芝加哥太陽時報(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)一口氣登出三篇Ride-Along的報導,來看一下女王的新劇照:

JB in Ride-Along 20101024

'Ride-along' creator, cast case life on street with cops

October 24, 2010
BY MIKE THOMAS

以下摘錄跟JB有關的部份:

Native Chicagoan Jennifer Beals is tough-and-tender police superintendent Teresa Colvin -- the youngest, fictionally speaking, in departmental history.

Born and partly brought up on the South Side at 82nd and Indiana, Beals eventually migrated north and graduated from the elite Francis W. Parker School in Lincoln Park. Her extended residency in Chicago -- where her mother continues to reside and where she long ago landed her first big-screen role in the 1980 film "My Bodyguard" -- has brought with it a flood of flashbacks.

"Every time I round a corner, there's 5 million memories," she says by phone not long after wrapping for the day. "The whole city is like my private madeleine," she adds, casually referencing the mind-blowing tea cake from French novelist Marcel Proust's classic Remembrance of Things Past. (She's a Yale grad, you know.)

Beals' former South Side stomping grounds, however, sparked no such Proustian revelry. Chicago homicide detective and "Ride-along's" technical advisor, John Folino Jr., she says, "wouldn't take me there."

"I think he was a little concerned about it. Because I said I wanted to go down to the 'Wild Hundreds' [portions of Far South Side streets], too, and make a pit stop at the old house. And he didn't think that was a great idea." She laughs. "Kevlar vest or no Kevlar vest."

Beals still got an eyeful of urban dysfunction.

"There's such a huge disrespect for the police department based in large part on the behavior of a very small minority," she says. "It was really shocking to see how disrespectful people were. And what was also distressful was to see how people were not forthcoming with information. ... I'd also see kids at midnight, 6-year-old kids, double-dutching in the street when they should be at home asleep. And they're half a block away from all the drug dealers who are doing their business on the street. What kids are subjected to makes it very clear how the cycle begins and ends."

原文連結:http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/2830126,SHO-Sunday-ride24.article

女王用普魯斯特《追憶似水年華》的開場:男主角從吃一塊瑪德琳開始回憶(據說是一種小圓餅,如果我沒記錯的話),來比喻她對家鄉的感覺:"The whole city is like my private madeleine",其實是很親切的說法,JBC的法國網友怎麼不知道這一段典故?另一個網友也不知在抗議什麼?對現實層面的黑人社區太無視?這好像太言重了


Here's the scoop on playing Reporter No. 1: Cameo role with Beals a real eye-opener

October 24, 2010
BY BILL ZWECKER

全文如下:

It was still dark when I pulled up to the Cook County Criminal Courts building at 26th and California. While I've spent a lot of time on TV during the last three decades, I felt a bit of nervous excitement as I parked and approached that forbidding edifice, surrounded by a small army of crew members scurrying around to prep for the day's shoot on "Ride-along."

The filming was scheduled on Columbus Day, when the building wouldn't be busy with real defendants, lawyers, court personnel or police officers.


While I am a reporter who delivers entertainment news on Fox TV, this would be different. I'd be playing a reporter chasing after Jennifer Beals, as her Chicago police superintendent character hustles into the courthouse to hear the verdict in a big corruption trial.

"OK," I said to myself, "I'll just channel my best Larry Yellen, Jay Levine or Chuck Goudie impression and hope to make it believable."

After I was directed to a holding area with the day's collection of extras, a very nice crew member named Felicia leaped to my side.

"Oh, no, Mr. Zwecker. Let me take you to your trailer."

Trailer? I get a trailer? For the role of "Reporter No. 1," who delivers two lines?

Yes, and not only that, but I had my own handler -- another extremely nice person named Stefan, who juggled the schedules of me and my colleague for the day, fellow reporter Lisa Murray.

And about those lines? The good news was I would deliver them to the aforementioned Ms. Beals. The bad news? Who wants to risk screwing up in front of a veteran star?

Things calmed down a bit as I was escorted to makeup and ran into an extremely cheerful and friendly Beals -- particularly enchanting, given it was 5:45 a.m. and it appeared she hadn't yet taken a sip of coffee or tea.

Finally, the sun rose and we took our assigned places on the courthouse steps and began the first of about 15 takes of what likely will end up as less than 30 seconds of episode seven of the new series.

Fortunately, only once did I mess up these very complicated lines:

"Superintendent! Superintendent! The jury is in. Do you think you've won your case?"

After Beals answers -- sounding a bit too confident -- I shout out, "Sounds like you're already taking your victory lap!"

Her response -- including a quip about having "brought my running shoes with me today," leads to us "spontaneously" laughing at the joke.

Let me tell you, pretending to laugh about 15 times -- and making it sound spontaneous -- was a whole lot tougher than repeating those scripted lines over and over.

Let's just hope that it all doesn't end up on the cutting-room floor when the scene supposedly will air -- sometime next spring.

原文連結:http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/zwecker/2830142,SHO-Sunday-ride24b.article


JB 20101024

JB跟合作拍戲的真刑警合照,真是親切,完全沒有明星的架子!

Real detective is perfect for his part on new Fox show

October 24, 2010
BY MIKE THOMAS

原文連結:http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/2830132,SHO-Sunday-ride24a.article

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