Con­lin Wears White for ‘Bones’ FinaleThe entire cast and one mem­ber of ZZ-Top are going to the chapelBy Daniel Fien­bergTh­ere are cer­tain unfor­tu­nate things that Michaela Con­lin is used to encoun­ter­ing dur­ing a typ­i­cal week on the “Bones” set — shat­tered skulls, mis­matched limbs, vats of ren­dered vis­cera — but those chal­lenges pale in com­par­i­son to the com­pli­ca­tions of a hastily orga­nized wedding.“It was kind of crazy to end the year with a wed­ding,” Con­lin laughs. “I didn’t real­ize — I don’t know why — that even though I was just play­ing a bride and not really get­ting mar­ried, you still go through all the stress of fit­ting the dress and tak­ing the pic­tures and walk­ing down the aisle and all that.“The sec­ond sea­son finale of FOX’s “Bones” leads up to the wed­ding of Conlin’s Angela Mon­tene­gro and T.J. Thyne’s Dr. Jack Hod­gins, a union many episodes and at least three pro­pos­als in the mak­ing. Although the “Stargazer in a Pud­dle” hour con­tains the req­ui­site mur­der inves­ti­gato n — a small body is found in a gro­cery cart — nearly as much time is spent on select­ing Hod­gins’ best man and Angela’s maid-of-hour and tak­ing the nec­es­sary steps to make sure that the father-of-the-bride could attend.“It was very, very sur­real. It felt very real,” Con­lin says. “Billy Gib­bons, who played my father, when we were stand­ing in the foyer before the doors opened to walk down the aisle, he looked and he’s like, ‘My heart’s really beat­ing. This is ner­vous.’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘It all feels so real.’ And it does. The pro­duc­tion val­ues are so high.“Yes, the Billy Gib­bons in ques­tion is the bearded ZZ-Top icon, a char­ac­ter detail intro­duced in the first sea­son and never exactly com­mented on, though Gib­bons’ role is greatly expanded for the finale. Con­lin has worked up a full back-story for the relationship.“He’s been gone for a lot of her child­hood, trav­el­ing and on tour,” she explains. “And I know that a lot of Angela’s quote-unquote ‘free-spirited’ nature came from sort of rais­ing her­self as a child and being a bit of a wild ban­shee, not really hav­ing parental guid­ance. He’s not around very much, comes in and out, and I think that she’d love to have him around more. I think he will actu­ally be around more, I hope, in the third sea­son. It’s unex­plained, but for a good rea­son. I think that Angela wishes that they were closer than they are.“At least one per­son couldn’t be hap­pier about the character’s rock-n-roll paternity.“My real father, who I had to call up and say ‘They’ve cast some­one as you, dad, and I hope that you approve,’ he’s so excited about the fact that it was him, because he’s such a big ZZ Top fan,” Con­lin says. “It was one of my coolest moments to say, ‘It’s not going to be you play­ing you, dad, but it’s going to be Billy Gib­bons play­ing you,’ and he was like ‘No way! That’s so cool.’”On a show so dom­i­nated by the chem­istry between osten­si­ble leads Bones (Emily Deschanel) and Booth (David Bore­anaz), Con­lin has enjoyed the chance to give Angela extra human shad­ings and to let the char­ac­ter move to the cen­ter of the narrative.“It’s an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence to fall in love with some­one on a show, as it is in life,” she says. “It’s the most hum­bling, ground­ing, mov­ing expe­ri­ence and it teaches you so much and that’s what it’s done for her. It’s grounded both of them and put their feet on the ground. It’s a beau­ti­ful thing when you fall in love with some­one and that’s what it’s done for both of them — given them a lot more to look for­ward to at work.“That being said, Con­lin adds, “I like being involved in one rela­tion­ship, but at the core of Angela’s char­ac­ter is that she says what she feels and she doesn’t edit before she speaks. It was fun for a sea­son to be able to do that and she’s been a lit­tle more reserved this sea­son, as well she should be, con­sid­er­ing she’s walk­ing down the aisle.“And how does the actress, whose char­ac­ter is one of the biggest cheer­lead­ers for a Bones-Booth hook-up, feel about that potentiality?“I’ve been work­ing with those guys for a long time, so I know that if it ever hap­pens, I think that Angela would be in the front row with a VIP ticket and a big pop­corn and a Diet Coke. She’s really into it. I would love to see them hook up, but once they do, what hap­pens after that?“For now at least, view­ers don’t need to worry. It’s Angela’s turn to wear white.The “Bones” finale airs Wednes­day (May 16) night at 8 p.m. ET.

Thyne Makes His Roman­tic ‘Bones’His char­ac­ter has gone from geeky sci­en­tist to roman­tic leadBy Daniel Fien­bergMay 2, 2007In the first sea­son of “Bones,” it was easy to pre­dict Dr. Jack Hod­gins’ role in each week’s mys­tery — He’d give a wacky conspiracy-laden quip, stare intently into a micro­scope and deliver a jargon-heavy mono­logue about spores, bio­log­i­cal vis­cera or min­eral com­po­si­tion before going back to his microscope.“The ques­tion of ‘Would it have been enough to just kind of be the quote-unquote “side­kick”?’ I don’t think it would have been,” reflects T.J. Thyne, Hod­gins’ thes­pian alter-ego. “I don’t think it would have been sat­is­fy­ing enough, which is why I kind of get on my knees and bow down to the writ­ers that they gave me this oppor­tu­nity in Sea­son Two.“With pre­sump­tive leads Tem­per­ance “Bones” Bren­nan (Emily Deschanel) and See­ley Booth (David Bore­anaz) caught up in an end­less will-they-or-won’t-they tango, Hod­gins and fel­low “squint” Angela Mon­tene­gro (Michaela Con­lin) have become the FOX drama’s heart this sea­son, going from hes­i­tant flir­ta­tion, to awk­ward dat­ing to full-fledged love. This isn’t the way Thyne, a vet­eran of lit­er­ally dozens of TV guest parts and recur­ring arcs before “Bones,” expected things to go when he signed on.“I think orig­i­nally, Sea­son One, I looked at Angela’s char­ac­ter as just a sis­ter, a sis­ter who was the fun, funky sis­ter who was just always out par­ty­ing and hav­ing a good time — we laughed together and had a good time,” he remem­bers. “I actu­ally thought that Jack had a lit­tle some­thing for Bren­nan. I always thought he was very enam­ored by her for what she was in her mind, how she was as a scientist.“While Bren­nan has had a cou­ple love inter­ests while wait­ing to inevitably pair off with Booth, none of them has been Hod­gins. Instead, Thyne says he began to notice another roman­tic alter­na­tive at the Jef­fer­son­ian, a spark he spot­ted per­haps even before the show’s cre­ative team.“I just started to find that a lot of my lines that I was deliv­er­ing, even though they were sci­en­tific and a lot of Latin words, I was some­how direct­ing them towards her and the inten­tion seemed to be one of woo­ing, so to speak,” he says. “I think it’s some­thing that the other actors picked up on and I think it’s some­thing that the writ­ers started pick­ing up on and that’s what slowly started to blend into this beau­ti­ful arc that we finally had of Jack really falling madly and pas­sion­ately in love with Angela and kind of pur­su­ing her.“The new episode of “Bones” that airs Wednes­day is a show­case for Thyne to show off his character’s new lay­ers. Titled “Space­man in a Crater,” the episode’s weekly corpse — a body that seem­ingly fell from outer space — feeds Hod­gins anti-government para­noia, but the dis­cov­ery of alien tech­nol­ogy doesn’t take his atten­tion from his plans to pro­pose to Angela. Given the choice between play­ing wise-cracking comic relief or earnest love inter­est, Thyne doesn’t hes­i­tate to express a preference.“One thou­sand per­cent, def­i­nitely the roman­tic, human ele­ment is much more fun for me to play. I just love that,” he says. “I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, T.J., is kind of an roman­tic. The idea of falling for a woman and hav­ing to fig­ure out a way of express­ing that to her and being con­fused and just mis­in­ter­pret­ing the signs, to me that’s what we all deal with, that’s what life is full of.”“Bones” fans will prob­a­bly notice a few nar­ra­tive gaps in the bud­ding rela­tion­ships, gaps caused by FOX’s deci­sion to pull the April 19 episode (“Player Under Pres­sure,” fea­tur­ing a mur­dered col­lege ath­lete) in the wake of the tragedy at Vir­ginia Tech.“I thought it was smart that they said ‘Let’s not do this, let’s not pile it onto the audi­ence at this point. Let’s give them a break,’” Thyne says. “Mean­while, then we screened Bren­nan and I being buried alive. So we went from one inten­sity to the next, but at least it was a lit­tle more removed.“Asked if “Bones” is some­what under­ap­pre­ci­ated on a net­work where the hype usu­ally goes to crit­i­cal dar­lings like “24” or “House” or pop cul­ture sen­sa­tions like “Amer­i­can Idol,” Thyne laughs and pauses.“Let me ask you — Do you think that we are?” He con­tin­ues, “I don’t think the peo­ple that watch us under­es­ti­mate us.“Not that he’d shy from a few mil­lion more view­ers …“For me and just always as an actor, it’s just the more you can pack an audi­ence in, the bet­ter you feel. You feel like the more peo­ple you can actu­ally touch and com­mu­ni­cate to, the more excit­ing it is,” he says. “I mean, ‘House’ is a great show and they’ve got a strong audi­ence base and I feel like our show is def­i­nitely strong enough to han­dle that kind of audi­ence base. And I feel that if we got above the radar, we could take the heat. Let the eyes come on us. We can han­dle it.”“Bones” airs on Wednes­day nights at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

21st Gen­e­sis Awards — 24 Mar 2007

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Fox is show­ing some early love for “House” and “Bones,” pick­ing up both for next season.News is no sur­prise for “House,” which will enter its fourth sea­son this fall. Show, which launched to tepid num­bers, even­tu­ally burst into a mega-Nielsen per­former and now is one of Fox’s top-rated tent­pole dramas.“Bones,” mean­while, hasn’t yet turned into a block­buster but has seen its for­tunes improve at the net, turn­ing into a decent player for Fox. Show marks its third sea­son this fall.Season to date, “House” has aver­aged a strong 7.1 rating/18 share in adults 18–49, as well as 17.4 mil­lion view­ers. It’s Fox’s top-rated scripted skein, and No. 3 among all webs with adults 18–49.Show stars Hugh Lau­rie as Dr. Gre­gory House, an acer­bic but bril­liant infec­tious dis­ease spe­cial­ist. Omar Epps, Jen­nifer Mor­ri­son, Jesse Spencer, Robert Sean Leonard and Lisa Edel­stein also star.David Shore cre­ated and exec pro­duces “House,” which earned him an Emmy for writ­ing in a drama in 2005. Katie Jacobs, Paul Attana­sio, Bryan Singer and Dan Sack­heim also exec pro­duce “House,” which comes from NBC Uni­ver­sal TV Studio.As for “Bones,” the drama has aver­aged a 3.1 rating/8 share in adults 18–49 sea­son to date, as well as 8.8 mil­lion viewers.Show stars Emily Deschanel as Dr. Tem­per­ance Bren­nan, a foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist who assists in mur­der inves­ti­ga­tions. She’s fre­quently teamed with FBI Spe­cial Agent See­ley Booth (played by David Boreanaz).“Bones” also stars Michaela Con­lin, Eric Mil­le­gan, T.J. Thyne and Jonathan Adams; 20th Cen­tury Fox TV is behind the show exec pro­duced by Barry Joseph­son, Stephen Nathan and Hart Hanson.

2007 Fox All-Star Win­ter TCA Party — Arrivals — Jan 21

Make no ‘Bones’ about it, Michaela Con­lin is hap­pyBy Kathy Lauer-Williams Of The Morn­ing Call­For Allen­town native Michaela Con­lin, the sec­ond sea­son of the Fox TV series ”Bones,” which started ear­lier this month, will bring the chance of romance for her char­ac­ter, Angela Montenegro.Conlin, whose char­ac­ter is the best friend of foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist Tem­per­ance Bren­nan, played by Emily Deschanel, says Mon­tene­gro will heat things up with the ”bug guy,” fel­low sci­en­tist Dr. Jack Hod­gins, who is an expert on insects and spores in the foren­sic lab.”It’s a lit­tle strange because [actor TJ Thyne] is a good friend of mine, and I have to pre­tend to have a crush on him” Con­lin says. ”But it’s nice for Angela to get out of the lab.”However, she gave a quick ”no com­ment” to whether fans will see Mon­tene­gro and Hod­gins in a love scene.Conlin says she had sug­gested last sea­son that the char­ac­ter have a romance and the pro­duc­ers were open to the idea.”The char­ac­ter is so much fun,” she says. ”She’s so wise and irrev­er­ent. She’s a lit­tle wacky and likes to live life to the fullest.”Conlin, a 1996 grad­u­ate of Park­land High School, says she is thrilled that the series, which airs at 8 p.m. Wednes­days, is in its sec­ond season.”It’s really hard just to get any­thing on the air,” Con­lin says. ”Hav­ing been on shows that didn’t stick around I under­stand how for­tu­nate we are.”The 28-year-old had lead­ing roles in the short-lived series ”MDs” and ”The D.A.” before join­ing the first sea­son of ”Bones” in 2005.She says she already has filmed half the episodes for the sec­ond sea­son of the series, in which she plays an artist who cre­ates three-dimensional images of crime scenes.”The show has changed a lot from the first sea­son,” she says. ”We’re all very com­fort­able and a lot is hap­pen­ing organ­i­cally that isn’t scripted.”Conlin, whose par­ents, Denise and Fran, still live in Allen­town, says she has loved act­ing since she per­formed in the musi­cal ”The King and I” at Muh­len­berg Col­lege when she was 6.”This is the only thing I ever wanted to do,” she says.After grad­u­at­ing from New York Uni­ver­sity in 2000, Con­lin left the East Coast for Los Ange­les. She says she still misses the change of seasons.”It’s taken me a while to get used to Los Ange­les,” she says,Conlin worked steadily after her move, get­ting a role in the Bravo doc­u­men­tary series ”The It Fac­tor,” as well as guest spots on series like ”JAG” and ”Law and Order.”She also had a role in ”Open Win­dow,” an inde­pen­dent film star­ring Cybill Shep­herd and Elliot Gould that screened at the Sun­dance Film Fes­ti­val ear­lier this year.Conlin says the 12–14 hour days shoot­ing on ”Bones” pre­vents her from work­ing on other projects now, but dur­ing the sum­mer hia­tus, she worked on ”Enchanted,” Disney’s lat­est project. Sched­uled for release in fall 2007, the movie will be part ani­ma­tion and part live-action.Conlin calls it a ”modern-day fairy tale set in New York City,” in which a princess played by Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams is ban­ished from a car­toon world to the present-day city.Conlin plays a ”funny fash­ion designer” who works with the princess’ friend, played by Idina Men­zel of ”Rent.”She says she also is writ­ing short sto­ries and hopes to do a play when she has some down time.”The thing I love and hate about this busi­ness is you really are only worth your cur­rent job,” she says. ”You always have to be work­ing on some­thing and can’t take a break.”But for now, she says she feels a lit­tle bit of secu­rity in a very inse­cure busi­ness with ”Bones.””The show’s doing well, so, hope­fully, we’ll be around for a long time,” she says.

THE COURTYARD between two areas of a Pasadena eatery was packed with stars as Fox threw the best party of the entire win­ter press tour.Up against a tree dec­o­rated in white lights, reporters pressed Kiefer Suther­land for even more intel on “24.” We know there will be a romance between two sec­ondary char­ac­ters, and that there will be a big dust-up between Jack and his dad, who appears later in the season.Fewer folks were gath­ered by “The O.C.” cre­ator Josh Schwartz, whose once white-hot series takes its final bow in a few weeks.“I’m not for­get­ting the sup­port we got, and con­tinue to get, from The O.C. at Boalt fans,” says Schwartz, refer­ring to UC Berkeley’s law stu­dents, who even started a schol­ar­ship in the name of the series’ attor­ney dad, Sandy Cohen. “I’m going to do a very spe­cial homage to them in the final episode.“Former “Angel” star David Bore­anaz used a very non-FCC friendly word to tell peo­ple that his show “Bones,” about Bren­nan, an emo­tion­ally dis­tant foren­sic sci­en­tist (Emily Deschanel) and the FBI agent Booth (Bore­anaz), was “not a (insert word) pro­ce­dural show.”“I don’t give a (insert word) about who got mur­dered or who was mur­dered,” the smil­ing and very ani­mated Bore­anaz says. “Because this is a (insert word) rela­tion­ship show between Booth and Bren­nan. It’s about your (insert word) friends, peo­ple you work with. That’s what inter­ests me and that’s where this (insert word) series is going.”

Char­ac­ter rela­tion­ships the back­bone of ‘Bones’By BRIDGET BYRNELOS ANGELES (AP) ? Emily Deschanel is com­par­ing Dr. Tem­per­ance Bren­nan of “Bones” to a cracked egg.“She’s very flawed in odd ways, but there’s some­thing admirable, I think, in her attempt to move for­ward and put her­self back together, like Humpty Dumpty,” says Deschanel, who plays Bren­nan in Fox’s wry-humoured crime series.

Dia­mond Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter and InStyle Host 6th Annual Awards — Jan 11