PREISTLY'S CHORES AS TV DIRECTOR STRETCHED TO `THE OUTER LIMITS' : THE BIG-SCREEN SCENE.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Just when you thought - and many people did - that ``Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. 90210'' was finally drawing its last breath at the end of this season ... ``It looks like we're going to do an eighth year,'' reveals Jason Priestley. ``I'm surprised it's stretched out as long as it has.'' Priestley will be directing the super series' 200th episode when the troupe goes back to work Jan. 6. Right now, he's wrapping up editing of his first non-``Beverly Hills 90210'' directorial assignment, an episode of ``The Outer Limits.'' ``Usually my schedule is so thick with the series, I don't have the time to do anything else, but this year, we got a six-week Christmas break,'' notes the 27-year-old. He's happy to have gotten together with Trilogy Entertainment, which produces ``The Outer Limits,'' for a stint at the helm. ``Since `The Outer Limits' is an anthology series An anthology series is a radio or television series that has a different story and a different set of characters in every episode. Typically, the only constant is the host, who introduces and concludes each program. , you can really put your own mark on an episode,'' he says. Priestley's mark will be on an episode starring Stephen Lang Stephen Lang is:
Ontkean was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Muriel (née Cooper), an actress, and Leonard Ontkean, a boxer and actor. as two doctors working on ``a way to regenerate dead people who have been frozen into cryogenic suspension. One of the doctors gets killed, his partner decides to reanimate him, and all hell breaks loose.'' It was the first time Priestley worked with special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . ``On `90210,' we have affection, not effects,'' he jokes. Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. , who can certainly stand a hit, could have been the star of ``The People vs. Larry Flynt,'' which is being talked up as an Oscar contender. Director Milos Miloš, prince of Serbia Miloš or Milosh (Miloš Obrenović) (both: mĭ`lôsh ōbrĕ`nəvĭch) Forman tells us that Columbia suggested five names to him, and that Murray was his first choice, ``but he didn't return my phone calls.'' Forman moved on to Woody Harrelson, ``and when we met, I was sold on Woody immediately.'' Forman said that even he initially wasn't sold on being connected with the biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] about the founder of Hustler magazine. ``When I read the title on the script, I thought it would be an exploitation film. But after I read it, I realized there was much more to the man than just bad taste. Some sides of his personality are admirable - which doesn't make his taste any better.'' Forman, who will be spending Christmas in Switzerland with his 33-year-old twin sons and their families, will head back to Europe in February to help launch ``Larry Flynt'' overseas. He expects the film to do well abroad ``because the matter of freedom of the press and the danger of censorship is universal.'' Here 'n' there Think John Travolta looks a bit pudgy in the commercials for ``Michael''? Well, he tells ``Access Hollywood'' in a segment of the show that airs today that he likes himself that way - and that he would only try to lose the weight he gained for the picture ``if it's at the request of a director and for the screenplay.'' Baby, it was cold outside - but so many people lined up to get autographs from teen star Jessica Biel at Denver's Southwest Plaza Southwest Plaza is an enclosed shopping mall located in the city of Littleton, outside Denver, Colorado, United States. The mall is two levels with over 150 stores, plus a food court. Mall, that they had to turn people away. The star of Aaron Spelling's ``7th Heaven'' series, who is this month's Sassy magazine Sassy Magazine is a defunct cult fave teen magazine. It was founded in March 1988 by an Australian feminist, Sandra Yates, CEO of Matilda Publications, who based it on the teen magazine Dolly, which is still in publication in Australia. cover girl, is a Colorado native, but the weather in Denver was cold even for her - near zero degrees. Another hat to wear Ross Malinger Ross "Not Tyler" Malinger (born July 7, 1984 in Redwood City, California) is an American actor who costarred with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the 1993 romantic drama/comedy Sleepless In Seattle. is the latest actor to throw his hat into the producing ring - which is remarkable only in that Malinger ma·lin·ger v. To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work. is all of 12 years old. The youngster, who's been on a career roll since playing Tom Hanks' son in ``Sleepless in Seattle,'' hopes to start shooting ``The Little Witches of Westlake'' next April and says it will be a true family affair. ``I'm co-producing with my mother. The film will also star my little brother, Ashley, and my little sister, Tyler.'' Malinger, who's featured on the WB's ``Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher,'' says ``Little Witches'' is a vehicle that was written specifically for him. ``It's about a family with a grandmother who's a witch, but she's a good witch. They move into this town and the neighbor is spraying pesticides in the garden and dumping toxic wastes in the lakes and rivers. And the neighbor's kid is bullying us, so our grandmother gives us the powers of the witches to try to stop them.'' Malinger adds that the comedy ``will have some real interesting special effects. ... We're going to have to fly and stuff.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Jason Priestley Another year on ``90210'' (2) Bill Murray No Hustler |
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