Plum TV’s Alison Chace, who’s featured in the February issue of More magazine, has joined the growing roster of performers who’ve crossed over to the Web to contribute to Will Ferrell’s funnyordie.com.
The on-air host/actress/producer joins Katherine Heigl and Zach Galifiniakis in directing and starring in a comic spoof for funnyordie called “Steals and Deals.” She’s also ringing in 2012 by taking on a new role — hosting 30-minute beauty infomercials for dubli.com.
Plum TV, of course, encompasses vacation spots (including the Hamptons in our area) . . . but it’s Hawaii, specifically Maui, to which this weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning” travels as Lee Cowan interviews island resident and “Rampart” star Woody Harrelson, who plays a rogue cop in the new movie. “I didn’t want to raise my kids in LA,” Harrelson says. “You know, it ain’t a bad town, and there’s a lotta good people there, but I just didn’t think it was the place to raise kids.”
Harrelson says he almost moved his family to Costa Rica, but chose Maui because it’s got “better produce,” he jokes.
Regarding “Rampart,” Harrelson says he thought he was “terrible” in the movie the first time he saw it, but changed his mind after seeing it a second time. “My biggest problem prior to starting all this was just believing that I could be a cop,” he says. “The first time I saw a picture of myself . . . you know, you come in and put on the wardrobe . . . I was like, ‘I don’t know, man, looks like me at Halloween or something,’ you know?”
And, as far as his fame-making role as Woody, the dimwitted bartender on NBC’s “Cheers,” Harrelson says he almost didn’t take the role in favor of pursuing a Broadway career.
“Well, to me it was a hard choice,” he says. “I was thinking, you know, changing my life from living in New York and doing theater, which is what I really wanted to be doing, to going to LA and I was like, ‘Well, I need to stay pure. I don’t want to do television. I gotta stay pure and do theater.”
Cowan asks him what changed.
“Every other person said, ‘Go do that friggin’ show you idiot!”
The rest, as they say, is history.
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Last, but not least:
* Ratings for Rangers games on MSG are up 16 percent, through 32 games, compared to the same timeframe last year; meanwhile, Wednesday night’s Knicks-Golden State game snared a 3.15 on MSG — the best household ratings, for a regular-season game starting at 10 p.m. or later, since March 2000 (Knicks-Vancouver).