Piper Perabo
It's hard enough adjusting to any new job, let alone a top-secret trainee position within the CIA. In Covert Affairs, a new spy series on USA (Tuesday 10/9c), Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) is pulled out of training and sent on a mission — with no clue as to why she was chosen. The 33-year-old Perabo spoke with TVGuide.com about wanting to do the action-heavy show and how affairs of another sort (read: of the heart) become "quite the problem" on Annie's team.
TVGuide:com: Why were you drawn to Covert Affairs?
Piper Perabo: One of the things I liked about it was...
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Piper Perabo
Michael Westen of Burn Notice isn't the only spy on USA anymore. Covert Affairs has joined the cable lineup, the network announced Thursday.
Starring Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly), Affairs has been picked up for...
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The Bourne Trilogy
Jason Bourne explodes onto Blu-ray with Universal's release of The Bourne Trilogy consisting of The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremazy and The Bourne Ultimatum. This 3-disc set collects the three Bourne movies together for the first time on Blu-ray, and is the only way you can buy the movies; they aren't sold separately.
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Amber Tamblyn, whose The Grudge 2 opens this weekend — and whom I hope to Q&A later today, hint-hint to her publicist who may be reading — has joined Blackout, an indie thriller about three people trapped in a hospital elevator for almost 24 hours.... Also per the Hollywood Reporter: Randy Quaid is in talks to play the mentor of Gary the Tennis Coach, starring Seann William Scott.... Brit actor Paddy Considine will play a London journalist sniffing around the CIA in The Bourne Ultimatum, now filming in Europe and Africa.
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Jane Lynch, Lovespring International
Who put the overly amorous boss from The 40 Year Old Virgin in charge of a dating service?! Part of the credit goes to Will & Grace's Eric McCormack, one of the executive producers of the Lifetime series Lovespring International (premiering tonight at 11 pm/ET). In this improv comedy, Jane Lynch plays Victoria, the head of an "elite Beverly Hills" dating service... based out of Tarzana, California... whose staffers are as pathetic as its pretend pedigree. At the
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Good news — Nicole Kidman has picked her next project, and it isn't Bewitched 2! Rather, the Oscar winner will star in and produce what the Hollywood Reporter is calling a female version of The Bourne Identity. Meanwhile, fellow Academy darling Tom Hanks has also selected his next big-screen outing: How Starbucks Saved My Life. In it, the producer-headliner will play an ad man who gets canned and winds up slinging lattes for a living (or, as I like to think of it, the recurring nightmare Matt Webb Mitovich has when I'm subbing as news editor). Gus Van Sant is the front-runner to direct, the Hollywood Reporter says.
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Question: In a Saab TV commercial, the background music sounds similar to the music in the chase scene from either The Bourne Identity or The Bourne Supremacy. Can you find out the title of that music and if it's available for purchase? It's very catchy. Thanks.
Answer: That's Paul Oakenfold's "Ready Steady Go," and it is indeed the same song featured in The Bourne Identity, as well as Collateral, some Fox NASCAR promos and a few other places I can't think of at the moment. Mr. Oakenfold has very considerately made the song available for purchase. You'll find it on his 2002 release Bunkka (Maverick).
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John Travolta and Tim Allen are in talks to star in Wild Hogs, a Disney comedy about middle-aged biker wannabes who, while on an open-road folly, butt heads with Hell's Angels.... The scribes behind Chicken Little are now at work on a live-action comedy, The Missing Link, which is pegged as a "monkey spy adventure in the vein of The Bourne Identity." Um, OK.
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Perhaps inspired by best bud Ben Affleck's recent union with Jennifer Garner, Bourne Identity star Matt Damon reportedly popped the question to girlfriend Luciana Barroso just before Labor Day, says US Weekly. This would be the first marriage for Damon, who in the past has been romantically linked to Minnie Driver and the preshoplifting Winona Ryder.
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Poor Franka Potente. In 2002's The Bourne Identity, the 30-year-old German actress created the role of Marie, the streetwise Berliner who fell for Matt Damon's amnesiac assassin, Jason Bourne. This summer's hit sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, treated moviegoers to a nasty surprise: Early on in the movie, Marie gets whacked! Now, that ain't right.
Potente, who first popped up on America's radar in 1999's Run Lola Run, wasn't thrilled with Marie's exit either. She thought Bourne's brave girlfriend deserved better than to passively jump in his jeep, only to be shot in the back of her noggin by a contract killer — sheesh, talk about riding shotgun! — and end up at the bottom of a river.
"I had a different ideas of the way that we — how shall I phrase this? — lose sight of her," Potente grins. "But the director [Paul Greengrass] is really good and he fought me on it. In the end, I guess the better
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