DVD rumors: a 10th anniversary set for Sports Night?
This news could make Sports Night fans go crazy like … well, people who go crazy and stuff.
TV Shows On DVD is reporting that a 10th anniversary set for the short-lived ABC comedy is in the works, to be released this fall. As fans know, a complete DVD set for the show was already released a few years ago, but it didn’t have any extras on it at all (and I remember that some of the first DVDs had a lot of problems with skipping and freezing, though I’ve never had a problem with my set). This set is rumored to have extras on it, and we can only hope that includes commentaries by the cast and Aaron Sorkin.
No word yet on who is putting it out or even why this set is getting the anniversary treatment (other than it’s a great show and deserves it!). Maybe the success of Felicity Huffman and Brenda Strong on Desperate Housewives helped.
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker Get Hitched
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker Get Hitched
It seems like the build-up to the big day was never ending. But this past Saturday, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker tied the knot at a beautiful, elegant ceremony at a French Church.
The 250-person guest list included Sheryl Crow, Jessica Alba, Mario Lopez, French footballer Thierry Henry, Ryan Seacrest and Eva’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ co-stars Teri Hatcher, Nicollette Sheridan and Felicity Huffman.
A cool twist on the regular wedding protocol was the bilingual vows. Eva said her vows in Tony’s native language, French, while Tony said his in Eva’s native tongue, English. Apparently Tony’s English was better than Eva’s French, as the actress stumbled over a few words, even bursting into giggles at one point.
And the guests of Eva and Tony’s wedding were given lavish gifts to commemorate their special day. The name of the game was elegant excess, and Tony and Eva couldn’t have done a better job.
While the 7.7.07 ceremony was an amazing event, the couple was actually “officially” married the day previous. The mayor of Paris himself performed the civil ceremony on 7.06.07.
Congrats to Tony and Eva. Your time is just beginning.
Eva Longoria & Tony Parker Wedding Is On
Eva Longoria & Tony Parker Wedding Is On
Not quite desperate, but ready to become a housewife, Eva Longoria will marry her longtime boyfriend, Tony Parker, in a $488,000 French luxury chateau, according to recent press reports.
Longoria and her fiance, a star basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs, are to wed in Paris in July of 2007.
According to Now, “the lavish invitations, which are decorated with a picture of the Eiffel Tower, confirm that the event will be held near Paris.”
In a bid to keep the exact location top secret, the couple said their people would be in touch with more info before the ceremony. But it’s rumored the couple have hired out 17th-century Chateau de Chantilly, which has a moat and a racecourse.
Eva’s co-stars Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Felicity Huffman and Nicollette Sheridan are all thought to be on the guest list.
Felicity Huffman Biography
Often lauded for her stage work, Felicity Huffman won a new round of fans as the smart, competent producer Dana Whitaker on the ABC series “Sports Night” (1998-2000). Although born in Westchester County, New York, she was raised in Colorado. Returning east to attend NYU, Huffman joined the Atlantic Theater Company, co-founded by David Mamet and William H Macy. Mamet offered the actress her first screen role, a bit part in “Things Change” (1988), and she was also tapped as Madonna’s understudy and successor in Mamet’s Broadway play “Speed-the-Plow” (also 1988).
Over the course of the next ten years, Huffman alternated between acclaimed stage roles (most often with the Atlantic Theater Company) and TV roles. She made her small screen debut as a series regular portraying the government security officer who aids an elderly man who seems to be growing younger in “Stephen King’s ‘Golden Years’” (CBS, 1991). Guest roles on series like “Law & Order” and “The X-Files” followed. Huffman was tapped to play Edward Asner’s daughter in the ABC sitcom “Thunder Alley” but was replaced after the pilot. She bounced back from that disappointment with a stage success in Mamet’s “The Cryptogram” (1995) and in a supporting turn in the playwright’s film “The Spanish Prisoner” (1998) before landing “Sports Night,” the Aaron Sorkin-penned sit-com that made her a well-known name.
Her real-life husband Macy, whom she married in 1997, joined the series in its second season, sparking an on-screen partnership that would endure through many projects: they also co-starred in the cable telepic “A Case of Murder” (1999), a comedy-mystery Macy adapted from the Donald Westlake novel; they both appeared in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia” (1999); she had an uncredited turn in Macy’s award-winning TNT telepic “Door To Door,” which he also co-wrote; they reunited in the Showtime mini-series “Out of Order” (2003); and co-starred in the legal potboiler telepic “Reversible Errors” (2004).
After “Sports Night” and away from Macy, Huffman also kept busy solo on the small screen with parts in the telepics “The Heart Department” (2001), “Snap Decision” (2001) and, most impressively, in director John Frankenheimer’s acclaimed HBO drama “The Path to War” (2002), playing First Lady “Lady Bird†Johnson. She also scored a pair of high-profile recurring roles, playing Julia Wilcox, Frasier Crane’s caustic co-worker and eventual love interest on the hit sit-com “Frasier” from 2003-2004, and Charlotte Ellis in the legal drama “The D.A.” After a stint on the big screen as Kate Hudson’s late older sister in the comedy “Raising Helen” (2004), Huffman returned to series drama in the offbeat serial drama “Desperate Housewives” (ABC, 2004 - ), playing Lynette Scavo, a former corporate ladder-climber turned stay-at-home mom who struggles with her insecurities when she can’t control her wild children and gets little support from her husband. The show’s mega-popularity provided Huffman’s career with fresh energy–she scored an Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series’ debut season, as well as a 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series–though she continued to remain the most private and low-profile of her co-stars.
Later that same year Huffman had an astonishing turn on the big screen in the indie “Transamerica” (2005) playing a pre-operative transsexual who, on the brink of her transforming surgery, discovered that in her youth she had fathered a son, who contacts her as a troubled teen hustler on the run. Despite the gender-bending premise, the film followed a traditional road movie dynamic, and Huffman won widespread praise for her nearly unrecognizable, fully formed performance. All the attention she received resulted in a Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, which almost guaranteed the actress a nomination from the Academy Awards. And she was indeed one of the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role when they were announced the morning of January 31, 2006.
- Born:
on 12/09/1962 in Westchester County, New York - Job Titles:
Actor
Family
- Brother: Moore Huffman. older
- Daughter: Georgia Grace Macy. born March 14, 2002; father is William H. Macy
- Daughter: Sophia Macy. born on August 1, 2000
- Mother: Grace Huffman.
Significant Others
- Husband: William H Macy. met through mutual association with the Atlantic Theater Company; married on September 6, 1997
Education
- New York University, New York City, theatre
- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, England
- American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City
- Circle in the Square Professional Theatre School, New York City
Milestones
- 1988 Film acting debut in bit part in “Things Changes”, directed by David Mamet
- 1988 Understudied and eventually replaced Madonna in Mamet’s Broadway play “Speed-the-Plow”
- 1990 Had featured role in “Reversal of Fortune”
- 1991 TV series debut as government security chief Terry Spann in “Stephen King’s ‘Golden Years’” (CBS)
- 1992 TV-movie acting debut in the USA Network’s “Quicksand: No Escape”
- 1993 Received strong notices for her lead performance as a woman converting to Judaism who recalls childhood sexual abuse in the Old Globe (San Diego) production of “Out of Purgatory”
- 1994 Appeared in the pilot episode of the ABC sitcom “Thunder Alley” as Ed Asner’s daughter; replaced in the series by Diane Venora
- 1995 Acted onstage in Mamet’s “The Cryptogram”
- 1995 Directed by Mamet in the Atlantic Theater Company production of J.B. Priestley’s “Dangerous Corner”
- 1996 Was featured in the Showtime series “Bedtime”
- 1997 Directed by future husband William H Macy in “The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite” at the Atlantic Theater Company
- 1998 Portrayed TV producer Dana Whitaker in the ABC series “Sports Night”
- 1998 Co-starred in “The Spanish Prisoner”, written and directed by Mamet
- 1999 Acted opposite husband William H Macy (who also co-wrote the teleplay) in the TNT original “A Slight Case of Murder”
- 1999 Played small role in “Magnolia” as a TV game show coordinator; husband had more substantial role in the film
- 2001 Cast opposite Tony Shalhoub in the CBS pilot “Heart Department”
- 2001 Portrayed a photographer who is charged with child pornography when she takes pictures of her friend’s children in the Lifetime movie “Snap Decision”
- 2002 Portrayed Lady Bird Johnson in the made for TV movie “Path to War”
- 2003 Guest starred as Frasier’s Love interest on the NBC comedy “Frasier”
- 2003 Starred opposite Eric Stoltz in the Showtime series “Out of Order”
- 2004 Cast as Lynette Scavo, the ex-career woman and mother of four unmanageable kids in the ABC drama “Desperate Housewives”; received Golden Globe (2004, 2005) and SAG (2006) nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy Series
- 2004 Starred in the CBS miniseries opposite her real life husband William H. Macy in Scott Turow’s crime thriller “Reversible Errors,” which also stars Tom Selleck and Monica Potter
- 2005 Played a transsexual woman who discovers that she fathered a child in her former life as a man in the indie drama “Transamerica”; earned Oscar and SAG nominations for Best Actress
- Became a member of the Atlantic Theater Company, co-founded by David Mamet and William H Macy
- Raised in Colorado
- Will co-star with Lindsay Lohan and Jane Fonda in “Georgia Rule”