The NY Times has done a review/look at Covert Affairs.
Things have rarely been more interesting for Ms. Perabo. In addition to spending a day quizzing her real-life counterparts at C.I.A. headquarters, she was able to question Ms. Plame herself, who served as a technical adviser for the show’s pilot. “That was ahh-may-zing,” Ms. Perabo said in a phone interview. “She was very open with me about her life, but also helped with things like what Annie would bring to work. She said: ‘You can’t bring a purse into the C.I.A. You can’t bring anything into the C.I.A. Car keys only.’ ”
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Reasons to be Pretty will be moving on to Broadway. The play will get his Broadway debut next winter when Reasons to be Pretty transfers to the Great White Way. Performances will begin on February 13, 2009, at a theater to be announced.
Also, the site Broadway.com has a cool Q&A with Piper, talking about her debut at stage (she hadn’t done a play since her graduation, 10 years ago) and her impressions about Reasons to be Pretty. It worth a read… Read More »
Piper Perabo on ‘Reasons to Be Pretty,’ E-mailing Neil LaBute, and Living at the Y
It’s been eight years since Piper Perabo shimmied onto the radar with her breakout performance in Coyote Ugly, and since then, her career has focused on romantic comedies (Because I Said So, Cheaper by the Dozen, Imagine You & Me). Earlier this month, she signed on to an ABC pilot, The Prince of Motor City, but before she moves from big screen to small, she’s taking a brief break from the cameras. In Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty, opening tonight from MCC Theater, Perabo makes her New York stage debut as a graveyard-shift security guard dealing with relationship issues (her own and her friends’). She spoke with Vulture about LaBute, her new TV show, and her (decidedly un-barfly-ish) new cropped do. Read More »
One of those formulaic romantic comedies designed for the Mother’s Day season, this
is so predictable you can tell from the opening what the final scene will be.
A bubbly Diane Keaton plays partnerless mum to a gaggle of feisty adult daughters played by singer Mandy Moore, Gilmore Girls’s Lauren Graham and Coyote Ugly’s Piper Perabo. She likes sticking her nose into their love lives, which they see as a symptom of loneliness, which is perfectly true. Enter love interest Stephen Collins and the rest of the film dutifully follows the rom-com route to a pleasing finale designed to put smiles all around.
Director Michael Lehmann ( 40 Days and 40 Nights) extracts a reasonable quota of
laughs once Keaton starts trying to match Mandy with what she thinks is the perfect
man. A fun but eminently forgettable film.
Source: The Age
