Romany Malco’s new show is coming to YouTube
Former Weeds co-star Romany Malco is developing his own series and testing it out on YouTube viewers. Malco decided to create his own character after his Weeds role was written out of the show. He’s leaving Conrad Shepard behind and moving on to the role of Tijuana “T.J.” Jackson.
Malco described Tijuana Jackson as an ex-convict living under house arrest. Under a strange, “only on TV” legal arrangement, T.J. stays out of jail by supporting the three women that live with him. The women also happen to be prostitutes and T.J.’s employees.
Malco will release new episodes of the show each week, exclusively on YouTube. I can’t say that I love this concept. It reminds me of Seinfeld’s “so the judge decrees that he become my butler” idea. Romany Malco was fantastic on Weeds, though, and I’d like to see him do well. He didn’t mention the possibility of a Weeds spin-off in his interview, so perhaps that project’s on the back burner or still in the the very early stages of development.
Would you rather see Romany Malco do a Weeds spin-off or play Tijuana Jackson on YouTube?
[via PopWatch/Entertainment Weekly]
Angelina Jolie’s Best Body Parts: Our Top 9
Put ’em all together and you’ve got, like, the sexiest woman in the history of the world. Pretty much. Ask anyone. But when you break down this badass A-list Earth Mother, which of Wanted woman Angelina Jolie’s features bests the rest? We ranked 9, and left No. 10 blank for you.
Here’s the list:
1. Lips: If she had only one body part, this would be it. Sadly, her maw’s at its finest and thickest when she’s unhappy, pouty, pissed or getting divorced.
2. Eyes: Commanding yet gentle, these warm green orbs seem to offer the rest of us an easy way in. Be warned, though: It’s a trap!
3. Trigger finger: Hey boys, watch out for that index digit. This lefty action hero hits her target with more flare and precision than Will, Bruce or even Uma.
4. Brain: She’s been called the smartest woman in Hollywood, and how can you argue with a box-office giant who also has a shot at being U.N. Secretary-General?
5. Left arm: Specifically the tattoo detailing the coordinateslatitude and longitudeof where Maddox, Pax, Shiloh and Zahara were born. Motherhood’s never been hotter.
6. Uterus: The most famous, hyped, buzzed-about and potentially profitable internal organ in all of Hollywood. And only Shiloh Jolie-Pittand whoever else is in thereknows what it’s really like.
7. Hips: Here, on the front left, you’ll easily find a thick black cross tattoo. This covers up an inked-while-drunk dragon, which we’ll call a sign of maturity. Well, kinda.
8. Breasts: They rarely steal the showonly when she’s way pregnantbut Taking Lives is worth renting for one little bedroom scene. (Tip: Pretend Ethan Hawke isn’t there.)
9. Forehead mole: Sometimes it’s exotic, sometimes it’s zitlike (as on a recent Entertainment Weekly cover). But Jolie herself has said, “I find flaws attractive.” So do we.
10. You tell us: Did we miss one? Sound off in the comments, and we’ll post your choice to round out the list soon.
Suddenly, Mad Men is everywhere (and that’s a good thing!)
There’s a fantastic story in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine about AMC’s Mad Men. It’s actually the cover story (you don’t see many cover stories in the NYT Mag about a TV show) and is one of the best articles I’ve read about a TV show in a very long time.
Besides interviewing creator/producer/writer Matthew Weiner at length, writer Alex Witchel also sits in on auditioning sessions and script meetings for the second season, interviews advertising icons (George Lois, Jerry Della Femina, William Bernbach) about the show, and gets choice quotes from cast members such as Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, and January Jones. It’s a beautifully written piece, really getting behind the scenes of the show, and includes this great paragraph to explain the show quite nicely.
Weiner’s achievements with “Mad Men,” which is produced by Lionsgate, are plentiful, starting with the storytelling. Setting it in the early 1960s, on the cusp between the repression and conformity of the cold war and McCarthy-era 1950s and the yet-to-unfold social and cultural upheavals of the 60s, allows Weiner an arc of character growth that is staggering in its possibilities. It also gives him the opportunity to mine the Rat Pack romance of that period, when the wreaths of cigarette smoke, the fog of too many martinis - whether exhilarating or nauseating - and the silhouettes specific to bullet bras only heightened the headiness of the dream that all men might one day become James Bond or, at the very least, key holders to the local Playboy Club.
But the NYT Mag article isn’t the only news about Mad Men recently. Besides the soundtrack coming out tomorrow and the first season DVDs coming out July 1, the show is being included in Emmy talk, recently received a Peabody Award, was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, and is currently being honored by Bloomingdale’s with a store window display, which includes Mad Men-ish fashions and TV sets showing scenes from the show.
The second season debuts on July 27. AMC will have a marathon of first season eps on July 20.
LOL: The Many Faces of Rainn Wilson in Entertainment Weekly
In this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly, Office star Rainn Wilson (The Rocker) did a photoshoot as Xena: Warrior Princess, MacGyver, Pauile Walnuts from The Sopranos and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Check out the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly for the full photos. EW.com has a video from the Xena photoshoot.