Chuck Spies The Matrix's Carrie-Anne Moss

Carrie-Anne Moss Chuck has entered The Matrix - and found a love interest for John Casey.VIDEO: Chuck stars geek out over Star Wars' Mark HamillMatrix star Carrie-Anne Moss has signed on for a multi-episode arc on the spy series' fifth and final season, TV Line reports. The actress will play Gertrude Verbanski, an ex-spy who runs Verbanski Corp, the top competitor of Chuck's new company. She's ruthless, but also has a soft spot for her old rival, Casey (Adam Baldwin)."I would say that as a fan of Adam Baldwin, I am most excited for the idea of having him in a torrid romance," co-creator Chris Fedak told TVGuide.com this month.Chuck final season scoop: Morgan and Chuck's new "Intersect"ion and a possible Casey romance?Moss joins Mark Hamill as one of the Chuck guest stars announced for this season. Since the Matrix trilogy, she starred in Disturbia and the Lifetime pilot Normal, which was not picked up earlier this week.Chuck returns Friday, Oct. 21 at 8/7c on NBC.

Put compensated-for news on view

If sunlight really is the greatest disinfectant, there is a counterproductive situation to become designed for broadcast systems quitting their silly tap-dance and shelving the prohibit against having to pay for interviews.Within this, broadcast news has a good deal that is similar to major collegiate athletics, that has been wracked by its number of scams. Because in each large-money institution, the present system produces incentives to tiptoe around rules or ignore them -- that's, to cheat. Getting obligations out in to the open wouldn't make the entire process of gathering TV news or corralling recruits less unsavory, however it will make the entire factor less dishonest and corrupt.Such as the National Collegiate Sports Assn., which governs college sports, the broadcast nets have stubbornly defended their very own problematic framework. Actually, after being embarrassed by coverage of their obligations to numerous in-the-news parties -- including accused and found innocent murder suspect Casey Anthony -- ABC News backed away, saying its policy moving forward would seriously limit such obligations.If other systems behaved smug relating to this retreat, many of them should not. For a long time, TV news procedures have artfully circumvented direct obligations by couching such transactions underneath the cover of certification video or photos. They likewise have been generous in offering interview subjects other styles of compensation, for example hotel stays and transportation. Last Year, NBC News acquired a chartered flight from South america for David Goldman, who had been fighting for custody of the children of his boy.Shockingly, Goldman paid back the network's generosity by having an exclusive chat. Once the Society for Professional Journalists cried foul, the network was adamant, "NBC News hasn't and won't purchase a job interview.InchIn a roundabout way, no -- and therein lies the issue. Just like college athletics, deftly avoiding the guidelines is becoming its talent. And like every arms race, even individuals who want to stick to greater standards are disadvantaged well against rivals prepared to scrimp.So spend the money for sports athletes, and pay interview subjects. Not a large amount, but enough to warrant their participation. In the end, colleges and systems are in position to make huge amount of money off blue-nick gamers or must-get interviews like Jaycee Lee Dugard, whose story of kidnapping and abuse converted into nearly 15 million audiences for ABC's Diane Sawyer-located special.Of course, having to pay interviewees is unsavory and runs counter to fundamental tenets of journalism, just like paying sports athletes undermines the spirit of amateurism. But people, TV has lengthy practiced another type of journalism than print shops, especially recently, as systems progressively place their lead from tabloids and TMZ -- shops that pay sources.Creating obvious public guidelines regarding payment for interviews would a minimum of get rid of the second-speculating which will still dog such "will get" -- for example whether benefits were extended towards the accuser of Intl. Financial Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or whomever qualifies as that week's avidly went after golden goose.Rather, the systems play at being holier than one another. NBC News taken care of immediately ABC's policy change by telling Adweek, "We welcome it well towards the practices that people strive to uphold." An ABC source shot back that NBC is responsible for "recurring hypocrisy," and even it's.On the other hand, this is the same ABC that overzealously committed $10,000 to some lady allegedly giving Botox treatment to her child, with what she subsequently stated would be a for-money hoax. "It will seem unreal," Lara Spencer fretted, presenting the piece on "Hello America."In the beginning blush, ABC News and new prexy Ben Sherwood ought to be congratulated, getting recognized the possibility damage caused by his net's tabloid tilt, and looking to right the ship.Look closer, though, and also the new stance does nothing to deal with the disheartening condition of morning news, the tabloid/popular culture sensibility that spreads throughout "Nightline" or even the eagerness to create primetime hrs dedicated to irrelevant fluff -- a la the staged morality lesson "How Would You React?Inch -- underneath the guise of news.So let us a minimum of be truthful and open about this. Having to pay sources is hardly a perfect solution, but doing this removes a layer of deceptiveness -- and possibly more considerably, self-deceptiveness. Otherwise, the systems are reflecting the punchline within an old joke about prostitution, the one which states, "We have established what you're. Now we are just bargaining concerning the cost." Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com

Adam Resurrected

Adam Resurrected (אדם בן כלב, Adam Ben Kelev) is an American-German-Israeli film, directed by Paul Schrader and adapted from Yoram Kaniuk's novel of the same name published in Israel in 1968. The book's original name literally means "Man, son of a dog". It was screened at several film festivals, including Telluride, Toronto, Mill Valley, AFI, Haifa Film Festival, Valladolid, The Palm Springs International Film Festival and the London Jewish Film Festival. It was released in Germany on January 22, 2009.

It follows the story of Adam Stein, a charismatic patient of a psychiatric asylum for Holocaust survivors in Israel, in 1961. Jeff Goldblum stars as Adam, alongside Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer. Several major German stars, including Moritz Bleibtreu, Veronica Ferres, Juliane Köhler and Joachim Król, play supporting roles.