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Movies/TV's 3R’s 07.12.11: Batman, Jersey Shore, David Hasselhoff, George Lucas, More
Posted by Porfirio Diaz on 07.12.2011

From the Batman: Year One trailer and Charlie Sheen getting a Comedy Central Roast to James Spader joining The Office, Vinny’s future with Jersey Shore and more, 411's Porfirio Diaz breaks down the Right, wRong, and Ridiculous from the week in Movies/TV!

Welcome to Week 106 of The 3 R's for the Movie/TV world.

Hey everybody! I'm back. Did you miss me? Sorry if I seem to have bailed out on you for the last month. I had to deal with a very unpleasant family emergency back in June. In short: my father is no longer of this world and some time off was undeniably in order. But now that the worst part is over, I can get back to entertaining you, the reader, on more mind-numbing tales of Hollywood drudgery. Did Jeremy Wilson keep you comfortable? He better have. I didn't give him 40 cents on the dollar to have him not please you visually with words and pictures.

But seriously, special thanks to Jeremy for filling in while I was away, especially when it was in short notice. You can read more from him by clicking here to visit his 411 archive or by clicking here to read his latest movie review. Hmm… let's see… you gave Larry Crowne a score of 5.5? High five Jeremy! Whoa, whoa, hold on. You gave Transformers: Dark of the Moon a score of 5? *Rescinds previous high five* I kid. I kid ‘cause I love.

So let's get started shall we?

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Without any further ado, here is...

Possible Adam West to Dark Knight spoiler is unspoilerific, awesome: I guess I can throw out the customary "spoiler alert" card since said spoiler alert is in the title and teaser but you were likely to be spoiled anyway by this and the millions that will follow. Keep in mind that as the anticipation for The Dark Knight Rises grows, so does the birth of vicious Internet rumors. But if the rumor of an Adam West cameo is true, then wonderful! Who didn't love Batman back in the days when Cesar Romero, ZOK, and the Batusi swayed together in a tub of camp? Since those days, fans have been dying for West to appear in one of the modern Batman movie screens. Random pedestrian? Bruce Wayne's father? Gray Ghost?! Sure, let's do all of the above. Anything to see West live on the big screen and not in cartoon form for once.

The Dark Knight could be the film that ends decades of unrelenting frustration. But as we know, the Internet is full of fake fakery. Consider the source: a tweet from Floss Magazine, which you might as well sprinkle with a can of salt since that's all there is to take. Darn crazy possible Bat rumors.

Batman: Year One trailer looks fantastic: Oh hai trailer to DC's latest straight-to-DVD animated Batman movie. You lookin' pretty good. I would still need more time to deal with Ben McKenzie as the voice pump for Batman. While it's not fair to compare every Batman voice actor to Kevin Conroy, McKenzie isn't exactly bowling me over. As the great actor Harold Zoid once said, "I said this is a talkie, damnit! You've got to emote more! And you extras, wave your arms and make faces. What is this, a morgue?" But whatever because more Batman cartoons~! Not to mention the DVD will come with a free Catwoman short with Eliza Dushku as the voice of Selina Kyle. Punch drunk awesome.

Sons of Anarchy to hassle the Hoff: The Young and the Restless. Knight Rider. Baywatch. And yet David Hasselhoff hasn't been on a more reputable show on television than the one he's about to embark with Sons of Anarchy. Well, maybe the talking car one has to count for something. You may think that anything Hasselhoff shouldn't belong among the hierarchy of the Right category but 1) anything Hasselhoff makes for great theater, and 2) it's the Hoff, once upon a time king of the Internet and of slow motion awareness! Are you excited by this news? I'm excited by this news.

Hasselhoff is taking his talents to a television show of pure motorcycle drama excellence, the best motorcycle drama since the TMNT anthropomorphic copycat Biker Mice from Mars. Ya heard me. The former knight in tanning armor will play the role of a former affluent porn star by the delightfully fake porn name of Dondo. While poking fun at Hasselhoff is all that he's good for these days, it'll be hard to imagine Hasselhoff tackling on a serious role in a serious drama, even when the role is that of a Peter North-inspired porn man. Beats the old days of running around with Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, and Nicole Eggert in sexy lifeguard outfits I guess.

Walking Dead Season 2 promo may be the lying dead, still awesome: Here's an official promo for the upcoming season of AMC's popular zombie brigade The Walking Dead… at least that's what I thought. Turns out the promo is actually a fan-made video with the appearance that it's an official promo for the upcoming season of AMC's popular zombie brigade The Walking Dead… at least that's what I thought again. Turns out people saw this video before an episode of Falling Skies aired on FX. Fan-made or no, still looks neato. And if it looks neato, sounds neato, and tastes neato, then by all logic it's real to me.

James Spader to join The Office full-time: Show of hands – who here watched Boston Legal purely because of James Spader and only because of James Spader? I may have. But we don't need to talk about whether or not the previous answer is true – replace Boston Legal with The Watcher and then we'll talk – because James Spader is set to join The Office on a full-time basis next season. Word on the street says Spader was easily the best guest star during Steve Carell's final season. His performance led to negotiations of having him join the Office cast as a prominent character. A deal was reached and a good time was had by all.

"James will reprise his role as Robert California, this uber-salesman that has a power to convince and manipulate, like a high-class weirdo Jedi warrior," said Paul Lieberstein, one of the series' executive producers and a series regular. "He'll have been hired over the summer as the new manager, but within hours, got himself promoted. Within days, he took over the company. James has an energy that is completely his own, and ‘The Office' has no tools for dealing with this guy. We're thrilled he's joining our cast." - Deadline

What's that noise? Is that anticipation I feel for more Office? Is The Office all of a sudden "Must See TV" again? Why yes it is.

Comedy Central Roast victim #11: Charlie Sheen: Just as we were about to journey onward towards the remaining half of the year without any more Charlie Sheen news, Comedy Central ruined the fun with this announcement: the gnarly bi-winning Vatican assassin warlock will be its next roast victim. He will join an exclusive club that also features Joan Rivers, Donald Trump, Pamela Anderson, and William Shatner. Truly this is a great honor. Now let me just use this space so I can get it all out of my system: F-18, tiger blood, hookers, Adonis DNA, briefcase of cocaine boom can't handle it.

Did you like those timely jokes? I hope you did because it's pretty much going to be 90 minutes of it. But a Charlie Sheen roast does sound like fun so I'm hoping for the veteran roastmasters to give these worn-out jokes a little oomph in their stocking. If Comedy Central were smart, they would go dig up Greg Giraldo and give him at least 20 minutes.

We'll be able to find out that age old question - if someone is beyond ridicule, can he still be mocked? - on Saturday, September 10 and will be broadcasted on September 19. That's right. September 19. As in the same date Ashton Kutcher's first episode of Two and a Half Men is set to air. It's going to be fun on the bun.

This Kate Upton commercial sure counts as Movies/TV news to me: Kate Upton is hot, amazing, and really good at using Twitter as an excuse to post self-glamorous cleavage shots. The then-18-just-turned 19-year-old Rookie of the Year… yeah, she's only 19. Look at the picture below. That is the face of a 19 year old. I feel like I need to have my Miranda rights read to me while taking a cold shower even when she is above legal age. But yeah, Twitter pics. Hot. Where is this leading to? Kate signed an endorsement deal with SoBe a while back. For every Tweet about her boobs and cute wordplays came one in the form of an ad about dancing lizards and sugar water. But all that has paid off with the glory hound of all advertisements: her own commercial. Judging from the clear product placed in the commercial, I believe the premise of the ad is that it's okay to have sexual encounters with Kate Upton. Yes? No? Does it matter? Maybe a second viewing is in order. Third… fourth…
Best picture ever? Best picture ever.

Patton Oswalt in Crabwalkin': An Oscar contender in every sense of the word. Patton Oswalt's performance shines like a glittery coat of paint. With a fantastic story arc that reaches it pinnacle by the end of the third act and a floodgate of brilliant character development, Crabwalkin' is an all-time classic that'll leave you breathless. Look out Casablanca, you have company.

Hmm… Patton's movie had heart, but "Football in the Groin" had a football in the groin. PS: For unlimited fun, hit the "6" key repeatedly.

Vinny makes like banana, splits Jersey Shore forever…: I haven't been following up on my Jersey Shore intake but according to some celebrity website with Internet access, seems like Vinny Guadagnino – best known for being the one normal guido who could pass as a functioning member of our human society – is out the door of MTV's hit reality show for good. As the show is currently filming for their fifth season, the man I favor the most out of the rest of the crew is reportedly "burnt out" and has no desire of returning to the show. MTV so far is staying quiet on the issue but by all accounts Vinny is gone from Jersey Shore.

Did you know that Vinny graduated college with a 3.9 GPA and has taken the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)? Did you know that he also graduated with Latin Honors and that he had planned to go to law school at Harvard or Yale? How about the fact that he was once called "Vincenzo, king of the sandwich"? See, not everyone on the show is a total dumb dumb. But all seem pretty important to mention since I find Vinny to be one of the more likeable members of Jersey Shore's bucket-o-disease troupe, at least as much as one can like someone on an MTV reality show. Not that I'll cry for the loss of the Sandwich King but on a show where the remaining personalities rank from obnoxious to that similar of a 24-hour spastic colon marathon, Vinny will be missed… at least as much as one can miss someone on an MTV reality show.

Meet your future ivy league law student and sandwich king

… before turning around and yelling "psyche": I had just finished writing the above blurb when I glanced over to a related article: "Vinny Back in ‘Jersey Shore' House". You just saw the virtual equivalent of someone being pie-faced and that someone is me. I guess in Vinny's mind, "forever" is an ambiguous term, one that means "not forever". Rather than delete everything above, I've decided to leave my shame up with the continued unfazed opinion that Vinny could still be somewhat of a contribution within huma… hey what's this, a telegram for me?

Dear Porfirio. Psyche. Psyche psyche psyche. Signed Super-Psyche.

Soooooooooooo… Vinny is back. Huzzah?

R.I.P. Betty White Ford: What can you say about a former first lady woman who made a rehab facility that doubles as Lindsay Lohan's vocation spot? Ford is famous within the gallows of politics but is most renowned for creating the Betty Ford Center, temporary home to people who have stumbled with addiction problems. Robert Downey went there and went out as a better person for it. Liza Minnelli went there too. Well they can't all be winners.

Betty Ford passed away at the age of 93 from natural causes, which to me is a fulfilled lifespan. Now her legacy will continue to live on throughout the hallow hallways of the rehab center. She's also responsible for inadvertently creating one of the greatest musical numbers ever. Godspeed Betty.

And the highest-paid actress in Hollywood is...:

Before everyone starts reaching into their bag for mean spirited horse related comments, take a look at the full list of Hollywood's highest paid actresses according to Forbes done in that stupid slideshow scheme I hate. Wasn't enough to just create a simple list, was it Forbes? Jerk.

1. Angelina Jolie, $30 million

1. (tie) Sarah Jessica Parker, $30 million

2. Jennifer Aniston, $28 million

2. (tie) Reese Witherspoon, $28 million

3. Julia Roberts, $20 million

3. (tie) Kristen Stewart, $20 million

4. Katherine Heigl $19 million

5. Cameron Diaz, $18 million

6. Sandra Bullock, $15 million

7. Meryl Streep, $10 million

Look at that. It's a bunch of actresses you don't like and Cameron Diaz. Yes, I admit it. I'm a fan of hers. So what shut up. Oh, and Meryl Streep as well. She's still the apple of Hollywood's eye. But the fact that Kristen Stewart and Katherine Heigl made the list is annoying. Stewart I can understand belonging on the list because of the growing number of unboyfriended teenage girls running rampant with daddy's money. But what has Katherine Heigl ever done that's even remotely of interest to hit that much paydirt? Don't say Killers or Life as We Know It because I said "of interest". I guess Grey's Anatomy had a swimming pool made of money and Heigl is siphoning all for herself.

Fun fact: the last movie I saw starring any of these women was The Bounty Hunter and that's just awful.

George Lucas hates your free public Star Wars screenings, puppies, kids on lawns, America, etc.: I should be one of the last people ever to contribute in a conference meeting of the Star Wars mind. Check this out: I've only watched three of the six movies through their entirety and one of them happens to be Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I loved their pod racing screens and every screen involving lightsabers. I think the best entity to ever come out of the Star Wars franchise was Spaceballs and the one Triumph the Insult Comic Dog episode were he goes out ripping on Star Wars fans. As you can tell, I wouldn't make a very good Star Wars rep.

But if there's one thing I know about Star War fans, it's that they're an insanely rabid bunch. They dress up as their favorite Star Wars characters, buy every piece of merchandise they could, and occasionally get together for a 13-hour Star Wars screening orgyfest. So when a few fans decided to put together a little event – one that would screen all six Star Wars movies in succession – over 4th of July weekendin in the heart of Brooklyn, it was going to be an event of epic proportion. Drink specials and a costume contest were lined up for the event, and everyone was going to have a good time. Then George Lucas and his team of lawyers found out about it, and immediately sent off a cold cease-and-desist order. "Rub some carbonate on that nerds", says George as he's sitting on a throne upon a large pale of money.

"God forbid a few people in Brooklyn want to get together and watch the movies — that we paid for!" said organizer and self-described "movie geek" Mike DeVito, 32, who was both enraged and saddened that his movie-making hero had fallen to the dark side.

The cease and desist order claimed that they couldn't show the films because they were charging admission. But fliers advertising the marathon indicate that the only cost was for drinks at the bar.

The letter also claimed that DeVito's rebel alliance failed to get permission to use the Star Wars logo on its promotional material. - The Brooklyn Paper

Before I discuss the legal issues, I want to say that I side with the organizers on this one. Lucas & Company exists solely because of the dedication that Star War fans - who put countless hours and money into a product they love so dearly –continue to bring in an everyday basis. You'd think Lucas himself would be thrilled to hear about the support these loyal fans have shown by using a weekend to showcase his greatest work. Instead he says "nope shut it down". It just seems like a thing every other coldblooded corporate would do. Lucas is the beach bully and he just kicked down your sand castle, stole your mom, and stuffed giant crabs down your shorts.

All that said, there's a little something called "copyright infringement" that allows Lucas to be well within his rights of being an a**hole. As I understand it, one cannot publicity screen movies without permission from the studio/copyright owner regardless if the event is free or not. The business owner would need to pay a license to showcase those films otherwise it would be all kinds of illegal to show them in the public event. You know those FBI anti-piracy warnings that no one pays attention to at the beginning of every film? Yeah, that applies here. Brush up on it sometime. That sometime is going to be "never", isn't it?

Look at me, I'm swimming in bureaucracy and it stinks! To recap: George Lucas is a callous jerk but he's within reason. The organizers in this situation are at fault. However since I like rooting against the man, I still say it's wRong.

Jack and Jill aka Rated Argh for Pirates F**k You trailer: I've come to a realization that Adam Sandler is the biggest troll in the world. He's trolling everyone by releasing this movie to the public. He is a troll genius, only second behind the Mensa of Troll Tom Brady.

Because everybody wants to see Casey Anthony in porn says no one but Vivid Entertainment: Did you guys know about this Casey Anthony trial? I've been left in the dark until a few weeks ago when a barrel of news monkeys kept throwing their news feces in my general direction and I finally had to stop ogling Kate Upton long enough to notice. If it was that important, it would have shown up in the news section of 411mania or at least in the form of a delicious parody article on The Onion.

So Casey killed her daughter (allegedly but come on), juiced the justice system, and is now a woman free to pursue a life of producing more babies she might or might not want after the 10th trimester. According to every moral fiber dancing inside me, she is scum and I hate her. But that won't stop Steve Hirsch, CEO of Vivid Entertainment, from extending his hand (and another particular body part) towards Casey for a chance to work in his adult film company. I'm not sure he realizes that child-killer-turned-porn-star makes for good stimulation. It's like hiring an assassin for your boner. But there are two words that immediately come to mind here: publicity stunt. This is the same dude who offered the financially inept Octomom a $500,000 porn deal as well. Are you sure you don't want to be a nurse, Vivid Entertainment? Because you're so caring!

At least this time Steve was able to see the forest for the trees before his decency (what's left of it) could go completely bankrupt after receiving a huge negative response to his initial offer. You know it's bad when pornfan doesn't want you. Even Jerry Springer has gone on record saying he wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole. They do not fancy your illusions of nude injustice, Steve. They want French maids, foreign exchange students, and memorable television characters from yesteryear accompanied to a simple music riff. So he pulled out after it became "obvious to us that Vivid fans, and people in general, want nothing to do with her and that includes a XXX movie." And that's how an adult film industry served more justice than anything that happened in trial last week.

Pictured: Worst representation of the state of Ohio and duckface ever

Drunk guy decides trashing Letterman Studio would be fun: James Whittemore began the day as a mild-mannered 22-year-old aspiring actor and ended the day by smashing Ed Suillivan Theater as a result of a drunken binge. He smashed the lobby, front doors, and trash cans of the theater home to The Late Show with David Letterman. His hilarious actions anted up to about $2,000 worth of property damage, and faces charges of burglary and criminal mischief.

Sounds like James had a blast. When I was 22, it was nothing but calculus, introduction to economics, and frequent trips to ampm. Man, that was the life.

The NBA decided to follow NFL's brilliant money-making lead by shutting down entire league: No football. No basketball. No fantasy leagues. No fall season fun.

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So to recap, football is on strike, basketball is on strike, and Saturday Night Live just won't end. That's just the "three strikes you're out" rule that will ruin whatever rationality America has left in its tank. Actually it's already started: several NBA athletes such as Gilbert Arenas have taken up planking – a terrible fad that has killed people before and will kill again - for entertainment purposes (mostly for himself) and one in particular is about to film in a comedy about identical twins separated at birth where one is a prominent psychiatrist and the other is a mental patient and IT STARS CHRIS KATTAN! Granted the athlete in question is former NBA something Desmond Mason but sometimes laughter is the best medicine and this movie is definitely not the cure what ails you.

The film is called Just Crazy Enough by the way. I know you people get a little antsy when I leave out important information like that.

I've been gone. Comments? There are none! So start filling up that comment section so I can have a section to comment comments on. Starting right… now.

Last word: Sports is sports, no matter what gender is represented on the field. That's why I have no problems saying YOU RULE USA WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM. U-S-A! U-S-A!

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Nice Married with Children reference at the end. Posted By: Charles (Guest)  on July 11, 2011 at 11:45 PM     How did any of those chicks make that money? I guess I can understand Jolie, but shes ridiculously overpaid, but studios are paying for all the attention she'll get everytime she does the movie. SJP's money is royalties from Sex and the City, Kristens is from Twilight..the rest..Ive got no clue Posted By: Christi (Guest)  on July 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM     You don't know what the word "trimester" means, do you? Posted By: Heebies (Guest)  on July 12, 2011 at 06:15 AM     The problem with the Lucas thing is that he has to enforce his copyrights. If he doesn't then say another organization comes along and does even more, rents an amphitheater, charges admission, whatever... and Lucas tries to stop them because they really are abusing his property, guess what? They can actually cite this event and say "Well, it wasn't important then, so it's not important now." And they can win on that basis alone so for Lucas this is really a matter of necessity and not him being a dick. Posted By: ChErikS (Guest)  on July 12, 2011 at 08:20 AM     You don't know what the word "trimester" means, do you? Posted By: Heebies (Guest) on July 12, 2011 at 06:15 AM she killed her kid after it was born, hence in the 10+ trimester get some meds for your fucking aspergers will you? Posted By: Guest#9888 (Guest)  on July 12, 2011 at 09:36 AM     Someone hurry up and give Sarah Jessica Parker a carrot already Posted By: dw (Guest)  on July 12, 2011 at 12:41 PM     You don't know what the word "trimester" means, do you? Posted By: Heebies (Guest) on July 12, 2011 at 06:15 AM she killed her kid after it was born, hence in the 10+ trimester get some meds for your fucking aspergers will you? Posted By: Guest#9888 (Guest) on July 12, 2011 at 09:36 AM You also do not know what "trimester" means. You do not know what "Aspergers" means either. And thirdly (could that word have something to do with TRImester?), it is "Pail of Money" not "Pale". Posted By: Guest#2481 (Guest)  on July 12, 2011 at 04:26 PM

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Should be ' man ' ending character from Charlie Sheen? -Entertainment Weekly

Unfortunately, the Studio behind Two and a Half Men had no comment on a report which suggests that Charlie Harper, also known as the hedonistic character played by Charlie Sheen, will be killed in the first episode of the CBS comedy this fall to make way for the introduction of Ashton Kutcher. (Specifically, Charlie can drive their car off a cliff.)

Although TMZ coverage than the "first script is not blocked" and "often makes changes to close the record" creator Chuck Lorre is very possible men who would want to delete the "clean slate". Nothing says good riddance an ugly chapter in the life of the series that offing a character forever.

Who knows the Lorre did not put beyond it. After all, the uber producer showed his macabre sense of humor in 2008 when he wrote an episode of CSI. his victim? in the episode "a star in the comedy high-maintenance held by Katey Sagal. Having regard to its history of working with some of the most difficult of Hollywood women, everyone assumed that his script was based on his relationship with Roseanne Barr. (Or perhaps Cybill Shepherd). (Then again, it could have been Brett Butler.)

In a clip stuck behind the scenes, then informs the manufacture CSI episode, Lorre goes out of their way of saying "I have to say this, we are doing this character". But the episode features a frustrated writer, muttering, "Can take my pen and lead through my eyes in my brain", without a doubt that often reflect Lorre complicated relationship with talent. (Hey, don't ask you Discouraged television man nothing!)

In the same video behind the scenes, CSI producer Carol Mendelsohn has this exec Lorre and the episode: "really had this itch to write an autopsy scene."

Charlie Harper died in a car accident, would be the first time a comedy character knows its manufacturer to be sitting behind the wheel. A fatal crash was used to explain the sudden departure of Valerie Harper comedy of the family for Valerie in. 1987Harper does not agree with the direction that the producers wanted to make the comedy that she died in a car accident. He was replaced by Sandy Duncan.

Other comedies handled high-profile departures of lightly, kinder. Cheers the loss of Shelley Long, who wanted to leave the TV to pursue a film career in 1987-explaining how Diane Chambers has a tremendous advance to write a book. She promised to return to Boston to marry Sam (Ted Danson), but knew that she doesn't. "Have a good life", were the last words of Sam.

Cheers, however, had a lot of memorable moments, emotional. Men should not, by that it seems unlikely it would show a lack Lorre Jon Cryer (who plays the brother of Charlie Alan) and Holland Taylor (mother of Evelyn de Charlie) crying over the coffin of Charlie in a funeral home near the beach. It is not Lorre and frankly, would not be a satisfactory result for the TV comedy highest nominal. Keep it alive may make sense better anyway. A comedy writer for a long time has this suggestion mento: "keep the character alive and off screen, as Cheers and Vera FrasierMaris". I am sure that the writers would have a field day writing his antics hilarious reports abroad. "In addition, if Ashton, a brightness humiliated tanks could return in a year or two."

"Do other more cynical writer provides this alternative:" Alan: "where is Charlie?" makes Jake: "you mean Uncle Charlie?  He died ten years ago.  Father, are out of your new meds? ' Alan takes his pill. This way you can start again, saying that all previous episodes were only in your imagination.  "You can type the Ashton Kutcher as he was there all the time".

How do I create men who must handle the output of brightness?

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Evil Dead reboot has a Director-ShockTillYouDrop.com

evil dead Restart has a Director

12 July 2011.

He was moving quickly in Michigan. Souls are about to get swallowed up again.

On the heels of Evil Dead news yesterday, reports of B-D Sam Raimi found his Director of Evil Dead "quasi-remake".

Federico Alvarez joined ahead of reconstitution. The young Director signed with Raimi in 2009 after Alvarez, panic attack short film, won the attention of Hollywood.

Thus, one can say that this was inevitable.

The new Evil Dead has a script and shooting is expected to begin soon a small budget.

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Charlie Harper is dead, but Sheen can be won-the imperfect parent

Lionsgate television announced that they are committing to ten episodes for a new series with Charlie Sheen. According to expressnightout.com fired the actor star and they have creative license. Sources say that the program will be similar to Two and a Half Men and networks are struggling to pick up the new series.

Screenshot via Radar online

"The show may be true and most outrageous, which is perfect for Charlie," says a source.

The news comes as a writer and producer Chuck Lorre attempts to burn the ships when it comes to the actor often erratic. TMZ reports that Sheen, Charlie Harper, characters can lead to a cliff at the beginning of the next seasons "Men". The mansion of the death of Harpers could be a metaphor for the display of the producers of the career of brightness.

Up to this point, the fans were in the dark at Aston Kutcher "would replace" Sheen. Rumors are that character that kutchers buy House of Harpers, since the actor's blood of the Tiger is the script fataly.

Denise Richards weighed in, telling journalists "I'm sad to see Charlie not on the agenda". Nobody can replace Charlie. "The series was written by him and was so bright that, but I believe Ashton will make your own."

The "original" recording Two and a Half Men set on August 5 and aired in September.

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"The Dark Knight rises" reveals the Teaser Poster-GossipCenter.com

Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:20 am GMT

Remove tinnitus although its release date is still more than a year, "the Black Knight rises" teaser poster has just by Warner Bros. records.

The black and white image is a view of Gotham City in what seems to be various skyscrapers collapsed and moulded in the shape of a bat.

The long-awaited film of helmsman by Christopher Nolan is supplied a cast of stars, Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard.

With Tom Hardy, Liam Neeson, the Temple of Juno Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman, "The Dark Knight rises" is currently in production, while the whole hitting theaters on July 20, 2012.

Credit: Warner Bros.

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See an interview with a writer of amazing spider-Man ? What is specifically Christopher nolan shot when the Dark Knight rises going to University? The professional wrestler has a role Ghost Rider: spirit of vengeance? There is an update on Ant Man? And the appearance of the Kent farm is the man of steel? Get answers to all these questions and more in Bits of the superhero today.

One thing a fresh day found this great video of a couple of guys who created a radio controlled superhero. It's a bird, it's a plane, is controlled the battery!

The Dark Knight rises soon raises in Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the University blog (via showing first) revealed spoilerish any detail about the shot that occurs near the end of the month of July. (Details since then are removed, go). These should be considered spoilers certainly so if you want to remain untouchable, skip to the next image now. Here is what the blog says:

Scenes outside the KNOW, which is interpreted as a prison, including an explosion, a prison break, a precision stunt driving shots, atmospheric explosions and smoke controlled pyrotechnics. Scenes outside the entrance to the Fifth Avenue of Mellon Institute include a clash between two rivals increases in a riot. The character takes a motorcycle for living room floor of the foyer, the front door and down the steps on Fifth Avenue.

They are referred to the prison break of Bane? Certainly sounds like it.

Is this farm Kent of man of steel zack snyder? Superman homepage seems to think that these pictures were taken in level (Illinois). He is more trees than the Smallvilles we are accustomed to see.

Collider made an in-depth interview with the screenwriter Steve kloves in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 , but also talked about the amazing spider-Man, who had a hand writing. Head over to Collider read some of the little things that Kloves revealed about the movie, or simply watch the previous video.

Wrestling several sites (through CBM) reported that kevin nash, has known for the WWF, Diesel has a role in the next Ghost Rider: spirit of vengeance. Nash also played a Punisher villain with Thomas Jane.

Captain America: the first Avenger is promoted by all parties, including the New York Stock Exchange, where chris evans rang the Bell today.

Soon released another trailer for the Batman: Arkham city that focuses on the puzzle. This game can't come soon enough.

Comicus (through CBM) did an interview with members of the Base of the Group, a 3D production House that worked on Thor, the Smurfs and Captain America. Here is an excerpt from difference in difficulty between doing 3D shell CAP vs. Thor's hammer:

Hammer of Thor by nature is more organic and complicated. Requires the construction of a particular party to help in the conversion process, however, the shield of Captain America is a simple round shape to run the job was really "easier" for our artists. (I use the word "easy" a little bit, because at the end of the day, each part of the conversion process of stereosopic is quite difficult and tedious.)

Speaking of Hadrons Thor writers and X-Men first class miller ashley and zack stentz and, in the video above, you can see what they say about not being invited to write 2 of Thor, X-men remove scenes and much more.

Due to the amount of graphics and images included in superhero Bits, we need to split this post more than two pages. Click the link above to proceed to the second page of Bits of superhero.

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' Dark Knight ' soars Gets doomsday themes Teaser Poster-AceShowbiz

On July 12, 2011 06: 35: 39 GMT

The image highlights a symbol of the bat in the sky to reflect a ray of hope amid the skyscrapers of Gotham fall apart.

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Official teaser poster for the film, directed by Christopher Nolan "" was revealed. The image includes skyscrapers of the city of Gotham fall to Earth and iconic Batman logo that make up the sky of bright light in the midst of the destruction of the scale of the city.

Follow-up to the critically acclaimed "" 2008, the film will be released in u.s. theaters in the summer of 2012. He will reprise his role as Bruce Wayne/the Dark Knight and will play with him as Selina Kyle/Catwoman.

Some of the scenes were filmed at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England, and others shot at Carnegie Mellon University. On Monday, there will be a prison break with "precision stunt driving shots, atmospheric explosions and smoke controlled pyrotechnics."

"Scenes outside the entrance to the Fifth Avenue of Mellon Institute include a clash between two rivals increases in a riot". A character drives a motorcycle to the fourth floor of the Atrium, front door and down the stairs in Bird fifth, "explained on the official blog of the University".

As playboy millionaire Wayne, Bale is errands around the city of Gotham in a Lamborghini winnowing, an update to its online walk 2008 Lamborghini Murciélago LP640. In addition, it seems to fly a Batcopter, which is built of the attacks against the same helicopters designed for mobile to your bat, suit of Dark Knight.

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Collections of the father-in-law of Brandon League to all-star save situation-The Seattle Times

League brandon, pictured above during its session of all-star media today at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, he believes that it is unclear how the impending birth of his third son. He was willing to lose baseball event to witness the most significant event blessed, but looks like it will be able to do both.

My first question the League was about the status of the baby. His wife Sasha, flew to Phoenix last week (in a private plane; some airlines do not allow women to advanced in their pregnancy fly). I decided to work for a long time inducing in Seattle during the all-star break, when there was a League all-star in your radar again. They are now scheduled to induce Wednesday in Seattle, flying together return after the all-star game on Tuesday. That if Sasha maintains long ago, of course-and the League have their fingers crossed.

"Really is not having any contractions," he said.I think we're in the clear until Wednesday. "

In this case, have your obstetrician were watching in Arizona during spring in what is called training. If Sasha go to work today or tomorrow, "Which I have here," said League. can we have everything covered. "All".

And that means everything. The alloy has an ACE up his sleeve.

"Your father is a doctor, too," said League. "He could deliver it in the stands if wanted. "

The League's father-in-law is the family physician by profession, but "has done everything". He worked in the emergency room. "Even though he needed john tommy (surgery), he could do."

The sailors expect is not necessary.

The League also says that he does not accept the fatherhood, which this year for the first time are eligible for new parents in the lists of major league baseball. You can leave the team of 24 to 72 hours. The sailors open the second half of the season Thursday at Safeco Field against the Rangers in the first game of a series of four matches. After leaving on a road trip in nine games for Toronto, Boston and New York.

"Launch on Thursday," he said.I had the option (to take paternity leave), but I'll be with them throughout the day Wednesday. My mother will be there to help. I'll be home during the day, and then I'll play at night. We have a long trip soon, so I'll make sure my time ".

Nobody was here more than brilliant Michael pineda, who made sure soak up the atmosphere as much as he could. Jaime navarroMariners bullpen coach, who has been a mentor and confidante of Pineda since it was shown in class A Wisconsin in 2008 as a young man of 18 years is on your left in the figure above. In a nice gesture, Pineda Navarro asked to accompany him to the Phoenix. Pineda was named to the team on Sunday, too late for his family in the Dominican Republic visas to travel to Phoenix. Navarro said he was happy to cancel their plans (fishing, sightseeing in Seattle) to participate in the all-star game. Navarro never made an all-star team in his career of 12 years, although some stations very well.

Pineda, just 22, made in his first season, and he is savoring the experience.

"Oh, Wow," marveled Pineda. "I'm very excited. It's my first all-star game. Some of these guys were in three or four or even more. I'm trying to soak it in everything. "

Has been a notable increase of Pineda, who, in March, led to survive the final cut.

"It's incredible, he said."In spring training, just trying to be part of the team. Today I'm in the all-star game. I say, ' Wow. Thank You, God. ' ''

Felix hernandez, at the same time, however, here is like a spectator, but he was enjoying himself today, too. Hernandez is one of several stars launchers eligible to participate on Tuesday because it was released on Sunday. But was replaced on the active list (by Boston Jon lester, which is on the DL and was immediately replaced by Toronto Ricky romero), Hernández had the option to watch the festivities and jumped on it. Last year, when he went on to win the Cy Young Award, Hernandez does not make the squad for. He was not going to pass up the opportunity to be part of his second all-star game.

"Won't be stange." I'm going to enjoy it, "said Hernandez, who said that tomorrow will be uniform in the Bank of the defendants."It will be fun. "

Hernandez, added, "if it is here that you want to post." But it is a rule ".

Felix expressed satisfaction with the achievements of his protégé, Pineda.

"I'm very proud of it," he said.He is having a great year. It is a great guy. Young but intelligent. He knows what he is doing. "

Manager Ron Washington had a curious comment about Pineda.

"I play with it." But says nothing unless Felix OK, says "Washington joked.

Finally, I couldn't resist the adjustment of the Giants closer Brian Wilsonshot. Why? Just look at it. It is a view that doesn't see every day in an atmosphere of baseball. Or any configuration, in the case.

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These days, baseball's all-star game unsure of what it wants to be - Washington Post (blog)

phoenix — In 1933, Major League Baseball held its first all-star game at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Babe Ruth hit a homer. Lou Gehrig made an error at first base. Lefty Grove earned the win for the American League. A total of 30 players made appearances in a game that lasted two hours, five minutes. ¶ Seventy-eight years later, the all-star game will lumber into the middle of the Sonoran Desert on Tuesday night as a bloated, nearly unrecognizable version of the exhibition conceived as a one-off, midsummer diversion by then-Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward. ¶ If recent history is any guide, somewhere between 55 and 60 players will see action Tuesday night. The game will be preceded by a red-carpet parade through the streets outside Chase Field, all of it televised and tweeted. And, as has been the case since 2003, the winning league will earn home-field advantage in the World Series. ¶ But the all-star game also arrives here at a crossroads of sorts, facing declining television ratings (last year’s game drew the lowest in history) and a growing feeling within the sport that the game has become too unwieldy and too unsure of what it wants to be. The very meaning and purpose of the “Midsummer Classic” appear open to interpretation. ¶ Eight years after Commissioner Bud Selig decided to tie home-field advantage in the World Series to its outcome, there remains a disconnect between the modern all-star game’s two overriding purposes: to bring together the game’s best and most popular players as a showcase for the fans, and to decide which league gets to host Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 of the World Series. ¶ Is it a meaningless exhibition, or a meaningful competition with significant stakes? Baseball’s answer would be: “Both.”

“I don’t view it as a problem,” said Michael Weiner, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Payers Association. “It arises from the positive aspects of the all-star game. It’s an actual game that resembles real competition. We just have to keep finding the right balance.”

For now, that balance finds the respective managers – San Francisco’s Bruce Bochy for the NL, Texas’s Ron Washington for the AL – trying to simultaneously manipulate their substitutions to allow as many players as possible to get into the game, while also trying to win and possibly secure home-field advantage in the World Series for their own teams.

One recent, lamentable trend has been to populate the rosters with semi-obscure set-up relievers (no offense intended to Washington Nationals set-up man Tyler Clippard, the team’s lone representative) and role players, in the hopes of gaining an advantage for one at-bat in the late innings. At the same time, baseball also insists upon perpetuating the rule requiring every team to be represented.

While a total of 68 players will dot the two all-star rosters Tuesday night — selected via a convoluted process that includes fan voting, player balloting and managerial picks — no fewer than 84 players will have earned the designation of “all-stars,” with all the attendant contractual bonuses and historical implications. Of the 16 players who withdrew after being named to the respective teams, the majority pulled out due to injuries; in addition, five pitchers were disqualified by a new rule preventing pitchers who start games on the Sunday before the all-star break from appearing in the all-star game.

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Renewal M 19 of the Monterey Bay Aquarium revealed-San Jose Mercury News

MONTEREY, when he was 12, future marine biologist Jon Hoech donned a diving mask, stuck his face in the ocean and has your first look at a shoal of fish, make a majestic choreography under the water, something that only happens in nature.

Up to now.

"The other day, this school of sardines has created a ring around the full exposure," said Hoech, pointing to the frenzied army of 9,000 fish closing around a tank of millions of litres that houses the new attraction of open sea of Monterey Bay Aquarium. "We played in krill medium and sardines ventilated to the Centre to create this huge cake and plan". Then they broke this great cone. I downloaded almost my knees when I saw it happen.

"It is a spectacular thing to see in nature and is taken to the right to display and a large amount of resources to what happens in a place like this," he said. "But let's do it, and will be very exciting to see the guests".

Exhibition of the open sea is the centerpiece of the renewal of $ 19 million Aquarium, to be released to the public on 2 July (with a preview of members on July 1). Mammoth tank houses sardines is also home to many sea life that were previously part of the attraction of the outer Bay: schools of tuna, mahi and a pair of giant turtles, green, now it is believed that at least 60 years of age.

Also, "repeated visitors will recognize much of the old cast, but will be integrating a lot of new animals," said Hoech, Creative Director of Aquarius. "This will be one of the main schools of sardines, never we showed us, that I'm very pleased because it is a magnificent animal that we never have done justice to show them in all their color and glory and numbers, as we have."

Inhabitants of open seas will increase to new technology that includes a lighting system to highlight the natural beauty of the animals, a curtain of bubbles which adds not only environmental, but helps the animal to navigate without finding the glass barrier and a water circulation device that creates waves that cause fresh than the waves of light dancing.

The designs of new exhibitions were the creation of Jaci Tomulonis and Raúl Nava, which helped integrate illustrations with exhibitions to help inform the public about issues related to the health of the ocean. A piece used representations of 270,000 fossilized shark teeth to convey the number of sharks die each day of their fins. Other transforms plastic bottles of water obtained from the ocean in sculptures of various types of algae.

"" It's a shame that many of the animals that we are showing are at risk due to human activity: Habitat destruction and overfishing "Hoech said." "This will give our guests the opportunity to learn what they can do to help the return to the situation. "

Aquarium visitors now have the opportunity to see near stranger, minors, green turtles, diving birds for colorful, playful (tufted puffins, Atlantic Puffin, horned pigeon guillemot) and microscopic plankton: the basis of all the food at sea: improved by a powerful microscope.

In addition, the interactive galleries includes renovation of computer-generated marine life which can be magnified or activate the touch of a finger. The new "swarm jelly Alcove" offers visitors a three-dimensional experience that simulates the appearance of swimming with a school of jellyfish.

IF YOU'RE GOING

Exposure of the Monterey Bay Aquarium sea

When: opens July 2

Cost: Aquarium Admission is US $ 29.95 for adults, US $ 24.95 for seniors and students r $ 19.95 for children (ages 3-12) and people with disabilities. Children under 3 years are free. Group rates are available with advanced reservations.

Information: Visit www.montereybayaquarium.org or call 800-648-4800

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Events calendar - Monterey County Herald

The Monterey County Herald

Posted: 07/10/2011 01:41:48 AM PDT

Today

65th annual Obon Festival. Noon-7p.m. today at The Buddhist Temple of the Monterey Peninsula, 1155 Noche Buena St., Seaside. Festival features Japanese foods, taiko drumming, entertainment, games for children, bonsai exhibits and Japanese goods and crafts for sale. Free. 372-8181, www.montereybuddhist.org.

Monterey National Horse Show. Various times and events today at the Monterey Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairground Road, Monterey. Free. www.montereynationalhorseshow.com.

"Evenings by the Bay" at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. 6p.m. today at Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey. Saturday: Roger Eddy; Sunday: Kenny Stahl. $19.95-$29.95. 648-4800, www.montereybayaquarium.org.

The 54th annual St. Mary's-by-the-Sea Antiques and Collectibles Show & Sale. 11a.m.-4p.m. today at St. Mary's-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 146 12th St., Pacific Grove. Collectibles and antiques from a select group of West Coast antiques dealers. Admission: $6 per day. 373-4441.

Layne Littlepage starring in "Noel and Cole: The Wit and Wisdom of Noel Coward and Cole Porter." 2p.m. today at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Fourth Avenue and Guadalupe Street, Carmel. $25, available at 917-1228 or www.ticketguys.com.Info:www.carlcherrycenter.org,

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The Listening Place Reader's Theater presents "Marriage Go 'Round." A collection of short plays revolving around matrimony. 1:30p.m. today in the Drawing Room of Monterey Museum of Art La Mirada, 720 Via Mirada, Monterey. $10 entry fee includes performance plus admission to museum exhibits (free for MMA members); donations welcomed. Info: 424-6645.

Boundless Watercolor Painting. 12:30-3:30p.m. today at Garland Ranch Regional Park Museum, 700 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley. Develop color blending and brush stroke techniques while composing sketches of plants, landscapes and nature. $20 district residents, $22 all others. $5 materials fee. 372-3196, ext. 3, mprpd.org.

Opening reception. 1-3p.m. today at Back Porch Fabrics, 157 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove. Quilts by Becky Tarlow. 375-4453.

Ted Shafer's Jelly Roll Band. 1-5p.m. today at Monterey Moose Lodge, 555 Canyon Del Rey Blvd., Del Rey Oaks. $8 for members, $5 for students and active military, $15 all others. 277-8694.

Sunday Blues in the Park. 1-4:30p.m. today at Laguna Grande Park, Canyon del Rey, Seaside. Featuring Kaye Bohler and Barbara Morrison. Free. 899-6805.

Travel sketching workshop. 2-4:30p.m. today at Monterey Municipal Wharf No. 2 outside London Bridge Pub, 256 Figueroa St., Monterey. $50. Advance reservations encouraged. 236-8177.

ART EVENTS

· JULY 11-29

Summer youth art workshops for ages 8 to 14. One-week sessions held at the Pacific Grove Art Center, 568 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove from 2:30-5:30p.m. Mon-Fri. July 11-15: animals; July 18-22: aquatics; July 25-29: Feast of Lanterns. For young artists open to exploring creativity in a supportive environment. Limited scholarships available. $100 per session. Contact teacher Julie Heilman at 917-0009 for information.

· JULY 12

Art class for survivors, families and friends impacted by cancer. 10a.m.-noon, Tuesday, July 12, at Spirit Gallery, 13750A Center St., Carmel Valley. $5 donation benefits American Cancer Society. 659-2841.

· JULY 12

Stories behind "Dogs & Animals of Tibet" show. 7p.m. Tuesday, July 12, at the Carmel Art Association, Dolores Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, Carmel. Speaker: Constance Coleman. 624-6176.

· JULY 13

"The Artist's Garden" opening reception. 3p.m. Wednesday, July 13, in the Casa Fiesta at Hacienda Carmel, Via Mallorca at Carmel Valley Road, Carmel. 624-8261.

· JULY 13

Travel sketching workshop. 2-4:30p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at Carmel Mission, Rio Road at Lasuen Drive, Carmel. $50 per session. Advance reservations encouraged. 236-8177.

· JULY 14

Masks of the world. 3p.m. Thursday, July 14, at the Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. See masks from many cultures, then create your own mask with natural materials used in traditional masks with artist Charlsie Kelly. For ages 8 and older. Free. Advance registration required. 646-3934.

BENEFITS

· JULY 11

Casa Sorrento Pizzeria to donate part of bill to Wrangler National Patriot Program. Dine at Casa Sorrento Pizzeria from 5-8p.m. Monday, July 11, and mention the Patriot Program and 20percent of proceeds will benefit veterans. Casa Sorrento Pizzeria is at 393 Salinas St., Salinas. www.carodeo.com.

· JULY 13

Old-fashioned pier party fundraiser. 6-9p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at the Beach and Tennis Club, 1576 Cypress Drive, Pebble Beach. Hors d'oeuvres, full bar, tropical steel band and fire dance show. Cracked crab, prime rib and wine. Attire: tropical and a wrap for the pier. Benefits the Monterey Symphony. $85. Reservations: 646-8511 or www.montereysymphony.org.

· JULY 15

24th annual "Cowboys & Cabernet." 5p.m. barbecue and wine tasting, 6 p.m. open mic, 7 p.m. show, Friday, July 15, at the Steinbeck Institute of Art & Culture, 940 N. Main St, Salinas. Proceeds benefit the Foundation for Monterey County Free Libraries. $30, $5 for children 12 and younger. Barbecue $15, wine tasting $10. 800-549-4989, www.carodeo.com.

· THROUGH JULY 25

Hula's Island Grill to donate part of bill to Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey County. Dine at Hula's from 4:30p.m. to closing on Mondays in July and 10 percent of proceeds will go to Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey County. Hula's is at 622 Lighthouse Ave., Monterey. 655-4852, www.bgcmc.org.

CLASSES

& WORKSHOPS

· JULY 11

Women's Wellness Workshop. 6-7:30p.m. Monday, July 11, at The Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. Sponsored by The Monterey Bay Holistic Alliance. Learn ways to achieve a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Free. 521-8864.

· JULY 12-21

Creating your family tree on a computer. 1:30-3p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 12-21, at the Carmel Foundation, Eighth Avenue and Lincoln Street, Carmel. Instructor: Junel Davidsen, certified genealogist. Work on family information to create ancestral charts, family group sheets and more, as well as learn the basics of creating a website, exporting/uploading data to Rootsweb.com and other family tree sites. Basic computer skills required. $30 for Carmel Foundation, $40 all others. Registration: 620-8711.

· JULY 18-22, AUG 1-5

Samz School of Rock summer camp. 9a.m.-5p.m. Mon-Fri, July 18-22, Aug. 1-5, at The Fox Theater, 241 S. Main St., Salinas. Learn to play in a rock band. $300 per student, per week. $500 for two weeks. 235-9589, SamzSchoolof Rock@yahoo.com.

DANCE

· JULY 13

Semi-private introductory lesson to West Coast Swing. 6p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at Carmel Woman's Club, Ninth Avenue and San Carlos Street, Carmel. $5. 324-0816, www.wcsdanceco.com.

· JULY 15

West Coast swing dance and dine. 7-10p.m. Friday, July 15, at American Burger, 738 Lighthouse Ave., Monterey. $15 includes dinner. 324-0816, www.wcsdanceco.com.

EVENTS

· JULY 16

Kids in Motion day. 11a.m-3p.m. Saturday, July 16, at Del Monte Shopping Center, Highway 1 at Munras Avenue, Monterey. Event features activities for kids of all ages, including a baby animal petting zoo, game tables, coloring tables, face painting, pony rides and more.

888-474-6736, www.shopdelmonte.com.

· JULY 16

Walk and Roll Foundation Teen Choice Awareness. Noon-4p.m. Saturday, July 16, at Caledonia Park, between Central and Jewell avenues, Pacific Grove. Join Chelsie Hill and her father Jon, founders of the Walk and Roll Foundation, for an afternoon of inspiration and determination. Event inlcudes a barbecue, music and raffle. $20-$25. 601-6501, walkandrollfoundation.org.

· JULY 16

Colmo del Rodeo parade. Kiddie Kapers parade begins at 6:30p.m., the Colmo del Rodeo parade starts at 8p.m. from East Acacia Street and South Main Street and ending at the Steinbeck Center, 1 Main St., Salinas. More than 30 entries include marching bands, Deb's Donks and the Cal Crush Clydesdales, floats by the Castroville Artichoke Festival and the Rodeo's Kids Corral and more. Free. 775-3100, www.CARodeo.com. · JULY 16-17

Del Monte Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show. 8a.m.-3 p.m. Sat-Sun, July 16-17, at Carmel Middle School, 4380 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel. More than 3,000 dogs will compete. SPCA dogs will be available for adoption Saturday. Parking: $7. Information: 333-9032, www.DMKC.org.

FILMS

· JULY 12,13,14

Films in the Forest. Begins at dusk Tue-Thu, July 12-14, at the outdoor Forest Theater, Santa Rita Street and Mountain View Avenue, Carmel. Dress warm. $6; children 10 and under free. 626-1681. For film title, see www.foresttheaterguild.org.

· JULY 13

"Tapestries of Hope." 6p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at the Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. Presented by the Humanist Association of the Monterey Bay Area. Documentary exposing the horrors of the rape and sexual abuse of thousands of young girls in Zimbabwe by men who believe it will cure HIV/AIDS. Free. 484-6534 or 601-3770.

· JULY 14

"Tell the Truth and Run." 7p.m. Thursday, July 14, at the Peace Resource Center, 1364 Fremont Blvd., Seaside. Biographical film of truth-telling journalist George Seldes. Free. greenfranklino@gmail.com.

LITERARY

EVENTS

· JULY 13

Storytelling Workshop with Donald Davis. 10a.m.-noon, Wednesday, July 13, at the Monterey Public Library, 625 Pacific St., Monterey. For ages 16 and older. Pre-registration required. 646-3949, mccombs@ci.monterey.ca.us.

· JULY 16

Squid Row booksigning with Bridgett Spicer. 1-4p.m. Saturday, July 16, at Rollick's Coffee, 210 Main St., Salinas. Meet the artist behind one of The Monterey Herald's daily strips. squidrowcomics.com.

MUSIC

· JULY 11

2011 Masters' Festival Concert Series. 8p.m. Monday, July 11, at Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley Road at Ford Road, Carmel Valley Road. Bassoonist Judith LeClair. $20-$25. 659-3115.

· JULY 29-31

Monterey Bay Reggaefest. 3p.m. Friday, 11a.m. Sat-Sun, July 29-31, at the Monterey Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairground Road, Monterey. Line-up includes: Inner Circle, Wailing Souls, Anthony B, Mystic Roots, Free Sound and more. $30-$110. Children 9 to 12, $10; Children 8 and younger, free. 394-6534, www.mbayreggaefest.net.

TOURS

& OUTDOORS

· JULY 12-21

Organic summer gardening. 10a.m.-noon Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 7-21, at Tularcitos School Garden, 35 Ford Road, Carmel Valley. $12 district residents, $14 all others per class, $60/$66 for series. 372-3196, ext. 3, mprpd.org.

· JULY 16

Dog Days: Trail Training. 2-3:30p.m. Saturday, July 16, at Garland Ranch Park, 700 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley. Each session covers material like trail etiquette, dog and horse encounters and safety. Dogs of all ages welcome and must be on leash for class. $25 district residents, $28 all others, $60/$66 for series. 372-3196, ext. 3, www.mprpd.org.

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Large tanks in Monterey Bay Aquarium ready after major renovation-Inland Valley daily Bulletin

MONTEREY-Aquarium cleaning and definition are never very fun. Ask any tropical fish hobbyist with a pair of Angel fish, some gravel and some plants in plastic.

But what happens if the tank is 35 meters deep and has a window with the size of a movie screen?

In what could be the mother of tank each spring, the Monterey Bay Aquarium cleaning projects is putting the finishing touches on the revision of its external tank Bay-a structure of 1 million liters containing more water than the other 90 tanks in combined tank and is ranked among the largest deposits of United States.

It is part of a large tank transformation of 19 million dollars that reopened to the public on Saturday.

"Has been how to remodel home 30,000 square meters, while 18 people living in it," said David Cripe, Special Coordinator in the Aquarium displays.

"We insist on how you were going to move things and take things". "But we do that two weeks ahead of schedule ".

The exhibition, renamed "open sea" presents new species in the great tank and other screens in the vicinity, including a sand bar shark Oahu, tufted puffins and other seabirds, show an interactive video wall of high technology in plankton, jellies of deep sea and many art installations.

Scientific Aquarium also plans to introduce a young new great white shark in September, the sixth White Shark Aquarium will put on display since 2004.

Any aquarium in the world has a

great white shark on the screen.

Last week, dozens of volunteer teachers, getting his first glimpse reinforced around painters, welders and other construction workers who were putting the finishing touches in the exhibition.

Oohed and aahed tank refurbished marquee, with brilliant schools of sardines his last out languorously floating mahi mahi and hypnotic turtles may not have noticed the long road of scientific and experimental error, setbacks and elbow grease to get this project up to now.

The Aquarium had closed the great tank to the public last August. It seemed that the bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna-some of whom had grown to more than 300 pounds of its original just 25 pounds in size, were creating this turbulence in the water, which swam fast glass tiles in the interior of the tank were falling.

"Green Turtles were eating the tiles", said the spokesman of the Aquarium Ken Peterson. "They gets no wounded." Spend them. But he did not want to risk.

The tank is necessary an update anyway, I thought that administrators of the Aquarium. So empty all the water in the ocean. But not before the capture of about 10,000 species in the first tank. I've been three weeks.

Aquarium biologists use a network designed to detect the 9,000 sardines. Tuna three dozen surprised with barbless hooks and fishing line. Attracted to turtles and sharks hammer with food and are raised with deep gurney-water.

Some animals do not. Tuna each were too big to move and had to be sacrificed, Cripe said. A hammerhead shark also was killed. But the vast majority survive the upgrade and they were in tank trucks and sent to an installation of Aquarius 10 miles north of the Marina.

Workers under the guidance of the contractor, Rudolph and Sletten in Redwood City, who helped install the tank when the first was created in 1996, he took the side by side. They covered the walls of glass fiber with new sealant.

Install a wave machine to create chop on the water's surface, as in the open sea. Acrylic Windows massive polishing and add new water heating-even a "turtle-lift" to make it easier for veterinarians to raise turtles in a farm pen next to the main tank. New lighting causes the colors of the animals in the tank shimmer as they pass in front of the huge window.

Where once the visitors saw the sides and bottom, now they see what seems like endless blue. Is the same view that many of the species seen as it will migrate up to 10,000 miles each year through the Pacific Ocean, a pattern that highlights the new exhibition, based on research with satellite tags facts over the last decade from Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and other marine centers.

"It feels more like you're seeing now open sea", said Jaci Tomulonis, senior developer of exposure. "Before, it's like a tank of exposure".

Additional exhibitions explaining the creatures, such as the humpback whale, baula and Albatros is scheduled to open in February.

And, as the reformed wing which opened on Saturday, they carry messages of conservation visitors 1.9 million Aquarium overfishing, plastic ocean pollution and global warming, part of a trend that has distinguished the Aquarium increasingly since it opened in 1984 with a gift of $ 55 million Titans, David and Lucile Packard.

The Aquarium is the main sponsor of a Bill to move forward in the legislature to ban the trade in shark fins, an issue that has divided the American community and caused considerable political.

"It is not enough to show people animals beautiful Ocean, especially when we know that the threats they face," said Peterson. "We are concerned". "We want people to participate and make a difference".

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In Monterey Bay Aquarium tank Gets great face lift-San Jose Mercury News

Tank cleaning is never fun. Ask any tropical fish hobbyist with a couple of fish, some gravel and some plants in plastic.

But what happens if the tank is 35 meters deep and has a window with the size of a movie screen?

In what could be the mother of all Reeva projects of aquarium fish, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is putting the finishing touches on the revision of its external tank Bay-a structure of 1 million liters containing more water than the other 90 tanks in combined tank and is ranked among the largest deposits of United States. It is part of a transformation of 19 million dollars which reopens to the public on Saturday.

"It has been like remodeling a House of 30,000 square meters, while 18 people living in it," said David Cripe, Special Coordinator in the Aquarium displays. "We insist on how you were going to move things and take things". "But we do that two weeks ahead of schedule ".

The exhibition, renamed into the open sea has new species in the great tank and other screens in the vicinity, including a sand bar shark Oahu, tufted puffins and other seabirds, show an interactive video wall of high technology in plankton, jellies of deep sea and many art installations. Scientific Aquarium also plans to introduce a young new great white shark in September, the sixth White Shark Aquarium will put on display since 2004.

Any aquarium in the world currently has a great white shark on the screen.

A difficult

trip

On Monday, dozens of volunteer teachers, getting his first glimpse reinforced around painters, welders and other construction workers who were putting the finishing touches in the exhibition. Oohed and aahed tank refurbished marquee, with brilliant schools of sardines his last out languorously floating mahi mahi and hypnotic turtles may not have noticed the long road of scientific and experimental error, setbacks and elbow grease to get this project up to now.

The Aquarium had closed the great tank to the public last August. It seemed to me that bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna-some of whom had grown to more than 300 pounds of its original size of only 25 pounds, were creating this turbulence in the water, which swam faster than the glass was falling roof tiles in the interior of the tank.

"Green Turtles were eating tiles," spokeswoman for the Aquarium, said Ken Peterson. "They gets no wounded." Spend them. But he did not want to risk.

The tank is necessary an update anyway, I thought that administrators of the Aquarium. Then drained all the water in the ocean. But not before first capture approximately 10,000 copies in the tank. I took three weeks.

Aquarium biologists used a

NET designed to catch the 9,000 sardines. Tuna which surprised three dozen with barbless hooks and fishing line. Attracted to turtles and sharks hammer with food and are raised with deep gurney-water.

Some animals do not. Tuna each were too big to move and had to be sacrificed, Cripe said. A hammerhead shark also was killed. But the vast majority survive the upgrade. They were placed in tanks on trucks and sent to an installation of Aquarius 10 miles north of the Marina.

Workers under the guidance of the contractor, Rudolph and Sletten in Redwood City, who helped install the tank when the first was created in 1996, stripped to the shingles. They covered the walls of glass fiber with new sealant. Install a wave machine to create chop on the water's surface, as in the open sea. Acrylic Windows massive polishing and add new water heating systems-even a "turtle-lift" to make it easier for veterinarians to raise turtles in a farm pen next to the main tank. New lighting causes the colors of the animals in the tank shimmer as they pass in front of the huge window.

Where once the visitors saw the sides and bottom, now they see what seems like endless blue. Is the same view that many of the species seen as it will migrate up to 10,000 miles each year through the Pacific Ocean, a pattern that highlights the new exhibition, based on research with satellite tags facts over the last decade from Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and other marine resources.

"It feels more like you're seeing now open sea", said Jaci Tomulonis, senior developer of exposure. "Before, it's like a tank of exposure".

Conservation education

Additional exhibitions explaining the creatures, such as the humpback whale, baula and Albatros is scheduled to open in February. And that, as the reformed wing opening on Saturday, they carry messages of conservation visitors 1.9 million Aquarium overfishing, plastic ocean pollution and global warming, part of a trend that has distinguished the Aquarium increasingly since it opened in 1984 with a gift of $ 55 million Titans David and Lucile Packard.

The Aquarium is the main sponsor of a Bill to move forward in the California legislature to ban the trade in shark fins, an issue that has divided the American community and caused considerable political.

"It is not enough to show people animals beautiful Ocean, especially when we know that the threats they face," said Peterson. "We are concerned". "We want people to participate and make a difference".

Please contact Paul Rogers at 408 920 5045.

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Open sea exposure of the Monterey Bay Aquarium conveys the vastness of the oceans-the Salinas Californian

IF YOU'RE GOING

ND: information is the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 886 Cannery Row, Monterey. General information are available at www.montereybayaquarium.org or 831-648-4800.
th Admission: adults $ 29.95; US $ 24.95 senior (over 65 years) and students (13ì17 or college ID); child $ 19.95 (3ì12) and people with disabilities. Children under 3 years of age admitted free.
ª parking: parking in the parking lot of Cannery Row three blocks away. (Service is available). (Shopping cart Service MST encyclopedia binds the aquarium with the center of Monterrey). Some also available on the street.

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Festival has more Shaw this year - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO -- That one year is so much like another in this pretty lakeside town, redolent of flowers and greasepaint, is part of its charm. But this year has this difference, that the Shaw Festival, well established as one of the great repertory theaters in the English-speaking world, is celebrating its 50th season.

The anniversary influenced artistic director Jackie Maxwell's planning of the bill of fare for the April-October season, now coming up on its midpoint. In celebration, she increased the number of plays by the festival's namesake to four out of 11 overall, but in such as way as to point as much forward as back.

On a mid-June trip a Post-Gazette theater group saw a varied four shows, all comedies, ranging from drama to musical to farce, illustrating the strength of the festival's performing ensemble of nearly 70. It just happened to include two of Shaw's own -- assuming you count "My Fair Lady," as why shouldn't you, when most of its dialogue and lyrics are lifted directly from his "Pygmalion"?

But the other two are also characteristic of the festival: a largely forgotten comedy by one of Shaw's less-remembered Irish contemporaries and an hour-long comic "lunchtime" gem that is more fun than even a champagne brunch could provide.

Lerner & Loewe (and Shaw), "My Fair Lady" (Festival Theatre)

This is the big one in terms of audience draw, but do not condescend to it on that account. Although the large festival theater was indeed packed, it was also evident that "My Fair Lady" strikes deeper chords when staged by a skilled acting company that would be just as comfortable doing "Pygmalion" itself.

Director Molly Smith, on leave from Washington's Arena Stage, refers to this in her program note about the pleasures of working with the festival company, "the pre-eminent experts on Shaw's language and ideas, on a musical about language and ideas." Still, there's no denying that Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics), although keeping so much Shaw, does indulge our sentimental hope (which Shaw would have none of) that Eliza and Higgins will end up together.

In other words, it isn't quite Shaw. But the flash of ideas about language and class that remain are given a vigorous, cut crystal airing by Benedict Campbell (Higgins), Patrick Galligan (Pickering) and Sharry Flett (Mrs. Higgins). And Deborah Hay (Eliza) and Neil Barclay (Doolittle), who carry much of Frederick Loewe's rich musical burden, never let their showmanship overcome their care for character and language.

If you go ...

General Information: 50th season, 10th under artistic director Jackie Maxwell. A colorful 64-page schedule and visitors' guide to shows, accommodations, restaurants and attractions is available from the Shaw Festival, Box 774, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada L0S 1J0; 1-800-511-SHAW (7429); www.shawfest.com.

Tickets: Prices vary according to theater, location in theater, day of week and play. The range is Canadian $32-$106 (U.S. $33.34-$110.45) with many shows discounted for students and seniors.

Accommodations: Through chamber of commerce (1-888-619-5981, niagaraonthelake.com). Similar services include the NOTL B&B Association (1-866-855-0123, niagarabedandbreakfasts.com); and BBSTAY NOTL and B&B Concierge (1-866-805-9188, bbstay.ca).

Festival Theatre (856 seats): "My Fair Lady" through Oct. 30; "Heartbreak House" through Oct. 7; "The Admirable Crichton" through Oct. 29.

Royal George Theatre (328 seats): "Candida" through Oct. 30; "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" through Oct. 23; "The President," lunchtime, through Oct. 9.

Court House Theatre (327 seats): "Drama at Inish - A Comedy" through Oct. 1; "On the Rocks" through Oct. 8; "Maria Severa" July 19-Sept. 23.

Studio Theatre (176 seats): "Topdog Underdog" July 19-Aug. 27; "When the Rain Stops Falling" Aug. 11-Sept. 17.

Other events and attractions: Backstage tours; pre-show chats; Tuesday Q&As Saturday Conversations; Sunday coffee concerts; backstage tours; Speed of Ideas Forum (Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, Michael Billington (July 23-24); Autumn Experience (Sept. 21-23, Oct. 5-7); Four-Day Seminar (Aug. 11-14); many Shaw Workshops (various); student packages; theater and dining packages; theater and hotel packages; etc.

My own favorite revelation is Ms. Flett's stern but gracious realization of all the tartness Shaw gave her. At the Shaw Festival, "My Fair Lady" manages to be simultaneously a sumptuous musical and a very fine play with music.

Lennox Robinson, "Drama at Inish - A Comedy" (Court House Theatre)

One of the best reasons to go to the Shaw is to discover plays they have discovered for us. Robinson was a young man whom Yeats dragooned into running the Abbey Theatre, and he developed into a stalwart of the Irish literary revival, but "Drama at Inish" (1933) is his first play I can remember having seen.

Structurally, it's common enough, set in the living room of a small seaside hotel where the visitors and the locals interact. The occasion is the arrival in town of a "modern" acting company, creating the comic clash of worldly and provincial. Surprisingly, a nightly repertory of Ibsen, Strindberg, Turgenev and the like stirs festering dissatisfactions and sets the emotional balance of families and the town on edge.

All ends well, of course -- hence the reassurance of "comedy" following "drama" in the title. But Robinson touches on some serious issues. You can see the care with which he walks the fine line between parodic farce and something like Chekhovian sympathy in the two "star" actors, who are caricatures enough for the former but express enough artistic idealism for the latter.

What happens is that some members of the local audience begin to see their own lives in dramatic terms -- as artful constructs, you might say -- which suggests they are developing authorial agency, a sure challenge to the status quo. Turn over a long quiet stone and who knows what might wriggle out.

Speaking of acting companies, the Shaw itself offers the pleasures of a company exercised by repertory, and I particularly enjoyed seeing Mary Haney, who was playing ingenues just 29 years ago when I first headed north, who played Joan of Arc along the way, and who now plays the busybody spinster with comic flare and a good heart.

That's also the essence of this small but appealing play.

Shaw, "Candida" (Royal George Theatre)

This, Shaw's famous debate about marriage, is something finer. A supremely self-confident, progressive cleric, Morell, finds his perfect marriage to the beautiful, capable Candida challenged by a scruffy, ludicrously self-confident young poet, Marchbanks. Astonishingly, Candida is asked to choose between them -- spiritually, at least.

Marchbanks is just the sort of self-conscious Pre-Raphaelite that Gilbert & Sullivan made such fun of, but Shaw sees the eternal, solitary artist beneath his callow posing. Meanwhile, he sees that the successful Morell, such a sturdy mix of socialism and the Protestant pulpit, is completely dependent on his wife's mothering, not to mention the adoration of his secretary and Rev. Mill, his curate.

As the program essays (a collateral pleasure of the Shaw Festival) point out, "Candida" is Shaw's response to the challenge of Ibsen's "A Doll's House," and there are several ways to read it. The simplest is that it isn't women who need to be freed from the emotional dependence of marriage, but men. It also says something about Shaw's own relationships with women, including his mother and the actresses who enthralled him.

How you read it has a lot to do with Candida, and as played by the fetching but rather recessive Claire Jullien, she leaves the battlefield to the two men and to Shaw's ideas. Throw in her comic, conservative father, and those ideas have plenty of spokesmen.

In a stroke of color-blind casting, Morell is played by an African-Canadian, Nigel Shawn Williams, who manages to make his bluster manly, as it must be, and his collapse sympathetic. Wade Bogert-O'Brien's poet seems overly silly, but he develops the spine needed at the end of the play.

I found the debate about marriage very moving. It seems to suggest that women love us for our need of them, while we love them for accepting that. And that's just the start of Shaw's paradoxes.

Ferenc Molnar, adapted by Morwyn Brebner, "The President" (Royal George)

I reviewed this two years ago, when the Shaw staged it first, and I applaud its return. Exactly one hour long, it shows a captain of industry taking a young lout who's just been married by a rich young woman under his care, and given just 50 minutes before her parents arrive, remakes him. Not to spoil any suspense, he succeeds triumphantly, even allowing for all the time taken up by our laughter. Brilliant.

Senior theater critic Christopher Rawson is at 412-216-1944.

First published on July 10, 2011 at 12:00 am

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CMU grads rejoice in roles in 'Book of Mormon' - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

NEW YORK -- The line of smiling sweepstakes winners snakes in front of the Eugene O'Neill Theater, then winds up 49th Street and around Eighth Avenue. It's early on a Friday for a crowd in front of a Broadway theater, but these lucky few are in line for a one-time free performance of the Tony-crowned best musical of the year, "The Book of Mormon." The 2 p.m. show was a thank-you to the hundreds of fans who wait and hope for a limited number of lottery tickets but don't get in.

"There are people who flew in for this," marvels Tommar Wilson.

"Can you believe it? That's crazy," cast mate Rory O'Malley says.

The two Carnegie Mellon alumni are huddled in the dressing room Mr. O'Malley shares with Michael Potts, awaiting the arrival of co-star Josh Gad. Lighted mirrors cover two sides of the small, square room, and a black and white curtain hides the window side. A Barbie and Ken boxed set sits high on a shelf over Mr. O'Malley's side of the mirror.

"Josh is never late," says our redheaded host, who should know. Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Gad were CMU roommates who share the distinction of being Tony nominees -- Mr. Gad for best actor in a musical and Mr. O'Malley for featured actor.

Mr. Gad bursts into the room, downing a gulp from a bottle of water.

"It's a little mobbed out there," he says. "People tried to date-rape me!"

With his floppy dark curls and glasses, the cuddly Mr. Gad stands out not only in a crowd of fans but onstage, where he's the misfit among clean-cut Mormon elders and the Ugandans who it is their mission to convert. He plays Elder Arnold Cunningham, the nebbishy sidekick to fellow Tony nominee Andrew Rannells, the embodiment of Mormon perfection.

Mr. Gad and Mr. O'Malley had previous Broadway experience in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," but Mr. Gad has been best known for his screen roles. He returned to his Shadyside haunts last summer to film "Love & Other Drugs" (he played Jake Gyllenhaal's brother) and played a part in the Pittsburgh-set sitcom "Back to You."

He brought Mr. O'Malley into the mix for a recent return to his career launcher, as a "Daily Show" correspondent covering New York's Gay Pride parade. He was frequently recognized for his role in "Mormon" despite denials that he's not that guy.

Unlike his present company, Mr. Gad did not partake in much musical theater on his way to a 2003 BFA in Drama. "All the dancing in 'Mormon'? My God, it's the most I've done since my bar mitzvah," he says. His cast mates make a big deal over the fact that he was nominated for an Astaire Award, honoring Broadway's best dancers.

"If you can do theater ... if you can understand the most difficult texts from Shakespeare to Chekhov, then the other stuff comes easily," Mr. Gad says. "And that's the foundation that they give us [at CMU]. Whether it's voice or movement, it's such an unbelievably extensive four years, to understand how to use your body and all your tools."

Mr. O'Malley, who sings and dances up a storm in "Mormon," likens his college training to "musical boot camp." He came to Pittsburgh from Cleveland despite his family's misgivings. "I got through as a Browns fan, and the Steelers fans weren't too mean to me," he says.

Mr. Wilson, a Kansas native, says that after juggling five characters at a time in college, concentrating on one at a time comes easily. He has appeared on Broadway in a variety of musicals -- from "The Music Man" to "Hair" -- since 2000. He was late to "Mormon" compared to Mr. Gad and Mr. O'Malley, who have been involved in this show in some capacity for four years.

"I had seen a reading of the show ... maybe two years ago, so I knew kind of what I was getting into," Mr. Wilson said. "But the first day of rehearsal, they did a run-through for the three of us that weren't in the workshop and I didn't realize how [expletive] hilarious it was until that day. It blew my mind."

What it's about

The musical that The New York Times anointed "Heaven on Broadway" arrived with a pedigree that might have suggested another fate for "The Book of Mormon." "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" composer Robert Lopez created an always irreverent, often vulgar, sometimes sweet story with a traditional musical structure.

The story and lyrics skewer blind faith while rewarding the concept of faith and charity tempered with reason and a sense of humor -- plus many unprintable obscenities.

As a huge fan of another Parker/Stone parody, the marionette movie "Team America: World Police," Mr. O'Malley understood he was getting into hard-R material and jumped in wholeheartedly.

"I never actually have to say anything bad; I have to do something probably horrible with Hitler. We all have our moments," he says to nods and laughs all around. "I don't think anything of this is difficult because Bobby Lopez, Matt and Trey were so meticulous about getting the story right and making the characters so rich, that everything is earned. Every curse word, everything that's unpleasant to say, yeah, it's unpleasant, but it's part of the story that we're telling. We earn that moment on the stage."

There was some fear that the religious theme, coupled with the explicit language, would turn off audiences, but Mr. Gad has noted just a handful who have headed for the exits.

"There were two people in the front row, stage right, yesterday who I could not take my eyes off of because they were miserable, just miserable, and it was fascinating to me because, I mean, they couldn't be that miserable if they're staying until final bows, right? I think there are people who have struggled with the language, some of the themes, but at the end of the day, if you stay all the way through, you're going to leave with something valuable."

'Mormon' malfunctions

Josh Gad's Arnold Cunningham has a penchant for stretching the truth and making pop-culture references, but when Arnold has trouble with the name Nabulungi (the character played by Tony winner Nikki M. James), a bit of Josh comes to the surface. The actor predicts he has come up with 25 to 30 names to represent Nabulungi, including Neosporin, Necrophilia ...

"My favorite was Nipple Cream, but that's one I've only used once," he answers.

"My favorite was Nathan Lane," Mr. O'Malley says.

"One day it was Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack ..."

"That one really killed me," Mr. Wilson says.

When the question comes up about onstage mishaps, the trio takes over the interview.

"Josh, pray tell," his cast mates demand.

"There were two days in a row where a song I'd been singing for over a hundred performances I decided I no longer knew," Mr. Gad says. Cast members are held accountable for even one missed or added word. So watching his co-stars faces "just tore me to shreds. There was a bunch of this [he shakes all over] onstage, just convulsing bodies."

"Just yesterday my shoe fell off, my nametag fell off, I couldn't get my outfit," Mr. O'Malley says. He explains that his nametag didn't survive his quick change from the angel Moroni to Elder McKinley.

"We were all [thinking], 'Rory's making a fool of himself,' " Mr. Gad says, laughing.

"Josh, pray tell," his castmates demand.

"There were two days in a row where a song I'd been singing for over a hundred performances I decided I no longer knew," Mr. Gad says. "And so I just kept screwing up the same thing over and over, and it just became the most difficult five minutes of my life because to look at my co-stars who are just so supportive and not cracking any smiles, just tore me to shreds. So there was a bunch of this [he shakes all over] onstage, just convulsing bodies."

"Just yesterday my shoe fell off, my nametag fell off, I couldn't get my outfit," Mr. O'Malley says. He explains that his nametag didn't survive his quick change from the angel Moroni to Elder McKinley, the man with a nametag.

"We were all, Rory's making a fool of himself," Mr. Gad says laughing.

"Oh, were you?" Mr. O'Malley says.

After hundreds of performances, even a single word missed or added can become a big sin among the cast. "Everyone holds you so accountable," Mr. Gad says.

Wardrobe malfunctions are frequent, and Mr. Wilson is shy at first about revealing his, but finally relents. "My problems all center around my big penis in the second act. That's the only thing I ever have issues with."

The guys banter matter-of-factly about Mr. Wilson's troubles with a contraption worn by male ensemble members during the number "Joseph Smith American Moses."

Mr. Gad then offers he has a favorite moment with Mr. Wilson, who also plays a guard to a violent general with an unprintable name.

"Every day we have this little intimate moment that nobody else knows about. When he comes out with the gun and he's wearing these gold bullets, I go, 'Beautiful necklace, Tommar.' " Mr. Gad then gestures stroking the bullets.

"I go, 'I've got a gun,' " Mr. Wilson says, smiling.

Surreal Tonys

"The Book of Mormon" received 14 Tony nominations and won nine awards, the most by any show on Broadway this season.

"It was the best night of our lives," Mr. O'Malley says of the ceremony last month.

"It was magical," Mr. Gad chimes in. "The fact of the matter is that Rory and I were college roommates and then to be able to stand there and attend something we used to watch together on our couch was pretty surreal."

"I thought, I'm not going to believe it until we're actually there, but the whole thing has happened and I still ... feel like it was the fake Tonys and they just told us to be there," Mr. O'Malley says.

While Mr. Gad and Mr. O'Malley waited and watched from their seats in the Beacon Theatre, Mr. Wilson took part in "Mormon's" Tony number, "I Believe."

He wasn't sure how the audience would react to the song without the context of the show. "Are they going to laugh? Is it going to be funny? And it was even more of a rock concert at the Tonys. They were screaming for the last 20 seconds of the song. It was unbelievable."

With people applauding as nominations were announced, neither Mr. Gad nor Mr. O'Malley heard their names. (Norbert Leo Butz and John Larroquette won in their categories). But they use words like "insane" and "amazing" when recalling co-star Ms. James' emotionally charged speech while accepting her best featured actress Tony.

Neither of the nominees in the room displays disappointment that he has no statue to show for the night.

"I think you'd have to be some kind of gluttonous crazy person to walk away from a Tonys show with nine awards and be like, 'Oh, we didn't get enough.' That best musical Tony is for everyone in this building who has worked so hard," Mr. O'Malley said.

"When something like that happens and it's celebrated in one night and it happens at one of the things you watched as a child and created your dreams around being a part of, it's totally surreal. ... Maybe one day I'll believe that it happened."

Here to there

"I've been in New York for 11 years now, I graduated in '99. I don't think I've been in a show that hasn't had at least one other Carnegie Mellon person," Mr. Wilson says. "There are so many designers -- Peter Hylenski, he was nominated for a Tony this year [for sound], we went to school together."

Mr. Wilson was at the Oakland campus just before the Purnell Center was opened. He says there was no film studio, no website and "I remember Greg Lehane [professor of drama and music at Carnegie Mellon] would tape us with a little recorder."

Times have changed, and now performances from CMU to Broadway are readily available on YouTube for all to see, or, if you're lucky, you can score a ticket to an award-winning show featuring a handful of folks with local ties.

"To us it's such a moment of pride because we get to represent the success of that community," Mr. Gad says. "I remember Rory and I going to see Patrick Wilson in 'The Full Monty' and saying wow, that's one of ours. You take such pride in that. For the three of us to be sitting here representing one of the most successful shows of the season is a pretty incredible thing."

"The Book of Mormon" is scheduled at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, 230 W. 49th St., New York, through September 2012.

Sharon Eberson: seberson@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1960. Read more about theater in the OnStage blog.

First published on July 10, 2011 at 12:00 am

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