Gina Wilhelm Actress – Renee Zellweger’s One and Only Renee Zellweger is starring in “My One and Only,” which opened in theaters on Friday. The movie tells the fictionalized story of George Hamilton at age 15 traveling across country with his brother and his mother, who is played by Zellweger. She tells Newsday that the modestly budgeted movie was able to get the Oscar winner because of the quality of the script and the time
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Mitzi Gaynor Returns to Kauai Mitzi Gaynor, who celebrated her 78th birthday on September 4th, is going to return to Kauai, HI, for the first time since filming “South Pacific” there in 1957. Gaynor played Nellie Forbush in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein play. She’s scheduled to make two stops on the island. Her first will be at the St. Regis Princeville Resort when it reopens. The resort
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Cate Blanchett Injured on Stage Cate Blanchett was injured during a preview performance of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” on September 2nd in Sydney, Australia. Blanchett, who plays Blanche DeBois in the production, was struck in the back of the head by a prop radio that slipped out of costar Joel Edgerton’s hand. Edgerton was supposed to throw the radio out the window, but he lost control of it. Blanchett
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Lena Headey Takes the Throne The final open role in the new HBO pilot “Game of Thrones” has finally been filled by Lena Headey. Headey was most recently seen playing the title character in “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” on Fox. On “Thones,” she’ll play Cersei Lannister. The pilot is an adaptation of a fantasy series “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R. R. Martin. It begins shooting in
Gina Wilhelm Actress – Dale Dickey Comes Home Dale Dickey laughed when she was offered the chance to play Blanche DuBois at the University of Tennessee production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” “You know I play hookers and drug addicts and bad girls, don’t you?” she asked when she got the call. However, she really wanted to play the role. Dickey says she has many fond memories of her performances at the UT theater. She
