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Soap updates | 13 TV Media Weekly | January 12 - 18, 2013 Soap Updates Hollywood Q&A By Adam Thomlison TV Media Sharon Case as Sharon in "The Young and the Restless" By Andrew Sawyer TV Media For the week of Jan. 7 - 11 The Bold and the Beautiful Bill's world comes crashing down as he's faced with accusations over his drinking and is forced to address Hope's allegations against him to a room full of people. Liam finally learns how his father ruined his Italian wedding to Hope and is surprised at the level of remorse and regret Bill shows when he confronts him. Bill promises to stop trying to control him if Liam promises not to cut him out of his life. Later, Hope argues with Steffy over who deserves to be with Liam and plots to spend more time with him while Steffy is out of town on business. Last minute preparations are made at Forrester Creations for the fashion challenge that will determine who will step in as the next president of the company. Days of Our Lives John becomes furious with Marlena and checks into a hotel after she confesses that she'd known about Brady and Kristen for quite some time. Elsewhere, Brady finally tells Kristen the words she's been waiting to hear. Daniel is waylaid for his date with Jennifer when Chloe suddenly shows up and won't leave, while Jennifer ends up in the hospital when she hurts herself getting ready. Later, Kate vows revenge when Chloe tells her she'll never see Parker again. Meanwhile, Gabi swears her doctor to secrecy when he realizes that Nick can't possibly be the father of her baby, but they are unaware of the person listening in to their conversation. Gabi and Nick proceed with their wedding ceremony, but someone shows up to ruin the event. General Hospital Starr reels when she learns Todd knew that Johnny had killed Cole and Hope. Later,Todd tries to smother Johnny in his sleep after Dante arrests them both and they're thrown in a shared cell.After Sonny posts her bail, Connie decides to drown her sorrows and encourages AJ to fall off the wagon and join her. Carly tells Sam she was right about Todd and later goes to confront him about the baby-switch fiasco. Maxie and Spinelli deal with the aftermath of their one-night stand while Patrick and Sabrina agree they need to talk. Meanwhile, Luke bribes a guard and gets a call out to Anna and then Lulu before a gunshot is fired. The Young and the Restless Avery explains that she had an affair with Dylan McAvoy when she finds Nick with Dylan's dog tags as he's trying to dig up information on him.Adam buys two plan tickets and assures Chelsea they'll leave town as soon as he sorts out the situation at Newman Enterprises. But when Adam hires Sharon and asks for two more weeks, Chelsea starts to believe they'll never leave. Nikki tells Victor that Jack's problem is private when she finds out he plans to expose Jack's pill problem to the press. Meanwhile, Phyllis looks after Jack as his withdrawal symptoms worsen and he starts to hallucinate. Kevin and Chloe hide the stolen money at Crimson Lights and discuss how they're going to launder it. Leslie fantasizes about Neil, while Tyler plans to move in on Lily while Cane is out of town. Q: I saw a clip of a historical show about ancient Rome that starred Michael Sheen. Did that have any other big stars? What was it called? A:What you saw was "Ancient Rome:The Rise and Fall of an Empire," a BBC miniseries that aired in the fall of 2006. Each of its six episodes highlighted a particular period in the empire's history, generally focusing on one of the emperors. The clip you saw was from the installment about Emperor Nero, played by rising British film star Michael Sheen who, though more famous in Britain, had yet to achieve true stardom. However, he was just a few weeks away from it — his breakthrough film, "The Queen," in which he played British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was released shortly afterwards. The other stars in the series were also popular in Britain, but much less so on these shores.A fine example is Sean Pertwee, who played no less a role than Julius Caesar in the series — though he has dozens of British film and television roles on his resume, he's probably best known here for a smallish supporting role in the 1997 sci-fi picture "Event Horizon." James D'Arcy, who played Roman politician and soldier Tiberius Gracchus, is a similar case.Though he has created some buzz for himself lately for turns in two of last year's most buzzedabout releases — "Hitchcock" and "Cloud Atlas" — he is still far more famous in Britain, particularly for his TV work in other miniseries such as "Rebel Heart" and 2001's "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby," in which he had the title role. Sheen, of course, would start a spectacular run of successes after this miniseries, with such films as the 2008 prestige picture "Frost/Nixon" (he played David Frost), and the more lucrative "Twilight" film sequels (in which he played the vampire elder Aro). This all culminated in him win- ning the British Artist of the Year award at the BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards in 2010. Q:Was Ernest Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream" ever made into a movie? I know a lot of his other books were. A: Hemingway's tendency to write in the first person — with his main characters speaking for themselves — and the fact that he tended to set them in the many places he lived in real life, meant that his books often seemed at least somewhat autobiographical. So there was a sense that George C. Scott was playing the great man himself when he took the lead in the 1977 film adaptation of "Islands in the Stream." (For example, Scott's character was a sculptor named Hudson instead of a writer named Hemingway.) If anyone could meet the challenge, though, it was Scott, who has of course done well for himself playing characters who were both real-life and larger-than-life. Many best remember him as the great American general in the 1970 biopic "Patton" — a role he reprised in the 1986 telefilm "The Last Days of Patton." The latter film aired a year after he played Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1985 miniseries "Mussolini:The Untold Story." If playing Hemingway seems like a daunting task, so, too, was the job of adapting his legendary prose for the screen. By all accounts, screenwriter Denne Bart Petitclerc succeeded — he was nominated for a prestigious Writers Guild of America award for his job (though he lost to Alvin Sargent's adaptation of the Second World War tale "Julia"). "Islands in the Stream" was the first unpublished Hemingway story to be released after the author's death in 1961. Despite this fact,"New York Times" reviewer Robie MacAuley said "it is a complete, well-rounded novel, a contender with his very best." Q: I read in a magazine that Tom Hiddleston is starring in a vampire movie some time soon.What movie is it, and when is it coming out? A:As is so often the case with actors, after having appeared in a massive, big-budget movie,Tom Hiddleston has picked a smallscale movie that's dripping with artistic credibility for his next project. That film is "Only Lovers Left Alive," written and directed by American art-film icon Jim Jarmusch. It just recently wrapped filming, with no release date set so far. Though Jarmusch is certainly a big deal in the indie scene, his films are a far cry from Hiddleston's last project, 2012's "The Avengers," the third-highestgrossing film of all time (having earned $1.5 billion worldwide). Hiddleston's vampire character, named Adam, is "an underground musician," according to the official synopsis, who reignites his centuries-old love affair with a fellow vampire named Eve (played by Tilda Swinton). If that sounds weird, it probably will be: Jarmusch's films are known for their strangeness. For example, one of his most popular films, the 1999 crime picture "Ghost Dog:Way of the Samurai," is about a young man who trains himself as a samurai to become a hitman for the Italian mafia. Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Personal replies will not be provided.

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