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"Women I've Kissed for Money"

Oct 27, 2013

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Oct 27, 2013

Stephen Collins is best known as Rev. Eric Camden on 7th Heaven, but he's been in a gazillion movies and television shows. Most recently he's been on Scandal, Falling Skies, Devious Maids, and Revolution. And he's kissed a lot of women. For money. Wanna hear about it? Wanna ask him questions about it? He's also a member of The Band From TV, and you know what they say about musicians...

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Suzanne Whang · 9:00 PM

Stephen Collins!!! Welcome to your first Tawk!!!
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Stephen Collins · 9:00 PM

Thanks!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:00 PM

This is my first Tawk since getting married. Do I seem different/
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Suzanne Whang · 9:00 PM

?
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Stephen Collins · 9:00 PM

You're...glowing (though I can't see you)...
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Suzanne Whang · 9:01 PM

So of all of these women who you've kissed for money, were they all paid too?
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Stephen Collins · 9:01 PM

Yes. I think they may have demanded more for the inconvenience.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:01 PM

Because you're a Mets fan, clearly.
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Stephen Collins · 9:02 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Are you enjoying Texas BBQ's? VBG

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Stephen Collins · 9:02 PM

Amazingly (stupidly?), I haven
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Stephen Collins · 9:02 PM

t I haven't yet
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Stephen Collins · 9:02 PM

Yes. I'm a BIG Mets fan.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:02 PM

WHY?
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Suzanne Whang · 9:02 PM

(Go Red Sox!)
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Stephen Collins · 9:02 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

Is Mets fandom a turn-off?

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Stephen Collins · 9:03 PM

Mets fandom is a turnoff to Suzanne.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:03 PM

It is to ME, Jordan. I've been a Red Sox fan for decades.
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Stephen Collins · 9:03 PM

She hasn't forgiven the Mets for 1986. Move on!
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Stephen Collins · 9:03 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

What position would you play if you had played baseball... when younger?

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Stephen Collins · 9:04 PM

I DID play baseball in high school. Left field. Good glove, no hit.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:04 PM

What is the appeal of baseball for you? I've loved it ever since going to Fenway Park...
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Stephen Collins · 9:05 PM

The appeal of baseballs that there's no clock. So a game can, theoretically, go on forever. I like that.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:07 PM

Stephen's switching browsers, so hang on a sec folks
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Stephen Collins · 9:07 PM

★ Spotlighted from Debbie Nava-Korhonen

Elizabeth Mitchell says she enjoys kissing her costars and she thinks people are lying if they say they dont, do you agree, but I guess it really depends on who the costars are

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Stephen Collins · 9:07 PM

Totally depends on who they are!!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:07 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Suzanne, what you're favorite position playing baseball or softball?

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Suzanne Whang · 9:08 PM

@Nancy, I suck at baseball. I like watching other people play it.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:09 PM

When you were a young lad, did you think to yourself, "Someday, I'm going to kiss women for money"?
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Stephen Collins · 9:09 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

so does everyone eat an altoid before a kissing scene? or do some people eat garlic?

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Stephen Collins · 9:09 PM

Is that a rhetorical question, Jason?
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Stephen Collins · 9:09 PM

I mean @Jordan...
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Stephen Collins · 9:10 PM

Most people brush and re-brush AND use Altoids---except the ones who don't!
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Stephen Collins · 9:10 PM

Suzanne...no, I never thought that. But I DID want to be an actor.
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Stephen Collins · 9:11 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Has Stephen kept count? How many women have you kissed?

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Suzanne Whang · 9:11 PM

Isn't it a bizarre part of your chosen career?
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Stephen Collins · 9:11 PM

@Nancy...I think the number is about 25, but I haven't counted recently.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:12 PM

Here's the list: Farrah Fawcett (she was still Farrah Fawcett-Majors at the time), Jane Seymour, Ann-Margret, Kathleen Quinlan, Bette Midler, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Lauren Hutton, Jane Curtin, Sigourney Weaver, Donna Mills,
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Stephen Collins · 9:12 PM

@nancy...so far, I haven't kissed anyone on Revolution, but the night is young.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:12 PM

Joanne Whalley (when she was Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), Roma Downey, Blythe Danner, Stockard Channing, Victoria Tennent, Diane Keaton, Veronica Hamel, Sally Kellerman, Meredith Baxter (both as Meredith Baxter and earlier when she was Meredith Baxter-Bir
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Suzanne Whang · 9:13 PM

(both as Meredith Baxter and earlier when she was Meredith Baxter-Birney), Christine Lahti, Marthe Keller, Diane Lane, Deborah Raffin, Jill Eikenberry, Carrie Fisher, Michael Learned, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Barbara Rush, Kate Burton,
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Stephen Collins · 9:13 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

but there could be like 100 kisses with one person, so that number may be deceiving

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Suzanne Whang · 9:13 PM

Gwen Welles, Catherine Hicks, Faye Dunaway, , Julie Andrews, Sela Ward, and Susan Lucci
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Stephen Collins · 9:13 PM

@Jordan...there was only 1 with Farrah. Got it on the first take, dammit.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:13 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

The woman that Stephen kissed in the Star Trek movie was the first bald supermodel I'd ever seen

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Stephen Collins · 9:14 PM

Actually I didn't physically kiss Persis Khambatta in Star Trek...
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Stephen Collins · 9:14 PM

We had what Trekkies call "the cosmic fu*k"
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Stephen Collins · 9:14 PM

It was all lights and stuff...
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Suzanne Whang · 9:14 PM

I'd love to hear about kissing Diane Keaton, who I've always loved...
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Stephen Collins · 9:15 PM

Diane Keaton...wonderful. Maybe the best actor or actress of our time. We had different kinds of kisses in 2 movies...
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Stephen Collins · 9:16 PM

In First Wives Club, we had a kind of smoldery kiss in the scene right before I tell her I want a divorce and she goes batsh*t...
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Stephen Collins · 9:16 PM

In "Because I Said So," our characters fell in love, which was much more fun.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:17 PM

Have you ever kissed a man on screen?
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Stephen Collins · 9:17 PM

I was millimeters away from kissing Ron Rifkin in "Brothers & Sisters," but is character interrupted the kiss at the last second.
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Stephen Collins · 9:18 PM

"his character..."
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Stephen Collins · 9:18 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Two kinds of kisses? Explain, please ...

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Suzanne Whang · 9:18 PM

Aren't you friends with Ron Rifkin in real life?
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Stephen Collins · 9:18 PM

@nancy...it depends on the kind of scene. The kiss may be tender, awkward, passionate...
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Stephen Collins · 9:18 PM

Yes. Ron is an old friend.
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Stephen Collins · 9:19 PM

I've known Suzanne for years, but no one has ever hired us to kiss for money. Yet.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:19 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Stephen have you met Suzanne in person? If not you'll have to so she can be added to the list!

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Suzanne Whang · 9:20 PM

★ Spotlighted from April Jones

Who do you want to add to the list??

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Stephen Collins · 9:21 PM

I've always had a thing for Sarah Paulsen, since Studio 60...Amanda Peet, too, speaking of that show.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:21 PM

@April, who's on your list?
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Suzanne Whang · 9:21 PM

I've always had a thing for Jon Stewart.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:21 PM

And my new husband has a thing for Bonnie Raitt.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:22 PM

★ Spotlighted from Debbie Nava-Korhonen

who was the actor who says to his costarts before a love scene "dont get offended if I get turned on and dont get offended if I dont" I think that is a good way to start a love scene LOL, cover all bases

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Suzanne Whang · 9:22 PM

@Debbie, I heard that was Denzel Washington.
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Stephen Collins · 9:22 PM

Hey! Suzanne JUST got married!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:22 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jay Nickerson

I'd be happy to pay you not to kiss Suzanne, Stephen.

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Stephen Collins · 9:22 PM

@Jay. I'll take it!!
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Stephen Collins · 9:22 PM

The omney, I mean.
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Stephen Collins · 9:23 PM

Money, I mean
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Stephen Collins · 9:23 PM

Actually, Denzel has it just right.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:23 PM

Jay Nickerson is my new husband, everyone. He's the greatest human being in the galaxy.
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Stephen Collins · 9:24 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Practice makes perfect...in kissing. Who has been the BEST kisser?

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Suzanne Whang · 9:24 PM

So Stephen, I know that this is a topic you've spoken about before (women you've kissed for money) ~ how did this become a thing that you talk about?
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Stephen Collins · 9:24 PM

@nancy...that's a tough one. Damned if I answer it, damned if I don't.
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Stephen Collins · 9:25 PM

I first talked about this at an Amherst College reunion. Thought it would be a unique way to talk about acting.
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Stephen Collins · 9:26 PM

Since then, I've given an updated version of the talk (not a tawk) at several other places.
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Stephen Collins · 9:26 PM

★ Spotlighted from Debbie Nava-Korhonen

and now Stephen you are working with two beautiful actresses Elizabeth Mitchell and Tracey Spiradakos but you are the dad and grandpa, you could always kiss Billy LOL

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Stephen Collins · 9:26 PM

@Debbie...don't hold your breath!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:26 PM

Let's talk about acting. Was there a movie, television show, production or performance you saw as a kid that inspired you to become an actor?
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Stephen Collins · 9:27 PM

I grew up right outside New York and Broadway was my first inspiration...
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Stephen Collins · 9:27 PM

"Damn Yankees" a great musical about BASEBALL. I was hooked.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:27 PM

Want to tell everyone what you're doing in Austin TX these days?
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Stephen Collins · 9:27 PM

I really wanted to be a musical theatre star...
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Stephen Collins · 9:28 PM

So doing "Putting It Together" with Julie Andrews and "Spamalot" are career high points for me.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:28 PM

I wish I had gotten to see you in those shows.
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Stephen Collins · 9:28 PM

I'm in Austin shooting season 2 of JJ Abrams' NBC show, Revolution.
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Stephen Collins · 9:29 PM

I LOVE working on Revolution, hard as it is.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:29 PM

What's challenging about it?
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Stephen Collins · 9:29 PM

The characters are all intense and almost every moment in, literally, life-and-death.
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Stephen Collins · 9:30 PM

And the hours on Revolution are tough. But I still love it.
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Stephen Collins · 9:30 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

I guess you don't have to shave or have a haircut or make up in Revolution, right?

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Stephen Collins · 9:31 PM

No! That's another cool thing about it. I never have to look at a mirror while shooting. Love that.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:31 PM

You're 66, and you're the workingest actor I know. You recently did Devious Maids, Falling Skies, The Fosters, and now Revolution. To what do you attribute your success as an actor, and your longevity?
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Stephen Collins · 9:31 PM

I wish I knew...
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Suzanne Whang · 9:31 PM

@Nancy, what do you think?
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Stephen Collins · 9:31 PM

I think I'm good to work with. I show up, I'm prepared, I'm not a diva. That all helps.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:32 PM

★ Spotlighted from Debbie Nava-Korhonen

LOL, thank you for letting me "tawk" with you Stephen and Suzanne, Im off to work now

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Suzanne Whang · 9:32 PM

@Debbie, thanks for joining us.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:32 PM

And you're a Libra, and we're the best.
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Stephen Collins · 9:32 PM

TV is like a lifeboat. Very very hard work over many months. You want people who make it easier, not harder.
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Stephen Collins · 9:32 PM

I think I'm a pretty good actor, but the other stuff may have more to do with my getting hired a lot.
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Stephen Collins · 9:32 PM

Yes. Libras: the best. No offense to the ELEVEN other signs, Suzanne!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:33 PM

Is there a play or musical you've always dreamed of doing on Broadway?
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Stephen Collins · 9:33 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

I starting to feel we are having a three way, where IS everyone? VBG

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Stephen Collins · 9:33 PM

It says that 79 people are here, but maybe they haven't mastered the technology
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Stephen Collins · 9:33 PM

I'd like to do Hamlet. But, uhhh, probably too late.
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Stephen Collins · 9:34 PM

I'd love to do a production of Guys & Dolls before I'm in the home.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:34 PM

As which character?
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Stephen Collins · 9:34 PM

And The Cherry Orchard. And King Lear.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:34 PM

I've always LOVED Guys & Dolls.
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Stephen Collins · 9:34 PM

Any role in Lear. There are so many great ones.
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Stephen Collins · 9:35 PM

I'd play Sky Masterson in Guys & Dolls, of course.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:35 PM

Any desire to produce or direct a Broadway show?
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Suzanne Whang · 9:35 PM

★ Spotlighted from Debbie Nava-Korhonen

I think his longevisty is because he is a GREAT actor, he makes us believe his characters and we want to see more

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Stephen Collins · 9:35 PM

I'd love to direct, but I think that ship has probably sailed. You never know.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:35 PM

That ship has definitely not sailed.
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Stephen Collins · 9:36 PM

Most of the actors I know who become directors were having trouble getting work as actors (not all, but most). I've been lucky that way.
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Stephen Collins · 9:36 PM

I directed 3 episodes of 7th Heaven.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:36 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

How was it working with Richard Pryor and John Candy?

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Stephen Collins · 9:36 PM

Exactly as much fun as you would think/hope!
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Stephen Collins · 9:37 PM

Pryor was very quiet, thoughtful, not on.
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Stephen Collins · 9:37 PM

Candy was sweet, funny, welcoming, inclusive. Many comedians are not.
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Stephen Collins · 9:37 PM

Suzanne is one of the welcoming ones, btw.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:37 PM

Fuck off.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:37 PM

Do you want to tell folks about The Band from TV?
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Stephen Collins · 9:38 PM

The Band From TV is a celebrity band I play with (when I can) formed by Greg Grunberg. It's a blast.
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Stephen Collins · 9:38 PM

We play gigs for charity and charge a lot of money, then give it all to charity.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:39 PM

You play guitar and sing, yes? What genre of music is it?
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Stephen Collins · 9:39 PM

Scott Grime, Bob Guiney, Adrian Pasdar, James Denton and many others are in BFTV
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Stephen Collins · 9:39 PM

Grimes, not Grime...
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Stephen Collins · 9:40 PM

I play guitar and sing. Classic rock. BFTV does a lot of contemporary stuff, too.
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Stephen Collins · 9:40 PM

Beatles, Van Morrison...Springsteen. My wheelhouse.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:40 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

I'd love to see/hear you again to the Elvis impersonation. Would Band from TV be appropriate?

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Stephen Collins · 9:40 PM

@nancy...I'd need all the wigs and makeup!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:40 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jay Nickerson

I agree @Debbie. But I think Stephen, like a lot of actors whose careers have legs are successful because they are good people to work with: professional, respectful and fun.

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Stephen Collins · 9:41 PM

Thanks, Jay.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:42 PM

Anything interesting coming up for Doc Porter on Revolution?
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Stephen Collins · 9:42 PM

The next three episodes are really intense and interesting for my/Doc Porter.
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Stephen Collins · 9:42 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jay Nickerson

Now will you promise not to kiss Suzanne?

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Stephen Collins · 9:43 PM

Only for money.
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Stephen Collins · 9:43 PM

KIDDING! I promise.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:43 PM

Oy vey.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:43 PM

Stephen, did you see this? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/fashion/weddings/for-better-and-for-worse-long-before-the-wedding.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=weddings&
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Stephen Collins · 9:43 PM

I saw that article. Wonderful!!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:44 PM

Stephen, have you ever seen the movie "The In-Laws"?
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Suzanne Whang · 9:44 PM

The original, of course, not the remake.
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Stephen Collins · 9:44 PM

Ashamed to say that I haven't.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:44 PM

WHAT????
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Suzanne Whang · 9:44 PM

That's worse than being a Mets fan.
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Stephen Collins · 9:44 PM

I know, I know...I'm going to comedy hell now.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:44 PM

Sigh.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:45 PM

Being friends with Christopher Guest redeems you.
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Stephen Collins · 9:45 PM

I've seen a lot of it, but never the whole thing. Wasted youth.
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Stephen Collins · 9:45 PM

I've known Chris since 1971. A great baseball fan. Phillies.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:46 PM

We've gotta wrap this up. Anything else you want to say, and do any of you Tawkers have a final question?
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Stephen Collins · 9:46 PM

★ Spotlighted from Nancy Silk

Halloween is coming up. Any parties you'll be going to with cast and crew?

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Stephen Collins · 9:46 PM

We'll be shooting on Halloween.
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Stephen Collins · 9:47 PM

I really hope people tune in to Revolution if they're not already watching it. I'm proud of it and hope you'll see it on Wednesday nights at 8/7.
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Stephen Collins · 9:47 PM

★ Spotlighted from Felix Schmidt-Stahl

Maybe Stephen can play pharaoh in "joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat"

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Stephen Collins · 9:47 PM

I've never seen it. Should I hold my breath??
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Stephen Collins · 9:48 PM

Thans, all, for joining us. This is cool. Thanks, Suzanne, for asking.
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Stephen Collins · 9:48 PM

Thanks, not thans.
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Stephen Collins · 9:49 PM

@Felix, you gets points for correctly spelling pharaoh.
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Stephen Collins · 9:49 PM

You get points....arrggghhh!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:49 PM

You "gets" points? Sheesh.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:49 PM

Bwahahahahaha!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:49 PM

ThanKs for joining us Stephen, have a great night, and let's go Red Sox!
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Stephen Collins · 9:49 PM

We agree on that!
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Stephen Collins · 9:50 PM

★ Spotlighted from April Jones

Twas weird, but fun...Thanks!

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Stephen Collins · 9:50 PM

April, thanks! Glad you made it.
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Suzanne Whang · 9:50 PM

★ Spotlighted from Jay Nickerson

Thanks, Stephen and Suzanne and, Stephen, the check's in the mail.

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Suzanne Whang · 9:50 PM

★ Spotlighted from Dave Lavery

Go Redskins!

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Suzanne Whang · 9:51 PM

Go Redskins!
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Stephen Collins · 9:51 PM

Go Giants! Go Jets! Go Mets!
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Suzanne Whang · 9:51 PM

Signing off! Yours gookly ~ The Crazian
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Stephen Collins · 9:51 PM

Go Rangers....(somebody stop me)...