When I was growing up in New York, one of my favorite excursions was to the New Jersey Science Center. I was a geeky kid (I asked for a microscope for Christmas when I was 10) and was thrilled by learning. The exhibit at the Science Center that most interested me and scared me was the Touch Tunnel. The Touch Tunnel was a pitch black labyrinth in which you crawled on your hands and knees, groping your way forward as the materials you tread on changed beneath you. My heart always began to flutter with anticipation as I waited my turn, but still I gathered my courage and always found my way out. That first glimpse of white light at the end of the tunnel, like a beacon, pulled me through and I remember how vivid the world seemed when I stepped out, my hair askew and knees red with rug burn.

The Touch Tunnel was meant to simulate blindness. As a way of helping children to understand on some small level how people without sight experience the physical world. I didn’t know at the time how intimately I would come to understand that in my adult life. EJ Scott, the love of my life, is going blind. He wasn’t born blind, and he didn’t lose it all at once in an accident. He has a rare genetic disease called Choroideremia. Essentially the proteins that protect his eyes from the sun are missing and the cells that create vision are dying. It begins peripherally and moves inward until total blindness. Right now EJ has less than 20 degrees of vision in each eye. If you can imagine looking down two paper towel rolls, you’ll get a sense of what his scope is.

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Two promotional stills featuring Deborah was also released, you can find them in the gallery.

DGA President Taylor Hackford today announced the presenters for the 64th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards. The ceremony, to be hosted by director/producer/actor Kelsey Grammer, will take place on Saturday, January 28, 2012 in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.

The slate of confirmed presenters for the DGA Awards includes:
Michael Apted, Berenice Bejo, Jessica Chastain, George Clooney, Jon Cryer, Laura Dern, Jean Dujardin, Taylor Hackford, Tom Hooper, Stana Katic, Ben Kingsley, Kathleen Robertson, Octavia Spencer, Betty Thomas, Michelle Williams, Owen Wilson, Deborah Ann Woll

Thanks Jasmine for the heads up!

Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) might be getting a new love interest who has an advantage over Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and Hoyt (Jim Parrack): he’s British and very attractive. Plus, his name is Claude. Try competing with that.

Claude?! Oh boy… me don’t want it.
But British and very attractive, I like that.

I can’t wait to see what 2012 will bring to Deb, and we’ll be here to cover it for you. The site will be back to regular updates after January 08th. Thanks for your support this year. Have a great holidays and a fabulous 2012!

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis and Malin Akerman lead an all-star cast in this suspense thriller where everyone has an agenda… and a Magnum to back it up! For Tes (Akerman) and her two cohorts Kara (Nikki Reed, the “Twilight” franchise) and Tara (Deborah Ann Woll, “True Blood”), the job sounded simple enough: intercept a double-cross drug shipment for their crime boss Mel (Willis) at an isolated diner. But when an unstoppable chain of events unfolds, everyone soon realizes no one is who they seem and the job may be something other than eliminating the competition. What started as simple instructions has now turned into a deadly cat-and-mouse game – with large guns pointed at everyone.

Brett Ratner may be out as Oscar producer, but he’s still making deals: Anchor Bay Films has acquired the horror film “Mother’s Day,” which Ratner and Richard Saperstein produced with Jay Stern, Brian Witten, Jessie Rusu, Curtis Leopardo and Shara Kay.

Darren Lynn Bousman directs what Anchor Bay describes as a loose remake of the original Troma film of the same name directed by Charles Kaufman. Rebecca DeMornay, Jamie King, Deborah Ann Woll and Shawn Ashmore star.

Anchor Bay made the announcement Wednesday, the final day of the American Film Market — and a day after Ratner exited as producer of the Academy Awards over the use of an anti-gay slur during a screening of “Tower Heist” last week.

“Mother’s Day” centers on a bank robbery gone wrong with three brothers heading for home, only to discover that their mother lost the house in a foreclosure. The new owners and their guests, gathered for an ill-timed birthday party, become the brothers’ unwitting hostages.

Deal was negotiated by Josh Thomashow and Kevin Kasha for Anchor Bay Films and Ben Weiss from Paradigm for the film.