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| Happy Birthday Kristin! |
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Kristin’s birthday was yesterday but I didn’t have a chance to post. Happy Birthday Kristin!
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| Kristin Receives Emmy Nomination |
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Oklahoma-born actresses Kristin Chenoweth and Jeanne Tripplehorn received Emmy nominations Thursday.
Chenoweth, a Broken Arrow native, received an outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series nod (her second in a row) for her work on “Pushing Daisies,” which was cancelled after two seasons on ABC.
Tripplehorn, a Tulsa native, was nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a miniseries or movie for her portrayal as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the HBO movie “Grey Gardens.”
There are other Oklahoma ties among the nominees for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, which will be handed out Sept. 20 in LA.
“Big Love,” which is up for outstanding drama series, features two Tulsa natives in its cast. Tripplehorn plays Barb Henrickson (the first wife on the show about Bill Henrickson and his three wives). Mary Kay Place plays Adaleen Grant (mother of second wife, Nicki).
Holly Hunter received an outstanding lead actress in a drama nod (her second in a row) for playing Oklahoma City police detective Grace Hanadarko on “Saving Grace.” The series is now in its third season, with new episodes airing at 9 p.m. Tuesdays on TNT.
“The Amazing Race,” which last season featured contestant Christie Volkmer from Choctaw, is up for best reality competition series. The category was added six years ago, and the “Race” has won every one.
“Saturday Night Live,” which is up for outstanding variety, music or comedy series, features Tulsa native Bill Hader in its cast. Since he joined the show in 2005, “SNL” has won three Emmys — for outstanding hairstyling in a multi-camera series or special (2008), outstanding original music and lyrics (2007) and outstanding technical direction, camerawork, video for a series (2007).
CBS will broadcast the Emmys live at 8 p.m. Sept. 20. Two-time Emmy nominee Neil Patrick Harris of “How I Met Your Mother” will host the event.
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| Ephrons’ “Love” Sets 12 Week Run |
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Nora and Delia Ephron’s stage adaptation of book “Love, Loss and What I Wore” will have a 12-week Off Broadway run beginning in September.
Show will have three casts of five thesps each, including Tyne Daly, Rosie O’Donnell, Kristin Chenoweth and Rita Wilson. Casts will play stints of four weeks each, with exact dates and thesps to be confirmed later.
Production is helmed by Karen Carpenter.
“What I Wore” was first seen in Gotham earlier this year in a series of benefit readings at producer Daryl Roth’s DR2 Theater. Roth also will produce the Off Broadway stint.
Show is based on Ilene Beckerman’s illustrated look at the outfits she wore during different phases of her life. A series of sartorial-themed anecdotes, the legit version takes its inspiration not only from the book but also from personal stories of the Ephrons’ friends.
Production begins previews at the Westside Theater Sept. 21 ahead of an Oct. 1 opening. Some proceeds of the run will go to charity Dress for Success, which provides professional clothes and job support for low-income women.
source: variety.com
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| Femme Firepower For Disney’s “Again” |
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The Disney comedy “You Again” has taken on some female power.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristin Chenoweth, Odette Yustman and Betty White have joined the cast, as has Victor Garber. They join Kristen Bell and Sigourney Weaver in the film, to be directed by Andy Fickman.
The story line centers on a woman (Bell) who finds out that her brother is planning to marry the girl who made her high school years a living hell and tries to convince him that his fiancee is not the nice girl she pretends to be.
Curtis and Garber will play Bell’s parents, and White will play her grandmother. (Weaver is her rich Aunt Ramona.) Chenoweth plays “a wedding extraordinator.” Yustman plays Bell’s nemesis.
Moe Jelline wrote the screenplay. Fickman is producing with Eric Tannenbaum and John Strauss.
LouAnne Brickhouse and Todd Murata are overseeing for the studio, which hopes to start shooting in late summer in Los Angeles.
CAA-repped Curtis is a Disney favorite, having starred in 2003’s “Freaky Friday” and appeared in “Beverly Hills Chihuahua.”
Chenoweth, repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, most recently starred in the ABC series “Pushing Daisies.” Her most recent film was “Four Christmases.”
One of the stars of “Cloverfield” and TV’s “October Road,” Yustman most recently starred in David Goyer’s “The Unborn.” She is repped by ICM and Evolution.
The APA-repped White next stars in Disney’s “The Proposal,” which opens Friday, and Gersh-repped Garber most recently appeared as San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in “Milk.”
source: hollywoodreporter.com
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| “Pushing Daisies” Returns, In a Not-Unheavenly Way |
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Pushing Daisies, the screwball comedy that comes in candy-fruit colors, returned for the first of its final three episodes. All was right with its world: there were two murders to be solved, but also a new complexity between the show’s essential romantic triangle of pie-maker Ned, his love Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, and Olive, the Pie Hole restaurant waitress. Plus extensive study of the double-negative as a clue to the true meaning of love. Is this not a recipe for bliss?
Personally, any time a major subplot involves Kristin Chenoweth’s Olive, the happier I am with Daisies, and last night’s was Chenowonderful. We saw a glimpse of Olive’s childhood (unloved, neglected) and met two men who were once accused of kidnapping her. They were played, to my delight, by George Segal and Richard Benjamin (two stalwarts of 1970s cinema and television — look them up on YouTube in Johnny Carson-era Tonight Show videos, and in films such as Blume in Love and Goodbye, Columbus). Both men played these two shady characters (not really kidnappers but petty thieves) as slapstick bumblers.
The plot paired Chuck with detective Emerson Cod to solve a double homicide, with a side order of alliteration. (Chuck called herself the Alive-Again Avenger, and they investigated crimes at Dick Dicker’s department store.)
Meanwhile, back at the Pie Hole, Olive was being courted by David Arquette’s Randy Mann. Olive, of course, spent much of her time mooning over eternally-unattainable Ned, parsing his every remark for signs of affection. (That’s where her study of the double-negative in grammar came in.) When Ned kissed Olive, we got a brief, lovely musical number, with Olive/Chenoweth trilling the Lionel Richie hit “Hello,” a song I thought I never wanted to hear again until that moment.
By the end, the murders were solved (bravo to you, Sex and the City guest-star Willie Garson), and Ned shocked himself by admitting to feeling jealous of the budding romance between Olive and that Randy man, if you catch my drift.
All this, plus Pearway To Heaven pie. Can it all possibly end in a mere two episodes?
Did you watch Pushing Daisies? What were your favorite moments?
source: http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/05/pushing-daisi-1.html
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| Kristin Cast in Lifetime’s “Twelve Men of Christmas” |
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, the holiday season is starting early for Kristin Chenoweth: The Broadway veteran has landed the lead in Twelve Men of Christmas, an original movie that will premiere on Lifetime as part of the channel’s annual “Fa La La La Lifetime” programming in December. The romantic comedy is based on Phillipa Ashley’s novel (originally titled Decent Exposure) about a PR exec (Chenoweth) who brings her media skills to a Montana town. Chenoweth was most recently seen on ABC’s defunct Pushing Daisies, for which she earned a Supporting Actress Emmy nomination last year.
source: entertainmentweekly.com
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| Kristin to Present at 2009 Tony Awards |
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Lucie Arnaz, Kate Burton, Kristin Chenoweth, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Edie Falco, Will Ferrell, Carrie Fisher, Jane Fonda, Hallie Foote, James Gandolfini, Lauren Graham, Colin Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Nicole Kidman, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Lange, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, David Hyde Pierce, Piper Perabo, Oliver Platt, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Spacey, John Stamos, and Chandra Wilson will be presenters at the 2009 Tony Awards, to be held on Sunday, June 7 at Radio City Music Hall and aired live on CBS-TV. The 2009 Tony Awards are presented by The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing.
The presenters will introduce the evening’s various performances, and also present the Tony Awards to the winners in each of the 27 competitive categories. As previously announced, Neil Patrick Harris will host the awards ceremony.
Billy Elliot, the Musical leads the field with 15 nominations, including Best Musical. Other shows with multiple nominations include Next to Normal (11), Hair (8), Shrek the Musical (8), Mary Stuart (7), The Norman Conquests (7), God of Carnage (6), and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (6). For a full list of nominations, click here.
For more information, visit www.tonyawards.com.
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| GLEE Sneak Peek With Kristin |
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Stage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth, will be making a guest appearance on the fourth episode of the FOX series GLEE. The Los Angeles Times has a sneak peek of her cameo and some fun behind the scenes footage. You can watch all the GLEE filled action right here on STAGE TUBE!
Many remember Kristin Chenoweth’s show-stealing, Tony®-winning performance in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and her triumphant star turn when she originated the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Wicked, which earned her a Tony Award® nomination. Kristin Chenoweth most recently starred in the ABC series Pushing Daisies, where she was recently nominated for an Emmy® Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and won acclaim for her recent Christmas Album. She has written an uplifting, candid chronicle of her life which was released by Simon & Schuster. Kristin also can be heard as the voice of the fairy, Rosetta, in Walt Disney Picture’s Tinkerbell this fall. She wrapped filming the independent film, Into Temptation, directed by Sundance filmmaker Patrick Coyle, opposite Jeremy Sisto.
GLEE, the new one-hour musical comedy series fromRyan Murphy (”Nip/Tuck”), got a special preview following AMERICAN IDOL Tuesday, May 19 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. That preview episode is now online on Fox’s official web site for the show. The show can also be download for free from iTunes. The show will premiere in the fall (date to be announced.)
GLEE follows an optimistic high school teacher, WILL SCHUESTER (Matthew Morrison), as he tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school’s glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential.
GLEE is produced by Ryan Murphy Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Dante di Loreto serve as executive producers, while Ian Brennan and John Peter Kousakis serve as co-executive producers. Murphy directed the pilot.
source; broadwayworld.com
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