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To celebrate the 2008 Tonys, Broadway World asked Tony winners to tell their Tony night stories. Here’s
John Glover
By the time John Glover won his Tony for playing twins (one naughty, one nice) in Love! Valour! Compassion!, he had already established himself as a popular bad guy in a string of hit 1980s films. But Glover got his start on the stage, and playwright Terrence McNally acknowledged his talent by writing the roles of John and James Jeckyll with the actor in mind. Glover has gone on to play Lex Luthor's evil dad on TV's Smallville and returned to Broadway in the spring of 2007 as Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone. He went back in time to recall his night with Tony.
Which year did you win your first Tony?
Glover: 1995
For which role and show?
Glover: Twins John and James Jeckyll in Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally
Where were the awards held?
Glover: Minskoff Theatre
Who hosted?
Glover: Nathan Lane and Gregory Hines
What did you wear?
Glover: A classic Armani tux
Who was sitting next to you?
Glover: My partner, Adam Kurtzman
Who did you think would win your category?
Glover: I hoped I would, but thought probably Jude Law. All the other nominees in our category were from Love! Valour! Compassion!
What was the first thing that ran through your mind when they said your name?
Glover: "Oh dear, I've got 40 second to get all those thank yous in or they're start playing the music...run, and start talking as quickly as you can!"
Did you forget to thank anyone?
Glover: Catherine Olim
Did you cry?
Glover: I couldn't...it would have taken up precious seconds thanking people. Franny Sternhagen had won just before me and they'd cut her off, so I knew they were serious about the 40-second rule.
If you could relive that night, would you change anything?
Glover: I'd have tried harder to relax before the ceremony started.
Who were you most surprised to hear from after the win?
Glover: When I got home, there was a phone message from Rosemary Clooney singing "You're the Top" to me.
Did winning a Tony change your life? How?
Glover: I thought it would, but no, it didn't.
What's your biggest memory of the night?
Glover: Meeting Al Hirschfeld at Sardi's after the ceremony.
What's the best piece of advice you can offer for getting through Tony night?
Glover: Relax and enjoy it.
Where do you keep your Tony?
Glover: On the toilet tank so dinner guests can have time with it by themselves in front of a mirror.
~New to me, excerpt from a 2004 Smallville Magazine interview with Tom talking about working with
SM: The scenes with Kyle Gallner have an element of having fun with the powers, with Clark and Bart showing off...
TW: That actually happened on set between Kyle and I when we were racing, and I was trying to catch him. We both had to end up stopping on a mark, and be both split, went past the camera and almost into the concrete in front of us. There was a little bit of rivalry with Kyle and I in an absolutely positive way - we just really got along. I actually saw a lot of myself in him, and I think he saw a little bit of what he would be like to do in his life, or his career maybe, in what I am doing. We got on great from day one. We just had a lot of fun, and he learned so much. I told him right off the bat, "I'll help you out, but I'm going to tell you straight so you can get it quick. I'm not going to sit there and dance around something, if I see something I'm going to tell you, and either you get it or you don't." We established this really direct relationship. He learned so much. Who he was on the first day and who he was on the last day - there were years of experience in there, it was amazing.
SM: Does it feel odd being the teacher after going through a learning curve yourself?
TW: I love it! I can definitely see that in a few of the kids we've had on the show, where they're new and they're trying to get it all. I've been there and I do know what it's like. At least for me, looking back, I knew what I needed and I know what kind of approach I need. It's different for everybody, but what I needed and what I had were people who were willing to tell me what I needed to know, rather than dance around it, and make me feel better. I didn't need that. I needed someone to tell me how to do it. I like being in that situation - I like being able to help, especially when people like Kyle want to learn so much.
**It’s funny that he says he sees himself in Kyle because Kyle wasn’t green when he did “Run”. Kyle’s been in the business for a long time, so the idea that Kyle was some lost soul looking for guidance is weird to me. The only thing I could see is Kyle needing schooling on the ways of the set. He seems like that guy who the set driver has to call a million times and then end up pounding on the door to get him to the car.
~Comic Book Resource has a video interview with Sam Witwer. Is he attractive or not? I’m still on the fence. Little trivia: Chicagoan’s Cassidy Freeman and Sam Witwer fathers knew each other. Cassidy even ponders if she and Sam spent time together as children.
~Interview with Justin Hartley about “Gemini Division” and
I caught up with Justin during a Smallville break and we talked about that, this, and why he’ll never offer to fix the pool again.
Set aside your quiver, Oliver Queen fans, Justin Hartley is in the house.
Why did you decide to work on Gemini Division?
Justin: I feel like this is where the future of our business is going is to the web. I believe there is a way to do it that is high quality, that looks great, that is going to grip people and get away from that stigma that the Internet is just a big porn machine. I was developing my own webseries, a sketch comedy kind of thing, when I got this call. When they said Rosario Dawson was doing it, I was like, you mean THE Rosario Dawson? It really interests me to see a bona fide movie star (she probably hates that phrase, but she is) doing something like this.
I think we’ve got our hands on something good. I’ve seen the first two webisodes, they’ve been released on NBC.com and there’s a new one on Monday and then four a week until they’re done - 52 of them.
How does working on a webseries differ from working on a TV series?
Justin: [Gemini Division] falls somewhere between the soap that I did and Smallville. When you do a webseries the crew is much smaller, the production is much smaller, and you may do a whole episode in one day. But when we shoot Smallville, the crew is much bigger and you have a lot more time to shoot it, many more angles, more coverage.
And, obviously, the [webisodes] aren’t 44 minutes either, they’re 4 to 7 minutes. Still, whether it’s a lot or a little in Hollywood you’re always trying to finish your day. You rarely hear of the 12-hour day that got finished in 6 hours. Usually it’s a 12-hour day that got finished in 14 if you’re lucky.
As for shooting the romantic scenes in Paris. . .
Justin: [Gemini Division] was all green screen. You had to imagine every single thing around you and it’s like, ‘you’re in Paris’ and god forbid you look behind you because it’s like, ‘no, I’m in a warehouse.’
In addition to being a webseries, Gemini Division will be the basis for an online multi-player game and that was something Justin could really get behind.
Justin: I am, at least, the biggest gamer in my neighborhood. We do Smallville in Vancouver so I’ve been going Vancouver, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Los Angeles and all this traveling is really taking away from my gaming time. And if you step away from it for five weeks, you’re horrible.
So I gotta ask. What’s your favorite game?
Justin: I haven’t had a chance to pick up Madden 09, so Madden 08 and NASCAR. I have them on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and I have the PSP when I’m in Vancouver. I don’t have the Wii, which I would love to have, but I’d probably pull a muscle with all that. And Rock Star, I’m trying to get my wife into Rock Star.
Speaking of Rock Star. What about that infamous Guitar Hero match-up between you and Jared Padalecki?
Justin: He kicked my booty in that game! We talked about it before, he looks at me and goes, ‘hey Justin, I’m pretty good at this.’ I go, ‘great, your hand is broken.’ He’s like, ‘have you ever played this?’ I go, ‘how hard can it be? Four buttons and I’ve got really good rhythm, it’s not going to be a deal.’
So we go in there and I’m like, ‘what the hell?’ The green, the blue. . .it’s an amazing game and some people are so good at it they look like real guitar players, but if you’re playing a little bit past your talent level it’s really frustrating. [Jared] was excellent at it. ‘What have you been doing for the past couple of months?’ [Jared replies,] ‘just playing Guitar Hero, it’s all I do.’
But as much as Justin is a gamer and a now a web-star, he isn’t much of an Internet junkie
Justin: I don’t have a MySpace or a Facebook though I have been told that I have several. My sister would call me, she’s really into that stuff, and she’d say, ‘you know there’s someone online that’s saying they’re you on MySpace and that you hate people and you’re telling them to go to hell.’ It used to get me really bothered.
Now, however, Justin has a different attitude toward the attention he gets online:
Justin: My agent called me the other day and said, ‘you have arrived my friend, there’s an official I Hate Justin Hartley blogging thread.’
That’s excellent that someone has taken their time to hate me. I hope they don’t take their time to find me, but if you want to take the time to hate me, that’s great, man.
Now that’s what I call well-adjusted!
/end
~Clips from the Smallville S7 DVD are coming out. My favorite?
** Marc McClure is so attractive to me.
From I don’t have the foggiest….a clip about the Kent farm and its real owners.
If you don’t watch the clip, there’s a moment at the end where the owner says before SV they would go to stores and window shop, now they can actually go inside the stores. It’s very sweet.
~Other clips
If you want to watch Alan Ritchson lounge around in a banana hammock. Here it goes
Whew, he must’ve just come from seeing family because his accent is heavy
The Aquaman Trailer which is just like the SV pilot. He didn’t even know why he had abilities, just like Clark!
~Buddy TV has a video/transcript of an interview with Wentworth Miller and Sarah Wayne Callies.
Wentworth also gave an interview to another site where he talks about who he’d like to see return to the show and the longevity of “Prison Break”
Wentworth:
"I really felt her (Sarah’s) absence in [season] three. I felt that her return was important -- not just to my character, but to the show in general."
Still, can a head be reattached? "I think we address it as plausibly as possible," he says. "It helps that the show is kind of fantastic, and I think we've gotten away with worse."
For now, Callies is probably the only old face that will return this season. However, Miller wouldn't mind seeing another. "I'd bring back Paul Adelstein," he says. "I thought he was a fantastic Agent Kellerman, and I thought was symbolic of the kind of character that the show does best, which is someone living within the shades of gray -- not entirely black, not entirely white, not entirely good, not entirely evil, but someone who was complicated, as we all are in real life. I think that Paul really did a beautiful job of defining a character who could be vicious one minute and entirely sympathetic the next. He is very much missed."
However, it wasn't Kellerman, Sara or even C-Note that was missed most throughout season three. What happened to Michael's infamous tattoos? Although the long-sleeved shirts of last season upped his sweaty factor, the tats didn't even get a cameo. "The tattoo is addressed pretty definitively in the first episode," Miller promises.
It's those little things, in between the show's many twists and revolving door of characters, that keeps it interesting. "Most other TV shows are in the habit of figuring out their winning formula and then beating it into the ground," Miller says. "We take what we already know works and toss it out of the window at the start of every season, which I think is very bold and ambitious. It certainly provides a new playground for the actors."
Another "new playground" will be this season's new backdrop: Los Angeles. Just don't expect to see T-Bag head for the nearby Disneyland (how cool of an episode would that be, though?). "If there's a nudie bar or a pawn shop, that's where we are," Miller laughs. "We don't shoot in the nice locations."
While Fox hasn't confirmed whether or not this will be the last season, Miller admits that the show can't go on much longer. "It's not 'CSI'. It's not 'Law & Order'. It can't run forever... We not only jumped the shark long ago, I think we are inventing new sharks," Miller jokes. "We're taking it to a whole new level. Fasten your seatbelts."
Fasten them, indeed. The fourth season of "Prison Break" kicks off with a 2-hour extravaganza on September 1, starting at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on Fox. -- Rachel Cericola
**This is my problem with Wenty he tries to be funny and is very close to being funny, but then he says stuff like ‘inventing new sharks’. Couldn’t he say not only have we jumped the shark, we’ve trained it and are jumping it through flaming hoops or something. Maybe his way is better.
~I don't know if I like this or hate it. Sometimes there is a thin line. Jesse McCartney tackling T’Pain T’Pain Buy You a Drink
John Glover
By the time John Glover won his Tony for playing twins (one naughty, one nice) in Love! Valour! Compassion!, he had already established himself as a popular bad guy in a string of hit 1980s films. But Glover got his start on the stage, and playwright Terrence McNally acknowledged his talent by writing the roles of John and James Jeckyll with the actor in mind. Glover has gone on to play Lex Luthor's evil dad on TV's Smallville and returned to Broadway in the spring of 2007 as Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone. He went back in time to recall his night with Tony.
Which year did you win your first Tony?
Glover: 1995
For which role and show?
Glover: Twins John and James Jeckyll in Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally
Where were the awards held?
Glover: Minskoff Theatre
Who hosted?
Glover: Nathan Lane and Gregory Hines
What did you wear?
Glover: A classic Armani tux
Who was sitting next to you?
Glover: My partner, Adam Kurtzman
Who did you think would win your category?
Glover: I hoped I would, but thought probably Jude Law. All the other nominees in our category were from Love! Valour! Compassion!
What was the first thing that ran through your mind when they said your name?
Glover: "Oh dear, I've got 40 second to get all those thank yous in or they're start playing the music...run, and start talking as quickly as you can!"
Did you forget to thank anyone?
Glover: Catherine Olim
Did you cry?
Glover: I couldn't...it would have taken up precious seconds thanking people. Franny Sternhagen had won just before me and they'd cut her off, so I knew they were serious about the 40-second rule.
If you could relive that night, would you change anything?
Glover: I'd have tried harder to relax before the ceremony started.
Who were you most surprised to hear from after the win?
Glover: When I got home, there was a phone message from Rosemary Clooney singing "You're the Top" to me.
Did winning a Tony change your life? How?
Glover: I thought it would, but no, it didn't.
What's your biggest memory of the night?
Glover: Meeting Al Hirschfeld at Sardi's after the ceremony.
What's the best piece of advice you can offer for getting through Tony night?
Glover: Relax and enjoy it.
Where do you keep your Tony?
Glover: On the toilet tank so dinner guests can have time with it by themselves in front of a mirror.
~New to me, excerpt from a 2004 Smallville Magazine interview with Tom talking about working with
SM: The scenes with Kyle Gallner have an element of having fun with the powers, with Clark and Bart showing off...
TW: That actually happened on set between Kyle and I when we were racing, and I was trying to catch him. We both had to end up stopping on a mark, and be both split, went past the camera and almost into the concrete in front of us. There was a little bit of rivalry with Kyle and I in an absolutely positive way - we just really got along. I actually saw a lot of myself in him, and I think he saw a little bit of what he would be like to do in his life, or his career maybe, in what I am doing. We got on great from day one. We just had a lot of fun, and he learned so much. I told him right off the bat, "I'll help you out, but I'm going to tell you straight so you can get it quick. I'm not going to sit there and dance around something, if I see something I'm going to tell you, and either you get it or you don't." We established this really direct relationship. He learned so much. Who he was on the first day and who he was on the last day - there were years of experience in there, it was amazing.
SM: Does it feel odd being the teacher after going through a learning curve yourself?
TW: I love it! I can definitely see that in a few of the kids we've had on the show, where they're new and they're trying to get it all. I've been there and I do know what it's like. At least for me, looking back, I knew what I needed and I know what kind of approach I need. It's different for everybody, but what I needed and what I had were people who were willing to tell me what I needed to know, rather than dance around it, and make me feel better. I didn't need that. I needed someone to tell me how to do it. I like being in that situation - I like being able to help, especially when people like Kyle want to learn so much.
**It’s funny that he says he sees himself in Kyle because Kyle wasn’t green when he did “Run”. Kyle’s been in the business for a long time, so the idea that Kyle was some lost soul looking for guidance is weird to me. The only thing I could see is Kyle needing schooling on the ways of the set. He seems like that guy who the set driver has to call a million times and then end up pounding on the door to get him to the car.
~Comic Book Resource has a video interview with Sam Witwer. Is he attractive or not? I’m still on the fence. Little trivia: Chicagoan’s Cassidy Freeman and Sam Witwer fathers knew each other. Cassidy even ponders if she and Sam spent time together as children.
~Interview with Justin Hartley about “Gemini Division” and
I caught up with Justin during a Smallville break and we talked about that, this, and why he’ll never offer to fix the pool again.
Set aside your quiver, Oliver Queen fans, Justin Hartley is in the house.
Why did you decide to work on Gemini Division?
Justin: I feel like this is where the future of our business is going is to the web. I believe there is a way to do it that is high quality, that looks great, that is going to grip people and get away from that stigma that the Internet is just a big porn machine. I was developing my own webseries, a sketch comedy kind of thing, when I got this call. When they said Rosario Dawson was doing it, I was like, you mean THE Rosario Dawson? It really interests me to see a bona fide movie star (she probably hates that phrase, but she is) doing something like this.
I think we’ve got our hands on something good. I’ve seen the first two webisodes, they’ve been released on NBC.com and there’s a new one on Monday and then four a week until they’re done - 52 of them.
How does working on a webseries differ from working on a TV series?
Justin: [Gemini Division] falls somewhere between the soap that I did and Smallville. When you do a webseries the crew is much smaller, the production is much smaller, and you may do a whole episode in one day. But when we shoot Smallville, the crew is much bigger and you have a lot more time to shoot it, many more angles, more coverage.
And, obviously, the [webisodes] aren’t 44 minutes either, they’re 4 to 7 minutes. Still, whether it’s a lot or a little in Hollywood you’re always trying to finish your day. You rarely hear of the 12-hour day that got finished in 6 hours. Usually it’s a 12-hour day that got finished in 14 if you’re lucky.
As for shooting the romantic scenes in Paris. . .
Justin: [Gemini Division] was all green screen. You had to imagine every single thing around you and it’s like, ‘you’re in Paris’ and god forbid you look behind you because it’s like, ‘no, I’m in a warehouse.’
In addition to being a webseries, Gemini Division will be the basis for an online multi-player game and that was something Justin could really get behind.
Justin: I am, at least, the biggest gamer in my neighborhood. We do Smallville in Vancouver so I’ve been going Vancouver, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Los Angeles and all this traveling is really taking away from my gaming time. And if you step away from it for five weeks, you’re horrible.
So I gotta ask. What’s your favorite game?
Justin: I haven’t had a chance to pick up Madden 09, so Madden 08 and NASCAR. I have them on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 and I have the PSP when I’m in Vancouver. I don’t have the Wii, which I would love to have, but I’d probably pull a muscle with all that. And Rock Star, I’m trying to get my wife into Rock Star.
Speaking of Rock Star. What about that infamous Guitar Hero match-up between you and Jared Padalecki?
Justin: He kicked my booty in that game! We talked about it before, he looks at me and goes, ‘hey Justin, I’m pretty good at this.’ I go, ‘great, your hand is broken.’ He’s like, ‘have you ever played this?’ I go, ‘how hard can it be? Four buttons and I’ve got really good rhythm, it’s not going to be a deal.’
So we go in there and I’m like, ‘what the hell?’ The green, the blue. . .it’s an amazing game and some people are so good at it they look like real guitar players, but if you’re playing a little bit past your talent level it’s really frustrating. [Jared] was excellent at it. ‘What have you been doing for the past couple of months?’ [Jared replies,] ‘just playing Guitar Hero, it’s all I do.’
But as much as Justin is a gamer and a now a web-star, he isn’t much of an Internet junkie
Justin: I don’t have a MySpace or a Facebook though I have been told that I have several. My sister would call me, she’s really into that stuff, and she’d say, ‘you know there’s someone online that’s saying they’re you on MySpace and that you hate people and you’re telling them to go to hell.’ It used to get me really bothered.
Now, however, Justin has a different attitude toward the attention he gets online:
Justin: My agent called me the other day and said, ‘you have arrived my friend, there’s an official I Hate Justin Hartley blogging thread.’
That’s excellent that someone has taken their time to hate me. I hope they don’t take their time to find me, but if you want to take the time to hate me, that’s great, man.
Now that’s what I call well-adjusted!
/end
~Clips from the Smallville S7 DVD are coming out. My favorite?
Click to view** Marc McClure is so attractive to me.
From I don’t have the foggiest….a clip about the Kent farm and its real owners.
If you don’t watch the clip, there’s a moment at the end where the owner says before SV they would go to stores and window shop, now they can actually go inside the stores. It’s very sweet.
~Other clips
If you want to watch Alan Ritchson lounge around in a banana hammock. Here it goes
Whew, he must’ve just come from seeing family because his accent is heavy
The Aquaman Trailer which is just like the SV pilot. He didn’t even know why he had abilities, just like Clark!
~Buddy TV has a video/transcript of an interview with Wentworth Miller and Sarah Wayne Callies.
Wentworth also gave an interview to another site where he talks about who he’d like to see return to the show and the longevity of “Prison Break”
Wentworth:
"I really felt her (Sarah’s) absence in [season] three. I felt that her return was important -- not just to my character, but to the show in general."
Still, can a head be reattached? "I think we address it as plausibly as possible," he says. "It helps that the show is kind of fantastic, and I think we've gotten away with worse."
For now, Callies is probably the only old face that will return this season. However, Miller wouldn't mind seeing another. "I'd bring back Paul Adelstein," he says. "I thought he was a fantastic Agent Kellerman, and I thought was symbolic of the kind of character that the show does best, which is someone living within the shades of gray -- not entirely black, not entirely white, not entirely good, not entirely evil, but someone who was complicated, as we all are in real life. I think that Paul really did a beautiful job of defining a character who could be vicious one minute and entirely sympathetic the next. He is very much missed."
However, it wasn't Kellerman, Sara or even C-Note that was missed most throughout season three. What happened to Michael's infamous tattoos? Although the long-sleeved shirts of last season upped his sweaty factor, the tats didn't even get a cameo. "The tattoo is addressed pretty definitively in the first episode," Miller promises.
It's those little things, in between the show's many twists and revolving door of characters, that keeps it interesting. "Most other TV shows are in the habit of figuring out their winning formula and then beating it into the ground," Miller says. "We take what we already know works and toss it out of the window at the start of every season, which I think is very bold and ambitious. It certainly provides a new playground for the actors."
Another "new playground" will be this season's new backdrop: Los Angeles. Just don't expect to see T-Bag head for the nearby Disneyland (how cool of an episode would that be, though?). "If there's a nudie bar or a pawn shop, that's where we are," Miller laughs. "We don't shoot in the nice locations."
While Fox hasn't confirmed whether or not this will be the last season, Miller admits that the show can't go on much longer. "It's not 'CSI'. It's not 'Law & Order'. It can't run forever... We not only jumped the shark long ago, I think we are inventing new sharks," Miller jokes. "We're taking it to a whole new level. Fasten your seatbelts."
Fasten them, indeed. The fourth season of "Prison Break" kicks off with a 2-hour extravaganza on September 1, starting at 8:00 p.m. (EST) on Fox. -- Rachel Cericola
**This is my problem with Wenty he tries to be funny and is very close to being funny, but then he says stuff like ‘inventing new sharks’. Couldn’t he say not only have we jumped the shark, we’ve trained it and are jumping it through flaming hoops or something. Maybe his way is better.
~I don't know if I like this or hate it. Sometimes there is a thin line. Jesse McCartney tackling T’Pain T’Pain Buy You a Drink