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Mega-Fan Eric Close Stars In First-Ever Film Based On A Garth Brooks Hit

Munching a raspberry scone on the set of Unanswered Prayers, the new Lifetime original film premiering Nov. 29 and based on the 1990 smash by country music superstar Garth Brooks, Eric Close happily recounts the first time he met the singer. “Back in ’92, I was working on a soap opera on the NBC lot and I was friends with a person who worked on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno,” Close recalls. “So I used to hang out with her and I got to meet a lot of the guests. Well, Garth was a guest on the show one […]

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8 Questions With … Chris Grundy

1. What’s been your strangest fan encounter? Chris Grundy, host of DIY Network’s Cool Tools: I was on an airplane, and someone walks by, they gave me a look, and I didn’t know if they knew me from high school or if they knew me from TV. Well … he had bought one of the products [endorsed on the show], and he didn’t like it. … He was like, “I bought it and it sucked! It doesn’t work for me!” He was a little bit mad at me. He bought it because I said, “Hey, this is cool.” … I […]

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Sarah Palin Shows Mark Burnett And The World Her Alaska

Mark Burnett knows star power when he sees it. As the creator of Survivor, he brought us the scheming Richard Hatch, the cutthroat Russell Hantz and the pirate with a heart of gold Rupert Boneham. But he may have found the ultimate reality star in his latest series, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, airing Sundays on TLC beginning Nov. 14. And yes, Palin may be a polarizing figure, but, Burnett says, that’s what makes her such a perfect choice. In an exclusive interview, he tells me why. When you think of Sarah Palin as a host for a reality series, do you […]

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Conan O’Brien Talks About His Crazy Year

You can gauge the major upheavals in Conan O’Brien’s career by his facial hair. A couple of years ago, when a writers strike brought production of Late Night to a standstill, the famously boyish-looking host emerged with a beard — the first of his life — that he said he grew out of solidarity with his staff. Then, in January, when his brief run on The Tonight Show ended after a notorious spat with NBC, during which he elected to leave the show rather than agreeing to move its time slot to make way for the return of Jay Leno, […]

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Lifetime And Garth Brooks Team Up For First-Ever Film Based On A Garth Brooks Hit

Fellow fans of Garth Brooks’ deeply personal ballads, our prayers have been finally answered. When Lifetime debuts its original film Unanswered Prayers, based on music legend Garth Brooks’ 1990 No. 1 smash, on Nov. 29, it will mark the first time a Brooks hit has ever been adapted for film. Why so long, when Brooks’ themes of love and loss and Regular Joe life seem like such a natural fit for the movies? “In ’92, ’93 when the song was out, we got a lot of requests to do it, but everybody kind of wanted to have it as the […]