Merry Christmas

Blood from a Stoner - first screening

 Jeanne Dorsey announced in an email a few seconds ago:

Dear Family and Friends,

Just a note to say that my film Blood from a Stoner is completed and will be screened on January 12 at 6 pm at the Anthology Film Archives on East 2nd Street in Manhattan. There will be a brief wine reception beforehand and actors Larry Bryggman, Kathryn Erbe and Lou Liberatore and the crew will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A. It would be lovely to see you there. More details will follow closer to the date. In the mean time, happy holidays to all.

Cheers,

Jeanne

So get your tickets to watch the movie and enjoy the Q&A with Kathryn!

Job in Long Island

A few days ago I read this note on tumblr:

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GUYS I MET KATHRYN ERBE LAST NIGHT AT A FUNCTION ON LONG ISLAND FOR SANDY VICS AND OMG SHE’S SO SWEET AND KIND AND I JUST LOVE THE FUCK OUT OF HER!!

I took a look of what was behind this event and found:

Dramatic Reading of the Book of Job

Posted by Janise Poticha at Farmingdatel Patch, November 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM

 

Saturday Nov, 16 -6:30-8:30pm, Temple Sinai of Massapequa (270 Clocks Blvd) is hosting a powerful program: A Dramatic Reading of the Book of Job. 

The reading will feature the acclaimed film and television actors Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Zach Grenier (The Good Wife, 24), and Harris Yulin (Scarface),  followed by community responses to the Book of Job by residents in our community who were affected by Superstorm Sandy, culminating in an audience discussion. This unique, event will promote healing dialogue while  raising national awareness about the challenges still facing the South Shore.

Job in Long Island will create a safe space to come together to explore questions left in the wake of Sandy, such as:

• How do we respond when bad things happen to good people?
• Why do we distance ourselves from disaster and isolate those who are suffering?
• How and why do disasters bring out the best qualities in humanity?
• How do individuals, families, communities, and nations move on with their lives  after being visited with unimaginable destruction?

Temple Sinai of Massapequa and the theater company: Outside the Wire will present this free 'performance'. Acknowledging one year since Sandy we continue to rebuild and renew.    

   

 RSVP: JOBINLONGISLAND@gmail.com

 

Cheeseburgers, Kathryn Erbe & ...

Here here very funny blog entry.

By favorite part:

Our French friends like nothing better to complain about the number of American series shown on French TV, but having watched the dross which French TV producers like to force upon the population, who can blame a hot-blooded male like me preferring to settle down on a Friday night with a bottle of wine and Kathryn Erbe, instead of watching a documentary about road accidents in Paris.

 

Kathryn Erbe is GOOD - French TV is NOT!

The problem here in France is the fact that most French people believe that if it isn't French, then it isn't good. But as the older generation fades away into the next world - where cheeseburgers, coke and Kathryn Erbe are certainly not welcome - at least the next generation want to break free from the shackles of all things European, and embrace anything and quite possibly everything from the land which gave us good fast food and the sexiest female cop on the planet!

TV_Landcomm pimping

It's already December and the second phase of tv_universe is complete. Look what I got!



3rd place baby!!!

Of course I'll also join the third phase and can't wait for new exciting challenges and much fun. I changed my team.
I'm now at Team Dish!
Badly need new sig tags ;o)




Join Us for much tv related fun!

One more Kensho at the Bedfellow on set picture

Posted on twitter by leena ‏@alexandraeames you can find here.
More photos at the Kensho Facebook Page.

 

Kathryn on her last day at Kensho at the Bedfellow

Kensho at the Bedfellow

Katie on her last day at the @internationalrescuecommittee
She looks amazing!

On set of Kensho at the Bedfellow - 3

kenshofilm ‏@kenshofilm

Kensho production stills, week two http://on.fb.me/1dbBHZs  #BradRaider #KathrynErbe @paleykaley pic.twitter.com/bSK2WHWXg0

On set of Kensho at the Bedfellow - 2

One more great photo.

Posted here on twitter by Danny G ‏@itsdannyg

Steppenwolf Ensemble 1998

Posted here on twitter.

Rampensau

I love this chair and always scream 'Rampensau' (pulling focus) when it appears in the next tv-show.

Television’s Most Favored Seat

Posted on February 16, 2008 by oz

From the office of Dr. House to the interrogation room of the major case squad in Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and countless other television series, stands an iconic chair. Emeco’s classic 1006 Navy Side Chair. In production since 1944, the chair continues to gain popularity. Apparently it’s even a product of the twelve colonies, making a cameo in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series.

“Legend has it that Wilton Dinges, who founded Emeco in 1944, actually tossed a 1006 Navy Chair out the window of a six-story building. The result? A few minor scratches. Emeco’s 77-step patented construction process was invented to satisfy a military need for lightweight, corrosion-resistant equipment” for use on aircraft carriers, submarines, etc.

“In the late 1990s, the Navy Chair’s iconic design began catching the attention of architects and designers, initiating a new era for Emeco. Beginning with soft, recycled aluminum, 1006 Navy seating goes through a series of hand-crafted processes, including heat treatment and anodizing, to render the chair diamond-hard and virtually indestructible. Though imitations of the 1006 exist far and wide, Emeco’s Navy Chair is the only one to go through this rigorous production process. Three small welds on the back of the slats are left exposed to indicate that this often-copied seating is the real thing. Specially made stainless steel foot caps are covered with a clear plastic glide to prevent scratching floors or snagging carpets.”

The chair has also been subject in a short documentary film capturing its creation. 77 Steps, a film by Eames Demetrios, you can view it at DASFilmFest.com, a site where Eames also offers fortnightly movies on Design, Architecture and Sustainability.

I was so thrill as the 1006 also was the only item Eric Bogosian used in his 100 Monologues II was able to attend during my NYC vacations.




On set of Kensho at the Bedfellow

It looks like Kensho at the Bedfellow started to film. Over the last two weeks more and more behind the scenes pictures popped up on their twitter account. Kathryn was finally there on Monday.

Steppenwolf

Visit Kathryn's Steppenwolf profile and find this nice picture of her and Gary Sinise during A Streetcar Named Desire. I know the other two photos of this production but here Kathryn has another facial expression.

Role That Was the Most Surprising
“I’m kind of embarrassed to say that when I first re-read A Streetcar Named Desire [1997, Steppenwolf Theatre], I didn’t feel I could relate to Stella. Why would this woman stay with this guy? But my then-husband [director Terry Kinney] knows me well, and once we started, I fell in love with Stella and Stanley and Tennessee Williams. It was mind-blowing, particularly as I grasped his deep respect for humanity in all its forms, the lowest of the low in particular. Every role I play teaches me something, and that one informed so much of the work I did afterward. Gary Sinise [Stanley] is such a giving, supportive person, and it was a joy to go to the places Stella and Stanley went with him. These two people were absolute soul mates. It was just an epic, tragic love story.”

Pictures to Freedom Awards

2013 International Rescue Committee Freedom Award Benefit at The Waldorf Astoria on November 6th, 2013 in New York City.

See also a few thumbnails here at RexFeatures.com Photo sources: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

International Rescue Committee To Host Annual Freedom Awards

Kathryn, Sarah Wayne Callies and Debbie Harry together? I can't wait to see pictures of this event!

November 5, 2013

The International Rescue Committee will host its annual Freedom Award Dinner this week to raise funds to support the organization’s lifesaving humanitarian aid work around the world.
This year’s event will honor democracy and human rights supporter, philanthropist and businessman George Soros.
The evening will introduce the new IRC President and CEO David Miliband and will feature special appearances by Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group and IRC Overseer; Scott Pelley, Anchor, CBS Evening News and Co-Chair, IRC Overseers; UN Ambassador Samantha Power; Jonathan Soros, CEO of JS Capital Management; and a performance by acclaimed jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, with pianist Aaron Goldberg.
Also slated to attend: Debbie Harry, Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”); Reshma Shetty (USA Network “Royal Pains”) & husband, Indian actor, Deep Katdare; Danushka Lysek (Food Network), Brad Raider (“Kensho”), Kathryn Erbe (“Law & Order”), Kaley Ronayne (“Carrie Diaries”), Sahr Ngaujah (“Fela!”); IRC New Roots Spokespeople, celebrity chefs David Burke & Viet Pham; The Cooking Channel host Eden Grinshpan, and others.

WHERE: Waldorf Astoria Hotel
The Ballroom – 3rd Floor
301 Park Avenue
New York, NY
WHEN: Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the suggestion of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. Restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions of vulnerable people, the IRC leads the way from harm to home. The IRC has global reach and local impact — the only international humanitarian organization that operates international and domestic U.S. programs that help at each stage of a refugee’s journey from crisis to stability.

For more information, visit rescue.org.

BWW TV Exclusive: Kathryn Erbe & John Pankow Talk TACT's NATURAL AFFECTION

Wonderful interview with Kathryn Erbe & John Pankow.

[clear my throat: she is mentioning Blanca my mom and ME, JIPPY!] 




Source: BroadWayWorld.com

Kathryn Erbe and Her Co-Stars Show Each Other Some Natural Affection on Opening Night Off-Broadway

 John Pankow, Eve Bianco, Tobi Aremu, Kathryn Erbe, Chris Bert, Victoria Mack & Alec Beard

By Marc Snetiker - broadway.com

It’s been 50 years since William Inge’s controversial drama Natural Affection first premiered on Broadway in 1963. Now, the rarely performed play is back in its first major New York City revival at off-Broadway’s Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row. Led by Law & Order star Kathryn Erbe, the show follows a single mother who reconnects with her troubled son whom she gave up years earlier. To say that the play is a shocker would be an understatement—you’ll have to see it to believe just how gripping and heartbreaking it is. Regardless of the play's dark drama, happiness was the key word on September 26 when the cast (including John Pankow, Eve Bianco, Tobi Aremu, Chris Bert, Victoria Mack and Alec Beard) celebrated opening night. Check out the Hot Shot above, and then find out what Natural Affection is all about before it ends its run on October 26!

Natural Affection's Kathryn Erbe on Playing Strong Women, from Streetcar to Law & Order

I really love this interview. Sigh about the words about Vinent andallthe insight of the different roles. I can't wait to meet Kathryn on Saturday.

By Kathy Henderson September 25, 2013

Law & Order fans remember Kathryn Erbe as unflappable detective Alexandra Eames on the Criminal Intent franchise, but the Massachusetts-born actress is also a Tony-nominated stage vet and ensemble member at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre. In the past 18 months alone, Erbe has taken on demanding roles in two off-Broadway premieres (Yosemite and Checkers), and she’s currently breathing new life into William Inge’s 1963 family drama Natural Affection, which opens on September 26 at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row, produced by The Actors Company Theatre. The warm and self-effacing Erbe offered a career overview in her Role Call.

Role That Was the Most Surprising
“I’m kind of embarrassed to say that when I first re-read A Streetcar Named Desire [1997, Steppenwolf Theatre], I didn’t feel I could relate to Stella. Why would this woman stay with this guy? But my then-husband [director Terry Kinney] knows me well, and once we started, I fell in love with Stella and Stanley and Tennessee Williams. It was mind-blowing, particularly as I grasped his deep respect for humanity in all its forms, the lowest of the low in particular. Every role I play teaches me something, and that one informed so much of the work I did afterward. Gary Sinise [Stanley] is such a giving, supportive person, and it was a joy to go to the places Stella and Stanley went with him. These two people were absolute soul mates. It was just an epic, tragic love story.”

Role That Was the Most Demanding
“It never occurred to me that Law & Order: Criminal Intent [2001-2011, as Detective Alexandra Eames] would last so long. Being on a major network television show is like long-distance running: You have to pace yourself and maintain your energy level and your morale. There’s the role you’re playing on the show, and there’s also your behind-the-scenes responsibility to the crew, the guest actors and the fans—not to mention your own life as a mom. It was a joy to play a character who always knew what to say and do, who was strong and brave in the world of men and in the face of evil people. [Co-starring with Vincent D’Onofrio] was like a marriage, and what I hope will be a lifelong friendship. I admire his talent, his work ethic and the standards he set for himself. We had highs and lows, and I’m extremely proud that we made it out the other end as a team. It was an honor to be in the trenches with him.”

Role That Got Me Back On Stage
“After Law & Order, I was eager to get back to the theater, and when Rattlestick sent me Yosemite [2012, as Julie] by Daniel Talbott, I read the play sort of ravenously. As usual, I thought ‘There’s no way I can play this part.’ She was a ferocious mother who is at the end of the line—bankrupt emotionally and in every other way—with three beautiful children and one dead child. I hadn’t done a play in 15 years, and I was terrified of going on this harrowing emotional journey, but it was a labor of love. That’s true of every play I’ve done, either for the story or the character. Yosemite opened doors for me in the New York theater community in amazing ways. There’s a whole world of fearless young theater makers here who put shows together on a shoestring budget and with gigantic hearts.”

Role That Is the Least Like Me
“The woman I’m playing now, Sue in Natural Affection, is all the things I never allow myself to be: She’s in control, and she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. William Inge had read an article about a woman who rejects her son, and the son commits a senseless act of violence after being released from a work farm. Inge was known for rural dramas like Picnic, but this play was his response to stories about how urban youth of the early ’60s were acting out. The play wasn’t well received 50 years ago, but it’s fascinating and terrifying. I’m having to give myself permission to do things in front of an audience that I should not do. But I also get to be thrown down on a bed by an incredibly handsome 35-year-old who is built like a superhero. That’s awesome!”

Role I Wish I Could Have Played Longer
“I loved playing Mary in The Speed of Darkness [1991, Best Featured Actress Tony nomination] by the late Steve Tesich. My character was the daughter of a Vietnam vet, played by Len Cariou, who has become a successful businessman in a small town. Robert Sean Leonard played my high school boyfriend, and we had to be the ‘parents’ of a bag of flour. It gets smashed at the end by Len after one of his platoon members, now homeless and deeply disturbed, reappears. Stephen Lang played the part, and I will never forget sitting on stage, talking with him on the phone as he was standing behind me. It was a magical moment—the first time I felt I was living my dream as an actor. The play opened during the Gulf War, and nobody wanted to see a war story then. It had been closed a long time when I got the Tony nomination, and I was shocked! Irene Worth won, but I was thrilled to be in that company.”

Role I Resisted, Then Fell in Love With
“It took enormous courage for [ex-husband] Terry [Kinney] to send me Checkers [2012, as Pat Nixon]. I never liked him to boss me around [as a director] when we were married, so it wouldn’t have occurred to me that we could work together after we were divorced. Reading it, I felt like I was in a dream. Doug McGrath is such a throwback. ‘Elegant’ is the word that comes to mind—I adore the way he turns a phrase. I called Terry and said, ‘I don’t relate to this woman, but if you really think I can do it, I will trust you.’ Once we started, I was shocked by how deeply I understood Pat Nixon and how close she was to the women I descended from in terms of what they expect from themselves, how they comport themselves and their duty to their men. The key for me was a long monologue in which she tells Nixon why she believes in him when he is doubting himself. I absolutely fell in love with her and with Doug’s beautiful play.”

REVIEW Natural Affection by William Inge,

directed by Jenn Thompson, TACT, The Actors Company Theatre 

... It’s no Picnic ...

... but it’s engaging and suspenseful, and in this beautifully produced, well cast and acted production, it gives a chance to see a rarely produced play by by William Inge.

Inge is, after all, one of America’s most successful and prolific playwrights – author of Come Back, Little Sheeba, Picnic (1953 Pulitzer Prize), Bus Stop, The Dark At The Top of the Stairs, as well as screenplays including Splendor in the Grass (1963 Academy Award for “Best Writing, Story and Screenplay.”

Perhaps Natural Affection's short run on Broadway was due to its opening during a NYC newspaper sstrike in 1962, but compared with Inge’s great successes, it’s a weaker play. Inge’s starting point was a newspaper account of a violent, seemingly random crime, and in trying to fill in the blanks, he seems to have turned too programmatically to current psychoanalytic ideas about the effects on sons of absent fathers and of mothering that runs hot and cold.

Sue, who’s pulled herself up by her bootstraps to become a successful buyer in a well-known Chicago department store is living with Bernie, a younger, and very handsome man, marginally able at selling Cadillacs. Sue’s son, Donnie, returns from “The Farm,” i.e., reform school, wanting to stay with her -- he has only a year left there and if she’ll keep him he doesn’t have to go back. But Bernie doesn’t want this kid with the violent past crowding up their small apartment and inhibiting their sex life.

It’s Sue’s decision, though, because she pays the bills.

What will she do? The Farm is brutal -- Donnie has scars on his back from being beaten. How can she possibly send him back? She’s already plagued with guilt for giving him up to foster care in the first when she was a poor girl trying to make a living and Donnie’s father disappeared.

But she’s crazy about Bernie and afraid of spending her life alone. He’s her last chance, she feels, and most of the time he’s quite a nice, agreeable guy, trying to pull himself out of the world of losers -- his pipe dream is to own a car dealership.

Donnie, too, promises to be on good behavior. It’s too bad that just as Donnie is settling in on the living room sofa, Bernie gets into an accident with a Cadillac he was demonstrating, and loses his job, depressing him and heightening his irritation with being dependent on a woman. He says the accident wasn’t his fault -- Inge doesn’t let us know whether or not we are to believe that. Was it truly random? Or a loser’s claim that he's a victim, in this case of chance?

The underlying tensions boil in the course of a Christmas celebration in which huge amounts of alcohol are consumed, Vince, the rich guy in the apartment next door passes out, and Claire, his bored, sexy blond wife fails to seduce Bernie -- this time, these alcohol fuelled shenanigans a prelude to the final, chilling eruption.

Kathryn Erbe, famous on TV as Detective Alexandra Eames on Law and Order: Criminal Intent, is brisk, capable, and vulnerable as the Sue, torn between her gorgeous younger lover and her natural -- if insufficient -- affection for her tormented son. Erbe’s portrayal of the tense self control of this woman who made it on her own in a highly competitive field renders the emotional surges that overtake her all the more moving.

Alec Beard is charismatic as the good looking lover who approximates decency while not quite hitting the nail on the head. Chris Bert is perfect as the lean, hungry looking reform school son, who takes after his mother in holding it all in -- until he can’t any longer.

John Pankow as the rich next-door neighbor Vince is brilliant in a scene of unwinding into total drunkenness, a beautiful tour de force that the audience applauded. Victoria Mack as Vince’s seductive wife transforms with concentration and subtlety a stereotyped character into a vivid, dangerous reality.

In Natural Affection, people are condemned to repeat the past and there are what the world sees as random violent events -- both.

Natural Affection plays at the Beckett Theatre on New York City's Theatre Row, West 42nd Street, through October 26, 2013. For information and tickets, click on live link of title.

Yvonne Korshak

Natural Affection gifs

Look, kathrynerbe of tumblr made four wonderful Kathryn gifs of the Natural Affection video. Like and reblog the animations from here.

STAGE TUBE of Natural Affection

Kathryn Erbe & John Pankow in Sneak Peek of TACT's NATURAL AFFECTION, Now Playing (TV Content)

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre presents Natural Affection by William Inge at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre (410 West 42nd Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues.) Opening night is set for Thursday, September 26 at 7:30pm. Performances will continue through October 26, 2013. Check out a behind the scenese look at the show below!

TACT is proud to present the FIRST REVIVAL of William Inge's controversial family drama -- not seen in New York since its debut 50 years ago.

Natural Affection Begin Today

See, what an early birthday gift I get. Thank you so much Quietfire. We'll have such an awesome day.



TACT published a lot of production photos of Natural Affection you can see here.

Enjoy the ones with Kathryn - kiss kiss ;o):

 

 

 

PHOTO: Marielle Solan