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Thursday, October 28, 2010

‘Terra Nova’ casting is almost complete; production begins next month in Australia

Terra-Nova-casting20th Century Fox TV has found the youths who’ll help round out Jason O’Mara’s family in the upcoming time-traveling drama Terra Nova. Landon Liboiron (DeGrassi: The Next Generation) will play Josh, the 17-year-old of Jim (O’Mara) and Elisabeth (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Shelley Conn) Shannon who also finds a father figure in Frank Taylor (Avatar’s Stephen Lang). Newcomer Naomi Scott will play his sister Maddy, a bright 15-year-old, while newcomer Alana Mansour has signed on as Zoe, the youngest member of the Shannon clan who is smuggled into the time-traveling portal that takes everyone to the Terra Nova settlement.

Other actors who have previously joined the high-concept series include Mido Hamada (24) and Allison Miller (Boston Legal). The drama that bows next May still has one more series regular role to fill before it starts production. The series takes place 100 years in the future.


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‘The Office’ webisodes of ‘The 3rd Floor’: EW Exclusive!

Office-halloween-webisodeImage Credit: NBCFrom the mind of ex-intern Ryan Howard, it’s Scranton’s very own Paranormal Activity/Drag Me to Hell slasher horror movie, “The 3rd Floor” — and EW has it for you exclusively. When Ryan (B.J. Novak) decides his next great endeavor is a scary slasher movie, Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling), Erin (Ellie Kemper), Kevin (Brian Baumgartner), Meredith (Kate Flannery), Creed (Creed Bratton), and Gabe (Zach Woods) all pitch in. Behold, all the horror — and hilarity — in its three-part glory:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Yay for more Kelly and Erin! (And special yay for more Gabe. We still barely know Gabe! Hi, Gabe.)

You can see more of Ryan’s majestic self-aggrandizing — including his not-to-be-missed “About the Auteur” page — on The 3rd Floor’s own site. (Like The Office‘s other excellent webisode series, “Subtle Sexuality,” “The 3rd Floor” was actually directed by Mindy Kaling — shh, don’t tell Ryan.)

“I want to express myself, but I have nothing to say, and no medium with which to do it” is easily a top-10 Kelly Kapoor line. Are you screaming over these webisodes, PopWatchers?


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'Exorcist' director: What scares ME

Here's a scary thought: The following movies give William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist (now out on Blu-ray), nightmares. ''They're usually pursuit dreams. Somebody is after me to kill me,'' explains the Oscar winner. ''I dread having these nightmares because they are so real to me that it takes me maybe hours after I wake up to convince myself that I'm not in that world,'' Friedkin says. ''These films produce that same effect every time I watch them.'' With that sobering endorsement, on to Friedkin's annotated list. Rent at your own risk.


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Woman Charlie Sheen was with during his drunken night ID'd as porn star - New York Post

The mystery woman who locked herself naked in a Plaza hotel bathroom during bad-boy actor Charlie Sheen’s coke-fueled frenzy was identified as a smokin’ hot porn star from New York City.

Erotic actress Capri Anderson has told friends that she was "extremely afraid" of Sheen and that she called Plaza security during his rampage because she felt "threatened" by him, TMZ.com reported.

The 22-year-old Anderson — who fled the scene after the slimy and sloshed Sheen was hospitalized Tuesday because of his meltdown — angrily denied the assertion by law-enforcement sources that she’s a hooker.

GALLERY: PORN STAR CAPRI ANDERSON

PHOTOS: CHARLIE SHEEN'S TRASHED HOTEL ROOM

SHEEN IN COKE-&-HOOKER RAMPAGE AT THE PLAZA

CHARLIE JUST 'HALF' A MAN: LINDA STASI

Anderson "is adamant she’s NOT a working girl," reported TMZ.

But she did go back with Sheen to the "Two and a Half Men" star’s room that night up in The Plaza — as his two young daughters and their actress mom Denise Richards slept in rooms across the hall.

The petite porn princess, who also "acts" under the nom de cinema Alexis Capri, has appeared in such video gems as "Virgins of the Screen 6," "Cable Guy Sex" and "Filthy’s First Taste 7."

Her Facebook page’s bio indicates that her real name is Christina Walsh — the name she gave cops Tuesday morning.

The bio, which says she resides in Argentina, said she left her family at age 18 to pursue her career because they did not want her to pose nude for pictures.

Asked which sex she’s interested in, she lists: "Women."

Sheen, 45, has a well-known, long-standing penchant for both porn stars and prostitutes, having admittedly dated blue-movie legend Ginger Lynn and dropped big bucks on escorts from the stable of Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss.

So it would come as no surprise that he hit it off with Anderson, whom TMZ said met Sheen for the first time Monday in the Plaza’s bar and then agreed to join him, four other gals and three other guys at the nearby restaurant Daniel’s.

Richards, who was in New York with her family to promote her new role on the show "Blue Mountain State," also joined the group for dinner — but ducked out before even finishing her appetizer when her boozed-up, ex-husband Sheen began acting out.

Sheen later invited his new beautiful friend Anderson back to his 18th floor room at The Plaza — where things quickly got ugly.

Cops responded after security there phoned 911 at 1:33 a.m. Tuesday and reported a dispute in room 1831, where Sheen was staying.

When police officers got up to the room, they found Sheen naked and "not coherent" and Anderson nude and cowering in the bathroom, where she had taken refuge when Sheen began tossing over tables and chairs and smashing an expensive chandelier.

While hiding in the bathroom, Anderson had desperately phone a friend who was "working" elsewhere in the hotel, a source said.

Sheen, who admitted having drunk booze and done cocaine that night, told cops he "wigged out" after noticing his wallet and cell-phone missing after being in the room with Anderson, sources said.

"[Anderson] said after he did the coke, he flipped out, couldn’t find his wallet and accused her of stealing it," one source told RadarOnline.com.

No charges were filed against Anderson.

Sheen also was not charged — after he agreed to be taken to New York Hospital, with Richards riding in the ambulance with him — for a psych evaluation.

He checked out hours later, texting a RadarOnline reporter afterward: "Oh my man, I’m fine. The story is totally overblown and overplayed as far as the reality of the scenario."

Sheen then flew back to Los Angeles, where he is set to resume shooting next week for his CBS sit-com, which pays him nearly $2 million per episode.

Sheen’s spokesman has blamed the actor’s violent antics on an "allergic reaction to medication" — a claim that has met with widespread derision given his client’s long, notorious history of drug and alcohol abuse.

Sheen has agreed to compensate The Plaza for the damage that he caused, which is estimated at more than $7,000.

"The room was a mess," a hotel staffer told The Post today. "There were sheets everywhere, his clothes everywhere. Even a chair was broken."

"The room was a disaster. He must have been very angry."

Colorado prosecutors have said they probably won’t try to have Sheen locked up for violating his probation there for the Christmas Day 2009 assault of his third wife, Brooke Mueller. Sheen has just a week to go on that probation.

Richards, 39, on the "Today" show, said, "The details of what went on in the room, what went on that night, I prefer to keep private and personal.

"My daughters" — Sam, 6, and Lola, 5 — are very unaware of what happened, and I’m really trying to protect them. This is Charlie. If he wants to discuss it, then I’ll let him do it ... I don’t want to say anything."

Additional reporting by Alexis Jeffries and Jamie Schram


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

'Office' exclusive: New webisode!

Office-halloween-webisodeImage Credit: NBCFrom the mind of ex-intern Ryan Howard, it’s Scranton’s very own Paranormal Activity/Drag Me to Hell slasher horror movie, “The 3rd Floor” — and EW has it for you exclusively. When Ryan (B.J. Novak) decides his next great endeavor is a scary slasher movie, Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling), Erin (Ellie Kemper), Kevin (Brian Baumgartner), Meredith (Kate Flannery), Creed (Creed Bratton), and Gabe (Zach Woods) all pitch in. Behold, all the horror — and hilarity — in its three-part glory:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Yay for more Kelly and Erin! (And special yay for more Gabe. We still barely know Gabe! Hi, Gabe.)

You can see more of Ryan’s majestic self-aggrandizing — including his not-to-be-missed “About the Auteur” page — on The 3rd Floor’s own site. (Like The Office‘s other excellent webisode series, “Subtle Sexuality,” “The 3rd Floor” was actually directed by Mindy Kaling — shh, don’t tell Ryan.)

“I want to express myself, but I have nothing to say, and no medium with which to do it” is easily a top-10 Kelly Kapoor line. Are you screaming over these webisodes, PopWatchers?


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