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Heather Graham Keeping Up With Sting-Endorsed Sex Trends

Mark — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:07:54 EDT

· "So tell me slowly, Heather Graham, about how much touching is involved in giving you a Tantric orgasm?"
· Universal Stage One Salon is getting the boot.
· TSG presents When the Terminator Met Uncle Miltie.
· $47,000 gets a kid an extra gig on the new Will Ferrell movie.

Emily's Reasons Why Not To Rent A Bar

Mark — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:19:57 EST

A reader sends along this delightful, if brief, exchange in response to our earlier post about Heather Graham's suddenly tragic Life cover story:

Me to my boyfriend (who owns Akbar): ME: Hey, so have you heard anything new from Heather Graham's people about renting the bar for her birthday celebration? HIM: Not since the show was canceled.

You know what? Maybe she still wants to celebrate. We've worked on enough bad TV shows to know that a quick mercy killing is sometimes a pretty happy event (well, at least for the people on a show who aren't paid an hourly wage), and once in a while a girl just wants to take a break from obsessing about her next ill-advised career move.

Previously: Heather Graham’s Permanent Weekend [Defamer]

Heather Graham's Permanent Weekend

Seth — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:29:47 EST

It's usually a recipe for success: Simply take one star of a newly launched sitcom, add a gushy puff piece, throw in a goofy angle for garnish, shake, and serve a fizzy, goes-down-easy PR cocktail. But when long magazine lead times go to battle with short series shelf-lives, the results can turn sour. Case in point: In this Life cover story that came included with weekend newspapers across the country today, Heather Graham is touted as "TV's sexiest star...she's in almost every scene of her bubbly new ABC sitcom, Emily's Reasons Why Not," a series which we now know was unmercifully elimidated after a single episode. (We didn't watch it, but when the president of the network is going on record about how hard it blew, you tend to get the feeling that a beloved series for the ages, it was not.) The angle of the piece is, ironically enough, how the actress spends her time off, with Graham explaining "I can't wait to turn off on the weekends. I don't have to like anything for anyone, or be in a good mood, or fix my hair. If I want to be in bed for two whole days, I can." With her schedule clear, a foul-tempered, rat's nest-haired Graham is now free to loll around far longer than a mere two days in bed, unburdened of having to "like anything for anyone."

It's Not Stalking If You're Holding A Tape Recorder

Mark — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:38:36 EDT

Not content to have his brain melted by Heather Graham's comments at ABC's pres tour event, LAT critic-blogger Paul Brownfield seeks out Graham at the network's "All Star" party, and in the process, seems to have discovered what blogging's really about: the stalking of hot actresses under the guise of "working":

You are standing at the bar, next to Heather Graham. Continue to be indifferent; it is your indifference, after all, that has brought her and her coterie of publicist-girlfriend-protectors drifting into your orbit. In observing this coterie for the last hour you have noticed that Heather is mostly approached by women with tape recorders, while the men of the press leer but keep a fearful distance from her circle. Probably every TV reporter/critic guy here is afraid of Heather Graham, afraid of her beauty, but you, you are not. As you have made clear, in both body language and general mien, you are indifferent. You've had your back to her all this time - brilliant! And now here she is to your right, practically at your elbow. She is in your space. The space you have established at this bar, the space you have created. You could talk to her, of course, talk to her about her comedy pilot - but talking, and pilots, aren't they so not the point right now?

Alas, not even the literary pyrotechnics of shifting into the second person score Brownfield some Graham face-time, as the beauty—and you knew this was coming, didn't you?—slips away, depriving him of snippets of actual, strained conversation (may we be so bold as to imagine Graham revealing, "I'm very Method, y'know? My character's name is Emily, so I had everyone I know call me Emily for like, two weeks, just to get a feel for her"? ) to the fantasy.

Heather Graham Like Totally Relates To Her Relatable New Show

Mark — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:42:57 EDT

Heather Graham was on hand to face the critics at the TCAs (the Television Critics Association press orgy) yesterday, promoting her midseason ABC show Emily's Reason's Why Not (odds that this unwieldy title will be hacked down to the simple Emily before it reaches the air: 60/40). The LAT's Paul Brownfield fights off the little reporter in his pants ("I am immediately a 14-year-old boy. She is wearing a dark lavender dress, Lycra, scooped out teasingly in the back and strategically in front, and flip-flops") to blog some of the words coming out of Graham's mouth:

"I feel like the show is relatable to anyone and I definitely relate to it," she tells the stunned TV press. Cue the "Sex and the City"-was-an-inspiration quote. "I related to it and I felt that it was the only thing I related to in that way," says Graham of "Sex."

Note to Graham's and/or ABC's publicists: Never teach her a new word right before she has to speak to the press.

In Heather we trust [LAT]