Eliza Dushku

At least some people don't use social media to update us on their bunions. Take Eliza Dushku , for example. The Watertown-bred actress, known for her work on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is using the online fund-raising site Crowdrise.com to raise dough for THARCE-Gulu, an organization she started in northern Uganda to help former child soldiers and victims of war. In a post over the weekend, Dushku said the first 50 people who donate $35 will...

While she mulls her next TV or movie project, Eliza Dushku is pressing ahead with a biopic of Robert Mapplethorpe. According to the Hollywood Reporter, James Franco will star as the controversial photographer who died of AIDS in 1989. Ondi Timoner, who made the rock 'n' roll documentary "Dig!" is set to direct. Dushku, who grew up in Watertown, is producing with her brother Nate and Miles Levy.

LOS ANGELES -- When the temperature tops 100 degrees here, and the Hollywood Hills are shrouded in a noxious haze, the acre of blacktop at the intersection of Melrose and Fairfax is about the last place you want to be. But in a gauzy miniskirt, tank top, and three-inch heels, actress Eliza Dushku appears unbothered by the heat, even as her companion, a good-looking golden retriever named Max Factor, is tugging at his leash, desperate for a...

At least some people don't use social media to update us on their bunions. Take Eliza Dushku , for example. The Watertown-bred actress, known for her work on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is using the online fund-raising site Crowdrise.com to raise dough for THARCE-Gulu, an organization she started in northern Uganda to help former child soldiers and victims of war. In a post over the weekend, Dushku said the first 50 people who donate $35 will...

Watertown's Eliza Dushku tells us that she has dual citizenship in Albania as of last week. The actress is in the country filming a documentary. According to Eliza's Twitter page, her boyfriend, former Celtic Rick Fox , has joined her for the tour.

While she mulls her next TV or movie project, Eliza Dushku is pressing ahead with a biopic of Robert Mapplethorpe. According to the Hollywood Reporter, James Franco will star as the controversial photographer who died of AIDS in 1989. Ondi Timoner, who made the rock 'n' roll documentary "Dig!" is set to direct. Dushku, who grew up in Watertown, is producing with her brother Nate and Miles Levy.

Hundreds of students will join Somali-born singer K'naan , Watertown-bred actress Eliza Dushku , John Kerry 's daughter Vanessa , and two dozen national organizations at Harvard this weekend for the Millennium Campus Conference, a three-day gathering focused on ending global poverty and achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. This is the third MCC, whose organizer Sam Vaghar is off to a speaking gig in Sarajevo immediately afterward at the request of the State Department.

Watertown's Eliza Dushku was in town on Saturday night with her boyfriend, former Celtic Rick Fox , to accept an honor at the first-ever Global Generation Awards at the Fenway Center at Northeastern University. Dushku, best known for her role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was praised for her humanitarian work in Uganda, where she's traveled with her mother, Suffolk University associate professor Judith Dushku . Eliza's fellow honorees were Senator John F. Kerry ; Gillian Sorensen of the UN Foundation; and...

Humans who let an underground corporation empty out their brains and program them to perform secret missions? I suppose there's a way to read "Dollhouse," the new sci-fi series from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon, as a cautionary tale about the digital era. The drama, starring Eliza Dushku, presents personality itself as a kind of changeable software. Are we storing our very souls on our computers? Are our avatars our selves? But as a drama, "Dollhouse" doesn't stand up to the broad interpretations it invites.

Better Off Ted 9:30 p.m., Channel 5 This breezily ironic workplace comedy is back for the summer, and ABC has already renewed it for next winter. Check it out. By the way, Jay Harrington, who plays Ted, is a local boy. He grew up in Wellesley, and summered on the Cape. Indeed, I think we officially count as a hotbed of TV talent, having bred Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation’’), John Krasinski, Steve Carell, B.J. Novak, and Mindy Kaling (“The Office’’), Eric Mabius (“Ugly Betty’’)

Watertown's Eliza Dushku was in town on Saturday night with her boyfriend, former Celtic Rick Fox , to accept an honor at the first-ever Global Generation Awards at the Fenway Center at Northeastern University. Dushku, best known for her role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was praised for her humanitarian work in Uganda, where she's traveled with her mother, Suffolk University associate professor Judith Dushku . Eliza's fellow honorees were Senator John F. Kerry ; Gillian Sorensen of the UN Foundation; and "Invisible Children" filmmaker Jason Russell . The...

Hundreds of students will join Somali-born singer K'naan , Watertown-bred actress Eliza Dushku , John Kerry 's daughter Vanessa , and two dozen national organizations at Harvard this weekend for the Millennium Campus Conference, a three-day gathering focused on ending global poverty and achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. This is the third MCC, whose organizer Sam Vaghar is off to a speaking gig in Sarajevo immediately afterward at the request of the State Department.

Watertown's Eliza Dushku tells us that she has dual citizenship in Albania as of last week. The actress is in the country filming a documentary. According to Eliza's Twitter page, her boyfriend, former Celtic Rick Fox , has joined her for the tour.

Humans who let an underground corporation empty out their brains and program them to perform secret missions? I suppose there's a way to read "Dollhouse," the new sci-fi series from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon, as a cautionary tale about the digital era. The drama, starring Eliza Dushku, presents personality itself as a kind of changeable software. Are we storing our very souls on our computers? Are our avatars our selves? But as a drama, "Dollhouse" doesn't stand up to the broad interpretations it invites.

LOS ANGELES -- When the temperature tops 100 degrees here, and the Hollywood Hills are shrouded in a noxious haze, the acre of blacktop at the intersection of Melrose and Fairfax is about the last place you want to be. But in a gauzy miniskirt, tank top, and three-inch heels, actress Eliza Dushku appears unbothered by the heat, even as her companion, a good-looking golden retriever named Max Factor, is tugging at his leash, desperate for a...

He fired Ben Affleck 's character in "The Company Men," starred alongside Eliza Dushku , Joey McIntyre , and Amy Poehler in the local movie "On Broadway," and, more recently, appeared in the Westport film "Frank the Bastard" with Chris Sarandon . But Lance Greene 's latest project has nothing to do with the movies; the actor, who was also one of the producers of "On Broadway," is raising money to fight prostate cancer....

THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Comcast Movies: All Movies) Set aboard the eponymous Indian train, Wes Anderson’s diorama is about three brothers — Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman — hatched seemingly from the same nose. The movie is another designer escapade from a director who seems happy to turn out pleasing, if indulgent, cartoons. Late in this one, something amazing does happen: The diorama tips over and spills over into life as it is lived in a small desert village.