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Girls on Film: The Rise and Fall of Brittany Murphy
21 December 2009 5:45 PM, PST
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As you all know, we lost Brittany Murphy yesterday at the all-too-young age of 32.
She was never my favorite actress, nor my least favorite. There were roles that I loved, and roles that I loathed. But her presence in Hollywood was always a joy, mainly because I matured with Murphy, born the same year as myself. She didn't start in the biz until 1991 with her first role in Murphy Brown, so I didn't grow up with her, but she was one of the few who charmed me in my high school youth and never faded away.
Perhaps I spotted her appearances on Kids Incorporated or Parker Lewis Can't Lose. Or, while I never followed Drexell's Class, maybe I saw a peek of her as Brenda Drexell. But in my memories, she has always been Molly Morgan of 1993's Almost Home -- the very short-lived Torkelsons spin-off. Murphy was spunky and charming,
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Actress Brittany Murphy Leaves Behind Impressive TV Resume
20 December 2009 3:42 PM, PST
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Brittany Murphy's death shocked the airwaves this morning. The 32-year old actress was transported by ambulance following a 911 call this morning, and was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest upon arrival. While most are remembering Brittany for her memorable film roles in flicks like Clueless, and Girl Interrupted, Murphy got her start in television at the age of 14, and racked up a string of appearances in some very memorable shows including Murphy Brown, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Nash Bridges, SeasQuest Dsv, and Party of Five. Murphy had recurring roles in such shows as Drexell's Class, Almost Home, Blossom, Sister Sister, and King of the Hill.
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- Jon Lachonis
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Remembering Brittany Murphy
20 December 2009 2:11 PM, PST
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Actress Brittany Murphy passed away Sunday at the age of 32. Perhaps best known for her work in '8 Mile,' 'Girl, Interrupted,' and 'Clueless,' Murphy was a longtime industry veteran with dozens of credits. She first appeared on TV shows like "Kids Incorporated," "Drexell's Class," and "Parker Lewis Can't Lose," later starring on the big screen, appearing alongside actors including Angelina Jolie, Michael Douglas and Ashton Kutcher. Her film credits in addition to those mentioned above include 'Sin City,' 'Little Black Book,' 'Just Married," "Don't Say a Word,' 'Riding in Cars with Boys,' 'Uptown Girls,' and 'Sidewalks of New York.' The actress was also the longtime voice of Hank Hill's niece Luanne Platter on Fox's "King of the Hill," and also voiced a character in the animated film 'Happy Feet.' Murphy said in a 2004 interview
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Brittany Murphy Dies at 32
20 December 2009 1:08 PM, PST
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Brittany Murphy, at the 1996 Vanity Fair Oscar party. Courtesy of Patrick McMullan.Actress Brittany Murphy died today after suffering a cardiac arrest in the early hours, the Web site TMZ reports. Paramedics received a call at 8:00 a.m. from the home of her husband, screenwriter Simon Monjack. Murphy was pronounced dead at 10:04 in the morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles. She was only 32. Murphy began acting professionally at 14 years old. After honing her comedy chops on the sitcom circuit—in such shows as Murphy Brown, Drexell’s Class, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, and Frasier—Murphy launched into the public consciousness with 1995’s Clueless, stealing the film from under Alicia Silverstone’s nose. Although she would prove herself with impressive supporting performances in Girl, Interrupted and 8 Mile, not to mention her 13-year run in the Mike Judge animated series King of the Hill, her own starring
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DVD Review: ‘Parker Lewis Can’t Lose’ The Complete First Season
4 August 2009 4:00 PM, PDT
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On September 2 1990, just in time for the beginning of my junior year of high school, Fox debuted a new show called Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. With cautious optimism I, along with millions of other American teenage girls, watched and calculated whether or not we’d have to make room on our walls next to Corey Haim and Jason Bateman for a Corin Nemic “Tiger Beat” poster. The next day, pushpins in hand, I started making new holes in that wall.
With Ferris Buehler still fresh in our minds, and starving for some teen comedy after years of The Golden Girls, Roseanne and Cheers, Parker Lewis showed up just in time to offer some blatant silliness with memorable characters, timely jokes and creative effects. Taking place at Santo Domingo High School, Parker (Corin Nemec) who narrates the show, and his two partners in crime, Mikey (Billy Jayne, better known as
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- Heather Toshiko
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Sdcc 2009: Excl Video: David Faustino and Corin Nemec Are Star-Ving!
31 July 2009 11:38 AM, PDT
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David Faustino and Corin Nemec are former childhood celebrities that have fallen into the dustbin of history. Faustino rose to fame as Bud Bundy on the hugely popular Fox sitcom Married with Children, and Corin was the star of Parker Lewis Can't Lose. That was the 80s. Now, they are broke and depressed. In what can only be described as the anti- Entourage, the two suicidal former teen stars have teamed up for Star-ving. This hilarious new sitcom follows the dumpster diving adventures of these two once-prominent personalities. While At Comic-Con 2009, we caught up with both Faustino and Nemec to find out what we can expect in their eagerly awaited second season. Check out what they had to say below...
to buy the complete first season exclusively at Amazon.com.
Star-ving returns to Crackle.com later this year.
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DVD: Review: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose: The Complete First Season
7 July 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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Ah, Santo Domingo High; home of easily spooked freshmen, mountainous jocks, and the coolest student to ever own a Swatch. As the title character of Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Corin Nemec strolls through Domingo’s halls armed with unshakable self-confidence, a plan for every situation, and an apparently endless supply of pastel shirts. Accompanied by his two best buds, Billy Jayne (the cool one) and Troy Slaten (the nerdy one), Nemec lives and loves his way through the 26 episodes of Parker Lewis’ first season, but things aren’t always easy. There’s Maia Brewton, the little sister who
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Film Junk Podcast Episode #225: Public Enemies and Not Quite Hollywood
6 July 2009 11:42 PM, PDT
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0:00 - Intro
4:18 - Headlines: Naked Terminator Arrested in Casino, Nimrod Antal To Direct Predators, American Werewolf in London Remake, Asteroids: The Movie, View-Master: The Movie, Chuck Russell in Talks to Direct T.J. Hooker Movie, Johnny Depp is Michael Jackson?
12:15 - Review: Public Enemies
36:15 - Review: Not Quite Hollywood
47:00 - Trailer Trash: Couples Retreat, Jennifer's Body, The Informant
59:15 - Other Stuff We Watched: Stuck on You, Poison Ivy: The Secret Society, Angels and Demons, The Shining, The Black Belly of the Tarantula, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Hung, Virtuality, The Cleveland Show, Jason X, Sex Drive
1:31:38 - Junk Mail: YouTube Dis, Doug Nagy, Bilingual Covers in Belgium, Tiff Tips, Star Ratings, Film School, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
2:00:29 - This Week's DVD Releases
2:02:55 - Outro
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Mr. July: Corin Nemec
2 July 2009 11:58 PM, PDT
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Corin Nemec: You might remember him from his more recent roles in the sci-fi horror movie Mansquito or his turn as mass murderer Richard Speck in The Chicago Massacre (or not); but you’ve probably been impressed by him as the sexy Jonas Quinn on the Sci-Fi Channel’s series Stargate: SG1. However, there may even be those of you who loved him first as Parker Lewis on the eaaaarly 1990’s TV series Parker Lewis Can’t Lose – in which Corin played Parker, sort of a cross between Ferris Bueller and Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell. Corin’s latest movie is Bundy: A Legacy of Evil, released by Barnholtz Entertainment and Lionsgate on DVD July 21, in which he tackles the role of serial killer Ted Bundy, renowned for his charm and good looks with which he lured dozens of women to a grisly death. Corin stopped by
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- Superheidi
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New on DVD This Week
30 June 2009 5:35 PM, PDT
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Here’s a list of some of the new DVD releases this week. Plus, some old favorites coming out this week on Blu-Ray.
New Movies:
* 12 Rounds - John Cena, Aidan Gillen (DVD and Blu-Ray)
* The Betrayed – Melissa George, Donald Adams (DVD)
* Barbra Streisand: Live in Concert 2006 (Blu-Ray)
* Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Three-Disc Special Edition) – Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein (DVD and Blu-Ray)
* Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience (DVD and Blu-Ray)
* Ted Nugent: Motor City Mayhem–6,000th Concert (Blu-Ray)
* Two Lovers – Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw (DVD and Blu-Ray)
* Tokyo! – Ayako Fujitani, Jean-Francois Balmer, Denis Lavant (DVD and Blu-Ray)
Classic and Previously Released Movies:
* Seven – Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman (Blu-Ray)
* Do the Right Thing – Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis (Blu-Ray)
TV Shows:
* Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season – Danny McBride, Katy Mixon, John Hawkes, Andrew Daly (DVD)
* Parker Lewis Can’t Lose: The Complete First Season – Corin Nemec,
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- Joe Gillis
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This Week on DVD: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Eastbound & Down, Tokyo!
30 June 2009 8:57 AM, PDT
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In stores this week, most of the major DVD releases are pretty terrible... but we're here to help you weed through the crap to find a few gems. For the masochists, there's a serious helping of movies that are "so bad they're good" out today, including Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, 12 Rounds, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, and Uwe Boll's Tunnel Rats. Look beyond that though and you've got Fred Durst's critically-acclaimed The Education of Charlie Banks, the Michel Gondry/Joon-ho Bong/Leos Carax triptych Tokyo!, and a new 20th Anniversary Edition of Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, not to mention Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season and the long-awaited first season of 1990 comedy Parker Lewis Can't Lose! My life is officially complete.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
12 Rounds [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
Two Lovers [7] (DVD,
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- Sean
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Backwoods/Sea Beast DVD Cover Art!
19 June 2009 2:45 PM, PDT
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Backwoods: Haylie Duff Stars as the Ultimate Scream Queen In this Electrifying Thriller Debuting on DVD June 23
Haylie Duff (Napoleon Dynamite, TV’s “7th Heaven”) stars as Lee, a strong professional woman, who finds herself in the fight of her life when Backwoods debuts on DVD June 23 from Genius Products and Rhi Entertainment. Ryan Merriman (Final Destination 3, The Ring Two), Danny Nucci (World Trade Center ) and Jonathan Chase (Eagle Eye, TV’s “Ring of Death”) also star as coworkers who test more than just their camping skills when a company retreat goes terribly wrong. In the gruesome, intensity-filled vein of Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn, Backwoods is a riveting and visceral ride into danger and fear – an experience you won’t forget! Backwoods will be available on DVD for $14.95 Srp.
Synopsis: A group of seven co-workers venture into the woods on a corporate retreat to
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Exclusive: Ivan Reitman Sits Down To Discuss The Past, Present And Future Of ‘Ghostbusters’
17 June 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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Blu-ray ain’t afraid of no ghosts. The budding hi-def format has scored one of the most anticipated releases of the year in “Ghostbusters,” and fans of the 1984 supernatural comedy couldn’t be happier to plunk down cash this Tuesday when the new special edition hits store shelves.
You can add another voice to the cheerful chorus: Ivan Reitman, who directed the iconic film and its 1989 sequel. MTV’s Josh Horowitz recently caught up with Reitman to discuss his film’s arrival on Blu-ray, how “Ghostbusters” was originally slated to be a space-faring epic, and the latest on plans for a third outing. Read on, and be sure to head after the jump for more of this week’s releases.
MTV: I remember “Ghostbusters” being this giant pop culture phenomenon when it came out in 1984. Can you put it into perspective how the film exploded in that summer and what
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- Brian Jacks
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The '80s/'90s Match of the Century: Bud Bundy Teams with Parker Lewis
25 February 2009 9:02 AM, PST
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Believe it or not, David Faustino didn't crawl into a hole and die after Married with Children. In fact, he's kept busy with a myriad of lesser-known projects. But now ... Bud Bundy is heading for Bollywood. That's right -- The Hollywood Reporter posts that Faustino has signed on to star in a new comedy called The Bollywood Boys.
But that's only the tip of the retro television iceberg. His co-star in this feature is none other than Corin Nemic -- star of the late and great Parker Lewis Can't Lose. The pair will play a few struggling filmmakers who decided to accept some money from the Mumbai mob and try to make a Hollywood-Bollywood musical with a "past-his-prime Indian star."
If we could only have Abraham Benrubi (Larry Kubiac on Parker Lewis, or Olaf on Buffy, or Markovic on ER) come on to play the muscle -- that would be retro amazing.
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Interview with David Faustino and Corin Nemec of Crackle’s ‘Star-ving’
16 January 2009 1:09 PM, PST
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Like Garfield and classic Nintendo characters, childhood stars venerated by Children of the 80s are finding their way onto the internet and into online video. David Wain has his Wainy Days, Kurt Loder does a Lapdance, and now David Faustino and Corin Nemec are Star-ving.
The shiny new, 12-part original online web series created and written by Faustino, Nemec, Todd Bringewatt, and Sam Kass, directed by Kass, and produced by Fnb Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, debuted today on Crackle.com and showcases a barrage of post-washed-up-celebrity-story exploits from the titular character of Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and the lovable loser brother in Married with Children.
Star-ving is a satire of teenage stardom gone nowhere, wrapped in the veneer of an early 90s late-night sitcom whose actors all have their tongues firmly placed in their cheeks, broadcast in a world without the FCC. In the series, a broke Faustino takes a trip through Tinseltown,
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‘Star-ving’ Artist David Faustino Talks Up Premiere on Crackle
16 January 2009 12:34 PM, PST
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David Faustino has arrived on the web. Crackle's new comedy web series Star-ving premieres today, kicking off a riotous look inside the life of the former Married...with Children star's groveling reality. Ok, so it's not quite reality. Faustino plays himself of course, only he's broke, out of work and begging his rich Hollywood pals for money. His longtime friend Corin Nemec (former star of Parker Lewis Can't Lose) is the screwball sidekick looking to ride Faustino's coattails back to glory. Oh, and he runs a porn shop.
There's a whole roster of comedic gold on the guest star lineup: Ed Asner (The Closer, The Mary Tyler Moore Show); Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy); Christina Applegate (Samantha Who); Seth Green (Robot Chicken); Ed O’Neill (Married…with Children, John from Cincinnati); rap star Coolio; Gilbert Gottfried (The Aristocrats); former Growing Pains stars Alan Thicke, Tracey Gold and Jeremy Miller; the
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- Marc Hustvedt
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