Amanda Setton is a New York actress known for her recurring role in Gossip Girl as Penelope Shafai. After landing several roles in daytime soaps, Setton appeared in 2008’s Sex and the City and What Happens in Vegas.

Is there life after Gossip Girl for Setton? We’d like to think so. Her sultry, mediterranean look and her complex, deeply moving performances make her eminently castable. At age 25, the time is right for Setton to appear in a major American film production.

For those of us who like nice, clean categories to put people in it could be hard to get your head around Brit Marling. She’s an actor (she moved to Los Angeles after finishing her Bachelors in Economics and Studio Art at Georgetown University) and she’s a producer (she starred and co-wrote two films that were shown at the last Sundance Festival). She was most recently seen at the Los Angeles Film Festival presenting her sci-fi movie Another Earth (the film was also shown at SXSW).

For your consideration: Josh Hutcherson as a Screen Comment Person To Watch. Eighteen year-old Josh Hutcherson will soon be appearing in “The Hunger Games,” which has got to be one of the most talked-about movie in decades. He has the lead roles in this book adaptation which, it is now known, will spawn sequels, prequels, and plenty of work for the young thespian to sink his sharp teeth in.

For your consideration: Pee-Wee Herman as the next greatest comeback since Mickey Rourke appeared buffed and bootylicious on a wrestling ring? We’d like to think so. Most recently Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman, had a successful run on Broadway with “The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway,” which opened at the Sondheim Theatre in November 2010. Successful is understating it—Pee-Wee’s show was a triumph. The latest news is that Image Entertainment has acquired home video rights and will be releasing the Blu-Ray and DVD version this month.

At Screen Comment we love us a good, brainy actor every once in a while—actor/filmmakers? Even better. In the previous two decades there was Spacey, then there was Malkovich, and now it’s the new guard with James Franco. Franco has that wonderful and compound quality: self-effacing while at the same time exuding a certain authority over American filmic output. The same guy who appeared in “Pineapple Express” as a stoner who’d make the guys from “Wayne’s World” jealous is also the guy who directs the “The Clerk’s Tale.” We guess it’s unnecessary to mention ...

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