Ken Marino and Adam Scott of "Party Down."
Starz, a cable network best known for screening films, is branching into producing series -- and one of the most promising, Party Down, premieres at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The show is about a hapless bunch of starving actors fronting as caterers as they wait for their big break -- and Adam Scott, a familiar face thanks to movies like Step Brothers (he played Will Ferrell's younger bro), told me all about it in the following Q&A, conducted during his recent
Last night's season premier of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance had a decidedly Colorado flavor. Auditions centered on Brooklyn and Denver (check out our slideshow of the local casting call here), with judges Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy and Sonja Tayeh giving nineteen Mile High hopefuls a ticket to Las Vegas and the next round of the competition. But by far the most memorable contestants from these parts by far were also-rans Misha Belfer and Mitchel Kibel, an all-male pair who wipe out mid-rou
Aisha Tyler suits up.
Aisha Tyler may not be the complete package, but she comes a helluva closer than the average human. The Dartmouth grad's appeared in recurring roles on some of television's biggest hits, including Friends and 24, hosted Talk Soup back when that meant something, appeared in films ranging from Balls of Fury to the forthcoming Black Water Transit, demonstrated her knowledge of Asian action cinema while filling in for Roger Ebert on his signature movie-crit show, and even kick
Judd Apatow's third film as director, Funny People, opens today to lukewarm reviews (including the one you'll find in Westword, by LA Weekly's kick-ass film reviewer Scott Foundas). Like seemingly every other man my age, I'm a fan of Apatow's; the deft combination of dick jokes, self-loathing, and fumbling in the presence of women always hits home. But some of his work is better than others. So here, just for sport, are my top ten Apatow works, including TV and film, writing, direction
