Welcome back to our new Q&A feature, Culture Quest, where we're asking the same set of questions to some of the notables stopping by the 92nd Street Y. Below, we find out the culture habits of Jon Cryer, who will be talking about his unexpected life in Hollywood next month.
Forever the Duck Man
Everywhere. I'm voracious. Internet, old-school TV News, The Daily Show, Last Week with John Oliver, iPhone alerts, books, old newspaper pages floating by in the wind, rumors while waiting in line at Starbucks, all of it.
What are your favorite websites? Slate, The Onion, Drudge, the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, IPhone Hacks, Engadget, Jalopnik, Giants.com (New York Giants News), Huffington Post.
What book are you currently reading?Dead Wake by Erik Larson. It's the story of the sinking of the Lusitania. I'm perversely drawn to narratives of doom and folly.
What magazines do you subscribe to? The Week and that's it.
What's your favorite current TV show? I just saw The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I think I have a new favorite.
What's the last movie you saw?What We Do in the Shadows, a faux documentary about four vampires and a guy named Stu living together in a flat in New Zealand.
What's the last performance (dance, opera, or theater) you attended?Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway
What's the last music purchase you made? I bought OK Go's album "Hungry Ghosts." And yes, their videos are jaw-dropping, but I think their music is actually underrated.
What's your favorite piece of art in your home? My five-year old daughter drew a picture of me after the last show of Two and a Half Men that's pretty great. Also, I own the first page of original comic art from Fantastic Four issue 42 by Jack Kirby and that just makes me smile.
What place in NYC (landmark, museum, or neighborhood) are you embarrassed to admit you've never visited? I still haven't visited the High Line. I'm deeply ashamed.
What are you most excited about right now? I've been asked to shoot an episode for a show called "I Explore" for the Travel Channel. They're going to send me to Kazakhstan to train with ISS astronauts at the Cosmodrome! What could possibly go wrong?! I told a friend that I was headed there and his only advice was "Don't eat the cow lips."
Join Jon Cryer on the eve of the publication of his first book, So That Happened, at 92Y on Monday, April 6th.
