Congrats Matty!!!

Tonight, in lieu of an episode rewatch in the wcwu chatroom, we'll be live-chatting the Emmys. Come hang out with us while we cheer on Matt and The Normal Heart!

You can tune in to NBC at 8pm ET / 5pm PT for all the Emmy action. Matt is nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a TV Miniseries or Movie, and The Normal Heart is nominated for Outstanding Writing in a TV Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Direction in a TV Miniseries or Movie, and Outstanding TV Movie, as well as several of the other actors being nominated.

( Emmy Awards - Potential Order of Presentation )

( The Winners!! )

All of the awards that Normal Heart was up for have been given out. Congrats to the winners!

Here's your reminder that the Critic's Choice Television Awards are airing tonight, June 19th, on The CW. According to their website, "Red-carpet preshow, “Live from the Critics’ Choice Television Awards,” will begin at 6:00pm ET/6:00pm PT and will air on flagship station KTLA as well as many other CW/Tribune Affiliates across the country."

The awards show starts at 8pm ET/PT.

( The Normal Heart nominations )

Matt will be on The Ellen Show on May 30th, per the official website. We shall watch and see how on earth she convinced him to tweet. A great time should be had by all!

W magazine has a very brief piece on TNH, which can be read here. The image that accompanies it is gorgeous:



ETA: Credit goes to photographer Robert Maxwell

It's started!! The 2014 Critic's Choice Television Awards nominations were announced this morning. See below for The Normal Heart nominations.

BEST MOVIE
• An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC America)
• Burton and Taylor (BBC America)
• Killing Kennedy (National Geographic Channel)
• The Normal Heart (HBO)
• Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
• The Trip to Bountiful (Lifetime)

BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
• David Bradley, An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC America)
• Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dancing on the Edge (Starz)
• Martin Freeman, Fargo (FX)
• Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart (HBO)
• Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
• Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart (HBO)
• Warren Brown, Luther (BBC America)
• Martin Freeman, Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
• Colin Hanks, Fargo (FX)
• Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart (HBO)
• Blair Underwood, The Trip to Bountiful (Lifetime)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE OR MINI-SERIES
• Amanda Abbington, Sherlock: His Last Vow (PBS)
• Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Coven (FX)
• Ellen Burstyn, Flowers in the Attic (Lifetime)
• Jessica Raine, An Adventure in Space and Time (BBC America)
• Julia Roberts, The Normal Heart (HBO)
• Allison Tolman, Fargo (FX)

The 2014 Critic's Choice Television Awards will air on June 19th at 8pm ET/PT on The CW. Source

Hi Friends :)

I'm off to LA tomorrow for about 10 days, so I won't be around as much as usual. I won't be as quick with the Normal Heart links or news, so I suggest checking out the The Normal Heart Movie Tumblr. I know most don't like Tumblr, but this one is a great source of news, info, and gifs about the movie.

If you have a public library card, you should check out their website and see if they give you access to e-mags through Zinio. I download Mental Floss and a couple of other things for free there every month, and I get the gossip mags for flights from them too. I just found out tonight that my local library has Out available for free from Zinio. They don't have Matt's issue up yet, but it's something to look forward to. And for free! :)

I'm still working on my AU meme prompts. I was trying to do one a night, but I got sidetracked tonight by the last minute packing/freaking out that I'm forgetting something. I will continue to work on them and post them - there are three up so far - and I'll do a roundup post when I'm finished.

I'm finding it utterly impossible to use LJ on my iPad. It keeps trying to force me to use the new layout every time I have to sign in and it looks absolutely wretched in the mobile version of Chrome. Ugh. So much for being sneaky at work with the LJ.

I hope everyone has a great week! *HUGS*

The HuffPost Live chat with the TNH cast can still be viewed by going here. It's a great talk with all of them about the movie and its impact and how they approached the film.

Mark's interview on GMA is available here

Matt's interview on GMA is available here

Monday just got a little better!

Head over here to read some outtakes from Matt's Out magazine interview. There is more discussion of the weight loss and Simon weighs in on what it was like to watch it on screen. Matt also talks about the end of White Collar and a little about Magic Mike and Montgomery Clift.

Also, the cast of The Normal Heart sat down with Huffington Post for an interview, which will be broadcast tomorrow morning at 10:50am ET here (I think - their website is very confusing for the things that aren't up yet). For a snippet of the interview, where Ryan Murphy and Jim Parsons discusses Larry Kramer being on set the day that DOMA was struck down, go here



Edited to fix the time of the HuffPost Live airing

ETA: Fourth HBO Teaser Trailer (it's almost entirely comprised of footage we've already seen, just FYI)

Good Morning America:

Monday, May 12th - Mark Ruffalo (Source)

Tuesday, May 13th - Matt Bomer (Source)

Wednesday, May 14th - Jim Parsons (Source)



Don't forget that Mark will be on Live with Kelly & Michael on Monday, May 12th, and Matt will on Live with Kelly & Michael on Tuesday, May 13th.

The Normal Heart cast is on the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly, which should hit newsstands and homes around Thursday.



Brief article

I don't know what to call these so I'm going with "Teaser Interview". There's a couple new - brief - shots of Matt and Mark, and snippets of actors talking about their characters.

The Out magazine article is up on their website along with new photos. I haven't had a chance to read the article yet, but I will update this post if there needs to be any warnings.

Link to Article

Link to Slideshow

ETA: No warnings necessary, but I will share these bits of the interview:

That test — of what, exactly, Hollywood wants to offer a chiseled-jawed, classically trained, out gay actor — is rapidly approaching. White Collar ends this fall. “It will be a tough hat to hang up,” Bomer says, but it will also free him from a New York commute that made him feel at times “like a hamster on a wheel.”

It will certainly be hard to watch him hang that hat too. :'(

And he’d like to get back to writing a book “that’s been festering for a while.”

A book?! I need more details, Out. Like what kind and a synopsis, please. Also, he co-wrote a pilot several years ago called Nashville that I have not been able to track down, but he does have some writing chops. I'm curious to see what the book is about... and if he'll do the audiobook version himself.

There are a lot of other quotable parts about his marriage to Simon, being a father, growing up in Spring, coming out during drama school, and many more. It's definitely a great article.

Set your DVRs!

Next week, on Live with Kelly & Michael, Mark Ruffalo will be on Monday, May 12th and Matt will be on Tuesday, May 13th to discuss The Normal Heart.

Also, don't forget that Matt will be on Jimmy Fallon tomorrow night (May 6th)!

HBO is really promoting the hell out of this movie on YouTube. Every little glimpse I get of the Ned/Felix relationship makes me want it that much more, even though I know how it ends. This is the very definition of bittersweet, isn't it?

Quick update because I'm super busy at work. :(

Check out the official HBO TNH website. There are some new pictures and interviews up on there that are definitely worth a look.

Matt's specific interview is embedded below, but they're all good and all about a minute long.

Entertainment Weekly has shared an exclusive behind the scenes video of the making of The Normal Heart - running time: 2 minutes. There's a brief piece of interview with Matt wearing the black turtleneck that we've seen him wear in set pics. There's also a few shots from the filming where you can see him - my fave is him slow dancing with Ruffalo.

Short article and Video available at EW.com.

Details is my new favorite magazine everyone! Click here to see gorgeous pictures, video and a really interesting article.



Picture credit: John Balsom


ETA: There is somewhat graphic discussion of Matt's weight loss for TNH. I got excited about posting the link so I hadn't finished reading beyond the first page when I posted it, but I want it to be known that this article has some very serious moments.

So, Out.com is down, but the interviewer posted a snippet on Tumblr, along with a nice photo. Happy Monday everyone!



Check out the article snippet on Shananaomi's Tumblr.

ETA: Out.com is back up, so the link to the website is here.