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If you’re over 21, you can now play slot machines based on two of your favorite shows, “American Idol” and “Sex and the City.”

Both slots were new releases at the 2009 Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. In “American Idol,” slot players can trigger a bonus round that lets them become one of three judges — Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi or Randy Jackson — and then plays video clips of past contestants, good AND bad.

According to Sphere.com, Paula Abdul was the lone holdout participant even BEFORE she announced she was leaving the show. Innnteresting.

Meanwhile, the “Sex and the City” slot machines are subtitled “Change of a Dress.” Clever, no? They feature bonus rounds that include video clips of all four women plus Mr. Big.

International Game Technology spokeswoman Julie Brown told Sphere, “There’s shoes and purses and lots of bling and big bonuses and the music track, and it’s a very interactive game.”

Speaking of Mr. Big, Chris Noth helped unveil the “Sex and the City” slot machine in Las Vegas. Video below.

KATHY GRIFFIN D-LISTED CONTEST

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If you LOVE Kathy Griffin and love “Sex and the City” this one is for you! NealBinNYC (www.nealbinnyc.wordpress.com) and On Location Tours (www.screentours.com) are looking to see who the BIGGEST KATHY GRIFFIN FAN is out there! We are looking to see who can upload the MOST CREATIVE KATHY GRIFFIN FAN VIDEO.  Yes, it can be outrageous, -but it has to be FACEBOOK appropriate!

One grand prize WINNER will live life on the D-LIST!  The winner will receive TWO FREE TICKETS for the Official Sex and the City Hotspot Tour (http://www.screentours.com/tour.php/satc/) and have their video appear on a DVD we are sending to Kathy G. and her people!  The tour of Sex and the City Hotspots includes more than 40 locations from the hit TV show and movie!  See where Carrie and Co. live, shop, drink and dine.  Locations include Magnolia Bakery, Charlotte’s art gallery, and the bar owned by Aidan and Steve in the show.

To enter you must be in the New York City area and also have Facebook to be eligible.

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NealBinNYC (www.nealbinnyc.wordpress.com) and On Location Tours (www.screentours.com) are looking to see who the BIGGEST KATHY GRIFFIN FAN is out there!

We are looking to see who can create the MOST CREATIVE KATHY GRIFFIN FAN VIDEO.  Yes, it can be outrageous, -but it has to be FACEBOOK appropriate!

On your Facebook page, please upload any original videos (you can enter as many as you like) explaining why you’re the ultimate Kathy Griffin Fan and why she belongs back on the D-list in New York City!  Tag “Kathy Griffin DlistedNyc” in your videos.   The winner will be judged on who has the most creative video.   The judges will be staff members from On Location Tours as well as Neal B.

The contest will ends MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2009 at 8:00 pm EST.  The winner will be contacted that night no later than 9:00 pm via their Facebook e-mail and also the winner will be announced on the Kathy Griffin DlistedNyc  Facebook page.

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Halle Berry (Born 1966 in Cleveland, OH) is a Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Golden Globe Award winning American Actress and Producer. In a Hollywood career that began in 1989, she has quickly established herself as one of the most successful Actresses in recent film history. Her films to date include “The Last Boy Scout”, “The Flintstones”, “Jungle Fever”, “The Program”, “Losing Isaiah”, “Executive Decision”, “The Rich Man’s Wife”, “Bulworth”, “X-Men”, “Die Another Day”, “Monsters Ball”, “X-Men: The Last Stand”, “Gothika”, “Robots”, “Perfect Stranger”, “X2″, “Catwoman”, “Swordfish”, and many others. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her role in “Monster’s Ball”. She is the first African-American Woman to ever win the Best Actress Oscar. She has also done extensive work in Television including her Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge in the made for cable movie “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”. She has also made appearances on shows such as “Frasier”, “Living Dolls”, “Knots Landing”, and “Amen”. As a Producer, she produced the made for cable films “Lackawanna Blues” and “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”. A former beauty queen, she was crowned Miss Ohio in 1986 and finished as first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant. She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame.

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From www.viewonfashion.com:

11/24/09 - While filming the long-awaited film Sex and the City 2, actress Kim Cattrall and SATC designer/stylist Patricia Field found the time to collaborate on the new edition of Bailey´s Red Bow…

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Red Bow

While filming the long-awaited film Sex and the City 2, actress Kim Cattrall and SATC designer/stylist Patricia Field found the time to collaborate on the new edition of Bailey´s Red Bow…

Jennifer Aniston (Born 1969 in Sherman Oaks, Ca) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American Television and Film Actress best known for her longtime starring role as Rachel on the classic TV sitcom “Friends”. Her Hollywood career began in 1990 and her Television roles, in addition to “Friends”, includes “Quantum Leap”, “Ferris Bueller”, “South Park”, “King of the Hill”, “30 Rock” and others. To date, she has enjoyed a very lucrative Film career which includes roles in “Office Space”, “The Break-Up”, “Along came Polly”, “Derailed”, “Rock Star”, “The Good Girl”, “The Object of my Affection”, “Bruce Almighty”, “Rumor has It”, “Marley and Me”, “He’s just not that in to you”, “Love Happens” and many others. She is the daughter of longtime “Days of our Lives” actor John Aniston. To date, she has been nominated for 6 Emmy Awards with one win, and 2 Golden Globe Awards, with one win, with both wins being for her role on “Friends”.

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Debbie Reynolds (Born 1932 in El Paso, TX) is a Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Emmy Award nominated American Actress, Author, Producer, Dancer, and Singer. Her film career began in 1950 and has included roles in “Singin in the Rain”, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” (Academy Award nomination), “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis”, “Tammy and the Bachelor”, “How the West was Won”, “Divorce American Style”, “Charlotte’s Web”, “The Bodyguard”, “Mother”, “In and Out”, and many others. Her Television credits include “The Debbie Reynolds Show”, “The Love Boat”, “Hotel”, “The Golden Girls”, “Wings”, “Roseanne”, “Will and Grace”, “Family Guy” and countless others. She appeared with, and danced with, Gene Kelly in the classic film “Singin in the Rain” when she was just 19yrs old. Previously married to actor Eddie Fisher, she is the mother of Actress Carrie Fisher. A successful businesswoman, she once owned her own namesake Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas in which she would frequently appear as the headline entertainer. She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame.

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from IrishCentral:

“Desperate Housewives” star Dana Delany turned down the role of Carrie on “Sex and the City”

Dana Delany has opened up about turning down the role of Carrie in “Sex and the City.”

The actress and multiple Emmy winner, who first hit it big as Nurse Colleen McMurphy on “China Beach,” is enjoying currently stardom again on “Desperate Housewives.”

But the “Desperate” star also passed on the role of Bree on the hit ABC show before agreeing to play newbie housewife Katherine.

Delany told the L.A. Times: “I’d hate to be thought of as the person who turns everything down,” and says she has an explanation for how she goes about choosing roles.

Turns out that the Irish-American actress was simply trying to avoid type casting.

“[‘Desperate Housewives’ creator Marc Cherry] had offered me the role of Bree, but I had just done ‘Pasadena,’ and I thought the role was too similar to that, and I don’t really like to repeat myself,” she said.

“I’ve never ever been in this for the money. I just like to do what challenges me. Thankfully, Marc circled back. That’s unusual in Hollywood. Usually when you say ‘no,’ they hold it against you for the rest of your career. I’ve experienced that.”

The experience Delany alludes to could be her rejection of “Sex and the City,” which she passed on for similar reasons.

“I had done a movie called ‘Live Nude Girls’ with Kim Cattrall that was somewhat similar. It was women sitting around talking about sex,” Delany said.

“[‘Sex and the City’ creator] Darren Star was a friend of mine, and he had joined up withCandace Bushnell and came up with this idea and he asked if I’d be in it. It was very much in the early stages, and I had just done ‘Nude Girls’ and ‘Exit to Eden’ and I just said to Darren, ‘I cannot do a show with “sex’”in the title.’ People will lynch me if I do one more thing about sex.”

Emma Thompson (Born 1959 in London, England) is an Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Golden Globe Award winning British Actress and Writer. In a career that began in England in 1982, she has appeared in dozens of films including “Howards End”, “Much Ado About Nothing”, “Remains of the Day”, “In the Name of the Father”, “Carrington”, “Sense and Sensibility”, “Primary Colors”, “Wit”, “Love Actually”, “Angels in America”, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkhaban”, “I am Legend”, “Nanny McPhee”, “Stranger than Fiction”, “Last Chance Harvery” and many others. She has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards, winning the 1993 Best Actress Oscar for “Howards End” and the 1996 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for “Sense and Sensibility”. She has been nominated for 4 Emmy Awards with one win and has been nominated for 8 Golden Globe Awards with 2 career wins. She is the only person to have won Academy Awards in both acting and writing categories.

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Steve Martin (Born 1945 in Waco, TX) is a Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominated, and Grammy Award winning American Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Musician, and Comedian. He started as one of the most successful stand-up comedians of the 1970’s and released a string of very popular comedy albums. He won Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album in both 1977 and 1978. A song, “King Tut”, off of one of the albums reached #18 on the Billboard Top-40 Music Charts in 1978. He was a frequent guest on ‘The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” and later was a frequent guest-host on “Saturday Night Live”. He has appeared on “SNL” a record 25 times as a host or guest star over the course of his career. His “SNL” created skits with Dan Aykroyd as “The Festrunk Bothers” (“We are….2 Wild… and Crazy Guys!!”) has remained as one the best loved series of skits in the shows history. Since the late 1970’s he has gone on to a highly successful movie career and has appeared in films such as “The Jerk”, “The Lonely Guy”, “The Man with Two Brains”, “The Three Amigos!”, “Father of the Bride”, “ParentHood”, “LA Story”, “Shopgirl”, “Baby Mama”, “The Pink Panther”, “Father of the Bride: Part 2″, “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”, “Roxanne”, “Cheaper by the Dozen”, “The Out of Towners”, “Cheaper by the Dozen 2″, “The Pink Panther 2″, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “House Sitter”, “Leap of Faith”, “Bowfinger”, “Grand Canyon”, “My Blue Heaven”, “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”, “Little Shop of Horrors”, “Sgt. Bilko”, and many others. He has been nominated over his career for 5 Emmy Awards and 5 Golden Globe Awards. He is an accomplished Banjo player and composer and won a Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental making him a rare Grammy Winner for both Comedy and Music. Has hosted the Academy Awards twice and is slated to co-host the 2010 Academy Awards with Alec Baldwin.

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Betty White (Born 1922 in Oak Park, IL) is a Emmy Award winning American Television, Film, and Stage Actress. In a Hollywood career that started in 1945, Ms. White has forged a career that has seen her become one of Hollywood’s most beloved Female lead and character actresses. In a reversal of the norm, her career has continued to flourish and even grow larger with each passing year. She is best known for two signature Television roles, as Sue Ann Niven on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, and as Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls”. Her very extensive Television resume includes appearances on shows such as “The Love Boat”, “Empty Nest”, “Who’s the Boss?”, “St. Elsewhere”, “Hotel”, “Suddenly Susan”, “Ally McBeal”, “That 70’s Show”, “Malcolm in the Middle”, “Boston Legal”, “Mama’s Family”, and literally dozens of other shows. She has also appeared on a number of Daytime Soaps including “Another World”, “The Bold and the Beautiful”, and “Santa Barbara”. Her film resume includes “Lake Placid”, “The Proposal”, “Bringing down the House”, “Hard Rain”, and others. She has been nominated for a total of 18 Emmy Awards with 5 career wins and has also been nominated for 4 career Golden Globe Awards. She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame. She is widow of longtime “Password” host Alan Ludden.

Autograph #247 in Collection.

Another success for my son and his growing autograph collection.

Seth Green (Born 1974 in Philadelphia, PA) is a Emmy Award nominated Actor, Writer, Producer, and Director. He got his start in Hollywood in 1984 with a role in the film “The Hotel New Hampshire”. His many other films have included “Scooby-Doo”, “My Stepmother is an Alien”, “Big Business”, “Can’t buy me love”, “Enemy of the State”, “America’s Sweethearts”, “Rat Race”, “The Italian Job”, “Scooby-Doo 2″, “Without a Paddle”, “Sex Drive”, “Old Dogs”, the “Austin Powers” trilogy of films and many others. His Television career includes regular roles on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Greg the Bunny”, “Robot Chicken”, and “Family Guy” along with appearances on dozens of shows such as “Evening Shade”, “The X-Files”, “Mad about You”, “The Drew Carey Show”, “Angel”, “That 70’s Show”, “MAD TV”, “Will and Grace”, “Entourage”, “My Name is Earl”, “Reno 911″, “Heroes”, “American Dad”, and many others. He has been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program for “Robot Chicken”.

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Angie Dickinson (Born 1931 in Kulm, ND) is a Golden Globe Award winning American Actress and is one the great sex symbols of the 1960’s and 70’s. Her Hollywood career began in 1954 and has included appearances on Television shows such as “Gunsmoke”, “Perry Mason”, “The Fugitive”, “Police Story”, “Ellen”, “Judging Amy”, “Pearl”, “Hollywood Wives”, and countless others in addition to a starring role in the 1974-78 series “Police Woman”. Her film resume includes “Rio Bravo”, “Pretty Maids all in a row”, “Dressed to Kill”, “Oceans 11″ (original), “Sam Whiskey”, “Big Bad Mama”, “Death Hunt”, “Even Cowgirls get the Blues”, “Duets”, “Pay it Forward”, and many others. She has been nominated for 5 career Golden Globe Awards with two wins, and also has been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards. She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame. This is a photo that I printed out and mailed to Ms. Dickinson and she returned it signed with a turnaround time of 7 months.

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Billy Crystal (Born 1948 in Long Beach, NY) is a Emmy Award winning American Actor, Comedian, Writer, Producer, and Director, along with being a frequent host of the Academy Awards Presentation telecasts.
While already a successful stand-up comedian, his Television career started in 1975 and includes roles and appearances on shows such as “Soap”, “The Love Boat”, “Simon and Simon”, “All in the Family”, “Frasier”, “Friends”, and as a featured performer on “Saturday Night Live” in 1984 and 1985. His film career includes roles in “The Princess Bride”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “City Slickers”, “Forget Paris”, “City Slickers 2″, “My Giant”, “Analyze This”, “Throw Momma from the Train”, “America’s Sweethearts”, “Analyze That”, “Monsters Inc”, “Mr. Saturday Night”, “Fathers Day”, and many others. His Directing credits include “Forget Paris”, “Mr. Saturday Night”, and the made for HBO film 61*. To date, he has hosted the Academy Awards eight times in his career. A huge New York Yankees Baseball fan, he is part-owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He has received 17 Emmy Award nominations with 5 wins, 3 Golden Globe Award nominations, and has a Star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame. I sent this photo to Mr. Crystal and he was kind enough to sign it and return it with a total turnaround time of 4 months.

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Lee Grant (Born 1927 in New York, NY) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award winning American Film, Television, and Theater Actress and Director. She has been nominated for four Academy Awards for acting in her career, winning the Best Supporting Actress Award in 1976 for “Shampoo”. She has also been nominated for 7 Emmy Awards, with two career wins, and has also been nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards. She started on Television in 1950 and has appeared on shows such as “Peyton Place”, “Ironside”, “Mission Impossible”, “Columbo”, “Empty Nest”, “The Big Valley”, “The Mod Squad”, and countless others. Her film roles include “Valley of the Dolls”, “Plaza Suite”, “The Landlord”, “Airport 77″, “Shampoo”, “Voyage of the Damned”, “Teachers”, “Defending your Life”, “Dr. T and the Women”, “Mulholland Drive”, and many others. She has directed 25 film projects, mainly made for Television films. Her 1986 Documentary Feature “Down and Out in America” won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. She is the mother of Actress Dinah Manoff. (Empty Nest, Soap) She was blacklisted in Hollywood for nearly 10 years during the 1950’s as a result of the McCarthy Anti-Communism hearings due to her refusal to testify against her then husband, Arnold Manoff. Ms. Grant was kind enough to sign my index card and return it to me with a total turnaround time of 4 weeks.

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Mike Myers (Born 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada) is a Emmy Award winning Canadian Actor, Writer, Producer, and Comic. He first rose to fame in the United States as a writer and actor on “Saturday Night Live” from 1989 to 1995. He went on to films after leaving “SNL” and has had a long string of successful movies including “Wayne’s World”, “So I Married an Axe Murderer”, “54″, “Wayne’s World 2″, “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”, “The Cat in the Hat”, “Austin Powers in the Spy who Shagged Me”, “The Love Guru”, “Austin Powers in GoldMember”, “Mystery, Alaska”, “Shrek”, “Shrek 2″, “Shrek the Third”, and the recent hit “Inglorious Basterds”. He won an Emmy Award in 1989 as part of the Writing Team on Saturday Night Live and has won 4 American Comedy Awards and 7 MTV Movie Awards. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame.

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We’ve gathered a list of the top five uses of pumpkin/jack-o-lantern in a movie or title.  Here are GoreMaster’s favorites for your Halloween season viewing and enjoyment! 

5.  It’s the Great Pumpkin,  Charlie Brown (1966)

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is an animated television special, based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

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It was the third Peanuts special (and first Halloween special) to be produced and animated by Bill Meléndez. Its initial broadcast took place on October 27, 1966, on the CBS network, preempting My Three Sons; CBS re-aired the special annually through 2000, with ABC picking up the rights beginning in 2001. The program was nominated for an Emmy award. It has been issued on home video several times, including a Remastered Deluxe Edition of the special released by Warner Home Video on September 2, 2008, with the bonus feature It’s Magic, Charlie Brown which was released in 1981.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006 entitled, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic with the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.

4.  Pumpkinhead (1988)

Pumpkinhead is a 1988 supernatural horror film, combining elements of

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fable, fairy tale, and morality. It was the directorial debut of noted special-effects artist Stan Winston. The film has become quite popular with horror fans for Winston’s atmospheric direction and memorable monster, and has built up a cult following in the years since its release, and is thought to be a classic of the genre.

3. The Legend of Sleepy Hallow (1958)

The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, based on Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (narrated by Bing Crosby). The gangly and lanky Ichabod Crane is the new schoolmaster in Sleepy Hollow. His somewhat odd behavior makes him the ridicule of the rambunctious and robust town bully Brom Bones. Despite his odd appearance, Ichabod quickly proves to be a ladies’ man charming all the eligible local ladies. Finally, however, Ichabod discovers the local town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel.  Brom decides to take advantage of Ichabod’s strong belief in superstitions. 

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Brom musically tells the tale of the Headless Horseman to frighten the teacher. That Halloween night, Crane’s lonely ride home becomes exceedingly frightening because of his exposure to the possibility of encountering the ghost.

2. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 stop motion

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 fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, a being from “Halloween Town” who opens a portal to “Christmas Town”. Danny Elfman wrote the film score and provided the singing voice of Jack, as well as other minor characters. The remaining principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page and Glen Shadix.

The genesis of The Nightmare Before Christmas started with a poem by Tim Burton as a Disney animator in the early-1980s. With the success of Vincent in 1982, Disney started to consider The Nightmare Before Christmas as either a short subject or 30-minute television special. Over the years, Burton’s thoughts regularly returned to the project, and in 1990, Burton and Disney made a development deal. Production started in July 1991 in San Francisco. Walt Disney Pictures decided to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner because they thought Nightmare would be “too dark and scary for kids”. The Nightmare Before Christmas has been viewed with critical and financial success. Disney has reissued the film annually under their Disney Digital 3-D format since 2006.

1. John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)

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Halloween

is a 1978 American independent horror film set in the fictional suburban midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois, USA on Halloween. The original draft of the screenplay was titled The Babysitter Murders. John Carpenter directed the film, which stars Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and Nick Castle, Tony Moran and Tommy Lee Wallace sharing the role of Michael Myers (listed in the credits as “The Shape”). The film centers on Myers’ escape from a psychiatric hospital, his murdering of teenagers, and Dr. Loomis’ attempts to track and stop him. Halloween is widely regarded as a classic among horror films, and as one of the most influential horror films of its era. In 2006 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

Tracy Morgan Rips on ‘SNL’ Castmates

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Come on Tracy. Tell us how you really feel. ‘30 Rock‘ star Tracy Morgan lambastes his old ‘Saturday Night Live‘ castmates in his new book according to the New York Daily News. 

“None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me,” reveals Morgan in ‘I Am the New Black,’ out next Tuesday. “All I have to say about that is, where’s Chris Kattan now? Where’s Cheri Oteri now? That b—- can’t even get arrested.”

But it wasn’t just work at ‘SNL.’ Morgan goes into erotic detail describing an unofficial road trip to an illegal strip club called the Loft.

“I invited everyone to go down there one week,” explains Morgan. “And Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch and a few others came along. I didn’t tell any of them what they were in for, so it was all cool when we got there. … Then these two girls came out onstage and started [engaging in sex acts], and that just shut it down. All the grips and crew guys from ‘SNL’ were standing around and loving it, but my castmates took one look at that, turned right around and rushed out of there.”

Morgan felt misunderstood by the ‘SNL’ cast. “I had my finger on the pulse of urban comedy, but when I brought my act to ‘SNL,’ those mother——— just felt bad for me,” confides Morgan. But he does have praise for his ‘30 Rock’ co-star, Tina Fey. “Tina wasn’t scared to come into my world and find the funny up in there. She’s that kind of cool,” he writes.

Morgan also delves into the deeply personal. Coping with diabetes, being estranged from his mother and losing his father to AIDS.

Tracy Morgan, 40, was discovered performing stand-up comedy at Harlem’s Apollo Theater and was a member of ‘SNL’ from 1996 to 2003. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on ‘30 Rock’ in 2009.

Recently I went back home to of course visit my family but also to visit the two stylists that I trained under, Jody Iacovelli and Vincent Scerati.  I owe these two pretty much everything.  Especially Vincent.  He noticed me across his salon about 5 or 6 years ago when I was just a client of his salon.  He ran across the room to ask me why I wasn’t doing hair, and why I wasn’t doing it in his salon.  At that time, I always wanted to do hair, but my father didn’t think it was the most lucrative career path.  But about a year or so later I decided that I would send myself to cosmetology school.  It was hard I had to work full time and go to school 4 nights a week for almost two years.  Vincent promised me a job when I got my cosmetology permit before he even saw any hair that I did.  He just saw it in me.  Finally when I recieved my permit I ran to Vincent that day and he hired me.  I started out shampooing but I moved up to being Jody and Vincent’s personal assistants in less than 6 months.  They pretty much taught me everything that I know.  And have supported me since the beginning and even still after his salon had to close a little over a year ago.

Well anyway, the reason that I started this post…

my new goal is this…

an Emmy

Yes an emmy award… That is what I want…  It surprises me that I never even thought to myself that you could win an Emmy for hair or make-up.  But now I am obsessed… I want one.

So you are probably wondering where this came from.  It is because Vincent’s partner Jimmy D’ Marco won an Emmy for best make up for a drama series category for his work on One Life to Live.  Jimmy, not only works on One Life, but he has also done work on Ugly Betty, and is an international make-up artist for NARS.  In other words, he is amazing at what he does.

Jim D' Marco posing with his award

The best part of being nominated is that you get to go…. hello gift bag… hello fun dress… hello fun shoes… I totally would have watched at least the red carpet this year if I have known Jimmy had been nominated because apparently they made it on tv, I would have loved to see what Vince wore and to see Vince’s face.

Ultimately Jimmy has the life I want.  he is well known enough that he can live back in New Jersey and have a nice house, and has a name for himself that makes people want to pay him to commute back to New York to work.  Don’t get me wrong.. I love New York.  But I know it will get a little old soon, and I really do think that I am a Jersey girl through and through.  Plus I am a girl of many luxuries.  I like full size bathtubs, full size closets, roomy bedrooms, and most importantly central air!  Of course all these things are available in New York, but I know I can’t afford it lol.  I like the idea of the option to not have to be in New York and that you can still be desirable in another location.  Right now I am paying my dues, living where I have to, and working on getting my name out there.  But I will get my Emmy. haha

Sigourney Weaver

 

Sigourney Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the Alien film series and as Dana Barrett in the Ghostbusters movies. Weaver is also a three-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in Aliens, Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl. She is still one of the very few actresses who has ever been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in a science fiction movie (Aliens).

Although Weaver has played a number of critically acclaimed roles in movies such as Gorillas in the Mist, The Ice Storm, Dave, and The Year of Living Dangerously, she is best known for her appearances as Warrant Officer/Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the blockbuster Alien movie franchise. She first appeared as Ripley in Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. She reprised the role in three sequels, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for portraying Ripley in Aliens. She also starred in two films in 1988, receiving Academy Award nominations for her roles as Katherine Parker in Working Girl and as naturalist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist. She lost out to Geena Davis and Jodie Foster respectively, although she received Golden Globes for both roles.

Weaver also appeared in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II as Dana Barrett. She played the role of agoraphobic criminal psychologist Helen Hudson in the 1995 movie Copycat, and went on to become one of the most highly paid actresses of the 1990s. In addition to her trademark role as Ripley, Weaver has recently concentrated on smaller roles such as 1999’s A Map of the World and 2006’s Snow Cake. She has also appeared in comedic roles, such as Jeffrey (1994), Galaxy Quest (1999), and Heartbreakers (2001), in which she starred with Jennifer Love Hewitt.

In 1997, Weaver won the BAFTA Award for her supporting role in Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. In 2003, she was voted 20th in Channel 4’s countdown of the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. She was one of only two women in the top 20 (the other was Audrey Hepburn). That year, she also played The Warden in the movie Holes. In 2006, Weaver returned to Rwanda for the BBC special Gorillas Revisited.

Weaver was approached to star in The Accused but felt the nature of the story was too violent. She was considered for the role of Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, but Sharon Stone was cast instead.  Bryan Singer originally wanted Weaver for the role of Emma Frost in X-Men: The Last Stand, but Singer (along with screenwriter Dan Harris, who had directed Weaver in Imaginary Heroes) left the project, and the idea to include Frost was dropped. In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also guest starred in the TV show Eli Stone in the fall of 2008.

Weaver also has done voice work in television and film. She had a guest role in the Futurama episode “Love and Rocket” in February 2002, playing the female Planet Express Ship. In 2006, she was the narrator for the American version of the Emmy Award-winning series Planet Earth. Also in 2006, Weaver narrated “A Matter of Degrees”. A short film that plays daily at The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (The Wild Center) in Tupper Lake, New York. In 2008, Weaver was featured as the voice of the ship’s computer in the Pixar and Disney release, WALL•E. She also voiced a narrating role in another computer-animated film, 2008’s The Tale of Despereaux, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo. Weaver has also expressed interest in starring in a fifth Alien film. Pre-production details for the film are expected to start soon.

Trivia:

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#81). [1995]

Attended the Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, CT.

Her dad Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. (“Pat” Weaver), NBC-TV president (1953- 55), pioneered the desk-and-couch talk show format that still survives on two programs he created – NBC’s “Today” (1952) and “Tonight!” (1953) (aka “The Tonight Show”) shows.

Ranked #71 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list. [October 1997]

Changed her name after reading “The Great Gatsby”.

Debuted in Woody Allen ’s Annie Hall (1977), duration: 6 seconds.

Family: Daughter of NBC-TV executive Sylvester L. Weaver Jr. (“Pat” Weaver) and actress Elizabeth Inglis, older brother, Trajan Weaver. Uncle, actor Doodles Weaver.

Afraid to travel in elevators.

#13 of Sci-Fi’s Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine. [1997]

Eye/hair color: brown

Speaks fluent French and German.

Graduated from Stanford University in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Has one daughter, Charlotte Simpson, was born on 13 April 1990.

She is one of the elite eleven thespians to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year for their achievements in two different movies. The other nine are Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Barry Fitzgerald (he has been nominated in both categories for the same role in the same movie), Jessica Lange, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx and Cate Blanchett.

Her salary for Alien: Resurrection (1997) was more than the entire cost of the original Alien (1979) movie.

Measurements: 34B-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Suffered nightmares for two weeks after reading the script for The Village (2004).

Was nominated for Broadway’s 1985 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role – Play) for David Rabe’s “Hurlyburly,” but lost to a co-star, Judith Ivey.

Has worked with three Bagginses. In Alien (1979) she works with Ian Holm, who played Frodo in the BBC radio adaptation and Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). In The Ice Storm (1997) she worked with Elijah Wood, who played the part in the film. In Aliens (1986) the stunt double for Newt was Kiran Shah, who was also Wood’s scale double.

Though they have never worked together she has co-starred with nine actors who have also co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis: Ray Liotta, Dan Aykroyd, Kevin Kline, Tim Allen, J.E. Freeman, Mel Gibson, Elijah Wood, Philip Bosco and Bill Paxton. Both have co-starred with Michelle Williams. They have also both worked with composer John Ottman and director James Cameron.

In many of her roles her character has had to deal with artificially intelligent spaceships. In the “Alien” movies, she battles them. In Galaxy Quest (1999), much to her character’s chagrin, she repeated whatever the spaceship said. In addition, on an episode of “Futurama” (1999), and in the film WALL·E (2008), she had the chance to voice a spaceship.

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998

Attended the Yale School of Drama

Remains in contact with her former Aliens (1986) co-star Carrie Henn.

In the film Alien: Resurrection (1997) Sigourney actually managed to sink the basketball into the hoop backwards on the first take, even though she wasn’t supposed to or intended to. The shot was almost ruined because Ron Perlman broke character because he was so amazed.

Her performance as Ellen Ripley in Aliens (1986) is ranked #58 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Her performance as Ellen Ripley in the “Alien” quadrilogy is ranked #8 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Injured her knee during the shooting of Snow Cake (2006) and has been forced to stop exercising for a year.

Friend of Selina Cadell.

Ranked #20 on E4’s 100 Greatest Movie Stars. She was the second highest female on the list behind #13 Audrey Hepburn.

Along with Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Janet Leigh, Jodie Foster, Glenn Close, Kathy Bates, Eileen Heckart, Ruth Gordon, Patty McCormack, Nancy Kelly, Toni Collette, Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, she is one of the few actresses to have been nominated for an Oscar for a performance in a horror movie.

Singer/songwriter Mike Garrigan wrote a song entitled “Sigourney Weaver” that pays tribute to the actress.

Dana Barrett, her character in the Ghostbusters films, is the only character among the leads who did not appear in the animated adaptation, The Real Ghostbusters (1986).

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#74). [2007].

Ranked #74 on Empires’s 100 Sexiest Movie Stars. (2007).

Has turned down several high-profile roles over the years: the Shelley Duvall role in Annie Hall (1977), the Brooke Shields role in The Blue Lagoon (1980), the Kathleen Turner role in Body Heat (1981), the Debra Winger role in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), the Michelle Pfeiffer role in Scarface (1983), the Amy Irving role in Yentl (1983), the Linda Hamilton role in The Terminator (1984), the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987), the Kelly McGillis role in The Accused (1988), the Nicole Kidman role in Dead Calm (1989), the Natasha Richardson role in The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), the Geena Davis role in Thelma & Louise (1991), the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992) and the Holly Hunter role in The Piano (1993).

Amazon Specials!

Don’t forget to watch Medium. It is now on CBS.

Friday nights. 9 PM EST.

Let’s give the show some love. Don’t want CBS to ever regret their decision to rescue it from NBC’s Cancel Bin. I can only hope NBC regrets theirs. I am seeing an Emmy in Medium’s future.

How do you like Allison and Ariel’s new haircut?

“I’ll take game show hosts for $500 please Alex….”

Answer: “Who is the longtime and current host of the classic Television Game show JEOPARDY!?”

Question: “Who is Alex Trebek…”

Alex Trebek (Born 1940 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a popular Television personality and Game Show Host. He has served as host of the hit “JEOPARDY!” since 1984. Other games shows he has hosted include “High Rollers”, “Battlestars” and “Classic Concentration”, among many others. He has been awarded Five Emmy Awards for Best Game Show Host and has a star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame. He has appeared on a number of television shows, usually as himself, including “Cheers”, “The Golden Girls”, “The X-Files”, “Family Guy”, “The Simpsons” and others. He also appeared in films including “White Men can’t Jump”, “Finding Forrester”, “Short Cuts”, “Arthur”, “Mafia!” and others. He was often parodied by Will Ferrell on “Saturday Night Live” in a number of “JEAPORDY!” related skits.

Autograph #240 in Collection.

Eli Wallach (Born 1915 in Brooklyn, NY) is one of the finest character actors in Hollywood History. In a Television and Film career that started in 1951, and which continues to this day at age 94, Eli Wallach has appeared in over 160 different productions. His films include “Baby Doll”, “The Magnificent Seven”, “Ghengis Khan”, “How to Steal a Million”, “Cinderella Liberty”, “The Deep”, “The Domino Principle”, “Winter Kills”, “The Hunter”, “Tough Guys”, “Nuts”, “The Two Jakes”, “How the West was won”, “Keeping the Faith”, “Mystic River”, “The Hoax”, “New York, I Love You”, and his best known film, the infamous “Spaghetti Western” in which he co-starred with Clint Eastwood, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”. In addition to that film with Clint Eastwood, he also starred in a number of other Italian Language Spaghetti Westerns during the 1960’s. His extensive Television resume includes shows such as “Batman”, “Kojak”, “Highway to Heaven”, “LA Law”, “Law and Order”, “ER”, “Nurse Jackie” and dozens of others. In his career, he has been nominated for 4 Emmy Awards with one win, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. In a interesting note of trivia, Mr. Wallach appeared in the last ever films of Hollywood Legends Steve McQueen, Clark Gable, and Marilyn Monroe. Graduated from the University of Texas and once appeared in a play with fellow student Walter Kronkite.
I had written Mr. Wallach and asked if he could sign an index card for me. He was kind enough to send me the card back signed and also included this signed photo. A very generous man to his fans!

Autograph #239 in Collection.