Today in NBC held their annual NBC Universal Experience at Rockefeller Center on May 12, 2008 in New York City! “Chuck” stars Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski were on hand to promote their show’s sophomore year!

We have 7 MQ photos in our gallery - click on thumbs to view them full sized! And click HERE to view our gallery!

Shia LaBeouf talks up Harrison Ford Source - Variety

THE FAB rising star, Shia LaBeouf, has decided to break his silence and let us know what it was like to finally meet the hero — “Indiana Jones” himself. I do mean Harrison Ford, with whom Shia plays in the latest “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” movie. Shia: “The first time I met Harrison we were on an Air Force base doing stunt and vehicle training. He arrived in a big chopper and everyone stopped what they were doing. He got out of the helicopter, pulled a whip out of the glove box and proceeded to pull a sword out of a man’s hand using the whip. He then introduced himself to everyone.” And this is the same tough guy who is putty in the hands of the slight, trim, girlish Calista Flockhart. He’s also the kind of guy who makes his own phone calls and doesn’t put you on hold.

Speaking of Indy thanks to WireImage, we’ve got a new pile of Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg photos taken at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills to promote Indiana Jones at a large press conference!

Here are a few samples:

Click HERE to access our large Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull photo collection to view the rest of them!

Today in NBC held their annual NBC Universal Experience at Rockefeller Center on May 12, 2008 in New York City! A good number of the cast members from HEROES were on hand to join in on the event! Attending were: Ali Larter, Masi Oka, Milo Ventimiglia, Dania Ramirez, Jack Coleman, James Kyson Lee, Cristine Rose, and Adrian Pasdar! Hayden was in Vancouver filming her new movie “I love you Beth Cooper” - but don’t fret, if you’re in dire need of your Hayden fix, check out our gallery, we just loaded GOBS of photos from various other HEROES cast events over the past year and our golden girl is in PLENTY of them

Here are some samples of the photos that we got from yesterday’s Upfronts. We have 12 HQ’s of Ali Larter, the rest are all MQ.

For more Upfronts photos and more you can visit our full HEROES events Gallery HERE!

Dean Winchesters time is fast running out- we have some new spoiler photos in our gallery of the guys trying to find some way to save Dean in the final season 3 episode “No Rest for the Wicked”.

‘Real guy’ Indiana Jones ready to return

Source - CNN

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Marion Ravenwood might have been speaking for us all when she set eyes on Indiana Jones for the first time in years.

Her caustic greeting to the archaeologist-adventurer in 1981’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark”: “Indiana Jones. I always knew someday you’d come walking back through my door.”

It’s been 19 years since Indy literally rode off into the sunset in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” but like Marion, could anyone doubt that the world’s most famous tomb raider would come back into our lives one day?

For 27 years, Indy has stood as one of cinema’s ultimate Everyman heroes, a poster boy for the idea that there are some good men you can never, ever keep down.

“He’s a real guy. He’s just like us,” said George Lucas, who dreamed up the character and re-teams with director Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford as Indy for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” due out May 22.

“He makes lots of mistakes,” Lucas said. “He kind of goofs up. He has the same kind of thinking that we have. He’s beat up all the time. It’s like he’s not a superhero. He’s just an average Joe that’s always in over his head that somehow seems to get through it.”
The new movie co-stars Cate Blanchett as Irina Spalko, a Russian operative with crisp black bangs who’s after the Crystal Skull of Akator, an ancient artifact that could help the Soviet Union dominate the world.

Ray Winstone plays a new Indy ally, and the film also co-stars John Hurt and Jim Broadbent.

“Raiders” fans are thrilled over the return of Karen Allen as Marion, while Shia LaBeouf plays Indy’s new sidekick, Mutt Williams.

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LOS ANGELES - As she does most every weekend, “Bones” star Emily Deschanel is spending her Sunday morning shopping at a Hollywood farmers’ market near her home.

A strict vegan, she has avoided all animal products for 15 years, ever since watching a documentary about the meat industry. Her lifestyle extends to avoiding leather clothing or consuming even honey because “sometimes,” she says, “they kill the bees.” As a result, she is forced to forgo many samples along the route.

But Deschanel’s icy character, forensic anthropologist Temperance “Bones” Brennan, has no problem interacting with freshly butchered bodies on the Fox crime drama. With two episodes remaining in the third season (Mondays, 8 p.m. ET/PT), Deschanel hints that viewers will soon learn the shocking identity of cannibalistic serial killer Gormogon’s apprentice.

She and her on-screen crime-solving partner, David Boreanaz (FBI Agent Booth), were named producers on the show this season, which has upped their creative input.

“David had it in his contract, and I think they wanted to do something to make me feel equal with him, which is nice,” she explains. “We’re definitely more involved in the show and where it goes if there are story lines or plot points we feel aren’t right for the characters.”

But Deschanel insists she had nothing to do with Monday’s episode, which finds her providing some comic relief. Former “American Idol” finalists Ace Young and Brandon Rogers guest-star in a story line that culminates with Deschanel singing a Cyndi Lauper standard. Though she can carry a tune, the actress, 31, hasn’t performed much before an audience since grade-school productions of “The Mikado” and “Into the Woods”.

That playful side is more akin to her own personality, and the market experience does bring out her inner child.

Realizing she has left her environmentally friendly shopping bag in her car, she makes a mad dash back and returns. Out of breath, she apologizes for taking so long, having run into a few friends along the way.

“I love the atmosphere here,” Deschanel says, filling her bag with avocados. “I make a good guacamole, if I do say so myself.”

At the end of one street, she spots a friend selling some Play-Doh-like Eco-Dough and picks up a complete set for a friend’s child.

Reaching her favorite vegan soul food stand, she orders a to-go plate of veggie pot roast, greens, cornbread and black-eyed peas that she will take home to the duplex she shares with her vegetarian kid sister, Zooey, 28, also an actress (”Elf”).

Later in the afternoon, she and her boyfriend are taking a Jewish food cooking class. She declines to name her beau, explaining: “The last time I talked about my (ex) boyfriend, we had broken up by the time the article came out.”

She’s far more comfortable discussing her unique relationship with Boreanaz. “We drive each other crazy,” she says. “I’m such a nosy person that I need to get in there when he’s having a conversation with the director. But we laugh about it.”

He’s “like a kid,” she says. “He’ll take down his pants and moon people.” And, “He’ll try to kiss me and stuff, and I’ll be like, “Uhhhh!’ ”

Having a co-worker try to kiss you? For Deschanel, that’s worse than a bloody body any day.

Source: USA Today

Exclusive Interview: KAREN ALLEN CRACKS THE WHIP AGAIN FOR ‘INDIANA JONES’

Marion Ravenwood is back and adventuring for the first time in 27 years

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER, Soundtrack Editor
Published 5/12/2008 - From IF Magazine

If there’s one thing cooler than the return of Indiana Jones to THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL then it’s the fact that his first, and best love interest Marion Ravenwood will be accompanying the adventurer for the first time in 27 years. Sure Indy’s gotten busy with a Shanghai chanteuse and a Nazi spy in that time, but none of these ladies had the moxie of this hard-drinking, hard-punching tomboy. As personified by the raven-haired Karen Allen in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, Marion Ravenwood became an icon of female derring-do as she got herself into one fix after the other between basket chases, devious monkeys and slithering Egyptian snakes. Now Allen will doubtlessly be getting into more trouble in the top-secret plot of the new Indy film (though it’s a pretty easy guess that the presence of Shia LaBeouf has something to do with one enchanted evening on an old steamer ship). And if the saying that everything old is new again has any truth, than Karen Allen must have gotten a useful glimpse into the magical Ark of the Covenant, as the actress’ radiant appearance and charm has changed little in the intervening years.

Yet it wasn’t as if Karen Allen became an actress with the notion that she’d become the stuff of pop cinema legend. The daughter of an FBI agent, Allen pursued “serious” acting in New York City with Lee Strasberg, as well as studying design before landing an auspicious film debut in 1978’s ANIMAL HOUSE. Allen’s pot-smoking student immediately caught attention (especially for a notorious kitchen scene with Donald Sutherland), and led to other notable work in such rebellious period films as THE WANDERERS and A SMALL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. The self-reliant energy that Allen gave off in these early films would be perfect for the fiercely independent heroine that Steven Spielberg was looking for in Marion Ravenwood for RAIDERS, a character far different for the shrinking violets of the 1940’s serials that the director brilliantly emulated. And whether running a bar in Nepal or using her wiles on a devious archeologist, Allen’s charm was the true find of the first Indiana Jones movie.

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Fox greenlights ‘Fringe’

Whedon’s ‘Dollhouse’ comes in midseason

Fox isn’t expected to mess with its fall schedule — but that didn’t stop it from kicking off a flurry of pickup activity over the weekend.

Net is expected to continue the playbook from this past year: Keep new entries at bay until midseason, when “American Idol” can help bolster those new shows.

Among the greenlights: The J.J. Abrams entry “Fringe,” which follows the exploits of a young female FBI agent who tackles unexplained medical and scientific phenomena.

Hour-long skein could potentially be paired with “Sarah Connor Chronicles” on Monday nights — a high-octane night for Fox, which also will bring back “24? and “Prison Break,” perhaps on the same night, later this season.

Also coming in midseason — and perhaps also on the night — Joss Whedon’s highly anticipated “Dollhouse,” which already had an episodic order heading into the upfronts.

Meanwhile, there’s a good chance Fox will opt to stick with comedies on Wednesday, with “‘Til Death” returning for a third season at 8 p.m., followed by a new entry at 8:30 p.m. (now that “Back to You” has been axed by the net).

“‘Til Death” was originally considered a long shot for renewal, but the casting of “Curb Your Enthusiasm’s” J.B. Smoove brought new attention to the show.

At 8:30, contenders include “The Inn.” Multicamera comedy, starring Niecy Nash and Jerry O’Connell, is described as an “Upstairs, Downstairs”-esque vehicle set in a hip Gotham hotel.

“Inn” hails from scribe Abraham Higginbotham (”Arrested Development”), 20th Century Fox TV, Reveille and Principato-Young Entertainment. Its pilot was helmed by former “Arrested” star Jason Bateman.

Also on the comedy front, Fox is still mulling the fate of “Starting Under,” the half-hour starring Bernie Mac about a blue-collar man who’s forced to work for his son when he business closes.

It’s still uncertain whether exec producer Bruce Helford plans to depart the show, or if a new team will join him on the show — which had a 13-episode order. Net is said to still be high on Mac, who spent several years on Fox earlier this decade.

Gordon Ramsay-fronted reality skein “Kitchen Nightmares” also might end up on the night.

Speaking of reality, Fox isn’t expected to launch any new entries in the fall. But the net already has several up its sleeves: Besides “Nightmares,” theres “Moment of Truth,” “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader” and “Don’t Forget the Lyrics.” (Of course, all bets are off in January, when “American Idol” returns).

As for animation, beyond the “Family Guy” spinoff “The Cleveland Show,” pick ups include “Class Dismissed” (previously titled “Sit Down, Shut Up”)

From Sony Pictures TV and 20th Century Fox TV, show is exec produced by Mitchell Hurwitz and features Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler and Nick Kroll among its voice cast. Toon vets Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein have also been recruited as exec producers.

Source - Variety