A few things

I have been nominated for the Johnnie Walker Blue Label Great scot award for my outstanding contribution to charity. So there!

My friends Paul Cantelon and Angela McCluskey recently made this lovely little film inspired by George Harrison's song Here Comes The Sun to raise awareness and funds for the Sweet Relief Musicians' Fund, which heps musicians who are battling debilitating illnesses.  It was directed by Jason Beck and shot by Seamus McGarvey

You can buy the track here and donate some money to help our muso friends in need.

And in the video blast from the past category, here I am being interviewed by Mariella Frostrup in 1997!!!

for iTunes link click here: http://tinyurl.com/3bjuz2v READ BELOW Inspired by the words of George Harrison and the work of the organization Sweet Relief. Angela McCluskey has recorded a version of Here Comes The Sun that she hopes will help raise awareness, and much needed funds, for the SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: an organization dedicated to helping musicians who are battling debilitating illnesses.

talk show craziness

I have been in London for a few days doing press for The Runaway on Sky 1. I had forgotten how random and eclectic British Tv shows can be. For example I found myself on The One Show doing my interview between a piece about a bride with lots of warts on her hands and a man who can engrave words on tiny surfaces like pin heads and paper clips! Seriously! Then on Fern on Channel 4, in addition to chatting with the lovely hostess, I judged a cake contest for the Royal Wedding and then had to guess which of the five strangers that were paraded in front of me were obsessed with George Formby (rather surpirsingly a little girl), who had changed their name to Manilow after their hero Barry (a lady who had not only done that but also had the man himself tattooed on both of her arms) and finally who had a large collection of truncheons, as in the things PC Plod would bop you on the head with in a riot!! I mean, really!

Here I am chatting to Phillip and Holly on This Morning. Seconds later the cast of Mamma Miaperformed Money Money Money as part of the show's twelfth anniversary celebrations, mere feet from the sofa on which I am sat. Crazy!

Crazzee

I have had a crazy week, and here below is some visual proof. I also went to see the opening of Once, the new musical at the New York Theatre Workshop, directed by my friend John Tiffany who is going to be working with me on Macbeth next year.  Once is amazing, just so beautiful and heart wrenching and open. See it in this intimate space before it gets snapped up by Broadway!!

Right now I am in the mountains sitting watching the snow fall. It seems a very long way from all the crazy stuff below. And it is. How lucky I am to have such contrasts in mylife.

Here I am with my Good Wife ex wife Parker Posey, with Lance Horne peeping over our shoulders. Lance played for me at the Cyndi Lauper Home for the Holidays event for LGBT youth on Sunday evening

on the topic of wardrobe malfunctions....

Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.

QUENTIN CRISP, New York Magazine, Nov. 20, 1978

the book of mormon is the total bomb

Last night I saw the best show I have ever seen on Broadway, The Book of Mormon!!  It somehow manages to be dirty, satirical, offensive yettraditional and quaint at the same time.  It mocks faith but at the same time states a very good case for it.  It is touching, hilarious and endlessly inventive and beautifully performed and totally brilliant and I can't wait to go back!

Here's a behind the scenes from the latest batch of Masterpiece Mystery...

Audie do dee

I have been nominated for a 2011 Audie Award in the Solo Narration - Male category for my reading of Robert Paul Weston's Zorgamazoo. You can hear a clip of it here.

Today I shot some more scenes with the lovely America Ferrera onThe Good Wife and then was a guest on Rocco Di Spirito's new dinner party show for Bravo.  It was a lovely group including my old chums Liza Minnelli, Sandra Bernhard and Kenneth Cole.

How great that Hawaii is now allowing civil unions, and gay people have basically the same rights and protections as their straight friends.  Hooray! And the Obama administration will no longer be defending the Defense of Marriage Act (a gift from former President Clinton which defines marriage as between a man and a woman) in court.  The walls are tumbling down, people.

Happy Friday.  I am going to shoot and dance with bears.