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Gina Torres - "Standoff" Tv Series - Presentation at Fox’s TCA Press Tour Day 1

Tuesday 25 July 2006, by Webmaster

10:01 am: It’s Moonlighting if David and Maddie were hostage negotiators! It’s also utterly forgettable, despite a killer cast that includes Ron Livingston and Gina Torres.

10:02 am: No! No! No! You’re supposed to bring out the cast and get them miked up during the trailer, not after! We’ve been over this before, Fox!

10:03 am: There’s no press-tour ritual more awkward than staring at a group of actors in silence as the sound man fastens mikes to their shirts. One. By. One.

10:10 am: Lots of boring talk about romantic chemistry and FBI negotiation tactics.

10:14 am: What did Sex and the City do for Livingston’s career? "Being one of Carrie’s Bradshaw’s boyfriends," he says, "is the romantic-leading-man seal of approval."

10:17 am: I love Gina Torres, in ways that are both surprising and unnatural.

10:19 am: "Occasionally, I miss the spaceship," Torres says of Firefly. "But not that often. [At least] I still have a gun." Does she mean in real life? On Standoff? It’s unclear.

10:30 am: A reporter accidentally pronounces costar Jose Cantillo’s last name Castillo. On that note, let’s pause for a moment of silence in memory of the late, great Santa Barbara.

10:32 am: This session is dying a slow death. Please, someone - anyone - put it out of its misery!

10:33 am: [Crickets]

10:34 am: Paging Dr. Kevorkian....

Fox’s merciful Jill Hudson finally pulls the plug. Time of death: 10:39 am.