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FEATURED
STORIES
“Tyrant”
“The Astronaut Wives
Club”
“Proof”
PROFILED
ATHLETE
Lydia Ko
CELEBRITY
SPOTLIGHTS
Adam Rayner
Jill Kargman
Brian Unger
Yunjin Kim
Stacy London
WHAT'S FOR
DINNER
Featuring: The Lee
brothers
JAY BOBBIN'S
MOVIES TO
WATCH
THE STORY
The ‘Complications’
of Life
Premiering Thursday on
USA Network.
Pictured: Jason O’Mara
And so much more!
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STORIES
“Complications”
Premiering Thursday on USA Network.
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“Tyrant”
Opens its second season Tuesday
on FX.
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“The Astronaut Wives Club”
Premiering Thursday on ABC.
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“Proof”
Premiering Tuesday on TNT.
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Celebrity POTLIGHTS
Adam Rayner
The Lee brothers
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of “Tyrant” on FX.
Jill Kargman
of “Odd Mom Out” on
Bravo.
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Brian Unger
of “Time Traveling With
Brian Unger” on Travel
Channel.
of “Southern Uncovered.”
Yunjin Kim
Checking in.
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Stacy London
of TLC’s “Love, Lust or Run.”
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BY JOHN CROOK
Portions of St. Joseph’s Hospital in suburban
Atlanta sit vacant and idle much of the time. On
this chilly morning last December, however, the
place is buzzing with activity as the cast and crew
of “Complications” – a new thriller from Matt Nix
(“Burn Notice”) premiering Thursday, June 18,
on USA Network – try to complete their last day
of production on Season 1 before a winter storm
sweeps in that afternoon.
That sense of racing against the clock helps
account for the fatigue on star Jason O’Mara’s face.
The actor has been burning the candle at both ends
during this final push, but fortunately, his weariness
works for his character: Dr. John Ellison, an Atlanta
physician whose life becomes, well, complicated
after he impulsively risks his life to save a young
boy from a drive-by shooting.
As the 10-episode series opens, the incident in
question happens as John is still struggling to
process the loss of his own little girl, who died of
leukemia a few months earlier. Like any doctor, John
is used to interceding against nature to save the
lives of patients, so his daughter’s death has left him
feeling frustrated and impotent, O’Mara says.
“You’re looking at this man who is feeling this
profound sense that he has lost control and does
not know how to process his grief or his anger,” the
actor says. “He’s barely holding it together either at
work or at home. I think that’s why he does what he
does, after we see him have this rage attack in his
car. He hears gunshots, and suddenly he becomes
this guy who runs toward trouble instead of running
away from it. That’s really the moment when it all
Pictured: Beth
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changes, when he is running across the park toward
that little boy while everybody else is running away.”
John’s bold but reckless act draws him into an
increasingly dark situation with some dangerous
characters who threaten both him and his loved
ones, including his wife, Samantha (Beth Riesgraf,
“Leverage”), who is desperately trying to reconnect with
her husband after their shared loss.
“Sam is a very frustrated, lonely woman at this point,”
Riesgraf says of her character. “Her husband has shut
her out. One of her main missions when we meet her
is to get him to open up and to confront everything that
they have been pushing aside for so long. You’ll see that
Sam may be at a different place in the grief process
than John is, but she’s still not at 100 percent. She still
has her moments of vulnerability and weakness.”
While O’Mara’s character dominates the series, Riesgraf
says she’s very happy that the women in John’s life
– including Jessica Szohr (“Gossip Girl”) as resourceful
nurse Gretchen Polk and Lauren Stamile (”Burn Notice”)
as concerned co-worker Dr. Bridget O’Neil – all have
strong arcs that allow them to interact with the male
lead in interesting and compelling ways.
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CELEBRITY
GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A
ADAMRAYNER of ‘Tyrant’ on FX
How do you like filming FX’s
“Tyrant” in the Hungarian
capital of Budapest?
Oh marvelous. It’s a fine
place. ... It’s one of these
classic sort of 19th century
imperial European cities. It’s
gorgeous and the weather’s
just beginning to get very
nice. I thoroughly recommend
it. It’s really something. It’s
sort of a mini-Paris. It’s pretty
impressive.
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On what did you draw to create
your character of California
pediatrician-turned-would-be
Middle Eastern despot Bassam
“Barry” Al-Fayeed?
If anything, he was sort of a
composite of different people. Of
course, there’s the obvious rough
parallels to (Syrian President) Bashar
al-Assad, being a medic who was sort
of on the way to being Westernized
and was sort of pulled back into his
Middle Eastern roots. So obviously,
I read a bit about him and found out
what the deal was there. But there’s
not really a direct parallel.
But the most interesting people to
talk to, obviously, are people who
have one foot in both worlds. And I
have a good friend who’s a Tunisian
actor who’s married to an English
girl and lives in London, and in fact
when I first got the script I rang this
guy up and said, “This is you. This
is you. You’ve got to play this part.”
And he said, “Well, that’s funny. I read
for the brother.” (laughs) But he was
interesting to talk to because he’s
really lived this life and has that sort
of dual psychology within him ...
They tend to sort of agree with the
value systems that we embrace in
the West but also have a sympathy
and a profound sort of love for the
differences there are in the Middle
East and a sense of how difficult the
two are to sort of blend together. And
... coming from the U.K. or the U.S. or
from both as I did, there’s a tendency
to just think, “Well, our system works
pretty well. Why don’t you just do
it like us?” And of course, it’s so
infinitely more complex than that.
CELEBRITY
JAY BOBBIN’S Q&A
JILLKARGMAN
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of ‘Odd Mom Out’ on
Bravo
How is it for you to play a version of
yourself, someone trying to fit into an
elite environment, in “Odd Mom Out”?
I feel like it’s kooky enough that it feels a
bit distanced from me. It felt really natural
playing it. I’ve really focused on this esoteric
milieu for my whole writing career, so it just
grew pretty organically from that. I know
(this) world is cold. I grew up in it, and I’m
raising three kids in it. The details and dayto-day life cannot be hatched in a writers’
room or anywhere. I’ve witnessed so
many crazy things, I know we could do 87
seasons.
How have you been able to step outside
that world enough to be able to maintain
your own take on it?
Even though I was really in the center of it,
I had such perspective, and I understood
the value of a dollar. And I had really funny,
cool, smart parents who would comment
about the excesses like the tail numbers
monogrammed on your baseball hat. And
we just had such a sense of humor about it,
I felt divorced from all of that just over-thetop money.
In the ’70s in New York, there was an
embarrassment of riches, and people asked
their drivers to drop them off two blocks
from school. And now it’s just so showy ...
there’s so much conspicuous consumption
that I think in any town, everyone feels
like a freak as a mother, even the perfect
people. In New York, the character of (the
zip code) 10021, that neighborhood, is the
lead of the show – but I always felt that I
was not them, even though I was steeped
in it. I just didn’t have a country house, and
I didn’t have certain trappings. But most
importantly, I had a really close family, and
that’s what we try to reflect.
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CELEBRITY
GEORGE DICKIE’S Q&A
BRIANUNGER
of ‘Time Traveling With Brian
Unger’ on Travel Channel
It seems that to do a show such as this,
one would have to be a history buff. Is
that the case with you?
(Chuckles) It is the case for me. I have
always been kind of onto history and I’ve
always been intrigued by what came before,
so that we don’t repeat the (actions) that lead
us to mistakes. I ascribe to that old adage of
learning from the past so that we can make
the future better. So it fits nicely with kind of
like how I like to live my life.
How much fun is hosting this show?
It’s such a great time for me. I am seeing
places I’ve always wanted to go. I am seeing
the excitement in the faces of people who are
experiencing this connection between past
and present, and in that connection there is
this spark and that spark is being captured
by our cameras and it’s like taking a kid to
Disneyland for the first time. It’s really exciting
for me to see and it’s fun. Yeah, I feel like a
very lucky guy. ...
There is something about the weight of
history in certain places that is the closest
thing I think we’ll ever get to the paranormal,
in so much that we hear the voices that
inhabited places, we can almost picture
Gen. Sherman sitting at his desk, and we
enable our tourists to sit at that desk. To
me, it’s as close as I’ll ever get to history
and making that come alive. And I’m not a
very superstitious person at all, but in these
places where we go, since we get to pull
back the curtain and go backstage, you feel
and hear these ghosts of history. And for
some people that’s really fun and funny, and
for others it’s very emotional. It’s really run
the gamut.
FOOD
GEORGE DICKIE’S WHAT'S FOR DINNER
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THE LEEBROTHERS
Sampling the unusual and the unexpected on ‘Southern Uncovered’
Ovation’s “Southern Uncovered With the Lee Bros.” aims to show viewers a side of
Southern cuisine they’ve never seen before.
Things like ocean aging of wine.
That’s right. Take a few cases of your favorite Napa Valley cabernet or chardonnay,
drop them down to Davey Jones’ locker and let nature take its course for six months.
Then retrieve, uncork and serve with the entree of your choice.
“Certainly from a marketing angle, to add a layer of barnacles to the outside of the
bottle does wonders in the restaurant environment for padding the check,” quips Matt
Lee, who with brother Ted hosts the food and travel series that premieres Sunday,
June 14, on Ovation. “Just add another couple of hundred bucks right there if you’ve
got a barnacle on that bottle.
“But functionally, it’s about achieving a consistent temperature,” he continues. “It’s
basically like a cave down there. It’s a constant 53-54 degrees. There’s a certain
amount of turbulence. Like, the cages they put the bottles in do actually move around slightly from side to side. And so
the wine we tasted out of the ocean-aged wine definitely tasted different from a brother bottle that was aged on land.
We were surprised. We came into it very skeptically but there is a difference.”
As the title suggests, the half-hour series goes to such cities as Dallas, Atlanta, New Orleans, Louisville, Ky., Asheville,
N.C., and Charleston, S.C. (the Lees’ hometown and where the ocean aging takes place in the premiere episode),
as the Lees endeavor to explode stereotypes by introducing viewers to the people, places and dishes that define the
South.
“I’m not sure Atlanta’s at the top of everyone’s vacation list, nor Dallas,” Lee says, “but for us they represent some of
the most exciting food cities to visit today. ...
“But then again, the other thing is highlighting smaller Southern cities like Asheville and Charleston and Louisville that
have such rich culture and such long historical links, they’re just very rewarding to visit and we’re hoping to show just
by demonstrating just how deep you can get into it pretty easily and really have some rewarding and fun food and
beverage experiences.”
What book are you currently reading?
“It’s ‘Breakfast’ by George Weld. It’s actually a cookbook,
if that counts. But he’s a guy who grew up in Charleston
and made his career up in New York sort of doing a popup in a hot dog store.”
What did you have for dinner last night?
“I had rotisserie chicken, salad from the garden and
potato salad from probably the grocery store takeout. I
was at a friend’s house and his mother sort of catered
dinner (chuckles). But it was delicious.”
of view the kind of cooking demonstration that we usually
do for small audiences for a much larger audience, about
250 or 300 people, in Louisville, Ky., June 19 and 20.”
When was the last vacation you took, where and
why?
“My wife jokes that we haven’t done one yet in our 10year experience together. We’re hoping to go to Bermuda
this fall and Montreal this summer but I can’t even
remember the last proper vacation where it wasn’t for
some specific travel/editorial purpose.”
What is your next project?
“We’re pretty excited about doing a live show for the first
time. We’re developing sort of more from a theatrical point
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CELEBRITY
GEORGE DICKIE’S CELEBRITY SCOOP
YUNJINKIM
Often a big thrill for a young actor is getting cast on a TV show or movie with someone
they’ve watched since they were little.
For Yunjin Kim of ABC’s “Mistresses,” which returns for its third season Thursday, June 18,
that someone was Matthew Fox when both were on ABC’s 2004-2010 supernatural thriller
“Lost.”
“When we first started, I mean just the actors that got on board,” the Korean-born, New
York-raised 41-year-old says from the show’s set in Vancouver, British Columbia. “I was a
huge fan of ‘Party of Five’ and Matthew Fox, and it was like ‘oh my gosh!’ He was my big
crush when I was little, and that was exciting to actually get to work with him.
“And (on) ‘Mistresses,’ (the since-departed) Alyssa Milano. I used to watch her all the
time when I was growing up, and actually being on the same show was like ‘Wow, I can’t
believe it!’ I pretty much watched every episode of ‘Who’s the Boss’; I loved that show.
... Alyssa was the cutest thing and just seeing her so many years afterward and actually
being in the same show, that was cool.”
By the time Kim had gotten cast in “Lost,” she had already made a name for herself in
South Korea. The graduate of New York’s High School for the Performing Arts and Boston
University had already starred in one of that country’s largest-grossing films, “Swiri”
(1999), by the time she signed a holding deal with ABC in 2003.
Now with one successful U.S. series under her belt and another in progress, Kim is
looking forward to more adventures with her character, psychiatrist Karen, on the soapy
nighttime drama.
At the end of last season, blood tests confirmed Karen was HIV-negative but another
issue was found. And while the actress demurs on exactly what that is, she does allow
that this season will give Karen a darker storyline.
“I feel like Karen is sort of the darker side and she’s the mistress of the show and she
becomes a mistress again this season, but in a very different circumstance. So I’m excited
to find out the reaction from the viewers when we actually air on June 18, how people are
going to take it and whether people are going to like it,” she says with a laugh.
Name: Yunjin Kim
Birth date: Nov. 7, 1973
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Residence: Seoul and Los Angeles
Movie credits: “Swiri” (1999), “The
Legend of Gingko” (2000), “Rush!”
(2001), “Mr. Iron Palm” (2002),
“Yeseuteodei” (2002), “Ardor” (2002),
“Diary of June” (2005), “Seven Days”
(2007), “Harmony” (2010), “Heartbeat”
(2010), “The Neighbors” (2012), “Ode to
My Father” (2014)
TV credits: “Beautiful Vacation” (1996),
“Weding Deureseu” (1998), “With Love”
(1998), “Lost” (2004-10), “Lost: Missing
Pieces” (2007), “Two Sisters” (2008),
“Mistresses” (2013-present)
CELEBRITY
CELEBRITY PROFILE
STA C Y LO ND O N
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Stacy London of TLC’s ‘Love, Lust or Run’
- Born and raised in New York City.
- Struggled with psoriasis from the young age of four.
- Graduated from Vassar with a double major: 20th century
philosophy and German literature.
- During summer breaks in college she interned at different
magazines including Christian Dior in Paris.
- First job out of college was at Vogue magazine.
- After Vogue, assisted Debbie Mason, the fashion director at
Mademoiselle magazine.
- Worked as a senior fashion editor at Mademoiselle for four
years.
- Was working as a freelance stylist when her agent called
and told her about auditions for TLC’s “What Not to Wear.”
- Joined Clinton Kelly as co-host of “What Not to Wear” in
January 2003. The show ran for 10 years.
- Co-wrote “Dress Your Best: The Complete Guide to Finding
the Style That’s Right for Your Body” with Clinton Kelly.
- Hosted “Fashionably Late With Stacy London” in 2007, also
on TLC.
- Performed off-Broadway in “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” in
2009.
- In 2013 launched a psoriasis campaign called Uncover Your
Confidence.
- Named Shape magazine’s style editor-at-large in 2013.
- Co-founder and stylist-in-chief of Style for Hire.
- Author of The New York Times best-seller “The Truth About
Style.”
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CELEBRITY
CELEBS’ FAVORITE SHOWS
Mads
Mikkelsen
Constance
Zimmer
Valerie
Bertinelli
Andrew
Zimmern
Set the DVR
Mads Mikkelsen of “Hannibal” on NBC
“Well you know, I’m from the former millennium. Just the
mere fact of recording something would be way over my
head. I have no idea how to do it. That’s why I got two kids,
so they can help me out. But if I have time, which I have
on Sundays, I do tend to sit and watch ‘The Walking Dead’
a lot. And fortunately they are showing them as marathons,
so I could watch six one day and six the other day. It’s
just something I can’t get enough of – zombies and crazy
people. It’s a combination from hell that I love.”
Constance Zimmer of “UnReal” on Lifetime
“I record ‘Bob’s Burgers’ – it’s a very well-done animated
show – and ‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,’ ‘The Last
Man on Earth’ and ‘Girls.’ That shows you my eclectic
taste.”
Valerie Bertinelli of “Hot in Cleveland” on TV Land
“I’ve been bombarding myself with cooking shows, so
anything on Food Network (where Bertinelli will start her
own soon). And still the old standby – I’m going to miss
Jon Stewart, so I’m taking all of ‘The Daily Show’ in, too.”
Andrew Zimmern of “Bizarre Foods With Andrew
Zimmern” on Travel Channel
“ ‘Game of Thrones,’ lots of sports, ‘Real Housewives of
New York,’ ‘True Detective,’ anything on BBC America,
‘Mind of a Chef,’ ‘Survivor,’ ‘Reliable Sources’ on CNN.”
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BY GEORGE DICKIE
Pictured: Jennifer Finnigan
complicated and who he loves, and has sort of irrevocably
compromised. So he’s full of sadness and frustration, I
guess, because he’s in limbo, and whatever this grand
game is, he wants to see it played out.”
When last seen on FX’s political thriller “Tyrant,”
pediatrician-turned-would-be-despot Bassam “Barry” AlFayeed (Adam Rayner) was behind bars after his failed
coup of brother Jamal’s (Ashraf Barhom) regime in the
Middle Eastern country of Abbudin.
As Season 2 opens Tuesday, June 16, it’s four months later
and Barry is still incarcerated waiting for Jamal to decide
his fate. Execution isn’t in the cards at this point, but Barry
has had plenty of time to ponder how he’s annihilated his
relationship with his brother. And that has weighed on him
like a ton of bricks.
“His mindset is ... obviously pretty bleak,” explains Rayner,
“and one of frustration because he’s in prison for four
months and once you know that, it begs the question:
What’s been going on for four months? He’s committed
high treason, so it would imply there’s some kind of
indecision ... in terms of how to resolve this situation. And
that is, of course, obviously frustrating, and when you’re
in prison you want to know what’s going to happen to you,
particularly if you’re on death row. You just want some
clarity about the situation.
“So I wouldn’t say he’s full of regret because I think his
sense is that it was his destiny in some way to do what
he did and get to that point. But of course, he’s filled with
remorse – and remorse is a good word rather than regret
in terms of the cost to himself and his family, both his
wife and his relationship with his brother, which was very
Barry isn’t the only one who’s been alone with his thoughts.
Wife Molly (Jennifer Finnigan) has been holed up at the
U.S. embassy for the past four months, mulling over her
marriage and all the deception in it. And she isn’t happy
about it.
Which means in Season 2, Finnigan gets to show a
different side of Molly, a more independent side, and
stretch her acting legs at bit, a prospect the actress is
overjoyed at.
“I just want to stress that Molly is just not the same person
she was in the first season,” Finnigan says. “You know,
she’s gone through a lot. I think she’s had some reckonings
and I think she is very intent on living a more truthful life.”
“She’s still extremely concerned,” Finnigan continues. “She
has no idea what’s in store for him. It’s a waiting game at
this point. She doesn’t know if he’s going to live or die. But
I think just spending this time by herself, obviously she
achieved a clearer perspective of her relationship and the
secrets between them that she’s allowed that she no longer
wants to live beneath the shadow of.”
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STORY
“Astronaut”
WIVES CLUB
Takes Off
Premiering Thursday on ABC.
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STORY
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ABC
launches
drama about original astronauts’ wives
BY JAY BOBBIN
Not only did the astronauts known as the Mercury Seven
have the right stuff, so did the women who stood by them.
“She was a real trailblazer, a modern thinker,” Annable
says of her newest alter ego. “Gordon Cooper even
mentioned that Trudy may have been a better pilot than
he was himself, and that everything he knew, he learned
from his wife. She had to go through so many things at
that time and had to stand up for herself, even in the way
she raised her daughters. She wanted to instill in them
the same thoughts she had.” (Annable and her actor
husband Dave, who co-stars in this fall’s NBC series
“Heartbreaker,” are now expecting their first child.)
Their stories are told in “The Astronaut Wives Club,” ABC’s
drama-series adaptation of Lily Koppel’s best-seller that
premieres Thursday, June 18. An ensemble cast featuring
many familiar television faces – such as Odette Annable
(“House”), Bret Harrison (“Reaper”), Yvonne Strahovski
(“Chuck”), Desmond Harrington (“Dexter”), JoAnna Garcia
Swisher (“Once Upon a Time”) and Wilson Bethel (“Hart
of Dixie”) – re-creates the early years of manned space
travel when NASA, formed under President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, had a forceful proponent in White House
successor John F. Kennedy (seen in the series in newsreel
footage).
“It has been quite the journey,” says Annable, who follows
her brutal on-screen exit from Cinemax’s “Banshee” by
playing spaceman Gordon Cooper’s (Harrison) spirited
wife Trudy in the show that originally was aimed for last
summer. “I was chomping at the bit to portray this woman
who was so extraordinary, and when we were finally able to
start shooting in October in New Orleans, everything came
together the way that it should have. Whatever (production)
delays needed to happen happened for a reason.”
If the astronauts’ relationships with their spouses didn’t
always run smoothly, it was the same among the women,
who were alternately supportive and competitive ... the
latter spirit shown at the outset of the series in the first
encounter between Trudy, who was a licensed pilot, and
Alan Shepard’s (Harrington) wife Louise (Dominique
McElligott).
Covering the years of the Gemini and Apollo missions
as well, “The Astronaut Wives Club” means a reunion for
Annable, since she and on-screen “husband” Harrison
also worked together in the Fox sitcom “Breaking In” –
and “he happens to be one of my best friends in real life,”
she notes. “I lived with Bret in New Orleans with his wife
and his baby, so it was great to work together on these
characters we cared so deeply about. ‘Gordo’ and Trudy
had such a fun story to tell. Even though they did end up
getting a divorce, they had a great love story.”
Replicating the clothing and hair styles of the 1960s
also was “one of the biggest draws” of ”The Astronaut
Wives Club” for Annable: “We all worked together
with our costume designer, Eric Daman, to create a
specific palette for each woman. You certainly see that
throughout the show, and there was no mistaking it.
Whenever I would try something with Eric, we would
know right away whether it was Trudy or not. And
he nailed it, he really did. Whenever I would put my
costumes on and get my hair and makeup done, I would
feel like Trudy Cooper.”
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STORY
Premiering Tuesday on TNT
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STORY
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TNT drama
seeks ‘Proof’
of life after
death
BY JAY BOBBIN
BY
Challenges don’t get much bigger than proving there’s life
after death.
Pictured: Kyra Sedgwick
It’s taken up by the surgeon played by “Flashdance”
icon Jennifer Beals in the TNT drama series “Proof,”
premiering Tuesday, June 16. With “The Closer” Emmy
winner Kyra Sedgwick returning to the network as an
executive producer, the show finds Beals’ Dr. Carolyn “Cat”
Tyler mourning the recent loss of her teenage son ... but
maintaining enough spirit and curiosity to accept a cancerstricken millionaire’s (Matthew Modine) offer to fund her
research to prove something else awaits a person after he
or she dies.
The theme of faith vs. science clearly is central to “Proof,”
and Beals says, “I don’t think the two are necessarily
exclusive. It’s affirming to find this kind of material, but
also really exciting to find how it can expand you as a
human being. By playing certain roles, there’s an aspect
that’s awakened me in terms of being able to stand up to
what I think is wrong in the world and become really more
involved with my own life.
“We’re all going to take this journey,” Beals adds of
“Proof’s” main subject. “This is something that’s inevitable,
and how we approach it structures our lives in some way.
I’ve heard that Matthew has said something to the effect
of, ‘It’s not until we realize that we’re going to die that we
start to live,’ and I completely agree with that. I would take
it one step further and say, ‘It’s not until you realize that
we’re all going to die that you really start to live.”’
Also in the “Proof” cast: “Scandal” Emmy winner Joe
Morton as Cat’s hospital boss; David Sutcliffe (“Gilmore
Girls”) as the fellow doctor she’s maritally separated from;
Annie Thurman (“The Hunger Games”) as the former
couple’s daughter; Edi Gathegi (“Justified”) as an intern
who helps Cat; and Callum Blue (“Dead Like Me”) as a
popular author who claims to have psychic gifts.
A recurring guest star on Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
lately, Sedgwick says, “I remember years ago when we
started ‘The Closer,’ (that series’ creator and executive
producer) James Duff said, ‘Really great television is
about life and death,’ and he was right. You look at all the
great shows out there, and they’re really about that.”
Sedgwick also wanted to showcase a strong female
character, as with her own part as police interrogator
Brenda Leigh Johnson for TNT over seven seasons.
“That was my mandate going in,” she states. “I wanted
to give back what I was given so generously. I wanted
a great role for a woman over 40, and the show had to
be very much character-driven, even if it was something
that was a procedural ... though I wasn’t necessarily
looking for that. And this is all of that and more.”
For Beals, “Proof” continues a line of atypical television
projects including “The L Word” and “Nothing Sacred.”
She reflects, “It’s been a very interesting ride so far. I
feel like I’m just now starting to come into my power
in a way, in the sense of being able to effect change. I
hope that instead of helping to define me, this helps to
define (viewers), in terms of the questions that they ask
themselves.”
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SPORTS
LYDIA
KO
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FULL NAME: LYDIA (BOGYUNG) KO
BIRTH DATE: APRIL 24, 1997
HOME CLUB: GULF HARBOUR CC,
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
HEIGHT: 5 FEET 5 INCHES
COLLEGE: KOREA UNIVERSITY
COUNTRY OF BIRTH: SOUTH KOREA
HONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: LPGA
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR, 2014; YOUNGEST
GOLFER TO BE RANKED NO. 1, 2015
CURRENTLY RESIDES: NEW ZEALAND
SPORTS
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BY DAN LADD
For the past few years, fans of
women’s golf have been watching
Lydia Ko grow up in front of their
very own eyes. And what a show it
has been. The 2014 LPGA Rookie
of the Year seeks her first major
win when the final round of the
KPMG LPGA Championship airs
Sunday, June 14, on NBC. This
year’s tournament will be played at
Westchester Country Club in Rye,
N.Y.
Perhaps it may be risky to assume
Ko will make the cut and be among
the finalists come Sunday. Entering
2015, however, she had done just
that in every LPGA tournament
she’s played in dating back to an
amateur career that began in 2012.
When she turned pro in 2013, she
already had two LPGA Tour wins
under her belt and at this writing
was atop the rankings.
Ko is having a solid season so
far in 2015, winning the ISPS
Handa Women’s Australian Open
in February, which was the third
tournament on the LPGA Tour. She
followed that up in April winning the
Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. Still,
the LPGA is as competitive as ever
and Ko will have to contend with
the likes of Inbee Park, the two-time
defending LPGA Championship
winner.
LYDIAKO
Ko’s best finishes in majors include
third place in this tournament in
2014 and as an amateur she placed
second in the Evian Championship
in 2013. At age 18 and being the
youngest golfer ever to be ranked
No. 1, Ko winning a major would
also be a win for the LPGA.
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MOVIES
JAY BOBBIN'S THEATRICAL MOVIE REVIEW
REVIEW
“MAD MAX: FURY ROAD”
‘Mad Max’ gets a
furious, visceral
revival
Pictured: Tom Hardy
If you don’t know what to make of Tom Hardy as the
screen’s new Mad Max, remember that many people had
the same feeling about Mel Gibson when he originated the
role.
The role of the vengeful warrior in a post-apocalyptic
world made Gibson a global star, and while it isn’t likely
to be as defining for Hardy – known for his work with
filmmaker Christopher Nolan on such films as “The Dark
Knight Rises” and “Inception” – “Mad Max: Fury Road”
does a solid job not only in reviving the premise, but giving
it a freshness, particularly impressive because that’s
accomplished nearly 40 years later by returning director
George Miller.
Max still has plenty of reason to be mad, seen right from
the outset as he’s the captive of a sinister, strangely
masked mentor (Hugh Keays-Byrne, also of the original
movie) of young toughs (one played by Nicholas Hoult).
Eventually, Max finds an unexpected ally in one of the
enemy’s main deputies (Charlize Theron, dressed down to
the point of sporting a prosthetic arm).
Moon” alum Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, among others). Of
course, the bad guys are in hot pursuit, thus making for
the frantic trip down “Fury Road.”
And frantic, it truly is. “Mad Max” and its first sequel, “The
Road Warrior,” made their reputations on their simple
approach of bountiful action in grim surroundings ... and
even though there’s a lot more available to him now in
terms of film technology, some of which he does use here,
Miller wisely sticks to the basics and lets the plethora of
human and vehicular stunts do much of the talking.
He also continues to guarantee that “name” performers
won’t have it easy in this world. As with Tina Turner in
“Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” Theron gets her share
of rough stuff to dole out. It’s another daring performance
from an actress who won an Oscar for one (“Monster”),
and it’s fun to get this reassurance that she’s still so willing
to get down and dirty.
There’s been a whole generation since the last time Mad
Max saw action 30 years ago, and even if “Mad Max: Fury
Road” isn’t the long-range franchise-reviver its makers
She’s had it with the boss, and not only does she
likely hope for, it gets the basic job done as the man
demonstrate it by her own betrayal of him, but also
who started the series stays true to it and supplies what
by taking five of what he cherishes most: his wives
followers will be looking for. Three decades later, that’s a
(represented by Zoe Kravitz and “Transformers: Dark of the real accomplishment.
MOVIES
JAY BOBBIN'S MOVIE REVIEW
MOVIES TO WATCH
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Top Pick
DVD
“CHAPPIE”
It might sound like deja vu for Hugh Jackman to “star” with a robot, since he already did that in “Real Steel” ... but
the big difference here is that Neill Blomkamp, the maker of such grim sci-fi tales as “District 9” and “Elysium,” is the
filmmaker in charge. The premise immediately gets more gravity, then, as Jackman plays a near-future cop caught
up in the dilemma that arises when a police android is stolen and reprogrammed to enable it to think for itself. That
sets off alarms for others who fear what it might do – and want it destroyed before the answer becomes known.
“District 9” alum Sharlto Copley, Sigourney Weaver and Dev Patel (“The Newsroom”) also are in the human cast, but
as might be expected, this picture largely belongs to the special-effects team that brings robot Chappie to life. DVD
extra: “making-of” documentary. (R: N, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)
Pictured: Hugh Jackman
UPCOMING DVD RELEASES
Coming Soon on DVD...
“DANNY COLLINS” (June 30):
Al Pacino plays a literal rock
star who reassesses his life
after receiving a special letter.
(R: AS, N, P)
“GET HARD” (June 30):
Headed for prison, a financial
manager (Will Ferrell) seeks
advice from a man (Kevin Hart)
he presumes to be an ex-con.
(R: AS, N, P, V)
“HOUSE OF CARDS:
VOLUME THREE” (July 7):
Now the U.S. president, Francis
Underwood (Kevin Spacey)
takes his scheming to an
entirely different level. (Not
rated: AS, P, V)
Pictured: Al Pacino
“THE JINX: THE LIFE AND
DEATHS OF ROBERT
DURST” (July 7): The recent
HBO documentary miniseries
that ended quite controversially
comes to DVD and Blu-ray.
(Not rated: AS, P)
“THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC
MARIGOLD HOTEL” (July 14):
Richard Gere joins returnees
Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and
Bill Nighy in the seriocomic
sequel. (PG: AS, P)
“PAUL BLART: MALL COP
2” (July 21): While attending a
convention in Las Vegas, Blart
(Kevin James) opposes wouldbe art thieves. (PG: P, V)
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FAVORITE SHOWS
Ciara in
“I Can Do That”
Christina
Tosi in
“MasterChef”
SUNDAY
10:01 p.m. on NBC
American Odyssey
While the mysterious Dogon shaman
holds her hostage, Odelle (Anna Friel)
is taken on a strange trip, during which
she is forced to confront ghosts from
her recent past in the new episode
“Gingerbread.” Back in New York,
meanwhile, Peter (Peter Facinelli) hits
an emotional nadir as his personal
and professional lives suffer major
reversals. On a happier note, Ruby
and Harrison (Daniella Pineda, Jake
Robinson) go on a romantic vacation.
Nate Mooney, Omar Ghazaoui,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Treat
Williams also star. New
10:03 p.m. on HBO
Silicon Valley
As the guys wait for a verdict on
Chris
O’Donnell in
“NCIS: Los
Angeles”
Anna Friel
in “American
Odyssey”
Pied Piper’s fate, an unexpected
drama causes a spike in traffic to
the livestream, forcing them to fight
desperately just to hold things together
in the season finale, “Two Days of the
Condor.” Erlich (T.J. Miller), meanwhile,
ponders what his next step should be,
while Richard (Thomas Middleditch)
struggles to ensure that his company
has any kind of future at all. Season
Finale New
MONDAY
9:59 p.m. on CBS
NCIS: Los Angeles
After an NCIS comrade is found
dead, a frantic search begins for two
Afghanistan soldiers in “Savoir Faire.”
Callen (Chris O’Donnell) and the team
fear the missing men are in the hands
of captors who want to extract military
intelligence from them. Sam (LL Cool
J) is back on the job, but others worry
he hasn’t taken enough time to heal.
Actor Eric Laneuville (“St. Elsewhere”)
directed the story. Linda Hunt and
Daniela Ruah also star.
TUESDAY
10:01 p.m. on NBC
I Can Do That
Tonight’s new episode finds the show’s
core cast — Ciara, Joe Jonas, Cheryl
Burke, Nicole Scherzinger, Alan
Ritchson and Jeff Dye — flexing some
previously unused creative muscles
as they perform with the mixed martial
arts stunt group Board Breakers, cast
members from the Tony Award-winning
Broadway production “Avenue Q” and
the critically acclaimed modern dance
team known as Pilobolus. New
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FAVORITE SHOWS
WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. on FOX
MasterChef
The new episode “What Happens
in Vegas Steaks in Vegas” delivers
the second field challenge of the
season, as the remaining home
cooks travel to Las Vegas and split
into two teams to prepare food for
101 performers. The better-received
team is safe from the pressure
test challenges, which measure
temperature and flavor of steaks.
Host Gordon Ramsay joins Graham
Elliot and Christina Tosi to judge
their efforts. New
THURSDAY
9 p.m. on ABC
Mistresses
The sudsy drama about a group
of closely knit girlfriends who have
one another’s backs opens its third
season (sans original cast member
Alyssa Milano) with a special twohour premiere — “Gone Girl/I’ll Be
Watching You” — that introduces
new characters played by incoming
series regulars Jennifer Esposito
(“Blue Bloods”) and Rob Mayes
(“The Client List”). Yunjin Kim,
Rochelle Aytes, Jes Macallan and
Brett Tucker return in their familiar
roles. Season Premiere New
FRIDAY
10 p.m. on CBS
Blue Bloods
Victor Garber (“Alias”) guest
stars in “Under the Gun,” playing
a community member concerned
about a series of apparent hate
crimes targeting prominent people.
While Frank (Tom Selleck) deals
with citizens’ related worries, Danny
and Baez (Donnie Wahlberg, Marisa
Ramirez) seek those responsible.
Something else is very much
on Danny’s mind, too: After she
becomes a mugging victim, Linda
(Amy Carlson) wants to arm herself.
9 p.m. on SYFY
Killjoys
This new sci-fi adventure series
follows a spirited trio of interplanetary
bounty hunters chasing deadly
warrants across the Quad, a distant
system on the brink of war. The series
premiere, “Bangarang,” finds Dutch
and John (Hannah John-Kamen,
“The Hour,” and Aaron Ashmore,
“Warehouse 13”) racing against time
and a competing Killjoy in an attempt
to clear their names and save the
life of John’s estranged brother,
D’avin (Luke Macfarlane, “Brothers &
Sisters”). Series Premiere New
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the title character in encore episodes
of “Axe Cop.” In “The Rabbit Who
Broke All the Rules,” Axe Cop meets
a silent boy who wants the hero
to adopt him. “All-American Story”
reveals how Axe Cop’s ancestor,
Book Cop, invented the Fourth
of July. Flute Cop (voiced by Ken
Marino) takes wife Anita (guest voice
Megan Mullally) on a vacation in
“Babysitting Unibaby.” The heroes
search for a kidnapped scientist in
“Zombie Island ... In Space.”
SATURDAY
11 p.m. on FOX
Animation Domination High-Def
Nick Offerman (“Parks and
Recreation”) provides the voice of
Jes Macallan
stars in
“Mistresses”
Marisa Ramirez
stars in “Blue
Bloods”
“Axe Cop” airs as part of
“Animation Domination
High-Def”

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