Britt Plunkett runs his forearm across his head, pushing sweat off his brow. “I actually took a picture of the thermostat,” he says. “I just had to record it: 99 degrees.”For Paul Rudd, the decision to star in Jay Roach’s new comedy, “Dinner for Schmucks,” was an easy one. “I thought the script was really funny,” he says. “That was it. It was kind of a no-brainer.” Of course Rudd, who’s built an impressive resume of smart comedies, was just as enamored of the man behind the camera. Though Lilith Fair returned from an 11-year hiatus to a very different musical landscape, it is one that Sarah McLachlan and Co. helped lay the blueprints for more than a decade ago.Although facts on the famed Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding, which is rumored to happen this weekend, are tighter than Hillary Clinton’s smile, some details have leaked out. Sources report that groom Marc Mezvinsky has “hurt” his father’s family by not inviting them to the wedding (Ed Mezvinsky pleaded guilty in 2002 to swindling investors out of $10 million.He may play the part of a high-end gigolo in “The Extra Man,” but offscreen, Kevin Kline continues to be quite a charmer.
Who they are and why we love/hate them:
‘Survivor: Australia’ (spring 2001)
Winner: Tina Wesson
Cast members on season 20: Colby Donaldson (Heroes),
Jerri Manthey (Villains)
There was real-life drama in the outback as Michael Skupin burned the skin off his hands and rain washed away a tribe’s food.
‘Survivor: Marquesas’ (spring 2002)
Winner: Vecepia Towery
Cast members on season 20: Rob Mariano (Villains)
No supplies made for a hard start, and a new way to break ties led to someone being voted off for picking the wrong rock out of a bag.
‘Survivor: Pearl Islands’ (fall 2003)
Winner: Sandra Diaz-Twine
Cast members on season 20: Sandra Diaz-Twine (Villains), Rupert Boneham (Heroes)
Boneham stole some viewers’ hearts by stealing shoes after the contestants were dropped into the water in their street clothes.
‘Survivor: Palau’ (spring 2005)
Winner: Tom Westman
Cast members on season 20: Tom Westman (Heroes), Stephenie LaGrossa (Heroes)
Fireman Tom Westman won by playing a straightforward game during a season that began with two sent home when they weren’t picked for tribes.
‘Survivor: Guatemala’ (fall 2005)
Winner: Danni Boatwright
Cast members on season 20: Stephenie LaGrossa (Heroes)
‘Palau’ cast members Stephenie LaGrossa and Bobby Jon Drinkard, the last two members of their tribe, returned to join the game, which started with a long hike in the brutal heat and featured an epic Tribal Council set and challenges framed by Mayan ruins.
‘Survivor: Panama’ (spring 2006)
Winner: Aras Baskauskas
Cast members on season 20: Cirie Fields (Heroes), Danielle DiLorenzo (Villains)
‘Panama’ had four tribes split by age and sex, and introduced Exile Island, where one person spent days alone but had a chance to find a hidden immunity idol.
‘Survivor: Cook Islands’ (fall 2006)
Winner: Yul Kwon
Cast members on season 20: Parvati Shallow (Villains), Candice Woodcock (Heroes)
Controversy erupted before the season even began after it was announced that tribes would be separated by race, though those four tribes were dissolved after just two episodes.
‘Survivor: China’ (fall 2007)
Winner: Todd Herzog
Cast members on season 20: James Clement (Heroes), Amanda Kimmel (Heroes), Courtney Yates (Villains)
“Survivor” super-fan and strategist Herzog won this season that featured Clement becoming, at least temporarily, the self-declared dumbest survivor ever when he was voted out despite having two hidden immunity idols.
‘Survivor: Tocantins’ (spring 2009)
Winner: JT Thomas
Cast members on season 20: Tyson Apostol (Villains), JT Thomas (Heroes), Coach Wade (Villains)
The season introduced us to “dragon slayer” Benjamin “Coach” Wade, but Thomas won after playing the first-ever perfect game, having never received a vote during the game nor during the final Tribal Council.
‘Survivor: Samoa’ (fall 2009)
Winner: Natalie White
Cast members on season 20: Russell Hantz (Villains)
Hantz played an ingenious but mean game, and then nearly cried when he lost because his tribemates didn’t like him enough to give him $1 million.
– Andy Dehnart is a TV critic and editor of RealityBlurred.com.
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