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Before her untimely death on Feb. 26, Michelle Trachtenberg was primarily known for her work in front of the camera on such beloved hits as Harriet the Spy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Gossip Girl. However, according to producer Casey Tebo, she was so much more than just an accomplished actress. She was, in fact, "an incredible writer," and now he's making it his mission to bring a screenplay she wrote to life.

Speaking with People recently, Tebo said he was presented with Trachtenberg's script, Toy Monster, by her boyfriend, Jay Cohen. "I don't remember when, but my dear friend Jay Cohen sent me a script she had written called Toy Monster," he told the outlet, adding:

"The only scripts I remember staying with me like that in recent memory were two. Here Comes the Flood by Simon Kinberg and Toy Monster around 2019. Because they were the two best, by a landslide.

Gossip Girl actress Michelle Trachtenberg has died. The actress who portrayed Lily Montgomery on All My Children was 39 years old.

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New York Post reported that Trachtenberg was found dead at 8 a.m. Wednesday at One Columbus Place on Central Park South. She’d recently received a liver transplant, and she might have experienced complications. Authorities aren’t investigating her death as suspicious.

In addition to her work in daytime, Trachtenberg was known for her roles on as Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl. She was also Georgina Sparks on The Witch of the Upper East Side.

She was born in New York City on Oct. 11, 1985. She booked her first credited role at the young age of nine. She was Nona F. Mecklenberg on The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Before that, she appeared in a Wisk commercial at age 3.

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Michelle Trachtenberg, the actress best known for her roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl, and Harriet the Spy, has died at the age of 39.

According to ABC News, Trachtenberg was found dead by her mother on the morning of Wednesday, February 26th. Her cause of death was not immediately known, but is not being investigated as suspicious. She had also recently undergone a liver transplant.

Born October 11th, 1985 in New York City, Trachtenberg began her acting career at an extremely young age. She made her television debut at the age of 3, appearing in a Wisk ad that would be the first of more than 100 commercials.

Trachtenberg’s first major role was in the Nickelodeon classic The Adventures of Pete & Pete as Nona F. Mecklenberg, the younger Pete’s best friend. During the same period from 1994 until 1996, she also played Lily Montgomery on All My Children.

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With The Bear currently in between seasons, those who miss seeing Jeremy Allen White on-screen should check out his 2020 horror movie, The Rental, especially since it's leaving Netflix at the end of the month. White's acting career began in the early 2000s, but he did not truly capture the limelight until he took on the role of Lip in the comedy drama series, Shameless. More recently, White has earned significant buzz for his leading role in The Bear, wherein he plays the intense and passionate chef, Carmen Berzatto. Yet, White's other projects are just as compelling.

Some may be surprised to learn that White boasts a fairly sizable acting resume apart from Shameless and The Bear. He first took to the screen in 2006, appearing in an episode of the legal drama, Conviction, and in the film, Beautiful Ohio. In the intervening years, White earned small parts in dark indie movies,...

It is not uncommon for TV stars to direct episodes of the series on which they appear. Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan and David Ogden Stiers all directed more than one episode of "M*A*S*H;" Peter Bonerz became a prolific director of television shows and films after directing 29 episodes of "The Bob Newhart Show;" and Penny Marshall might never have brought us such big screen classics as "Big" and "A League of Their Own" had she not started out directing on "Laverne & Shirley."

For the directing curious, the set of a long-running television show is a great place to cut one's teeth, so it's no surprise that two members of the Jeffersonian Institute Medico-Legal Lab found their way behind the camera during the 12-season run of "Bones." The most frequent guest in video village was David Boreanaz, who played the hard-charging FBI Agent Seeley Booth. He...

Jeremy Allen White’s success in the critically acclaimed Hulu series The Bear has turned him into the talk of the town. Further, with two Golden Globe awards under his belt, the actor sparked discussions about his lineage and family. And surprisingly, he has been mentioned in the same breath as the late legend Gene Wilder.

Jeremy Allen White in The Bear | image: FX on Hulu

Many believe the two look strikingly similar, leading this comparison to gain traction when Jeremy Allen White was fan-cast to play Willy Wonka in 2023’s Wonka by netizens who saw his uncanny resemblance to Gene Wilder. This fan-casting further led the internet to believe the two are related. Well, let’s check out if it’s true or just a chocolatey myth.

Who is Jeremy Allen White and His Family?

Born on February 17, 1991, to Eloise Zeigler and Richard White, in Brooklyn, New York, Jeremy...

Jeremy Allen White is slowly turning into a name that’s being recognized quite easily in Hollywood. The 33-year-old is popularly known for his various roles on television shows. White, born in Brooklyn, New York began his acting career back in 2006, debuting on the silver screen with Beautiful Ohio starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Julianna Margulies, and William Hurt.

Jeremy Allen White as Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto on The Bear | Credits: FX Productions

A couple of years later, White would land himself the role of Phillip Gallagher on the hit comedy-drama series Shameless. White starred alongside Hollywood veteran William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum, who played his father and sister on the show. Jeremy’s most recent work includes The Bear, a series with a vibe similar to Shameless. White’s success on the show has been terrific.

Jeremy Allen White accepts his second Emmy Award, Ayo Edebiri gets emotional

During the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony,...

Jeremy Allen White is one of the most talented and charming actors working in the film and TV industry. The American actor started his acting career with a small role in the 2006 drama film Beautiful Ohio. Since then he has been a part of some of the most brilliant movies and TV shows ever including the smash hit comedy drama series Shameless. So, if you love Allen White’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Jeremy Allen White that should be on your watchlist.

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Synopsis: An enthralling and high-octane crime-thriller, Rob the Mob stars Michael Pitt, Nina Arianda, Ray Romano and Andy Garcia. Based on a true story, it chronicles two lovers whose daring heists of Mafia social clubs in New York result in a discovery that forever changed the face of organized crime in America. Now the feds, family members,...

The Bear is an FX TV show, streaming on Hulu, that centers around a young chef, Carmen, who takes over the family restaurant when his brother dies. Prior to this, he had been a successful chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City. Returning to Chicago to run the Original Beef of Chicagoland creates a stark contrast between his past and present. Despite his obvious talent as a chef, star Jeremy Allen White – speaking to W Magazine – says that Carmen is “a fish out of water” in this more casual restaurant. This is made worse by kitchen staff who are reluctant to work and family drama that threatens to boil over at any second.

The Bear cast is made up of talented actors, with many who have been on other successful shows. However, they are largely not huge-name stars, so placing these actors in a grimy kitchen setting might make them harder to recognize.

Giant of science fiction writing fueled renewed interest in futurist literature with Fahrenheit 451 among scores of other works

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Despite the exhortations of Mr Electrico, a carnival sideshow act with an electrified sword who demanded that a 12-year-old Ray Bradbury "live forever!", one of the most well-loved and highly-regarded modern writers of the fantastic has died.

At 91, though, he left a body of work that might just fulfil the prophecy of that showman in Waukegan, Illinois, in 1932.

One of the most widely read authors of his generation, Bradbury published a string of titles in the early 1950s – The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451 – that captured the political fears of a generation and fueled renewed interest in futurist literature.

His most famous work, Fahrenheit 451, named for a proposed temperature at which books combust, imagines a golden age of war and ignorance...

Wolfe Video’s “Private Romeo,” a new take on William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” is coming to DVD June 5! To celebrate the impending release, ShockYa is giving away a copy of the film! The film, directed by Alan Brown (“Book of Love,” “Superheroes”) and starring Seth Numrich (“Gravity”), Matt Doyle (“Gossip Girl”, “War Horse”), Hale Appleman (“Beautiful Ohio”), Chris Bresky (“Going the Distance”), Sean Hudock (“Powerless”), Adam Barrie, Bobby Moreno, and Charlie Barnett, retells the story of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy by placing it in an all-male military school: Set in a modern day military school, this smash hit gay adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet features hot Broadway “War Horse” [ Read More ]...

The state's once-scrapped new plate is outselling its current model 3 to 1.

You can't make this stuff up: In the summer of 2008, the Ohio Bmv unveiled the state's new license plate, a "bucolic, pastel-hued" landscape designed partly by the governor's wife (the windmill was her idea, she says). It's "Beautiful Ohio"--the sun rising in the east over a cartoon barn and the Wright Brothers' plane--can't you just smell the amber waves of grain? Then in May, they decided the plates would be too expensive (too beautiful?), at $2.50 each, to require all drivers to buy. So they put the 1.5 million plates they printed (which cost the state $2.3 million) up for sale as specialty plates that drivers can choose if they want. Well, the people have spoken: The new plates are outselling the old ones by 3 to 1. It's, somehow, a "Cinderella success story," according to the Dayton Daily News:

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The eighth annual Newport Beach Film Festival will kick off April 19 at the Edwards Big Newport theater with Beautiful Ohio, Chad Lowe's directorial debut starring William Hurt and Rita Wilson in the story of a dysfunctional family in the 1970s. Headed by executive director and CEO Gregg Schwenk, the fest, which runs through April 29 in Newport Beach, Calif., also will feature the West Coast premiere at the Lido Theater on April 26 of Garth Jennings' Son of Rambow. The fest will mark the 100th birthday of John Wayne with retrospective screenings and a reception at which the inaugural Wayne Award will be presented.

IndieVest Inc. CEO and founder Wade H. Bradley on Thursday announced the formation of IndieVest Pictures, an independent feature film company dedicated to bringing midlevel budget films to the marketplace.

Mark Burton, who executive produced Deepa Mehta's Water, has been tapped president of production. Matt Wall has been named vp development. A president of distribution will be announced soon.

IndieVest Pictures is launching its film slate by acquiring Tanuja Desai Hidier's novel Born Confused, a coming-of-age story about a 16-year-old New Jersey teen who is an only child to loving East Indian parents. Reggie Miller and Gail D'Agostino will produce.

Burton's producing credits include Chad Lowe's Beautiful Ohio and Santosh Sivan's The Terrorist.

Wall segues to IndieVest with more than 10 years of experience working in the acquisitions and co-production departments at New Line Cinema and Universal Pictures. He co-founded Rogue Pictures, which at the time was a genre production and releasing division of October Films. He also was a development and acquisitions executive at USA Films, which released several Academy Award-winning and -nominated films including Traffic and Gosford Park.

NEW YORK -- Rita Wilson, Julianna Margulies and Michelle Trachtenberg have joined Chad Lowe's feature directorial debut, Beautiful Ohio, starring William Hurt. Accomplice Films' first low-budget production began shooting Monday in Brooklyn. Lowe is producing the ensemble comedy/drama with his wife, Hilary Swank, and Mark Burton. All are partners in Accomplice Films. The project is based on Ethan Canin's adaptation of his short story "Batorsag & Szerelem," from his anthology The Palace Thief. Former NBA All-Star Reggie Miller of Baby Boom Prods. is the film's executive producer.