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John Doe: The Coolest Dad Ever
\nMon, Dec 24, 2001 12:05 PM PDT
\nby Rick Porter
\nZap2it.com, TV News<\/p>\nLOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – When John Doe released his last solo album,
\n“Freedom Is…” he did a number of appearances in Borders bookstores to
\npromote it. He’d play a few songs, then sign the CDs.<\/p>\nMost of the fans who’d come to see him, Doe tells Zap2it.com, were what you
\nmight expect: a mix of younger and older folks who knew his work from the
\nlandmark Los Angeles punk band X and have since followed his solo career.<\/p>\n“But every once in a while, maybe every other one,” Doe says, “there would
\nbe this little clump of 15-year-old girls. And they of course would want to
\nknow …”<\/p>\nHow he balances his acting and singing career? If he would be collaborating
\nwith the Old 97’s again? When X might get together again for a couple of
\nshows?<\/p>\n“‘Is Shiri cool?’, No. 1 — well, actually it’s a close call, with ‘How
\nhunky is Jason Behr?'”<\/p>\nDoe is in a position to have this information by way of his role on
\n“Roswell,” the aliens-in-high-school drama on UPN. He plays Geoff Parker,
\nowner of the Crashdown Cafe and father to Liz Parker (Shiri Appleby), the
\ngirlfriend of Behr’s brooding alien Max.<\/p>\nFor the record, Doe says the answer to the first question is yes, and he
\ndoesn’t feel qualified to answer the second.<\/p>\n“I’m also unable to tell them if Jason is a good kisser,” he says, laughing.
\n“Shiri says he’s pretty good, but I don’t have any personal experience. Yet.
\nBut you never know — I did line dance. If they’re gonna make a punk-rock
\nguy do line dancing, they may have him french-kissing a man any second.”<\/p>\nDoe is working more steadily on “Roswell” this season, as the show’s adults
\nre-enter the story after being pretty much absent from the second season,
\nits last on The WB before moving, along with “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” to
\nUPN.<\/p>\n“I think I worked twice the second season,” he says. “This season has been
\nmuch more family oriented. I think people got a confused with all the
\nplotlines last year. It was a little too ‘X-Files.’ ”<\/p>\nThat the shift in storytelling and the shift from The WB to UPN occurred at
\nthe same time is merely coincidence, Doe believes. “As far as it being more
\nfamily-oriented [this season], that’s just what the first season was about
\n— the human drama, dealing with the fact that there are aliens in our
\nmidst. That’s a lot to deal with right there.”<\/p>\nDoe, who’s appeared in about 30 movies since the mid-1980s, says the thing
\nhe values most about his work on “Roswell” is “the chance to keep my chops
\nup.”<\/p>\n“If you go three or six months between jobs, for the first couple days
\nyou’re flopping around like a fish, thinking ‘Do I remember how to do
\nthis?'” he says. “Here, there’s more time to develop a character, more
\ndifferent situations.”<\/p>\nHe plans to continue his movie work during the show’s off time; he recently
\ncompleted work on an independent thriller called “Jon Good’s Wife.”<\/p>\n“I know I’ll be doing more independents because that’s what I like, and
\nthat’s what directors and casting directors like me for,” he says. “It’s
\nwhere I’m comfortable. Basically, my take is more money, more bulls—.”<\/p>\nHe’s also continuing his music career. X reunites several times a year “for
\nfun, and some profit,” and he’s working with songwriter-producer Joe Henry
\non some new tracks. He recently recorded a song with the Old 97’s for a
\ntribute album to the Knitters, X’s countrified alter ego. “That was very
\nstrange, to be on your own tribute record,” he says.<\/p>\nHis song “Totally Yours,” from “Freedom Is…” will be featured in the Jan.
\n8 “Roswell,” playing at the end of an episode in which one of the show’s
\ncouples breaks up.<\/p>\nDoe won’t say who it is. He will admit, though, that he believes UFOs exist.
\n“I saw one,” he says. “It was definitely an unidentified flying object.
\nWhether it was a spaceship or not, I couldn’t tell you.”<\/p>\nHe then adds, conspiratorially, “I think that’s classified information. I’ll
\nhave to check with the sources. We have more information than a lot of
\npeople. Being on the show ‘Roswell,’ they tell us stuff.”<\/p>\n“Roswell” airs at 9 p.m. ET Tuesdays on UPN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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