The legendary Patty Duke guest stars tonight at 9p on Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva as a woman who needs Jane to defend her. Duke plays Rita, a woman who was fired from her job and loses her pension after she took down a shoplifter. At first Jane thinks it is an open and shut case, but this wasn’t her first or tenth wrongdoing at the store. The manager supplies video of her telling customers the products there are basically crap, so Jane feels that her case is lost. Will Jane be able to get Rita her pension back or will she lose the case? Tune in for this funny episode that shows a different side of Miss Patty Duke.
Earlier this week I was lucky enough and honored to be on a conference call with one of the greatest actresses of our time and she talked to us about her role on Drop Dead Diva and what’s next for her.
Miss Duke told us she loves to work and she especially loved working on the show. She said, “I tell you, I had not had that kind of fun on a set in I don’t know, maybe 40 years. I mean, the people were so just gracious and kind first of all and Brooke, on my lord, the first day that we worked she had about six single-spaced pages to say and I was the defendant and I was sitting there on my hands doing nothing while this woman is struggling to get through six pages. She’s brilliant. She’s very loving and honest to God, I was just thrilled to have the opportunity. You know, at my age we don’t work all that often and I’m a workaholic so I’ve been in withdrawal for quite some time now.”
When she was asked how much she is like her spunky character on the dramedy she said, “I think there’s quite a bit. I was going to say not much at all but I just realized that yes, there’s a lot of me in Rita. I don’t know that I would be as bold as Rita under the same circumstances. I had to go way inside and find that kind of brass.”
Duke is not the only legend on the show tonight, Rhoda’s Valerie Harper plays a judge on the show also tonight. I had to know from her what it was like to have two such wonderful actresses in one episode. She said, “It was such fun. You know, we were never together. She was on the bench and I was at the events table but at the coffee table, we had a ball but I really felt the mile marker that we were at least in the same space doing what we do. She was so funny.” Both of them are so funny on this episode, that you have to tune in to see them acting together.
And she told us, there is a funny role she is dying to play, “I would like to – truthfully – I would feel that I’d died and went to heaven if I could get the part of Memaw on The Big Bang Theory.” So let’s get her that role.
Whether she gets that role or not, she has another one lined up. She let us know she is going back to the stage in a role she has wait forever to play. She revealed to us, “The timing is only perfect. All my life I have wanted to play Mary Lincoln. I have missed every production that was done because somebody else did it. I am now a year away or a year in the process of getting ready to play Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. First we’ll play it in the museum in Illinois and then – are you ready for this – at the Ford Theater.”
So now we know how much fun she has on DDD, how much fun she would have playing on TBBT and how excited she is for her next role. This was my favorite thing she told us on the call, “I’m a giggler, I’m a giggler, yes.” So be prepared to giggle like her when you watch her on Drop Dead Diva tonight.
Rock of Ages is out in theaters now, so you better get your ’80s and run out to see this rockin’ movie now.
Now I have to admit when I heard that Adam Shankman was directing this movie, I didn’t want to see it because I got so sick of him on So You Think You Can Dance. Then when I heard that Tom Cruise was going to play Stacee Jaxx, I said no way you could get me to the musical because I hated him The Firm, Born on the Fourth of July and Vanilla Sky thus swearing off of his movies. But I put my hatred aside and boy I am glad I did it because I freaking loved this film. In fact I will go on record and say that Cruise was born to play this role. I would be surprised if he didn’t get an Oscar nom for playing the troublesome rocker legend because he is just that amazing in it.
But he is only one of part of the movie and the rest of the cast also does an extraordinary job bringing hair metal to the big screen. Sherrie Christian (Julianne Hough) is moving from Tulsa, OK to Hollywood to make it as a singer. On her first day there, she is mugged and Drew Boley (Diego Boneta) helps her, and it is love at first sight for both of them. Seeing that everything she has is gone, he tells her he get could her job at the bar he works at. The Bourbon Room is owned by Dennis Dupree (Alec Baldwin) who doesn’t want to hire another singer wannabe, but his right-hand man, Lonny Barnett (Russell Brand) convinces him to employee her since they are down a worker and they have a big show the next night. The biggest rock star of 1987 Stacee Jaxx is playing his last gig with Arsenal there before he goes solo. Only thing he is very temperamental and no one knows if he will actually do it. Even his manager (Paul Giamatti) doubts he can get his star there on time and he needs to because he scheduled a huge interview with Rolling Stone. Constance Sack (Malin Ackerman) is the unfortunate reporter who will have to interview the man who keeps all of his words for his music and he will make their interview very difficult. Dupree’s problem isn’t only if Stacee Jaxx will be there, but he also has the Mayor’s uptight wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) protesting the concert and she wants to shut the club down. Her goal isn’t that hard to do because Dupree desperately needs the money from Jaxx’s show to keep the club open. So now you know the first act of this movie musical, you have to go to see the film to see how that night changes everything for everyone in the second act.
That and it is so bitchin’ to hear the music of Journey, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Night Ranger, Twisted Sister, Pat Benatar, Foriegner, Poison and many more tell the story of Rock of Ages.
When it comes to the acting Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand are perfect as to the Ying to his Yang, the Laurel to his Hardy and the Richie Sambora to his Jon Bon Jovi. You will love them as much as they love each other. Who knew that Zeta-Jones could play such an uptight bitch with a secret you will never see coming. Ackerman wins you over as the reporter with a tough assignment. And Hough and Boneta nail the part of young lovers who are struggling to make it in Hollywood as they try to make their relationship work. But the biggest star of this film is Stacee Jaxx’s partner Hey Man. Hey Man is a monkey, who steals every scene in movie that perfectly captures the era.
So what are you doing still reading this, why haven’t you gone out to see Rock of Ages already. I promise you will love it so much, you will buy some hairspray after the movie to make your hair just like the musicians in the movie and there is a reason why we don’t our hair like that anymore.
Tonight at 8p Lifetime revisits Blue Lagoon. Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a modern day version of the 1980 classic, but original enough it is its own story.
High school students Dean and Emma (Brenton Thwaites and Indiana Evans) are on a school trip in Trinidad when a storm jeopardizes everything. The boat they are on is having a very bumpy ride and Emma is thrown off. Dean is the only one who can hear her, so he jumps into the water to save her but doesn’t tell anyone before he does it. After he rescues her, the two find safety in a dingy. The bad boy is afraid he will get in trouble, so he cuts it from the boat thinking they can just follow it back to their destination. Instead they get lost at sea, until Emma finds a remote island. Meanwhile their classmates won’t realize they are missing until the next morning, but at that point the two lost kids are too far away to be found. Their families will spend the next few weeks looking for them, but after a month all hope is lost. Dean and Emma never give up hope they will be found. Now the months are passing by and still no one has found them. Will they ever get home or will they be trapped on this beautiful island forever? You will have to tune in to find out in this romantic version of the sexy film.
For almost a year Jimmy Kimmel has tortured kids by having their parents tell them they ate all their Halloween candy and then before Christmas he told parents to give kids a special present that was anything but.
Well yesterday on Jimmy Kimmel Live’s NBA special the ABC late night host did another funny bit with kids and this time they one upped him. In this one, he brought in a 7 year old boy and asked him questions as he was strapped to lie detector test. The detecting hat was obviously a fake, but it was real enough to get the cutie to change some of his answers. But the best part comes at the end when Kimmel asks the tyke if he ever uses any bad words. The kid at first says no, but when the hat makes the annoying sound he says “a little”. So Kimmel asks him what is favorite bad word. The awwwdorable kid doesn’t miss beat and says something that is bleeped and stuff. I guess Jimmy wasn’t expecting that answer because he lost it and couldn’t continue on with the bit. So it is Kids 1, Kimmel 2.
Now when it comes to the bad word, let’s just say that it is what Kimmel did Ben Affleck and Sarah Silverman did Matt Damon.
Now back to the little boy could he be any cuter?
