Gilmore Girls - News - The Rest of the Cast

NEW - hollywoodinsider.ew.com - Survivor Castings ...among the fresh faces is Jessica “Sugar” Kiper (Gilmore Girls fans may remember her as the pin-up model who made out with Milo Ventimiglia during her four-episode arc as Shane)
ausiellofiles.ew.com - Gilmore Girls - Veronica Mars alum Krysten Ritter is headed to AMC's Breaking Bad for what I'm told is a major recurring arc. Rumor has it she'll play a love interest for Aaron Paul's Jesse.
tvguide.com - Paul Anka Lorelai's adopted dog was a bit nuts (who wouldn't be after hanging around that family?), but hey, sometimes flaws are even more lovable. "He was adorable with all his idiosyncrasies!"
livejournal.com - Previously unreleased high quality promo pictures from season 5, you will need to be a livejournal member to see them.
gilmoregirls.fan-sites.org - Previously unreleased high quality promo pictures from the first season.
ksta.de - Barack Obama wins the hearts of the Europeans, as otherwise only the heroines of the US TV serial "Gilmore Girls" succeed. In their rejoicing many do not notice at all that Obama connects also some with the hated nor president George W. Bush. (translated from German)
broadway.com - In Silver's black comedy Three Changes, Nate (McDermott) and Laurel (Tierney) are a comfortably married Upper West Side couple—until Nate's wayward brother Hal (Cohen) arrives from Hollywood. What at first seems a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed as something more ominous. Cohen recently co-starred in Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough To Say I Love You at the Public Theater and appeared on Broadway in Losing Louie. He is known to TV audiences for his roles in Gilmore Girls and The Return of Jezebel James.
www.tennessean.com - Sebastian Bach hasn't spent much time offstage since his ejection from rock group Skid Row in the late '90s, but the stages have changed.
ew.com - Gilmore Girls made it in to the Entertainment Weekly "New Classics" list at number 32.
eonline.com - Mädchen Amick (Sherri) Inside sources are spilling on the latest romantic entanglements on Gossip Girl’s Upper East Side, including news that the show’s original golden couple, Nate and Blair ("Nair"), aren’t reconciling any time soon—thanks to a certain new cougar who’s ready to pounce. This pretty (older) kitty is none other than Mädchen Amick (Twin Peaks, ER, Viva Laughlin), who, according to CW insiders, will appear in the season premiere on Sept. 1 and is expected to hang around for four or five episodes. Word is, Madchen is heavily involved in Nate's storylines and also has "a surprising connection to another new character on the show."
smh.com.au - Jared Padalecki the Supernatural pin-up boy is feeling a little snug in the pants. The 25-year-old Hollywood actor arrived eight hours late in the country without his bags which had been misplaced en route, along with all of his clothes. As a result his first stop when he arrived in Sydney was to pick up some new underpants, but for a guy who spends most of his time battling the paranormal on the Network Ten hit show Supernatural as Sam Winchester, buying grundies proved quite a challenge. "I had to go buy clean underwear with the crazy Australian sizes that I didn't understand," he told AAP in Sydney.
pastemagazine.com - Sam Phillips Before we ever printed a copy of Paste, I headed out to Los Angeles to interview Sam Phillips for Issue #1. Her then-husband T-Bone Burnett had offered us out-of-the-blue encouragement of our first website, PasteMusic.com, and she had agreed to an interview for a magazine that didn’t yet exist. Since then, she’s written music for The Gilmore Girls and released two more stellar records, most recently Don’t Do Anything. I caught back up with her on the day it hit stores.
buddytv.com - Misconceptions Described as a movie that takes a lighthearted look at the ongoing culture war between same-sex parenting and Christian conservatives. Melinda Bliss is a religiously conservative, married southern woman who receives a message from God telling her to act as a surrogate mother and carry a child for two married gay men who live in Boston. Staring David Moscow as the Jewish doctor and Orlando Jones as the African-American dance choreographer. Also included in the film are Sarah Carter, David Sutcliffe and Tom Bower. Misconceptions marks Cook's third film after joining the cast of Criminal Minds in 2005. She was first cast in the romantic comedy I'm Reed Fish starring Gilmore Girls' Alexis Bledel in 2006 and then landed a role in the 2007 horror thriller Night Skies, which is movie about UFO sightings.
pastemagazine.com - Sam Phillips has proven herself capable of appealing to mass audiences, via her long affiliation with The Gilmore Girls. Heck, she had a song on one of the best-selling albums of 2007. But mainstream popularity has never been her aim. “I’d rather make art than make my dreams come true,” she quoted in the album's promotional materials. On Don’t Do Anything, she succeeds beautifully by doing nothing more than being the best possible version of herself.
TheWB.com Opens for a Peek - The WB private-beta-launched its anticipated new portal of old shows tonight, and I just had a chance to take a look around. The site looks nice enough and promises some interesting features, but there’s a lot left unfinished. But this site is for US residents only.
salina.com Stiefel Theatre - What do Billy Bob Thornton, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Sally Struthers and a troupe of former congressmen turned comedians have in common? They're all part of the 2008-09 lineup at the Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts, 151 S. Santa Fe. more here
CBB News Editor - Alex Borstein and Jackson Douglas expecting first child, a son
Actress Alex Borstein, 35, has announced that she and husband, former Gilmore Girls actor Jackson Douglas, are expecting their first child -- a boy -- early this fall. The Family Guy and former Mad TV star wrote on her blog, "I am knocked up. It's official. I have a teeny tiny penis inside of me right now and it will be coming out of me in September. So, there you have it. Some exciting news from the Alex Borstein camp." The couple have been married since 1999. - gjoni@FanForum
popwatch.ew.com - Interview with Marion Ross
Fine. RAE would love to know how you liked working on Gilmore Girls.
I loved being on Gilmore Girls. I was proud of myself because that wonderful Amy Sherman-Palladino sent me the script with a note saying, "I know you're not old enough to play this part, but we'd love to have you do it," but I was too busy at the time. So my agent said, "No, she's too busy, she can't do it." But on Saturday morning, I woke up and said, "Oh, that's too good a script," so I personally called up the studio and said, "Listen, why don't we shoot this another week? I have to go away on Tuesday." "What are you doing Monday?" "Nothing." "Okay, it's Saturday. We'll send out the hairdresser to get your gray wig. Wardrobe lady will come out on Sunday, and figure out something. Monday, you can start. You go away and do that other thing, then you'll come back." I was so pleased that I made such an effort because otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to do that, and I love that show. I love that Lauren Graham. I love everybody. Of course, I didn't have much time to learn the lines, and you have to talk very fast. Ed Herrmann [Richard Gilmore] would walk me around, and say, "You can do it. You can do it. You can do it!" [Laughs] - copperboom08@FanForum
hollywoodreporter.com – David Sutcliffe (Gilmore Girls) will return to Private Practice for 11 episodes next season, reprising his role as Officer Kevin Nelson, a new love interest for Dr. Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh). As previously reported by EW.com, Sutcliffe guested on the show last fall, but his story was put on hold by the writers’ strike. Kevin and Addison were last seen exchanging glances on the Dec. 5 episode, the last original one before creator Shonda Rhimes joined her fellow scribes on the picket line.
nymag.com - I have to ask: Any chance of a Gilmore Girls or a Tenth Kingdom movie? They talked about a Tenth Kingdom movie years ago, but they couldn’t figure out how to get it done. That was a shame, I thought. I've heard talk through the press that there’ve been conversations about a Gilmore Girls one. [Series creator] Amy Sherman-Palladino's coming to the play this week, so I’ll probably bring it up with her. damselfy@FanForum
broadway.com - It's a long way from Gilmore Girls to the dark political musings of British playwright Caryl Churchill, but Scott Cohen inhabits both worlds with ease. Now starring in the Public Theater's production of Churchill's elliptical drama Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Cohen received excellent reviews for his performance as Sam, a gay man who represents nothing less than American imperialism in aggressively seducing Guy, a stand-in for the more submissive Britain. Cohen, who made a strong impression last season in the otherwise forgettable Broadway comedy Losing Louie, has kept busy on the small screen in recent years, playing Lorelai's fiance in early seasons of Gilmore Girls, a detective in the short-lived Law & Order: Trial by Jury and now Parker Posey's lover in the new Fox sitcom The Return of Jezebel James. Miss GoodManners@FanForum
hollywoodreporter.com - says the WB is launching an online channel that will stream their old hits, including Gilmore Girls - caf123@FanForum
Grant Lee Phillips and his wife had a baby girl on January 11th - copperboom@FanForum
EW's Most Memorable TV Watch Moments of 2007 - ew.com - Lorelai? Lorelai? was one of the most memorable moments in TV in 2007 - gossipcom@FanForum
New releases on DVD - 'Gilmore Girls' bows out with missteps and grace - orlandosentinel.com
Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) graduated from Yale in the seventh year of Gilmore Girls. She also departed prime time. She didn't leave with honors.
Gilmore Girls slipped in this, its final season, without creator Amy Sherman-Palladino to guide the screwball saga of Rory and her mom, Lorelai (Lauren Graham). As the DVD will remind fans, the show lost its quirky oomph along the way.
Lorelai plunges into an ill-advised marriage to Christopher Haden (David Sutcliffe), Rory's dad. That annoying plot keeps Lorelai from Mr. Right, diner owner Luke Danes (Scott Patterson).
Still, toward the end, executive producer David Rosenthal rights matters. Rory emerges from a rocky romance with Logan (Matt Czuchry), who, frankly, never seemed worthy of her.
In the finale, the loopy burg of Stars Hollow, Conn., celebrates Rory's graduation, and CNN's Christiane Amanpour makes a brief appearance.
Above all, the last season supplies the last look at the tender, talkative duo of Lorelai and Rory. The characters are an inspiration even when their writing doesn't flatter them. Cappuccino@FanForum
Ask Matt tvguide.com
Question: In another blog on TVGuide.com, someone was bemoaning having Jim and Pam together on The Office, saying, "Did we learn nothing from the Moonlighting debacle?" Not being a viewer of The Office, I cannot weigh in on the specifics of this situation. But I'm tired of Moonlighting being cited as the reason no couple has been allowed to get together on a TV show for the last 20 years. In my opinion, the reason Moonlighting failed to work once they put Dave and Maddie together is because by that point, Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd couldn't stand to be in the same room with each other. Their chemistry was gone and their loathing was evident. After a while, manufactured excuses to maintain sexual tension take their own toll on an audience. Add that fact to everyone claiming that, post-Moonlighting, couples must be kept apart at all costs, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Once the couple finally gets together, people look for what they were told was going to be there: a loss of chemistry, a loss of drama, etc., and, of course, they find it, whether it's really there or not. I can think of any number of shows — Lois & Clark and Gilmore Girls leap to mind — where the real problem wasn't what to do once the couple got together, but rather the ridiculous attempts to keep them apart, which destroyed all audience goodwill. If writers can't figure out what to do when a couple get together, maybe they shouldn't try to tell us those couples belong together in the first place. Personally, I feel cheated if I am not given time to enjoy a relationship that I have been rooting for for months or years. That's one advantage of TV over movies: getting to see what happens after the happily ever after. What do you think — is it time to retire the assumption that a show must necessarily die once a relationship is allowed to live?— Ryan P., Valley Village, Calif. - dukesmom@FanForum

Matt Roush: With all due respect to whoever wrote the comment that inspired this question, I agree that the Moonlighting yardstick should be retired. The problem with the Dave-Maddie consummation was that there was no joy in it (either on screen or behind the scenes), whereas with Jim and Pam, there is only joy and continued good humor in their now-open relationship. It is a great payoff for viewers, and I don't understand the backlash — not that I've been seeking it out (why would I?). I'm lucky that way, in that it has to come to me before I respond, and so far, I'm only hearing about it secondhand. Gilmore Girls is a terrific example of how people could misconstrue the results of bringing beloved characters together. Lorelai and Luke were doing just fine and were delightful company before the April incident and the Christopher incident spoiled things in such ridiculously contrived ways that it helped ruin the final seasons of the series. No fault of Lorelai or Luke (or the actors, for that matter). Let's just hope the Office producers aren't planning similar miseries for Jim and Pam anytime soon.
Gilmore Girls - The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME - time.com - thanks to PollyGreen! for the link and gjoni@FanForum - "Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel must have had personal trainers who had them lift tiny weights with their tongues. Amy Sherman-Palladino's chatter-rich scripts brilliantly took single mom Lorelai and teen daughter Rory and made them the stars of a Tracy-Hepburn love story. (Sample: Rory teases her mom about dating a much younger man. Lorelai: He's in his twenties! Rory: He must have been a very good boy to deserve such a happy day. I bet they let him ride a pony.) But what sold the show was Graham and Bledel, as a mother-daughter duo who could never say I love you—however indirectly and snarkily—often enough, or in too many words."
Fake DVD Cover - someone made a fake DVD cover for the final season, thanks to Lauren_Scott 4Ever@FanForum for finding it.