A few minutes ago I added a bunch of “The Closer” icons to the brandnew media section. There is still a lot of work to do, but I hope you’ll enjoy the icons. Here are a few previews. The rest can be found here

I’ve just added over 150 screencaps of “The Closer”’s season premiere “Controlled Burn”. The episode probably wasn’t the best “Closer” ever, but I really enjoyed the return of Brenda AND and of my favorite “villains” … but I don’t want to say too much.

166x “The Closer” S4E01 ‘Controlled Burn’

Just a little reminder. Don’t forget that the season premiere of “The Closer” is on tonight. Have fun watching.

For this special occasion I’m doing a “The Closer Week”, starting tomorrow, seeing as I’ll only be able to watch the new episode tomorrow. Every day I will add something brand new related to “The Closer”. Hope you will enjoy this little project.

Also Kyra’s and Kevin’s 20th wedding anniversary is coming up in September and I thought I’d do a little something for that too. My ideas for this would be a little donation drive or putting together an online scrapbook featuring messages and wishes for the couple. If you have any other ideas or would be interested in my ideas, please contact me. Thanks!

By Michael Y. Park

With her award-winning show starting its fourth season, and her 20th anniversary to Kevin Bacon around the corner, Kyra Sedgwick has it all. But the success of The Closer has its downside, too, she tells Redbook in its July 15 issue.

“The last thing I wanted to do was move to L.A. for six months of the year,” she says. “But now I have to live with the wonderful success of it all and the bitter-sweetness of that success – because success means I’m not home.”

Still, she’s not complaining – especially not about her family.

“If someone had told me I was going to meet the man I was going to marry at 23 … and have a child, I would have told them they were out of their mind,” she says. “And here I am in my 40s with two grown children.”

And she’s confident about her future in an industry notoriously tough on women past their 30s.

“I know I’m not going to get offered all the things I want; I will always have to struggle for them,” she says. “But there are still great parts out there, and I think I look good and I feel good. So I’m feeling good about that.” Source

By RODNEY HO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/14/2008

KYRA SEDGWICK

Q: Has “The Closer” been the most satisfying role of your career?

A: One of them for sure. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. I get to keep expanding the character as she gets older. We can get deeper and more detailed about who she is and who she’s becoming.

Q: How do you think your character has matured over four seasons?

A: I’m not sure she’s matured so much. She’s not someone interested in internal growth. She’s shockingly un-self aware considering how intuitive she is with others. Fritz [her fiance] is more interested in growing emotionally. She’s kind of the male prototype in the relationship. He’s pushing her into a deeper relationship and to grow up.

Q: How do you like Holly Hunter in “Saving Grace”?

A: I think she’s an extraordinary actress.

Q: Any teasers for this season?

A: The theme this year is power — when we have it and when we don’t and think we do. With power comes the need to control. Many times in Brenda’s life, she feels the need to be in control yet she feels totally out of control. The first episode focuses on a fire, which is a metaphor about her own feelings of a lack of control. She’s got to deal with Fritz and marriage. She has to think about children. The department continues to have budget issues. And a reporter becomes a thorn in her side

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Kyra attended the Turner Broadcasting Television Critics Association Party yesterday. Be sure to check out the pictures in the gallery.

10x Kyra at the Turner Broadcasting Television Critics Association Party (2008)

By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - Kyra Sedgwick has enjoyed a long career in Hollywood since her first work in the mid-1980s in small roles on U.S. television and later in low-budget films such as 1990’s “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge.”

For years, Sedgwick, 42, had seen her career overshadowed by husband Kevin Bacon, with whom she has two children. But in 2005, U.S. cable network TNT began airing “The Closer,” a crime drama starring Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, an Atlanta cop who moves to Los Angeles to become deputy police chief.

Johnson has a thick southern accent (Sedgwick was born in New York) and the show was a departure for the actress whose roles mostly had been confined to small, low-budget dramas like 2002 Sundance Film Festival favorite “Personal Velocity.”

But “The Closer” became a breakout hit, with last season’s finale drawing 10 million viewers — a large amount for a U.S. cable TV show. A new season begins on July 14 and Sedgwick talked with Reuters about the show, her role and her career.
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