Somehow I don’t think a mention here is going to cut it as a consolation prize.
Last time out in our CCCC-up we mentioned the possibility of Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) winning an Imagen Award. The event took place a couple of weeks ago and, sadly, neither Danny nor his new show Law & Order: SVU took away any silverware. Castle took the best TV show award and one it stars, Jon Huertas (who plays Javier Esposito), got the nod for best television actor, the category that Danny was in. Monica Raymund of Chicago Fire won for best television actress. Danny is currently filming for the 15th season of L&O:SVU. The first episode is less than a month away as it is due to première on September 25th.
Around the time that Danny was preparing his acceptance speech/just happy to be nominated face, the trailer for the movie McCanick starring Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller in CC) was released. This garnered a lot of attention as the film is one of the last projects starring Cory Monteith, most famous for his role on the TV show Glee. Cory died just a month prior to that news. McCanick will premiere at the Toronto Internation Film Festival (TIFF) in early September. Making it doubly poignant, another of Cory films, All The Wrong Reasons, will be first aired at TIFF the day before McCanick. David Morse (The Green Mile) is the titular cop. Rachel Nichols (Resurrecting The Champ, which starred Kathryn) and Ciarán Hinds (Game Of Thrones) also star. Producer/director Josh C. Waller did the same things for Tracie’s other movies of 2013: Raze. The trailer for McCanick can be seen on YouTube HERE.
A last minute addition. Yesterday (28th August), Tracie took part in a special event to mark the 50th anniversary of the mass march on Washington that culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech. Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) is directing a “developmental reading” of Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, a play by Michael Benjamin. The event, that took pace at La Jolla Playhouse, California, was not open to the public.
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