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Piper Perabo to Star in Spy Series on USA

BuzzSugar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:30:48 -0700

The USA Network has nabbed Piper Perabo to play the broken-hearted CIA agent at the center of its upcoming spy thriller series. Titled Covert Affairs, the series will follow "Annie Walker (Perabo), a CIA trainee who speaks six languages and excels at any endeavor she undertakes. Walker joins the CIA while still reeling over a mysterious ex-boyfriend who appears to be of particular interest to her new bosses. She vows never to let herself be hurt again, but that proves to be a tall order." Still to be cast is Auggie Anderson, "a blind tech expert who assists Walker in her assignments."

Not an exceptionally original concept for a show, but I'm excited to see Perabo on a TV series. She may have had some movie roles here and there since 2000, but in my heart she'll probably always be Violet Sanford from the lovably cheesy Coyote Ugly. It'll be interesting to see what she can do on a weekly spy show.

"House" Recap: Episode 22, "Resignation"

BuzzSugar — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:20:35 -0700

This week's "House" largely followed the fallout from Foreman's sudden resignation, set against the background of a medical case that seemed remarkably similar to the one two weeks ago that led Foreman to kill his patient. This week's patient is Addie, a college sophomore who starts coughing up blood during her martial arts class. House is convinced she has an infection, but the others think it could be something autoimmune. When will they ever learn? Meanwhile, Foreman makes his resignation official - and then gets honest about his feelings about the rest of the staff. For the rundown, read more

Chase asks Foreman why he's leaving, and Foreman refuses to tell, on the grounds that he’s never liked Chase. Chase decides that Foreman must be ashamed of the reason, so he asks House for the scoop. "He wants to breed llamas," House says, and Chase figures that House is ashamed too. Meanwhile, House tells Wilson the real reason: Foreman didn't want to end up like House. House then goes down to the clinic to treat a guy whose poo floats. Seriously, that's the plotline they came up with to introduce Piper Perabo as Honey, a nutritionist/vegan who finds out her boyfriend is "cheating" on her by eating the occasional hamburger.

Addie, meanwhile, is still a mystery; she keeps getting mostly better, then suddenly having another problem. The doctors wonder why her body would fight half a fight and then give up. House: "Maybe its name is Foreman." They try another test, this one involving sticking a needle in her eye, and I literally screamed and turned away, so I'm not really sure what happened, other than that it didn't help them cure Addie. While Foreman and Cameron give Addie an MRI, Foreman admits that he's leaving so he doesn't turn into House. Cameron tries putting her optimistic spin on things, but Foreman tells Cameron she's weak. There's no time to reflect on that, however, because Addie's head has exploded. Ew.

House still insists that Addie has an infection, but Chase wants to give her steroids instead. That sounds like the choice Foreman made when he killed his patient, huh? House expects Addie to have a heart attack when Chase gives her the steroids, but she doesn’t; later, though Addie's kidneys fail and Cameron creepily sneaks into House's bedroom to tell him they were wrong.

Meanwhile, House doses Wilson's coffee with amphetamines in an attempt to figure out why he's been yawning. A totally high Wilson shows up all jittery for a breast exam, winks at his patient, generally embarrasses himself, discovers his heart rate is 185, and excuses himself to go murder House. Even while on the uppers, though, Wilson's still yawning, and House says he knows Wilson is on anti-depressants; the yawning is a symptom. House asks why Wilson, "Mr. Well-Adjusted," kept this a secret; Wilson says it's personal. House says he wants antidepressants, too, but first he’d have to admit he was depressed.

Back at the hospital, House is gleeful about his diagnosis; Cameron and Foreman, though, point out that Addie is going to die because the steroid treatment won't let her fight the infection. Foreman asks House if he even knows Addie's name (of course, he doesn't); House posits that Foreman is trying to make House a kinder, gentler person. "You're about to tell a girl she's dying, and you think it's about you," Foreman says, disgusted.

House tells Addie she's dying; he starts to explain why, but she doesn't care. She realizes he seems a little too happy, and House glimpses his own reflection and realizes she's right. He yells at Wilson for dosing his coffee with antidepressants. Man, I love these two drugging each other. Wilson said they obviously worked if House is smiling, and somehow that gives House the ridiculous epiphany that Addie tried to kill herself by swallowing kitchen cleanser wrapped in a gel cap, burning a hole in her stomach and allowing bacteria to swarm through her body. She's not dying after all.

In the end, House meets Honey at some bar. Because she's the stupidest person ever, she thought their meeting was a job interview, but House wastes no time admitting it's a date. He rattles off a list of flaws - he's just been dosed with antidepressants, he eats meat, he likes drugs - and Honey smiles and says, "You don't seem depressed." Yeesh, I really hope those two don't become a couple.

Photos courtesy of Fox

TV Tonight: "House"

BuzzSugar — Tue, 08 May 2007 05:58:38 -0700

I know the real news on this week's "House" should be about Foreman, who announced his resignation last week. But I'm much more excited about House's story - and what it might mean for his romantic life. Tonight's episode guest-stars Piper Perabo as a nutritionist and girlfriend of one of House's patients. So what? Well, there was a rumor a while back that Perabo could return for more episodes, possibly as a new love interest for House. Granted, the clip I've seen from the episode doesn't show any real spark between them - but that could be because they're discussing her boyfriend's poo. Do you think it's about time House got some action? To watch the scene in which House and Perabo's character meet, read more

Photo courtesy of Fox

Movie Preview: First Snow

BuzzSugar — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:08:22 -0700

In First Snow, Guy Pearce plays Jimmy Starks, a slick salesman who gets an ominous reading from a psychic that makes him paranoid. Thus, the smooth-talking guy who screwed over most of the people in his life becomes nervous and hunted, and he starts to question whether or not he's in charge of his own path.

Director Mark Fergus co-wrote the screenplay for Children of Men, but First Snow marks his directorial debut. This quiet suspense-thriller opens tomorrow, April 6, nationwide. You can check out the eerie-looking trailer and tell me what you think if you read more

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