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April 28, 2006
David Duchovny meets Craig Ferguson
One Hollywood star. One latenight talk show host. A sold-out
audience full of rapt fans. And what was it all for? A book.
Craig Ferguson's book, a novel called Between the Bridge and
the River.
The Tuesday night event was part of the excellent interview
series Writers Bloc. Last night they presented Frank McCourt
(Angela's Ashes) with Ann Taylor Fleming.
You might know Craig Ferguson as the host of the Late Late Show
on CBS, or as a Scottish comedian, or as the boss on the Drew
Carey show. After hearing him talk about his book -- which is
apparently about religion and morality while being profane and
wickedly funny -- we think he's an author, too.
Why was he talking to David Duchovny, who played Fox Mulder on
The X Files? Well Duchovny (as all the fan girls know) is an
ivy-leaguer who abandoned his literature PhD studies at Yale
to come to Hollywood. He recently wrote and directed his first
feature House of D, so he's a renaissance man, too.
The evening was introduced by organizer Andrea Grossman, who
started with such an articulate and thoughtful description of
Ferguson's book that at one point Duchnovny picked up his notes
and mimed sneaking offstage. Then, as her intro continued and
she got to Duchnovny's Princeton-Yale pedigree, Ferguson did
his own mock sneaking off. The two had a rap****e that was both
intelligent and silly. Their bon mots, as we could scribble them,
after the jump.
Craig Ferguson on where his book started: "I thought I wanted to
write a book about a Scotsman who got drunk and came to America."
Duchovny on listening to your creative muse: "The voices are
actually talking to you instead of turning their backs and
saying you're an idiot."
Ferguson: "There's a part of me that instinctively knows when
I'm being truthful."
Duchovny on Between the Bridge and the River: "it's a very
amoral moral book." He also called it "picaresque" and "madcap."
(picaresque! that's so lit major!)
Ferguson: "I like show business because it has no college
entrance requirements. I also hate show business because it
has no college entrance requirements."
Duchovny: "What is it with you and the word pamplemousse?"
Ferguson: "If you use the French word for grapefruit you sound
brainy.... and it's more ***y than the word 'grapefruit'."
Ferguson on how being the Late Late Show host affects his book:
"I get to do this, I get to be interviewed by someone more famous
than me."
Duchovny on why he's the interviewer: "We share a woman,"
Ferguson interrupts, disappointed: "Not Tea."
Duchnovy finishes: "A manager."
When asked (again) about how being an entertainer might affect
the reaction to his book, Craig Ferguson said, "Whether they take
it seriously or don't take it seriously, forgive me, but **** 'em."
Then he went to sign books in the lobby; the line of fans waiting
to buy Between the Bridge and the River extended out the door.
Posted by Carolyn Kellogg in Books , Media , People
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