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EDDIE JUDGES
"The Languages and Film Talent Awards (LAFTAs) organised the competition for 13-21-year-olds with a host of celebrity judges including Sir Trevor McDonald and comedian Eddie Izzard."

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EDDIE IN SAUSALITO
"Poggio in Sausalito got all kinds of star power, too. First, British comedic actor Eddie Izzard (from FX's The Riches) was in town for a show at the Orpheum, and dined outside on Poggio's patio with three friends. The four-hour feast included plenty of cocktails, food, and wine. They kept to themselves�and no, Eddie was not wearing a dress!"

LIVE PODCAST
"The Strip is LIVE tonight with British comic actor and famed transvestite Eddie Izzard, who performs his stand-up at the Palms' The Pearl this weekend. We'll also be chatting about Steve's night at Diablo's and Noir, Wynn's big splash and Lake Las Vegas' woes and we'll have some odd little audio clips to share from a couple of other podcasts. Come into the chatroom at

LVRocks.Com at 7 p.m. PST or wait until later in the week for the podcast version. "

I ALMOST FORGOT
Cake or Death celebrates it's ninth birthday this month! Thanks to all who have shared photos, stories, links, news items, random gossip, dinero and especially your friendship. Salut!

RAGE
In the

SEATTLE Q&A Eddie says he's in a small indie film by Sally Potter (director of Orlando, and The Man Who Cried) called

RAGE.

ELVIS & EDDIE
"Spectacle: Elvis Costello With " will premiere Dec. 3 on the U.S. cable channel Sundance and at a still to be determined date in Canada on CTV and later Bravo. The series of hour-long interviews and impromptu jam sessions - taped in New York with Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou Reed and former president Bill Clinton among the first guests - is a unique co-production with broadcasters in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

He says he had two guests that night - Kim Cattrall, whom he had never met, and Eddie Izzard, whom he was acquainted with. "She came on largely in a version of her character from 'Sex and the City' and flirted and it was very funny," he says. Izzard's segment, he felt, didn't go as well because "I maybe made too many assumptions that would get us through the interview. And, in fact, I felt that I could have done better."

THE BEST OF BEXHILL

IT WAS time to celebrate the good, the brave and the dedicated on Tuesday evening when the De La Warr Pavilion threw open its doors, rolled out the red carpet and celebrated Bexhill's finest at the third annual Achiever Awards - and it turned into a star-studded event in more ways than one with a special guest appearance by actor and comedian Eddie Izzard. Eddie, who had taken time out from his smash hit three month sell-out tour of the USA, grew up in Sidley and was on a brief return visit home. He attended the ceremony to present two awards, including the Overall Achiever Award to his father John Izzard.

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GABRIEL BYRNE, EDDIE IZZARD and JAMES SPADER will be among the stars fighting for a Best Drama Actor honour at the Emmy Awards, while pregnant MINNIE DRIVER and SALLY FIELD are favourites for the Best Actress prize. The quintet has been selected among the 20 semi-finalists on a shortlist. Driver and Izzard are nominated for The Riches, while Byrne gets a nod for playing a psychiatrist in In Treatment. Boston Public gave Spader the chance to fight for an Emmy.

IS THIS THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY?
Eddie visits the Houston Space Center...

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COCKTAILS, ANYONE?
Cocktail Marketing, the partnership marketing agency, has been appointed by Eddie Izzard to find sponsors for his proposed UK stand-up tour next year. It is understood that the tour will not go ahead if suitable partners cannot be found.

The agency won the business after a competitive pitch against undisclosed agencies. It is not thought that there as an incumbent agency.

The agency is now seeking a headline sponsor that will name the tour as well as having "various content rights" of Izzard. It is understood to include branding at the venues and on tickets as well as adverts and online.

Izzard, who is currently touring the US, has also appeared in a number of radio and TV shows, films and plays. In 2005, he was voted one of the top 20 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and industry experts.

IT COULDN'T HURT...
There are grumblings online about The Riches being on the bubble as to whether they will get a third season or not. You can email Fx

HERE and tell them why you love The Riches so much and how you hope it comes back for a third season...yadda yadda...It couldn't hurt... Meanwhile, if you missed an episode you can watch full episodes of The Riches at

HULU.

UPDATE: "He (Fx head honcho, John Landgraf) added that no decision has been made yet on renewing the original dramas The Riches and Dirt."

Defamer speculates as to who the father of Minnie Driver's baby is. At the top of the list?

EDDIE.

Eddie Izzard was in Bar Ferdinand Sunday. He drank Estrella Spanish lager all night, ate venison, didn't pay the bill, but his buddies did and tipped OK. (from the Philadelphia City Paper)

Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves: An Evening with The Riches Friday, April 18, 2008; 7:00 pm at the Paley Center for Media

Now in its second season, FX's The Riches takes a satirical look at the American need for self-improvement and upward mobility while mining the full horror�and darkly comedic potential�of those identity theft warnings that accompany your monthly bank statement. Gonzo comic Eddie Izzard and critical darling Minnie Driver are Wayne and Dahlia Malloy, Irish-American gypsies working grifts and cons in the Deep South who appropriate the surname of the recently deceased, well-to-do Riches, thereby trading in their mobile home for a McMansion. But in their ploy for the American Dream, the Malloys come to realize that life in suburbia may be the biggest scam of all. Join the actors and writers of The Riches as they regale us "buffers" (i.e., nontravelers) with their tales.

In Person: Minnie Driver, "Dahlia Malloy"; Eddie Izzard, "Wayne Malloy"; Cast and creative team

Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver, stars of the US hit show The Riches, have stepped out together in Beverly Hills to meet fans.

The two Brits came face to face with viewers at a special Q and A held at the Paley Centre for Media in Los Angeles.

Speaking before the event, comedian Eddie joked that he was hoping to meet a few ardent stalkers: "Hopefully [they'll be] psychotic, we always hope for rabid, crazy, insane fans. The people I meet in the street, they're all ages, all sizes and colours."

Eddie explained how he loves the variety in viewers: "With my stand-up I'd rather have more of the black community, the Hispanic community, coming to watch and I don't know quite how you break through to access that if you're a white person - but with The Riches we're black, white, green, yellow, blue, everyone - very few blue I must say, but the people I've met are just really huge fans."

On the show, the pair play a family of crooks who assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.

Minnie mused that some people in Hollywood are sometimes confused by Eddie: "They think he's kind of eccentric and exotic here in America, but Eddie's just a brilliant Englishman. That's his thing, he's clever and smart and uses that intelligence in his work... and he's looking glossier as the days go by, sort of sexy and Hollywood but he's still fundamentally him."

And now for my question - were he ever given the chance, would he play the role of The Doctor on "Doctor Who"? "Well, I've been watching it with David Tennant and he's very good, isn't he?" (At this point, he looked at Minnie Driver, sitting next to him, and she went, "Yes... he's rather big eyed!") "So, before him, I would have said no, and when they were talking about bringing it back Tom Baker (who played the Fourth incarnation of The Doctor) threw my name into the BBC hat, and the BBC *makes spitting motion* spat it back out. They wouldn't even consider it! But now, after seeing David do it, I'd consider it, because they've made it so that the sci-fi/special effects part is just a touch and so it's great. Back in the day, there were a lot of clattering, rolling sets and I used to watch it from behind the sofa because I was so scared... I'm pretty sure I've missed lots of things on those episodes. But yeah, seeing what David Tennant has done, I'd consider it."

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VIDEO HERE (windows media • thanks Pat)

(NOTE: The full video of the entire Q&A session can be seen at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills for Free. It was previously known as the Museum of Television and Radio and they do not charge any fees to view their huge archives of old and new TV shows and radio broadcasts)