Happy Endings News

THE FILM version of Ayelet Waldman's Love and Other Impossible Pursuits , starring Natalie Portman and Lisa Kudrow, is coming soon to theaters.

I was enjoying the funny Brit political satire In the Loop last night -- a lacerating take on how things like wars get started more out of infighting among agencies with bureaucrats jockeying for status, face-time, etc., than just cause, when up popped Steve Coogan, playing a disaffected constituent trying to get his MP to fix a crumbling wall next ...

It was hard for me to reconcile the hard-living Tom Arnold of tabloid and Internet fame with the friendly, humble guy on the other end of the phone - the Tom Arnold I spoke with is a man remorseful for mistakes and grateful to still be accepted in the public entertainment eye.

If there is such a thing as Hollywood royalty, the Ritters are it. Grandpop Tex was a singer and actor enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Grandpop Tex was a singer and actor enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is something of an Anglophile. The 31-year-old star of Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight has spent the past four months living in London with her husband, fellow actor Peter Sarsgaard, and their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Ramona.

An Incentive Filmed Entertainment presentation of a Marc Platt production, in association with Is or Isn't Entertainment, Handsome Charlie Films.

Javier is in truth a massage therapist but for Nicky, he is an immigrant sex worker.

Javier is in truth a massage therapist but for Nicky, he is an immigrant sex worker.

Javier is in truth a massage therapist but for Nicky, he is an immigrant sex worker.

Javier is in truth a massage therapist but for Nicky, he is an immigrant sex worker.

Javier is in truth a massage therapist but for Nicky, he is an immigrant sex worker.

Tom Arnold has admitted that a sequel to True Lies is currently in development. The Happy Endings actor previously said that he tried to persuade the original's Arnold Schwarzenegger to reprise his secret agent Harry Trasker role for director James Cameron in an update.

Tom Arnold performs Friday at WiseGuys. While traveling to Utah might conjure up some bad memories of his ill-fated marriage to Beehive State native Roseanne Barr, comedian Tom Arnold still has plenty of refreshing memories to fall back on.

Following last week's statements by Emmy-winning director Todd Holland that gay actors should stay closeted, another writer-director is seconding his opinion.

God. How does a woman get so bitter? Lucia: Observation. -- The Opposite of Sex My own bitter observation: "TV actresses" never get the love they deserve until they make that stealthy transition to the silver screen.

Writer-director Don Roos receives Outfest's 13th Annual Achievement Award. Past recipients include Bill Condon, Todd Haynes, Ian McKellen and Gus Van Sant.

Some advice: If you pitch an idea to Lisa Kudrow and she declines, don't give up.

Outfest will honor screenwriter-director Don Roos with its achievement kudo before the fest's opening screening of "La Mission" on July 9 at the Orpheum Theater in Downtown L.A. Roos' credits include helming and penning "Bounce" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck, and "Happy Endings" with Lisa Kudrow and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Writer/Director Michael Samonek has made what is perhaps the most perfect romantic date movie of the year! Perfection could have been achieved, though, through a minor casting change: Brandon Routh and Johnny Galecki should have changed roles.