My prayers have been answered!

I will never underestimate the power of the Internet again. Nor will I deny that of the written word. Back in season 5, I wrote a letter to the people over at 24. It might have taken them a little time to read it, but they did. Oh, they definitely did!

And now, in the incredible season 7,

a) Tony's back and looking hotter than ever;

b) No more Palmers, yet the new president rocks;

and

c)

Dear Dr. House

Dear Dr. House,

I'm offering you a case you won't be able to resist. It's the differential you've been waiting for. It's the one patient Cuddy, 13 and even Taub will beg you to save. It's your opportunity to laugh at a federal agent who carries a manpurse. It's Jack Bauer.

In order to be helpful, here are some of Mr. Bauer's symptoms:

-Been exposed to a bio weapon

-Never goes to the bathroom (bladder infection?)

-Neverending feeling of urgency and doom (schizophrenia? depression?)

-Whispers and constantly out of breath (asthma?)

-Been exposed to and possibly bitten by a rodent otherwise known as Audrey Raines (rabies?)

Thank you and please save him before next Monday night.

P.S. Keep him away from Kutner. Unless you get bored and want to learn about his past life as Ahmed the terrorist...

Another Jack fact

If you're holding a gun to Jack Bauer's head, don't count to three before you shoot.

Count to 10.

That way, you get to live 7 seconds longer.

I'd buy it!

There’s a Jack Bauer action figure available in stores now. Shouldn’t there be a Tony Almeida action figure too?

“Well, they’re big on Jack. I saw one of those action figures. They were handing them out to the crew a couple of weeks ago. I think I’ll have to get one and paint his hair and give him a soul patch. Turn it into a Tony!” -Carlos Bernard

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I had a little fun and tried to turn a Jack into a Tony. Here's what it looks like:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Kiefer Sutherland will finally receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

The unveiling ceremony will be held on Tuesday, December the 9th, outside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

I was happy to read that his father, actor Donald Sutherland, as well as moviemaker and friend Joel Schumacher will attend the ceremony. Mr Schumacher cast Kiefer in various and interesting roles, displaying his outstanding acting talents and charisma with roles such as David in the Lost Boys, Nelson in Flatliners, Freddy Lee Cobb in A Time to Kill and the caller in Phonebooth.

If anyone deserves a star, I believe Kiefer Sutherland does. He is a huge movie and television star, but from all the encounters I've read, he is too bright to act like one.

This teacher is getting happier by the second...

Awwww! How do I get Carlos and Mary Lynn to come to my school?

TV actors vie to debut plays by child writers
By Tony Castro, Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 11/13/2008 12:11:06 AM


CHATSWORTH - Imagine the voice of actor Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer on the television series "24": "The following takes place between the closing of school and dinnertime." Bong. Bong. The seconds on the clock tick loudly.

The site is Superior Street Elementary School, and there are a lot of faces of counterterrorist agents you regularly see on "24."

Their focus is on nine subjects.

But they aren't terrorists. They are fourth- and fifth-graders, and the only thing they're a threat to is bad screenwriting.

With the help of professional screenwriting mentors, they have each written short scripts that actors from the cast of "24" and other shows are bringing to life in the school auditorium in front of parents, friends and news photographers and video cameramen.

Veteran actor Gil Bellows, who played a State Department officer in a TV movie prequel to the seventh season of "24," recently portrayed the dog Spike in student Nathan Torres' script "Good Dog ... Or Is He?"

But Bellows only raised the bar for fellow cast mates Janeane Garofalo, Carlos Bernard, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Carly Pope in their performances.

"This is really remarkable. Can you imagine having children, fourth- and fifth-graders, and having their written work brought to life by these professional actors?" said Superior Street Principal Jerilyn Schubert. "Nothing like this has ever happened in our school."

It is happening, Schubert said, because of the Young Storytellers Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that each year mentors students at a couple of dozen LAUSD schools and then stages performances of screenplays written by the children.

Actor-writer Jason Pugatch, the group's communications director, said it is an effort the mentors - including top writers and producers - and the performers take seriously.

In the minutes before the performances at Superior Street last week, Pugatch directed the audience to the scene on stage, where the professional actors were talking to the student writers, and described real competition for parts in the upcoming plays.

"Right now these actors that you have seen on television are really fighting to get into the show," he said. "These are young, brilliant writers who have written every word that you're going to hear tonight.

One of the writers, fifth-grader Katie Anderson, has already written a book, she said, and is apprehensive about the debut of her script.

"It's about two boys and two girls who ask each other to a homecoming dance and then everything gets mixed up. It's a comedy," she said. "I'm really excited. It means so much to have written this."

All the student writers are introduced by their mentors - among them "24" executive producer Howard Gordon, who drops a compliment on his protégé , Nathan, that professional writers might swoon for.

"Nathan has a knack for slapstick comedy," Gordon tells the audience. "If he had lived years earlier he might have written gags for Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd."

Nathan appears unfazed by the compliment, but on stage two of the actors look at each other with raised eyebrows.

The school's principal is understandably pleased.

"The members of Young Storytellers for six weeks have trained these students in one-hour sessions," she said. "They worked with them and mentored them out of dedication and caring.
"And the kids just enjoy writing. I think they've been inspired by these professional screenwriters to go ahead and dream that perhaps one day they may be professional television writers themselves."

24 star Robert Carlyle backs Jack Bauer in battle of screen tough guys

Robert Carlyle says a fight between movie tough guys Jack Bauer and James Bond would have only one winner - and it's not 007.

The actor is starring in the eagerly awaited movie version of hit TV show 24 alongside Kiefer Sutherland, who returns as secret agent Bauer.

But Carlyle was also memorable baddie Renard in Bond flick The World Is Not Enough and claims a licence to kill would not stop 007 - now played by Daniel Craig - getting a whipping if he came up against Bauer.

He said: "Jack Bauer or James Bond?

Jack Bauer probably - he kills more people. Kiefer could definitely kick Daniel Craig's ass."

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Alien Raiders Trailer

Carlos Bernard -Mr Tony Almeida himself- stars in an upcoming movie that looks very promising. Check out the trailer! Oh, how I missed hearing that sweet yet commanding whisper...