NEWS - Clamoroso al Cibali! Originariamente Olivia Pope di "Scandal" doveva essere bianca e interpretata da Connie Britton!

News tratta da "Vulture"

Before Kerry Washington donned Olivia Pope’s white hat, ABC pushed for Connie Britton to be Washington D.C.’s leading fixer. In an oral history gathered by The Hollywood Reporter, Shonda Rhimes recalled Scandal’s most important casting decision: picking Pope. Rhimes said she felt certain that Olivia was a black woman, especially since the character was inspired by real-life D.C. crisis fixer Judy Smith. “Nothing felt more important than the sense of outsiderness,” Rhimes said. “I didn’t know that there hadn’t been a drama series with a leading black woman for 37 years. When the show got picked up [to pilot], I got a phone call from somebody who said, ‘This would be the perfect show for Connie Britton.’ I said, ‘It would be, except Olivia Pope is black.’” ABC also suggested Britton: “The network was reading us their top choices,” casting director Linda Lowey said, “and it was Connie and all white women. I panicked. Somebody finally piped up, ‘We’re going to have to redo this list.’” After auditioning Jill Scott and Anika Noni Rose, they hired Kerry Washington. The rest is history, but Washington agreed that the Nashville star would have been a sensible choice: “This would have been a great role for Connie Britton!” she said.

GOSSIP - Tanto di...capelli! Clare Bowen di "Nashville" taglia col passato per una buona causa...

Wanna know why I cut it all off? https://t.co/xoPDGYyOYZ (photo by @Josephllanes) pic.twitter.com/Mn3gTfXqAo

— Clare Bowen (@clarembee) 12 Novembre 2015

Nashville star Clare Bowen, who plays Scarlett on the show, has chopped off all her hair.
The actress wrote an eloquent Facebook post explaining why she did so.
“When I was four years old…I had just been diagnosed with end stage nephroblastoma, after several visits to a GP who denied anything was wrong and dubbed my parents “paranoid.” I’d overheard the doctors telling my family that the only hope of saving me, was an experimental treatment that might kill me anyway. But without it I had maybe two weeks left. The hospital was cold. I’d never felt air conditioning before,” Clare wrote.
“And then I got really lucky. I survived, my hair grew back and I got strong again. I look relatively normal on the outside, but on the inside, I am still the same stitched back together little creature, in a world where people are judged so harshly for the way they look. It has always been completely incomprehensible to me. How can people think there’s time for that?,” Clare added.
“Every scar tells a story, every baldhead, every dark circle, every prosthetic limb, and every reflection in a mirror that you might not recognize anymore. Look deeper than skin, hair, nails, and lips. You are who you are in your bones. That is where you have the potential to shine the brightest from. It is where your true beautiful self lives,” Clare continued. :Thank you ABC network and particularly our creator, Callie Khouri for letting me change Scarlett’s hair, and my team, family and friends for helping me make the decision. If it makes even one person think twice about judging another, then in some small way, the world is better.”

NEWS - Pump up the volume! Steve Angello degli "Swedish House Mafia" firma serie ambientata nel backstage della dance music (con il produttore di "Nashville")

News tratta da "Entertainment Weekly"
Wait for it: An EDM drama called The Drop is in development at the CW, EW has confirmed. The Drop comes from former Nashville executive producer R.J. Cutler and DJ Steve Angello. He will serve as the executive music producer. The story is set in the intense, crazed world of electronic dance music in Miami, where one of the world’s top DJs finds an up-and-coming African-American DJ to mentor. Kyle Jarrow is writing the script and will also executive produce. Angello, a member of the now broken-up EDM trio Swedish House Mafia has his next album, Wild Youth, is due later this year.

GOSSIP - Beth Behrs revealed! "Prima del provino per '2 Broke Girls' facevo la cameriera senza soldi come Caroline! E ora mi dò al country..."! (Rayna Jaymes, prendi nota!)
Beth Behrs is all business on the cover of Vegas magazine’s December issue, out on newsstands now! Here’s what the 28-year-old actress had to share with the mag:
On traveling back and forth between LA and Nashville, to study guitar and dabble in songwriting: I’ve just begun the journey of songwriting, and still have a lot to learn. But what I love about writing country music is that you’re able to tell a story, which is what you do as an actor as well. It’s super exciting. I’m just trying to learn as much as I can.
On working with one of her idols, Julie Andrews: She told me I had perfect pitch and was so kind to me. It was and still is one of the best days of my life!
On sharing some history with her 2 Broke Girls character, Caroline (When she was cast, she was juggling a job at the Geffen Playhouse, working as a nanny, bartending on the weekends, sharing a one-bedroom apartment, and barely paying the bill): I was basically living the Max and Caroline life when I got cast, so that was the easy part.
For more on Beth, visit Vegasmagazine.com!

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GOSSIP - Emily Kinney, da "The Walking Dead" a..."Nashville"! L'attrice si dà alla musica con un motivetto che se lo sente Rayna Jaymes la mette sotto contratto...

GOSSIP - Tutte Baz-ze per Michiel! Il bel Huisman di "Nashville", "Orphan Black" e "GOT" testimonial del megaspot cult di Chanel diretto da Luhrmann 

Dai mulini olandesi al “Moulin Rouge”, inteso come film simbolo del cineasta fantasioso Baz Luhrmann che l’ha voluto quale protagonista maschile del mini-film di Chanel che da qualche giorno impazza in ogni dove. Michiel Huisman, nato tra i tulipani di Amstelveen, sarà il volto nuovo che affianca la protagonista Tatiana Maslany nella 2° stagione inedita della serie cult “Orphan Black” (su Premium Action dal 15 novembre). Nel frattempo si è concesso il lusso di essere colui che fa battere il cuore alla surfista chic Gisele Bündchen nello spot diretto con maestria da Luhrmann e che racchiude le atmosfere dei suoi più famosi “Moulin Rouge” e “Il Grande Gatsby”. Huisman si è fatto conoscere di recente in tv per aver partecipato a “Nashville” (Fox Life) e “Game of Thrones” (Rai4/Sky Atlantic), mentre al cinema è stato sul set di “Black Book” e “World War Z”. Il grande schermo sembra essersi innamorato del fascino (olandese?) di Michiel, visto che da qui al 2016 è atteso in ben 5 pellicole. In “Wild”, in uscita in Italia il 5 dicembre, affianca Reese Witherspoon; in “American Dream” (attualmente in post-produzione) è davanti alla cinepresa del polacco Janusz Kaminski, il direttore della fotografia preferito di Steven Spielberg; nel 2015 usciranno il thriller paranoico “The Invitation” e “The Age of Adaline” con Harrison Ford e Blake Lively; il 2016 vedrà Huisman protagonista di “The Swimmer”, storia di un nuotatore che sfida le difficili acque di un fiume danese. Se nel poco tempo libero scrive e compone canzoni (per i feticisti del caso, ha già pubblicato un album in olandese), i giornali glam hanno iniziato a cercarlo come modello (vedi la cover di “L’Officiel” QUI). Nel frattempo non resta che seguirlo in tv, tra un chan(n)el e l’altro…
 

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NEWS -  RIP, non ci sono più i gay effeminati di una volta...

Post di Nico Lang per PolicyMic

"A couple of years ago I sat in the audience for a panel discussion on queer representation in entertainment; the presentation included a breezy tour through the gay history of the media, complete with Powerpoint slides of Rosie, Ellen and old People magazines from when you needed to be on the cover of something to come out. The overview was greeted warmly, until we got to Will and Grace, where one of the show's characters, Jack McFarland, proved a sticking point. Jack, a sassy sidekick whose flamboyance towed the line between camp and parody, has long been a lightning rod of discussion in the community. You could feel that discomfort in the room.

Our tour guide diffused the tension by reminding the mostly-male audience that Jack might be a stereotype, but many of us know a Jack in real life. The audience laughed with delight and recognition. They nodded to friends as if to say, "Oh, yes. That's true." What he didn't say is that many of us are Jacks, but I wondered how many people would laugh at that statement.

I thought of this moment after NBC announced that the network would be pulling Sean Saves the World, the freshman sitcom starring Sean Hayes, who played Jack on Will and Grace. For those who haven't seen the show (read: all of you), Sean Saves the World was about a father forced to take sole guardianship of his estranged (yet adorable!) daughter after her mother abandoned her. The show was NBC's attempt to relive its glory days by borrowing from what worked in the '90s, with Hayes playing nearly the same character, a little older and wiser, but with all the trademark pitfalls. Even the stilted laugh track made it sound like the laughter was echoing in from 15 years ago.

 But in getting (rightly) cancelled by NBC, audiences weren't just leaving '90s sitcoms behind. They were leaving behind the Jack McFarlands, a relic of the Queer as Folk era of gay TV, when a show like Queer as Folk (for all its whitewashed issues) could give us three effeminate gays in its lead cast: Emmett, Ted and Justin. The recent television movement has been a push toward post-gay representation, creating male characters who just so happen to be gay. On the critically lauded Brooklyn Nine-Nine, that's the entire point of Andre Braugher's Captain Holt. His sexuality is as inscrutable as the rest of his persona, a hard-ass who has learned to blend in to survive in a homophobic workforce. The recent new HBO addition Looking was celebrated for the same thing. Although many critics chided it for being dull (which it is), defenders of the show found it liberating that gay characters got to be boring on television just like everyone else.

However, there's a certain type of character that gets the privilege to be post-gay, guys whose sexuality doesn't stand out in the same way that Jack's did. In order to get on television today, gay characters are butching it up, becoming like Captain Holt to prove they can hang with the boys, camouflaged with masculinity. Looking's characters are all fit hipster bros who call each other "dude" a lot. On the recently departed Happy Endings, the schlubby, hairy Max acted as a deconstruction of gay stereotypes. It was a running joke that Max was "less gay" than the show's straight dudes, much like gay characters on Nashville and GCB. This might be what it takes to fit in, but it looks awfully heteronormative.

Even recent shows that depict effeminate male characters use them primarily as the butt of the joke, a Lucy character who is always causing trouble. They act in counterpoint to a straighter man, who is seen as the voice of reason. The now-cancelled Ryan Murphy sitcom The New Normal provided Bryan — a shallow, judgmental television executive — primarily as a counterpoint to his angelically understanding partner David, a doctor who watches football and has no other character traits. David's role is "The Problem Solver." On Modern Family, Mitchell and Cameron have a similar dynamic, but Mitch seems to increasingly resent Cam for his effeminate tomfoolery. Their growing animosity has led many viewers to wonder if they secretly hate each other.

More than Mitchell, it's the community that has a complicated relationship with flamboyancy, much like the guys that I sat on the aforementioned panel with. It's a lot easier to pretend the queens don't exist than try to represent them, or we'd have to admit we have something in common. I remember that my mother once told me how much I reminded her of Jack and I remember how much it bothered me. I never stopped to ask myself why.

In being the newest gay show on TV, many will look to Looking to fix the problems surrounding gay representation and fill in the gaps in our media spectrum. Such is the inherent burden of representing a community, but we need to recognize why those cracks exist in the first place and why certain character types might push our buttons when it comes to masculinity and internalized homophobia. Fixing one TV show won't solve a problem that's bigger than HBO. With True Blood’s Lafayette and Glee's Kurt Hummel on shows that are on their last legs, our effeminate males are quickly becoming an endangered species.

On Girls, Lena Dunham's Hannah recently mourned the death of her complicated and quick-witted editor, David Pressler-Goings, played by the ever-androgynous John Cameron Mitchell. As David ascended to TV heaven to be with Sean Hayes, Hannah recalled that he had been her champion, the only one who believed in her work. TVs Davids, Jacks and Emmetts need champions too. They might not be represented on the air anymore, but it doesn't mean they aren't still here in real life and wondering what happened to their television counterparts".

TWITTER-JAM - Le migliori twittate seriali degli ultimi tempi

'American Horror Story': Season 4 will be set in the year [SPOILER] -- EXCLUSIVE http://t.co/ln06EMZ19q #AHS #tvseries #serietv #telefilm

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 16 Gennaio 2014

#VeronicaMars’ Gets Web Series Spinoff http://t.co/MPg08sDpLy via @Variety #tvseries #serietv #telefilm

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 16 Gennaio 2014

'How I Met Your Mother' Creators Apologize For Racism In 'Slapsgiving' Episode http://t.co/xCYdQ4XiEZ via @HuffPostTV #HIMYM #tvseries

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 16 Gennaio 2014

Benjamin Bratt Joins #Fox's #24 Revival http://t.co/R9y7ZCncK0 via @THR #tvseries #serietv #telefilm

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 16 Gennaio 2014

#WonderWoman Prequel #Amazon' Dead at #CW http://t.co/zTjcYg7RWj via @THR #tvseries #serietv #telefilm

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 16 Gennaio 2014

#NBC Orders Anchorman-esque Comedy From Will Ferrell http://t.co/lY76Pqcerd via @tvguide #tvseries #serietv #telefilm

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 16 Gennaio 2014

40 anni di #HappyDays. Scopri quante ne sai sul telefilm cult col @GiocoTelefilm. Parola di Fonzie, hey! pic.twitter.com/BD5BVzS9wh

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 15 Gennaio 2014

#ABC orders racial drama pilot from '12 Years a Slave' writer http://t.co/Lx5BCcl4JW

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 15 Gennaio 2014

ANTEPRIMA - Siamo davvero sicuri di sapere chi siamo? #OrphanBlack in anteprima su @Premium_Action a maggio. pic.twitter.com/kK0If6wF2w

— QuiMediaset (@QuiMediaset_it) 15 Gennaio 2014

#TrueDetective' ratings: #HBO's biggest series premiere in years! http://t.co/2i3Ks0hl62 #tvseries #serietv #telefilm

— AccademiaTelefilm (@AcademyTelefilm) 14 Gennaio 2014

La vera notizia non colta dei #GoldenGlobes è la candidatura di @haydenpanettier. #Nashville

— Leo Damerini (@LeoDamerini) 14 Gennaio 2014

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"Nashville" è il miglior "guilty pleasure"!
"Talvolta le tendenze televisive sono tanto evidenti da risultare subito esplicite. In altri casi scorrono quasi sotto traccia, e diventano chiare pian piano. Una di queste è la presenza nella serialità americana, in modo palese e persino sfrontato, di una forte componente musicale, portatrice di fruttuosi intrecci creativi ed economici tra piccolo schermo e industria discografica. È il caso di titoli come «Glee», «Smash», persino «Treme». E questo legame è il punto di partenza anche per «Nashville», finalmente approdata sugli schermi italiani (Fox Life, lunedì, ore 21, con due episodi).Nashville, capitale del Tennessee, è una delle più importanti fabbriche dell'immaginario popular americano, centro nevralgico  già raccontato nel 1975 dall'omonimo film di Robert Altman di quella musica country che invade la middle America ma si esporta poco, e in Italia è sconosciuta ai più. La serie esplora questa ricca scena musicale, non limitandosi a metterne in scena luoghi e mestieri, ma legando strettamente al racconto numerose canzoni, in larga parte originali, prodotte nella prima stagione da T-Bone Burnett (marito peraltro della creatrice della serie, Callie Khouri). Non è però tutto. Subito Nashville diventa una specie di «Dallas», dove il posto che era del petrolio è occupato da concerti e case discografiche, in un complesso intreccio di passioni, tradimenti e lotte di potere. Allo scontro principale tra la regina del country in declino Rayna Janes (Connie Britton, già in «American Horror Story») e la giovane e spregiudicata rising star Juliette Barnes (Hayden Panettiere, indimenticata cheerleader di «Heroes») si aggiungono ambizioni di successo musicale e politico, rivalità familiari, attrazioni e ricatti. Ottima musica e trame senza vergogna in stile soap: insomma, il perfetto guilty pleasure". (Aldo Grasso, 03.12.2013)

GOSSIP - Clamoroso al Cibali! Naya Rivera, Jennifer Morrison, Christa Miller e Clare Bowen come mamme le han fatte su "Allure"

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GOSSIP - Aubrey Plaza, l’altra faccia ironica di “Parks and Recreation”

Non solo Amy Poehler. “Parks and Recretation” (su Joi la 5a stagione inedita ogni giovedì) ha più frecce al suo arco di Oliver Queen di “Arrow”. Tra i volti che ti si stampano nella memoria della sit-com più sottovalutata dai media del nostro Paese, sulla scia illuminata dalla Poehler, c’è sicuramente quello di Aubrey Plaza, colei che dà vita alla cinica e apatica April Ludgate. Per interpretare la parte, l’attrice nata con l’arte dell’improvvisazione sulle tavole polverose nei teatri sperimentali, si è ispirata alle sorelle minori Renee e Natalie. Naturalmente vien da immaginarsi come sia stata l’adolescenza della sempre più in vista Plaza, confortata altresì dalla mamma procuratrice di origini anglo-irlandesi e dal babbo consulente finanziario portoricano. Non per niente, a 20 anni, la nostra ha subito un ictus dal quale si è ripresa egregiamente, visto che dopo pochi mesi debuttava in un programma di Candid Camera entrando in un fast food armata di pc con mega-schermo catodico, hard-disk vecchio stampo di 7 chili e tastiera antidiluviana, usando l’armamentario suddetto a mò di notebook tra lo stupore degli astanti. Mentre su Twitter ai quasi 300 mila followers, con l’account @evilhag, proclama “I am a gay man”, Plaza sarà al cinema nel 2013 con le commedie “The To Do List” (al fianco di Rachel Bilson di “The OC” e Connie Britton di “American Horror Story” e “Nashville”) e “A Many Splintered Thing” (con il bonazzo da blockbuster assicurato Chris Evans). 
Non si creda però che Aubrey abbia trovato il successo per caso: vanta un diploma in Cinema e Televisione alla Tish School of Arts di New York, nonchè quelle che la rivista specializzata “Complex” ha definito “le gambe più sexy della tv”. Il mensile le ha sì dedicato la copertina di Marzo, ma al motto “oltre le gambe c’è di più” ha privilegiato lungo il reportage fotografico le doti ironiche dell’attrice di cui sentiremo parlare anche dopo la…ricreazione.

GOSSIP - Panettiere di Nylon!

NEWS - Per "Entertainment Weekly" la serie dell'anno è...
Numero annuale da collezione di "Entertainment Weekly" sui Best&Worst 2012. Per il piccolo schermo, la Top20 firmata dal critico Ken Tucker è stata così stilata.

1. Homeland
2. Breaking Bad
3. Louie
4. Girls
5. Mad Men
6. The Colbert Report
7. Parks and Recreation
8. Justified
9. The Good Wife
10. Nashville
11. Parenthood
12. Luck
13. Fringe
14. Sons of Anarchy
15. Archer
16. The Walking Dead
17. Southland
18. Hunted
19. NY Med
20. Bent

GOSSIP - La Panettiere di "Nashville" su "Esquire"...

Che cosa c'è di meglio che affrontare il 2013 in bikini? Hayden Panettiere non smette di fare l'"eroica" e così è comparsa sull'ultimo numero di "Esquire" in due pezzi (l'aspettiamo però sul numero di agosto intabardata in un Woolrich con cappuccio peloso...). Vedremo se avrà ancora voglia di ridere a 72 denti...

NEWS - "Sono Panettiere, non Taylor Swift!": la prossima interprete di "Nashville" respinge le ipotesi che il suo personaggio s'ispiri alla figura della country singer
Articolo tratto da JustJared.com
Hayden Panettiere wears a fashionable Bec & Bridge ‘Bianca Adventurer’ fedora at the Nashville panel during the 2012 Summer TCA Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 22-year-old actress chatted about the comparisons between her character Juliette and reigning country princess Taylor Swift at the panel. “I’ve heard the Taylor Swift thing quite a bit and I think besides being around the same age and blond — not even the height — they are different” Hayden shared. Hayden added, “I when think you guys see her and get to know Juliette a little better, you’ll see. But I really think Taylor would disagree wholeheartedly as well. She’s much nicer than my character.”

FYI: Hayden is wearing an alice+olivia dress with a J Brand jacket, Louboutin booties and Sethi Couture earrings.

NEWS - La Panettiere sforna "Nashville". L'ex cheerleader di "Heroes" protagonista in autunno della versione country di "Smash"

Notizia tratta da Just Jared

Hayden Panettiere leaves the gym with a guy pal on Tuesday (June 26) in Brentwood, Calif. The 22-year-old actress will be hitting the small screen when her ABC show, "Nashville", premieres this fall. THR got a preview of the series, which uses original country songs while telling the story about a fading superstar who’s forced to team up with a teen sensation. “It’s a family drama at its heart,” the mag notes, adding that Hayden “plays the b—-.” “But her young ‘it’ singer does have a major redeeming quality that provides insight into her less than perfect behavior that makes her character sympathetic in a way that viewers didn’t quite get to see from Smash‘s manipulative Ellis,” writes THR.