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First Look: A Short Clip from ‘Lava’

Disney/Pixar’s released a short clip from the animated short film Lava which will screen in front of their animated feature, Inside Out. Inside Out will make its theatrical debut on June 19, 2015 with Lava, from director James Ford Murphy and producer Andrea Warren, also set to premiere on June 19th.

The Plot:

Inspired by the isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes, Lava is a musical love story that takes place over millions of years.

Lava Short Film Clip

Charles Michael Davis Interview – ‘The Originals’ Season 2

Charles Michael Davis The Originals Season 2 Interview
THE ORIGINALS stars Daniel Gillies, Phoebe Tonkin and Charles Michael Davis at Comic-Con 2014. #WBSDCC (©2014 WBEI)

Charles Michael Davis says the second season of The CW’s The Originals will find Marcel minus some of the freedom he had in season one, and biding his time as he attempts to rebuild his life.

“In the second season, it’s a little bit more of a family drama, like literally with the Mikaelsons and Mikael being back. You’ll see Marcel rebuild his little vampire community. They’ve been exiled across the river,” said Davis during our interview at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con. “For Marcel, and I think for the other characters, it’s going to be a lot of more character relationship driven. You’ll really get to see…Like, the way I talked to the writers as an analogy was the first season we approached it like Game of Thrones. And then he told me about the second season and I go, ‘It’s more like Orange is the New Black.’ It’s about the characters and how they interact and what’s going on with them as individuals. I think season two you’re going to see it’s going to be like Emmy nominated Orange is the New Black.”

Davis believes that given the fact it’ll become more character-driven, it’ll be interesting to see how everything plays out and how Marcel evolves. “I think in my previous experience like on Switched at Birth and Grey’s, we really worked [character] triangles,” explained Davis. “I think this one we’re going to find those triangular relationships a little bit more. Maybe it will be like Marcel, Josh, and Elijah. And then on the other end you might see like Elijah, Hayley, and maybe Klaus – or maybe a different character. So you’re really going to get to work through the show through those character triangles.”

Check out the rest of our interview for more on what’s happening with Marcel and more on what fans of The Originals can expect going forward:




Top 10 Greatest Spy Films of All Time

Top 10 Spy Films
Ben Affleck stars in and directs ‘Argo’ – Photo © Warner Bros Pictures

With the release of Pierce Brosnan’s spy thriller The November Man, it’s the perfect time for this critic to list my picks for the top 10 best spy films ever made.

10. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (1940) – Starring Joel McRae and George Sanders

Directed by the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock back before he’d even received that title, Foreign Correspondent focuses on a young American journalist, Johnny Jones (Joel McRae). Jones is assigned to the London desk from New York and while working on a story about a secret treaty agreement between two European countries on the eve of WWII, he ends up being hunted by Nazi spies.

The film has an excellent cast with a stand-out performance by George Sanders as Elliott, another reporter who ends up saving Jones time and time again due to his knowledge of the spy world. With a vivid assassination scene in the rain, a fight to the death in a windmill, and a breathtaking plane crash – especially for the 1940s movie-going audience – Hitchcock had made the first action-packed spy thriller that set the tone for the films that would follow in subsequent decades.

Top 10 Spy Films

9. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (2007) – Starring Matt Damon and Julia Stiles

The third entry in the Bourne series is arguably the best with Matt Damon really owning the role of the spy on the run who’s still trying to discover his real identity and how he became such a lethal killer. The Bourne Ultimatum also shows more of his past than any of the first two films and has the most thrilling chase-on-foot sequence, with Bourne trying to catch up to an assassin before he murders Nicky Parsons (Stiles). Stiles returns as Nicky, Bourne’s ally and travel companion as well as the love from his past.

The film boasts a stand-out cast that includes Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, and Albert Finney.

8. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER (1994) – Starring Harrison Ford and Willem Dafoe

The third film based on author Tom Clancy’s spy novels focuses on Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) being promoted to Deputy Director of the CIA after his boss, Admiral Greer (James Earl Jones), becomes terminally ill. When one of the President’s closest friends and his family are murdered by drug smugglers, the White House decides to begin a secret and illegal war against the drug cartels in Columbia without Congress or Ryan knowing.

Things get even more complicated for Ryan when, after a few months, the President and his advisers change their minds and decide to abruptly end the war, leaving the Special Ops team with no support and at the mercy of the enemy. It falls to Ryan to not only get proof and reveal the truth, but to risk both his career and his life to go down to Colombia, make contact with John Clark (Willem Dafoe), and find a way to save the rest of the Special Ops survivors/prisoners.

With tight pacing, a well-written script, two stand-out performances by both Ford and Dafoe as two men who don’t trust each other but have to learn to work together to save their men, Clear and Present Danger is a suspenseful, fast-paced and dramatic espionage film.

7. THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975) – Starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway

Joe Turner (Robert Redford) is a bookworm/researcher for the CIA who comes back from getting lunch for everyone to find all his co-workers assassinated. Shocked, scared, and out of his element, Condor (Turner’s code name) must struggle to avoid the hit team who are still hunting for him while attempting to figure out who ordered the hit and who he can trust inside the agency to bring him in from the cold.

With a stellar cast led by Redford and including Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, John Houseman, and Max von Sydow, plus an extremely strong script and excellent direction from Sydney Pollack, Three Days of the Condor is a realistic and suspenseful spy movie that captures the paranoia and fear of being disconnected and alone in the world of espionage.

Top 10 Spy Films

6. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990) – Starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin

In the mid-1980s, Russia’s best submarine captain, Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), violates his orders, takes the newest Russian sub off course, and heads to the United States. Is he trying to defect or launch a missile attack on his homeland? One CIA analyst, Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), who has studied the captain for years and actually met him realizes that Ramius is trying to defect. With the Russians telling the US Government Ramius is a rogue captain trying to start a war and hardly anyone except his boss believing his theory, Ryan is forced to go out into the middle of the hunt and try to find Ramius and make contact with him before it’s too late.

Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard), The Hunt for Red October is a thrilling action-packed sea adventure with a spy thrown in the middle of the action. Connery delivers a wonderful performance as Ramius, the cunning Soviet Captain who has had enough of communism and yearns for a new life in America.

A very young Alec Baldwin is solid as the CIA analyst who gets unwillingly promoted to agent to go and find Ramius and prove his theory before the Russians find him and sink him. The action scenes and the look of the submarines and ships are breathtaking, making The Hunt for Red October one of the best spy action films of all time.

5. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963) – Starring Sean Connery and Robert Shaw

James Bond 007 (Sean Connery) is on assignment to find and bring back to London a Russian decoding machine known as the Lektor. 007 needs to get to the machine before SPECTRE, the evil organization that’s also after the Lektor, gets to it first. What Bond doesn’t know is that SPECTRE has created the opportunity for 007 to get close to the Lektor so that he will unknowingly steal it for them so they can kill him and sell the Lektor back to the Russians for a big price.

The second film in the Bond series is perhaps the closest to actual espionage of all the Bond films, being inspired by a real British Intelligence mission during WWII. Sean Connery is perfect as James Bond Agent 007, the best Her Majesty’s Secret Service has to offer. In this film, Connery shows both sides of his character: the suave, charming gentleman, and the precise, extremely effective killer who’s willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.

The fight on the Orient Express between Bond and SPECTRE’s number one assassin, Grant (Robert Shaw), is one of the best, most realistic fights in the film franchise.

Top 10 Spy Films

4. 13 RUE MADELEINE (1947) – Starring James Cagney and Richard Conte

Set during WWII, 13 Rue Madeleine tells the story of the OSS – the precursor to the CIA. Focusing on spy chief Bob Sharkey (James Cagney), the spy chief discovers while training his new agents to get ready for missions over in Europe that one of his agents, Bill O’Connell (Richard Conte), is really a Nazi spy trying to get information on the Allied invasion. Hoping to fool the Germans, Sharkey gives false information to the Nazi spy but, unfortunately, he realizes it and makes his way back to occupied France.

Knowing every agent who trained with O’Connell is in jeopardy while O’Connell is still alive, Sharkey heads to occupied France to both complete the original mission of finding a secret V-2 rocket depot and find and kill O’Connell.

Shot in documentary style and telling the origin of the real OSS and how they both selected and trained their agents, 13 Rue Madeleine is the most realistic spy movie ever made. In fact, it was so realistic and accurate the real OSS chief “Wild Bill” Donovan objected to both showing a traitor in the OSS ranks and Cagney’s character being too similar to himself. Thus the OSS in the film was changed to 077 and Cagney’s character was revamped to not be so close to Donovan.

It’s a tight, riveting war thriller that captures the dangers and sacrifices these agents made for their country during the war.

3. ARGO (2012) – Starring Ben Affleck and Bryan Cranston

On November 4, 1979, the Iranian revolution escalated as militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 American hostages. During the chaos, six Americans escaped and found temporary refuge in the home of the Canadian Ambassador. The White House, along with the CIA, knows it’s only a matter of time before the revolutionaries find the six and most likely execute them, so they reluctantly greenlight Tony Mendez’s risky plan to get them out. Mendez (Ben Affleck), along with his contact and friend in the movie business, make-up artist John Chambers (John Goodman), set out to create the most outrageous cover story in spy history: that Mendez and the six Americans are a Canadian film crew scouting countries for a new science fiction movie.

In order to sell the cover story and make it seem real to the world, Chambers and Mendez have to convince a big Hollywood producer, Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin), to help them by putting his name on the fake film which is now complete with a real script, storyboards, and a publicity campaign. With everything in place, Mendez heads off to Iran with the forged papers, passports, credentials, and script. His goal: to meet up with the six Americans and try to get them through the Iranian rebels and on a plane headed to home.

Based on a true story and directed by Affleck, Argo is a suspenseful, dramatic, historical thriller that had audiences on the edge of their seats up to the very end. This is a riveting film that’s flawlessly directed by Affleck, who captures the look, tension, feel, and emotions of the 1979 Iran revolution perfectly.

Argo is full of stunning performances, including a wonderful stand-out performance by Alan Arkin as the big-time movie producer who, without his help, the rescue cover story would never have gotten off the ground. He adds humor and a real sense of morals to a compelling film. Bryan Cranston delivers one of his best performances as Jack O’Donnell, Mendez’s boss who goes above and beyond trying to protect and cover his friend and colleague when things quickly begin to unravel.

2. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) – Starring Cary Grant and Eve Marie Saint

Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), a New York advertising executive, finds himself mixed up with foreign spies when he’s mistaken for a government agent named George Kaplan and is chased across the country by both the spy organization trying to kill him and the police who believe he committed a murder. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest is the crowning masterpiece of all the spy films Hitchcock made.

Cary Grant is perfectly cast as the charming Thornhill who gets thrust into the spy world and struggles to both stay alive and clear his name. Eve Marie Saint gives a flawless performance as Eve Kendall, the beautiful and mysterious woman who will either be Thornhill’s salvation or undoing. Both Grant and Saint have wonderful chemistry together.

James Mason is a gentleman’s villain in the film as the head of the foreign spy ring, and the scenes in which he and Cary Grant play off each other are some of the best in the film. Plus, the classic and exciting chase on top of the Washington Monument in the climax of the film is pure cinematic magic.

Top 10 Spy Films

1. GOLDFINGER (1964) – Starring Sean Connery and Gert Frobe

Bond (Sean Connery) is back to investigate international jeweler Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) who’s suspected of illegally smuggling gold from country to country. 007 soon discovers he’s dealing with a master criminal who plans on raiding Fort Knox to obliterate the world’s economy and increase the value of his gold 10 times over.

The quintessential Bond film, Goldfinger sets the structure and tone for almost all the Bond films to follow. It has it all: a villain who is smarter than Bond, a beautiful and dangerous woman; and gadgets, including the most popular and best-known 007 car, the Aston Martin DB5, which includes machine guns, bulletproof windows, rear bullet deflector, and a passenger ejector seat. The action scenes are first-rate, in particular the battle at Fort Knox and the final showdown between Bond and Goldfinger on board a small private jet plane. No spy film to date has been able to surpass this classic 007 adventure.




Ed Sheeran is…Reluctantly…Little Orphan Annie

NBC’s plans for a Peter Pan musical with a female, Girls‘ Allison Williams, in the lead has led to – according to Jimmy Kimmel – ABC planning a live musical production of Annie with a male taking on the title role. In the lead will be none other than Grammy nominee Ed Sheeran and in this video from Jimmy Kimmel Live, Sheeran shows just how excited he is to be asked to play Little Orphan Annie.


Amazon Debuts Pilot Season #3

Amazon Debuts Third Pilot Season

US and UK customers of Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service can now view five new pilots: The Cosmopolitans, Really, Red Oaks, Hand of God, and Hysteria. The pilots are currently streaming for customers to check out and vote on to determine which, if any, of the season three pilots will be made into Amazon Original Series.

The creative minds behind this batch of pilots includes Shaun Cassidy, Jay Chandrasekhar, Marc Forster, David Gordon Green, Steven Soderbergh, and Whit Stillman.

“We’re delighted to bring Amazon customers the work of these passionate and talented creators and are excited to get customer feedback,” said Roy Price, Director of Amazon Studios. “It’s an exciting time at Prime Instant Video, with new, original shows coming to the service every month for the rest of the year.”

Amazon’s Third Season Pilots:

The Cosmopolitans

Written, directed and produced by Academy Award nominee Whit Stillman, The Cosmopolitans follows a group of young American expatriates in contemporary Paris searching for love and friendship in a foreign city. The romantic comedy pilot stars Adam Brody as Jimmy, Chloë Sevigny as Vicky, Carrie MacLemore as Aubrey, Dree Hemingway as Camille, Freddy Åsblom as Fritz, Jordan Rountree as Hal, and Adriano Giannini as Sandro. The pilot was filmed on location in Paris.

Hand of God


Marking the television debut of renowned filmmaker Marc Forster and written by Ben Watkins, Hand of God stars Golden Globe winner Ron Perlman in his first lead television role since Sons of Anarchy as Judge Pernell Harris. Hand of God also stars Dana Delany as the Judge’s protective wife Crystal Harris, Garret Dillahunt as KD, the born-again sociopath whose violent tendencies are exploited by Pernell, Andre Royo as the slick, smart, gregarious, and greedy mayor Robert ‘Bobo’ Boston, Alona Tal as Pernell’s grieving daughter-in-law Jocelyn Harris, Julian Morris as the questionable preacher Paul Curtis, Elizabeth McLaughlin as the preacher’s sultry girlfriend Alicia, and Emayatzy Corinealdi as Pernell’s call girl and confidante Tessie. The show centers on the powerful Judge Harris, a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side, who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart. With no real evidence to go on, Pernell begins to rely on “visions” and “messages” he believes are being sent by God through Pernell’s ventilator-bound son.

Hysteria

Hysteria takes viewers to Austin, Texas where social connection has become contagious. In the pilot, members of a girls’ competitive dance team are stricken with a strange, psycho-physiological illness that manifests itself in violent fits and spasms and then begins spreading in the community through technology. Neurologist Logan Harlen (played by Mena Suvari) returns to her hometown to investigate the cause. Fighting her own demons and the growing manipulation of a brother on death row, Logan develops an uneasy suspicion that the hysteria surrounding the girls might actually be linked to social media and her own tragic past.

Hysteria is written by Shaun Cassidy, who is known for genre thrillers such as Invasion and American Gothic, and directed by Otto Bathurst, who won the BAFTA Award for his work on the critically-acclaimed U.K. mini-series Peaky Blinders. The show also stars James McDaniel as Carl Sapsi, Josh Stewart as Ray Ratajeck, Adan Canto as Matt Sanchez, Laura San Giacomo as Grace Pelayo and T.R. Knight as Carter Harlen. The show is written by Cassidy, who is also Executive Producer alongside Adam Schroeder, Sharon Hall, Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Bryan Zuriff, and Bathurst.

Really

Written, directed and starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Really is a funny, extremely, honest behind-the-curtain look at the complexities of marriage and the charged dynamics of a tight-knit group of friends. The show is about four hard-charging suburban Chicago couples trying to grasp on-to their dwindling youth. At the center are the happily but messily married couple Jed, played by Chandrasekhar, and Lori, played by Sarah Chalke. When Jed is faced with the choice of keeping his pal’s secret or destroying his friend group, he winds up digging himself into a very deep hole. Really explores marriage, friendship and the stifling peculiarities of suburban Chicago life. The pilot also stars Selma Blair, Travis Schuldt, Hayes MacArthur, Collette Wolfe, Luka Jones, Lindsay Sloane and Rob Delaney.

Red Oaks

Directed by Sundance award-winner David Gordon Green and executive produced by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh, Red Oaks stars Craig Roberts as David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985, who is both reeling from his father’s heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named Skye (played by guest star Alexandra Socha) and her corporate raider father Getty played by Paul Reiser. A coming-of-age comedy set in the “go-go” 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt, Red Oaks is about enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end—and the future begins.

Red Oaks also stars Jennifer Grey as Judy Myers, Richard Kind as Sam Myers, Oliver Cooper as Wheeler, Gage Golightly as Karen, and Ennis Esmer as Nash.

-By Rebecca Murray

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The Buzz Continues to Build on ‘Foxcatcher’

Sony Pictures Classics has launched a new teaser trailer for the much-anticipated dramatic film Foxcatcher starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. Heading to theaters on November 14, 2014, Foxcatcher is based on a true story and was directed by Oscar nominee Bennett Miller (Capote). The cast also features Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller and Anthony Michael Hall.

The Plot:

Based on true events, Foxcatcher tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.

When Olympic Gold Medal winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is invited by wealthy heir John du Pont (Steve Carell) to move on to the du Pont estate and help form a team to train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics at his new state-of-the-art training facility, Schultz jumps at the opportunity, hoping to focus on his training and finally step out of the shadow of his revered brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Driven by hidden needs, du Pont sees backing Schultz’s bid for Gold and the chance to “coach” a world-class wrestling team as an opportunity to gain the elusive respect of his peers and, more importantly, his disapproving mother (Vanessa Redgrave).

Flattered by the attention and entranced by du Pont’s majestic world, Mark comes to see his benefactor as a father figure and grows increasingly dependent on him for approval. Though initially supportive, du Pont’s mercurial personality turns and he begins to lure Mark into an unhealthy lifestyle that threatens to undermine his training. Soon du Pont’s erratic behavior and cruel psychological game-play begin to erode the athlete’s already shaky self-esteem. Meanwhile du Pont becomes fixated on Dave, who exudes the confidence both he and Mark lack, knowing that these are things even his money cannot buy. Fueled by du Pont’s increasing paranoia and alienation from the brothers, the trio is propelled towards a tragedy no one could have foreseen.

Foxcatcher New Teaser Trailer
Channing Tatum as Mark Schultz and Mark Ruffalo as Dave Schultz in ‘Foxcatcher’ (Photo by Scott Garfield, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

-By Rebecca Murray

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Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Offers Up a New Trailer

Jon Stewart took time off from The Daily Show to make his directorial debut with Rosewater, and now the first audiences will have the opportunity to check out his rookie effort when the film premieres today at the Telluride Film Festival. For those not able to make it to the festival, a brand new trailer has made its way online featuring Gael García Bernal. The cast also includes Kim Bodnia, Haluk Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, and Claire Foy.

Rosewater will get its theatrical release beginning on November 7, 2014.

The Plot:

Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Mousavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed, Bahari endured personal risk by sending footage of the street riots to the BBC. Bahari was arrested by police, led by a man identifying himself only as “Rosewater,” who tortured and interrogated him over the next 118 days.

With Bahari’s wife leading an international campaign to have her husband freed, and Western media outlets keeping the story alive, Iranian authorities released Bahari on $300,000 bail and the promise he would act as a spy for the government.

Rosewater New Poster and Trailer
Gael Garcia Bernal in ‘Rosewater’

-By Rebecca Murray

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‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ Poster

American Horror Story: Freak Show Poster
Poster art for ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ (Credit: FX)

FX’s revealed the poster for this season of American Horror Story titled American Horror Story: Freak Show. The poster’s the first real official look at the new characters who’ll be introduced when the series premieres on October 8, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT.

The Plot:

American Horror Story: Freak Show begins its tale in the quiet, sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida. The year is 1952. A troupe of curiosities has just arrived to town, coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike. This is the story of the performers and their desperate journey of survival amidst the dying world of the American carny experience.

‘The Amazing Race’ Season 25 Contestants Include Surfer Bethany Hamilton

Amazing Race Season 25 Contestants
Top Row, Dennis and Isabelle, Keith and Whitney, Misti and Jim, Amy and Maya, Michael and Scott, Brooke and Robbie; Bottom Row, L-R: Adam and Bethany, Shelley and Nici, Kym and Alli, Tim and Te Jay, and Lisa and Michelle (Photo: John Paul Filo/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved)

The 25th season of CBS’ The Amazing Race will once again pit 11 teams against each other in a race around the globe with $1 million at stake. Season 25 kicks off on Friday, September 26, 2014 at 8pm ET/PT with Phil Keoghan back as host and professional surfer Bethany Hamilton, wrestler Robbie E. Strauss, and a team of Boston firefighters competing for a shot at being crowned the Amazing Race winner.


To shake things up, this season will introduce a new twist called ‘The Save.’ The team that finishes first during the first leg of the competition will receive a pass that allows them to save themselves if they come in last on an elimination leg.

Among the stops on this season’s The Amazing Race are the very first visit by the show to St. Thomas, Malta. The competitors will also head to Scotland to test out their sheep-herding skills.

The Amazing Race Season 25 Teams

Name: Adam Dirks
Age: 26
Hometown: Princeville, Hawaii
Connection to teammate: Married

Name: Bethany Hamilton
Age: 24
Hometown: Princeville, Hawaii
Connection to teammate: Married
Follow on Twitter: @bethanyhamilton
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Name: Maya Warren
Age: 29
Hometown: Madison, Wic.
Connection to teammate: Food scientist and friend/co-worker
Follow on Twitter: @MayaWarren

Name: Amy DeJong
Age: 24
Hometown: Madison, Wisc.
Connection to teammate: Food scientist and friend/co-worker
Follow on Twitter: @AmyEDeJong
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Name: Dennis Hour
Age: 30
Hometown: Tustin, Calif.
Connection to teammate: Dating
Follow on Twitter: @DennisHour

Name: Isabelle Du
Age: 28
Hometown: Tustin, Calif.
Connection to teammate: Dating
Follow on Twitter: @isabelledu
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Name: Brooke Adams
Age: 29
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Connection to teammate: Dating
Follow on Twitter: @realbrookeadams

Name: Robbie E. Strauss
Age: 30
Hometown: Woodbridge, N.J.
Connection to teammate: Dating
Follow on Twitter: @robbieeimpact
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Name: Whitney Duncan
Age: 29
Hometown: Nashville, Tenn.
Connection to teammate: Engaged
Follow on twitter: @whitneyduncan

Name: Keith Tollefson
Age: 29
Hometown: Nashville, Tenn.
Connection to teammate: Engaged
Follow on twitter: @keithtollefson
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Name: Kym Perfetto
Age: 30
Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Connection to teammate: Friends
Follow on twitter: @kymnonstop

Name: Alli Forsythe
Age: 26
Hometown: New York
Connection to teammate: Friends
Follow on Twitter: @alliforsythe
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Name: Lisa Thomson
Age: 28
Hometown: Miami Beach, Fla.
Connection to teammate: Sisters
Follow on Twitter: @LisaAThomson

Name: Michelle Thomson
Age: 22
Hometown: Miami, Fla.
Connection to teammate: Sisters
Follow on Twitter: @IsellMiami
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Name: Michael Ward
Age: 40
Hometown: Boston, Mass.
Connection to teammate: Friend and fellow firefighter

Name: Scott Strazzullo
Age: 39
Hometown: Boston, Mass.
Connection to teammate: Friend and fellow firefighter
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Name: Misti Raman
Age: 36
Hometown: Columbia, S.C.
Connection to teammate: Married

Name: Jim Raman
Age: 37
Hometown: Columbia, S.C.
Connection to teammate: Married
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Name: Shelley Porter
Age: 42
Hometown: Detroit, Mich.
Connection to teammate: Mother

Name: Nici Porter
Age: 24
Hometown: Detroit, Mich.
Connection to teammate: Daughter
Follow on Twitter: @PrettyEyesRTB
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Name: Timothy Tsao
Age: 23
Hometown: Pasadena, Calif.
Connection to teammate: Dating
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Name: Te Jay McGrath
Age: 24
Hometown: Pasadena, Calif.
Connection to teammate: Dating

Jimmy Kimmel Makes ‘Friends’ with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow

Jimmy Kimmel had Jennifer Aniston on his show to promote Life of Crime and given that he’s a fan of Friends, Kimmel told her he’d written a little fan fiction in which he was Ross. He even had Rachel and Monica’s apartment recreated, complete with the picture frame around the peephole.

Kimmel’s fan fiction’s was all about Ross’ talents in bed, and even Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow were recruited to read from Kimmel’s script. Unfortunately, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, and Matt LeBlanc were nowhere to be seen. Apparently Marcel – you remember Marcel the monkey, right? – had something to do with their demise.

Jimmy Kimmel, Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, and Lisa Kudrow do Friends Scene
Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Jimmy Kimmel and Courteney Cox (ABC/Randy Holmes)

-By Rebecca Murray

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