Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris fans hoping to see their fave be a cut-up as host of Sunday's Tony Awards (airing at 8 pm/ET, on CBS) will probably get some satisfaction. But those wanting to see the How I Met Your Mother star cut a rug or break out into song might come up empty.
"They have an opening planned that is bigger than they have ever had in Tony history. But I don't think I'm going to be involved in it," Harris shared in a press conference call.
Instead, Harris says he will take a cue from Hugh Jackman ...
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John Cho and Kal Penn by Jesse Grant/WireImage.com
The slow-burning stoner hit Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle which sparked a successful sequel Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is set to roll into theaters again with a third installmentDetails are vague but stars Kal Penn and John Cho are likely to return according to an article in Variety Also returning are Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg who wrote and directed the first two flicksWhite Castle was a sleeper hit that eventually grossed 18 million domestically and 30 million in DVD sales seems folks enjoy watching the flick from the comfort of their cushy couches Guantanamo Bay more than doubled the theater take of the first thanks to growing legions of mellow fansOK Ill stop with the weedy analogies now Now light up the comment area below with your take on Harold and Kumar III Oops Nina H228mmerling Smith
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Neil Patrick Harris by Jaimie Trueblood/New Line Cinema
What would be a Harold Kumar movie without Doogie Howser MD aka Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH We last saw Harris playing his alter-ego in Harold Kumar Go to White Castle hitchhiking high on ecstasy and heartily engaged in the joke on himself and his child stardomFour years later Harris days as Doogie and his TV medical career is a distant memory supplanted by his renewed stardom as Barney in How I Met Your Mother in addition to his various guest roles With his increased fame and high public profile Harris self-parody in the new installment Harold Kumar 2 Escape from Guantanamo Bay is even more outrageous As Guantanamo Bay makes its debut Friday Harris offered some insights into his approach to Kumar and its relationship to his careerIn the new film Harris is still the same wild drug-loving womanizing bad-boy but this time he finds himself in situations that include a check point with Rob Corddry in which Harris mushroom-addl
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Traci Lords by Paul Hawthorne/WireImage.com
Traci Lords will help Zack & Miri Make a Porno, says the Reporter. Also joining Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks and Jason Mewes in the Kevin Smith comedy are Craig Robinson (The Office) and Ricky Mabe (Beautiful People).... Juno's Ellen Page next will play a teen from a small Texas town who forsakes the beauty-pageant circuit to become a roller-derby queen in Whip It!, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut.... Also per Variety, Forest Whitaker is in talks to front Patriots, a real-life-inspired drama about Al Collins, the hoops coach who led John Ehret High School's hoops team to the Louisiana state championship a year after Katrina displaced scores of students.... Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay will bow at the South by Southwest Film Festival, taking place March 7-15 in Austin, Texas.
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Kal Penn, The Namesake
Sometimes being a teen-comedy icon is not an obstacle to having a serious acting career. Just ask Kal Penn. In the hearts and minds of a generation, he will forever be known as Kumar from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, but it was a young fan of the 2004 stoner flick who lobbied for him to be cast as Gogol, the central character in Mira Nair's The Namesake (in theaters now). That youngster happens to be Nair's now 16-year-old son, Zohran.
"Zohran would bug her every night when she tucked him in for bed and say, "Mom, can you audition Kal Penn from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle?" Penn relates.
"I didn't really take it seriously," admits
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Talks are underway to serve up a follow-up to Martin Scorsese's The Departed, which to date has earned much acclaim (including five Oscar nods) and $125.2 million in box office. Sources tell Reuters that Departed scribe William Monahan is at work on a take that would involve Mark Wahlberg's Dignam, and introduce a new character to be played by Robert De Niro.... Teri Polo is set to reprise her role as Ben Stiller's wife in Meet the Little Focker.... Harold & Kumar 2 — which will pick up where the original left off, with Harold hot to follow Maria (Paula Garcés) to Amsterdam, but is thwarted when Kumar is mistaken at the airport for a terrorist — also has Neil Patrick Harris, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Rob Corddry, Christopher Meloni and Roger Bart on board.
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Variety reports that ABC and Touchstone have inked Kal Penn, a cast member on the coming season of 24, to a talent-holding deal in which the network will develop prospective projects, mainly single-camera comedies, for the Harold & Kumar star. Peter Horton, meanwhile, has also signed a new, two-year, seven-figure pact with Touchstone to continue on as an exec producer on Grey's Anatomy, in addition to serving as a consultant on Six Degrees.
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Actor Kal Penn will play Claire Fisher's latest BF in the final season of Six Feet Under. How'd he score that plum part? Turns out, SFU creator Alan Ball is a big fan of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (out this week on DVD). Here, the up-and-comer joins TV Guide Online to dish the goofy buddy movie that's been getting him noticed.
TV Guide Online: Gotta ask. Any relation to Sean Penn?
Kal Penn: No. I get that a lot. Sometimes I say yes!
TVGO: You use a stage name, right?
Penn: My real name is Kalpen Modi. I took my first name, split it and added an "n." I'm East Indian, born in New Jersey. I actually went to high school in Freehold, New Jersey, where Harold and Kumar make a stop-off in the movie. Casting directors kept telling me to shorten my name, so I did it — as a joke — and my auditions went up. It's a little bit disturbing and a little bit funny. Do they think Kal Penn is just easier
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