By Chrisdfw (Chrisdfw) (209.245.231.193 - 209.245.231.193) on Sunday, October 14, 2001 - 01:24 pm:| By Chrisdfw (Chrisdfw) (209.245.231.193 - 209.245.231.193) on Sunday, October 14, 2001 - 01:24 pm: |
Carwood Lipton told Donnie Wahlberg what it was like when he was parachuting into enemy territory. PHOTO COURTESY OF CARWOOD LIPTON
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (64.152.235.193 - 64.152.235.193) on Monday, November 26, 2001 - 05:49 pm: |
| By Susan (Polarbear) (24.197.136.91 - 24.197.136.91) on Sunday, December 23, 2001 - 10:48 am: |
Here's a link to Lipton's obituary:
http://www.thepilot.com/obits/ob121901Lipton.html
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Thursday, May 02, 2002 - 08:04 pm: |
Donnie with the crew on the set for episode 4.
Photo courtesy of Ian and Colin Dewey
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Monday, June 17, 2002 - 12:46 pm: |
Donnie and two of the Walter Gordon daughters
Courtesy of Tracy Gordon
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Saturday, June 29, 2002 - 11:46 am: |
Donnie Wahlberg with his nephew Brandon, left, and son Xavier.
SCREENING OF 'PLANET OF THE APES' AT LOEWS THEATER, BOSTON, AMERICA - JUL 2001
http://www.rexfeatures.com/cgi-bin/rppshimg0?i=340576C
| By Admin (Admin) (12.239.86.117) on Friday, July 05, 2002 - 07:42 pm: |
Photo by Steve Granitz - ©WireImage.com -
Scooby Doo Premiere
| By Jane Lindholm (Jlindholm) (204.48.169.252) on Sunday, November 03, 2002 - 10:58 pm: |
NBC's Boomtown
Starring Donnie Wahlberg
Following pics taken from Ep 2; for more info on this ep, go to: Possession
Ivan’s lawyer requests a search warrant; Joel’s reply: ‘Listen to me you son of b*tch…a woman is going to be murdered…
Joel very eloquently words how they will break the news to the stripper/wife about her predicament…like that he can be funny at a time like this, LOL!!
The guys arrive to find a police roadblock and Wilson in the upturned pickup…and they talk about women drivers…sheesh…
If you haven't turned into BT...you don't know what you are missing...
Jane
| By Ewa Molik (Layyla) (212.182.63.102) on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 04:13 pm: |
Can anyone possibly give me an answer to this:
Is Donnie a brother to another actor of the same surname - Mark Wahlberg?
i didn't know where to put this post so i hope you don't mind it here and can answer me
layla
| By cias (Cias) (208.148.113.116) on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 04:29 pm: |
Donnie and Mark are brothers. Donnie is older. They are from the Boston area.
Gary
| By Ewa Molik (Layyla) (212.182.63.102) on Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 12:35 pm: |
thank you so much gary!! iwas waiting for my thinking to stop,thank again
layla
| By Ryan Oxley (Easy_Fan) (210.50.30.22) on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 04:28 am: |
I can't believe we lost Lipton-when was that?
I can't access the obituary...
| By Marc Atkins (Marc) (81.131.134.189) on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 03:21 pm: |
Just read in a magazine that Donnie Wahlberg first tasted fame as a member of the boyband "New Kids On The Block". That feels like such a long time ago!!
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.81.247) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 10:55 pm: |
By FRAZIER MOORE
NEW YORK (AP) - Donnie Wahlberg got the offer to play LAPD Detective Joel Stevens in the "Boomtown" pilot a year ago.
Donnie Wahlberg, as detective Joel Stevens, appears in a scene from the NBC police series "Boomtown." Stevens is one of seven characters--Los Angeles detectives, cops, a medic, a reporter and a city official--who make up the complex "Boomtown" storytelling mosaic. The show returns to its Sunday night slot on March 2, 2003, at 10 p.m., EST. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater
At the time he was in Canada shooting Stephen King's "Dreamcatcher" (which opens in theaters in March), playing Duddits, its mysterious, mentally challenged centerpiece.
"I was in a whole other space," says Wahlberg as he recalls the challenge of shifting gears during a break midway through the film to portray the TV show's gifted but troubled lawman.
"The character is supposed to be 30 years old, but he's supposed to feel a lot of weight," says Wahlberg, himself 33. "Had I not had a rough last few years, maybe it wouldn't resonate in my face, and maybe that would make me not the right person for the character."
Wahlberg is clearly right for the character, a soulful pro whose furrowed brow masks personal tragedy including a suicidal wife and their deceased newborn child.
Stevens is one of seven main characters - another detective, two cops, a medic, a reporter and a city official - who populate the "Boomtown" storytelling mosaic: Each tale unfolds out of sequence with shifting points of view.
Among last fall's freshman dramas, the innovative "Boomtown" won the heartiest critical praise and, after several weeks' hiatus, reclaims its berth Sunday at 10 p.m. EST on NBC. (As a warmup, Bravo will encore the previous 11 episodes in a marathon beginning Sunday at 11 a.m.)
"The broken story interweaving all these characters and going back and forth in time - phenomenal material!" hails Wahlberg, who brings the material to life with equally strong co-stars including Jason Gedrick and Mykelti Williamson.
And that's not all: "It gives me the chance to be home for the first time in my life. I pretty much started traveling at the age of 19 and never stopped."
What he is referring to, of course, is a past life he is still trying to reckon with: His decade-long reign as one of the New Kids on the Block, the teenybopper boys band he helped form at age 14.
The New Kids were a mad, even embarrassing, smash. In 1991, the group topped Forbes magazine's annual list of top-paid entertainers with projected earnings of $115 million. But with the inevitability of Newtonian physics, its mega-success was met with critical backlash and fans' eventual desertion.
"It was just bizarre," says the former teen idol. "We didn't deserve to sell 60 million records, but we didn't deserve to have our records burned and be protested by college students, either. I just wasn't prepared to deal with it, because I didn't know that was part of the deal.
"I'm not embarrassed about that period of my life, but sometimes you can just put yourself out there too much, and it causes embarrassment or pain. I don't want to do that again."
The last time the New Kids performed was in 1994.
What then? Wahlberg, the eighth of nine kids of a working-class family in Boston, rekindled the school-age passion for acting he had brushed aside to make music.
It was a new start. "But I try to avoid phrases like 'reinvent,'" he says.
Not so, for younger brother Mark, who had made an impressive metamorphosis from recording star to model to actor in films like the celebrated "Boogie Nights" (1997).
"People talked about how he reinvented himself," says Wahlberg, "and he kind of enjoyed hearing it. But I don't think that applies to me. The band was a thing that happened. It's over. But I'm not. Acting is what I want to do next.
"So I feel a frustration to convince the right people that 'I'm the same guy you were open to before, and if you trusted in my talent before, trust in it now.' It's been hard - not to get them to hire me, but just to get them to understand."
On the other hand, all of Wahlberg's appeals haven't fallen on deaf ears. He landed a key supporting role as a conscience-burdened kidnapper in Ron Howard's thriller "Ransom" (1996), gave a brief but powerful performance in the Bruce Willis-starring "The Sixth Sense" (1999), and played a lead character in HBO's World War II epic "Band of Brothers."
"I guess I sort of live in a vortex," says Wahlberg. "I don't know what things look like from the outside. A lot of people have asked me recently in interviews, 'Why did you choose a TV series? You had an up-and-coming movie career.' I'm like, 'I did? Why didn't somebody tell me?'"
Wahlberg isn't complaining. Just cautious. And sharply focused on his current destination.
"The challenge isn't to reinvent yourself," he says. "It's to truly let go." And to turn down invitations to be part of any New Kids where-are-they-now? documentary.
"Where am I?" scoffs Wahlberg, rising actor and TV series star. "What do they mean, 'Where am I now?' I'm right here!"
| By Tony Cusack (Ant) (195.92.168.163) on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 05:00 pm: |
Donnie Wahlberg`s performance as Carwood lipton was magnificent and he really showed "LIP" to be a really strong character throughout the whole series of "B.O.B". P.S I`m not to sure about Donnie`s performances in New Kids On The Block though. yuk!.
| By Janine (Janine) (139.134.63.153) on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 07:45 pm: |
So far in all the films I've seen Donnie in, he's given credible performances. I guess that's why I'm so I find his story in Boomtown the most intriguing.
| By Sergeant First Class Danny Autrey (Retiredarmy) (198.36.178.141) on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 02:16 pm: |
Damian Lewis (BoB Major Dick Winters) is also in the movie mentioned above with Donnie and Morgan Freeman.
| By Leonie ten Cate (Lechan) (217.120.162.33) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 01:36 pm: |
I can't believe Donnie and Mark are brothers...! Okay i've thought about it because of the same last names but...man!
Now i take a good look at those two... yeah... they do kinda look a like.. crazy Hollywood-world 
| By leanne clarke (Lan) (195.93.33.12) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 02:29 pm: |
does anyone know the names of Donnie Wahlbergs other brothers and sisters?
ive tried to look for pictures of them but i can only ever find pics on mark and donnie wahlbeg.
can anyone help me please?????
lan
| By Janine (Janine) (139.134.63.153) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:16 pm: |
Sorry I don't know their names or anything about them 
| By Janine (Janine) (139.134.63.153) on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:24 pm: |
I think Donnie has a lot of amazing scenes in BOB but one classic moment that really stands out is in Episode 10, when he's talking to Winters about being reassingned to Battalion HQ. Lipton asks whether this is the kind of job he can expect form now on and Winters says yes. When Lipton walks away he's got the biggest grin on his face and he looks genuinely and completely happy
| By Melissa Clay (Melissa2800) (66.166.47.71) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 09:21 am: |
Leanne,
Go to www.donniewahlberg.com
Jennifer's website is a pretty good one.
I don't think you will find pics of the other siblings but I do know that she does list them by name in his biography section.
Check it out, Enjoy!!
Melissa
| By leanne clarke (Lan) (195.93.33.12) on Monday, March 03, 2003 - 02:00 pm: |
i'll try tha, thanks for your help
lan
| By Wicus Eksteen (Rsa101e) (168.209.98.67) on Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 04:19 am: |
I watched the beginning of sixth sense last night
and to my surprise i realised it is donnie whalberg that plays the guy who shoots bruce willis in the beginning, did you guys know it?
| By christine (Tendmd) (168.215.239.10) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 09:36 am: |
i think he was included in the opening credits. but i have to watch the movie again to see on which scene he was in coz he really was unrecognizable and i'm not sure if that was the first time i've seen him since they've disbanded the group "new kids on the block". i was surprised at his appearance.
if you've seen the movie "dreamcatcher", (which also stars damian lewis)his appearance in the movie was also far from what he really looks like in real life but not as unrecognizable in the movie "sixth sense"
christine
| By christine (Tendmd) (168.215.239.10) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 09:41 am: |
i think he was included in the opening credits. but i have to watch the movie again to see on which scene he was in coz he really was unrecognizable and i'm not sure if that was the first time i've seen him since they've disbanded the group "new kids on the block". i was surprised at his appearance.
if you've seen the movie "dreamcatcher", (which also stars damian lewis)his appearance in the movie was also far from what he really looks like in real life but not as unrecognizable in the movie "sixth sense"
christine
| By christine (Tendmd) (168.215.239.10) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 09:45 am: |
i think he was included in the opening credits. but i have to watch the movie again to see on which scene he was in coz he really was unrecognizable and i'm not sure if that was the first time i've seen him since they've disbanded the group "new kids on the block". i was surprised at his appearance.
if you've seen the movie "dreamcatcher", (which also stars damian lewis)his appearance in the movie was also far from what he really looks like in real life but not as unrecognizable in the movie "sixth sense"
christine
| By Celeste Valenzuela (Lushybubls) (12.213.16.217) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:13 pm: |
Hi Christine,
Have you seen "Dreamcatcher"? Is it worth seeing?
| By al (Statetrooper) (152.163.188.164) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:19 pm: |
I just wanted to give a quick affirmation that it is Donny Whalberg in the beginning of Sixth Sense. He dropped a ton of weight to look like a greasy suicidal psycho.
M. Night Shyamalan was even surprised at what a good job Whalberg did dropping weight for the character.
| By cias (Cias) (208.148.113.166) on Tuesday, April 01, 2003 - 07:38 pm: |
Yes, it is Donnie. GW
| By christine (Tendmd) (168.215.239.40) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 11:37 am: |
hi celeste,
yes i've seen "dreamcatcher" but i can'y say that i like the movie since the storyline really confused me and the characters were not well developed. but if you want damian lewis speaking both in an american and british accent in one movie, then check it out. donnie wahlberg was great at accepting roles that are far from the norm and this time in the movie, he was seen at the last part.
christine
| By christine (Tendmd) (168.215.239.40) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 11:42 am: |
hi celeste,
yes i've seen "dreamcatcher" but i can'y say that i like the movie since the storyline really confused me and the characters were not well developed. but if you want damian lewis speaking both in an american and british accent in one movie, then check it out. donnie wahlberg was great at accepting roles that are far from the norm and this time in the movie, he was seen at the last part.
christine
| By Marigold Papa (Marigold) (203.190.70.251) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 08:22 am: |
Damian and Donnie did a good job in Dreamcatcher. They freaked me out!!! Was a little bit complicated but if you listen and watch carefuly you'll get the story.
gold
| By christine (Tendmd) (168.215.239.20) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 08:42 am: |
it freaked me out too! maybe that's one of the reason why i did'nt understood the flow of the story. but damian and donnie are worth watching.
tine
| By Jennifer Meeker (Jennifer74) (68.73.213.48) on Thursday, July 03, 2003 - 05:31 am: |
I am apparently getting old when I read posts asking if Donnie is Mark's brother and I wonder how anyone could not know that... then when I read that people here are young enough to have *just* discovered that he was a "New Kid on the Block" I KNOW I am getting old!
I think this role in BOB was particularly rectifying for his career. For several years, especially after his brother's success in the movie industry, Donnie had become somewhat of a butt of jokes... people--myself included--figured that his past as a NKOTB had forever branded him as a has-been-boy-band member, that Mark was the one with more talent, stuff like that. But lemme tell you, while Mark proved he could really sing in "Rockstar," Donnie proved he could really ACT in BOB. Granted he was in other films before BOB, but stuff like "Black Circle Boys" just didn't cut it for me--in fact, I wondered how he would recover from a cheesy role like the one he had in that movie. In EVERY other role I saw him in, I could only see "Donnie Wahlberg, the guy from the New Kids..." but he TRULY superceded his reputation with his role as Lipton. Now I have a totally new respect for him; one that I didn't have when I was a teenager hearing NKOTB on the radio every 10 minutes. He really has "The Right Stuff"--har har.
And he LOOKS a heck of a lot better than when he did in the late 80's as well. The Wahlbergs are the lucky type who age very well. ;)
| By Sarah Stone (Sestone) (209.86.206.25) on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 01:42 am: |
Well Jennifer - at the ripe old age of 26 - I must be old too! I remember NKOTB (I hated them but I remember them) and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (his brother's group). I was blown away when Donnie was in 6th Sense, I could not believe it was him. I was surprised to see what an incredible actor he is. His role as Lipton was one of my favorites in BOB and I LOVE Boomtown. He and Neal McDonough should have been nominated for Emmys. What a disappointment. Donnie definitely has evolved since his new kids days!
| By Kerry Jones (Kerry) (213.51.0.208) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 11:20 am: |
Yes, I too remember the NKOTB. Does anybody have any pictures of Donnie from his NKOTB time? So we can be remembered of the time when we thougth Donnie and the rest of his Boyband should shut up and get lost. I'm glad he went into acting, he's great!
| By christine (Tendmd) (202.163.254.161) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 11:42 am: |
kerry, i think i still have pictures of donnie from his nkotb days from my collections of old magazines. i will try to find them and if i do have them, i'll try to scan and post them to the site. hope they're still intact!!!
FYI: mark walhberg was an original member of the nkotb but left the group before they became famous because he thougth boyband genre sucks so he formed his own group to become a rap artist.
christine
| By Kerry Jones (Kerry) (213.51.0.208) on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 03:23 pm: |
At the time I liked Mark better! His band was cool, NKOTB was to soft.