JANUARY 13, 2013 » LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER » LEXGO.COM » SECTION E LIVING SUNDAY ‘Cougar Town’ star Josh Hopkins has Cats on the brain Lexington native and rabid UK fan never lets his audience forget

By Mary Meehan [email protected] Actor and Lexington native Josh Hopkins is known for infusing some Big Blue touches into his TV comedy, Cougar Town, which made its Season 4 debut last week on a new network. His character, Grayson Ellis, pays homage to Hopkins’ beloved University of Kentucky Wildcats by wearing the occasional team T-shirt, or doing a version of former player John Wall’s victory dance or the random three-point goggles. ON TV And even as the show has ‘Cougar Town’ 10 p.m. Tuesdays on TBS. found a new home — moving to Learn more and watch cable’s TBS from ABC, the broadcast clips and full episodes at Tbs.com/shows/ network where it aired since its cougar-town. debut in 2009 — Hopkins is up to his old tricks. “This year, our (UK players’) signature has been the flattop, and that is hard to integrate” into a sitcom plot, he said of the haircut sported by some of the Wildcats. Still, he said during an interview with the Herald- Leader, sometimes when everyone is supposed to be quiet on the set, “I’ll just start saying Nerlens Noel, Nerlens Noel, Nerlens Noel. ... I don’t know if it will make it in the show.” Well, that’s one reason for Cats fans to keep watching. Other reasons to tune in? Let’s ask the critics. In his review of Tuesday’s season premiere, See HOPKINS, E3

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RICH COPLEY | [email protected] Nick Lawrence, host of Curtains @ 8 on WUKY-FM, estimates he By Patti Nickell has had more than 3,000 guests in the show’s first 20 years. Contributing Travel Writer PASADENA, Calif. — There was an PATRICK T. FALLON | ASSOCIATED PRESS COPIOUS NOTES unseasonable early morning nip in the At this year’s Tournament of Roses parade, the float “Wonderful Indonesia,” air as I took my seat in the bleachers at from Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economies, won the 20 years in, radio show’s host Orange Grove and Colorado boulevards, President’s trophy for the most innovative use and presentation of flowers. but if my toes were chilly, my heart was Next year’s parade in Pasadena, Calif., will be the 125th. warm in anticipation of what lay isn’t ready to call it curtains ahead. 30,000 lavender cushion mums, When I was a child, I Coming whose moving tentacles ON THE RADIO started every New Year’s had suction cups made of RICH soon ‘Curtains @ 8’ Day in front of the TV portobello mushrooms COPLEY watching the Tournament More SoCal: Patti and lotus pods; cascading 8 p.m. Tue.-Thu. on WUKY-91.3 FM. visits Laguna Beach HERALD-LEADER of Roses Parade. It was waterfalls sculpted from CULTURE COLUMNIST Learn more or stream live at and Newport a tradition that continued Beach. orchids, ferns and plumeria; Wuky.org. throughout my adult years — a Spanish galleon covered Shortly after 7 p.m., when my escorts for New Year’s Eve in Gerbera daisies, tulips, Garrison Keillor can be heard 20 years to host Curtains changed over the years, but I had a hydrangea and iris; and a 17-foot Writer’s delivering the daily @ 8, his local arts talk show standing date with the parade on Jan. 1. tall AIDS ribbon fashioned out of Almanac over a speaker that airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday Now, I was here in Pasadena and 30,000 blood-red roses. outside the studios of through Thursday. could hardly wait for the floats to Honestly, the floats would have been WUKY-91.3 FM, the elevator Since its debut Jan. 18, roll. Roll they did, in all their flowery more than enough. But my front-row in the station’s building is 1993, with guests Everett splendor. Forty of them, each more seat also afforded me the chance to see creaking and quaking toward McCorvey, Alicia Helm and spectacular than the next, every square an actual bride and groom exchanging the third floor. Lexington Opera House inch of their surfaces covered with wedding vows inside a floral Fabergé JAY L. CLENDENIN | MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Mountain, a 1937 sculpture The door shudders general manager Dick Pardy living materials — flowers, seeds, egg; a young child getting a surprise open, and Nick Lawrence promoting a production of grasses and pods — painstakingly reunion with his father, a float rider by Aristide Maillol, sits in the emerges as he has many, pressed and glued over several days. garden of Pasadena’s Norton many weeknights for nearly See COPLEY, E4 There was an octopus covered with See PASADENA, E4 Simon Museum.

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