Hosts announced for The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game
As previously announced on TV, both The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game are coming back to TV. Now, they have hosts. GSN has announced that actress Kim Coles will be performing hosting duties for the pilot of The Dating Game while comedian Judy Gold will be hosting The Newlywed Game.
This marks the first time The Newlywed Game will have a female host. Hosts of previous incarnations have included Bob Eubanks (who hosted most of the show’s incarnations), Jim Lange, Paul Rodriguez and Gary Kroeger. The Dating Game has had a previous female host in Elaine Joyce. Other hosts for that show have included Jim Lange, Jeff MacGregor, Brad Sherwood and Chuck Woolery.
GSN Senior VP Programming Jamie Roberts said the network was looking for “unusual candidates to take these shows and reinvent them.”
The original versions of these game shows were known for their sexually suggestive humor. The new versions will incorporate modern concepts such as online dating sites. Having both of these relationship-based game shows hosted by comedic women will create an interesting spin that might be fun to watch.
Newlywed Game and Dating Game coming back to TV
I used to watch both The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game when I was a kid, and it wasn’t until years later that I realized how filthy both of them were. Both would have all of these double entendres and suggestive questions, and the answers from the contestants were often something you wouldn’t even say to a friend in private. Example from The Newlywed Game:
Bob Eubanks: “Where’s the weirdest place that you and your husband have made whoopee?”
Woman: “In the a**?”
Now, this wasn’t shown on TV until Eubanks showed the clip on an episode of NBC’s Most Outrageous Moments a few years ago (the original answer was never shown on TV and the woman was given a chance to give another answer, and another contestant gave a similar answer years earlier), but many of the questions and answers were suggestive in that way.
I wonder if they’ll have those type of questions in the new GSN remakes? The cable network is bringing back both shows. Of course, they’ll both be updated in this age of computers and microwave ovens. The Dating Game will team up with Match.com to find single people to go on the show, and The Newlywed Game will feature a bonus round where the winning couple goes up against a couple who won on the older version of the show.
This will be the sixth version of The Newlywed Game. Eubanks hosted the original (he also hosted a later revival of the show), and then other versions were hosted by Jim Lange, Paul Rodriguez, and Gary Kroeger. The Newlywed Game was produced by Chuck Barris, and Barris created/produced The Dating Game.
Heckler Movie Trailer
Part of my job involves criticizing movies and movie stars. I sometimes wonder if they people I criticize read the stuff I write, and if so, how they react. But the object of this exercise is not to piss someone off, but instead to offer a strong opinion. But sometimes, offering a strong opinion can result in hurt feelings.
Scream star Jamie Kennedy knows what it’s like to be criticized. He hasn’t had a good project in years, or may-be even ever (at least if you read the reviews and online forums). Kennedy has chosen to turn the lemons into lemonade. I have to admit, I am really interested in seeing Kennedy’s new documentary. Heckler is about the vocal audience members and online critics, from the side of the actor/celebrity. The most interesting part of the trailer, which can be seen below, involves Kennedy going head to head with the people that have criticized his past unachievements.
The movie features: Louie Anderson, Dave Attell, David Cross, Mike Ditka, Craig Ferguson, Larry Flynt, Judah Friedlander, Tom Green, Jewel, Jon Lovitz, Bill Maher, Howie Mandel, , Andy Milonakis, Drew Pinsky, Paul Rodriguez, Joe Rogan, Eli Roth, Joel Schumacher, Nick Swardson, Mike White, Fred Willard, Harland Williams, Henry Winkler, Rob Zombie and more. Why isn’t Kevin Smith’s name on this list?
Heckler is an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Source: FilmIck
Salma Hayek Biography
Touted by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez as the first Mexican star to play the female lead in an American movie since Dolores Del Rio, the stunningly beautiful and charismatic Salma Hayek scorched stateside cineplexes as the fiery border town bookseller who romances Antonio Banderas’ vengeful “mariachi” in “Desperado” (1995). She had previously won the hearts of her countrymen with two TV roles in the late 1980s, first as an innocent schoolgirl in “Nuevo Amancer” and subsequently as the comely bad girl protagonist of “Teresa” in the extremely popular primetime soap. Fearing that Mexican audiences valued her looks more than her thespian skills–despite several acting awards–Hayek left Mexico at the height of her vogue and headed for L.A. She then took a year-and-a-half off from acting to learn English.
By 1992, Hayek was landing TV guest shots and appeared as a recurring character on a family sitcom, “The Sinbad Show” (Fox, 1993-94), before winning a supporting role in Alison Anders’ well-regarded indie feature “Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life” (1993). Hayek’s English skills had blossomed but roles remained elusive. Writer-director Rodriguez heard her lament on comic Paul Rodriguez’s talk show and cast her as the female lead in his first 35mm project, “Roadracers” (Showtime, 1994), the hyper-stylized premiere installment of the “Rebel Highway” TV-movie series. His ultimate goal was to cast her as the female lead in his studio-produced sequel to 1992’s low-budget marvel “El Mariachi;” the ploy worked, allowing Hayek to beat out all the standard Anglos that the studio attempted to impose upon the production.
Additional Hollywood assignments followed including further collaborations with Rodriguez on two other projects–a cameo with Banderas in the ill-conceived feature “Four Rooms” (also 1995) and as a blood-sucking snake-dancer in the Quentin Tarantino-scripted vampire outing, “From Dusk Till Dawn” (1996). Hayek has stated her intention to alternate between working in Hollywood genre fare and Mexican art films (e.g., 1995’s “Midaq Alley/El Callejon de los Milagros”). She idled for awhile in Hollywood, though, with unremarkable supporting roles in Cindy Crawford’s debut outing, “Fair Game” (1995), and the convicts on the run actioner “Fled” (1996).
Hayek then essayed her first romantic comedy lead opposite Matthew Perry in the underperforming “Fools Rush In” (1997). Cast as a Mexican woman who hastily marries an American and then proceeds to fall in love with him, she made a valiant effort, but critics and audiences were not impressed. “Breaking Up” (1997), which paired her with Russell Crowe as a couple who constantly separate and reconcile, also failed to excite audiences. She fared somewhat better as the fiery gypsy dance Esmeralda to Mandy Patinkin’s “The Hunchback” in the 1997 TNT TV-movie but her role in the highly anticipated “54″ (1998) was abbreviated when executives demanded reshoots and a change in the storyline.
In 1999, Hayek was cast as the female lead in the western action flick, “Wild Wild West” and appeared in director Kevin Smith’s controversial comedy “Dogma.” She followed up with more serious fare, taking a small role in Steven Soderbergh’s acclaimed anti-drug ensemble drama “Traffic” and appearing as a sexually controlling actress in Mike Figgis’ experimental multi-screen drama “Timecode” (she would later reunited with Figgis for his next split-screen effort “Hotel”). She also produced and starred as the Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo in the drama bio pic “Frida” (2002). For years Hayek fought to get the film made, eventually becoming the movie’s producer, and the actress powered the the project into production by the sheer force of her desire to bring the life story of her fellow countrywoman to the screen. While reaction to the film–directed by avant garde auteur Julie Taymor–was mixed, Hayek’s intense performance was roundly praised. She was able to transcend both her sex symbol status and the limits of her ethnicity when she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for her efforts. In 2003 Hayek reunited twice with director Robert Rodriguez, first for a humorous cameo in “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over” and then to reprise her role as Carolina–if only in flashback–in the successful and entertaining third outing in the El Mariachi series “Once Upon a Time in Mexico.” She then demonstrated her highly combustible sexual chemistry with co-star Pierce Brosnan in the aimable caper comedy “After the Sunset” (2004), playing the lover/partner of Brosnan’s retired master jewel thief who finds himself tempted by the prospect of one last score, putting their relationship in jeopardy.
- Born:
on 09/02/1968 in Coastzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico - Job Titles:
Actor
Family
- Brother: Sami Hayek. younger
- Father: Sami Hayek Dominguez. Lebanese; ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico in 1997
- Mother: Diana Hayek. Mexican
Significant Others
- Companion: Josh Lucas. dating as of August 2003; split Septeber 2004
- Companion: Edward Atterton. dated from 1997 to 1999; met during filming of “The Hunchback”
- Companion: Edward Norton. dating from late 1999; Hayek and Norton were rumored to be married as of January 2003
- Companion: Richard Crenna. engaged; no longer together; met in 1991 acting class
Education
- Stella Adler Conservatory, Los Angeles, California
- National University of Mexico
Milestones
- — Starred opposite Colin Farrell in “Ask the Dust,” written and directed by Robert Towne (lensed 2004)
- — Will star with Penelope Cruz as two bank robbers who kidnap a New York police investigator (Zahn) in “Bandidas” (lensed 2004)
- 1980 At age 12, told her father she would “go on strike” and fail all her classes if he did not allow her to go to school in the USA (date approximate)
- 1989 Mexican TV series debut, “Nuevo Amancer”
- 1989 Won stardom as “Teresa” in the hugely popular Mexican primetime serial
- 1991 Stopped acting for a year-and-a-half to study English (date approximate)
- 1991 Left Mexico at the height of her popularity and moved to Los Angeles
- 1992 Appeared in “Cherry Street, South of Main”, an unsold pilot produced by Tom and Roseanne Arnold
- 1992 First US TV guest shots included “Nurses”, “Jack’s Place” and “Dream On”
- 1993 Played a recurring role on “The Sinbad Show”, a Fox family sitcom
- 1993 US feature debut, Alison Anders’ “Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life”
- 1994 US TV-movie debut, co-starred in “Roadracers”, a segment of Showtime’s “Rebel Highway” series; first collaboration with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez
- 1995 Breakthrough Hollywood feature role, co-starring opposite Antonio Banderas in Rodriguez’s “Desperado”
- 1995 Returned to Mexico to play a lead in “Midaq Alley/El Callejon de los Milagros”
- 1997 Signed contract to act as spokesperson for Revlon cosmetics
- 1998 Had featured role as a coat-check girl with aspirations to be a singer in “54″
- 1999 Had female lead in Barry Sonnenfeld’s “Wild Wild West”
- 1999 Signed agreement with Sony to create TV programs in both Spanish (for Telemundo) and English (for Columbia TriStar TV)
- 2000 Made cameo appearance in “Traffic”
- 2000 Played featured role in “Timecode”, director Mike Figgis’ four-screen digital feature
- 2001 Executive produced and starred in the Showtime original “In the Time of the Butterflies”
- 2001 Reteamed with Figgis for “Hotel”
- 2002 Produced and played the title role in “Frida”, a biopic of artist Frida Kahlo, directed by Julie Taymor; received nominations for a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, a SAG and an Oscar for her leading role performance
- 2003 Cast as the female lead in “Once Upon A Time In Mexico”
- 2004 Co-starred with Pierce Brosnan and Woody Harrelson in “After the Sunset”
- 2004 Signed on to be the spokes woman for Avon’s makeup and fragrance lines
- 2006 Co-starred with Colin Farrell in the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante’s Depression Era novel, “Ask the Dust”
- Formed Ventanarosa Prods.
- Raised in Coatzacaolcos, Mexico
- Sent to a Catholic school in Texas; studied for two years before being expelled
- Signed on to star in the four hour telepic adaptation of Toni Morrison’s novel, “Paradise,” to be produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films