LettersToMitch.com is an Arrested Development appreciation site. Our primary focus is on providing a way for fans of the show to express their enjoyment and gratitude to the cast, crew, and everyone responsible for bringing the comedic gift that is AD to life.
The name LettersToMitch.com was chosen to honor Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator and showrunner for Arrested Development.
Jason Bateman spent a decade making flop TV shows and battling with drink before turning in an award-winning lead performance in cult sitcom Arrested Development. Now the former child star is back on top with a string of movie roles. Andrew Purcell meets him
America's pop cultural landscape is littered with former child stars who have been permanently damaged by the experience of being too famous, too soon. Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and Macaulay Culkin are the most visible cautionary tales but there are enough C-list burn-outs to warrant their own support group. A Minor Consideration was founded by Paul Petersen, one of the original Mouseketeers in the Mickey Mouse Club, to offer counselling and legal advice, following three child actor suicides in quick succession.
Post-celebrity purgatory is the rule, but a select group of young performers have escaped the circle of litigation and addiction. Drew Barrymore, Ron Howard, Sarah Jessica Parker and Justin Timberlake have all reinvented themselves so successfully that growing up on camera is now just an amusing prologue to their adult careers. After starring in five major films this year, Jason Bateman has finally joined them.
Boys with buzz: Young ‘Superbad’ actors poised for stardom By
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/ Movies Boston Herald Features Reporter
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Will Ferrell and his middle-aged Frat Pack posse better watch out. A new generation of comedy talent is poised to hit the big time with the release of “Superbad,” in theaters Friday.
Written by Seth Rogen (“Freaks and Geeks”), 25, star of the surprise summer hit “Knocked Up,” “Superbad” stars up-and-coming actors Jonah Hill (“Knocked Up”), 23, and Michael Cera (“Arrested Development”), 19, as Seth and Evan, best friends preparing for their final high school party before going their separate ways to college.
The duo are joined by newcomer Christopher Mintz-Plasse, 18, as Fogell, the third wheel in their libido-fueled crew.
Brad Copeland, the scribe behind Disney's surprise spring hit "Wild Hogs," is setting up shop at Sony.
Studio's TV arm has inked a premium two-script deal with Copeland, whose smallscreen credits include "My Name Is Earl" and "Arrested Development." As part of the pact, Copeland will develop one of his projects with Adam Sandler's Sony-based Happy Madison shingle.
LOS ANGELES—Michael Cera may always be known for a TV character he stopped playing before he turned 18. So although he is going into his first feature film as “the nice kid from Arrested Development”, by the end of this summer the 19-year-old Canadian will probably be known as “the nice kid from Superbad”.
Michael Cera is too good to be true. He gets this reaction a lot. He gets it onscreen, as when producer Judd Apatow watched his audition tape for the new comedy Superbad and thought, This guy is off-the-charts funny. And he gets it offscreen, where Cera is so courteous, so apparently down-to-earth (on Letterman, when Dave asked him if he’s part of “new Hollywood,” Cera said, “Well, I don’t think anyone here’s ever heard of me”), and so astonishingly untainted by what should be, by all rights, his looming megafame (of his current publicity tour, he says, “The traveling is really exciting for me. And they pay for it all. Food and everything”) that you start to worry that his whole persona is some sort of Dadaist media prank.
Single-camera comedy features Jeffrey Tambor, Chris Klein
June 8, 2007
"Jericho" isn't the only show to earn a midseason pickup from CBS this week.
In addition to the much-hyped return of the drama series, the network has also ordered six episodes of a comedy called "The Captain," the showbiz trade papers report. It's a single-camera show, which marks a departure from the network's current slate of traditionally shot, multi-camera comedies.
"The Captain" centers on a young writer (Fran Kranz, "The TV Set," "Orange County") who moves into a famous old Hollywood apartment house (from which the show takes its title). The cast also includes Jeffrey Tambor ("Arrested Development"), Raquel Welch ("Legally Blonde," "Fantastic Voyage"), Chris Klein ("American Pie"), Joanna Garcia ("Reba"), Al Madrigal and Valerie Azlynn.
