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Michelle
Aug 18, 04 - 3:36 AM |
Jensen Ackles on Smallville...
So we may never see Jensen Ackles on Still Life, darn it. Supposedly, he was going to be on Tru Calling. But now, it seems that he will most definitely be seen on Smallville playing Jason Teague.
Here's something from jraunlimited.com:
Tattling on Teague
Who is Jason Teague?
There's a new man in 'Smallville.' He's handsome, short-haired, and trying to win the ever-confused heart of Lana Lang.
'Smallville' is a television series on The WB network, airing Wednesdays at 8/7 central, that has reinvented and reimagined the backstory of comic book hero Clark Kent/Superman for the past three years. Now, entering its fourth season, the show has employed some fresh faces: Erica Durance as the future love of Superman, Lois Lane, for thirteen episodes and Jensen Ackles as Jason Teague - a new love interest for one Lana Lang.
Lana, for the past three seasons, was caught in a confused love for Clark. That
may all change in season four with the introduction of regular character Teague.
The third season finale ended explosively, literally, with Clark and Lana's friend Chloe's house getting blown up with herself and her father inside, Lex Luthor being poisoned, Clark giving into
his biological father and disappearing into the void of space, and Lana leaving for Paris.
Enter Jason Teague. In Paris, Lana spies Teague - and that's where the romance begins.
Teague is said to be in his early 20's. He was raised by a rich family in Metropolis, the historic city where Superman will one day reside.
"Jason is the guy everyone wants as his best friend," the casting breakdown for the role of Teague said.
He is a football player and pursuing a degree in education at Metropolis University. Like any stereotypical rich kid, Teague loves to rebel from his parents, which explains his career choice.
Will Jensen's new role bring a lot to the already-full 'Smallville' table? Jensen and 'Smallville' fans alike will surely be watching on September 22nd to find out.
- The Crew at jraunlimited.com
notablefacts
Smallville premiered October 16th, 2001, and has since grown to become The WB Network's highest rated drama series.
Jensen turned down a role on the series 'Tru Calling' tailored specifically for him in favor of the role of Jason Teague on 'Smallville.' The 'Tru Calling' character has been renamed...Jensen.
The first episode of 'Smallville' that Jensen will star in will be the fourth season's premiere, titled "Crusade," that should begin to tie up last season's cliffhangers
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Michelle
Sep 25th, 2004 - 12:49 PM |
Re: Jensen Ackles on Smallville...
Yowza! Just watched the Season 4 Premiere of Smallville. This cast is ridiculously good-looking: Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor), Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang), Tom Welling (Clark Kent)flying around in his Levis. And let's not forget the new editions, Jensen Ackles and Erica Durance. But enough of this superficiality. It appears that aliens are megolomaniacal jerks (note Jor-El and Kal-El). I always thought that Kal-El would be a sweetie. Oh well. Thanks for bursting that bubble. It looks like another fun season. It's a cute homage to have Brigitte Crosby/Margot Kidder and Dr. Swann/Christopher Reeve being a couple (or ex-couple as the case may be) on the show.
I was wondering, how is that going to work with Lois Lane staying with the Kents? And I thought the "is it a bird? is it a plane?" dialogue was very smooth. Not too obnoxious like most self-referential stuff.
Also, Jensen's lines were a bit cramped, no? I really wish we could've seen what Still Life was about. It sounded intriguing. Okay. Enough about that.
Let's talk about Jensen's sideburns. Yes? No? I say he was looking alright.
I do have to comment on the fact that Paris-Nice-Paris is not a day-trip. But somehow, traveling on Jason Teague's Vespa must be super-efficient! Yes, I realize I'm commenting on realistic parameters on a show about a flying alien. Okay, back on track. LOL.
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Michelle
Oct 7th, 2004 - 5:04 PM |
Re: Jensen Ackles on Smallville...
So wasn't it interesting that the plotline for the most recent Smallville was about being too concerned about looking a certain way. I have to say, the appeal of the characters and the writing on the show are what keep me interested despite whatever I say about the physical appearances of the actors on the show. Still, I read somewhere that symmetry in facial features appeals innately to us human beings. But it was nice to hear Lana Lang ask Jason Teague if he was being superficial and him saying he finds who she is beautiful and not how she looks. Never mind that they are both extremely symmetrical.
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Michelle
Oct 11th, 2004 - 1:31 PM |
Christopher Reeve obituary...
PART I:
October 11, 2004
Christopher Reeve, 'Superman' and Crusader for Stem Cells, Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OUNT KISCO, N.Y. -- Actor Christopher Reeve, who soared through the air and leapt tall buildings as "Superman," turned personal tragedy into a public crusade, becoming the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research -- from a wheelchair.
Reeve went into cardiac arrest Saturday at his Pound Ridge home, then fell into a coma and died Sunday at a hospital surrounded by his family, his publicist said. He was 52.
His advocacy for stem cell research helped it emerge as a major campaign issue between President Bush and his Democratic opponent, John Kerry. His name was even mentioned by Kerry during the second presidential debate Friday evening.
Reeve, left paralyzed from the neck down after a riding accident and who pushed for funding to help others like himself, was hospitalized the following day. In the last week Reeve had developed a serious systemic infection from a pressure wound, a common complication for people living with paralysis.
Dana Reeve, Christopher's wife, thanked her husband's personal staff of nurses and aides, "as well as the millions of fans from around the world who have supported and loved my husband over the years."
Reeve's life changed completely after he broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Va.
Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Reeve emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.
"Hollywood needs to do more," he said in the March 1996 Oscar awards appearance. "Let's continue to take risks. Let's tackle the issues. In many ways our film community can do it better than anyone else. There is no challenge, artistic or otherwise, that we can't meet."
Dr. John McDonald treated Reeve as director of the Spinal Cord Injury Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He called Reeve "one of the most intense individuals I've ever met in my life."
"Before him there was really no hope. If you had a spinal cord injury like his there was not much that could be done, but he's changed all that, he's demonstrated that there is hope and that there are things that can be done."
He returned to directing, and even returned to acting in a 1998 production of "Rear Window," a modern update of the Hitchcock thriller about a man in a wheelchair who becomes convinced a neighbor has been murdered. Reeve won a Screen Actors Guild award for best actor.
"I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story," Reeve said. "But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated, and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face. With so many close-ups, I knew that my every thought would count."
In 2000, Reeve was able to move his index finger, and a specialized workout regimen made his legs and arms stronger. He also regained sensation in other parts of his body. He vowed to walk again.
"I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery," Reeve said.
Dr. Raymond Onders, who implanted electrodes in Reeve's diaphragm in a groundbreaking surgery to help him breathe, called Reeve "very compassionate."
"Even though he struggled with his own disease, he would still help patients throughout the United States and the world really with this type of problem," Onders told ABC News' "Good Morning America."
Onders said that in addition to the ulcer, Reeve "had other problems last week."
"Many different problems develop after nine years of being dependent on a ventilator, not being able to move yourself, having intestinal problems ... It just slowly builds up over the years."
Before the accident, his athletic, 6-foot-4-inch frame and love of adventure made him a natural, if largely unknown, choice for the title role in the first "Superman" movie in 1978. He insisted on performing his own stunts.
Although he reprised the role three times, Reeve often worried about being typecast as an action hero.
Though he owed his fame to it, Reeve made a concerted effort to, as he often put it, "escape the cape." He played an embittered, crippled Vietnam veteran in the 1980 Broadway play "Fifth of July," a lovestruck time-traveler in the 1980 movie "Somewhere in Time," and an aspiring playwright in the 1982 suspense thriller "Deathtrap."
More recent films included John Carpenter's "Village of the ****ed," and the HBO movies "Above Suspicion" and "In the Gloaming," which he directed.
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Michelle
Oct 11th, 2004 - 1:34 PM |
Christopher Reeve obituary...
PART II
Among his other film credits are "The Remains of the Day," "The Aviator," and "Morning Glory."
Reeve also made several guest appearances in the WB series "Smallville" as Dr. Swann, a scientist who gave the teenage Clark Kent insight into his future as Superman.
Reeve was born Sept. 25, 1952, in New York City, son of a novelist and a newspaper reporter. About the age of 10, he made his first stage appearance -- in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Yeoman of the Guard" at McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J.
After graduating from Cornell University in 1974, he landed a part as coldhearted bigamist Ben Harper on the television soap opera "Love of Life." He also performed frequently on stage, winning his first Broadway role as the grandson of a character played by Katharine Hepburn in "A Matter of Gravity."
Reeve's first movie role was a minor one in the submarine disaster movie "Gray Lady Down," released in 1978. "Superman" soon followed. Reeve was selected for the title role from among about 200 aspirants.
Active in many sports, Reeve owned several horses and competed in equestrian events regularly. Witnesses to the 1995 accident said Reeve's horse had cleared two of 15 fences during the jumping event and stopped abruptly at the third, flinging the actor headlong to the ground. Doctors said he fractured the top two vertebrae in his neck and damaged his spinal cord.
While filming "Superman" in London, Reeve met modeling agency co-founder Gae Exton, and the two began a relationship that lasted several years. The couple had a son and a daughter, but were never wed.
Reeve later married Dana Morosini; they had one son, Will, 12. Reeve also is survived by his mother, Barbara Johnson; his father, Franklin Reeve; his brother, Benjamin Reeve; and his two children from his relationship with Exton, Matthew, 25, and Alexandra, 21.
There was no immediate announcement of funeral plans.
A few months after the accident, he told interviewer Barbara Walters that he considered suicide in the first dark days after he was injured. But he quickly overcame such thoughts when he saw his children.
"I could see how much they needed me and wanted me... and how lucky we all are and that my brain is on straight."
http://www.christopherreeve.org/
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Michelle
May 5th, 2005 - 11:13 PM |
Re: Jensen Ackles on Still Life
I wrote this on my pop blog on 4/8/05 and thought I'd add it here:
It appears that “Still Life,” that Jensen Ackles show that was supposedly shelved due to it’s “downbeat” vibe is set to air in June 2005. One of the “kids” from Popular, Bryce Johnson is in it as the narrator I think. This show is supposed to be really well-crafted. I guess we’ll have to keep our ears open for news on this front.
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Michelle
May 22nd, 2005 - 4:13 PM |
Jensen Ackles on Supernatural?
So it looks like Still Life is not ever going to see the light of day. Did you see the ad for Supernatural after the season finale of Smallville? It is a new show on the WB starring Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as brothers who encounter, what else, the supernatural, unexplanable paranormal phenomena some right out of urban myths. They go on the road trying to solve the unsolved mystery of their mother's death when they were kids. I guess we'll see how it goes in the fall.
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