Singer, Actress Kaye Stevens Dies in Florida

THE Cities, Fla. (AP) Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who completed while using Rat Pack and will be a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," has died inside a central Florida hospital. She was 79.Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday within the Cities Hospital north of Orlando undertaking a battle with breast cancers and thrombus.Stevens, a longtime Florida resident, completed with Rat Pack people including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior. and Joey Bishop. She also sang solo at venues like Caesar's Structure in Las vegas as well as the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room in NY City.Through the Vietnam War era, Stevens completed for American soldiers inside the battleground with Bob Hope's USO tour.With different handout from friend Rhonda Glenn, Stevens was produced Catherine Louise Stephens in Pittsburgh. Her family eventually gone after Cleveland, where a teenage Stevens got her start just like a drummer and singer. She later married now deceased bandleader and trumpet player Tommy Amato, as well as the couple completed with the eastern U.S.Within a gig in Nj, Stevens was discovered by Erection dysfunction McMahon, Carson's longtime partner, which introduced to new bookings. Her large break came when she was playing a lounge within the Riviera Hotel in Las vegas. Darlene Reynolds increased being ill and was unable to do however room. Stevens completed and was an instantaneous hit.Besides singing, Stevens also socialized in film and television. She came out in six movies, producing a Golden Globe nomination in 1964 for "The Completely New Interns." She will be a regular celebrity player on game shows and came out just like a regular on "Occasions in our Method Of LifeInch from 1974-79.Throughout yesteryear 20 years, Stevens started her ministry and began undertaking only Christian and loyal music. She staged good stuff about improve St. Vincent Catholic Chapel in their longtime home of Margate, Fla., where city government bodies named a park in their recognition.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. THE Cities, Fla. (AP) Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who completed while using Rat Pack and will be a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show," has died inside a central Florida hospital. She was 79.Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday within the Cities Hospital north of Orlando undertaking a battle with breast cancers and thrombus.Stevens, a longtime Florida resident, completed with Rat Pack people including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior. and Joey Bishop. She also sang solo at venues like Caesar's Structure in Las vegas as well as the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room in NY City.Through the Vietnam War era, Stevens completed for American soldiers inside the battleground with Bob Hope's USO tour.With different handout from friend Rhonda Glenn, Stevens was produced Catherine Louise Stephens in Pittsburgh. Her family eventually gone after Cleveland, where a teenage Stevens got her start just like a drummer and singer. She later married now deceased bandleader and trumpet player Tommy Amato, as well as the couple completed with the eastern U.S.Within a gig in Nj, Stevens was discovered by Erection dysfunction McMahon, Carson's longtime partner, which introduced to new bookings. Her large break came when she was playing a lounge within the Riviera Hotel in Las vegas. Darlene Reynolds increased being ill and was unable to do inside the primary room. Stevens completed and was an instantaneous hit.Besides singing, Stevens also socialized in film and television. She came out in six movies, producing a Golden Globe nomination in 1964 for "The Completely New Interns." She will be a regular celebrity player on game shows and came out just like a regular on "Occasions in our Method Of LifeInch from 1974-79.Throughout yesteryear 20 years, Stevens started her ministry and began undertaking only Christian and loyal music. She staged good stuff about improve St. Vincent Catholic Chapel in their longtime home of Margate, Fla., where city government bodies named a park in their recognition.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Helmer's solid look at Solidarity

Andrzej Wajda's biopic 'Walesa,' about the man who brought Poland self-determination and helped bring down the Soviet Union, is based on the book by Janusz Glowacki. Andrzej Wajda likes to quote Lech Walesa when describing why he is making a film about his lifelong friend, who led Polish dockworkers in challenging the Soviet Union, eventually bringing on the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. "I don't want to," says Wajda, "but I must."Walesa used the line to describe his role in heading the historic Solidarity movement from the Gdansk pier. And if Wajda really doesn't want to take the project on, he's doing a remarkable job of hiding his regrets.The 85-year-old director, who has made more than 50 features, has just begun shooting "Walesa," adapting material from a book by Janusz Glowacki and focusing on the first 20 years following the rise of the civil rights movement known to Poles as Solidarnosc.The Polish media, which has been eagerly anticipating the project for years, is abuzz."My aim is to show Polish people the truth," says Wajda. "If it's accepted in the Western world, that's a bonus. But my aim is primarily here."Wajda has long been willing to take on subjects of historic proportions that other filmmakers shy away from. His 2009 feature, "Katyn," told the heartrending backstory to the most notorious massacre of Polish heroes in recent history -- the mass execution of the Polish army's elite officer corps who had moved east in 1940 to join the Soviets in battling the invading Nazis.The crime, covered up for decades, claimed Wajda's own father.His new film will show some a Lech Walesa they don't yet know, but will also surprise many who think they know all about the docks demonstrator-cum-president.The interrogations Walesa underwent while being held in prison following the riots of 1970 are just one example."You can divide the life of Lech Walesa into parts," Wajda says. "The first is when he was standing at the gates in Gdansk. The second part was when he cooperated with martial law."The helmer and mentor to students at the Wajda School of filmmaking in Warsaw believes that the young, naive Walesa's agreeing to meet with authorities was important because it provided him a platform for conveying the wishes of ordinary Poles."The third part was when he faced the authorities at a round table, and they were forced to make an accommodation to the working people."But, like many important figures in the pro-democracy movement around the former East bloc, Walesa's transition to political leader was hardly smooth."The moment he became president, people came out and said, 'Why is he the one to be president? Maybe I should be president. I am maybe better educated.'?"Wajda says Walesa should have gotten more in touch with the people standing behind him. He believes Poles' love of vigorous argument was also a factor that undermined Walesa's authority.That said, Walesa proved prescient in his ability to outmaneuver what was then the most omnipotent power in the region, the Soviet Union."There are some who have talent for politics like others have talent for filmmaking," Wajda says. "They see further into the future. Walesa's talent in politics was remarkable. So many people were saying what should we do? When I went to the shipyard where the negotiations were taking place, I approached him and said, "Are you sure you aren't going too far with this? Do you know what you're doing? What if the Russian tanks come?"He said, "There will be no tanks." And that's just how it ended. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com

Academy Awards 2012 Poster: Life, Camera, Action

Because even the Oscars need some marketing, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has released a new poster for the 84th annual Academy Awards. Present and accounted for: Oscar himself, and pictures from 'Casablanca,' 'Driving Miss Daisy,' 'The Sound of Music' and 'Gone With the Wind.' Not present: Billy Crystal. Sorry, Bill! [via Awards Daily] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook

Oscar Index: Enough About Bridesmaids, Already

Screw Christmas. Forget Hanukkah. To hell with New Year’s. There is only one holiday we celebrate in the dank, windowless labs of Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics, and that is Oscar Night. Thus the latest edition of Oscar Index, offering all the festive year-end joy you can possibly stand. Let’s get to it! [Click the graphs for full-size images.] The Leading 10: 1. The Artist 2. The Descendants 3. The Help 4. Hugo 5. Midnight in Paris 6. War Horse 7. Moneyball 8. The Tree of Life 9. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 10. Bridesmaids Outsiders: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Ides of March; Drive; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; My Week With Marilyn; Margin Call; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 First things first: As usual, the Oscar Index reflects buzz and chatter among the awards cognoscenti. But honestly?_Bridesmaids_ is not going to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. OK? It is not going to happen. The only reality I take away from reading such suggestions at Gold Derby is that the likes of Tom O’Neil, Dave Karger, Peter Travers and a handful of others claiming to be that site’s “Oscar experts” are in fact garden-variety lushes on their 146th glass of egg nog at the office holiday party. Back away! Yes, it drew a Best Picture - Musical Comedy nomination at the Golden Globes — because that’s what the Musical/Comedy category is for. Bridesmaids is a very funny and successful (if overlong, but hey) film, and this is the Golden Globes. It is not the Academy Awards, where it would face the likes of The Tree of Life, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close(which we’ll get to in a second) and even The Ides of Freaking Golden Globe-Hustling March in the scramble for a Best Picture Oscar nod. Not to be a snob about it, either — the numbers don’t even add up! Let Steve Pond explain: It’ll take about 60 first-place votes (actually, closer to 50) to get through the first round. Even if it does that, it’ll need about 250 votes to get a nomination — and with a new system that severely limits the opportunities to move up if you don’t have the votes right away, those 250 votes are going to have to come from the #1 and occasionally #2 spots on the ballot. Even the people who like it don’t like it that much, it’s not gonna happen. Thank you! Anyway, you will no doubt hear many more rumblings of this sort emanating from the awards conversation in the weeks to come, and they’ll all dutifully echo the talking points found at places like The Carpetbagger (“In the coming weeks, as nominees for the Writers Guild and Producers Guild awards are announced, the volume of affection for Bridesmaids in Hollywood will be revealed…”), and culturally speaking, you’ll think, “Huh! What if?” But logically speaking — hell, mathematically speaking — there is only one appropriate response, one you will find yourself repeating and repeating throughout the bleary-eyed days to come: Give me a fucking break. Now that that’s out of the way, what are we to make of the true impact of last week’s Golden Globe Award nominations on this year’s Oscar race? It’s the ageless question, really, resulting in the equivalents of everything from ruminative chin-scratching to dismissive jerk-off motions. Honestly, as THR’s Scott Feinberg and I discussed in his podcast this week, there’s only so much you can slam the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. So what if they sold a table to recognized the team behind The Ides of March? The film is good! Why shouldn’t it wind up back in the mix, however compromised we consider its HFPA loyalties? Moreover, why shouldn’t we read the continued wide-scale oversights of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close — an 0-fer among both the SAG Award and Golden Globe nominations — as an indication of its stillbirth in the race? The campaign’s defensiveness is clear from the inside out; after all, less than two weeks ago we had producer Scott Rudin blowing off the awards-bait speculation as irrelevant (“It’s a movie, not a worm on the end of a hook,” he told the NYT). Then two days ago, not long after ELAIC’s less-than-optimal Academy screening (“[I] can’t see it advancing much if that’s the kind of reaction it’s getting from members,” one voter told Pond), along comes another NYT piece laying out just how ELAIC can backdoor its way into Best Picture contention with the minimum amount of time and votes. Never mind the intellectual dishonesty of it all; this the Oscars we’re talking about, not the Nobel Prize for Economics. Just take a moment to breathe in the panic as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and War Horse launch into the holiday-movie consciousness while the ELAIC crew still fiddles with their fuse. I mean, it’s almost Christmas, and we’re still talking about Bridesmaids, for Christ’s sake. Meanwhile, Moneyball enjoyed a slight boost, with more love for Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill nudging it just over Pitt’s other Best Picture hopeful The Tree of Life. Elsewhere, it also bore noting that no film since Braveheart has won a Best Picture Oscar without first earning a Best Ensemble nomination from the Screen Actors Guild. That’s not especially good news for Hugo, which nevertheless retains all the signs of a sure Academy nominee. But with The Help collecting seven total acting nominations between SAG and the HFPA, a momentum shift is afoot. And I know what you’re thinking, Team Bridesmaids — “But what about our ensemble nomination?” What about it? You’re drunk. Go pass out, already. You won’t remember any of this in 2012, and I promise not to remind you. The Leading 5: 1. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist 2. Alexander Payne, The Descendants 3. Martin Scorsese, Hugo 4. Steven Spielberg, War Horse 5. Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Outsiders: Bennett Miller, Moneyball; Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; David Fincher, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Tate Taylor, The Help; Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive Congrats to Miller for his first Index appearance of 2011-12, which, despite Allen’s redoubtable hold and the perennial lurking of Daldry and Fincher, I doubt will be the Moneyball filmmaker’s last. Other than that, this “race” is about as allergic to interesting as it’s been all year.

Baruchel rocks with 'Rebel'

VANCOUVER -- Jay Baruchel is placed to star in "The Digital rebel Kind," with different memoir by John Remedy, also known as Buck Cherry, frontman of eighties Vancouver-based band, "The Modernettes." Pic stories the emergence from the city's punk-rock scene using a effective band that throws within the towel, recognizing the deep price of going after superstardom. "The Digital rebel Kind" is going to be helmed by Reg Harkema ("Monkey Warfare," "Leslie, I'm Evil") that has also inked the script. Patrick Carroll, Andria Spring ("Donovan's Echo," "The Thaw") and Kevin Eastwood ("Fido," "Eco-Sailing: The Storyline of Paul Watson") are affixed to produce via Eastwood's Optic Nerve Films. Finances are around $5 million with a few financing from Telefilm, Movie Central and eOne shingle, Hidden Agenda. The pic will lense next fall in Vancouver. "Many people don't understand that Vancouver would be a huge hotbed of musical activity in early 80s," stated Eastwood, who spent seven years at Anagram Pictures being an in-house producer. "At that time, Vancouver was among the three axis points from the world -- there is London, NY -- after which there is Vancouver." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Take advantage of Lowe Ink Deal for Second Book

Jemal Countess/Getty Images A Croatian journalist's suit against Julia Roberts for allegedly stealing his book to produce her directorial debut won't hinder the December 23rd release ofIn the Land of Bloodstream and Honey.our editor recommendsAngelina Jolie Discloses Inspiration Behind Her Directorial Debut, 'In the Land of Bloodstream and Honey' (Video)Julia Roberts and 'Kung Fu Panda 2' Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson on Hollywood's Female Director Deficit, New 'Kung Fu Panda 3'Angelina Jolie Prosecuted For Copyright Violation Over New Film James Braddock, the complaintant, has withdrawn his motion for any temporary constraint order following the film's distributor impressed the judge with arguments about why the motion for temporary injunctive relief was defective. PHOTOS: THR Cover Tales With Julia Roberts, Christian Bale Braddock claims that Jolie's film infringes the copyright on his 2007 book, The Soul Breaking. Both works tell the storyplot of the female character who's jailed and susceptible to much abuse in war-torn Bosnia in early the nineteen nineties.Braddock alsoclaims he talked about his work at length using the film's Bosnian producer before Jolie's movie is made. A week ago, Braddock filed an ex parte motion for any temporary constraint order to avoid the film's release, which trigger the accused, including distributor FilmDistrict, to lodge an objection. COVER STORY: Julia Roberts and 'Kung Fu Panda 2' Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson on Hollywood's Female Director Deficit It had been noted that Braddock had symbolized he understood about the building of the film since early 2010. But rather than filing a suit in those days, Braddock had anxiously waited to file a lawsuit until a couple of mere days prior to the film's theatrical debut. U.S. District Judge Robert Dow, Junior. in Illinois stated inside a hearing a week ago that there have been valid concerns concerning the timing from the suit and recommended the late filing will be a consideration when analyzing stocks, harm and also the public interest. The judge also noted the complaintant hadn't yet proven that "immediate and permanent harm would result" in the film's release and hadn't yet shown the opposing parties have been observed. PHOTOS: 5 of Hollywood's Female Company directors to understand Braddock then under your own accord withdrew his motion for any TRO. Theoretically, Braddock could renew his push to have an injunction after treating a couple of procedural defects, but he likely won't, not minimal from the reasons being he'd need to publish a considerable bond just in case he eventually lost the suit. (The judge established that the complaintant had unsuccessful to go over that aspect too in the TRO motion.) But at this time, Braddock faces a much greater threat to his suit within the movie. Judge Dow has purchased the complaintant's lawyers to show inside a brief by tomorrow explaining why the situation should proceed in Illinois federal court once the link with the jurisdiction, based on the judge, "seems to become minimal, at best." The parties within the situation are located in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in addition to California, therefore the judge has established that he's leaning to towards moving the situation to some federal court within the Golden Condition. The transfer will be a small victory for Jolie and also the film's producers. It might permit them to fight the suit on home turf that recently continues to be dubious about these kinds of copyright violation claims. In most cases, litigants getting the suit happen to be purchased to pay for attorney's costs for that defense. For the time being, Braddock provides an internet site that discusses the debate. And Jolie has had the lawsuit in stride, stating that she's never browse the complaintant's book, that they required her inspiration from many sources, which the suit is "componen for that course. It takes place on nearly every film." E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Angelina Jolie's Top Ten Red-colored Carpet Looks Julia Roberts Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey

Happy 'New Year's' at Friday B.O.

Ashton Kutcher in 'New Year's Eve'The holidays is originating early for Warner Bros. this year as "New Year's Eve" needed first yesterday with $5.millions of in your area.Even though ensembler bowed just a little under anticipation -- by midday Friday, B.O. bloggers had "New Year's Eve" known as for your $7 million to $8 million range by getting a dent frame gathering inside the high teens or low twenties -- pic features a firm footing and may still win the weekend, if a bit more half way decent than initially anticipated.Fox's "The Sitter" needed second getting a $3.7 million gross Friday. The R-rated laffer is striving to learn as counterprogramming for the B.O.'s recent surge in family fare, and may likely land directly behind "New Year's Eve" just north of $tens of millions of through Sunday.After three Fridays (and three weekends) on top, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning -- The BeginningInch dropped to 3rd with $2.5 million, getting its Stateside cume to $254.millions of. Next, Disney's "The Muppets" released $1.7 million yesterday, and Paramount's "Hugo" made roughly $1.6 000 0000, getting their domestic cumes to $60.5 million and $29 million, correspondingly.Additionally a couple of days ago, Componen is bowing "Youthful Adult" while focusing is bowing "Mess Tailor Soldier Spy" inside a small quantity of areas while "Shame" and "The Descendants" expand their location counts heading into honours season. 2 days from the wide release, Fox is constantly screen sneaks of Cameron Crowe's "We Bought a Zoo" to be able to jumpstart audience interest. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Allison Janney on The Help, Her Mentor Paul Newman and Overindulging in Eggnog This Holiday Season

After approximately eighty roles in television and film, four Emmy awards, two Tony nominations and countless Kaiser Permanente ads, the inimitable Allison Janney has certainly earned her place among Hollywood’s best character actresses. In her most recent film, the Civil Rights-era comedy-drama The Help — Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel — the Ohio-bred thesp channeled her own mother to play the worrisome mama bear to Emma Stone’s boundary-pushing protagonist. In lesser hands, Charlotte Phelan could have been a thin character — a Southern woman more concerned with her daughter’s marital prospects than her happiness — but Janney summoned fear, humor and subtlety for a fully-fleshed and fully-flawed character who earns her personal growth. In celebration of The Help’s home-video release this week, the quadruple Emmy winner phoned Movieline to reminisce on her character’s cure for lesbianism, her one television role that changed lives and the time Paul Newman cast her in college — all while suffering a bit of a holiday-season hangover. You’ve been in so many films and television shows; do you ever just turn on the television and flip through five consecutive channels that are airing Allison Janney projects? No! I’ve never had that happen. I have seen that American Beauty or one of my movies is on but I’ve never seen them coincidentally on at the same time. That would be amazing. Do you stop and watch? No, I usually don’t, I have to tell you. I’m one of those actors who doesn’t like looking at themselves. Years after I can. I can look at Drop Dead Gorgeous now and say, “Oh my God! I know I was playing trailer trash but I didn’t look so bad.” I can look at American Beauty. I just need some time to transpire. That being said, if I do watch, it won’t be to watch myself. It’ll be to have all of those memories come back and to remember what it was like filming. That’s what lingers. The Help was based on a book, but did you base your character on anyone you know in real life? I think most of my characters have my mother’s sensibility in there. She’s someone who always inspires me and informs my characters because I think she is heartbreakingly funny. She doesn’t try to be funny but her commitment to the things she thinks are important sometimes [are funny]. When Charlotte tells [Emma Stone’s character] Skeeter that there is a root tea that could cure her if she is a lesbian. Those moments are just very fun for me to play. I love playing the tragically uninformed and stuck-in-their-ways types. I also related to Charlotte in that I have too much fear in my life. I’m afraid of change. That’s how I really got into her character — because I knew what it’s like to not want anything to change. That’s all life is though is change. I just want to hold onto things too tightly and I think that Charlotte would too. I was so grateful to Tate for giving her some redemption at the end since that wasn’t in the book. It was wonderful to get two moments — the one when I dress down [Bryce Dallas Howard’s character] Hilly and throw her off of the porch and the moment where she finally sees her daughter for who she really is and not for who she wants her to be. That was a great moment to get to play. She was a really rewarding character to play because I got to do a 180 and completely change. She was an amazingly complicated character to get to play. What’s your history with Tate? This movie was kind of like a family business. Tate and I have known each other since 1988. Octavia [Spencer] as well, and of course [author] Kathryn [Stockett] and Tate grew up together in Jackson. We knew Kathryn through Tate. Brunson Green, who is one of the producers is a dear friend of ours too. We’re all really good friends. We made a lot of really low-budget movies on weekends or whenever we got together, so for this to happen is just an unlikely Hollywood story. It’s very satisfying — the loyalty and friendship, which were some themes in the movie too. I’m glad you were able to film in Mississippi and not Los Angeles as Mississippi. That was so important. That informed the acting and the characters. Being down there just felt more authentic in your role. To be in these houses and these great locations — people opened up their homes and we were filming in these big, old houses with beautiful wrap around porches. It really was 114 degrees and you’ve got corsets on. I feel like now, if I ever have to do a show on Broadway that is set in the South, I will know what that is. It just really gives you a good foundation. It feels like you’re in a different country down there, I swear. Knowing the history of what happened down there — it’s just a shameful part of our history. To be down there — I don’t know what I’m trying to say. I’m sorry, I’m so hungover. [Laughs] What did you do last night? I went to a tree-trimming party and I think I ended up trimming myself a little bit. Sorry! What were you asking? Let’s change direction: As an actor, are you able to use your acting abilities in real-life situations? Are you a convincing liar or able to dial in a dramatic performance with a customer service rep to get your way? You know what, I’m terrible without a script in front of me. I can’t. I wish! That’s why I’m an actor though because I love having everything written out for me and I can just say it. Even just talking to you now, it’s frustrating because I can’t ever finish a sentence or finish a thought. It’s very frustrating. I wish. My friends though — they would tell you that I can be overly dramatic, especially after a couple of egg nogs. [Laughs] You starred in the last Diabo Cody-Jason Reitman collaboration. Have you seen Young Adult yet? I have not, and I can’t wait to see it. I know it’s going to be amazing. I wish I could have been in it, but I can’t wait to see it. They were both so wonderful to work it. I can’t wait to see The Descendants too. There are a lot of good movies this year! The Artist, I want to see that. What else? I’m excited for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. That’s right! When does Mission Impossible come out? I think next Friday in IMAX. Oh, it’s going to be in IMAX? That’s going to be fantastic. I will wait in line to see that. It’s amazing that in spite of your lengthy filmography, you haven’t worked with Tom Cruise yet. You’re right. I’ve never worked with him, and I don’t think I’ve ever met him either. Nope, I never have. I used to work out with Katie [Holmes] at Barry’s Boot Camp, here in the Valley. She was in the same class as me. But that’s the closest I’ve been to Tom Cruise. It’s been five years since The West Wing ended, yet that series is still very dear to a lot of people. Do you carry any bits of C.J. Cregg with you? I love her. I wish that I carried more of her with me than I actually do. She is kind of my hero. What a great woman to get to play! I wish that she could have lived on and done other things. She’s just such a truly great role model for women and that’s one of my characters and one of those instances where you felt like you got to give back. I feel like I really got to inspire young girls. I get so many letters and see people on the street who come up to me and say, “Oh my God. You changed my life. I was majoring in this and I changed it to this and now I’m going to work in Washington.” Aaron Sorkin really inspired a lot of people with that show. Getting to play C.J., that was an important female role on television and I am still really, really proud of it in a different way than I am of my other characters. Like in Mr. Sunshine, I loved my character, but she was the exact opposite. C.J. will always be the role that I’m maybe most proud of in terms of what it said to the world. Are you looking to get back into television? I am. I’m looking at some other shows now figuring out what’s going to become a reality for me. I very much want to be back on television and I’m actively looking for the right script for me. I’m chomping at the bit. I’m a worker bee — I need to be working all of the time, so I’d love to find a home for awhile on a good television show. Are you thinking drama? Premium cable drama? Oh, I’ll go either way. I don’t care. I particularly like things that have a healthy dose of comedy and drama. I like things that are a little messy and complicated, not just punchline-punchline-punchline. I’m not a fan of [the sitcom format] as much. I don’t know if I’ve ever done that, other than, I suppose Mr. Sunshine. As long as the writing is great, I will go anywhere. Finally, is it true that Paul Newman cast you in one of your first plays while you were in college? Yes it is. He had gone to Kenyon College and he came back to christen the brand new theater there by directing the first play. I read for him, he cast me and he and Joanne Woodward kind of became my mentors as I started off in this world of acting. When I came to NY, Joanne got me into the Actor’s Studio. She directed a group of actors and formed a company and gave us the opportunity to act as a young actor. Usually, you have to find agents. Everything is such a catch-22 when you’re starting out with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward’s support — it’s a great leg up in this business. I know you have about four movies in post-production. Which one are you most excited for audiences to see? The Chris Colfer movie, Struck By Lightning is a beautiful, beautiful movie that I’m very proud to be a part of. Josh Radnor’s movie Liberal Arts is going to Sundance, and I’m excited about that. I’m anxiously awaiting both of those movies, and I think that they are going to do really well. [Top photo: Getty Images; Help photo: Dale Robinette/DreamWorks II] Follow Julie Miller on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.

Raquel Welch and Bo Derek Heading to CSI: Miami

Raquel Welch, Bo Derek Raquel Welch and Bo Derek are going to heat up CSI: Miami.The iconic sex symbols will guest-star in separate episodes of the crime drama early next year.Bo Derek to guest-star as herself on Chuck Derek will play a "well-preserved" mother who runs a horse stable where a murder is committed, according to Entertainment Weekly.Welch will play the matriarch of villain Diego Navarro (Carlos Bernard) and his son Esteban aka "The Miami Taunter" (Kuno Becker), TVLine reports. Her episode will air after Derek's.Welch, who broke out in One Million Years B.C., last appeared on TV on the short-lived 2008 CBS sitcom Welcome to the Captain. Derek, who is best known for her role in 10, can next be seen on Chuck, where she will play herself.CSI: Miami airs on Sundays at 10/9c on CBS.

New John Carter Trailer Online

'That don't seem like a reasonable fight...'After newer and more effective photos which fresh poster, the all-out publicity barrage for John Carter ongoing apace on Wednesday using the arrival from the second official trailer. Have a gander below.Finding Nemo/Wall-E veteran Andrew Stanton continues to be toiling within the film for a few years, mixing studio use desert location shooting plus some hefty CGI to create Edgar Grain Burroughs' tale of the dispirited Civil War veteran (Taylor Kitsch) who finds themself moved towards the planet Barsoom. Or, once we prefer to refer to it as on the planet, Mars.Then, he rapidly becomes confused inside a energy struggle and finds both buddies (including Willem Dafoe's multi-limbed Tars Tarkas) and opponents (Mark Strong's Matai Shang, in the looks of the trailer). Signal conflict! Signal large air ships! Signal animals of dimensions!The very first promo was much more about mood than plot even though there's still very little story on show here, there's a minimum of a bit more when it comes to what Carter themself faces. And since we are getting nearer to the movie's release date, there's more CG eye chocolate displayed.Peterson faces a large challenge to conquer both fans from the book and beginners who hear Barsoom and think it is a new Russ Meyer tribute pic. We'll discover how good it costs when they get it here on March 9.[[Poll558]]