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End of the Year Woots + Helen Mirren! Woot!!

tien. — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:52:32 +0000

It’s the end of the year, which of course means everyone reflects and judges and decides what was the best things in some category, and then we get all excited remembering said things. Fun times, in other words. NPR has reflected and judged and decided that Happy Accidents was one of the year’s best “Celebrity Tell-Alls.” Which means you ought to go get this book in case you already haven’t. If you don’t believe us, take it from Mindy Kaling:

BOOKS: What do you want to read next?

KALING: Jane Lynch’s autobiography, “Happy Accidents.’’ I want to read something funny, too, maybe “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk’’ by David Sedaris. I should read “The Marriage Plot’’ by Jeffrey Eugenides, but right now I just want to read about Jane Lynch realizing she was gay when she was 13.

[Boston Globe]

And in totally different woot! news, Helen Mirren is going to be a “guest voice” on Glee, which is sort of like being a guest voice on The Simpsons in that the person who supplies the voice looks totally different than the person who embodies the voice. In this case, Mirren will be the inner voice of one of the characters; we don’t know which one, but we do know that she’ll probably be hotter than whomever it is. Not to take anything away from Santana, et al, but c’mon. This is the Queen.

Jane Lynch on All Things Considered

tien. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:18 +0000

To watch, or not watch, Glee? This seems to be the question, from acquaintances who fear that their love for High School Musical will be nastily exposed after copping to watching this show, to others who hate ill-timed “improvised” song-and-dance sequences (i.e., with a few seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, a high school football team really shouldn’t do a full-fledged dance sequence to “loosen up” so that they can make the game winning drive – um, ever heard of a delay of game penalty??). Such is the quandary that fellow fan Narinda faced … until the power of Jane Lynch came across the airwaves in the form of an 8-minute segment on NPR’s All Things Considered. In her words:

But it was after only after hearing clips of Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester on NPR’s All Things Considered that I REALLY wanted to watch Glee. I think it was the clip about allowing Will Schuester to “launder [her] delicates” that put me over the edge.

Your turn to be put over — the entire clip can be heard here. For those of you who have some catching up to do, you can watch the last five episodes of Glee on Hulu. Thank gods for the internets.

Jane Lynch on Terry Gross’ Fresh Air

tien. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:32:12 +0000

Jane Lynch popped up on NPR’s Fresh Air this morning, and we just gathered around the computer to have a listen the way people gathered to listen to FDR’s fireside chats. Terry does a pretty good job – taking us from Glee to the serenade to Steve Carell in 40 Year Old Virgin. Perhaps the best part is when Terry Gross awkwardly broaches the subject of Jane Lynch’s lesbianism, as she brings up Christy Cummings not once, but twice. When it finally comes up, Jane talks about her self-discovery (“Oh man, really?“) and internalized homophobia. She also discusses her “stock old lady voice” perfect for commercials. And, in a personal dream come true, she recites her lines from the Nexium commercial. It’s a 24 minute interview. Listen to it here.