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Paramount recently released a series of images for their upcoming show "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy," and Trekkies are already poring over them, looking for clues, details, and character quirks that might more closely inform them as to what kind of series we'll be looking forward to. The cast for the series has already been announced, and it will include Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, Zoë Steiner, and Sandro Rosta as its central Starfleet Cadets. None of their characters' names have been released yet, but we'll know them soon enough.

The cast will also include Tig Notaro, reprising her role as Jett Reno from "Star Trek: Discovery," as well as Robert Picardo, reprising his role as The Doctor from "Star Trek: Voyager." Trekkies can tell you that "Voyager" is set a good 815 years before the 32nd century of "Starfleet Academy," but the Doctor is a hologram and, as we now see,...

Some of the most popular sitcoms of all time came out of the eighties. Shows like M.A.S.H., Cheers, The Cosby Show and Family Ties won accolades and dominated the ratings. Even Seinfeld started in the eighties. Unfortunately, this left room for plenty of other sitcoms of the era to slip through the cracks.

Decades after those well-known classic sitcoms ruled the airwaves, some of the shows that didnt warrant as much attention at the time still hold up, and some are even more relevant now than when they first aired. There are plenty of great old-school laughs to be found; audiences just need to know where to look.

An Unlikely Couple Raises a Teenage Girl in New York My Two Dads (1987 1990)

My Two Dads tells the story of Nicole Bradford, a 12-year-old who is sent to live with two men, each of whom could potentially be her biological father. One of the men,...

Bottle episodes allowed Star Trek: The Next Generation to produce lower-budget episodes by utilizing preexisting sets and the regular cast, resulting in fun and fascinating adventures. Some standout bottle episodes include "Suddenly Human," "Where Silence Has Lease," and "A Matter of Perspective," each exploring different concepts and characters within the confines of the USS Enterprise-d. These bottle episodes showcased the strengths of the Enterprise-d and the compelling and likable crew of Tng, making for compelling and enjoyable storytelling.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew on Star Trek: The Next Generation visited many strange new worlds, but some truly great episodes took place almost entirely on board the USS Enterprise-d. Exploring space can get expensive, and when Tng did a particularly high-budget episode, such as a period piece or a CGI-heavy space battle, producers would need to make low-budget episodes to offset the cost. This often resulted in bottle...

Robbie Bachman, the drummer for Bachman–Turner Overdrive who powered the band’s biggest hits including “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” and “Takin’ Care of Business,” has died. He was 69.

Randy Bachman, the drummer’s brother and bandmate, confirmed the news on Twitter Thursday night. “Another sad departure,” he wrote. “The pounding beat behind Bto, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad & brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff Beck needs a drummer! He was an integral cog in our rock ‘n’ roll machine and we rocked the world together.

Jen Shah from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City learned the fate of her co-conspirators as each was sentenced before her. Bravo fans will recall that Jen was arrested during Rhoslc season 2 as she tried to outrun the FBI on charges of committing wire fraud and money laundering. For months, the mother of two has stated she was not guilty, only to change her plea to guilty in July.

As Jen gets ready for her sentencing and crosses her fingers that she is given only three years, @bravobravoduckingbravo shared how other members of the case fared. While prosecutors are aiming for Jen to be held for at least 10 years behind bars, her former assistant, Stewart Smith, won't be sentenced until the very end. The outlet showed a list of "Tier A" defendants, which showed that Carl Morris was sentenced to 6.5 years and that Ryan Mult was given five years.

The stars of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman – Jane Seymour and Joe Lando – are reuniting to play two new characters in a modern-day holiday movie, A Christmas Spark. It's one of three new movies set to come to Lifetime during the holidays this year.

A Western drama series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman stars Seymour, Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Jessica Bowman, and Shawn Toovey. The show ran for 150 episodes and six seasons on CBS, from 1993 until 1998. The story is set in the 1860s and follows Dr. Michaela Quinn (Seymour), a female physician from Boston who moves to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to practice medicine. After the death of her midwife, she becomes a mother figure to three children. She also falls in love with outdoorsman Byron Sully (Lando). The cast reunited for two TV movies which were released in 1999 and...

Deidre Hall and Shannen Doherty, who appeared with Wilford Brimley on the 1980s NBC series Our House, lovingly remembered him in Instagram posts Sunday.

Our House ran for two seasons on NBC from 1986 to 1988. The drama detailed the life of the Witherspoons, a family adjusting to three generations living in the same house.

On Our House, Brimley portrayed retired widower Gus Witherspoon, who took in his late son’s family, including daughter-in-law Jessie (played by Hall) and grandchildren Kris (Shannen Doherty), David (Chad Allen), and Molly (Keri Houlihan).

Brimley died at age 85 on Saturday in St. George, Utah after suffering from a kidney issue for two months.

“We lost a great one yesterday,” Hall wrote. “Every day with Wilford was a life lesson. Heaven just got a lot more interesting.”

Later, Shannen Doherty posted her own Instagram tribute.

“I met Wilford when we did Our House together,” Doherty wrote. “He...

Nycc 2019 The Expanse Season 4 Trailer Amazon Prime‘s The Expanse: Season 4 teaser trailer 2 has been released at the 2019 New York Comic Con and stars Frankie Adams, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Chad Allen, Cas Anvar, and Wes Chatham. Plot Synopsis The Expanse: Season 4’s plot synopsis: based on the novels by James S.A. Corey, “Season 4 [...]

Continue reading: The Expanse: Season 4 Teaser Trailer 2: JFK’s Narrates Man’s Exploration Beyond the Ring Gate [Amazon, Nycc 2019]...

1979: Ryan's Hope's Delia threated Johnny.

1980: Y&R's Leslie wanted to remember a secret from her past.

1991: As the World Turns' Ellen found out her husband had died.

1996: All My Children's Julia was visited by her Fairy Godmother."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

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1950: On radio soap opera The Guiding Light, Ted White (James Monk) told his wife, Meta (Jone Allison), he didn't think she...

My Two Dads is back. Sitcoms Online reports both Up TV and Antenna TV are now airing re-runs of the 1980s NBC sitcom.Created by Michael Jacobs and Danielle Alexandra, the show starred Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan as two former friends who are awarded joint custody of a young girl. The cast also included Staci Keanan, Chad Allen, Giovanni Ribisi, Florence Stanley, and Dick Butkus. The comedy ran for three seasons before NBC cancelled it in 1990.Read More…...

When it comes to horror and sci-fi movies from 1986, there are several milestone titles that always come to mind first: Aliens, The Fly, Blue Velvet, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Manhunter, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, or even Psycho III, just to name a few. But like any great year of cinema, there are always a few underrated gems that get overshadowed along the way and should receive a little extra love. Here are six films from 1986 that I think deserve to be on every genre fan’s radar:

F/X: A movie about a special effects artist who gets mixed up in a government conspiracy, at a time when practical effects were in their heyday? Yes, please. F/X isn’t a film I hear a ton of folks talk about, but it has been on cable a lot lately, which means I’ve spent a few nights revisiting it,...

Dr. Quinn is back! Sort of. Thanks to Funny or Die, we now know what a gritty Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman reboot would like. It's Dr. Quinn meets Breaking Bad. She is the one who knocks. Jane Seymour reprised her Emmy-nominated role for the new video and she was joined by several of her former costars including Joe Lando, Jonelle Allen and Chad Allen. We're getting some serious 1990s nostalgia over here! Dr. Quinn was known for using morphine—hey, it was the mid-1800s after all—so what happens when all the townsfolk become addicts? She slaps on a pair of Walter White-esque glasses and embraces her new drug lord persona, as TV characters are known to do. The original Dr. Quinn,...

Birthday shoutouts go to Chad Allen (above), who is 40, Kenny G is 58, Suze Orman is 63, Pete Wentz is 35, and Laurie Anderson is 67.

Unable to make a deal with any TV entity, The Daytime Emmy Awards will instead be livestreamed. The ceremony will be held on Jun 22nd.

Kellan Lutz and Malin Akerman will both be reprising their roles when The Comeback returns.

What Jenny McCarthy Needs to Learn From Jonah Hill: How to Say, ‘I F’d Up’

EW has a couple of pics of Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. It comes out in November.

Jason Collins on how “It Got Better.”

Well, I guess One Million Moms will have to stick to lightly toasted white bread in the morning.

Being brave enough to be yourself. #LuckytoBe Original pic.twitter.com/kDlOblpfh5

— Lucky Charms (@LuckyCharms) June 5, 2014

This year’s Tony Nominee men pose at the...

Taking "Dancing with the Stars" back to the teenage years, Danica McKellar and Candace Cameron-Bure are seen costarring together in the 1990 TV movie "Camp Cucamonga," long before taking their battles to the dance floor.

Also adding to the 1990's nostalgia, "Camp Cucamonga," features the talents of "Friends" beauty, Jennifer Aniston, "Family Matters" stud Jaleel White, who starred as the beloved Steve Urkel, "The Wonder Years"' Josh Saviano and finally "My Two Dads" actor Chad Allen.

Cameron Bure, smiling in the clip and wearing her signature "Full House" hairdo, gets jealous of Danica's dance skills, whcih appear superior to her own. Cameron is then seen trying to master dance moves for the group's performance, and McKellar's character arrives to lend a hand, only to replace her without warning.

The two dancing stunners eventually put aside their differences in order to film a music video at the camp, but Cameron can't...

Dancing With the Stars flashback! Turns out, long before Danica McKellar and Candace Cameron Bure began battling it out on the ballroom floor, the two costarred together in the 1990 TV movie Camp Cucamonga, in which they played rival campers. Oh, and in case two of the most beloved '90s TV stars appearing in a 1990 television movie isn't enough to make you feel nostalgic, then let us point out that the flick also features a star-studded cast, which includes A-lister Jennifer Aniston, Family Matters' Jaleel White (aka Steve Urkel), The Wonder Years' Josh Saviano and My Two Dads' Chad Allen. In the clip, a young Cameron Bure, who is sporting her signature Full House bangs, is seen getting...

Birthday shoutouts go to Chad Allen (above), who is 39, and Suze Orman is 62.

Justin Chatwin will not be returning for Season Four of Shameless.

Speaking of Showtime, they’ve announced that the Season Three finale of The Borgias on June 16th will also be the series finale.

Chandler Massey and Freddie Smith will be presenters at the Daytime Emmy Awards, Sunday, June 16th at 8Pm Et on Hln.

Gay 11-Year-Old’s Petition Against Homophobic Politician Succeeds.

Adam Lambert, Darren Criss, and many others have joined the Friend Movement, which “was created to help show positive anti-bully images through art and media. Images of people of all ages, race, gender, sexuality, and spirituality that invoke inspiration & conversation. Friend movement inspires people to prevent bullying by enabling them to be a better friend.”

The 2013 Cmt Music Awards are on tonight at 8pm Eastern and NewNowNext has The Ten Hottest Guys In Country Music.

Here's a Planet Fury-approved selection of notable genre DVD releases for the months of February and March 2013.

The Blob (1958) Criterion Collection Blu-ray & DVD Available Now

This entertaining low-budget favorite gets some well-deserved respect from the folks at Criterion. A gelatinous creature from outer space begins to devour the inhabitants of a small town. Each time it consumes a new body, it grows bigger. A couple of teens (including the wooden Steve McQueen) attempt to warn the town and save the population from certain blech! Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. directs the mayhem with a sure hand while Bart Sloane's great special effects still pack a punch. Followed by the bizarre comedy sequel, Son of Blob, in the early ’70s (directed by Larry Hagman!) and a great, underrated remake in 1988 by Chuck Russell.

Special Features:

* New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

* Two audio commentaries: one by producer Jack H. Harris...

You heard the prompt: The 10 Hottest Former Child Stars. Can I confess something? It's harder to think of these than you think!

Let's face it, everybody's looks peak at a certain point, and if you're a child actor, there's a distinct chance you'll look your best at age 11. That's not the case with these 10 gents, who've grown up into seriously studly creatures. Here they are, ranked and ready for scrutiny.

10. Jonathan Lipnicki

The Jerry Maguire kid apparently enjoys the gym. The onetime kid star's body is basically an adamantium sheath, and he's also perfected his photogenic stoicism.

9. Chad Allen

Yes to gay child actors who come out, and Yes specifically to alums of the 1990 TV movie Camp Cucamonga, which I consider the Gone With the Wind of summer camp movies featuring G. Gordon Liddy in a supporting role. Chad's hot, out, and readily shirtless. Phew.

8. Devon Sawa

The onetime Casper...

Birthday shoutouts go to Brendan Fraser (above), who is 44, Daryl Hannah is 52, and Ozzy Osbourne is 64. Below you can see "Shot In The Dark," which is not only one of his greatest songs, but also his funniest video.

Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit is a true friend and a class act. Speaking of royalty ... guess who's preggers?In ratings news, the winter finale of Once Upon A Time held steady, while the winter finale of Revenge was up 9%, stemming weeks of losses.Dane DeHaan will play Harry Osborne in the next Spider-Man movie. 8 Destinations in 2013 For Lgbt Travelers To Visit -- Or Avoid.For the first time in its history, Jet Magazine will feature a male gay couple in its wedding section.The NYPD says, "It Gets Better."

Wha-wha-wha-what?

Speaking of posters, here's the first one for the the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness.

Which some are saying is a little too reminiscent of this.

In a very short period of time, Scream Factory has become the number one company to watch for cult horror releases. They have new titles planned every month and, in February, we’ll see the release of TerrorVision, The Video Dead, and Prison. We covered the initial announcement and we’re back with details on the presentation, bonus features, and cover artwork:

“Scream Factory™ invites loyal fans and collectors to embark on a journey filled with thrills, chills and 80s high-camp spills when Prison (starring Viggo Mortensen in an early career role) and a double feature presentation of Terrorvision and The Video Dead debut on home entertainment shelves everywhere on February 19, 2013. Prison Collector’s Edition and Terrorvision/ The Video Dead Double Feature are presented in Two Blu-ray + DVD combo packs. Each boasts original theatrical key art, anamorphic widescreen movie presentation and exciting bonus content.

Available for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD,...

Scream Factory have announced, via their Facebook page, the extras on the upcoming collector’s edition Blu-ray & DVD combos of Prison and the double feature Bd & DVD combo pairing of Terrorvision and The Video Dead – both of which are coming soon on February 19th 2013.

Prison:

Commentary with Director Renny Harlin Hard Time: The Making of “Prison” – An all-new retrospective with Director Renny Harlin, Producer Irwin Yablans, Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner, Actor Tom Everett, Stunt Coordinator Kane Hodder, Special Makeup Effects Creator John Carl Buechler, Executive Producer Charles Band, Composer Richard Band, Production Designer Philip Duffin, and Production Assistant Patrick Denver U.S. Theatrical Trailer, Poster & Still Gallery and Original First-Draft Screenplay (Pdf format)

Terrorvision:

Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Ted Nicolaou and Stars Diane Franklin and Jon Gries Monsters on Demand: The Making of “Terrorvision” – An all-new retrospective with Writer/Director Ted Nicolaou, Stars Gerrit Graham, Mary Woronov,...

There are oodles of ways to end a TV series. Marriage! Death! Birth! Flashforward! It was all a dream! Ambiguous cut to black! In 1988, though, St. Elsewhere truly shook things up and gave us one of the most talked-about series finales in history with “the snow globe.” After watching six Emmy-nominated seasons of drama — medical and emotional, dark and light, envelope-pushing and heartstring-pulling — at the run-down St. Eligius, we were led to believe in the finale’s last scene that the entire show was actually a product of the imagination of (construction worker?) Donald Westphall’s autistic son, who was...

Birthday shoutouts go to Chad Allen (above), who is 38, Laurie Anderson is 65, Suze Orman is 61, Kenny G is 56, and Mark Wahlberg is 41.41 Shirtless Pictures Of Mark Wahlberg For His 41st BirthdayClive Barker will write and direct Zombies Vs. Gladiators, which is about, well ... zombies vs. gladiators. "A shaman about to die in the Coliseum casts a spell that rouses history’s first wave of zombies. It’s up to a gladiator to stop the spread of the zombie horde and save Rome."The Critics Choice TV Award Nominations have been announced, with the usual suspects, and a few welcome surprises, including Casey Wilson and Damon Wayans Jr. nominated for Happy Endings.I want a baby! Why? So I can buy The Walking Dead Onesie. Ninth Circuit Denies Request to Rehear Prop 8 Case, So What Happens Now? Today in really unnecessary remakes: Police Academy. Maybe they can find a new guy...

"Dallas" (CBS, 1986): Soap operas had brought characters back from the dead before, but never so audaciously as this prime-time sudser did in its ninth-season finale, in which Pam Ewing (Victoria Principal) awoke to find her presumed-dead husband, Bobby (Patrick Duffy), alive and well in the shower. It turned out that Bobby's death and all the events that followed -- basically all of Season 9 -- were nothing but a dream Pam had.

"St. Elsewhere" (NBC, 1988): This medical drama took the "it was all a dream" gimmick to the next level, revealing in the series finale that the entire St. Eligius universe existed only in the mind of Tommy Westphall (Chad Allen), the nonverbal, autistic son of Dr. Donald Westphall -- who, the finale also revealed, was never a doctor.

"Newhart" (CBS, 1990): This sitcom put yet another twist on the dream reveal with a surprise callback to another series.

June 3: Game-show host Chuck Barris ("The Gong Show") is 83. Singer Ian Hunter is 73. Singer Eddie Holman is 66. Bassist Too Slim of Riders in the Sky is 64. Singer Suzi Quatro is 62. Singer Deniece Williams is 61. Singer Dan Hill is 58. Actor Scott Valentine ("Family Ties") is 54. Guitarist Kerry King of Slayer is 48. Singer Mike Gordon of Phish is 47. Newsman Anderson Cooper is 45. Country singer Jamie O'Neal is 44. Singers Ariel and Gabriel Hernandez of No Mercy are 41. Actor Vik Sahay ("Chuck") is 41. Actress Lalaine Dupree ("Lizzie McGuire") is 25.

June 4: Actor Bruce Dern is 76. Singer-actress Michelle Phillips (The Mamas and The Papas) is 68. Bassist Danny Brown of The Fixx is 61. Actor Parker Stevenson is 60. Singer El DeBarge is 51. Singer Al B. Sure! is 44. Actor Scott Wolf ("Party of Five") is 44. Ron Huebel ("What to Expect When You're Expecting") is 43. Comedian Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live") is 43. Actor Noah Wyle ("ER") is 41. Bassist...

"It seemed that perhaps the Lord was in this," Kirk Cameron (not Kurt Cameron) told Baptist Press. The Lord was in on what? From the beginning: A couple of weeks ago, Cameron landed in ungodly hot waters after making several anti-gay remarks on Piers Morgan's CNN talk show. While chatting with Morgan, he referred to homosexuality as "unnatural" and affirmed that it is "ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization." Following his comments, Cameron was taken to task by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and several of his fellow show-businessmen and women, including former Growing Pains co-stars Alan Thicke ("I'm getting him some new books. The Old Testament simply can't be expected to explain everything.") and Tracy Gold ("I am a strong supporter of the #Lgbt Community, and I believe in equal rights for all. #NOH8 #Love.") Though not thrilled that he is now widely perceived as a bigot,...

Hollywood can be a tough place to navigate the transition from youth to adulthood. Child actors are usually dorky, awkward little ragamuffins. But to be an adult actor, they need you to look like you were sculpted by Michelangelo.

So making the transition from child actor to adult can be nearly impossible for some to whom nature was not so kind. Some actors, like Josh Saviano (Paul from Wonder Years) simply get out of the business. But some persevere and, with a little help from good genes and a personal trainer, become successful actors as adults.

Seeing the picture of Jonathan Lipnicki that Ae recently posted had me thinking about how some boys we remember as looking like this:

Can miraculously turn into guyslike this:

So I thought it would be fun to look at some of the other young actors who have grown up rather nicely. Keep in mind,...

Sean Hayes has sold a Western to NBC.  It's going to center around a doctor who moves to the Rockies and stands out because he doesn't fight with guns, but rather new theories that are being practiced in the East. So it's largely Doctor Quinn, Medicine Women with a male lead. Someone get Chad Allen on the phone.

PETA is upset. What, you need me to be more specific? Well, this time it's about the New York Times picture of the "sexy chicken" which has been drawing raves. But according to PETA, "It's necrophilia. It's not amusing. It's just ghastly and sickly. It's not fitting for The New York Times." After watching Mitchell and Cam go nuts on a juice fast last night, I can't help but think PETA would be less angry if they'd just eat a steak.

Another judge has ruled that Illinois is perfectly within their rights...

 Year:  2011Director:  Israel LunaCast:  Richard D. Curtin, Daphne Koury, Adam Kitchen, Natalie Jones, Tyler Brockington, Chad Allen

In the midst of filming a low budget slasher film sequel, the cast and crew begin to be stalked and murdered in the same manner in which the characters die in the script.  

While certainly not overflowing with originality or premium, high cost production values, if one sits back and absorbs Fright Flick for what it is and was intended to be, it could very well be the most enjoyable slasher film of the year.  From the humor laced, tongue-in-cheek "film within a film" opening sequence that features tons of blood, boobs and (purposely) bad acting, more discerning viewers will believe they have a taste of what they are dealing with; the problem is that Fright Flick   However, the film manages to swiftly and effectively move beyond the over the top, parody-like opening...

Farewell Betty Ford, one of the most honest and upfront First Ladies the United States has ever known. From her professed intent to share a bed with President Ford in the White House to her struggles with alcohol to her battle with breast cancer, she was always an open book and did wonders for progressive causes &#8212 all from a Republican perspective. Can you imagine that today?

Truth Wins Out has gone undercover infiltrating Rep. Michele Bachmann's husband's treatment center. After doing so, they say that there is no doubt his federally funded clinic practices conversion therapy. Sadly, in Rep. Bachmann's case, it's the use of federal funds that will upset her base.

Philadelphia Eagle player DeSean Jackson responded to some taunting on a radio show by calling the caller a "gay-ass faggot." Host Rude Jude says "that he hopes Jackson doesn't apologize because Jackson was bantering with the callers,...

Garry and Larry Lane at an idol of their idol

I first learned about Larry Lane earlier this year when I interviewed him after he and his twin brother won the campy reality show Wipeout (in terms of competition, it was, um, a wipeout). The world has long been fascinated by twins, and I figured our readers would be particularly interested in these twins, because they're gay (and because, um, they're cute).

And sure enough, you were.

At the time, Larry told me about a documentary he and twin brother Gary were working on that told their whole life story, centered around a trip they made to hand-deliver a script they'd written for their idol, Dolly Parton. In fact, they used their considerable prize money from Wipeout to buy the rights to use fourteen of Dolly's songs in the movie.

Last week, Larry sent me a copy of the movie,...

Gavin Creel performs at the League of Broadway Super Friends benefit concert. Wait a minute! "Broadway Super Friends?" I.Am.So.There!

Happy 60th Birthday to Bonnie Tyler! Bonnie only hit the top forty in the U.S. a few times, which is a shame, since her voice is full of character and strength. Fun fact: When Bonnie's 1986 single "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" flopped on the Billboard Hot 100, songwriter Desmond Child re-worked it and turned it into Bon Jovi's mega-hit "You Give Love a Bad Name." Okay, name your Bonnie top five! Here are mine: 5. "It's a Heartache," 4. "Here She Comes," 3. "Holding Out For a Hero," 2. "Loving You's A Dirty Job (But Somebody's Got To Do It)," and #1. Gee, can you guess? Anyway, below you can see Bonnie perform that certain song with French singer Kareen Antonn, along with some General Foods...

Here's last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.

Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...

"Mr and Mrs President, I present you a pair of Lumiere from Beauty and The Beast!"

Thanks to bambino italiano for this week's winning caption.

Happy Birthday to out actor Chad Allen, who turns 37 this weekend!

Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Anderson Cooper turns 44, Angelina Jolie is 36, Rafael Nadal is 25, and Suze Orman is 60. New DVD releases! Biutiful, with Javier Bardem's Oscar-nominated performance, Drive Angry, with Nicolas Cage's certain-to-be Razzie nominated performance, and Thomas Dekker in Gregg Araki's Kaboom, which is reminiscent of Gregg's early films.

An interesting new study has found that a "vast majority of countries around the world have become more accepting of homosexuality,...

Title: Spork Director: J.B. Ghuman, Jr. Starring: Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park, Rachel Fox, Michael Arnold, Sydney Park, Beth Grant, Oana Gregory, Chad Allen, Yeardley Smith The laboriously quirky low-fi coming-of-age comedy ‘Spork’, from writer-director J. B. Ghuman, Jr., serves as a reminder that the words “original” and “good” are not necessarily interchangeable. Heck, this low-budget offering isn’t even all that original, in fact, just constructed of parts to bait one into the false feeling that it is so. ‘Spork’ centers around a frizzy-haired, small town junior high outcast (Savannah Stehlin) — so nicknamed because her absentee mother told her before splitting that she was a hermaphrodite — and her bangle-bracleted...

AfterElton and AfterEllen have named their Hot 100 Men and Women of 2011. Check out the soap-filled list below:

After Ellen's Hot 100 Women

1. Naya Rivera - Glee

2. Heather Morris - Glee

3. Jessica Capshaw - Grey's Anatomy

4. Sara Ramirez - Grey's Anatomy

8. Dianna Agron - Glee

10. Lea Michele - Glee

40. Crystal Chappell - Venice/Days Of Our Lives

49. Jordana Brewster - ex-As The World Turns

57. Michelle Rodriguez - ex-Lost

65. Jane Lynch - Glee

67. Lindsay Lohan - ex-Another World

69. Nadia Bjorlin - Venice/Days Of Our Lives

For the full list, click here.

After Elton's Hot 100 Men

1. Darren Criss - Glee

3. Chris Colfer - Glee

5. John Barrowman - Torchwood

6. Luke MacFarlane - Brothers & Sisters

7. Jonathan Groff - Glee

8. Jensen Ackles - Supernatural

10. Ricky Martin - ex-General Hospital

12. Cheyenne Jackson - Glee/30 Rock

15. Matt Bomer - White Collar

16. Jared Padalecki - Supernatural

17. James Franco - General Hospital

18. Chord Overstreet - Glee...

Happy Birthday to Patti LuPone, who turns 62 today, and John Cameron Mitchell, who's 48.

Rufus Wainwright will perform a free show with the NYC Opera on June 28th at 7 Pm Est at New York’s World Financial Center Winter Garden Theater. He'll premiere excerpts from his upcoming original opera Prima Donna, as well as performing some of his favorite arias. A couple of days ago we mentioned the new Trailblazer Campaign from James Duke Mason, and below you can see Chad Allen's contribution.

New On DVD: The big release this week is The King's Speech, which won four Oscars, including one for out producer Iain Canning. Also out is the Jack Black flop Gulliver's Travels, and birthday boy John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole, which finally gave Nicole Kidman a meaty role again. There's good news and bad news for Happy Endings. The bad news is that the ratings for the second week were ... down.

Alan Cumming has been signed to a new three year deal for The Good Wife, which probably bodes well for both his character and the show.

In what has to be more effective that mailing bars of soap to the network, Hoover has just pulled all their advertising from ABC – not just daytime – to protest the cancellation of All My Children and One Life To Live. Not that it will have any effect, but it’s a great gesture.

In all the news about Queerty going under, I almost skipped reading this post on the topic from Pam Spaulding. She’s having issues over at House Blend, and it seems the Righthaven law firm is a huge part of her problem.

In case you were worried, the monkey from The Hangover II is not addicted to cigarettes, nor did it actually do cocaine during the shoot. In short, no monkeys...

A&E is re-releasing the first three seasons of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, the feel-good, family values championing series that preceded 7th Heaven by three years. The show existed in a more innocent age of network television. Even if only 13 years have passed since the show ended, Dr. Quinn would be hard-pressed to find a spot in today’s lineup. Both the character and show of Dr. Quinn extolled traditional virtues and carried a strong equality of the sexes message. Even if the story of an episode was specifically about equality, the show was so deeply rooted in that concept from the double-length pilot episode that it was impossible to separate from its core later on. In some cases a show that pushes values can feel a bit preachy, but the production values and the strength of Jane Seymour as the titular doctor helped the show evade that feel and...

One of our favorite mantras around the AfterElton offices is “because visibility matters.” Indeed, the idea that gay and bisexual men need to be visible, both to ourselves and to the wider culture, is one of the principle reasons AfterElton.com even exists. After all, it is only by being visible to family, friends and the world that we’ve been able to overcome the stereotypes and bigotry used to justify discrimination against the Glbt community.

That quest for visibility explains why we have done so many polls including the AfterElton Hot 100, the Fifty Greatest Gay Movies, the Top 50 Gay TV Characters, and the 50 Best Gay Books. After all, it’s not as if Entertainment Weekly is going to ask gay and bisexual men which guys we think are the hottest, which movies mean the most to us or, in the case of our latest poll, which celebrities we most admire.

Wipeout photos credit: Mike Weaver

It’s clear that the world has long been fascinated by twins. So what are twins fascinated by?

In the case of Gary and Larry Lane, the answer is Dolly Parton.

The two have always idolized the country icon — so much so that in their latest screenplay, Full Circle, these aspiring screenwriters wrote a part especially for her. Once it was done, they then even embarked on a cross-country road-trip to hand-deliver the script to her, filming everything along the way and turning it into a documentary, Hollywood to Dollywood, that also happens to tell the life story of these 35-year-old twins, who grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and who also happen to both be gay men.

How to finance the film? In addition to various acting roles, they’ve participated in a number of reality shows, which are always eager to cash in...

2011 - 93 mins. - Not Rated

D: Israel Luna

C: Chad Allen, Richard Curtin, Todd Jenkins, Daphne Khoury, Adam Kitchen, Charles Baker, Tom Zembrod

The cast and crew of a low budget horror film is murdered by a psychotic killer who videotapes the murders and fashions them in the same way of a script that some of the crew is working on secretly.

Entertaining combination of behind the scenes spoof, valentine to Friday the 13th and all of the ripoffs that came out shortly afterwards with a dash of Scream thrown in. Fright Flick features spot on humor that sends up what happens on the set of a low budget horror film from the colorful personalities involved, to the sometimes laughable casting decisions, to the fact of how someone can have one job today and being serving another job function the next day. The film's plentiful death sequences wonderfully pay tribute...

So the day has come for you folks to take home Costas Mandylor in the final chapter of the phenomenon that is Saw! Well, at least until the inevitable reboot. Even cooler...if the jolly red-suited fatman brought you a 3D television last month, you can watch this puppy in its gory 3D glory, too.

Another franchise that is buzzing this week is the video game sequel, Dead Space 2. In addition to the game itself, you can also bring home the collector's edition, the album soundtrack, a hardcover game guide, and an animated DVD movie. That should keep you busy for a while.

Oh yeah, there are a couple of other interesting titles with some familiar faces from "True Blood", "Angel", "Buffy", and even "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman".

Saw: The Final Chapter (Blu-ray Review)

Directed by Kevin Greutert

Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Sean Patrick Flanery, Cary Elwes,...

Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the January 25 DVD release of Israel Luna’s “Fright Flick.” The horror-comedy –which combines satire with over-the-top gore – arrives on the heels of Luna’s recent cult phenomenon “Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives” and will be released under Breaking Glass Pictures’ Vicious Circle Films label. Luna shows audiences just how cut-throat show business can be in this bloody, outrageous horror-comedy that satirizes the filmmaking industry. When the air-headed leading lady of a B-grade fright flick turns up brutally murdered during the film shoot, the motley members of the cast and crew find themselves at the heart of a real-life whodunit — and with so many competing egos on set, everyone’s a suspect. Featuring gay icon Chad Allen (Ice Blues, Hollywood, je t’aime) alongside an oddball cast of characters – from the eccentric director, to the bitter supporting actress, to the scheming production assistants – Fright Flick [...]...

Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the January 25 DVD release of Israel Luna’s Fright Flick. The horror-comedy – which combines satire with over-the-top gore – arrives on the heels of Luna’s recent cult phenomenon Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives and will be released under Breaking Glass Pictures’ Vicious Circle Films label.

Luna shows audiences just how cut-throat show business can be in this bloody, outrageous horror-comedy that satirizes the filmmaking industry. When the air-headed leading lady of a B-grade fright flick turns up brutally murdered during the film shoot, the motley members of the cast and crew find themselves at the heart of a real-life whodunit — and with so many competing egos on set, everyone’s a suspect.

Featuring gay icon Chad Allen (Ice Blues, Hollywood, je t’aime) alongside an oddball cast of characters – from the eccentric director, to the bitter supporting actress, to the scheming production assistants – Fright Flick keeps...

Whoa, what a way to start the new year! After several weeks of desolate conditions in terms of horror title releases, the floodgate just burst open.

This is the week you may want to think about using up those giftcards and cash you got from returning your holiday presents. Major releases are vying for your greenbacks alongside re-releases in Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D (in case Santa brought you a 3D TV recently), and other more independent titles. In addition to movies, there's also a Buffy motion comic and the next volume of a vampire's diary in paperback.

The Last Exorcism (Review)

Directed by Daniel Stamm

Starring Patrick Fabian (Interview), Ashley Bell, Louis Herthum, Tony Bentley

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort,...

For his latest trip, Neon Indian's Alan Palomo, sought out a forgotten pre-computer age analog technology with the help of electronics wizards Lars Larsen and Edward Leckie. Together, they created this video for "Mind Drips," in which a girl slips into a hole in her bed with her big psychedelic teddy bear. After falling through some ether of oscillating waves and colors, she plummets back through her ceiling, presumably caught in some melty euphoria for eternity.

That's not the crazy wizard part though. These effects were achieved using a device invented by Larsen and Leckie called the Lzx Visionary -- an analog video synthesizer that manipulates images in the same way an audio synthesizer does for sound. "Mind Drips" is the first music video to utilize this unique machine in which all of the visual effects are recorded in real-time using "abstract pattern synthesis, video feedback, and analog compositing." If...

Director Israel Luna (Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives) shows audiences just how cut-throat show business can be in this bloody horror / satire of the filmmaking industry.

When the air-headed leading lady of a B-grade fright flick turns up brutally murdered during the shoot, the motley members of the ca...st and crew find themselves at the heart of a real-life whodunit. The list of suspects is long, considering everyone on set will do anything to be on top. Featuring gay icon Chad Allen (Ice Blues, Hollywood, je t'aime) alongside an outrageous cast of characters -- from the eccentric director, to the bitter supporting actress, to the scheming production assistants -- Fright Flick keeps the laughs and the screams rolling with a sinful combination of wit, suspense and comic-book-style gore.

Fright Flick is due for a DVD release on January 25, 2011. Special features are still unknown at this time. Please stay tuned for further developments.

November 22, 2010 – Philadelphia, Pa — Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the January 25 DVD release of Israel Luna’s “Fright Flick.” The horror-comedy – which combines satire with over-the-top gore – arrives on the heels of Luna’s recent cult phenomenon “Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives” and will be released under Breaking Glass Pictures’ Vicious Circle Films label. Luna shows audiences just how cut-throat show business can be in this bloody, outrageous horror-comedy that satirizes the filmmaking industry. When the air-headed leading lady of a B-grade fright flick turns up brutally murdered during the film shoot, the motley members of the cast and crew find themselves at the heart of a real-life whodunit — and with so many competing egos on set, everyone’s a suspect. Featuring gay icon Chad Allen (Ice Blues, Hollywood, je t’aime) alongside an oddball cast of characters – from the eccentric director, to the bitter supporting actress, [...]...

Independent director Israel Luna (Ticked off Trannies with Knives) is taking his horror a step further in his latest film entitled Fright Flick. This film has played on the film festival circuit earlier this year, with several awards given for Luna's hard work and attention to gore. Now, the film is moving to DVD January 25th through Breaking Glass Pictures.

The film is a satire of the independent horror filmmaking business. Several cast and crew members find themselves in a real life horror situation, when murders turn up after the director yells: "cut!" The release will host an assortment of bonus features including a blooper reel, a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, and a photo gallery. More details to come.

The plot line is here:

"Fright Flick shows audiences just how cut-throat show business can be in this bloody, outrageous horror-comedy that satirizes the filmmaking industry. When the air-headed leading lady...

                        

Looks like 2011 will be getting off to a strong start. Here's yet another horror title that will have a January 25th release.  Breaking Glass Pictures will release Fright Flick under it's Vicious Circle Films label.

Fright Flick is written and directed by Israel Luna and stars Chad Allen, Richard Curtin, Todd Jenkins, and more and is being described as "the quintessential campy, who-dunnit flick that reveals how everyone is just dying to be in the movie business ... though it may cost them an arm and a leg!"

Synopsis:

Director Isreal Luna weaves this hair-raising tale of a low-budget film crew being stalked by a vicious slasher. The director is a hack who's obsessed with the lead actress, the producer is forced to swallow his pride instead of getting credit where credit is due, and the supporting actress is jealous that she didn't land the lead. 

                      

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