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Time for an update!

Season 2 of the sequel to "Wet Hot American Summer" (which has morphed into "WHAS: Ten Years Later") is now available on Netflix! Chris Meloni appears as Gene in 4 of the 8 episodes, and a refrigerator once again plays a role (as does a can of vegetables):


(Screencap credit to Twitter's @marchriska)

( Much more Meloni news here behind the cut! )

Whew! OK, enough about Meloni! On to LeeEEEeee!

In all the excitement of the recent Oziversary Fest, I missed that HBO's website posted a new interview with Lee (and another with Dean Winters) discussing Oz's 20th anniversary. Both interviews are fascinating, Lee's particularly so. Check them out!

Lee Tergesen Sees Horror and Romance in Oz
Dean Winters on the Lessons That Still Ring True

Some of the most notable quotes from Lee's interview:

• The funny thing is, when I was in my early 20s, I used to get drunk and get naked in bars all the time, and now all of a sudden I was going to be paid to get naked -- I was like, alright.


• So many people have said to me that [the B/K] relationship, as twisted and weird as it was, gave them courage to be truthful about who they were. To have that kind of impact on somebody means a lot. Also, I got propositioned. I couldn’t tell you how many people wanted to have sex with me.


• All of a sudden people would have religious beliefs that kept them from showing their penis. Chris Meloni and I were always trying to do the thing that hadn’t been done. There was excitement, like, “I’m the one who gets to bite the d**k off.”


• The scene started and I realize I’m about to get on my knees and blow this guy on screen -- I gotta get out of here now. I start to make my way out and just as I’m getting to the door, I hear the scene play and the crowd goes apes**t.

(LOL at HBO's website feeling the need to censor the words "dick" and "shit")

Also, as a reminder, Lee and Dean are going to perform a stage reading of a new Tom Fontana play ("Screenplay by Stalin") on August 18 at the Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival. (I previously posted details HERE.) Austin Pendleton (Oz's William Giles) was also recently added to the cast. Myself, tobyfan, miltil,  and shabby86 are all planning to SQUEEeeeEEE be there. We have extra tickets, so if anyone wants to make some last-minute arrangements to join us, that would be OZSOME. The more, the merrier!

Announcing the Oziversary Fest! Because 20 years of Oz is kind of a Big Deal!



Read all about the Fest HERE at oz_wishing_well! Please consider signing up! It's gonna be OZSOME!

(Sorry for the cross-post spam)

An early Christmas present for the Leeloni peeps!





These are "new" pics of Chris and Lee with their agent Bill Butler on the set of Oz during the filming of "Cuts Like a Knife," taken from Bill's Instagram. There are couple of other behind-the-scenes pics floating around on the web that were taken this day, but not these two.

I recently stumbled upon some old pics of Lee and Chris on Facebook that were taken by a couple of fans at the Season 6 DVD signing event in 2006. I believe they're "new," in the sense that they've never been posted anywhere else before now.

This one of them together just about killed me:



Cropped down to the best part:



And a couple taken outside after the event:

Scheduled to air tomorrow (Thursday) night from 8:00-9:00 ET on Bravo is the interview that Chris taped earlier this month for the prestigious "Inside the Actor's Studio."

There are six short clips from the interview available for viewing on Bravo's website, including this delightful one HERE where he's asked about choosing between Mariska vs. Lee. (I think everyone already knows the answer to that one!) Apparently, the clips do not work for some international viewers, so someone was nice enough to compile all six clips together and post them on YouTube (the Marsika vs. Lee clip comes at the 4:05 mark):



The actual interview lasted over 2 hours, with an additional 30 minutes or so where Chris took questions from students in the audience, so it's been edited significantly to fit the hour-long (plus commercials!) timeslot on Bravo. HERE on tumblr is a detailed write-up describing what was discussed in the interview from someone who attended the taping. At some point, Chris also talked about filming the New Year's Eve kiss with Lee.

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Meanwhile, Meloni's new show "Underground" continues to air on Wednesday nights on WGN America, and I must say that I've been really impressed with the show and highly recommend checking it out if haven't already. It's very much an ensemble cast, so Chris doesn't have a lot of screen time (not yet, anyway), but he's done some wonderful acting in what scenes he's had, and the show in general is very well done. WGN America is a pretty small cable channel that isn't available in many areas, so if you can't watch it on your TV, you might want to try watching it online:

Underground on WGN America's website

Underground on crackle.com (Sony's streaming service)

Oz Magi 2015 is now OPEN for wishes!

For those not already aware, oz_magi (aka Operation Put a Shank in Everyone's Stocking) is an annual holiday season gift exchange of fan fiction and fanart, and it is one of the highlights of the year for every Oz fan! This will be the 12th (TWELFTH!) consecutive year that the fest has been held, and it has been an important part of keeping this small fandom alive and kicking.

All the details can be found here at the sign-up post. Requirements are deliberately low to encourage participation (only a 500 minimum word count for fic), and new fish are very welcome! The sign-up period ends at midnight on Friday, October 23.

Come one, come all!
That's what she said.

Yesterday, Steven Wishnoff (aka Tony Masters) tweeted this old photo of himself with Lee and Chris. (It was in a direct reply to someone, so it wouldn't have shown up on your Twitter feed if you follow Steven.)



It seems familiar? But maybe I'm confusing it with this photo, which was obviously taken the same day:



Well, regardless, it's fun to look at it anyway! So young! So hot! So happy! Because they're thinking about their plans after work!

BTW, Steven also tweeted this cool photo from the old Oz set of the infamous laundry room:

So, if there is one good thing about "Surviving Jack" being cancelled, it's that I doubt Meloni would be tweeting selfies of his package if he were still on a network television show.

@Chris_Meloni: I will stare at ur genitalia until u feed me...



I think this community needs a "Package of Life" tag.  ;D

And.... our Random Moment of Leeloni Squee for the summer comes courtesy of Lee's niece, Kacie (whose father is Lee's brother, Chris Tergesen, the music supervisor on Oz) and a podcast she does each week with a couple of friends where they rehash old episodes of Pokemon.

( Moment of Squee Described )
ALSO, Lee mentioned that he was about to start work on "Alpha House," the comedy series available on Amazon Instant Video that stars John Goodman and was created by Garry Trudeau (of Doonesbury fame). He didn't specify whether it was one-time guest-spot or something bigger.

{photo courtesy @stevenwishnoff}