Walt Disney’s Enchanted made its world premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Saturday, November 17 and Jane Kaczmarek was there.
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November 25th, 2007
Theater students at Greendale High School recently got a special treat, when one of their own, Jane Kaczmarek, came back for a trip down memory lane, and took them along for the ride.
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November 25th, 2007
Spalding Gray died in 2004, and “Stories Left to Tell” was assembled by his widow from his journals, monologues and other writings. The material is separated into five categories: love, adventure, family, journals and career. The first four sections where be performed by core company members Tom Bruno, Marcie Hoffman, John Kishline, co-artistic director Isabelle Kralj and Anderson.
A series of guest “celebrity” artists did the career category. This is where Jane Kaczmarek came in and put her skills to work.
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November 5th, 2007
We have some what neglected to comment on all the recent action going on the over at Clothes Off Our Backs. If you don’t know it’s a charity auctioning site founded by Jane Kaczmarek and her husband Bradley Whitford. The main focus is on celebrity items of clothing but they do branch out into other areas.
They completed their 6th Annual Emmy Auction last month, and have recently auctioned celebrity designed lingerie, including some designed by Jane herself raising $120,000. You can still bid on a corset designed by Jane here, and see photos below.
Here Jane talks about her work in the charity:
“I love to steam them and put them in boxes,” Kaczmarek said about the auction items. “Someone told me that Kaczmarek means custodian in Polish, and I really love that end of it. I know it sounds kind of odd, but I really love ironing. And I love making it look really, really beautiful, so when they open up the box they’ve got a gorgeous dress and beautiful, colored tissue paper.”
It’s not all dresses, either. There’s furniture from Architectural Digest’s greenroom at the Emmy Awards. Kaczmarek has her eye on two green Holmby chairs. “I love them,” she said. “I thought I’d wait until the last minute to see if anybody moves on those and go in on that, because that stuff is gorgeous.”
Kaczmarek and Whitford’s oldest child, daughter Frances, is 10, and I asked if she has them bidding on things for her. Nope.
“She’s a very modest child,” Kaczmarek said. “I never have tabloids around the house, and they really don’t know who anybody is. We only have one TV in the house.”
Jane and Bradley have been honoured for the charity work:
Sam Nicholson’s Mediterranean villa in Pasadena was the setting for the second year for the annual benefit concert for Grace Center.
More than 200 guests turned out for the glamorous Casablanca-themed evening honoring actress Jane Kaczmarek and her husband, actor Bradley Whitford, for their community activism. The San Marino couple has supported several local philanthropies including the center, a Pasadena-based sanctuary for victims of domestic violence.
More photos in our gallery.
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November 5th, 2007
As we reported previously Jane Kaczmarek will be starring in a new legal drama, see here for more details. However it has now been named: Raising The Bar.
UPDATE: Picked up by TNT
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October 8th, 2007
Jane Kaczmarek (Lois) will return to her hometown in October to appear in the Milwaukee Dance Theatre production of “Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell.”
The show, a collection of material from the journals and monologues of the late Spalding Gray, will feature four company performers and rotating guest artists. Kaczmarek, will perform Oct. 26-28. The production will continue with other guest artists through Nov. 10.
The production will be staged at the Off-Broadway Theatre, 342 N. Water St. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Off-Broadway Theatre box office at (414) 278-0765.
[Bryan Cranston Stars on Stage] Who next from the cast is going to star on stage?
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September 19th, 2007
Autographed portraits of some of Hollywood’s brightest stars (including Jane) are up for auction on the internet this month, as part of the “Stars For A Cause”: charity Gala to be held on Thursday, September 27th, 2007.
Jane has been immortalized by acclaimed artist, Nicolosi. Painted using acrylic on canvas, these pop-art style portraits are both colorful and dynamic, and have been exhibited in London and Los Angeles, as well as at the Cannes Film Festival and on the cruise liner, the Queen Mary II.
Proceeds from the auction will go to The Prince’s Trust, a UK based charity that helps young people overcome barriers by providing training, mentoring, and financial assistance.
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August 24th, 2007
Jane Kaczmarek has booked her first acting role after last season’s Help Me Help You, in which she guest starred in four episodes.
This new role is in a potential series for cable network TNT. The untitled legal drama, from Steven Bochco, the Executive Producer of NYPD Blue, co-stars Mark Paul Gosselear (NYPD Blue, Saved by the Bell) and Gloria Reuben (ER).
The pilot will focus on law-school friends who now work on opposite sides of a case. Said case is set to be presided over by Jane Kaczmarek, who will play a judge.
An Emmy nominee for each of her seven seasons on Fox’s comedy “Malcolm in the Middle,” Kaczmarek is making a dramatic turn with the TNT project, playing a stylish, imperious and a bit crazy judge who runs her courtroom like her own private fiefdom.
Kaczmarek has experience playing a judge as she voices occasional “Simpsons” character Judge Constance Harm. She is repped by Endeavor and Greenlight Entertainment.
UPDATE: Named Raising the Bar.
UPDATE: Picked up by TNT
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August 2nd, 2007
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Kevin Bacon has started up a new charity website with a difference. SixDegrees.org is “social networking with a social conscience” The name came from the long running game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.
At the site you can see the charities celebrities are supporting and can add badges like Jane’s to the left on your website, MySpace, blog etc. You can also create your own badge for the charity you are championing. |
If you can why not help out Jane’s charity ‘Clothes Off Our Backs‘ by adding her badge anywhere you can. Click on ‘Add This Badge To Your Site‘
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July 17th, 2007
Here is an interview with Jane Kaczmarek (Lois) from iParenting.com where she discuses kids and finance.
Emmy-award nominee Jane Kaczmarek played the hilarious and harried wife and mother Lois on FOX’s Malcolm in the Middle. As the mother of three and wife to actor Bradley Whitford (NBC’s The West Wing), her real life often bears a resemblance to the one she played on TV. As a mother, she takes a no-nonsense approach to parenting, especially when it comes to money. Having founded Clothes Off Our Back, a charity dedicated to auctioning off celebrity awards show clothing to raise money for children’s charities, she tries to instil values in her children regarding finances and giving back to those who are in need. Jane, who recently worked with Visa’s PracticalMoneySkills.com, took a moment out of her busy schedule to share her thoughts on kids and finance with iParenting.
iP: How do you get your kids involved in work that you do for others?
JK: We have a big thing with birthday presents. I can’t stand all this stuff hanging around our house. It makes me crazy – all this stuff that piles up. So I started something in the kids’ invitation for their birthday parties saying that it is a family tradition, in lieu of birthday presents, please bring a check for the following charity – any amount would be very welcome. I think people always want to bring something to a birthday party and they don’t know what your kid has and what they need, so we collect money at birthday parties. This year we went back to the Children’s Defense Fund, which is an advocacy group for children here in American run by Marian Wright Edelman. We have done it for Smile Train, which is another favorite of mine. Smile Train does cleft palette repairs for children in the developing world. You know, $250 pays for an operation for a child and it changes their life. They go from pretty much being an outcast and beggar to being able to go to school and have a job. And $250 is pretty easy to raise at a kids’ birthday party because people bring a check for $20, which is easily what they would spend on a present.
iP: How do your kids take not getting a present?
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JK: People still bring something. My mother will still send something, so they end up with three or four things to open as opposed to 20 things to open. And we talk to them about it. They are 7, 5 and 2, so the 7-year-old is starting to understand it. Children emulate their parents and they see their parents doing things and they mimic their parents. I like to play the piano and all the kids take music and Brad plays the viola. They see us playing musical instruments and it makes them want to do it because it is fun and it sounds nice and it is a nice family thing to do together. I am just hoping that this is something they grow up with and it just seems natural as anything.
iP: Do you feel like growing up in the Midwest helped shape your values?
JK: This was not a big family value growing up, unfortunately. My parents are very good about saving money; they were really very resourceful. My father used to always get a Christmas tree for $1. He would cut off branches and drill holes into the trunk where there were empty spots and glue branches into the tree. It was amazing; he would make this phenomenal tree out of this Charlie Brown-est tree on the lot. I grew up with very clever parents; they could make things look really good on very little. I was raised with the idea that you are capable of doing a lot. But the whole giving thing really happened as a combination of going to church and really becoming hugely successful on a television show. Because you can’t believe the stuff that people give you. I am doing an event tonight and if I wear earrings from this place they will make a donation to Clothes Off Our Back. So sure, great, I have to wear earrings anyway. Oh, my gosh, people want to advertise. Hopefully you will mention their earrings. There are just a lot of opportunities once you become aware of that. Part of it is that I had my children late and I had my success late, you know I was really in my 40s when all of this happened.
iP: You were in a good place.
JK: You have such a different perspective on it and you are very aware of the ups and downs that happen in a career. The 15 minutes of fame, you realize this might be your only chance to give back, or to make a difference – do it! Don’t wait for the next time you are on the top. It is such a roller coaster. You have to just do it.
iP: With so much excess everywhere, how do you avoid your kids being spoiled?
JK: Just say no. I cannot tell you how valuable that word is. No. Why not, they ask? Because it is not for us. Sometimes you just give in because they are driving you crazy. Like my daughter is watching Barney right now. She is just driving me crazy and I am trying to finish decorating the Christmas tree and she is 2 so you think, you know what, let her watch a video in the middle of the day. That’s fine. But, for the most part, we play cards and we play Chinese checkers and we play games and puzzles and you practice piano and there are so many great things to do with kids that don’t involve money.
Also, just don’t buy them a lot of stuff. I just can’t stand all that junk piling up.
My church has something called an alternate Christmas fair. They always have booths set up with places like Smile Train and the Heifer Project is a great, great thing where you can buy livestock for people. You can buy a chicken, a goat or a flock of bees throughout the world, including America, where they give people in need these animals and they are able to raise animals and sell them and you get a great little card of a goat or a duck or something. You know, it is fun for kids to be able to do that, to go Christmas shopping in ways that you can buy something that is really going to make a difference in someone’s life as opposed to all this stuff.
To learn how other celebrities think about finance, visit www.PracticalMoneySkills.com.
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July 17th, 2007
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