Happy Friday all, of course many of you will be off today due to Good Friday and a very good one it

Ashley was spotted yesterday early in the morning on Thursday (April 5th) as she left her parents house in Toluca Lake with mom Lisa while carrying her adorable 4-year-old pup Maui. The Tis was known to be headed to the Spike Feresten/Louis CK Pilot set, where she found a lovely surprise as she posted on Twitter. Pretty!

Later in the day, the SoCal beauty was seen once again outside a restaurant in Hollywood with her CBS Comedy Pilot crew, including Patti Murin, Ryan Hansen and Dan Byrd while sharing some laugh together. That same night, Ashley was snapped out for dinner with Immortal City writer Scott Speer!

Leaving her parents house with her mom Lisa and dog Maui

Out for dinner with Scott in Hollywood

Outside a restaurant in Hollywood with the CBS Comedy Pilot cast

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comments people have been leaving:

“Lol it was obvs she and Scott got back together, she’s been tweeting about his projects nonstop”

“im soo glad they’re back together”

“Her and Scott are back? What happened to Martin lol”

“glad she’s back with Scott, hopefully she can get her act together.”

Ashley was spotted yesterday early in the morning on Thursday (April 5th) as she left her parents house in Toluca Lake with mom Lisa while carrying her adorable 4-year-old pup Maui. The Tis was known to be headed to the Spike Feresten/Louis CK Pilot set, where she found a lovely surprise as she posted on Twitter. Pretty!

Later in the day, the SoCal beauty was seen once again outside a restaurant in Hollywood with her CBS Comedy Pilot crew, including Patti Murin, Ryan Hansen and Dan Byrd while sharing some laugh together. That same night, Ashley was snapped out for dinner with Immortal City writer Scott Speer!

Leaving her parents house with her mom Lisa and dog Maui

Out for dinner with Scott in Hollywood

Outside a restaurant in Hollywood with the CBS Comedy Pilot cast

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comments people have been leaving:

“Lol it was obvs she and Scott got back together, she’s been tweeting about his projects nonstop”

“im soo glad they’re back together”

“Her and Scott are back? What happened to Martin lol”

“glad she’s back with Scott, hopefully she can get her act together.”

- Ashley Tisdale was spotted at her Toluca Lake home grabbing some things before heading out for her Easter celebration in Santa Barbara. What do you guys think about her dress? That looks really cool. Check out more photo’s of her below! 

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By a wacky coincidence, there were two kiddy-centric “alien encounter” movies on TV last weekend…

First up was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning classic, starring Henry Thomas as a lonely boy named ‘Elliot’, who befriends a waddling, yelping extraterrestrial who’s been stranded on Earth, and is being tracked by sinister, faceless government agents. A few months ago I was playing a movie trivia game with some friends, and when I admitted that I’d never seen E.T. before, they reacted with shock and disgust… so I felt compelled to right that wrong, and watch it all the way through, even though it wasn’t the easiest ride at times. Obviously it’s an incredibly well-made movie, and there’s much to admire as far as the cinematography and plotting goes… plus a couple of good gags and some funny swears… but the pacing was a little too slow for my tastes, and without any nostalgic childhood connection to the material I found it a little draggy in places. That said, I have to respect any movie that casts a bunch of role-playing geeks as the cool, adult-outsmartin’ heroes! It was rather disconcerting watching a teeny Drew Barrymore playing Elliott’s younger sister ‘Gertie’ though, because she kept displaying faint traces of the acting style and screen persona we’re familiar with now, in her grown-up incarnation. Seems like she was pretty darn talented, even at that early age!

Next up was Aliens in the Attic (2009), which received a far less enthusiastic critical response, even though it’s probably the one I would (hypothetically) choose to watch a second time. Apparently Spielberg originally planned for E.T. to tell a darker tale about malevolent aliens terrorising a family in their house, before he softened the concept and channelled all that excess malevolence into Poltergeist instead. AitA rather cheekily tries to play both angles, by having four aliens “invade” a family’s rented holiday home, before revealing that one of them is a cute, conscientious objector who simply wants to befriend the hu-mans, and help them defeat his more megalomaniacal colleagues. So you get all the bonding and cuddling of E.T., combined with a lot of fancy SFX-heavy fight sequences… including a pretty hilarious scene where a douchey college kid (Robert Hoffman) and a dowdy grandmother (Doris Roberts) are shot with mind-control darts, and pitted against each other in a Street Fighter-esque showdown.

I admit the story’s pretty stupid, but there were a lot of fun performances to enjoy: Ashley Tisdale plays the eldest daughter of the family, a bratty teenager who sneaks out in the evenings to meet up with her older boyfriend… and during a scene where she’s slapping an alien around with a tennis racket, it occurred to me that Tisdale would probably make a pretty decent Buffy, assuming anyone was ever stupid/brave enough to try rebooting that series. She doesn’t get to do any real ass-kicking here, but she seems to handle herself pretty well, and I think she’d make for an appealing action heroine, given half a chance. The younger sister, seven-year-old ‘Hannah’, gets a lot of the best lines… and Ashley Boettcher, the actress who plays her, is absolutely adorable… so let’s hope her career is as long-lived as Barrymore’s turned out to be. Meanwhile, their mother is played by Gillian Vigman, who is totally wasted here in the underwritten wifey role. Boo!

Theoretically, Maggie VandenBerghe, Megan Parker and Malese Jow are in the movie too, but they only appear in an epilogue that plays after “The End” of the real story, and they don’t really get to do much more than react to Hoffman’s wacky mind-controlled dance moves… although I did get a laugh out of Jow’s appalled expression, so kudos to her for that.

Oh, and the slash-happy female alien, ‘Razor’, was voiced by Kari Wahlgren, who has leant her vocal talents to more cartoon characters than you’ve had hot dinners!

By a wacky coincidence, there were two kiddy-centric “alien encounter” movies on TV last weekend…

First up was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning classic, starring Henry Thomas as a lonely boy named ‘Elliot’, who befriends a waddling, yelping extraterrestrial who’s been stranded on Earth, and is being tracked by sinister, faceless government agents. A few months ago I was playing a movie trivia game with some friends, and when I admitted that I’d never seen E.T. before, they reacted with shock and disgust… so I felt compelled to right that wrong, and watch it all the way through, even though it wasn’t the easiest ride at times. Obviously it’s an incredibly well-made movie, and there’s much to admire as far as the cinematography and plotting goes… plus a couple of good gags and some funny swears… but the pacing was a little too slow for my tastes, and without any nostalgic childhood connection to the material I found it a little draggy in places. That said, I have to respect any movie that casts a bunch of role-playing geeks as the cool, adult-outsmartin’ heroes! It was rather disconcerting watching a teeny Drew Barrymore playing Elliott’s younger sister ‘Gertie’ though, because she kept displaying faint traces of the acting style and screen persona we’re familiar with now, in her grown-up incarnation. Seems like she was pretty darn talented, even at that early age!

Next up was Aliens in the Attic (2009), which received a far less enthusiastic critical response, even though it’s probably the one I would (hypothetically) choose to watch a second time. Apparently Spielberg originally planned for E.T. to tell a darker tale about malevolent aliens terrorising a family in their house, before he softened the concept and channelled all that excess malevolence into Poltergeist instead. AitA rather cheekily tries to play both angles, by having four aliens “invade” a family’s rented holiday home, before revealing that one of them is a cute, conscientious objector who simply wants to befriend the hu-mans, and help them defeat his more megalomaniacal colleagues. So you get all the bonding and cuddling of E.T., combined with a lot of fancy SFX-heavy fight sequences… including a pretty hilarious scene where a douchey college kid (Robert Hoffman) and a dowdy grandmother (Doris Roberts) are shot with mind-control darts, and pitted against each other in a Street Fighter-esque showdown.

I admit the story’s pretty stupid, but there were a lot of fun performances to enjoy: Ashley Tisdale plays the eldest daughter of the family, a bratty teenager who sneaks out in the evenings to meet up with her older boyfriend… and during a scene where she’s slapping an alien around with a tennis racket, it occurred to me that Tisdale would probably make a pretty decent Buffy, assuming anyone was ever stupid/brave enough to try rebooting that series. She doesn’t get to do any real ass-kicking here, but she seems to handle herself pretty well, and I think she’d make for an appealing action heroine, given half a chance. The younger sister, seven-year-old ‘Hannah’, gets a lot of the best lines… and Ashley Boettcher, the actress who plays her, is absolutely adorable… so let’s hope her career is as long-lived as Barrymore’s turned out to be. Meanwhile, their mother is played by Gillian Vigman, who is totally wasted here in the underwritten wifey role. Boo!

Theoretically, Maggie VandenBerghe, Megan Parker and Malese Jow are in the movie too, but they only appear in an epilogue that plays after “The End” of the real story, and they don’t really get to do much more than react to Hoffman’s wacky mind-controlled dance moves… although I did get a laugh out of Jow’s appalled expression, so kudos to her for that.

Oh, and the slash-happy female alien, ‘Razor’, was voiced by Kari Wahlgren, who has leant her vocal talents to more cartoon characters than you’ve had hot dinners!

Check out the new pics of Matt Lanter, Ashley Tisdale, Sarah Hyland and Austin Stowell for Op‘s Spring/Summer Campaign 2012. The four are the new faces of the brand, sold exclusively at Walmart stores nationwide.

The “Venice Beach Heat” marketing campaign was shot on Venice Beach, and features the group of friends enjoying a carefree day at the beach filled with roller-skating, ice cream, skate boarding and more.

Matt (from 90210) added, “The vibe of this shoot was really cool in Venice Beach .We were having fun and it was very relaxed in the California cool Op style.”

Behind the scenes pictures

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