same actor who was on a show that aired in the mid-'90s about a priest and nun who solved mysteries together? I can't remember the name of the later show, but the nun was a street kid before she became a nun. It's amazing how once you start wondering about something it really sticks in your mind.
Answer: Ah, Rika, your flattery is appreciated, but the question can be answered with just the slightest flex of my unearthly TV abilities.
I'd venture to say that no two actors in TV history have been confused with one another more frequ
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Question: What were some of the more popular shows of 1976?Answer: Well, since we're actually talking about two seasons in any given calendar year — for example, the tail end of 1975's fall season and the first half of 1976's — it's a whole host of programming. But because I like that time-capsule stuff, I'll give you a taste.
The Top 5 shows for September 1975-April 1976, together with each one's network and rating (percentage of total TV households in the country at that time) were: All in the Family (CBS, 30.1); Rich Man, Poor Man (ABC, 28.0); Laverne & Shirley (ABC, 27.5); Maude (CBS, 25.0) and The Bionic Woman
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