Thomas Gibson Had A Great Experience Working With Chuck Lorre

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Charlie Sheen might have had his fair share of issues with Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre, but Thomas Gibson who worked with the TV mogul on Dharma & Greg has nothing but praise for him. The Criminal Minds star stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Wednesday, where he chatted about his cameo on the Men season premiere and working with Chuck again. Is he a misunderstood man? Billy Bush asked. I think he is, Thomas told Billy and co-host Kit Hoover. I dont really know what happened between them, but I had a great experience, five years working with Chuck. The actor explained that the TV producer expects the most from his stars and crew. Everybodys standards on those shows are very high and his are as well, he continued. So, everybody works hard. As for the idea to reunite Thomas with Dharma & Greg co-star Jenna Elfman for the Men premiere, Thomas credited his former boss. This was Chucks twisted idea, but we were game, he explained, adding that the idea came from that little dark corner of Chucks brain. Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Five Top Reasons To See 'Moneyball'

by John Phares and Josh Wigler "Moneyball," directed by Bennett Burns and starring Kaira Pitt and Jonah Hill, 35mm 35mm slides into theaters a couple of days ago, telling the actual story in the 2002 Concord Athletics season. Pitt stars as Billy Beane, a classic Major league baseball player who now may serve as gm in the A's presently of turmoil: they has lost three of the star players, and lacks the right funding to compete in the large boys back east. But where there's a will, there's a means, by using lately hired assistant gm Peter Brand (carried out by Jonah Hill), Beane milks an undesirable situation for individuals it's worth and forms a hostile team from absolutely nothing. Though under an excellent slam, "Moneyball" certainly wins the sport getting essential-see effort for each fans in the sports drama. Have a look at five top reasons to see "Moneyball" past the jump. An Engaged Duo I wouldnt have thought it either, but Kaira Pitt and Jonah Hill create an excellent team. Jonahs character, Peter Brand, is certainly an humble genius of the sport, while Kaira Pitt plays really the only guy inside the league who's crazy enough, and desperate enough, to consider Brands heretical applying for grants baseball. Its heartwarming to look for the 2 produce a relationship through which each of them rely on each other Beane for Jonahs insight, and Brand for Pitts belief. -British oil The Politics Of the sport Most likely probably the most fascinating areas of the film might be the glimpse it offers the viewer of just what continues inside the mind from the GM, as well as the team he's come up with around him for the greatest players. Among the most popular moments in the movie can be a round table discussion through which Pitt has come up with his scouts to choose their picks with this particular seasons draft. The reasoning behind their options is almost so absurd, that we imagine it must be true. One of the scouts notifies Beane not to choose a person as they posseses an ugly girlfriend, stating the particulars, Ugly girlfriend means no confidence. Wise words my friend, wise words. -British oil Kerris Dorsey This is often a movie about baseball, yes, but it's also about Billy's desperate try to handle to rest issues from the raw deal still intact. Compared to that finish, he's given support by his youthful daughter Casey, carried out by Kerris Dorsey, most broadly known on her behalf recurring role on "Brothers and sisters & Brothers and sisters." It's a small role if this involves screen time, but a sizable one if this involves heart, and Dorsey shows plenty of promise in their brief looks as you're watching camera. Plus, her character puts forth a soulful song that's still stuck throughout my thoughts almost an entire week getting seen the film in an effective way! -JW The Script Its difficult to fail getting an organization like Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian, both Oscar individuals who win who bring their A-game with this story in regards to the Concord As. You will discover numerous one-card inserts that zip and zing their way throughout Moneyball, and a lot of the borrowed funds visits the heavens for delivery of mentioned dialogue, nevertheless it wouldnt exist without any reliable script from Sorkin and Zaillian. Typically the most popular, in addtion-stated "ugly girlfriend" observation, might be the metaphor, both if this involves exactly what it signifies for your film and existence generally, too as with the way its shipped. No spoilers here youll understand what i am saying once youve seen the flick. -JW The Streak Certainly most likely probably the most thrilling sequence in Moneyball might be the Concord As historic win streak. Ultimately in the doubts our figures face with the film, almost all their questionable options, everything seems to pay back in the large way through the climax in the film. If you are at all like me combined without any clue this streak even happened, or the actual way it ended, i rapidly wont spoil it to suit your needs. However will say this: the climax in the film hits it in the park, and very captures the spirit in the great baseball movies of yore. -British oil Reveal everything you consider "Moneyball" inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Study Shows Stage Fright is Common Among Working Actors

Study Shows Stage Fright is Common Among Working Actors By Andrew Salomon September 21, 2011 Gordon Goodman was once so confident a performer that he could fall asleep while waiting to sing. In fact, he did. Sitting in a chair onstage with the Phoenix Symphony, with a full house of 5,000 in front of him and nearly 200 musicians and singers behind him, he was so relaxed that he nodded off, waking only when his chin hit his chest.Goodman missed his first line, but no matter. "No one knew, because it was an original piece," he recalled recently. "So I just stood up very calmly and started." Afterward, he added, he got a standing ovation.Things changed when his larynx was damaged in an onstage collision during a performance of "Oklahoma!" Goodman recovered his voice but struggled to regain his swagger. He suffered from stage fright. In one particularly bad audition, he said, his performance resembled "the cartoon where the opera singer opens his mouth and just a squeak comes out."An actor and singer who lives in Los Angeles, Goodman is now doubly familiar with stage fright, or performance anxiety. He recently wrote a dissertation on the subject while earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, Calif. His study, conducted in March and April, revealed that more than 80 percent of professional actors have suffered from stage fright at least once in their careers. He also contends that his study debunks "the widely held belief that stage fright is closely linked to age, experience, success, or fears of incompetence."Rather, Goodman writes, the condition is linked to how much control actors feel they have over a single "acting situation." Like the warning in a commercial for a mutual fund, past performance is no guarantee of future success. Basically, it comes down to confidence in the moment, something Goodman used to have in ample supply. "I was so cocky, I walked like a gorilla, like a gangster, and I knew I'd blow them away," he said. "Then I was in a severe accidentand it totally changed my life."Elite Majority Goodman writes that past performance-anxiety studies have focused on public speaking, test taking, sports, and music, "but less than a handfulhave focused on the performance domain that gave stage fright its name, acting." He added that his study could be the first that focuses on regularly working actors, or those whom he calls "elite."For his dissertation, which he successfully defended in July, Goodman surveyed 136 actors affiliated with either Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles or Sacramento Music Circus. Each actor had membership in at least one performers' union and, Goodman said, they had a wealth of experience. According to the study, 72 percent had toured nationally or internationally, 40 percent had performed on Broadway, 56 percent had at least one co-starring role on a TV show, and more than 30 percent had at least one co-starring role in a film.Of those surveyed, Goodman said, 84 percent reported experiencing stage fright at least once in their careers. He described the condition as freezing or choking and said it is usually represented by a performance's sudden collapse, rather than a gradual decline. Anxiety is particularly debilitating to actors, because fear of the future occurs in the same part of the brain where imagination lives, Goodman explained. He likened it to an overloaded computer: It will freeze if it has too many programs open while trying to process something complicated. "Imagination," he said, "is a limited space."Energy Crisis Rachel Bailit said her career almost crashed during the second performance of her one-woman show, "Sugar Happens," several years ago at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Los Angeles. The first night had gone very well, and she assumed that her fortune would continue. Then she took the stage. "In a one-woman show, you're very in tune with the energy" of the audience, she said. "It was mortifying when I came out, the energy."Bailit got to the part in the show when she talked about her brother, who had died. "All of a sudden I really got stage fright," she said. "I couldn't figure it out, and I remember looking out, and everyone had a stunned look." She almost walked off the stage, a move that would have haunted her career, she said. One thing kept her onstage. "I was frozen," she said.More-positive thoughts quickly took hold, she said, and she remembered her training: Concentrate on what you're saying; get in the moment; connect with someone. She saw a friend in the audience and continued. Afterward, Bailit said, her publicist came up to her and said there was someone who wanted to see her: Al Pacino. Suddenly she understood the weird vibe. Her peers were nervous for her, and everyone wanted to see how Pacino was responding to the show.Bailit recalled her conversation with the Strasberg disciple: "I said, 'Do you remember when you were a struggling actor like this?' He said, 'Are you kidding? I'm still going through it.'"Enter Brooklyn Bailit had a lot of acting experience when she had her bout with stage fright. That's consistent with Goodman's study, which found that experience and success are no guard against the affliction. Actors such as Meryl Streep, Ian Holm, and Barbra Streisand also suffered from it after they had established their careers.Newcomers aren't immune either. JayAre Sarerro, a college student in North Carolina, wanted to act from a young age but sometimes froze at auditions. Performance anxiety "would make my speech slurred and shaky, as well as my body," he wrote in an email to Back Stage. In an interview, he said he took classes to get over it. They helped, but he required something more. "I developed another persona," he said. "It's not bipolar. You change and become someone else."He calls his persona Brooklyn, named for a place his parents would never take him when they visited NY. (Too dangerous, they said.) He recently performed in a musical, "Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare," that toured North Carolina, Florida, and Chicago."Brooklyn is very open," Sarerro said of his alter ego. "He's not afraid, not nervous at all. He's strong. He's definitely not how I am in everyday life."The Octopus Though this brand of anxiety was originally born on the stage, Goodman said actors have a much more difficult time in a small room with a handful of people sitting behind a folding table. That is, auditions are significantly more likely to engender stage fright than performancesby 19.2 percent, the report states."That kind of shoots down the theory that the more people in the audience, the more chance of stage fright," Goodman said. "It's all about who's in the audience."Goodman's study reaffirms what many professional actors have heard dozens of times and already know, at least in theory: Those with the most confidence are least likely to experience stage fright, and confidence depends upon control. To put theory into practice, Goodman said, actors can put their attention on managing their individual tasks (knowing their lines, showing up on time, and mitigating distraction). They should never try to manage the thoughts of those who are evaluating them. "The more the person concentrates on the end result," he said, "the worse they perform."After his accident, Goodman had a difficult time finding the freedom to not think, he said; he had to manage every moment just to get the sound out. He found his way through character roles and by doing other things: He lectures, writes and produces audio books, and is working as a media and entertainment psychologist. "People are happier when they're an octopus," he said. "It's important for an actor to have as many legs as they can."Goodman still acts. He recently played Mr. Brownlow in a production of "Oliver!" and about a year ago he booked a commercial for Jack in the Box. He plays a man on a video dating site who is equally unctuous and obtuse. The performance is hilarious, revolting, and convincingconvincing because the character and the actor possess an equal amount of swagger. Study Shows Stage Fright is Common Among Working Actors By Andrew Salomon September 21, 2011 Gordon Goodman was once so confident a performer that he could fall asleep while waiting to sing. In fact, he did. Sitting in a chair onstage with the Phoenix Symphony, with a full house of 5,000 in front of him and nearly 200 musicians and singers behind him, he was so relaxed that he nodded off, waking only when his chin hit his chest.Goodman missed his first line, but no matter. "No one knew, because it was an original piece," he recalled recently. "So I just stood up very calmly and started." Afterward, he added, he got a standing ovation.Things changed when his larynx was damaged in an onstage collision during a performance of "Oklahoma!" Goodman recovered his voice but struggled to regain his swagger. He suffered from stage fright. In one particularly bad audition, he said, his performance resembled "the cartoon where the opera singer opens his mouth and just a squeak comes out."An actor and singer who lives in Los Angeles, Goodman is now doubly familiar with stage fright, or performance anxiety. He recently wrote a dissertation on the subject while earning a Ph.D. in psychology from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, Calif. His study, conducted in March and April, revealed that more than 80 percent of professional actors have suffered from stage fright at least once in their careers. He also contends that his study debunks "the widely held belief that stage fright is closely linked to age, experience, success, or fears of incompetence."Rather, Goodman writes, the condition is linked to how much control actors feel they have over a single "acting situation." Like the warning in a commercial for a mutual fund, past performance is no guarantee of future success. Basically, it comes down to confidence in the moment, something Goodman used to have in ample supply. "I was so cocky, I walked like a gorilla, like a gangster, and I knew I'd blow them away," he said. "Then I was in a severe accidentand it totally changed my life."Elite Majority Goodman writes that past performance-anxiety studies have focused on public speaking, test taking, sports, and music, "but less than a handfulhave focused on the performance domain that gave stage fright its name, acting." He added that his study could be the first that focuses on regularly working actors, or those whom he calls "elite."For his dissertation, which he successfully defended in July, Goodman surveyed 136 actors affiliated with either Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles or Sacramento Music Circus. Each actor had membership in at least one performers' union and, Goodman said, they had a wealth of experience. According to the study, 72 percent had toured nationally or internationally, 40 percent had performed on Broadway, 56 percent had at least one co-starring role on a TV show, and more than 30 percent had at least one co-starring role in a film.Of those surveyed, Goodman said, 84 percent reported experiencing stage fright at least once in their careers. He described the condition as freezing or choking and said it is usually represented by a performance's sudden collapse, rather than a gradual decline. Anxiety is particularly debilitating to actors, because fear of the future occurs in the same part of the brain where imagination lives, Goodman explained. He likened it to an overloaded computer: It will freeze if it has too many programs open while trying to process something complicated. "Imagination," he said, "is a limited space."Energy Crisis Rachel Bailit said her career almost crashed during the second performance of her one-woman show, "Sugar Happens," several years ago at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Los Angeles. The first night had gone very well, and she assumed that her fortune would continue. Then she took the stage. "In a one-woman show, you're very in tune with the energy" of the audience, she said. "It was mortifying when I came out, the energy."Bailit got to the part in the show when she talked about her brother, who had died. "All of a sudden I really got stage fright," she said. "I couldn't figure it out, and I remember looking out, and everyone had a stunned look." She almost walked off the stage, a move that would have haunted her career, she said. One thing kept her onstage. "I was frozen," she said.More-positive thoughts quickly took hold, she said, and she remembered her training: Concentrate on what you're saying; get in the moment; connect with someone. She saw a friend in the audience and continued. Afterward, Bailit said, her publicist came up to her and said there was someone who wanted to see her: Al Pacino. Suddenly she understood the weird vibe. Her peers were nervous for her, and everyone wanted to see how Pacino was responding to the show.Bailit recalled her conversation with the Strasberg disciple: "I said, 'Do you remember when you were a struggling actor like this?' He said, 'Are you kidding? I'm still going through it.'"Enter Brooklyn Bailit had a lot of acting experience when she had her bout with stage fright. That's consistent with Goodman's study, which found that experience and success are no guard against the affliction. Actors such as Meryl Streep, Ian Holm, and Barbra Streisand also suffered from it after they had established their careers.Newcomers aren't immune either. JayAre Sarerro, a college student in North Carolina, wanted to act from a young age but sometimes froze at auditions. Performance anxiety "would make my speech slurred and shaky, as well as my body," he wrote in an email to Back Stage. In an interview, he said he took classes to get over it. They helped, but he required something more. "I developed another persona," he said. "It's not bipolar. You change and become someone else."He calls his persona Brooklyn, named for a place his parents would never take him when they visited NY. (Too dangerous, they said.) He recently performed in a musical, "Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare," that toured North Carolina, Florida, and Chicago."Brooklyn is very open," Sarerro said of his alter ego. "He's not afraid, not nervous at all. He's strong. He's definitely not how I am in everyday life."The Octopus Though this brand of anxiety was originally born on the stage, Goodman said actors have a much more difficult time in a small room with a handful of people sitting behind a folding table. That is, auditions are significantly more likely to engender stage fright than performancesby 19.2 percent, the report states."That kind of shoots down the theory that the more people in the audience, the more chance of stage fright," Goodman said. "It's all about who's in the audience."Goodman's study reaffirms what many professional actors have heard dozens of times and already know, at least in theory: Those with the most confidence are least likely to experience stage fright, and confidence depends upon control. To put theory into practice, Goodman said, actors can put their attention on managing their individual tasks (knowing their lines, showing up on time, and mitigating distraction). They should never try to manage the thoughts of those who are evaluating them. "The more the person concentrates on the end result," he said, "the worse they perform."After his accident, Goodman had a difficult time finding the freedom to not think, he said; he had to manage every moment just to get the sound out. He found his way through character roles and by doing other things: He lectures, writes and produces audio books, and is working as a media and entertainment psychologist. "People are happier when they're an octopus," he said. "It's important for an actor to have as many legs as they can."Goodman still acts. He recently played Mr. Brownlow in a production of "Oliver!" and about a year ago he booked a commercial for Jack in the Box. He plays a man on a video dating site who is equally unctuous and obtuse. The performance is hilarious, revolting, and convincingconvincing because the character and the actor possess an equal amount of swagger.

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All My Children Comes to an End: Creator Agnes Nixon and the Cast Look Back

All My Children After nearly 42 years of scandalous affairs, decades-long rivalries, fairy tale romances, kidnapped babies, serial killers, resurrected loved ones and the occasional Pennsylvania tornado, All My Children as fans have known it will come to an end on Friday. Two weeks before production wrapped, TVGuide.com spent a few days behind the scenes of Pine Valley as writers, producers and cast performed something of a three-ring circus, rallying to deliver what they hoped would be a satisfying conclusion for their loyal viewers. During one morning meeting, longtime director Steven Williford planned out the moment in which Angie (Debbi Morgan) would get her sight back, enacting how she would stumble, joyful and teary-eyed, toward Jessie (Darnell Williams). Downstairs on set at the Pine Valley police station, Tad (Michael E. Knight) and Dixie (Cady McClain) -- together, at last - confronted David (Vincent Irizarry) perhaps for the final time, begging to know who else he had brought back from the dead, literally. In the editing bays, producers watched tape of JR's (Jacob Young) final scenes, in which he seems to be hitting rock bottom. Christina Bennett Lind, who plays Bianca, dropped by on her day off to pick up gifts fans had sent congratulating her on her first love scene with Marissa (Sarah Glendening). In the hallways of the production offices, producers who have been with the show for years continued to talk about how wonderful it was having Josh Duhamel reprise the role of Leo DuPres, not to mention a cameo from Carol Burnett, who's declared herself one of All My Children's biggest fans. A few miles away, at the Descanso Gardens, Ryan (Cameron Mathison) and Greenlee (Rebecca Budig) played red rover with Emma and then embraced while looking meaningfully, as they so often do, into the sunny distance... Susan Lucci on All My Children's last day, the big cliff-hanger and her future online We asked the actors who've dedicated the bulk of their careers to the now-canceled show -- Susan Lucci, Michael E. Knight, Cameron Mathison and Rebecca Budig - along with executive producer Julie Hanan Carruthers and series creator Agnes Nixon to talk about the last few months building and taking down Pine Valley, the challenge of ending decades' worth of story, and what the future online holds: How do you wrap almost 42 years of storytelling into a 36-minute episode? Carruthers: The writers felt an immense amount of pressure... Everybody wants everything. We wanted it all. We wanted to see all the faces. We kind of honed in on the feel-good parts of Pine Valley, which is ultimately, I think why the audience watches. Yeah, they want the dish, they want to be outraged, but at the same time, watching is like going home. I think that's why the cancellation was huge news. It's like, "Wait a minute, that's like home to me." Budig: I don't know if anyone will ever really feel satisfied because it's a bummer that it's going off the air. I think that no matter what we do, no matter how good it is, most people are left disappointed. I hope not though! Mathison: In some cases, I think it's as simple as seeing your favorite couple back together. Nixon: Wrapping the run on ABC wasn't as important to me as keeping the show interesting and making people want to watch it once it began again online. We did not wrap everything up with people fading into the sunset with happy endings. It's a continued story. The last episode, we think, will make people want to come back very much to get some answers. Lucci: Knowing how Agnes writes, the end is not shocking at all. I knew she wouldn't tie it up in a neat bow. There are several cliff-hangers. How did you go about crafting the show's final ABC broadcasts? What were the mandates for the big goodbye? Obviously, you wanted to bring back certain characters - some of whom are dead. Nixon: It isn't as far-fetched as one might think! Also, it's David Heyward, and one never knows with him... But yes, we wanted to bring back a lot of the favorite characters who were no longer on the show. The last episodes took three months to write because I just think we were giving the audience exactly what they want. You watch and tell us. Carruthers: We didn't want everything so sugary and saccharine that in the last two weeks people would be saying, "Could they lay it on any thicker?" ... Some people will be able to rise above their conflicts, others won't be as lucky or strong or they'll have so many things weighing against them that it's impossible. We want tears and laughter and warmth. We want you to want to stay there and have it not be over. We want it to be the best feeling. Like the best emotional experience and yet true to All My Children and what it represents, which is a tall order. And you have to sort of pay off the stories you're in the process of telling. It wasn't about the bells and buzzers. Nixon: The cliff-hangers are true to what I feel has been part of the character of All My Children in that they're all related solely to characters and personal emotions. Susan Lucci on early Erica Kane, All My Children without Agnes, and Sarah Michelle Gellar Dixie (McClaine), who sparked fan outrage when she was killed by poison pancakes, came back for several episodes. So did Brooke (Julia Barr) and Adam (David Canary). How did that go? Nixon: Ooh, the tension between Brooke and Erica is delicious. Lucci: David's presence has been so missed. It was truly most exciting for me to have him and Julia back because they were people I worked with so much. On set these past few weeks, I would be running around and have to stop because there's David on a monitor, you know, looking fabulous. It's been so fun playing scenes with them again. I know the audience has missed them very much. Knight: Cady and I weren't even supposed to be together if I remember correctly. We weren't supposed to be a couple. She was pregnant by Adam Chandler, my nemesis. But I think there was a period where I realized we did have something special, when Tad and Dixie went on the run together. Cady and I had a very easy chemistry with a lot of humor that played as romance. The director used to come out and go, "Sexy as a fish!" ... It's been so great for me, having her back. What have these last days on set been like? Lucci: Just before we shot the final scene, Rebecca and I caught each other's eye and both of us just started to tear up. It's been happening to all of us. The emotions come over you when you least expect it. Cameron and I were talking about it, how it just doesn't seem real. I don't know if it's a protective mechanism. At the same time, I'm blown away by how everybody has continued to work on all cylinders, with a great attitude and smile on their face and no whining. And with Agnes here, it's been amazing. Mathison: I'm in denial. I don't think I'm really even acknowledging the end. It's been my life for so long. I've known these people, the cast, the crew, longer than I've known my wife and kids. The whole thing is just surreal. Carruthers: The show ending actually raised the bar in some ways. When you don't have a lot of tomorrows left, hitting your marks takes on a whole new meaning. Everybody's been excited by the material and the stories and having people come back. I'm sure it'll be sad when everybody walks out of the door, but right now, people are excited to be here. It's not only a historical time, but it's kind of a privilege and an honor to be a part of this time. All My Children: Jordi Vilasuso and Lindsay Hartley on what might've been How did you feel at the time the show was canceled, and everything that led up to that? Knight: Agnes was shoved to the side very unceremoniously a few years back by people who shouldn't be in this industry as far as I'm concerned. They didn't know what they were doing... It ended up taking us down. Nixon: I was saddened, but I saw it coming because the ratings were going down and personally I felt the show wasn't being written as it should. It wasn't true to the characters. You know, they had focus groups every three or four months, and I went every time knowing what I would hear. "Oh, we still love the characters, but the stories don't work for us. What happened?" So, it wasn't a total surprise to me... I was the saddest when they killed Stuart. Lucci: The fans were very vocal about not recognizing the character. I wondered why it was allowed to go on so long. I wondered why Lorraine was brought in for two weeks and we were all so happy and then the show got canceled. You could listen to the focus groups and see the ratings were dropping and know that someone was off. Knight: It's been a real roller coaster the last couple of years. We've been doing more with less [money], I think everybody's just sort of been biting the bullet to get through... It's been alternately rewarding and exciting and frustrating and humiliating. Different people came in and tried to adapt the show to ideas they thought were more exciting or whatever, and it didn't work. Then they brought Agnes just to tie everything up in a short amount of time. We've been working at an almost surreal pace. What do you think about the show continuing online? [Mathison and Lindsay Hartley on Monday signed on to the Web series, while Young and Morgan have joined The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless, respectively.] Nixon: Why wouldn't our fans watch online? You don't have to watch at 1 o'clock now - you can watch them any time of day and catch up on what you missed. I know it's a transition, but maybe the thing we're making is electronic history. There's no reason this won't work. The story is my world. I call it my real world of make-believe. These people live 24 hours a day for me, and I have no problems with anticipating and creating new stories. ... At the same time, until deals are done, I can't even start to think about plots until we know who we have to plot about. [As for Susan Lucci continuing with the show], she and I are very good friends, but neither one of us wants to talk about that; it's off limits. Lucci: I'll say this: it won't be All My Children if Agnes doesn't do it. Knight: I would say if there is a future for the characters we had on the show, it would have to be under Agnes or someone of her choosing because, for example, my character has been so marginalized over the years, I just don't see how he can carry forward with any relevance because it doesn't make sense... I'm not saying it's not possible, because Agnes is a miracle worker, but I would be surprised. I think she's seen real idiots come in and mess with her legacy and I think she's passionate about it. She could shake things up. You never know. Budig: I don't pooh-pooh anything, and I don't know what they're offering, so who knows? In my estimation, these people who own the show don't have to ask any of us to participate - it's a business and they own the show, they can do whatever they want. All My Children's Rebecca Budig: I wanted Leo and Greenlee to end up together What has been the most fun you've had on the show? Budig: I threw a girl off a yacht. I also remember I had this one dream that I was on Gilligan's Island and I was Mary Ann, and Leo was Gilligan ,and Palmer was in it. Palmer was Howell, and Leo's mom was the Mrs. Howell. There was the time I had to dress like a green butterfly trapeze artist. That might have been, when I was like, "Really, what have I done with my life?" Mathison: I loved my first story line. When I came on to the show, Ryan was broke, a con man. He meets Gillian (Esta TerBlanche), this princess from Europe that he thinks is loaded. She's hot, and Ryan just woos her and uses his charm to get her to fall for him, and he also tells her he's loaded. Meanwhile, he has no idea that she's broke and was also using him. So they get married for all the wrong reasons, and then find out they're both broke... but then, of course, they fall in love for all the right reasons. That was such a fun, smart story. Do you remember being hired on All My Children? Lucci: I remember my audition script. I remember everything. I came in Episode 10, and there were four of us, all playing teenagers, so that's already visionary Agnes in 1970 writing a show where each generation had a major storyline. I hadn't seen it before. I remember thinking Erica had the possibilities to be a modern-day Scarlett O'Hara. I was also moved by her relationship with her mother, Mona. I mean, they would have knock-down-drag-out fights. I have to tell you, my own mother and I loved their scenes, too. We would laugh because they rang true. Budig: I grew up watching the show, so when I started, I was like, "Oh my God. There's Erica! There's Adam!" It was bizarre because I felt like I knew them. I felt so honored, I still feel so honored. Mathison: Oh, totally. Completely. I was shooting in Toronto, I was pretty much the local Canadian guy in all of these American productions. I was on Studio 54 with Mike Meyers and Neve Campbell and Ryan Phillippe and Salma Hayek and I got the call that I had booked the part and I felt like so cool. And it's been a good life. It's maybe not everybody's ultimate goal in the world of acting. But for me, it's a really good fit for my priorities and what I like in life. Budig: Greenlee says the craziest things, I couldn't stay away. Who killed the soaps? 7 culprits including The Real Housewives, Farmville and James Franco All My Children is often cited as daytime's most topical soap. What issues are you most proud to have addressed? Budig: I liked when Fusion was started. I thought that was like...that was to me very different for daytime that these women were sort of taking over the canvas. I mean really. And it was so female dominated, which you just don't see. It's usually all about the men, and the women are all weak and kind of, I don't know, and I just think that on our show we have strong women. Nixon: You know, growing up as a child in the racist South, I would ride buses in which distinguished black men and ladies would have to walk past me to stand in the back of the bus. That really does have an effect on someone. We did stories about teenage prostitution, we were the first to deal with gay culture and having the first lesbian on daytime. We did a yearlong story on AIDS, alcoholism, child abuse... There's been a lot. Tell us what you can about how it all ends. Carruthers: What you get - and this was our No. 1 priority - is a sense of family. So, all of the families, whether they're at the height of dysfunction or they're most connected, all the families come together in one way or another. Our last week is a true tribute to the families that make up the canvas of Pine Valley. Trust me, you will need a Kleenex every day of the final week. Knight: Our major strength in soaps is legacy, the families and people who you get to know and invite into your living room 20 years in a row. They brought Agnes, which was a blessing for us because we get to revisit some of that legacy and that family stuff. The history of the show didn't mean so much for a while, for maybe the last 10 years. I get a curtain call that I don't think I would have without them. Lucci: Adam and Brooke are throwing a party in the final episode, and I was surrounded by the whole cast, so the setting was spectacular and perfect for the last day of shooting. I looked out to all the crew and just mentally took pictures of all of them. And then the last night was a real outpouring of love from the cast and the crew to Agnes. At the end, she said she wanted to sing a song that she felt was really appropriate and she wanted us to sing it with her. It was the Noel Coward song "I'll See You Again." She sang beautifully, and everyone joined in. I will say after that there wasn't a dry eye in the house. How sad are you that All My Children is ending? Will you watch it online?

Elton John Tunes Up Rocketman, An Element Film About His Legendary Music Career

EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Pictures partners Elton John and David Furnish are starting their most ambitious movie project, one which will inform the storyline of John’s illustrious musical career. They're joining with Billy Elliot scribe and playwright Lee Hall on Rocketman, that they are calling a biographical musical fantasy which will weave together John’s existence and the music. Rocket Pictures Steve Hamilton Shaw and Furnish will produce. John is going to be executive producer and can play an energetic role in developing a film which will follow his existence story from the child piano prodigy (who by age 11 won a scholarship towards the Royal Academy of Music) to some youthful guy who rebelled against his strict upbringing, used crazy costumes and grew to become a worldwide icon who teamed withsongwriter Bernie Taupin money records that nearly any musical artist of his era. Rocketman will mark the 2nd collaboration for John and Hall. When Hall modified the 2000 feature Billy Elliot for that West Finish, John authored the score for any production that gone to live in Broadway and won the Tony Award for the best Musical. They’re planning an inventive method to cover John’s existence and career: One device is to feature choreographed sequences using Johns greatest hit tunes. Individuals tunes will participate the film package and can drive a tale which will cover the rough spots in John’s journey of self-discovery. Rocketman is a significantly different type of biopic, Shaw stated. It will likely be as unique as Eltons existence, told inside a non-linear and hyper-visual manner which will transport people with the many intense encounters, some wonderful, some not, that assisted define Elton being an artist, music performer and guy. UTA is packaging the film, searching to put it together and sign a director as John and the cohorts try to determine who should play him. There may very well be different stars playing him at different age range. Stars that pop into my thoughts are Guy Pearce and Ewan McGregor. The project may come as Rocket Pictures is originating from the three dimensional animated family film hit Gnomeo & Juliet and it is developing Will Gallows and also the Lizard Bellied Troll, a movie thats being written and directed by Shrek 2s Kelly Asbury. Rocketman becomes the 2nd large-screen biopic of the legendary rock singerpenned by a b-list author. GK Films is continue using the Peter Morgan-scripted film about Full frontman Freddie Mercury, with Sacha Baron Cohen mounted on take part in the late singer. Rocket Pictures is repped by UTA, Hall by CAA.

James Cameron talks 3d at Summit

'Avatar' director James Cameron talks at Variety's 3d Entertainment Summit Wednesday in Hollywood.Audiences will be to break the guidelines against premium ticket prices for 3 dimensional, according to James Cameron, particularly for converted 3d game game titles."The means by which it's being completed, it is not 3d, it's 2.2D, or 2.4D," Cameron told everyone else at Variety's 3d Entertainment Summit.Cameron knows something about conversion. He's presently coping with Fox to produce a 3 dimensional version of his 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," a process that's costing the studio $18 million together with an entire year's time."In my opinion we're being launched with something that's 90% from the products it might have been whether or not this was shot in 3d, but that's not always being completed,Inch the helmer mentioned, watching that art galleries don't frequently desire to spend the money or perhaps the time on every conversion process. "Just like a filmmaker, I'd would rather shoot in 3d than become 3d to get the same outcome."Cameron spoke to Variety's David Cohen along with Vince Pace, with whom Cameron can be a partner inside the Cameron/Pace GroupThe decision if you should shoot in 3d or convert is generally an economic problem. Art galleries, Cameron states, frequently decide to shove conversion in to a publish-production process to shave money from the cost of the movie.InchIt has been shoehorned in to a postproduction process and there's neither time or perhaps the money to make it happen right," Cameron states. "Without warning, the director continues to be told the film must maintain 3d however, you cannot shoot it in 3d. That in my opinion can be a complete misapplication of 3d as you've just removed all the creativity you'll be able to haveat happens of photography."Part of the problem, according to him, is always that conversion is really a more compact quantity of an objective, automatic process in comparison to art galleries consider."There is not some miracle wand software that does itit's lots of artists sitting at screens employing their subjective judgment."The time and money needed to carry out a 3d conversion right is part of the Cameron/Pace enterprize model. The duo are supplying a certification program that aims to provide quality assurance for producers and art galleries. While using Cameron-Pace certification -- that takes a persistence for use Cameron-Pace gear exclusively -- a production company can promise the organization behind the 3 dimensional images in "Avatar" will probably be coping with them. Evergreen Art galleries is the first to get the CPG certification."We compete against our personal vision from the products happens next," Pace told everyone else. "We're like backyard drag racers. We build the automobile and then we race the automobile.InchThe parallel to 3D's path, states Cameron, is TV broadcasting. The ubiquity of color Televisions inside the sixties forced the art galleries to start making films colored, a celebration which Cameron comes even close to changes inside the 3d landscape."At first it absolutely was just the large movies then color TV showed up too as with twelve several weeks, every movie reaches color since they must be, since they did not have library value once they didn'tit's exactly the same factor (with 3d)."Meaning more content designed for use at your home soon. Really, the broadcast chance of 3d photos over the following few years affected Cameron how he preferred to shoot the next installment of "Avatar." The director initially preferred to shoot at 48 fps, ultimately identifying on 60 fps when he recognized that audiences would be capable of view that in your house. Nevertheless the helmer doesn't thinks 3d should be limited for the large-budget photos. While using the technology moderately in the drama, Cameron contended, might help everyone else feel an closeness while using figures they wouldn't enter 2D.For just about any relatively small cost, you've had an enormous impact on everyone else. But this is the one factor that everybody are actually missing."While people intimate moments come in large studio films, they might be surpassed with the action and flair from the "Avatar" or "Titanic" in 3d.Like many sound system within the conference, Cameron and Pace poopoohed the concept that 3d isn't succeeding, fighting the 3 dimensional box office expires 40% yearly in the last four years. Really, with elevated 3d photos unspooling than previously, some exhibs still don't have sufficient screens fitted showing all the product available.The theaters, frankly, aren't maintaining," Cameron mentioned, adding the participants are "cannibalizing business from each other," forcing a couple of from the 3d ticket sales to go to 2D screens.We must double lower on the quantity of screens ... (but) I believe that it is an issue from it a rise discomfort and not a contraction."Perception and reality have diverged mostly due to the media trying to spin an account that's a detrimental story," Pace added. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

Exclusive: Josh Jackson Heads for the Side of Comics

Beyond the Fringe, Electricity Comics He may have evaporated within the finish of last season, but that doesn't mean Fringe's Peter Bishop can be a guy of leisure within the ether. While Cortexi-fans are actually waiting to find out exactly how Peter plays into the year (beginning this Friday at 9/8c on Fox), his portrayer, Josh Jackson, remains busy used in an alt-arena of another kind: Comics. Photo Gallery: Exclusive consider first the most recent Fringe comicJackson recently composed "Beyond the Fringe" for your latest problem in the show-inspired comic, that's designed for digital download within the Electricity Comics website or their mobile application beginning today at 2pm ET. However when the idea of waiting 'til then has you twitchier when compared to a shapeshifter carrying out a plate of jalapenos, we've exclusive previews in the cover and a pair of pages from Jackson's animated effort to suit your needs the next! Despite the fact that there is probably not any dialogue incorporated on these pages, you will discover a few items that seem to hint at what may have gone lower while Petey was strapped into that doomsday machine. Have a very gander here.Like any particular item? Reveal below and we'll spread the information to Walter and Liv... once they even remember who Peter is.Connect with download via Electricity Comics application oniTunesLink to download via Electricity Comics application onAndroidSubscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Netflix Stock -9.4% As Wall Street Miracles How Low Sometimes It Can Go

Reed Hastings’ Apology Does Not Stop Stock Slide Hastings States “I Screwed Up” DVD Unit Will Split, Rebrand As Qwikster The Netflix situation has become frightening. The stock was lower another 9.4% today, to $129.66. Which means the organization has lost 55.4% of their value since This summer 11, yesterday it introduced its decision to separate the streaming video service from DVD rental fees — boosting the subscription cost by 60% for individuals who still want both.Yesterday, Boss Reed Hastings apologized for his PR blunder by attempting to ignore this. Headdingthat the DVD-rental business may have a brand new title, Qwikster, and start to rent game titles too. How low can Netflixgo? Caris & Co analyst David Burns todayslashed his targetprice to $103 from $185 making his second downgrade per week. Last Friday, he consideredNetflix an “above average” investment. Nowhe states it’s”below average,” observing thatthe odds thatthe company will quickly have its first quarter with $1B in revenues — which some experts have expected — “are now fleeting at best.”Lazard Capital Marketplaces’ Barton Crockett, who's neutral around the stock,known as the Qwikster decision a “stumble” adding that lots of customers will “be confused and not discover the Qwikster website.” But Barclays Capital’s Anthony DiClemente maintained his recommendation for traders to “overweight” Netflix stock that they states could hit $260: Although moving the DVD business off into Qwikster “does add uncertainty” for the short term, he notes it frees Netflix to create better choices for video streaming — including methods to optimize its interface for apple iphones and iPads.

CameronPace Previewing New Cirque du Soleil three dimensional Movie

our editor recommendsJames Cameron Thinking of getting 60 Fps for 'Avatar' Sequels (Exclusive)James Cameron 'Fully Intends' to create 'Avatar 2 and 3' at Greater Frame Rates James Cameron and Vince Pace, co-founders and co-chairmen of Cameron Pace Group, have began to preview 39 minutes of stunning new footageof a Cirque du Soleil three dimensional movie, directed by Andrew Adamson and shot using CPG's Fusion three dimensional camera system, for industry audiences. The development, which does not possess a title, is really a partnership between Cameron, Adamson and Cirque du Soleil and utilizes a new story like a device to weave together functions from various Cirque du Soleil shows, for example Ka, using its weather fight on the vertical stage, and O, water-designed production which includes an acrobatic act on the ship that floats over the pool of water. "The entertainers have been in risk the whole time,Inch Cameron stated from the shows. "The three dimensional camera will get right available online for using the entertainers, you are feeling the peak when they're carrying out 90 ft over the floor. The thing is the astonishing physicality from the performance--the strength, the sophistication, the wonder.Inch The multi-camera production was lensed both throughout actual performances in addition to throughout separate shoots. "We combined all the latest technology innovation with this production. The footage is spectacular," Pace stated. "CPG shipped 'Slate2Screen' services including 23 Fusion three dimensional systems along with a new underwater Fusion three dimensional system, Fusion H2O/20." The Fusion three dimensional camera system has been utilized on productions from Avatar to Attacking Young Boys: Never Say Not to coverage of live occasions like the recent US Open tennis championship. Theatrical distributers for that Cirque du Soliel production haven't yet been introduced. Related Subjects three dimensional James Cameron

Gorilla franchises

Art galleries love franchises. Inside an economy where handful of the situation is certain, art galleries can depend on obligations from the popular film series to produce them not just ticket sales laminator tl901 office but revenue work from home entertainment earnings and selling rights. As well as the profits move in each and every year since the art galleries re-release the Digital video disks and Blu-sun sun rays and license property out for more products. Three of the extremely lucrative franchises in the marketplace today make the most of pre-existing fan bases hungry for each new installment.HARRY POTTER(Warner Bros.)Plot: Orphaned Harry Potter realizes he's a wizard within the ripe ages of 11 and begins their studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry inside the first film modified from J.K. Rowling's blockbuster quantity of books. Throughout the time from the following seven films, Potter must overcome numerous spells, challenges and adolescence. In a really lucrative move, Warner Bros. split the ultimate film into two obligations.Total Investment: $1.155 billion in production costs for eight films. Worldwide advertising between 1998 and 2007 thought at greater than $390 million.Total Return: $7.643 billion worldwide box office $2.282 billion for U.S. B.O. Home theatre trading for your first four films: $624 million.PIRATES In The CARIBBEAN(Wally Disney)Plot: Based on Disney's "Pirates in the Caribbean" theme park ride, the franchise tales the exploits of Captain Jack Sparrow (The Actor-kaira Pitt) while he searches for his ship, attempts to lift numerous curses placed upon him, and finally continues a mission for your Elixir of youth.Total Investment: $915 million in production costs for four films.Total Return: $3.723 billion worldwide box office $1.278 billion in U.S. box office Greater than $860 million work from home entertainment trading for your first three films.TWILIGHT(Summit)Plot: "Twilight" films, modified from Stephenie Meyer's greatly popular book series, follow Edwards Friend Jacob and vampire A Vampire Named Edward simply because they begin a relationship that soon involves werewolf Edwards Friend Jacob, creating a dark love triangular. Taking a page in the "Harry Potter" guide, the ultimate novel will probably be put into two parts, with one being launched in the finish of 2011 as well as the last in 2012.Total Investment: $155 million in production costs for first three films.Total Return: Greater than $1.8 billion in worldwide box office and $792.3 million in U.S. box office. Over $900 million in worldwide home theatre trading and $500 million in U.S. Additional "Twilight Saga" merchandise -- roughly $650 million worldwide. Related links: Traders going steady Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Dustin Hoffman Picks A Quartet

He's directin' here!Dustin Hoffman has brought his talents to the screen and stage for nearly five decades but, unlike many A-listers, he's bided his time before trying this hand on the other side of the camera. The biding*, however, is at an end. Hoffman gets the cameras rolling on Quartet, his debut feature, this week in Buckinghamshire. The actor-turned-helmer has assembled a terrific cast of British acting talent - many of whose careers span those five same decades - including Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly and Pauline Collins. Courtenay, Connolly and Collins play three ex-opera stars who live together in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Every year they throw a party to celebrate the birthday of Giuseppe Verdi. This year, however, their plans are thrown into flux by the arrival of Jean Horton (Smith), a former grande dame of the opera who's run into hard times. Cue a resurfacing of historic grudges, a unsentimental look at ageing, and, we'd assume, a fair amount of warbling. Maggie Smith, for one, has a fair set of lungs on her, as anyone who's seen Oh! What A Lovely War will testify. Ronald Harwood, an Oscar winner for his adaptation of The Pianist, has adapted his own stage play for the screen. * Is this even a word? Please to let us know....

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The Stars of the UFC Name Their Picks For MMA's Real-Life 'Warriors' (VIDEO)

Mixed martial arts -- the hard-hitting, tough-as-nails combat sport that has gained legions of fans in recent years -- will receive an even brighter spotlight this weekend with the release of 'Warrior.' The film -- starring Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as two down-on-their-luck brothers who enter the ring to raise some cash -- takes the classic underdog sports story and applies it to the brutal game of strikes and submissions. 'Warrior' is sure to spark the curiosity of a few audience members who want to check out the next UFC event, but which real-life warriors are worth following? Our friends at MMA Fighting interviewed some of the sport's toughest fighters at the recent UFC fight night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to find out who they think is the ultimate "warrior" in mixed martial arts -- and then asked if they would ever fight their own brothers for money. If you're a new fan looking to check out some great fights, you might want to remember names like Chris Leben and Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera. And you also might want to just stay out of Forrest Griffin's way.

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