Charlene Tilton On-Line

Photo Blog

2008-02-11T16:50:00.000-08:00

No worries, The Charlene Tilton On Line site is not going anywhere, but Blogging sites are an easy way to upload photos and info in a quick and easy way. The cost of upkeep on the site, as well as slow process of editing makes it hard to keep up with on a regular basis. That is why most of my new info and pics may start out on the blogs, then when time allows I will move them to the site, or maybe just leave them here. That is why I started a second blog just for Dallas and Charlene related photos. The link is here:

Check back often!

Charlene On The Town:

2008-02-11T16:49:00.000-08:00

New Charlene and Linda Gray Interview

2008-02-11T16:44:00.001-08:00

Recession is looming. House prices are falling. And shoulder pads are back. In a vast room of a plush Dublin hotel it could be the Eighties all over again. Linda Gray, aka Sue Ellen from Dallas, is holding forth. She's telling me about a time she went to a gay bar in Texas called JRs and had the disconcerting experience of running into a drag version of herself. Did he do a better her than her?

"Oh no!" Linda laughs. "Came close, though. Hair wasn't big enough. Mascara wasn't running down face enough. Nobody could fill my shoulder pads." She was flattered, though.

"It's an homage," she purrs. "I appealed to many different men on many different levels."

We both know what she means. At a youthful 67 (and no Botox or surgery apparent) Linda, in town to celebrate the six-month anniversary of the opening of Newbridge Silverware's fabulous Museum of Style Icons, still exudes that combination of Mrs Robinson-esque sexiness and frayed vulnerability that mesmerised the world 20 years ago. Meeting her and Charlene Tilton (who played Lucy Ewing, aka the Poison Dwarf on Dallas) is like being reunited with my childhood babysitters. These two helped to raise a million latchkey kids to aspire to a life of champagne, rich husbands and dramatic nervous breakdowns.

When I express my everlasting gratitude for this, Linda tells me: "Well, you know, like a lot of moms, I always felt a lot of guilt about leaving my own kids to go to work. So it's good to know I was helping out with someone's kids."

The very strange thing about Dallas is that most of us look back on it so fondly, even if it reminds us of the bad old days. You only have to hear that famous, sweeping theme tune to be transported back to another time, another place: poverty, marches, unemployment, bad hair, deathly quiet Sundays, two channels. A show about an oil-rich Texan family represented a glittering alternative to our grim reality and it was this, as much as the riveting storylines and iconic characters, that made it compulsive viewing.

The episode which revealed who shot family bad-boy JR (played by Larry Hagman) is still the most-watched television programme in history. For many people in the Eighties, the identity of his assailant was actually more important news than the Iran hostage story or the fall of communism. These days, all light television is creatively edited reality. Dallas was glamorous, high-camp escapism.

You might expect Linda and Charlene to be weary of the questions about their soap-star pasts, but they seem totally comfortable with the bubble of nostalgia they live in.

"Oh yeah, I miss all the clothes, the lip gloss, the heels. They were great," Charlene tells me. "And the hair! Down South, we have an expression, honey: 'The higher the hair, the closer to God.'"

"It was a magical time," Linda says. "I wasn't a young starlet, though, so I got to see it as an adult."

In fact, Linda was already 36 years old and married with two children when she won the part of Sue Ellen. Her greatest claim to fame before that had been that her leg was used in the shot for the poster of the movie, The Graduate.

"Sue Ellen was my first big role, really. They wanted a blonde to be a rival to Victoria Principal's character. Word had gone out that the show had been commissioned and the established divas were circling. I won the part against all the odds."

Sue Ellen was not originally supposed to be a very big character on Dallas. The show's creators were, Larry Hagman has said, "male-chauvinist pigs", and most of the storylines revolved around the Ewing men. At first, Linda hardly even had any lines. But in each scene, she made an impression. With those huge, expressive eyes, she could change the whole tone of a scene with a single look. The makers of the show recognised this.

Gradually, she got more dialogue and eventually the hard-drinking society lady became, along with JR, Dallas's most iconic character. "I think originally she was like this highly strung trophy wife for him," Linda says. "And he wanted her by his side, like a possession. But then, as the years went on, something very solid, a mutual respect, grew between them. They were one of the all-time great TV couples."

Linda was elevated to rock-star status in the US, but the pressure and fame took its toll on her marriage.

"How can I explain it? It's like turning up the heat and the light on something. Any problems already there were exaggerated. I'm not saying the show meant the end of my marriage, but the situation became more difficult," she explains.

After 21 years of marriage, Linda divorced her husband, Ed Thrasher. At the age of 41, she was on her own once again and although she has since remarried, she still looks back on it as a difficult time.

"That was scary, really. I was always protected. I had gone from my mom and dad to my husband. My bubble was burst."

There was little time for reflection, however, as the show scaled even greater heights. Dallas was syndicated around the world, airings became must-see events and Linda, who by now had moved to Malibu with her two kids and collected a slew of awards.

Even with this level of recognition, Linda still had to fight her corner for her rightful share of the pie on Dallas. While Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy (who played Bobby) had directed several episodes of the show, the producers refused Linda permission to direct her own episode. It took the intervention of Hagman before they would even consider her. Once again, their reluctance to put their faith in her proved ill-founded as she directed several of the highest- rated episodes.

If Linda Gray had shown fight to make herself a star, it was nothing to the tenacity and chutzpah of Charlene Tilton. The four-feet-eleven, smoky-voiced starlet, who had already danced with Fred Astaire when she was 15 years old, was weary of casting calls and smaller roles and when she heard about the role of Lucy Ewing, a bitchy, vixenish granddaughter of the Ewing dynasty, she was determined to do anything to get it.

"They wanted someone older, with more experience. They wouldn't give me a script to practice. They said I was too young. So I went into the office the next day when I knew they'd be at lunch, and rooted around in the desk where I thought the script might be. When I found it, I took it, and went to my acting coach and we worked on it together. Daring? I know! Any young actresses reading this, do not attempt this at home. You will be arrested," Charlene says.

She made the role her own and while Lucy never achieved the notoriety of Sue Ellen, she was an essential part of the high-glamour power play on Dallas. She was one of the villains of the show and her acid tongue and Lady Macbeth-ish scheming led Terry Wogan to nickname her "the Poison Dwarf" on his radio show in the Eighties.

Did Charlene bring much of herself to the role?
"Oh yeah, I slept around with loads of men while I was on Dallas, just like Lucy did," she cackles. "No, just kidding. I wasn't like that at all. I was quite focused back then, to be honest.

"In fact, if anything I'm wilder now. And I have to tell you," she adds, laughing, "it's not so pretty."
Charlene never knew her father growing up and she felt sure that once he saw her on Dallas he would come forward and they could meet. "I mean, I'm sure he saw me. He'd want to have been living on Mars or dead not to have seen it," she tells me now. "His name was Tilton as well. I'm sure he is dead now. We missed our chance," she says.

It's clear, talking to them, that Linda and Charlene are as different from each other as Sue Ellen and Lucy were back then. Linda is regal, elegant and softly spoken whereas Charlene is a little more bawdy and funny, always with a wisecrack on her glossy lips. She tells me a guy came up to her in Dublin and confessed that he used to play dress-up when he was little and pretend he was Lucy. "And I turned to him and said: 'Honey, that's cute, but you would've made a better Sue Ellen.' He was a bit annoyed. He said: 'Maybe now, but when I was younger, it was you.' I thought that was quite funny.''

There's a sense that she doesn't want to be seen as Linda's Dallas sidekick. A minor hissy fit is thrown when she's left on her own for too long on one of the styling days and when outfits are being chosen, she continually asks: "What is Linda wearing?"

If there's any insecurity there, it might be because their careers took quite different paths after Dallas, which had not set either of them up for life, financially speaking. Linda won parts on the hit show Melrose Place -- "I was Heather Locklear's mother, it was the first time my kids actually watched me and thought I was cool" -- and Models Inc, a short-lived spin-off of Melrose Place, as well a recurring part on that other favourite of students and housewives, The Bold and the Beautiful.

She also did a stint in the West End replacing Kathleen Turner in the play of The Graduate, in which she had one nude scene. "It was fine and it was all tastefully done," she tells me. "But there was supposed to be no photography allowed and somehow someone got a camera in and they printed them."

Charlene has had a more muted post-Dallas career. She played herself on Married . . . with Children, starred in an infomercial for the sinister-sounding Abdominizer -- "you can do it at work . . . while watching TV" -- which she'd rather forget. "You'd wanna see my abs now," she laughs. She agreed to do a reality TV programme called The Farm in Britain "because I'd never seen a cow and I thought it could be fun," but she was the first to be voted off and admitted she had never heard of any of the other F-List contestants, porn star Ron Jeremy and Italian porn star-turned-politician Cicciolina were among them. "They tried to pit us all against each other and the cameras were on you all the time -- it was creepy."
For a few years, she also lent her name to a gossip column with the Boston Globe, a job she has mixed feelings about.

"I tried to make it a positive column," she recalls. "Not like the usual ones that report on scandal or whatever. I wanted it to be nice things, like Brad and Angelina saved a baby deer, or something. I wasn't into the dirt."

She vetoed a lot of pieces, something she says her editors at the Globe weren't too happy about. Some things got through, though, and there is at least one major celebrity who doesn't speak to her, although she won't say who.

"It was around the time my mother passed away and something went across my desk and I didn't get a chance to look at it properly," she explains.

Her name was in the papers again a few years ago when OK! magazine printed an explosive interview with Charlene in which she allegedly called Victoria Principal, who played Pammy on Dallas, a bitch. Charlene denied having ever done the interview. "I had done pictures with a German publication. And there was supposed to be an interview, but we never did it. And one day, my phone starts ringing off the hook and a friend of mine, who is also a publicist, called me up and said: 'Charlene, what have you done?' And there were eight pages of questions and answers in OK! in which I talked about Patrick Duffy's parents, who passed away, and said that I hated Victoria and that she's a bitch. And I never said those things. And I supposedly said I hate America and it's way too conservative and that's not true either. I'm proud to be American."

Why didn't she sue?
"Well, I made it be known and it was taken care of. But they know you can't sue them because you don't have the money or the time and they have both," she says.
Over the years, a movie version of Dallas has been discussed and it had been suggested that the original cast members could reprise their old roles. Charlene screeches with laughter when I tell her this.

"Oh honey, at this point, if they ever make that damn thing I could play Miss Ellie. Me in the hayloft? Honey, I go back to it, that's not so pretty any more."
That's not to say she wouldn't have strong opinions on who could play Lucy, should a younger actress be required. Paris Hilton, she feels, wouldn't be up to the job. Jessica Simpson, she tells me, would be "too old". When pressed for a name she giggles and suggests the Olsen twins, "because it would take two women to fill my shoes".

Unlike Linda, Charlene was very impressed with the drag versions of herself she has met: "You know, I love Barbara Streisand, but I heard her criticising the 'Barbaras' who do her. She's like [lapsing into a perfect Barbara Brooklyn drawl] 'Nah, you the got outfit all wrong.' But, I mean, if you could see some of those guys who've done Lucy. They look gorgeous. I'm like: 'Yes, please, be me.'"

Charlene and Linda both deny they've been under the plastic surgeon's knife, but Charlene does concede that she went for Botox once. "But, to be honest, they put the needle in me and I knew this wasn't for me. I was too scared. I'm going to get older gracefully." Hmm . . . the juicy couture tracksuit she's wearing as we talk tells a different story. On the back it reads: "The joy only bling can bring."

Both Linda and Charlene admit that they're still very much Eighties girls.

"Yeah, you know what they say," Charlene adds. "You can take the girl out of the Eighties, but you can't take the Eighties out of the girl. I miss the lip gloss and the big dresses, the big, loud dresses. It's all so boring now, with the ironed-flat hair and all that. I want to be back there," she says.

Which might explain why they've both come back to Ireland on this cold and grey afternoon. Newbridge Silverware has organised a charity ball in aid of the Irish Sri Lankan Orphanage, which they will attend as guests of honour. They will also visit the company's Museum of Style Icons; an acknowledgement perhaps of the fashion debt the world owes these women. Because, as one dedicated fashionista told me when I mentioned that I was meeting Charlene and Linda: "If any of us think we look good now, it's because we are standing on the shoulder-pads of giants".

And what better way to ward off the return of the bad old days than a double dose of Eighties nostalgia?

Donal Lynch.

Photography by Sarah Doyle

Thanks to Garry for the Link
Orginial Article Here:

1 Vs 100

2008-02-08T08:29:00.000-08:00

The News Blog is back!

Watch Charlene tonight on NBC on 1 Vs 100!

Charlene Tilton On-Line

2007-07-15T18:14:00.000-07:00

Have not updated the site in awhile, but look for some big updates in August or September!

Charlene in France

2007-07-15T18:11:00.001-07:00

Charlene just spent the week along with Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Steve Kanaly and Larry Hagman at the Mirande Country festival in France.

Season 7 coming on July 30th

2007-07-15T18:09:00.001-07:00

Hi, although Charlene did not make the cover, Lucy has a few good scenes in Season 7 including a great drunkin rant about Sue Ellen and Peter Richards.

Charlene's Wedding Dress

2007-06-20T04:35:00.000-07:00

Remember May 1985, Bobby was mowed down by Katherine after just getting back together, 'fake' Miss Ellie was walking around Southfork, Sue Ellen was back on the bottle and Lucy and Mitch tie the knot for the second time at a small family wedding at Southfork!

Lucy's wedding dress from the second wedding designed by the famous designer Travilla (Who won an Emmy for his work on Dallas that season) is up for sale on EBAY. See the link below! Don't miss out on the chance to win this rare bit of television history!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170123564305&ru=http://search.ebay.com:80/170123564305_W0QQ_trksidZm37QQfromZR40QQfviZ1

Charlene Interview!

2007-06-19T15:57:00.001-07:00

Check out the link below to go to Charlene's recent interview at Ultimate Dallas. I was lucky enough to have been the question host, choosing the questions to go to Miss Tilton.

http://www.ultimatedallas.com/bringbackdallas/chat.html

DALLAS SEASON 6

2007-01-30T17:54:00.000-08:00

Released today!

This is a good season for our Lucy (one of the last the writers actually wrote for her) Lucy meets and reluctantly falls in love with Mickey Trotter (Timothy Patrick Murphy), and as well plays a role in Ewing Oil with the voting shares her father gave her. Great season overall for this classic show!

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE!!!

2007-01-14T09:19:00.000-08:00

Opening credits and Charlene's entrance from Saturday Night Live!

MySpace

2007-01-04T17:00:00.000-08:00

Charlene has joined the world of MySpace!
Check it out.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=138069141

HAPPY 2007

2007-01-01T07:25:00.000-08:00

2006-12-24T07:59:00.000-08:00

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM CHARLENE TILTON ON-LINE!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

2006-12-01T19:08:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLENE!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLENE!!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

2006-10-28T06:56:00.000-07:00

Just like Charlene, this is the 80's!

2006-10-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

Charlene in the Trivial Pursuit Totally 80's Commercial

2006-10-26T06:06:00.000-07:00

2006-10-26T06:01:00.000-07:00

Charlene and her co-star Bruno Amato visiting the set of 'Two and a Half Men'

Charlene discussing the End of Dallas

2006-10-26T05:59:00.000-07:00

and looking good!!!

Youtube

2006-10-26T05:58:00.000-07:00

Charlene dances with Fred Astaire

2006-10-26T05:56:00.000-07:00

Jim Brochu with Charlene Tilton.

By Blogger Steve Schalchlin
My favorite "new" celebrity to meet as a result of this run was Charlene Tilton, who is a total hoot. She and her manager have actually approached us about getting involved in a new show for her, so part of her agenda for being there last night was to check out Jim's writing. To say she was blown away, would be the understatement of the decade. We had a blast at the little afterparty. The champagne was free-flowing and she was bubbling with energy.

She told me, "I used to work at this theatre. I scrubbed those toilets and cleaned those seats and sold popcorn behind that counter. I also worked at the big theatre," referring to the larger Grauman's Egyptian looming behind us. "In fact," she continued. "I was fired from the Egyptian because of an incident with Fred Astaire."

"Really?" I probed.

She lit up and told us the whole story, which I just happened to catch on my little digital camera...

2006-10-26T05:53:00.000-07:00

A Chat w/Charlene Tilton...
By Greg Hernandez

She was Lucy Ewing on "Dallas" for many years and last night, Charlene Tilton livened up the TV DVD Awards at the Century Plaza Hotel which she co-hosted. "I didn't even know i was doing this until yesterday!" she told me after the event. I asked her some silly questions like who was the cutest Ewing and she said her father Gary Ewing, played by Ted Shackleford, who mostly played the role on "Knots Landing." Lucy had many steamy affairs as on the prime-time soap but Charlene says her favorite was Kit Mainwaring, played by Mark Wheeler, who broke Lucy's heart when he turned out to be gay. Her uncle J.R. (Larry Hagman) had gotten them together as sort of a business merger since Kit's family had a fortune. "He came out of the closet and came out to (Lucy) and she was devastated," Tilton recalls. "This was 25 years ago and it was handled so well. They didn't use the word gay, they used homosexual. It was my favorite storyline, the best I ever had. It was so ahead of its time."
We walked down memory lane a bit and Tilton laughed at some of her character's antics over the years which included accusing her high school teacher of rape because he gave her a bad grade! "I go into the bathroom and start cutting off these expensive clothes and run out saying, 'He raped me!'"

Charlene, who has a 24 year old daughter, has kept busy since the series left the air in the last 80s with movie appearances and TV guest spots. She co-executive produced the highly-rated "Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork" on CBS in 2004 and last year, she was on the reality show "The Farm." Next up for Tilton is an indie film she is producing on the life of Tammy Faye. Tilton will play Tammy Faye, a very vocal supporter of the gay community, who is currently fighting cancer.
"I'm honored to play her," Charlene says. "When you are in her presence, she just exudes the pure love of God. she's so non-judgmental. She came out of all that happened to her as the most loving human being."

2006-10-13T07:50:00.000-07:00

Charlene and daugher Cherish this past Thursday night on the red carpet at the L.A. Premiere Performance of "Sweet Charity".
(thanks Pamela and Garry from UD for the larger scans)

Is all 'OK'?

2006-07-28T07:44:00.000-07:00

Charlene has been in the news the past couple of days, but it not positive. A recent article in The UK version of OK magazine has Charlene blasting her former costar Victoria Principal. According to sorces, Tilton is expected to release a press release about this situation. Hopefully it will settle the waters. Tilton has never said anything negative in the past about Prinicpal and I am hoping this can be explained.

80's Photo Shoot

2006-07-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

Lauper and assistant Mitchell Reichler instruct singer Tiffany, foreground, actress Charlotte Rae, far left, NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actress Kelly LeBrock, actor Corey Feldman, rapper Darrell McDaniels and former 'VJ' Julie Brown. Behind Lauper are wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, actor Philip Michael Thomas, actress Charlene Tilton.

By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — Here on a Sony soundstage, the '80s are so back, they might have never ended.
Weird Science's Kelly LeBrock, gaudy in a scarlet jacket that impeccably matches her puffy pout, gets her reddish mane curled by a stylist. Near her is fellow burgundy-haired songstress Tiffany, a vision of garishness in sequins and taffeta under a sweeping black coat and leggings.
Standing alone and keeping to himself is Miami Vice's detective Philip Michael Thomas, 57, in a jaunty fedora.
When the director barks out "You're on!" LeBrock, 46, flips her head upside down and tousles those tresses, her face expressionless. Moving to the stage, she stands next to Tiffany, 34, and the two start bopping to an imagined rhythm as cameras roll and record their exaggeratedly choppy dance moves.
They're here — along with one-time bad boy Corey Feldman ('80s flicks The Goonies, The Lost Boys), Dallas darling Charlene Tilton, hoops legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and more — to shoot a commercial for the Trivial Pursuit Totally '80s edition, out this month ($30).
The director is an '80s icon herself: She Bop-per Cyndi Lauper, 53, who also happens to be starring in The Threepenny Opera on Broadway.
"Move closer in," she orders Tiffany, who swishes the tufts of orange, yellow and pink taffeta attached to her black knee-length leggings and laughs as she moves closer to Feldman, 34.
"Everybody into place! Please move!" Lauper shouts in a gravelly Noo Yawk accent. "Get in your position, please. Everybody squeeze into each other."
There's no attitude on this shoot; most everyone is friendly and approachable. After all, they are earning dollars for reliving the decade that made them stars. LeBrock groans when she sits down in a comfortable swivel chair during a break from shooting, promptly removing her white-and-black wedge heels and putting her feet up.
Tilton, 47, is wearing caked-on blue shadow and electric pink lips that hark back to the days when J.R. Ewing still ruled Southfork and she played Lucy, the resident floozy. A pink taffeta wrap curls around her shoulders, and the requisite black Stetson is perched on her head. She's a pixie, even in her tall plexiglass "stripper heels."
She's thrilled about the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Dallas and checks her cellphone feverishly because daughter Cherish, 23, is auditioning to play Lucy. "It would be coming full circle, you know?" Tilton says.
But she doesn't have much time to mull her daughter's career, as Lauper directs her back to the stage to join the rest of the actors.
"Stay right there. I'll need to light you," says Lauper, dressed in black save for her orange-framed glasses and jaunty yellow beret perched on her spiky hair.
Most of the stars got involved after getting calls from Lauper herself, and they relish reliving their professional glory days.
"I wanted to celebrate these people who were '80s icons," the director says. "Wouldn't it be great to have them come and have an '80s party and celebrate the vitality and humor of it? Remember Charlene Tilton in Dallas? Philip Michael Thomas was great. Tiffany — what a great voice."
The '80s, says Lauper, were "a very creative time. People did wild things.
"There were the bad hairdos and tacky moments, but people had the courage to have a bad hairdo. The fashion police meant nothing to us then."
Had the fashion police shown up to the shoot, they might have made a few citizen's arrests.
Says Tiffany: "My son (Elijah, 13) is going to be embarrassed when he sees this on TV."

LUCY FINALLY CAST!!!

2006-06-27T16:16:00.000-07:00

7th HEAVEN STAR SCORES DALLAS ROLE

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network

7th HEAVEN actress KATIE CASSIDY has beaten out JESSICA SIMPSON and KRISTIN CAVALLARI to win the coveted role of LUCY EWING in the big screen remake of DALLAS.
The 19-year-old star is the daughter of former teen idol DAVID CASSIDY and the girlfriend of current teen heart-throb JESSE McCARTNEY.
A source tells American publication Us Weekly, "Producers wanted to steer clear of the drama and also thought Katie was simply better for the role." CHARLENE TILTON, who played original Lucy on the hit television series, favoured LINDSAY LOHAN over Jessica Simpson for the role saying, "Jessica is beautiful, but too old.
"I had just turned 17 when we started filming. It's more exciting if Lucy is doing all of these things... out of high school. (Lindsay Lohan) is a great choice." Cassidy, who is also a singer and model, most recently appeared in CLICK as ADAM SANDLER's daughter.

Charlene and Cyndi Lauper

2006-06-07T06:50:00.000-07:00

WRESTLEMANIA 1 HEADLINERS REUNITE FOR NEW NATIONAL COMMERCIAL
by Mike Johnson @ 4:00:00 PM on 6/6/2006

Wrestlemania 1 headliners Roddy Piper and Cyndi Lauper reunited this week in New York City as both are taking part in a new national commercial being filmed for the new Trivial Pursuit Game - Totally '80s, which debuts this fall.

Piper appears as one of eleven "Icons of the 80s" in a music video celebration of the decade, alongside NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, MTV's Downtown Julie Brown, singer Tiffany, actor Corey Feldman, Lou Ferrigno ("The Incredible Hulk"), Kelly LeBrock, DMC (of pioneering rap act Run DMC), Charlotte Rae ("The Facts of Life"), Phillip Michael Thomas ("Miami Vice"), and Charlene Tilton ("Dallas").

Lauper is directing the commercial, which features original music that she collaborated on. ECW ring announcer Stephen DeAngelis handled the casting of the commercial, which filmed this week in New York City.

No News is Good News

2006-06-03T11:51:00.000-07:00

Not much news on The new DALLAS movie or Charlene these days. So...lets post a few pics of Lucy. Today is braid day.

Season 5 on August 1st

2006-04-21T06:37:00.000-07:00

DALLAS Season 5 is hitting the shelves on August 1st, and Lucy Ewing made the cover!
This season is a great one for Lucy with marital problems as she and Mitch head towards a divorce, stalked by looney Roger Larson leading to a kidnapping, a rape and pregnancy. What a year for poor Lucy! Also Lucy and the Ewings deal with the loss of Jock Ewing. (Jim Davis who had died during filming of Season 4) Don't Miss it!

SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!

2006-04-12T05:39:00.000-07:00

According to Jessica Simpson, although she has not been cast, she has met with the film's producers about playing Lucy. NO!!! What are they thinking, is this movie going to be a farce!

2006-04-10T19:43:00.000-07:00

La Dolce Musto

by Michael Musto
April 10th, 2006 2:33 PM

CHARLENE TILTON almost had one when she heard Jessica Simpson might play her old Dallas role, Lucy Ewing, in the movie version. Simpson's too old! But now it may be SCARLETT JOHANSSON in the part, and—as I learned at the same wacky convention—Tilton's tiltin' toward approval. "The key quality to Lucy," she told me, "is vulnerability, even though she was doing all that bedhopping." Was Charlene herself vulnerable at the time? "Yes!" she shrieked. "I was 17 and didn't know anything!" But she eventually learned so much that she landed a gossip column in the Globe tabloid a few years ago, horning into my line of work, albeit with kid gloves. "I was trying to be a light in a dark place," she explained, though one of her items still has a certain celebrity incensed, despite the fact that Tilton ended the personal revelation with "Our thoughts and prayers are with them." Well, our prayers are with Charlene as she produces and stars in The Tammy Faye Bakker Story. Let's hope there's enough eye makeup (and lower-region lipstick) in the world to do it right.

Looking Good!

2006-04-02T08:42:00.000-07:00

Charlene this weekend at 2006 Big Apple Comic Book Convention.
Charlene looks Great! Thanks Garry for the pic!
Luke

Just Watched...

2006-03-25T17:35:00.000-08:00

Charlene on Stars in their Eyes! She did a great job! All her stage experience came in handy. For those who want a look, a download of her performance is posted on the forum at Ulimate Dallas. Thanks Garry!

Charlene Sings Hanky Panky

2006-03-25T15:18:00.000-08:00

Although she did not win, Charlene did a good job tonight on 'Stars in Their Eyes'. Filmed last November, it aired today in The UK. The winner was Jade Goody from The UK Version of Big Brother.

Tilton not a fan of Jessica as Lucy. (Nor are we!)

2006-03-23T14:58:00.000-08:00

TILTON WEIGHS IN ON DALLAS CASTING
23 March 2006
Former Dallas star Charlene Tilton has hit out at rumours Jessica Simpson is being courted to play sexy troublemaker Lucy Ewing in the big screen version of the soap.

Tilton, who played the blonde man-eater in the hit 1980s show, feels Simpson is too old to play the role she believes would suit Lindsay Lohan perfectly.

The feature film adaptation is set to hit cinemas in the next two years, but the youngest member of the Ewing clan has yet to be cast.

Hollywood stars rumoured to be considered for the plum part include Simpson, Lohan and US reality TV star Kristin Cavallari, who is reportedly dating Simpson's ex-husband Nick Lachey.

But Tilton has her sights fixed: "Jessica is beautiful but too old. I had just turned 17 when we started filming. It's more exciting if Lucy is doing all these things... out of high school. (Lindsay Lohan) is a great choice."

Stars In Their Eyes

2006-03-22T17:29:00.000-08:00

Another pic of Charlene from 'Stars In Their Eyes' airing this weekend in the UK!

2006-03-19T19:50:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Gary from UD for this great pic of Charlene, Susan and Linda

2006-03-19T19:39:00.000-08:00

The Dallas cast: Ken Kercheval, Steve Kanaly, Susan Howard, Charlene Tilton, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman, Mary Crosby, Patrick Duffy and Sheree J. Wilson at tonights taping of the TV LAND Awards! Show airs this Wednesday Night!

Yet more Casting news! This movie is going to be Big!

2006-03-19T06:33:00.000-08:00

'Dallas' Sexy Lucy: Lindsay Lohan Or Jessica Simpson?by Mitch MarconiMar 19, 2006

Word it out that Lindsay Lohan is currently the fave to play the role of sexy long-haired little blonde, Lucy Ewing Cooper, in a movie version of 'Dallas', according to published reports, and it looks like she has the full endorsement of original actress Charlene Tilton in her bid.
Charlene Tilton, 47, who made the role famous, is quoted as saying: "They are thinking of casting Lindsay Lohan as Lucy and I'm a fan of hers. I think it is a great choice."
But rumors are also running hot in favor of a Jessica Simpson casting, especially appealing because of her buxom body, long blonde hair, and Texas accent. Her native roots in Texas would make her more of a natural for the role, it would seem, but no decisions have been announced as finalized yet.
In what is already being touted as a blockbuster idea, a remake of the classic 80s soap about a rich oil family and their pecadillos, 'Dallas' could be a real coupe for everyone involved. Director Robert Zemeckis claims Hollywood's biggest stars are desperate to win roles in the remake of the show, which aired from 1978 to 1991.

2006-03-18T13:18:00.000-08:00

Charlene will be appearing on the UK tv show 'Stars In Their Eyes' appearing as Madonna! Here is a peek! (Thanks BF for the pic)

Luke

2006-03-17T15:32:00.000-08:00

From Female First.UK
Lindsay Lohan has been hotly-tipped to play sexy Lucy Ewing Cooper in a movie version of 'Dallas'.
The stunning teen is currently the favourite to play the blonde bombshell - nicknamed the 'Poison Dwarf' - in the remake of the classic 80s soap.
Charlene Tilton, who made the role famous, said: "I think it's a great choice."
Latin diva Jennifer Lopez is being lined up to play alcoholic Sue Ellen in the movie, about rich oil tycoons and their troubled families.
'Pulp Fiction' star John Travolta is reportedly in talks to star as her billionaire husband JR Ewing, who was originally played by Larry Hagman.
'Legally Blonde' star Luke Wilson and Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine are also expected to have parts.

SAY NO TO PARIS AND JESSICA!!!

2006-03-14T19:39:00.000-08:00

The following was on todays TVGUIDE on-line website

J.LO DOES DALLAS?: That big-screen version of Dallas is inching closer to reality. Variety reports that the cast is starting to fill out — particularly in the backside, one might say, with Jennifer Lopez being offered the role of Sue Ellen Ewing (played by Linda Gray on the long-running CBS serial). Luke Wilson is in talks to play Bobby, and Shirley MacLaine is being eyed for Miss Ellie, while the most plum part, J.R. himself, is still earmarked for John Travolta (production on Dallas would begin in October, after he's done filming Hairspray). You can practically hear Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson catfighting over the role of Lucy.

This writer begs the producers to say NO to either of these two (oh I cannot bring myself to say actress's) Maybe Reese Witherspoon, or someone who not take this project or Lucy to such a low point!

Luke

Latest Charlene News

2006-03-04T13:10:00.000-08:00

Here is Charlene a few weeks ago at an Oscar Party 'Night of 100 Stars'

Charlene is making some upcoming personal appearances, I will
compile a list soon!

Luke

Welcome

2006-03-04T06:42:00.000-08:00

Here is Charlene with last seasons cast of Celebrity Body Challenge! Can you name them all?

Hi Fans of Charlene Tilton On-Line

Thought I would join the world of Blogging for the site. It is a good way to share news about Charlene and Dallas on a regular basis!
Thanks for checking out the new blog!