Production Begins in Portland, Oregon on Untitled Gus Van Sant Project Nov 14, 2009
The supporting cast includes Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, and Jane Adams. From Imagine Entertainment comes a powerful and emotional coming of age story, a remarkable film told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
How to Kick Your Kid Out of the Nest Oct 13, 2009
Parents also need to be unafraid to kick their kids out so they can grow up and start their own lives - even if it means they have to work a McJob and live with three roommates, says Jane Adams, a social psychologist and author who coaches parent-adult child relationships. Susan, of Albany, N.Y., came to the reluctant conclusion that kids need a firm shove out the door. (CBS News)
Encounter with Hung star cost waiter his job Oct 8, 2009
Worker fired for complaining on Twitter about lack of tip from Jane Adams ... Jane Adams returned to a restaurant to tip a waiter $3 after reading about the controversy on Twitter ... - A Hollywood waiter is claiming an encounter with Hung star Jane Adams cost him his job at a popular eatery. (MSNBC -- News)
Women hold the power on ‘True Blood,’ ‘Hung’ this season Sep 11, 2009
But the comedy-drama does consistently come alive with Tanya, a neurotic cosmic trooper played by Jane Adams. Hung is less far less effective dealing with Ray and his sexual endowment than it is with the women who use him. (Boston Globe)
"Happiness" Cast Remade in "Wartime" Sep 4, 2009
" Jackson, as the character of Joy originally played Jane Adams in "Happiness," said she didn't realize at the audition that this project was reprising the same characters as "Happiness," a movie she had seen but hadn't remembered in detail. "I tried not to worry about the original Joy," Jackson said. "I obviously watched it just to pick up little things that might make it interesting. I can't be her, I can't do what she did. (CBS News)
Hoping for September surprises Aug 31, 2009
Jane Adams as Tanya makes the show. The business about Ray s family. (Boston Globe)
Telling all is telling all too much Aug 19, 2009
He decides to sell his best asset, dubbing himself "a happiness consultant," and teams up with an unlikely pimp, Tanya Skagle (played by Jane Adams), an aspiring poet who listens to PBS and has "Proust" tattooed on her forearm. 1. (Albany Times Union)
Critic's Corner Jun 30, 2009
Thomas Jane and Jane Adams are the only reasons I'll give the show another week or two. One thing that bothered me though was Ray's children. (USA Today -- Life)
Nancy Franklin: The secret life of an American schoolteacher. Jun 29, 2009
He has sex with a poet named Tanya (Jane Adams), a classmate in a marketing course he takes in an attempt to learn some new tricks about making money; when he can t even pretend to be interested in her postcoitally, she yells at him for his egomania, shouting from her balcony as he s leaving, Why don t you go market your dick. His ex-wife has already said much the same thing: in high school, when she was a cheerleader and he was king of the playing fields, she says, he was beautiful and athletic... (New Yorker)
Hung Will Make You Think Long and Hard About the State of the Economy Jun 27, 2009
In this scene, Jane Adams, playing Tanya, does the most marvelous thing with her mouth when, ogling Ray, she ruminates on how deliciously profitable it will be to exploit him. It's as if she licks her chops just by biting her lip. (Slate)
TV review: HBO's funny 'Hung' Jun 27, 2009
So naturally he goes to a get-rich-quick seminar, only to meet Tanya (Jane Adams), a homely poet who used to teach in the school system. They had a fling. (San Francisco Chronicle)
HBO's meandering 'Hung' fails to satisfy in so many ways Jun 26, 2009
Ray (Thomas Jane) and Tanya (Jane Adams), who meet in a start-your-own-business workshop, decide to capitalize on Ray's most exploitable feature ... If you stick around, it will be because of stars Thomas Jane and Jane Adams, who make one of the season's most agreeably mismatched pairs. (USA Today -- Life)
In ‘Hung,’ an ex-jock fights downward mobility Jun 26, 2009
She s a flaky poet with a Proust tattoo named Tanya Skagle (Jane Adams), and she will become Ray s marketing director ... HUNG Starring: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Anne Heche, Charlie Saxton, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Steve Hytner, Rebecca Creskoff. (Boston Globe)
EW Picks: 'Jon & Kate,' 'Transformers' Jun 22, 2009
After a one-night stand with a pleasantly neurotic poet (the excellent Jane Adams), she proposes that she become Ray's "pimp" in a woman-friendly "happiness consultant" business. EW's Ken Tucker says the show seems to cancel out its two audiences: Women may be turned off by its focus on the physical, and men may yawn because it's not explicit enough by HBO standards. (CNN -- Showbiz)
