Courteney Cox goes behind the camera tonight to tell the story of deadly online love triangle in Lifetime’s TalHotBlond. Thomas Montgomery (Garrett Hillahunt) decides to play online poker with some friends, but when a young woman invites him to a private chat his life will change forever. The happily married father of two will find himself falling for the high school student and will have an online affair with her for over a year. He tells her that he is teenage Marine who is going overseas to fight for our country and she decides to send him a care packages. One of those packages will be intercepted by his wife (Laura San Giacomo), who blows his cover and now the teen doesn’t want anything to do with him. TalHotBlond then starts an online affair with one Thomas’ coworkers who is much closer to her age and he can’t have that. He will do the unthinkable to stop the two from meeting. Once the only obstacle is out of his way, he will make a discovery no one will see coming. As interesting as this movie is, I just wish the movie would’ve focused more on the twist then the set up. Don’t get me wrong I was thoroughly engrossed in the movie, but the ending is what makes the real life story so much more shocking that you want to know more about it. So tune in for a movie that makes you wonder who is behind the instant messaging screen. That and to see Hillahunt do a brilliant job in a role that is nothing like the grandfather we watch every week on Raising Hope. He seriously blew me away.
If you are a fan of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva like I am, then you noticed that April Bowlby, who plays Stacy, looked different this Sunday. The actress changed up her look by cutting her long blonde hair up to her shoulders. When I saw her with her gorgeous new do, I wanted to know if it was a Felicity type situation. So I spoke with the actress and asked if it was her decision or the producers. She laughed as she said, “I cut my hair and then they had to work it in to the show.” But then she got more serious as she told me, “Honestly, I just kind of got tired of the same hairstyle. It has been four years now. I just thought that I needed a change and I feel like the character also needed a refresher.” She then added, “On our show we talk about fashion; and I feel like it was time to shake it up a little bit and get some cool hairstyle going on. I did it for the character and I also did it selfishy for me.” Sometimes being selfish works and this time it totally did. She looked amazing with the longer hair, but the long bob really frames her face and highlights her big eyes.
So how does she like her new shoulder length hairstyle? She gushed as she said, “I love that it takes a few seconds to get out the door. I think that short hair is awesome because you don’t really have to do it. It looks fine fumpled and messed up.” Talking about her old hair she explained, “With long hair you have to blow that out. It needs to look good or be pulled back, like there is nothing in between. I’m not the type of girl who does my hair, so short hair definitely works better for me.” And she is definitely working it on Drop Dead Dive.
Now you want to know a little secret about the color of her hair? When April played Khandi on Two and a Half Men she was red head, and now on the Lifetime Dramedy she is a blonde. So what is her natural hair color? She let me know she was born mousey brunette. No matter what shade of Charlie’s Angles hair color she has, she will always look fantastic.
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.
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.
Lifetime has released a new photo of Lindsay Lohan as Dame Elizabeth Taylor and she is red hot. No matter how Liz and Dick turns out, I think she keep her hair this color and cut it short. Doesn’t she look better like the legend than she does her normal self?
