Interesting...

[ladyofavalon77]

Well, I watched the second episode of Lost that I taped from yesterday night and it's even better than the premiere was.  I really like Sun and Kim as a couple.  My new favorite TV couple AFTER Martha/Charles :)  There are so many layers to their marriage and they show it all in the eyes :)  In many ways, they are the opposite of Martha/Charles in that there is more nonverbal communication and less fighting and arguing.  As the title of my post says...interesting :)

Ok back to my first love!  Well, second love since my first was Janeway and Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager *giggle*  Whatever!  I'll take Martha/Charles over Kathryn/Chakotay for one simple reason: I'm in love with Logan :)  There I said it!  But if you've been keeping up with my entries you already know that.  I just wonder how long it will last :D

President Logan Puts a Spin on the Plots of `24'

By DAVE ITZKOFF

IT'S not every president of the United States who arrives at a morning meeting unescorted, wearing an intermittently buttoned short-sleeved shirt, sandals and three red, white and blue studs in his left ear. But on "24" Gregory Itzin wasn't playing the sort of commander in chief whose portrait gets enshrined on United States currency.

Fans know him as President Charles Logan, a harried, vacillating executive who assumed office in the Fox show's fourth season amid a terrorist plot to take over the nation's nuclear arsenal. Mr. Itzin pushed the character to new levels of ineptitude this past year: he was simultaneously befuddled by a group of militant Russian separatists, a nerve gas attack on Los Angeles and the assassination of a predecessor.

Then in the sort of head-spinning plot twist for which "24" is known, it was revealed that Logan was not an indecisive patsy but rather the architect and instigator of all the season's nefarious, interwoven schemes.

Behind his failed Machiavellian maneuverings there might even be a noble impulse. "When I play the president, I think of him as an iconic figure," Mr. Itzin, 58, said in a recent interview over breakfast at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in West Hollywood. "So if nothing else I wanted Logan to be a hero in his own mind, some of the time, even if he hates himself some of the time too." Mr. Itzin may have his own agenda in defending Logan's legacy. "I don't get to play heroes very much," he admitted.

An alumnus of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Mr. Itzin has accumulated a recitation of stage and screen credits to rival the Gettysburg Address, from his Tony-nominated performance in Robert Schenkkan's epic play "The Kentucky Cycle," to a recurring role on Mel Brooks's short-lived sitcom "The Nutt House." But the roles he seems to inhabit most completely are federal officers with an autocratic streak: an imperious district attorney on "Murder One"; an unstable F.B.I. agent on "Profiler"; former attorney general John Ashcroft in the television movie "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis."

His success in this role might have something to do with his passing resemblance to Richard Nixon. ("I have the hairline," he acknowledged, "and my posture's mediocre.") Or it could be the fulfillment of his personal theory about his profession. "I believe acting is a two-sided coin, " Mr. Itzin said. "Tremendous insecurity on one side, and the other side is hubris. Between jobs you're going, `When's the next job?' But when you do the job, you're on top of it."

In either case it was Mr. Itzin's confident portrayal of an incompetent man that convinced the producers of "24" that this season, his character should be more than just a weak-willed stooge. "Greg was definitely concerned that he hadn't been playing Logan this way," said Howard Gordon, an executive producer on the series. "But we convinced him that's how good an actor you are, that in fact you've been playing everybody around you. I think that's when the character came alive."

Sunday evening Mr. Itzin is up for his first Emmy award, as a supporting actor in a drama series. And in June he was among a group of "24" actors and producers invited to address the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, to tour the White House with Karl Rove and to dine at the Supreme Court with a roster of governmental luminaries that included Justice Clarence Thomas, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Tony Snow, the White House spokesman.

"No policy was discussed, neither mine nor theirs," Mr. Itzin said. "I'm not going to venture why politicians are intrigued by President Logan. But they were just as, dare I say, star-struck by us as we were by them."

Civilian viewers, at least those he has bumped into on the street, are not all so deferential. But he meets his critics with the thick skin of a true politician.

" I could see the hate," Mr. Itzin said. "At first it was a little off-putting, and then I realized: This is a huge approval of what I'm doing."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27itzk.html

Don't lie for my husband...I'm too smart for that...

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[badeperle.livejournal.com]

I'll have to read that article later. And I love how you end each of your posts with a pic.