Tonight's guests are Ben Affleck on The Daily Show and Jeffrey Tambor on The Colbert Report.
Ben Affleck is an actor best known for just about everything he has been in, like Good Will Hunting, Dogma, The Town, and Argo. He is on tonight to promote the much hyped Gone Girl
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
GONE GIRL - directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn - unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (c) Fox
TOMATOMETER 87%
Critics Consensus: Dark, intelligent, and stylish to a fault, Gone Girl plays to director David Fincher's sick strengths while bringing the best out of stars Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
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It sounds like it might live up to the hype.
Jeffrey Tambor is an actor best known as George Bluth Sr. on Arrested Development. He is on to promote the new Amazon Prime series Transparent.
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
IMDB is owned by Amazon, you would think they would have more of a description of the show, luckily The New York Times has a
review
But actually, “Transparent” is very good, an insightful, downbeat comedy told without piety or burlesque. The title has another meaning: It’s the story of a transitioning parent. Jeffrey Tambor plays a professor, Mort Pfefferman, a divorced father of three grown children, who decides the time has come to reveal a secret that has been burning inside since he was a small child — in reality, he is Maura.
And the show’s charm, oddly enough, lies in the main characters’ lack of charm. Mr. Tambor is a gifted actor who has been at his best playing strange, self-deluded people in comedies like “The Larry Sanders Show” and “Arrested Development.” Though some have questioned the casting of a nontransgender performer, he is a bold and inspired choice for the role.
There is nothing instantly endearing about Mort or Maura. Mort is bumbling and dreary. Maura has more dignity in a flowing wig and a caftan, but it’s hard to get an exact read on her soul. Maura talks a lot in her support group, flipping the ends of her hair like a teenager, the teenager she didn’t get to be when she was living life as a boy.
It looks interesting enough but since I do not have Amazon Prime I don't think I will be seeing this series.
This Week's Guests's
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
We 10/1: Lena Dunham
Th 10/2: Ben Steele
THE COLBERT REPORT
We 10/1: Adm. Mike Mullen
Th 10/2: Lynn Sherr