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It is all beginning!
The "Star Trek Into Darkness" press and promotional appearances, I mean! The country to country space jumps, the glitzy premieres and red carpets, and slew of photo call eye-candy!
A couple of days ago, a few of the "Into Darkness" cast members headed Down Under to Sydney - the first city to kick-off a string of international premieres for the upcoming Trek movie.
When it was announced that Zachary Quinto was doing theater again, and performing "The Glass Menagerie" by American Repertory Theatre in Boston during the winter, fans from all over were terribly excited about the news.
Luckier ones were able to head to the city of Boston to watch the play while less luckier ones (like moi) just had to content with soaking in the ZQ flurry, digitally.
Although, if you had been one of those taking photos during curtain call, you would have been the subject of Zach's wrath.
Being a frequent theatre goer, it is a really rude thing to do, and despite his manner of tweet (I hardly found it insulting - because people who don't show others respect, don't deserve any in my books.), that tweet caused a furor from self-entitled people everywhere.
Ahhh... the internet. Where trolls love crawling out from the woodwork and into forums.
Anyway, on a happier note, a bunch of ZQC-ers managed to make it to the play despite that horrible blizzard that was swirling around the East Coast of USA in February.
Here's Lindsay's report on that fateful weekend:
So, I just realized it's Superbowl today.
But yesterday in Boston, it was a different kind of kick-off.
Together with two-time Tony award-winning actress Cherry Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith, our fave bb Zachary Quinto led the preview of American Repertory Theatre's "The Glass Menagerie" at the Loeb Drama Center.
As most of us know, Zach loves flexing his acting biceps on stage and doing plays. This time, he has taken up the role of a frustrated son, Tom Wingfield, in Tennessee Williams' play.
(Check out the previously reported blog post on "The Glass Menagerie" here.)
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| Quinto and Obama biceps! |
Here's another thing to add to my growing list of why I still have a thing for Zachary Quinto's Biceps: they pack quite a political punch.
It is a well-known fact in the ZQ-fandom that it's a Spockbama world.
From the time we saw his 2009 blog post with photos of when he met President Obama at a fundraiser, we were aware that Zach is a strong supporter of USA's 44th President.
And he got even more vocal when the last election campaign was underway.
It's obvious that Zachary Quinto loves the theatre.
After his successful run off-broadway at Signature Theatre's "Angels in America" last year, I am not surprised he is eager to get back on stage again.
When Zach met some fans at the recent Hollywood Short Film Festival, he mentioned in passing that he was going to be in Boston for a play in early 2013.
This time it would be "The Glass Menagerie" (written by Tennessee Williams) with the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) that also features Emmy Award-winner Cherry Jones ("24", "Awake"). Actor Fran Krantz ("Dollhouse", "Cabin In The Woods") also mentioned he had auditioned for the play with both Cherry and Zach, and I think he will also be in the production.
I'm usually not a big fan of the horror genre but two TV series eerily kidnapped a portion of my very precious time and gripped my soul in the last couple of years or so.
The first is AMC's gripping and heart-breaking TV version of Robert Kirkman's graphic novel series "The Walking Dead" (and to think that zombies are usually NOT my favourite kind of ghoulies).
The other is the fabulously warped "American Horror Story" (AHS) on the FX channel, by the creative duo of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. In terms of horror stories, I have to say, based on Season 1, AHS is in a class of its own. Its creeptastic moments and sometimes stylistic twists never quite lets up and the series even surpasses several lame movies of the same genre.
Unlike so many other returning TV series, Season 2 of AHS breaks continuity by being into a different timeline, different setting and premise but with familiar faces. Season 1 actors like the screengrabbing Jessica Lange (lerve her!!) and other cast members like the talented Frances Conroy, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe and the yummiest of all - Zachary Quinto, will be back on the show. They will all, however, be taking on entirely different characters.
If that's not actually warped idea by itself, what else is?
"Heroes" fans will remember that sexy daddy HRG who was sometimes good and sometimes bad. All the while protecting his precious baby girl, cheerleader Claire Bennett.
If you don't know by now, the actor of Noah Bennett aka HRG is Jack Coleman, who has been seen recently in guest roles on various TV shows, like "The Vampire Diaries", "The Mentalist", "Criminal Minds" and "The Office".
Somehow, the characters he plays usually end up dead. :P
He is also set to join the "Castle" team in the new season and will be flexing his manly biceps as a senator who will be giving Detective Kate Beckett (played by the gorgeous Stana Katic) some annoying and probably serious problems.
But, here's another way to keep one of Jack Coleman characters more alive on our screens. He is involved in a sci-fi short film called "EMIT" by JS Mayank.
I've asked @dref22, an ardent fan of Jack Coleman, to give a short blurb on the Kickstarter project for "EMIT".
