After five seasons of adorably awkward courtship, TV’s cutest couple are finally making it official—and this week’s Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive preview of Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam’s (Jenna Fischer) long-awaited wedding on October 8. The special hour-long episode of NBC’s The Office is a happy occasion, but one that in TV terms is also fraught with risky finality, since marrying off The Office‘s resident Ross and Rachel could damage the couple’s plot-generating will-they-won’t-they energy. “It’s about keeping this relationship as real as we can instead of making it a television romance,” explains Krasinski. “When you have two characters who are so perfect for each other, it’s a little weird for them to not get married. So you have to put that step in, whether it’s been done on television successfully before or not.” Adds exec producer Greg Daniels: “We didn’t want to do the soap opera-y thing and cheapen it. Besides, our ratings keep going up, so I don’t think anyone minds them being together.”
The duo’s first smooch in the season 2 finale set the budding lovebirds on a complicated and unconventional course of courtship, featuring love triangles, long-distance agony, and job stress. “I don’t think it’s the typical romance you see on TV,” says Steve Carell, who plays Jim and Pam’s extremely unself-aware boss Michael Scott. “It’s complicated and it comes out of a difficult place. That’s the way relationships are in real life.” Last season brought Jim’s surprise rest-stop proposal and the shocking revelation that Pam was pregnant in May’s finale. “That was thrilling,” Krasinski says. “To have these characters who are squeaky-clean facing this very real thing is exciting.” READ FULL STORY »
First off, has everyone downloaded “Somebody to Love,” which is performed in next week’s episode of Glee? If you haven’t, then stop reading this right now, open iTunes, and get at it! I’m already obsessed with it and have it in steady rotation on my iPod. I was actually blasting it in my EW office until I was asked to turn it down. What can I say? My Glee love is loud and proud.
Today’s Oprah Winfrey interview with Mackenzie Phillips — in which the One Day at a Time actress discussed being raped by (and later going on to have a 10-year-long, consensual sexual relationship with) her father, Mamas and the Papas singer John Phillips — raised a lot of difficult, disturbing questions. On some visceral level, the one resonating loudest in my mind is where do we draw the line between a celebrity offering a cathartic confessional — sharing a past trauma that might help Joe or Jane Everyman cope with their own personal demons — versus the morally murky process of writing and marketing a memoir with the ultimate goal of winding up on the best-seller list. 
Rick Springfield phoned us this week to chat about his upcoming four-episode guest arc on 
Last night, I walked to my desk, logged onto EW.com, and saw something that made my inner 10-year-old nearly jump up and hug the computer: 
