Here’s the latest Dwight Schrute music video, courtesy of NBC.
Tipster: Marivic
Melora Hardin talks Office chemistry
SPOILER WARNING! Article and subsequent comments will contain spoilers.
The Boston Herald talks to Melora Hardin about Jan’s chemistry with Michael:
“She’s a very complicated, multilayered, conflicted and flawed woman who’s been fighting really hard in a man’s world for a really long time,” she said. “She’s gotten a really crusty, cold, hard exterior. But she has a soft, gooey center, and Michael sees that and he goes right into that and she responds to that.”
Link: ‘Office’ affair: Hardin feels a chemistry with Carell on hit NBC comedy
Wow, Melora’s dad was “Deep Throat” on The X-Files! — one of my favorite TV shows of all time.
More on Kate and the bat
Kate Flannery was nice enough to answer a few questions about working with a bat during last week’s ‘Business School’ episode:
OT: I assume you were acting with an animatronic bat during the garbage bag scene. What was that like? Was it being remote-controlled off-camera? Or was Rainn operating the bat? Or was it fancy editing, and nothing was actually IN the garbage bag?
Kate: We went from real bat (which we had to be extremely quiet around! basically pretending to scream!) to animatron bat — operated by a guy who was literally on my ass with a stick attached to the bat — to a motorized bat to just the bag. It was pretty wild.
Rashida on Letterman
Rashida Jones appeared on ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ tonight.
Billy Bob Thornton and Barenaked Ladies also appeared.
Tipster: strangekid
Office wins ACE award
The Office editors Dean Holland and David Rogers won an ACE (American Cinema Editors) award last night for their work on ‘Casino Night.’
The award was for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television. Congratulations to Dean and David!
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey attended, and presented the “Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television” to Friday Night Lights. Read Jenna’s blog here. Some photos of Jenna and Angela after the jump.
Link: ACE award winners list
Tipster: _bales
Rainn Man
The New York Post talks with Rainn Wilson:
Wilson learned acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and subsequently lived in New York for 12 years in a number of different neighborhoods — from East Harlem to Fort Greene.
He and his wife — who now have one child, Walter, 2-1/2 — moved to L.A. in the mid-’90s after their Fort Greene landlord bought out their lease. “I came out to L.A. and I booked a pilot and two movies within my first month of coming out,” he says, “and so I thought, ‘Well, God is telling me something. I need to stay here for a while.’ ”
Link: Rainn Man
The Weekend Tally
Assorted Office tidbits:
- I am wayyyy late in posting this, but here’s a fan’s account of her phone conversation with Rainn Wilson. Not only did Rainn talk with Sarah for more than 30 minutes, but he also logged into her chat room and brought other cast members in with him!
- The Rochester Insider has a short interview with Office production assistant Kevin Monaghan where he talks about Creed’s mode of transportation to the set, how good the food is, and more.
- If David Mamet wrote an episode of The Office, it might look like this.
(Warning: NSFW) - What does John Krasinski like to do on the weekend?
- Check out Dan Renzi’s set visit.
- Scrantonicity vs. The Police — who rocks stronger?
- Rashida Jones appears on ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ this Thursday, Feb. 22.
- Here is the Wake n’ Bacon — Michael’s dream come true.
- John Krasinski in Anderson, SC: John’s in Anderson for the next six days, shooting Leatherheads.
Tipsters: Nancy, Jake, joyray, Amy, Sheila, Alex, JustJared
Trap the bat. Save the world.
Seen over at Kevin’s MySpace page:
Absolutely brilliant. Created by “Ken the Bulldog.”