Wednesday, March 4, 2009

News Round-up: GL Stars To Wed, Martha Byrne, Wes Ramsey

Wes Ramsey joins the cast of DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Ramsey (ex-Sam, GL) reports to work at DAYS tomorrow in a role the show is keeping under wraps. The actor first caught the eye of producers last year when he came in to read at the time they were casting for Brady and Rafe.

Felicity to Marcia: Stay Away From New MELROSE PLACE!
"Oh God, no!" Huffman said with a laugh at the premiere of her new movie, Phoebe in Wonderland, when asked if she'd like to see her DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES costar pop up on the MP remake. "She's done it. She's a brilliant actress. She's on to new things."

GL's Bogue and Bruno to marry
Real-life sweethearts and GUIDING LIGHT co-stars Rob Bogue (Mallet) and Mandy Bruno (Marina) recently announced their engagement. The couple has been dating for over a year and plan to marry in Spring of 2010. "Rob's the love of my life," Bruno told Soap Opera Digest in the Feb. 17 issue.

Their characters married on GL in December.

Iranian police arrest pornographic film actors
Police in Iran have arrested a group of mostly female actors who were making pornographic films, a crime that carries the death penalty under the country's Islamic laws, local media reported today. The arrests were made at a house in a middle-class area in the east of Tehran, the pro-reformist website Fararu said. The website did not specify how many actors had been detained, but said most were "beautiful young women".

The legislation states that "producers" and "main elements" of such works could be sentenced as "corrupters of the world", a phrase from the Qu'ran referring to those considered deserving of the death penalty for their crimes. The law followed an outcry over the widespread distribution of an illicit DVD showing Zahra Amir Ebrahimi, a well-known Iranian soap opera star, apparently having sex with her former boyfriend.

Danniella Westbrook returning to EASTENDERS?
Westbrook could be returning to the soap as producers are in talks to bring back old character Sam Mitchell. Show chiefs want vixen Sam to come back to cause havoc for her former husband Ricky Butcher and his ex Bianca, according to The Sun. Westbrook left the show in 2000 after a battle with cocaine addiction and was later replaced by Kim Medcalf, but BBC bosses have thought about bringing back Westbrook as a "shock" for viewers.

EVENT: Byrne, Seganti, Tunie
Former AS THE WORLD TURNS star Martha Byrne is doing a reading of one act plays for the Epic Theatre Company in NYC on April 17th and 18th at 8:00pm. She will be joined by Elizabeth Hubbard, Paolo Seganti and Tamara Tunie on stage. After the performance there will be a screening of the short movie Bye, Bye, Sally she executive produced that stars Malin Ackerman and Paolo Seganti. Paul Leyden wrote and directed the film.

Byrne is currently in the middle of a three month trial as a writer for THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. Her first scripts air on April 14 and May 5.

Why LIFE ON MARS was bound to die
Like the British version, the LIFE ON MARS concept was never meant to go too long, says Tim Goodman. "And," he adds, "people lost sight, in the American version, of the fact that the series is first and foremost about existentialism."

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