Monday, September 14, 2009

News Round-up: Joosten, Ball, Forbes, Sloan

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' Kathryn Joosten Has Lung Cancer
"I've got a little hang-up here," Joosten tells PEOPLE exclusively of the diagnosis she received less than a week ago, "but we're going to handle it and move forward. I'm doing great."

The actress, 69, who already won a bout with lung cancer in 2001, broke the news to her HOUSEWIVES producers Monday morning as she expects her shooting schedule could be interrupted for treatment. "They're totally supportive," she says. "I said, 'If you want to put it in the story line, do it! Tell anybody you want, because the public's going to know.' "

No soap opera can replace GUIDING LIGHT
Veronica Van Dress of the Canton Repository writes: "When GUIDING LIGHT goes dark Friday after the final episode airs, I and countless others will be forced into an unsolicited withdrawal."

GL's Tina Sloan on GOOD DAY ATLANTA


PHOTOS: "My Big Gay Italian Wedding"
On Saturday, September 12th, 2009 Anthony Wilkinson along with ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Scott Evans starred in the off-Broadway show "My Big Gay Italian Wedding." The one night performance was a benefit for the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

INTERVIEW: TRUE BLOOD creator Alan Ball
"I try to look at the show as basically almost like it’s a novel, and each episode is a chapter. I guess I’m influenced by the fact that when I watch TV shows, I watch the [DVD] boxed sets. Ultimately, it’s just organically the way it worked out. And the season finale last year was very similar."

Michelle Forbes: TRUE BLOOD's Orgy Scenes Can Be ‘Just Another Day at Work’
"It sort of flip-flopped between very disturbing and just another day at work, as odd as that sounds. You just sort of get used to it and everybody was very respectful … At one of the orgies there was this bunny — there was a rabbit, who was just sitting there staring at us. We all kept saying, 'Look that bunny’s still there.' And after about 45 minutes, I thought, 'Maybe he’s hurt,' and I started to walk over to it and it took two hops and I was like, 'Nope, he’s just a pervert.' … He was pervy Peter Rabbit!"

BBC America explains the editing of Emily and Naomi's sex scene on SKINS
"Sex scenes — gay or straight — are sometimes reduced in length on screen, but never to the detriment of the storyline. Be assured, the same guidelines applied to the scene with Naomi and Emily have also been applied to heterosexual sex scenes in SKINS."

Patrick Swayze Dies At 57
Patrick Swayze died in Los Angeles Monday after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

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