In Praise of Chris's Colleagues

larry-411 · 27 Sep 08 :: 00:34

As posted earlier, I was present at Opening Night, Thursday, September 18, for the West Coast Premiere of Stephen Karam's controversial play Speech & Debate, starring three of America's finest young indie film actors together onstage -- Michael Welch, Mae Whitman, and Aaron Himelstein.

I also returned the following evening for an encore. Under the direction of Daniel Henning, performances are Thursdays through Sundays at The Blank Theatre in West Hollywood.

I highly recommend taking advantage of this rare opportunity while you can. Fortunately, for those unable to make the trip (or for those who have and enjoyed it as much as I did), all of America will have the chance to see this play soon, albeit in a slightly different form.
I was told after the Opening Night show that Overture Films has picked up the rights to turn Speech & Debate into a movie.

As promised, here are some pictures I shot at the Opening Night afterparty:

http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/story103748.html

P.S. Look for another friend in here.

TeeJay · 27 Sep 08 :: 01:47

Sweet! Thanks, Larry. The blond girl is Ryanne, right? I think I have to get used to the idea of Michael having dark hair.

While we're talking about Chris's co-starts, Kevin Rahm (Dana Tuchman on JoA) was on this week's new Without a Trace.

-TeeJay

larry-411 · 27 Sep 08 :: 02:31

TeeJay wrote:

Sweet! Thanks, Larry. The blond girl is Ryanne, right? I think I have to get used to the idea of Michael having dark hair.

ROFLMAO That made my day. :rofl:

They actually had to dye his hair over and over again to get it the right color. He finally gave up and Marissa did it. The reason it looks that way is a combination of 2 things:

1) It gets washed out under the stage lights and is MUCH lighter -- it actually looks more brown from the audience.

2) He is supposed to have previously bleached his hair blonde and it's supposed to be brown with some remnants of his former bleach job. His online nickname is "blonde boi" (not a spoiler -- you find that out literally in the first 5 seconds of the play).

So it has to look like someone with brown hair who had previously colored it blonde and is now letting it go back to its original color.

The end result is a very odd looking black dye job. Very peculiar-looking up close.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Sep 08 :: 03:58

Cool pics, Larry. TeeJay, remind me to tell those young gents that they are geeks no more. They're hunkilicious!

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 27 Sep 08 :: 10:37

Sisterdebmac wrote:

Cool pics, Larry. TeeJay, remind me to tell those young gents that they are geeks no more. They're hunkilicious!

I couldn't agree more, Deb.

domesticelefant · 27 Sep 08 :: 17:55

Cool pics, Larry, thanks for sharing.
I'm with Tina, I have to get used to the dark hair. LOL

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Sep 08 :: 20:10

There's a movie on Lifetime right now with Brooke Nevin in it called, A Daugter's Conviction.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Sep 08 :: 21:11

Ryan Reynolds marries one of the most beautiful women in all of Hollywood.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0, … 17,00.html

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 29 Sep 08 :: 05:27

That's great news! They make such a cute couple!!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 29 Sep 08 :: 05:58

I agree.

larry-411 · 04 Oct 08 :: 04:09

New interview with Michael Welch in September/October issue of Portrait magazine:

http://www.portraitmagazine.net/intervi … welch.html

Also Twilight premiere news:

http://www.chris-marquette.com/forum/vi … 409#p35409

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larry-411 · 06 Oct 08 :: 22:48

The Thacker Case will be screening at the St. Louis International Film Festival on Friday, November 21 at 7:15pm at the Tivoli Theatre.

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TeeJay · 06 Oct 08 :: 22:57

That's cool, thanks for posting, Larry. Shame I won't be able to see it, though.

-TeeJay

larry-411 · 07 Oct 08 :: 01:50

ITEM 1:

Two weeks ago, we posted a video featuring Michael on ways to save the environment. He has been involved with the charitable organization Kids With A Cause since 1999 and created a public service announcement to help show kids how they can help better their world. That video became an overnight sensation so he has sent us a followup.

Each year Kids With A Cause determines recipient youth organizations that will benefit from their programs and tries, when possible, to extend their support beyond the Los Angeles area. "We are always willing and ready to lend a hand to children in need anywhere, if travel arrangements can be sponsored," founder Linda Finnegan told us. "Kids With A Cause creates the program, brings the necessary supplies and materials and delivers positive and influential messages from our celebrity youth Members & Ambassadors."

So here is another exclusive video of actor Michael Welch showing kids some ways they can play a part in helping to save the world around them.

http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/story103861.html

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ITEM 2

Michael will be appearing live at Borders in Westwood for a Twilight podcast the night before the premiere.

He will be part of a Q&A session on the show and will sign autographs afterwards.

Twilight Lexicon has all the details:

http://www.twilightlexiconblog.com/?p=1770

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TheCentralScrutinizer · 09 Oct 08 :: 23:54

This is cool. Ryan Reynolds blogs about running the New York Marathon:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-reyn … 33157.html

CappuGirl · 10 Oct 08 :: 07:52

Sisterdebmac wrote:

This is cool. Ryan Reynolds blogs about running the New York Marathon:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-reyn … 33157.html

Great. I love Michael J.Fox and I think it's great how he deals with the sickness and how he recruits other people.

I could totally hear Ryan's voice saying those things while I was reading. Weird. I quess it's because I've seen so many of his movies the past year and in some of them he's doing a lot of talking and narrating too. I loved the Definately, maybe-movie.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 10 Oct 08 :: 16:12

I could hear Ryan's voice too! Especially on "...bleeding nipples. Bleeding. Nipples."

domesticelefant · 10 Oct 08 :: 16:34

Great article. Yeah, I love Michael J. Fox, too. I used to watch the Back To The Future movies all the time. I should do that again some time soon, I think.

CappuGirl · 10 Oct 08 :: 20:13

Samsy-Marie wrote:

Great article. Yeah, I love Michael J. Fox, too. I used to watch the Back To The Future movies all the time. I should do that again some time soon, I think.

I can totally remember every damn scene. I've watched it too many times.
My brother has the DVDbox with all three movies. I borrowed it from him and didn't give it back for a year... We live so far apart and didn't want to send it by mail.

CappuGirl · 13 Oct 08 :: 12:38

These boards went suddenly very quiet...

I just saw the trailer for Dandelion. It's been a while since I last checked Vincent Kartheiser's Imdb page. Last I saw it there still wasn't much info about the Dandelion and seemed like he didn't have much going on. Now there was lots of new stuff. I didn't even know that he was in a new series.

Anyone seen Dandelion or the Mad men? Are they any good? The trailer for the movie looked good.:D

TeeJay · 13 Oct 08 :: 13:02

CappuGirlFin wrote:

These boards went suddenly very quiet...

I can only speak for myself, but I think we were all pretty busy this weekend. And I'm back to work now, so I'm even more busy now. I'm trying very hard to get everything ready for the website, like the audio interviews, our trip report, the JoA article we wanna write, the questions we wanna send Mike, Aaron and Amber, the Fanboys review I wanna write, etc. Such a lot still to do and so little time.

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 13 Oct 08 :: 18:12

Is there anything I could do? I still feel a little weird, being home now, and I don't even know why!

TheCentralScrutinizer · 13 Oct 08 :: 20:07

I've seen a couple of eps of Mad Men, Maria. It's decent and I love VK, but it's kinda hard to stay interested since I haven't seen it from the beginning and don't know the characters very well. Everyone who does watch it says it's great though. Don't know anything about Dandelion, will have to look into it.

CappuGirl · 14 Oct 08 :: 06:03

On yay. We're having ads about the Mad men. So it will start on our tv soon. Nice coincident.

Illinoisguy1 · 14 Oct 08 :: 08:29

Here's some stills from Milk with Emile Hirsch.

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