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March 21, 2007 This Thursday, March 22nd, Robert Gant will be a guest speaker at the grand opening of Triangle Square, a joint venture between Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH) and McCormack Baron Salazar (MBS). The development is located at 1602 N. Ivar Avenue in Hollywood, California, 90028. The event runs from 10:00am to 12:30pm. On Friday, March 23rd, Robert will attend the premiere of "Boy Culture" which will be held at the Sunset Laemmle 5 theater in West Hollywood at 7pm. The movie also opens March 23rd at the Quad Cinemas (NYC), and the Castro Theatre (San Francisco). Boy Culture is the candid confession of X (Derek Magyar), a wildly successful male escort based in Seattle. News from the newly revamped Thea Gill website (check out the sexy new photos!): Thea will be signing autographs and posing for photos, along with her Dante's Cove castmates Tracey Scoggins, Michelle Wolff and Erin Cumming at The Logo Pool Party (part of the Dinah ShoreWeekend Party in Palm Springs, California) on Saturay, March 31. For more information, check out The Dinah 2007 website. Thea will also be making an appearance in the romantic comedy "The Road to Dinah" by Nina Fiore & JD Disalvatore. On May 3rd, Thea and Michelle Clunie (Melanie, QAF) will be honoured by the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, a new political force, in New York City at Elmo's Restaurant. The Observer has an interesting article about Russell Davies, titled "Television's lord of prime time awaits his next regeneration." The author writes, "Davies is becoming something of a 'national treasure' ... [but] as Queer as Folk, the uncompromising breakthrough drama he penned for Channel 4, demonstrated, Davies is made of sterner stuff. Its graphic depiction of gay life in Manchester outraged some, but cemented his reputation as one of television's most talented writers, along with his old colleague Paul Abbott. He and Abbott are now among the most powerful men in television. Davies has done more than any other writer to revitalise the BBC's output, placing a witty, daring and imaginative Doctor Who at the heart of a revamped Saturday night schedule." In an interview with Rebecca Pearson, Russell Davies answers the question, "Do you consider yourself a cool person?" by saying, "No! Does anyone say yes? Not remotely, I'm 43 - getting old. I think there was a little glimmering moment when I wrote Queer as Folk, a little tiny moment of being in the cool spotlight, but not for long." Read more of the interview here. March 15, 2007
On the Scott Walker film blog page, there's a new photo of Gale Harold with Stephen Kijak in Berlin on their way to the world premiere of David McKenzie's Competition film Hallam Foe (directed by David Mackenzie and based on a novel written by Peter Jinks) which Stephen says they all thought was "ace."
The Scott Walker: 30 Century Man will
screen at the Tribeca Film
Festival, April 24 to May 6,
2007, in the Midnight section, which "offers the dark, the creative, the strange, and
everything in between." Films in the
Midnight sections are eligible for the Audience Award for Best Feature Film. Here's the write-up from the Festival's
site: Philly.com has another article about the upcoming DVD release of Cagney & Lacey, where Sharon Gless reminisces about the groundbreaking show. She says she fell for her alter ego, labeling Cagney "the most wonderful, complicated woman ever written. She was very flawed, which made you love her... . She was an insecure, raging alcoholic who couldn't maintain a relationship with anybody. She would run over her partner - and not notice - if she stood in the way of something she wanted. I think I got away with murder playing her." Mr. Nightlife's Hollywood spotted Peter Paige and Robert Gant at the Logo LA Launch Party, thrown by Time/Warner Cable, at the ultra-chic Boulevard 3 club in Hollywood last Thursday night. Check out the site for a photo of the two QAF cuties. March 12, 2007 The North American premiere of the Scott Walker documentary is this week, with screenings on Tuesday, March 13th at 7:15pm and Thursday, March 15th at 1:45 pm, both at the Alamo Downtown. On Wednesday, March 14th, Stephen Kijak will be hanging out at the 4AD Label Showcase at Emo's handing out SW30 postcards and selling the ever-popular SW30 tee-shirts, and tells fans to "come by and say hello and check out some great bands: Wolf & Cub , Mountain Goats , Blonde Redhead and more." No word on whether Gale will be there. Valuing Our Families Conference has announced this year's award winners. Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard, the young gay man brutally beaten and hung on a fence to die in sub-zero weather in Wyoming in 1998, is being honored for her advocacy as executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Peter Paige, who played Emmett on Showtime's Queer as Folk is being recognized for his film, "Say Uncle," which counters negative stereotypes of gay men as caretakers for children. The awards will be presented at a special celebration on Saturday, March 24 at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Sharon Gless, spokesperson for SunServe, and a past national award winner will present both awards. The conference sponsors will also give awards to state and local advocates who have helped promote the value of LGBT families in South Florida, and across the state. The Fort Lauderdale Gay Men's Chorus will entertain the guests during the program. [source: Miami Herald] Peter Paige has a new message for fans on his website. He tells us he is gearing up to direct another film, titled "Leaving Barstow" by Kevin Sheridan, and is working on other projects as well. Peter says, "I wanted you to know I'm out there, and I truly appreciate your coming by the site." Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 2007: At the Queer Lounge Panel THE RELIGIOUS AGENDA: GAYS, FAITH & FILM, filmmakers and talent from "For The Bible Tells Me So," "Save Me," (featuring Robert Gant, who played Ben on QAF) and "Trembling Before G-d" discuss how independent film can be used as an educational tool. There are clips from the movie as well as a clip of the panel discussion, available from iklipz.com. From Playbill.com: Linda Hamilton will play Nurse Ratched in this summer's Berkshire Theatre Festival revival of Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which runs on the Main Stage July 10-July 28, with an opening on July 13. Hamilton will star opposite the previously announced Jonathan Epstein as Randall Patrick McMurphy and Randy Harrison ("Queer as Folk") as Billy Bibbit. Harrison will also play Frank in BTF's production of George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, which begins Aug. 14, opens Aug. 17 and ends Sept. 1. Eric Hill directs Cuckoo's Nest, Wasserman's classic adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel about a mental institution. The play will also star Ron Bagden, Austin Durant, Gerry Krasser, Tommy Schrider and E. Gray Simons III. More on this from theatermania.com. March 1, 2007 Although it has not officially been announced, word is that in addition to performing in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in the Berkshires this summer, Randy Harrison will also take part in George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession," directed by Anders Cato. The story centers on the relationship between Mrs Warren, a prostitute described by Shaw as "a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman," and her prudish daughter, Vivie. Randy will reportedly be playing Frank, Vivie's love interest. The play runs from August 14 to September 1, 2007. Visit www.berkshiretheatre.org for more information. "Scott Walker - 30 Century Man" will screen as a part of the 14th edition of HotDocs, the Canadian International Documentary Festival held in Toronto April 19-29, 2007. More on the documentary from indiewire.com. Through a chance connection via a "friend of a friend of a friend" who knows David Bowie, a huge Walker fan, Stephen Kijak was able to solicit the help of the famous singer in creating the film. "Scott is one of the artists Bowie feels the most about," Kijak said. He also joked about how great it would have been if Bowie had "given us heaps and heaps of cash, but we knew he'd be critical in getting the project international attention." As we already know, Gale became one of the principal financial backers for the film after a chance meeting with Kijak at the Tribeca Film Festival. Most essential, however, was that Scott Walker himself agreed to participate. "At first he'd speak to Stephen with his hat on," said producer Mia Bays describing how he maintained his own distance even while granting an unprecedented on-camera interview. "Eventually the hat came off." From PatrickAntosh.com: Patrick (costume designer for QAF) escorted Thea Gill last Tuesday night for the 27th Genie Awards. Thea presented the best picture nominee "A Sunday in Kigali" dressed in a stunning A.B.S. gown provided by Habibi and Patrick wore his favorite Hugo Boss. Thea had also sang the theme song to "Eighteen" which garnered Richard Bell a best original song nomination. Harris Allan (Hunter Novotny-Bruckner, QAF) told our fellow QAFer Abisel that he is currently auditioning in Los Angeles and is doing well. He has a personal MySpace page and one for his band, Square 9. Hal Sparks has created another Myspace page, called Hal Sparks is Funny, where he posts his comedy show dates.
Carlo Rota (Gardner Vance, QAF) shared a message with his fans on the "La Femme Nikita" message board, thanking them for their support. He writes, "the first four episodes of '24' have aired and we watched them at Mary Lynn's house with about 200 friends, crew and family. I couldn't help thinking, as I witnessed my participation in the show, how much I owe to the great people who supported my work and encouraged me to carry on and not to give up." Carlo can be seen weekly on the CBC television show "Little Mosque on the Prairie" in which he plays Yasir Hamoudi. Sharon Gless has posted a new entry to her blog on the Cagney and Lacey website. Canadian Bruce McDonald, who directed several episodes of Queer as Folk, has won the Manfred Salzgeber Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for his film The Tracey Fragments. The prize, named after the man who once headed the Panorama section of the festival, is given to works that broaden the boundaries of cinema today. The Tracey Fragments had its world premiere at Berlin, opening the Panorama program, which is dedicated to art-house films. The Tracey Fragments was one of 11 Canadian films in Berlin. [read more]. From Zap2it.com: Sharon Gless, who tears into one of the meatiest parts she has had in a long time in "The State Within," says she found the script so multilayered and complicated that she read it three times before agreeing to sign on. Even then, she hired a dramaturge to work with her on cracking her complex role. "She broke the whole thing down in terms of every single corporation that is listed in the show and every person, because I knew what my role is, but I had to figure out how I fit in with all those other people: whom I might be manipulating and why I was doing it," Gless says. "The best thing she did was write down every thing that every other character said about Lynne behind her back. That's how I learned how to play her and who she was. "My favorite line was when someone says, 'Be very careful, because she will mesmerize you with her certainty.' That one line really gave me a step up to see how to play this woman. I don't think Lynne doubts herself for a moment. She really believes that, in her job, you do send your son to war like every other boy in this country. In fact, she seems to have given up a lot for her country." Jason Isaacs (Showtime's 'Brotherhood") as British Ambassador Mark Brydon, on working with Sharon Gless: "She is this huge TV icon and you never know what someone is going to be like," he says. "I had watched her since I was a kid, and you don't know whether someone like that is going to arrive on the set and be a terrible diva and act as if they are slumming. "That is so far from what Sharon is. She is such a great mucker-in, fixing tea and baking cookies. I think she really enjoyed being part of a very different universe." More on the Davidson/Valentini Award being presented to Robert Gant, from the GLAAD website: Among the many tall, square-jawed leading men that populate the entertainment industry, there are a remarkably few who are openly gay. When Robert Gant came out publicly in the pages of The Advocate in 2002, he firmly established himself as an actor whose honesty matched his talent. For four seasons Gant portrayed Ben Bruckner, Michael's boyfriend, on the hit Showtime series Queer as Folk. Ben and Michael tackled several groundbreaking storylines, including the complexities of a mixed-HIV-status relationship, marriage equality, and becoming foster parents to an HIV-positive homeless youth. Since that show wrapped in 2005, he has continued acting while also moving behind the camera with the creation of Mythgarden Productions, which produced the gay-themed film Save Me, a selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, Gant has also become an advocate for the often-overlooked elderly members of the LGBT community, and his activism and philanthropic activity has garnered him major awards from The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Human Rights Campaign. The Davidson/Valentini Award is named after Craig Davidson, GLAAD's first executive director, and his partner Michael Valentini. The award is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professional who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for our community. Previous recipients include Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, Alec Mapa, Clive Barker, B.D. Wong, and Sandra Bernhard. February 16, 2007
Variety has an article about Gale's involvement in
the Scott Walker documentary. There's something very
cool about seeing his name alongside David Bowie's
("Bowie, Harold help pic get to bigscreen"). indieWIRE features a photo by Brian Brooks of Stephen Kijak, producer Mia Bays, and Gale Harold at the Berlin Film Festival where the movie had its international premiere earlier this week. Actor Michael Laurence played Charles in "Particles of Truth" starring Jennifer Elster and Gale Harold. According to Broadway.com, Laurence has assumed the role of Stu Noonan in the Broadway production of Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio. Quinton Skinner reviews "The Glass Menagerie" for Variety, and praises Randy Harrison's performance, saying he "plays young Tom with an appropriate mix of yearning and frustration, transparently wanting nothing more than to do right in an impossible situation." Sharon Gless' miniseries "A State Within" is getting a lot of press coverage right now. Other QAF alumni appear in the drama, including Noam Jenkins, playing Undersecretary for Defense Intelligence Christopher Styles. From The Post-Gazette: At a BBC America press conference last month in Pasadena, Calif., Gless said the miniseries' ending reminded her of the way "The Sixth Sense" made the audience re-evaluate everything they had seen in light of the big reveal. It's actually not that big of a shocker, but the final minutes do provide a decent twist followed by an annoyingly ambiguous ending. cable360.net writes, "As the hard-nosed U.S. Secetary of Defense, Gless has some terrific scenes, blasting both friends and enemies." See a photo of Sharon in the series at DVDtalk.com. With the 'Cagney & Lacey' Season 1 DVD on the way, Erin Carlson spoke to the series' stars, Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly. Carlson writes, "Gless, who recently starred on Showtime's 'Queer as Folk,' was lured by 'the best material.' "I took the part because I thought it was a great script," said Gless. "I didn't take it because I wanted to be a role model for the '80s, you know, which is what happened. "I mean, I think I can speak for Tyne, if anybody had come up to us and said `How would you two women like to be role models for the '80s?' (then) I would have run in the other direction," she said. [ read more] Don't forget to check out the Cagney &: Lacey website featuring blogs from the actresses. February 12, 2007 Thea Gill will be introducing the clip for Best Picture nominee "A Sunday in Kigali" (Lyse Lafontaine, Michael Mosca) at this year's Genie Awards. The Genies are the Awards which recognize outstanding achievement in Canadian Cinema & Television. "Live! At the Genies" will air on February 13th, 2007 on Star!, Bravo!, Citytv (Toronto) and musimax at 9pm ET in Canada. Sharon Gless' miniseries "A State Within" received a nice review from the Victoria Times Colonist. Author Alex Strachan writes, "Sharon Gless is pitch-perfect as the right-leaning U.S. secretary of defence who's part Madeleine Albright, part Jeanne Kirkpatrick and all business." Robert Gant will receive this year's Davidson/Valentini Award at the 18th annual GLAAD media awards on April 28, 2007. The Award is named in memory of Craig Davidson, GLAAD's first executive director, and his partner Michael Valentini, a GLAAD supporter. It is presented in San Francisco to an openly LGBT individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for the LGBT community. In 2006, Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman (Executive Producers of Queer As Folk) were the co-recipients. This year's event will take place at The Westin St. Francis Hotel, located at 335 Powell Street San Francisco. February 7, 2007
Gale's movie EAST BROADWAY (formerly SOCIAL GRACE) will now be known as FALLING FOR GRACE. The title change was announced on the movie's MySpace page. Many fans and members of the target audience were polled, and chose FALLING FOR GRACE as their favourite out of 10 different titles. The SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas has made their official line-up announcement, and SCOTT WALKER: 30 CENTURY MAN will be screening in the 24 Beats Per Second section. The Shop is now open at the SW30 film site, with t-shirts available for purchase, as well as the first in a series of limited edition prints: custom posters featuring a portrait of Scott Walker taken by Grant Gee during the making of the film, as well as a quotes from the film's interview subjects. Only 100 will be printed, and will be shipped starting February 28th, so pre-order now. Stephen Kijak says the sales will "help us chip away at our gargantuan production debit! (ah, independent filmmaking!)". Here's our chance to help Gale Harold, associate producer, recoup a chunk of the financing! The first quote on the merchandise comes from executive producer David Bowie: "What I really like about his songwriting is the way that he can paint a picture with what he says. I have no idea what he's singing about and I've never bothered to find out and I'm not really interested. I'm quite happy to take the songs that he sings and make something of them myself, and I read my own reasoning into the images and all that, which is how I use music personally. I construct my own worlds out of the music that I listen to. It's rarely important to me what the reason was that someone wrote something, it doesn't matter to me really. So his songs are really useful! They're useful for everyday living!" Playbill.com announces Randy Harrison's role in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST this summer. Randy will play Billy Bibbit, and Jonathan Epstein will play Randall Patrick McMurphy in Dale Wasserman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel, which will begin July 10, open July 13 and end July 28 in the Main Stage. More announcements about the play can be found at Variety.com, theatermania.com and at broadwayworld.com. The Star-Tribune.com mentions "Randyphiles" planning trips to Minneapolis from Alaska, Massachusetts and California to see the 29-year-old emote in the Tennessee Williams play. Chad Allen, Christopher Racster and Robert Gant are partners in the film production company Mythgarden. They joined the hosts of here! with Josh and Sara to discuss upcoming releases and the work they're so passionate about. The primary goal of Mythgarden is to be a springboard for amazing feature films for the LGBT community. Recent ventures include SAVE ME starring Judith Light and THE WAY OUT, a here! Original film. Listen to the interview at heretv.com. You can also read an interview with Chad Allen and watch a clip of the movie SAVE ME at MSNBC.com. Answering a question about which parts of the struggle to reconcile his Christian beliefs with his homosexual desires ring true to Allen, he says, "It wasn’t like I set out to tell my story, but where the script ended up is a struggle that I relate to almost in its entirety. My character starts out finding himself loveless and godless. I went through that. There was a time in life when I was absolutely desperate and addicted and void of love. My character’s entire process of finding God and finding love, while truncated, is truthful for me. That’s what it looked like, except mine was over the course of six and a half years, not two hours." From bgay.com: Building on his cameo in Spider-Man 2, Hal Sparks will further beef up his fanboy credentials by lending his voice to TAK AND THE POWER OF JUJU, a new Nickelodeon animated series based on a series of Sony Playstation games. Sparks stars as Tak, a mischievous 14-year-old who has gained access to the magical and mythical jungle realm of the Jujus. Also featuring the talents of Maurice LaMarche (who voiced Pinky's mentor, "The Brain," among many others) and Seinfeld's Patrick Warburton, Tak is set to premiere later in 2007. Matt Battaglia (Drew Boyd, Emmett's boyfriend in season 5 of QAF) and his wife Tina had superbowl ads this year. There's an article about them in the Louisville, KY Courier-Journal. "This year I have a Ford (commercial), and she has a Pizza Hut (ad)," Matt said in an interview. She had a Super Bowl ad for a financial company two years ago. He had a Gillette commercial in last year's game. In his case it will be a hometown boy pitching a hometown product in a series of ads featuring the 2008 Ford Super Duty F-450, which is being produced at the Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. Battaglia was chosen from among 400 actors who auditioned in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for the commercials, which also will be seen in TV sportscasts throughout the year. He's hoping to be picked up as a regular Ford spokesman, which could mean ad campaigns over several years. You can watch the Matt's commercial at ifilm.com. February 2, 2007 Happy Groundhog Day! Philly.com printed an article about Sharon Gless (Debbie on QAF), who plays the U.S. secretary of defense in BBC America's new mini-series, The State Within, and how she modeled her character on Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The article talks about how Sharon enjoys working in Toronto, and she has some nice things to say about Canadians. But the piece takes a sudden turn about halfway through, informing us that "Gless lost her control last weekend in Toronto, dragging herself to the ER after spiking a fever of 105 degrees. Following a battery of tests, Gless says a doctor informed her she had cancer of the lungs, bone and brain, and that she had six months to live. 'I was in shock,' she says. 'I sat in my car, feeling like I was in a bad movie.' >The next day, she flew to Omaha, Nebraska, where a friend who is a lung specialist immediately ordered tests. She didn't have cancer, her friend said. She had pneumonia. Armed with meds and ordered to take it easy, Gless returned to Toronto. She's too weak to confront the alarmist doctor, she says. 'I had this whole thing rehearsed that I was going to do. God bless America. We have the best health system in the world, if you can afford it.' Speaking of Sharon, her husband, Barry Rosenzweig started a "Cagney & Lacey" Web site for fans of the show, who can tell/ask him anything about "C&G," as well as television in general. Barney knows a lot about "the biz". In fact, he has authored a new book called "Cagney & Lacey ... and Me – An Inside Hollywood story or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blond" (iUniverse, May 2007). Rosenzweig who’s been called "The Man Behind the Women’s Movement," used this pioneering TV show about two female New York City police detectives to explore a range of women’s issues, from breast cancer, to date rape and spousal abuse that had never appeared on TV before. Rosenzweig had to fight to get the show on the air because its topics were deemed too controversial, and he had to fight equally hard to keep the show from being canceled, devising an ingenious viewer letter-writing campaign launched by Ms. Magazine – which is all meticulously detailed in his insider’s account of the show. Cagney & Lacey ... and Me is being released around Mother’s Day, May 13, 2007, to coincide with the release of the series DVD for the 25th anniversary of the show. In addition to the book, Gless' husband has started a website for the show, and his enthusiasm for the new project is reminiscent of the feelings he had when launching the series. He says both Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly feel the same and will make appearances on the site (they actually have their own blogs, and Sharon has made one brief entry, promising more info soon). You can view the site here. "For the Bible Tells Me So," director/producer Daniel Karslake, and "Save Me" director Robert Cary, producer Chris Racester, and actors Chad Allen and Robert Gant are interviewed by Craig Detweiler from the Windrider Forum. One of the most remarkable developments at this year’s Sundance was the appearance of two thoughtful explorations by gay filmmakers of the relationship between being Christian and being gay. These films introduce gays who embrace the Christian faith and welcome dialogue with Christians who find gay life and Christian life incompatible. There are 2 segments to the interview, which can be located at TheKindlings.com. In his article, "Sundance is over the rainbow," Lawrence Ferber wrote, "Putting their buttons where their mouths are, some stars skipped the swag entirely. But others loaded up anyway including ."Lance Bass and ."Reichen Lehmkuhl, who both also showed up at the Save Me premiere. Earlier in the evening I attended a private dinner with the filmmakers and stars, during which ."[Robert] Gant discussed getting a new dog and how ."Queer as Folk might have endured at least another season had the escalating costs of renewing the stars’ contracts — and at least one principal actor’s being totally over the show — killed that notion." >Hal Sparks talks about his time on QAF, and being a straight actor playing gay, in a recent interview. "I was lucky to work with Bobby Gant. He was a really respectful, smart and talented dude. We knew each other’s boundaries, and we were able to create some great cinematic achievement and retain our personal integrity—at least as much as you can in front of 30 people while wearing a flesh-colored sock. Now, I’m scared of nothing." In an article for the Chicago Sun-Times, Stella Foster wrote, "Sparks is a former Chicagoan now living in Los Angeles with his 'very tattooed' girlfriend Samantha Humphreys, a graphic artist who is writing Half Full -- 'a positive book for teens and young folks who are alternative culture types,' according to Sparks. He and his girlfriend were in the audience for an Oprah show taping about a new DVD coming out called 'The Secret,' a documentary based on the book about taking control of your life. Sparks has been practicing the principles for over a year. 'I am planning to order 100 DVDs to send out to friends,' Sparks told the reporter.Robert Gant has yet another project in the works; a film called "The Way Out", which will be produced in association with David Duchovny (most commonly known for his role as Mulder on the X-files) and Mythgarden. The film delves into the little-explored world of the elderly gay community, an issue that has been close to Robert's heart for some time. Read more about it at hereTV.com. Here is another review of The Glass Menagerie from The Minnesota Daily, accompanied by a picture of Randy Harrison as Tom Wingfield. You can also watch a short video clip at the Guthrie Theatre website of Randy and his co-star Harriet Harris performing a scene from the play. Will Gale Harold return as Wyatt Earp? From zap2it.com: During a session for "John from Cincinnati" at the winter press tour in Pasadena, David Milch answered a question about Deadwood fans. "The first thing I'd say to them is thanks for appreciating the work that we've done," Milch said. "And you know, I spent a significant portion of yesterday in collaboration with Evan Wright, who's a wonderful writer, with whom I'm doing the first of the two 'Deadwood' two-hour films. And we're very optimistic about the outcome of that work." HBO abruptly canceled the series last summer after its third season, which caused national protests from fans threatening to drop their HBO subscriptions. HBO quickly negotiated the finale movies with Milch to pacify fans who wanted some resolution to the cerebral and earthy western. Fans should have been skeptical, Milch said, when he talked about Deadwood getting four full seasons. "The big thing to keep in mind when you hear those sorts of statements," Milch said: "I’m a sociopath." According to the Cincinnait Post, Milch will not start work on on the "Deadwood" movies until the "Cincinnati" shoot wraps (the 11-episode series starring Rebecca De Mornay and Bruce Greenwood just began filming). The "Deadwood" finales likely won't air until 2008. HBO also announced this month "The Sopranos" will return April 8 for nine episodes that will bring the mob saga to a close. "Cincinnati" will likely replace it in June. "Entourage" will return April 8 for a 20-episode run. It's official! "Scott Walker - 30 Century Man" will have it's North American Premiere at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, TX in March. Dates and times are yet to be confirmed but it looks like the documentary will screen on either side of the big 4AD Records label showcase on March 14th. For those who don't know, SXSW is a music fest as well as a film fest, so the film will be screening right as the music fest is kicking off. Stephen Kijak said he will be down there "presenting the film and eating a lot of BBQ." No word on whether any of the producers (like, say... Gale Harold) will be in attendance. Following Berlin, as reported earlier, the film screens at film festivals in Glasgow, Dublin and the Bradford. Visit the "festivals" page on the website or the calendar at the myspace page for times & venues. March will be a busy one for SW30 - in addition to SXSW, the film will screen at The Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in Greece, and the NatFilm Festival of Denmark in Copenhagen. Dates and times to be posted soon on the website, so keep an eye peeled. |
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