Early press about some of the guest stars on this season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent is here. The season starts Tuesday, featuring the lovely Saffron Burrows (right). I’ll be on in a few weeks. Details as they become available, Cap’n.
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For those dying to ask me a tough question, or hear me try to field toughies from others, I’ll be on the podcast ‘Lost’ Causes, this Monday at 8p eastern/5p western.
The website is here. It lists a phone number and links to previous shows.
Be gentle.
Countin’ the Bab(i)es
When Reno Wilson phones, I take the call. Last year he and I were on the last two episodes of Prison Break as a pair of FBI agents, and I had trouble keeping a straight face at time during shooting. He’s one funny man. He also has the gift of being extremely, immediately likable, both in person and on screen. I can’t stand him.
So he rings me up to do a cameo in a video he’s shooting for Funny or Die, and who am I to say No? It’s called Babymaker and is in the Top 20 over at Funny or Die. You can watch it and vote here.
Dissecting Ethan, er, Goodspeed Dissecting
There are just so many problems in the world: traffic, power outages, not enough bacon. Sometimes you just don’t know where to start. Well, while your subsconcious works out your plan of attack, here are some ‘Lost’ recaps to keep your conscious mind distracted and non-interfering:
Washington Post
EW online (crazily detailed!)
E online
TVovermind
The Proper Lounge
Nik at Night
Now go save the world.
What’s Lost is Found (Kind of)
So tonight, a bit in advance of what I expected, the entire world — and I mean every single one of us — saw Ethan’s return to ‘Lost.’ And no one — and I mean not a single one of us — has any idea what it means. Except for about eight crazed writers in Burbank, and they’re not talking.
I’ve combined a number of questions I’m asked about the show into this simple Q & A:
Q: Why?
A: I have no idear.
Q: But seriously, why? Why are they hurled through time, and why was there a polar bear, and why is [getting a bit breathless through hyper-ventilating] —
A: Please, take a breath. Say after me, ‘He…has…no…idea-r.”
Q: Okay, a softball: Is it a fun show to work on?
A: Sadly, yes. This episode was a blast. I hadn’t worked with Evie since Season 1 (I think!) and Emilie since Season 2 (or was it 3? Ahhhhh!), and we fell right back into catching up and joking around. The cast, crew and producers have created an obnoxiously friendly set that one never wants to leave. It’s cliched, but it’s felt like a little reunion every time I’ve returned.
Q: Is it difficult to play Ethan, given that we’ve seen several different sides to him?
A: It would be if I or the audience expected it — or him — to make a lick of sense. However, because the less-obsessed among us long ago happily moved into the back seat to enjoy the ride, I can — mostly — simply play Ethan scene to scene without worrying about justifying apparent contradictions. Now, about that ‘mostly’..
Q: Do you know whether or not —
A: I have no id– well, you know. Really. Mostly.
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