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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!
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!
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.
Gary is one of a number of big names scheduled to appear this week on “AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Cheers: America’s Most Inspiring Movies.”
“In a continuation of AFI’s celebration of the first 100 years of cinema, ERIN BROCKOVICH, IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, NORMA RAE, ROCKY, SEABISCUIT, THE SOUND OF MUSIC and hundreds more will vie for the title of Most Inspiring Film of The Century. AFI’s 100 Years . . . 100 Cheers: America’s Most Inspiring Movies will count down America’s 100 most inspiring films, as chosen by experts of the motion picture community…”
As the press release lists Tom Hanks, along with Henry Fonda, as the most represented male actors on the ballot with eight inspiring movies each, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, and The Green Mile make the cut. (And I’d be surprised if one of Henry Fonda’s entries wasn’t The Grapes of Wrath, another story with a strong Sinise connection.)
The special airs this Wednesday, June 14, from 8 to 11 pm EDT/PDT on CBS.
…albino alligator? Well okay then! We never doubted for a moment, really.
Also, a (vaguely annoying) article about the 10th anniversary of Bubba Gump restaurants.
As you can probably tell if you’re a regular visitor, we’ve had a busy couple of weeks around here.
Summary of what we’ve done:
– New look for the site! (Yes, it’s long overdue.)
– Learned (just) enough CSS to update the template for this page so it matches the rest of the site.
– Added feeds for this page. �Use the links below to add a feed for this page to your newsreader, or to add our feed to your My Yahoo!, Google newsreader, etc.
– Error checked this page with a variety of browsers and operating systems — it works with everything we’ve tried except much older browsers (e.g. Netscape 4.7).
– Added new project pages for:
o The Forgotten
o The Big Bounce
o The Human Stain
o CSI: New York (more photos soon)
o Fallen Angel
– Updated the Stage & Screen page, checked links and updated the DVDs & More page, streamlined and updated the Links page, added Google site search to the Search page.
Next on the agenda is replacing the screen caps on the pages for older projects. (Hard to believe those were once state of the art, isn’t it?) We’ll�also, hopefully, be adding a feedback form.
Do you feel inclined to volunteer? Here’s where we need help:
o We’d like to install a custom cgi script for site search in place of the Google box. We have cgi access, but unfortunately not much of a clue about how cgi works.
o We could use a little help with screencapping, specifically The Dress Code and the new DVD release of My Name is Bill W. Contact us if you can help.
Anyway — that’s where we’re at. �We hope you enjoy. As always, feedback is welcomed, either by comment here or to sinisefans @ sinisefans . org.
This morning we have a couple of more articles for you on the Whiteman AFB show by Gary and the Lt. Dan Band — from the AP via the Kansas City Star and the Sedalia Democrat.
Courtesy of the local paper, a nice article about Gary and the LDB at Whiteman Air Force Base. Photos, too.
