I did manage to get this posted! Tonight's guests are Chiwetel Ejiofor on TDS and Stephen Fry on Colbert.
Chiwetel Ejiofor appears to be promoting 12 Years a Slave which doesn't come out nationwide until Nov. 1 but is already getting massive praise. IMDB has the movie at 7.9, Rotten Tomatoes has it at 95% for the critics, 93% for the audience.
The new movie 12 Years a Slave has been receiving high praise — critic David Denby recently described it in The New Yorker as "easily the greatest feature film ever made about American slavery." The film is adapted from the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, who had been a free black man in upstate New York. A husband and father, he was a literate, working man, who also made money as a fiddler. But in 1841, after being lured to Washington, D.C., with the promise of several days' work fiddling with the circus, he was kidnapped into slavery. Over the next 12 years before finally winning his freedom, he became the property of a series of different plantation owners — one who was especially cruel and brutal.'12 Years A Slave' Was A Film That 'No One Was Making'
Stephen Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television and radio presenter, film director, activist, and board member of Norwich City Football Club according to Wikipedia. I recognize him as Gordon Deitrich from V for Vendetta. He may be on to talk about his role in Twelfth Night
Stephen Fry, who is making his Broadway acting debut as Malvolio in the critically acclaimed Shakespeare's Globe production of Twelfth Night, will be a guest on "The Colbert Report" on Thursday, October 24.
broadwayworld.com
Or perhaps his documentary about Gay life.
The films were moving, absorbing and often blackly funny, and all praise to Fry, who managed to stay calm during several encounters that would have left me punching the walls. In Uganda, a country where politicians still hope to legislate against homosexuality, Fry enjoyed a bizarre conversation with a pastor who muttered darkly about carrots.
“Oh, gracious!” said Fry, mildly.
“You’re not using your penis the way you should use it!” continued the pastor, upping his game. “But I’m not interested in anuses and penises,” Fry said. He then listed his preferred sexual practices, none of which involved penetration. From the tone of his voice, he might as well have been reading aloud from the menu at the Garrick Club.
Stephen Fry's documentary about gay life across the globe is unexpectedly absorbing
For the last two years on and off, Stephen Fry has been making a documentary for the BBC about the experiences of gay people around the world. The experiences making the film, particularly his visit to Russia, were a large part of what prompted him to call for a boycott of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
This week, the two Out There films were broadcast in the UK. There are harrowing moments, such as the Ugandan lesbian girl “correctively raped” and left pregnant and HIV+, or the plight of the Indian trans Hijra community. There are also many promising and uplifting moments, such as the non-reaction to Hollywood leading man Neil Patrick Harris’ coming out, or the optimistic green shoots of the emergent gay community in Dehli.
Stephen Fry Has Been Confronting Homophobes And It’s Glorious
Others were not so impressed
Every now and then he would make a salient point, noting that homosexuals don't want to spread homosexuality, but homophobes do want to spread homophobia. But most of the time, he contented himself with expressions of outrage and contempt that never got to grips with the source of the phobia in homophobia, its cultural or historical context. The result was a bunch of foreigners behaving in an incredibly offensive manner.
That's fine as far as it goes – no cultural relativism should absolve those who incite violence and murder as punishment for love – but it didn't go anywhere near far enough to justify a two-part film. Yet again celebrity was relied upon to fill the gap where one might have expected a well-researched thesis to be.
Out There wasn't bad, exactly, but it was a good opportunity wasted.
theguardian.com
I enjoy homophobes racists and others making fools of themselves so I think I might enjoy the documentary.
People enjoyed the Fall photos last night, so here are more. :D