Lovin’ with cast of “Veronica Mars”
No love for Leif Garrett
While some of the nation’s TV critics gathered here at the Universal Hilton might feel like we’ve taken up residence in this hotel, “CSI” creator and executive producer Anthony Zuiker actually DOES live here.
He hangs out in his penthouse suite Mondays through Fridays, writing “CSI:
NY,” and goes home to Las Vegas on the weekends.
“People are always putting their (resumes) under my door,” he says.
So, does he just dump them in the trash? Heck no!
“When I was a kid, I wrote to Leif Garrett and left him my home number and asked if he would just call me and leave a message so I could play it for my friends,” Zuiker says. “Never heard (crap) from him.
“So when these guys contact me, I send them ‘CSI’ hats, T-shirts, everything, with a nice note. Screw Leif Garrett.”
Note to Garrett: Don’t bother auditioning for one of the hottest shows on TV.
Hearts and kisses to “Veronica Mars”
Here’s a valentine to “Veronica Mars,” one of the smartest shows on TV and one that needs more viewers. One of the best reasons to watch is star Kristen Bell.
Bell says she knew it would be hard work carrying the lead of a TV drama, “But I didn’t know that it would be 50 percent doing the show and 50 percent promoting the show.”
She says she has zero time off and what little she has is devoted to sleeping.
“I’m running on pure caffeine right now,” says Bell.
“Buffy” fan alert: Willow…er…Alyson Hannigan is joining the cast as bad boy Logan’s long-lost sister.
And for those of us enjoying Mac, the geeky computer girl played by Tina Majorino, she’s going to be back for more episodes.
“She was in my favorite movie,” gushed Bell.
“Waterworld”?
Blank stare.
“No, ‘Napoleon Dynamite.'”
Of course…
The whole “Veronica Mars” cast was in San Francisco earlier this month during their nationwide mall tour.
Co-star Jason Dohring says he was touched by a fan who had complied a CD filled with songs she thought his character Logan would love.
“I’m going to write her back and thank her. It was great,” Dohring says.
“She even made a mock cover for the album and everything.”
So at the end of this season, we’ll get the answers as to who murdered Lilly Kane, and all of the cast members are putting their bets into an envelope.
A few reporters have tried to get the cast to fess up to what their predictions are, but none have so far.
But how do will be know who won the bet?
“Oh, I’ll tell you,” says the perky Bell.
All of the cast members think they know the answer, but producer/creator Rob Thomas says he thinks they will be surprised.
“Yeah, they all THINK they know, but what they don’t know is that I haven’t been as honest with them as they think,” jokes Thomas.
At least I think he was joking….
For you girlie girls
Look out for “Bad Girl’s Guide,” which is set to debut this spring on UPN.
It’s all about it being OK for girls to wear pink instead of gray flannel power suits.
Oh yeah. It’s time we saw TV showing that you don’t have to act like a guy anymore to be taken seriously.
“For a while, especially when I was younger and coming up, you really felt like you had to almost be intimidating and be very businesslike,” says producer Robin Schiff (“Romy and Michell’s High School Adventure”). “I want to look like a girl. I want to wear cute shoes and jewelry and skirts, and I don’t think it detracts from my ability to do my job.”
Paris is the bimbo in yellow
And finally, let’s revisit the Monday Fox party, which several bloggers attended and reported stories from in which they mixed up Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie.
Ritchie was the one in the pink beaded flapper-esque dress with bobbed blonde hair who spent most of the time putting her tongue down her DJ boyfriend’s throat.
Hilton was the one in the yellow, vintage Yves St. Laurent suit and updo hair, looking very Jackie-O, who insisted on talking on her cell phone while reporters tried to interview her.
Let’s get it right, people.