I've uploaded new pictures from the Fox All-Star Party



And lots of new shots from many 2010 events, including:

Education Through Music


2010 Vanity Fair Oscar Party


"Love and other drugs" premiere



American Music Awards Afterparty


Rocky Horror Picture Show Tribute


And check back tomorrow for new additions to the HQ Gallery!

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We all know Matt is a big sports fan and roots for the Steelers... here's a tidbit about the Superbowl.

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While delighted fans will be looking forward to the post-Super Bowl episode, star Matthew Morrison will actually be at the big game. Morrison, who is rooting for the Steelers, says whether the Pittsburgh-based team wins or loses, he'll have to jump on a plane immediately and fly back to shoot Glee.

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Well, Gleeks, we hope you’re sitting down with a big old bag of chips and some water — we’ve got an epic exclusive interview with Mr. Schue himself: Matt Morrison! We caught up with him at the TCAs, so read on for Matty’s dish on his dream Glee guest star, his favorite song performance on Glee, and some inside scoop on Katie Couric!

Wetpaint: What can you tell us about the Super Bowl?
Morrison: Well, what happens?

Wetpaint: Isn't Katie Couric in it?
Morrison: Oh, yeah. She is in that. She absolutely is in that.

Wetpaint: Does she play herself?
Morrison: Yes. No, she's actually playing Diane Sawyer. No, I'm kidding. No, she plays herself and I actually get to dance with her.

Wetpaint: Oh, you do? What number?
Morrison: The music's on and I'm teaching her a little dance. Like with choreography.

Wetpaint: Was it fun?
Morrison: It was great.

Wetpaint: Can she move?
Morrison: She actually taught me to dance.

Wetpaint: Get out.
Morrison: You know I do the pretzel.

Wetpaint: The pretzel?
Morrison: It's almost like you wrap yourself up.

Wetpaint: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do know that one.
Morrison: Wow.

Wetpaint: Wow. That's pretty fun. I hear that Gwyneth is going to be rejoining you. Have they given you any indication on how that's going to go for you because you had a little magic moment with her?
Morrison: We did have a magic moment. I don't know how to say — I know she's coming back as a sex education teacher.

Wetpaint: I heard it's episode fifteen and sixteen.
Morrison: Sure. I don’t even know what episode we're on now. So whatever.

Wetpaint: Oh, all right.
Morrison: But I think she's the greatest. She really just gave a jump shot to all of us because we do the same thing in and out every week. Just having someone with that kind of caliber come in is a testament to the writers.

Wetpaint: Yeah. She was good.
Morrison: Who knew? Who knew? She was solid. Yeah.

Wetpaint: Who else of that level is coming on?
Morrison: I mean I know what you know. I hear rumors of Javier Bardem and I don't know who else I've heard. But I really hear the same as you guys. Like, “Oh, really?”

Wetpaint: Can you say without saying, you know, too much, about the Super Bowl episode? Maybe give us a little.
Morrison: Thriller.

Wetpaint: Oh, Thriller. Okay.
Morrison: We're doing Michael Jackson’s Thriller. That's pretty much all I'm allowed to say.

Wetpaint: All right. I guess let me ask you, is there anything you can talk about that you got excited about reading the script that you haven't done before? You're like, “Oh, this is going to be great?”
Morrison: I’m going to be singing a song with Jane Lynch.

Wetpaint: Oh, really? Do you know what?
Morrison: I do.

Wetpaint: Can you say?
Morrison: Nope.

Wetpain: Can you say the artist?
Morrison: There is no artist.

Wetpaint: A new song? Old standard, maybe?
Morrison: Anyways.

Wetpaint: “Happy Birthday”? There's no artist there.
Morrison: Something along those lines.

Wetpaint: All right.
Morrison: But I will be playing — I'm going to bust out my ukulele again.

Wetpaint: So It's not necessarily a big production number, but maybe a more intimate feeling thing?
Morrison: We're not even prerecording it. We're just going to do it live.

Wetpaint: Oh, cool!
Morrison: Yeah.

Wetpaint: And Kristin Chenoweth's coming back.
Morrison: Is she?

Wetpaint: Yeah.
Morrison: I don't know.

Wetpaint: Have you heard anything about maybe Neil Patrick Harris again?
Morrison: No, I know I would love that. Yeah.

Wetpaint: Golden Globes this weekend. As a man, do you put much thought into the look and the style and all that?
Morrison: I mean I have a tux picked out for me. But, you know, there aren't many variations on what you can do with a tux.

Wetpaint: Some people do get involved and they say, “I want a pinstripe or I want this little touch.”
Morrison: Yeah, that's not me.

Wetpaint: If you guys win, which you are favored to do-
Morrison: Oh, yeah?

Wetpaint: What would you win?
Morrison: We'd win a Golden Globe.

Wetpaint: What would it mean to you? Because this would be the second one in a row.
Morrison: You know, last year we were the hot new show and as you said earlier, it's really a testament to the writers who really keep the show fresh and poignant and relevant. I think it will just show the respect that the Foreign Press has that we're putting in the work. And that hard work that we're doing is validated, I suppose.

Wetpaint: Do you have a friend or colleague that you've worked with in the past that you'd love to have Glee figure out a way to include? Somebody from Broadway?
Morrison: I would have said Jill Clayburgh, but she's passed recently. But her daughter Lily Rabe is a close second. She's in Merchant of Venice on Broadway right now with Al Pacino. But she's a fantastic actress and I'd love to have her on the show.

Wetpaint: How many times in a week do big celebrities hit you up and say, “Hey, can you get me on the show?” and are you shocked by the caliber of people who actually say, “I would love to.”
Morrison: No big celebrities have my number. Come on. No one's hit me up.

Wetpaint: Any DVD extras on the new Season 2 set that's coming out at the end of the month? Do you know of anything that's on there?
Morrison: Do you see how much I know?

Wetpaint: You either have the greatest poker face or you do just show up.
Morrison: I really. I show up and I try to say the lines the best that I can.

Wetpaint: I got a few more for you. Have you heard that there's going to be a Lady Gaga episode?
Morrison: There already was.

Wetpaint: Another one. Another one.
Morrison: Oh.

Wetpaint: What's been your favorite song to sing this season?
Morrison: “Make 'Em Laugh.”

Wetpaint: Why that one?
Morrison: It’s the most joyous energetic kind of throwback to old school musical film. And I love that.

Wetpaint: Glee gets a lot of attention for all the casting and the special episodes and everything. But do you believe it's the core cast that keeps people coming back every week?
Morrison: No, I think it's the writers that keep it coming back every week. I think they have such a high level of writing. And they maintain it, which is amazing. They make our jobs really easy. And I think the issues that we tackle and everything we've talked about and what the writers bring to the show, because really television is a writer's medium. And I think we have some of the best writers around.

Wetpaint: So going forward what would you like to see the most happen for Schue and some of the other characters?
Morrison: You know I don't even look at it like that. I look at it in terms of an actor like, “Oh, I get to work with Jane this week.” Or, “I get to work with Jayma.” I don't really put really put much forethought because anything that I come up with, the writers will come up with something far better than I could come up with.

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A little more info on Matt's album from people who worked on it:



"When we visited JRock, Siegel was mixing a track for Matthew Morrison’s (Mr. Schue on Glee!) upcoming record, being produced by multi-instrumentalist/arranger Rob Mathes. Obviously Mathes is hugely capable, but comes to Siegel for a different production POV.
'The Matthew Morrison record is singer-songwriter-pop. My production role has been to ‘hip it up’ wherever I can,' Siegel notes. 'Rob Mathes is amazing. He plays every single instrument under the sun. What I’ve been bringing into the production is a lot of ebow textural stuff and drum loops, supplementing sounds that Rob might not go for on his own.'"



"Morrison also cut vocals at JRock. 'We’ve kind of been starting and finishing the songs here,' says Siegel, who’s recorded some of the best vocalists in the biz (Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Joss Stone, etc.). ‘I’ve been getting the songs as MP3 demos and creating a lot of the instrumentation – programming drums, adding guitar parts and textures – before we start working with any musicians. Then Rob comes in and we add more music before going in to track with a live band. And then we’re cutting or at least comp’ing vocals back here, taking care of any additional production and doing rough mixes for the label.

'It’s been really fun working with Rob on this record. I feel like we bring different things to the table and it really seems to gel.'"

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Thanks Charlotte!

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"Extra" talked to "Glee" stars Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch at the Television Critics Assn. FOX event and got the TV teachers to give us a lesson on what's coming up for the show.

Morrison couldn't reveal too many details on the Katie Couric episode, but did say the news anchor can cut a rug. "I did do a little dance with her. We just got together and were kind of dancing. She actually taught me some moves, a thing called the pretzel, do you know the pretzel? I can't even do it, you're all locked up and you're going crazy! I'm impressed."


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