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25 August 2008 6:32 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former Will + Grace star Debra Messing has filmed a tribute to Carol Channing for the second season of her hit new show Starter Wife.

Messing recreates the funny lady's famous "Hello Dolly" routine from Hello Dolly!, wearing a copycat red gown outfit, a Channing wig and replicas of the stage and screen great's famous eyelashes for the song-and-dance skit with her castmates.

The actress says, "It was amazing. The dress is a replica of the one Carol Channing wore on Broadway. It's spectacular.

"And you would be amazed at how many options there are for eyelashes... We had pictures of Carol all over the place. We were like, 'Ok, how close can we make it?'"

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4 July 2008 8:57 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Gay actor Leslie Jordan is looking for love now same-sex marriages are legal in California.

The Will + Grace actor is desperate to make the most of the changes in the law, but is struggling to find a willing and suitable husband.

The 53-year-old tells CYInterview.com, "I think if I met the right person ...I am just afraid I'll end up with some hustler, fall in love with the rent boy, take me for all I am worth."

Jordan laments his perfect man - TV presenter Matt Lauer - is straight and married: "He was on 'Will + Grace,' and I was like a shy Japanese girl behind my hand fan. Every time he came around, all I could do was giggle. I think maybe he thought I was autistic or something."

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24 June 2008 12:18 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Former Will & Grace star Megan Mullally has revealed that she keeps being offered roles that require her to strip on screen. The 49-year-old, who recently had to appear naked for a guest role in the US drama Boston Legal, is quoted by WENN as saying: "I'm not a naked person. I had to be naked in that show. I had to take off all my clothes in front of James Spader. "They were like: 'We're going to close the set.' Cut to - there were like 25 guys." (more)

By Simon Reynolds

18 June 2008 12:03 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Megan Mullally has been bombarded with offers to strip off on screen for the first time as she approaches 50.

The 49-year-old star was first asked to shoot a scene semi-nude for a guest appearance on U.S. TV series Boston Legal last year - and is now being called on to shed her clothes more regularly.

But the move has left Mullally confused - because she was never asked to flaunt her figure when she was younger.

The former Will + Grace star says, "I'm not a naked person. I had to be naked in that show (Boston Legal). I had to take off all my clothes in front of (co-star) James Spader. They were like, 'We're going to close the set.' Cut to - there were like 25 guys.

"'Why naked? Why now?' is my question. Because I'm going to be 50 in November and I just did a television pilot for a show for another network and I have to be naked in that. Why not when I was 26 and I was really cute? Why is there such demand for me to take all of my clothes off?"

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21 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, who started out in films such as The Birds but became a television star playing Bob Newhart's wife on The Bob Newhart Show, died Saturday night of respiratory failure at her home in Los Angeles; she was 70. Pleshette had been battling lung cancer since 2006, when she underwent chemotherapy and had part of one lung removed. A fresh-faced beauty with a distinctive, husky voice, Pleshette worked mostly onstage in the 50s, with one of her most notable roles as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, replacing original star Anne Bancroft. She made her film debut opposite Jerry Lewis in The Geisha Boy and worked steadily in television as she launched her film career. Her most notable screen role was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, where she played a local schoolteacher who befriends out-of-town socialite Tippi Hedren and helps protect the children of the town during one of the film's terrifying bird attacks. In 1964, she married screen heartthrob Troy Donahue, her co-star in the romantic drama Rome Adventure, though the marriage lasted less than a year, and in 1968 married Texas oilman Tommy Gallagher.

Despite a prolific career in film and television, Pleshette gained her fame playing Emily Hartley, the down-to-earth wife of psychiatrist Bob Hartley (Bob Newhart) on the 70's sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, which ran for six years and earned her two Emmy nominations. Pleshette was so well-known as the small-screen wife of Newhart that she reprised her role in an unexpected cameo in the series finale of Newhart's second major sitcom, Newhart. The episode, where Newhart awakens in the bedroom set of his old show with Pleshette by his side (as they often ended episodes of their old show, trading dry banter) is considered one of the most clever, and surprising, series finales in television history. Pleshette continued working in television through the rest of her career, earning another Emmy nomination for playing Leona Helmsley in Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean, and made appearances in sitcoms Good Morning Miami, 8 Simple Rules... and Will & Grace (where she played the mother of Megan Mullally's character, Karen Walker). Pleshette also provided the voices of Yubaba and Zeniba in the English language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated film Spirited Away. In 2001, after the death of her second husband, Pleshette married actor Tom Poston, whom she had met 40 years ago and who had co-starred in Newhart; they remained married until his death last year. --Mark Englehart, IMDb staff

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18 January 2008 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Suzanne Pleshette, who started out in films such as The Birds but became a television star playing Bob Newhart's wife on The Bob Newhart Show, died Saturday night of respiratory failure at her home in Los Angeles; she was 70. Pleshette had been battling lung cancer since 2006, when she underwent chemotherapy and had part of one lung removed. A fresh-faced beauty with a distinctive, husky voice, Pleshette worked mostly onstage in the 50s, with one of her most notable roles as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, replacing original star Anne Bancroft. She made her film debut opposite Jerry Lewis in The Geisha Boy and worked steadily in television as she launched her film career. Her most notable screen role was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, where she played a local schoolteacher who befriends out-of-town socialite Tippi Hedren and helps protect the children of the town during one of the film's terrifying bird attacks. In 1964, she married screen heartthrob Troy Donahue, her co-star in the romantic drama Rome Adventure, though the marriage lasted less than a year, and in 1968 married Texas oilman Tommy Gallagher.

Despite a prolific career in film and television, Pleshette gained her fame playing Emily Hartley, the down-to-earth wife of psychiatrist Bob Hartley (Bob Newhart) on the 70's sitcom The Bob Newhart Show, which ran for six years and earned her two Emmy nominations. Pleshette was so well-known as the small-screen wife of Newhart that she reprised her role in an unexpected cameo in the series finale of Newhart's second major sitcom, Newhart. The episode, where Newhart awakens in the bedroom set of his old show with Pleshette by his side (as they often ended episodes of their old show, trading dry banter) is considered one of the most clever, and surprising, series finales in television history. Pleshette continued working in television through the rest of her career, earning another Emmy nomination for playing Leona Helmsley in Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean, and made appearances in sitcoms Good Morning Miami, 8 Simple Rules... and Will & Grace (where she played the mother of Megan Mullally's character, Karen Walker). Pleshette also provided the voices of Yubaba and Zeniba in the English language version of Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning animated film Spirited Away. In 2001, after the death of her second husband, Pleshette married actor Tom Poston, whom she had met 40 years ago and who had co-starred in Newhart; they remained married until his death last year. --Mark Englehart, IMDb staff

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