TJ
01-22-2003, 06:57 PM
http://www.canoe.ca/Television/jan17_art-sun.html
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Psst, pass it on: Art Garfunkel is about to join the cast of American Dreams.
That was the buzz yesterday on the set of the NBC family drama, where the cast and crew welcomed TV critics from across North America.
The series shoots on the same Sunset-Gower studio back lot where many of the Frank Capra films of the '30s were lensed. Real Philly steak sandwiches were served as reporters were led through the American Bandstand set and other Philadelphia back-street locales, circa 1964.
Gail O'Grady, who plays '60s mom Helen Pryor, even offered Tastycakes as writers filed through the interior set of her house, a very close duplicate of the home used in the American Dreams pilot, shot on Vancouver's North Shore area.
NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker just stopped short of announcing that the rookie Sunday night series would be back next fall. "It's my favourite show of the year so you know what that means," said Zucker.
Montreal-native Vanessa Lengies, who plays eager teen Roxanne, has been asked to write a real life column for Seventeen magazine to correspond to her character's own foray into journalism. Look for it in the May issue.
Bandstand creator Dick Clark, also an executive producer on this series, was on hand and says he is "a half step away" from bringing an updated version of American Bandstand back to television. He says all the gold records, pennants and other paraphernalia on the American Dreams' Bandstand set are exact duplicates of the ones he still has in his office. "Why I kept them all, I don't know," says Clark. (More on Art Garfunkel)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Psst, pass it on: Art Garfunkel is about to join the cast of American Dreams.
That was the buzz yesterday on the set of the NBC family drama, where the cast and crew welcomed TV critics from across North America.
The series shoots on the same Sunset-Gower studio back lot where many of the Frank Capra films of the '30s were lensed. Real Philly steak sandwiches were served as reporters were led through the American Bandstand set and other Philadelphia back-street locales, circa 1964.
Gail O'Grady, who plays '60s mom Helen Pryor, even offered Tastycakes as writers filed through the interior set of her house, a very close duplicate of the home used in the American Dreams pilot, shot on Vancouver's North Shore area.
NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker just stopped short of announcing that the rookie Sunday night series would be back next fall. "It's my favourite show of the year so you know what that means," said Zucker.
Montreal-native Vanessa Lengies, who plays eager teen Roxanne, has been asked to write a real life column for Seventeen magazine to correspond to her character's own foray into journalism. Look for it in the May issue.
Bandstand creator Dick Clark, also an executive producer on this series, was on hand and says he is "a half step away" from bringing an updated version of American Bandstand back to television. He says all the gold records, pennants and other paraphernalia on the American Dreams' Bandstand set are exact duplicates of the ones he still has in his office. "Why I kept them all, I don't know," says Clark. (More on Art Garfunkel)