HEROES – Greg Grunberg’s ‘GROUP SEX’

According to an interview with TV Guide, Greg Grunberg, the actor who plays Matt Parkman on HEROES, has a new project he’s tackling while he has “a little free time” (hmmm): a new movie he and long-time friend J. J. Abrams (ALIAS) have written and are co-producing called GROUP SEX.

It’s about a guy (played by Josh Cooke) who falls in love with a girl (Odette Yustman) only to find out she’s a sexaholic. So in order to get closer to her, he pretends to be one, too… Greg Grunberg’s playing the guy’s best friend who isn’t quite down with the whole thing.

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES’ James Denton, Tom Arnold, Katherine Narducci and HAPPY DAYS star Henry Winkler help round out the cast.

Grunberg says about the chance to work on this movie, “I had all of this free time and decided to get naked and laugh my ass off!” Definitely a reason to go see this one, eh?

Now, if only they’d get back to the darn series as I need a new episodes of HEROES fix and soon. (The online eps and comics are okay, but just not quite the same thing.)

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MUSIC AND LYRICS – Better Than Expected

I was desperate for something to watch while I work – especially since I’m getting 2 premium movie channels for free so there HAS to be SOMETHING on, right? – when I noticed MUSIC AND LYRICS, the movie with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, was showing this month. I never saw it when it first came out, but had liked the commercials, so wanted to see if I’d missed out by not seeing it in the theaters.

Now, normally I find that Hugh Grant tends to play the same character over and over as does Drew Barrymore a lot, so I figured I’d get some work done since I wouldn’t have to give it my whole attention. What I didn’t realize is how well their “usual” characters would mesh and work so well together. In fact, I’ve now watched it about 4 times (and counting since I DVR’d it) and it keeps growing on me.

I really couldn’t say why. There’s just something about it that makes me want to rewatch it again and again. (It’s probably the great 1980s derivative “Pop Goes My Heart” song they created as the signature tune of the has-been band – very dead-on Duran Duran-ish/Flock of Seagalls-ish and most likely would have been a chart-topper back in the day!)
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