Way Hot Clips: Sex and the City: The Movie Premiere
The whole cast returned to the scene of the crime this week for the New York premiere of Sex and the City: The Movie, and they all stopped to catch up with E!and your favorite movie critic.
Check the above clip to see how Jennifer Hudson puts it all out there, and then hit the jump to see what happened when I took Kristin Davis and Kim Cattrall back to Melrose Place and Porky’s. Not enough for ya? Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest dish in even more clips with the Sex and the City cast.
Catch the Special Live From the Red Carpet: Sex and the City, Thursday, May 29 @ 8 p.m.
Rob Estes Zips to 90210
Move over, Jim Walsh. Harry Mills is the new patriarch set to rule over Beverly Hills.
Rob Estes has become the latest castmember to sign on to CW's highly anticipated Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff, the simply named 90210, joining the series as the central fam's morals-driven papa.
Estes' Harry Mills acts as catalyst to the series, moving his cornfed clan from Kansas to Beverly Hills to both take care of his aging alcoholic mother, played by Arrested Development's Jessica Walter, and take a job as the principal of West Bev High.
The actor isn't one to shy away from prime-time melodrama, having already starred in Aaron Spelling's other '90s soapy brainchild, The Heights Malibu Shores Models Inc. Melrose Place.
The Tudors: Episode 2-10 (season finale)
(S02E10) I’m just going to come out and say it. I really enjoyed the season finale of The Tudors. The wife-number-two storyline is all wrapped up. And now next season we’ll move on to wife-number-three, Jane Seymour. I think I’m even more excited for next season because I know next to nothing about Henry’s wives post Boleyn drama. I know many of you history buffs will disagree, saying that you’d rather they keep to the facts because Tudor history alone is interesting enough. I feel, at this point, I’d rather just watch the story –which is basically a primetime melodrama with corsets and crowns and public executions. So, I’m not as worried about accuracy. And by the way, public executions on Melrose Place would have been awesome.
But, enough about what’s to be, let’s talk about what happened tonight. My review of the season finale is after the jump.
The season finale revolved around Anne Boleyn’s beheading, which was painfully delayed when the headsman got stuck coming from Dover. The king, in his mercy, ordered that she not be burned but beheaded and that this expert swordsman from Calais be brought in to perform the execution.
The episode was full of well-acted scenes with Natalie Dormer, whom I will definitely miss next season. Anne Boleyn met her death with a mix of masked fear, hope of forgiveness, and true faith and courage. I thought Dormer delivered many of her lines with all three notes.
The first poignant scene we get is when Anne gives her last confession to Archbishop Cranmer. She admits to being envious of the king and not always respecting her husband. But she professes her innocence. You could tell by both Cranmer’s and the constable’s reaction that she meant it — and she was telling the truth.
The second set of evocative scenes were when the constable comes to tell her that the execution has been postponed. I loved when Anne laughs after the constable assures her that she would have a clean, painless death. The queen adds that she only has a little neck anyway. It reminded me of how charming and witty Anne was when she first seduced Henry.
When the constable comes the second time, Anne grabs him and suggests, rather desperately, that the king might mean to call off the execution, to teach her a lesson, to send her to a nunnery. I felt like that was such a natural reaction.
The third and saddest scene (I’m not going linearly, I know.) was when Thomas Boleyn got out of prison. I was nearly moved to tears when Anne waved at her father from the tower and he barely looked at her. His shame combined with her agony and despair — just plain sad. That was hands-down the best scene of the night.
The execution itself was slightly anti-climatic (but only slightly). The queen’s speech was good, well-delivered by Dormer. However, what “made” the scene for me was Sir Thomas Wyatt and Charles Brandon with his son in tow. Wyatt, probably the only man on the show who ever loved and understood Anne (i.e. could match her wits), weeps from behind a stone wall. This is a man watching the woman he loves die. It was heartbreaking. Also sad was when Charles Brandon kneels down with his son for the actual beheading. I thought this gesture was a little symbolic. HIs kneeling was less to go with crowd, after all he outranks all of them and more out of sympathy (maybe sympathy isn’t the exact word). I think you could see in his face that while he hated the former queen, he realized she was the victim of Henry’s whims and other men’s machinations.
Here’s my questions for you readers:
1. Did you like the season finale?
2. Did you like season two of The Tudors better than season one?
3. Will you be watching season three of The Tudors?
4. I’m not discussing Henry and Jane. I feel all self-righteously angry with him for killing yet another wife. So, what did you think about the king this episode?
The first look at the official 90210 cast and other news about the spin-off
Earlier this week, The CW released this promotional picture of the 90210 regular cast. From left to right: Dustin Milligan, AnnaLynne McCord, Jessica Walter, Shenae Grimes, Tristan Wilds, Lori Loughlin, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup and Michael Steger.
If you’ve been keeping up with information about the spin-off, you know that there is someone missing from that picture. No, it’s not Jennie Garth or Tori Spelling since they will be recurring/guest stars. But it’s the actor who’ll play the pivotal character of Harry Mills, a father who relocates his family in Beverly Hills to take care of his mother.
According to TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello, the show has had a hard time finding the right actor to play the Mills patriarch. The problem is that filming of the pilot/season premiere will start soon so they have to hire someone ASAP. Supposedly, the executive producers are thinking of offering the role to Rob Estes without having him go through the audition process. Estes, who recently appeared in Women’s Murder Club, was part of the first 90210 spin-off, Melrose Place. Personally, I hope that they offer him the role and that he accepts because the actor fits the role of Harry and that would make 90210 a very pretty zip code.
In other 90210 news, Entertainment Weekly learned that spin-off producer Gabe Sachs would not only like to use the original theme song but also have different bands record their own version of it each week. EW also reveals that the show is trying to get permission to shoot at Torrance High School, which was used to portray West Beverly High in the original series.
Finally, if you are nostalgic about the original series, go to Randi and Mike Lawson’s MySpace page where you can listen to “Oh, Minnesota,” a 90210 tribute song.