Don't judge a book by its cover -or a sexy Superhero by her costume: video of Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman

Adrianne Palicki rehearsing a chase scene as Wonder Woman, Los Angeles, March 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXssMvnpio




Adrianne doing what actors do the most on a set- waiting! Might as well have her tresses worked on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmuSwnxQfhw

How many times as a kid did you ever heard the maxim, "Don't judge a book by its cover"? To which we now add the comic book corollary -or a sexy Superhero by her costume.

Last time we spoke of longtime HBB favorite Adrianne Palicki, late of Friday Night Lights fame and Lone Star -which I loved- was back on February 17th in my post, TMZ.com 'unknown' Adrianne Palicki cast as 'Wonder Woman' in David E. Kelley's upcoming NBC-TV show
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/tmzcom-unknown-adrianne-palicki-cast-as.html

Since then, our gal Adrianne has been busy going thru her Diana Prince paces, knowing that the whole world was watching, watching and watching some more, with lots of the recent commentary being on her evolving costume, much of which was decidedly negative.

Style Bistro
Adrianne Palicki's 'Wonder Woman' Costume Looks Different
Written by Alicia on Mar-30-11 1:53pm
http://www.stylebistro.com/Daily+Dish/articles/BgaR1Zf0ooe/Adrianne+Palicki+Wonder+Woman+Costume+Looks
Lots of photos here, too!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgcx1R5OYuM

Large photo of newest version of costume at:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3336681472/nm1597316
Yeah, I noticed, too: they made the traditional red boots blue and the gold bracelets silver.


Which Wonder Woman Wears It Best? Lynda Carter Weighs In
By WSJ Staff
March 19, 2011, 5:37 PM ET
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/19/does-the-new-wonder-woman-costume-work-lynda-carter-weighs-in/




Adrianne Palicki on Criminal Minds (Part 1), The Thirteenth Step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwKekwOp_y8

This episode from two months ago might've been THE scariest episode yet of Criminal Minds because it also seemed like the most realistic -spree killers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1782019/

Speaking of TMZ, they still haven't mentioned Adrianne yet.
C'est la guerre!

TMZ.com 'unknown' Adrianne Palicki cast as 'Wonder Woman' in David E. Kelley's upcoming NBC-TV show

Screenshot of TMZ.com at 12:40 p.m. today.

I did this search this afternoon on a whim after getting a frantic phone call from a well-connected Left Coast friend about this big entertainment news:
NBC Casts Wonder Woman, Prime Suspect. Good Actress = Good Show?
Posted by James Poniewozik Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 10:45 am
http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/02/17/nbc-casts-wonder-woman-prime-suspect-good-actress-good-show/

Naturally, given her years on TV, even the recent critically-lauded but ratings-challenged Fox-TV show, Lone Star, which I just loved, I expected that TMZ would at least have something up about our Tyra, even if just something in the archives.
Maybe some fetching photo of her at a film premiere or a charity bash.
Nope!

Instead, as you can see above, it read simply, "Your search did not return any results."



I fully expect this cloak of secrecy about Adrianne on one of the most-popular entertainment websites in the world will change in a big way soon, as the casting news about this iconic role, so much-discussed on Internet chat sites and forums, in myriad languages around the world, percolates in the blogosphere, and the curiosity about this talented young actress escalates.

Adrianne's comments in a special segment after the Friday Night Lights series finale aired recently on DirecTV, were very accurate and heartfelt, and could well have been spoken by any of its many devoted fans, of which I am but one.

For those of you who will watch the series final season on NBC-TV soon, that last episode could NOT have been more perfectly written or acted, too!

Friday Night Lights final season on NBC-TV begins on April 15th.
http://www.nbc.com/friday-night-lights/

Sorry Eliza Dushku and Cobie Smulders, I was rooting for ya, but Adrianne will do a great job, I'm sure.

I'm really happy to see our Tyra finally get this big break in her show biz career, a chance to be THE star of her own show.

Adrianne has been one of the most compelling parts of FNL, one of its moral compasses, and it's great news that David E. Kelley & Co. saw her potential and decided to reward her for her hard work and excellent acting.
Given our feelings for the show and her, we're rooting for her in a very big way!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1597316/

Is the show biz headline of the year news that a "Wonder Woman" TV series is returning to network TV with David E. Kelly in charge? For NOW it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnpZLnIdXU

As evidenced by the above, you can definitely put this blogger in the Emily Deschanel as Wonder Woman camp.
Not that anyone from Warner Bros. asked for my opinion yet.


So I got an odd phone call from The Left Coast from a friend in show biz very early Saturday morning their time, which for the person calling me, was around 2 p.m. Eastern, this being someone who is a confirmed night owl.

I received the call while I was watching the godawful and ponderous U-M at Clemson football game on ESPN2, which was late coming on owing to a 20-minute delay in the Manchester United vs. Sunderland soccer game, which ended with a less-than-thrilling nil-nil tie. http://www.premierleague.com/page/Home/0,,12306,00.html

The rather short message told to me thru yawns was, roughly paraphrasing:
Wonder Woman, network TV, David E. Kelly, and Andreeva.

That was enough for me to understand the gist and see the cosmic possibilities, but for those of you who either don't keep up on such things or for whom anything less than breaking news about a $250-million feature film based on Joss Whedon's Firefly is not worth paying attention to, here's what's what. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29

DeadlineHollywood.com
Wonder Woman Returning To TV As Series Written And Produced By David E. Kelley
By Nellie Andreeva, Deadline TV Editor
Friday October 1, 2010 @ 3:00pm PDT

This has to be the highest-profile effort to bring Wonder Woman to television: One of TV's best-known creators, The Practice's David E. Kelley, has come on board to write and produce a new series project about the female superhero. The project, from Warner Bros Television where Kelley is based, and Warner Bros' DC Entertainment, will be taken out to the networks shortly. Kelley, who has created several female centered shows like Ally McBeal, has wanted to tackle a contemporary take on the World War II-era Amazon. He recently met with the DC team who also have been looking for ways to launch a new Wonder Woman TV franchise.

Read the rest of the post at:
http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/wonder-woman-returning-to-tv-as-series-written-and-produced-by-david-e-kelley/

See also: 'Ally McBeal' producer to give Wonder Woman a modern makeover
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/ally-mcbeal-producer-to-give-wonder-woman-a-modern-makeover-2097657.html

Of course, if you want to go for a more petite, brainy look for her, how can you do better than Rachel Bilson from the first year of The O.C.?
Ooh-la-la La Bilson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnZ70Q4SN2g


Love La Bilson!
http://www.popsugar.com/tag/%22Rachel+Bilson%22

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Or, as Saturday Night Live once sagely noted, "What if Superman landed in Nazi Germany?"

If Scotland wants a super-hero with a kilt and an anti-English bent, knock yourself out.

If India wants a super-hero that's a cow who is a re-incarnated Prime Minister, go to it.

And if Belarus wants a super-hero that's ignored largely because nobody in the U.S. much thinks about Belarus except at the Winter Olympics, fine, he can be some pipeline worker who is a hen-pecked husband with a super-power, I'm fine with that, too.

But this effort below, if a trial balloon, is one that will utterly fail.
Some traditions must be upheld.

If I had my heart set on seeing Eliza Dushku, Summer Glau or Emily Deschanel as Wonder Woman Classic, and I've been heard to say that a few times over the past ten years, I don't want to see them in a film dressed like some sort of cheap second-rate Arabian Knights concubine, comprende?

Everyone says they learned the real lesson of New Coke.
Clearly, some did not.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/07/01/new-wonder-woman-loses-patriotic-costume/

New Wonder Woman Loses Patriotic Costume in Favor of 'Globalized' Duds

By Jo Piazza

Published July 01, 2010

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Previously at Hallandale Beach Blog on the subject of Wonder Woman:

Lynda Carter: Brains, Wit and Beauty!

Hallandale Beach DESPERATELY needs a Lynda Carter-like Wonder Woman to fight crime, cronyism and corruption at HB City Hall and all throughout South Florida.
(Or FBI Special Agent Dana Scully!)
You Can't Beat the Original!

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Fort Lauderdale Native and FSU Grad Tiffany Fallon as Wonder Woman

Tiffany is married to Joe Don Rooney of the Grammy Award-winning country group Rascal Flatts. Playboy February 2008.
Click on photo to go to Tiffany's MySpace page or go to her official website at: http://www.tiffanyfallon.com/

Trailer for ABC-TV's The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTs3qKzVJI


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074074/