The lovely Ashley Tisdale is featured in Cosmopolitan! Due to the current economy (lol I love that phrase) just view these scans of her instead of wasting your stripper money on your own copy.

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By now, you probably know that Jane Fonda is starring in 33 Variations, her first performance on Broadway in almost 50 years. But what was she like as a young aspiring actress? How did she establish credibility for herself in a city full of thespians, most of whom knew her as “Henry Fonda’s daughter”? We consulted a stack of Fonda biographies, including Jane’s own My Story So Far, to find 33 things you might not know about her career before she became an Oscar-winning movie icon.

 
Jane Fonda and her famous father in 1955.

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While living with her father in Malibu in the summer of 1958, Jane befriends next door neighbor Susan Strasberg, daughter of Lee Strasberg, the influential founder of the Actors Studio. Jane has long worried about whether she’s pretty and talented enough to succeed as an actress, and superstar father hasn’t been very encouraging. “Do you really want to play things like Jimmy Stewart’s daughter in The FBI Story?” he asks. Desperate for direction, Jane gets Susan to arrange a meeting with her famous dad.

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Lee Strasberg accepts Jane as a student after a long talk at the beach house. “The only thing that made me take her in was her eyes,” he says later. “There was such panic in her eyes.”
 
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Jane relocates to New York to enroll in classes at the Actors Studio. She begins like everyone else: paying for two private, beginner-level sessions a week, taught by Strasberg in the converted church on West 44th Street that serves as the Studio’s HQ.

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During class, Jane and the other students are required to act out an intimate physical action and to express an emotional “private moment” in mime. Her work drinking an imaginary glass of orange juice wows Strasberg, and she later says, “Before…I was one person. And then after the exercise I was somebody else.” (Her father expresses nothing but disdain for Strasberg’s so-called Method.)

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Nearing her 22nd birthday, Jane rents a duplex apartment on East 67th Street with Susan Stein, an alum of Vassar, which Fonda attended for two years in the mid-1950s. They furnish the place with antiques borrowed from the offices of Stein’s father Jules, the head of MCA. “We lead separate lives and communicate in the bathroom every two weeks,” Fonda says later. “Ideal roommate arrangement.”

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Among Fonda’s house pets are two Siamese cats and a Yorkshire terrier, whom she can’t housebreak.

 
Working as a high-fashion model to pay the bills

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Ferociously committed to acting, Jane subsists on cigarettes, coffee, Dexedrine and yogurt. Worried that her cheeks make her look “like a chipmunk,” she relies on diuretics to slim down even more.

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To supplement her income, Jane signs with Eileen Ford’s modeling agency, soon earning an hour. At one point, she lands on four magazine covers at once, including a shot for Vogue in which she is dressed in a gold sheath.

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After sessions at the Actors Studio, she waits around newsstands to watch people’s reactions as they pick up the magazine and see her face.

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While getting ready for a photo shoot at Conde Nast, Jane causes quite a flutter when she pulls off her sweater—establishing herself as a pioneer of the "bra-less” look.

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Signing a contract with Warner Bros., Jane makes her film debut in 1960 in Tall Story, directed by Joshua Logan, a family friend who thought of Jane as his goddaughter. It’s a disastrous experience. Jack Warner declares she’s too flat-chested and orders falsies. Logan suggests she have her back teeth pulled and her jaw broken and reset, to accentuate her cheekbones.

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Jane flees back to New York, proclaiming, “I think you dream better dreams, you feel more, in a cold climate.”

 
Fonda onstage at the Actors Studio

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Still doubtful if she’ll ever master her father’s craft, she immerses herself in acting classes, and stars in a production of the popular 50s comedy The Moon Is Blue in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

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She finds a kindred spirit in Tim Everett, a classmate who’d already starred on Broadway in William Inge’s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. They work together on scenes and boost each other’s self-esteem. During one session, Everett remembers, “I got so consumed by this wave of tenderness and desire, and so did she. We ran upstairs to the bedroom, tore our clothes off, and stayed in bed for three days.”

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After appearing in No Concern of Mine for one week at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, Jane auditions for the part of Emily in a 1959 production of Our Town at Circle in the Square production. “I had her come back twice,” says director Jose Quintero, who is deeply impressed but concludes he can’t cast Fonda. “She was too individual; Emily had to be everybody.” (Kathleen Widdoes gets the part.)

 
Daughter and father make the cover of Life in 1960

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Jane lands her debut Broadway role in a play called There Was a Little Girl, directed by Josh Logan. This story of an upper-class girl who is raped brings out the fighter in Fonda. “Every young actress would give her eyeteeth for the part,” she says. “I’ll murder anyone who gets in my way.”

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Although Henry Fonda begs his daughter not to take the part, he stands with Logan during one rehearsal as Jane runs through a romantic scene onstage. “Oh, youth, youth, youth,” Henry tells Logan. “That’s the exciting time. Oh, to have it all to do over again!” Logan suffers a nervous breakdown during out-of-town tryouts in Boston and disappears for 10 days.

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There Was a Little Girl is panned in Boston (where the actor playing Jane’s father drops dead of a heart attack before making his entrance) and Philadelphia. On opening night at the Cort Theatre, Henry Fonda does his best to prevent Jane from attending the after-party at Sardi’s, knowing it’s not the best place to be when your show’s about to get butchered. But she insists, and when the first reviews arrive, all eyes are on the two Fondas. “The play was slaughtered,” Henry remembers. “Jane’s eyes crossed a little when she read [the reviews]. Then she smiled at me. I knew then she was a real professional.”

 
Fonda onstage in There Was A Little Girl

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They may hate the play, but critics fall in love with Jane. In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson writes, “As the wretched heroine of this unsavory melodrama, she gives an alert, many-sided performance that is professionally mature and suggests that she has found a career that suits her.” There Was a Little Girl closes after 16 performances, but Jane receives a 1960 Best Featured Actress Tony nomination.

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Jane begins seeing a therapist, believing the experience may make her a better actress.

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Jane gets her hand on a copy of Invitation to a March by Arthur Laurents and is determined to snag the lead role, Norma Brown. “Here was a script just labeled ‘Jane,’” she said. Laurents, who is directing his own play, gives her the part after a single reading.

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Her castmates include Shelley Winters, Eileen Heckart, Madeleine Sherwood and James MacArthur, son of Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes. Backstage, she overhears an actor say, “She got the part because she’s Fonda’s daughter,” and wonders why no one says the same thing about James.

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Within five minutes of the first rehearsal, a possibly jealous older actress— draw your own conclusions as to whom—hits Jane hard across the cheek. The young actress remains the consummate professional, saying and doing nothing.

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“I felt like apologizing to the audience,” Jane remembers of the first previews. “I’d walk down to the footlights and all I’d hear were whispers. ‘She looks just like her father.’” She picks up an old habit of her dad’s: going up to the balcony just before curtain to check out the audience, hoping not to find any “mean” faces.

 
Fonda reads lines with a friend, 1962

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During tryouts in Boston, Jane receives news that an old friend, Bridget Hayward, has committed suicide. Laurents comes to her dressing room. Suffering from a migraine, she is under sedation and sobbing uncontrollably. “You’re afraid you may kill yourself, too, aren’t you?” He maintains her answer that day was “yes.” But Jane, whose mother took her own life when Jane was 12, later denies the story. “I would never do it. I think I’m too important.”

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Invitation to a March runs for three months after opening at the Music Box Theatre on October 29, 1960, with Newsweek calling Jane “the loveliest and most gifted of all our young actresses.” Henry Fonda tells Laurents, “Thank you for making my daughter an actress.” Jane walks away from the experience unhappy, complaining she’s been forced to act as “some slick Ginger Rogers ingénue.”

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Confident that she’s now ready to become a full-fledged member of the Actors Studio, Jane auditions before the board with a scene from Butterfield 8 as a high-class prostitute (the role that won Elizabeth Taylor her first Oscar). When her father asks why, Jane says, “I identify with her. Not the call-girl kind of life, but the guilts, the desperations, the emotions.” Her performance is a success.

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Jane shares in class a recurring nightmare of seeing dogs get run over and being inside an ice-cold house that has no exit. She also dreams of forgetting her lines, and once wakes up to find she’s moved furniture. One night, having wandered into the street naked, she comes to and sees shocked pedestrians.

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Jane buys her first co-op apartment on West 55th Street, purchased with her earnings from the film work she completes between plays.

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Her next play Broadway play, The Fun Couple, is an unmitigated flop. Walter Kerr calls it one of the five worst plays of all time. The entire Actors Studio crowd comes to see it and leaves the Lyceum Theatre sniggering. It closes after three performances, leaving Jane even more disenchanted with Broadway.

 
Jane Fonda in 33 Variations

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Jane is cast in the Actors Studio’s Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude seemingly a crowning achievement. But starring alongside Geraldine Page, considered to finest American stage at the time, makes it clear to Jane how far she has to go. Like Marilyn Monroe, another black sheep in the Studio, she wonders if she has the talent or even the desire to attain such status. (“Think of all the wonderful parts you can play when you’re older,” Jane tells Marilyn. “No, no!” Monroe replies, startled. “You play them!”

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After the final performance of Strange Interlude in June 1963, Jane labels her Broadway experience “disastrous.” She concludes, “I have star quality, I have personality, I have a presence. It’s like a commodity, and it’s in demand.” So she heads back West to conquer Hollywood.

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Forty-six years later, in the weeks before the opening of 33 Variations, Jane tells The New York Times how much her late father, who acted onstage for his entire career, has been on her mind. “I was never comfortable enough in my own skin 45 years ago,” she says. “I just wanted to escape. And now it’s like, ‘Oh Dad, I wish you were here and alive, so I could say to you: I get it! I’m finally able to experience what you were talking about.’”
 

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JORDAN will be seen by millions of TV viewers dramatically confessing that she was sexually attacked in a park at just SIX YEARS OLD.

The model—real name Katie Price—bursts into TEARS as she blurts out her secret childhood trauma during a chat show, the News of the World can reveal.

In the interview on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, Katie has just described how she was once photographed by a convicted paedophile as a teenager when she suddenly admits: “Worse things happened to me when I was younger than that.”

As a stunned silence descends on the studio, Katie, 30, glances nervously at her mum Amy and husband Peter Andre in the audience before struggling to carry on.

“In a park, but yeah. I don’t know. I’ve never really . . . Oh my God, what’s the matter with me?” she tells Morgan, her voice shaking with emotion.

Trying to pull herself together, she goes on: “Compose. Hang on. It’s alright. I’m strong. Compose.

“Some weirdo. Oh, you know what I’m saying. Just some weirdo in a park.“

Asked if the man abused her, Katie nods her head. She adds: “Well, it’s never affected me. But obviously it must have done, for me to just feel like that. But I don’t know. You just learn to get on with things, don’t you?

“I haven’t got a problem normally with it so I don’t know why I do have a problem with it now. But anyway . . .”

Katie later revealed she was only six when the attack happened in a park near her home.

She had been out with a school pal. Her mum was chatting with a friend on a nearby bench while Katie and her friend played hide and seek in bushes.

A man appeared and promised to buy the two girls an ice cream. The pervert then lined up the two terrified girls and exposed himself. He also touched the girls.

Katie was terrified by the attack but too afraid to scream. She felt she should do what the attacker said.

Eventually some older children saw what was happening and scared the attacker off. Her mother immediately called the the police but the paedophile quickly disappeared and was never caught.

Mum-of-three Katie had already had the studio audience on the edge of their seats as she told Morgan of her ordeal at the hands of the photographer her mum had hired to help launch her modelling career at 13.

He turned out to be a pervert who insisted she pose in her underwear.

Photos of her were later found plastered over the walls of his home.

Katie tells Morgan: “Muggins here, who didn’t know that, then paid for this course. Well, my mum did. He was the photographer on it and I felt really comfy with him.

“He said, ‘Oh I’ve got other jobs for you’, and he was friendly with my mum and he was so legit with everything. He said I will take some pictures of you at my house.

“He never let my mum stay. It was at his mum and dad’s house he done the pictures. My mum didn’t know what kind of pictures he was going to take and neither did I.

“You just wouldn’t think. He was with another lady, as well.

“He used to do pictures of me in a bikini sticking my tongue out at the camera and then another time he wanted to put a shirt on me. This is when the woman was there.

“And they said we want to put it on you, but we want you naked. When you are that young you think ‘oh, I’ll do anything just to be a model’.”

The man was later convicted of child sex offences. Katie said: “He had 11 different names and 11 different bank accounts. I always thought he was a bit of a weirdo.”

Katie has now largely given up being Jordan the mega-boobed lads’ mag model. But she claims during her interview that she partly created the character to get back at the men who had hurt her. In addition to her ordeals with perverts, Katie told how she was also beaten at the hands of her first boyfriend, a man 11 years her senior, who took her virginity.

Then Sunderland footballer Dwight Yorke dumped her shortly after she became pregnant, leaving her to raise disabled son Harvey, six, on her own. Her father, Ray Infield, left home when she was four.
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Jordan, who has had her 32G boobs reduced several times to their current 32C, said: “Sometimes I think the job I did—the Jordan—is to tease at men.

“I can pr**k tease at men but they can’t have me. Maybe it was that.”

But that’s not to say Katie’s creation of Jordan was entirely a ruse to tantalise the opposite sex. Even as a young teenager, she loved showing off her blossoming figure in tight-fitting clothing.

She told Morgan: “I’m an exhibitionist. I always have been. I remember at my dad’s 30th I think it was, I was 13.

“My mum gave me some money to get an outfit and she probably thought it would be a nice little outfit. It was a PVC all-in-one . . .

“The looks on their faces!”

When asked whether or not she likes men in general, Katie said of hubby Peter: “Oh, I love my man.”

PIERS Morgan’s Life Stories is on ITV1 tonight at 10pm. Virgin mega-mogul Richard Branson is tonight’s guest. Katie Price features next week.

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IDGAF — i love her & pics taken out to stop people whining.
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Lionsgate’s My Bloody Valentine 3D is expected to debut on Blu-Ray May 19th (likely timed for the DVD release as well). Official specs have not been unveiled, but according to Blu-Ray.com, Lionsgate is prepping both a 2-D and 3-D presentation. Expect a commentary as well as a number of featurettes. We’ll update this spot the minute final details come in. The remake has grossed an estimated million worldwide since opening January 16th.

No photos yet, but here’s the official description for episode 4.16 of Supernatural, which should air on March 19th.

“On The Head Of A Pin”

SOMEONE’S KILLING ANGELS — Someone found Lucifer’s sword and is using it to kill angels. Castiel (Misha Collins) and Uriel (guest star Robert Wisdom) have captured Alastair (guest star Christopher Heyerdahl) and ask Dean (Jensen Ackles) to use the torturing skills he learned in Hell to extract information from him so they can stop the murders. Sam (Jared Padalecki) is concerned Dean can’t handle the job but Dean agrees to do it. However, when Alastair reveals some shocking information, Dean’s world is shattered. Mike Rohl directed the episode written by Ben Edlund.

Episode 15, "Death Takes A Holiday," will air on March 12th @ 9/8c on the CW! Click here to check out the promo, which was previously posted.

Happy birthday, Jensen! Mr. Ackles celebrates his 31st birthday today (March 1st)!

It needs to be March 12th, right now! And high five to that Season 5!

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Moz is struck by illness

Morrissey has cancelled the first dates of his world tour in support of his new album ‘Years Of Refusal’.

The former Smiths frontman was set to kick off the jaunt February 28 in Boca Raton, Florida, but has cancelled all four dates in the southern state, reportedly due to illness.

The tour is now set to begin on March 6 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and run through July 1 with a performance in Russia.

The cancelled dates are:
Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park (February 28)
Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live (March 1)
Jacksonville, FL Florida Theater (3)
St. Petersburg, FL Jannus Landing (4)

There has not been any word yet about whether these shows will be rescheduled.

His website has further details of the tour if you want to keep an eye on the tour dates.

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Robert Pattinson: ‘I Might Make an Album’

Robert Pattinson says he might record an album.

The British actor - who shot to fame playing vampire Edward Cullen in the recent Twilight movie - wants to make a record without the help of a label.

He reveals, “I might make an album but not through a record company or anything. I’d like to do something independent. I don’t care if people buy it or not. I’d just like to have it just for myself so I can work with good musicians and stuff.”

He added: “All my friends are musicians in London. They’re very talented. My best friend wrote one of the songs on the soundtrack with another friend of mine, this guy Marcus Foster who did Bobby Long. I went to school with Marcus. He taught me how to play guitar and stuff. He’s an amazing writer and singer and I thought to help somebody out. I’ve got nothing to lose.”

(Here’s a little sample of his skills, thanks mikeodonnell!)

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New Moon Casting Complete, Eclipse Gets New Director

The casting director for New Moon, Joseph Middleton, has announced that “We are finished with the casting process”. No details on the cast list has been released by Summit Entertainment.

(live-PR.com) - The rumor mill has been on fire with talk of Madonna, Vanessa Hudgens, AnnaLynne McCord, and Dakota Fanning being hired for a coveted spot on the New Moon cast, however there has been no official confirmation of any of them being hired.

There have also been rumors circulating that Drew Barrymore will be directing the third installment of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series. These rumors are false. Due to the New Moon production schedule for director Chris Weitz, his brother and co-owner of “Depth of Field Productions” - Paul Weitz - will be directing Eclipse. Chris Weitz is about to start directing “New Moon” but will still be in post-production when the third film starts shooting.
Just last week, Summit officially announced “Eclipse” will be released in theaters June 10, 2010.

Eclipse will NOT be filmed back-to-back with New Moon, and there will be completely separate casting cycle. Details about future auditions and open casting calls for Eclipse can be found on the following auditions website:

acting411.blogspot.com/2008/12/eclipse-auditions

No confirmation from Summit Entertainment though so we’ll have to wait and see.

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Peter Facinelli wants to thank Twilight fans

Peter Facinelli is so glad fans of Twilight the novel enjoyed the movie. Peter gave Movie Web a message for the fans. He said: “Thanks for all the support on this movie. We’re all overwhelmed and humbled by the support that you’ve shown and how everyone’s turned out. “We’re glad that people like it and we’re looking forward to more.”

Peter isn’t sure whether any of the New Moon will be filmed in Italy. He added: “I don’t know. I know that in the book, there are scenes in Italy. “Whether they use Vancouver as Italy (Laughs), the way Hollywood picks a place and says, ‘That’s Italy,’ who knows. Maybe we’re going to Italy. I don’t know.”

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Noel Gallagher has directed criticism at a number of artists, including Leona Lewis and Lady GaGa.

The Oasis star revealed his distaste after "for some reason" watching MTV’s Europe Top 10.

"F**k me, it was painful. Leona Lewis doing Snow Patrol? Ouch! Kings Of Leon doing U2? Ouch!" he wrote on his blog.

"The Killers doing fancy dress? Ouch! Lady GaGa? (I may be showing my age here but who’s Lady GaGa?). It made my teeth hurt! MY TEETH!!"

Gallagher scooped the prize for best blog at the Shockwaves NME Awards last night. Oasis were also presented with the best British band award.

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A recent .gif inspired me to waste hours of my life on this post. Hours I will never get back. I will mark those along with the possible 50+ hours I have spent watching this movie over and over again.

This poster hangs in my office, no lie.

The year was 1987 and for those of us just coming out of Star Wars and Star Trek adventures (I was 9 and hated every second of Star Trek 3 and therefore refused to see Spaceballs with my father in the theatre. He had to force me. Thanks, Dad.), Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs was a cult classic in the making. An all-star cast, quotes that people still use conversation (and get laughs), and a plot that parodies over 19 films (for a list, see here.), Spaceballs was one of a kind.

But where are they all now? And what is new with the Spaceballs franchise? Will we finally get the flamethrowers that were promised to us? What about “Spaceballs Two: The Search for More Money”?

More behind the cut.

1. Mel Brooks - Writer, Director, “President Skroob” & “Yogurt”
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Now 82 years old, Melvin Kaminsky (aka Mel Brooks) has three films in the Top 20 on the American Film Institute’s list of the Top 100 comedy films of all-time (”Blazing Saddles”, “The Producers”, “Young Frankenstein”). He has won an Emmy, an Oscar, a Grammy and a Tony, a feat not many have accomplished. Brooks was married to the actress Anne Bancroft from 1964 until her death from uterine cancer on June 6, 2005. Lately, he has been discussing turning past films into future musical productions.

2. John Candy - “Barf”
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John Franklin Candy starred in dozens of comedies in the 80s and 90s, after beginning his career as a member of the Toronto, Ontario, branch of Second City. The world was shocked when he died tragically at the age of 43 of a heart attack in Durango, MX. A year after his death, his final movie was released, a satire by Michael Moore called “Candadian Bacon”.

3. Rick Moranis - “Dark Helmet”
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Frederick Alan Moranis is best known for his geeky roles in the “Honey I Shrunk the…” movies, “Ghostbusters” and “Little Shop of Horrors”, which made him a perfect match for the weak bodied, strong voiced Dark Helmet, a spoof on Darth Vadar. In 1998, he was asked to join the cast of Ghostbusters for a video game production, but decided to remain in retirement. In 2006, he released a country album called “An Agoraphobic Cowboy”. Oi vey, Rick. Oi vey.

4. Bill Pullman - “Lonestar”
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Williams James Pullman captured our hearts as the dashing (and hot) Lonestar, a sort of Indiana Jones In Space, before he continued on to play a reporter advocating for the 1880 newsie strike, the President of the United States and the brother of Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows in a Sandra Bullock chick flick. Now 55, he is married with 3 kids, still working and recently was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he received his graduate degree.

5. Daphne Zuniga - “Princess Vespa”
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Any Melrose Place fan knows that Daphne Zuniga (Jo) has attitude, but nothing compares to her role as the spoiled “Druish Princess” Vespa. Complete with a Mercedes, extensions (a set of headphones made to look like Princess Leia’s side buns), nose job, match luggage and an “industrial strength hairdryer”, it’s no wonder us Jewish Princesses got our bad reps! Does anyone remember her stint as Alex P Keaton’s girlfriend on “Family Ties”? Am I the only person old enough? Now 46, she is most recently guest starring on the WB hit “One Tree Hill”, as Brooke’s selfish and greedy mother.

6. Dick Van Patten - “King Roland”
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Richard Vincent Van Patten started his career in 1937 as a child actor on Broadway. He appeared in a total of 3 Mel Brooks films (”High Anxiety” and “Robin Hood: Men In Tights” also), and even a couple of Weird Al music videos. In 1989, he co-founded Natural Balance Pet Foods (Sidebar: as a pet food nutritionist, I can vouch that this food is actually crap and do not recommend buying it, no matter what PetCo employees tell you as NB is now owned by PetCo…anyway…). In 2006, he suffered a diabetic stroke, but made a full recovery.

7. Joan Rivers - Dot Matrix (voice)
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(seriously, not much has changed, has it?)

Joan Alexandra Molinsky is a comedian, businesswoman, actress, talk show host and plastic surgery advocate. She is 75 years old, but looks at least 93. Still, her raspy voice and ability to poke fun at herself continues to make her relevant and, yes, even funny. Her husband Edgar, the father of annoying daughter Melissa, passed away in 1987 of a suicidal overdose of prescription drugs. Since then, has has committed herself to reality TV, on shows such as Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, Celebrity Family Feud and Celebrity Apprentice. On June 17, 2008, she was removed from the set of the British ITV lunchtime talk show, Loose Women after swearing live on air. She called Russell Crowe a piece of “fuckin’ shit”. It was her first time being removed from a TV show in 40 years. She was “thrilled”.

Also worth mentioning, the sound effects talents of Michael Winslow, Jim J Bullock’s “Prince Vallium”, Dom DeLuise as “Pizza the Hut”, John Hurt re-playing his character “Kane” from “Alien” and George Wyner as “Colonel Kernel Sandurz” (a reference I didn’t catch until years later).

8. Spaceballs: The Animated Series (from Wikipedia)

Production began in early 2005 under the supervision of Brooksfilms, MGM and Berliner Film Company. Mel Brooks not only directed the writing, but also voiced two characters, President Skroob and Yogurt, both of whom he played in the film. Daphne Zuniga and Joan Rivers also reprise their roles from the film, however, Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis do not. Tino Insana replaces John Candy as “Barf.”

Some promotional items on the series were seen at the 2007 Comic-Con and a total of 13 episodes were planned to debut during the fall of 2007, although this “deadline” passed by with no sign of the show on G4’s schedule. A start date of June 1, 2008 was later reported, but the series was delayed once again. Despite the lack of information in the United States, the series premiered on Canada’s Super Channel and remained absent from G4 in America until its eventual series premiere on September 21, 2008. The first four episodes of the series were shown following an airing of the original film.

I didn’t hear a thing about this, did anyone see it???

Ok that was a much bigger project than I anticipated! Well worth it.

Commence Spaceballs quoting and gifs!

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In an exclusive update, Celebuzz has obtained details on the island property where embattled couple Chris Brown and Rihanna have reportedly reunited.

People magazine reports the pair have enlisted the help of Sean "Diddy" Combs and his extravagant home on Miami’s Star Island.

"It’s like a compound," a source tells Celebuzz, "there are two guest properties, one of which where [Combs' mother] Janice lives when she visits. The gem is the main house, however."

And what a gem. It counts neighbors like Gloria Estefan in walking distance. The property was acquired by Combs from record honcho Tommy Mottola for million, fully furnished complete with original safari prints by artist Peter Beard.

"The house is very minimal, very zen," the source said. "It’s where Diddy goes to get away."

If Rihanna and Brown, 20 and 19 respectively, are indeed holed up on the island, it’s only in the lap of luxury.

The property gates are adorned with the rapper’s initials "PD," for P. Diddy. A large statue of buddah greets guests at the main house entrance, followed by a grand foyer lined with river rocks.

"The formal dining room is gorgeous and the focal point of the house, but the kitchen is where everyone congregates," the source said.

The commercial-sized kitchen leads to a veranda that spans the entire home, drenched in wicker furniture overlooking a grey stone pool, also lined in river rocks.

"Staff is everywhere, there’s a chef on call 24-hours, and he only burns Dyptique Baies candles."

Guests of Diddy’s at the retreat have included Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, Bruce Willis and baseball star Derek Jeter.

The show-stopper, however, is an epic dock capped off in a lush cabana overlooking the water.

"You could anchor a Carnival cruise [on the dock]," says our source.

Reps for Brown and Rihanna could not be reached for comment.

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