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Many, many updates
Sunday,
Nov 17 |
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Video
games...
From
the Hollywood Reporter:
Character actor Clancy Brown has
been busy in the video game world,
most recently spending time at Womb
voicing the virtual John Anderton
for Activision's Minority Report
video game.
CB
is also...
...Playing the alien, Dag, in Run
Like Hell, avaliable for Playstation
2.
...Voicing
the character of "Montross"
-- Boba Fett's nemesis -- in LucasArts'
new Star Wars game, Bounty Hunter.
Visit the game's official site at:
www.starwarsbountyhunter.com
The
site also has a bio up on Clancy
here,
character information here,
and you can download a cut scene
with Clancy's character in it here.
Bounty Hunter is avaliable for GameCube
and Playstation 2.
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From
The
Cincinnati Enquirer:
Clancy
Brown has been named chairman of
the board of Brown Publishing, the
newspaper company said Tuesday.
He succeeds his father, Clarence
J. Brown Jr., 75, a former congressman
who will remain a member of the
board. The company, founded in 1920,
publishes more than 45 daily and
weekly newspapers in western and
southern Ohio. Clancy Brown has
been a board member since 1987.
His brother, Roy, is president and
CEO. 'It's just passing the torch
from one generation to the next,'
said Joe Ellingham, the company's
chief financial officer. Clancy
Brown, 43, a television and movie
actor who appeared in such films
as The Shawshank Redemption and
Highlander, lives in suburban Los
Angeles.
Congratulations,
Clancy!
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Breaking News and Emmy Noms
September |
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An
article about Breaking News'
ratings at TVinSite.
Links to articles about the premiere
of the series are archived on the
News page.
There is an email/discussion list
at YahooGroups
for the series, you can join here.The
Laramie Project, which aired on
HBO earlier this year, has been nominated
for 4 Emmy awards. The nominations
are in the following categories: Outstanding
Made-for-TV Movie, Outstanding Directing
for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic
Special (Moises Kaufman), and Outstanding
Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or
Dramatic Special.
SpongeBob SquarePants (who
lives in a pineapple under the sea)
was also nominated for Outstanding
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Discussion List Reminder
Thursday,
August 8 |
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Please
feel free to join in on the discussions
of "Breaking News" and
other projects of Clancy's on
the discussion list at YahooGroups.
There is also a group specifically
for Breaking
News. This page wont be updated
with news for the next two weeks
at the earliest due to your friendly
web girl going on vacation.
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Latest CBFC Newsletter out
Tuesday,
July 30
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The
latest issue of the CB Fan Club
Newsletter is out and Beth has
outdone herself again. This
quarter's issue features fan's
answers to Clancy's question
about "What is fandom?,"
information about Carnivale,
Normal, and Breaking
News in an exclusive interview
with Clancy, all with photographs
and a color cover! You can get
more information about the newsletter
on the Fan
Club page.
The
next new episode of Breaking
News airs tomorrow. There is
an article that mentions the
show in the July 29 Time
Magazine.
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Breaking News Articles
Galore
Wednesday,
July 17
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Many,
many articles about Breaking
News...
Reviews from the San
Francisco Chronicle (a front
page photo!), Boston
Globe, The
New York Post, Contra
Costa Times (my personal favorite
paper), San
Jose Mercury News, Zap2It.com,
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, Chicago
Sun-Times, Rocky
Mountain News, Two from July
15th's LA Times: here
and here.
Clancy was interviewed for this
one. An extensive article
from Newsday
about the history of the series,
how it came from TNT to Bravo.
Also, the TV show Extra aired
a clip on the show and has it
archived at the Extra
web site. ...Whew! Enjoy the
show tonight.
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Gearing up for Breaking
News
Thursday,
July 11
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This
morning, Clancy made an appearance
at the Television Critics Association
2002 tour in Pasadena to promote
"Breaking News." The
panel also included: co-creator
and co-executive producer Gardner
Stern; co-executive producer
and director Ken Olin; stars
Tim Matheson and Lisa Ann Walter;
and Frances Berwick, Senior
Vice Pres of Bravo's Programming
& Production.
Keep
an eye out for Breaking News
mentions on the entertainment
shows next week!
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It's not Episode III...
Monday,
July 5
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CB
will be doing a voice in an upcoming
LucasArts video game titled "Star
Wars Bounty Hunter." He plays
Jango Fett's nemesis, Montross.
The game is scheduled to be released
later this year for PlayStation
and GameCube.
Breaking
News is back! The cable station
Bravo has bought the rights to air
the 13 episodes of Breaking News
this summer! More information about
the show here.
The press release from Bravo is
here,
which also has some great cast photos
included with it.
There are articles about Bravo picking
up the show at TVinsite,
the New
Jersey Star-Ledger, and the
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer. The series
begins on Bravo on Wednesday, July
17 at 8pm.
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HBO Films: "Normal"
Thursday,
June 6
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Apologies
for the lack of updates recently.
This site should be getting
back into gear shortly.
Clancy
is about to start shooting Normal
for HBO. The following are excerpts
from a press release on HBO.com:
LOS
ANGELES - Production is set
to begin soon on two new HBO
Films projects, it was announced
today by Colin Callender, president,
HBO Films. Jessica Lange (Oscar¨
winner for "Tootsie" and "Blue
Sky") and Tom Wilkinson (recent
Oscar¨ nominee for "In The Bedroom")
will star in NORMAL. Dame Maggie
Smith (Oscar¨ winner for "The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and
"California Suite"; recent Oscar¨
nominee for "Gosford Park")
will star in MY HOUSE IN UMBRIA.
NORMAL
is the moving and sometimes funny
story of what happens to a marriage
when the husband and father announces
his plan to have a sex change.
Jane Anderson (HBO's "If These
Walls Could Talk 2") adapts from
her play "Looking for Normal"
and directs. Cary Brokaw, president
and CEO of Avenue Entertainment
Group ("The Player"; HBO's Emmy¨-winning
"Wit" and upcoming "Angels in
America") will executive produce.
Production begins in the Midwest
this month.
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Announcing.... Carnivále!
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HBO
has picked up a pilot of the series
and will be filming 13 more episodes
this fall for a possible summer
2003 debut. The series stars Nick
Stahl (of the upcoming "Terminator
3") as well as fellow Earth
2 alum, Patrick Bauchau ("The
Pretender"). In contrast to
his Breaking News character,
Clancy plays "a bad guy"
in this show about a traveling carnival
in the 1930s. More info at the Futon
Critic and the Patrick
Bauchau website.
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Ford Commercials
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You
can hear Clancy on the TV and radio
doing the voice over narration for
Ford Quality Care commercials.
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Star Trek: Enterprise
Sunday, May
5
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Clancy's
Enterprise episode airs on
Wednesday. He plays an alien leader
named Zobral in the episode entitled
"Desert Crossings." Info
on the episode at startrek.com,
including a photo
and a 30-second
clip. Here
is the synopsis:
An alien leader invites Archer
and Trip to his desert planet to
repay them for fixing his ship,
but the being's true motives soon
become known. The
episode repeats Saturday at 10PM
and Sunday at 8PM.
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Laramie Project Air Date
Monday, February
4
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HBO
will debut "The Laramie Project"
at 8pm on Saturday, March 9.
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New Interview
January
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John
Orr of the San Jose Mercury News
interviewed Clancy for an article
about the DVD release of Buckaroo
Banzai. You can read the interview
here
and the article about Buckaroo here.
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