This is one celebrity birthday I could never forget as I happen to share the date as well.  On behalf of the Amy Online staff and all her fans, I want to wish Amy a very happy and wonderful 33rd birthday.

If you live in the Washington, D.C. area, there will be a press screening of Amy’s movie 21 & a Wake-Up on December 8th.

If you are available this coming Tuesday evening, December 8th, I’d like to invite you and a guest to a VIP and Press screening of a new film about the Vietnam War unlike anything you have ever seen.

“21 AND A WAKEUP” is the very first American motion picture about the War ever allowed by the Vietnamese Government to film on location in Vietnam.

This is not an anti-American screed, but a fair and balanced look at the war seen through the eyes of doctors, nurses, soldiers and newsmen at the 24th Evac Hospital, the last major Army Hospital in the south to close in ‘71 and ‘72.

It’s been called “The Best Portrayal of Women at War ever put on Film…”

It dramatizes the heroic daily lives of men and women stationed on major military bases who were not slogging through rice paddies. The daily brutality of the War from a grunt’s perspective has already been depicted in many films, though none shot in Vietnam.

It contains shots from the Vietnamese national archives never before seen in the west.

We have an excellent cast of widely respected actors, including Amy Acker, Danica McKellar, Faye Dunaway, Tom Sizemore, JC Chasez, Wes Studi, Ed Begley, Jr, Ben Vereen, Andre Royo and Tim Thomerson.

We’re screening our film for the first time in DC at 7 PM on Tuesday, December 8th at the beautiful Arleigh Burke Theater in the Naval Heritage Center at 701 Pennsylvania Ave.

Amy attended the “The Boys Are Back” Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. She looks lovely! Hopefully we’ll have more soon.

Edit: I’ve added seven more to the gallery, thanks so much to Sam

I’m working on a new layout for the site, so expect that in the next couple weeks.

The premiere isn’t for a couple more weeks but we already have a review of the first episode.  This one comes from IGN and overall, it’s positive.  Especially what they say about Amy.

This will sound like a bit of a broken record on the heels of other recent Dollhouse reviews, but the best part of this episode involves Saunders/Whiskey. Her reaction to finding out what she truly is involves some amusing and surprising actions on her part, but also some fascinating turns too – including some of the most emotional and complex material this show has dealt with so far, all of which is terrifically performed by Amy Acker. This only makes it all the more frustrating that thanks to her role on ABC’s upcoming Happy Town, Acker can only be used in a limited capacity this season.

You can read the full review here.

FOX released a promotional clip of the first episode of season two and Amy is featured quite heavily in it.  It’s currently only available through iTunes but someone did manage to post it via youtube.  The quality is not the best but it’s definitely watchable.  You can view it after the cut but I warn you – it’s very spoilery!  I will try to seek out a better copy for screencaptures.

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Scificool.com is running an easy contest that you can enter for a chance to win a R2 copy of Amy’s movie Dragon Chronicles: Fire & Ice.

Metrodome is releasing Dragon Chronicles: Fire & Ice on DVD September 7th, but instead of buying it, you can win a free DVD copy courtesy of SciFiCool.com and Metrodome, and who doesn’t like free stuff? We currently have three copies of the DVD to give away to three lucky winners, and all you have to do is follow the instructions below.

To read how to enter, click here.

At this point, I’m going to assume that all my visitors who are interested in Dollhouse have watched all the episodes.  If you haven’t, read no further as this does contain spoilers.

Scifiwire recently posted a short article about the Dollhouse episode ‘Epitaph One’ and the effect it will have on the upcoming season two. In it, they talk to Fran Kranz, who plays Topher on the show, and here’s what he had to say about Amy and her character Dr. Saunders:

Even without jumping ahead, Topher has a lot to answer for when Dollhouse returns. Dr. Saunders (Amy Acker) learned she was a doll, whom Topher programmed to hate him.

“In season two, we address that pretty much immediately,” Kranz said. “Dr. Saunders—Amy Acker and I, who’s the best—we work across the hall from each other, so we can’t avoid each other. All that kind of awkwardness ensues, and it gets pretty dark. I have to answer to her eventually. That’s going to be really exciting. Right now, Topher’s a little down on himself, and he’s starting to think like, ‘Wow, one of the most beautiful things I created hates me. Maybe I’m a bad guy.’”