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IntervIew<br />
« <strong>Frank</strong><br />
GallaGher est<br />
une Desperate<br />
housewIFe»<br />
William H. Macy a évoqué, hier lors <strong>de</strong> sa<br />
conférence <strong>de</strong> presse, son personnage dans<br />
la série Shameless et a parlé <strong>de</strong> ses projets<br />
notamment avec son épouse Felicity Huffman,<br />
alias «Lynette» dans Desperate Housewives.<br />
Comment définiriez-vous votre personnage dans<br />
la série « Shameless » ?<br />
<strong>Frank</strong> Gallagher est un père alcoolique qui s’occupe<br />
seul <strong>de</strong> ses six enfants, complètement livrés à euxmêmes<br />
car sa femme l’a quitté. J’aime cette série<br />
car elle abor<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>s sujets graves sur le ton <strong>de</strong> la<br />
dérision et du comique. Le but étant <strong>de</strong> faire rire le<br />
téléspectateur.<br />
C’est un rôle difficile à jouer ?<br />
Le principal écueil a été <strong>de</strong> rendre mon personnage<br />
aimable et sympathique sans tenir compte <strong>de</strong> l’avis<br />
du public. Mon travail a consisté à trouver pourquoi<br />
il se comporte ainsi. Et dans la secon<strong>de</strong> saison, le<br />
but recherché est <strong>de</strong> savoir pourquoi il fait tout cela.<br />
Je me suis mis à l’écriture du sixième épiso<strong>de</strong><br />
Vous aimez votre personnage ?<br />
J’adore <strong>Frank</strong> Gallagher. C’est le meilleur personnage<br />
d’Hollywood en ce moment. J’aurais même payé<br />
pour avoir ce rôle. De plus, je me sens bien sur un<br />
plateau et j’ai conscience d’avoir <strong>de</strong> la chance <strong>de</strong><br />
travailler.<br />
Vos enfants regar<strong>de</strong>nt la série ?<br />
Non. D’abord ils sont trop petits. Et puis avec ma<br />
femme nous avons décidé qu’il n’y aurait pas <strong>de</strong> télé<br />
à la maison avant que nos enfants sachent lire.<br />
Quels adjectifs choisiriez-vous pour définir votre<br />
épouse, Felicity Huffman ?<br />
D’abord, elle est chanceuse d’avoir épousé un<br />
homme aussi formidable (rires). C’est une maman<br />
remarquable, toujours présente pour ses enfants<br />
malgré son emploi du temps très chargé. Pour ma<br />
part, l’avoir épousée est la plus belle chose qui me<br />
soit arrivée.<br />
Quelle est votre relation avec le tout Hollywood ?<br />
Je sors très peu. Je ne me rends pas aux soirées.<br />
De toute façon, lors <strong>de</strong> ces festivités, on ne peut<br />
échanger un mot avec quelqu’un tant la musique<br />
est assourdissante. Je préfère donc rester chez moi<br />
avec ma famille.<br />
Quels sont vos projets ?<br />
J’ai bien l’intention <strong>de</strong> réaliser un film l’année<br />
prochaine. D’ailleurs, si l’un d’entre vous a un<br />
million <strong>de</strong> dollars, qu’il vienne me voir (rires). Et<br />
lorsque Felicity aura fini <strong>de</strong> tourner pour «Desperate<br />
Housewives», j’aimerais vraiment la mettre en<br />
scène. Propos recueillis par Gérard Clétil<br />
MaCY lIBerateD BY plaYInG<br />
ControversIal CharaCter<br />
shaMeless star unworrIeD<br />
aBout auDIenCe reaCtIon<br />
to <strong>Frank</strong> GallaGher<br />
Shameless star William H Macy has not only created an<br />
unforgettable and timeless character in the perma-drunk <strong>Frank</strong><br />
Gallagher, he has also transformed himself and seems to have<br />
become ten years younger: “I like this look and so so the chicks<br />
in my family, but one thing I’d really like to ask the women in the<br />
room here is, how do you keep it out of your eyes?”<br />
Macy has also admitted that some of <strong>Frank</strong>’s behaviour is based<br />
on his mother who, in Macy’s own words ‘liked to drink’: “One thing<br />
I do in the show quite regularly is to hold off on lines so that I can<br />
pull faces. My Mum’s face would often speak volumes before she<br />
had said a single word,” he said. “There has been some criticism<br />
of the show saying that alcoholism is not funny, but drunk people<br />
can do very funny things. And the fact is that we set out to make<br />
a show that truthfully reflects the life of a marginalised and poor<br />
family living in conditions that are common where the kids have to<br />
raise themselves.”<br />
Macy also admitted that making <strong>Frank</strong> likeable would be very hard:<br />
“I never set out to do that,” he said. “And to be honest it is very<br />
liberating to not care if you come across as a good or a bad guy.<br />
My job is to find out why <strong>Frank</strong> does what he does, and maybe in<br />
series two we’ll discover more about that. What I can say is that I<br />
am writing episo<strong>de</strong> 6 of the next series with my partner.”<br />
Despite the controversy, Macy believes he has an amazing role:<br />
“it’s the best role in Hollywood. In playing a character like <strong>Frank</strong>,<br />
I effectively have a license to kill,” he said. “And don’t tell the<br />
producers, but I would pay to play a role like that.”<br />
GS<br />
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FaMIlY values<br />
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© 2010 American Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved.<br />
new FrontIers In 3D<br />
Meet the prIChetts<br />
The family tree of this “Mo<strong>de</strong>rn Family”<br />
looks like this... Patriarch Jay Pritchett<br />
(Ed O’Neill), is divorced but recently<br />
wed to a much younger, sexy Colombian<br />
woman, Gloria (Sofía Vergara); and to<br />
some extent her young son, the overlymature<br />
Manny (Rico Rodriguez).<br />
However, Jay also has two grown children<br />
from his previous marriage: Claire (Julie<br />
Bowen), who is now a “Dunphy” and<br />
has three children of her own with goofy<br />
husband Phil (Ty Burrell) – the popular<br />
Haley (Sarah Hyland ), brainiac Alex (Ariel<br />
Winter ), and clueless Luke (Nolan Gould).<br />
And then there is Jay’s gay son, Mitchell<br />
(Jesse Tyler Ferguson), who lives with his<br />
partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), and<br />
their adopted a Vietnamese baby, Lily.<br />
And it is Jay’s son, one half of America’s #1<br />
“gay couple” that will represent the show<br />
in Monaco this week -- Jesse Tyler<br />
Ferguson (sadly, Cameron has<br />
to stay home with Lily).<br />
The writer-producers,<br />
Christopher Lloyd<br />
and Steven Levitan,<br />
weave the show’s<br />
stories out of<br />
various tales of<br />
their own “mo<strong>de</strong>rn<br />
families”, as well as<br />
those of the cast. For<br />
example, Jesse Tyler<br />
Ferguson revealed<br />
that his character<br />
Mitchell’s running joke<br />
about how Jay (Ed O’Neill),<br />
kept “forgetting” his son is gay,<br />
is rooted in Ferguson’s real life. In reality,<br />
Jesse had to come out to his father three<br />
times over many years before his father<br />
actually believed him. Sometimes truth is<br />
stranger than fiction.<br />
Shot in a mockumentary”fashion (a la “The<br />
Office”), the show won instant acclaim in<br />
Arnaud<br />
Pasquali<br />
Christian<br />
Lelong<br />
Ian<br />
Christie<br />
Jérôme<br />
Kanapa<br />
its first season – nominated for the 2010<br />
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best<br />
Comedy Series Ensemble.<br />
“Not since ‘Frasier’ has a sitcom offered<br />
such an i<strong>de</strong>al blend of heart and smarts,”<br />
consi<strong>de</strong>red Robert Bianco, the USA Today<br />
TV critic, “or proven itself so effortlessly<br />
a<strong>de</strong>pt at so many comic variations, from<br />
subtle wordplay to big-laugh slapstick to<br />
everything in between.” He later ad<strong>de</strong>d:<br />
“As good as it was in its first year, it is even<br />
better in its second.”<br />
Jesse Tyler Ferguson ma<strong>de</strong> the <strong>de</strong>cision to<br />
become an actor when he was eight years<br />
old, and soon after joined the Albuquerque<br />
Children’s Theater, where he remained a<br />
member for six years. After graduating high<br />
school, he moved to New York to attend the<br />
American Musical and Dramatic Aca<strong>de</strong>my<br />
and began performing in Broadway and off-<br />
Broadway productions, the most notable<br />
of which were the critically-acclaimed,<br />
Tony Award-winning Broadway musical,<br />
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling<br />
Bee”. No stranger to television, Ferguson<br />
received rave reviews and was honored by<br />
The Hollywood Reporter in 2006 as one of<br />
‘Ten to Watch’ for his role on the ensemble<br />
sitcom, “The Class.” Additional television<br />
credits inclu<strong>de</strong> “Do Not Disturb” and “Ugly<br />
Betty.”<br />
For his work on ‘Mo<strong>de</strong>rn Family,’ Ferguson<br />
was nominated for an Emmy Award<br />
for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a<br />
Comedy Series and also received a Screen<br />
Actors Guild Award nomination (2010) for<br />
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble<br />
in a Comedy Series.<br />
The funny truth about America’s #1 gay<br />
couple is that Stonestreet is straight, and<br />
Ferguson is not. In fact, Ferguson jokingly<br />
calls Stonestreet... “gay-for-pay.”<br />
DIDJa know?<br />
Baby Lily is played by twins.<br />
Michael<br />
Eaton<br />
Pascal<br />
Charpentier<br />
Stewart<br />
Dickison
Script Development for Creative Stereoscopy will kick-off today’s TV<br />
Xchanges program at 10.30. The round table is organised with the<br />
participation of the Media Consulting Group. The conference will start<br />
with a quick overview of the history of thinking in <strong>de</strong>pth, exploring<br />
the ways in which filmmakers have respon<strong>de</strong>d to new formats from<br />
earlier periods of 3D production, and laying the foundation for current<br />
challenges in S-3D script-writing. Discussions will focus on technical<br />
opportunities in thematic <strong>de</strong>velopment and scenic construction.<br />
Alongsi<strong>de</strong> that, case studies will i<strong>de</strong>ntify the genres and effects that can<br />
be implemented in stereoscopic storytelling, as well as the constraints<br />
and limitations creative personnel will have to cope with. Taking part are<br />
Ian Christie of Birkbeck College London, Michael Eaton, Screenwriter<br />
and Christian Lelong of Cinedoc. The afternoon session - Producing<br />
Meet the BraverMans<br />
Families make the world go<br />
‘round…particularly in the world of<br />
entertainment. Through television,<br />
we’ve watched them all - from the<br />
royals of Elsinore to the Garnetts<br />
of London’s East End; the Texan<br />
Ewings, the Swiss Robinsons and<br />
the Cunninghams.<br />
There was once an American TV<br />
show called “The Royal Family” while<br />
Britain had a sitcom based on the<br />
Royle family. More recently, one of<br />
the most notable TV families has been<br />
Sally Field’s Walker clan on “Brothers<br />
& Sisters”, but now, please welcome<br />
the Bravermans from “Parenthood”!<br />
The three generations of the Braverman<br />
family tree can be <strong>de</strong>scribed as this:<br />
Craig T. Nelson (Zeek) and Bonnie<br />
Be<strong>de</strong>lia (Camille) are the head of the<br />
Berkeley unit. Together, they have<br />
two sons and two daughters, each<br />
of whom have their own families. All<br />
are trying to cope with parenthood<br />
and other issues that may come along<br />
with it (ie: autism, drug use, infi<strong>de</strong>lity,<br />
balancing wor and personal life, etc.)<br />
The el<strong>de</strong>st son, Adam, is played by<br />
Peter Krause (last seen as Nate Fisher<br />
in “Six Feet Un<strong>de</strong>r”). He’s wed to<br />
Kristina (Monica Potter). They have two<br />
children; a straight A, soccer-playing<br />
stu<strong>de</strong>nt trying hard to be the “perfect<br />
Representing ”Parenthood” at the festival is Bonnie Be<strong>de</strong>lia. She plays Camille, the matriarch of the<br />
Braverman clan. After starting out as a teenage member of the Porter clan in the ‘60s soap opera,<br />
“Love of Life,” she took her first Broadway bow in “Isle of Children” with Patty Duke. Following that,<br />
she appeared in “My Sweet Charlie,” and her touching performance in the play garnered her a Theatre<br />
World Award for ‘promising new artist.’ (Paradoxically, Duke recreated her role in the TV version).<br />
Having conquered the small screen and stage, Bonnie set her sights on the big screen. She played<br />
Bruce Willis’ wife in the “Die Hard” franchise, starred opposite Harrison Ford in “Presumed Innocent”<br />
and opposite Fred Ward in “The Prince of Pennsylvania.” She also received critical acclaim, and a<br />
Gol<strong>de</strong>n Globe nomination, for her role as race car driver Shirley Muldowney in “Heart Like A Wheel.”<br />
Bonnie has also filmed two Stephen King books and starred in one of the few honest appraisals of<br />
the life and work of U.S. policewomen during 88 hours of the drama series, “The Division.”<br />
daughter’” to compensate for the<br />
behavioural problems of her younger<br />
brother, Max, who has Asperger’s<br />
syndrome (a form of Autism).<br />
Youngest daughter, Julia (Erika<br />
Christensen), is a busy attorney trying<br />
to make time for her little girl while<br />
keeping other young mums away<br />
from her stay-at-home husband. Her<br />
ol<strong>de</strong>r sister, Sarah (Lauren Graham),<br />
is a divorced single mother, who is<br />
forced to move back home with her<br />
two teenage kids as she struggles<br />
to establish a career for herself.<br />
Meanwhile, their brother, Crosby (Dax<br />
Shepard), is about to settle down with<br />
girlfriend when an ex-girlfriend reappears,<br />
this time, bringing with her<br />
his six-year-old son he never even<br />
knew she was pregnant with. Some<br />
brood, right?! ”Parenthood” can best<br />
be <strong>de</strong>scribed as “Brothers & Sisters”<br />
meets “Mo<strong>de</strong>rn Family.” TC<br />
DIDJa know?<br />
“Parenthood” is based on<br />
the 1989 movie of the same<br />
name. The first attempt at a<br />
TV version was in 1990 when<br />
one of the kids was a then<br />
unknown Leonardo DiCaprio.<br />
tv XChanGes put the art oF 3D unDer the spotlIGht In the salle van DonGen<br />
and Directing in 3D Stereoscopy - will address the subjects of direction,<br />
production and post-production, the limits of human vision, the<br />
stereoscopic window, the influence of the size of the screen and the<br />
importance of camera movements. There will also be a discussion about<br />
what sorts of content style and story fit S-3D best, and a presentation<br />
of the tools and techniques for shooting in 3D. A segment of the round<br />
table will also be taking a look at the process of releasing a production<br />
to television, including the current state of the implementation of<br />
quality standards, the most recent <strong>de</strong>velopments in the market and<br />
the how much TV channels are likely to need 3D content. Participating<br />
in the session are Pascal Charpentier, Motion Designer S-3D, Stewart<br />
Dickison of Sony, Jérôme Kanapa, of CIFAP, and Arnaud Pasquali, of the<br />
European Community’s Media Programme.<br />
© Florian Schnei<strong>de</strong>r/NBCUniversal<br />
5
CounterIntellIGenCe<br />
Fore....!<br />
Chances are we may not see very much of “Criminal Minds”<br />
star Thomas Gibson in Monaco this week. Because he has<br />
a thing about golf. He’s extremely keen on the game. He’s<br />
also extremely good at it. He plays in the AT&T Pebble<br />
Beach National Pro-Am every year and is pally with top<br />
golfer Corey Pavin.<br />
Golfers tend to recognise other golfers, whatever their<br />
profession, and it’s obvious that after his numerous visits to the<br />
festival, that Dennis Haysbert will have spread the word among<br />
the cognoscenti of the greens about the beauties - and the<br />
pitfalls - of the the superlative course overlooking Monaco, just<br />
over the French bor<strong>de</strong>r at Mont Agel. When not playing God’s<br />
game - as some <strong>de</strong>votees call it - Gibson has been portraying<br />
the often tragic trajectory of Aaron “Hotch” Hotchner , head of<br />
the BAU team - the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico,<br />
Virginia - in 135 episo<strong>de</strong>s during the last six years.<br />
We’ve seen him up and and we’ve seen him down... Divorced<br />
by his wife, who is later slain by the serial killer known as The<br />
Reaper, who also attacked Hotch. Hardly surprising then that<br />
such happenings led to him being replaced by Shemar Moore’s<br />
Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan for a spell. Hotch has<br />
been back in charge since the killing of the grim Reaper. In<br />
actual fact, the tall Gibson has been in charge of the whole<br />
show for some time now, the one steadyhand, surehand during<br />
all the comings and goings on the show. All this dark criminality<br />
is a radical switch from Gibson’s previous hit series. He was half<br />
of the married opposites, “Dharma & Greg,” with Jenna Elfman.<br />
And before that, he starred in two other important series: “Tales<br />
of the City,” from Armistead Maupin’s book, and as Dr. Danny<br />
Nyland in “Chicago Hope.”<br />
Tony Crawley<br />
The Gube’s in town. Matthew Gray Gubler, aka<br />
the super-geek Dr. Spencer Reid of “Criminal<br />
Minds” for six years (and two chiefs) with one<br />
more to go. Another year, that is, not another<br />
chief. Well, iin TV, one never knows...<br />
Reid is part of Joe Mantegna’s team of elite<br />
profilers from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit<br />
(BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. He is a genuine wiz.<br />
A living, breathing (but why working for the FBI?)<br />
genius... with PhDs in Mathematics, Chemistry,<br />
Engineering, BAs in Psychology and Sociology,<br />
and chasing another in philosophy. He also<br />
has ei<strong>de</strong>tic memory, able to recall a huge<br />
amount of information - like the Swedish<br />
“Millennium” heroine, Lisbeth Salan<strong>de</strong>r.<br />
His work led to a serious drug problem,<br />
after he was kidnapped, tortured and<br />
drugged by a multiple personality<br />
serial killer. Dr. Reid’s then boss<br />
(Mandy Pantinkin) and colleague<br />
“Hotch” (Thomas Gibson) helped<br />
him through it. Like his role,<br />
Matthew was also born, bred,<br />
educated in Las Vegas - where<br />
Married, with three children (two sons and a daughter), Gibson<br />
lives in San Antonio, Texas, home town of his wife, Cristina. He<br />
was born in Charleston, South Carolina and actually started<br />
acting at age ten - in children’s theatre. No game for him. He<br />
took it as seriously as he was to take golf.<br />
Fi<strong>de</strong>lity<br />
Bravery<br />
integrity<br />
the GuBe CoMeth<br />
DIDJa know? Thomas<br />
Gibson was born on the same<br />
day - July 3, 1962 - as Tom<br />
Cruise. They co-starred in<br />
two 90s’ movies, “Far and<br />
Away” and “Eyes Wi<strong>de</strong> Shut.”<br />
his maternal grandparents foun<strong>de</strong>d KENO, the<br />
town’s first radio station. He was in film school<br />
in New York when he was noticed and became<br />
a DNA Mo<strong>de</strong>l for Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Jacobs,<br />
etc. In 2002, he majored in film directing at NYU’s<br />
Tisch School of the Arts and has since directed<br />
several shorts: “The Cactus That Looked Just<br />
Like a Man,” “Clau<strong>de</strong>: A Symphony of Horror”<br />
and (behind the pseudonym Stru<strong>de</strong>l Goolar)<br />
his improvised You Tube series. “I’m incredibly<br />
proud of those.”<br />
He also uses hid<strong>de</strong>n cameras, so watch out in<br />
Monaco or you, too, could wind up on “Matthew<br />
Gray Gubler: The Unauthorized Documentary.”<br />
Oh, no that’s done. Now he’s into “The<br />
Authorized Version”...<br />
He didn’t stop there. With an in<strong>de</strong>fatigability<br />
reminiscent of the young David Hemmings (not<br />
to mention James Franco), The Gube is also a<br />
sketch artist, painter, photographer, webmastergeneral<br />
(he has a hand-written website: www.<br />
matthewgraygubler.com - “gublerland is loading,<br />
whistle while you wait”) and, the last we heard,<br />
an aspiring children’s author and illustrator. TC<br />
7
worlD aCtress<br />
FelICItY huFFMan<br />
pas sI Desperate<br />
que ça !<br />
Contrairement à son personnage Lynette Scavo dans la série Desperate<br />
Housewives, dont le succès ne se dément pas à travers le mon<strong>de</strong>,<br />
Felicity Huffman attache bien plus d’importance à son apparence ! En<br />
effet, c’est sur son 31 que l’actrice est apparue à sa conférence <strong>de</strong><br />
presse hier après-midi, <strong>de</strong>vant un parterre <strong>de</strong> journalistes conquis.<br />
Pour résumer cette différence <strong>de</strong> perception entre fiction et réalité,<br />
notre héroïne raconte qu’à son arrivée à l’aéroport <strong>de</strong> Nice, une<br />
femme l’a reconnue en tant que Lynette Scavo et lui dit, avec un<br />
accent français prononcé qu’elle imita parfaitement « On the show,<br />
you’re fat and ugly ! But in real life, you’re beautiful ! ». [Dans la série,<br />
vous êtes grosse et moche ! Mais en fait dans la vraie vie, vous êtes<br />
magnifique !]<br />
Felicity se sent très proche <strong>de</strong> son personnage, et ce bien<br />
évi<strong>de</strong>mment à cause <strong>de</strong> son rôle <strong>de</strong> mère. Mais elle avoue être<br />
beaucoup plus souple avec son mari dans la vie (l’acteur William H.<br />
Macy, qui l’a accompagnée ici à <strong>Monte</strong>-<strong>Carlo</strong>) que Lynette ne l’est<br />
avec Tom Scavo dans la série.<br />
« Comme n’importe quelle femme, j’amène et vais chercher mes<br />
enfants à l’école, je vais au supermarché… » Fille d’une famille<br />
nombreuse (7 filles et un garçon), Felicity Huffman est la ca<strong>de</strong>tte et<br />
reste proche <strong>de</strong> ses frères et sœurs : « Ils sont ma bonne étoile ! ».<br />
Au commencement <strong>de</strong> l’aventure <strong>de</strong>s « ménagères » <strong>de</strong> Wisteria Lane,<br />
elle avait auditionné pour le rôle <strong>de</strong> Bree (joué par Marcia Cross), et<br />
avait pris soin <strong>de</strong> bien se préparer. Pourtant, c’est avec humour qu’elle<br />
raconte que le producteur savait au premier regard qu’elle incarnerait<br />
Lynette : « Car vous étiez dans un tel état ! Avec <strong>de</strong>s tâches sur vos<br />
vêtements et vos cheveux décoiffés ! ». Quelle ironie … !<br />
Si elle est encore sous contrat avec la série pour 2 ans, l’infatigable<br />
Lynette grouille <strong>de</strong> projets mais elle l’avoue avec honnêteté : «J’adore<br />
travailler <strong>de</strong>puis chez moi… Histoire <strong>de</strong> passer plus <strong>de</strong> temps avec<br />
mes filles ! ». VB / CH<br />
FelICItY huFFMan<br />
on lYnette sCavo<br />
When asked about the similarities between herself and Lynette Scavo<br />
of Desperate Housewives, Felicity Huffman revealed that she finds<br />
being a mother quite challenging: “I think we both feel a little bit<br />
buried by the whole motherhood thing,” she said. “And we are both<br />
ambitious. On the other hand I think Lynette is tougher on her husband<br />
than I am.” Earlier in the day, her husband William Macy had told<br />
journalists at the Grimaldi Forum that she was an amazing Mother.<br />
When this was mentioned to her, she returned the compliment: “You<br />
could not wish for a better Dad than Bill, he’s very good at holding<br />
everything together, he’s the root of the family,” she said.<br />
In terns of what Huffman does in the rare periods when she isn’t<br />
working, she admitted to being ‘quite boring’: “I’d like to say that<br />
I hang-gli<strong>de</strong> and attempt to save the planet, but in fact, alongsi<strong>de</strong><br />
taking the kids to school, shopping and picking up the dry-cleaning,<br />
I like to run, I love my gar<strong>de</strong>n and I enjoy reading in bed. I’m currently<br />
reading a book by William Manchester, which makes me sound<br />
terribly smart, but I like everything from historical stuff through to<br />
Danielle Steel.”<br />
Desperate Housewives first became famous for being a show that<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> woman in their 40s look sexy and viable, something for which<br />
Huffman is very grateful: “It really changed Hollywood in that as an<br />
actress you used to fall off a cliff around the age of 40, but now it’s 50<br />
and I’m not far away from that,” she said. “Whether playing Lynette<br />
has been the role of a lifetime is very hard to say, but certain story<br />
lines really stick in my mind. In the last series, when me and Tom<br />
were on the verge of splitting up, it took me out of my comfort zone,<br />
even if it was only my TV husband played by Doug Savant.” GS<br />
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super soap<br />
ever YounG,<br />
ever restless XXXX<br />
This year, “The Young & the Restless” is represented here by<br />
members of the Abbott, Baldwin and Ashby clans… one of<br />
whom is reported <strong>de</strong>ad in a current cliff-hanger!<br />
Hunky Australian, Daniel Goddard who has played Cane<br />
Ashby since 2007, will be walking the red carpet alongsi<strong>de</strong><br />
glamorous soap beauty Tracey E. Bregman who has played<br />
Lauren Fenmore Baldwin for more than 748 episo<strong>de</strong>s as well<br />
as Judith Chapman, the legendary soap actress.<br />
Judith Chapman is the terrific Cruella DeVille of soaps. She has<br />
recently completed her 663rd episo<strong>de</strong> as Gloria Fisher Abbott<br />
Bardwell in “The Young & the Restless.” Judith spoke exclusively<br />
to Televisual Magazine saying “I’m very excited about re-visiting<br />
one of the most glamorous capitals, et, aussi, tout la cote d’Azur...<br />
speaking with the Press and the fans... and getting their reactions<br />
to this show. En francais, si je peux. I’ve lived in England and<br />
Spain, worked in Spain and have family in Europe. It’s like visiting<br />
home. I have seen our show in Italian, and look forward to seeing<br />
it in French. I think the voices are fabulous! I’d love to meet these<br />
actors. It is such an honour!”<br />
“She’s the girl who came from nothing, and raised two sons alone.”<br />
says Judith. “She is always involved with the wrong men, until John<br />
Abbott, and has ambitions that match her natural intelligence. She<br />
means no ill, but, very often, makes mistakes that get her into<br />
trouble.”<br />
And Judith reveals: “Gloria’s TV family does everything they can to<br />
support each other and make each other laugh. But whenever she<br />
can battle with the Abbott children - those are the best scenes.<br />
Ahh, Gloria!”<br />
Judith’s career has spanned many hit soaps which inclu<strong>de</strong> “As The<br />
World Turns” in 1956 as well as “General Hospital,” “One Life to<br />
Live,” “Days of Our Lives,” and “Ryan’s Hope” in 1975.<br />
Tracey E. Bergman is no stranger to Europe as she was born in<br />
Munich and raised in London until almost eleven. “I love to go see<br />
my friends in London and I love Italy and France. I took French<br />
as a child and one year of Italian so, I speak this great language<br />
called Fratalian. I can never get through one sentence without both<br />
languages in it!” The Bregman legend says Tracey E. ad<strong>de</strong>d the E<br />
to her name (quite legitimately; her second name is Elizabeth) after<br />
Tracey Bregman,<br />
Daniel Goddard<br />
et Judith Chapman<br />
an astrologer suggested in 1985 that it would help her career. A<br />
month later, Tracey moved her “Bold and Beautiful” role of Lauren<br />
Fenmore to “Y&R” . - and won a Daytime Emmy.<br />
“Lauren used to be a bitch with no re<strong>de</strong>eming qualities! Luckily,<br />
through the years she has grown and changed into a heroine who<br />
hasn’t lost her edge. I’m thrilled that we are seen around the world<br />
and that so many people enjoy our show.” “I’m so excited to be in<br />
beautiful <strong>Monte</strong> <strong>Carlo</strong>!, I’ve wanted to come to this event for years.<br />
I’m looking forward to meeting all the people who will be there. To<br />
meet the Prince and his fiancee.”<br />
Daniel Goddard first auditioned for “Y&R» using his best US accent<br />
but once CBS network discovered his Australian background, they<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> Ethan “Cane” Ashby an Aussie barten<strong>de</strong>r, “he is a workingclass<br />
kind of guy who mined opals and raised goats,” searching for<br />
his birth family in Genoa City... who prove to be millionaire Phillip<br />
Chancellor II and Jill Foster. He also found a Lady Chatterley-style<br />
romance with lovely Lily. “Cane is like an onion and over the years<br />
the layers have been peeled back to slowly reveal who he really<br />
is - a good, loving man and fiercely loyal to his family and friends.<br />
Even if he enjoys a fight now and then! I’m truly honoured that<br />
we’re seen in so many countries and cultures. I’d like to take out<br />
all the guys who dub me into their own languages and buy them a<br />
bottomless beer.”<br />
Already a great fan of Portugal, Daniel and his wife have been<br />
getting to know le Midi before driving here by rented car from Nice.<br />
“I’m a huge F1 fan and having watched the Monaco Grand Prix for<br />
years, the first thing I did was drive through the tunnel down to the<br />
chicane and the Piscine S-bend! Later I’m going to Germany for a<br />
mate’s 40th birthday... and some days racing the Nürburgring!”<br />
DIDJa know? Judith started acting in a<br />
spaghetti western in Spain as a teen in Franco<br />
Giraldi’s “Up the MacGregors”...Daniel plays<br />
practical jokes on his male colleagues - “I’m saving<br />
Eric Brae<strong>de</strong>n to last, when I’ve built up the courage<br />
to mess with him”... Tracey’s cousin is The Sultan<br />
of Sequins: Bob Mackie, fashion <strong>de</strong>signer for Cher,<br />
Madonna, Tina Turner... and Elton John.<br />
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et seanCe De DeDICaCes<br />
le FestIval suCCoMBe<br />
auX « MYsteres De l’aMour »<br />
Lakshan ABENAYAKE, Isabelle BOUYSSE, Coralie<br />
CAULIER, Carole DECHANTRE, Patrick PUYDEBAT,<br />
Hélène ROLLES et Philippe VASSEUR vous atten<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
au Grimaldi Forum.<br />
C’est le premier feuilleton TV produit et créé par une chaîne<br />
<strong>de</strong> la TNT. TMC a relevé cet ambitieux défi en donnant vie à la<br />
suite d’Hélène et le Garçons. Dans « Les Mystères <strong>de</strong> l’Amour<br />
» on retrouve donc les personnages qui ont marqué toute une<br />
génération. Ce sont toujours les meilleurs amis du mon<strong>de</strong>,<br />
ils savent qu’ils peuvent compter les uns sur les autres, que<br />
l’amitié est plus forte que tout. Nos héros préférés restent<br />
soumis aux errements du cœur, aux variations <strong>de</strong>s sentiments,<br />
à la précarité <strong>de</strong>s liens amoureux. Ils vivent aujourd’hui dans<br />
un mon<strong>de</strong> plus dur, sans l’insouciance <strong>de</strong> leurs aventures<br />
passées : un mon<strong>de</strong> où chacun <strong>de</strong> nos héros est plus solitaire<br />
et où la part <strong>de</strong> mystère, <strong>de</strong> thriller occupe plus <strong>de</strong> place dans<br />
leurs aventures jusqu’à parfois prendre le pas sur l’amitié.<br />
aFter heMInGwaY CoreY stoll<br />
Is lookInG For lauGhs<br />
Corey Stoll, who portrayed Detective Tomas Jaruszalski in Law & Or<strong>de</strong>r: L.A., has<br />
just finished what he happily admits was a dream role with legendary director<br />
Woody Allen. Stoll played the writer Ernest Hemingway in Allen’s Midnight In Paris:<br />
“I know this gets said a lot and it can sound disingenuous, but really just to be<br />
asked to the audition was an honour, and then to be offered the role was complete<br />
and utter joy.” Stoll had no i<strong>de</strong>a what he would be asked to do at the audition and<br />
received no script in advance: “In fact it can be very liberating because very often<br />
your first reaction is the most powerful and if then you have time to mull it over, that<br />
reaction can be diluted,” he said.<br />
Having finished Midnight In Paris, the actor has had several offers including<br />
another film whose subject is still a secret, but Stoll also wants to do comedy: “It’s<br />
a very challenging genre, and not something I’ve been involved with very much,<br />
so I would love to land a comedy role or two,” he said. “And I would really like to<br />
do more theatre, but it’s a big commitment in terms of time, with a typical contract<br />
lasting six months at least, and this really isn’t the time for that.”<br />
Working with Allen exposed Stoll to the director’s highly individual way of doing<br />
things: “He has two quite distinct mo<strong>de</strong>s,” Stoll said. “Some scenes with quite a<br />
few actors involved would be shot with a steady-cam, and nobody really knew<br />
exactly what was happening, and even though some lines would be fluffed, he<br />
liked that spontaneous grittiness. But then especially for my role, he really mined<br />
down into the character, most specifically in regards to Hemingway’s particular<br />
style of speaking. I used to read his books aloud as often as possible in or<strong>de</strong>r to<br />
try to make the words come alive.”<br />
Gary Smith<br />
Souvenez-vous, dix-huit ans plus tôt : Hélène, Nicolas, José,<br />
Bénédicte, Christian, Johanna, Laly, Jimmy sont étudiants à la<br />
fac, jeunes adultes qui partagent la même maison quelques<br />
années après... Ils sont tous partis chercher le soleil et la liberté<br />
à Love Island où ils ont rencontré Jeanne et Rudy...<br />
Ils sont <strong>de</strong> retour à Paris, toujours amis, toujours unis,<br />
toujours remplis <strong>de</strong> joie et d’émotion pour vivre une nouvelle<br />
série d’aventures. Suivre <strong>de</strong>s personnages pendant aussi<br />
longtemps est un véritable bonheur pour un auteur. Profiter du<br />
talent <strong>de</strong>s mêmes comédiens pour continuer à interpréter leurs<br />
rôles, retrouver <strong>de</strong>s réalisateurs et <strong>de</strong>s équipes techniques <strong>de</strong><br />
qualité capables <strong>de</strong> donner vie à ces histoires est un véritable<br />
bonheur» explique le producteur Jean-Luc Azoulay<br />
Le synopsis : Nicolas est <strong>de</strong>venu photographe. Il vit sur une<br />
péniche amarrée au bord <strong>de</strong> la Seine. Bénédicte et José ont<br />
pris la gérance d’un restaurant sur l’île <strong>de</strong> la Jatte. Après le<br />
départ <strong>de</strong> Johanna pour le Texas, Christian a rejoint ses<br />
amis <strong>de</strong> toujours. Il poursuit son rêve <strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>venir une star <strong>de</strong><br />
la musique, soutenu par Angèle, sa jeune fiancée. Olga est<br />
<strong>de</strong>venue la meilleure amie <strong>de</strong> Bénédicte, après avoir sauvé la<br />
vie <strong>de</strong> Léa, la fille que Bénédicte a eue avec Jimmy. Quant à<br />
Jeanne, tous la croient morte dans un terrible acci<strong>de</strong>nt d’avion.<br />
Et seul Nicolas sait ce qu’est <strong>de</strong>venue Hélène... Expériences<br />
professionnelles, rencontres, séparations, réconciliations, la vie<br />
<strong>de</strong> cette inséparable ban<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> copains va s’avérer riches en<br />
péripéties.
en veDette<br />
XavIer DeluC l’authentIque<br />
Xavier Deluc n’arrive toujours pas à s’expliquer les succès<br />
d’audience enregistrés par la série « Section <strong>de</strong> recherches »<br />
sur TF1… Pour l’analyse détaillée <strong>de</strong>s scores, l’acteur-gendarme<br />
renvoie volontiers vers sa productrice Dominique Lancelot. Lui<br />
évoque pêle-mêle <strong>de</strong>s personnages et situations proches <strong>de</strong> la réalité,<br />
<strong>de</strong>s décors forcément familiers et surtout la ferme volonté <strong>de</strong> ne pas<br />
imiter les séries-clones américains. «Autant dire que nous revendiquons<br />
notre cachet d’authenticité». Quant au personnage du major Bernier<br />
promu au fil <strong>de</strong>s six saisons lieutenant, «c’est ni plus ni moins que<br />
l’image du gendarme bien ancré dans sa région, un gars du terroir qui<br />
dégage une espèce <strong>de</strong> force tranquille» déclare son interprète. Bien<br />
sûr au fil <strong>de</strong>s années, il a mûri, il se sent plus dans la peau d’un chef<br />
d’équipe, tout l’acteur et l’homme ai-je envie <strong>de</strong> rajouter».<br />
Maix Xavier Deluc avoue ne ressentir aucune lassitu<strong>de</strong> «tant la<br />
production est exigeante et sans cesse ne mouvement». Il est vrai<br />
qu’à raison d’un tournage d’épiso<strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong>ux par <strong>de</strong>ux pour un total <strong>de</strong><br />
14 sur 12 mois, le rythme ne mollit pas… Des évolutions à venir ? «On<br />
va dire, qu’après un savant dosage, mon personnage va tenter un brin<br />
d’humour. Je vous rassure, on ne va pas sombrer dans la comédie,<br />
juste faire sourire un peu». Le Lieutenant Bernier plus attendrissant,<br />
cela correspond plus à la personnalité du vrai Xavier Deluc… HZ<br />
FroM patrol Car to CaFe llorCa<br />
Ready for tonight’s<br />
Universal Networks<br />
International (UNI)<br />
cocktail in the Café<br />
Llorca, the cast of<br />
Rookie Blue line-up<br />
on the red carpet.<br />
Gregory Smith,<br />
Charlotte Sullivan<br />
and Travis Milne<br />
will be at the event<br />
alongsi<strong>de</strong> other<br />
personalities from<br />
several of UNI’s top<br />
series.<br />
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IntervIew<br />
16<br />
New Lucrezia.<br />
Following such<br />
beauties as Maria<br />
Grazia Buccella,<br />
Martine Carol, Edwige<br />
Feuillère, Ava Gardner,<br />
Lisa Gastoni, Paulette<br />
Goddard, Sirpa Lane,<br />
Belinda Lee, Simonetta<br />
Stefandlli, even<br />
Joan Sutherland...<br />
Germany’s Russianborn<br />
Isolda Dychauk is<br />
the screen’s 37th sister<br />
of Rodrigo’ in «Borgia»<br />
There could hardly be a better cholce in Europe for<br />
Presi<strong>de</strong>nt of the TV Series jury than Takis Candilis. As<br />
ceo of Lagardère Entertainment in Paris, he is the #1<br />
drama producer in France, if not all Europe.<br />
He’s had a meteoric rise from film editor, cinematographer,<br />
writer, producer, director, creator and television producer,<br />
booker, buyer, instigator and distributor to heading the varied<br />
production outlets un<strong>de</strong>r his umbrella at Lagardère - responsible<br />
for more than 950 hours of programming per year.<br />
He started out in cinema - with a prize-winning short “Le Retour<br />
Du Prive” in 1977 - but was soon thwarted and plain bored by<br />
how long it took to - “maybe!” - get a film off the page and into<br />
cinemas. TV offered greater rapidity. He formed and worked for<br />
various companies, including a memorable 90s spell in cultural<br />
programming - opera and ballet for ZDF, Arté, BBC, NHK. He<br />
returned to drama at Ellipse, then Hamster and TF1 - “Navarro,”<br />
“L’instit,” “Quai N°1.” For a full <strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong> he was head of fiction<br />
and programmes at TFI before joining Lagardère Entertainment<br />
in 2008 - becoming le patron within two years.<br />
He talked to us in his ninth floor office, overlooking the River<br />
Seine in Paris, before coming to <strong>Monte</strong> <strong>Carlo</strong> to head the TV<br />
Series jury.<br />
Let’s begin with the obvious: Ever hea<strong>de</strong>d a jury before?<br />
No, this is the first time and I’m looking forward to it. I hope I’m<br />
a good choice...<br />
TV drama is your life. It used to be cinema. Why the switch?<br />
That was a long time ago - 1982. It simply took too long - years!<br />
- to make one movie. And I had no time. I always wanted to<br />
make many things at the same time. So, I became a producer<br />
and tried to make not one film but two or three films per year.<br />
Then, I became a bigger producer and managed 20 or 25 per<br />
year. Then, at a TV channel - it became more than 80. Now I’m<br />
head of the 17 companies forming Lagardère Entertainment,<br />
it’s around 135 hours - 14% of our our annual 950 hours of<br />
programming.<br />
If you can relax before a TV like the rest of us, what were<br />
your favourite series recently?<br />
“Rome” was a major shock - to all of us. Then, “The Tudors.”<br />
And I loved “Mad Men,” “CSI,” “Oz.”<br />
Shocked because you felt costume drama wouldn’t work<br />
today?<br />
But also this was, I think, the first time where, <strong>de</strong>spite the historic<br />
setting, everyone was doing what you’d expect them to be doing<br />
today. They spoke like today. It was a contemporary show even<br />
though dressed as in ancient Rome. Totally amazing! Plus this<br />
was the first time we saw such a high level production quality in<br />
a series. Cinema quality.<br />
How close are the French to matching that quality?<br />
That’s a very difficult question. Because I am now producing<br />
“Borgia” and asked Tom Fontana to be the executive producer<br />
and showrunner, it’s<br />
very difficult for me to<br />
discuss French talents.<br />
One thing I know for<br />
sure: such a market<br />
didn’t use to exist in<br />
France, but it does now,<br />
and French writers who<br />
learn fast, will <strong>de</strong>liver the<br />
goods.<br />
During your cultural<br />
years, you were<br />
one of the first Euro<br />
producers to shoot in<br />
High Definition. How do<br />
you view the apparent<br />
rising <strong>de</strong>mand for 3-D<br />
- the suject for our<br />
Xchanges today and<br />
tomorrow.<br />
When I started with<br />
HD, it was an extremely<br />
complicated technique. We nee<strong>de</strong>d more lights, the cameras<br />
were big bulky. But, yes, the results were worth it - fantastic!<br />
Today, the cameras are smaller, much easier to handle, and you<br />
can shoot at night with no light - incredible. Now it’s a huge<br />
business to shoot in 3D. But shooting TV in 3D is not the same<br />
shooting in 3D for the cinema - the screen is not the same scale.<br />
We need to study all the differences.<br />
You’re testing equipment, how best to utilise it?<br />
Oh, yes. We’re use 3D already - in sports, for example. Again<br />
that’s not the way it would be used in fiction. It’s very interesting<br />
to un<strong>de</strong>rstand how to do it. We have to re-invent the way to<br />
make shots. I have in mind to make a show in 3D. I am sure than<br />
within a few years, 3D will be the TV norm.<br />
How much has TV drama production changed since your<br />
Ellipse and Hamster days in the early 90s?<br />
That was really a most fantastic time. The beginning in France of<br />
making shows the public loved: between 1995 and 2005, French<br />
shows were a huge success with viewers. When we started<br />
that at Ellipse we went through a major learning process. Just<br />
as we’re doing today with 3D. We had to un<strong>de</strong>rstand how to<br />
write series - there are some rules about writing good shows<br />
for TV. How to produce and direct them... and how to launch<br />
them. We began how to un<strong>de</strong>rstand how to pace a show and<br />
its characters... We were, learning, in fact, how best to speak to<br />
people through TV drama. Then at TF1, it was the first time we<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> longform shows, 90 minutes instead of the usual 52.<br />
Inspired by BBC or USA?<br />
Oh, the American way. For example, “Navarro” was inspired<br />
by “Kojak.” Also at TF1, when we were not moving ahead fast<br />
enough, I began buying formats. So we ma<strong>de</strong> a French version
New Transporter.<br />
The new <strong>Frank</strong><br />
Martin is Chris<br />
Vance, a BBC<br />
series star<br />
lately busy in<br />
Hollywood:<br />
in short from<br />
“Doctors” to<br />
“Prison Break.”<br />
of “Law & Or<strong>de</strong>r.” I tried<br />
to buy the “CSI” format,<br />
too; instead we bought<br />
an Italian version and<br />
that became “RIS:<br />
Police scientifique.”<br />
And we ma<strong>de</strong> an<br />
agreement with Warner<br />
for “Without A Trace” -<br />
“Interpol.” Working on a<br />
format is the best school<br />
for young writers, they<br />
learn how to write their<br />
own series<br />
Even as the #1 TV<br />
drama production<br />
company in France,<br />
is the language quota<br />
still a problem for<br />
Lagardère?<br />
It’s no longer the<br />
problem it was. Two<br />
years ago there were new quotas drawn up. It used to be French<br />
language only on TF1, France Television, etc. Now there is a<br />
special window of 10% where you can shoot in English. So I<br />
immediately went to Canal Plus and said: “OK, now we can<br />
make a show ln English” - and we ma<strong>de</strong> “Borgia.” Next, and<br />
for the first time, the BBC came to France Television and asked:<br />
“Can we produce something together?” They came to us at<br />
Atlantique and we said: ‘Yes, it’s possible!’ And right now, we’re<br />
shooting eight episo<strong>de</strong>s of “Death in Paradise,” a cop show for<br />
BBC and France 2, in Guadaloupe.<br />
That, of course, is the major change in TV drama - coproduction.<br />
And it works far better than all those Europudding<br />
movies we used to have.<br />
That started due to the economic crisis. Budgets were slashed<br />
by between 10% and 20% by various networks and channels.<br />
And yet, at the same time, they all sought a higher level of<br />
production quality.<br />
You say you’re in “an industry of prototypes.” Can we hear<br />
about two of your biggest current prototypes... We have<br />
two Borgia projects - yours and Neil Jordan’s, which is in<br />
competition here.<br />
Yes, there are two. But I think there is only one that is good!<br />
[Laugh]. I’m joking!<br />
No, you’re not. You mean it.<br />
I mean it! [Laugh]. I think we really have the better writer.<br />
Yes, you have some great people involved (Tom Fontana,<br />
etc), a serious investment (22m Euros) but, strangely... no<br />
stars!<br />
The title is the star. “Borgia”! The genesis of this show was when<br />
I talking with Rodolphe Belmer [Managing Director of Canal+,]<br />
about “The Tudors.” He said: “It’s impossible for us to do such<br />
a show.” “But we have to, ” I said. “Any i<strong>de</strong>as?” And I said one<br />
word. “Borgia” He said: “Wow!” And we’ve just finished shooting<br />
the first season in April - in Prague.<br />
Then, “The Transporter” (from the Luc Besson movie<br />
franchise) for M6. Why is the budget higher than for “Borgia”<br />
- 30m Euros. Due to the cars, the crashes...?<br />
Exactly! Because of the cars, the chases, the stunts, the crashes<br />
- and shooting in different European cities. Production starts<br />
next month. About 80% of each episo<strong>de</strong> will be shot in Toronto,<br />
with different locations per episo<strong>de</strong> - Paris, London, Moscow,<br />
etc. Also, the fans of the movies will expect a matching high<br />
quality of production. We can’t make this in a small way with two<br />
cars in a corner... After all, we found the money because of the<br />
success of the movies... so we are really obliged to match them.<br />
Or surpass them!<br />
Replacing Jason Statham’s hero is as difficult as changing<br />
James Bond...<br />
Very difficult! But we’ve found him - a great English guy called...<br />
Chris Vance.<br />
You certainly have a packed portfolio. Do you ever get home<br />
at night?<br />
Oh yes... I even have time to spend a few days in <strong>Monte</strong> <strong>Carlo</strong>.<br />
It will be great!<br />
Tony Crawley<br />
“Borgia.” The <strong>de</strong>adliest family of them all...<br />
“Talking about “The Tudors,” he said:<br />
“It’s impossible for us to do such a show.”<br />
“But we have to, ” I said.<br />
“Any i<strong>de</strong>as?”<br />
And I said one word. “Borgia”<br />
He said: “Wow!”<br />
And we’ve just finished shooting<br />
the first season.”<br />
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© Bernard Benant<br />
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en veDette<br />
Commençons par le plus important et<br />
le plus visible : celui <strong>de</strong> la naissance<br />
prochaine d’une petite fille.<br />
Entre temps, la future maman va<br />
passer <strong>de</strong>rrière la caméra et écrire<br />
<strong>de</strong>ux livres.<br />
les heureuX eveneMents<br />
D’aDelIne BlonDIeau<br />
Impliquée dans <strong>de</strong> nombreuses<br />
associations, liées au mon<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />
l’enfance, il était quasiment écrit<br />
qu’A<strong>de</strong>line Blondieau soit cette année<br />
la prési<strong>de</strong>nte du jury Ama<strong>de</strong>.<br />
Qu’il est loin le temps où la jeune fille<br />
faisait la une <strong>de</strong>s magazines people<br />
après avoir épousé le rocker le plus<br />
célèbre <strong>de</strong> France. «Je n’ai aucune<br />
nostalgie <strong>de</strong> cette époque. Je ne<br />
regar<strong>de</strong> jamais en arrière. Ce qui<br />
m’intéresse, c’est le présent. D’ailleurs,<br />
arrivée aujourd’hui à la quarantaine,<br />
je suis en train d’écrire un livre sur ma<br />
vie. « En chemin, j’ai rencontré…», aux<br />
éditions Guy Trédaniel, va raconter<br />
mon parcours, mes réussites, mes<br />
échecs, mes joies et mes peines. Ce<br />
ne sera pas une introspection mais plutôt un ouvrage <strong>de</strong>stiné<br />
à tous ceux qui, dans leur vie, ont connu, sur un registre<br />
différent, les mêmes choses. Expliquer<br />
comment, à travers l’expérience <strong>de</strong><br />
vie, nous pouvons trouver les clés <strong>de</strong><br />
notre existence ». C’est une femme<br />
épanouie, calme et sereine qui se<br />
raconte sans se la raconter. En étroite<br />
relation avec ce qu’elle vit en ce<br />
moment, A<strong>de</strong>line Blondieau va écrire<br />
un ouvrage sur «Yoga et grossesse».<br />
Un ouvrage explicatif sur les différentes<br />
positions à adopter suivant l’avancée<br />
<strong>de</strong> l’accouchement. «Mes propos seront<br />
validés par <strong>de</strong>s grands maîtres <strong>de</strong> yoga<br />
et agrémentés <strong>de</strong> photos ». L’écriture,<br />
partie intégrante <strong>de</strong> son quotidien, ne lui<br />
fait pas pour autant oublier la <strong>télévision</strong>.<br />
«J’ai réalisé et coproduit avec Alizés<br />
Films, un programme court d’après ma<br />
ban<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>ssinée «Ma vie Pipole». L’idée<br />
est d’interviewer une personnalité dans<br />
n’importe quel domaine, un acteur, un<br />
sportif, un artiste et lui <strong>de</strong>man<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong><br />
nous raconter une rencontre décalée<br />
et originale dans son quotidien.<br />
Cette histoire sera ensuite mise en<br />
scène à travers un film d’animation». Que <strong>de</strong> naissances en<br />
perspective… Gérard Clétil<br />
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photoCall<br />
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ClassIC orMonD<br />
She is the new recruit to Law & Or<strong>de</strong>r: Criminal Intent,<br />
but Julia Ormond, joining the 10th and final season as Dr.<br />
Paula Severin, a police psychologist conducting mandatory<br />
sessions with Vincent D’Onofrio’s tormented cop, is giving<br />
nothing away. “I can’t say anything really, and as for some sort<br />
of love interest with Vincent, wouldn’t that be an interesting<br />
form of therapy?”<br />
The ever-busy Ormond has also just finished filming My Week<br />
With Marylin, featuring Michelle Williams as Marylin Monroe:<br />
“It was really interesting to play the ol<strong>de</strong>r actress looking at<br />
how the business affects the younger one,” she said. “Plus<br />
it is set in London at a pivotal moment in UK history, the<br />
beginning of the 1950s, when the empire was falling apart<br />
and Britain’s place in the world or<strong>de</strong>r was fading.”<br />
As if that was not enough, Ormond has a further three movies<br />
set for release over the next few months including The<br />
Green, an in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt film from the US and coming of age<br />
film Albatross. “I think it’s far from over-dramatic to say<br />
that the in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt film sector is in trouble because it<br />
is such a struggle to get finance and distribution,” she<br />
said. “And then even when you do, finding more money for<br />
the press and marketing is again very difficult.”<br />
Despite these difficulties, Ormond is optimistic: “Online<br />
distribution provi<strong>de</strong>s a real alternative to theatrical, and there<br />
are some very clever people currently trying to work out<br />
ways to make it work and make it pay,” she said. “And the<br />
great thing is that these days anyone can make a film, there<br />
are even going to be films ma<strong>de</strong> on phones and that’s all very<br />
healthy for the future of film making. These days the ultimate<br />
arbiter of what is popular is YouTube, because it’s honest<br />
and all based on word of mouth.”<br />
GS<br />
Get soMe therapY<br />
orMonD<br />
DraFteD In<br />
to sort out<br />
Goren<br />
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Duos au palaIs<br />
24
en veDette<br />
patrICk DuFFY pense<br />
a sa (Belle) FaMIlle<br />
« J’accepte toujours <strong>de</strong> jouer le gentil, et j’aime ça ! »… D’entrée,<br />
Patrick Duffy donne le ton <strong>de</strong> sa conférence <strong>de</strong> presse.<br />
L’acteur, qui a joué dans les séries Notre belle famille, Dallas et<br />
L’Homme <strong>de</strong> l’Atlanti<strong>de</strong>, a tournée également dans 60 épiso<strong>de</strong>s<br />
d’Amour, Gloire et Beauté (entre 2006 et 2010), sans jamais se<br />
lasser.<br />
Marié <strong>de</strong>puis 39 ans à une femme qu’il a rencontrée juste après<br />
l’université, il confie « avoir trouvé celle qui lui convient » et ne peut<br />
donner <strong>de</strong> conseil pour faire durer un mariage, car il est conscient<br />
que « chaque histoire est différente, chaque couple est unique ».<br />
Un <strong>de</strong> ses <strong>de</strong>ux fils et sa femme ont d’ailleurs créé une série<br />
internet sur lui : Patrick Duffy and the crab [Patrick Duffy et le crabe]<br />
accessible sur YouTube, qu’il tourne avec plaisir durant son temps<br />
libre.<br />
Il se plaît à dire qu’il qu’un sentiment <strong>de</strong> loyauté est né envers son<br />
personnage dans Amour, Gloire et Beauté : « Quand on commence<br />
à être présent dans la vie quotidienne <strong>de</strong> quelqu’un cinq fois par<br />
semaine, une certaine relation se crée ; ça vous donne envie d’y<br />
rester, vous ne pouvez plus vous en passer ».<br />
S’il ne cache pas sa joie <strong>de</strong> se retouver sous les projecteurs ici à<br />
<strong>Monte</strong>-<strong>Carlo</strong>, il ne peut s’empêcher « <strong>de</strong> compter combien d’heures<br />
et <strong>de</strong> minutes le séparent <strong>de</strong> son retour à la maison ». C’est sa belle<br />
famille à lui…<br />
V.B / C.H<br />
FlaGshIp CoMeDY MusICal’s thIrD<br />
serIes takInG shape<br />
Ian Brennan, one of the team of<br />
three writers behind Glee, has<br />
been wi<strong>de</strong>ly quoted as saying<br />
that he initially found the i<strong>de</strong>a<br />
behind the show to be ‘hard to<br />
rationalise’: “There seemed to be<br />
something very un-cool about the<br />
whole High School scenario,” he<br />
said. “And even though I long ago<br />
saw the positive si<strong>de</strong>s of the show,<br />
my contribution script-wise is the biting<br />
wit. But that can’t work in isolation, the show<br />
needs an emotional point of view as well, and then it<br />
becomes more than a musical comedy.”<br />
The fact of working in a team of three also gives the show<br />
its multi-layered character: “We have found that we can<br />
have different tones within any given episo<strong>de</strong> that make<br />
it seem like there’s more than one show happening at the<br />
lIFe aBoarD planet Glee<br />
same time.” Brennan said. “Plus from week to week the<br />
show is so vastly different because, having stumbled on<br />
a re-vitalised genre, we have a lot of tools at our disposal,<br />
which is perhaps why the show is perceived as being<br />
revelatory.”<br />
Series 3 is already being planned, and one thing for sure<br />
is that there will be changes: “It’s senior year for a lot of<br />
the kids, which gives us a lot to work with, looking at<br />
what they’ll do after graduating,” he said. “So I’m very<br />
excited about that, plus there’ll be a new character and<br />
Sue Sylvester will be running for congress.”<br />
Coach Sylvester is Brennan’s favourite character: “I can<br />
i<strong>de</strong>ntify with her cynicism,” he said. “But we have such an<br />
amazing cast, and so many great characters that we are<br />
obliged to rest some of them sometimes and bring others<br />
in. Of course there is the pressure from the actors, which<br />
makes it a very interesting challenge and a huge pleasure<br />
working with such an amazing pool of talent. GS<br />
GLEE TM & © 2010-2011 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.<br />
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Full <strong>Monte</strong><br />
quote. Asked by Telerama magazine about<br />
his filmgoing, French presi<strong>de</strong>nt Nicolas<br />
Sarkozy quickly admitted a “passion” for “The<br />
Tudors.” “Yes, I call that cinema.,” he ad<strong>de</strong>d. “I<br />
find there’s more creativity in the great Anglo-<br />
Saxon series like “24,” “Mad Men,” “Dexter”<br />
or “Breaking Bad” than in certain films.”<br />
attaboy! Some years ago, James Gandolfini<br />
- Tony Soprano, himself - was due to portray<br />
Ernest Hemingway in the biopic, “Papa.”<br />
Never happened. But it whetted his yearning to<br />
turn producer (he calls his company, Attaboy)<br />
and film Papa’s love story with another U.S.<br />
correspon<strong>de</strong>nt during the Spanish Civil War.<br />
Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman are now<br />
playing them in “Hemingway & Gellhorn.” No<br />
role for Gandolfini... too busy making “Cinema<br />
Verite,” “Taxi-22,” and the amazing true tale of<br />
a guy from New Jersey <strong>de</strong>ciding to negotiate<br />
with North Korea. From the book called, wait<br />
for it... “Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged<br />
Peace With North Korea from my BBQ Shack<br />
in Hackensack.”<br />
Zombies are coming... Another 2011/12<br />
trend is the walking <strong>de</strong>ad. Such as Nicholas<br />
Hoult in “Warm Bodies”... “Zombies vs<br />
Robots “... “Boy Scouts vs. Zombies”... a very<br />
expensive movie called “World War Z”... and<br />
Ryan Reynolds heading the un<strong>de</strong>ad cops<br />
in “R.I.P.D.”. No one is safe. Hence, “Pri<strong>de</strong><br />
and Prejudice and Zombies”... and even The<br />
Beatles are zombs in “Paul Is Un<strong>de</strong>ad”...<br />
Is It a Bird, is it a plane - no, it’s more of<br />
a salary hike! He lost a ‘Superman” movie<br />
but Matt Bomer continues to do well as con<br />
man Neal Caffrey in “White Collar.” So much<br />
so his salary has been bumped to around the<br />
$100,000 mark for the third season.<br />
ricky Gervais who turned Hollywood into<br />
two camps - for him and ag’in him - as the<br />
great compere of the Gol<strong>de</strong>n Globes has<br />
invited one of his targets, Johnny Depp, into<br />
his new BBC2 sitcom, “Life’s Too Short.”<br />
Starring Warwick Davis as an egomaniac<br />
dwarf running a talent agency for other<br />
dwarves.<br />
Career. New Yorker Raphael Sbarge, so<br />
wasted in ‘The Guardian’ (until almost the<br />
end). has won his 134th screen role in “Once<br />
Upon a Time. His first role was in “Sesame<br />
Street” in 1969. When he was 4 1/2.<br />
© NBC<br />
The Man everyone wants. That’s<br />
British actor Jason Isaacs - perhaps<br />
better known to you as Lucius<br />
Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” franchise. For the second successive year, Isaacs<br />
had close to a dozen offers during the recent pilots season. He selected Fox’s<br />
“Awake” for NBC. He will also produce the thriller which has more than a<br />
touch of “ Inception.” (But of course). His cop lives in two different realities. In<br />
one, he’s killed his son, in the other, his wife...<br />
He also keeps busy providing voices for various vi<strong>de</strong>o games - “Avatar,”<br />
“Batman,” “Castlevania,” “Green Lantern,” “Napoleon,” “Spartan” - and he’s<br />
Sid<strong>de</strong>ley in the upcoming Disney toon, “Cars 2.”<br />
The female Isaacs, by the way, is Christina Applegate. She also had about<br />
a dozen offers and chose “Saturday Night Live” writer Emily Spivey’s new<br />
comedy, “Up All Night.”<br />
separation. Mr. and Mrs. Rich from “The<br />
Riches” are back - but separated. UK comic<br />
and marathon runner Eddie Izzard is launching<br />
his own untitled drama about a disgraced<br />
congressman turned political fixer - and<br />
the beautous Brit Minnie Driver is solving<br />
crime in “Hail Mary.” PS Eddie Izzard is live<br />
at the Hollywood Bowl on July 20 - not to be<br />
missed...as used to say about Elvis<br />
It’s 2008 and Ed Harris is John McCain and<br />
Julianne Moore is his undoing, in “Game<br />
Change,” set up by Tom Hanks at where<br />
else but HBO. Lots of others are booked for<br />
McCain folk, but all eyes will be on Julianne’s<br />
Sarah Palin.<br />
Carry on Carell. Wait a minute, didn’t he<br />
quit “The Office” to spend more time with his<br />
family...? Instead, Steve Carell is rushing from<br />
one movie to another. “Crazy, Stupid Love”<br />
opens soon. Then, he flies from “Good Hope<br />
Springs,” opposite Meryl Streep no less to<br />
headlining (and producing via his Carousel<br />
company), “Dogs of Babel”... in which he<br />
attempts to teach his dog to talk to explain<br />
how his wife died. Love the pitch for the US<br />
Adult Swim Channel’s satire, “The Heart, She<br />
Holler” - “a soap opera about folk who ain’t<br />
never used soap or seen an opera.” P.C.<br />
This is Tom Wilkinson as JFK’s father<br />
in “The Kennedys” series. He has<br />
also played such historical figures as<br />
Benjamin <strong>Frank</strong>lin, James Baker, the<br />
Marquis of Queensbury, General Lord<br />
Charles Cornwallis. But the reason,<br />
he’s now appearing in the Full <strong>Monte</strong><br />
is that, of course, he is one of the<br />
stars of... all together now! ... “The<br />
Full Monty.”<br />
entertaInMent one ConCluDes Deal wIth sÉrIe CluB<br />
For CrItICallY-aCClaIMeD serIes, Call Me FItZ<br />
Leading in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt studio,<br />
Entertainment One (eOne) is proud to<br />
announce it closed a <strong>de</strong>al with French<br />
channel Série Club to license the cable<br />
satellite rights on the dark comedy series<br />
starring Jason Priestley, CALL ME FITZ.<br />
Priestley (My Name is Earl, Beverly Hills<br />
90210) stars as Richard «Fitz» Fitzpatrick,<br />
a morally bankrupt yet charismatic<br />
used-car salesman who is forced to<br />
become business partner with his inner<br />
«conscience» - a lanky do-goo<strong>de</strong>r named<br />
Larry. CALL ME FITZ tells the story of a<br />
handsome, substance-abusing scoundrel<br />
who torments his naive co-workers,<br />
stoops to shameful lows to get the best of<br />
the competition, sleeps with any woman<br />
who has a pulse and thinks his life is<br />
perfect, that is until Larry comes along.<br />
The 13-part ma<strong>de</strong>-in-Canada half-hour<br />
comedy series <strong>de</strong>buted on HBO Canada<br />
in Fall 2010 to rave reviews and big<br />
numbers and was inclu<strong>de</strong>d in the Globe<br />
& Mail’s Top 10 end-of-year round up.<br />
U.S. premium satellite television service<br />
DIRECTV, which is provi<strong>de</strong>d to more<br />
than 19 million American households,<br />
premiered FITZ on April 21st 2011 on<br />
DIRECTV’s Audience Network. The<br />
series has been sold to 14 international<br />
broadcasters and will be seen in over<br />
60 countries world-wi<strong>de</strong>. CALL ME FITZ<br />
season one will be released in France on<br />
DVD in March 2012.<br />
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