Men of a Certain Age - PaleyFest2010 Tribute to a Unique Show

Tonight I attended my third and last for the year PaleyFest2010 tribute. But it was for a unique show on the air, so it was quite worth it. Men of a Certain Age is not the kind of show I would normally watch, but it speaks truth for not only men, but women as well.

I wrote up an article about it, which you can find here: http://prime-time-dramas.suite101.com/article.cfm/men-of-a-certain-age-reaches-beyond-sex--age

Due to space limitations, I couldn't write up everything on the panel, so here are some deleted tidbits:

I forget the original context, but Scott brought up that Andre Braugher had just come off of doing Shakespeare in the Park. This prompted Mike Royce to remark that Scott had come in and intimidated them by dropping Matt Damon's name and that he had just come from filming The Informant. Scott protested that what was he supposed to do, as Andre had been doing Shakespeare in the Park... so he (meaning Scott) had to use what he had. Everyone laughed with him. Another cute thing he did several times upon answering questions was turn to Mike Royce and ask if he still had a job. Mike would shake his head yes, and Scott would smile and say good.

For more, read my article on Suite101.com called Men of a Certain Age Reaches Beyond Sex & Age

Read more at Suite101: Men of a Certain Age Reaches Beyond Sex & Age: PaleyFest2010 Salutes Ray Romano's New Series at

http://prime-time-dramas.suite101.com/article.cfm/men-of-a-certain-age-reaches-beyond-sex--age#ixzz0kg3Ygxph

Flashforward at Paley Center

Last night I went to my second PaleyFest2010 tribute at the Saban Theater in Los Angeles. The theater is quite fancy inside with a functioning bar in the center of the lobby. Still, I liked it better when they were using the DGA theater in past years.

The show being honored was FlashForward, which I have to admit I'm not a big fan of, not like I am for NCIS, but I did enjoy the PaleyFest tribute. John Cho, Jack Davenport, Courtney Vance and Dominick Monaghan were great fun for me, but the others did a good job as well.

I wrote up an article on the event, which you can link to here: http://prime-time-dramas.suite101.com/arti...r-paleyfest2010.

And just like a TV episode gets cut for time, articles get caught in space limitations. So I thought I'd share here a couple of the paragraphs I was forced to cut, since they do contain interesting information.

Fiennes revealed that they had porn names for all their characters, but after a few names thrown out, Vance cut off discussion with ‘what happens in FlashForward, stays in FlashForward.’

When the moderator said that April 29th is International Dance Day, Cho reminded him that it is also the anniversary of the LA Riots and the Koreans refer to that day by numbers, just as Americans refer to 9/11. Braga confirmed that date was a random choice, because it sounded good.

A couple more examples can be found on my writeup on Wordpress, which you can link to from the sidebar here.

NCIS Panel at PaleyFest 2010 Was Great Fun

Tonight I attended the NCIS tribute panel at PaleyFest2010. I love going to these events because you get to see and hear how the actors and writer/producers really are. You get insight into their thinking. This year it was at the Saban Theater instead of the DGA Theater and I wasn't pleased about that. I prefer the DGA Theater and it is much better for parking.

I did a writeup for the event, called "PaleyFest2010 Investigates the Appeal of NCIS" for Suite101.com. If you'd like to read it you can find it here: http://prime-time-dramas.suite101.com/article.cfm/paleyfest2010-investigates-the-appeal-of-ncis.

But you will have to cut and paste because blogger.com here is not being cooperative in providing a working link.