Karen Gillan: guest on 'Conan'

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Karen Gillan was a guest on American chat show Conan last week. Check out a clip below.


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Alan Cumming: 'Any Day Now' at Hamptons Film Festival, and album narration for Nicholas Phan

• Any Day Now - review

Director-writer Travis Fine’s drama is set in the late-1970s in Los Angeles’ gay community, a romance between a lip-synching drag-club performer (Alan Cumming) who really wants to be a proper singer, and a closeted assistant district attorney (Garret Dillahunt). The two are drawn together to care for an abandoned teen with Down syndrome (newcomer Isaac Leyva), and pose as cousins to skirt systemic anti-gay prejudice. Strong performances from all three leads rise above this story’s preachy and melodramatic elements,  while songs performed by Cumming’s character, including the title track, serve as plot signposts.
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On Friday, Alan tweeted a link to his blog:

Here I am on TV this morning, talking about STDs and penises and all sorts

The tweet included a link to Alan's latest blog update:

I am in the Hamptons, for the film festival. Any Day Now plays here on Sunday and Monday. Tomorrow I do a Q&A at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, and on Sunday I host the Golden Starfish Awards. Earlier today, in fact, very earlier today, I went on Good Day New York to chat about the movie and the festival, penises and STDs...

Watch the video clip at Alan's blog
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• Tenor Nicholas Phan's New Album STILL FALLS THE RAIN Features Narration by Alan Cumming

Named one of NPR’s Favorite Artists of 2011, American tenor Nicholas Phan returns to the music of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) on a new album available October 9 from Avie. On the eve of the Britten centenary, Still Falls the Rain showcases both the great British composer’s remarkable gift as a collaborator and Phan’s increasingly lauded interpretative powers. The album features The Heart of the Matter, a song cycle for tenor, narrator, horn, and piano, performed here by renowned actor Alan Cumming, as well as the principal hornist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Jennifer Montone, and pianist Myra Huang, Phan’s long-time recital partner. -
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Alan tweeted about the album on Thursday:

Look! My first classical album! Actually it's by Nicholas Phan aka @grecchinois and I just spout some Edith Sitwell.

 

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Ewan McGregor: TV appearance | rumoured new film | Trainspotting sequel update

Ewan McGregor will be a guest on 'Live! With Kelly' on one of two episodes to be co-hosted by comedian and actor Martin Short on March 8 or March 9.

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Sir Jackie Stewart wants Ewan Mcgregor for racing movie
Hollywood bosses are eyeing a biopic of motor racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart - and the track ace wants Ewan Mcgregor to play him on-screen.  

Brokeback Mountain producer Bill Pohlad is preparing to shoot the movie, which will focus on Sir Jackie's friendship with his Formula 1 protege Francois Cevert, who was killed in a track accident in the U.S. in 1973. Triple world champion Sir Jackie has read a draft of the untitled film's script and has given the greenlight for the project - and he's recommending Pohlad signs up fellow Scot MCGregor to play him in the movie.

The retired racer tells The Sun, "The relationship that Francois and I had was probably unique in that we were such good friends while, at the same time, racing against each other even though we were in the same team. This has been picked up by a very good film-maker in Bill. He has worked with some very big stars and he is a friend of mine. I've known him since about 1971. He wants to do it and we have agreed. "Clearly we won't be in it, it has to be actors. I don't know who will be playing me - but Ewan MCGregor would be an awfully good choice."

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Ewan McGregor: 'Trainspotting' Sequel Not Happening
As amazing as it would be to see Begbie, Renton and Sick Boy continue their drug-induced Trainspotting adventures, Scottish leading man Ewan McGregor has unofficially nixed it -- he's never even seen a script for the hypothetical movie.

While doing press for the upcoming Salmon Fishing in the Yemen at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, McGregor addressed the possibility of starring in a sequel to the movie, which was based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.

"I was always a bit loathe to do it, because Trainspotting is so important for me," said McGregor. "And it was such an amazing film that still stands up today. I think making a sequel to it is almost a dangerous thing to do. You don't want to damage the reputation of the original film if you make a lesser version."

Upon reflection, McGregor briefly considered the semantics of creating the film now, over a decade after its original release in 1996.

"That said, it could be interesting because it's been so long, and the book is set 10 years later," he said, referring to Welsh's follow-up to Trainspotting, titled Porno. As for his aging since the mid-'90s?

"I still look very, very young, and that would be a big problem," he joked, laughing.

Another novel by Welsh ("Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance") has been adapted into a Canadian film, Ecstacy, which just wrapped shooting and is slated for release this year. Welsh is currently writing a prequel to Trainspotting, titled Skagboys.

Source: Huffington Post