Last night's Scandal brought a relieving resolution to the "Who Shot Fitz?" storyline -- but not before poor Huck found himself on the wrong end of a Patriot Act-fueled interrogation.
Bruised, battered and betrayed, Huck finally re-emerged into society, but fans were left to wonder what the future holds for Olivia's most secretive soldier. To answer your questions I caught up with Guillermo Diaz at ABC's TCA party last night in Pasadena, CA to find out how the events of One For The Dog will forever alter Huck.
ETonline: What went through your mind when you read last night's script for the first time?
Guillermo Diaz: The first thing that went through my mind was, "I hope I can be as good as the script." The scripts on our show are so good, that the minute I read them, I worry about preparing. For this week, I really had to go into that dark space. Then, my second thought was, "Oh my God, I'm going to have to be naked!" Which I was. I was naked for that whole scene.
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ETonline: Those torture scenes were tough to watch. What were they like to film?
Diaz: It was very quiet. I didn't talk to anybody. I stayed in the zone. I had previously done a lot of research on the internet about waterboarding. How people become extremely traumatized after that experience. Like, they can't even be around running water. Or when it rains, they have anxiety attacks. It's really bad. It made for intense days.
ETonline: So will we see the longterm effects of that on Huck moving forward?
Diaz: Yeah, for sure. Huck is emotionally crippled and tortured -- no pun intended -- but now, this kicks it up another notch. He's been trying to stay "sober" and move on. He tried a relationship, but that didn't work out very well. I think this will bring his whole self to another level ... and it's not that good.
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ETonline: His grip on "sobriety" has always been tenuous, will it become harder for him to abstain in the coming weeks?
Diaz: We're three episodes ahead of you, and his road to "sobriety" becomes a lot more difficult after all this. You'll see tinges of Huck going off the rails.
ETonline: Obviously Huck got pulled into this situation because he worked for Pope & Associates, does this make him question that loyalty to Olivia at all?
Diaz: Huck knows all this happened because he works for her, but he knows it's not Olivia’s fault. He still feels loyalty to Olivia, and as difficult as being tortured was, that's his world. There's almost some comfort in that for him. Like, my family is very drama-filled, but we feed on that drama. If we don't have that drama, it's like we don’t know how to act with one another. I don't think Huck is broken, he's just back in that flow.
Scandal airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on ABC.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is drawing an A-list of performers for his inaugural festivities, including a massive ball expected to draw more than 35,000 revelers.
Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson, Usher, Alicia Keys and Brad Paisley are among the stars announced Friday to sing at Obama's inaugural balls Jan. 21 and a children's concert on Jan. 19. Also signed up are Marc Anthony, Stevie Wonder, John Legend and the cast of "Glee."
The concert and the two official inaugural balls are being held at the Washington Convention Center over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend when Obama begins his second term. The performers join Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor, already announced for Obama's signing ceremony Jan. 21 on the West Front of the Capitol.
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Other event performers include pop-rap foursome Far East Movement, Grammy-nominated pop-rock trio fun., R&B boy band Mindless Behavior, rapper Nick Cannon and youth gospel choir Soul Children of Chicago. Inaugural organizers aren't saying yet which performances will be at which convention center event.
Robinson told The Associated Press he'll be at The Inaugural Ball with his own band, but he isn't sure yet which songs he'll sing. Robinson said he's always happy to perform when the president asks because he's so proud of the first family.
"I've been in the White House many, many, many times for many presidents and this is the first time for me that it's really felt like when I go to the White House or something like that, it feels like you're going to your family's," Robinson said. "It feels like you're going home because that's how they treat me and that's how they treat my wife."
While Obama has cut the number of inaugural balls lower than any president since Dwight Eisenhower was first sworn into office in 1953, the two celebrations will be elaborate. The larger of the events, simply called The Inaugural Ball, is expected to draw more than 35,000 in a reflection of the quadrennial demand in Washington to toast the president in person on such a historic day.
The Inaugural Ball is being held across all 700,000 square feet of the Washington Convention Center's five exhibit halls, which four years ago held six separate balls.
The second gala is the Commander In Chief's Ball, a tradition started by President George W. Bush to honor the military. Doubling in size from four years ago to about 4,000, it's being held on the third-floor ballroom of the convention hall a mile from the White House. Tickets are free for invitees, including active-duty and reserve troops, Medal of Honor recipients and wounded warriors.
What began as a highly-touted affiliation between a new Spanish-language national television network and a popular independent local station in Miami has dissolved into a legal dispute of David and Goliath proportions.
MundoFox Broadcasting, part of the family of communications giant News Corporation, filed suit in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida against the parent company of America Tevé Channel 41-WJAN, America-CV Network, for breaching two agreements forged in May.
The complaint alleges that in South Florida "MundoFox’s initial launch had less exposure, viewership was lower, soliciting advertisers became more difficult and advertising revenue decreased,” because the network was swapped to inferior channel positions by cable providers.
In a statement, America-CV Network, denied the allegations in the complaint and announced that it will defend itself vigorously.
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The Zoological Society of Florida, Zoo Miami and Mercantil Commercebank teamed to host the 2012 Zoolens Photography Project.
The photo competition, which ran from Sept. 29 through Nov. 9, was designed to help Miami-Dade students develop a greater sense of appreciation for wildlife.
With Zoo Miami’s wildlife expert Ron Magill as one of the judges, the competition announced three winners and 10 honorable mentions.
Albert Parson, 13, an eighth-grade student at South Miami K-8 Center, won a $2,500 savings account for his photo of warthogs titled, Butting Heads.
Fellow South Miami student Felipe Delgado, 13, took second place with his entry, Looking in a Mirror, and won $1,500 in savings. Michael Sciabarassi, 12, a seventh-grade student from Southwood Middle School in Palmetto Bay won third place and $1,000 for his shot, One Foot Wonder.
The top three also won a professional camera and a student membership in the North American Nature Photography Association.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc unveiled a service that increases competition with Apple Inc’s dominant iTunes store.
Amazon launched Amazon AutoRip, which gives customers free digital versions of music CDs they purchase from the world’s largest Internet retailer.
The digital music files are automatically stored in customer libraries in remote datacenters run by Amazon, where they are available to play or download immediately through the company’s Cloud Player service, the company said.
Amazon customers who have bought AutoRip-eligible CDs at any time since the company started selling discs in 1998 will also get digital versions of that music stored in their Cloud Player libraries for free, the company added.
More than 50,000 albums are available for AutoRip and Steve Boom, head of digital music at Amazon, said the company focused on music that has been the most popular among its customers during the past 15 years.
Albums include “21″ by Adele; “Overexposed” by Maroon 5; “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd and “Thriller” by Michael Jackson.
Boom declined to estimate how many CDs Amazon expects to digitize through the new service. However, he noted that the company has sold hundreds of millions of CDs to millions of customers.
“When we picked those 50,000 titles we focused on having a substantial majority of our physical CD sales covered,” he added.
Amazon is hoping the new service boosts digital music sales and encourages more people to use its cloud music service.
“People will be exposed to Cloud Player and our digital music offering, which is a good thing,” Boom said. “We want to take this global.”
Amazon’s MP3 digital music business has been around since 2007, but its market share is less than 15 percent, according to The NPD Group. Apple’s iTunes store is the clear leader, with over 50 percent of the market.
Amazon is making a bigger push against iTunes now that the company’s Kindle Fire tablets are in more consumers’ hands and its Cloud Player music application is available on a range of other mobile devices, including Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
(Reporting By Alistair Barr; editing by Andrew Hay)
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After nearly a decade, Destiny's Child will reunite with some new music, front woman Beyonce Knowles confirms!
Beyonce broke the exciting news on her website with a huge title that read: Destiny's Child Love Songs. Underneath the headline, Queen B simply wrote: "I am so proud to announce the first original Destiny's Child music in eight years! - Beyonce"
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The Single Ladies singer will be headlining this year's Super Bowl Halftime show, and after this news, we're expecting a Destiny's Child performance come Sunday, February 3.
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Someone fired gunshots at a Queens bus this morning on Springfield Boulevard and 141st Avenue, officials said.
The gun shots shattered the left rear window of the Q85 bus, but no one was injured in the late morning fusillade, according to the MTA.
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Miami-Dade County ended 2012 with more people joining the unemployment rolls than it did last year.
The late-year increase in first-time unemployment claims broke a trend of declining applications throughout most of 2012. First-time claims spiked about 15 percent in November and December, with about 17,500 new applications in all over those 60 days. That’s compared to 15,000 during the same time in 2011. For the entire year, claims were still down about 10 percent.
In Broward, overall claims were down 15 percent. In November and December, Broward residents applies for 10,200 first-time unemployment benefits, compared to about 10,500 in 2011 — a 3 percent drop.
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Cinema Paradiso will soon have a sequel.
Hollywood’s Community Redevelopment Agency board agreed Wednesday morning to buy 3,000 movie tickets a year — at a cost of $30,000 — to help the small art house theater open a second location.
“The outpouring of support is amazing,” said Gregory von Hausch, the theater’s executive director. “Now we just have to work to get it open.”
Having a Hollywood location has been three years in the making. The theater, which shows documentaries, foreign and independent films and retro movies, currently operates from a spot near the Broward County Courthouse on Southeast Sixth Street in Fort Lauderdale, but wanted a second, more metropolitan location.
It’s worked out a deal to lease a nearly 3,000-foot space at 2008 Hollywood Boulevard.
It just needed the CRA’s guaranteed financial support in order to commit. And city leaders say the theater is the perfect for downtown, where they envision an arts and cultural district.
“This is more than a no brainer,” said Mayor Peter Bober. “This is a deal that makes absolute sense.”
The tickets will be given for free to area hotels to distribute to guests. The theater will also work something out to encourage Hollywood residents to view films there.
Several residents and theater supporters came out in favor of having a theater location in Hollywood.
“Here is a wonderful way of bringing people from all over Hollywood downtown,” said Terry Cantrell, president of the Hollywood Lakes Civic Association.
With the approval, von Hausch said they will immediately start work on the space to create a ticket booth, concession stand, screen and other theater necessities. The hope is for the theater, which will have about 100 seats, to open in three months.
Board Chair Alan Koslow is already dreaming of a second phase.
“This is just the start,” he said, adding that the film society would love to add a film school. “We want to bring Hollywood, California to Hollywood, Florida.”
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