Coco may not have dropped any bombshells during his heart-wrenching 60 Minutes interview last night, but the former Tonight Show host did boost the program’s audience enough to whomp on its NBC competition. Conan O’B rien helped increase the show’s numbers nearly 40% from last week to a 2.2 rating among the 18-49 age group. Meanwhile, Dateline NBC placed third after America’s Funniest Home Videos on ABC. [ TVbytheNumbers ]
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Conan O’Brien Helps CBS Crush NBC
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Katee Sackhoff is a self-admitted thrill junkie — that’s why she was a perfect fit for the daredevil pilot Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica , and it’s what made her casting on the final season of 24 sound like a no-brainer. Still, her character Dana Walsh hasn’t always had an easy time of it; during the first half of the season, she was often stuck in a subplot involving a no-good ex-boyfriend, and it’s only recently that Sackhoff’s gotten to show off her action-packed bona fides as Dana was revealed to be this season’s obligatory, villainous mole. In advance of tonight’s episode, Movieline spoke to the always-candid actress to get her own feelings about her character’s arc and to hear about the torturous stunt she couldn’t wait to do herself.
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Katee Sackhoff on 24 and the Unlikely Thrill of Being Waterboarded
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Actress Helen Wager, a star on As the World Turns for nearly six decades, died over the weekend of unknown causes at the age of 91. Wagner portrayed ATWT matriarch Nancy Hughes for 54 years, a Guinness world record for the longest time an actor played the same character on television. “All of us at As the World Turns are deeply saddened by Helen’s passing,” executive producer, Christopher Goutman, said in a statement. “She is loved by generations of fans and while we will miss her greatly Helen will always remain the heart and soul of As the World Turns .” [ AP ]
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Soap Star Helen Wagner Dies at 91
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Along with Banksy’s self-distributed Exit to the Gift Shop , City Island ‘s ongoing box office run is one of the more inspirational indie success stories of the year to date. The excellent ensemble comedy about a dysfunctional, secretive family living on the titular island just off the Bronx expanded over the weekend, crossing the $2 million threshold that few (if any) observers expected it might reach. Among the beneficiaries: Steven Strait, who stars as Tony, a convict in whom prison guard Vince (Andy Garcia) takes an unusual interest on the cusp of his parole.
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The Verge: Steven Strait
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If you’re exhausted by the seeming inertia of the whole Roman Polanski extradition saga, here’s something that should get you going again: The house-arrested filmmaker would like to take a few minutes to explain his point of view on the legal drama, apparently provoked by last week’s decision that the Swiss justice ministry would not accept secret testimony from a prosecutor who was on the case three decades ago. This is all just too much for a guy who mortgaged his apartment for bail and can’t get back to work with this dumb ankle bracelet on. Click through for Polanski’s full statement released Sunday.
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Fugitive Child Rapist Can ‘Remain Silent No Longer!’
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Add Barack Obama to the list of people funnier than Jay Leno. While the president brought his B-minus game to the open mic night that is the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — never mind the massive oil spill in the Gulf that threatens the environment or the car bomb in Times Square that threatens national security, what’s the deal with airplane food? — Leno could barely muster a chuckle from the assembled political luminaries, wonky nerds and Hollywood stars. It got so bad, he was even forced to pull out the “this is a tough room” card, the mating call of every bombing hack comic. And oh, the multimedia jokes: All that was missing was ” Monkey Picks the YouTube Clip .” Thank goodness then for President Obama, who made the night more than tolerable. After the jump, the president’s seven best moments. Try the veal!
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The 7 Funniest Jokes From Barack Obama at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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And so another week — another month! Oy! — closes at Movieline. It was a blur, but we’ll piece it all together with the help of the good-old Week in Review. Make sure to check back with weekend editor Christopher Rosen on Saturday, and have a good one!
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Come On, Get Happy
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A very excited Warner Bros. announced today that the long-awaited follow-up to The Dark Knight finally has a release date: July 20, 2012. The film doesn’t yet have a title, a cast, a plot, a director (though Christopher Nolan is widely assumed to be helming), or a format announcement (3D? IMAX ? Both?) but what would be the fun in divulging those? British tabloids need something to guess about . [ Box Office Mojo ]
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Dark Knight Sequel Gets Release Date
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Rooney Mara goes through the wringer as the lead of the revamped A Nightmare on Elm Street , but it’s nothing compared to what she had to endure in her upcoming film, the David Fincher-directed Facebook drama The Social Network . The meticulous Fincher is notorious for demanding that his actors peform dozens of takes, as Jake Gyllenhaal found out while shooting Zodiac : “Sometimes we’d do a lot of takes, and he’d turn, and he would say, because he had a computer there, ‘Delete the last 10 takes,'” Gyllenhaal told the NYT in 2007. “And as an actor that’s very hard to hear.” When Movieline spoke to Mara this week, we had to know: Is Fincher still up to his old tricks?
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Rooney Mara: David Fincher Made Me Do 99 Takes of a Single Social Network Scene
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If you’d like to see Saturday Night Live veterans Al Franken, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey, and Kevin Nealon together again (and you live in the Los Angeles area), you’re in luck. The foursome is appearing at the House of Blues this Saturday and for the low, low price of $2,400 (more expensive tickets are available) you can attend their show. Part of the proceeds will go towards Franken’s 2014 Senate reelection campaign. [ HuffPo ]
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