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Actor continues to like the character he plays in 'Monk'



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MONK’s Worst Phobia #39 ‘Probioticphobia’:




I found the picture in this Blog

This photo is hillarous! And the articles are great! Thanks metacomet....

Vince Guest Stars in “Monk”

I found a phone interview with Tony Shalhoub. It´s from the radio show "Don and Mike" from WJFK

Literary Happenings: Three mystery authors to sign books in Thousand Oaks

By Jo Ellen Heil
Sonntag, August 12, 2007



May be some of you have the opportunity to go there

Carny Birds and Bees

Right mix births Emmy contenders (full article)

THE STAR CATCHERNICHOLS SNAGS MORGAN & JAKE (full article)



".....looking for a sexier, younger actor"

Oh, those are some disappointing comments. Granted, some roles are age-specific, and sooner or later every actor is confronted with age questions. But we all know TS could excel at "crisp lettuce" or at practically any other role given to him.

Anyway, thank you very much for the terrific reports, as usual, meta.

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I agree with ya Metacomet!!

Disappointing comments is right! Tony is as sexy as a man can get. He is a superb actor and can handle any role.

The Point: Sometimes nice guys DO finish first

Blog Entry: Monk Secrets



The 2 pictures get bigger, when you click on them.

I wonder from which episode this scene might be . Any ideas?

Those are from the Birds and the Bees.

Thank you, Teresa . I haven´t seen this episode until now.

It was obvious (to me of course) that he have stunt double. For example he used stund double in eppy Mr. Monk and the Lepper, when Monk and Natalie were in the baloon. I think (I can be wrong) but he probably used stunt double in Mr. Monk is on the Air when he hit the guy Max Hudson...you remember why he hit him...I would hit him too if I could

TV Characters with Disabilities – Adrian Monk

Adrian Monk a tad overblown?

I found this article from an Australian paper that discusses the political contributions of American celebs. It mentions Tony.

Ashley

This is not really a "Monk" related article, but may be some of you are interested in it:

Scenes from right out of the movies (or TV)

Abridgement:

Thanks metacomet, it's interesting...
And there's a site where are Brooke Adams (and Dorothy Braudy ) paintings..
click here

I would love to see more of Brooke's paintings. I wonder if she does commissioned work. I would especially like to see a painting of Tony that she's done. I would think she's painted him a few times.

Thanks Alex! Tony's wife is a very talented artist. I actually like the work of the other artist featured better. Her paintings sort of remind me of Van Gogh and Cezanne.

Ashley

Thanks for the links Metacomet and Alex!

That is some nice artwork... I'd love to see more of her creations.

Yes, thank you Alex and Metacomet...that was very nice to see.

Great, Alex! Thank you! I wanted to google for that Gallery yesterday, but after several nights real hard work with/on/at (whatever) the Advent Calendar, I was soooo tired yesterday, that I went to bed early .

I love her paintings. It would be interesting to know, in which kind of art movement she paints (Impressionism, Realism...?). May be Liv, our "art expert", could tell us more about it .

There's an article in the new TV Guide (December 3-9) on the upcoming Monk and Psych holiday specials:

Thanks Teresa! I can't wait to see this one! I'm counting the days!

Ashley

Thanks Teresa, I saw that on your site is more new articles...

I hadn't had the chance to see this before now, Christmas stuff has had me so strung out and distracted, but I'm glad I finally got to see it! Wow, I'm really impressed with her work. My favorites are Craft Services and Night For Day. The reflective surfaces in Craft Services had to have been a real challenge, especially those diamonds on that insulated wall behind the cook. I always dread things like bottles, jars, reflections in the bodies of cars, ect because unlike flat reflective surfaces like the mirror in The Teamster, these bent or shaped surfaces warp and twist the image reflected in them and it's harder to get right. The fact that she works in color is something else that I admire, since I'm a bit of a chicken about color, and getting the colors right for things like reflective and semi reflective surfaces, areas in extreme light and in shadow, ect are trickier than just getting skin tones and hair color right, which is hard enough. Some of her proportions are a little bit off, like the guy in Craft Services forearm is a little small and narrow in comparison to the rest of him, I think, but it's very minor and I'm not sure if it's something everyone would notice or not. with this picture, that proportion thing is the only thing that sticks out to me, otherwise, she seems to have done an excellent job, especially with the skintones/color work and with the reflective surfaces.

My favorite part of Night For Day is that ladder. I really like that ladder, as odd as that sounds. I love the light and shadow work on it, the fact that I have seen many ladders just like that one, and unless I am mistaken (the image is small so it's possible that my eyes are playing tricks on me) that ladder even has the safety stickers on the inside near the top, which is the kind of little detail I love. I even cheered a little bit at the sticker on the back of the sun visor in The Teamster, because I am that much of a geek. I also really love the tree that can be seen just behind the ladder and the lamp or light fixture thing outside that door, the kind that people have outside on their porches, not the set lighting, though that is good too. You can see a little more of that reflective surface skill I was talking about before on the top of that one set light on the floor and on what looks to me like the side of a camera on the left side of the picture. I love the way that the air right in front of the light on the tripod right in the center of the picture is very bright, but then you see the brightness of it decreasing the further to the left and away from the lamp it gets, and I love the little pull wrinkles in the upper left corner of that canvas screen thing beside the door. She really takes time with the little details, and I like that. Hee, it's kind of Monkish actually.

I'm also really taken with the Crane Operator, though not as much as with the first two I mentioned. I really like the way the light and shadow was done in that one, too. All three of these presented some fairly complex light and shadow challenges. I like the bills of the baseball caps on the right side of this one.

It's kind of hard to tell for sure, since the screen and the images on it are small but I think that maybe these are water colors? It's really hard for me to tell. But I'm pretty sure these are more Realism than Impresionism, metacomet.

Raven, she may have painted Tony once or twice, but it's not really a sure thing. I've only ever drawn one picture of my own husband. I've drawn a lot of pictures of my kids, though. My husband doesn't like to take pictures any more than I do so that could be why. I have very few choices as far as model photos go. I know there are a lot more photo options for her to use to paint Tony.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts about Brooke Adams work. It is always a great pleasure for me to read your competent words about painting.

My favorite (without much knowledge about painting) is "Archway". To see the trees and the hills behind the archway gives me a kind of "vacation feeling".

Teresa - Thanks for the article!

Liv - Thanks to you, too; I love reading your art commentary/analysis/etc!

Alex and Metacomet - Thanks for the link to the paintings, they are realy wonderful.

Liv, wonderful analysis of the paintings, loved your post.

Teresa, thanks a lot for putting that article up.

That was facinating. Brooke is very talented. Thanks for your insight, Liv.


I was thinking this was the Gets Drunk episode but that wasn't recently and I don't recall any old Italian villa. Must be one of the new episodes.

That's what I'm thinking... the "Gets Drunk" episode was filmed years ago, anyway. They are probably using the Italian villa as the set for a mansion, not for a scene at a winery.

Ashley

I already posted this under the AmericanEast thread, but I'll mention it here too - here is an article about the Dubai Film Festival in the United Arab Emirates which begins next weekend. Tony is supposed to be there to promote AmericanEast. I really wanted to see this movie, but I don't see much chance of me making it to the Middle East any time soon! I'll just have to hope it eventually comes out on DVD (along with Careless).

Ashley

This isn't really an article per se, just a blog post about Tony - he was spotted on the Monk set November 1 wearing an orange prison jumpsuit!

Ashley

Thanks Ashley for the info. Orange jump suit, interesting .....

Sounds like they were filming "On the Run" . . . but if he had the orange jumpsuit on, he probably wasn't running any more - he'd already be in jail. But then again, maybe Natalie breaks him out of jail and then he's on the run . . .

Monk in Orange jump suit...and probably in cuffs (of course before he'll be on lam)...Now I can't wait even more on the 2 part episode....Thanks Ashley for the info....

Excerpt from The Hollywood Reporter
Shalhoub Aims to Change Arab Image in U.S.
By Elizabeth Guider
Dec 11, 2007

Like most news conferences at film fests around the world, there are inevitably questions from the floor that tend to go for the jugular.

In this case, the discussion, in both Arabic and English, focused on whether the American public and the American media and entertainment biz were actually changing their attitudes toward Arabs.

"So many times, Arabs have been shown in a negative light," Shalhoub told the 50-odd reporters, but, he added, "things are beginning to change."

The past six years since Sept. 11, he went on, have prompted a lot of people to be "proactive and to push back."

Full Article

Thanks Teresa, this is a great article. Poor Tony, it sounds like he was really in the hot-seat at this new conference. I love the comment he made about his career being hampered because he is "ugly and ignorant," not because of his heritage.

Ashley

Here's a really sweet interview with Jason Gray-Stanford.

Excerpt from Switched.com
Monk's Jason Gray-Stanford Tells Us All About His "My Pod"
Posted Dec 10th 2007 7:12PM by Tom Samiljan

Who's the last person you sent a text message to and what was it about?

Brad Pitt. I said "Hey Brad, it's Jason... you don't know me, but I think you're cool. Can we hang out, you know, for breakfast, lunch, or whatever?" Sadly, I never heard anything back. Seriously, though, it was to my sister singing the praises of the Season One DVD of 'Flight of the Conchords' -- that sh#t rocks!!

Full Interview

Thank you, Teresa, for those articles . I just came here to post them, but I´m glad, the "work" is already done

For me personally, the most important sentence in the "Dubai" article is this one:



I have been a great admirer of Khalil Gibran for many years (He has his own thread on my board ). For me it would be a heavenly gift, if my favorite actor would play one of my favorite poets .

If you are interested in his work look here. Gibran's best-known work is "The Prophet".

Thanks for the articles, Teresa!

I read The Prophet a while back - it is a great work. I would love to see Tony play Gibran. It might be that special role to nab him an Oscar nomination.

Ashley

LOL! The same I wrote to GlassBell just a few minutes ago .

Monk star hopes to set off an “explosion”

Thanks metacomet for the article...

An other article...an other issue

Don't count out power of the Oprah Effect

The TS relevant part: