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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

Report on Last Night’s HI-larity

Posted on: May 24th, 2010 by wmapother 1 Comment

Zap2it has a report here on last night’s “Dharma Station: UCB: A ‘Lost’ Comedy Event, the evening of ‘Lost’-themed sketches.  Damn, was it a blast.  No, I’m not just glad to be there:  That’s a papaya in my shirt.
It’s a safe bet I’ll be hanging out a bit at the UCB for the foreseeable future.  The comedians are hysterical and friendly.  Sigh.

Posted in Acting Projects, Funny Like Ha-Ha, In Person (or, like, Live), Press, Stage

Sun-Times Shout-Out

Posted on: May 23rd, 2010 by wmapother 1 Comment

The Chicago Sun-Times picked Ethan as one of Lost’s characters which made the show so memorable.  Normally, you won’t find such self-serving pieces here on the pages of ATW, but in this case, it pretty apparent that it’s in the interest of the general public’s welfare.  Also, it’s the show’s last day, so, you know, tough.  (Thanks, Nancy!)

Excerpt:

“10 underrated heroes made ‘Lost’ intriguing

In the end, my biggest complaint about “Lost” is probably this: It gave too much.

It gave us well-written, character-driven stories. It gave us groundbreaking narrative styles. It gave us Miles and Hurley, the best comedy team since Cheech and Chong. It gave us Egyptian mythology, Enlightenment philosophy, endless literary references, time travel, and a hydrogen bomb. It gave us flashbacks, flashforwards and flash-sideways.

It was too much….”

Posted in Acting Projects, Photos of Wm, Press

Not to Be Negative, But..

Posted on: May 12th, 2010 by wmapother 11 Comments

A few nights ago Entertainment Weekly threw a party for their Lost-centric issue.  Whilst there I encountered the mild-mannered Damon Lindelof, Lost’s co-creator, enjoying a cocktail, a well-deserved post-series rest and not bothering anyone.   [Just to clarify, this is he —>  ]

Sadly for him, however, he soon found himself Ethanized.  I somehow found an excuse — I swear, it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time (I think) — to inflict upon him an impassioned and (probably) dramatized introduction to John Keats‘ theory of negative capability, of which I have been immoderately fond since I was a wee college lad.

Today I emailed Damon the wikipedia link and he tweeted about it.  As is customary for Damon, he was kind enough to omit all the gesticulation and listen-to-this-ness.   [ And this is Keats —>  ]

By the way, if you find me blogging about tweeting ever again, please Ethanize me, I beg you.

Posted in Acting Projects, Press, Recs, Website & Social Media

The Dead Zone

Posted on: May 7th, 2010 by wmapother 3 Comments

So that photo shoot I referred to in this post was for Entertainment Weekly, and the issue is now on the stands — with a variety of different covers of the main characters from ‘Lost.’  It’s a big farewell to the show, with a variety of articles and reminiscences.  There’s a piece in it called “The Dead Zone” (not online, tho) dedicated to those — including dear Ethan — whose “end came far too soon.”

The excerpt on Ethan:

When He Died:  Season 1, Ep 15

How:  Shot by Charlie, whom he’d once tried to kill.  [WM:  This is supposition, people.  Have we not gone over this?  Charlie’s hanging occurred off-camera, and Charlie never said who did it.  We have an annoying little obligation in this country called burden of proof.  Sheesh.  Okay, moving on.]

On Learning He Would Die:  “Although I had only been on a few episodes, I was looking forward to some more, and I thought, ‘Arrgh! To be gone so quickly after having tasted the fruit of the show.’  I felt sorry for Ethan.  He was unarmed and Charlie pulled out a gun.  I felt sympathy for Ethan.  So I wept for me, and I wept for Ethan.”

I have no recollection of saying the above, but it sounds just like that whiny Mapother, so I have no doubt it’s accurate reporting.

Posted in Acting Projects, Press