When David Lynch tells you you’ve gone too far, it’s hard to know whether it’s a badge of honor or a sign that the bottom has fallen out.

That’s what director Jennifer Lynch had to decide after showing the script for her film “Surveillance” to her famous filmmaker father.

“I got a phone call from my father, who said, ‘That’s way too fucking sick. You can’t have dark win over light’,” Lynch says. “I don’t see it that way. He challenged me to find a different ending. I did and I shot it – and it will be on the DVD. Put it this way: I hadn’t seen a serial killer film that thrilled me in the way I wanted to be thrilled.”

And her father’s response when he saw the finished film? “My father said, ‘You’re the sickest bitch I know.’” (More…)

Yes, “Rescue Me” fans, that was really Steven Pasquale on last night’s episode – in his role as New York firefighter Sean Garrity – singing in a sweet tenor, dressed in suit and tie, at least until Kevin Chapman, as Garrity’s brother, Terrance, interrupted the tune by making fun of him.

“I’m sure there will be fans who think it’s not me,” Pasquale says, backstage at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, after one of the final performances of Neil Labute’s Tony-nominated harsh comedy, “Reasons to Be Pretty.” “You know, it’ll be ‘Why is Michael Buble doing the voice for Sean?’”

In fact, for the 32-year-old actor, song-and-dance is a more natural milieu than the rough-and-tumble comedy of “Rescue Me.” (More…)

When TNT’s “Saving Grace” returns for its third season next Tuesday, the big questions will still remain unanswered.

Which is as it should, says the series star Holly Hunter, who plays Grace Hanadarko, the hard-living Oklahoma City police detective wrestling daily with her own last-chance angel, Earl (played by Leon Rippy).

“One of the things we’ll deal with this season is faith and belief,” Hunter says in a telephone interview. “What does it mean to believe, rather than to know? To surrender to something that’s not fact but faith?” (More…)