Thursday, July 31, 2008
Happy Birthday John!
I want to wish John a "Happy Early Birthday" for Aug 3rd. I wont be around that day to post it.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
John to be Grand Marshall at Allstate 400 NASCAR race.
Scrubs Star John C. McGinley to Serve as Grand Marshal of the Allstate(R) 400 at the Brickyard(R)
By: iStockAnalyst Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:09 PM
McGinley will wave green flag before 15th running of historic race
Actor John C. McGinley, best known for his role as the sarcastic Dr. Perry Cox on the long-running network comedy Scrubs, has been announced as the Grand Marshal for the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard ® at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) on July 27. This year will mark the historic 15th running of the race, one of the highest-profile events in all of motorsports, and will kick off a block of 17 consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series telecasts on ESPN and ABC.
As a guest of Allstate, McGinley will be on-site at the famed Brickyard to headline pre-race activities, including the ceremonial waving of the green flag, signaling the start of the race to the 43 drivers and one of the largest crowds in worldwide motorsports. As a continued family tradition of the speedway, IMS Chairman of the Board Mari Hulman George will deliver the legendary command given before every motorsports event at the track, “Gentlemen, start your engines.”
“Allstate and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are excited to have John C. McGinley serve as the Grand Marshal for the 15th running of the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard®,” said Lisa Cochrane, Allstate’s vice president of marketing. “John’s passion for racing makes him an ideal fit for this role and Allstate is proud that we are able to make his dream of attending his first ever NASCAR race come true. This will be a memorable occasion for both Allstate and John.”
McGinley is most recently known for his role as Dr. Cox, the often critical and harsh senior attending physician and Residency Director on Scrubs. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedy-drama, which has spent the last seven years as a staple on NBC’s primetime comedy lineup, is moving to ABC this fall for its eighth season. McGinley’s extensive film career includes feature roles in Platoon, Wall St., Office Space, The Rock, Are We Done Yet?, and Wild Hogs.
“I am looking forward to attending my first NASCAR race at the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard®,” said McGinley. “I’ve been a racing fan for a while but have never had the chance to see a live race. I’ve had plenty of challenging roles in my acting career, but trying to act like I’m not nervous when I wave the green flag before the start of the 15th Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard® will be my toughest one yet.”
McGinley will take Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard® Grand Marshal baton from Desperate Housewives’ actor James Denton, who served in this role during last year’s race.
In its fourth year as the title sponsor for the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard®, Allstate is proud to sponsor the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the world-famous 2.5-mile track. In April 2005, Allstate signed a multi-year agreement with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the title sponsor for the race. Allstate is also the official insurance sponsor of Gillett Evernham Motorsports featuring drivers Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and Patrick Carpentier.
To purchase tickets, camping or parking for the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard,® contact the IMS ticket office at (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area, (317) 492-6700 locally or log on to www.allstate400atthebrickyard.com.
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By: iStockAnalyst Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:09 PM
McGinley will wave green flag before 15th running of historic race
Actor John C. McGinley, best known for his role as the sarcastic Dr. Perry Cox on the long-running network comedy Scrubs, has been announced as the Grand Marshal for the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard ® at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) on July 27. This year will mark the historic 15th running of the race, one of the highest-profile events in all of motorsports, and will kick off a block of 17 consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series telecasts on ESPN and ABC.
As a guest of Allstate, McGinley will be on-site at the famed Brickyard to headline pre-race activities, including the ceremonial waving of the green flag, signaling the start of the race to the 43 drivers and one of the largest crowds in worldwide motorsports. As a continued family tradition of the speedway, IMS Chairman of the Board Mari Hulman George will deliver the legendary command given before every motorsports event at the track, “Gentlemen, start your engines.”
“Allstate and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway are excited to have John C. McGinley serve as the Grand Marshal for the 15th running of the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard®,” said Lisa Cochrane, Allstate’s vice president of marketing. “John’s passion for racing makes him an ideal fit for this role and Allstate is proud that we are able to make his dream of attending his first ever NASCAR race come true. This will be a memorable occasion for both Allstate and John.”
McGinley is most recently known for his role as Dr. Cox, the often critical and harsh senior attending physician and Residency Director on Scrubs. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning comedy-drama, which has spent the last seven years as a staple on NBC’s primetime comedy lineup, is moving to ABC this fall for its eighth season. McGinley’s extensive film career includes feature roles in Platoon, Wall St., Office Space, The Rock, Are We Done Yet?, and Wild Hogs.
“I am looking forward to attending my first NASCAR race at the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard®,” said McGinley. “I’ve been a racing fan for a while but have never had the chance to see a live race. I’ve had plenty of challenging roles in my acting career, but trying to act like I’m not nervous when I wave the green flag before the start of the 15th Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard® will be my toughest one yet.”
McGinley will take Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard® Grand Marshal baton from Desperate Housewives’ actor James Denton, who served in this role during last year’s race.
In its fourth year as the title sponsor for the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard®, Allstate is proud to sponsor the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the world-famous 2.5-mile track. In April 2005, Allstate signed a multi-year agreement with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the title sponsor for the race. Allstate is also the official insurance sponsor of Gillett Evernham Motorsports featuring drivers Kasey Kahne, Elliott Sadler and Patrick Carpentier.
To purchase tickets, camping or parking for the Allstate® 400 at the Brickyard,® contact the IMS ticket office at (800) 822-INDY outside the Indianapolis area, (317) 492-6700 locally or log on to www.allstate400atthebrickyard.com.
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Scrubs on ABC news and info.
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Dispatch from ABC: 'Scrubs' on the move
by Alan Sepinwall/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday July 16, 2008, 7:36 PM
After the jump, some developments from the "Scrubs" press tour session and the scrum with Bill Lawrence afterward...
I don't have time to transcribe anything right now, so bullet points...
* Whether or not this will be the final "Scrubs" season, this will definitely be Zach Braff's final season. The season finale is being written as JD's farewell from the hospital, but Lawrence is shooting two slightly different versions of the very end of it: one for if the show is being renewed and will come back without Zach, one for if this is the series finale. (The latter version would feature Janitor's real name, as Lawrence has been saying forever that when you find out Janitor's name, the show is over.)
* Every actor's contract is up by mid-September, and they're free to pursue whatever jobs they want. If the show comes back, they're welcome but not obligated to come back with it. John C. McGinley said he'd like to come back but what if, hypothetically, he's landed a part in a Martin Scorsese movie around the time production for a season nine would begin? Lawrence said he has no problems with any of the cast moving on if they want to.
* Though the season won't debut until some time in early '09, they should wrap production by the end of August, which gives them flexibility both within the show and without. Aziz Ansari from "Human Giant" will be playing a new doctor this year, even though he's under contract for "The Office" spin-off; since "Scrubs" was in production and the new show wasn't, Greg Daniels said it was cool. And if "How I Met Your Mother" wants Sarah Chalke back a lot -- "They don't want me to say it, but she's the mom," Lawrence cracked -- she'll be available.
* In part to freshen up the series, in part to set things up for a potential post-Braff incarnation of the show, there will be a number of new doctors this year. In addition to Ansari, Eliza Coupe (who was one of the better things in the never-seen HBO show "12 Miles of Bad Road") will be one of the rookies. Chalke said that when Lawrence announced he was adding young doctors, she and the other regulars said, "But we're the young doctors!" and Lawrence told them something like, "Go look at the opening credits and get back to me."
* Ken Jenkins is not leaving the show, even though Kelso no longer works at the hospital. "Kelso won free muffins for life on the show, which gives him an excuse to hang around the hospital and be a different character," Lawrence said. Courteney Cox will do a three-episode arc as the hospital's new chief of medicine. (It was a part written for Lawrence's buddy John Cusack, who wasn't available due to a movie shoot.)
* Lawrence admitted that many of the shots people (including me) took at the last season on NBC were deserved, and that they got lazy telling the same jokes over and over again, and then telling jokes about their own jokes. (All that meta stuff about how JD's long fantasies are never worth it, etc.) The tone of the new season will be much more in keeping with the serio-comedy of seasons 1-4 -- "Though I don't know if Steve McPherson wants me to talk up how there's going to be more tragedy in the show."
* Getting back to Janitor's name -- which Neil Flynn kept trying to claim was Zanzibar Duck Duck McFake -- there's some debate in the writer's room about what it should be, with several writers insisting that it has to be "Neil Flynn," since they established that Janitor played Neil Flynn's role in "The Fugitive."
* And, the most important question as far as I'm concerned: Lawrence promised much more of Donald Faison dancing.
* The episode in the Bahamas -- where Lawrence will make his acting debut on the show -- will be about Janitor's wedding (presumably to his girlfriend, Lady), and is part of Lawrence's attempt to prove old mentor Gary David Goldberg wrong that you can't do a funny sitcom episode where you take your cast and crew to another country.
Dispatch from ABC: 'Scrubs' on the move
by Alan Sepinwall/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday July 16, 2008, 7:36 PM
After the jump, some developments from the "Scrubs" press tour session and the scrum with Bill Lawrence afterward...
I don't have time to transcribe anything right now, so bullet points...
* Whether or not this will be the final "Scrubs" season, this will definitely be Zach Braff's final season. The season finale is being written as JD's farewell from the hospital, but Lawrence is shooting two slightly different versions of the very end of it: one for if the show is being renewed and will come back without Zach, one for if this is the series finale. (The latter version would feature Janitor's real name, as Lawrence has been saying forever that when you find out Janitor's name, the show is over.)
* Every actor's contract is up by mid-September, and they're free to pursue whatever jobs they want. If the show comes back, they're welcome but not obligated to come back with it. John C. McGinley said he'd like to come back but what if, hypothetically, he's landed a part in a Martin Scorsese movie around the time production for a season nine would begin? Lawrence said he has no problems with any of the cast moving on if they want to.
* Though the season won't debut until some time in early '09, they should wrap production by the end of August, which gives them flexibility both within the show and without. Aziz Ansari from "Human Giant" will be playing a new doctor this year, even though he's under contract for "The Office" spin-off; since "Scrubs" was in production and the new show wasn't, Greg Daniels said it was cool. And if "How I Met Your Mother" wants Sarah Chalke back a lot -- "They don't want me to say it, but she's the mom," Lawrence cracked -- she'll be available.
* In part to freshen up the series, in part to set things up for a potential post-Braff incarnation of the show, there will be a number of new doctors this year. In addition to Ansari, Eliza Coupe (who was one of the better things in the never-seen HBO show "12 Miles of Bad Road") will be one of the rookies. Chalke said that when Lawrence announced he was adding young doctors, she and the other regulars said, "But we're the young doctors!" and Lawrence told them something like, "Go look at the opening credits and get back to me."
* Ken Jenkins is not leaving the show, even though Kelso no longer works at the hospital. "Kelso won free muffins for life on the show, which gives him an excuse to hang around the hospital and be a different character," Lawrence said. Courteney Cox will do a three-episode arc as the hospital's new chief of medicine. (It was a part written for Lawrence's buddy John Cusack, who wasn't available due to a movie shoot.)
* Lawrence admitted that many of the shots people (including me) took at the last season on NBC were deserved, and that they got lazy telling the same jokes over and over again, and then telling jokes about their own jokes. (All that meta stuff about how JD's long fantasies are never worth it, etc.) The tone of the new season will be much more in keeping with the serio-comedy of seasons 1-4 -- "Though I don't know if Steve McPherson wants me to talk up how there's going to be more tragedy in the show."
* Getting back to Janitor's name -- which Neil Flynn kept trying to claim was Zanzibar Duck Duck McFake -- there's some debate in the writer's room about what it should be, with several writers insisting that it has to be "Neil Flynn," since they established that Janitor played Neil Flynn's role in "The Fugitive."
* And, the most important question as far as I'm concerned: Lawrence promised much more of Donald Faison dancing.
* The episode in the Bahamas -- where Lawrence will make his acting debut on the show -- will be about Janitor's wedding (presumably to his girlfriend, Lady), and is part of Lawrence's attempt to prove old mentor Gary David Goldberg wrong that you can't do a funny sitcom episode where you take your cast and crew to another country.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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