Alan Cumming by Riker Brothers/PBS
As versatile as he is charming Alan Cumming has not only acted on stage Cabaret and screen X2 The Anniversary Party hes penned a novel Tommys Tale and even created a fragrance Cumming Tonight he takes over as the host of PBS anthology of British whodunits Masterpiece Mystery Sundays at 9 pmET GJ DonnellyTV Guide Dude what cant you doAlan Cumming I cant pronounce library properly [Laughs]TV Guide What attracted you to the showCumming I love PBS and I loved how campy it was with [19892003 host] Diana Rigg introducing the stories out of the shadowsTV Guide Recently you played the Scarecrow in Sci Fis The Wizard of Oz reimagining That zipper in your head had to hurtCumming Theres this crazy thing we have called prosthetic makeup [Laughs] The worst thing was getting my hair flattened enough so they could get the thing on
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Though it closed only three years ago, the New York Post says the Roundabout Theater Company is planning to revive their Tony-winning revival of Cabaret with the original creative team and star Alan Cumming intact.... Steven Culp (Desperate Housewives, ABC's upcoming Traveler) has a new gig, says Playbill.com, playing a pedophile in a West Coast take on the controversial drama Blackbird.... Jason Patric has exited Neil LaBute's soon-to-bow In a Dark Dark House due to "creative differences," and will be replaced by Frederick Weller.... Are you an ogre-achiever? Want to make an ass of yourself in front of NYC tourists? If you have what it takes to play the big guy or Donkey, the producers of the upcoming Shrek musical want to hear from you. Details at IWantToBeShrek.com. — Reporting by Raven Snook
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I've noticed quite a few questions in the comments lately regarding Max's history, so I thought I'd devote a post that recaps the Moira/Max story. Now, this is purely from my memory of last season, which was a year ago, so if you remember more details or see anything I've posted in error, feel free to chime in!* * * *Meet Moira, Season 3After Jenny is found self-mutilating in season 2, she admits herself into a psychiatric ward back home in Illinois. (Too bad the psychiatric treatment didn’t seem to help her beyond the cutting! ) It's in Illinois that Jenny quickly falls in love with Moira, a soft-spoken, gentle-natured computer technician, who also happens to be pretty butch. Jenny convinces Moira to come back to LA with her, so they embark on a road trip back to Cali in Moira's truck.On this road trip, they find themselves in a really scary situation when Moira becomes the object of a brewing hate crime. Since Moira looks androgynous and acts masculine, a group of kids...
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• Tony winner and newl-he-wed Alan Cumming has joined the cast of Tin Man, Sci Fi Channel's reimagined fantastical take on The Wizard of Oz. In the six-hour mini, Cumming will play Glitch, a character trapped in the Outer Zone (the O.Z., get it?) who's missing half his brain.• Kirstie Alley will star in And She Was, a Lifetime movie about a middle-aged screenwriter who starts passing off her work via her more demo-friendly, twentysomething nephew (Eric Christian Olsen).• Not "casting news" per se, but deal with it: Dancing with the Stars' Mario Lopez has joined Extra as a weekend-edition cohost and a daily show correspondent.
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Alan Cumming, The L Word
Before Alan Cumming bids adieu to Showtime's The L Word (Sundays at 10pm/ET) — he has three more episodes to air — you can bet that he will have made his mark on the envelope-pushing sapphic series. In a Q&A with TVGuide.com, the actor teased what's ahead, gave us a whiff of his bawdy little skin-care line, and shared his glee over his forthcoming Broadway venture.
TVGuide.com: The first time I remember seeing you was in 1995's Circle of Friends. Was I late to the Alan Cumming party?Alan Cumming: [Laughs] Well, I had existed before then, but... that was the first film I had done that did well in America.
TVGuide.com: Was it a turning point of any kind?Cumming: Yes, it was, in that after I came to America to do press for it, I started to get asked to work here.
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