Despite what ABC's promotional department would have us believe, it's unlikely that ugly is anywhere close to becoming the new beautiful. After all, Betty Suarez, titular heroine of the network's freshman sensation Ugly Betty, hardly embodies the U-word that precedes her name.
Okay, yeah, girlfriend is screaming for a VO5 Hot Oil treatment and a shopping spree at Express, but in real estate terms, she's a genuine fixer-upper, and darn it all, she's got lovely bones. True, her eyebrows pop out like two rogue bushes that defile the landscaping; her every outfit hangs like a garish set of outdated curtains; her outsize glasses and braces sit like scaffolding that obscures the building's exterior. But come now, it's America Ferrera under there: Not even the most superficial observer could be blind to that kind of interior (and exterior) beauty — except for maybe in certain Hollywood and fashion circles where a protruding clavicle is all the rage.
The Doc Is (Back) In
Jeff Jensen, EW's resident expert on all things ''Lost,'' has seen the season premiere! Here are his first impressions...
It's here.
Finally.
IN MY OFFICE.
The season premiere of Lost.
I have watched it. TWICE.
What can I tell you?
For starters, the first five minutes = pure Lost genius.
The rest of it is pretty damn good, too.
It's a typical Lost premiere. Think of it as an overture, filled with thematic motifs and melodies to be elaborated upon throughout the season.
It even begins with real musical overture, just like last season. Last year, it was Mama Cass singing ''Make Your Own Kind of Music.'' This year, it's Petula Clark singing ''Downtown.'' You know the tune: ''When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go... Downtown!''
Here are some of my in-the-moment reactions/thoughts/questions about the episode, titled ''A Tale of Two Cities.'' I tried to make these as cryptic as possible, but if you wish to preserve your own first-time experience of the season premiere, you better skip this part. In NO particular order:
Sitting on the stool of a Manhattan diner during the lunch rush, swinging her legs, her upper body collapsing into a heap on the counter when she has a laugh at herself, Kate Winslet fits right in with the regulars. She is, of course, a great beauty, but almost more so because she isn't a moving statue of poreless, curveless perfection. Her hair is falling haphazardly out of its ponytail and she's in Birkenstock sandals and a shapeless knee-length gypsy skirt ''that, frankly, my mother would have worn,'' she says with good-humored disinterest. And yet everyone in the restaurant, the hipsters and the suits, the cops and the construction workers, looks positively besotted.
The mystery thickens as Jack and his crew try to escape the clutches of The Others on the third season premiere of ABC's hit, Lost. PEOPLE takes a look at the return to castaway island, plus other events TV premieres to watch for in the coming week:
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Down by Laws
On ''Dancing With the Stars,'' the judges penalize Mario, Joey, and Emmitt after their routines break the strict ballroom rules
Hey, everyone! Great week. I'm so happy they fixed the music!
Ha! You wish. There was no time to focus on song selections this week because we had a controversy! It seems that in ballroom dancing, there are rules. These rules must be followed. Some of them are a given. Avoid eye contact with your partner, dress partially to completely in feathers, and if you're Vivica A. Fox, do a cartwheel. Others are more technical: According to judge Len Goodman, the dancers must not execute lifts or release their holds in the middle of certain routines. Disgusting stunts like these should only occur at the very beginning or very end of the dance, if they must.
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On his last day before he disappeared at sea, Patrick McDermott was gardening in the backyard of the Malibu home he shared with his love of eight years, Olivia Newton-John.
Now, more than a year after he vanished – leaving his driver's license, wallet and car keys aboard the Freedom, an overnight charter fishing boat that departed Los Angeles on June 30, 2005 – a stone labyrinth stands in his place. Newton-John built the winding path as a private memorial where she can go to feel close to the man she says was "the most romantic person I've ever known."
"He loved this garden and there are a lot of things here that remind me of him," says Newton-John, 58, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. "So he is here."
It's a reflection of Newton-John's enduring positive spirit that despite the pain of the past 15 months she has emerged more hopeful and loving. This month she releases a new CD, Grace and Gratitude, which was inspired by her loss of McDermott, a cameraman she met on a commercial shoot.
It's Always Personnel
Oh no! Jack White is sick, and the White Stripes have to bail out of appearing on NBS' Studio 60! Also, there are boycott threats by religious conservatives over the ''Crazy Christians'' sketch, grumblings among the writers and performers who fear being fired by the new regime, and a personal crisis for Matt when Harriet finds out he slept with fellow cast member Jeanie! On top of all that, Matt's got writer's block! Okay, none of this sounds as momentous as the crises faced by the White House staffers on Aaron Sorkin's last show, but give him a break: It's just his second week on the job, and Matt and Danny's first. You can't blame everyone for panicking a little.
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Katie Couric suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar spot: No. 2 in the ratings.
After a fortnight of viewership victories, Couric and the CBS Evening News ceded the top spot last week to its more common holder, NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams, according to estimates released Monday by Nielsen Media Research.
For the week, CBS averaged 7.7 million viewers, behind NBC's 8.2 million but ahead of ABC's 7.6 million for World News with Charles Gibson.
Couric's big opening night three weeks ago drew 13.6 million viewers. Her ratings are down 24 percent since the first week but are still ahead of last year's numbers.
For Couric, 49, being No. 2 is uncommon ground. In the decade before she left NBC, her Today show consistently dominated the morning-news ratings.
NBC Universal chairman Bob Wright was in a celebratory mood Monday during an Advertising Week event at the Museum of Television & Radio. "Brian is back where God wanted him to be, at No. 1," he joked, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Wright said NBC wanted to keep Couric before she left for CBS in the spring. With Williams solidly in the NBC anchor chair, Wright said the network explored the idea of a possible syndication window for a Couric show. But "she never really raised her hand to go in that direction," he said.
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2006 04:00PM EST
Scrubs actress Judy Reyes is on the mend after suffering a fracture after an accidental fall, her rep, Monique Ward, tells PEOPLE.
Reyes, 37, who plays nurse Carla Espinosa on the NBC comedy, will be released from the hospital Monday. "She's going to be fine," Ward says. "She had an accidental fall at home and fractured her pelvis on Wednesday.
"She had surgery to repair it on Thursday. She didn't realize it was as bad as it was and still went to work. Once there, she realized she needed medical treatment. She went to a hospital from the set."
Reyes will be on crutches for about six weeks but is expected to shoot some scenes while she heals, while other parts of the filming schedule will be reworked so that she can complete her scenes at a later date, reps for the actress and the show confirm.
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