I’ve been contacted by one of the organisers for the ‘Lights, Camera, Auction!’ Charity Auction (due to be held 21-23, 2005 at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in LA) and asked if I could pass on the following. They have a large number of guests from ’24’ due to appear and one of the shows producers is a founding member of their board of directors. Guests from ’24’ include, Reiko Aylesworth (Michelle Dessler), Roger Cross (Curtis Manning), Greg Ellis (Micheal Amador), David Fury (Executive Producer), Howard Gordon (Executive Producer), Joseph Hodges (Production Designer), Gregory Itzin (Charles Logan), Louis Lombardi (Edgar Stiles), James Morrison (Bill Buchanan), Bill Smitrovich (Gene McLennan), Sarah Clarke (Nina Myers), Xander Berkeley (George Mason). Plus other notables from shows including Stargate: Atlantis & CSI: Miami.

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more : www.mpica.org

” … we recently caught up with the show’s star Kiefer Sutherland to hear his thoughts on the beginning of a new gaming dynasty and being the world’s most harassed secret agent. Has playing Jack Bauer changed you as a person?

Kiefer Sutherland: In a typical 24-hour day, if I sleep for about 40%, that leaves 60% over and I would say 50% of that is spent working on this show as an actor or producer. We work at such a pace and over a long period of time that it’s allowed me to notice the smaller aspects of a story.

Do you find it difficult to top your performance in each episode?

KS: I talk to the writers as a producer but also from the standpoint that I will have to play one of the characters. It’s an incredible challenge and we didn’t know if we were even going to make it out of the first season!

We were very scared about whether the idea would play with the same cast of characters in the second season. It’s a tribute to our writers that they keep getting more and more creative in trying to find the variables on a very similar theme year after year. We also cast fantastic actors that helped make the show last, and I think the fourth season is our best yet.

Jack has a troubled life. Is there any hope for him, or is he doomed?

KS: If you lost hope for him then you would lose interest in the show. The fourth season starts with him being happy, very much like the first season started off. I think he smiled more in the first two episodes than he smiled in the entire history of the show!

What impact has 24 had on TV in general?

KS: That will be up to other filmmakers to decide, but there is an awful lot of reality television that uses a lot of split screens. It was innovative when we did it.

Why do you think 24 has been such a big success?

KS: Watching a character deal with knowing something that millions of other people don’t know, yet they should, creates a lot of fear and anxiety. One constant thing I hear back from the DVD watchers is that they have to watch at least four or five episodes at a time. They’re tapping into a fear and that makes them too anxious to turn it off after one episode.”

source : www.computerandvideogames.com

Thoughts and prayers are with all my fellow Londoners who may have been affected by the London Bombings yesterday or who had relatives or friends killed or injured in the attacks.

“It is through terrorism that the people that have committed this terrible act express their values, and it is right at this moment that we demonstrate ours. I think we all know what they are trying to do – they are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cower us, to frighten us out of doing the things that we want to do, of trying to stop us going about our business as normal, as we are entitled to do, and they should not, and they must not, succeed.” – Tony Blair

I hope everyone not just in the U.K., but all over the world will join in the two minute silence that will be taking place today at noon (gmt). We need to stand together.