Marilyn Manson, Josh Saviano, The Wonder Years
TV Guide Network is taking a look at 25 of Hollywood's urban legends in a new special.
Was a dead munchkin hanging in the background of a Wizard of Oz scene? Did Marilyn Manson play Paul Pfeiffer on Wonder Years? And one of the all-time enduring questions: Did a combination of Pop Rocks and soda kill Mikey from the Life cereal commercials?
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Bryan Cranston
Though Bryan Cranston is best known these days for his work in drama, the Breaking Bad star still loves a good laugh — especially one from a show that feels very familiar to him.
"Not since my days on Malcolm in the Middle have I seen a show that can make you laugh out loud and at the same time resonate on some deeper level [like Modern Family does]," Cranston tells TVGuide.com. "Extremely difficult to do because if the audience smells a 'message' in an episode — game over, show loses. This program has it all... wonderful writing, fantastic actors. Bravo."
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Modern Family isn't the only show the three-time Emmy winner turns on for a few chuckles. Sharing his TV watchlist with TVGuide.com, the actor says he ...
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The Suite Life of Zach and Cody
"Twister" is the name of an upcoming, three-part episode of Suite Life on Deck that pays homage to The Wizard of Oz. But star Debby Ryan says it's also a metaphor for her character Bailey's turbulent relationship with Cody.
"It's the whirlwind relationship of Cody and Bailey," Ryan says. "For all of Season 3, ever since the breakup in Paris, it's been miscommunication after miscommunication. They're finally at this point of wanting to rectify things."
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Ricky Gervais
Christmas in Washington (Friday, 8/7c, TNT)
It's the most wonderful time of the year — for musical holiday specials, at the very least. Mariah Carey, who kicked the TV week off with an ABC Christmas special on Monday, is part of the all-star lineup of this concert extravaganza, taped last weekend at the gorgeous National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Ellen DeGeneres hosts, and joining Carey onstage are ...
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Ever wonder what's become of Veruca's Golden Ticket to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, or the almanac Biff stole in Back to the Future Part II? Then meet Joe Maddalena, the man who has made it his life mission to hunt down lost relics that have been dispersed around the globe. In Syfy's new series Hollywood Treasure (Wednesdays at 10/9c), auctioneer Maddalena travels the world to save the cultural artifacts from film and history —including the original Wicked Witch of the West's hat from The Wizard of Oz and Mary Poppin's bottomless carpetbag — that have wound up people's garages and basements.
Check out some of the props he was able to track down in the video after the jump.
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Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr. could be the next man behind the curtain.
Downey is in talks with the producers of Disney's planned Wizard of Oz prequel to star as the wizard, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Breaking nerd news: Joss Whedon tapped to direct Avengers movie
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Meinhardt Raabe
Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner who proclaimed the Wicked Witch of the East dead in The Wizard of Oz, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 94.
Raabe, one of the few surviving Munchkins from the film, died Friday morning at Orange Park Medical Center in Florida, his caregiver, Cindy Bosnyak, told the AP. Bosnyak said he...
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Number 9? Number 9? The erstwhile Number 6 changed his number - and his fate, with a suggestion of tequila shots. Kal Penn by Isabella Vosmikova/Fox
Episode Recap: The Right StuffOooohhh, trippy. Gotta love an opening sequence that references both Stanely Kubrick's classic a href=" 2001: A Space Odyssey and House's acid trip last season. I'm sure synesthesia (the Patient of the Week's initial diagnosis, a condition in which she "started to hear with [her] eyes") is awfully disconcerting, but it sure looks neat.To start things off, House assigns his group of hopefuls the task of diagnosing Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, who had to give up the role after he developed a life-threatening allergy to the costume's silver paint. But a far more interesting — and breathing, paying — test case walks in the door, in the form of an Air Force captain and NASA hopeful, who offers House $50,000 in cash to figure out what's wrong with her, on the condition of preserving her anonymity. (Apparently NASA doesn't send biological lemons into orbit.) So House introduces her to the class as Osama bin Laden and sets ...
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Todd McFarlane by Duffy-Marie Arnoult/WireImage.com
Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures are teaming on Oz, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's revisionist take on the L. Frank Baum books that begat the Wizard of Oz chestnut. Though McFarlane's vision is described as "dark, edgy and a muscular PG-13," and an Oz toy line he launched years ago reimagined a rather buxom Ms. Gale, screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence) tells Variety, "Dorothy as some bondage queen isn't something I want to do. I want this to be Harry Potter-dark, not Seven-dark."
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