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Lipstick Jungle’s Kim Raver, Lindsay Price and Andrew McCarthy (Inside TV)
Kim on Nico’s similarities to Audrey on 24:
I think they’re similar in the sense that they’re, you know, very good at their jobs, very smart, very competitive, very sort of striving for the best, you know, job that they can do.
Kim on whether or not she could see 24 co-star Keifer Sutherland appearing on the
show:
I could actually. I haven’t – we haven’t discussed it yet. But maybe. We’d have to talk about it.
Caught in the Act! – Caught in the Act, Eric Dane : People.com
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• Kiefer Sutherland, waiting in line to check out a show by The Airborne Toxic Event at Spaceland in Los Angeles’s Silver Lake neighborhood. The actor, who has his own record label, rocked out during their set and hung around after the show to meet the band and snap photos with them.
· Saw Kiefer at Spaceland in Silverlake last night (Jan 31). He went straight for the door despite the huge line, apparently to ask if Castledoor had already played. He was very apologetic about cutting in line to the girls at the front; after he talked to the doorman he went and hung out on the curb with a male friend until someone insisted they come in. He was all smiles, wearing an Iron Workers’ Union jacket. Good to see him on the Eastside.
· Jack Bauer likes indie rock?! I was at Spaceland last Thursday night for the final, packed night of buzz band the Airborne Toxic Event’s residency there, and who is standing right in front of me but the recently-released Kiefer Sutherland, who arrived early to brave the line. (It was, by the way, the longest line I have ever seen at the Silver Lake club.) He stayed from the beginning of the night all the way through the headlining band’s set, singing along with the tunes and telling his friends how much he loved it. Afterwards, he hung around for a bit, taking some pictures with the violin girl from ATE and shooting the shit with the guys from the Deadly Syndrome. Who knew Jack Bauer had such good taste in music?
Reviewed by Niall BrowneLong before he was Jack Bauer in television’s 24, Keifer Sutherland used to make movies, they weren’t always great movies, and that’s the reason why he’s now on television.
Last spring, when ratings for 24 began to nose-dive along with President Bush’s approval ratings, producers decided to address the backlash against their protagonist, whose tendency to torture terrorism suspects hit too close to home. “The fear and wish fulfillment the show represented after 9/11 ended up boomeranging against us,” head writer Howard Gordon tells the Wall Street Journal. “We were suddenly facing a blowback from current events.”
Gordon says the original Season 7 “fix” would have found Jack building houses for orphans in Africa, doing “penance… for things he’s done in his life.” This scenario also would have marked the first time 24 deviated from its real-time structure, since returning Jack to the U.S. would have demanded a transcontinental flight. Ultimately, Fox rejected the Africa concept, claiming it was too far afield from the show’s identity.
Although producers ultimately settled on a different Season 7 storyline, it’s still not clear if/when we’ll be seeing those episodes, eight of which were produced before the WGA strike hit.
What do you think of the Africa/”redemption” storyline? Did Jack have much to atone for? — Mickey O’Connor
