Merry
Christmas ! |
12/24/2004
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Santa
Barbara : le site Francais wishes to all of you a Merry Christmas and
in advance a happy new year 2005 !
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The
news of the
soap-opera world in France |
12/17/2004
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It
is already the end for Guiding Light on France 3 ! The soap
will have last only a little more than three month before disappearing
with the Christmas holidays. The new soaps have really hard time to
settle in France. We remember the cancelation of All my Children
after only a week on TF1 (see the News
of April 2003),
but also the one of Passions a few months before. Guiding
Light will be replaced by a new airing of Dallas
dating from January 03.
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In
theatres |
12/12/2004
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This
December 17, two movies must retain your attention if you stay in the
United States. First the satirical movie The Untitled Onion Movie,
with Michael Brainard (ex-Ted Capwell) and Tom Wright (ex-Vic Boswell)
(see the News
of July).
Besides Tom has recently finished the shooting of two other films, A Year and a Day
and Chasing Ghosts, which release is planned for 2005.
The other release of this December 17, it is Spanglish, a
romantic comedy by James L. Brooks, with Téa Leoni Duchovny (ex-Lisa
DiNapoli) and Adam Sandler. Téa plays there Deborah Clasky, a rich woman
who welcomes a mexican housekeeper and her daughter. Besides Téa is
currently filming : in Fun with Dick and Jane, she is Jim
Carrey's wife, begun a robber in spite of her.
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On
screens |
11/18/2004
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Two
screens to watch over this month in the United States : those of theatres
and television. It is first the release of Shopgirl,
the last movie of Bridgette Wilson-Sampras (ex-Lisa Fenimore), a comedy
written by the comic actor Steve Martin. However Bridgette makes only a
short apparition in it. To watch also for on Sunday 21 the airing on
the network CBS of the TV movie Back When we Were Grownups,
which reunites Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda, Jack Palance and... Stacy
Edwards (ex-Hayley Benson). Stacy plays there Biddy, one of the daughters
of a very atypical family.
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Robin
Mattson leaves the hospital |
11/03/2004
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On
November 04, Robin Mattson will say good-bye for the second time of her
career to the character of Heather Grant Webber, that she played two times
in the soap General Hospital. Last June, the ex-Gina of Santa Barbara
rejoined Nancy Lee Grahn and
Jed Allan in the famous show, taking again at this occasion the interpretation
of the character she had already played at the beginning of the Eighties (see
the
News
of June). But
even if her character has marked many minds (Imagine Robin becoming for
the occasion the mistress of the character played by Jed Allan !), her
contract has not been renewed for a sixth month. We wish to Robin to
rapidly reappear on our screens...
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In
theatres |
10/20/2004
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Joe
Marinelli (ex-Bunny Tagliatti) is in this end of month in the theatre
rooms on the both sides of the Atlantic. On October 20, he will star in Sideways
in the United States and on October 27 in The Assassination of Richard Nixon
in France. In the second movie based on true facts, Joe plays the
character of Mel Samuels, at the sides of Sean Penn, Mister Robin Wright
in town.
Grace Zabriskie (ex-Theda Bassett) will star on October 22 in the United
States in the horror film The Grudge, with Sarah Michelle
Gellar. The release date in France is planned for December 29. We are always waiting for knowing the release date of another film
she shot this year : The Last Letter, a juridical movie in
which she has the first part.
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Krista
Tesreau follows the guiding light |
10/20/2004
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Krista Tesreau
(ex-Andi Klein) is going to play again in November the character of Mindy
Lewis in the soap Guiding Light. An only temporary
come-back, the time of a few episodes. The actress played that part
between 1983 and 1989, before to make a brief appearance two years ago
(see the News
of October 2002).
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Marcy
Walker fired |
10/17/2004
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ABC
put a term to the contract which linked Marcy Walker to the soap All my Children : the actress
has been purely and simply fired (see the News
of July) !
The ex-Eden Capwell of Santa Barbara refused the
proposition made to her by the producers to appear only exceptionally in
the show and prefered to make her definitive byes to the soap. Marcy has
played the character of Liza Colby Chandler since 1995. In France, we are
besides always
unaware of an eventual come-back of this soap on TF1...
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In
theatres |
10/04/2004
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Bernard
White (ex-Angel Ramirez) is on the French theatres since September 22,
in the movie Land of Plenty (see the News
of May). In
the film by Wim Wenders rather pessimistic on the situation of the United
States, Bernard plays the character of Youssef.
Fans of Robert Fontaine, Jr. (ex-Rafe Castillo), learn to be
patient : the actor appears only the time of a few seconds in Mind the Gap,
released in the United States on September 24. He is even credited under
the simple name of "Hispanic man" !...
Loanne Bishop (ex-Rita Grant) makes her return on the big screens
in Spectres, a fantastic movie presented in premiere at the Shockerfest Film
Festival last September 25. While waiting for the official release date in
theatres.
Finally Stella Stevens (ex-Phyllis Blake) is Betty in Blessed,
a horror movie about a haunted house, which is presented this month at the
Screamfest Film Festival.
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