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Monday, May 5, 2008
Jesse Plemons guest stars in summer horror series
Jesse Plemons, the real Texan who plays the decidedly real Landry on “Friday Night Lights,” hasn’t just been sitting around waiting for the Dillon Panthers to call him to practice.
Nope, Plemons has been filming an episode of NBC’s horror anthology series “Fear Itself,” which is scheduled to premiere Thursday, June 5.
Plemons will appear in an episode called “The Sacrifice,” in which four fugitive criminals hide out in an abandoned fort that turns out to be a tad haunted.
I’m sure Plemons is terrific in the role, but wouldn’t you love to see this guy in a comedy? He’s had enough horror and sorrow on “FNL.” Plus, Plemons has a sly way with funny dialogue … maybe someday.
What are you thinking, Baba?
I’m still scratching my head over Barbara Walters’ revelation that she had an affair with a married politician in the 1970s.
In case you missed it, Walters confessed in her new memoir “Audition,” and tomorrow she spills even more beans in an interview with Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m. Tuesday on KVUE) about her fling with U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts when she was co-hosting NBC’s “Today.”
Why would Walters, an icon in TV news and a hero to gazillions of working women, write about this? It’s a puzzler. Walter, 78 and pulling in millions of dollars as an ABC contributor and host of the daytime talker “The View,” doesn’t need the hype.
And Former Senator Brooke, now 88, probably doesn’t need the humiliation. The Republican (and first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate) was married at the time of the alleged affair, and he steadfastly refuse to comment on Walters’ claims.
In a transcript of Walters’ appearance on “Oprah” tomorrow, Walters says she was “infatuated” with Brooke but does not say she was in love with him. The devil’s in the details, no?
Can’t we all just keep our dirty laundry hidden? This revelation can only dim Walters’ shining career and cause embarrassment to a retired (and re-married) politician.
If Walters is this desperate for attention, she could have re-hired Rosie O’Donnell on “The View.”
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