Amber Von-Tussle: Last News

Selome Hailu Brittany Snow has been cast in Starz‘s upcoming drama series “The Hunting Wives,” joining previously announced star Malin Åkerman. She will play Sophie O’Neill. Adapted from the May Cobb novel of the same name, “The Hunting Wives” follows Sophie, who moves with her family from the East Coast to deep East Texas.

Jessica Kiang In 2007, just after her breakout movie role as brittle, sizeist mean-girl Amber Von Tussle in Adam Shankman’s “Hairspray,” actor Brittany Snow took to the pages of People to talk about her own longtime battle with anorexia. But in a cultural moment that was peculiarly hostile to the mental health crises of young female celebrities — it was also the year that Britney Spears shaved her head — the response to her op-ed was dismissive. Now, 16 years and something of a sea change in social attitudes later, the sheer sincerity of Snow’s directorial debut is quite the rebuttal to those who accused her of mere attention-seeking back then. Unmistakably informed by personal, painful experience, “Parachute” pulls its ripcord early, determined to let its self-critical, struggling characters drift down to the soft landing Snow herself was not granted.

Amber Von Tussle DOWN. Sort of.Ricki Lake brought out her one of her famous costumes from the 1988 John Waters musical classic “Hairspray” during the Halloween-themed episode of “The View.”During Friday’s show Lake, 53, rocked the look she wore during the Hefty Hideaway commercial scene she shot in 1987.