There’s a nice little mention in the Pasadena Star News about some of Jean’s charity work for the Hillsides Centre.
Hillsides, the 96-year-old, Pasadena-based center for abused and neglected children, broke all its past records for fund-raising, with net proceeds from its annual gala exceeding $375,000. The elegant black-tie bash held Feb. 28 at the California [...]
In one of the more curious lists made during awards season, Jean has come #3 in Awards Daily’s “Top 40 Most Nomination-Deserving Never-Nominees” with regard to the Oscars.
The full list can be found at: (Source)
With awards season about to start up again (seems like it just ended), Jean has been getting a few mentions with regard to possible SAG award and Golden Globe nominations for her work on Samantha Who?.
The Hollywood Reporter has mentioned her for a possible Globe nomination…
And notably, while Jean Smart has copped three Emmy crowns [...]
Jean in her role as Regina on Samantha Who? has made People Magazine’s list of TV’s Biggest Scene Stealers…
Playing Christina Applegate’s manipulative mother Regina Newly on Samantha Who?, Emmy winner Jean Smart consistently delivered her lines with a razor-sharp edge. A classic moment: telling Samantha and her pal Dena (Melissa McCarthy) that making s’mores when [...]
About Samantha Who?
NewsDay
New York Daily News
About The Women for Obama Rally
The rally featured appearances by guest speakers and performers such as singer Patti LaBelle, actress Jean Smart from “Samantha Who?” and Los Angeles Clipper and UCLA alumnus Baron Davis, among others.
Smart said she supports Obama because he keeps education a high priority and remains consistent [...]
The LA Times has a rather interesting review of the show in general with some mentions of tomorrow night’s opening.
…But even though the show, which returns Monday (ABC, 9:30 p.m.), skipped out on its higher calling, it managed to deliver something maybe almost as radical for a sitcom: a nuanced and healthily developing mother-daughter relationship. [...]
Quite a few of the articles doing the rounds are duplicates and even these below are pretty similiar. Nonetheless, it’s interesting to read what went on in the press room.
NY Post
OC Register
Buzz Sugar
The LA Times
Variety
Entertainment Weekly
With the Primetime Emmy Award nominations announced tomorrow morning, the LA Times have been trying to predict the likely nominees and have included Jean in their top five.
Read the full analysis and the mathematics!! (I kid you not) —> Here.
From The New York Times.
Jean Smart in “Samantha Who?”
Jean Smart has aged well. She doesn’t just look good; as an actress she’s gotten better and funnier. Nearly every time she has appeared on television in the past few years, you have wanted her to sit tight and stay. As Martha Logan, wife of the weasely, [...]
The Envelope over at the LA Times website has compiled a speculative list of the possible Emmy nominees this year and have included Jean in their “favorites” section to receive a nomination.
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