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Olivia Wilde, Harvey Weinstein at 'Butter' (PMc)

Olivia Wilde and Jennifer Garner Get Chilly at Butter Premiere While Justin Kirk Talks Monkey Business

Last night at the Cinema Society’s after party for the premiere of the dark satire Butter, The Observer found Animal Practice‘s Justin Kirk lounging around on one of the black leather couches at Double 7, just one day after his show’s second episode.

Animal Practice has been getting a lot of love, so much so that New York magazine dedicated four whole pages in this week’s issue to its star. Not to Mr. Kirk–who had just finished up the last season of Weeds, on which he stole the show as Nancy Botwin’s free-spirited brother-in-law Andy–but to Crystal, a capuchin monkey who earns $12,000 per episode on the NBC hit.

We just had to ask … did Mr. Kirk feel a tiny bit jealous of all the monkey business? Read More

Justin Kirk Helps Weeds Get Good Again

When Chandra Wilson and Jim Parsons announce the Emmy nominations next Thursday, we’re not expecting to hear Justin Kirk’s named called. And, frankly, his exclusion will be warranted: Not even Mr. Kirk was able to withstand the shoddy fourth season of Weeds, which coated every actor on the show, no matter how talented, Read More

It’s Time to Blow Up Weeds

Poor Mary-Louise Parker. Our favorite straw-chewing, iced coffee-drinking actress is officially wasting her time on Weeds. The fifth season premiere of the once-great Showtime series aired last night, and, for those of you hoping it would be a return to form, we’ve got some bad news: It wasn’t. Alternatively both unfunny and non-dramatic, Weeds is Read More