Aug 21,2011
Aug 21,2011
Prex.com Previews Cowboy and Indian’s Album This Fall
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Jesse Plemons may have killed a man on NBC as Landry Clarke, the nerdy comic relief-turned-murderer in Friday Night Lights‘ worst plot twist, but he’s since risen from his roots on the now-defunct (though excellent) TV show to play a different role: folk singer. Plemons is part of a folk crew, calledCowboy and Indian, whose outfits are something to shake an eyebrow at and whose gorgeous vocal harmonies and down-south fever are enough to start you square dancing.
And no, Friday Night Lights fans, Cowboy and Indian don’t sound anything like Landry’s fictional Christian thrash band, Crucifictorious.
I first heard Cowboy and Indian at this year’s SXSW in Austin, Texas. On an overcast Austin afternoon, heavy with humidity and the communal hangover of those left for the last moments of the festival, a few friends and I stumbled into a fenced-off lot next to a dark, near-empty bar, seeking good music and cheap beer. In both we were rewarded as Cowboy and Indian took the stage.
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Aug 18,2011
Kyle Chandler Chats with the Hollywood Reporter
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Hey y’all. Kyle Chandler just did an excellent interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which he discusses one of the biggest summers of his career that was highlighted by a final Emmy nomination for his role of Eric Taylor and the premiere of his Spielberg produced “Super 8″. Check out the link below for the full article/interview.
Aug 13,2011
Kyle Chandler Talks FNL With the L.A. Times
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As the final season of “Friday Night Lights” fades into memory, critics and colleagues are giving it a loving send-off. First, Emmy nominations were doled out for outstanding drama, writing, lead actor and actress. Then last week, the DirecTV/NBC show won “Program of the Year” from the Television Critics Assn. Sadly, not many viewers gave it a chance, thinking it was merely a show about a high school football team.
A lot of drama did unfold around the weekly games, but its main focus was the tightly knit community off the football field. At the center stood Coach Eric Taylor and his wife, Tami, played by nominees Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton. Life in the fictional town of Dillon, Texas, was a struggle. Too many dreams were pinned on a team of boys and their talents. When those boys stumbled, Coach Taylor was there.
When looking back on the show and his role on it, Chandler is as open and gregarious as Coach Taylor was reserved. He occasionally slips into the present tense; even a year later, it’s not easy letting “Lights” go.
How did you go about making Coach so taciturn?
Out there in West Texas people don’t open their mouths too much. It’s almost like their teeth stay together when they talk, and when they do talk they don’t say much. You can imagine a farmer on the plains out there, and it’s windy and hot, and the dust blows; you don’t want to have to open your mouth any more than you have to. I sort of ran with that with Coach Taylor.
Coaches aren’t very loquacious. They don’t say more than they have to. He gets out the words he has to say, and expects it to be followed.
To read the rest of this article go to: LATimesblogs.LATimes.com
Aug 12,2011
Scott Porter talks to E! About FNL and Hart of Dixie
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Oh, Scott Porter, you were this close to perfection.
What did Mr. Porter do that had us temporarily revoke his license to be perfect? He committed the ultimate offense: He has yet to watch the final episodes of Friday Night Lights. No, we’re not kidding. Jason Street, we’re very, very disappointed in you.
“I haven’t watched the last six,” the former No. 6 and QB1 tells our very own Kristin Dos Santos right before she gets up and walks out of the interview. So what’s his excuse for putting off the perfection that is the FNL finale?
“I read all the scripts. I’m a huge fan of the show. I know how it ends, but I know how it ended for me, and it was with me standing with my entire cast in an open field in Austin, Texas, as the sun went down on the last shot of the show.”
OK, that was kind of a perfect answer. All is forgiven!
To read the rest of this article go to: EOnline.com
Aug 10,2011
Scott Porter Joins Twitter!
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Hey y’all please welcome Scott Porter to the twitter party and follow him! He’s promoting his new show Hart of Dixie, and making an appearance on tonight’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance. Yay 6!!
Aug 07,2011
Friday Night Lights Wins TCA Program of the Year!
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Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose: “Friday Night Lights” was named Program of the Year at this year’sTelevision Critics Association Awards.
“Friday Night Lights” won the night’s biggest prize, but other shows honored tonight included “Parks and Recreation,” “Mad Men,” “Modern Family” and “Game of Thrones,” among others.
This was the first TCA Award for “FNL” since it won for Outstanding New Program for its first season. It’s a show critics love, but it’s also been airing during a period of lots of instant-classic dramas. In fact, it wasn’t even named best drama by the critics this year, as that prize went to “Mad Men.”
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Aug 06,2011
Scott Porter Talks to Examiner About FNL and Hart of Dixie
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Scott Porter has had quite an impressive career for a guy who claims to have gotten his first real job without taking a single acting lesson, let alone drama in high school. There must truly be something to be said for instincts, then, as that first project he booked was one that changed the course of dramatic storytelling on the small screen.Friday Night Lights was Porter’s acting class, then, and it has kept him in strong dramatic television ever since. Come fall audiences will fall in love with a different southern gentleman side to him than Jason Street when he co-stars in The CW’s Heart of Dixie. Here we discuss why he can’t watch the final FNL episodes, what memorabilia he kept from the set, reuniting with Connie Britton and Cress Williams, a potential return to The Good Wife, and of course, why Hart of Dixie was the perfect next project for him.
LA TV Insider Examiner: From one great television drama to another, what was it about the Hart of Dixie pilot script that you said ‘This is the one; this is how I follow up Friday Night Lights and The Good Wife’?
Scott Porter: I knew this year that I wanted to do something that was a little more leading man but also had a more light-hearted nature to it. Hart of Dixie is all of that. I came from the world of musical theater and comedy—
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Aug 06,2011
Photos of Connie Britton in FX’s American Horror Story
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