The producers of the polygamy TV drama Big Love have apologized ahead of time for any offence to Mormons caused by an episode that depicts a sacred religious rite.

The HBO cable series stars Bill Paxton as the owner of a chain of hardware stores who is married to three wives, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin.

The fictional family is non-Mormon but the series will show an endowment ceremony in a Mormon temple on its March 15 show.

The Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), only allows selected individuals and members in good standing to witness such a ceremony.

News of the episode has angered many Mormons, who have called for a boycott of the network and calls to cancel subscriptions to AOL, part of the Time Warner Inc. conglomerate that owns HBO.

The network released a statement late Tuesday to address the outrage.

“It was not our intention to do anything disrespectful to the church, but to those who may be offended we offer our sincere apology.”

Used ex-Mormon as consultant on show

Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer told TV Guide the episode will take place in an endowment room and the celestial room of a Mormon temple. They said they thoroughly researched the ritual and used an “ex-Mormon consultant.”

The two say the ceremony — in which participants move to a higher level of understanding of their religion — has never been depicted on screen.

The Mormon Church has previously voiced fears about the series, which launched in 2006. In a release, it says it feels a betrayed by HBO.

“Despite earlier assurances from HBO, it once again blurs the distinctions between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the show’s fictional non-Mormon characters and their practices. Such things say much more about the insensitivities of writers, producers and TV executives than they say about Latter-day Saints.”

The church did not call for a boycott but did say that individual members could do what they wanted.

The church says more Mormon themes are being knitted into the show’s plots and Mormons tend to be portrayed as self-righteous and unsympathetic.

The Mormon Church, based in Utah, has some 13.5 million members around the world.

Founded in 1830, it officially banned polygamy in 1890. But polygamy is still practised by some breakaway sects.

Source: CBC

Previously denying that they are dating, Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin reportedly had public display of affection (PDA) at Vanity Fair’s Hollywood bash held on February 22.

Starring together in comedy-romance movie “He’s Just Not That Into You”, Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin, are rumored to be dating after they were seen attending a post-Oscars party hand-in-hand. Though both of them have previously denied that they are dating, they have grown closer in recent weeks, Star Magazine claims.

“(They) were very close. She was stroking his arm, he was kissing her cheek, and they held hands all evening,” a source informs the publication on Long and Goodwin’s togetherness at Vanity Fair’s Hollywood bash held on February 22. “They were trying to be cool, but it was obvious they’re a couple,” the source adds.

Notwithstanding Long and Goodwin’s silence on the nature of their relationship, the source claims Goodwin has “always secretly had a crush on” Long.

Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin have both been single since splitting from their partners. Long broke up with ex-girlfriend Drew Barrymore last year after nearly one year of dating. As for Goodwin, she split from actor fiance Chris Klein in December 2008.

Source: AceShowBiz

Ginnifer Goodwin will be moving on to more child-friendly fare after starring in He’s just not that into you. The actress, along with John Corbett and Bridget Moynahan, have signed on for Ramona and Beezus.

Based on Beverly Cleary’s classic book series, the film has already cast Joey King as 10-year-old Ramona and Selena Gomez as her older sister, Beezus. Goodwin will be playing Ramona’s favorite person, Aunt Bea, while Corbett and Moynahan will be playing the girls’ parents.

Aquamarine director Elizabeth Allen is helming, with Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan producing.

Source: iFMagazine

Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin discuss the series’ philosophy and the challenge of understanding their characters.

By LA Times

“Big Love” has been blazing through its third season. Will Scheffer, who created the show with Mark V. Olsen, his partner in work and husband in life, said, “Everything that we hinted at, that we were building to, we said: ‘Let’s just do it — let’s go as far as we can this year and burn through it.’ ”

The results: Love has ebbed a bit for now, and we have been left with big. The polygamous Henricksons — Bill ( Bill Paxton), Barb ( Jeanne Tripplehorn), Nicki (Chloë Sevigny) and Margene (Ginnifer Goodwin) — have fought over birth control, the fleeting affections of a fourth wife and, most of all, the continuous and escalating tension between their sparkling suburban lives and the filthy Mormon fundamentalist compound that haunts them.

In an e-mail, Olsen wrote: “It’s important, clearly, that our characters aren’t singularly snarky or sour all the time, and there’s got to be an underlying love and devotion between them, but the fact that I may love you, or whomever, is just not particularly interesting unless it’s blended with the fact that you really piss me off too — it’s that combustion, negotiating that mix of feelings that I think keeps an audience coming back for more.”

Yes. And also: “It was about a family staying together,” Scheffer said on the telephone. “And I think what we finally got is, this family will stay together.”

Despite a cast that sometimes appears to be thousands, Scheffer said: “The scenes, still, you most want to see are between the four married people. Because we love them.”

Those four married people, the Henrickson quadrangle, provide the axis of “Big Love” (9 p.m. Sundays on HBO). In a roundtable discussion, the actors talked about their characters, polygamy as metaphor and how the show’s fictions have intersected with real-world news.

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Hey guys
As long as I’m taking over GGF I decided to give it a new look for a new beggining. I found inspiration on an really old layout of mine, featuring Lucy Lawless and using the Mozilla radius, which I started using back on Nicole Daily and now is all over the fan sites (and I love it). I hope you all like it and tell me if you find some error.
Thanks.

By USA Today

Dating is hard. Even if you’re an adorable actress with lashes thicker than the September issue of Vogue.

“I’ve heard things coming out of my mouth recently, while flirting — not with anyone in particular — that should be on Saturday Night Live, they’re so embarrassingly ridiculous. It’s something I haven’t done in years,” Ginnifer Goodwin says. “I’m so out of practice. I’m trying to get out of my own comfort zone.

“I’m a homebody and a workaholic, but I promised my grandmother I’d get out more. She said I’m not going to meet ‘the one’ at my house.”

At least Goodwin, 30, can live out some of her romantic travails on screen. In He’s Just Not That Into You, Goodwin’s Gigi is a high-strung, insecure single girl who is desperate for a boyfriend but looking for him in all the wrong places and reading all the wrong signs.

“Gigi is the closest I’ve ever come to playing myself. I’ve never been interested in playing someone so like myself. But I fell in love with her,” Goodwin says.

She sees some of Gigi in herself, and she sought to play the character as honestly as possible.

“I humiliate myself on a daily basis. I have been known to Google-stalk. I’ve certainly caught myself flirting in such a way that I feel nauseous afterward when I think of what I said. And I’m so guilty of the long linger.”

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We caught up with Justin Long and Ginnifer Goodwin, from the hit flick ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’, and talked about his former pet rabbit named Nubs and that they’re both “professional liars.” Read the chat after the jump.
The pair previously co-starred together in the hit tv show ‘Ed’ and have been touring the world promoting their latest movie and answering non-stop relationship questions everywhere they’ve been.

The Celebrity Truth: Hello!
Justin Long (setting the scene): We’re all naked from the waist down.
Ginnifer Goodwin: I’m from the waist up.
TCT: I didn’t realize that was a condition of entry for the interview.
JL: It’s just to make it more free and open.
TCT: Just try to keep you eyes from wandering down.
JL: If it drifts south of the equator we’re not going to judge you.
TCT: Now Ginnifer, I heard you’re knocking back a trip to the zoo?
JL: She has issues with the animals, as do I but I heard that they treat them really…
GG: No comment! I’m not a soapbox vegan but I don’t like that animals are taken out of their natural habitat.
JL: Alot of them are taken out and saved.
GG: Sure, and those cows want to be milked…
TCT: You two seem to have become experts in answering relationship questions since this movie’s release. Are you over it?

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