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I am still updat­ing this web­site so it might be a few days until it is com­plete again, plus includ­ing new screen cap­tures of all TV shows and movies that Michaela has appeared in, it is quite dif­fi­cult to get hold of.

I have added a new cat­e­gory Talk shows and inter­views which I am now cur­rently screen captured.

269 Screen Cap­tures Hol­ly­wood 411 — 8th Oct 2008

We are cur­rently in an upgrade for this web­site and hope­fully we will have a new lay­out and it will be all in word­press in the next month or so depend­ing on uni hours.I haven’t left this web­site and I still adore it.. sorry for the lack of updates

Yes, the much-discussed sex scene between Tem­per­ance “Bones” Bren­nan (Emily Deschanel) and See­ley Booth (David Bore­anaz) is going to hap­pen in the Bones season-four finale.

No, it is not a hal­lu­ci­na­tion. And yes, oh yes, it could lead to some­thing even big­ger for the couple.We just chat­ted up Bones bosses Hart Han­son and Stephen Nathan, and as S.N. jokes, “We did some research and found out that sex is very closely related to hav­ing chil­dren. We were shocked ourselves.“So what does the sex mean for our fave two­some, and which beloved char­ac­ter is return­ing for the sea­son finale? Here’s what we know:You long­time fans will be delighted to know that the writer-producers of Bones are tak­ing this step for­ward seri­ously. As Hart says, “I think the audi­ence will be very sat­is­fied with the sex scene, and [the way] that it sets up the next sea­son and the way things unfold between [Bones and Booth].

“Bones Jay Maidment/FOXSo why the change of Hart after years of putting the kibosh on B&B? He tells us, “The fact is, when we started Bones, we knew that we would never have to face the day of reck­on­ing of when to have Booth and Bren­nan con­sum­mate their affair, because no show ever goes that long. And now here we are. We have to pay the piper.

I think it was about six months ago that Stephen and I just qui­etly between the two of us started talk­ing about how we were going to con­tend with that huge, hang­ing sword of Damo­cles issue of their sex life.“And for the record, the baby issue is key to the deci­sion, at least on Brennan’s side. Stephen explains, “It started with the idea of Brennan?who has been so adamant about not want­ing a child for so long?finally real­iz­ing that it might be good for her to have a prog­eny to have some­one as bril­liant as she in the world when she leaves. So she is think­ing about hav­ing a child, and she real­izes that Booth is genet­i­cally an excel­lent match for her.”

(Hell yes he is.)Another hint that this knot of sto­ry­lines leads to a wee B&B Jr.? When asked about future appear­ances by Booth’s beloved son Parker, Hart says, “Yes, we will see Parker. Of course, Booth’s fam­ily life, includ­ing his son, fit into our con­se­quences com­ing up in sea­son five.” (Tell us we’re wrong about this babies thing!)As for the actual sex, they haven’t shot the scene yet, but we have solemn promises that it is not the prod­uct of Booth’s cur­rently fevered imagination.Bones Kwaku Alston/FOXIn other Bones news: * If the script and deal work out, says Hart, “Zack’s (Eric Mil­le­gan) in the sea­son finale.”

* Angela (Michaela Con­lin) and Jack (T.J. Thyne) are still in love limbo. Says Hart, “Our plans don’t include any fast res­o­lu­tions to their relationship.”

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By DAVID MARTINDALESPECIAL TO THE STAR-TELEGRAM

One of the joys of Angela Mon­tene­gro, the char­ac­ter played by Michaela Con­lin on the hit crime drama Bones, is that she’s so refresh­ingly unpre­dictable. There’s just no telling what Angela, a bohemian artist work­ing in a sci­ence lab full of “squints,” will say or do next. She has no inhi­bi­tions and knows no boundaries.

“I’m a pretty upfront per­son in how I live my life,” Con­lin says. “But com­pared to Angela, I’m timid.” Almost any­thing is pos­si­ble with her. This sea­son, for exam­ple, after break­ing off her engage­ment to Hod­gins (played by TJ Thyne), Angela threw every­one in the lab a curve by get­ting back together with an ex. As in ex-girlfriend.

That was some­thing we didn’t know about her. And now long­time Bones view­ers, who have been spec­u­lat­ing for years about a roman­tic future for lead char­ac­ters Bren­nan and Booth (Emily Deschanel and David Bore­anaz), have a sec­ond true-love-in-denial rela­tion­ship to worry about.

“Peo­ple talk to me about it all the time,” Con­lin says. “But to be hon­est, I don’t know what’s going to hap­pen with the two of them.” New episodes return on Fox begin­ning at 7 p.m. CT on Thurs­day, Jan. 15, but don’t expect any imme­di­ate answers. That’s not the Bones way. In the mean­time, reruns will have to do. The Brennan-and-Booth-in-London two-parter (in which Angela and Hod­gins split up) airs at 7 p.m. Wednes­day, Dec. 31, on Fox.

Then TNT serves up an 18-hour New Year’s Day Bones marathon, begin­ning at 5 a.m.What were your expec­ta­tions with this show and with your char­ac­ter when you first signed on in 2005? Did you think you’d still be play­ing Angela today?“We’ve def­i­nitely sur­passed all of my expec­ta­tions. It’s our fourth sea­son and we’re doing bet­ter now than we did in the first sea­son. That’s pretty great. It’s kind of amaz­ing when you do a series, because it’s like a liv­ing thing. It’s improv­ing and mov­ing and flow­ing and grow­ing and that’s really what the last four years have been like. My expec­ta­tions were just that I loved the pilot script.

I had been up for a cou­ple of other shows at the same time and I chose to test for just this one. Thank­fully, that deci­sion worked out, because you never know what’s going to last. The pilot of the show was actu­ally called ‘Bren­nan’ and I remem­ber, the night before, I was talk­ing to my mom, and I said, ‘I just love the way the women speak on this show. They’re really intelligent.’”

I’ve never been a fan of pro­ce­dural dra­mas like “CSI” or “Law & Order.” But I’m com­pletely hooked on Fox’s “Bones,” which moves next week from Wednes­day night to the network’s prime Thurs­day lineup with a new episode at 8 p.m.

I’d like to say I’m drawn to the show because it’s dif­fer­ent from the typ­i­cal forensics-mystery for­mula thanks to solid char­ac­ter devel­op­ment and a heavy dash of dark humor.

What made me watch “Bones,” how­ever, was a bor­der­line unhealthy crush on lead actor David Boreanaz.I absolutely loved Boreanaz’s moody vam­pire char­ac­ter on “Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer” and its spin­off, “Angel.” I approached “Bones” war­ily, imag­in­ing it impos­si­ble to view the actor as any­one except a rean­i­mated, but gor­geous, corpse. And since it was hard enough watch­ing “Angel” with min­i­mal appear­ances by Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gel­lar), could I adjust to a fully Buffy-less world?Happily, I did. From just the first few min­utes of ever watch­ing “Bones” last year, I learned Bore­anaz is an incred­i­bly ver­sa­tile actor.

All traces of brood­ing Angel dis­solve when he plays FBI agent See­ley Booth. The char­ac­ters are as dif­fer­ent as night and day (no pun intended). Plus, Booth, a sar­cas­tic, sports-loving ex-Army Ranger is funny, lik­able, authen­tic and sur­pris­ingly sen­si­tive. And, like George Clooney, Bore­anaz uncan­nily gets bet­ter look­ing with age. Per­haps he is a forever-young vam­pire after all.The will-they-or-won’t-they chem­istry between Bore­anaz and co-star Emily Deschanel is electric.

Deschanel plays Dr. Tem­per­ance Bren­nan, or “Bones” as Bore­anaz calls her. Bren­nan is a genius foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist who works at a Smithsonian-esque “Jef­fer­son­ian Insti­tute” in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. The socially clue­less Bren­nan becomes part­ners with the self-assured every­man Booth when the FBI needs help iden­ti­fy­ing human remains that are too dif­fi­cult for stan­dard investigators.Most episodes fea­ture self-contained plots, but there are season-long story arcs.

To appre­ci­ate the char­ac­ters’ quirks, it’s best to watch them in order. Each show opens with dis­cov­ered skele­tal bits Bren­nan and Booth, along with the lab coats at the Jef­fer­son­ian, work to find the perpetrator.While the who-dun-it aspects are often com­pelling ? and thank­fully, not always overly gory if you find decom­posed body parts more palat­able than blood and guts ? the best thing is the back-and-forth between Bren­nan and Booth. A crime-mystery writer on the side, Bren­nan is impos­si­bly lonely and has trou­ble main­tain­ing rela­tion­ships due to her blunt, lit­eral nature. (The series is very loosely based on the novel series by real-life foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist Kathy Reichs, who is a producer.)

Bren­nan is uncon­ven­tion­ally beau­ti­ful with a square face, pale blue eyes and habit of dress­ing mod­estly. Her book­ish ways are so pro­nounced it’s under­stand­able why most men find her intim­i­dat­ing. Though she and Booth are both ambi­tious and com­pet­i­tive, he is the kind of guy who, when in dan­ger, shoots first and asks ques­tions later.Booth has lit­tle time for the tech­ni­cal jar­gon Bren­nan and col­leagues toss about and lit­tle stom­ach for the dissections.

The rela­tion­ship between the dis­parate char­ac­ters is volatile at first, but over time, works as they bond ? and develop a solid track record of crack­ing crimes. It’s the age-old opposites-attract ten­sion that brings Sam and Diane from “Cheers” to mind. So far, it works because the char­ac­ters are so com­pli­cated and roman­ti­cally dys­func­tional, they have yet to get together. I’m root­ing for a rela­tion­ship, but worry it could ruin the dynamic.“Bones” pre­miered in 2005 and is now in its fourth season.

The rest of the char­ac­ters from the Jef­fer­son­ian are fine, but I could take or leave Hod­gins (T.J. Thyne) and Angela (Michaela Con­lin). I do get a huge kick out of a newer addi­tion, Dr. Lance Sweets (John Fran­cis Daley), a Doo­gie Howser-ish psy­chol­o­gist who pro­vides part­ners ther­apy to Booth and Bren­nan after some­thing bad hap­pens in the field.Their shared skep­ti­cism and ini­tial dis­dain for psy­cho­analy­sis cre­ates an affin­ity between Bren­nan and Booth, the lat­ter of whom dis­misses Sweets’ field as “Jedi mind tricks.” Sweets’ role as a comic foil ? and as an oppor­tu­nity for interruption-free scenes with our lead char­ac­ters ? is always a wel­come digres­sion from the skulls and dis­mem­bered limbs.Sometimes the plots are highly unbe­liev­able, but Bren­nan and Booth’s dia­logues and parts are so smartly writ­ten, it’s worth giv­ing a shot if you haven’t already.