Aly article

[DarleneIllyria]

Okay, I get the Sunday paper and the Parade paper comes inside the paper and this article was in the Parade.


We've just said goodbye to her on TV's Buffy. ON Aug. 1, Alyson Hannigan is back for her third helping of Pie, and this time they're calling it American Wedding.


In Step With Alyson Hannigan

She's a redhead, Irish and both sexy and funny. The vivacious and delightful Alyson Hannigan is back on the big screen in the third edition of the hit American Pie movies, titled American Wedding.

"I worked on the first one only seven days," said Alyson, who played Michelle the flute player. And critics said she stole the sequel. Now she's back for the whole trip in American Wedding, opening Aug. 1. The amazing thing is, said Alyson, "I did all three on my days off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer." She played Willow, the gay witch, on the popular TV series.

When Hannigan and I spoke, she was just back from vacationing in Europe with her fiance, Alexis Denisof, a former co-star on Buffy. She had "a little head cold" and a sore throat. I thought it made her sound even sexier. Where in Europe were they? "London" Alyson said. "I love London. My fiance has a house there in Notting Hill, but he was having work done, so we stayed glamorously in a hotel in Covent Garden. He may trade in the house and get something smaller. It's too big for us."

That sounds as if she and Alexis-who's now on the TV series Angel- are pretty serious. "There's no marriage date yet," Alyson told me. "But we're getting there."

Since Buffy had just gone off the air after its long and extraordinary successful run, I asked Ms. Hannigan to look back at the experience. "I was on the show for seven years," she said. "I stayed for the entire run." What was that last day's shooting like? Relief or bittersweet? "It was very, very strange," said Alyson. "We were happy but a little bittersweet, saying goodbye as each scene ended. There were tears and hugs-that's how close we were, how good it was." So a series like that isn't just another job? "Oh, my God, no," she said. "I have friends for life!"



Brady's Bits

Alyson Hannigan's train of thought was interrupted during the interview. "You OK?" I asked. "Yes, just a cat crisis," she said. Her cat had gotten its claws caught on smething-and it was Alyson to the rescue! And not for the first time, since Hannigan got the cat from a pound, which she believes is the "right way" to find a pet. I'd read that Alyson was born near the White House. "I'm told that," she said. "But I can't remember. The closest hospital to the White House, I guess." Hannigan's parents divorced when she was 2, and Alyson grew up in Atlanta with her mom. By the time she was 4, she'd done her first commericial- for Duncan Hines. She first got to California on a visit to her dad and had her first auditions there. In 1988, she landed a part in My Stepmother is an Alien, playing Dan Ackroyd's daughter, and her career was launched. Had she seen a final cut of American Wedding? "I saw the 60 second trailer, and that was very funny" said Alyson. "And we had a good feel while we were making it. But, in this business, you never know."

Personal:
Born March 24, 1974, in Washington, D.C., Engaged to Alexis Denisof since 2002.


I won't type in the Television and Films she's done, you can check that out at imdb.com. Let me scan a pic of the article, hold on just a sec.

[DarleneIllyria]

The pic might be big and a little dark, just a warning.

[disturbed child]

Okay, I love Aly and I'm all for supporting her career, but I don't really care for the American Pie movies. The first one was alright, but the second one was garbage. Maybe the third one will be okay. I hope so. I don't want to see Aly's talent wasted.

[Faith]

I can't wait to see American Wedding.. I probably wouldn't even see the movie if Aly wasn't going to in.