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NEWS(Click Here! to submit news, articles & rumors)'Justified': Mykelti Williamson on what makes 'a real bad guy'Mykelti Williamson had one heck of an introduction to "Justified" last week, delivering a frighteningly intense monologue about protecting his territory to a young subordinate.The scene was actually the second one Williamson ("24," "Boomtown," "Forrest Gump") shot -- you'll see his first, a charged exchange with Walton Goggins, in Tuesday's (Jan. 31) episode. So much for easing into the new role. "It was a little scary to shoot [the introductory scene] because I was the new guy. The FNG, they call it -- Freakin' New Guy," Williamson tells Zap2it. "So it was a lot to live up to." Consider the first test passed: Williamson made an indelible impression as Ellstin Limehouse, the man in charge of an African-American hamlet in Harlan County called Noble's Holler. Viewers will find out more about how he fits into the show's world beginning with this week (it has at least something to do with Mags Bennett's money), but it's already clear that you don't really want to cross Mr. Limehouse. "The best villains don't see themselves as villains -- they think everyone else is the problem," Williamson says. "That's the approach, to not play it like Snidely Whiplash [he does a cartoonish evil laugh]. That's not a real bad guy. A real bad guy, they're motivated by love and fear. So it's a matter of finding out what you're afraid of, your character, and then what you're passionate about and willing to do anything for." What Limehouse is passionate about, Williamson says, is preserving his home. While the character views his relations with white folks as "cordial," he also doesn't want any outsiders coming in and trying to change things. "Ellstin Limehouse is a businessman -- he's a banker. He keeps money, illegal money, for the whites in the black holler," Williamson explains. "Because after dark, no one dares come into the black holler, because folks have been known to disappear. You can't find eyes, teeth, nothing -- not even a wristwatch that belongs to a person who dares to come across the bridge without permission." In terms of his business dealings, Williamson says Limehouse isn't much different from the banker at your local branch, "except he's in the back woods." "He doesn't charge fees, but there is a cost for doing business," he says. "He just doesn't call it a fee." "Justified" airs at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday on FX. Gun play: Donnie Wahlberg & 'Blue Bloods' take serious look at crime aftershocksDonnie Wahlberg was surprised when he got his first look at the script for this week’s episode of CBS’ “Blue Bloods” (Friday at 10 p.m. on WBZ, Ch. 4).“There’s this very intense situation where (his character) Danny and his wife and kids come across a violent crime on the way home,” the Dorchester actor/singer said from the set in New York. “That was jarring enough, but then the episode takes a turn.” Instead of Danny Reagan — the cop on the warpath doing things his way — viewers get an emotional look at how a police officer prepares his family for the potential of violence. “It’s an inevitable moment for any cop who keeps a firearm in the house,” Wahlberg said. “He has to discuss it with his wife and kids — and for me, doing that scene was powerful.” The episode, and the family element to the plot, left Wahlberg with a new “profound respect” for police officers. “He has to slow down and take care of his children, who are very affected by this violent encounter,” Wahlberg said. “In doing so, he has to teach his kids and show them his gun. It really struck me — my initial reaction was, ‘I’m not sure I want to do this.’ But that’s Donnie speaking. I never dealt with guns. We didn’t have guns in the house when I was a child.” Recently, his brother, actor Mark Wahlberg (“Contraband”), made some ill-considered remarks about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, leaving him red-faced and remorseful. “I haven’t spoken to (Mark),” Wahlberg said just after the blowback from the quotes started to take hold. “But I think he said it all in his apology. It was in-appropriate. I don’t know the context of the quote or how the subject came up in the interview, but I’m concerned for him. He apologized, and I think he did the right thing in apologizing.” Anyone curious about Wahlberg’s thoughts on how things are going on the set of “Blue Bloods,” opinions on certain episodes or even the possibility of a Patriots [team stats] Super Bowl win need only to check out the actor’s blazing Twitter account (@DonnieWahlberg). “It’s something that didn’t exist in the music business in the late ’80s and early ’90s,” he said. “If I wanted to connect like I do now, I’d have to write 500,000 letters, get 500,000 stamps, send them out and wait for them all to come back. This stuff is instantaneous. I can see if someone is having a bad day and send them a smiley face and have an effect on them. It’s fun, but it’s also a very powerful thing.” When does the 42-year-old actor finally stop tweeting? When the camera starts rolling. “I tweet from the set,” he said, and then laughed. “Fans are waiting to see if I ‘twug’ (Twitter hug) them, and I’m just waiting for the director to say ‘action.’ ” 'Justified': Neal McDonough arrives in Harlan with an agendaMost actors will tell you that when they play a villain, they don't really think of the character as a bad person. Neal McDonough is making an exception to that rule with the guy he's playing on Season 3 of "Justified."McDonough ("Captain America," "Desperate Housewives") joins the FX series as Robert Quarles, whom executive producer Graham Yost describes as a "carpetbagger" from Detroit who arrives in Harlan County, Ky., with the intent of locking down the local oxycontin trade. He delivers an icy, sometimes frightening performance as a man who seems very calm and contained but can't (or won't) always control a nasty temper. Quarles also, however, knows that what he's doing is wrong. "As the series goes on you see more and more bits of remorse in the character," McDonough tells Zap2it. "That's what makes him not just a chilling bad guy, but a guy grasping -- 'I have to get this done, it's gotta work. Why is everyone against me? ... I'm the good guy here.' And then once in a while I have to look in the mirror and say, 'You're not a good guy. You're a monster.' Then smash the mirror and go back to my job." "Justified" is the third series McDonough and Yost have worked on together -- Yost was a writer on "Band of Brothers" and created the 2002-03 NBC series "Boomtown" -- and McDonough says he trusts Yost to write good material for him. "He really delves into characters deeply for me," McDonough says. "Buck Compton from 'Band of Brothers' was one of the greatest characters I've ever had the chance to play, and David McNorris from 'Boomtown' was just gorgeous. ... Now with Quarles, it's almost like a McNorris, but McNorris erred toward the good side, and this guy errs toward the bad side. But in their train of thought, it's not very different -- both have things they have to achieve, and they're going to achieve them come hell or high water." Of course, the likes of Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) will have something to say about that -- much to Quarles' frustration in the early going. "To take over the oxycontin business in Kentucky seems to him to be an easy thing," McDonough says. "There I am in my $3,000 suits, and these guys have ripped-up flannel shirts and holes in their jeans and mud all over their boots. These s**tkickers are going to pay if they get in my way. Little do I realize these s**tkickers are pretty smart. "Raylan and Boyd -- the scenes I have with them are just the greatest pissing contest I've ever seen. ... We're having a blast." "Justified" begins its third season at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday (Jan. 17) on FX. For new season, 'Justified' imports big-city gangsterHow do you come back from a breakthrough season? If you're Justified, you come back strong.Fresh off a second season that won the series its first Emmy recognition, Justified will kick off its third season on FX on Tuesday at 10 ET/PT. And it kicks off with two new possible bad-guys, Neal McDonough as a Detroit mobster and Mykelti Williamson as the leader of an African-American enclave. Producer Graham Yost says the writers loved the Mags Bennett story from last season, but felt the show needed to switch gears, rather than try to repeat what they'd done before. So where Mags and Raylan Givens grew up together, McDonough's villain is a big-city outsider. "We just thought it would be interesting to bring in that guy from the outside, that carpetbagger character who thought he'd come down to Kentucky and show those hicks how crime is done. We'll see how that works out for him," Yost says. One thing that is certain to work: the violent, humorous love-hate relationship between Timothy Olyphant's Raylan and Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder. "It's as contentious and lovely as it's always been. ... I was talking to one of the writers, and I said, 'These guys, they really like each other.' And the writer says, 'When I had this conversation with Tim, he said, "These guys, they really hate each other." ' " Justified is based on a character created by Elmore Leonard, a justifiably successful writer who has not always been happy with what Hollywood has done to his work. Not that he's sorry he sold the books. "I've sold 20, maybe, to movies, because from the beginning, I was in it to make money," he says. "And that's the way to do it." Fortunately, he says, Justified is one of the exceptions: an adaptation that works. ""I think it's a terrific show," says Leonard. "I love all the writing. And I'm amazed, sometimes. They've got the characters better than I put them on paper." He's reclaiming his own, though, with a new book that returns the character to print. And, Yost says, puts new pressure on the show's writers. "The hard part, frankly, is trying to come anywhere up to Elmore's level, week in week out. ... Tim is always bringing us back to, 'What would Elmore do?' ... If you stay close to him, you'll do fine." Once Upon a Time's Lana Parrilla: Why the Evil Queen Became So EvilShe murdered her father, squeezed the life out of her lover's heart and conjured a curse that ripped the lives of thousands of people from their homes, erasing their memories and leaving them stranded in a foreign world. What makes Once Upon a Time's Evil Queen so evil?That soon will be answered on the ABC fairy-tale drama, but portrayer Lana Parrilla teases that the origin of her malevolence springs from one place. "It's one particular moment," she tells TVGuide.com. "It's one thing that just explodes and branches off into all these other little things, but it's one big f----up that changes her life." "We'll go back in time in fairy-tale land and see who she was before she became this evil queen," she adds. "The big secret will be revealed." Before she was sending the Hunstman after Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), she was married to Snow's father, King Leopold (Richard Schiff), though their dysfunctional union was the catalyst for her hatred of Snow. "There is an episode coming up where you do see the king and queen together and you can see the hardship between them," she says. "You learn of how unhealthy and unsupportive that relationship was. How he always favored his daughter more than her." Whether she truly loved the king or was only seeking his status remains to be seen, but the Evil Queen is capable of love as we'll come to learn that she had a previous lover she truly cared for. "It is someone that you've met before," she reveals. "You see this really soft, vulnerable side to her. Even her voice shifts with a softness to it. She wants to love, it's just difficult for her. Once she has it, she doesn't really know how to sustain it or stabilize it." Her inability to love was proved when she killed off the only man in Storybrooke who's ever shown her affection. "I don't think she feels good about what she did," Parrilla says of Regina killing Graham (Jamie Dornan) in the midseason finale. "You see a tear coming out of Regina's eye when she crushes the heart, which, to me, is very telling. You can see that this was not an easy decision for her." Once Upon a Time returns Sunday at 8/7c on ABC.
'Once Upon a Time's' Lana Parrilla: Mr. Gold has 'a big secret to be revealed'"Once Upon a Time" returns this Sunday, Jan. 8, where Lana Parrilla, who stars as the Evil Queen/Mayor on the show, tells Zap2it we will be seeing the fallout from Sheriff Graham's untimely death, which Regina is quite upset about."I think that she's quite heartbroken over it, no pun intended," says Parrilla. "I really do. I think there was a genuine love and care for him and making that choice to crush his heart and to kill him was not an easy one for her." Emma will certainly also be upset in the aftermath, and Parrilla tells us that Regina and Emma do have a moment over Graham's death. "There is a scene that takes place between Regina and Emma where you do see her love and care for him and that it was hard for her," says Parrilla. "But at this point, no one knows that she had anything to do with that." But you Sheriff Graham fans out there can take a little heart - even though he's dead in Storybrooke, we wondered if there are more interactions in store in Fairytale Land between the Evil Queen and the Huntsman. Parrilla teases, "Possibly." However, Sheriff Graham's death is not the focus of the episode, titled "Desperate Souls." Instead, as the "Once Upon a Time" executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz told us back in December, we are getting to find out the backstory of Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle). So we had to ask - in Fairytale Land, were Rumpelstiltskin and the Evil Queen cohorts? Or enemies? "That's a good question," says Parrilla. "I think we're both. There's still more to be told, when it comes to that relationship. I think it's still being developed. But there is a kinship between these two. It's a love-hate. There's a camaraderie and then they're rivals." "I always question who's more powerful," she continues. "I think they kind of take turns. They one-up one another, I think it's just fun for them. At least that's how Robert and I play it. We have a blast." We noticed in the episode description that Rumpelstiltskin's son is mentioned. So we mentioned to Lana that we don't think Mr. Gold has a son in Storybrooke. "No, he doesn't. Or does he?" she laughs. "I don't know. It's a big secret to be revealed. We're going to see a very different side to Rumpelstiltskin. How did Rumpel become Rumpel? ... Then in Storybrooke, Regina and Mr. Gold are rivals, they're up against one another yet again." "Once Upon a Time" airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. For more info, check out ABC's official "OUAT" site. Most (and least) watched shows of fallNow that we’re in rerun hell, it’s high time to take stock of what we liked (and loathed) from September to December. Below is a list of every network show and how many viewers each one averaged.While these numbers aren’t a key piece of the puzzle for the broadcast nets when they are setting ad rates and deciding whether to renew a series, they definitely help to tell a story of a program’s true popularity.* 1. NCIS (CBS, 21.4 million) *Note: Season averages include repeats. If a program (original or rerun) aired in a different time slot, it is listed separately. Rankings for NBC’s Sunday Night football is also broken up because each half-hour can command different ad rates. NKOTBSB AustraliaAfter a long long wait, NKOTBSB is excited to announce that they’re coming to Australia! NKOTBSB brings their epic tour for an exclusive engagement in May 2012. See below for dates and on sales! We can’t wait!SAT 19-MAY Melbourne, AUS - Rod Laver MON 21-MAY Adelaide, AUS - Ent Center WED 23-MAY Brisbane, AUS - Brisbane Entertainment Centre SAT 26-MAY Sydney, AUS - Allphones Arena NKOTB / Boys II Men New Years Eve CancellationWow what a year for all of us.It started by ringing in the New Year with Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark in Times Square and another sold out cruise that created memories that will last a lifetime. The US leg of the NKOTBSB tour played to a record 55 shows and over 600,000 people including the gig of our lives at Fenway Park that we got to share with all of you. As you know, no New Kids event is complete without the chance to share it with our fans. On that note, after significant consideration, we have decided to cancel the New Years Eve event in New York City. The reason for this is while it’s apparent some of you could join us, a vast majority of you couldn’t due other obligations that you have on this holiday. We heard from so many of you that this date just couldn’t work. We’re sorry for any inconvience. It’s just so important to us that these events can be shared with all of you. We’re so excited for the year ahead which will include our first trip back to Europe since 2009, additional NKOTBSB tour legs soon to be announced, another sold out cruise and additional NKOTB North American touring plans and very special events. We would be nothing without your love and support and appreciate your understanding on this needed change. Should anyone be unable to get out of any travel obligations, please send an email to nyetravel@nkotb.com and we will do our best to assist you. We wish you the happiest of holidays. Spend it with your loved ones and we’ll see you in 2012!-NKOTB Donnie Wahlberg helps feed success of 'Blue Bloods'There are a number of theories on why "Blue Bloods" has been able to carve out such a substantial audience on Fridays, a night when viewers are hard to come by.Some say the CBS series, now in its second season, is attracting an average of 13.6 million viewers because of its stellar cast, headed up by TV royalty Tom Selleck. Some say it's the gritty, streets-of-New York crime stories. The sentimental majority opinion holds that it's the show's weekly dinner scene, during which four generations of Reagans -- presided over by the patriarch (Len Cariou) -- bicker, spar and celebrate one another. "That scene is the favorite of so many people," says "Blue Bloods" executive producer Leonard Goldberg. "Italian people, Jewish people, Greek people -- they all say the same thing: 'That's my family.'" On this morning, as the cast runs through take after take at the long dinner table, one thing is abundantly clear: Donnie Wahlberg, who plays flinty NYPD detective Danny Reagan, can really put it away. While the other actors are saying their lines, playing to the cameras, Wahlberg is shoveling in forkfuls of apple pie. With gusto. There's a crew member devoted to refilling Wahlberg's plate every time the director yells "Cut!" Afterward in his dressing room, Wahlberg notes, "In the very next scene, which we already shot last week, I eat another slice of pie. The whole show is going to be me eating pie." When you grow up, as Wahlberg did, the eighth of nine children in a poor working-class family in Boston's hardscrabble Dorchester neighborhood, the prospect of all-you-can-eat never loses its appeal. So how would Sunday dinner at the Wahlbergs differ from the atmosphere at the Reagans? "Wahlberg family dinner?" Donnie says with a snicker. "My old man would not be sitting at the table. He'd be sitting in the corner on a stool with a Schlitz in his hand, and if we started laughing, he'd be screaming at us to shut up. "We'd be fighting over who got the last piece of chicken. There wouldn't be any pie. There wouldn't be any dessert at all." It was show business that airlifted Wahlberg out of some grim prospects. At 14, when most of his friends were learning the finer points of boosting cars, Donnie became the charter member of the proto-boy band New Kids on the Block. "I was very lucky," he says. "I was the only one who didn't go down that road. I loved to perform. I had aspirations." Wahlberg's career has taken him from the acclaimed miniseries "Band of Brothers" to three of the "Saw" splatter films. He has acted alongside everyone from Tupac Shakur to Robert De Niro, James Franco and Mel Gibson. No part has ever fit him as perfectly as "Blue Bloods'" intense Danny Reagan, an Iraq war vet who takes his jobs as a cop, husband and father very seriously. "When he works on this show, he is Emmy material," says Amy Carlson, who plays his wife, Linda. "He lives this character in such a visceral way, it really resonates on the screen." "Tom is the face of the show," says Bridget Moynihan, who plays Danny's sister, Erin, "but Donnie is the engine that keeps everything going." Of course, you have to stoke an engine. "The whole cast, they're all really good actors, committed actors," says Selleck. "Donnie leads by example. You saw him at the dinner table. He eats a lot. He's got boundless energy." Wahlberg is often asked whether he is envious of his younger brother, Mark, who has achieved enormous success as an actor and producer in Hollywood. He maintains he's eternally grateful that he was able to give Mark's career a kick-start back when it seemed that the youngest of the Wahlbergs was destined to become the baddest seed in the clan. "I always say I'd rather visit him in a 25,000-foot mansion than in a 10-foot prison cell," Wahlberg says. LIVE TWITTER CHAT WITH ONCE UPON A TIME'S LANA PARRILLA (10/30)Fans of ABC's modern fairytale series "Once Upon a Time" will be able to submit questions and receive real-time responses from Lana Parrilla, who will be up on Twitter at @LanaParrilla, during the West Coast broadcast of the show on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 from 8:00-9:00 p.m., PT. Parrilla will offer commentary and share behind-the-scenes anecdotes.Wahlberg brothers open up burger joint in HinghamA couple of hometown boys are serving up a side of Hollywood at their new burger joint.Mark and Donnie Wahlberg opened up their new burger joint "Wahlburgers" in Hingham last night where the grand opening felt more like a Hollywood premiere. The Wahlberg brothers invited their mom, Alma Wahlberg and 200 other guests including Red Sox players David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis. "It is a burger place and it's fun and you're gonna have a drink and you're gonna have some fries and a shake or a frappe. But we brought the government cheese with us just like we ate as kids and ya know. We’re bringing a little Dorchester with us" Donnie tells FOX25. "Wahlburgers" is located in the Hingham Shipyard across from their Italian restaurant Alma Nove. UK and Europe NKOTBSB Tour Dates AnnouncedFRI 20-APR Belfast, Ireland - Odyssey'Once Upon a Time's' Lana Parrilla: 'Watch it [or] I'm gonna cast a spell on you'(Video) "Once Upon a Time" is the new ABC drama based on Grimm's fairytales (among other fanciful stories), where the characters from fairytale land are trapped in Storybrooke, Maine. Lana Parrilla is the Evil Queen, who in Storybrooke is the mayor. She is the one who cast the curse to send them all to our world and is the only one (so far) who knows their true natures."'Once Upon a Time' is about these two parallel worlds - one is the fairytale world and one is a contemporary world," says Parrilla. "In the fairy tale world, the Evil Queen casts a spell and sends all those characters to our world." "The Evil Queen is just so much fun to play. I think it's just really interesting how the writers have created these parallel counterparts," she continues. "You should watch it, 'cause if you don't, I'm gonna cast a spell on you." "Once Upon a Time" premieres Sunday, Oct 23 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. 'Once Upon a Time': Fairly good fairy taleOnce upon a time, this might have made a great miniseries.Indeed, it's almost too easy to imagine ABC's latest swing-for-the-bleachers weekly series as one of those big-budget fantasy specials the networks used to use to bolster their sweeps-month ratings. The tale in this sumptuously produced fractured fairy tale is picture-perfect: The Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) gets her revenge on Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) by cursing them and all their fairy-tale friends to live like, well, us. They've been sent into our world, robbed of their memories, their identities and their happy endings. Enter the Queen's young adopted son, Henry (Jared Gilmore), the only person who (thanks to his book of fairy tales) knows what's going on. He finds his real mother (Jennifer Morrison) and tries to convince her she's Snow's daughter and she needs to break the spell. It's a clever idea, one that allows the show to bounce back and forth between our world and the land of fairy tales. You can see how it could easily keep some viewers enchanted (those who don't immediately reject it as silly or twee) as the characters slowly figure out who they are, and then unite to defeat the Evil Queen. Unfortunately, having seen the first and third episodes — which may not, by the way, speak well for the unshared second — what's harder to imagine is how this idea supports an open-ended weekly series. That has been said of many pilots, including Lost, the last show Once creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis helped write. But Lost had a few advantages Once lacks, including an incredibly strong cast, a great set of characters and a completely original story that (to some people's dismay) could go in any direction the writers chose. While Once gets an immediate boost from the familiarity we have with its characters and their stories, that's also ultimately self-limiting. The story just feels closed-in, and while it is possible to add shades to fairy-tale characters, they remain archetypes who are meant to represent one major trait, and no matter how you try to twist it, that trait is going to dominate. The cast boasts some fine actors, led by the always-welcome Robert Carlyle as Rumpelstiltskin. But it falters at the top with Parrilla's Queen, who is low-grade soap nasty when she needs to be grand, evil fun in the Joan Collins/Glenn Close tradition. Give ABC credit for trying something different. But next time, try harder. And better. And maybe shorter. Once Upon a Time 'Justified' casts Neal McDonough and Mykelti Williamson as season 3's baddiesFans of FX’s Justified have been wondering since May’s second season finale how producers would match Margo Martindale’s Emmy-winning performance as Mags Bennett. Well, now we know: Desperate Housewives‘ Neal McDonough and 24‘s Mykelti Williamson, who both starred on Justified EP Graham Yost’s brilliant-but-canceled NBC drama Boomtown, have been cast as the awesomely named big bads of season 3. McDonough will recur as Quarles, a Detroit mobster in a sharp suit who comes to Kentucky with visions of becoming a crimelord. Williamson will play Limehouse, a man who lives in a small black town in Harlan County and who will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to protect his holler.We’ll meet both characters early in season 3, which premieres in January. The show — which also earned Emmy nominations for stars Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins and guest actor Jeremy Davies, who’ll return — began production on the first of 13 new episodes Monday. Are Mark & Donnie Wahlberg Getting a Reality Show?We've seen Mark Wahlberg sing, dance, act and even model in his skivvies.So could reality TV be next for the A-lister formerly known as Marky Mark? Sure sounds like it... Wahlberg revealed earlier today that he and his brothers are thinking about shooting a reality series that would follow the opening of their new high-end burger joint, Wahlburger's. However, Mark isn't so keen to appear on the show. "Maybe I'll be the Charlie's Angels of reality TV," Wahlberg said at the Graduate to Go Studio launch at the L.A. Harbor Boys & Girls Club. "You'll hear my voice. But obviously it's something that we'd want to control in every aspect and produce and make sure that we were doing something really quality." And the restaurant business isn't the only venture on Wahlberg's mind. "We are interested at some point or another doing our own clothing line in the future," he said. "As well as a health and wellness business that will help people first and foremost feel good, exercise, eat right and then look good...Eighty-five percent of the population doesn't exercise and eat right, and you want to be able to push them in the direction of extending their lifespan and living healthy lives." Speaking of living well, Wahlberg hopes partnering with the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens for today's launch of the Graduate to Go Studio will have a major impact on disadvantaged youth. "They just keep creating new ways for kids to want to stay in school and want to stay out of trouble," he said. "I just love what they do." Donnie and Mark Wahlberg Serve Up Fresh MeatThey're the guys who own this establishment. You must be the other guy.Of all the business ideas Donnie and Mark Wahlberg have bandied about, this has to be the most inspired: The famed brothers have licensed the name Wahlburger from Rochester, N.Y.-based fast food chain Tom Wahl's to open their own burger joint in their hometown of Boston. We can imagine the menu already: Anyone for The Right Stuff patty melt? How about a Sixth Sense salad? Or maybe a Marky Mark milkshake? Per the Boston Herald, the New Kids on the Block singer and The Departed star, along with other brother and chef Paul Wahlberg, heard that Tom Wahl's had sold a product named the "Wahlburger." As it happened, the siblings, who already owned a bunch of eateries, were on the lookout to start a new venture. So they decided to plunk down an undisclosed amount to acquire the rights to the Wahlburger name for a brand-new 80-seat, 4,300-square-foot restaurant set to launch in the coming months in the Hingham Shipyard. Having just acquired a liquor license, Wahlburgers will also serve alcohol and has an outdoor patio area too. Talk about a Happening place. The Wahlbergs also plan to open a pizza joint as well. Neal McDonough Welcomes Fourth ChildAnd baby makes six!Neal McDonough and his wife Ruvé welcomed their fourth child, daughter Clover Elizabeth, on Monday in Los Angeles, the actor tells PEOPLE. "Ruvé gave birth to a beauty! 8½ lbs. and 21 inches with thick dark hair like her gorgeous Mommy," the Captain America: The First Avenger star, 45, says. "Ruvé is recovering well – we are so blessed." Clover joins elder siblings London Jane, 19 months, Catherine Maggie, 4, and Morgan Patrick, 5½, who "went crazy" for their newest sister. "London hugged and kissed her saying, 'Baby ... mine!'" McDonough tells PEOPLE. Son Morgan suggested the baby's name, which was inspired by the four-leaf clover. "It has four leaves and this is our fourth child. Clover signifies good luck – I'm Irish and Ruvé's favorite color is green," the actor explains. Clover was born at Good Samaritan Hospital, where McDonough serves as celebrity chairperson. "It's a wonderful, amazing hospital," he says. "All of our children have been born there." NKOTBSB releasing joint albumNew Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys have captured the magic of their joint tour in the recording studio for a new collaborative album.The two boy bands teamed up earlier this year for their first single together, Don't Turn Out The Lights, before thrilling fans across North America with their summer NKOTBSB tour. They are now set to release a full project together under the same name this October. The upcoming disc combines hit songs from New Kids On The Block and the Backstreet Boys' back catalogue for unique musical mash-ups. Video: Stingy - Jordan Knight featuring Donnie WahlbergVideo: Stingy - Jordan Knight featuring Donnie Wahlberg
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