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LA Film Festival

Posted on: June 10th, 2010 by wmapother 5 Comments

On Sat, June 26th, at this year’s LA Film Festival, I’ll be participating in and moderating this year’s Actors Coffee Talk.  The festival also holds them for screenwriters and directors, and they’re all very popular.  Past participants include Jodie Foster, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Roth, and Melissa Leo.  Yeah. : )

The other two participants with me this year are a pair of not-too-shabby actors, Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, 24…) and James Cromwell (Babe, 6 Ft Under…).  It should be a blast as I ask them all sorts of inappropriate and irrelevant questions.

The Hollywood Reporter’s piece is here, Variety’s here, and the LAFF’s page and ticket link is here (then go down to ‘C’ for ‘Coffee Talk: Actors’ on June 26th at 1pm).

Posted in Film Festival, In Person (or, like, Live), Los Angeles, Press

Asssscat!

Posted on: June 2nd, 2010 by wmapother 3 Comments

There are just so many tempting directions to take that title…  But we have ground to cover, people, so that’s a riff for another day.  (sigh.)

Asssscat! is the name of a regular show at the fabulous UCB comedy theatre (which held the ‘Lost’ show two weeks ago – posts here and here).

The set-up:  Using a suggestion from the audience, a guest monologist spills his guts for 5-10 minutes by sharing his thoughts, feelings, or a meaningful story from his past.  Then a group of improv comedians comes up on stage, takes those guts, and spins them into comic gold.  Then we do it again:  Suggestion, guts, comic gold.  Repeat until guest dies.

So who are these mystery monologists?  UCB website:  “Some guest monologists are talented celebrities, others are screwed up weirdoes.”

This Saturday’s monologist and guts-spiller?  I am he.  It should be loads of fun — for everyone else.  (Kidding!)  I’m sure it’ll be a blast.

The UCB schedule is here, and the show description and link to tickets is here.

Posted in Funny Like Ha-Ha, In Person (or, like, Live), Los Angeles, Stage

Lost: The (Nearly) Final Celebration

Posted on: May 11th, 2010 by wmapother 4 Comments

This Thursday at UCLA’s Royce Hall, ABC is hosting a Lost party/charity event, ‘Lost: The Final Celebration.’  Composer Michael Giacchino will perform some of his music, the penultimate episode will be screened (shhh), and then they’ll be a deconstruction, er, party afterwards.

My date will be my fabulous and glamorous agent Suzanne.  Asking her to join me is just a small token of my gratitude, considering it is only through her ingenious efforts that I’m a part of this whole crazy Lost world to begin with.  Thank you, Suz, again and again.

Info is here and tickets (if any are left) are here.

Note:  The photo is, of course, from season one, right before Charlie brutally murdered the  unarmed, just-stabbed-in-the-leg-offscreen-and-therefore-considerably-weakened obstetric surgeon Ethan.

But don’t weep for me, Argentina, Romania, Thailand or Zimbabwe.  After I die, I’ll be back for eight more episodes.  But Charlie won’t.  And let that be a lesson to you young heroin addicts out there.

Posted in Acting Projects, In Person (or, like, Live), Los Angeles, Photos of Wm