Magazines, News and Interviews #26

[Babis05]

they can't be canceling the best show ever...

[LoVeThEO.C.]

I don't want the show to end..This will forever be the saddest news there is

[OCgirl411]

Me too i don't want the show to end, it is the best show ever

[jillian]

new mischa bebe ads are in the new instyle with hillary swank on the cover.

[vinni2]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

Barton to 'Fade' in on indie
Drama budgeted under $10 million
By DAVE MCNARY

Mischa Barton will topline coming-of-age drama "Don't Fade Away" for newly minted production shingle Origin Entertainment Group.
Beau Bridges, Ja Rule and Ryan Kwanten also star.

Project, about an engaged Manhattan couple forced to deal with a father's unexpected illness, is written and directed by Luke Kasdan, nephew of Lawrence Kasdan.

Nicole Peluso, founder of Origin, is producing with Arik Ruchim; Kasdan and Irina Ginzburg exec produce. Pic's been shooting in North Carolina and is prepping for lensing in Gotham.

Origin, funded by private equity, focuses on films budgeted under $10 million and sporting strong female characters.

Related:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news.php?id=5103

[>>Newpsie_14<<]

Originally Posted by Babis05

they can't be canceling the best show ever...

yeah they can't!I'm gonna cry again because of FOX!

Thanks Josh for changing my life, and FOX for ruin it!

[vinni2]

Michael Cassidy news.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=15070

Lawrence to Star in Free L.A. Reading of New Play, 1/28

Stage and TV star Sharon Lawrence will headline a free staged reading of Jamie Pachino's Splitting Infinity.

Presented on January 28th at 5 PM at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) in Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall, Splitting Infinity will also feature Michael Cassidy ("The O.C.") and Saul Rubinek.

[vinni2]

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=7268

[01.17.07 - 01:01 AM]
FOX BOOKS MIDSEASON TRIO, 'KITCHEN' RETURN FOR SPRING
By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX is on track for a few surprises when it announces its spring schedule during its session at the TCA this weekend.

Several sources have confirmed the network plans to roll out three new series in the coming months - "Drive," "The Winner" and "The Wedding Bells" (a.k.a. "The Wedding Planners") - as well as new time periods for "'Til Death" and "Standoff" not to mention an early return date for "Hell's Kitchen."

Here's a breakdown of said plans:

-- The Tim Minear/Ben Queen-created drama "Drive" will kick off with a special two-hour premiere on Sunday, April 15 at 8:00/7:00c. The series will then settle into its regular Monday, 8:00/7:00c slot the following night as a lead-in to "24." To make room for the newcomer, current Monday, 8:00/7:00c occupant "Prison Break" will wrap its sophomore run on Monday, April 2 at 8:00/7:00c while a special Monday repeat of "House" will fill the hour on April 9.

-- "'Til Death" will make the move to Wednesdays at 9:30/8:30c starting March 14. As part of the move the series will follow two previously announced 90-minute editions of "American Idol" on Tuesday, February 27 and Wednesday, February 28. (A two-hour "American Idol" fills the night on Wednesday, March 7.)

-- The third season of "Hell's Kitchen" is on tap for Thursdays at 9:00/8:00c in March where it will take over for the departing "The O.C." Still to be determined is the 8:00/7:00c hour, however new episodes of "The War at Home" and "The Loop" as well as newcomer "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" are said to be options.

-- Fridays will see the return of "Standoff" at 8:00/7:00c in March followed by David E. Kelley's aforementioned "The Wedding Bells." ("The 38th Annual NAACP Awards" airs on March 2, meaning the earliest the two could bow is March 9.) Presumably the network's current Friday occupants "Nanny 911" and "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy" will head to hiatus.

-- And finally, the Ricky Blitt/Seth MacFarlane-produced "The Winner" will launch on Sunday, March 4 with episodes at 8:30/7:30c and 9:30/8:30c that night. The show's remaining four episodes then will continue to run in the 9:30/8:30c half-hour in place of "American Dad," which returns in late April.

-- Remaining in their current slots: "24, "American Idol," "House," "Bones," "Cops," "America's Most Wanted," "The Simpsons," "King of the Hill" and "Family Guy."

To review, here's a night-by-night guide to the upcoming schedule changes:

Sunday, March 4
8:00/7:00c - "The Simpsons"
8:30/7:30c - "The Winner" (Series Premiere, Special Time)
9:00/8:00c - "Family Guy"
9:30/8:30c - "The Winner" (New Series)

Sundays (as of March 11)
8:00/7:00c - "The Simpsons"
8:30/7:30c - "King of the Hill"
9:00/8:00c - "Family Guy"
9:30/8:30c - "The Winner" (New Series)

Sunday, April 15
8:00/7:00c - "Drive" (Two-Hour Series Premiere)

Mondays (through April 2)
8:00/7:00c - "Prison Break"
9:00/8:00c - "24"

Monday, April 9
8:00/7:00c - "House" (Repeat)
9:00/8:00c - "24"

Mondays (as of April 16)
8:00/7:00c - "Drive" (New Series)
9:00/8:00c - "24"

Tuesday, February 27
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol" (New 90-Minute Episode)
9:30/8:30c - "'Til Death" (Special Night & Time)

Wednesday, February 28
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol" (New 90-Minute Episode)
9:30/8:30c - "'Til Death" (Special Night & Time)

Wednesday, March 7
8:00/7:00c - "American Idol" (New Two-Hour Episode)

Wednesdays (as of March 14)
8:00/7:00c - "Bones"
9:00/8:00c - "American Idol" (30-Minute Results Shows)
9:30/8:30c - "'Til Death" (New Time Slot)

Thursdays (as of March - exact date TBA)
8:00/7:00c - (To Be Announced)
9:00/8:00c - "Hell's Kitchen"

Fridays (as of March - exact date TBA)
8:00/7:00c - "Standoff" (New Time Slot)
9:00/8:00c - "The Wedding Bells" (New Series)

[vinni2]

http://www.ottawasun.com/Showbiz/Tel...f-3406137.html

January 19, 2007

No O.C. no problem for Rowan

By ANN MARIE MCQUEEN

The O.C. star Kelly Rowan lets out a big laugh when it's suggested she doesn't let any perfectly manicured southern California grass grow under her feet.

The Fox show might be ending Feb. 22, but Rowan has a television movie airing Tuesday and an independent film opening next Friday.

"Well, you know, there's lots of time to sleep later," she jokes over the phone from Toronto.

The actress, who spent the first 12 years of her life raised as an only child in Ottawa, may be seeing her gig on The O.C. end -- it was cancelled late last year after a four-season run -- but she isn't wanting for work. Part of that is her commitment to producing, something she says she consciously sought out as an actress in her 30s.

Sure, Meryl Streep and Helen Mirren may have cleaned up at the Golden Globe Awards on Monday, but Hollywood is Hollywood, says Rowan.

"That's kind of why I got involved in producing and developing," she says. "because I didn't want to complain."

In God's Country, which airs on CTV Tuesday at 9 p.m., was filmed outside of Toronto last summer; Rowan flew back and forth to shoot Mount Pleasant on weekends off from The O.C. last spring.

That they are opening in the same week, Rowan says, "just happened."

She's spent the past five years working with her producing partner Graham Ludlow to bring In God's Country to screen.

The movie is set in a rigid, polygamy-devoted Mormon sect. Rowan plays one of eight wives married to a church bishop (played by Desperate Housewives Richard Burgi) who flees but is forced to return when she learns her vengeful ex is bent on marrying her daughter from her first marriage.

Rowan says she thought it was an important story to bring to light, particulary considering similar groups regularly ship young teen women back and forth across the border to marry church elders.

YOUNG GIRLS TRAPPED

"These young girls, they stop getting an education in Grade 7," she says. "It's all they know, so it's very difficult for them to leave these communities. How would they survive in the real world?"

The script for Mount Pleasant, which centres on a middle-class Vancouver neighbourhood plagued with drug and prostitution problems, came to Rowan. She calls her character -- faced with a husband caught sleeping with an underage teen -- "really edgy" compared to The O.C.'s got-it-together Kirsten Cohen.

As for The O.C., Rowan seems ready to let it go.

"The beautiful thing about doing a television series is that you have a regular job," she says, "and the not-so-beautiful thing about doing a television series is you're doing the same thing every day."

The show was a hit and trendsetter for the first two years but began to slide in its third season.

Rowan says when it was picked up for just 16 episodes this year the cast had a feeling the end was near.

"You live with people for four years, every day," she says. "We'll all miss each other."

The mood on set is already winding down, with the last day of shooting Feb. 2. Rowan treated herself to a two-week stay in Florence when she first got the job, and says she's definitely planning a vacation when it ends.

"I'm still trying to figure that out," she says. "But I think on Feb. 3 I'll be on a plane."

There's a video interview with Kelly Rowan in here.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTempla...rchive=CTVNews

[vinni2]

http://media.www.dailyorange.com/med...epublisher.com

The OC follows Marissa to the grave
Erinn Connor
Posted: 1/19/07

California, here we come, for the last time, as the sun sets on "The O.C."

After a four-year run, Fox cancelled its once powerhouse teen melodrama due to a steep decline in ratings and the inability to compete with other Thursday night shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "CSI."

The first season of "The O.C." was met with praise and watched by an average of 8.43 viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Teenage viewers watched as brooding outsider Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie) was adopted by the Cohen family after a run-in with the law. Then Ryan bonded with his new best friend, geeky Seth Cohen (Adam Brody), who made comic book obsessions and listening to The Shins cool.

And of course, the main focus of the show was and still is the drama of high-school relationships. Ryan caught the attention of his party girl next-door neighbor, Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton), and even Seth managed to snag his dream girl, Summer Roberts (Rachel Bilson).

Over the past seasons, viewers saw Marissa overdose on drugs in Tijuana, Summer "accidentally" fall for Seth, Ryan wear wife-beaters and/or get in a fight basically every episode and supposed uber-geek Seth get rejected from his dream college, Brown. It's not even worth discussing how many times both of the main couples have broken up and gotten back together.

"The O.C." became a pop culture phenomenon, putting a spotlight on the Indie music scene, launching the careers of Rooney and Death Cab for Cutie. The show was also known for dropping pop culture references all the time; it often references how Ryan looked alarmingly like a young Russell Crowe - a testament to the show's self-awareness.

The show created its own popular icons, such as Seth's super-holiday, "Chrismukkah," in which the characters wore yarmulkes decorated as Santa hats.

The main consensus from viewers is that the show's quality took a downward turn after the first season, as plotlines were geared more toward different love interests and less than interesting storylines revolving around the adults of Orange County. Then thanks in part to the fact that Mischa Barton could never quite get that acting thing down, her character, Marissa, was killed in a car crash in the season three finale.

The fourth and final season gained back some of the season one wit and charm, most likely because show creator Josh Schwartz became more involved in the writing process. The introduction of Taylor Townsend (Autumn Reeser) breathed life into the show, as Summer's sworn enemy turned into a hot nerdy girl and became Ryan's girlfriend.

The current season has also seen Marissa's younger sister, Kaitlin (Willa Holland), become Newport's newest wild child. And although she is a little too much like a cliché, for example when she has keg parties at her mom's mansion, she at least makes the show a little more interesting.

As the witty, yet still a little pathetic, Seth won the hearts of teenage girls all over, "I Heart Seth Cohen" shirts began popping up everywhere, and "The O.C." became a cultural phenomenon. Orange County was looked at as an idyllic place to live and its popularity spawned shows like "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County." "The O.C." has proven itself as the ultimate of guilty pleasure shows throughout its four-year run.

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This was posted several days ago but might as well post them here too.
Mischa Barton made two sets of comments about the OC at the Golden Globes after parties.


Roger Friedman/Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243936,00.html

Mischa Barton arrived with boyfriend Cisco Adler, laying to rest rumors of their breakup. Was she surprised that “The O.C.” was cancelled, I asked?

“Nooooo,” she said. “They killed me off.”

I offered that she had been the main attraction. “That’s what I think they discovered," she said.

More tomorrow from and about the fun, if meaningless, Golden Globes. ...____________

Ausiello/TV Guide

http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Ausiello/default.aspx?posting={D46C1FED-5531-4470-AAF8-068D269982FC}

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Question: So did you happen to run into Mischa Barton at the InStyle party? If so, what did she think about The O.C.'s cancellation?— Danielle J. White

Ausiello: OMG! How did you know?! Yes, I cornered her at the bar and lightly grilled her about the demise of her alma mater. "It's definitely bittersweet," she told me. "It's too bad. I think it had its run, though. It was great while it lasted. But, of course, I was a little upset for [the cast]." When I asked her whether she felt Marissa's death contributed to the show's premature axing, as die-hard Marissa fans are naturally contending, she took the high road and said, "I have no comment on that. But I am really grateful to the fans. They've been very, very loyal, and that's always been really important to me." Those same fans can look forward to seeing Barton in two upcoming films: Richard Attenborough's drama Closing the Ring, in which she plays "a young Shirley MacLaine," and the indie flick Don't Fade Away, with Beau Bridges and Summerland's Ryan Kwanten. (BTW, Mischa Barton is really tall... shockingly so. She's also pretty sweet. I feel a little rotten about all those digs I took at her acting. I'm not a bad person, am I?)

[vinni2]

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20009216,00.html


Sorry, 'O.C.' Fans...
At the Television Critics Association press tour, The CW confirms it considered saving the canceled Fox show but decided against it. Plus: its plans for ''Veronica Mars,'' the Pussycat Dolls show, and more

While it feels like I've been at the Television Critics Association press tour for about the length of a Warren Beatty Golden Globes speech, it's actually only my third day. But at least The CW is a network that doesn't take itself too seriously, and Entertainment President Dawn Ostroff opened the day with an actually informative session. Ostroff announced a Feb. 28 premiere date for the next cycle of its top show, America's Next Top Model. Even more exciting is the March 6 start for my future obsession, The Search for the Next Doll, a reality competition to find a new Pussycat Doll. Ostroff also confirmed rumors that the network discussed picking up The O.C., but ultimately rejected the notion. I expect nothing less from the network that killed Everwood.

Related:

Kristin/Eonline.com

http://www.eonline.com/gossip/kristi...0b96e0f&page=2

O.C. fans—hope you're sitting down. The CW is not picking up The O.C. "Obviously, it came up," Ostroff says of the possibility of the move, "but we really didn't think it made sense for us for several reasons. And we're very excited about Josh [Schwartz]'s new show."

More:

http://www.tvseriesfinale.com/2007/0...no_thanks.html

http://www.sbsun.com/ontv/ci_5047653

[Fraz]

'O.C.' Ends on High Hopes
FOX Entertainment Preseident hopes fans will be happy with how things end
By Daniel Fienberg
January 20, 2007


Benjamin McKenzie of 'The O.C.'LOS ANGELES -- "The O.C." is coming to an end on Feb. 22, a fact that viewers may have gleaned from the sudden rush of promotional might that FOX has thrown behind the show.

"There's been an increase in promotional time and audience that's seeing it," admits FOX Entertainment President Peter Liguori. "Again, it's a reality of our schedule across the board. If we're able to put an "O.C." promo within "Idol," within "24," within football playoffs, it's just naturally getting greater audience. And, you know, I'm hoping that the show responds accordingly."

Thus far, ratings for the show haven't changed appreciably, which shouldn't be surprising given that "The O.C." is still airing opposite new episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" and "CSI," to say nothing of The CW's "Supernatural" and NBC's young-skewing comedies. Much has been written already about the slow trickle of promotion that greeted the fourth-year soap's November premiere, a silence that operated in contrast to the show's early-season creative resurgence. Since FOX and "O.C." creator Josh Schwartz announced the impending end/cancellation, however, the network has had an active countdown warning that life as "O.C." fans know it is coming to an end.

"We have something else to promote with, which is the series finale," Liguori notes. "And, you know, one thing about Josh is this season he really has gone back to the old "O.C." There's a greater sense of humor. There's a greater sense of frivolity. All the characters are highly activated. And these shows -- and I know you've heard this this week in reference to other shows -- we want the show to end on a creative high note. We wish we were ending on a higher ratings note. But again, I think this is respectful to Josh, all the actors, the show, its legacy, and, most importantly, the audience."

Liguori notes that the show's dedicated (albeit dwindling) fanbase was actually the reason why the end was announced formally and officially at the beginning of January, leaving no hope for a last-minute reprieve.

"I think, for the loyal fans of the show, announcing that this is the final season puts them on notice, alerts them, lets them realize and anticipate that Josh is going to end this with a flurry," says Liguori. "I just think it's respectful to fans to do that."

Many factors have been cited in the show's demise -- poor scheduling, the death of Mischa Barton's Marissa, the show's second season creative dip, etc. -- leaving Liguori at a bit of a loss to explain things in hindsight.

"You know, I can always Monday morning quarterback our lack of successes," he says. "Yeah, I can sit back and say 'I wish we put more money against promoting it.' I can't tell you that would have made that much of a difference. I could sit back say, 'Should we have moved it out of Thursday night and avoided those big shows?' Yeah. I could second-guess myself to death. The fact is that we have supported the show. The fact is that it has continued to hit its stride creatively. And these white-hot shows, they come and go a little bit quicker than your more standard fair."

"The O.C." finale will air on Thursday, Feb. 22.

[vinni2]

http://www.canada.com/topics/enterta...34&k=29792&p=1


Kelly Rowan ready to put 'The O.C.' character Kirsten Cohen to rest

Sunday, January 21, 2007

TORONTO (CP) - Ottawa-born actress Kelly Rowan, who plays recovering alcoholic Kirsten Cohen on Fox's once-hot teenage soap "The O.C.," is itching to delve into more diverse roles once the four-year-old series wraps up for good next month.

"You're doing the same character week after week after week and you have to find ways to keep that interesting for yourself," Rowan said in an interview.

"So I'm also now looking forward to moving on and just appreciating what this has given me in so many ways and ... challenging myself in other directions."

Rowan is already well on her way to achieving that goal, playing one of eight wives shared by a power-hungry man in the made-for-TV movie "In God's Country." Set in a fictional, modern-day polygamous town, the film airs Tuesday on CTV.

Rowan's character, Judith, eventually flees the Mormon community with her children to save them from a life of submission.

The film was shot just outside Toronto, but Rowan - who was also the executive producer - said the sect depicted is a generic one that could be anywhere in North America.

"We're not pointing the finger at some specific community," said Rowan, who read a plethora of books and articles on polygamy to prepare for the role and was shocked by some of her findings.

"There are these 14-year-olds and these girls under 16 - 14, 15 - who are being shipped across the border between the U.S. and Canada and they're being married to these 55-year-old men and it's illegal."

The Los Angeles-based actress also stars as a well-off woman whose husband cheats on her with an underage prostitute in Vancouver in the film "Mount Pleasant," which opens in select Canadian theatres Friday.

Rowan worked on both projects - and others - in between filming "The O.C.," which airs for the last time Feb. 22.

The result was a seven-day work schedule that she said has left her in need of a break.

"They were projects that I really wanted to do and so it was worth it, but now I'm a little tired. I might take a vacation," she said when asked what she'll do when "The O.C." is done.

"I might take at least a couple weeks off ... Maybe I'll do a couple of projects and then take some time for travelling, just take some time for me."

The cast of the ocean-side show that's set in the affluent Orange County, Calif., city of Newport Beach films the finale on Feb. 2, said Rowan.

She said she didn't expect to see the final script until shortly before filming.

"They're all very secretive about things," said Rowan, who was raised in Toronto.

"We'll ask, we'll kind of make a joke and say, you know, 'What's going on?' and they'll go, 'No, no, can't tell you.' "

"The O.C.," which airs on CTV, was a smash hit when it started in 2003, but ratings dropped every season thereafter, especially when starlet Mischa Barton's character (Marissa) was killed off.

Rowan said the cast - which also includes Peter Gallagher, Benjamin McKenzie, Adam Brody, Melinda Clarke, Rachel Bilson, Autumn Reeser and Willa Holland - sensed that something was awry when Fox ordered just 16 episodes for the 2006-07 season.

"We all had an inkling that it was going to get cancelled," she said.

"We were all kind of prepared that this was going to be the last season anyway, so it wasn't a big shock when the announcement came out.

"And of course there's sadness because you work with a bunch of people for four years - they're like family."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...a-news-comment

Ding, dong, 'The O.C.' is dead

The canceled TV show falsely portrayed Orange County as the all-white Mecca of tourist-friendly hipness, not as the multicultural mess it really is.

By Gustavo Arellano,
GUSTAVO ARELLANO is a contributing editor to Opinion and a staff writer with OC Weekly, where he writes the "¡Ask a Mexican!" column.

January 22, 2007

CHRISMUKKAH returned quickly for me this year, gracias to Fox canceling its set-in-Orange County teen drama, "The O.C." The decision was an ignominious end for the once-hot TV show, which premiered four years ago to high ratings and critical buzz but is now deservedly destined for reruns on KDOC-TV Channel 56 alongside infomercials and "McHale's Navy." I hope it tanks there too.

My problem with "The O.C." wasn't its ignorance of the "real" Orange County, the postmodern suburban stew of multiculturalism and Mexican bashing I call casa. No fictional depiction of a region can possibly synthesize it entirely, John Steinbeck notwithstanding. Nor am I too bothered with out-of-towners now calling us "The O.C.," a nickname as inane as "Hollyweird." Creator Josh Schwartz's greatest sin was to transform my homeland into a synonym for avarice and vapidity — which is what Orange County's leaders want. In the eyes of America, we're now "Dallas" with better tans and a coast, and the movers and shakers of la naranja love it.

This newfound reputation was more than a century in the making. Ever since the county fathers incorporated in 1889 under the name of a fruit that few residents grew, Orange County has employed homegrown myth makers to promote its self-image as a Garden of Suburban Delights.

The gorgeous orange-crate labels of the county's citrus growers — all depicting tranquil orchards of plenty, never showing the Latinos who picked them — offered America a sweet slice of paradise during the Depression. Eisenhower's America wanted to visit Anaheim's Disneyland and buy into the county's promise of master-planned, affordable housing far from dirty, minority-plagued cities. Surf music immortalized Huntington Beach as "Surf City" (give it up, Santa Cruz) and allowed the nation's teens to dream of shooting the pier while blond, blue-eyed "Gidget"-wannabes snacked on funnel cakes. The ascendancy of native son Richard Nixon, while further solidifying the stereotype of us as a conservative stronghold, also meant that the nation's silent majority wanted in on the action too.

This Edenic image faced a challenge in the mid-1990s, as rock groups such as No Doubt, Social Distortion, the Offspring and Rage Against the Machine offered a more sour take on what No Doubt memorably described as the "Tragic Kingdom." The county establishment eschewed these bands and the youth that propelled their success, stodgy image be damned.

But, meanwhile, local multimillion-dollar empires such as Oakley, Quiksilver and Paul Frank showed Orange County's old money that there were fortunes to be made by catering to the hip. County boosters changed our image anew: We were now the nexus where cool and capitalism met. The national media lapped it up — USA Today called Orange County "the Cathedral of Cool"; VH1 said we were "America's Hip Factory" and even staid U.S. News & World Report blathered that O.C. was "Hip's New Headquarters."

It's no wonder, then, that Orange County so zealously embraced "The O.C." upon its 2003 debut. The program didn't pretend to show all of Orange County, just the parts politicians and businessmen wanted broadcast. Wealth. Whiteness. The beach. Just a couple of months before "The O.C." premiered, then-Newport Beach Councilman Dick Nichols complained to a reporter that there were too many Mexicans mucking up the beaches.

With "The O.C.," Nichols and his friends undoubtedly found relief. The show's characters derided the working-class, minority-heavy central part of the county. The problems we face — immigration wars, changing demographics, escalating home prices — disappeared in favor of potboiler sap and bad indie-rock (although the fictional depiction of Irvine Co. head Don Bren —named the most powerful man in Southern California by this very paper — as the despicable Caleb Nichol was spot-on). In gratitude, Newport Beach gave the keys of the city to cast members, while Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby proposed changing the name of John Wayne Airport to the O.C. Airport.

Tellingly, the only show to have nailed Orange County is no longer with us: Fox's "Arrested Development." The show's Bluth family was just like its fellow boob-tube Orange Countians — self-absorbed, rich, living in the good part of town and WASPier than a nest. In one episode, dopey Buster Bluth emerged from a car trunk in Santa Ana thinking he was in Mexico. He then walked into his maid's house, marveling that Lupe's children wore the exact same clothes he wore as a child. Here were the lords of Orange County in their grotesque reality — insular, clueless, outwitted again and again by Latinos.

But "Arrested Development" drew low ratings and a quick death. The "official" Orange County story marches on.

Just wanted to wish Mischa Barton Happy 21st birthday

[Jessica]

So they are cancelling The OC for Hell's Kitchen! Not a good move..