8 posts tagged “interview”

A week before the start of the remake of the remake of Life on Mars in New York, news is emerging that Gretchen Mol will be cast as Annie Cartwright.
   I liked Rachelle Lefèvre in the role but Gretchen Mol is a promising alternative.
   Meanwhile, E! has an interview with the American Sam Tyler, Irishman Jason O’Mara, and executive producers Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec. This was filmed on the day that Harvey Keitel was cast as Lt Gene Hunt of the NYPD. It seems that Appelbaum understands Life on Mars better than David E. Kelley did, based on this interview.

   Also promisingly, Nemec told TV Squad that the ending for the US version is different. We knew this already but here’s a bit more:

Nemec stressed that Life on Mars will be its own show, not to be thought of as a true, full translation of the UK version of the series. He did say that he has an “end game” all drawn up and ready, and it’s different than the UK version. Of course, he wouldn't tell me what it was (honestly I didn’t try too hard to get it out of him). He did say that they can insert that end-game episode at any point, really, so they will not be leaving fans hanging, should the show not get a greenlight past a certain amount of episodes.

Another great actor passes on: Harvey Korman from The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part One. (He regarded these as his best credits.) ‘Korman reportedly suffered complications related to the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm he experienced four months ago,’ according to IMDB News. Two clips follow—I’m afraid I haven’t found any of ‘Count de Money! Count de Money!’

   Mr Korman gave a wonderful series of interviews from earlier this year, which are quite enjoyable.    You will be missed, Harvey.

Before I blog about Ashes to Ashes, a link to a Podcast featuring an interview with Kevin Falls, creator and executive producer of Journeyman, the NBC series that the network under-promoted in 2007. He’s still under contract with the network, so he has to moderate his words, but he is very grateful to fans for supporting his series.
   The interview is about half-way through the Podcast, so zoom ahead if you are not interested in other sci-fi stuff.

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/podpress_trac/web/7562/0/Slice_145_012608.mp3

A blast from the past. Glynis Barber from Blake’s 7, Dempsey and Makepeace and Emmerdale speaks on The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV. It’s great to see Glynis looking so fab as her second cop role comes to an end. The Emmerdale clip is missing between the two videos below. The second video sees Glynis discussing Dempsey and Makepeace and The Graduate.

What did folks in New Zealand think of Jenna Bush’s interview with (usually liberal) newsman John Campbell? For a young woman who is the less politically inclined of the Bush twins, I thought she handled it extremely well. Here is a lass who is clearly internationally minded, aware of Unicef’s aims and her privilege of being in the First Family, and is very articulate, with no mispronunciations of any words. No ums and ers. Not that it came up, but I can see her pronouncing nuclear correctly.
   While it won’t change most people’s minds about her Dad, it should stop a lot of those who think that Jenna and Barbara are little more than daft party animals.

 
We haven’t linked this publicly yet, but readers may enjoy a preview of an article on actress Ashley Scott, whom I interviewed last year. We didn’t get to use all the pictures by Andrew Matusik, and there was an error in the print edition on attribution, so the online one fixes these issues. In addition, we’ve updated the article slightly to reflect Ashley’s work on the TV series Jericho, currently screening on TV3 in New Zealand.
   That means we have had three Lucire profiles this year on the website about celebrities with connections with the Carolinas. Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker has North Carolina roots, while Miss New Zealand Laural Barrett and Louisiana-born Ashley have South Carolina ones: Ashley was raised in Charleston, SC, and still believes the Holy City to be one of her favourite places.

I am not a snob when it comes to media. Here’s an interview with yours truly for Mr Joe Blogs in the UK, carrying on a great tradition from his grandfather, who started blogging with hieroglyphics.

http://mrjoeblogs.blogspot.com/2007/02/joe-blogs-interview-86-jack-at-top-of.html

I hung out with my friend Edward Krupka this evening—he’s in the same lines of work as me, in marketing and media. He mentioned he interviewed Charlize Theron in 2003 and I found his interview here. It’s darned good, and it was an interview that his editor did not think he would get. Still, Edward is nothing if not resourceful. Now, if I were single, I would have been very envious of this interview opportunity! Miss Theron is very pleasant on the eyes and back in 2003, you would have been careful to not trip over my tongue. 
   Funny, now that I am spoken for, I just can’t access that part of me that would have the “hots” for someone else—though there’s still no denying that Charlize is one pretty lady. 
   Might share a bit more about my chats with Edward on the main blog when I get a chance, since they are relevant to the branding and marketing topics.