Hi everybody: My brilliant web-mistress Catherine has wisely suggested that I add some 'content' to my poor, abandoned web-site, i.e, shout out a bit. She knows that I am a lazy slutbag, so she threw out a few questions for me to answer, which (she is implying) some of you might want answers to. I've added a few questions of my own. See if you can figure out which questions are hers and which questions are mine.

How many weeks beforehand do you give yourself to diet and exercise for your partially nude scenes for True Blood? I START EATING BACON AND CHEESE SANDWICHES ABOUT ONE WEEK PRIOR TO REMOVING MY CLOTHING ON CAMERA; IN REAL LIFE, I AM OF COURSE A PARSLEY EATING VEGAN.

Have any of the scenes for True Blood been filmed in Louisiana? A FEW, BUT MOST OF IT IS FILMED IN LA, AND MOST EXTERIOR SEQUENCES ARE FILMED IN THE WOODS, AND MOST OF THEM ARE FILMED AT NIGHT, AND IT'S COLD, AND YES MY NIPPLES PUCKER.

Did you have to learn any new medical language to play the coroner on True Blood? (After all, you learned a lot on Trek that was also human based.) I HAVEN'T LEARNED ANYTHING IN YEARS. MY MIND IS LIKE A SIEVE. IN FACT, MY NICKNAME IS SIEVE-HEAD. BONNIE'S CONCEIT.

When is The Nine coming out on DVD? I'D BE SURPRISED IF THE NINE EVER SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY AS A DVD, ALTHOUGH A CABLE STATION RECENTLY AIRED THE 4 OR SO EPS. THAT NEVER AIRED ORIGINALLY . . . WHICH MADE ME DEPRESSED ALL OVER AGAIN THAT IT GOT CANCELLED.

You recently did a play (right?), (RIGHT, CATHERINE!) what was it about, etc.? I DID A PLAY CALLED MAURITIUS BY A GAL NAMED THERESA REBECK AT THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE. I PLAYED A SCROFULOUS STAMP COLLECTOR WHO IS TRYING TO RIP OFF A POOR NAIF WHO HAS SOME EXTREMELY VALUABLE STAMPS IN HER COLLECTION. ONE REVIEWER CALLED ME 'SUITABLY RUMPLED', WHICH IS WHAT I NOW WANT TO TITLE MY MEMOIRS. SADLY, I AM TOO LAZY TO WRITE AFORESAID MEMOIRS. LOTS OF FUN TO GET BACK ON STAGE, TERRIFIC CAST AND DIRECTOR, INTERESTING PLAY, LOTS OF FIGHT SCENES, HOWEVER, AND BEING THE 'STOOGE' MEANT I WAS THE GUY GETTING PUMMELED MOST OFTEN. CONSEQUENTLY AM STILL NURSING SORE SHOULDER AND KNEES (EXACERBATED TENDINITIS, BASICALLY). 

Any new charity events coming up? (BINGO????) IF ANYBODY'S IN THE HOOD (LA) COME LATE AUGUST, THE AIDS SERVICE CENTER COULD USE VOLUNTEERS TO HELP PUT ON A TERRIFIC EVENT CALLED 'BACK TO SCHOOL DAY'. BASICALLY, THEY PUT ON A LIL' NEIGHBORHOOD CARNIVAL FOR ABOUT 250 KIDS WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY HIV/AIDS: IN ADDITION TO 'CARNIVAL FUN', THERE'S FREE STUFF FOR THE KIDS (HAIRCUTS, BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES, ETC). IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE INFO, GOOGLE "AIDS SERVICE CENTER, LA, BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT" AND GET HOOKED UP.

Has your wife been bossier around the house since she has been playing a Coronal? I HOPE CATHERINE DOESN'T CORRECT HER SPELLING, CUZ THAT WAY I CAN MAKE A JOKE HERE. WHAT IS A CORONAL? IS IT A SPANISH WORD FOR 'PERSON WHO GIVES OTHER PEOPLE CORONARIES'? IS IT SIMILAR TO A 'COLONEL'? MY WIFE DOES PLAY A COLONEL, TRUE. NO, MY WIFE IS NEVER BOSSY. MY WIFE IS A GEM, A JEWEL, A SAINT, THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE. MY WIFE ALSO HAS BEEN KNOWN TO READ THIS WEBSITE.

Will your wife get to be on True Blood? DOUBTFUL. MY PART ON TB IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY LARGE TO ALLOW ME TO DO THE KIND OF HOBNOBBING AND BROWNNOSING THAT GENERALLY LEADS TO SUCH THINGS - I MIGHT STAND A BETTER CHANCE OF APPEARING ON CHUCK, CUZ BONNIE IS A BETTER HOBNOBBER AND BROWNNOSER THAN I AM . . . 

What are your new/other projects? I AM 'BETWEEN ENGAGEMENTS', AS THE BRITS SAY, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS, AND WHILE THE MISSUS AND I ARE TALKING WITH A PAL ABOUT A 90 MINUTE FEATURE WE MIGHT WANT TO MAKE TOGETHER I AM NOT ENTIRELY DISPLEASED AT THE IDEA OF BEING A KEPT MAN FOR A BIT . . . 

What are you reading? I just finished an interesting biography of James Madison, I read The Princess Bride on Bonnie's recommendation, Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke (parts are better than the whole), am starting Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs, have Dicken's Barnaby Rudge in my sights, plus Shirley Jackson's Life Among The Savages, novels by Stanley Elkin and David Grossman, and a few other things on the pile. 

What is your favorite shade of lipstick? Knock it off, Catherine.

What would you most like to be reincarnated as? Me, again, with pecs and the ability to tango. 

What makes Sammy run? Just an opportunity to say WAH that Budd Schulberg (sp?) died.

xox jb