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Casting Bites: Yeardley Smith Goes to 'High School' & More

17 November 2008 3:15 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Just a month ago, we learned that Adrien Brody and Michael Chiklis were heading back to High School -- a rather unique comedy about a high school valedictorian (Matt Bush) who gets high with the school stoner (Sean Marquette), and then tries to use his smarts to get out of an upcoming drug test. Rather then messing with his own results, he schemes to get the entire school stoned to beat the system. Brody's the drug dealer, Chiklis is the principal, and now The Hollywood Reporter posts that Lisa Simpson, aka Yeardley Smith, will play a homeroom teacher while Luis Chavez (Crash) plays a druggie friend of the valedictorian.

Meanwhile, Variety reports that Navy NCIS actress Cote de Pablo is making the jump to the big screen with Scott Speedman's The Last Rites of Ransom Pride. The Calgary Herald describes it as "a violent ransom about a woman trying

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Monika Bartyzel

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Darrell Scott -- Modern Hymns

13 November 2008 8:29 AM, PST | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news

Darrell Scott's Modern Hymns gets my vote for Best Bluegrass Album of 2008. Here "bluegrass" is used loosely, and is a catchall term for music anchored by acoustic guitars, fiddles, and dobros. It certainly doesn't fit within the fairly narrow strictures of the genre. But Scott, best known as a songwriter (Tricia Yearwood, Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks) and sideman (Steve Earle) is a soulful, nuanced singer, and here he lends his pipes to songs written by pretty much the whole Sixties/Seventies Folkie Pantheon -- Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, John Hartford, Guy Clark, Mickey Newbury, and Kris Kristofferson, for starters.

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Tim McGraw to Host His First 'Saturday Night Live'

10 November 2008 10:39 PM, PST | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

It has been set that Tim McGraw will host "Saturday Night Live" on November 22. With the stint, he becomes one of the few country stars who have ever hosted the show apart from Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Johnny Cash.

The news came straight from McGraw's spokesperson Jesse Schmidt who said that the singer will stick to the hosting duties and occasional sketch, but not performing. The musical guest on the episode will be Ludacris and T-Pain. "I'm looking forward to hosting the show," Tim said. "I'm not exactly known for my comedy, but then again, if you've been to one of my shows, you might feel differently."

This would be the first time for McGraw to appear on the show.

This weekend on the November 15 episode, Paul Rudd whose latest movie "Role Models" hit the U.S. theaters on Friday, November 7, will host the show

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Heath Ledger Interviewed by The Inside Reel

9 August 2008 11:20 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

The Inside Reel recorded a really nice interview with the late Heath Ledger on his role in the Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There” by director Todd Haynes and starring Christian Bale from “The Dark Knight” , Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Ben Whishaw, Kris Kristofferson and Heath Ledger as Robbie. Synopsis: Director Todd Haynes’s unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don’t Look Back era incarnation; Heath Ledger, as an actor playing one of the fictional Dylan’s in a movie within the movie; Christian Bale, [...]

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Faun Fables

28 July 2008 9:05 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables does some serious straddling. On one hand, she's affiliated with the avant-folk ensemble Sleepytime Gorilla Musuem, whose Nils Frykdahl is also a member of her band; on the other, she's lately been playing Rita Coolidge to Will Oldham's Kris Kristofferson (minus, presumably, the kissing and stuff). Her own material leans toward the former: Twisted and bittersweet, Faun Fables' A Table Forgotten is a four-song concept Ep about the psychic tides of home and hearth. Domestication might not seem like the edgiest subject matter—and indeed, tracks like "With Words & Cake" and "Pictures" come across more like art-school projects than warm reminiscences. But the tension McCarthy creates between intellect and sentiment is stunning: The disc's title track is a veritable prairie-opera combining acoustic guitars, woodwinds, Nico-esque iciness, and earth-toned sketches of candlelit meals in bucolic kitchens. The closer, "Winter Sleep," strays from the concept—it.

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Jason Heller

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