I’ve added two HQ promo images from Youth in Revolt to the gallery.

Btw Youth in Revolt opens today in the UK!

The SXSW film festival have announced that Barry Munday, which features Jean as the title character’s mother, will premiere at this years festival.

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Emmy Award winning Actress, Jean Smart and local media personality, John Curley (bios below) have joined the Chris Elliot Fund for another exciting year and have plans to speak and volunteer at several events planned for 2010, including the 3rd Annual Seattle Brain Cancer Walk where she will walk with Team CEF at the Seattle Center and CEF’s annual Gala and Benefit Auction on October 1st. Jean and John have been actively involved in raising funds and brain cancer awareness for the organization, and will continue to make this a priority for 2010. “Since my sister’s diagnosis, I have made it a priority to battle this disease with passion and wage war against brain cancer. I am honored to work with such an incredible organization as the Chris Elliott Fund, one that is making a difference to change the outcome of GBM and erase it off the face of the planet” said Mrs. Smart. “We can make a difference, but we need to build awareness and get more of you actively involved with CEF, so please join me in this fight, and bring this disease out of the shadows and into the light”. Both Mrs. Smart and Mr. Curley will remain active Board Members of CEF during 2010, and plan on contributing a significant volume of time assisting the organization.

You can read the full and extensive press release: Here

Jean will be appearing in Steve Allen’s “Meeting of Minds”, playing Catherine the Great on February 21st, at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles.

February 21 @ 7 p.m.
Show #23
A man of peace, Daniel O’Connell confronts a man of war, Oliver Cromwell and one of the most powerful women in world history, Catherine the Great, reveals secrets of her sexual conquests as Steve Allen moderates.

Gary Cole – Steve Allen
Jean Smart – Catherine the Great
Ian Buchanan – Oliver Cromwell
James Handy – Daniel O’Connell

(Source and Ticket Information)

Another slow “Jean news” week.

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It’s been a while since we had one of these but it’s been a slow “Jean news” week.

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I’ve added screencaps from The Bonnie Hunt Show to the gallery.

I’ve also added 6 UHQ pictures of Jean from the Youth in Revolt LA premiere to that album. You can check them out: here

From Celebrity Babies:

Life might be a “big joy fest” for Jean Smart and family now, but the source of their joy — newly adopted 18-month-old daughter Bonnie Kathleen — was a long time in coming.

Speaking to Celebrity Baby Blog at last Wednesday’s Hollywood premiere of Youth in Revolt, the actress revealed that she and husband Richard Gilliland have been discussing adoption for “over ten years.” She explains,

“When we finally started the process, it actually took a lot longer than we expected. We thought my son [Connor] was going to be about 15 when we got the baby and he’s just turned 20.”

Fortunately, baby girl has proven to be worth the wait. “[Bonnie] is the smartest, funniest, most darling gift,” Jean raves. “And she sleeps all night!”

“She just started walking … at Christmas. She’s quite tickled with herself. She’s been saying ‘daddy’ a lot. I don’t get ‘mama’ very much yet. But daddy is just like, ‘Daddy!’”

Named after Jean’s sister-in-law and mom, respectively, Bonnie has fans everywhere! “My son is smitten with her, my husband is absolutely besotted with her,” Jean, 58, notes. “[Even] she and the dog love each other.”

There were anxious moments while they were waiting to be matched with a child, however. “The day we got the big envelope with the picture was very exciting and very nerve-wracking,” she says. “Then you have 24 hours or something to say yes or no.”

Jean, Richard and Connor huddled together on the front porch, to open the envelope together as a family. “[We] said, ‘Okay, here it goes!’” she recalls. “And we went, ‘Oh my God! She’s so beautiful!’”

Six weeks later, they made the trip to China and eight weeks later Bonnie came home — although she didn’t stay home for long! Jean says that baby girl has been to Seattle to visit with Jean’s family, as well as to Texas at Thanksgiving.

“The poor little thing has traveled a lot since we got her, and she’s a trooper. She just loves traveling. She adapts to everything, big crowds. She’d be fine right here [at the premiere]. She’d be absolutely fine.”
– Missy with reporting by Jessica Wedemeyer (Source)

The full interview with Bonnie Hunt from last week:

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From Moviefone:

Nominated for an Emmy as mentally unstable First Lady Martha Logan in ‘24,’ Jean Smart says she wanted to return to the hit Fox show — but it’s now too late.

“Well, it’s done now, I think,” Smart told Moviefone at Wednesday’s premiere of ‘Youth in Revolt’ in Hollywood, of the possibility of returning to ‘24.’

“I would have loved to have gone back again,” Smart said. “But I don’t know. I think Martha is in a rubber room somewhere. They kind of inferred that she offed herself. I think she did.”

‘24′ starts its eighth season with a two-night premiere Jan. 17 and 18 and continues through May. Its future beyond that is uncertain, though two things are clear: ‘24′ is TV’s longest running espionage show in Hollywood history after ‘Mission: Impossible,’ and a ‘24′ film feature once the TV show finishes is a possibility.

Kiefer Sutherland said in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight that he believes the show could go on indefinitely.

“We’ve had the most unbelievably loyal audience for the past eight seasons, and I’ve always said as long as people wanted to watch us do it and they were still excited about the show, we would do it,” Sutherland said.

Meantime, Smart, who stars in ‘Youth in Revolt’ as Michael Cera’s mother Estelle Twisp, is taking time off work to raise a baby daughter, Bonnie, whom she adopted. She last starred on the sitcom ‘Samantha Who?,’ which was canceled last May.

“That’s taking up our days and nights now,” she said at the premiere “They canceled our show, and that was the good thing about it, was that I had time to spend time with my daughter. But I’m starting to look around more.”

Weinstein Co.’s ‘Youth in Revolt’ hits theaters Jan. 8.
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