Archive: January 2010 (41-50 of 320)

Jan 27 2010 03:28 PM ET

Metallica 'profoundly saddened' by news of fan's discovered remains

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Categories: In Memoriam, Music

In a statement on their web site, Metallica responded to news that the remains of a fan, who went missing after the band’s concert in October, were found Tuesday in a remote field outside Charlottesville, Va. about 10 miles from the concert venue:

“Our most sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Morgan Dana Harrington, the 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who was last seen while attending our concert at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA. Sadly, Morgan’s body was found yesterday ending her family’s three-month vigil hoping and praying for her safe return. Mere words cannot express the anguish and grief that we know her parents Dan and Gil are feeling, and our thoughts are with them.”

“If you have any information at all about Morgan’s death, please contact the Virginia State Police at (434) 352-3425 or the UVA Police at (434) 352-3467 or police@virginia.edu.”

UPDATE: Police have confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the remains are Harrington’s.

Jan 27 2010 03:26 PM ET

Will Ferrell and wife welcome third son

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Categories: Celebrity Babies!, Television

According to People, it’s a boy for Will Ferrell, 42, and his wife, Viveca Paulin, 40, who gave birth to Axel Jan. 23 in L.A., just hours after playing a hippie chick in Ferrell’s musical finale of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. Axel joins brothers Magnus, 5½, and Mattias, 3.

Jan 27 2010 01:45 PM ET

Jennifer Lopez to guest star on 'How I Met Your Mother'

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Categories: Television, TV Biz

After stints on NBC’s Will & Grace and most recently a turn as guest host on Lopez Tonight, Jennifer Lopez is coming back to TV in a guest starring role on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother. The news comes on the heels of news that the singer may also guest star on Fox’s Glee. Lopez will play Anita Appleby, a no-nonsense self-help author who teaches women how to turn men into relationship machines. When Robin clues Anita in on Barney’s antics, Anita is determined to change him. “We’re looking forward to a week of revealing outfits and sexy dance moves the likes of which this show hasn’t seen since Regis Philbin guest starred,” said HIMYM‘s executive producer and co-creator Carter Bays. Lopez’s episode is slated to air in March.

Jan 27 2010 01:44 PM ET

Gabriele Muccino in talks to direct Keanu Reeves sci-fi film

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Seven Pounds director Gabriele Muccino is in advanced negotiations to direct Passengers, a sci-fi romance movie starring Keanu Reeves, Variety reports. The film, written by Jon Spaihts, who also wrote Ridley Scott’s unnamed Alien prequel, takes place on a spaceship making a centuries-long trip to a new planet. Reeves plays a man who prematurely awakens from cryogenic sleep due to a computer glitch and forces a beautiful woman awake for fear of dying alone. The film is slated to begin shooting this summer.

Jan 27 2010 01:42 PM ET

'Heroes' star Adrian Pasdar arrested for DUI

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Categories: Television

Actor Adrian Pasdar, 44, was arrested at 2:59 this morning for a misdemeanor DUI charge in Los Angeles. The actor, who plays Senator Nathan Petrelli on Heroes, was jailed before being released on $15,000 bail at 11:30 a.m. He is due back in court Feb. 24. His rep did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

Jan 27 2010 01:40 PM ET

George Lucas to produce CGI-animated musical

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Categories: Movie Biz, Movies

Star Wars director George Lucas is set to produce a CGI-animated musical, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kevin Munroe (TMNT) will direct and David Berenbaum (Elf) has penned the screenplay for the now-untitled film. Though plot details are tightly under wraps, one known fact is that the film features fairies. Lucas is currently finishing work on his World War II film, Red Tails.

Jan 27 2010 12:16 PM ET

Maura Tierney goes back to work after battling cancer

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Categories: Stage, Television

Maura Tierney is back on the job six months after treatment for breast cancer prompted her to drop out of the NBC dramedy Parenthood. The 44-year-old actress will soon take to the stage in the satirical play North Atlantic, as a member of a Cold War-era peacekeeping force aboard an aircraft carrier. Written for the Wooster Group, a performance collective, in 1982, this iteration of the musical also stars Frances McDormand.

The Emmy-nominated ER actress, who also appeared in a guest stint on Rescue Me last year, declined to comment on her return to acting, but her publicist told EW exclusively, “She has finished treatment and is doing very well, and is happy to move forward with the next phase of her life.”

With a run scheduled for Feb. 10–21 at L.A.’s Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and March 10–April 25 at New York’s Jerome Robbins Theater, Tierney’s turn in Atlantic happens to coincide with the March 2 premiere of Parenthood — now starring Gilmore Girls vet Lauren Graham in the role of Sarah, a harried single mom played by Tierney in the pilot. (The rest of the original ensemble, including Six Feet Under’s Peter Krause, remains intact.) This TV take on the 1989 movie had been set to debut in September, but Tierney’s departure from the project delayed production last summer. Now that her health is back on track, here’s hoping her return to TV won’t be far behind.

More Maura Tierney:
Maura Tierney drops out of NBC’s ’Parenthood’
Ausiello: Maura Tierney sets the record straight about her ‘medical evaluation’
PopWatch: Farewell, Abby Lockhart! (A.K.A. Maura Tierney is leaving ‘ER’ tonight)

Jan 27 2010 11:56 AM ET

Tuesday ratings: 'Idol' wins again

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Categories: Industry News, Television, TV Biz, TV Ratings

Ratings powerhouse American Idol again dominated its competition, but the audience dropped by about 2 million viewers from last week’s episodes. NCIS was a solid — if much older — second, while Biggest Loser picked up viewers in every half-hour. ABC’s comedies continued to struggle, and Fox’s new Human Target lost nearly 3 million viewers between its first and second half.

Time Show Viewers (in millions)
8:00 p.m. American Idol (Fox)
NCIS (CBS)
The Biggest Loser (NBC)
Scrubs (ABC)
90210 (The CW)		 24.2
20.1
9.7
3.3
1.0 (repeat)
8:30 p.m. Better Off Ted (ABC) 2.5
9:00 p.m. NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
Human Target (Fox)
Lost (ABC)
Melrose Place (The CW)		 17.2
9.6
3.2 (repeat)
.9 (repeat)
10:00 p.m. The Good Wife (CBS)
The Jay Leno Show (NBC)
Lost (ABC)		 10.3 (repeat)
6.3
3.7 (repeat)

Source: The Nielsen Company

Jan 27 2010 06:31 AM ET

NBC seeks 'Justice' from Conan

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Categories: TV Biz

Though NBC and Conan O’Brien have parted ways, the network picked up a show from the talkshow host’s production company, Conaco. According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC acquired an hourlong pilot, currently titled Justice, about a Supreme Court justice who quits the bench to open his own law practice.

Jan 26 2010 06:20 PM ET

Costa Book prize goes to Christopher Reid's 'A Scattering'

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Categories: Books

Britain’s Costa Book of the Year Award was given today to Christopher Reid’s poetry collection A Scattering, inspired by his wife’s death. According to the AP, the favorite to win had been Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn. Graham Farmelo’s The Strangest Man won the biography prize, Raphael Selbourne won the first novel award for Beauty, and Patrick Ness won the children’s book prize for The Ask and the Answer. The prizes were formerly called the Whitbread Book Awards.

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