As the title of his new memoir — Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success — suggests, Jeff Hiller, 49, did not take the express bus to stardom. Best known as Joel, best friend to Bridget Everett’s Sam on the Peabody Award-winning HBO series Somebody Somewhere, …
Read More »Farewell to 'Somebody Somewhere,' TV's Rare Love Letter to Middle America
In the opening scene of the third season of Somebody Somewhere, Bridget Everett’s character, Sam Miller, crouches on the floor of a bar, talking baby-talk to a dog. When she gets up she shows a patron a picture of a dog she’s dreaming about adopting. Then, she leaves, singing in …
Read More »'These People Are Going to Exist Forever:' Bridget Everett on the Final Season of 'Somebody Somewhere'
Break out the tini-tinis and get some French toast for the table! Somebody Somewhere, the Peabody-award winning HBO comedy starring, written, and executive produced by Bridget Everett — about a middle-aged woman who moves back to her Kansas hometown to care for her dying sister and ends up staying, and …
Read More »Woman Shot to Death Over Pride Flag Hanging at Her Shop
Director Paul Feig, actress Bridget Everett, and other friends and allies are remembering Laura “Lauri” Ann Carleton, who was allegedly shot and killed for hanging a Pride flag outside her store near Lake Arrowhead in California on Friday night. According to authorities, San Bernardino County deputies responded to the shooting …
Read More »The Bawdy and Beautiful Rise of Bridget Everett
B ridget Everett still has restaurant stress dreams. Never mind that she is a writer, star, executive producer, and the driving force behind Somebody Somewhere, the critically acclaimed, cult-favorite HBO show about a directionless woman who moves back to her hometown in middle age (Season Two premieres April 23). When …
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