Day 2 began all too early this morning…but, then, if you’ve been reading my reports, you already know that, since I was writing that HBO entry this morning at, what, 6-something?
Anyway, I eventually found my way down to the breakfast sponsored by the TV Guide Network; it was quite tasty, it wasn’t much of a presentation. In fact, short of a couple of TV screens running in the background, it wasn’t a presentation at ALL. Still, I highly recommend the French toast. Very tasty.
From there, I entered the interminable 3-hour stint that was the MTV networks panels. Okay, it wasn’t all bad – I got some pretty cool stuff out of it before all was said and done – but it was very hit or miss, especially for our readership. (As a parent, though, I found the Nick Jr. panel about their new pre-K show, “Ni Hao, Kai-Ian,” quite informative.) Fortunately, though, it started with a pretty cool panel about Spike TV’s new mini-series, “The Kill Point.” I must, however, first offer up the incredibly awful joke that Spike TV General Manager Kevin Kay opened his comments with:
“First up this morning, we’ve got ‘The Kill Point’ and ‘Murder,’ two new shows that have nothing to do with what CBS would like to do to Katie Couric right now.”
Ugh. Believe me, the crowd groaned…and rightfully so. Even Bob Hope would’ve thrown that joke back.
Anyway, on with “The Kill Point,” which stars Donnie Wahlberg and John Leguizamo. As it turns out, Leguizamo is moving from one Wahlberg straight on to another. “He’s going to go to work with Mark right now,” said Donnie, ” which will be a stressful situation in itself. I will prepare my brother for what he’s in for, having worked with John now for the second time.” (“Thank you, buddy,” said Leguizamo.)
Wahlberg says he tried to keep himself as distanced from the other scenes in his films, i.e. the scenes he’s not in, as possible. “For the most part, as the information comes into my character, it’s then funneled out into the audience, and I try to do that a little bit in my preparation, you know, to not know everything,” he said. “I didn’t want to know everything that was going on. I didn’t necessarily want to take part in the scenes that they were doing, or be around when they were shooting it.” When Leguizamo made the suggestion that it was totally personal and that he just didn’t like him, Wahlberg assured him, “No, no, it wasn’t that. It was your dog.” (“But I bathe him!” argued Leguizamo.)
