Emmy Award winner Pushing Daisies, the most imaginative and colorful series on television, finally returns tomorrow night. Hopes are high that the fantastical show will regain the momentum lost by last season's writers' strike.Plans for the new season include more romance for Ned and Chuck (Lee Pace and Anna Friel), a mother (Debra Mooney) for Emerson (Chi McBride), and Olive (Kristin Chenoweth) in a convent (yes, there will be a Sound of Music homage). Also expect some familiar faces; guest stars slated to appear include David Arquette, Jennifer Elise Cox, Orlando Jones, Mary Kay Place, Stephen Root ...

Available on DVD for the first time today, the notorious camp classic "bad movie we love" Butterflywas supposed to make Pia Zadora a star. Instead, it turned the Golden Globes into a Hollywood laughing stock.Financed by her sugar daddy husband (32-years her senior) and based on a novel by James M. Cain, Butterfly casts Zadora (in her first film since Santa Claus Conquers the Martians) as a white trash nymphet who seduces her own father (poor, poor Stacy Keach). The over-the-top, soapy melodrama also stars Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, James Franciscus and Ed McMahon in a rare ...

Oh, those wacky Brits. Empire magazine has released the results of their poll for "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time", and the results sure are ... interesting.Perhaps it's who they polled: 10,000 readers chimed in, but only 150 of "Hollywood's finest" and a paltry 50 film critics were also included. Not quite "the most ambitious movie poll ever attempted" as advertised, the list leans heavily on the recent (as expected with that many civilians in the mix), including five movies from this year alone (The Dark Knight sits at #15), as well as (naturally) a lot ...

Crush object: Gerard Butler, actor.- He made his film debut in Mrs. Brown, followed by a small role in the Bond flick Tomorrow Never Dies.- As two notorious villains -- Attila the Hun in the television mini-series Attila and Count Dracula in Dracula 2000 -- he graduated to lead roles.- A co-starring role in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life proceeded his casting as the title role in Joel Schumacher's film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.- Following an impressive dramatic turn in Dear Frankie, he next turned to sword and sandal ...

Daniel Craig's James Bond and new Bond girl Olga Kurylenko are featured on the latest poster for Quantum of Solace (in theaters November 14).In more Bond news, 007 reportedly won't be uttering his famous catchphrases ("Bond, James Bond" and "A martini. Shaken, not stirred") in his latest adventure, while Craig insists that the secret agent won't be seducing any men anytime soon. ...

His schoolmates catch him sewing. His father bemoans that he wants to be a folk singer. He reads! No doubt about it, there is something a little queer about Tom Robinson Lee.Tom is the outcast protagonist of Tea and Sympathy, a fascinating peek into the celluloid closet of the 1950's. Deborah Kerr is the kindly wife of the school's headmaster (Leif Erickson) who takes a special interest in the troubled youth (John Kerr, no relation) in Vincente Minnelli's film adaptation of Robert Anderson's Broadway drama (all three actors reprise their stage roles; the younger Kerr won a Tony ...

I saw a link for Muggle Quidditch the other day and thought it sounded interesting. I popped in my email address and thought, well, it says it starts Oct. 15, so I should expect an email a little before then. But nope — here's what I found in my inbox over the weekend (links intact):Friend,Serious trouble is afoot and Muggle Quidditch 2.0 is in danger...How did the goblins find my trail so quickly?  When did the Ministry begin monitoring the Muggle Interwebs?  What does this mean for the future of this project?  And my future…?Alas, there is so ...

Based on the sleeper hit of 1987, the literally titled Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage makes its US debut today in Chicago. This production, which officially opens October 19 and runs through January 17, is the first stop on a pre-Broadway American tour.Unlike a traditional musical, Dirty Dancing offers "presentational pop numbers rather than a strictly character-sung score". Described as "part play, part dance event, part concert", the show features 35 songs, including such familiar numbers from the movie as "Hungry Eyes," "Do You Love Me?" and the Academy Award-winning "(I've Had) The Time ...

Seems all the bad buzz from Comic-Con has made the marketers of The Spirit take a fresh course.While the newest trailer for Frank Miller's upcoming big screen adaptation of the classic Will Eisner comic still has all the Dark Knight-ish elements in place, there is now some humor and even sexiness thrown in ... and not just from Eva Mendes. Hunky hero Gabriel Macht shows some skin and shares some snappy repartee with Sarah Paulson.The Spirit, which also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Balfour, lands in theaters December 25. ...

The neon lights of Xanadu will shine one last time on Broadway today.But don't fret, several international productions are currently in the planning stages (including London), plus the American tour kicks off in November, insuring that the magic of Xanadu will live on (as the song says) "All Over the World".And what about the show's breakout hunk, Cheyenne Jackson? Well, according to this wonderfully candid "Ask the Star" interview over at Broadway.com, Cheyenne will finally be doing his own solo album! He reveals a lot more fun stuff in the video chat too, such as when ...

"What's the story, morning glory? What's the tale, nightingale? Tell me quick about Hugo and Kim!"Well, here they are caricaturized by Pete Emslie at The Cartoon Cave: Bobby Rydell as Hugo Peabody and Ann-Margret as Kim McAfee in Bye Bye Birdie. ...

This is the first of Chris' three-part series of influential films that helped him in his coming out.One of my high school theatre teachers was a huge fan of playwright Tennessee Williams and actress Elizabeth Taylor. To expose us sophomores to the work of both, he showed us the 1959 film of Williams’ play Suddenly, Last Summerover two or three class periods.One of Williams’ stranger plots (adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal), it concerns the machinations of wealthy Violet Venable (an Oscar-nominated Katharine Hepburn) to have her niece, Cathy (Taylor, who was also nominated for Best Actress), ...

Brothers and Sisters has not only proved to be a great showcase for some of our favorite TV actresses (Rachel Griffiths, Calista Flockhart, Patricia Wettig and the Emmy Award winning Sally Field), it has also given us a rarity for network television: a well-rounded, realistic gay character.As portrayed by Matthew Rhys, Kevin Walker has been far from perfect ... but who of us is? Kevin can be curt, insensitive and self-centered at times, but he is never a stereotype, even with his frequent, sarcastically witty one-liners (which are always hilarious). Rhys' performance is multi-layered, but the love Kevin has ...

Pocahontas and Her Forest Friends, the conservation-minded live stage show at Disney's Animal Kingdom, wraps up its ten year run today.The 15-minute show, which featured Pocahontas, Grandmother Willow and a cast of real critters, was one of the theme park's original attractions. No plans for what will take its place have been announced as of yet.For full video of the show and a gallery of pictures, visit LaughingPlace.com. ...

The Desperate Housewives are back tomorrow night in their fifth season premiere, but now its five years in the future. What does this mean for the ladies of Fairfield? (Insert spoiler warning here.)Well, Susan (Teri Hatcher) has divorced Mike (James Denton), and is now sacking up with a mystery guy (Queer as Folk's Gale Harold). Bree (Marcia Cross), who is back with Orson (Kyle MacLachlan), is now a successful Martha Stewart-type homemaker mogul, with her gay son Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom) and Katherine (Dana Delany) on her payroll. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) must deal with her now teenage delinquent sons ...

Quantum of Solace isn't the only fall movie to star Daniel Craig. In Flashbacks of a Fool (in theaters October 17), Craig plays a big-time movie star with big-time emotional baggage. But don't worry; as you can see in the film's new trailer, he does get naked in this one as well. ...

Get out those velvet pants, feather your hair, rev up the buss and "Come On, Get Happy": The Partridge Family is returning to television. ...

Legendary actor Paul Newman, creator of such iconic screen characters as Fast Eddie Felson, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and Frank Galvin, passed away yesterday at the age of 83.Nominated for ten Academy Awards (nine for acting -- Best Actor for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Absence of Malice, The Verdict, The Color of Money and Nobody's Fool, Best Supporting Actor for Road to Perdition -- and one Best Picture nod for Rachel, Rachel, in which he directed his longtime wife, Joanne Woodward), Newman won three Oscars (for The ...

"Who doesn't want to make out with Chris Meloni?"-- Mariska Hargitay, regarding her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit co-star, in a brief interview with Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello. ...

The recently released CD Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening,the 25th anniversary edition of satiric lyricist Gerard Alessandrini’s spoof of all things theatre, includes “You Can’t Stop the Camp.” Adapted from Hairspray’s “You Can’t Stop the Beat” and performed by actors impersonating Harvey Fierstein, John Travolta and Laura Bell Bundy of Legally Blonde: The Musical, it laments the seeming lack of original ideas that has led to an onslaught of new musicals based on movies.It also names 9 to 5: The Musical (currently having its world premiere at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre through October 19) as one of the ...