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  • Dan Stevens Plays Schizophrenic in New “X-Men” Show Called “Legion”

    Dan Stevens is set to play the role of a diagnosed schizophrenic in a new X-Men show called Legion. The Downton Abbey star has signed on to the show based on a Marvel comic book.

    Described as a “haunted man,” Dan Stevens becomes David in the upcoming show–a character who is working to “find his way back to sanity.”

    Parks and Recreation alum Aubrey Plaza also stars in Legion. She plays Dan Stevens’ character’s friend Lenny, who is trying to put the pieces of her life–riddled with drugs and alcohol–back together again.

    Jean Smart of Fargo fame is part of the Legion cast, too. She plays the role of a therapist.

    Dan Stevens was beloved by Downton Abbey fans in his role as Matthew Crawley. Aubrey Plaza spent seven seasons on Parks and Recreation as April Ludgate.

    Production on Legion is set to begin next month. An air date for the pilot has yet to be released.

    What’s your take on this all-star cast for the upcoming X-Men show Legion?

    Will you tune in to see Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza, Jean Smart, and more in Legion when it airs on FX some time in the near future?

  • Kirsten Dunst Says Most Roles Are Wife Or Mother And “That’s Pretty Much It”

    Kirsten Dunst spoke about her Fargo character recently in an interview, revealing what drew her to the role on the eccentric Coen brothers’ show. Dunst says that Peggy Blumquist was so different from any character she’d ever read for, which says a lot about the roles available to women in Hollywood.

    Dunst told People Magazine that Peggy was written as a bit crazy, but was also a small-town resident with bigger dreams, which some may find relatable.

    “She was written so crazy. She was a hoarder, and she wanted to be a hairdresser in California … you just don’t read things like that. You’re either a wife or a mother and that’s pretty much it, you know,” Kirsten said.

    Dunst must have struck a chord with quite a few people during her time on the second season of the show, because she was naed Best Actress at the People’s Choice Awards over the weekend.

    Dunst said recently that she was required to put on a little weight for the role, and in order to put on a few pounds she turned to carbs. The actress says she enjoyed eating bread and cheese when it was time to alter her body for the show.

    It’s unclear weather the movie star will be open to doing another television show if the opportunity arises; she told the Guardian recently that television is much harder than film simply because of the amount of work that has to be done in one day.

    “Doing a television show is much, much harder work than film, because you’re doing 10 pages a day. You don’t get that many takes. And my character does not stop talking.” In order to memorize her lines, she says, her trick is “doing it a bunch of times the night before, right before bed… and then you sleep and it’s like: ‘Oh my God, it’s all in my brain.’ It’s amazing!”

  • Kirsten Dunst Says Bread and Cheese The Secret to Her ‘Fargo’ Weight Gain

    Kristen Dunst dished on her secret to gaining weight, which was a requirement for her role in FX’s Fargo.

    The 33-year-old actress shared her secret for packing on the pounds while on the red carpet at the Golden Globes.

    “Literally I just gained weight,” she told E! News, as reported by People magazine.

    Dunst explained that her diet was pretty simple, and it sounds like a dream to those who only dream about indulging in her secret weapons.

    “Bread and cheese,” she said was the source of her weight gain. “Different assortments.”

    Although she did pack on the pounds for the show, Dunst shared another little secret about her weight gain, which she always attributes to the show.

    “I say that, but literally I just gained weight in Calgary,” she joked.

    Dunst, who was nominated for best actress in a limited series for her role as a small-town beautician on Fargo, looked stunning on the red carpet in her plunging long, black velvet gown, despite being a little heavier than we tend to see her.

    Dunst told Ryan Seacrest that one of the each episode comes as a surprise to the actress.

    “Every two weeks you get a new script or two so it’s all a surprise,” Dunst said of life on the Fargo set.

    Dunst said she was calm before the awards show, until she hit the red carpet.

    “I was very relaxed at home and I’m pretty chill right now…I don’t know why,” she said with a laugh. “You just feel like pretty meat being shoved down this carpet.”

    What did you think of Kirsten Dunst‘s look for the Golden Globes?

  • Kirsten Dunst Dishes On What She Loves In a Man and Her Reasons May Surprise You

    Kirsten Dunst has opened up about what she loves in a man and the reason may come as a surprise.

    The 33-year-old Fargo actress, 33, dished what she looks for in a boyfriend in the latest issue of The Edit, telling the magazine: “I appreciate old-fashioned manners.”

    It seems her boyfriend, actor Garrett Hedlund, is measuring up to her standards.

    “I want a guy to pay for dinner and open the door for me,” she said. “I love the masculine.”

    Dunst, who previously dated celebs like Jake Gyllenhaal and Johnny Borrell, added that she truly goes for a man’s man.

    “I’ve dated men who had more of a feminine side,” she shared. “And it didn’t work.”

    Dunst told the magazine she generally doesn’t enjoy dating actors, but that changed with Hedlund, whom she has been dating for four years now after meeting the Country Strong actor on the set of On the Road in 2010.

    As reported by People magazine, it also seems like things between the two may be getting serious.

    “I want to continue acting, but I also want to have kids,” she revealed. “I think I’ll be ready to have them in two years or something.”

    In the meantime, Dunst is eager to throw her hat into the directing arena. Currently, she is working with a friend on a script, for which she’ll take on the role of director. She notes, however, that her gender is an obstacle to accomplishing her goal.

    “I think it’s easier for mediocre male directors to be in this industry,” Kirsten Dunst said. “As a female you can be a director, but you have to be amazing – that’s the disparaging part to it. You have to be really great to get in there.”

  • Kirsten Dunst Loved Packing on the Pounds for Fargo Role

    Kirsten Dunst pretty much got to live out everyone’s dream, as her job required her to sit around eating all day.

    Living. The. Dream.

    Dunst stars on the new season of FX’s critically-acclaimed drama Fargo and the role, a Midwestern hairdresser named Peggy Blomquist, required her to gain some weight.

    And apparently, she loved doing it.

    “Is it a nightmare or is it a fun thing to gain weight for a role?” Jimmy Kimmel asked Dunst on his show this week.

    “Well listen,” said Dunst with a smile. “I was in Calgary and it was cold, so I ordered in a lot of pizza, lot of Thai – I just had different stuff, grilled cheese, different cheeses and breads together.”

    “Now I’m like I gained weight for this role but really I just sat in my bed and watched Friday Night Lights and like, ate.”

    Check out the interview below:

    Dunst, a movie star, hasn’t spent a ton of time on the small screen. But she did recently reveal what drew her to her new role on Fargo:

    “When I heard about the role, I watched the first season, which I hadn’t watched before. I was so impressed by the way it looked, the writing; it was such high-quality television. Then I read the first two episodes and I thought, “Wow, Peggy is gonna be a special role. Whatever trajectory she’s going on is going to be fun for me to play.” Then I met Noah (Hawley) and expressed how much I wanted to play the role. On the way home, he gave me the job. That was a pretty quick response on his end,” Dunst told Variety.

  • Kirsten Dunst Prepared For Her ‘Fargo’ Role By Pigging Out, Watching ‘Friday Night Lights’ and Loving It

    Kirsten Dunst lived out everyone’s dream of being lazy and eating like a pig, all the while getting paid to do so.

    For her role on the FX series Fargo, the 33-year-old actress was required to pack on the pounds and so she did.

    In an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, Kirsten Dunst dished about how she had to gain weight to play her character. There have been other actors and actresses who have gone down this road in the past and many of them have complained about the process. However, Dunst says it was as great as many of us imagine.

    “Well, listen, I was in Calgary and it was cold. And so I ordered in a lot of pizza, grilled cheeseI just had different cheeses and breads together,” she said, laughing. “And now I’m like, ‘Yeah! I gained weight for this role,’ but really I just sat in my bed, watched Friday Night Lights and ate. That’s what I did.”

    Friday Night Lights is an obvious choice considering her husband and Fargo co-star, Jesse Plemons, is an alum of the show. She told Kimmel she always gets the behind-the-scenes scoop.

    “I learned real juice. Like who was dating whoshocking couples!” she exclaimed, teasing the audience. “Like I can’t even say. It would be so fun to gossip about it but we can’t!”

    In Fargo, Dunst portrays a sociopathic Midwestern beautician married to an unassuming butcher’s assistant named Ed, played by Plemons.

    The actress had nothing but praise for Fargo.

    “It’s nice to promote something and not have to lie about it,” Kristen Dunst said, insinuating there’s definitely been roles she wasn’t as excited about.

    So would you enjoy being lazy and pigging out the whole live-long day?

  • Kirsten Dunst: Doing TV Was So Hard I Didn’t Want To Go Back

    Kirsten Dunst has done film. Kirsten Dunst has done television. Kirsten Dunst says television is harder.

    Kirsten Dunst is in the second season of the hit television series Fargo, based on the world created by the Coen Brothers for the film of the same name. Dunst plays Peggy Blomquist alongside Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, and Jesse Plemons.

    “TV is a lot harder than film,” Dunst told Town & Country. “A lot harder. When I got the part, my friend Lizzy Caplan, who’s on Masters of Sex, said, ‘Be sure to get B12 shots to get you through the week.’ I was like, ‘Really? That sounds very dramatic, Lizzie.’ By the third week I was all over the B12. It was one of the best roles I’ve ever played — the writing is spectacular – but by the end I was tapped out.”

    One of the toughest parts of TV for Kirsten Dunst was changing directors between episodes.

    “Every two weeks you get a new director,” Dunst explains, “and they each have their own way of doing things. You get used to one person style, and then they switch it up on you. It’s natural that you vibe with some more than others. Only TV moves much faster than film. And Peggy talks so fast that every night I felt like I was cramming for an exam.”

    When Dunst would go home between shoot schedules, she would feel so stressed she didn’t want to go back.

    “I remember crying to my mom, ‘I don’t want to go back there! Don’t make me!’”

    But Kirsten Dunst really likes her character Peggy Blomquist.

    “She is very much like me at my craziest, my mother at her craziest, my grandma at her craziest. I could really combine the nutsiest parts of the women in my family. Some of the things he would say, how she said them – I had a lot of that inside me already.”

  • Kirsten Dunst Shows Off Her Fargo Accent With Nick Offerman

    Kirsten Dunst is part of a large ensemble cast on the second season of Fargo, and a new trailer just dropped that shows a lot more of the story we have to look forward to than the teasers that were released a couple of weeks ago.

    The new season–which takes place in 1979–follows Dunst’s beautician Peggy Blomquist, her husband Ed, and State Trooper Lou Solverson, played here by Patrick Wilson as a younger version of Keith Carradine’s character in season one. There’s murder, tight sweaters, sweet Fargo accents, and lots of awesome facial hair popping up in the new trailer, which also gives us a glimpse at Nick Offerman in a very different role from that of Ron Swanson.

    Season one of the series won rave reviews from critics and fans and earned several awards. Fans connected with the many threads the show followed, including a very famous one from the original Coen brothers film of the same name that involved an ice scraper and a big bag of money.

    Kirsten Dunst has a couple more projects in the works for this year, including Woodshock and Midnight Special, but has also been busy sidestepping rumors that she’s pregnant with beau Garrett Hedlund. The actress was spotted by photographers covering her tummy with a shopping bag, prompting speculation that she might be expecting. 33-year old Dunst said in an interview with Red Magazine that she has a bit of baby fever because so many of her friends are having kids.

    “I’m in baby mode because two of my really good friends are pregnant right now. One of them is pretty chilled and the other’s like, ‘I can’t wait to have a glass of wine!’ I love it though. We’ve already picked her girl’s name, it’s done! I think 33 is a good age to have your first baby,” Kirsten Dunst said.

  • Kirsten Dunst, Ted Danson Get Ready Do Their Best Fargo Accents

    Kirsten Dunst, you’ve got red on you.

    Dunst and Ted Danson have signed on to the new season of Fargo, and although two new trailers give us glimpses at what we’re in for, they really don’t give away too much, leaving us itching to find out more.

    The teasers live up to their names, with one showing Dunst’s character washing her hands at a beauty shop and the other giving us a look at Danson, who sports a big beard and a Fargo accent. Adam Arkin, Patrick Wilson, Brad Garrett, Jean Smart, Michael Hogan, and Jeffrey Donovan also star in the new season, which looks to pack just as much violence as the last. Dunst plays the wife of Breaking Bad actor Jesse Plemons, and according to Entertainment Weekly, the couple gets get “caught in a brutal war of crime”.

    The new season will take place nearly 30 years in the past, and will see Patrick Wilson take on the role of the younger Lou Solverson, who was played by Keith Carradine in season one. Lou will focus on a local gang and their criminal exploits.

    Kirsten started the rumor mill churning earlier this year when she began stepping out in baggy sweatshirts, prompting speculation that she was expecting with her beau Garrett Hedlund. She also said in an interview that she was in “baby mode” because she has friends who are starting families.

    ‘I’m in baby mode because two of my really good friends are pregnant right now. One of them is pretty chilled and the other’s like, ‘I can’t wait to have a glass of wine!’ I love it though. We’ve already picked her girl’s name, it’s done! I think 33 is a good age to have your first baby,” Kirsten Dunst said.

  • Roxanne Daner, Adam Goldberg Welcome Son Following Stillbirth

    Roxanne Daner and Adam Goldberg welcomed a baby boy just a few weeks ago. The couple lost their first baby to a stillbirth about a year and a half ago. The Fargo actor shared word of Daner’s pregnancy during a recent podcast.

    “My girlfriend Roxanne is pregnant,” Goldberg said on the show, which was taped several months earlier. “We weren’t going to tell anybody–I mean it’s obvious. She’s gigantic. But we weren’t going to tell anyone unless you ran into her.”

    Adam Goldberg also played Chandler Bing’s crazy roommate Eddie on Friends.

    “I haven’t said this. I haven’t talked about this at all. My girlfriend — we’ve been together for several years — we had a stillborn child about a year and a half ago. I’ve talked about it but not really in a public fashion. Totally awful, especially because I had been ambivalent of having children,” Goldberg said.

    “It was four days after the due date,” he added. “It was horrifying and it was also my worst fear.”

    Adam Goldberg was a bit miffed at some of the celebrity publication’s reports in the last day or two. He explained that the podcast wasn’t aired live. Roxanne Daner is no longer expecting, but gave birth to the couple’s healthy baby boy about four weeks ago.

    Post by Adam Goldberg.

    In between the stillbirth of their first child and the birth of their son, Adam Goldberg and Roxanne Daner stayed busy working together on a variety of projects. He is a photographer, and frequently updates his website with new photos. The two even collaborated on an album together titled The Goldberg Sisters.

    Congratulations to both Adam Goldberg and Roxanne Daner on the birth of their baby boy.

  • Hulu Acquires ‘Fargo’ And Other MGM Content

    Hulu Acquires ‘Fargo’ And Other MGM Content

    Hulu announced that it has acquired exclusive streaming rights to hit television series (or mini-series, if you prefer..it was renewed for a second season) Fargo.

    The acquisition comes as part of an expansion of Hulu’s relationship with MGM, and it also includes all episodes of History’s Vikings as well as multi-year, non-exclusive licensing rights to over 1,500 episodes of MGM series including Stargate Universe, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate: SG-1, Flipper, Green Acres, Addams Family, Thirtysomething, Dead Like me, and All Dogs Go to Heaven.

    Fargo won three Emmys, and is nominated for five Golden Globes.

    “MGM has been our longtime partner and is a consistent distributor of premium content. This expanded agreement allows us to become the streaming home to one of this year’s biggest and most critically acclaimed series, Fargo. After announcing our landmark output deal with FX Productions yesterday, this expanded partnership with MGM brings even more hit titles to Hulu,” said Craig Erwich, Senior Vice President and Head of Content at Hulu.

    “We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Hulu and proud to continue to offer exceptional programming from MGM including the Golden Globe nominated and Emmy award winning series Fargo, continued fan-favorite Vikings as well as classic titles from MGM’s vast library,” said John Bryan, MGM President of Domestic Television Distribution.

    The deal is certainly a blow to Netflix, which lost out to FX on the show in the first place. In fact, Netflix and Hulu seem to be battling it out for FX content these days. While Netflix carries shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League, Louie, Sons of Anarchy, and American Horror Story, Hulu also announced another deal for more FX content this week.

    Hulu’s deal includes The Strain, Tyrant, Married and You’re the Worst, Man Seeking Woman, The Comedians, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Taboo, and Baskets.

    All episodes of the first season of Fargo will be available for streaming on Hulu in 2015. All episodes of the first two seasons of Vikings are currently available.

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  • Kirsten Dunst and Breaking Bad’s Jesse Plemons Take on New 1979 Fargo Season

    Kirsten Dunst is one of the first cast members for the next season of Fargo, the surprise hit for FX last season. Dunst will be joined by Jesse Plemons, who wowed audiences in Breaking Bad as the shockingly amoral Todd.

    While Dunst and Plemons are certainly recognizable names, it is the concept behind this season of Fargo that is delicious. The season is set in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Luverne, Minnesota in 1979. It serves as a prequel to the first season. That storyline starred Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton in roles that took both outside the realm most people think of them in.

    The first season of Fargo was also a breakout success for actress Allison Tolman as Molly Solverson, a local police detective. Tolman had done a few small roles before Fargo, but was working for a temp agency when she got the call to do the series. Since then she has done The Mindy Project and has two feature films in the works.

    Tolman’s character of Milly Solverson also had a father, Lou Solverson, played by veteran actor Keith Carradine. Within the first season, Lou Solverson was an older ex-cop who now owned a diner. In one scene with Billy Bob Thornton, Lou Solverson refers to a horrific 1979 case he worked when he was a cop.

    “Now, I saw something that year I ain’t ever seen, before or since. I’d call it animal. Except animals only kill for food. This was— Sioux Falls. Ever been?”

    A younger Lou Solverson is a central character in the upcoming Fargo season. He will be a cop, recently returned from Vietnam, and his daughter Molly is now only a baby. The rumor is that this horrific case Lou referred to will be central to the new season.

    “He thought he left the war behind, but he came back and here it is, it’s domestic,” showrunner Noah Hawley told Entertainment Weekly. “We will meet Molly’s mother, who was not a character in season one … and we’ll learn what happened to her. There were a lot of clues left in the first season and we’ll do our best to hit those.”

    The character of young Lou Solverson is not yet cast.

    Dunst will star as Peggy Blomquist, “a small town beautician with big city dreams who is trying to figure out who she really is and what she really wants as she struggles with traditional societal expectations. She shares her home with her husband Ed, a butcher’s assistant, who wants to be supportive of his wife’s self-discovery, even if he doesn’t quite understand it.”

    Plemons will play Ed, Peggy’s husband.

    The first Fargo season won an Emmy for outstanding miniseries.

  • Kirsten Dunst Signs On For ’70s “Fargo” With “Breaking Bad” Alum

    Kirsten Dunst is best known for her film roles, but the blonde beauty will be moving to television next fall for the second season of Fargo.

    The 10-episode arc will follow Dunst’s character, Peggy Blomquist, as she tries to figure out a way to move from a small-town beauty shop to the big city. Her husband, Ed, will be played by Jesse Plemons, best known to many as Todd from Breaking Bad.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, the characters’ storyline is taken from an incident that occurred in 1979 which was referenced in the first season. Molly’s dad, Lou Solverson, will appear in the new season as a younger man who has just returned from Vietnam.

    “He thought he left the war behind, but he came back and here it is, it’s domestic. We will meet Molly’s mother, who was not a character in season 1 … and we’ll learn what happened to her. There were a lot of clues left in the first season and we’ll do our best to hit those,” said showrunner Noah Hawley.

    Fargo was a breakout hit for FX earlier this year and went on to be nominated for 18 Emmy Awards and won for Outstanding Miniseries. It is based on the cult classic 1996 film of the same name, which won an Oscar.

  • Billy Bob Thornton Reveals The Show He’d Love To Do

    Billy Bob Thornton has made quite an impression on Fargo fans this season, but as much fun as he had playing the villain, he says he won’t be coming back for the next incarnation of the show.

    “It was such a thrill to do the show. I have nothing to complain about. Hopefully, another one that good will come along,” he said.

    The show, which is based on Joel and Ethan Coen’s now-classic film of the same name, has garnered 18 Emmy nominations and won over fans of the original movie, something that wasn’t a given when writers and producers began the journey.

    “We knew if we were ever going to make this, it had to hold its own against the movie. It took a lot of courage to do it,” said Eric Schrier of FX.

    As for Billy Bob, the show might go on without him, but it’s doubtful he’ll have to try too hard to land another television role if he wants one. In fact, he says maybe he can pick up a part on one of the most popular shows running right now.

    “There’s so much good stuff on TV. Maybe I can play what’s his name? Hodor on Games of Thrones, the guy who only says, ‘Hodor.’ Maybe I could be his cousin or something, his long lost cousin.”

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  • Billy Bob Thornton on Why TV is Better Than Films

    Billy Bob Thornton, 58, has been in the movie business for many years as an actor and director, but the Fargo actor says TV is the place to be these days.

    “Television has taken that slot that the movies aren’t doing any more,” said Thornton in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “They’re not doing the mid-range budget studio movies, the $25-30 million adult drama, or even adult comedy, really. And the independent films, they want to give you $3 or $4 million, they want you to put 10 movie stars in it so they can sell off all the foreign territories. And there’s not as much freedom in movies sometimes: you can do movies about heroin smugglers, but you can’t smoke in a movie.

    “Plus, TV now has this cache. Everybody’s dying to get on TV. I was influenced by Southern novelists, and there’s no place for that in a movie theater any more. So if I’m going to do anything [like that] in the future, maybe I can do that on TV. Maybe they’ll start doing more three-part things like [Kevin] Costner did with Hatfields and McCoys. Maybe I could do something like that. So I wasn’t looking to get on a TV series that lasts six or seven years, but they said, ‘Coen brothers, Fargo.’ I read the script, it was amazing, and then they said, ‘After 10 episodes, you’re done.’ I said, ‘Yeah, count me in.’ That was essentially it.”

    Thornton says he loves playing Fargo character Lorne Malvo.

    “I love the fact that he has no conscience at all, and yet he’s got this bizarre sense of humor where he likes to mess with people — when he doesn’t even have to. Because he could just leave [town]. But he doesn’t. Like, if he goes in to rob the clothing store, instead of just taking the money, he says, “You work in a clothing store and you’re wearing that shirt? Why?” For him, that’s his own social life, just messing with his victims.”

    Thornton said he gave little thought to taking on the TV version of the seven-time Academy Award-winning film, including Best Picture.

    “[The script] was so good. The Coen brothers gave it their blessing, and I figured, Why not? It’s like making a 10-hour independent film. And by nature, I think most people, when they love a movie, they wish it could keep going,” said Thornton. “And here you get to. And the other thing — as I get older, one of the things I’ve learned is it doesn’t matter what you do now, you’re going to get sh– for it anyway. So if you do something that just gets [just] some sh–, that’s successful.”

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  • “Fargo” Trailer Gives Us A Deeper Look At New Show

    “Fargo” grabbed us all when it premiered in 1996; the Coen brothers outdid themselves with that one, giving us dark humor mixed with a gruesome, captivating story. The stress on the Minnesota accents could have bordered on silly if the film hadn’t been done right, and while they do add to some of the humor in the movie, the focus is on two wild cards, one tortured car salesman, and the police detective who connects them all in her mild-mannered way.

    Now, FX is about to bring us a show based on the film, a limited series that features “Sherlock” star Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton. The series will follow in the same vein as the movie but will give us a new tale of true crime, and a new trailer has just been released that gives us a deeper look at what we can expect.

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  • Bill Murray Talks Big ‘Garfield’ Mistake

    Bill Murray starred as the voice of Garfield in the 2004 film, Garfield: The Movie, but recently admitted via a Reddit chat his huge mistake in taking the role. Believing the script was created by renown film writer Joel Coen–known for hits like The Big Lebowski and Fargo–he didn’t even completely read through it, assuming he was signing on for a fantastic film. After signing on the dotted line and committing to the role, he realized the writer was instead Joel Cohen–known for flops like Cheaper by the Dozen and Howard Stern’s failed TV talk show.

    It was actually during a recording session, voicing the big orange cat, when Bill Murray realized something was horribly wrong.

    “There was just this long, two-minute silence,” he said. “I probably cursed a little, and I said, ‘I can fix this, but I can’t fix this today. Or this week. Who wrote this stuff?’ ”

    Known for getting his start on SNL, Murray also starred in Caddyshack and Lost in Translation–the second of which he earned an Academy Award nomination for.

    Needless to say, when Bill Murray was approached about voicing Garfield in the next film installment, he answered with an unequivocal and resounding “No!”

    “They sort of shot themselves in the foot, the kidneys, the liver and the pancreas on the second one,” he said.

    Despite Bill Murray’s big film mistake with Garfield, the rest of his career has involved one success after another. Long remembered for his classic lines in the 1991 film What About Bob, fans still love to quote his famous line, “I’m sailing!”

    Bill Murray is 63 years old and still going strong in the world of comedy. Who would have known–back in the mid-1970s–when he performed with other comedy greats like John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd that his career would span four decades? Sadly, he and Aykroyd are all that remain of the famous four, with Belushi dying of a drug overdose and Gilda Radner dying following a hard-fought battle with ovarian cancer. Murray started out as a troubled young man who was once arrested for smuggling almost nine pounds of marijuana through O’Hare Airport in Chicago. And while no one is saying he hasn’t smoked a joint or two since then, he certainly lives a much different life these days.

    Hopefully Murray will look back at his Garfield film experience as a minor blip on the big screen. It doesn’t seem like most people these days even knew it was his voice behind the snarky orange cat–and that’s probably a good thing.

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  • Obesity Letters. Are American Children too Fat ?

    A highly opinionated woman, who identifies herself as “Cheryl” was a guest on a  radio show hosted by Corey Schaffer out of Fargo, North Dakota. During the interview she stated she would distribute candy to all children who are trick or treating. However, the candy would be accompanied with obesity letters. This letter is addressed to the parents of children that she feels are overweight.

    Apparently Cheryl who did not state if she was a mother or has any type of dietary training, feels that her actions are justified by stating “I am not denying any of the kids candy“, “I am just hoping the parents are going to read this and think about it while they watch their kids get into bigger and bigger sizes of clothes.

    Corey Schaffer stated on Wednesday “As far as we know Cheryl is a local Fargo woman that thinks it is her mission to watch out for the overweight children of Fargo”. The interview was planned in advance by the host Schaffer who is also known as Zero while hosting his show on Y94. Several emails were used to discuss the topic before the interview aired live on the air. Schaffer stated that the discussion between himself and Cheryl resulted in  “nasty, nasty responses”.

    It is not clear if Cheryl received any uncomfortable confrontations or had her home vandalized after passing out the obesity letters in person on Halloween. The waistlines on the nations children are growing at a rate that is hard to ignore. Retailers like Old Navy and Kmart are catering to the needs of children and teens that are plus sized or husky.  The children a generation ago who were considered fat were in some cases much slimmer than today’s obese school aged children.


    American children are larger than they were even 20 years years ago. How fat is too fat ? According to the Centers for Disease Control 12.5 million children from age 2 to 19 are not at a healthy weight.
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  • Coen Brothers to Produce New “Fargo” TV Series

    Movie moguls Joel and Ethan Coen are at it once more. But for the first time, it’s for television.

    Famous for such favorites as “The Big Lebowski,” and “No Country for Old Men,” the Coens are set to produce a 10-part adaption of the acclaimed film “Fargo” with Billy Bob Thorton in the lead role of Lorne Malvo.  John Landgraf, head of the Fox network says the entertainment industry has  long since tried to reproduce the fervor of the original film to no avail.  He  anticipates the current effort will receive a ravenous reception.

    “For years people have tried to adapt this award-winning gem into a TV series with no success,” he said.  This script is so good and so true to the tone of the original movie.”

    The original 1996 movie won multiple Oscars and features a story about the pursuits of Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police chief from Fargo, North Dakota. While  investigating a roadway murder of a state patrolman, Gunderson happens upon another  case involving a “mysterious” kidnapping and subsequent death of a local housewife. Through a chain of events, Gunderson pursues two soulless ex-convicts only to witnesses one of them tossing his partner in crime into a wood chipper.

    “The series won’t have any of the same characters as the Oscar-winning movie,” Landgraf said, “but it will tell a similar story.”

    Warren LittleField and Geyer Kosniski will serve as executive producers along with Joel Coen, the original 1996 movie screenwriter. Noah Hawley, the series’ screenplay writer, will also bring his considerable expertise to bear.  A writer and novelist of such TV shows as “Bones,” and the “Unusuals,” his works  also include “The Good Father” and “The Punch.”

    Set to start shooting in Canada Spring of next year, Roma Khana, President of MGM’s Television and Digital says it will be compelling to see what everyone’s unique vision will bring to bear.

    “MGM Television is thrilled to be producing a fresh and exciting re-envisioning of Fargo for Fox’s television audience. With the stellar creative team lead by Noah Hawley, Joel & Ethan Coen and Warren Littlefield, we are re-imagining one of the most iconic titles from MGM’s rich film library,” she said.