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Show Friday, January 11, DAILY HERALD 2008 D3 Holbrook says making" 'Into the Wild' never forced Eye-Sp- y CELEBRITY NEWS AND NOTES Robert MCCLAKHY It - " V'-V- - a I ' w f ' ; i 1 i i ' ' ' Hallmark Channel Charlie Baker (Tom Bosley) may have a failing heart, but that only motivates him to live life to its fullest with the time he has left, including imparting some last words of wisdom to his beloved granddaughter, Casey (Jordy Benattar), and helping his widowed son grow into d better father in "Charlie & Me," a Hallmark Channel original movie which premiered on Jan 5. Still a Happy Day Patricia Sheridan PITTSBURGH POST - GAZETTE h e will always be Richie Cunningham's father ("Mr. C") on television's "Happy Days" ( 1974454). But before actor Tom Bosley played the patriarch to the perfect '50s family, he had been around the proverbial show business block on the stage, screen and TV. At 80, he stars in the Hallmark Channel movie "Charlie and Me," playing an ailing grandfather with one last task to accomplish before he goes. It premiered on Jan. 5. Q: Acting has served you well. Has it been ev- erything you thought it would be? A: Well, honey, it's gonna be 60 years in April. If it hadn't been that satisfying to me, I might have been in some other kind of profession a long time ago. But I'm very well pleased, A: He wasn't concerned about dying as much as he was concerned about getting his son to connect with his granddaughter, character is very calm about He'd been doing it for eight years, and he knew he was going and there was some dying. thing he had to do before he left, and that was unite them. Of course, he didn't want to go when he did. He knew it was going to Q: Were there ' any unhappy happen. It's just one of those things. days on "Happy Days"? A: As of this moment, I am not afraid of Q: Are you are afraid of it? it. I walk, I talk, I can lift things. I do have arthritis, but it's under reasonable control. My wife and I are trying to enjoy our se- nior years as well as we can. Q: Other than your family and acting, what A: I have seven. I think, yes. I think my Q: You have gives you the most pleasure? oldest, who is 20, will, and the next one, grandchildren. Will any of who is 17, will, and the one who is 13 will. them watch this The others are all 9 and under. That will be movie? It is a up to their parents to decide if they watch the show. It's not very important to those tearjerker. ' kids. Two of them have a father who is a huge film producer in the business. My other daughter is head of the new CBS film department for television. Q: In "Charlie and Me," your . Q: You are such a father figure. What was your own father like? A: My father was a wonderful, sweet man who lost everything he had gained in the Depression in '29 or '30, whenever it was. Our area of living conditions went from a beautiful home in suburban Chicago with a chauffeur - my father never drove - and a cook, to an apartment. Then my dad had difficulty recouping, and he and my mother separated after 16 years of marriage. He found a different way of life. He returned to the military. He had served in World War I. Although we loved him and we were close to him, I don't think my brother and I ever really got to know him. A: We were very close. During the course of the show, our director Jerry Paris lost his wife, I lost my wife. We had marriages and babies. We were close. We've gone on with our lives pretty much. We talk to each other occasionally. ASSOCIATED L PRESS An author NEW YORK who claims Jerry Seinfeld's wife plagiarized her cookbook sued the famous couple on Monday, finding no humor when the comedian compared author to the the three-nam- e three-nam- e killers of John Len-no- n and Martin Luther King Jr. The lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages for copyright and trademark infringement, was brought in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by Missy Chase Lapine, the author of "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals." "Jerry Seinfeld is an enorn mously wealthy and comedian, and Jessica Seinfeld is his wife, but that does not give them license to slander and plagiarize," the lawsuit said. The Seinfelds' lawyer, Richard Menaker, disputed Lapine's claims of defamation r-- " . pi i ill nft 1 I well-know- and plagiarism and suggested Lapine was seeking publicity to boost her book's sales. "Both are without merit," Menaker said. "There's no truth in fact or law to this DIANE BONDAREFFAP Jerry Seinfeld and his wife, Jessica, arrive at the opening night of the musical "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me" in New York on Aug. 1 7, 2006. claim of plagiarism. The idea for Jessica Seinfeld's book came from her own experi "Into the it comes. business, one of the fun facts of celebrity life is wackos will wait in the woodwork to pop out at certain moments of your life to inject a little adrenaline claim of defamation. "Jerry Seinfeld is entitled to into your life experience." his opinions," Menaker said. It said Seinfeld also noted "Even though Jerry Seinfeld is that Lapine has three names a public figure, he doesn't lose and that "if you read history, his right to free speech because many of the three-nam- e people of that." do become assassins." In October, HarperCollins Then Seinfeld added, "Marie David Chapman. And you published Jessica Seinfeld's know, James Earl Ray. So "Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eatthat's my concern," the lawsuit recalled. ing Good Food." Lennon was shot and killed Hearing about the Seinfeld book in May while promotoutside his Manhattan apartment by Chapman, a deranged ing her own book, published a month earlier, Lapine comfan, on Dec. 8, 1980. King was assassinated by Ray on April plained, and the war of words was under way. 4, 1968, on the balcony of a hoThe lawsuit said the Seintel in Memphis, Tenn. felds were warned even before The lawsuit said a reasonable person watching Seinfeld the book was published that it had blatant similarities to on Letterman's show would conclude that he had described Lapine's book. Still, when Jerry Seinfeld Lapine as mentally ill with appeared on CBS' "Late Show "potentially violent or, at a with David Letterman" in Octo- minimum, hostile, tendencies, ber, he suggested Lapine was a proclivities and activities." It argued that Lapine was crackpot and declared his wife not guilty of "vegetable plagia- not a public figure, does not suffer mental infirmity, is not a rism," the lawsuit said. The lawsuit also quoted him celebrity stalker, is not violent or dangerous, and does not entelling Letterman: "Now you know, having a career in show gage in extortion or lies. ences with her family out of her own kitchen." And he said there was "no basis" for any kind of legal Wild" leads with four Screen Actors Guild nominations, including a best supporting actor nod for Hal Holbrook, The awards be presented Jan. 27 on TNT and TBS. For a complete list of nominations, go to sagawards.org. will "It's hard to describe to each other." But Holbrook saves his highest praise for Perm. "Sean doesn't preach at you, doesn't tell you how to do it. You just get a feeling. He rarely talked to me about . what I was doing, and there were so many times that we got a scene in one take. It used to make me nervous he wasn't doing any coverage? What if something happens to the film? "But Sean is the least intense director I've worked with. He was concentrated and dedicated, but it was almost like he was working on a car engine. No panic, no stress. It wasn't relaxed, exactly, because we were trying to get a job done. But there was no tensioa That was the They had subtexts, messages gift of being on his set, this that weren't necessarily in wonderful feeling of confidence and trust," the lines but under the lines. It's hard to describe, but those Holbrook described Penn as "a seeker" who thinks indemessages were happening in our heads as we did the pendently and channels those scenes. And somehow they thoughts into his art. come out in the performance." "Sean offers audiences In the film Holbrook shares certain experiences that are all his scenes with Emile not easy to accept. With him it's not all cut and dried; Hirsch, who plays a young man wandering the back there's no particular right roads of America in search and wrong. He's giving you his characters' experiences of meaning. The octogenarin black and white and gray. ian and the movie newcomer You have to assimilate all this clicked, he said. and make up your own mind "Working with Emile was a real gift for me. He's a very about it. "This probably sounds good actor with a wonderful ability to just be. All I had to strange, but his gift is allowdo was talk to him. He has no ing the audience to do the defenses, nothing phony, no acting. With 'Into the Wild' agenda. What came out of our the audience has an emotional scenes was a natural, extenexperience instead of us shovsion of what we felt about ing it at them." someone unless they're an actor, too, Laurence Olivier once said the difference between stage acting and film acting was that jn film, it's always a rehearsal, That's the key. "In theater you build a performance that will stand for the run of the play, that you can repeat night after night. But with film you try not to repeat, You go for the moment, for the truth of the scene without trying to imitate or repeat yourself. You just let it happen." Making "Into the Wild" for writerdirector Sean Perm was, he said, one of the best working experiences of his life. "The script itself was just beautiful. And the scenes Sean wrote for us were so complex. tec " vec j y A : " V 2 JI p " I Xr 5 J V . Ml t The greatest pleasure, of course, my grandchildren. We have three daughters and a son, but we lost him. My (second) wife and I are finding a part of our life now that was too busy with others. Now it's she and I, and we are moving to Rancho Mirage, Calif . We just sold our house, and we are moving at the end of the year. We had Christmas with no trees, belt, lights or anything but a lot of packing. This is what we wanted at this stage of the game. For us this is the future, and we take it as Awards SAG A: Cookbook author finds Seinfeld's humor no laughing matter THE Butler NEWSPAPERS "You can't really act in the movies." That may sound odd coming from Hal Holbrook, who's been acting in movies for half a century and who just received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for his work in "Into the Wild." But in a recent phone conversation, Holbrook, 82, said the older he gets, the more he believes it to be true. JAE C. HONQAssoc'iated Pop music star Britney Spears Press MATT TV SAYLESAssociated Press personality "Dr. Phil" McGraw Spears family: 'Dr. Phil' McGraw crossed the line with the show. Taylor said the syndicated NEW YORK TV psychologist broached the Britney Spears's family says "Dr. Phil" idea of the show to Spears's McGraw crossed the line by handlers, who eventually denot keeping his mouth shut af- cided that such a show would ter making a house, call on the be "detrimental" to the family. McGraw representative singer last week. Lou Taylor, a business Theresa Corigliano did not immediately respond to phone manager for Spears's mother, and Lynne, and younger sister, Jamessages by The mie Lynn, appeared on NBC's Associated Press seeking "Today" show Wednesday and comment. Mental health professionals said McGraw had betrayed the family's trust by talking to the also criticized McGraw this media about Spears's mental week, saying he went too far health after showing up at the by showing up at Spears's room at Cedars-SinMedical pop star's hospital Center in Los Angeles as she room on Saturday for a visit. was about to be discharged. "The family basically exMcGraw fired back at his tended an invitation of trust critics in an interview with for him to come in as a re"Entertainment Tonight" on source to support them, not to go out and make public Monday. "Somebody needs to step statements," Taylor said. up and get this young woman "Any statement publicly that into some quality care he made, because he was and brought in under this cloak of I do not apologize one whit, not one second, for trying to trust, is just inappropriate." make that happen," he said. Taylor said McGraw was invited to the hospital by Spears was hospitalized Thursday night after a child Spears's family, but "he was not invited to make this part custody dispute with.ex-hus-ban- d Kevin Federline resulted of a public display or part of in an hours-lon- g the media." standoff with police. On Friday, a McGraw said earlier this court commissioner gave sole week that he was shelving physical and legal custody of plans for a show on Spears's latest breakdown. He said year-olJayden James and 2- Sean Preston to was year-olSpears's predicament "too intense" for him to go on Federline. THE Larry Neumeister W. ASSOCIATED PRESS d d www.couoarbluc.com |
