Here's my latest behind the scenes of The Good Wife vid for Cbs.com, but firs tme talkng about that movie I am almost in that's coming out next week. Er, what's it called...
Happy holidays!!
Have a cool yule tout le monde. Here is afestive pic of me and some chums by my friend Greg Endries, and then my latest behind the scenes of The Good Wife video. Have fun, and if you can't be good, be good at it!
More press. Will I never shut up?
Here's an interview I did during The Good Wife's international press junket.
And an interview I did for the AP.
I solemly swear...
Adocumentary I took part in about becoming an American citizen airs this week on the History Channel. The full version is on Wednesday, December 15th at 10AM & 4PM. A slightly cut-down version will air on Saturday, December 18th at 8PM. Here's the trailer...
...and then here I am looking a bit haggard the morning after The Tempest premiere, on KTLA
Talk stoop
I had a lot of fun the other week sitting on a stoop in Cobble Hill with Cat Greenleaf for Talk Stoop. She told me that the biggest audience for this piece would be at gas pumps. Isnt the world a funny place? I am just excited to get in a NYC taxicab and see myself on the little annoying screen behind the seat.
tempestousness
I am in LA for The Tempest premiere and some press stuff. I was just up at the crack of dawn to be on KTLA, after the premiere last night. I am hanging around to do George Lopez's show tomorrow. Last night at the party a girl from a trade newspaperasked me if I had 'encountered Shakespeare a bunch'. Yes, really.
My John Bartlett ensemble has been much discussed. I am again amused and saddened by anything unusual or different here in LA being perceived as completely impossible to deal with, and rather subversive. Fear, fear, fear. Is what you're eating killing you? Find out after these commercials.
old
I am old. It's official. See below...
Glittery
We, the Good Wife men, are included in the Entertainment Weekly Entertainers of the Year issue. Who knew?! And here is me doing my fiercest Gaga with my wreath (Martha seems to like it)
I sit and stare at my glittery wreath and I still can't believe it actually happened
world aids day
So here we are, another World AIDS day has come around and still we have no cure.
Earlier this year I hosted Amfar's Cinema Against AIDS gala at the Cannes film festival, and whilst we raised a ton of much-needed cash for research and prevention programs, it seemed to me that people have become a bit bored of HIV/AIDS, certainly posh people that night in Cannes. And that I think is the best, and the worst thing that could possibly have happened to the AIDS crisis.
It's the best because in many ways AIDS has now become just like any other disease that we don't have a cure for, and much of the homophobic and racist stigma that has been attached to it seems to have been chipped away (although there's a long way to go too); why it's worst is that people are tired of the fight- and never forget that curbing this disease is a huge worldwide fight, economically, politically and socially - and no battle can be won when the troops are losing sight of the prize.
That's why I was so excited when, filming in South Africa this summer, I discovered that the techniques of preventing mother to child HIV infection have become incredibly successful and it is generally believed that it's possible to stop all mother/child transmission of the virus by 2015!! Do you see what that means?! Yes, the possibility of the first generation in almost 30 years where virtually no child is born with HIV. It's the best news I've heard in years!
And on this World AIDS day, the lovely people at RED want to highlight the good news and step up the efforts so that that statistic comes true. Starting with the Sydney Opera House being turned red by Bono, many landmarks around the world will be lit up in red too. And here's how you can help...
Turn your Facebook page red
Share a 2015 tweet using #turnred
Ask people to 'shout' out on Foursquare with #turnred
(I don't actually understand what that last thing means but if you do, please just do it, okay?!)
All of these small actions will add up. Each time someone changes their profile picture on Facebook, or tweets using #turnred, the message is mapped to a data visualizer map, that Red has developed with Ushahidi, a crowd-sourcing platform that was created by a technology team in Kenya . I know, it' so James Bond isn't it?! Each action helps turn their time-zone on the map the color red. The more activity, the deeper the color.
So help turn the whole world a deep, deep red this World AIDS day and look forward to the possibility of a generation free from HIV/AIDS. Find out more about the issue and how to get involved at JOINRED.COM
Dead Dad Dog
I am going to be doing a reading of JohnMcKay's play Dead Dad Dog at the Classic Stage Company in NYC on Monday 29th November at 8pm. You can get tickets here
Dead Dad Dog is about a guy named Eck whose day is disturbed by the appearance of his dead dad, Willie. I am Eck and Brian Cox will be Willie. I first saw this play in Edinburgh at the Traverse Theatre in 1988 and have always wanted to hear it again. And sometimes you just have to make things happen, people!
And if you're heading out to see Burlesque this Thanksgiving, here is an excerpt from an interview with the director Steven Antin which explains why I am not in it very much..
Do you already have plans for extended and deleted scenes for the DVD?
ANTIN: Yeah, you’re going to see it all. There’s going to be extras on the DVD that are great. There’s a number that Alan Cumming did, that so sadly didn’t make it into the movie. I’m so sad about that. He’s so fabulous. Wait until you see him do this musical number. He sang “That’s Life” on the bar with the bartenders, and it was so great. We couldn’t make it work within the body of the movie, but on its own, it’s so beautiful and spectacular. We had to cut things from the movie ‘cause the movie was getting really long
I love being a DVD extra, I really do!! And here I am singing said, cut, song.