Want to feel old? This week The Brady Bunch’s Maureen McCormick turned 60 and her TV sister Susan Olsen turned 55. It gets better, Halle Berry turned 50 today. If that is what turning a half century looks like, then we all have something to look forward to. It is not like the old days when you were over the hill when you reached the golden milestone. Now, it is the new 30 and 30 never looked so good at 50!
Chesapeake Shores debuts at 9p on Hallmark Channel and it is a touching series that we have been longing for. We just did not know it until now.
Abby (Meghan Ory) is a very busy top financial analyst in a prestigious NYC investment firm. She is also divorced with twin daughters who are 8 years old. Because of her job, she does not have a lot of time for them and their nanny is raising them.
Then one day her younger sister Jess (Laci J. Mailey) calls her and begs her big sis to come back home to Chesapeake Shores. After much convincing, she packs up the girls for a long weekend trip to her beautiful home near Baltimore.
As soon as she gets her home her grandmother (Diane Ladd), who helped to raise her, greets at her the house. Then Jess comes out, but does not tell her big sister why she needed her to come home immediately. Then next day Abby finds out Jess bought a house to turn into a Bed & Breakfast, but it is falling apart and she is behind on payments. Jess asks her to help convince to the bank to give her an extension.
When they get to the bank, Abby sees her ex-fiancé’, who she left and never told him she was leaving for NYC. Even though Trace (Jesse Metcalfe) and her have their tension over that, you can tell that they still have a connection.
Another person Abby needs to connect to is her workaholic father (Treat Williams), who came back from a job in Boston to see his oldest daughter. The two of them love each other, but Abby still blames for causing her mom to leave and he was barely there when she was growing up.
Even though, she is getting close to her family again, it is time for her to go back to the city. Plans change when her grandmother suddenly collapses, and she decides to extend her trip.
The longer she stays in Chesapeake Shores, the more she thinks it would be better place for her to be now. Especially, since her nanny suddenly quit and ex-husband wants custody of the twins. Along with the fact that the head of the Baltimore office, offers her a job if she wants it.
Will she stay at her home with her family or go back to NYC to her job? You can assume from the title, she stays. Therefore, the series will follow her adjusting to being back home with her grandmother, her father, her two sisters and two brothers, her ex-boyfriend and most importantly her girls.
If the series is anything like the two-hour premiere tonight, I cannot wait to see the rest of the episodes. Chesapeake Shores is a show that is all heart, something that seems to missing from so many television shows these days. We all need a break from reality for a show that is all about the closeness of family being a family. Along with a cast that you can tell genuinely like each other, you would almost think that they are related. Something I think comes with working with Treat Williams, he brings a compassion that very few actors possess as much as he does. In addition, having Diane Ladd as the matriarch is the glue that keeps the whole cast connected.
Kevin Hart has some big news, Eniko Parrish and the actor finally got married yesterday in Montecito, Ca in front of 200 of their friends and family according to People. Josh Gad was not his Best Man, that honor went to Hart’s 8 year son Hendrix.
The two started dating in 2009 and got engaged almost 2 years ago on her 30th birthday.
Is it just me or does the above photo look like something you would see to promote a Soap Opera wedding coming up? Maybe it will be a very special episode of Real Husbands of Hollywood?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2p-tJpCWsg
Kenny Baker passed away today at the age of 81, just days before his 82nd birthday, according to StarWars.com. Baker starred in several movies including Time Bandits, The Elephant Man and Amadeus, but he was most famous for a role we didn’t see him in. He was the man behind R2-D2 in the first six Star Wars movies.
Even though he was only 3’8″, his heart was 7’tall. Today, remember the man who brought us so much joy by watching one of his many movies and beeping just like infamous character to keep his huge beautiful spirit alive.
Actors have voiced many different objects throughout the years, and Nick Kroll has done an item that is in a league of its own. He is voicing a douche in the movie Sausage Party. The only thing that could be worse than that is a tampon. What do you think would be worse?
I can think of something that could be worse, what if some toy company wants to sell action figures based on the characters in the movie that is out now. Oh wait, then I know what I would be giving my friends for Christmas this year, the Talking Douche.
Back to Kroll, can you imagine getting that phone call from Seth Rogen? Rogen is like, “Hey Nick, want to be douche?” Kroll would reply, “I thought, I already was one?” He isn’t, but I assume that would be his answer. Then Rogen would explain to him what the role is and what guy wouldn’t want to voice something that’s only purpose is to go into a woman’s vajayjay.
