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Don't forget to watch Alan Ruck in "Persons Unknown" starting June 6th! That's this Monday!

This looks so freakin' awesome. And hey the freeze frame is Alan!


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Cameron Frye Alan Ruck to star in CW show "The Damn Thorpes".

With downtown Cloverdale standing in as Big Whiskey, Wyoming last week, actor Alan Ruck (centre) works during the third and final day of shooting of The Damn Thorpes, a TV pilot for Warner Brothers Studio's SW network.

Ruck got his big break in the 80s when he played Ferris Bueller's hypochondriac best friend in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He's since been in myriad movies and TV shows in supporting and lead roles and was on the sitcom Spin City from 1996 to 2002.


SOURCE: Danke Schoen, darling...

More Ruckin' news:

Review of his episode of "Justified" from last night. SPOILER LIE THATA WAY.

Non-spoilery bit:

It had my favorite guest performance/character to date with Alan Ruck as Rolly. In "Riverbrook," I got frustrated whenever we cut away from Raylan and back to the bank robber and his motley crew; here, Ruck was as much fun to watch as Tim Olyphant.

Alan Ruck's episode of "Justified" apparently that's going to be the episode after the one coming up. Sheesh, sources. That's episode 4, not 3, but it is still "Long in the Tooth" with Alan playing a fugitive dentist on April 6th, Tuesday. I wish he'd been my dentist today. Would have made getting fillings this morning much nicer! LOL

Don't forget on Tuesday, March 30th, Alan Ruck guest stars on the new series "Justified" on FX. My brother claims this as his new favorite show and he's very hard to please. It was pretty good! I can't wait to see Alan in it!

New FX show does Elmore Leonard justice

"Jusified" premires Tues March 16th, 10pm on FX.

Justified, FX's new crime drama, starts off the way that many other crime dramas have started. Our hero, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) confronts a bad guy, crosses the line, gets in trouble with his superiors and gets a new assignment that he isn't too keen on, in this case getting moved out of sunny Miami (where Givens wears his cowboy hat proudly) back to the coal-mining areas of Kentucky where he grew up....

There is a serial element to Justified, but it's only a minor part of the show, which gets a big boost from its guest stars, whether it's The Shield's phenomenal Walton Goggins as an old friend of Givens' who has become a church-bombing white supremacist, or Ferris Bueller's Day Off's Alan Ruck as a good-hearted dentist with a sordid past and a tendency to really lose his temper.

Sounds exciting to me! It's not on Alan's IMDB page yet, but his episode will be Episode Three: "Long in the Tooth". I can't wait!

Source ... IMDB page for "Justified". ... FX Page for "Justified"

Michael J. Fox named honorary doctor in Sweden




STOCKHOLM – Sweden's Karolinska institute says it will give an honorary degree of medicine to Canadian-American actor Michael J. Fox for his work to raise funds and awareness for Parkinson's disease.

The institute, which awards the annual Nobel Prize in medicine, says the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has since 2000 given more than $175 million to research aimed at developing drugs against the disease.

Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991. The disease is a progressive neurological condition that impairs the motor skills.

Karolinska says Fox will receive the doctorate in a ceremony in New York on Friday.


And on ALAN RUCK news...

FINALLY! "Persons Unknown" stars Alan Ruck ("Spin City") and Jason Wiles ("Third Watch") and is about a group of strangers who come together to solve a puzzle. The drama debuts at 10 p.m. Monday, June 7 on NBC.

Trailer here:

http://www.personsunknown.com/

I cannot WAIT for that show.

Also, Alan was on last night's CSI, but I missed it. =(

More Alan news:

UNTITLED WYOMING PROJECT (The CW) - Alan Ruck ("Persons Unknown") and Scarlett Johnson ("EastEnders") have both joined the cast of the drama pilot, about Gideon Thorpe (Sean Faris), "a horse trainer who becomes the patriarch of a Wyoming ranch responsible for his three younger sisters after their parents die." He'll play Hollister Ames, a nemesis who wants to buy said ranch. His character is further detailed as follows: "40 and full of himself... he's wearing an over-the-top Johnny Reb jacket and cowboy boots that have never seen dirt." Johnson then, while not specified, is believed to be playing Lucy December, Gideon's chief love interest, a New Yorker that's just relocated to Wyoming in order to take care of her grandmother, who just had a stroke. Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino are behind the hour, a co-production of CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television.

Good news!

Spin City season one is finally coming out on DVD on November 4.

Spin City: The Complete Season 1

Hey,
Did anyone watch the True Hollywood Story on E! about Michael J. Fox? It was really good. Just wondering. Spin City is on FX is anyone wants to see it and doesn't know what channel it is on.

Just letting everyone know that I made an Amazon List for Michael Boatman fans that includes both his acting and his writing. His short stories are beautifully raw and offensive.

I love Spin City now. It is such a funny show. MJF is so hilarious. It just has the funniest cast ever. Well, I hope that you guys are watching it. It is on everyday at 3pm to 4pm on FX.

Love,
Jennifer