Lane & Broderick on Bravo

[pab]

Posted: 12/10/05 at 10:08am

Sunday at 11:00 am
Sunday at 9:00 pm
Friday at 7:00 pm
Inside the Actors Studio

[zbigner]

Posted: 12/10/05 at 9:02pm

This will probably be a fun episode, but I can hardly bring myself to watch this show any more. There was a time that Inside the Actors Studio was arguably the best show on television, but that time has long since passed.

The beginning of the end was when Bravo started running commercials which effectively cut 15 minutes from a typical episode. The real death nail came when they let Ben Affleck come on to promote Bounce. I don't think they had ever let a guest plug an upcoming project before that. Now the show is just one more stop on the promotional circuit.

I imgaine it's still great if you can go for the full live class, and guests that warrant a 2 hour episode still have some depth.

Zack

[pab]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 12:24pm

It WAS a fun episode. I just saw it on Bravo. By the way, Susan Stroman was also a guest not just Lane & Broderick.

[DAME]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 1:07pm

Watching right now. Have they said yet when Lizas is airing?

Updated On: 12/11/05 at 01:07 PM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 1:12pm

Very cute

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 1:33pm

Many years ago, I had an editor at a magazine I wrote for. Diedre. Lovely gal with an unerring instinct for removing all the interesting tidbits and insights I put in. She knew exacly how to make a meaty article trivial. After Diedre got through with them, my articles had all the freshness and zing of last week's shopping list.

James Lipton, meet Diedre.

Updated On: 12/11/05 at 01:33 PM

[pab]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 2:22pm

Well, I guess that it's a good thing that 95% of the time his guests are very interesting.

[mikem]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 5:19pm

The interviews were "fun," but not very illuminating. From the movie clips, it appeared that the movie adheres very closely to the show. In the clips, Matthew Broderick also seemed to be overacting like crazy -- given how much film experience he has, I'm surprised he didn't tone it down for the camera.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 9:43pm

It looks like Matthew Broderick is giving the same mannered , unbelievable, and horrible performance he's given for last 10 years. Wasn't he once a belivable actor?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 9:49pm

It's great.

Nathan's favorite curse is "sh*t-head." They didn't bleep it out the first time he said it, but did the second time. And fifth time. They didn't bleep Matthew's favorite curse...douchebag.

[broadwaygiant19122]

Posted: 12/11/05 at 10:52pm

I hesitate to use the word arrogant, but did anybody else thank Nathan showed some reluctance perhaps during the broadcast?

[crzyrocket]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 12:17am

Nathan Lane has always struck me as being someone who doesn't easily take stupidity from anyone.

An account from the premiere of the movie:

Mr. Lane appeared early, just after JAI RODRIGUEZ and GARY BEACH. He looked dapper in his winter coat but wore a sour mackerel expression, perhaps the result of the strange aroma or perhaps the result of enduring the bland interrogation of the celebrity press. What is his favorite New Year's memory? What is his favorite thing to do for the holidays? Does he smell fish like we do?

"You smell fish? Maybe you're having a stroke," Mr. Lane said. "No, I don't know anything about the fish."

Well, we wondered in part because you don't look, you know, real happy right now.

"You're so wrong," Mr. Lane said. "I'm thrilled. I've looked like this since I was 9; I've been worried." Then, incongruously, "You don't look so happy either."

Oh, we're quite miserable. It's freezing.

"Yes I'm happy!" Mr. Lane protested grumpily. "I'm happy and excited to be here! I'm just glad to be out of the house."

....

Mr. Lane, still doing interviews, repeated a People reporter's question back to her, "If I was invisible for one hour where would I go?"


Springtime For Halibut

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 12:54am

It was a great show and with a good blue blanket clip!

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:45am

Exactly, rocket. Nathan doesn't suffer fools.

A highlight of the special was Nathan's "What the F*** are you talking about?" expression when Lipton commented that "I'm so jealous of your HAIR! Do you do anything to it in the film?"

[jimmirae]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:54am

I liked Lane & Broderick before "Producers". I liked them during the run. I even liked them when they came back. But now, they are a duo growing so weary on me, I think they should just go to to Mexico (to get Matt a Divorce) and then to Vegas (To marry each other), end of saga. James Lipton's nose is browner than Merv's ever was!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 2:47pm

I believe Lane will be co-hosting the Regis & Kelly show on Thursday this week...at least that's what one of the listings said. And without Matthew Broderick for a change, thank God. I'm very tired of the whole Dynamic Duo marketing ploy at this point. My favorite actor in The Producers is Gary Beach. I'm disappointed he is not getting much mention in advance of the movie opening, but I hope that changes once everyone sees his great performance.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 4:28pm

I was not thrilled with the show last night. It was like "The Nathan Lane Show". He wears on you after awhile.

[jimmirae]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 6:20pm

I have found Lane to have a very "bitter" attitude and sarcastic mood almost everytime I see him on anything, I think he needs to go find something that will make him happy, he is starting to remind me of Paul Lynde and it ain't pretty.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 6:23pm

Mr. Lane suffers from manic depression, according to the New York Times magazine as of a few years ago. He doesn't strike me as the most comfortable in interviews or autograph signings. He's been quite pleasant whenever I've spoken to him, though.

[SamIAm]

Posted: 12/12/05 at 6:29pm

I didn't find this the Lane show at all. I thought that Lipton could have spent more time talking to Stroman but then we only saw the hour that was edited out of the total taping which was several hours...so who knows what got cut.

I thought Lane was pretty quiet, and as for his being sour...Lane is not the person he is on stage. In person, he is quiet and melancholy. When he is talking to an interviewer he is not going to be ON all the time. And if he doesn't seem as happy go lucky as you might like, so be it.

Though there are legends about him, when you talk to those who work with him (like Marian Seldes, Peter Barlett, Broderick and many, many others) they have nothing but good things to say about his attitude, his sensitivity and how insightful and talented he is.

I'm sure that we have all rubbed people the wrong way from time to time. So, I'm not saying he is perfect...but I am saying that the stories, rumors and legends have grown all out of proportion.