Jane Kaczmarek is to star in director Nicholas Martin’s new production of John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves, to open the newly renovated Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. After a year-long $30 million renovation, the new Taper will re-light with Blues Leaves previews starting August 30 toward an opening of September 14. The dark comedy about American dreamers in Sunnyside, Queens, will continue through October 19.
Jane spoke at the opening night of her husbands (Bradley Whitford) new adaptation of Boeing-Boeing
“I’m going to be doing House of Blue Leaves at the newly refurbished Mark Taper Forum — Kate Burton and I, in September. I’m Bunny, and she’s Bananas. Kate and I were roommates together at Yale Drama School, and now our daughters are in the fourth grade at the same school in Los Angeles, and, after all these years, we’re back together again. Nicky Martin is directing it.”
“Bradley’s so well known on ‘The West Wing’ for being a serious actor, but he is a huge comic ham, and he’s very physical. There’s one time where he was doing a gorilla banging on his chest. Impersonating animals is one of the best things he got out of Juilliard. Thank God, it’s come in handy.”
Jane also attended the My Fair Lady premiere in April.
Jane was on Hollywood 411 last March talking about her charity auction site selling celebrity clothes off the red carpet. Making $2 Million for children’s charitys since 2002.
In April Jane was at the Luxury Summit in conversation with John Atwood, the editor in chief of Travel + Leisure Golf to explain just how the charity she founded works.
Earth Day was on 22 April and Jane Kaczmarek got involved. Organic Valley sponsored celebrity Earth Day Dinners and Jane co-hosted one in Los Angeles. Paper Shouts, provider of posh notes for life’s big moments, joined Distinctive Assets in celebrating Earth Day by gifting celebrities that make a difference. Jane was one of the celebrity ambassadors receiving the green gift baskets.
Jane Kaczmarek (Lois) has become envolved with The Screen Actors Guild Foundation and storylineonline.net, where celebrities read children’s books to encourage interest in reading. You can watch Jane reading her book choice Thank You, Mr. Falker written and illustrated by Patricia Polacco on the official site here, or click our direct link here.
As we have reportedpreviously Jane is starring in a new legal drama Raising the Bar as Judge Trudy Kessleron TNT.
As is now quite common for US TV shows episodes are leaked onto the internet most probably by the studios to create buzz around the series. So we are helping them out by letting you guys watch the WHOLE first episode a month before it airs on TV.
The show is set to premiere on Monday, September 1st at 10:00pm with 10 episodes ordered so far. Filming started in April.
Also as part of the new series promotion TNT are working with HouseParty.com giving you the chance to host your own party and watch the episode a week before it airs and get some free stuff too! See here for details.
Multiple Emmy-winner Bochco and the cast of Raising the Bar - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Jane Kaczmarek and Gloria Reuben and the show co-creator, lawyer-writer David Feige - were part of a panel on the new show.
At the panel, Michael Wright, senior vice president of Turner Entertainment Networks’ Content Creation Group, said that legal, medical and police shows all entail strong characters and conflict, which makes for good dramatic fodder for the network.
To cap her show’s panel, Kaczmarek said that she looks forward to attending TNT events, because of Wright.
Ever since Breaking Bad started airing in January people have been saying that Bryan deserves an Emmy, and he has now passed the first hurdle to that goal. Congratulations to Bryan on getting nominated for ‘Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series’ announced on July 17th.
Before the nominations where announced The Hollywood Reporter’s Ray Richmond gathered nine actors, all with major primetime TV series roles, for a provocative discussion of the Emmys and their careers. Bryan was one of them.
THR: David, did you have a great evening when you were nominated for “Just Shoot Me” in 1999?
David Spade: I actually remember my Golden Globe loss that year more than my Emmy loss. I got beat by Gregory Peck. That prick! And he came out of nowhere!
Bryan Cranston: And as I recall, wasn’t he already dead at the time?
Spade: He died on the way to the podium. He said, like, “I can’t believe I won this award for my 90-second cameo.” And I’m like, “Me, too!”
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THR: Bryan and Ted, you both made major inroads with audiences in comedic roles, but now you’re thriving in drama series on cable. Was it a tough sell for you to make those changes?
Cranston: Not in my case. I mean, actors just love to act. The only thing I think we really concern ourselves with is not being pigeonholed in any one thing. We look for the well-rounded opportunity, and “Breaking Bad” was surely that. I’d once guested on David’s show “The X-Files” 10 years ago, when Vince Gilligan was a producer over there. Fortunately, he remembered me when he was putting together his new show. He was my champion to get this role from the beginning.
Danson: I’m sure my agent and my manager pursued it for me. But when you see writing like this show has, and a star like Glenn Close, and a network that takes chances like FX, I felt lucky landing the part. You always go for the good writing.
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THR: David and Blair, you’re also on cable — do any of you feel a greater sense of creative freedom as actors working on cable shows?
David Duchovny: Having the full flower of the English language tends to be good for comedy. It’s a treat as an actor to be able to actually speak in a role the way one speaks in life.
Cranston: It’s different for David because he’s on the premium channel. On AMC, they actually give us a limit of how many “shits” or “f***s” we can use each week. You negotiate it. If we say “shit” once in an hour, we might get two “f***s.”
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THR: But the fact that there is an FX, an AMC, a Showtime, an HBO for shows that don’t fit into the restrictive broadcast parameters has to be good in terms of inspiring greater quality and variety than TV has ever before offered, no?
Cranston: No question. It’s been overused that we’re in another Golden Age, but I think we are. The bar has been set really high. I don’t think a show whose lead character is cooking crystal meth in the heartland could ever be considered for a broadcast network. So cable is opening up a lot of avenues for story lines that have long been closed.
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Baldwin: Wait a minute. I wanted to ask a question of everyone, if I may. What would be your dream TV show, if you could do anything?
Blair Underwood: I’d love to do an update of “The Wild Wild West.” Not necessarily in outer space.
Cranston: I’d like to go retro with some sort of “Andy Griffith”-type show.
More Breaking Bad behind the scenes videos have been added here.
Breaking Bad season 1 is currently re-airing on AMC see here for details.
The 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards are airing live from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 21 (8:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on ABC.
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