Two-Minute Date: Rainn Wilson

July 21, 2008 3:27 PM by Eileen Conlan |  COMMENTS

Everyone's favorite socially awkward paper-supply drone from The Office sheds the LensCrafters glasses and center hair part for leather pants and silver skull medallions in this month's Spinal Tap ode, The Rocker. Wilson plays Robert "Fish" Fishman, a sweaty drummer unceremoniously booted from Vesuvius, an '80s hair-metal band, just before the group lands the cover of Rolling Stone. Fishman gets a second chance at trashing hotel rooms 20 years later when he joins his nephew's struggling high-school garage band.

Wilson's own musical résumé is decidedly less glam: He played clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon as a teenager. "Instant chick magnet," he deadpans. "Nothing said 'cool' like a kid in an ill-fitting tuxedo with a giant double-reed instrument.

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More Than the Bare Minimum

June 11, 2008 3:08 PM by Eileen Conlan |  COMMENTS

When I was 16, I worked as a lifeguard at the local tennis club. But this was no ordinary, lounging in the sun gig. When my one-hour shift watching the pool was done, it was back to work—-in an un-air-conditioned restaurant! Each lifeguard wore several hats: waiter, bartender, unofficial babysitter, and custodian. In addition to learning the name of each club member (so we could add it to the tab—no tips allowed!), we took orders, served lunch and concocted drinks. The drinks part sometimes included alcohol, which I suppose I served illegally, but at the time I didn’t know it. On top of all of this, we maintained the cleanliness of the tennis and squash courts, bathrooms, and locker rooms. Every night that summer, I came home absolutely exhausted.

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More Than it Hurts You

May 19, 2008 12:00 AM by Eileen Conlan |  COMMENTS

By Darin Strauss (Dutton)

When career woman-turned-stay-at-home mom Dori Goldin’s toddler has two bloody incidents that force her husband, Josh, to come to the rescue, doctors start to wonder if the missus has found a sinister way of getting her husband to be home more. (Did we mention Dori is a former phlebotomist?) After their story makes news, the novel feels like an episode of Law & Order: SVU (without the predictability or the ads), allowing one-time wunderkind Strauss (2001’s Chang and Eng) to shake off that sophomore slump and hit a homer.

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Two-Minute Date with Alessandro Nivola

January 10, 2008 2:24 PM by Eileen Conlan |  COMMENTS

The star of The Eye talks about life under the radar. READ MORE

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Interview with Jeffrey Dean Morgan

November 12, 2007 2:10 PM by Eileen Conlan |  COMMENTS

JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN, he's good at playing dead. READ MORE

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Television: Prime-Time High

June 29, 2007 10:00 AM by Eileen Conlan |  COMMENTS

They say Hollywood is one big high school. Here, superlatives for TV's class of '07. READ MORE

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