Kate Beckinsale is whom you're likely thinking of, as she's got a movie out 
soon (the Eurotrash vampire flicks will not die...).

I don't know much about Enlightened (for which Laura Dern won, and the ex-Chief 
has had mixed feelings about), but Episodes tracks the adaptation of a British 
series for an American audience, with LeBlanc as the American lead who's vastly 
different from the British actor that originated the role.  Think Joey as 
though he were really what Ricky Gervais plays at these days.


David



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 From: PGage <[email protected]>

Subject: [TV orNotTV] Globes 2012
 

The lack of comment here about the show is probably appropriate, as it was 
relatively unremarkable. I never thought Gervais was all that cutting edge (or 
hilarious) the first two times he hosted, and last night he was basically Bob 
Hope with an accent. The selling of Gervais as subversive is one of the great 
marketing feats of the last few years.

The most actually subversive and potentially offensive (and, I confess, funny) 
moment of the evening was Seth Rogan talking about trying to conceal his 
massive erection while standing next to an attractive starlet (I forget her 
name - I mostly know her from one of the worst movies of all time - Pearl 
Harbor). If she was really prepared for that line, and just faking the partly 
amused, partly disgusted, entirely uncomfortable response that pretty girls 
almost always give in real life to the sophomoric humor of socially marginal 
guys, then she is a much better actress then I ever thought she was.

On the TV side I was just delighted that Homeland got so much recognition (best 
drama and best actress). This is my favorite new show of the year, and probably 
tied as my second favorite television series of any kind this season (meaning 
shows on the air since August or so), after Breaking Bad and tied with Dexter. 
I would have completed the trifecta for Homeland with best actor, though 
Grammer did a very good job on a show I like but is not nearly as good. Also 
delighted that  Idris Elba won for Luther, which I caught up with a few months 
ago on the Netflix and really dug. The acting winners for comedy were both for 
shows I not only have not seen but have never heard of - I will have to ask my 
daughter (who stayed at a friend's house last night) if they are worth tracking 
down.

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