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[In this feature, we will periodically check in to see what is up with Topher Grace.]
For those of you who have not heard, Starz officially announced today that it was not picking up Party Down for a third season. (For those of you who have not heard that, follow us on Twitter! Also: @jeremypiven!) If you haven’t seen it, and chances are you haven’t seen it, you should definitely see it. The first season is available on Netflix streaming. And the second season IS AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX STREAMING! This is sad news insofar as that was just such a great show. On the other hand, how fitting for a show about the miserable lives of struggling actors to just get unceremoniously dropped. And besides, who would even still be around for the third season now that everyone’s getting bigger (although not necessarily better) shows? And also, Starz isn’t supposed to have original series anyway. Go back to showing Jade and Sliver double-features, Starz. And also, not everything needs to be driven into the fucking dirt. Sometimes it’s nice when things were great and stayed great because they went away.
Speaking of actors, what’s up with Topher Grace?
We are now just one holiday weekend away from the release of Predators, an ensemble comedy featuring Topher Grace. I’m sure a lot of people this weekend are going to be like “let’s get this barbecue over with and get back to work, because the sooner we get back to work, the sooner we can finish our work, and the sooner we can finish our work, the sooner it will be July 9th.” Almost surely that is a thing everyone will hear at least on person say for real in real life. In preparation/anticipation of the movie’s release, we have two new clips from ThePlaylist (thanks Leah), both featuring Topher saying words:
Lights! Camera! RUN! Get it? Predators. In theaters, July 9th.
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, this week we learn a little bit about Topher’s dating preferences. A Russian celebrity gossip site has the SCOOP, comrades!
Topher Grace would have a “problem” with any girlfriend who wasn’t into phone sex.
The 31-year-old actor loves dating, but admits it can be hard to find the perfect woman because his job involves so much travel. Any woman he is with has to get used to spending long periods of time apart, which can be tough.
“Would I have a problem if my girlfriend was into phone sex? I think I’d have a problem if my girlfriend wasn’t,” he laughed during an interview with Company magazine.
Topher is good friends with British actor Orlando Bloom, and they often swap stories about their love lives. Topher finds it strange that people in the UK don`t date in the same way as in America, and is considering spending time introducing the custom to the country.
“Orlando told me people just go out in the UK. In the States, you date many people then decide who to keep,” he explained. “I think I should bring the American system over to Britain, where you go out with lots of different people.
“If it’s true that if you’ve swapped saliva with someone you’re exclusive, it would mean I’ve been exclusive with more people than I realise!”
I’m not sure what Company Magazine is, but this hardly seems like their business. And what kind of question is that, anyways? Did the journalist (“journalist”) have a clipboard with a list of interesting questions that they just went down, and at question #6 it was like “Topher Grace, would you have a problem dating a girl who was into phone sex?” And Topher gave a look, and the journalist (“journalist”) was like, “I’m sorry, I’m just reading what’s on the clipboard.” It is always interesting for Hollywood celebrities to be humanized (is it always interesting, though?) but we do not need to always take it too far the way that we always do.
And, of course, That ’70s Show remains popular in syndication.
There you go. That is what is up with Topher Grace. Send your Topher tips to tophergracenews@videogum.com. See you next time!
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That’s an RDD, Starz executives.
Do?
No, don’t. Let’s look at the chart again, Godsauce.
this makes me so happy and sad at the same time.
I am genuinely bummed that is the end of Party Down, say hello to FotC in Heaven!
I invite everyone here to join me in a staged blackout protest in front of the Starz headquarters.
An actual email from Dish’s dad:
“FYI… there is a new Predators movie coming out! We gotta go!”
Duh Aficionado, Dad.
It’s nice when dads are psyched.
Also, you can’t be a parent and NOT subscribe to Du Aficianado Digest.
Also also you cannot be Jeb and know how to spell anything properly.
It’s funny because in Valentine’s Day he freaked out when it turned out his gf Anne Hathaway was a professional phone sex lady
was she talking with this guy?
I think she worked for that guy and she was talking to this guy:
Haha. You saw Valentine’s Day.
Harsh.
You did too? Apparently…
I believe he calls her “Annie” in interviews. Check the Topher-facts.
(not really meant to be rude, but trying to show I know too much about Topher Grace -as if you could ever know “too much”)
pred8ors
i think this feature could really use a little more Wilmer Valderrama. what is HE up to?
He went through a Carrot Top-esque (but significantly less frightening) transition into a Muscle Man.
HUNK ALERT
Transition into muscle man = eating more pizzas? Well I’m on my way to hunksville then. Sparta!
“You’re just another hunk.” -Steve Brule
Ha!
just ask Tori Spelling.
I kinda thought this was David Blaine at first. Performing his standing in waist deep water illusion.
What ISN’T he up to? (I heard somewhere he is quite the ladies man, to put it mildly…)
Remember that time he walked out to present that award (MTV, Kid’s Choice?) and he wasn’t wearing any pants! Ha! Classic Wilmer.
i just really miss him. when will mTV bring back ‘Yo’ Mama!’?
Predator5
I don’t think they want to remind anyone that they already made 3 awful sequels to Predator? And they want to pretend that, just as Predator was as well-made as Alien (lol), this will be as good as Aliens? But otherwise yes, that is marketing genius.
3, really? I only remember the Danny Glover one.
If you count the AVP movies as part of the franchise. Wikipedia does, and everything on wikipedia is true.
Oh gawd. I somehow managed to forget about them. THANKS, roastgum…naaaaht.
Aw man not this Topher Grace guy again. Yaaawwwwn. ZZzzzzzzzzzzz
Miranda Kerr, Orlando Bloom’s Fiancee, is pretty
If so, do you have any pictures of her, friend?
I’m surprised you don’t know about her, Steve. “Miranda Kerr is Pretty” was a feature in last week’s Special Collector’s Addition Duh Aficionado!
“addition?” Sorry, everybody. Never could spell well around a pretty face.
She’s pretty, but she could probably do with a feed of spuds.
I’m looking forward to seeing her in the Tila Tequila biopic
The Tila Tequila biopic was relesed direct to View-Master.
“Predators” is a great name for a romantic comedy.
With Chris Hansen as the comedic foil
It took me a bit, but this is genius.
“Peep Show” taught me that British dating involves lots of anxiety, frustration and premature declarations of love. Topher should go fix that.
Good to know that Adrien Brody went to the Christian Bale School for Tough Guy Voices.
Well, he needed to do something, as his previous experience (Thin Red Line) wearing military gear consisted entirely of acting like a child at the zoo who has lost track of his mommy.
So I’ve never been on a date? Dammit!
In England, do you call dates lo*BANG*
If I’m lucky I might get a lo*BANG*
Replies? How do they work?
Today I was in a meeting with a new Tequila brand (my job = hard work), and the founder, who works for an elite private jet company, says, “Sometimes I think, ‘How do airplanes even work?’” Violent J’s face immediately popped into my head, and I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing.
I wish I had a job.
so you’re trying to tell me Bruce Willis doesn’t understand aeronautics? nice try.
Whose talking smack on starz? Spartacus Blood and Sand!!
Sarcasm aside, they have a Pillars of the Earth show starting next month. I always heard the book was good, so it could be their first legit drama. (Sorry, Dennis Hopper’s ghost).
Noooooo! I love Party Down! I hate you again Star(z).
I’m going to miss the fuck out of Lizzy Caplan.
I would like to _____ the fuck out of Lizzy Caplan
-Steve Winwood but I also find her attractive
I know! The news about Party Down ruined my day.
I will miss the Party Down gang always and forever… but I’m also glad to see it leave the world as it came in: a brilliant shooting star of blazing comedic glory. Look at Arrested Development. Only the good die young you guys.
Topher Grace, please do not have phone sex. You are a tiny, charming gentleman. You should not be having phone sex. Not that I know what phone sex is, mom. What’s a phone? Also, this:
No phone sex!
So, is there going to be like a ceremony or something where Topher Grace introduces the U.K. to the U.S.A.’s dating style? I’m just imaging Topher Grace, in front of a podium, at the U.K. equivalent of the Washington Monument (Hogwarts?), saying:
“My friend Orlando Bloom,(yes I am friends with Orlando Bloom) has told me of you redcoats and your wacky dating style! Now that’s all rubbish, mate! Just date everyone except your sister and you’ll be more chipper than Harry at a brothel! Chip chip biscuits and wizards!”
Halfway through imaging that Topher Grace turned into Don Cheadle from the “Ocean’s Eleven” movies. I’m going to sleep now.
Hey that creepy guy from Justified is in it, double bonus!
Speaking of phones, what is Videogum gonna do without the Microsoft Kin (good riddance!) to pay for advertising?
Re this: it’s like actual products that take up physical space now have the lifespan of internet memes?
I am nostalgic for olden days.
Haha, Company Magazine is the Designer Imposters version of Cosmopolitan. Strictly “my teenage cousin left it in the car so I’ll flip through it” material.
Yes: They run Seventeen through the “Teen-Talk Buster” setting in Google Translate and then do a find / replace of “Lauren Conrad” and “Lorrie Conrad” and I don’t even know why you’re still reading this comment.
if everybody i know was watching party down (and based on the facebook today, they were) and everybody here was watching party down, it would seem that nobody was not watching party down. cancelling it just seems like bad math if you ask me. poor move, starz.
I always cross my fingers when I have the temerity to click on a .ru website.
i tried a couple times to make a joke about your refreshing word choice, but instead i’ll just say, thanks!
it would seem that, being an american, i’ve been doing it wrong for quite some time.
When one door closes, another opens. Megan Mullally has signed on for a full season of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! ads. A full season of them, guys!
She’s pretty, but what she did to Patton made me question my love for her which was brought about by Karen Walker being a great character and her being Mrs. Ron Swanson
I didn’t even know that controversy existed!!!!! Her fake butter ads will never be the same to me.
This is a great merit to cherish
topher grace is in detroit right now shooting a movie with richard gere. some people came to take pictures of my house because they might want to use it for filming. i can only hope.
“If it’s true that if you’ve swapped saliva with someone [in the UK] you’re exclusive, it would mean I’ve been exclusive with more people than I realise!”
This totally explains why that one chick was stalking Vinny in season 1 of Jersey Shore, right you guys! I mean I know she wasn’t British or whatever, but I it clicks. Right you guys? You guys…?
Ethnocentric American, signing off.
ARE WE GETTING CANCELED YET?!
All the upvotes
How special, you and I
How blonde our hair and blue our eyes
The world it should be ours
But they just want money
It’s a conspiracy
Yeah, they bring you a star
Put you on the midnight train, going very far
Line you up and give you a number
Shoot you down, throw you away, we will not surrender
This is my struggle
RIP, Party Down