Catch Stephen on Private
Practice Thursday, December 3, at 9 and 10pm
(8 and 9 Central) on ABC, in the second and third of his
three consecutive episodes on the hit series. Stephen
is "The Captain," the father of Addison, played
by Kate Walsh. Grey's Anatomy is pre-empted
that night for this two-part Private
Practice. The last of Stephen's three
episodes also features Jobeth Williams as The Captain's
wife, Bizzy.
Stephen Collins & the
7th Band again sold out LA's famed club, The Mint on Saturday,
March 7th. The
7th Band — featuring guitar greats Laurence Juber (formerly
of Wings) and Jon Walmsley on lead guitars, Jim Cox on
keyboards, Domenic Genova on bass, with SC on rhythm guitar
and John Ferraro on drums — did a 90 minute set of irony-free
bar-band rock'n'roll.
Stephen completed a wonderful summer run at The Shubert
Theater on Broadway as King Arthur in Monty
Python's Spamalot, the Tony Award–winning
Best Musical directed by Mike Nichols. Stephen thanks
the many fans who came from all parts of the world to see him
in the show.
Stephen was also seen last summer in the Hallmark Channel
original film, Every
Second Counts. He played ex-rodeo rider Joe
Preston in a contemporary western drama set in the fast-moving
world of rodeo penning competitions. Barbara Williams co-starred
as Joe Preston's wife and Magda Aponowicz played their daughter,
Brooke, a rising young star on the rodeo circuit. John Bradshaw
directed.
Stephen appears in a new short film, Hole
in the Paper Sky, produced by his former 7th
Heaven castmate, Jessica Biel, and directed by William
Purple. The half-hour film stars Jessica and Jason Clarke,
and has won top honors at several 2008 film festivals.
Awards include Best Drama and Best Director at the Beverly
Hills Shorts Fest, and Best Short at The Florida Film Festival,
The Beverly Hills Film Festival, and The Charleston International
Film Festival. The movie was also a finalist at the
USA Film Fest and an Official Selection at the Cannes Short
Film Corner, The Boston International Film Fest, The Holly
Shorts Film Festival, The Rhode Island International Film
Festival, and The Palm Springs International Film Fest.
7th Heaven now
airs in the U.S.
on The Hallmark Channel, Monday-Friday at 1pm
and 2pm EST, and Saturdays at 9am and 10am, as well as in many
countries around the world. Click
to check the local listings for The Hallmark Channel in your area.
Stephen can now be seen in two feature
films now on DVD:
Because I Said So, a romantic
comedy, re-teams Stephen with Diane Keaton, his co-star
in First Wives Club. Keaton plays the obsessive mother
of three daughters, played by Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, and
Piper Perabo. Gabriel Macht and Tom Everett Scott also star.
It was
filmed in Los Angeles and directed by Michael Lehmann (Heathers).
Blood Diamond, nominated
for 5 Academy Awards, stars
Leonardo DiCaprio (Oscar nominated), Oscar winner
Jennifer Connelly, and Djimon Hounsou (Oscar
nominated). It was filmed in South Africa
and directed by Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, Glory,
The Last Samurai).
Stephen recently
appeared as a Special Guest Star on Law & Order:
SVU, which came
in #1 in the Nielsen ratings for the night. Check your
local listings for repeats.
Stephen's
short mystery, "Water
Hazard", is now availablein a new mystery anthology, Murder in the Rough
Murder
in the Rough, published by Otto Penzler's Mysterious Books,
an imprint of Warner Books, is available now at amazon.com. Booklist's reviewer
says: "...the original stories [Penzler] has commissioned
for this volume have one big thing going for them: the writers
are all top drawer..." The star authors whose
work also appears in Murder in the Rough include Lawrence
Block, John Sanford, Ian Rankin, and Laura Lippman. Stephen
is thrilled to be in their company. For availability in
a store near you, check with your local bookseller.
"The
Hits of Rick Nelson," the second
CD from Stephen Collins & The 7th Band is now
available for download, exclusively at iTunes! Included
are the 7th Band's new versions of fourteen songs that Rock
'n' Roll Hall-of-Famer Rick Nelson made famous, including "Travelin'
Man," "Poor Little Fool," "Lonesome Town," "It's
Late," and "Hello Mary Lou." At iTunes, you
can download the entire album, or just a song or two. You
can also hear 30-second samples of all the songs. Click
here to listen or download from iTunes, click
here to order the CD from Amazon, or click
here to order the CD directly from Pat's
Gold. Stephen's profits from "The Hits of Rick
Nelson" will go to The Christopher Reeve Foundation.
Stephen has written and directed a
short film, Next of Kin, which had its World
Premiere last August at the Rhode Island International
Film Festival, where Stephen won the Grand Prize
for Best Directorial Debut! Next of Kin was also an official
selection of the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival,
the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, The Austin
Film Festival, The Williamstown Film Festival, and LA's Pan-African
Film Festival.
There's more information on Next of Kin at http://home.mindspring.com/~stephencollins/
Stephen's debut
CD is still available on The Gold Label. The CD features
Stephen singing and playing some hand-picked rock 'n roll and doo-wop
classics, along with the sensational 7th Band. Click
here for details, and click
here to order the CD and to listen to mp3 samples of the
songs. You can also listen to 30 second samples of each song, or download
them individually at the iTunes
Music Store.
Stephen has an essay in the
book "If
You Had Five Minutes With The President," published
by Harper, Collins and edited by Ron Reagan, son of
the late president. Celebrities such as Caroline Rhea,
Joe Pantoliano, Sean Astin, Kenneth Cole, Fran Drescher,
Charles Grodin and some fifty others each contributed their
fantasy of what they'd say if they had a few minutes alone
with the president. Stephen also contributed
a piece to a book called "Letters
to J.D. Salinger," in which other writers
such as W.P. Kinsella, Tom Robbins, and the late George Plimpton
offer messages to the reclusive Salinger. "Letters
to J.D. Salinger" is published by The University of
Wisconsin Press and edited by Chris Kubica and Will Hochman. Both
books are available at Amazon.com.
Stephen's short
story, "Ace's Big Entrance," was
featured in the June 2004 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.
Stephen wrote "Ace's Big Entrance" at the urging of Los Angeles radio
producer Cedering Fox, and the story was read aloud by Stephen as part
of an evening of short stories called "Life After Birth," produced
by Ms. Fox's Word Theatre in Hollywood.
Stephen is one of the stars of Mark Sobel's feature film The
Commission, which takes us behind the
scenes of the Warren Commission, the controversial panel
put together to investigate the assassination of JFK. The Commission also
stars Martin Sheen, Martin Landau, Ed Asner, Sam Waterston,
Joe Don Baker, and Corbin Bernsen. Sobel wrote and directed.
Stephen has spoken on talk shows such as Rosie and The
View about scientific research that shows how Transcendental
Meditation (TM) can be a tool to stop terrorism in the world. If
you want to hear more about this astonishing research, click
here. (By the way, a few people who have heard Stephen talk about
this seem to think that TM is a religion, but it's not. People of every
religion practice TM).
Click here for
an update on Stephen's
latest writing.
7th Heaven continues in syndication on
the ABC Family Channel seven days a week. Check your local
listings.
Looking for Stephen's first novel, Eye Contact? We can
show you a great
place to find it...also, Stephen's novel Double Exposure is
now available in paperback.
Click for a photo of Stephen's T.V. directing debut.
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