Seth Rogen is a master at getting big-screen laughs with his in-your-face style. So get ready for a surprise. In Funny People, Rogen puts the lid on his persona and plays a stand-up comic who bonds with a comedy star (Adam Sandler) facing a terminal illness. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Rogen didn’t mind [...]

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Vera Farmiga has suffered on the big screen in some dark roles, portraying everything from a drug-addicted mom to a mental patient. Now, she’s pushing it to the limit again opposite Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan. In the horror flick, Farmiga plays a woman haunted by the still-born birth of her baby who later adopts a [...]

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Cybill Shepherd heated up her image playing a bisexual mom shaking up societal boundaries on the racy Showtime series The L Word. Now she’s a divorcee who shakes up stately Smith College when she returns to finish her degree in The Hallmark Channel’s Mrs. Washington Goes To Smith. At 59, the indomitable actress, who’s still [...]

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Katherine Heigl may be facing her character’s mortality on Grey’s Anatomy, but the Emmy-winning queen of medical drama can be daringly funny, and she proves it in the R-rated comedy The Ugly Truth opposite Gerard Butler. In person, Heigl has shed her blonde locks for a brunette look. She told Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf why she’s [...]

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Gerard Butler is learning how to handle the truth. Rumors that he and Jennifer Aniston are an item have forced him to confront personal questions about his intimate relationships. His character in The Ugly Truth comes off as blunt and so full of himself that he wouldn’t have any trouble bragging about his conquests. But [...]

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