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Going with yesterday’s review of Wicked I thought I’d focus this week’s Twitter Tuesday on one of the actresses who made the show such a success. So, this week our focus will be on Kristin Chenoweth!
Kristin was the original Glinda the Good for Wicked when it was on Broadway. Before that she won a Tony Award as Sally Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She’s also done some television, having won an Emmy Award for her role as Olive Snook on the show Pushing Daisies, and also playing a role on West Wing and most recently the reoccurring April Rhodes on Glee. Obviously to have won a Tony OR an Emmy would be great, but Kristin has proven her talent by winning both.
If that’s not enough, and really it should be but you know… just in case, Kristin has also done voice work for the new Tinkerbell movies and Robot Chicken, made a few Funny or Die videos, written her own memoir, starred in the made for TV movie The Music Man with Matthew Broderick, has appeared three different times as a part of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, been a guest judge for American Idol, toured with international pop sensation Il Divo, and done a few small movies like Bewitched, Stranger Than Fiction, and Four Christmases.
Oh, and then there’s her music! Three of her own albums with a fourth slated for later this year. If you’ve heard the soundtrack to Wicked or seen her episodes on Glee then you know she’s got talent, but if you don’t let me point out that she’s classically trained with a range of four octaves. That’s a lot of octaves. It’s actually a shame that Twitter is a text program, cause if they could let you share singing I think most everyone would have put Kristin on their follow list by now.
Even without a vocal system on Twitter I highly recommend following Kristin because, lets face it, the woman is a star in every sense of the word! Stage, film, musical, written word, national tours, and on and on. The bottom line: she’s Popular.
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Rolling on the theme of E3 this week our Twitter Tuesday is all about Olivia Munn who was alongside her fellow G4 hosts/celebs giving the full rundown of all things gaming at the big event last week. Olivia is one of the co-hosts of G4’s Attack of the Show and she’s a regular at their coverage of both E3 and San Diego Comic Con. Plus, Olivia is pretty cool with her fans and very active on her fansite and twitter account – meaning lots of cool behind the scenes photos and videoblogs and such.
Now, being a host of a cool geek-trendy show is probably enough to get some loving on Twitter – but Olivia has been on a roll of awesome lately. She made a cameo in the summer blockbuster IronMan 2 as the reporter introducing Hammer’s presentation at the Stark Expo. She’s currently the poster girl for PETA’s fight against the use of elephants in the circus, and Maxim recently placed her at number 8 on the 2010 Hot 100 list. (Go go crazy unnecessary lists to quantify attractiveness!) That’s a jump from 96 to 8 in one year – and you know a large portion of that is cause Olivia is on a hot streak. (Puns are fun.)
Still, all that isn’t enough awesome for Olivia lately as she’s also taken a job as a journalist on the wildly popularly and vastly imaginative Daily Show as their Senior Asian Correspondent. As if that weren’t exciting enough she’s also going to be staring in a new NBC sitcom coming out this fall called Perfect Couples.
Now all that is awesome, but what really defines Olivia Munn to me more then anything else is her role on a music video by Parry Gripp called “The Girl at the Video Game Store” where Olivia shows off her wildly alluring mix of nerd and hottie that is so rare yet so very, very enthralling. Also, the song is really very catchy and worth a grab off iTunes.
So, roll your tongue back and pick your jaw up off the floor and then take a moment to tag a follow on Olivia. You’ll thank me later.
Tonight is the season finale of one of my favorite shows. Maybe ever. Of course I speak of GLEE. (Which ironically enough is rarely happy. Odd that.) So, naturally, I thought it’s only fitting to have a member of the cast as the focus of this weeks Twitter Tuesday.
The Cast of Monte Carlo filiming in Europe (pic from Cory's Twitter Feed)
Now, if you don’t know almost the entire cast is on Twitter, including some of the regular guest stars. That gave me a LOT of choices for who to highlight. So, do I pick the best voice? Maybe the person who uses Jericho as the stage name for their music career (bonus points for the awesome!) How about the actress playing the character with the most interesting story this season?
Nah.
This is Twitter, and so the easy choice was ‘who is doing cool stuff and talking the most about it?’ That made it easy. Right now, everything points to Cory Monteith – aka Finn. Dude is Europe right now, recording a new movie with Katie Cassidy (Nightmare on Elm Street) and Selena Gomez (everything on Disney). Not only is he Tweeting a few times a day, he’s loading us with sweet behind the scenes pics. It’s like having a backstage passport!
So, while you’re watching GLEE tonight (don’t lie, you watch it – we all do) take a moment to add Cory Monteith (frankenteen) to your Follow List.
