1.Now that we have your attention, we have A LOT of new info and pix on Chris Masterson, his brother Danny Masterson, Ryan Phillippe and upcoming movies and TeeVee shows.
2.We have several (okay, A LOT) of new reviews to be posted this week and next. At the moment we strongly recommend How Stella Got Her Groove Back and (no, we're not kidding!) The Parent Trap.
3.ABOUT THAT "GAY" THING: readers of our Danny Masterson page may recall that in an interview with Movieline, Danny said that the oddest rumor he'd heard about himself was that he was Gay. This was news to us: we certainly hadn't heard that rumor, and we try to get all the dirt we can on everyone we can. Chad Allen (by his real name) we had heard about, and Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche we've spoken to, but Danny Masterson?! Great brother-in-law material according to rumor, but boy-boyfriend . . . ?
Then we happened to run his brother's name on a new search engine on which we were listed and - POP! - up we came on a list of sites for young Gay people. We have no problems at all with that, BUT, there was an error in our site description listing which may have led some people to think that most or all of the people we write about are Gay or Lesbian. Sorry to break some hearts (and happy to set others a-flutter), but it ain't necessarily so. Click here for more info.
4.COPYRIGHT NOTICES: We take them very seriously. We are professionals. We try very hard to list other people's copyright notices properly, and expect the same courtesy. SOMEONE in Hollywood didn't take our notices seriously and is now facing a possible lawsuit and/or criminal charges. We offer this page as a free service to our readers, not as a buffet for free-loaders.
1.Chris Masterson was backstage last year at a preview of the play Arcadia in which he played Gus and Augustus Coverly. For a bit of CURRENT news on him, see item 12 below.
2.Our site is becoming important! When CBS's "Touched By An Angel" replayed Chris Masterson's highly-rated episode, NBC counter-programmed with his brother Danny's Beethoven's Second. If you check their pages here, you'll see that WE were the ones who discovered what Nielsen ratings grabbers the Masterson brothers are. CBS and NBC are listening to us, so should you. (BTW, that is Danny in Fox's year-delayed "That 70's Show." As of August 24, WE HAVE PICTURES!)
3.We would LOVE to have more info on Giovanni Ribissi, but two requests from his manager for info have elicited nothing, so much as we would like to feature the star of subUrbia (of whom we have been a fan since "My Two Dads"), we can't because we can't get anything on him. If any of his "people" are reading this, please check item (2) above and SEND US SOMETHING.
4.We'd love to give you more Tobey Maguire, too, but HIS people won't send us anything, either. (He, of course, has an excuse: we report on Don's Plum, over which he is being sued.
5.Ethan Embry has a new publicist, so we'll try to get some new stuff on him as it becomes available.
6.Sorry, but we haven't been in touch with Henry Thomas for months -- check the link to his (now official) web site below.
7.We hang with one of the people who did MTV's "LeoMania," so we shall try to get some exclusive insights on him and it for you.
8.Word is that Tate Donovan's upcoming show "Trinity" is a likely hit. Ha! We knew he'd be a star twelve years ago. He has, however, had to leave the band in which he sang, played guitar, violin, mandolin, and a few other instruments for the last few years. (Jaundiced trivia question: what popular teen star, friend of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and their buddies, co-starred as a little boy opposite Tate Donovan and Leah Thompson? -- Answer will be posted next week.)
8.Apropos of Tate's band, we saw Mackenzie Astin at their recent show on the Santa Monica Pier, and we're almost ready to swear Christian Bale was there, too.
9.Apropos of Christian, his Newsies choreographer Kenny Ortega choreographed "Chicago Hope's" episode "Brain Salad Surgery," which is up for Emmy Awards.
10.We apologize for saying that outside of Atlanta the state of Georgia is 80 years behind the times. It's more like twenty or thirty years behind the rest of America (but at least the Georgians are in this century, which is more than we can say for a majority of Coloradicals!).
11.After stiffing us for almost a year, Dimension Films has sent us their Fall preview kit, so we'll be posting info on Velvet Goldmine, starring Ewan McGregor and Christian Bale, Dancing About Architecture, which stars Ryan ("Shane 54") Phillippe, and The Faculty which stars just about everybody else.
12. Cutthroat Island News! No, we are not kidding. Artisan Entertainment (who recently gave us Suicide Kings) has acquired DVD and video rights to Cutthroat Island and will be releasing a LETTERBOXED version of it, which means that Chris Masterson fans (and anybody who would like to see anyone else to the left or right of the director's wife!) can FINALLY see the movie as it was originally filmed. We coined the phrase "scanned and panned" to describe our review of MGM's NON-letterbox version, so we are delighted to learn of this development. If you would like us to review the new, improved, ORIGINAL version of the film, please e-mail us at jaundicedeye@hotmail.com and please specifically request that we review the letterboxed version.
13.We'd also love to post more info on Lukas Haas, but -- again -- we can't reach him through his "people" (in his case, PMK). We've been trying to find out for years, for instance what it felt like for him to film johns in West Hollywood, which is his hometown, but . . . we just don't know!
14.For fans of early 60's teen idols, be advised that The Disney Channel is now airing "The Hardy Boys," starring Tim "Spin" Considine and Tommy "Travis Coates" Kirk. It sends chills up one's spine, doesn't it?
15.Finally, as near as we have been able to determine, Esteban Louis Powell is NOT in the erotic "Young Americans" video as we had been previously mis-informed. He can still be seen, however in the Lesbian love flick, Late Bloomers, which has received rave reviews and is now available in limited release on video. (As for Ben Affleck's take on Lesbianism, please remember that he killed his Lesbian wife to get a three-picture deal with Disney. If you have no clue what that means, you are not qualified to call yourself a Ben Affleck fan.)
