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lynchgirl90 · 7 years

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@TheWrap #TwinPeaks' @madchenamick Loves That Shelly Johnson Is Still a Waitress

“It was very emotional,” the actress says of reprising the role for Showtime’s “Twin Peaks” revival

Actress Mädchen Amick is probably best known for playing waitress Shelly Johnson on the original run of “Twin Peaks,” which was over 25 years ago. Despite that gap, some things haven’t changed. Not only is her uniform the same as the one wore when the show first aired April 8, 1990, but the character is still a waitress.

When asked by TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell if she was annoyed by this lack of career change, Amick smiled.

“I kind of loved it, to be honest,” she said.

Despite any fans who were hoping Johnson would’ve made a transition in the past couple decades, it worked out for Amick. The actress said she got emotional when she went in for a fitting of the uniform that was the exact same one she wore when filming 27 years ago.

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“I started crying,” she recalled. “I went in and did a fitting and it was the same uniform that I wore — it still had my initials on it — and I was just overcome with emotion and it was just really touching.”

Reprising her role meant she got to work once again with co-star Dana Ashbrook, who played her love interest Bobby Briggs, and David Lynch, who she has fond memories of from her past experience.

For example, she told Brazell about filming a scene with Ashbrook with the two of them flirting in a car. Instead of most directors, who would film from afar, Lynch wanted to be in the middle of the action.

“David Lynch is not somebody who will go in another car and watch the monitor with headphones,” Amick said. “He wants to be there, he wants to direct you personally. So, he was just laying down there [on the floor of the car] while we were up here just doing the scene.”

This included giving the actors tips on how heavily to make out (on a scale from one to 10, he wanted it at an 11).

Unfortunately for fans desperate for any tiny detail about the revival, which is being heavily guarded, Amick didn’t divulge much. She did, however caution people who haven’t experienced the show to think about binge-watching the original. She clarified that viewers can come into it with no prior knowledge, but they’d be missing a lot of the experience.

“I think you really need to watch the original just to know where it came from,” she explained. “I think if you just come into it right now not seeing anything you’ll enjoy it, it’s going to be great, but just to see all the little quirkiness and the nuances that are layered in to have a reference back to the original I think is important.”

“Twin Peaks” premieres on Showtime on Sunday, May 21

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deesdiaries · 7 years

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source Caitriona Balfe talks about Outlander, Season 3, and other things.

Filming on “Outlander” moves out of Scotland for the first time in Season 3, relocating to the beautiful beaches and warmer weather of Cape Town, South Africa.

Star Caitriona Balfe, for one, is stoked to be leaving the chilly Scottish Highlands behind her.

“Sunshine, vineyards. It’s beautiful,” the Irish-born actress told TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell. “I was lucky enough to go there about 10 years ago. Cape Town is just so stunning, so yeah, just being there will be amazing.”

Also Read:'Outlander' Season 3 Set for Fall Premiere on Starz (Video)

Season 3 of “Outlander” will see Claire (Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) take a long sea journey, and production on the Starz series will take over the network’s “Black Sails” sound stages to bring that to the screen.

“The great thing about this show is that every new season, everything sort of gets turned on its head,” Balfe said previously regarding the new season. “In the beginning, when we come back this season, I think everyone knows at this point the stories are quite separate. We see a lot of Jamie’s story, and what he has gone through in 20 years. We see a bit of Claire and Frank, Claire and Brianna, and you see a bit of Claire as a professional doctor, surgeon. It’s just so different.”

During a game of Wrapid Fire with Brazell — with some fan questions thrown in — Balfe also revealed her ideal date, her go-to karaoke song, what she’d be doing if she weren’t an actress and her top three dream travel destinations.

“Outlander” Season 3 is currently in production and will premiere in September on Starz.

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drunklander · 7 years

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Filming on “Outlander” moves out of Scotland for the first time in Season 3, relocating to the beautiful beaches and warmer weather of Cape Town, South Africa.

Star Caitriona Balfe, for one, is stoked to be leaving the chilly Scottish Highlands behind her.

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outlanderanatomy · 7 years

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Star Caitriona Balfe, for one, is stoked to be leaving the chilly Scottish Highlands behind her. It’s beautiful,” the Irish-born actress told TheWrap’s Stuart Brazell. Season 3 of “Outlander” will see Claire (Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) take a long sea journey, and production on the Starz series

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outlanderclan · 7 years

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Filming on “Outlander” moves out of Scotland for the first time in Season 3, relocating to the beautiful beaches and warmer weather of Cape Town, South Africa.

Star Caitriona Balfe, for one, is stoked to be leaving the chilly Scottish Highlands behind her.

“Outlander” Season 3 is currently in production and will premiere in September on Starz.

#starz #outlander #caitriona balfe #outlander news #season 3 #interview #article

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State of Play (2009)

Crime, Drama, Mystery |

State of Play is a political thriller film directed by Kevin Macdonald. It is based on the 2003 British television serial of the same name.

The film tells of a journalist’s probe into the suspicious death of a congressman’s mistress. The supporting cast includes Rachel McAdams, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman, Robin Wright and Jeff Daniels. Macdonald said that State of Play is influenced by the films of the 1970s and explores the subject of privatization of American Homeland Security and to a minor extent journalistic independence, along with the relationship between politicians and the press. It was released in North America on April 17, 2009. The film received generally positive reviews.

One night, a thief fleeing through Georgetown in Washington, D.C., is shot by a man carrying a briefcase. A deliveryman who witnesses the incident is also shot by the killer and is left in a coma. The following morning, a young woman is killed by a Washington Metro train in what seems to be suicide. Congressman Stephen Collins is distraught to hear that the woman was Sonia Baker, a researcher on his staff. Collins, who has military experience, is leading an investigation into PointCorp, a private defense contractor with controversial operations involving mercenaries. Collins tells his college roommate and old friend Cal McAffrey, an investigative reporter, that he had been having an affair with Sonia and that she had sent him a cheerful video message on the morning of her death, which he says is inconsistent and unusual behavior for someone about to commit suicide.

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay), Tony Gilroy (screenplay), Billy Ray (screenplay), Paul Abbott (television series)

Stars: Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright, Jason Bateman, Jeff Daniels

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Russell Crowe…Cal McAffreyBen Affleck…Stephen CollinsRachel McAdams…Della FryeHelen Mirren…Cameron LynneRobin Wright…Anne Collins (as Robin Wright Penn)Jason Bateman…Dominic FoyJeff Daniels…George FergusMichael Berresse…Robert BinghamHarry Lennix…Detective BellJosh Mostel…PeteMichael Weston…HankBarry Shabaka Henley…Gene StavitzViola Davis…Dr. Judith FranklinDavid Harbour…PointCorp InsiderSarah Lord…MandiTuck Milligan…PointCorp ExecutiveSteve Park…Chris Kawai (as Stephen Park)Brennan Brown…Andrew PellMaria Thayer…Sonia BakerWendy Makkena…Greer ThorntonZoe Lister-Jones…JessyMichael Jace…Officer BrownRob Benedict…MiltLaDell Preston…Deshaun StaggDan Brown…Vernon SandoKaty Mixon…Rhonda SilverShane Edelman…D.A. PurcellMaurice Burnice Harcum…Ben’s CashierCornell Womack…Junior Detective #1Nat Benchley…Junior Detective #2Gregg Binkley…FerrisTrula M. Marcus…Carol (as Trula Marcus)Carolyn Barrett…Policewoman Escorting DellaWil Love…Iowan CongressmanDavid E. Goodman…Graves (as David Copeland Goodman)John Badila…Mr. JamesBrigid Cleary…Mrs. JamesJoy Spears…Waitress / Dancer #1Brandi Oglesby…Waitress / Dancer #2Stacey Walker…Waitress / Dancer #3R.B. Brenner…Globe Production ManagerLucía Navarro…Telemundo ReporterChris Matthews…MSNBC ReporterLou Dobbs…CNN ReporterJames Vance III…ReporterSharon Dugan…Business WomanNoel Werking…Business ManRose Coleman…JackieLee von Ernst…ICU NurseRichard Ruyle…Karaoke SingerStuart Brazell…Karaoke Bar HostessHerbert Gordon…News Reporter #1Keith Anthony Garvin…News Reporter #2Julie Carey…News Reporter #3Eun Yang…News Reporter #4Denae D’Arcy…News Reporter #5Natasha Chughtai…News Reporter #6Greg Graham…The WolfEric Hatch…PeterJosh Rhodes…The HunterDon Abernathy…Hospital EmployeeMichael Alban…Man in Market PlaceTex Allen…Investigative ReporterParisa Amira…PedestrianWoody Andrews…WitnessKevin Bangos…Foreign Press WriterScott Barry…ShopperNora Bauer…ReporterAshley Bell…Voice (voice)Christie Beran…PedestrianRobert Bizik…PhysicianBill Blair…Newspaper EmployeeMichael Blumenstock…Camera ManLaura Bryce…ShopperKyle Burgess…Congressional AideMargaret Carlson…ExtraJuan Eloy Carrera…Washington LobbyistLarry Carter…SenatorRobert Randolph Caton…Washington AttorneySteve Clemons…ExtraThomas Joe Craig…Manchester K-9 PolicemanBruce Allen Dawson…DetectivePaul Dietz…WaiterE.J. Dionne Jr.…ExtraPatricia DiZebba…Senate StaffJohn Doty…CommuterMatt J. Doyle…PoliticianRichard El Khazen…PatronFrancesca Ellana…Student on MetroLourdes Faberes…ReporterPaul Fahrenkopf…Hearing AttendeeLiam Ferguson…Newspaper ReporterDavid Foster…TV CameramanAlexis Fowlkes…GirlMariano Gowland…News ReporterEileen Grubba…PeggyMarcus Nel-Jamal Hamm…Capitol Police OfficerFrank Herzog…Congressman JohnsonKen Holliday…PointCorp ExecutiveCarol Ilku…Reporter

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marienela · 5 years

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: A model prepares backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, Sep 5, 2019/ — The Tadashi Shoji Spring 2020 collection has been inspired by Once Upon a Time…in Japan. It’s a collection that plays between residing in fantasy while staying grounded in the real world, with pieces that focus on quiet luxury and cultural richness. Intricacy and refinement cultivate a deeper understanding of past and future, where new perspectives honor tradition and beauty transcends.

To achieve this:

Makeup and beauty for the Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer show was provided by the Honest Beauty and Orcé teams and led by makeup artist Daniel Martin, hair led by hair stylist Kevin Ryan for R Session Pro Tools, nail lacquer and design by Àuda.B and skin care prep by Tatcha.

Models wore undergarments by Commando, jewelry by Sequin and footwear by Nina Shoes.

Notable Guests: Angela Simmons (TV Personality), Bella Harris (Model), Cambrie Schroder (Model), Chantel Riley (Actress), Cipriana Quann (Model), Kimmy Shields (Actress), Stuart Brazell (Actress), TK Quann (Model)

To see the Tadashi Shoji Spring 2020 collection, please go to Tadashi Shoji Spring 2020: Fantasy Grounded on Reality.

Photos courtesy of Tadashi Shoji

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: Tadashi Shoji watches the models rehearse for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: TK Quann, Tadashi Shoji and Cipriana Quann pose backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: Bella Harris and Tadashi Shoji pose backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Kimmy Shields and designer Tadashi Shoji are seen backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Chantel Riley and designer Tadashi Shoji are seen backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Cambrie Schroder and designer Tadashi Shoji are seen backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Angela Simmons and designer Tadashi Shoji are seen backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 05: Designer Tadashi Shoji seen backstage for Tadashi Shoji Spring/Summer 2020 during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Gallery I at Spring Studios on September 05, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Albert Urso/Getty Images for Tadashi Shoji)

Backstage at Tadashi Shoji Spring 2020 @tadashishoji @lindagauntco NEW YORK, Sep 5, 2019/ --- The Tadashi Shoji Spring 2020 collection has been inspired by Once Upon a Time...in Japan.

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Before Fisher-Price’s Rock ’n Play Recall, Safety Fears and Dubious Marketing

Fisher-Price has 4.7 million Rock ‘n Play sleepers on the market “always met all applicable regulations and safety standards” in the United States and that it “included very specific and conspicuous product usage instructions and warnings that we urged parents and caregivers to read and follow carefully.” However, the the Consumer Product Safety Commission has linked more than 30 infant deaths who tipped over. If you were a Fisher-Price executive what would you do: (1) recall all 4.7 million sleepers or (2) re-emphasize safe use? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

The thousands of images of Fisher-Price’s Rock ’n Play sleeper posted on Instagram include many of babies snuggled serenely in the cloth-covered cradle, free of its harness and surrounded by blankets and stuffed animals.

To sleep-starved parents, the photos and videos seemed to underscore the Rock ’n Play’s ability to lull fussy infants into a peaceful slumber. But the posts also suggest something else: that the risks long associated with the sleeper did not register with many consumers.

Doctors, safety groups and now several lawsuits say Fisher-Price and its parent company, Mattel, should have done more to fix that.

When Fisher-Price agreed last week to recall all 4.7 million Rock ’n Plays on the market, it said it was not at fault for the more than 30 infant deaths the Consumer Product Safety Commission had linked to the sleeper.

Instead, the company said the reported deaths stemmed from the sleeper’s being “used contrary to safety warnings and instructions” to buckle babies in with the harness and avoid putting other items in the sleeper. (The safety commission advises that it should not be used once children reach 3 months or show signs of being able to roll over.)

But Fisher-Price’s marketing materials for the product had long included phrases, like “baby can sleep at a comfy incline all night long,” that were at odds with pediatricians’ longstanding recommendation that infants sleep on flat surfaces without restraints.

Consumer safety watchdogs criticized Fisher-Price for waiting years to initiate a recall after first hearing about suffocations linked to the sleeper. Instead, they said, the company let the government issue vague warnings that got little attention.

“This is just not a safe way for babies to sleep,” said Nancy Cowles, the executive director of Kids in Danger, a nonprofit organization focused on the safety of products for children.

Fisher-Price said in a statement that the Rock ’n Play had “always met all applicable regulations and safety standards” in the United States and that it “included very specific and conspicuous product usage instructions and warnings that we urged parents and caregivers to read and follow carefully.” The company also said it had shared safety information about the sleeper with the government commission “from the moment it was introduced.”

Fisher-Price’s marketing claims are among the issues cited in lawsuits now being brought against the company.

On Thursday, Samantha Drover-Mundy and Zachary Mundy, the parents of a 12-week-old girl who died in September after a few minutes in a Rock ’n Play, sued Fisher-Price, Mattel and Amazon, where the girl’s grandmother bought the sleeper, in federal court in New York.

Fisher-Price declined to comment on the lawsuit. Amazon did not immediately return a request for comment.

Fisher-Price, the suit says, gave Rock ’n Plays to online reviewers after it “determined that the most effective form of advertising for its baby-related products was through word-of-mouth and through ‘mommy bloggers.’” The company’s marketing language promoted “dangerous features as selling points,” emphasizing the product’s soft padding and angled positioning, the suit says.

The family also accuses Fisher-Price of lobbying government officials to skirt regulations that could have blocked it from being sold, an issue explored by Consumer Reports in a recent investigation that helped prompt the Rock ’n Play recall.

The safety commission is now investigating all so-called inclined sleepers, which 26 companies sold in the United States as of August. At least one report filed on the commission’s website links another inclined sleeper, the Ingenuity Moonlight by the baby products manufacturer Kids II, to a child’s death.

Inclined sleepers prop babies up at an angle. Many parents say they help soothe infants with gastroesophageal reflux, which can cause spitting up and irritability. But the safety commission said it had received more than 700 reports since 2005 about injuries associated with the sleepers. There were at least eight recalls before mid-2018 linking inclined sleep products to concerns about strangulation, suffocation, falls and entrapment.

In 2012, the commission and the Food and Drug Administration warned customers to avoid sleep positioners for babies. By then, such products had been linked to at least 13 deaths over 15 years, officials said.

About 3,500 infants die in the United States each year from sleep-related causes like sudden infant death syndrome, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. That number declined in the 1990s after a national campaign to raise awareness about safe-sleeping techniques for infants.

The pediatricians’ group objects to infant-sleep products that are set at an incline or require restraints. Babies should rest on their backs on a firm, bare sleep surface without soft bedding, the group says.

The Rock ’n Play, created in 2009, never met those guidelines. But it quickly drew rave reviews. The price — $40 for some models — made it attractive to parents who could not afford to skip work after being kept up all night by colicky infants, one baby sleep consultant told NPR this month.

But problems soon emerged.

Pediatricians and parents said some babies who spent time in the sleeper developed torticollis, a condition that twists the head to one side. Others said it was flattening parts of some infants’ skulls. In 2013, Fisher-Price recalled 800,000 Rock ’n Plays after complaints about mold that could cause respiratory illnesses and infections.

But there were more serious concerns. Consumer Reports linked the Rock ’n Play to 32 deaths, including one in 2011.

A 2012 complaint described a 5-month-old girl falling out of a Rock ’n Play despite being restrained and then dangling upside down from the harness. A complaint last year said a 6-month-old boy who weighed less than the 25-pound maximum set by Fisher-Price had died after rolling over in the sleeper.

Nonetheless, long after authorities in Canada and Australia had blocked it from being marketed as a sleeper, the Rock ’n Play remained popular in the United States.

Anna Weiss, a child and family therapist in New York, described it as “one of those things that almost every parent swears by.” Her daughter Emery, now 9 months old, used it “all the time in the beginning,” she said.

The recall was the first Ms. Weiss had heard about the suffocation concerns.

“It’s very surprising, the talk about flat heads was all over the place when I was looking at products,” she said. “The rolling over didn’t come up anywhere.”

In August, Ann Marie Buerkle, the safety commission’s acting chairwoman, responded to a congresswoman’s inquiry about inclined sleepers with a letter saying the agency had “ratcheted up the resources and senior staff attention being devoted to” the products. Ms. Buerkle cited a 2018 consumer alert that said the agency knew of deaths associated with the sleepers but did not name specific products or companies.

“The warning wasn’t written to gather attention,” said Ms. Cowles of Kids in Danger. “No parent ever calls the Rock ’n Play an ‘inclined sleep product.’”

This month, before the recall, Mattel worked with the safety commission to issue a new warning about the sleeper. Safety experts say consumers pay far less attention to warnings than they do to recalls.

Joseph Martyak, a safety commission spokesman, said alerts were useful.

“It’s better to give people a heads-up in these situations,” he said. Deciding on whether a recall is needed “takes time,” he said.

“The agency has to get the company to agree to the voluntary recall for it to happen,” he added.

Soon after the Rock ’n Play was introduced, Dr. Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician in Kansas City, Mo., began to warn parents against it, often unsuccessfully.

“Most families believed that since the product was from a reliable company, our concerns as pediatricians were seen as alarmist and overzealous,” she said. “The box specifically suggested ways of safe use, and parenting blogs galore were touting its utility and ‘lifesaving’ sleep help.”

Stuart Brazell, an actress and blogger in Los Angeles, described her experience with the Rock ’n Play as “amazing.” She began using it the day she brought her son, Asher, home from the hospital last year.

Ms. Brazell, who has 157,000 followers on Instagram, said she had heard that Fisher-Price was seeking mothers for a Rock ’n Play social media campaign. She signed up through an agency that links so-called social media influencers to brands.

The agency gave her specific instructions for her post — the sleeper had to rest on a level surface, and her son had to be buckled into the harness — and approved the image and caption before she published it in November, she said. The post earned more than 4,000 likes.

“The power of social media is major for moms,” she said. “A lot of the time, we’re stuck at home and sometimes the only contact we have with other people is online.”

Asher is now 9 months old. Ms. Brazell stopped using the Rock ’n Play when he began to roll over.

“We kept the Rock ’n Play in the garage for baby No. 2 if we had another one,” she said, “but I’m completely torn now as to what to do.”

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