Not just the face - and beard - of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Will Riker, Jonathan Frakes tells me about “300th Night,” his 33rd (!) directing assignment on a Star Trek series and the excellent ninth episode of “Starfleet Academy.”
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Robert Picardo and I examine the nature of the medical emergency: he couldn’t believe his ears when he was invited back to the Star Trek franchise for Starfleet Academy after 25 years.
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Anna Sawai tells me what it’s been like to dive into playing Yoko Ono, one of the most polarizing women in pop music history, for Sam Mendes’ four Beatles biopics.
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Chuck Lorre tells me he’s purposely taking a big swing with “The Big Bang Theory” sequel series “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.”
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Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow never fail to show up for each other:
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Nancy Cartwright answers the multimillion dollar question: handpick her successor as Bart Simpson, or allow AI to use her voice forever?
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Make your guesses, folks: who’s the “white whale” of celebrity guest voices that “The Simpsons” can’t quite seem to land after years of trying? I have fhe answer for you:
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I for one encourage getting reality show cameras documenting the Teyana Taylor / Julia Roberts friendship in real time.
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Michael B. Jordan’s sharing every step of his Oscar journey with his mother Donna, which means hitting parties with fellow celebrities that leave even her a little starstruck.
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Just your average everyday chat with the voice of Bart Simpson. Totally normal. Wasn’t freaking out inside at all.
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These hucksters don’t even make snake oil sound good.
I was so pleased to see Starfleet Academy play true homage to Deep Space Nine, the brilliant but too-ignored offshoot of the Star Trek family, that I had to dig into the secrets behind the latest episode “Series Acclimation Mil.”
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I may have been giving Margot Robbie the “Sure, Jan” look when she told me prep for her steamy sequences with Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights was no different than any other scene.
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Alison Oliver had read Wuthering Heights, while Hong Chao still hasn’t, but both understood the challenge of taking a fresh cinematic crack at a belived literary all-timer.
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Draped in Elizabeth Taylor’s Taj Mahal diamond, gifted to Taylor by her two-time ex-husband Richard Burton, Margot Robbie tells me she thought it perfectly fit the “tortured lovers” theme of the Wuthering Heights premiere.
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When Kate Hudson asked her mom Goldie Hawn “What do you always say to me?” even Goldie was stumped at first - but as Kate revealed, it’s something both mother and daughter share in common:
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Holly Hunter talks to me about carving out her own niche as a Starfleet commanding officer by kicking her shoes off, literally:
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Who could have ever imagined this could happen in America? Except of course the hundreds of thousands of us who repeatedly warned that this is exactly the kind of thing that could happen just over a year ago.
Was there ever an actor more born to play a belligerent Klingon than Paul Giamatti? The Oscar nominee thought so, asked for the role and, as he tells me, received:
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Goldie Hawn on that moment when you realize that your kid - in this case, Kate Hudson - is a natural born performer:
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I wanted to Google a photo of Jane Seymour at that age and show her WHY John Wayne wanted to have lunch with her:
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Henry Winkler reflects on how the Fonz and Happy Gilmore became like family:
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Being from Michigan (IYKYK) and of a certain age (peak Chris Reeve Superman fanboy) I will talk about “Somewhere In Time” with Jane Seymour any time she wants to.
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Kate Hudson told me the time just might have come for her to disappear from Hollywood for a hot minute, hightail it to a mountain retreat and finally write a movie for her and mom Goldie Hawn to star in together.
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Noah Wyle filled me in on the latest state of his 30-plus-year friendship with ER bro George Clooney.
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Sharon Stone schools her Astra Awards tablemates on exactly who the tall blonde lady who joined the party late is:
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You know if there’s a new Star Trek show I’m reporting on it. I boldly go into Starfleet Academy here:
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Goldie Hawn tells me she and daughter Kate Hudson’s shared DNA gives them an inherent instinct for acting:
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Goldie Hawn says Kate Hudson’s performance in Song Sung Blue reduced her and Kurt Russell to tears when they first watched the movie.
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George Clooney shouted out Paul Dano, Owen Wilson and Matthew Lillard - actors recently dissed by Quentin Tarantino - as colleagues he’d be “honored” to work with, without mentioning his “From Dusk Till Dawn” costar by name.
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