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Unfortunately, no, this is not a story about what Meloni did on Fire Island back in 1999. *g*

Earlier this week, Chris tweeted this photo of himself:



Then, later that day, actor Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep) tweeted this photo:



....  with the caption "Gettin' drunk again! @drunkhistory @Chris_Meloni"

Drunk History is a show on Comedy Central that re-enacts scenes from American history using narrators who are drunk, and apparently Meloni will be on an upcoming episode. I watched some clips of the show on Comedy Central's website, and while it might not be for everyone, I found it clever and rather hilarious (but maybe it's my love of American history combined with a weird sense of humor).

Anyway, something to keep an eye out for! Thanks to melonirocks for finding the Tony Hale tweet!

It was announced yesterday that Lee has signed up for "a major stint" on the new season of Defiance, a "dystopian alien drama" on the Syfy channel, to air in the summer of 2015.

Lee will portray "General Rahm Tak, a ruthless, arrogant leader in the Votanis Collective who sees Defiance, now free of Earth Republic oversight, as a symbolic target in his unrelenting pursuit of power. A Castithan, Rahm is a well-read, brilliant strategist who imposes his army upon the town with decisive force."

Woot! Ruthless, arrogant, well-read, and brilliant! A little bit of something for everyone! That's our Lee!

Most of the other parts of the description went over my head, but Google Images tells me that a Castithan looks like this:



Isn't Lee a big fan of the original Star Trek? I think I remember reading that somewhere. It sounds like this show could be a lot of fun for him.

Official announcement and more info can be read here and here.

Well, better late than never...  Lee has had a small guest-starring role on the last three episodes of the FX series American Horror Story: Freakshow, which airs on Wednesday nights at 10:00 pm EST. It isn't really clear yet whether his storyline is over or if he might appear in future episodes.

Here's Lee in a FX promotional photo with actress Grace Gummer (Meryl Streep's real-life daughter), who plays his daughter on the show:



Last week's episode included a scene with Lee that all Oz B/K fans will probably appreciate. I've included screencaps behind the cut, but WARNING: they are very spoilery.

( spoilery but HOT screencaps behind the cut )

Yesterday, Broadway World posted a story about the premiere of the new ABC series "Forever," and guess who was listed to be a guest star for the pilot episode? LeeEEEee! ABC is airing the episode on Monday, September 22, at 10 PM (EST), which creates a direct conflict with the Season 2 premiere of NBC's "The Blacklist," in which Lee is also scheduled to appear. So much Lee! Luckily, ABC already has the pilot epiosde of "Forever" available for viewing on their website here, so you can watch it now.

Care to guess what type of character Lee plays in "Forever"?

( Spoiler-ish description and screencap behind the cut )

Yay! Lee is going to star in a comedy film! It will be nice to see him play something other than The Psycho Bad Guy Who Meets a Violent Death!

It was announced yesterday that Lee had been cast in the film "Tooken," a "Naked Gun"-like spoof of the action movie "Taken." He will play the role equivalent to that of Liam Neeson (who is currently filming "Taken 3," by the way), so Lee should be the main focus of the movie.

Filming starts next week in LA. (I guess it was his turn to travel to see Chris. Heh.)

From Deadline:
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The Americans and Longmire thesp Lee Tergesen (Monster, Wayne's World, Point Break) has a particular set of skills, which Elevative Entertainment has tapped for its upcoming spy comedy spoof Tooken. The Naked Gun-style send-up of the actioner Taken, sees Tergesen play the Liam Neeson role as “Bryan Millers,” with Lauren Stamile (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, and the upcoming USA series Complications) as his ex-wife, and Laura-Leigh (We're the Millers, The Client List) playing their daughter Kim. Reno Wilson (Mike & Molly, Transformers: Age of Extinction), Joyce Bulifant (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), and Ray Abruzzo (The Sopranos, Last Vegas) round out the cast. Actor-turned-director John Asher, who co-starred with Tergesen on USA's Weird Science, is at the helm of the film which begins lensing in LA next week. Asher co-wrote the script with Cameron Van Hoy, who is producing alongside Kelly Noonan. Tergesen is repped by The Gersh Agency. Noonan is a client of Paradigm, which is selling North American rights.
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I like how they plan to tap his "particular set of skills." I hope it's the same set of skills that I'm thinking of. :D

Chris is coming back to New York to visit Lee promote "Surviving Jack," which premieres one week from today, March 27, at 9:30 pm Eastern Time on Fox.  (Note the timeslot change from 8:30 pm.)  He is currently scheduled to appear on the "Late Show with Seth Myers" tomorrow night (March 21), as well as "Live with Kelly and Michael" on Wednesday morning (March 26).  I'm guessing there might be other appearances not yet announced; if so, I'll edit this post to include them.

Last weekend, Chris attended Cinequest (a film festival in San Jose, CA) for the premiere of his upcoming movie "Small Time:"



While there, Chris received the festival's Maverick Spirit Award.  As you can see in the pic below, he was pretty excited when he got the award.  Or, ya know, at least part of him seemed to be.  ;D



(Credit to Twitter's @marchriska for the Meloni photos)

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ALSO, according to IMDB, Lee is the star of a new 14-minute short film called "Into the Dark" that is going to be shown at a couple of small film festivals taking place in Georgia next month:  the Classic City Film Festival (April 5th in Athens) and the Milledgeville Film Festival (April 25-27 in Milledgeville).  It is an action/suspense/thriller story of "Two men, strapped back to back, on a journey from Moon to Earth."  So if you're in that area, here's your chance to see Spaceman Lee!

(Too bad it's not Lee and Chris who are the ones strapped back-to-back, because that would be awesome.  Or, strapped front-to-front, because that would totally work for me too.  Heh.)

Back on February 24, Lee attended the season 2 premiere of FX's "The Americans," looking all nice and scruffy (and rather distinguished with the shorter, graying hair!).  Perhaps he will be making an appearance on the show at some point?



With Joe Weisberg, the writer/producer/creator of the show: