Elizabeth Taylor will mark her 74th birthday on Monday by donating a mobile medical unit worth several hundred thousand dollars to the New Orleans AIDS Task Force.... Sandra Bernhard is back on off-Broadway with Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad and Beautiful. Previews begin March 29; the limited run ends May 28.... Lifetime Television, which earlier this week inked a deal to adapt several of Nora Roberts' acclaimed novels into TV-movies, has since snatched up broadcast rights to Shall We Dance, Beauty Shop, Derailed and Prime.
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Conjuring up $101.4 million, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire enjoyed the best opening weekend performance yet for the franchise and the fourth-best three-day opening weekend ever, ranking behind Spider-Man, Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and Shrek 2. Rounding out the weekend's Top 5 were Walk the Line (bowing with $22.4 million), Chicken Little ($14.8 mil), Derailed ($6.5 mil) and Zathura ($5.1 mil).
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The Apprentice: Martha StewartMarcela is still 0-for-2 against Jim as project manager, but the true showdown was between Marcela and the evil twosome of Ryan and Amanda. Rymanda's negativity left Marcela with only Leslie's support to create a retail space and sell the hot-beverage maker by Tassimo. Jim, with his rogue teammate Dawna, had nothing to fear this week 'cuz Rymanda did their best to tank Matchstick's chances. Did you catch that Jim had a rogue teammate? Now there's irony. Primarius scored a lucky win with the awesome reward of hanging out at Martha's crib in Maine and eating lobster sandwiches hand-prepared by Alexis. I had to laugh, though, when in the conferenc
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Question: When is that bitch Ana-Lucia going to die?Answer: Brace yourself — that question will be answered just as soon as… OK, enough with all the teasing. It's time for the main event. In lieu of peppering the entire interview with SPOILER ALERTS, I present you with this one and only warning: Avoid the following Q&A if you'd prefer to remain in the dark about some of Lost's biggest mysteries, including scoopy stuff about those pesky digits, Shannon's death, the mysterious Mr. Eko and that creepy monster. For everyone else, dig in!
First off, I have a bone to pick with you, Damon. Last July, I asked you if a female character was getting killed this season on Lost, and you said — and I quote: "I think it would be fairly silly for us to kill a woman — there are only three or four of them
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The Office"Last year, my performance review started with Michael asking me what my hopes and dreams were, and it ended with him telling me he could bench-press 190 lbs. So I don't really know what to expect." I'll tell you what you can expect, Pam: a healthy dose of interoffice romance analysis with a dash of "satisfactories" and "adequates" to taste. Not particularly helpful if you're an employee, but plenty of fun if you're an at-home viewer. You know, as it turns out, it's performance-review time here at TV Guide, too. I'm thinking maybe I ought to use Dwight's "I am awesome" karate-chop stairwell technique to prep for my big sit-down with the boss. Although without the charts and graphs, the whole presentation pretty much falls apart, and I'm just not that willing to commit to the j
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Bones Tonight was all about the dead D.J. Mount, who was mummified after being suffocated with crystal meth. When Booth and Bones go to talk to D.J. Rulz, he checks out Bones and wonders if the FBI has started recruiting from America's Next Top Model. Nice. Rulz, who, it turns out, isn't responsible for Mount's or his girlfriend Eve's deaths, practically begs Booth to toss him in the slammer to boost his rep in the hip-hop circuit. Which prompts Bones to ask, "What am I, in 'backwards world?'" Oh, and did anyone else catch the subtle throwaway line when Bones was trying explain why she was too busy to go out to the club in the first place? "There's a TV show that needs research. Not that they listen." Funny, con
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Nip/TuckBye-bye, Anne Heche. Nice to see Nikki safely left town with her son, leaving behind a note for Sean. That came right after a dream sequence (can we please stop it with the dream sequences?) where that creepy guy pointed a gun at Nikki after already killing Austin. Thankfully, it was just Sean daydreaming. Speaking of the creepy guy, the actor who played him — Jon Sklaroff — played creepy "Sean the Sound Guy" on The Comeback (he was the one who always freaked out Valerie when he put her mike on) and he just last week played the guy who raped and killed a 13-year-old girl on Boston Legal. If you want someone to play a creepy guy, go to Jon Sklaroff. His first scene in tonight's episode reminded me of the infamous George Michael public-restroom arrest (
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Prison BreakWas anyone else totally grossed out that the guy who was chasing Veronica and Co. used sandpaper on himself to make it look like he was in an accident? That's true devotion to your job. But this villianous creep deserved to suffer for the take-no-prisoners-alive way he went about trying to eliminate any threats to the VP's cover-up campaign. Boy did he get his in the end. Go L.J.! Way to tackle him and push him in the well. Nice humane way to deal with an inhumane individual. Too bad that the other two goons weren't as sympathetic and left him in the woods — in a well, with a broken leg and no cell phone — to die. I guess it is true what they say about payback. On the inside, I've just got a hunch that T-Bag — or as Abruzzi starte
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NumbersHow is it that I get the sneaking suspicion that I might actually be learning some mathematical skills watching this show? Sure, when Charlie and Marshall (played by Roswell alum Colin Hanks, who picked up the lengthy lingo really quickly) were waging their war of the nerds, half the time I didn't understand what they were saying, but these days I've started using terms like "algorithms" and "convergence." Must be the cool way Charlie breaks his tough things down with simple analogies like tonight's comparison to jigsaw puzzles. Actually I'm not the only one who is picking up some of the geek speak. Agents Sinclair and Granger are also starting to understand Charlie's language and even went to him for help with their quest to find a bullet and ended up using calcula
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Reunion1990 Soundtrack: Skid Row: "I Remember You"; Social Distortion: "Ball and Chain"; The Smiths: “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”
You tried to trick me, Reunion folks. Last week I was confident that Sam was the victim. And then all of a sudden we see her in 2005? Very clever to make it her reunion remembrance video, although why she would talk in such detail about 1990 is beyond me. So in this new decade, Will goes from snitch to soldier; Carla is sleeping with the enemy; Jenna's mom is dying of AIDS; Craig and Sam are married and Aaron is still in Prague.
The ugh! moments: Jenna's present-day wig, anyone? French woman saying "How do you say?" is such a pet peeve of mine. Picture my head exploding at that very moment. W
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