Ron Weasley explodes in Cherry Bomb
Turn kids into movie stars and soon enough they’ll want to start acting in movies about hookers and drugs to show you how grown up they are. Daniel Radcliffe went the art-theater route by getting naked on stage in Equus, but his Harry Potter pal Rupert Grint has gone full-tilt depraved in Cherry Bomb, a film about a wild teen weekend that goes all wrong. According to early reports, Mr. Grint snorts coke, has sex with night-ladies and is somehow involved in a bisexual love triangle before the closing credits roll. Sounds like Romeo’s idea of a fun weekend. Shot back in 2008, the movie has no official release date yet but it’s about to hit film festivals, which means multiplex audiences will get their eyes on it later in 2010 or sometime in 2011.
Jennifer Beals: Chief of Police
On The L Word, Jennifer Beals as Better Porter was quite often the one character in the mix who seemed to keep her head screwed on properly when everyone else was coming unglued. So it makes perfect sense that Fox would want to cast the unflappable one as Chicago’s first female police chief in its new series Ride-Along. Don’t get too excited yet, lesbians. This might signal major progress since the days of Police Woman, but it’s still a pilot and comes fully equipped with the usual warnings – it might not make the schedule, its star could be re-cast, or they might decide to set it in outer space with a choir of singing teenagers. But as of right now you’re one step closer to seeing the lady packing heat and using it on wrongdoers.
Ann Coulter, The Sitcom
Wright vs. Wrong, at first glance, sounds like a show made up to justify its cutely clever title. A conservative right-wing TV commentator doing regular comedy battle with a liberal counterpart and a snarky manager, a workplace sitcom designed to appeal to both red and blue states, but one that will probably swing to the left (it’s Hollywood, after all). And who knows, that may be what we wind up with, but at least it has a cool cast to flesh out the material. Debra Messing stars as the female Glenn Beck while Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm) will pick up duties on the left. And best of all, Carrie Fisher will star as the sarcasm-dispensing boss. And how weird will it be if the Will & Grace star’s new character has an anti-gay bent? Will she choke on the dialogue or deliver it like a pro, Archie Bunker-style?
Romeo really wants this one to make it on the air.
By Romeo San Vicente
