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“Chef Jeff Project” Offers Recipe for Rehab

October 30, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

At the end of every episode of his new show, chef Jeff Henderson and his students produce an excellent meal. But that’s not the ultimate goal. The Chef Jeff Project (Sundays beginning Oct. 12 on Food Network) seeks to take troubled young people and use the skills needed to master food preparation to lead them down a better path. It’s an approach that sure worked for Henderson, who served nearly 10 years in prison for drug trafficking before finding redemption in the culinary arts. He has since worked his way up to prominence, having served as executive chef at the […]

Scariest Movie #2 — The Shining

October 30, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

The Shining (1980, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers) Heeeeere’s Johnny!!! Quick Plot: A family spends a winter snowbound at an isolated hotel in the Colorado Rockies, where the father is driven insane by the many ghosts who roam the halls. He feels compelled to murder his mousy wife and vaguely psychic son. Scariest scene: Stanley Kubrick gives us plenty of creepy scenes, and Jack Nicholson’s psychopathic pursuit of Shelley Duvall is still — for better or worse — the standard bearer for all psychos-on-the-march portrayals. But for sheer shock value, nothing beats Jack sharing a smooch with a beautiful, […]

Scariest Scary Movie #3 – The Silence of the Lambs

October 30, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn) Hello Clarice. Quick Plot: Novice FBI trainee Clarice Starling must elicit clues to a serial killer’s identity from Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, a brilliant psychopathic murderer incarcerated in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He offers obscure clues to the identity of “Buffalo Bill” in exchange for access to Agent Starling’s vulnerable mind and soul. Scariest Scenes: Dr. Lecter’s manipulation and psychological seduction of Agent Starling is a terrifying battle of wits. He casts a spell and plays dangerous games with her head, something more nightmarish […]

Dexter: One brother down, one brother-in-arms to …

October 30, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

By Elaine B A caveman walking the beach in the comic strip B.C. saw a clam walk from one pile of shells to another. “Clams have legs!” the caveman proclaimed. In the next window, in a dialogue balloon, one of the clams said, “Now we have to kill him.” What follows is a series of clam-attempted homicides that Dexter would likely find terribly amusing. But there is nothing amusing about the situation our antihero finds himself in now. By the end of episode five, Dexter is aware that Prado had set him up by pointing him to a killer who […]

ANTM Heads to Amsterdam

October 29, 2008 Ruth Boulet Comments Off

by Ruth Anne Boulet The girls hit Amsterdam, and of course the challenges begin. The host of Holland’s Top Model tells the girls that they have to find their own way to the model house. They have to work in teams, and Sam and Elina end up as a team, and end up winning 50 extra frames. Sheena is surprised that Amsterdam isn’t all dirty sex and pot, but actually a nice town. Then Marjorie, Elina and Analeigh decide to have a bath & shave their privates together. Welcome to Amsterdam. And we get to see more of Amsterdam — […]

Scariest Movie #4: John Carpenter’s “Halloween”

October 29, 2008 Channel Guide Contributor Comments Off

Halloween (1978, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, PJ Soles) The Night HE Came Home! Quick Plot: 15 years after murdering his sister and her boyfriend, Michael Myers escapes Smith’s Grove Sanitarium and returns to Haddonfield to terrorize a group of babysitters on Halloween. Scariest Scene: Just as Laurie Strode thinks she has finally killed the bogeyman, the audience sees him slowly sit straight up, in the background. The haunting score and use of lighting on that mask, makes for the most suspenseful end-sequences in horror movie history. Final Say: Halloween erroneously gets lumped into the “slasher” genre. There is virtually […]

Scariest Scary Movie #5 – Poltergeist

October 29, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Poltergeist (1982, Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight) They’re here. Quick Plot: A nice suburban family lives in a haunted house. The spirits seem friendly initially, playing harmless pranks to the family’s amusement. But the pranks turn malicious and potentially dangerous, culminating in the abduction of the doll-like youngest child. As the family tries to rescue the little girl, with the help of parapsychologists and a clairvoyant, they realize the terrible truth about the poltergeists. Scariest Scenes: The face-peeling scene. Although the effects appear silly in a CG age, that scene is still freaky!! The scene where the clown […]

THE FEARFUL FIVE! #19

October 28, 2008 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at channelguidemag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) WACKED-OUT WOMEN: TOP 5 FEMALE MOVIE PSYCHOS Our last list looked at the top “mad men” in movies. But psychosis is an equal-opportunity offender, and the ladies can go off the deep end once in a while, too, as these notable films have shown us. “Sugar and spice and everything nice” is not part of the […]

One Tree Hill: The Slippery Slope NEVER ENDS 8

October 28, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Posted by: haro1d Like last week’s episode, last night’s OTH was essentially a filler, with a little bit of drama in the closing moments. Here’s the play-by-play, for those of you who need it: Slamball is on, and Nate is barely hanging in. He gets crunched and crushed all over the place, and Haley is getting worried. Jamie is thrilled and nervous, but not too worried that he can’t comment about his future sex life. “Mommy says I’m too young to date, but Daddy says it’s time,” he says. Peyton introduces herself to Sam at the game, and Sam remarks […]

"E:60": Deanna Favre, Carlos And Cece Boozer, And Manny Pacquiao

October 27, 2008 Ryan Berenz Comments Off

Posted by Cubicle QB Features on the Oct. 28 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: Deanna Favre For nearly two decades, Brett Favre has lived in the media spotlight, but the last nine months in particular played out like a daily soap opera. Deanna Favre is the woman behind the bright lights and the press clippings. In an E:60 exclusive, her first national television interview since her husband was traded to the New York Jets, correspondent Rachel Nichols sits down with the one person who knows Brett best. Deanna discusses what it was like to watch her […]