Video: Pia Toscano Interview: “Trying To Find The Perfect Sound For My Album”

Photo Credit: Parisa Michelle.

May 12, Hollywood, CA – The gorgeous Pia Toscano walked the red carpet at Samsung/AT&T’s “Infuse Your Imagination” event.

Pia gave CelebMagnet an interview (watch below), sharing her thoughts on the shocking James Durbin elimination on American Idol just moments before (She could not refer to James specifically since the episode had not yet aired on the west coast).
Pia also spoke about her upcoming album and the Idol tour. She said her album will be pop with an R&B flavor. About the tour, she is absolutely “giddy” about performing at the same venues where she watched Rihanna and Lady Gaga perform just a year ago.

Watch the full interview below.

Photo Credit: Wire Image

The Infuse Your Imagination event celebrated the launch of the Samsung Infuse 4G exclusively from AT&T – and featured a special private musical performance by Nicki Minaj. Full story/more pics from this event can be found here.
Photo Credit: Parisa Michelle
Photo Credit: Samah Sohrab

Photo Credit: Sama Sohrab

Chris Hemsworth Steals ‘Thor’ Role From Brother Liam (Red Carpet Photos)

Thor premieres this Friday, May 6, 2011 and its star, 27-year old, Australian-born Chris Hemsworth has been receiving rave reviews for his performance as the legendary Marvel Comics superhero.

Chris stole the role away from brother Liam Hemsworth. Well, not really steal, but the two were going for the same part. Liam had done a screen test for the director, Kenneth Branagh, but Branagh decided to test other actors later on. That’s when Chris tried out and got tips from Liam on what to do during his screen test. And the tips obviously worked. And don’t feel too bad for Liam. He just landed a role on The Hunger Games.
How did the relative-newcomer feel about his time on a major U.S. movie set? Chris told The Hollywood Reporter: “I thought there was going to be a lot of pressure and anxiety on the set of a big studio movie, but instead there was joy.”
Here is Hemsworth at the Red Carpet Premiere of Thor held May 2, 2011 at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA:

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Matthew Perry Feels “Selfish” For Creating “Mr. Sunshine” – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

Matthew Perry returns to TV Wednesday night with a brand new comedy, Mr. Sunshine. The show also stars his The West Wing co-star Allison Janney. Also on the show are James Lesure (Lipstick Jungle, The New Adventures of Old Christine), Nate Torrence (She’s Out of My League, Get Smart), David Pressman, Andrea Anders, David Pressman, and Portia Doubleday.

Perry told ET: “I think I did maybe the most selfish thing a person can do, I created a television show for myself. I was playing a video game for about three years and decided I needed to do something with my life and I created a TV show.”

On Mr. Sunshine, Perry plays Ben, a self absorbed manager of a San Diego sports arena called the Sunshine Center. But if you are looking for this show to replace Friends, don’t hold your breath. There will be no guest-starring of Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow or David Schwimmer on the first season of Perry’s new show.

“From the gate, I wanted to show that this was something new,” he told ET. “Of course, it would be great to work with all of them again someday. If we are lucky enough to have the show go on long enough, it would be wonderful.”

Mr. Sunshine will have the following stars make their appearances though: Lost‘s Jorge Garcia, tennis great Jimmy Connors, James Taylor and Nick Jonas.

Mr. Sunshine premieres Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 9:30 p.m. on ABC, temporarily replacing Friends‘ co-star Courteney Cox’s Cougar Town.

Here are photos from the ABC Red Carpet Premiere Event held last summer:

“Waiting For Forever” Red Carpet Premiere – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

The Red Carpet premiere of Waiting For Forever took place Tuesday night, February 1, 2011 at Pacific Theaters at The Grove in Los Angeles, CA.

Most of the cast was present including Rachel Bilson, Tom Sturridge, Scott Mechlowicz, Blythe Danner, and Roz Ryan, as well as Executive Producer Jane Seymour, Director James Keach.

The elegant Executive Producer Jane Seymour and me 🙂

Scott Mechlowicz and me

Rachel Bilson

Blythe Danner

Bachelorette Ali Fedotowsky

Roz Ryan
Scottie Thompson

Jane Seymour and sisters Sally and Anne Gould

Amy Paffrath and Andrew Seeley
Edyta Sliwinska

Brothers & Sisters Premiere – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS & VIDEO

Season 5 of Brothers & Sisters premieres tonight at 10/9c on ABC, finally providing a resolution to the many cliffhanger tragedies happening to various cast members.
Last season ended with a disastrous car crash that seemed to kill off departing cast member Rob Lowe’s character, Robert McCallister. It also left William Walker’s ex-mistress Holly (Patricia Wettig) in similarly critical condition. If that all wasn’t traumatic enough, Saul (Ron Rifkin) revealed that he was HIV-positive and Justin (Dave Annable) and Rebecca (Emily VanCamp) came to a crossroads in their young marriage.

How is Brothers & Sisters going to take care of all of this mayhem this season? With a jump-ahead-in-time plot of course!

Executive producer David Marshall Grant tells TVGuide.com: “There are a lot of things we need to catch the audience up on, and there’s a lot of closure we need to acknowledge and let the audience share in. We are doing a lot to deal with that finale and get us into a place where we feel that we understand what happened and move beyond it, just as the Walkers are beginning to move beyond it.”

Grant says the jump in time will quickly allow the viewers to move on and grow. “We are starting these characters in new worlds,” he says. “These characters are really trying to reinvent themselves or to get through some really significant hurdles. I think we’re going to really hold these characters’ feet to the fire in terms of figuring out what they need to deal with and what they need to get past.”

I recently met up with two of the show’s stars, Rachel Griffiths (Sarah) and Gilles Marini (Luc) at the 2010 ABC Red Carpet Premiere Event. Check out the photos and video of Rachel and Gilles below.  

What will the show have in mind for this duo? Sarah will debate what to do with the Narrow Lake land, which could lead to a lot of money for all the Walker family members. Luckily, her rocky love life seems to be on solid ground. “They’re very much in love. It’s become a great relationship for us,” Grant says. “They seem to have the same kind of chemistry as Scotty and Kevin, and it’s just been really fun to watch.” Lucky for you ladies, look to see a lot of Luc, as he has become an underwear model. After seeing Gilles Marini as Samantha’s outdoor-showering neighbor in Sex and the City: The Movie, and as runner-up in Season 8 of Dancing with the Stars, we know Gilles as Luc can certainly pull off his new model gig. Need more proof?  Here is a picture of Luc as an underwear model which Gilles Tweeted recently:
Here are pictures and videos from the ABC 2010 Red Carpet Premiere Event:

Gilles Marini turning the camera on us.

Gilles Marini was so cool to grab my camera and take a picture with me. Thanks Gilles!

The beautiful Nancy O’Dell took a moment to take a picture with me.

My Generation Premieres On ABC Tonight – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS/VIDEO

My Generation, one of the new fall TV shows I have been looking forward to watching, premieres tonight on ABC.  The show’s concept intrigues me: A film crew which made an unreleased documentary about nine members of an Austin high school Class of 2000 returns to see what happened to them after a tumultuous decade that included 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Enron and more.  The film crew follows the personal stories of these nine friends and the promises they thought their futures held, all told through the camera of a documentary film crew.

My Generation stars Michael Stahl David as Steven, Jaime King as Jacqueline, Kelli Garner as Dawn, Keir O’Donnell as Kenneth, Mehcad Brooks as Rolly, Julian Morris as Anders, Daniella Alonso as Brenda, Anne Son as Caroline, Sebastian Sozzi as Falcon and Elizabeth Keener as the filmmaker.

Based on a Swedish format entitled On God’s HighwayMy Generation was created and written by Noah Hawley (The Unusuals, Bones), who is also an executive producer along with Warren Littlefield, Henrik Bastin, Peter Magnusson and Martin Persson. Craig Gillespie directed the pilot.

I recently met up with the cast of My Generation at the 2010 ABC Red Carpet Premiere Event.


JAIME KING (ALSO PEARL HARBOR and GARY UNMARRIED)

MICHAEL STAHL-DAVID (RIGHT) and JULIAN MORRIS (LEFT-ALSO 24, ER and PRETTY LITTLE LIARS)

KELLI GARNER and MECHAD BROOKS (ALSO THE DEEP END, TRUE BLOOD, and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES)

SEBASTIAN SOZZI and ANNE SON

ABC 2010 Red Carpet Premiere Event –EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS

ABC 2010 Red Carpet Premiere Event
Shrine Auditorium. 

  Here are some familiar and some new faces from all of ABC’s new and some returning shows.  All pictures were taken at the 2010 ABC Red Carpet Premiere Event.

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All Photos Copyrighted/CelebMagnet

MORENA CABBARIN (V)






DANA DELANY (BODY OF PROOF/DESPARATE HOUSEWIVES)






MATTHEW PERRY (AND CAST OF MR. SUNSHINE)








JAMES LESURE (ALSO LIPSTICK JUNGLE)

NATE TORRENCE (LEFT) AND JAMES LESURE (RIGHT)

ANDREA ANDERS

CAST OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS
RACHEL GRIFFITHS (ALSO SIX FEET UNDER) and
GILLES MARINI  (ALSO: DANCING WITH THE STARS/SEX AND THE CITY)





JESSE WILLIAMS and SARAH DREW (GREY’S ANATOMY) 





RICO RODRIGUEZ (MODERN FAMILY)





STANA KATIC (CASTLE)


CAST OF NO ORDINARY FAMILY
MICHAEL CHIKLIS (ALSO THE SHIELD)
JULIE BENZ (ALSO DEXTER AND RAMBO 4)




ROMANY MALCO (ALSO WEEDS)




JIMMY BENNETT and KAY PANABAKER


AUTUMN REESER (ALSO ENTOURAGE & VALENTINE) and STEPHEN COLLINS (ALSO 7TH HEAVEN)



CAST OF COUGAR TOWN

BUSY PHILIPS, CHRISTA MILLER, JOSH HOPKINS, IAN GOMEZ, DAN BYRD





ELISHA CUTHBERT (HAPPY ENDINGS/ALSO THE FORGOTTEN and 24)

NANCY O’DELL



CAST OF MY GENERATION


JAIME KING (ALSO GARY UNMARRIED)


MICHAEL STAHL-DAVID (RIGHT)
JULIAN MORRIS (LEFT-ALSO 24, ER and PRETTY LITTLE LIARS)
KELLI GARNER & 
MECHAD BROOKS (ALSO THE DEEP END, TRUE BLOOD, and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES)

ANNE SON

THE CAST OF BETTER TOGETHER
KURT FULLER and DEBRA JO RUPP (ALSO THAT 70’S SHOW)

JAKE LACY and JENNIFER FINNIGAN (ALSO BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, CROSSING JORDAN and CLOSE TO HOME)
CAST OF THE MIDDLE
ATTICUS SHAFFER
NEIL FLYNN (ALSO SCRUBS)
EDEN SHER (ALSO SONS AND DAUGHTERS, WEEDS)
PATRICIA HEATON (ALSO EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND)

CAMERON MATHISON (ALL MY CHILDREN and DANCING WITH THE STARS)
CAST OF DETROIT 1-8-7


Jennifer Aniston Joins Cast Of Cougar Town For One Show – Photos

Photo Courtesy of ABC

ABC has released a couple of pictures of Jennifer Aniston‘s upcoming cameo role on her real-life BFF Courteney Cox‘ hit ABC show, Cougar Town.

Aniston, 41, will play a psychiatrist named Bonnie in the show’s season 2 premiere on Sept. 22.

This may not be the Friends‘ reunion we all are hoping for, but I for one will take what I can get and can’t wait to see this episode.

P.S.  I recently attended an ABC 2010 Fall TV Red Carpet Event, and have included below pictures of the Cougar Town cast who were all present at the event, except for Courteney Cox.

Photo Courtesy of ABC















CAST OF COUGAR TOWN
BUSY PHILIPS, CHRISTA MILLER, JOSH HOPKINS, IAN GOMEZ, DAN BYRD