Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Happy Friday Everybody! Hope all of you have some fun plans for the weekend or maybe you plan to just relax. Either way, have a great weekend. And now, here is the news for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Jacqueline Bisset will appear in a multi-episode arc on Rizzoli & Isles, which returns on July 11 at 10 PM on TNT. She will play Constance Isles, Maura’s elegant adoptive mother who is a brilliant art historian. Her first episode will air in early August. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor Jonathan Silverman will have a guest appearance in an upcoming episode of White Collar, which returns with all new episodes starting on June 7. He will play a bad guy who is working with a black widow. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Relative newcomer Taissa Farmiga (kid sis of Up in the Air star Vera Farmiga) has been cast as the troubled offspring of Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott’s characters in American Horror Story, the FX drama pilot from Glee’s Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Also, actor Evan Peters (Invasion and One Tree Hill) has landed the series regular role of Tate, a patient of McDermott’s character. The cast of this pilot also includes Jessica Lange and Denis O’Hare (True Blood). (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Nathan Lane and British has joined the cast of the upcoming film Snow White. He will play Brighton, a servant to the Queen. (The Wrap)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tommy Lee Jones have joined the cast of the long-gestating biopic Lincoln from Steven Spielberg, joining the already cast Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field in this historical drama about our nation’s 16th president. Gordon-Levitt will play Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of Abraham (Day-Lewis) and Mary Todd Lincoln (Field), the only child of theirs to live past their teenage years. There are no specific details on Jones’ role. (First Showing)

Looks like actress Laura Linney (The Big C) is making a deal to play Eleanor Roosevelt opposite Bill Murray, who will play Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the upcoming film Hyde Park on the Hudson. The story is set during a visit by King George VI to Hyde Park, the upstate New York home of the Roosevelts. The visit took place in 1939, as momentum toward WWII was building, and also as it was becoming clear that FDR was having an affair with his cousin Daisy. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

Actor Joel Edgerton has signed on to play a special operative in the upcoming Kill Bin Landen to be directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film will center on an elite Black Ops team’s attempt to assassinate bin Laden almost a decade ago, an effort that came very close to succeeding. (Dark Horizons)

Michael Kelly (Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior) has joined the cast of the sci-fi thriller film called Chronicle that revolves around three Portland teens who develop powers from exposure to a mysterious substance. Kelly will play the father of one of the teens. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Walton Goggins (Justified) will star opposite Stephen Dorff and David Boreanaz in the independent film Officer Down, playing the prime suspect in the sexual assault of a young woman, a case being investigated by a gruff detective (Dorff). (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

CONDOLENCES

Actress Sada Thompson (the TV series Family) has passed away. (Twitter)

Tony-winning playwright (West Side Story and Gypsy – among others) Arthur Laurents has passed away. He was 93. (TV Guide)

ME: Rest in Peace, Ms. Thompson and Mr. Laurents. Condolences are extended to both of their families, their friends and fans.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

Q&A SECTION (with Sandra Gonzalez from Entertainment Weekly)

Question: Thank you, thank you, thank you for the hilarious interview with Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) and Kensi (Daniela Ruah) from NCIS: LA this week. I LOVE it. They seem like so much fun, and I loved this week’s episode. Any word on the final two? — Billie

Sandra: Cliffhanger. Both remaining episodes have one. Really good ones! “Full-blown panic attack,” says Eric Christian Olsen of your likely reaction. “I remember reading this script in the hair and makeup trailer, and getting to the end of it, and I literally jumped out of my seat, ran outside, and I was like, ‘What? What? What?!’ [I started] looking for a producer or someone to tell me what was going on. That’s what’s so much fun about this, is that these guys are telling stories over 100 episodes. We get it as the audience gets it, and I still get tons of adrenaline.” Daniela Ruah agrees. “I think followers of this show will definitely be having panic attacks, and will be looking forward to season 3 to know what the result is.”

That’s it. Enjoy!