Hollywood Q&A

By Adam Thomlison
TV Media
Q: In the episode of Two and a
Half Men with Sean Penn and
Elvis Costello, who played the
bookie?
A: That was Bobby Cooper, a lesser-
known star (compared to the rest of
the people in that room), whose pres-
ence was likely due to the fact that
Sean Penn seems to love him.
Aside from that legendary Two
and a Half Men scene, Coopers best-
known role was in the 2001 film I
Am Sam, which, of course, starred
Penn in the title role. Prior to that, the
two worked together in the 1997
romance Shes So Lovely and the
1995 thriller The Crossing Guard
(which Penn didnt star in, but did
direct, write and co-produce).
Cooper has also been favored by
another powerful Hollywood figure:
director-writer-actor Nick Cassavetes
(who is also the son of the even more
famous director-writer-actor John
Cassavetes). Cooper has appeared in
two of Nick Cassavetess films so far:
the 1996 romance Unhook the Stars
and the critically acclaimed 2006
crime-drama Alpha Dog.
Interestingly, that covers most of
the hard-looking character actors
rsum. Hes done a grand total of
eight films, five of which were either
Penn or Cassavetes projects.
Q: Every once in a while I go on
a search for DVDs of the State
of Grace TV series. It ran for
over a year in the early 2000s.
Our whole family enjoyed it, and
theres another generation of Television Festival in Austin, Texas,
kids who would definitely enjoy convened a reunion panel with the
seeing it! Is this series available shows creators and its two stars.
in any format? However, this renewed interest might
have had more to do with what those
A: Heres the saddest sentence
two young stars went on to do after-
youll read all day: State of Grace wards together, in fact. A year after
just cant be found.
Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman were
Canceled after two seasons more than starring as preteen best friends in
15 years ago, the chances of this show State of Grace, they appeared in
getting a DVD release now are pretty
Arrested Development together (the
slim (and, having produced only 40 epi- two romantic interests of the same
sodes, TV reruns are out of the question). young man).
There was a faint glimmer of hope Given the new attention Shawkat and
about a year ago, when the ATX Whitman have earned thanks to the cult-

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