December 7, 2005. The Dec. 9 issue of Entertainment Weekly reports that there is a special edition of Mariah Carey's album, The Emancipation of Mimi that includes a bonus DVD with four music videos. EW mentioned that Eric's clips make it worth buying the special edition.
December 5, 2005. Apparently Eric was filming a movei in Chicago in September that started out as Six and Stones but had a name change to Eight of Diamonds. It is supposed to be about the theft of the famous Hope Diamond. Sorry I don't have more news about it.
November 7, 2005. The movie that Eric was just filming with Anne Heche in Nova Scotia will be called Deceptively Yours and is expected to air early next year on Lifetime. It is based on the best-selling true crime book Fatal Error about a Michigan woman who over the Internet convinced her lover to kill her husband. It's the story of a man who loved a woman so much he would kill for her. In 1999 police found the husband, Bruce Miller, shot to death at his business. Authorities believed Mrs. Miller used the Internet to drive a love-struck ex-cop, Jerry Cassaday, from Missouri to Michigan to murder him.
September 2, 2005. Before Eric's appearance on MTV's Video Music Awards, he was interviewed by MTV News. To read the interview and watch two delicious video clips, go to VMA News on MTV's web site.
September 1, 2005. Eric's little Emma has made her first video for one of the songs in an album of songs from her tv show Unfabulous. Read all about it at VMA News. She also recently finished filming a movie, Aquamarine, that will come out in 2006.
August 19, 2005. I'm sorry that I haven't been updating as often as some people would like but sometimes I just don't have anything unofficial to report. For official news, visit Eric's Offical web page or you could always go to one of those web sites that has hundreds of new stories every day because they just make it all up.
A recent story in the NY Post starts out "MOST artists slave for a lifetime to get in a museum show, but all David Schwimmer, Tiffany, Eric Roberts and Virginia Madsen had to do was press their paint-covered hands against some canvas." Let's get this straight, Eric and lots of other stars, spend lots of time every year doing stuff for charity. UCLA asked a bunch of stars to paint something to be auctioned off to benifit the Pediatric Epilepsy Project. Some really talented painters, like Kevin Kline, sent in real art but some celebrities don't happen to be talented painters. They contributed to the cause anyway. Hey, NY Post, this is for charity! All the paintings, not just the good ones, have been on display at the Art for a Cause exhibit at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey. Greeting cards of the paintings, including Eric's, are for sale online at the kidsart web site.
Eric stars in a movie called Grave's End that made a big splash at the Chicago Horror Film Festival in April and is now making the film festival rounds. I hope it plays where more of us will get to see it.
Bryan Michal Stoller, director of Miss Castaway, has cast Eric as Dr. Howard Melvin in yet another fantasy film called Light Years Away which is scheduled for release on 12 Jan. 2006. It will also star Meadow Williams. The movie may be for TV or direct to DVD.
Eric is apparently also in a movie based on the video game DOA: Dead or Alive. The movie centers on four well-endowed female fighters wearing hardly any clothes in a competition to the death on an exotic island. The script is being written by J.F. Lawton, best known for his work on Pretty Woman. Hollywood is a small world, isn't it?
July 22, 2005. According to the Internet Movie Database, Eric was recently cast in the movie Princess. It is a thriller about an about an American high school cheerleader who finds herself targeted for assassination when it is discovered that she's heir to the throne of Samarza, a fictional Middle Eastern country. At a pre-preduction party, the director did not confirm casting either Eric, as the Dad, or Sheetal Sheth as the Princess. See the report at DesiChutney.
June 10, 2005. On Monday I got home from BookExpoAmerica at the Javits Center in NYC where I met many authors and several celebrities who have recently written books. The one celebrity that I would like to say something about is actor Chris Elliot who was there signing his book The Shroud of the Thwacker. I have never been a Chris Elliot fan but he turned out to be absolutely gracious to every single person who wanted to meet him, smiled for hundreds of photos and was tireless signing autographs. Yes, Mr. Elliot was there to promote his book but so were many other authors and you can take my word for it that some of them were not all that warm and cuddly. It was hot in the Javits Center; big crowds, long lines and everybody was tired. Chris Elliot made every fan go away feeling good. So now you're asking what does this have to do with Eric Roberts? Well, Chuck Oberleitner has something very similar to say about Eric in his article about ABC Primetime Preview Weekend.
May 24, 2005. This summer on the Game Show Network the exciting new billiards series Ballbreakers premieres Monday, July 18 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/PT) and
features amateur pool sharks battling in winner-take-all episodes for
$20,000. Hosted by Sal Masekela ("X Games") and co-hosted by Ewa Mataya
Laurance, known as the "Striking Viking" in the billiard industry. Tia Carrere, Lou Diamond Phillips, Camryn Manheim and Eric Roberts will be the stars in the first of two special celebrity episodes.
May 18, 2005. ABC has picked up Less Than Perfect for another season.
May 6, 2005. Less Than Perfect should be released on DVD so that all of us can have a good copy of it to keep and watch again. If you agree, please sign the petition to release it on DVD.
May 4, 2005. Eric will be a guest star on CSI: Miami on the next to last episode of this season 23:Whacked. This episode should air on May 16. The plot is that the CSIs let a killer get away five years ago and now they must race the clock to find him before he kills again. I don't know yet which character Eric is going to play. Besides the series regulars, there are four males in the story: Alan Kramer, a convicted murderer; Don Haffman, the assistant district attorney; Mike Lewis, the murder victim; and the mystery man. Let's weigh the pros and cons: Eric is always great as a murderer; he looks good in a suit so he could be the district attorney; but the best role is the murder victim because, on CSI Miami, they usually kill someone really early in the show and then they lie in the morgue practically naked for the rest of the show.
April 24, 2005. Spit, a 22-minute film written, directed, and produced by Michael Scalisi, made its world premiere at the Tri Beca Film Festival yesterday night. It stars Eric Roberts as a husband who hires a hitman to kill his wife.
April 10, 2005. Eric's birthday is April 18, 2005. We had a nice party for him last year. Here's a picture of the cake.
April 7, 2005. Looks like Eric is getting to be a regular in music videos. He has appeared in two music videos for Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi album. They are "It's Like That" and "We Belong Together." This is in addition to appearing in The Killers video "Mr. Brightside" that is on their Hot Fuss album.
April 4, 2005. Eric Roberts was one of the judges for the 4th annual Nuts for Mutts, a dog show for mixed breeds hosted by Kim Basinger. The show benefits New Leash on Life Animal Rescue and was held at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California.
March 16, 2005. Eric Roberts will be a presenter at the 19th Annual Genesis Awards produced by the Humane Society of the United States. The awards honor "outstanding individuals whose works have spotlighted animal issues with courage, creativity and integrity." The awards ceremony will actually take place in Los Angeles on March 19th but will be taped to air May 14th as a two hour special on Animal Planet. Among those who will also be presenting that evening are animal lovers Stockard Channing, Ed Asner, Nicollette Sheridan, Alicia Silverstone, David Duchovny, and many others. Eric and Eliza currently have four dogs; Muddy, Duke, Ella, and Kira, and two cats; Chick and Stu.
February 3, 2005. Elma sent me to MTV to see Eric in the Mr. Brightside music video by The Killers. If you have a Windows computer, you should be able to play the video. Can't make it work on a Mac but Elma reports that it was filmed in an actual bordello in Nevada and, she says "Eric is as incredibly handsome and suave as ever."
January 30, 2005. Eric was one of the many celebrities who appeared today on the spcaLA Friends for Life Pet Telethon and raised $700,000 for neglected and abused pets in southern California.
January 8, 2005. The subject of Biography on A&E Jan. 12 is Dorothy Stratten. Eric played Dorothy's husband, Paul Snider, in the 1983 movie Star 80. Eric appears on this show in an interview and in clips from the movie.
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