'Dancing With the Stars' Cast: Who Is J.R. Martinez?

David Becker/Getty Images ABC revealed the cast for the 13th season of Dancing With the Stars on Monday night, and among the contestants are such familiar faces as Nancy Grace, David Arquette and Kristin Cavallari. But also grouped in with the more recognizable names was J.R. Martinez. While it's true that Martinez can list his current profession as actor on ABC's All My Children, he has a far more intriguing backstory that DWTS fans not be familiar with. PHOTOS: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Cast Martinez actually started his working career in the Army, enlisting in September 2002 and gaining skills as an 11-B Infantryman. Six months after enlisting, he was deployed to Iraq. Two months later, he was driving a Humvee when the front left tire hit a landmine and he was trapped inside the vehicle. While the other three soldiers in the vehicle walked away with minor injuries, Martinez suffered severe burns that resulted in 32 surgeries over 34 months. STORY: 'Dancing With the Stars' Season 13 Cast Announced "I was trapped inside the vehicle for about 10 minutes, conscious and can literally see my life slipping away from me," he told CNN in 2009. "You know, my mother is my best friend and I kind of had the visual of my mother, and them handing her a flag and I thought to myself, that's not something I want to put my mother through." He said he had lots of bad days while recovering but forced himself to push through the worst of it. "Another obstacle [is] where I have to go into the public and show my face and catch those looks of people here in New York," he said. "It's one of those things where you've just got to get through it, and you've got to fight the obstacles and you've got to be strong and you say, 'You know what? I have hope and I believe and I'm never going to quit.'" STORY: 'Dancing with the Stars' Season 13 Casting Reports Abuzz on the Internet In 2008, Martinez landed his role on All My Children. He considers the career switch ironic since he would lie in bed in the hospital watching telenovelas -- Spanish soaps -- with his mother every night. "And there wasn't nothing I could do about it," he said. "So I just sat there. And finally I just got to a point where I'm just going to take it in and watch TV with her. And one day out of a joke I said, 'One day I'm going to be on a soap opera, Mom.'" Martinez believes the role -- in which he plays an injured Iraq war veteran -- has been therapeutic for him. STORY: 'Dancing With the Stars' Champ Derek Hough Says He's Returning to Show "A lot of us, we go through things in life sometimes and we don't want to sit there and go back to remember it," he said. "But it's good to go back and remember it and it's good to talk about it, whether it's to yourself or a piece of paper or whether it's to an audience or a camera like I am doing right now." RELATED: Brooke Burke Weds Longtime Fiance, David Charvet, in St. Barts 'Jersey Shore's' Snooki Denies She Will Be on 'Dancing With the Stars' Hines Ward, 'Dancing With the Stars' Winner, Arrested ABC David Arquette Kristin Cavallari Dancing with the Stars Nancy Grace

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'The Hedgehog,' in regards to a girl who bonds together with her structures concierge, warrants some critical love.Possibly you've heard: There's an attractive new movie in theaters now, with different best-selling novel where a precocious whitened girl, working from the objections of her parents and neighbors, befriends a beaten-lower servant lady helping to unlock her literary habits. No, it isn't "The Assistance,Inch but a wonderful arthouse release known as "The Hedgehog." As luck might say, both "The AssistanceInch and "The Hedgehog" fall under that rare group of movie you can recommend to nearly anybody -- your mother, your priest, the hipster behind the register in the local Whole-foods market. But as potential crowdpleasers go, "The Hedgehog" includes a major handicap working against it -- it's French -- and also the conventional thinking goes that foreign photos rely on critical raves to locate their audience within this country. Intelligent although not always intellectual, solid although not terribly sophisticated, the pic would be a success if this opened up in the native France in This summer 2009, and it has delighted moviegoers nearly everywhere it's traveled, winning audience awards at multiple fests, including Dallas, Palm Springs, and also the Town of Lights Town of Angels in La. Launched August. 19 on just six screens, the film has gained a lot more than $60,000. Still, "The Hedgehog" isn't exactly what you will call a critic's film -- that might explain why it required 2 yrs to achieve U.S. shores, eventually landing with NeoClassics. With photos such as these, distribs need to know ahead of time that they may get raves from Manohla Dargis, Kenneth Turan or any other key tastemakers, since which means they will not need to spend lots of cash on advertising to spread out the film. "Experts always help an overseas-language film," states The new sony Pictures Classics co-chief Michael Barker. "I believe those who visit foreign films are visitors: They read subtitles, so that they read experts." "The Assistance,Inch by comparison, does not need experts anymore than "Harry Potter" does. Between your starry cast, well-loved source material and never-insubstantial marketing budget, audiences might find it, huged and tell their buddies. However when it involves something similar to "The Hedgehog" -- a movie using the broad benefit of another "Amelie" -- cash-strapped niche distribs not have the assets to purchase that first wave of support. "This is exactly why many people watch for films to exhibit in fests, because they get confirmation of the items the experts are likely to say," Barker states. Notes Ryan Werner, senior Vice president of selling for Sundance Chooses and IFC Films, "A part of my job at festivals would be to really give consideration towards the critical reaction to a movie. Such as this year at Cannes, the Dardennes' film ("The Little One Having a Bike") really was monitoring well." That cinched IFC's decision to snap up. Obviously, experts are simply one factor distribs consider. Foreign-made genre films typically find their audience: From "Kill List" to "The Troll Hunter," IFC and Magnet routinely acquire such game titles. Some auteurs, like Pedro Almodovar, possess a built-in audience. The same thing goes for stars, for example Catherine Deneuve, whose "Potiche" started this season. Based on Barker, determining a demographic certain to embrace the film likewise helps: SPC pressed Trappist monk drama "Of Gods and Males" to $4 million by reaching to Christian groups. However the least expensive strategy remains free press, whether via reviews that are positive or publicity produced by director interviews along with other possibilities. Consequently, Americans' diet of foreign-language cinema tends toward the significantly acclaimed. That needs to be a positive thing, but is not, always. Experts (especially individuals who haunt the fest circuit) are significantly not the same as the typical moviegoer if this involves taste. They see 100s of movies annually and rapidly burn up about the type of comfort food most audiences crave. Rather, they look for and champion progressively edgy, innovative work on the fee for familiar and typically crafted fare -- like "The Hedgehog." As though to deal with this disconnect, Stephen Farber authored a current column within the La Occasions imploring his fellow experts to lessen their eyebrows. "It's distressing to determine intelligent experts trampling on a lot of good movies," he chided, recommending that his fellow commentators embrace the "serious, simplistic and sentimental" pleasures from the middlebrow movie. Farber includes a point, but he incorrectly cuts down on the critic to consumer guide, looking over the greater natural part as esthetic and cultural judge. Frankly, you should be relieved that experts hold films to some greater standard compared to casual moviegoer. But we ought to be conscious from the biases and restrictions of the taste. For instance, a movie like "Dogtooth" impresses experts using its audacity, but is not the type of Friday-evening-out experience you'd wish on just anybody. The Oscar-nominated drama is positively antagonistic toward its audience and accountable for nearly as numerous walk-outs as satisfied clients. Likewise, Cannes Palme d'Or champion "Uncle Boonmee Who Are Able To Recall His Past Lives" obtained an 87 on Metacritic. Such reviews that are positive supply the type of support Strand required to release the cruel Thai pic, but left a lot of individuals who bought tickets unhappy. Meanwhile, numerous foreign-language gems don't have the effusive critical praise they have to pique audience curiosity about turn, distribs will not bite. Unlike Farber, I do not check this out because the critics' problem. I can not think about an individual who wouldn't appreciate my personal favorite film of 2011 -- low-budget Chilean romancer "The Existence of Seafood," a tender, perfectly observed take a look at 21st-century coupling starring "Heroes" heartthrob Isaac Mendez -- but it is not my job to overhype it. Nor should experts be scolded to be difficult on "The Hedgehog." Ultimately, it's up to and including keen distributor to learn how to communicate a film's broadly appealing characteristics about the slimest of selling budgets. Each time one of these simple game titles breaks through -- whether it is "Amelie" or "Pan's Labyrinth" -- the invention convinces individuals to expand their motion picture horizons. Contact Peter Debruge at peter.debruge@variety.com

Suits Showrunner Sean Jablonski To Go Away, Creator Aaron Korsh Marketed

You will see a big change in the helm of USA Network’s hot new legal drama Suits, that was lately restored for any second season. Sean Jablonski, who offered as executive producer/showrunner for that first season, is departing. He'll be been successful through the series’ creator Aaron Korsh who's being marketed from co-executive producer to executive producer and new showrunner. Jablonski was introduced set for the series’ launch as Korsh had no creating experience coupled with only held staff author jobs on 2 short-resided series, The Deep Finish and Notes In the Underbelly, before he produced Suits. But throughout the very first season, he impressed USA brass together with his progress and it has been considered prepared to dominate the show next season. It's quite common for TV systems to usher in experienced showrunners for that initial order of the new series before the novice designers discover the ropes. CBS did by using its honours heavyweight The Great Wife, that was run by Dee Manley for that first 13 episodes, with co-designers Michelle and Robert King overtaking next. Korsh will executive produce Suits alongside Doug Liman and David Bartis.

Justin Lin Goes Universal

Fast Five director signs two-year dealAt $600m and counting, Fast Five (or Fast and Furious 5: Rio Heist, if you will) is one of this year's biggest hitters - and rightly so because it's demented genius. It makes sense then that studio Universal is keen to keep its director Justin Lin close to home, and to that end they've signed him and his Barnstorm Pictures production company up to exclusively develop mainstream juggernauts for the next two years. There's already the sixth Fast and Furious on its way, of course. We knew about that one already. But Lin will also be turning his attention to Leading Man, long-in-development at Universal, and based on the Oni Press comics series about a world-famous movie star who uses his celebrity and glamorous location shoots across the world as a cover story for his proper job: international spy. Then there's an untitled project about America's 442nd infantry during WWII: a Japanese-American unit who became the most highly decorated regiment in US military history. And there's a mystery sci-fi/crime thriller written and to be directed by Robert Glickert, who worked as Lin's assistant on Fast Five. There's also the small matter of Terminator 5, to which Lin remains attached. And while he's no longer directing Highlander, he told Empire recently that it's still a project very close to my heart , and that he'll continue to oversee the amazing script through production. So many plates! So much spinning! The first to drop will be Fast Six (or Sexy Six, as Vin Diesel is currently calling it), which already has a release date of May 27, 2013.

Food Network Settles 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives' Lawsuit

Food Network Food Network has settled a heated lawsuit with the former producer of its popular show,Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, starringGuy Fieri. In May, the network was sued byPage Television and Video Prods, which charged in Minnesota federal court that a contract was breached when Fieri's services were not provided and payments weren't made. Food Network maintained that it had a right to escape its contract with Page Television because of actions by the company's principal, David Page. In a countersuit filed less than two weeks ago, Food Network argued that Page hadcreated such an "intolerable" work environment for the show's staff, the network was forced to replace him. Food Network pointed to various Page e-mails where he signaled himself as a "genius," declared the end of "democracy" on the show, and berated staff members. The strife caused Food Network to knife out Page's role on the show, starting in season 12. Now, the network confirms to us that the parties have come to a settlement. Details about the agreement are being kept close to the kitchen apron, but Page won't be part of future seasons. "Food Network will continue to produce and air new episodes of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives," the network says in a statement. "In order to do so, we have engaged the services of a new production company." E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner

Bravo: 'Housewives' segs to become re-edited

Bravo has started re-editing 'Real Average women of Beverly Hills' following the suicide of Russell Remedy on Monday.Bravo has started re-editing "Real Average women of Beverly Hillsides," based on the network's leader, who also indicated the series may stay with its Sept. 5 premiere date.The network broke its silence Friday through the channel's leader, Frances Berwick, who told Variety, "Unlike what's being reported, we haven't thought we would change our original premiere date but we're along the way of re-editing the show."Because the suicide Monday of Russell Remedy, husband to among the series' stars, Bravo has remained quiet beyond a proper statement of condolence among a craze of speculation in regards to what the network planned to complete, contrary. Some experts recommended Bravo simply shelve the whole season, but the choice to re-edit means the show continues.With re-editing already going ahead, the network could still create a Sept. 5 deadline though a postponement has not been eliminated either. Given Bravo has promoted that date because the second-season premiere, there's considerable incentive to become ready at that time given the amount of attention the debate has introduced towards the series.Berwick rejected to specify how the series will change, though chances are the series will reshape or eliminate the existence of Remedy during the period of the growing season. Sources indicate he was shot for that reasons of showing up this year, that was to create his marital strife with series star Taylor Remedy a prominent story.It's also entirely possible that the story might be marginalized or removed in the series, though that may prove a far more delicate task thinking about she ended up being to command much more screentime. Within the season premiere presented to media days prior to the suicide, Taylor Remedy alludes to problems she's getting together with her husband, along with the chance of getting couples counseling.Editing will even have in all probability to deal with the disruption to production Remedy motivated by threatening both his wife's co-stars and also the series' production company, Evolution Film & Tape, with law suit must state of his marital problems made air, which Variety confirmed through his lawyer, Ronald Richards. Remedy later retracted his threat to Evolution. Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Norwegian Massacre The Murders Mind

In 1 hour 30 minutes of madness, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik wiped out 69 youthful people. The film pieces together Breiviks day's terror hour by hour, from the moment from the explosive device he trigger in Oslo, towards the cold blooded shooting of defenceless youngsters about the remote island beauty place of Utya. Who's this guy, and what made him act?

Watercooler: The Two Guys of Chloe King

Skyler Samuels, Benjamin Stone and Grey Damon Nine lives and two guys? Some girls have all the luck. While most of us can barely find one person to moon over, our feline-fueled heroine had suitors up to her perfect curls with two very different guys fighting for her affections. Fittingly, there's also a bit of a battle among Nine Lives of Chloe King fans over which fella she should choose, too. On the one hand, we have Brian, the abnormally nice guy with the evil dad and the awesome stubble. He's sweet, romantic and unfortunately human, which puts him at a serious disadvantage since the Mai kiss is allegedly deadly to mortals. On the other hand, we have Alek, Chloe's Euro-dreamy protector who started out nasty but has, over time, developed a bit of cat fancy for the Uniter and can smooch her without fear of fatality. So when these two came to fisticuffs last night, we didn't know who to root for. Should our loyalty go to Brian, since he's been so understanding and Grey Damon used to star on Friday Night Lights? Or has the suddenly supportive Alek and his cool accent finally earned our vote? Ugh. Not since Dylan McKay had to decide between Brenda and Kelly have we been so torn! So while we try to sort this out, why don't you tell us who you want Chloe King to share her nine lives with. Her human non-beau or her Mai guy? Make yourselves heard in the comments below! Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!

Bienstock Young Media Inks Producer Pod Deal With ITV America

ITV Studios America has inked a pod deal with Bienstock Young media. The announcement, which comes as ITV furthers its U.S. expansion, will bring principalsJay Bienstock and Eugene Young into the fray as unscripted producers. The pair has been involved with such projects as The Apprentice, Survivor,Bachelor Pad, Deal or No Deal and Family Feud. "Both Eugene and Jay have magnificent track records in producing major primetime programming. They are a perfect fit as we continue to expand our sights on producing successful programming for the U.S. and markets around the world," saidPaul Buccieri, chief executive of ITV Studios America and managing director of ITV Studios International. Young, formerly chief creative officer at FremantleMedia North America, launched his career at CNN before segueing into a senior producer/showrunner for Extra. During his tenure at Endemol, he worked on series including ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and NBC's Fear Factor. More recently, he created and executive produces CBS' Same Name. Bienstock, a six-time Emmy nominee, got his start on VH1's Behind the Music, before joining the original team behind Survivor, genre defining for its time.From there he helped develop NBC's The Apprentice. "As we continue to grow BYM's business," said Beinstock, "we feel ITV will be a key component in expanding our presence, not just here but internationally as well." Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Topics Survivor The Celebrity Apprentice

Rihanna gets her hands on a giant weapon in new Battleship image

You might not have guessed it from the trailer, but pop megastar Rihanna is making her movie debut in alien invasion flick Battleship next summer.Thanks to a new image that's been unveiled, we now have definitive proof that Ri-Ri does actually show up in the movie, and it appears she's packing some serious firepower.It seems that for her first acting gig she's admirably avoided the token hottie role, which seems to have gone to Brooklyn Decker instead.The trailer focusses mainly on Taylor Kitsch's naval officer Alex Hopper and his frosty relationship with future pa-in-law Liam Neeson, at least before the mahoosive aliens show up and launch their offensive.Peter Berg (Hancock, Friday Night Lights) is directing the board game-inspired flick.If you want to try to catch a glimpse of the back of Rihanna's head, here's that trailer again:Battleship is set to open on 18 May 2012.

'Game Of Thrones' Star Kit Harington Teases Season 2

Being the esteemed professional that I am, it is my job as a journalist to separate any personal leanings or fangirl pandering from my writings. Most of the time. Not so much when my subject is George R.R. Martin's brilliant "A Song Of Ice And Fire" series and HBO's wonderful adaptation "Game of Thrones." That said, it is with great pleasure that I present one of the major highlights from my Comic-Con experience this year: an interview with one of my absolute favorite and most photogenic cast members Kit Harington (aka Jon Snow), wherein he discusses season two plot points, which cast member he'd like to see more of and what the future holds for Lord Snow. "Of what I know and what I'm allowed to say, it's a tricky one because I don't want to spoil it," Harington said when asked what he can tell us about Jon's arc in season two. "Obviously he has his own story beyond the Wall, some very interesting things happen to him," he teased, charmingly. "He has a better time of it I think in the second season than he did in the first." When asked to summarize Snow's series-long challenges and motivations, Harington addressed two points with which we readers are all too familiar. "Obviously he wants to know who his mother is, that's his long running ambition," Harington said. (*Cough* L + R = JS *Cough*) "I think he wants to prove himself, that's his thing." And finally, although Snow gets his fair share of action with a lot of intriguing characters up north, I wondered which southern-dwelling characters he hopes to cross paths and/or interact with again. "Peter Dinklage, Tyrion," he said without hesitation. "I was lucky enough to have three or four scenes with him and it's left me wanting more. But obviously I never cross paths with Daenerys in the first season, maybe not for awhile, who knows, that would be one of the goals I suppose." Hel-loooo fellow conspiracy theorists!! Are you loving that hopeful foreshadowing as much as I am?!!? I long for nothing more than a Jon and Dany introduction, followed closely by an Arya, Jon reunion... Tell us what you think in the comments section and on Twitter!

'Cars' Copyright Suit Ignored in Win for Disney

Wally Disney A federal judge has ignored a United kingdom film writer's suit from the Wally Disney Co. that alleged the animated films Cars and Cars 2 was replicated from their own work. In March,Mike Mandeville-Anthonysued declaring the Pixar films infringed the copyright on the three-part script entitled "Cookie & Co.," concerning the true-existence adventure race-vehicle driverMichael Owen Perkins, who won a 1988 race, an additional work entitled "Cars," which incorporated cure, sample script, 46 animated vehicle character explanations, 10 cars character sketches, along with a marketing and retailing plan. PHOTOS: Summer time Movie Guide The workswere produced two decades ago and Mandeville-Anthony states he sent copies to Disney as well as met personally with aLucasfilmexecutive who later grew to become gm at Pixar. However in a brief summary judgment released on Thursday, California federal judge Valerie Baker Fairbank foundthe works were dissimilarand the claims were barred since the statute of restrictions had expired. STORY: 'Cars 2': 5 Things to understand about the Pixar Follow up The ruling may be the latest proof of the monumental "substantial similarity" burden facing aggrieved authors who believe their works happen to be stolen. In recent days, copyright thievery legal cases happen to be tossed out over ABC's Modern Family, The new sony's You Don't Wreck havoc on the Zohan, and NBC's I'm Earl, amongst others. The lawyers leading Disney's defense were Sanford Litvack and David Singer of Hogan Lovells. E-mail: eriqgardner@yahoo.com Twitter: @eriqgardner Cars 2