#jon cryer interview

[cinematic-reminiscence]

JON CRYER

Photographed by Michael Scott for Interview Magazine, November 1987.

[hollywoodoutbreak]

When Jon Cryer had his breakout role in the film Pretty in Pink, Abigail Spencer was just five years old. Like Cryer, Spencer found success as an actor while she was still a teen. And, despite the age gap, she is now starring as Cryer's ex-wife on the sitcom Extended Family. When we talked to Spencer, she admitted she's been a fan of Cryer's for a long, long time, and she's thrilled to finally get the opportunity to work with him.

Extended Family airs Tuesdays at 8:30/7:30c on NBC, and episodes start streaming the following day on Peacock.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday James “Midge” Ure born October 10th 1953 in Cambuslang.

Born to a working class family Ure attended Cambuslang Primary School and Rutherglen Academy in Glasgow until he was 15 years old. For the first 10 years of his life he lived in a one-bedroom tenement flat. After leaving school Ure attended Motherwell Technical College and then began to work as an engineer, training at the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), in nearby East Kilbride.

Midge started playing music in a Glasgow band called Stumble in 1969, before joining Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik in 1974. Upset in the change of direction, Ure left the band to join the Rich Kids, a punk-pop group led by former Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock. The Rich Kids only released one album, 1978’s Ghosts of Princes in Towers, before breaking up later that year. Ure spent a brief time with the Misfits (not the American band) before forming Visage with drummer Rusty Egan and vocalist Steve Strange; he left the group to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy, who had left in the middle of an American tour. After the tour was finished, Ure fulfilled an agreement to join Ultravox as the replacement for John Foxx.

Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make Ultravox a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with Steve Harley and Modern Man. In 1982, Ure released a solo single, a cover of the Walker Brothers’ hit “No Regrets”; it climbed into the U.K. Top Ten. Ure and Bob Geldof formed Band Aid, a special project to aid famine relief efforts in Ethiopia, in 1984. The two wrote the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and assembled an all-star band of musicians to record the single; it sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season.

In 1985, Ultravox was put on hiatus and Ure began to pursue a full-time solo career. Recorded entirely by Ure, his 1985 solo debut, The Gift, launched the number one single “If I Was,” as well as the minor hits “That Certain Smile” and “Call of the Wild.” The following year, he recorded the final Ultravox album; in 1987, the band broke up and he began recording his second solo album. The resulting record, 1988’s Answers to Nothing, was less successful than The Gift in the U.K., yet it charted in the U.S., which is something Ure’s previous album failed to do. Three years later, Ure released his third album, Pure; while it didn’t do any business in America, the album featured the Top 20 British hit “Cold, Cold Heart.” He attempted a comeback in 1996 with Breathe, which went ignored by both the American and British markets. Four years later, his score for the Jon Cryer drama-comedy Went to Coney Island was issued by the Evenmore label.

Ure’s recording activity during the 2000s began with Move Me, which featured some surprisingly hard rocking material. A few years later, he published an autobiography, If I Was, and then, with Geldof, arranged the Live 8 concerts.

Following the release of the covers-oriented 10 IN 2008, Ure participated in an Ultravox reunion and continued to record as a solo artist. Fragile was issued in 2014, and featured the Moby collaboration “Dark, Dark Night.” In 2017, he collaborated with composer Ty Unwin on the album Orchestrated, which featured orchestral reworkings of Ultravox songs, as well as songs from his solo career.

In 2020 Midge released an album Soundtrack 1978-2019, he was one of the lucky artists to have completed his tour promoting this in February that year.

Midge has recently revealed why he turned down an offer to join the Sex Pistols, telling The Telegraph that he considered that taking up the invitation from the band's manager Malcolm McLaren would have been like "joining a slightly edgier Bay City ­Rollers". He received the offer to join the fledgling punk band back in 1975, while on a visit to McCormack’s instrument hire shop in Glasgow.

In an interview published in the Telegraph he said;

"I was stopped in the street by the Clash’s manager, Bernie Rhodes, who then introduced me to Malcolm McLaren, I didn’t know who either of them was, but they literally asked me to join the Sex Pistols without even asking what I did. To me it would have been like joining a slightly edgier Bay City Rollers, so I turned them down.

Last October Midge celebrated seven decades of music with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

Concerts coming up for Midge are, 24th October: Tvonica Culture - Zagreb , 31st October: Stadfeestzaal - Aarschot, Belgium with Lena

Lovich, before 27 dates in Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales ending in December, he then travels to United Arab Emirates for a gig in February, March sees the hard working Scot play 11 nights in Sweden and Germany.

Midge Ure is one of Scotland’s all-time most successful musicians. He is married with four daughters and lives in Somerset.

The video is Midge, with Pilot,s David Paton from a Live Hogmanay show in 1995.

[justforbooks]

Matthew Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing in the hit TV sitcom Friends, has died at 54, according to reports.

Perry drowned at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, sources including a representative for the actor and law enforcement told NBC News. Other US outlets also reported Perry had died.

After small roles in Growing Pains, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dream On, Perry scored a role in NBC sitcom Friends in 1994. The comedy, about six friends living in New York City, quickly became a phenomenon, winning multiple Emmys and scoring record ratings.

Perry went on to play the sarcastic and neurotic Chandler in 10 seasons with the 2004 finale reaching over 52 million viewers in the US, making it the most watched TV episode of the 2000s.

“People come up to me every day and say, ‘Hey Chandler!’ I don’t respond to it,” he said in a 2014 interview. “If somebody says, ‘Hi Matthew, I love your work’, that’s one thing. But if somebody goes ‘Yo, Chandler’, I don’t like that. I’m tired of it. I’m not Chandler.”

Perry was born in Massachusetts in 1969 to an American father and a Canadian mother, who would later move her son to Ottawa to work as a press aide to Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau. In his bestselling 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry recalled acting up after his father abandoned his family to chase his own dreams of becoming an actor – including bullying a young Justin Trudeau. “I decided to end my argument with him when he was put in charge of an entire army,” he wrote.

At 15 Perry moved to Hollywood, with the hope of reconnecting with his father. It was there he began to enjoy acting, and was eventually spotted at a diner, “charming a bunch of young women”, by director William Richert, who left a note asking him to be in his next movie, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, alongside River Phoenix.

Perry was 24 when he started playing Chandler and was relatively unknown, just like his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. In a 2019 interview, Friends creator David Crane said Chandler was the most difficult character to cast; actors Craig Bierko, Jon Cryer and Jon Favreau were also considered for the role.

“Marta [Kauffman, co-creator] and I were thinking Chandler is just poorly written,” added Crane. “Then Matthew came in and you went, ‘Oh, well, there you go. Done. Done. That’s the guy.’”

Perry was nominated for an Emmy award five times, including once for his Friends role and twice for his role as lawyer Joe Quincy on The West Wing.

During his tenure on Friends, Perry starred in films including Fools Rush In with Salma Hayek, Three to Tango with Neve Campbell and The Whole Nine Yards with Bruce Willis. He also played small roles in Ally McBeal and Scrubs.

In a 2002 interview with the New York Times, he confessed: “I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn’t think what the repercussions would be.”

Perry’s personal life was afflicted by addiction, starting in 1997 when he became addicted to pain medication after a jetski accident. He later claimed to not remember three years of his time on Friends and to spending over $9m on his fight to stay sober.

“I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128lbs, I was on Friends getting watched by 30 million people – and that’s why I can’t watch the show, because I was brutally thin,” he said. Perry later admitted he had suffered severe anxiety “every night” while filming the show and felt nothing when the show ended.

Once Friends ended in 2004, Perry’s next small-screen lead was in Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which was cancelled after one season. In 2009 he starred in hit comedy 17 Again alongside Zac Efron, and later guest-starred on both The Good Wife and The Good Fight.

Perry also led one season sitcom Go On and a remake of The Odd Couple which lasted for three seasons. In 2016 he wrote and starred in play The End of Longing which opened in the West End and later transferred to Broadway.

In 2019, he was put in a two-week coma when his colon exploded due to opiate abuse; he had 14 surgeries due to his opiate abuse. “At this point in my life, the words of gratitude pour out of me because I should be dead, and yet somehow I am not,” he wrote in last year’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was a hit with readers and critics. The Guardian’s Barbara Ellen called the memoir “harrowing and revealing about the juncture where extreme compound addiction collides with mega-celebrity”.

“You have to get famous to know that it’s not the answer. And nobody who is not famous will ever truly believe that,” Perry wrote.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[galacticrambler]

I’m a millennial of a certain age that straddles the line between remembering a time pre-Internet and post-Internet. I mean “pre-Internet” as in “not everyone had access to it in their pocket”. So, I think I’m the last age group that likely could just catch one of the Brat Pack movies on TV.

I’ve seen a lot of the John Hughes-esque movies from that time, so I know who all these people are. So, when I watched the documentary Brats, I was prepared to watch them just vent about how being called “the Brat Pack” ruined their careers and lives.

But, boy oh boy, it certainly looks like only Andrew McCarthy (the guy making the documentary) felt that way.

It sure felt like — no matter if it was Emilio Estevez, Lea Thompson, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, or Jon Cryer — none of them really cared all that much? To the point where Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, and Anthony Michael Hall declined to even be interviewed.

Besides the fact that, as many of them pointed out, they weren’t even really friends and haven’t spoken to each other in 30+ years.

The scene where McCarthy goes to speak to David Blum who wrote the original “Brat Pack” article for New York Magazine was very uncomfortable. McCarthy was clearly wanting him to apologize and admit that writing the article was a mistake, and the whole thing was just weird.

At the end of the day, my biggest take away was that McCarthy was really hung up on this moniker still after 30+ years, and the others couldn’t be bothered.

Overall, I had a good time watching this documentary. It wasn’t great… really by any stretch, but it was nice to watch people kind of talk about some movies that I watched when I was younger. Though, it would’ve been better if it was just them talking about making those movies.

[georgefairbrother]

Leading TV historian and author, Oliver Crocker, pictured here with Jon Iles (DC Mike Dashwood in 194 episodes of The Bill from 1984), has over the past few years been compiling an incredibly detailed oral history of the The Bill from those who actually made it, including its stars, supporting talent and behind the scenes artists and technicians. The ITV (Thames) police drama ran for nearly 2500 episodes, from its pilot, Woodentop, in 1983 to its final episode in 2010. At its peak, it was watched by 18 million viewers in the UK. Jon Iles was the very first interviewee for the podcast series, and set things off to a very high standard.

In over 100 podcast episodes, Oliver has interviewed many of the major stars of the programme across its entire run, including Trudie Goodwin and Mark Wingett (above), Chris Ellison (DI Frank Burnside), Graham Cole (PC Tony Stamp), Eric Richard (Sgt Bob Cryer), Barbara Thorn (Insp Christine Frazer), Larry Dann (Sgt Alec Peters), Seeta Indrani (WPC Norika Datta); from some of the originals including Robert Hudson (Yorkie), Nula Conwell (Viv Martella), Colin Blumenau (Taffy) and Ashley Gunstock (PC Robin Frank), to stars of the later era including Todd Carty and Beth Cordingly. And many luminaries in between, from uniform and CID, too numerous to mention.

One or two have remained elusive - Jeff Stewart (Reg Hollis) has thus far declined, perhaps understandably as his departure from the series was deeply and personally traumatic. John Salthouse (DI Roy Galloway) declined the podcast but was very friendly and helpful with information for Oliver's first of two books on the series, Witness Statements: Making The Bill Series 1-3. (Witness Statements II is now also out).

The interviews are fascinating as pretty much all the participants have been breathtakingly honest; about producers and their behaviour and often brutal decision-making, and about the rollercoaster life of an actor even in a successful series. It's not always as much fun as it looks. Having said that, it was a happy cast which made a big effort to make guest stars and extras welcome, and it's interesting to note that the older, more experienced actors, playing CID and uniformed supervisors, tended to mentor the younger actors in the same way their real-life counterparts took care of junior officers.

Tony Scannell (DS Ted Roach) had agreed to be interviewed but sadly passed away before the recording date.

The Bill Podcast is on all the major platforms, and according to Listen Notes is in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally.

@robbielewis thought you might be interested in this one.

[tvguidancecounselor]

TV Guidance Counselor Episode 660: Allison Pregler and Phelan Porteous

2024 Halloween Special!

October 17-23, 1998

Happy Halloween! This week Ken welcomes Allison Pregler BACK to the show, and Phelan Porteous to the show for the first time.

Ken, Allison and Phelan discuss Allison's return to the show, the illusion of time, Ken's household's love of Phelan and Allison's videos, The Baywatch Hulu documentary, E! True Hollywood Stories, The Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors without the Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors, Nova Scotia, Canadian TV Guide, Canada's love of staples, what US channels they get in Canada, SNL's black face shame, re-watching all of SNL from the start, the lost years of SNL, Billy Crystal, Fear on SNL with Donald Pleasence, why Hersheys thinks change is bad, lazy "homemade" recipes, is Blue Velvet a horror movie?, ex's names tattooed on you, Dracula Knives, a very special Baywatch, TV's depiction of autism, dolphins, animal husbandry, Santa themed wrestlers, Zanta, Halloween Wars, challenge cooking, the disappointing nature of KISS, the shock at Gene Simmons not being on Baywatch ever, Jeremy Piven's balls, Balls Mahoney, people named Bumper, Getting Personal, Jon Cryer's sitcom trenches, the world's greatest Tim Burton interview, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Spooky Specials, Alien Voices, when Fred Savage was Groucho Marx once, best ever costumes, homemade little mermaid costumes, MTV, Much Music, naked babies on TV, My Little Pony rip offs, Adonis' and his tiny Jeep, Walmart Associates, Wind on the Water, The Working Girl sitcom, The Net Sitcom, Xena, the evil Xena, when Ken told Jerry Bruckheimer he didn't like his movie, WWF Wrestling, Kate Mulgrew surprising AOC, 7 Days, Quantum Leap, Beetlejuice, Otherworld, Sliders, House II, Charmed, Werewolves, Buffy, whodoneits, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Michael Jackson's strange questions, John Landis, Sabrina, Ken's crying at the death of Flealig in Babe II, and the strangeness of Red Green.

[skrytch]

"You see that Superman fella in the news last night? Don't you think he looks a bit like Clark?"

The waitress stopped pouring the speaker's coffee and glared at him. "The Kent's boy? Have you lost your mind. You paid attention to the interview you'd know He says he's a space Alien."

"yeah yeah from some where called Crumpet or somethin'. But still you know as well as I do that the boy is... Special ."

She resisted the urge to break the pot over his fool head instead putting back very carefully back in it burner before turning to face the man again slamming her palms in the counter in front of him.

"First of all you best mind your tongue if you want pie to go with your coffee instead of a swift kick in the ass." She took a breath to calm her nerves. "Secondly while there's No doubt He's strong as all get out and runs faster than anything. He may even be, oh what's the word Anderson Cooper used on 60 minutes the other night... Meta! That's the word! Short for metahuman if'n I remember right. Not that any business but the Kent's and maybe their physician.

Clark has been part of this community since he was an infant. I baby sat when his parents needed to have a night to themselves. Hell you went to school with him up til you dropped out.

He's a Smallville native same as you an' me. And that's that!" She walked over to the pie cubby and pulled out a slice of rhubarb. "Clark an alien of all the ridiculous..."

"But his face looks exactly the same"

She sighed and put the pie back. "You damn fool. You that boy is clumsy as shit without his glasses on. You see glasses on that man's face?."

"well no but I just..."

"You just? You just lost yourself a pie. You wanna rethink yourself before you go further?"

"I'm just saying..."

"NO! I'm just saying it's time for you to leave 'for I get disagreeable."

The man stood up from the counter. "All right. All right. I'm leaving." As he turned to leave he said " you gotta admit though they doo look an awful lot alike"

She rolled her eyes. "This from the idjit that thought Jon Cryer was Lex Luther once just cuz they're both bald."

The man made a disgruntled grunt as he walked out the door.

She turned the TV on while she prepared for the lunch rush when lo and behold there he was. The Superman himself. Apparently he'd foiled a hold up at a bodega while purchasing some food for the cat head just rescued. The waitress squinted at the TV and smiled.

"well I guess Martha and Jonathan did raise you right after all. Good on you Clark ,as the kids say. Good on you."

Starting to think a cooler headcanon for Clark’s upbringing might just be that the entire town of Smallville collectively decided to just go with it and accept that Martha and John's kid has superpowers, but we don't talk about it.

Someone's tractor gets stuck and nothing can get it out? "Be a dear and run down to the Kents, would you? Ask for Clark?"

"Why Clark, we need a machine--"

"Run along now."

Or if he kicks too hard and the football vanishes into the upper stratosphere, no it didn't, we all collectively saw it land over there *vague hand movements*

[ncisladaily]

@salute_shorts - BLOCK 2: August 17th, 1pm - Grab Your Tickets 🎟️ for #SYSFF24 🍿🎥 Link in bio 🔗 • Ily, Bye: When an exciting job interview comes her way, Siobhan needs to keep her foot out of her mouth long enough to get her foot in the door. • David Again: The story of David Dennis, his road to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, and his lifelong friendship with actor Jon Cryer. • Hoodie: A young woman enters into a toxic, co-dependent relationship with a heather grey, comfy as fuck, hoodie. • Two Women Make a Lunch Plan: Two women, who have neither seen nor heard from one another in quite some time, run into each other while out and about and make a plan to get lunch sometime in the future. • Auxiliaire: During a night of doubt,, a carer dreaming of becoming a chef, has to admit to his friend with a motor disability, whom he takes care of, that he will not return to work the next day. • #shortfilm #filmfestival #SaluteYourShortsFilmFestival #losangelesfilmfestival #filmfest #film #losangeles #shortfilms

[mediamonarchy]

https://mediamonarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240614_MorningMonarchy.mp3 Download MP3 Boss babe profiles, Young Thug trials and Rugrats syncs + this day in history w/the hero we need and our song of the day by The Halluci Nation w/Saul Williams on your #MorningMonarchy for June 14, 2024. Notes/Links: The Miss Alabama Controversy, Explained; A plus-size model won the top spot in an Alabama pageant and the internet had a meltdown. https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/06/07/miss-alabama-controversy-explained/ Gen Z workers expos the ‘toxic’ behaviors of their bosses https://nypost.com/2024/06/11/lifestyle/gen-z-reveal-reality-of-their-toxic-bosses/ Gen Z plumbers and construction workers are making #BlueCollar Cool https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13513655/blue-collar-influencers-tiktok-salaries-construction.html Ani DiFranco leads a feminist folk-punk revolution in the new trailer for her upcoming documentary, ‘1-800-ON-HER-OWN.’ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ani-difranco-documentary-trailer-1-800-on-her-own-1235036483/ Video: *Final Trailer 1-800-ON-HER-OWN w Ani DiFranco (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJZWH3HD1ZY Sloan – “Lemonzinger” (Vinyl // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/30792369-Sloan-Smeared // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2eqW1_hcZM AI Is Coming for the Jingle — And Maybe the Entire Advertising Audio Industry https://archive.is/O3D8q Hopeless Records’ Top Execs on 30 Years of History, New Exhibit & the ‘Great Music & Art’ That Make Up the Indie Community; As they launch their traveling exhibition commemorating three decades of indie music, Hopeless founder/CEO Louis Posen and GM Ian Harrison look back at the label’s history. https://archive.is/2d9Ea Hopeless Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopeless_Records Indie Record Store Profile- Twist & Shout in Denver, Colorado https://archive.is/l8Ttg The Young Thug Trial Just Went Off the Rails: Witness Arrested for Refusing to Testify https://archive.ph/uNL35 THE BIG STORY: Young Thug Trial Goes Off The Rails; Plus a bunch of other thugs in suits representing thugs in tracksuits https://archive.is/vsMAG Video: Young Thug lawyer calls trial ‘crazy’ in court (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvTB4q2arc Harry Belafonte – “Roll On Buddy” (Vinyl // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/1520500-Harry-Belafonte-Belafonte-On-Campus // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4J9wfrr18 #DeepFocus/Videos: The cast for new Star Wars series The Acolyte don’t even know the plot of the original Star Wars franchise; Here Charlie Barnett twice claims that Anakin Skywalker blew up the Death Star (Audio) https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1798515066008199515 #DeepFocus/Video: Interviewer Asks Harrison Ford If Han Shot First (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQDD9YpYlQs #DeepFocus: Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Jon Cryer and Ally Sheedy Have Brat Pack Reunion https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/brat-packs-demi-moore-andrew-mccarthy-jon-cryer-ally-sheedy-reunite/ #DeepFocus/Video: Actor Rob Schneider calls Will Smith a liar, fraud, and douchebag for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. (Audio) https://x.com/ArtOfDialogue_/status/1800863862054637982 #DeepFocus: ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Rides Alone on a Record-Low June Weekend; With a $56 million opening, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence provided theaters with life support when much more is needed https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/bad-boys-ride-or-die-wins-record-low-june-weekend-box-office-1235013905/ #DeepFocus/Video: Philips Twin Towers advert (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34JizZeglbQ #DeepFocus/Video: The Rugrats Movie WTC Commercial – 1998 (Audio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVNzQt-1xbw Stray Cats – “Cruisin'” (Gene Vincent Cover // Vinyl // Audio) https://www.discogs.com/release/13685341-Stray-Cats-Shes-Sexy-17 // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGlGQzJZ44 #MorningMonarchy: June 14, 2016 – Facebook, Twitter Cave In to Israeli Government Demands https://mediamonarchy.com/...

[newsper]

Teen Movie Stars' Feud: Pretty in Pink Actors' Reconciliation

[ear-worthy]

Off Duty: NCIS Rewatch Video Podcast Debuts

Rewatch podcasts are almost always a safe investment for a podcast network or indie podcaster. First, you have a built-in audience that loves the TV show, even if it's been off the air for quite a while. Second, the rewatch podcast has several content options, such as reviewing each TV episode on the podcast or having people who worked on the show be interviewed. Or both. The Psychologists Are In with Maggie Lawson and Timothy Omundson is one of the best TV rewatch podcasts around. That rewatch show has the benefit of two of the principal cast members as co-hosts. Even better, Lawson is terrific.

So it's no surprise that Spotify has announced the launch of a new weekly video podcast, Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch, with hosts and NCIS castmates Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly – set to debut on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. The podcast will reunite the fan-favorite actors from the NCISverse as they rewatch, reminisce, and reveal more from the popular TV series. 

 Here's the marketing pitch: "In each weekly podcast episode, Cote and Michael will invite a special guest to join them as they rewatch iconic NCIS episodes. Former franchise cast and guest stars making appearances include Sean Murray, Sasha Alexander, Eric Christian Olsen, Jon Cryer and many more who will join the hosts to reminisce about the show’s undeniable impact in television and pop culture, and reveal exclusive behind-the-scenes moments from making the cherished TV series."

 NCIS co-stars and apparently, lifelong friends, Michael Weatherly and Cote De Pablo, are hosting the quintessential NCIS rewatch podcast. They played two of NCIS's most memorable characters, agents Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David, AKA "TiVa". Each week, they will break down an episode of NCIS and host a special guest, including stars and key behind the scenes folks from across the NCIS universe, to reminisce about the show’s impact and reveal behind-the-scenes, never-before-shared moments from the making of this beloved franchise.

Weatherly was on NCIS for 13 seasons, when he left to star in his own CBS TV series, Bull.  In January 2018, CBS settled for $9.5 million with actress Eliza Dushku after she was fired from a recurring role on Bull after informing producers of Weatherly's inappropriate behavior on the set. According to documents from the official mediation, Weatherly was recorded on video making comments about spanking Dushku over his knee, soliciting a threesome, alluding to sexual assault in his "rape van," and other inappropriate remarks. 

After the settlement was reported, Weatherly publicly apologized for the comments, yet Dushku responded that Weatherly broke the terms of their settlement by speaking to the press and characterized his apology as "more deflection, denial, and spin."

Then in 2021,CBS announced that Bull showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron and costar Freddy Rodriguez would be leaving the series after a workplace investigation was conducted by CBS. A rep for CBS Studios declined to share the findings of the investigation at the time, and they've still not been disclosed.

 Cote de Pablo played former Mossad agent Ziva David from 2006 until 2013 when she left the show for what she later said was dissatisfaction over the direction of her character arc. In the season 13 finale of the series, it was stated that her character had apparently died in an explosion in Israel. Yet three years later, she was miraculously alive (please thank soap operas for character resurrection).

 You can watch the series trailer HERE. 

If you're a NCIS fan -- and there are a lot of them -- check out Off Duty: An NCIS Rewatch. You have to give the show credit. In 21 seasons, the show has cycled through a lot of characters -- it just lost Katrina Law as Jessica Knight this month -- andstill garners excellent ratings. 

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday James “Midge” Ure born October 10th 1953 in Cambuslang.

Born to a working class family Ure attended Cambuslang Primary School and Rutherglen Academy in Glasgow until he was 15 years old. For the first 10 years of his life he lived in a one-bedroom tenement flat. After leaving school Ure attended Motherwell Technical College and then began to work as an engineer, training at the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), in nearby East Kilbride.

Midge started playing music in a Glasgow band called Stumble in 1969, before joining Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik in 1974. Upset in the change of direction, Ure left the band to join the Rich Kids, a punk-pop group led by former Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock. The Rich Kids only released one album, 1978’s Ghosts of Princes in Towers, before breaking up later that year. Ure spent a brief time with the Misfits (not the American band) before forming Visage with drummer Rusty Egan and vocalist Steve Strange; he left the group to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy, who had left in the middle of an American tour. After the tour was finished, Ure fulfilled an agreement to join Ultravox as the replacement for John Foxx.

Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make Ultravox a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with Steve Harley and Modern Man. In 1982, Ure released a solo single, a cover of the Walker Brothers’ hit “No Regrets”; it climbed into the U.K. Top Ten. Ure and Bob Geldof formed Band Aid, a special project to aid famine relief efforts in Ethiopia, in 1984. The two wrote the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and assembled an all-star band of musicians to record the single; it sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season.

In 1985, Ultravox was put on hiatus and Ure began to pursue a full-time solo career. Recorded entirely by Ure, his 1985 solo debut, The Gift, launched the number one single “If I Was,” as well as the minor hits “That Certain Smile” and “Call of the Wild.” The following year, he recorded the final Ultravox album; in 1987, the band broke up and he began recording his second solo album. The resulting record, 1988’s Answers to Nothing, was less successful than The Gift in the U.K., yet it charted in the U.S., which is something Ure’s previous album failed to do. Three years later, Ure released his third album, Pure; while it didn’t do any business in America, the album featured the Top 20 British hit “Cold, Cold Heart.” He attempted a comeback in 1996 with Breathe, which went ignored by both the American and British markets. Four years later, his score for the Jon Cryer drama-comedy Went to Coney Island was issued by the Evenmore label.

Ure’s recording activity during the 2000s began with Move Me, which featured some surprisingly hard rocking material. A few years later, he published an autobiography, If I Was, and then, with Geldof, arranged the Live 8 concerts.

Following the release of the covers-oriented 10 IN 2008, Ure participated in an Ultravox reunion and continued to record as a solo artist. Fragile was issued in 2014, and featured the Moby collaboration “Dark, Dark Night.” In 2017, he collaborated with composer Ty Unwin on the album Orchestrated, which featured orchestral reworkings of Ultravox songs, as well as songs from his solo career.

In 2020 Midge released an album Soundtrack 1978-2019, he was one of the lucky artists to have completed his tour promoting this in February that year.

Midge has recently revealed why he turned down an offer to join the Sex Pistols, telling The Telegraph that he considered that taking up the invitation from the band's manager Malcolm McLaren would have been like "joining a slightly edgier Bay City ­Rollers". He received the offer to join the fledgling punk band back in 1975, while on a visit to McCormack’s instrument hire shop in Glasgow.

In an interview published in the Telegraph he said;

"I was stopped in the street by the Clash’s manager, Bernie Rhodes, who then introduced me to Malcolm McLaren, I didn’t know who either of them was, but they literally asked me to join the Sex Pistols without even asking what I did. To me it would have been like joining a slightly edgier Bay City Rollers, so I turned them down.

On 4th October he celebrated seven decades of music with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. He is married with four daughters and lives in Somerset.

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Damn they really did JK dirty for cutting his part of the interview so short and the couple of minutes he had screentime Jon Cryer and Kelly were both talking over him lol

I bet the longer version will be online.

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