ABC’s new summer drama Grand Hotel continues with episode 10, “Suite Little Lies.” Guest stars Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy) and Adrian Pasdar (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) return as Teresa and Felix, respectively. Season one episode 10 was directed by John Terlesky from a script by Danny Fernandez and will air on August 19, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT.
The cast of season one includes Oscar nominee Demián Bichir (Best Actor, A Better Life) as Santiago Mendoza, ALMA award winner Roselyn Sánchez (Outstanding Actress in a Drama Television Series, Without a Trace) as Gigi Mendoza, Denyse Tontz (The Fosters) as Alicia Mendoza, and Bryan Craig (Valor) as Javi Mendoza. Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Mayor) is Mrs. P, Lincoln Younes (Home and Away) is Danny, Shalim Ortiz (Magic City) is Mateo, and Anne Winters (13 Reasons Why) plays Ingrid.
Chris Warren (The Fosters) plays Jason, Feliz Ramirez is Carolina, and Justina Adorno (Seven Seconds) is Yoli in the show’s first season.
Grand Hotel is written and executive produced by Brian Tanen. Eva Longoria, Ben Spector, Bob Daily, Ramón Campos, Teresa Fernández-Valdés, and director Bill D’Elia also executive produce.
The “Suite Little Lies” Plot: Santiago and Gigi’s relationship is on the mend after secrets they have been keeping from each other are revealed. Danny teams up with the police to try and figure out what happened to Sky, and Javi takes on a new hobby.
Series Details:
“Charismatic Santiago Mendoza owns the hotel, while his glamorous second wife, Gigi, and their adult children enjoy the spoils of success. The hotel’s loyal staff round out a contemporary fresh take on an upstairs/downstairs story. Wealthy and beautiful guests bask in luxury, but scandals, escalating debt and explosive secrets hide beneath the picture-perfect exterior.”
Roselyn Sanchez in ‘Grand Hotel’ season 1 episode 10 (ABC/Eric McCandless)Shalim Ortiz and Demian Bicher in season 1 episode 10 (ABC/Eric McCandless)Feliz Ramirez in season 1 episode 10 (ABC/Eric McCandless)Justina Adorno and Feliz Ramirez in season 1 episode 10 (ABC/Eric McCandless)Feliz Ramirez in season 1 episode 10 (ABC/Eric McCandless)
The first season of The CW’s sci-fi action drama Pandora continues with episode six titled “What Was It You Wanted.” Episode six was directed by Jenn Wexler from a script by Lisa Klink (story by Mark A. Altman) and will air on August 20, 2019.
In addition to Priscilla Quintana as JAX (a.k.a. Pandora), series regulars include Oliver Dench as Xander Duvall, Raechelle Banno as Atria Nine, and John Harlan Kim as Greg Li. Ben Radcliffe plays Ralen, Banita Sandhu is Delaney Pilar, Martin Bobb-Semple is Thomas James Ross, and Noah Huntley plays Professor Donovan Osborn.
Mark A. Altman executive produces with Steve Kriozere (NCIS, Necessary Roughness), Thomas P. Vitale, Karine Martin, and Chris Philip.
The “What Was It You Wanted” Plot: HACKED AND EXPOSED – When Pilar’s (Sendhu) bio-organic implants are hacked, Jax (Quintana) and Ralen (Radcliffe) lead an investigation to help save their friend and find out who’s responsible and stop them from continuing to torment Pilar.
Series Description, Courtesy of The CW:
Set in the year 2199, Pandora is a sci-fi action series about a resourceful young woman who has lost everything but finds a new life at Earth’s Space Training Academy where she and her friends learn to defend the galaxy from threats, both alien and human. When secrets about the nature of her own identity begin to surface, she must uncover the truth, and whether she will be humanity’s savior or the instrument of its destruction.
Kelly Reilly in ‘Yellowstone’ season 2 episode 8 (Photo Credit: Paramount Network)
Paramount Network’s Yellowstone season two episode seven featured an emotional, gut-wrenching performance by Kelly Reilly. The episode, titled “Resurrection Day,” drew in a record number of viewers (5.4 million) and if the world is fair, it will earn Reilly multiple award nominations.
Yellowstone season two episode eight begins with the wranglers preparing for work. Kayce (Luke Grimes) grabs his brother from the bunkhouse and tasks him with feeding the horses. Jamie (Wes Bentley) is the low man on the totem pole, and Kayce apologizes and asks him not to hold the position against him. Kayce assures Jamie he’ll forgive him anything because they’re brothers.
From that quiet moment between brothers, the setting switches to Beth nursing her nearly unrecognizable swollen face. For a brief moment it appears the sink is full of bloody teeth, but it turns out it’s actually bloody tissues. She picks up her makeup and almost immediately sets it back down. No amount of concealer will hide her bruised and battered face.
Beth returns to the bedroom and gently kisses a sleeping Rip (Cole Hauser) on the forehead.
In the big house, John (Kevin Costner) advises Monica (Kelsey Asbille) and Tate (Brecken Merrill) not to bother waiting for everyone to arrive to eat. Beth makes her way slowly into the dining room, and all Monica can do is stare. Beth’s unable to chew and asks for a special smoothie (two scoops of ice cream with three shots of vodka). Given her condition, no one dares to suggest she forego the vodka.
As she’s leaving the room, she pauses by Monica’s chair. “You should see the other guy,” says Beth.
John joins his brave daughter outside, and she wonders what they’ll tell Jason’s parents. John assures Beth he’s not thinking about that; he’s only worried about her condition.
Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham) and his right-hand man arrive at the ranch as John and Beth are outside talking. Shortly thereafter Dan Jenkins (Danny Huston) and his bodyguard also arrive for a meeting. Beth wonders what her dad’s up to.
Dan’s the only one who approaches Beth, asking if the Becks are responsible for her condition. Beth, never one to mince words, replies, “My face was just the appetizer.”
Dan’s clearly upset at what happened to Beth, and when she tries the old “what doesn’t kill us” bit, he cuts her off. He believes it might make us harder, but not necessarily stronger. Beth assures him she’s shooting for Teflon. That elicits a smile from Dan who then admits he thinks he understands the Duttons better after being on their ranch.
The meeting begins between Thomas, Dan, and John and they compare the damage done by the Becks. Dan doesn’t understand the Becks’ goal, and John explains the Becks want Dan to leave, Thomas to quit building, and John to be the enforcer.
Prior to the Becks’ intrusion, the fight between these men had not involved any families. It’s basically been against each other with minimal collateral damage. They grudgingly admit their if not admiration then at least tolerance of each other’s tactics thus far.
John thinks the Becks will now move to killing whoever it is they each hold most dear. Dan demands John speak plainly and say that he wants to kill the Becks. John doesn’t hesitate as he reaches into Dan’s jacket pocket. He pulls out a recorder, and Dan confesses he’s using it because he had no idea what John was going to expect of them at this meeting.
Dan claims the recorder’s for his protection and to prove it he says, “We should kill them,” into the recorder. He’s now the first to voice the opinion out loud but not the last. Thomas takes the recorder and explains that it’s different for him because he has the weight of the Indian nation on his shoulders. He doesn’t explicitly say to kill the Becks but implies the sentiment into the recorder. He gives the men his word no one will look for the Becks on the reservation when they go missing.
John won’t say to kill the Becks. Instead, he tells Thomas and Dan he’s the one who will be doing the killing. He expects their help if he needs it, no questions asked.
Beth is sucking on her smoothie when Monica asks to speak with her. The women admit they don’t know each other, and Beth assures Monica the attack was not committed by anyone in her family. When she says it was busy, Monica asks, “What kind of business does that?”
Beth replies, “The family business. With that face, I recommend you stick with teaching.” She then tells Monica not to judge them and not to try and understand them.
Malcolm Beck (Neal McDonough) storms into his brother’s office, throwing items, and tossing desks. He’s furious and his brother’s worried people will notice if this fight against Thomas Rainwater, Dan Jenkins, and John Dutton expands.
Malcolm believes they have to take the fight “all the way,” no matter what at this point. Teal (Terry Serpico) agrees and asks who’ll they start with. Malcolm replies, “The one he loves the most.”
The scene immediately shifts to a close-up of Tate.
Brecken Merrill and Luke Grimes in ‘Yellowstone’ (Photo Credit: Paramount Network)
Tate watches his dad work his horse, smiling as he takes it all in. Monica joins them but doesn’t bring up Beth. She explains she doesn’t have doubts, she has worries. Kayce asks her to trust him.
Monica lets them know she’s got a field trip planned for her students and will be home late.
Livestock Agent Steve Hendon (James Jordan) reports in and it’s not good news. He tells John he still hasn’t found out who rented the airplane that was used to kill the cattle. He can’t even locate a feed store that sells clover. However, he does have paperwork from a packing house in Butte.
A lightbulb goes off and John, frustrated with himself over missing the connection, tells Steve to look up Malcolm Beck on the FAA website out of Billings or Butte. Steve discovers Malcolm has three cargo planes at the airfield in Billings. John realizes Malcolm used his own plane.
John dismisses Steve and sets things in motion.
Monica takes her class to a concert on the reservation. Rappers describe life as Native Americans and as Monica listens, she looks torn between two worlds.
That evening Beth returns to bed with Rip. She stares at him as he rests, recovering from a gunshot to the abdomen. He stares at her and then says, “God I wish they would come back to life so I could kill them again.”
Bruised but not broken, they hold each other gently.
Monica arrives home and attempts to quietly get into bed. Kayce’s not asleep and tells her they can not fall back into the trap of not speaking to each other. She wants to know what happened to Beth and Kayce pauses before explaining his dad used to tell him about all the wars he had to fight to keep this place. He didn’t believe him then but does now.
“There’s people who all they care about is more – how to get more, take more – and they’ll stop at nothing,” says Kayce.
Monica compares Yellowstone Ranch to the Alamo, describing the whole family as prisoners. She doesn’t want that to be them, and Kayce agrees they can live in town if that’s what she wants. He doesn’t care where they live as long as they live together. Monica thanks him and actually smiles before moving in for a kiss. They even tease each other about expanding their family.
Rip manages to get up and get dressed, saying he was built to go through hell. He’s returning to the bunkhouse, explaining that’s where he belongs. For one of the rare moments in two seasons, Beth looks lost and forlorn.
Rip makes his way slowly to the bunkhouse where the wranglers are all awake. Jimmy asks to borrow a truck to take money owed to his grandfather, and the men joke about whether Jimmy can actually drive.
Shortly thereafter, Jimmy’s the first customer at the bank. He takes his winnings (now that the check’s cleared) and heads over not to his grandfather’s but to the druggie he owes money to. The small house is packed but Ray, the guy he owes, isn’t there. Jimmy gives the new meth cook the cash and demands they leave his grandfather alone. The cook’s still angry over Avery dousing him with bear spray. He’ll take another $1,000 in exchange for letting Avery off the hook.
Jimmy doesn’t have it and instead the cook’s satisfied with taking the belt buckle Jimmy just won.
Back at the ranch, Kayce and Tate work with Tate’s horse. Monica’s watching them as John arrives, admitting watching Kayce work the horse helps remind him why he loves the ranch. He realizes Monica doesn’t like it there and she confirms she doesn’t want her family to be involved in this fight.
When she says it wouldn’t happen if they lived in the city, John contradicts her. He points out the scale in the city is smaller but there are still plenty of people who want to rob you and do harm. He asks her to give them a chance and she agrees.
Next, John meets up with Rip as Rip is slowly making his way around. He asks John if he happens to have any spare pain pills and John doesn’t respond.
They both spot Beth not far away, walking by herself. John thanks Rip for saving his daughter, assuring him he sincerely means it.
Rip takes over for Kayce in the ring as John needs to talk privately with his son. He informs Kayce the Becks have their own plane, wondering if that’s important information to a soldier. Kayce confirms it is and John gives him the go-ahead to act on the info. When Kayce asks how much John wants to know about his plans, John says everything.
Kayce asks John to set a meeting too far away for a man with a plane to drive. John wants to be able to control the location, so it has to be the Yellowstone Ranch or the reservation. Kayce does a quick calculation and tells his dad to set the meeting for Jackson Hole so the Becks will fly over the ranch.
Kayce asks his dad to get Dan’s bodyguard on board to help him, but John’s leery of bringing him in. Kayce reminds him Dan won’t be able to use anything against them if his employee’s part of the plan.
Beth walks up as Rip is having a man-to-man with Tate about horses. Rip’s explaining why horses shy away and that it has to do with where the horse stands in the world and who’s their friend. Rip’s really good with Tate and John, who’s returned from speaking with Kayce, calls him a big Teddy Bear. Beth doesn’t respond and simply walks away.
Rip tells Tate they’ll make the horse the best they’ve got on the ranch.
Beth runs into Jamie who’s in the barn shoveling horse manure. She refuses to soften toward her brother, telling him that someday when someone loves him she’ll take them away from him. Her hatred toward Jamie is palpable.
Beth begins to cry as she tells her brother she’ll kill the person herself. Jamie stands silently and absorbs his sister’s vitriol.
Elsewhere, the Becks begin the next phase of their plan by shooting a guard on the reservation.
Monica and Kayce relax in a bathtub full of bubbles. Kayce teases her that John outfoxed her, and they laugh as they enjoy a quiet, peaceful moment alone together. She admits she loves the bathroom but not the bedroom. The house is so huge she wants to have more children just to fill the empty spaces.
They’re interrupted by John knocking at the bathroom door.
John orders Kayce to get dressed and then wakes up Jamie and tells him the same.
Jamie joins Kayce and his dad in the truck, and immediately notices their guns. As they drive in silence, Jamie’s face reveals he thinks he’s about to be shot.
They arrive at the guard shack which is blocked off with crime scene tape. John needs Jamie to be a lawyer and as Jamie reacts, it dawns on John that Jamie assumed the worst.
A discussion’s going on over who has jurisdiction and Thomas Rainwater says they all know who’s responsible. Sheriff Donnie Haskell (Hugh Dillon) believes the best course is for Thomas to say they’re halting construction because it’s obvious that’s what the Becks want. It’ll give them time to figure out their next move. Haskell warns John he’ll be the next target, unaware of the attack on Beth.
John says he’s fine with the Becks coming for him on his ranch. He’ll even leave the gate open.
John calls Malcolm and sets the meeting for Jackson Hole during the day in a public place. Malcolm seems to agree and hangs up. There are photos of Monica, Tate, Kayce, Beth, and Jamie on the table, and Malcolm uses his boot to push the photo of Tate toward his brother. Malcolm says, “Who he loves the most.”
Paranormal pioneers Steve Gonsalves, Jason Hawes and Dave Tango star in ‘Ghost Nation’ (Photo Courtesy of Travel Channel)
Ghost Hunters stars Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango return to investigate spooky things that go bump in the night with Travel Channel’s new series, Ghost Nation. Travel Channel’s set a Friday, October 11, 2019 premiere date for the paranormal series, with new episodes airing on Fridays at 9pm ET/PT.
Season one will consist of 10 episodes.
“My local organization handles cases all across the East Coast,” said Hawes, co-creator and former narrator, producer and star of Ghost Hunters. “But in the last 20 years, because the paranormal movement has become so huge and spread all over the world, we formed an organization to connect all those involved in the field – fans, investigators or those just searching for answers to questions. Many organizations reach out to us for help with their best and toughest cases.”
Ghost Nation is a Ping Pong Productions for Travel Channel. Vaibhav Bhatt, Brad Kuhlman, Casey Brumels, Josh Gates, Jason Hawes, and Steve Gonsalves are executive producing.
Ghost Nation Series Details, Courtesy of Travel Channel:
“The trio is getting back to its roots, helping homeowners who are dealing with harrowing hauntings and people whose lives have been overtaken and threatened by unexplained phenomena. Each of the 10, hour-long episodes features a high-stakes case and a robust, multi-stage investigation that begins with a shocking paranormal story and a tantalizing piece of evidence. Stories featured this season include a couple who recently gained notoriety when their nanny-cam footage captured a ghostly shadow figure walking by their baby’s crib; a local team that captured possible shadow people moving throughout a notorious haunt; and an investigator who is actually scratched by an unseen phantom.
Armed with brand new state-of-the-art technology and their meticulous methodology, the team, under its new banner, United Paranormal Research Organization (UPRO), will face the most challenging and dangerous paranormal mysteries the country has to offer. In every investigation, collecting evidence is just the beginning. The team isn’t merely conducting a cursory review of the case. With the help of their local contacts, team members will embed themselves in the community, conducting multi-day investigations in an effort to track down the true source of these hauntings and restore peace to the living … and the dead.
In the series premiere, the paranormal pioneers announce the formation of UPRO at the Fanboy Expo Event in Knoxville, Tennessee. Amateur paranormal investigator Jessica Clevinger is in the audience and immediately asks for help with a local case that’s over her head. Single mom Brittany Totherow bought a White Pine, Tennessee, farmhouse because it was the perfect home in which to raise her young son. But soon after moving in, she experienced unnerving phenomena and witnessed a female apparition. Her future husband, Cory, eventually moved into the home with his own children, but it wasn’t long before he began experiencing events himself. Within days, Cory started hearing unexplained footsteps and captured video of an apparition standing behind Brittany. Now, their children are starting to have strange encounters. At a loss for what to do, Jessica, Cory and Brittany turn to the UPRO team for help.”
Tricia Helfer, most recently seen playing Lucifer Morningstar’s mom in Lucifer, joins the cast of Syfy’s Van Helsing for the show’s fourth season. When the series returns on September 27, 2019, Helfer will be introduced as the most iconic vampire of them all – Dracula.
Tricia Helfer joined her fellow Van Helsing cast members, including series newcomers Nicole Munoz and Keeya King, at the 2019 San Diego Comic Con. During our roundtable interview, Helfer teased what’s in store and praised the genre for its inclusion of strong female characters.
We miss you on Lucifer but now you’re tackling Dracula. How much fun is it to sink your teeth into that?
Tricia Helfer: “It’s so much fun. it really is a character… A lady over there said, she goes, “Normally you play a lot of bad characters but they’re always layered with vulnerability,’ you know, on purpose because you’re trying to show this character has sides to her as well. With Dracula, not so much.
I have not, at least in what I’ve filmed, discovered a soft or a vulnerable side to her. I only have a few episodes in the season. My character is sort of introduced. But it’s delicious I think is how I would describe it to play because you’re just playing this all-powerful, confident being and it’s really fun to play bad.”
Does she have minions?
Tricia Helfer: “She does, yes. She’s been locked away for a very long time so she definitely is relishing the being able to be out and kind of in control, learning also what the world is now like. You know, locked away for a long time.
She doesn’t ever worry. You don’t see her sweat, so to speak, at least so far. It’s an enjoyment factor of what she’s going to discover. But, she also goes right into her mode of demanding things from her minions or an explanation of why something wasn’t done the way she would have expected to have been done.”
Are we going to flashback to see her origin or why she was locked up or who locked you up?
Tricia Helfer: “There will be a discussion. We won’t see it. I don’t know how much more I can say. If there’s a next season, it might go a little bit more into that. Again, she’s just sort of introduced.
There is some discussion though. You find out who locked her away, how she got locked away, but you don’t see it. But there’s some revenge on her part that is wanted. But, again, we don’t see that yet but she has a few people she has to contend with along the way that obviously don’t want her to be out and active again because all hell will probably break loose.”
This genre seems to attract strong, kickass women. Is that why you’ve played in it so often and been so successful?
Tricia Helfer: “I think you nailed it. There are strong female characters. I mean, there’s definitely getting to be a lot more but what I like with Van Helsing, it’s not like, ‘Oh, we’re checking the box.’
You know, the show already is about Vanessa Van Helsing and there’s so many other strong female characters in it that it’s not like, ‘Oh, okay, we have to do this to be whatever.’ So, it feels very organic; it doesn’t feel forced. And I think that’s what I like in the genre is it’s sort of like, ‘Okay, whatever.’ You never feel like it’s checking the box just for the sake of checking the box. And the stories can be broad and dynamic and cover lots of different elements and stories. That’s what the genre is all about.”
Emilia Clarke’s following up the final season of Game of Thrones, in which Daenerys went full-on Mad Queen, with a starring role in Last Christmas. Universal Pictures just released a new trailer for the holiday film which features the music of George Michael, including the title song.
In addition to Emilia Clarke, the cast of the 2019 romantic comedy includes Henry Golding (A Simple Favor, Crazy Rich Asians), Michelle Yeoh (Star Trek: Discovery, Marco Polo), and Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks). Oscar winner Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Howards End) and Bryony Kimmings wrote the screenplay and Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, Spy, Bridesmaids) directs.
Feig, Thompson, David Livingstone, and Jessie Henderson produced, with Sarah Bradshaw executive producing. Feig’s behind the scenes team includes director of photography John Schwartzman, production designer Gary Freeman, and costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus.
The Last Christmas Plot, Courtesy of Universal Pictures:
“Kate (Clarke) harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jangle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. Tom (Golding) seems too good to be true when he walks into her life and starts to see through so many of Kate’s barriers. As London transforms into the most wonderful time of the year, nothing should work for these two. But sometimes, you gotta let the snow fall where it may, you gotta listen to your heart … and you gotta have faith.
Last Christmas features the music of George Michael, including the bittersweet holiday classic of the film’s title. The film will also premiere brand new unreleased material by the legendary Grammy-winning artist, who sold more than 115 million albums and recorded 10 No. 1 singles over the course of his iconic career.”
Poster for the holiday romantic comedy, ‘Last Christmas’ (Photo Credit: Universal Pictures)
The two and a half minute official trailer for season three of 13 Reasons Why begins with an announcement over the school’s PA system. “We received some extremely sad news from the Evergreen County Sheriff. Bryce Walker was found and has been confirmed dead,” says the voice while we see the reactions of some of the key players to the news.
The trailer also shows Bryce Walker’s mom, Nora (Brenda Strong), demanding to know who’s responsible for her son’s death. The Sheriff assures her they’ll get to the bottom of it and uncover the truth surrounding his death.
The season three cast is led by Dylan Minnette as Clay Jensen. Season three also stars Brandon Flynn as Justin Foley, Justin Prentice as Bryce Walker, Alisha Boe as Jessica Davis, Christian Navarro as Tony Padilla, and Miles Heizer as Alex Standall. Devin Druid plays Tyler Down, Ross Butler is Zach Dempsey, Timothy Granaderos is Montgomery de la Cruz, Anne Winters is Chloe, Steven Weber is Principle Bowen, and Amy Hargreaves is Mrs. Jensen.
Newcomers to the critically acclaimed series include Grace Saif as Ani, Bex Taylor Klaus as Casey, and Tyler Barnhardt as Charlie.
Season three is made up of 13 one-hour episodes and will premiere on August 23, 2019.
The Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
“Who killed Bryce Walker? Everyone has their reasons… The secrets at Liberty High run deep, and in the aftermath of the Homecoming game all of the friends have something to hide. As the mystery of his death engulfs the town, there are numerous suspects in focus. But were any of them truly capable of murder? And who is the new girl? Police are determined to get to the truth, but with a web of secrets and lies this tangled, will anyone be found guilty?”
A scene from Bryce Walker’s funeral (Photo Credit: David Moir/Netflix)Miles Heizer in season 3 (Photo Credit: David Moir/Netflix)Dylan Minnette in season 3 of ’13 Reasons Why’ (Photo Credit: Phil Bray/Netflix)
Season three of The CW’s Riverdale was one bizarre twist after another, and season four isn’t likely to see the core four calming down and living life as normal high school seniors. The town’s too weird for normal and it’s not about to change as Archie (KJ Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes), and Jughead (Cole Sprouse) make their way through their final year as high schoolers.
Sitting down to discuss season four at the San Diego Comic Con, Lili Reinhart explained what’s going on with Betty when the new season arrives. She also discussed Betty’s relationships and how she’s dealing with her parents, Charles, and the side effects of The Farm.
Riverdale season four will premiere on October 9, 2019.
What state of mind is Betty at the beginning of the season?
Lili Reinhart: “It’s summer and it’s three or two and half months after she saw her dad get killed in front of her, which is not a great thing to have happen to you. And she is sort of struggling with the idea that she feels like she can’t grieve him. She hasn’t properly grieved him because of who he was at the end of his life…such a bad person and so morally wrong and he was a murderer. She feels like she can’t grieve him or miss him, because that would make her a bad person.
So, that’s really sad because she still has all these good memories of him being a good father to her growing up. And so I think it’s a little heartbreaking to see her deal with that, but Jughead is really there for her in that situation. And, I think she’s really just going to lean on her friends. She can’t trust too many people. Her circle of friendship is getting a little bit smaller and smaller because of who she can rely on, who she can trust. I think the core four is strong this season because they have to be because it seems like all the outside sources are dwindling.”
How is her relationship with Charles? It must be awkward for her and Jughead to share a brother.
Lili Reinhart: “We don’t necessarily see the awkwardness yet that Charles causes for Betty and Jughead. I think we’ll dive into that, maybe some interesting family dinners once Alice returns – if she returns – to town. I think it’s going to be a super interesting thing to explore, clearly.
But Betty is helping Charles at the FBI doing what she can to figure out where Edgar is, how to track down Alice. They’re definitely working together and I think she knows she can trust him as well because he is family and he cares for Alice, too. I think that’s one more ally on her side that she can actually trust. He’s not a villain, he’s not looking for anything else. It’s not another Chic situation. It’s the real deal.”
Riverdale is full of shocking moments but I don’t think many people saw Alice’s reveal that she’s working with the FBI coming. Did you see that?
Lili Reinhart: “That’s because Mädchen (Amick) is a great actress. Also, none of us knew until the end.”
Were you as shocked as we were?
Lili Reinhart: “Was I? I feel like part of…I feel like I kind of knew on some level because I know that Alice wouldn’t have done that to Betty.
Alice and Betty have such a complicated relationship, obviously, but it’s one of my favorite relationships on the show mostly because I love Mädchen so much and she’s like a mother to me in a way. But she and I really love Alice and Betty’s relationship and I think Betty is going to do everything in her power to try and get Alice home.
Even though she feels a little betrayed by the fact that Alice kept this huge thing from her, she knows it was for her own safety and for a greater cause of stopping Edgar. So, I think there’s some reparations to be made between the two of them but I hope that they can because I really love that relationship.”
Are there going to be any lingering effects on Betty from her time at The Farm because of the hypnosis and mind manipulation? Is some of that going to continue to haunt her this season?
Lili Reinhart: “I think it’s haunting Cheryl because her dead brother is in her basement. I think Betty bounces back pretty quickly considering what happens to her. Although, yes, she did deal with the hypnosis, I think she’s recovered and moving on as best as she can.
Cheryl is a little weaker. (Laughing) Well, that’s rude to say but she is. She’s a little bit more easily swayed and manipulated, I think. So Cheryl is definitely dealing with the fallout from the hypnosis rather than Betty.”
Are we going to see Betty dive more into her dark side or find that balance between Good Betty and Dark Betty?
Lili Reinhart: “I think it was interesting the first two seasons because Dark Betty was like this physical manifestation of darkness that a human has. And now it’s sort of evolved into she’s accepted that she has a dark side – everyone has a dark side – so now it’s not really like this costume that she has to put on. It’s just a part of herself. So I think you do see her when she was shoving Evelyn up against a locker, that was part of that darkness and that kind of switch a little bit. She can get fired up. But I think that’s what that is. It’s not like a Good Betty and Dark Betty anymore; it’s just sort of Betty.”
Are there any lighter moments in season four?
Lili Reinhart: “Like prom? Well, there is a Halloween episode which is going to be fun. But I’m sure someone will die in it because why wouldn’t that happen? Or, maybe not. I don’t know. I think it’s going to be fun to see them experience the high school senior year and graduate and Betty get her diploma. I just think that’s going to be really, really sweet.”
Shirley MacLaine is not from another planet, but sometimes her philosophy seems to put her onto another galaxy. All of her thoughts and theories can be read in her numerous books. They’re quite interesting, if you want to know the truth. Some of her bestselling books are Don’t Fall Off the Mountain, Out on a Limb, Dancing in the Light, and My Lucky Stars.
Shirley MacLaine is known to most of us as a movie star, and a great one at that. She has lasted more than six decades in a business that is known for chewing up actresses at an alarming rate. No wallflower, MacLaine has survived the notorious movie moguls of yore and outlived all of them. Was she tougher than Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures or Louis B. Mayer, the man behind the great MGM? Maybe, but she wasn’t cowed by them, either.
Perhaps it all stems from her upbringing. Born April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia, she was allegedly named after moppet movie star Shirley Temple, who was Queen of the 20th Century Fox lot in the 1930s. MacLaine’s dad, Ira, was a professor of psychology and her mother, Kathlyn, was a drama teacher. Young Shirley excelled at school in — of all things — baseball! She played on a boys team and earned the nickname of “Powerhouse.” Her athleticism probably helped in her rigorous dancing routines.
Mom enrolled her daughter in a ballet class at age three to help strengthen her ankles. MacLaine took to the ballet classes and loved going to sessions. This led to appearing in several shows, which inspired her interest in performing on the stage. Although she loved ballet, she decided early on to move into other types of dancing to expand her repertoire in the performing arts.
Before she graduated high school, she decided to try her luck in New York. She got a small part in the chorus of a production of Oklahoma!. That whetted her appetite for performing, so she went back and finished high school. While in her senior year, she participated as a cheerleader and appeared in school stage productions.
Graduation couldn’t come soon enough as she was raring to return to New York and the Big Time. She was cast in the dancing chorus of the musical Me and Juliet in the 1953-1954 season.
When famed dancer Carol Haney injured her ankle during a performance of the hit musical The Pajama Game, Shirley MacLaine went on for her for a few months in 1954. As Hollywood legend would have it, fate struck in favor of MacLaine as prestigious film producer Hal Wallis saw a show and immediately offered her a screen test and contract at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. Did she say yes? You betcha!
She was whisked out to the studio and given the royal treatment. Her first film was to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the greatest film talents in all of movie-land. The picture was the whimsical comedy The Trouble With Harry (1955), co-starring the handsome John Forsythe and curmudgeonly Edmund Gwenn. With the movie a hit, MacLaine won the Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year. She was on her way like a rocket.
Shirley MacLaine (PRNewsFoto/American Film Institute)
Paramount wanted to cash in on her new popularity and immediately cast her with the biggest comedy duo on screen, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, in the screen adaptation of the Broadway hit, Artists and Models (1955). Elizabeth Taylor’s then-hubby, producer Mike Todd, cast MacLaine in his super extravaganza-filled-with-stars, the amusing Around the World in 80 Days. It was one of the biggest blockbusters of its time.
With barely a minute to herself, she was rapidly cast in the MGM drama Some Came Running (1958) with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nancy Gates, and Martha Hyer (Mrs. Hal Wallis). MacLaine received her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress, and Martha Hyer was Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Vincente Minnelli directed.
The actress was kept busy in a string of well-received films such as The Sheepman, Hot Spell with Broadway legend Shirley Booth (1958), The Matchmaker, Ask Any Girl, Career, Ocean’s 11, and the lavish musical Can-Can, again with Sinatra and French stars Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan, and Sinatra’s current girlfriend, dancer Juliet Prowse. This was all shot on Stage 8 and Stage 16 on the Twentieth Century Fox lot. The film gained notoriety when Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev visited the set in 1960 and expressed shock that the Can-Can girls were scantily clad! What did he expect them to wear? Fur hats, coats made of Mastadon pelts, and rubber galoshes? We think not.
When MacLaine was signed for director Billy Wilder’s The Apartment with co-stars Jack Lemmon (Baxter) and Fred MacMurray (Sheldrake), little did she know she would be nominated for the Oscar as Best Actress that year.
On top of the Hollywood heap, she made a filmed version of the Lillian Hellman hit play about two lesbians, The Children’s Hour (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, another star of Hollywood royalty. More dramas and comedies followed for the next few years until she made another musical.
Reuniting with director Billy Wilder and co-star Jack Lemmon, MacLaine played a Parisian floozie in the musical comedy Irma la Douce (1963). For her role as the good-hearted hooker, MacLaine was once again nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress. The part had originally been slated for Marilyn Monroe who passed away in 1962. MacLaine also replaced Monroe in another film, What a Way to Go! (1964), that had been on Marilyn’s schedule.
Making at least one hit film per year, she returned to the musical form in 1969 with Sweet Charity. Adapted from the Broadway musical that starred Gwen Verdon, MacLaine took over the leading lady part and Verdon was nowhere to be found in the film. Famed New York choreographer Bob Fosse directed and put the girls through their paces. Broadway legend Chita Rivera managed to get into a few scenes with fellow dancer Paula Kelly and MacLaine. Other famous New York dancers adding to the festivities are Ben Vereen, Lee Roy Reames, and Toni Basil. Nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy was our Shirley.
Alternating between Westerns, comedies, and dramas over the next few years brought MacLaine to a benchmark film in her career. That film was The Turning Point (1977) for which she was again nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. The story is about two women who start out a ballet career together. Shirley MacLaine’s character of Deedee decides to give up a career and move to Oklahoma to raise a family with hubby Wayne (Tom Skerritt). Anne Bancroft remained in New York and became a ballet star. Ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov plays Yuri, and he’s joined by several famed ballet stars including Alexandra Danilova, Fernando Bujones, Peter Martins, and Suzanne Farrell.
Skipping forward to 1983, MacLaine is still on a career high with the great tearjerker of all time, Terms of Endearment (1983). For this mother-daughter emotional roller coaster, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Jack Nicholson won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. Debra Winger played the daughter and both women did splendidly.
In the past 30 years, she has appeared in more than 33 films and did some television as well. Some of her big movies were Steel Magnolias (1989) with Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Julia Roberts; and Darryl Hannah; Postcards From the Edge (1990) with Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, and Gene Hackman as written by Carrie Fisher; These Old Broads (2001), a Hollywood spoof also written by Carrie Fisher and co-starring legendary actresses Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor; and the French production about dress designer Coco Chanel (2008) for which MacLaine once again brought home an Emmy nomination as Lead Actress.
The Oscar and Emmy-winning star has never really been out of work during her six-decade career. She delved into television when she created a sensation on the popular Downton Abbey series by playing Elizabeth McGovern’s American mother during the 2013-2014 season.
Having signed contracts to appear in at least four new films over the next two years, it seems Miss MacLaine could well be working into her nineties.
Yes, she did have a romantic personal life. She first married back in 1954 to alleged businessman/producer Steve Parker. He produced the movie My Geisha. This led him to move to Japan. The couple managed to produce a daughter named Sachi (now 62, b. September 1, 1956). Sachi went to live in Japan with her father while MacLaine stayed in Hollywood. Sachi wrote a scathing book about her mother in which she complained MacLaine was never around during her childhood. MacLaine and Parker finally divorced in 1984.
MacLaine had plenty of romances, including a torrid affair with the Australian Liberal Leader Andrew Peacock. She has always been quite open about having had affairs with men. Her brother is the handsome and squinty-eyed actor Warren Beatty, who is married to the beautiful and talented actress Annette Bening. MacLaine goes on, and on, and on…
Denis Leary in a scene from ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ (Photo by Patrick Harbron / FX)
One of Denis Leary’s best feature films – The Ref – centers around the holidays, and now the Golden Globe nominated actor is set to star in a holiday-themed television project for Fox. The network announced Leary will star in the limited series A Moody Christmas which is expected to air this December.
Per Fox’s official announcement, A Moody Christmas is a single camera “event comedy” based on the Australian series of the same name. Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Tad Quill are on board to write and executive produce. Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Trent O’Donnell, Phil Lloyd, and Jason Burrows will also executive produce.
“We have always wanted to work with Denis, whose signature gruffness, sarcasm and, dare I say it, heart, make him the perfect fit for this role,” said Michael Thorn, President, Entertainment, FOX Entertainment. “The Moody family nails that indescribable mix of love, loyalty and absolute chaos, and we can’t wait to introduce our viewers to them all this holiday season.”
Denis Leary recently starred in FX’s Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and had a guest starring role in Animal Kingdom. Leary created, wrote, and led the cast of the critically acclaimed drama, Rescue Me, from 2004 through 2011.
The Plot, Courtesy of Fox:
A Moody Christmas is adapted from the Australian series of the same name and centers on the Moodys, including Sean Sr., his wife, their three grown children and an assorted mix of extended family members who gather for the holidays, with each packing his/her own eccentricities and complications.
Leary will play Sean Sr., the beloved patriarch of the Moodys, a tight-knit, but slightly dysfunctional, family of five, all of whom return home to Chicago for the holidays, hiding secrets from each other – as if the holidays weren’t stressful enough!
