TV GUY - Blog

I’ve been television critic at the Orlando Sentinel for 12 years. My favorite series in that time have included More about Hal | E-mail Hal


Subscribe to our blog via email
Enter your email address



Delivered by FeedBurner

Latest from OrlandoSentinel.com blogs





Category Archives
  • 20/20
  • 24
  • 48 Hours
  • 48 Hours Mystery
  • 60 Minutes
  • A&E;
  • ABC
  • ABC Family
  • Academy Awards
  • Academy of Country Music Awards
  • All My Children
  • AMC
  • America's Most Wanted
  • America's Next Top Model
  • American Film Institute
  • American Gladiators
  • American Idol
  • American Masters
  • Animal Planet
  • Antiques Roadshow
  • Antonella Barba
  • Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
  • Awards shows
  • BAFTA
  • Barbara Walters
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • BBC America
  • BET
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
  • Big Brother
  • Bones
  • Bravo
  • Bright House Networks
  • Britney Spears
  • Camp Rock
  • Carol Burnett
  • Cartoon Network
  • CBS
  • CBS Evening News
  • CBS News Sunday Morning
  • Celebrity Apprentice
  • Central Florida News 13
  • Cheetah Girls
  • CMT
  • CNBC
  • CNN
  • CNN Headline News
  • Comedy Central
  • Commercials
  • Countdown With Keith Olbermann
  • Court TV
  • CSI
  • CSPAN
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Current
  • Damages
  • Dancing With the Stars
  • David Letterman
  • Daytona 500
  • DBCC
  • Desperate Housewives
  • DirecTV
  • Discovery Channel
  • Discovery Health Channel
  • Discovery Kids Channel
  • Disney
  • Disney Channel
  • Disney Channel Games
  • DIY Network
  • Don't Forget the Lyrics!
  • Dr. Phil
  • E!
  • Ellen DeGeneres
  • Emmys
  • Entertainment Tonight
  • ESPN
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
  • Extra
  • Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
  • Face the Nation
  • Family Feud
  • Food Network
  • Fox
  • Fox Movie Channel
  • Fox News Channel
  • Fox Reality Channel
  • Friday Night Lights
  • Friends
  • Frontline
  • FX
  • GAC
  • General Hospital
  • Golden Globes
  • Good Morning America
  • Google
  • Gossip Girl
  • Grammys
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • GSN
  • Hallmark Channel
  • Hannah Montana
  • Harry Potter
  • HBO
  • Headline News
  • here!
  • Heroes
  • HGTV
  • High School Musical
  • History
  • History Channel
  • House
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • HSN
  • I Love Lucy
  • Inside Edition
  • iTunes
  • Jay Leno
  • Jeopardy!
  • Jericho
  • Jerry Bruckheimer
  • Jimmy Kimmel
  • Joey Fatone
  • Jonas Brothers
  • Judge Judy
  • Katie Couric
  • Kennedy Center
  • Larry King Live
  • Late Edition
  • Late Show With David Letterman
  • Laugh-In
  • Law & Order
  • Lifetime
  • Lisa Nowak
  • Live From Lincoln Center
  • Live With Regis and Kelly
  • Local news
  • Logo
  • Lost
  • Mad Men
  • Martha Stewart
  • Masterpiece
  • Masterpiece Theatre
  • Meet the Press
  • Merv Griffin
  • Miami Herald
  • Midseason
  • Miley Cyrus
  • Moonlight
  • Movies
  • MSNBC
  • MTV
  • mtvU
  • MyNetworkTV
  • NASA
  • NASCAR
  • National Geographic Channel
  • NBC
  • NBC Nightly News
  • NBC Universal
  • Netflix
  • News anchors
  • NFL Network
  • Nick at Nite
  • Nickelodeon
  • Nightline
  • Nova
  • One Life to Live
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Orange County
  • Orlando
  • Orlando Magic
  • Orlando Sentinel
  • Oscars
  • Oxygen
  • Passions
  • PBS
  • Planet Green
  • Power of 10
  • QVC
  • Rachael Ray
  • Reality series
  • Rush Limbaugh
  • Saturday Night Live
  • Sci Fi Channel
  • Seinfeld
  • Sesame Street
  • Sex and the City
  • Showtime
  • Simon Cowell
  • So You Think You Can Dance
  • SOAPnet
  • Sopranos
  • South Park
  • Spike TV
  • Starz
  • Sundance Channel
  • Survivor
  • Suze Orman
  • Talk shows
  • TBS
  • TCM
  • Teen Drama
  • Television news
  • The Amazing Race
  • The Apprentice
  • The Bachelor
  • The Biggest Loser
  • The Colbert Report
  • the CW
  • The Daily Buzz
  • The Daily Show
  • The Early Show
  • The Hills
  • The N
  • The New York Times
  • The Price Is Right
  • The Shield
  • The Simpsons
  • The Sopranos
  • The Style Network
  • The Tonight Show
  • The View
  • the WB
  • the Weather Channel
  • This Week
  • TLC
  • TMZ.com
  • TNT
  • Today
  • Tony Awards
  • Tonys
  • Torchwood
  • Travel Channel
  • truTV
  • TV Critics' Tour
  • TV Guide Network
  • TV Land
  • TV One
  • Tyra Banks
  • Ugly Betty
  • Univision
  • UPN
  • USA
  • VH1
  • VH1 Classic
  • Video
  • Vision TV
  • Washington Times
  • WBCC
  • WCEU
  • WE tv
  • Weather Channel
  • Wendy Chioji
  • WESH
  • WESH-Channel 2
  • WFTV
  • What's on TV
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
  • WKCF
  • WKMG
  • WMFE
  • WOFL
  • Women's Entertainment
  • WOTF
  • WRBW
  • WRDQ
  • WTGL
  • WVEN
  • YouTube

  • Powered by TypePad


    « "Friday Night Lights" to say goodbye to Scott Porter in four episodes | Main | What Laser Cats of "Saturday Night Live," new host Jimmy Fallon share »

    Conversations in Hollywood with Coolio, Janice Dickinson, Alana De La Garza, J.P. Calderon, Leslie Moonves

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Janice Dickinson wouldn't talk to me.

    Les Moonves told me his troubles.

    Alana De La Garza cleared up her wedding mystery.

    Coolio shared his big career plan.

    Sometimes celebrities say the darnedest things -- if they're willing to talk, that is.

    Coolio promoted "Coolio's Rules," a realty series that debuts in October on Oxygen. In the show, he lives with his four teenage children. Executive producer Greg Goldman suggested that Coolio, 44, was having "a little bit of a midlife crisis."

    I asked if the rapper agreed.

    "I think I already had my midlife crisis," he said. "I'm divorced for about eight years. I went through a period where I'm still having trust issues with women because I pretty much got robbed by my ex-wife."

    Coolio boasted that he could keep up with a 24-year-old man in pleasing a woman. And he boasted about his musical talents, too.

    "Most cats stop rapping around my age," he said. "I'm at my peak when it comes to my writing skills and actually doing the art of hip-hop. I'm a much better performer than I was at 24. I'm a much better writer. I'm just not as pretty, and my hair is not as thick."

    I commiserated, "True of me, too."

    But I wondered if he was being facetious.

    "No, I have a plan," Coolio said. "I'm trying to be the first rapper to go platinum at 50. At 50, I'm going to make my last album. It's going to be called 'Ol' Man River.' Then, at that point I'm going to completely show you why they call me Mr. Burns," a reference to the aged "Simpsons" character.

    Let there be no mistake: "Law & Order" star Alana De La Garza married in Orlando on May 31.

    Some readers have questioned my blog posting in early June. At an NBC party Sunday night, the actress confirmed that I had the correct information.

    De La Garza, one of the most beautiful women on television, met her husband, writer Mike Roberts, in Orlando. She said erroneous reports have her marrying a man with another name.

    "I know who I married, and it wasn't that guy," De La Garza said.

    Of her husband, she said, "I love that guy. We were friends for seven years."

    She is starting her third season with NBC drama.

    I tried to ask supermodel Janice Dickinson why Paul Anderson and Shaun McCarron, a gay couple from Central Florida, were dropped from "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency." That show starts its fourth season Aug. 26 on Oxygen.

    When I asked, Dickinson turned and walked away.

    That was a first for me on a tour of the Television Critics Association.

    An Oxygen spokeswoman later told me: "That's what makes Janice Janice -- her extreme reactions."

    I did get a show preview from model J.P. Calderon, who said this time the models live under the same roof with La Dickinson.

    "I love her. I know her really well," Calderon said of Dickinson. "All the new models are dying. It was funny. You can't take three steps without hearing her over your shoulder."

    You might remember Calderon from "Survivor: Cook Islands." He said that experience prepared him for Dickinson. He is starting his third season with her.

    He was a professional volleyball player before he turned to reality television. These days, he is 25 to 30 pounds lighter than in his "Survivor" phase. "I'm happy with it," he said of his new look.

    CBS Corp. Chairman Les Moonves said he was happy with his new sitcom, "Worst Week." He said the show cheered him up on a tough day by making him laugh frequently.

    "It's not easy being a CEO these days," Moonves told me.

    I shot back, "It's not easy being a newspaper reporter these days."


    TrackBack

    TrackBack URL for this entry:
    http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/391830/31440998

    Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Conversations in Hollywood with Coolio, Janice Dickinson, Alana De La Garza, J.P. Calderon, Leslie Moonves :

    Comments

    CBS continues the Paley culture and has 7 entries that are lien or judgment driven and are together here:

    The CBS court order against Dan Rather for $200 court costs

    $200,000.00 lien recorded in New York of Julie Chen of "CBS Morning Show"

    CBS Broadcasting New York State Tax due notice for $6,000

    Anderson Cooper and the $11,926.82 New York State Tax Warrant

    Viacom, mother company of CBS Television, unpaid tax bill for Suckeyville

    Katie Couric Tax Warrant

    Les Moonves, the network president with stock options: Number one, two, three


    www.webofdeception.com

    Post a comment

    Comments are moderated, and will not appear on this Web log until approved. Your e-mail address will be linked to your name and visible to users. By posting a comment, you affirm that you are 13 years of age or older.

    If you have a TypeKey or TypePad account, please Sign In

     
    Classified partners: CareerBuilder.com for Jobs | Cars.com for Autos | Apartments.com for Rentals | Homescape.com for Homes
     
     
    Privacy Policy | Work For Us | Terms of Service
     
    © Orlando Sentinel Communications