Milo Ventimiglia has signed up for MEAN Magazine’s Cinemash, a digital series that will re-create classic scenes from popular movies in short webisode formats.

Milo Ventimiglia joins a roster of stars, including Will Arnett, Zooey Deschanel, and Channing Tatum, who will all be re-creating scenes from popular movies in upcoming episodes. Milo’s episode, which is set for August 4th, will be in homage to Oldboy:

“One of TV’s true Heroes takes revenge on a group of greedy corporate executives who are strapping on their golden parachutes to escape responsibility for their misdeeds.”

The first Cinemash video, coming on July 14th, will feature Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt recreating a scene from Sid and Nancy.

Also, let’s all wish Milo Ventimiglia a HAPPY BIRTHDAY, as he celebrates his 32nd birthday tomorrow, July 8th!

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Gregg Henry (Mitchum Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls) hit the green carpet last night for the HBO premiere of their new series Hung, which held its premiere party at the Paramount Studios in LA.

Gregg landed a recurring role in Hung for this season, which premieres on June 28th. His character will be the assistant basketball coach. As yet, no episodic images or trailers feature him, but I’ll be keeping my eye out!! Read more

Several Gilmore Girls stars are up for a Teen Choice 2009 Award this year for their movie & tv performances. You can vote each and every day to help them win!

Gilmore Girls actors up for awards include:

• Alexis Bledel (Rory) for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
• Rob Estes (Jimmy) for 90210
• Billy Burke (Alex) for Twilight
• Jared Padalecki (Dean) for Friday the 13th
• Milo Ventimiglia (Jess) for Heroes
• Arielle Kebbel (Lindsay) for The Uninvited
• Krysten Ritter (Lucy) for Confessions of a Shopaholic

Alexis Bledel’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is up for “Choice Movie: Romance”. The other contenders are: Australia, Confessions of a Shopaholic (with Krysten Ritter), He’s Just Not That Into You and Twilight (with Billy Burke). Twilight is up for a number of other awards too, as you’d expect!

Also up for an award this year is Friday the 13th, with Jared Padalecki. The movie goes up against Arielle Kebbel’s The Uninvited for “Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller”.

In the television category, Heroes (with Milo Ventimiglia) is up for “Choice TV Show: Action Adventure), and Milo himself is up for “Choice TV Actor: Action Adventure” for his Heroes role. Moving on, Rob Estes is up for “Choice TV: Parental Unit” for his role on 90210.

Good luck to everyone!!

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Alan Loayza starred in Gilmore Girls as Colin McCrae of the Life & Death Brigade. Since promoting his work in the Role Playing-based web series, GOLD, I’ve exchanged a few emails with Alan about his recent projects and his experience on Gilmore Girls.

Alan has a diverse creative background, including acting, music and photography. Most recently, Alan was in Paris doing a photo shoot that you can currently find featured at the top of his website. He also worked with Tanc Sade & Nick Holmes on the Two Straws short. His web series, GOLD, has now aired 5 episodes (see them here) with the Season 1 finale to air on June 26, 2009. Alan Loayza can be also be found online at twitter.com/alanloayza.

GilmoreGirlsNews.com: How did you get involved in the GOLD web series?

Alan Loayza: GOLD came about from David Nett who has a theatre company that I did a play with. The company is called Lucid by Proxy and I got involved through some old college buddies from CalArts. One day David said ,"I’m making a web series about D&D gamers and I want you to play the head of the British team." I didn’t know countries had D&D teams but the Lucid people always make great original work so I knew this wouldn’t be any different.

GilmoreGirlsNews.com: Could you describe your character on GOLD and how he evolves in the series?

Alan Loayza: Oliver Crane is a megalomaniacal self-proclaimed leader of his team. His only goal in life is to defeat the Americans at any costs using his fame and psychological tactics to set the Americans off. The funniest part about Oliver’s past is that he was the star of an old BBC show where he solved crimes with the ghost of J.R.R. Tolkien. This is one for the fantasy geeks through and through. The thing with Oliver that is a running theme with the show is that he’s not on his game as we are to believe he used to be, and that’s GOLD in a nutshell. An ensemble of characters loosing their grip of what they used to have going for them. Read more

Krysten Ritter (Lucy on Gilmore Girls) has had a long guest arc on the AMC series Breaking Bad this season. Her character, Jane Margolis, first appeared in an April episode and became, in time, a romantic interest for Jesse (Aaron Paul).

Jane, unfortunately, gets pulled back into using drugs by Jesse. Jane’s dad wants to take her off to rehab, but sadly it’s too late for that. In fact, Krysten sums it up best on her twitter account: Read more

Gregg Henry (Mitchum Huntzberger on Gilmore Girls) will get a recurring role on HBO’s new dark comedy Hung.

Hung, which premieres on June 28th, stars Thomas Jane as a “well-endowed” high school basketball coach who has “figured out a way to use his best asset.”. According to the news, Gregg Henry has a “recurring” role as Mike, the assistant basketball coach.

Gregg Henry has previous experience working with Hung co-creator Dmitry Lipkin, who was creator of The Riches, a series Gregg was starring in on FX.

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Tanc Sade payed the Life & Death Brigade eccentric Finn on Gilmore Girls. Tanc was born in Australia and had worked in several theatrical productions, as well as some tv and movie roles, before landing his role on Gilmore Girls.

Tanc and I exchanged emails recently, after I promoted one of his short films, Two Straws, which brought together 2 other Gilmore Girls Life & Death Brigade alumns, Nick Holmes (Robert) and Alan Loayza (Colin McCrae). This was Tanc’s second $20 short, after You Had Me at Hello, with a brand new short released just this week, A New Dawn. This latest film features Tanc wearing a Motion Capture Suit doing a little dance as the Hulk. The film ends with a message about Prop 8: “If the Green Man can loosen up a little, so can you. Support same-sex marriage.”

In the interview below, Tanc talks more about these $20 shorts, as well as some of his experiences on Gilmore Girls. Tanc can also be found on Twitter at twitter.com/giddyuptiger.

GilmoreGirlsNews.com: In homage to Twitter, tell us a little bit about yourself in 140 characters or less.

Tanc Sade: A lucky fella who gets to create art and still put food on the table and keep a roof over his head. It may be simple but it’s a good life…

GilmoreGirlsNews.com: What inspired you to start working on the $20 shorts?

Tanc Sade: Between the economy and the looming SAG strike work had slowed down. As an artist, if I’m not working as an actor, I need to be doing something else. I loved the experience of making Flowers and Weeds and thought it would be great to direct again. By giving myself the limitations of completing the films in less then 7 days and for less than $20, it meant I had to really push myself creatively. I think it has also made me a better director.

GilmoreGirlsNews.com: Where did the idea come for your latest short, Two Straws?

Tanc Sade: No idea. It goes something like this. I want to make a short. I want to work with Nick and Alan. I need to shoot it in one location. OK, two guys at a bar. 10 minutes later I had Two Straws. Read more

Melissa McCarthy (Sookie on Gilmore Girls) is currently starring in the Groundlings production Enchanted Forest, which will be playing at the Groundling Theater in LA through to July 18. This comedy show is directed by Roy Jenkins and features a collection of skits by Groundlings members.

Melissa McCarthy, who has been with Groundlings for more than 10 years, delivers in the skit “Soft Butt Firm”. LA Weekly describes the skit with:

“Soft Butt Firm” finds Melissa McCarthy on-target as a sugar-tongued huckster of her recently acquired product — a superabsorbent toilet paper.

You can buy tickets to see Melissa in this comedy show here. Read more

Michael Winters (Taylor Doose on Gilmore Girls) is currently starring as Prospero in the Seattle Shakespeare Company production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which is playing from June 4 - 28th.

In The Tempest, Prospero (Michael Winters) is a banished sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan. He uses his magical powers to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest (violent storm) to drive them ashore to an island. That island’s native inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, aid or hinder Prospero’s work. While vengeance is what Prospero seeks, he discovers instead that love and forgiveness are the most potent magic of all.

In an interview with the Seattle Times, Michael Winters shares that he’s acted in 10 of Shakespeare’s plays in the past, though The Tempest is a new one for him and that the part was hard to learn: Read more

Keiko Agena (Lane Kim on Gilmore Girls) recently decided to express her creativity through illustrated art. After taking a $40 online course for Illustrator, Keiko began putting together humorous drawings. She has now turned those drawings into a business - Mango Pop!

Keiko is creating a series of Mano Pop cards, crafted each with an inspiration from someone close to her. Each card celebrates an addiction too - from chocolate to napping!

You can check out some samples of Keiko’s work here, and it looks like they should soon be available for purchase. You can follow Keiko on Twitter here, where she’ll hopefully soon announce more details!