Posted: 2:14 am EDT
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That time when you showed your diplomatic passport and a host country official in uniform tore it up? Yup, they put that here — see another clip from The Brink, coming to HBO this month. Jack Black plays FSO Alex Talbot and Tim Robbins plays Secretary of State Walter Larson. The Brink’s 10-episode season premieres June 21 at 10:30PM on HBO.
Posted: 12;56 am EDT
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It looks like Nacho Libre‘s “Friar Storm” was reassigned from Mexico to Pakistan and we’re going to get Foreign Service officer Alex Talbot in a business suit. The Brink, is coming to HBO on June 21 with Jack Black playing FSO Alex Talbot and Tim Robbins, apparently playing the philandering or kinky (take your pick) Secretary of State Walter Larson. Aasif Mandvi, of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” plays Rafiq Massoud, a Pakistani employee of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. TV.com says that the dark comedy focuses on a geopolitical crisis (some rogue general took over somebody’s nukes) “through the eyes of three disparate, desperate men” who must “pull through the chaos around them to save the planet from World War III.” Sounds so totally not Madam Secretary.
Jack Black sure makes the apocalypse look fun in this new trailer for HBO’s “The Brink” http://t.co/gbR3pZX89d
We understand that if it catches on, we could be watching The Brink tackle different crises in different parts of the world for its next seasons. We would like to make a public appeal now that Alex Talbott put in Venezuela top of his bidlist so the next season will be set in the Western Hemisphere.
The Brink’s 10-episode season premieres June 21 at 10:30PM on HBO. Get your funny bones ready, or if you don’t have one, stay away from teevee this summer.
On June 14, President Obama announced his intent to nominate James Costos as the next Ambassador to Spain. The WH released the following brief bio:
James Costos is Vice President of Global Licensing and Retail for Home Box Office (HBO). Before joining HBO in 2006, he was President and CEO of Eight Cylinders, Inc., an entertainment marketing and licensing agency. Previously, from 2002 to 2004, he was head of Promotions and Consumer Products at Revolution Studios in California. He began his career in New York as a fashion and retail executive. From 2001 to 2002, he was Vice President of Retail for Hermes in New York, and from 1991 to 2001, he was Vice President of Retail Operations for Tod’s in New York. Mr. Costos currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States.
He received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.
According to OpenSecrets.org Mr. Costos and his partner, designer Michael Smith, raised at least $500,000 for Obama’s reelection campaign in the 2012 cycle. In 2009, Smith was selected by the first lady to redecorate the residential quarters of the White House, and he later designed a makeover of the Oval Office.
If confirmed, Mr. Costos would replace political appointee Alan Solomont who was appointed chief of mission to the US Embassy Madrid in December 2009. Non-career ambassadors make up 73.7% of all ambassadorial appointments to Spain since 1960.
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