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Dance the night away with Red FM
'America's Most Wanted' ending run on Fox, but John Walsh isn't done
Noah Wyle stars in a drama about an alien invasion

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 01:20 AM PDT

GET ready to work the dance floor as Red FM's Remix Club Tour hits GOSH Club Kuala Lumpur at the Asian Heritage Row on June 25. With music that will keep you on your feet all night long, DJ Razz plays the top club songs, electronic dance tracks and dance anthem remixes.

Every Saturday from 11pm to 1am, Red FM Remix plays a mixture of irresistible dance music on air. Evolving into the Red FM Remix Club Tour, DJ Razz and guest DVJ G-Mix have been hopping around the club circuit to spin their distinctive music mix at well-known clubs in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Baru.

DJ Razz will play an addictive blend of hip hop to house vibes accompanied by hypnotic, head turning visuals from DVJ G-Mix with his unique skills of "visualising sounds". Together, they flood the dance floors with a dazzling showmanship of music and sound.

Pick up four passes to this exciting party by listening out for the cue to enter from June 20 till 24. The passes will be given out on Red FM's Eleven 2 Three With Lexie (Mondays to Fridays, 11am – 3pm) and Red FM's Evening With Arnold (Mondays to Fridays, 7pm – 10pm).

In the meantime, work the airwaves with Red FM's Quick Workout and you may just win a prize as well as burn off some "calories".

Work out the Red FM way on Red FM's Eleven 2 Three and flex your brain muscles with Lexie as she fires off questions to test your brain power. With each question you get right, you burn off a certain amount of "calories" and you may just get rewarded with a prize for the right amount burnt. Tune in next week and win body treatment vouchers from Mary Chia, courtesy of www.ilovediscounts.com.

If that's not enough to get you all worked up, add some sizzle to your day with Red FM's Red Hot Goss. Lexie provides you with the latest and juiciest news on your favourite celebrities. Get the inside scoop on the glamorous and fast paced world of entertainment where something is always happening. You can find out what's happening in the world of music, get the updates on the latest celebrity antics or be in the know of all things pertaining to the newest movies to hit the screens.

For more details, visit www.red.fm and join the Red FM (Malaysia) Facebook group. You can also follow us on Twitter (@iloveredfm).

Red FM is owned and operated by The Star.

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'America's Most Wanted' ending run on Fox, but John Walsh isn't done

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:06 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP): This week marks the final weekly airing of "America's Most Wanted" on the Fox network after 23 years and 1,153 fugitives nabbed.

"I don't think it's hit me yet," said John Walsh, the host and driving force of what he turned into a nationwide crime watch. "Saturday when I see the last show - that's gonna be painful."

But that broadcast is billed as the season finale - not the series conclusion - on the "AMW" website.

Not surprisingly, this is the same attitude voiced by Walsh.

"I'm fighting hard to keep this franchise going," he said. "It's a television show that gets ratings AND saves lives, and we'll find somewhere to keep going. We're not done."

Speaking by phone Thursday morning, he had just arrived back in Washington from Brazil. There, he was hunting for a pedophile who has been hiding out in Rio de Janeiro for 14 years.

"He's a fake minister who molested tons of boys in Florida," Walsh said. "I was working with Brazilian police, and I think I'll get this guy."

The case will be spotlighted on Saturday's show, and, as he spoke, Walsh was headed to "AMW" headquarters to supervise editing the segment.

He said he will make some parting remarks at the end of the show, with the promise, "We're going to land somewhere else."

And after that?

"I'm so used to doing what I've done every day for 23 years that I'm still trying to sort it all out," he said. "But I have many, many offers, a long list I've got to wade through and see where we go from here."

One possibility, he said, is News Corp. sibling Fox News Channel, which that network confirms.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes "has had preliminary discussions with John Walsh and he's a fan of 'America's Most Wanted,"' said Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti, "but nothing has been decided."

Walsh said he hopes to have a deal in place, probably with a cable network, within two weeks.

This, of course, is the man who mounted a crime-busting crusade in the aftermath of the abduction and murder of his 6-year-old son Adam in 1981. He became an outspoken advocate for tougher laws against sex offenders, more cooperation among law enforcement agencies, and citizen involvement in flushing out fugitives.

His TV show premiered in April 1988 on the fledgling Fox network and, little more than a year later, it was the first-ever Fox program to rank first in viewership in its time slot. It's been a fixture on the network ever since, and during the 2010-11 season, was seen by an audience averaging 5 million viewers.

So last month Walsh, 65, was "in shock," he said, on getting the news that "AMW" had been canceled. The show is too expensive to produce, Fox entertainment head Kevin Reilly explained. The network is planning to air weekly repeats of its prime-time entertainment series in the Saturday slot "AMW" has held for so long.

"AMW" isn't completely disappearing from the network. There will be four, two-hour specials aired next season, Reilly said in making the announcement in May.

So far, Walsh said, there have been no discussions with Fox about how and when the specials will be produced. And they won't preserve the current "AMW" operation, with its 70-plus staff.

"I've got hotline operators, website guys, reporters, writers, graphic artists, engineers - we're a full-blown news operation," Walsh said. "One of the most painful things I've got to do is cut everybody loose. Now my first priority is to be sure Fox treats these people fairly, which I think they will."

Besides offering "AMW" employees what Walsh calls a "really fair" severance package, Fox has agreed to maintain the telephone hotline and website, which are both essential for receiving tips on fugitives from the public.

Then Walsh hopes "AMW" will soon be settled in a new TV home.

"It's very simple," he said. "I want to catch bad guys and find missing children - and we're not done."

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Noah Wyle stars in a drama about an alien invasion

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:01 PM PDT

NEW YORK (AP): These days, Noah Wyle occupies a world devastated by alien invaders.

On his new TNT sci-fi series "Falling Skies," he plays Tom Mason, a Boston University history professor whose wife was killed and one of his three sons taken captive in the alien attack.

Tom is second-in-command of a ragtag regiment of survivors in a ravaged Boston suburb. The odds against them seem insurmountable. But they are fighting back. In his new role, Wyle is facing even more challenges than, years ago, in that Chicago emergency room.

On "Falling Skies" (which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT) there are threats aplenty from the mysterious, multi-legged aliens (nicknamed "skitters" by the humans) and the killing-machine robots they sic on the Earthlings.

"But there are larger themes," Wyle says. "Beyond surviving, the human characters will need to create the template for the next civilization, which probably won't even be realized in their own lifetimes."

In short, Tom Mason is a history professor helping create new history by looking to the past.

"History is full of inferior forces creating so much trouble that the invading army leaves," Tom tries to reassure his comrades as he reels off several encouraging examples, including a modern case: "Red Socks, Yankees, '04."

Wyle says he wasn't looking to do another series and, while he isn't the first TV star to have said that, he makes it sound convincing. After all, his 11-year weekly hitch as Dr. John Carter on NBC's "ER," which ended in 2005, established him as a mainstay of the last blockbuster drama viewers may ever see. What follow-up series could measure up?

"After 'ER,' I wanted to be a stay-at-home dad for a while," Wyle says.

(Divorced last year, he has a son, Owen, now 8, and a 5-year-old daughter, Auden.) "The game plan, such as it was, was to stay away from episodic television, and try to rebuild my career in a post-'ER' world."

But the persistence of TNT (for which Wyle made three films in the "Librarian" adventure franchise) wore him down with offers for pilot deals, he says. So a couple of years ago, he sought out the advice of a trusted counselor. He presented his son, Owen, with three series options: He could be a lawyer or a police detective or an alien fighter.

Owen shot him a you're-kidding-me look, Wyle recalls. The choice was obvious: An alien fighter Wyle would be.

The impact of his decision? "To get this kind of street credibility with my son - it's huge," Wyle says with a smile.

"But with the birth of my kids, I started to really look at my career through their eyes more than my own," he declares. "So that does dictate choice, steering me toward certain things and away from other things."

Wyle had his own reasons, too, for saying yes to "Falling Skies." He identified with Tom's devotion to his sons, and admired Tom's sense of social duty.

"And there's the grief and loss that he struggles to rebound from," Wyle adds. "These are all themes I'm interested in exploring in my own life."

Now 40, he is 6 feet and 2 inches (1.87 meters) and rangy, and retains the boyish air that first earned him heartthrob status two decades ago. He is laid-back but reflective, with those arched, guileless eyebrows that seem to certify everything he says.

Wyle's co-stars include Moon Bloodgood as a comely pediatrician who lost her only son in the attack six months earlier. Will Patton is the hard-line commander of the regiment with whom Wyle's character often clashes. And Drew Roy plays Tom's oldest son, who fights against the invaders alongside his father.

Playing Tom's 8-year-old youngest son is Maxim Knight, who "paid me the nicest compliment he could have," Wyle says. "He told his mother after we filmed a scene that ended with us embracing, 'He hugs like a dad."'

Executive producers include Steven Spielberg, Graham Yost ("Justified") and Robert Rodat, who got an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for "Saving Private Ryan" and wrote the "Falling Skies" pilot from an idea he and Spielberg co-conceived.

The series was shot last July through November in Toronto and, says Wyle, "it was physically more demanding than most of the work I've done: a lot of running and jumping and diving and rolling. I got a lot of nicks and bruises along the way."

With post-production CGI churning out hoards of virtual foes, Wyle was also faced with "fighting tennis balls at the end of a stick." But other times, he did have a material version of a skitter to confront.

"We had a guy in a suit," he says, "which presented its own difficulties: The suit was very rich in detail but apparently hadn't been constructed to allow oxygen flow." This required frequent breaks in filming for the wearer to cool off.

For Wyle, a highlight of the shoot was when Owen came to visit. There, after observing a fight scene between Dad and an alien, he volunteered some pointers.

"I asked what he thought," says Wyle, "and he goes, 'You're pulling the gun up too high. I can't see it in the frame. Hold it at shoulder level, as opposed to over your head, and it'll stay in the frame."'

Thinking back on it, Wyle laughs the laugh of a proud father.

"I followed his direction," Wyle says, "and got his seal of approval."

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Khamis, 16 Jun 2011