The show must go on without Sheen

The show must go on without Sheen

By Tom Comi Can we please put an end to the ridiculous ideas going around about everybody from John Stamos to Rob Lowe replacing Charlie Sheen on the CBS hit Two and a Half Men? No one person can fill those shoes or multiple personalities, so I had another thought I’d like to throw out to CBS. Remember when David Letterman went through his heart surgery several years ago? Well, instead of airing repeats or finding one person to temporarily replace him, the network went with different guest hosts every night to man the ship. With that in mind, I [...]

MGM HD ’80s movie marathon promotes “Hot Tub Time Machine”

MGM HD ’80s movie marathon promotes “Hot Tub Time Machine”

LOS ANGELES, CA – March 3, 2010 – To celebrate the upcoming MGM release of Hot Tub Time Machine (in theaters March 26), the studio’s high-definition (HD) channel MGM HD will transport its viewers back to the ’80s with a special “HD Time Machine” marathon. Beginning Friday, March 19, movie fans can take in a three-night primetime lineup of movies that truly define the fun and fads of the decade. The lineup’s centerpiece is the world HD premiere of Class, the 1983 hit that marked the on-screen debut of Hot Tub Time Machine star John Cusack. Shown in crystal-clear HD [...]

8 Questions With … Rob Lowe

8 Questions With … Rob Lowe

1. What has been your strangest fan encounter? Rob Lowe: I’ve been really lucky: My fan encounters, to a person, have been wonderful. The one that pops to mind was my encounter with some fans, plural, when they banded together to create the Save Sam Seaborn Society [named after Lowe’s character on The West Wing]. They paid to take out full-page ads in newspapers to get Warner Bros. Television and NBC to write more for me, then they deluged the studio with thousands and thousands of pennies, because Sam fought to save the penny. 2. You’re at a magazine rack [...]