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“Beauty and the Beast”
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Scott Van Slyke
CELEBRITY
SPOTLIGHTS
David Duchovny
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Bill Paxton
Kellan Lutz
Shane Reynolds
WHAT'S FOR
DINNER
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The story
The 69th
Annual Tony
Awards
Kristin Chenoweth is a
nominee and co-host of
The 69th Annual Tony
Awards, airing Sunday
on CBS.
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The 69th Annual Tony Awards
airing Sunday on CBS.
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“Jonathan Strange & Mr.
Norrell”
premiering Saturday on BBC America.
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“Orange Is the New Black”
premiering its third season Friday on Netflix.
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“Beauty and the Beast”
Season 3 premiere of “Beauty and the Beast”
Thursday on The CW.
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Celebrity potlights
David Duchovny
Andrew Zimmern
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Emmanuelle
Chriqui
Kellan Lutz
of “Aquarius” on NBC.
“Murder in the First”
on TNT.
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Bill Paxton
of ‘Texas Rising’ on
History.
Pictured:
Kellan Lutz at a photocall of the
movie “EXPENDABLES 3,” at
George V Hotel in Paris.
of “Bizarre Foods.”
Checking In.
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Shane Reynolds
of the Travel Channel.
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Kristin Chenoweth
co-hosts,
competes in
Tony Awards
telecast
By John Crook
Co-hosting a nationally televised awards show would
be stressful enough for most performers, but Kristin
Chenoweth is pulling double duty during The 69th Annual
Tony Awards Sunday, June 7, on CBS.
In addition to co-hosting the ceremonies with Alan
Cumming (“The Good Wife”), Chenoweth also is a front
runner in the race for best performance by an actress in a
leading role in a musical for the current Broadway revival
of “On the Twentieth Century.”
Many TV viewers first were introduced to both Chenoweth
and Cumming in Rob Marshall’s 1999 TV adaptation of
“Annie,” and the actress says they have been friends for
years.
“I think the thing that I am most looking forward to is the
feeling of being off the cuff,” she says of her co-hosting
chores. “We’re rehearsing and working on some of the
material right now, but basically we’re just going to have
a good time. I’m just looking forward to playing with my
buddy.”
In that televised “Annie,” Chenoweth played Cumming’s
dim-bulb girlfriend, Lily St. Regis. In “On the Twentieth
Century,” she plays another Lily – Oscar-winning actress
and diva Lily Garland, who finds herself on the same
Chicago-to-New York train as her former mentor and
lover Oscar Jaffee (Peter Gallagher). Although Lily is
accompanied by her latest boy-toy, Bruce Granit (Tony
nominee Andy Karl), she and Oscar inevitably start to
rekindle old feelings as he tries to woo her for his latest
theater project.
Fans of screwball comedy may recall the story from its
classic 1934 movie incarnation with John Barrymore and
Carole Lombard as Oscar and Lily.
Originally created for Madeline Kahn – coincidentally,
one of Chenoweth’s idols – the musical version of Lily is
a tour de force for any actress who can belt out difficult,
faux-operetta songs while simultaneously delivering the
requisite comedy bits. Kahn left only two months after the
original production opened in 1978, unable to handle the
daunting vocal demands for eight performances a week.
Chenoweth, who continues in the current production
through mid-July, says the role is indeed a killer.
“I’ll be honest, when I sat down and went over the score,
which is just one challenge after another, I thought that
this was a mountain I couldn’t climb,” the actress admits.
“And on top of everything else, I knew I had to make it look
easy. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, that’s for sure,
but this is a beast that I am so happy to tackle every time
we do it.”
Many Tony handicappers peg Chenoweth as all but a
shoo-in, but her category also includes two other favorites:
two-time Tony winner Chita Rivera, 82, in “The Visit,” the
last musical from John Kander and Fred Ebb, and Kelli
O’Hara in “The King and I.” The latter has been nominated
in this category five times without a win, and she’s gotten
stellar reviews for this role, which previously earned Tonys
for actresses Gertrude Lawrence and Donna Murphy.
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CELEBRITY
Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
DavidDuchovny
of ‘Aquarius’ on NBC
Does the way series television is being
done now, with limited runs in cases such
as “Aquarius,” make returning to it more
appealing to you?
That’s exactly right. When I finished “The
X-Files,” I would have said – and I would
have meant it – that I was never going to do
television again, and not because television
is any less legitimate as film for an actor,
writer, director or producer. I would have said
that at that time because there was no way I
wanted to spend 10 months a year doing 22
to 25 episodes. I just didn’t have it in me at
that point.
Then when the cable model started to
become prevalent, which was right around
that time as “Sex and the City” and “The
Sopranos” started to hit, people woke up and
saw this amazing work was being done in
only 12 or 13 episodes (per season). I didn’t
see it coming ... but a few years later, I woke
up and said, “Sure, I’ll do that TV. Anytime.”
And now, it’s not just cable.
Does the feeling of having been accepted
in other projects, including your long
run on “Californication,” make it more
comfortable for you to return to the role
of Mulder in next year’s revival of “The XFiles”?
Oh, yeah. It would be a whole different
story if I felt like nothing else had happened
and I hadn’t been able to get anything else
going during the years we were off the air.
I feel a great sense of freedom in that I’m
not making choices based on what other
people’s perceptions of my career or my
talent – or me – are.
At this point, it’s just like, “Let’s do the best
work we can do, do the most interesting work
we can do, and be the best artist we can be.”
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Jay Bobbin’s Q&A
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EmmanuelleChriqui
‘Murder in the First’ on TNT
Your police character is in the midst
of the action, quite literally, from the
moment she first appears in Monday’s
(June 8) Season 2 premiere of “Murder in
the First.” How was it for you to start out
that way?
It’s crazy, and the thing is that it’s so big and
so intense, then it turns the corner in that
amazing way where it’s super characterdriven. It just takes you on a ride, and I think
it’s going to be a great season.
What’s the background of your character
in the show?
She’s half-Mexican and half-Israeli, and she
used to serve in the Israeli Army and was
very, very good at what she did. She grew
up in San Francisco, then went to Israel
and came back, and she’s actually a plainclothes sergeant in the Gang Unit. She’s
an interesting cat, not anyone I’ve played
before ... not even close.
Someone you have played before is
Sloan on “Entourage.” Did you always
keep the faith that the current movie
version would happen?
Not at all. At one point, I didn’t think it would
happen at all and had really pushed it aside,
then there was talk of it again. It was not an
easy project to put together. However, when
you see the film, it’s so worth it.
I think a lot of people will be really happy
with it. I can say with utmost confidence
that if you’re a fan of the show, this is the
best version of the show possible. It’s like a
string of three or four episodes, but the best
ones. The show was such a love letter to
Los Angeles, shot just beautifully – and the
film is the same way, but cinematic. It’s so
impressive.
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CELEBRITY
George Dickie’s Q&A
BillPaxton
of ‘Texas Rising’ on History
As a Texan who’s related to Sam
Houston, you’re uniquely qualified to
play him on History’s “Texas Rising.”
Yeah (chuckles). Being a Texan is kind of
random. My dad was from Kansas City,
Mo., and my mom was from Joliet, Ill. They
ended up in Fort Worth, and that’s where I
was born, so I’m a first-generation Texan.
But my dad’s family has family that goes
back – Sam Houston and I, we share
common grandparents six generations
back on my father’s side. His mother would
have been a great aunt of mine and he’s
my second cousin I think four or five times
removed. I keep forgetting which one it is. I
think it’s four times removed – my second
cousin four times removed.
So is it fair to say you were intimately
familiar with the story when you were
cast?
Oh yeah but it had been a long time. I’d
read “The Raven,” the Marquis James
biography. My dad had given me that when
I was probably late teens or something. But
it was a lot of fun to delve back into it.
Again, a very remarkable American. Oh my
God, his stats are unbelievable. You know,
president of a country. Probably could have
been president of the United States but he
abdicated the governorship going into his
second term because of the breakup with
his first wife, which he never spoke about,
took it to his grave. He had great chivalry, a
romantic character who loved his dad and
loved reading the Homeric tales that his
dad had in his library, “The Iliad” and these
things, and was a very game guy.
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George Dickie’s What's for Dinner
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AndrewZimmern
Zimmern and ‘Bizarre Foods’ sample the fruits of the Peruvian jungle
Last year, Andrew Zimmern brought “Bizarre Foods” to Lima to sample the unusual eats
of the Peruvian capital. This week on Travel Channel, he heads back to the Land of the
Incas to get a completely different culinary take.
“It’s a transcendent place,” Zimmern says, “with hundreds of stories to be told, and its
many cultures float at the surface of society. It’s also a horizontal culture, not a vertical
one like America’s particular zeitgeist.”
In the Monday, June 8, episode titled “Peruvian Amazon: Giant Rodents & Biting Ants,”
Zimmern heads into the heart of the Amazon jungle to Iquitos to try his hand at catching
and cooking giant biting ants.
“You find the hive and break the walls down and grab them at the shoulders,” he says
of how to catch them. “It’s easy to not get bitten by the ones you are snatching. It’s the
other 77,000 of them coming at your legs that make it hard. We cooked them in tucupi (a
yellow sauce made from the root of the native manioc plant) with a local shaman. It’s a
superfood stew.”
He also swam with paiche, an important food fish in South America that can reach 12 feet in length. In the past, it has
been fished to near extinction in some parts of the continent and commercial fishing of it is banned in Brazil.
“It’s one of the best fish on earth – clean, white-fleshed and delicate,” Zimmern says. “... I tried to lift it out of the net to
free it. It’s got armor plating so it was very tricky, but fun to be in the water with them. The man responsible for making
them nearly extinct by hunting them down is the guy dedicated to farming them now, so it was an inspiring story.”
And as for those giant rodents, known as mahas, they’re smoked and Zimmern says they taste “like ham.”
Bon appetit.
What book are you currently reading?
“ ‘I Married Adventure,’ the story of the 19th
century explorer Martin Johnson. He was
also a nature photographer who brought
home stunning movies of Africa and the
South Seas to eager Americans and
spent a lifetime traveling the world with his
cameras and his wife. ”
three shows we are working on, and I am
expanding my restaurant business by a
factor of about 20. I have another season
of ‘Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations’
I am working on, and of course another
season of ‘Bizarre Foods.’ ”
When was the last vacation you took,
where and why?
What did you have for dinner last night? “Disney World. It is the most magical place
“Seared beef, roasted tomatoes, sweet
on Earth. We go a few times a year. I love
potatoes charred in a fire with sour cream
Costa Rica, on the Pacific south coast. We
and hot chiles.”
go there a lot.”
What is your next project?
“I am about to try to sell a cookbook, I just
launched a production company that has
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CELEBRITY
Jay Bobbin’s Celebrity ScooP
KellanLutz
If anyone is surprised by Kellan Lutz’s move from the “Twilight” movies to
hosting a competition series, they likely don’t know his own background
in the type of competition.
The actor who played Emmet Cullen in the hugely popular screen
franchise based on Stephenie Meyer’s novels is presiding over Fox’s
new Wednesday show “Bullseye.” It’s from the producers of “Wipeout,”
who now are using extreme sports – something Lutz, a fan of such
activities, is well-versed in – instead of the wacky obstacle course of the
former ABC program. As with that series, though, a $50,000 grand prize
is available to each hour-long episode’s winner.
“When they approached me with this, I never saw myself hosting
something,” Lutz says, “but this is a competition that allows people to
step outside their comfort zones, which I’m all about. I love pushing
myself to the limit; I’m such a risk-taker, I love extreme adventures, and
it’s always great to see my friends do what I do ... and that feeling they
face afterward, that smile on their faces and the sense that they can do
anything.”
Still, Lutz admits he initially was “a bit hesitant” to take the “Bullseye” job:
“I love doing my movies, but a show like this could go for many seasons.
As soon as they showed me the reel about what it is and what they
wanted it to be, I told them, ‘If you really want me, you have to promise
me that I can do some of the stunts.’ Then they were hesitant, but they
came back and said, ‘We’ll get the insurance, and we’ll have to know a
week in advance which stunts they are.’ ”
As a result, “The Legend of Hercules” star Lutz is quite content with his
“Bullseye” role. “It’s just been fun,” he maintains. “I’m having the time of
my life. I love people, and I guess that’s what hosting is about.”
Birthdate: March 15, 1985
Birthplace: Dickinson, N.D.
Current residence: Los Angeles
Marital status: Single
Movies include: “The Expendables
3,” “The Legend of Hercules,”
“Twilight,” “The Twilight Saga: New
Moon,” “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,”
“The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn – Part 1,” “The Twilight
Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2,”
“Tarzan” (voice only), “Java Heat,”
“Immortals,” “Love, Wedding,
Marriage,” “A Warrior’s Heart,” “A
Nightmare on Elm Street” (2010),
“Prom Night” (2008), “Accepted,”
“Stick It”
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CelebritY profile
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S h ane R e y nolds
Shane Reynolds works as a host, writer, producer, director and editor on the Travel Channel.
- Reynolds, aka “Shane O,” is a traveling one-man
band. As the owner of the mobile TV production
company Color Earth, he has spent the past
decade working as a travel show host.
- He has traveled to more than 50 countries across
the globe and often wears all production hats as he
did for the Travel Channel series “Not Your Average
Travel Guide” and the Nat Geo Wild series “Shane
Untamed.”
- Reynolds has produced several Travel Channel
original Web series, including “Host’s Hometown,”
“The Perfect Shot,” “Top 10 Locals List” and “Real.”
- His journey to capture the world on video started
after he received a B.A. in telecommunications from
the University of Florida. After school he left Florida
to become a professional producer in Nashville,
Tenn., for five years.
- Reynolds has shot video in more than 35
countries, producing countless commercials,
documentaries, music videos, TV specials and TV
series as well as corporate and promotional videos.
He has won more than 25 major awards for his
work, including Billboard, Telly and Addy awards.
- Today, Reynolds continues to produce long-form
and short-form material in the most adventurous
destinations around the world. Whether he’s
hosting, shooting, or editing ... his musical
background, adventurous spirit, and laid-back
humor are evident in his unique style.
- Reynolds’ other passions include surfing,
snowboarding, scuba diving, wakeboarding, break
dancing, juggling, unicycling, happy hour, and the
“O” stands for karaoke.
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CELEBRITY
Celebs’ favorite shows
Emmanuelle
Chriqui
Kristin
Kreuk
Bill
Paxton
Set the DVR
Jeff
Foxworthy
Bill Paxton of “Texas Rising” on History
Kristin Kreuk of “Beauty and the Beast” on The CW
“I watched ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and ‘Breaking Bad.’ I haven’t “I am re-watching ‘The Wire,’ because I love it. I also
seen much this year. I’ve just been on the road.”
watched ‘Transparent,’ which was excellent – and those are
the main two I’ve been watching.”
Emmanuelle Chriqui of “Murder in the First” on TNT
“I was a huge ‘Dexter’ fan, and the first two seasons of
‘Homeland,’ I was obsessed with. I really love ‘Masters
of Sex,’ and I recently watched ‘Bloodline’ – and ‘Ray
Donovan’ just rocks my world. What kills me is that Liev
Schreiber makes it seem so effortless, there’s that feeling
of him being underused, but that’s because he’s a genius.”
Jeff Foxworthy of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th
Grader?” on Fox
“I just finished the whole ‘Justified’ series, and we’ve just
started ‘Bloodline,’ which is excellent. By the end of the first
episode, they have you hooked.”
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Epic fantasy
‘Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell’
comes to BBC America
By John Crook
Pictured: Bertie Carvel
As England struggles to cope during the Napoleonic
Wars with France, two great English mages engage in
a dangerous battle in “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,”
a seven-part miniseries adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s
fantasy novel premiering Saturday, June 13, on BBC
America. The story opens in 1806, as a reclusive gentleman
named Mr. Norrell (Eddie Marsan, “Ray Donovan”) comes
to London to offer his magical services to his government.
Norrell has sharpened his powers, which are otherwise
long-gone from England, through years of tireless
scholarship delving through occult tomes. To gain the
trust of a rising politician, Sir Walter Pole (Samuel West),
Norrell raises the man’s beloved late fiancée from the
dead. In doing so, however, Norrell unwittingly unleashes
a malevolent faerie spirit (Marc Warren) known as The
Gentleman with the thistle-down hair.
Norrell is understandably irritated when, as his own fame
begins to rise, so does that of another, previously unknown
magician, Jonathan Strange (Bertie Carvel), a wealthy
dandy whose powers appear to be stronger than Norrell’s,
albeit with no apparent effort on Jonathan’s part. This sets
up a tense dynamic like that between Mozart and Salieri in
“Amadeus,” as each man tries to prove he is the greatest
magician in the world.
If Jonathan comes by his gifts through no apparent effort
on his part, however, the character grows in stature as the
story unfolds.
“More so than any other script that I have ever read or
had a chance to be involved in, the arc of this man’s
journey is absolutely huge,” Carvel says. “The horizon of
his story keeps receding, a bit like when you’re walking
through hills and you get to the top of a peak and you see
another one looming beyond it. The story just continually
keeps surprising one. By the end of the third episode, you
probably feel as if you’ve experienced seven hours’ worth
of drama.
“Jonathan grows up once when his father dies and then
again when he goes to war, yet he continues to grow up
again and again and again, and his arc becomes richer
and richer as it goes along, like a really good wine.”
Carvel says that while this sprawling fantasy is epic in
scale, he found it fairly easy to master his role simply
because screenwriter Peter Harness’s adaptation of
Clarke’s novel is so rich.
“My job really is about paying close attention to the words
on the page and then letting my imagination rip,” he says.
“When you’re dealing with material like this, that’s quite
easy, because it’s fertile ground for one’s imagination,
especially one like mine. I’ve always loved literature and
history and been interested in imaginary realms. A lot of
stars aligned for me with this role.”
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STORY
“Orange Is the New Black,” premiering its third season
Friday on Netflix.
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YaelStone
STORY
‘Netflix’s
‘Orange’
S
peels away more character layers in Season 3
By John Crook
If the Season 3 trailer for “Orange Is the New Black” is any indication, the return of
Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), erstwhile lover of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), to
Litchfield Penitentiary is a major story line as Netflix begins streaming new episodes
of its hit prison dramedy on Friday, June 12.
It certainly won’t be the only compelling story, however. As fans know from the two
previous seasons, “Orange Is the New Black” has woven a fascinating tapestry of
characters of every temperament, color and sexual orientation. Cast members who
started out with only one or two lines per episode have broken out and revealed their
characters to be complex, fascinating women.
Perhaps that’s true of no character more than Lorna Morello (Yael Stone), the
lovely, emotionally fragile prison driver who spent most of her screen time sighing
over Christopher (or “Christuffah,” as she pronounced it), her devoted fiancé on the
outside. Most fans were stunned in Season 2 when a memorable episode revealed
that this Prince Charming was a fairy-tale character in Morello’s obsessive fantasy, a
handsome stranger she had been stalking. After she broke into his home while out
on an errand, Christopher came to the prison in a rage and threatened to kill her if
she came near him again.
Stone admits she was just as stunned as anyone else by that revelation.
“I certainly had a sense that the fairy-tale portrait that she had been painting for two
seasons seemed to have a few holes in it,” the actress says. “For one thing, this guy
never came in to visit her. If she was the love of his life, then where was he? So
I sensed that something was amiss, but I certainly didn’t know the extent that the
fantasy played out in her life or that it directly related to her prison sentence.”
Morello will spend part of Season 3 confronting the reality of her situation, but that
makes more room for personal growth, Stone adds.
Keep an eye on Gloria Mendoza (Selenis Leyva) as well. She’s the tough broad who
wrestled control of the prison kitchen away from the imposing Red (Kate Mulgrew).
Leyva says she knew series creator Jenji Kohan had faith in her work when she
picked Leyva to face off with the formidable Mulgrew.
“It’s easy to try to pigeonhole Gloria as a tough cookie, but there are so many layers
to her,” Leyva says. “We got to see quite a bit more of who this woman is in Season
2. She’s a fighter, a survivor of domestic violence, but she’s also a spiritual woman, a
mother hen to some of these girls. You’re going to see more of that in Season 3.”
Leyva jokes that she hopes Gloria never gets out of prison, because the role is so
rewarding.
“I think Gloria should serve many, many years, and maybe have more years added
on because she has to ‘take care of’ someone in the prison,” she says, laughing.
SelenisLeyva
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STORY
CW unveils
more ‘Beauty’
Season 3 premiere of “Beauty and the Beast”
Thursday on The CW.
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KristinKreuk
STORY
S
are still in the
eye of The CW
By Jay Bobbin
Few broadcast-network stars can talk about
the start of their show’s new season already
knowing there will be another beyond it.
Kristin Kreuk is in that happy position: Soon after the
third-season premiere of “Beauty and the Beast” – which
returns Thursday, June 11, on The CW – she’ll go back
before the cameras to start filming Season 4, likely to air
next year. She never had that kind of early job security
during her “Smallville” run as Lana Lang, so it’s a big
bonus for her that the love story of police-detective beauty
Catherine Chandler and her “beastly” beau Vincent (Jay
Ryan) is guaranteed to go on.
“It is awesome,” Kreuk confirms of having a fourth season
of “Beauty” in store. She notes she’s “never actually
experienced” completing a whole round of a show before
it airs, as with Season 3, but “it feels good to have it done.
The weird thing is that we’ll be shooting Season 4 while
Season 3 is airing, which will be funny, I think. The fans
will be talking about what we did earlier.”
Kreuk gives major credit to those fans, often referred to as
“Beasties,” for helping to keep the series going. “It’s pretty
amazing. They will watch it wherever it’s placed on the
schedule, and that is so fantastic. They’re solid and they’re
engaged and they care deeply, and that’s all you can ask
for from fans. And I think every guest star who comes in
and tweets about their experience just gets bombarded by
Beastie love.”
“Beauty and the Beast” could have ended with Season 2,
since the closing scene that gave Catherine and Vincent
the prospect of a happy life together would have served
that purpose. “We weren’t sure,” Kreuk recalls, “so Brad
(executive producer Kern) ended it purposely that way.
Pictured: Jay Ryan and Kristin Kreuk
There was a cliffhanger in there, but there also was
a finality to it. We did that in New York at the end of
shooting, and you usually never know if you’re coming
back. You’re constantly in limbo.”
However, “Beauty and the Beast” picks up from that
point with what Kreuk deems “a new chapter for the
characters. They have come to a very different place
after Season 2, especially in regard to their relationship.
They have as normal a life as they’ve ever had ... so
with that feeling solid for them, all the drama in Season
3 is easier to navigate.”
The same may – or may not – hold true for Catherine’s
police partner Tess (Nisa Lisandrello) and Vincent’s
comrade J.T (Austin Basis), who have become
personally involved. Nicole Gale Anderson has seriesregular status now as Catherine’s ever-lively sister
Heather, and familiar faces Natasha Henstridge
(“Species”) and Jason Gedrick (“Boomtown”) have been
added in new roles.
“The season has a lot of space for humor” from
Catherine and Vincent, Kreuk notes, “with two people
who clearly are abnormal trying to be normal. And not
able to quite be that.”
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SPORTS
Scott
Van
Slyke
Burns
Up the
Ballpark
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Name: Scott T. Van Slyke
Height/weight: 6 feet 4
inches/220 pounds
Drafted: 2005, Round 14,
by the Dodgers
Birth date: July 24, 1986
(age 28)
Uniform number: 33
Birthplace:
Chesterfield, Mo.
Bats/throws: Right/
right
Honors and
achievements: Dodgers’
Minor League Player of
the Year, 2011; Missouri
Gatorade (High School)
Player of the Year, 2005
SPORTS
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By Dan Ladd
Once again, the Los Angeles
Dodgers are one of the top teams
in the National League. Although
it’s early in the season, they are
already eyeing a third straight
National League West title and a trip
to the postseason. To get over the
hump and make it to their first World
Series since 1988, they’ll have to
contend with teams such as the St.
Louis Cardinals, whom they’ll meet
Sunday, June 7, on ESPN.
While the Dodgers have their share
of stars, they’ve got a bench full of
players such as Scott Van Slyke
who are getting things done. Van
Slyke has been platooning in the
outfield and at first base since
making his major league debut in
2012. This season, however, he
appears to be ready to make his
mark.
If the last name sounds familiar,
it is because Van Slyke is the son
of Andy Van Slyke, who spent the
majority of his career in the 1980s
and ’90s with the Cardinals and
Pittsburgh Pirates. Scott, therefore,
has been around professional
baseball for most of his life.
After a lengthy but solid run in the
minors, the younger Van Slyke
found himself one of a number of
talented players in the Dodgers
organization competing for playing
time. He’s been on fire as of late,
both at the plate and in the field,
proving he’d be a starter on any
other team.
ScottVanSlyke
This certainly raises the question
of whether he’ll be a Dodger when
the season is over as his name will
likely surface in trade talks around
July 31.
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MOVIES
JAY BOBBIN's Theatrical movie review
review
‘Hot
Pursuit’
puts buddy formula to new test
Pictured: Sofia Vergara (left) and Reese Witherspoon
Few movie formulas have been as time-tested as the
one about mismatched partners bonding through shared
circumstances.
From “It Happened One Night” to “Lethal Weapon,” it’s
been repainted and taken out for new spins over and over.
One of the latest variations on the theme is “Hot Pursuit,”
which answers the question, “Would anyone ever think of
teaming Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara?”
Immediately, that combination has “mismatched partners”
written all over it – Witherspoon coming off the serious
intensity of “Wild,” and Vergara being known for her
sometimes wild humor on “Modern Family” – and the fact
is that “Hot Pursuit” works best when it’s simply the two
actresses clearly enjoying riffing off each other.
That said, the script seems weirdly intent on tripping them
up as often as possible. The set-up wasn’t developed at
Rocket Science School, with Witherspoon as a Type A cop
who has to transport a drug dealer and his moll (Vergara)
to testify against a powerful trafficker.
Before you know it (and since director Anne Fletcher
keeps the picture moving briskly at less than 90 minutes,
much happens here before you know it), Witherspoon’s
partner and Vergara’s spouse both have been eliminated
by those who don’t want that testimony to happen. Let the
hot pursuit across Texas begin!
From that point, much snarking and masquerading ensues
for the two women as they try to survive, much less get
to the courthouse on time. Both producers of the picture
as well, Witherspoon and Vergara aren’t exactly known for
slow talk once they get revved up, and a certain amount
of fun can be had from trying to gauge how many miles
per hour their jaws are moving at. (An extra bonus: their
bloopers that close the picture.)
The truth, though, is that they both deserve better material
... Witherspoon in particular, since “Election” and “Legally
Blonde” stand as testimony to just how much she can do
with comedy that has a dose of wit. And the same goes
for Vergara, frankly, considering how many times “Modern
Family” has been honored for its writing.
There’s little in “Hot Pursuit” that will be mistaken for wit,
but you still can be grateful that its main stars bring their
natural gifts to the party.
MOVIES
JAY BOBBIN's movie review
movies to watch
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Top Pick
DVD
“KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE”
The spy game gets some twists from someone it would be expected of – director and coscreenwriter Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass”) – in this fun, comic-book-inspired adventure, with
its surprises indicated by the fact that the normally staid Colin Firth sees some of the action.
He plays a veteran Secret Service operative involved in recruiting a street-smart youth (Taron
Egerton) for global espionage work. Samuel L. Jackson, who’s been doing more heroic duty lately
as Nick Fury in various Marvel projects, is the villain of this piece; Michael Caine, Mark Strong,
Jack Davenport (“Smash”) and Mark Hamill also star. ››› (R: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray)
Pictured: Colin Firth
upcoming DVD releases
Coming Soon on DVD...
“CHAPPIE” (June 16): A stolen,
futuristic police robot becomes a
threat when it’s enabled to think
for itself; Hugh Jackman stars in
writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s
sci-fi thriller. (R: N, P, V)
“THE LAZARUS EFFECT”
(June 16): Medical researchers
find a way to resurrect the
deceased; Mark Duplass and
Olivia Wilde star.
(PG-13: AS, P, V)
“RUN ALL NIGHT” (June 16):
To protect his son, a veteran hit
man (Liam Neeson) must oppose
his underworld-kingpin friend
(Ed Harris). (R: AS, P, V)
“UNFINISHED BUSINESS”
(June 16): Several businessmen
(Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco,
Tom Wilkinson) run into endless
complications while trying to
close a deal in Europe.
(R: AS, N, P)
“DANNY COLLINS” (June 30):
Al Pacino plays a literal rock star
who reassesses his life after
receiving a special letter.
(R: AS, N, P)
“THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC
MARIGOLD HOTEL” (July 14):
Richard Gere joins returnees Judi
Dench, Maggie Smith and Bill
Nighy in the seriocomic sequel.
(PG: AS, P)
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FAVORITE SHOWS
Paula Abdul is a
judge in “So You
Think You Can
Dance”
Scott Bakula
stars in
“NCIS: New
Orleans”
SUNDAY
8 p.m. on NATGEO
Ultimate Dino Survivor
In this new special, fossils reveal the
brutal life of the Tyrannosaurus rex and
its cousins along with their incredible
ability to heal and survive what nature
threw at them. Using cutting edge
technology, the program reveals
the source of the various injuries
on the dead animal and recontructs
the kind of fierce battles for survival
these beasts had to fight on a regular
basis. One theory suggests that T.
rex combined the virtually foolproof
immune system of crocodiles with the
high metabolism of birds. New
9 p.m. on BRAVO
Married to Medicine
The first ladies of medicine are busier
James Van Der
Beek stars in
“CSI: Cyber”
than ever as they return for their third
season, which finds Toya’s husband,
Eugene, urging her to bury the hatchet
with Simone at a Halloween party Toya
is throwing to show off her new house.
Elsewhere, Quad gets seriously bent
out of shape when she learns Lisa
Nicole ran a background check on
her. Dr. Jackie tests out a lifestyle
fitness program on the girls. Season
Premiere New
MONDAY
8 p.m. on FOX
So You Think You Can Dance
The show motors to the Motor City
to assess the dance talent there in
the new two-hour episode “Detroit
Auditions.” The season’s theme of
stage dancers vs. street dancers is
upheld as judges Paula Abdul, Jason
Derulo and Nigel Lythgoe survey
Toya in
“Married to
Medicine”
the moves of those hoping to land a
place in the competition. Series host
Cat Deeley also is on hand for the
proceedings. New
TUESDAY
9 p.m. on CBS
NCIS: New Orleans
Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette
and Rocky Carroll cross over in
their “NCIS” roles in “Carrier.” After
bubonic plague claims the life of a
Navy lieutenant in the Big Easy, Pride
(Scott Bakula) and his team get help
from Tony DiNozzo (Weatherly) in
trying to determine the source and
locate other potential victims in time.
James Eckhouse, alias Brandon
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FAVORITE SHOWS
and Brenda’s dad on “Beverly Hills,
90210,” also guest stars.
WEDNESDAY
10 p.m. on CBS
CSI: Cyber
Former “ER” co-star Eriq La Salle
directed “Crowd Sourced,” in
which Avery (Patricia Arquette)
and her agents have a tricky case
— involving the reason they work
on the cases they do. A bomber
protests society’s modern reliance
on technology through his attacks,
with the team using precisely some
of that equipment and methodology
to find and stop the felon. James Van
Der Beek, Peter MacNicol and Shad
Moss also star.
THURSDAY
10 p.m. on CBS
Elementary
Mamie Gummer (“Emily Owens,
M.D.”) — one of Meryl Streep’s
fellow-actress daughters — guest
stars as an heiress who’s party
to a murder investigation in “Terra
Pericolosa.” A very special map
apparently prompted the homicide,
which Holmes and Watson (Jonny
Lee Miller, Lucy Liu) probe. Watson
isn’t happy about Holmes’ intrusion
into Kitty’s (Ophelia Lovibond) offduty life. Skipp Sudduth (“Third
Watch”) also guest stars.
interviews are interwoven into Smith’s
performance for this broadcast.
9 p.m. on TLC
Love, Lust or Run
Style expert Stacy London returns
for a new season of guiding a slate
of diverse women with over-the-top
looks through fashion make-unders to
teach them that less is usually more.
Among the women featured during the
course of this new season are Lisa,
a cancer survivor and single mom;
Sarah, a community advocate who feels
uncomfortable in her own skin; Tracy,
a nurse who still bears the emotional
scars of childhood bullying; and Ebonie,
Anna Deavere Smith
is featured in “Great
Performances”
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a former tomboy turned stylist who
idolizes Stacy. Season Premiere New
SATURDAY
9 p.m. on ABC
In an Instant
The series revisits, and re-creates, a
“Rush Hour Disaster — Largest Bridge
Collapse in America.” The bridge in
question, located in Minneapolis, gave
way in the summer of 2007. Youngsters
trapped in a bus, next to a burning
truck, were among those imperiled by
the crisis. So was a woman who was
inside her submerged car. Testimonials
from survivors are combined with
dramatized sequences.
“In an
Instant”
FRIDAY
9 p.m. on PBS
Great Performances
Actress and playwright Anna Deavere
Smith (“The West Wing,” “Nurse
Jackie”) transforms into 30 real
people — including a Korean grocer,
a talent agent, Police Chief Daryl
Gates, and actor and National Rifle
Association spokesman Charlton
Heston — in “Twilight: Los Angeles,”
her one-woman performance piece
about the beating of Rodney King
and its aftermath. News footage and
Lucy Liu stars in
“Elementary”

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