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Buzz News Roundup, 10/3

BuzzSugar — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:34:53 -0700

Zap2It reports that an asteroid has been named after George Takei!
According to Variety, computers, photographs and proprietary information were stolen from the production of the fourth Indiana Jones movie.
There will be a fourth Fast and Furious movie, with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker probably starring again, Reuters reports.
If you want a spoiler on which "House" docs make the new team, you might want to check out this casting news from the Hollywood Reporter.
The season premiere of "Dexter" drew 1 million viewers, writes TV Week, making it the first Showtime premiere to go over a million.
NME has an exclusive interview with Radiohead about In Rainbows.
Molly Shannon will star as Kath, the mother part of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship in the NBC series "Kath and Kim," writes Hollywood Reporter.
ComingSoon reports that Kevin Dillon has signed on for the starring role in National Lampoon's "sword-and-sandal epic spoof" 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.
According to Zap2It, Comedy Central has picked up a "Daily Show" spin-off focusing on comedian Demitri Martin.
Hulk Hogan will host NBC's "American Gladiators" revival, and the Futon Critic has the details.
Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has sold another script, this one a "female-driven comedy set at a college" titled Girly Style, writes Hollywood Reporter.

"Heroes" Rundown Chapter 1: "Four Months Later"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:28:08 -0700

"The sun rises on a new dawn."

"Heroes" is so back! This week's season two premiere brought us right back to the lives of Claire, Hiro, Mohinder, Parkman, the Petrelli family and many more old and new characters. If I have any complaint it's that they crammed a ton of storylines into one season premiere. It was getting a little crowded for my tastes. And we didn't even see some of the old familiars at all, like Sylar, Niki, DL or Micah.

If you missed the episode and want to catch up on everything that happened, you can watch the full episode on NBC's website. For some of my thoughts and to share your own in the comments (spoilers ahead), then read more

So many people and heroes! We've got the Claire and HRG (whose first name we now know, but he will be HRG here) story and now Claire's boy West. We've got the stuff going on with Angela Petrelli and Hiro's father, and then Molly with her two dads, Mohinder and Parkman. Then there's Hiro himself and his "hero," the not-so-Japanese Takezo Kensei, and now there's the swordsmith's daughter to deal with. Next up we have the Honduras siblings, Maya and Alejandro, with Maya possessing a kind of violent power she can't seem to control. And finally, we have the Irish thugs who find Peter Petrelli with a fetching new haircut, chained up and looking frantic. Whew!
Claire and HRG continue to love being father-daughter. This week's episode brought us the scene that was filming when these pictures were taken. Will Claire and HRG’s relationship ever lose that whiff of incestuous desire? I think not.

I was about to write that I think that Molly is probably the most darling child on television... until she went crazy on Parkman. Also there's this: What is it about creepy kid drawings that scare the living daylights out of me?
First use of the word "hero" of Season Two: at minute 10, when Hiro meets Takezo Kensei.
Anyone else notice that Ando and Nathan bump into each other on the street? Were there other brushes between heroes that I didn't catch?
Mr. Muggles is back!
Nathan looks like a lumberjack. And not the sexy kind.
I love seeing Ando and George Takei again. It’s like seeing old buddies after a long absence. What? Do I watch too much TV or something?
HRG’s boss at the copy place has a douchey mustache to go with his personality. Also, this made me laugh: "The paper business is dog eat dog."
God is mentioned more than usual in this week's episode: first from Maya who says "God would not have done this to me without a chance for salvation," and then a Japanese woman leaving her ravaged village says "Is there no God to protect us?"
When I saw that West could fly, I actually thought to myself, "I wish my boyfriend could fly."
This stuff seems important: Hiro's father, Kaito Nakamura, says to Angela that there are nine left in The Company. He states that they are all very powerful and any of them could be leaving the photos with the "Godsend" symbol over the faces. Then, when Katio is attacked, he says "Of all of them, I never expected it would be you." I'm dying to know who it is! And I'm refusing to believe that Kaito is gone for good.

What did you think of the Season Two premiere of "Heroes"?

Photos courtesy of NBC

"Heroes" Recap: Episode 17, "Company Man"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:29:34 -0800

Whoa, whoa, whoa ... so much crazy action, my head's spinning. But first, one question about last night's "Heroes": Is Ted the caveman from the Geico commercials? Okay, moving on.

So Mr. Bennet - who was not Horn Rimmed Glasses up until three years ago, according to his flashbacks - joined the "paper company" thinking he was "comfortable with morally gray." To find out whether he really is, and for other spoilers, read more

HRG, turns out, has a heart and a conscience. To keep normals like Mr. Bennet honest, they are partnered with "specials" (aka heroes), so Mr. Bennet's first partner was actually Claude, the Invisible Man!

Mr. Bennet and his boss, Thompson, discussed how people are fragile "like teacups" and don't want to know what's happening to them as a species. Thompson added that people certainly don't want to know the measures they take to keep people safe.

Simone's dad's roof is a pretty important place, apparently. This is where Mr. Bennet took baby Claire out of George Takei's (!) arms 14 years ago and became changed "as a man." Hiro's dad is highly involved in whatever operation Thompson's got going and likes to wax poetic about the joys of fatherhood. Mr. Bennet was instructed to raise Claire and return her to the company when she "manifested." But once she got an indestructible hold on his heart, he just couldn't give her up.

However, he didn't seem to mind killing off the Invisible Man when the Invisible Man was found to be "hiding" one of "them." Maybe this is that gray moral space he said he was so fine with. I wonder which hero the Invisible Man was hiding? And I wonder how he's not dead anymore?

I guess Mrs. Bennet would have to believe in a God with her life the way it is: radioactive guys in her living room and a daughter who comes back from the dead. Miracles indeed. Now that we know people are killed when they know too much or when they are "hiding" heroes, it turns out Mr. Bennet having his wife's memory erased was for her protection. Huh. I never once believed that before. Also, I love how Mrs. Bennet is the only Texan in the show who has an accent. The others don't even try.

At the Bennets' house, it's either give Ted answers and a cure, or face a nuclear disaster. He threatens to kill Mrs. Bennet if Mr. Bennet doesn't tell him the truth. In an intense, screamy showdown, Mr. Bennet "thinks" to Parkman to shoot Claire instead because she can regenerate, so he does! They carry the "body" upstairs, and Mr. Bennet explains to Claire that if anyone had known about her powers, he'd have had to bring her into the company; he really was protecting her.

Parkman and Mr. Bennet go to the "paper company" and bring back some files for Ted to see, along with some tranquilizers. Mr. Bennet tells Ted that everyone was ready to kill him, but Mr. Bennet let him live. As Ted's pouting about how Mr. Bennet "should have killed" him, Thompson strolls in and shoots Ted! Then Ted freaks out, nuclearly, and Claire faces the blast and gives Ted the tranquilizer. I know, logically, that Hayden Panetierre is a pretty girl, but that Claire-with-radiation-burns made me puke a little in my mouth.

The Haitian says he answers to someone higher up than Mr. Bennet in Claire's life. I wonder if it's Nathan or ... maybe Linderman is her grandpa!

In the end, the Haitian and Claire run away together, and Mr. Bennet makes a major sacrifice for his Claire Bear - by getting shot and having his memory erased. This is particularly sad, because we got to glimpse his memory of when he first donned the horn-rimmed glasses, asking Claire how he looked, and Claire said, "You look like my dad."

Ted is strapped down in what looks like Sylar's old cell, and Parkman will apparently now be a "special" partner for someone at the Company.

Previews for next week's episode: Simone's NOT dead? But why???

UPDATE: I'm serious about this Ted/Geico Caveman thing.