The Christmas dramedy Nothing Like the Holidays really is like a fruitcake: Seasonal, obligatory and cliche. It's unoriginal in its presentation, but then again, it is the holidays and someone put in the effort to make it, so a part of you appreciates it a little. You just don't want to taste it ever again. And maybe another part of you is the teeniest bit resentful that you were given something Read more

The Conga Room opened in LA last night and some celebrities joined in on the party. Fresh off of a day at the park with Honor, Jessica Alba chatted up Baron Davis. Eva Longoria spiced up her jeans with a ruffled shirt and got to celebrate the fact that she has a job for a few more years. The Black Eyed Peas performed without their girl Fergie, who is over in London, and everyone looked like they Read more

Sure, when I first saw the poster and description for Nothing Like the Holidays, I kinda groaned inside. Nothing like another reheated family holiday flick! And yet, now that I've watched the trailer, I'm charmed by this new take on an old genre. For one thing, the film focuses on a Latino family, which is unusual (embarrassingly so) in both film and television. For another thing, the cast is Read more

I live near Napa Valley and I enjoy wine a great deal, so when I first heard about a new little movie called Bottle Shock all about the historical legitimization of California wine, I was intrigued. I may have taken for granted the fact that Napa hasn't always been a world-renowned winemaking region, and that at one point it was viewed as nothing more than a bunch of back-water country hicks Read more

When I traveled to Napa to attend the premiere of Bottle Shock, one of the stars I was most excited to speak with was Gio! Freddy Rodriguez. I've always admired his work on shows like Six Feet Under and of course Ugly Betty, and I'm excited to see that he'll still take part in an independent movie now and again. His character in the movie, Gustavo Brambila, is a person in real life, and Rodriguez Read more

It's been a few days, and I still haven't been able to get my head around the notion that Tristan Wilds from The Wire is joining the cast of the 90210 spinoff. I'm so used to seeing him as this hardened, tough little boy on the streets of Baltimore that it's going to be a challenge to see him among the glitz of posh Beverly Hills — and, to some extent, he's just always going to be Michael. I Read more

Just when we thought the Henry-Betty love connection might be back in full force, there's a new man on the scene tonight. Freddy Rodriguez, who will forever be Rico from "Six Feet Under" to me, guest-stars as Gio, a new sandwich vendor who makes a splash on the Mode scene when Betty gets him fired. It sounds like he's sticking around for a while, complicating Betty's love life. Meanwhile, Amanda Read more

With today's news that Freddy Rodriguez is joining the cast of "Ugly Betty," nearly every actor who played a main character on "Six Feet Under" is now back on TV somewhere. Here's a look at where the Fisher and Diaz folks have ended up: Peter Krause (Nate Fisher) will star in ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" this fall as Nick George, an attorney who takes over his father's role as counselor to the Read more