The Biography Channel special on the Barrymores, which Gary hosts, is scheduled to air next Thursday, July 6 at 10:00 am EDT. Check your cable listings for the time and cable channel in your area.

Thanks to Sandra S. for the tip!

Follow the link here: Sinise Rallies for Troops

Gary was at the White House today, working to get the word out about America Supports You, an organization that helps ordinary citizens provide support to U.S. servicemembers.
(I’ll update this later with more links and hopefully a photo or two.)

ETA: Bush Meets with America Supports You Groups at White House

Defenselink report and this photo:

Have you heard about the forthcoming re-imagining of Star Trek�by Lost’s J.J. Abrams? The plans are rumored to involve recasting the legendary original series characters, and blogger Chris Beaumont had some fun with the idea, suggesting that along with Matt Damon as Kirk and Billy Zane as Spock, none other than Gary Sinise would make a great Dr. McCoy.

According to a an article this morning, Chris isn’t the only one intersted in the Matt Damon idea, so who knows? I think the Trek franchise couldn’t be in better hands, myself, and I’d love to see Gary don a tricorder and a totally different kind of labcoat.

The Washington Post has an article about Steppenwolf’s production of Love-Lies-Bleeding, which is in residence at the Kennedy Center this week.

We haven’t heard much yet about Open Season, the animated feature scheduled to open this fall. Here’s an article about the film from The Malaysia Star. In addition to Gary, other actors featured in the film include Martin Lawrence, Debra Messing and Ashton Kutcher.

Courtesy of Rob Kyser at Whiteman AFB, we have some great photos of the June 7 LDB show at Whiteman AFB. Click for larger versions, and enjoy!

Vocalist Mari Ann Jayme, with Kimo Williams and Kirk Garrison in the background.

Thanks again to Rob Kyser for the awesome photos!

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The AFI show was interesting — some of it was great — Sidney Poitier, Steven Spielberg, and of course Gary! Not only talking about his own films, but classics like Lawrence of Arabia. Awesome.

Some of it, though — seriously, does anyone really have a burning desire to know why Jessica Alba finds The Sound of Music inspiring? But even with some quibbles about the broadcast and what was chosen and left out, it’s a pretty impressive list overall, and it gave me some ideas for my Netflix queue.

In case you didn’t make it through all three hours, Gary had two films on the list — Apollo 13 at no. 12 and Forrest Gump at no. 37. You can find the complete list at the AFI site.

The good folks at TVshowsonDVD.com have posted information regarding the season 2 DVD release for CSI: New York. Season 2 will be released on October 3, 2006, and we’ll post a link for preordering just as soon as its available.