Here are a few of the official photos from last night’s PUSHING DAISIES panel at Paley Fest courtesy of the Paley Center website. More of our own personal pics and videos are on their way. Check back soon for more.
Kath and I just got up so we’ll start disseminating information slowly this morning. Here’s a video that The Paley Center already posted from last night’s Pushing Daisies Paley Festival Panel of Chi McBride (Emerson Cod) being his hysterical self and mocking the entire cast. If you listen to the clip carefully enough, you’ll hear Ellen Greene (Aunt Viv) with her adorable “donkey” laugh! The video also has Moderator, Kristin Dos Santos asking a couple fan submitted questions.
Hey gang, Kath and I just returned from our fantastic night with the cast and writers of Pushing Daisies. As you know, they were on hand for Night 2 of the Paley Festival and a sold out crowd welcomed Bryan Fuller, Peter Ocko, Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene, Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks as well as the fraktastic writing staff for a night we surely won’t forget.
It’s almost 2am here in Los Angeles and we just returned from the after party with the cast and writers who are just a divine group of folks who are incredibly honored and humbled by all of the fans and the love we and other Pushing Daisies sites put out there.
We’ll write more later, post some pictures, some audio, video and even have a podcast ready over the next day or so. Big huge emotional heimlich’s to all of ThePieMaker.com readers who stopped us and chatted. You guys/gals are rock stars and it was amazing meeting you all. Check back later, but for now it’s bedtime!
We’ve decided to create a new segment here on ThePieMaker.com which salutes specific works from the cast of PUSHING DAISIES. Welcome to BEFORE THEY WERE ON PUSHING DAISIES!
Today we’re saluting one of the show’s strongest voices, Aunt Vivian aka Broadway star Ellen Greene. Probably the most obvious choice for a video salute from Ellen is her unbelievable turn in Little Shop of Horrors singing “Suddenly Seymour” with co-star Rick Moranis.
It’s Monday and there’s no PUSHING DAISIES this week so we here at ThePieMaker.com are keeping our favorite Pie Ho’s on the brain by bringing you these new photos from various Red Carpet Events.
Lee Pace at The Family Television Awards:
Ellen Greene at The Family Television Awards:
Swoosie Kurtz at The Family Television Awards:
Kristin Chenoweth at The Kennedy Center Honors:
Chi McBride and Wife at The Planet Hollywood Hotel Las Vegas Opening:
Here is a new interview from Playbill.com featuring PUSHING DAISIES own Aunt Viv, Broadway star Ellen Greene.
Ellen Greene is that rare breed: a gifted musical theatre actress and thrilling concert performer who is equally compelling on screen. This season, TV watchers across the country are lucky enough to have the opportunity to enjoy the innumerable gifts of this actress in the new ABC-TV comedy/drama “Pushing Daisies,” which is written and executive-produced by Bryan Fuller and directed and executive-produced by Barry Sonnenfeld and concerns a rather unique pie-shop owner who is able to bring back the dead (there are serious repercussions, however, should the undead remain alive longer than 60 seconds).
Last week I had the great pleasure of catching up with the good-hearted Greene — best known for creating and preserving the role of the lovably ditzy Audrey in the Off-Broadway staging and subsequent film version of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors — who explained that she auditioned for the “Daisies” pilot and her role as Sylar’s mom, Virginia Grey, on “Heroes” during the same two-week period. “I literally got them both at the same time,” Greene says. “The casting people for ‘Heroes’ tried to work it out for me, [so] that I could do both shows. The day [after the ‘Heroes’ audition] was the reading [for ‘Daisies’], so we had to make the decision in two seconds. Steve LaManna, my agent at Innovative, brought the [’Daisies’] script to me and said, ‘Ellen, I see you doing this.’ I loved it, but I loved ‘Heroes,’ too. They were saying that [’Heroes’] would be for more than one [appearance]. The next day, when I came in for the reading, Bryan [Fuller] said, ‘Ellen, I made a call.’ He made a call for me so that we could work it out, and they changed the schedule for me. So I started on ‘Pushing Daisies,’ and I think I did two days, and then I went to do two days of ‘Heroes’ with John Badham, who was directing it. It was very exciting. This all happened back in February.”
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Ned (dan.) here and I just finished watching this past week’s episode of PUSHING DAISIES entitled “Pigeon”. Imagine my surprise when one of my favorite songs is referenced in the dialogue, then imagine my delight when Olive and Aunt Vivian break into before mentioned favorite song.
They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse In Your Soul” is such an important part of my early musical development so this video makes me happy.
Watch Pushing Daisies stars Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene sing “Birdhouse In Your Soul”
*Imagine Ned (dan.) boucing around with the biggest smile on his face and that was me watching this moment during the episode
Watch the original They Might Be Giants version of “Birdhouse In Your Soul” and I expect all of you to know the dance by heart this afternoon. There will be a test.
Summary: Ned, a mild-mannered baker of fabulous pies, discovered as a child that he had a unique gift. Ned had the ability to return someone dead briefly back to life with just a simple touch. Through the years, Ned has learned to live with his unique ability, and puts his gift to good use, working with his only friend, a private investigator, to crack murder cases by asking victims to name their killers. But the tale gets complicated, as all tales do, when he saves his childhood sweetheart and she miraculously stays alive. Life would be perfect, except for one cruel twist: if Ned ever touches her again, she’ll lose the life he gave her, for good this time. There’s always a catch…
