Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D!!!

ABC has picked up the pilot for Joss Whedon/Marvel's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."!!!

Here is the first promo.



The most exciting part of this news?

The show stars our friend Ming-Na Wen!!!



The show airs in September. It's gonna be a long wait!

Ball Boy FAIL

My buddy Granto works as a ballboy during the US Open (you may remember him from his Caylee Anthony Halloween costume).

The other night he ATE SH*T while trying to retrieve a ball.

And now he's famous.



Kind of...

American Ninja Warrior

Some of you might remember Dorian, my very first pseudo-friend in LA.

He recently competed in American Ninja Warrior and will be on tonight's show at 9pm.

Here's a vid from his preliminary qualifier.

People like this make me feel bad about my fitness.

LA LA

The last three days in LA were a welcome escape from sub-zero Manhattan.

It was literally 20 degrees when I left NYC.

Saw lots of special people over the past 3 days and ate some delicious foods.



OOooooooohhhh chicken lasagnaaaaaa



Oh hi gays!



Nachooooos




Impromptu roosterfish dance party!



Darts!



Oh and while we were at Cabo Cantina, Danny noticed Marky's new million-dollar Supercuts commercial airing on the big tv.



So I texted him to congratulate him and he happened to need a headshot update.

We did those the next day, and then got a DELICIOUS lunch afterwards downtown at Bottega Louie.






And then it was back to NYC!

YESSSSS

So the only talk show I watch these days is Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, usually after each Beverly Hills Housewives episode.

This Sunday, Tatyana will be on with Nene Leakes following Real Housewives of Atlanta!!!!!



Set your TiVos!

AMAZING!

Kate on Conan Premiere

My friend, the recently engaged KateLarrrrrrsen, was indirectly featured on the season premiere of Conan:



I had lunch with Kate a few months ago when she was here in NYC, but the last time YOU saw Kate was when she got severely wasted face at her birthday party a couple of years ago.

LOLLLLLL

Nicole's Target Commercial!

I was just watching Glee when one of my favorite clients Nicole popped up on a Target commercial.



Around the time Nicole came to me I think she was in kind of a career slump. But I knew the first time I met her that she had this warmth and this energy that was really special and that she would do well, especially in commercials.

Nothing makes me happier than to think that my work is helping people achieve their dreams and make money! LOTS of money hopefully.

My job is the best. Although being in national TV commercials, pretty cool too.

Congrats Nicole!



You can read Nicole's blog here. It's a must-read for actors.

Viking Friend

I keep seeing my buddy / former client Ed in Capital One commercials and web ads and billboards everywhere I turn.




He must be making a fortune!



It's so nice to see my clients being successful!

The Kids Are All Right

Oh DUH!!!!!

LaurenLinderrrr brought to my attention that I forgot to mention that The Kids Are All Right stars our gorgeous friend and my former photo subject YAYA!!!



It really is the best movie I've seen in a while.

And Yaya, well, she must've enjoyed making it...because she gets SUPERNAKED with Rark Muffalo!!!!!

The New Face of Adidas

Matt was recently made the new face of Adidas's ClimaCool line.

Adidas. As in David Beckham's Adidas!

You can check out the website here.

There are also a bunch of funny commercials where he's Mr. Adidas surrounded by a couple of gym douches.





Congratulations Matt!

Adidas is awe$ome.

Please invite me to the next Adidas party and introduce me to Posh and Becks.

SUPEROMG - RJR on The Bachelorette!!!

I don't know how this slipped by me until now, but I found out yesterday through a chance encounter with MichaelTan that our childhood friend and eggfurious cast member Jay (RJR) is going to be on The Bachelorette...premiering TONIGHT!!!!



Jay resurfaced in my life about a year ago just as I was getting ready to leave LA.

We had a delicious lunch at Sur...



On the day we took these headshots...



(And at the time I didn't really know why he wanted headshots since he is a lawyer and not an actor...)

But we stayed in touch... and he attended my Incredibly Going-Away Party.



And hit on some of my pretty ladyfriends.



Wow wow wow wow wow....I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BACHELORETTE TONIGHT!!!!!

It's on at 9pm on ABC!

I was going to be watching it anyway, but this just makes it SOOOOO much better.

Like...I mean...I've known Jay since we were 6 years old and we went to sleepaway camp with Mike and Charlie and Connor and Matt and played Go Fish! naked in a sleeping bag. So weird.

Some lives are just perfect.

On May 14, just a day before her wedding, Danneel found out that the pilot she starred in, "Friends with Benefits", was picked up by NBC.

It's probably an understatement to say that it has been a VERY good week for her.

Here's today's press release:

Newlywed Danneel Harris, who just said “I Do” to Supernatural hottie Jensen Ackles, is part of the NBC’s newest TV series Friends with Benefits. Instead of enjoying a relaxing honeymoon, the actress has hit the road to immediately begin promoting her new show.

First stop: NYC for NBC's Upfronts:



The remainder of the cast of "Friends with Benefits" includes Veronica Mars and Party Down actor Ryan Hansen, Jessica Lucas of Cloverfield, Ian Kesler and Fran Kranz.

Per NBC, Friends with Benefits revolves around:

“A group of twenty-something singles as they navigate the difficult, and often confusing, world of dating. Ben Weymouth (Ryan Hansen) is on the hunt for the perfect woman who meets his unique set of standards, while his best friend, Sara Maxwell (Danneel Harris) is just looking for a man to settle down with and raise a family. Ben and Sara have fallen into the habit of turning to each other for moral and physical support as they wait for Mr. and Mrs. Right to arrive. Their friend Aaron (Fran Kranz), a romantic at heart, doesn’t approve of Ben and Sara’s complicated friendship, but he, along with the womanizer Hoon (played by Ian Kesler) and straight shooter Riley (Jessica Lucas) are all distracted with their own dating trials and tribulations.”

The pilot was penned by the writers of "500 Days of Summer" and the series will be executive produced by David Nevins and Brian Grazer ("24", "Arrested Development", "Friday Night Lights").

Friends with Benefits will appear on NBC this Fall!

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The trailer looks promising!



And, I mean, come on. With that writing and producing team how can you possibly go wrong?

In the meantime you can check out Danneel in her upcoming movie projects "The Roommate" co-starring Friday Night Lights' Minka Kelly and Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester, and "The Back Up Plan" starring Jennifer Lopez.

Hot Danny's Windows Commercial!

A couple weeks back Hot Danny was telling me about this commercial he shot for Microsoft. It hit TV stations today. Megoon was the first to catch it.



If Megoon made tens of G's off her voiceover residuals for Citibank years ago, I can only imagine how much Danny is going to make.

WHHHEEEEE$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Sexy Latin Fun

My friend and former client Juan Pablo just facebook messaged me saying he is back in Venezuela because he landed the lead role on a new soap.

Here's the trailer:



It's looking like they might get picked up by Univision.

Exciting!

He actually had really long hair when we shot...



And I had tied it back and then photoshopped it to look shorter so that he could go out for more mainstream roles.



In the end they cast him in this soap but forced him to cut his hair anyway. He looks SO good in the promo.



J.P. is also apparently slated to play a "Sexy Male Angel" in some upcoming film.

I see a big future for this one.

He's going to be the next Javier Bardem. But hotter.

Surrogate Sighting!

So I netflixed Surrogates and just started watching it this evening.

If you haven't seen it, it's this Bruce Willis movie about the future and how everyone uses a "Surrogate" to represent them in the real world.

These surrogates are like robots and are perfect looking and so there's lots and lots of ridiculously pretty people in the movie.

So in one of the opening scenes there's a car crash.



This car swerves to avoid hitting a motorcyclist and hits a pole and flips and crashes into a line of surrogates waiting in line for a club.




The police arrive.



And clean up the scene.



As they pull the car away...they unveil our sexy surrogate innocent bystander victim...



And it's Danny!



Happily he is not dead because he is sparking and still able to move his head and wiggle his fingers.



Unhappily, this is all we get to see of him in the movie.



Hmmph.



Bet it was a fun movie to shoot though!

Canon Freeze Tag

Bobby was in this really sick Canon "commercial" which I assume was made by some of his film school buddies.

There's a cool behind-the-scenes video of how it was all made. Not sure if you'll be able to access the Facebook link but try clicking here.

Did you spot Bobbo?

Yaya on Ugly Betty!!!

I know this is super old news but I didn't start watching the show until last night.

Yaya, who is Brown '04, and whose headshots I took eons ago, is on Ugly Betty this season playing Nico Slater, Vanessa William's daughter.

She looks amazing.



Watch the show on Hulu before they start charging!

Buppies gets picked up by BET!

Taken from the Wall Street Journal:

For most people, getting an Ivy League degree provides a career boost. But when actress Tatyana Ali returned to acting after graduating from Harvard in 2002, she found it hard to get work in Hollywood.

“I’d been gone for awhile,” says Ali, 30 years old, who co-starred with Will Smith in the sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” early in her career. “That difficulty is what prompted me to start the production company.”

Ali and her sister and business partner, Anastasia, contacted a friend from school, Julian Breece, who’d approached her years earlier with an idea for a television show. The networks passed on the idea, so Ali and Breece looked to the Web, with Ali producing and Breece writing and directing. Independently financing and producing the show gave them complete creative control, from writing in gay characters to casting mostly black actors.

“Doing a Web series, working in this new medium, you have a little bit more autonomy, an ability to tell the story you want to tell,” Ali says.

With a little help from Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, Breece and Ali brought their show to BET. The result is “Buppies,” premiering Tuesday on BET.com. The show is BET’s first original Web series. It’s not the first Web series to feature a predominately black cast, but with BET’s promotion of the show online and on TV, it is arguably the most high-profile.

“BET was definitely not a part of my plan at all,” says Breece. “But a lot of black people flock to the Web for content. I just feel like it’s the new frontier.”

“Buppies” dramatizes the life of Quinci (played by Ali) a socialite and publicist dealing with the loss of her father and the end of a relationship, all amidst the glamour and gossip of Hollywood.

For Ali, who has been readying a pop/R&B album for a spring release, part of the appeal of doing “Buppies” is to show networks that black content can draw viewers.

In past decades, network television featured such black-themed shows as “The Jeffersons,” “The Cosby Show,” “In Living Color,” and “A Different World,” but there are currently no shows with majority black casts that draw the attention of those past programs.

With Ice Cube, Idris Elba, Don Cheadle and Aaron McGruder all producing new series for broadcast and cable networks, that might change in the next few years.

Ali, along with producers Martin Lawrence, Raphael Saadiq and Bentley Kyle Evans (”Martin,” “The Jamie Foxx Show”) have shot four episodes of series called “Love that Girl” and are shopping it to different networks.

“You can only wait around for auditions for so long, wait around for that perfect role for so long,” Ali says about her producing efforts. “As soon as you set out and say: ‘you know what forget everybody, I’m just going to make my own thing, make my own way.’ That’s when you start getting work!”

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You can see the original post with pics from the making of Buppies here:

http://eggfurious.blogspot.com/2008/11/buppies.html

And the official BUPPIES website is here: http://buppies.bet.com

Yay!!! World domination!!!!