People Magazine INSIDE STORY: Medium Star Jake Weber's Rock 'N' Roll Childhood

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He spent three nights in a Nigerian prison, countless hours on the back of Mick Jagger's motorbike and a few tense moments with a half-kilo of cocaine strapped to his body while a customs officer eyed him at an Irish airport. Even for the free-wheeling 1960s, that's enough adventure to last at least a few lifetimes. Jake Weber accomplished all of it before he was 12.

Weber, 46, who for the past five seasons has played the very picture of familial stability as down-to-earth dad Joe Dubois on Medium (premiering Sept. 25 on CBS), had a rock 'n' roll childhood that was anything but stable. As children of Tommy and Susan "Puss" Weber, parents who were at the epicenter of London's counter-cultural revolution, Weber and his younger brother Charley lead nomadic lives filled with rock music, fast cars, and very little schooling – at least of a traditional sort. "Some people can juggle soccer balls. Me? I can roll a killer joint in about 3 seconds flat," Weber jokes. "When I was [4], basically the reason for my existence was to roll the joints."

( Ooh, a storm is threat'ning My very life today )

PaleyFest and TV Guide Magazine's CBS Fall television preview party (September 11, 2009)

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Patricia Arquette, Sofia Vassilieva and Jake Weber attending the CBS Fall Television Preview Party.



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The Medium PaleyFest Panel

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As you guys may or may not remember, the Medium Panel at PaleyFest was last night, and it featured Glenn Gordon Caron, as well as basically the entire cast. It sounds like some of you went (as well as the real Allison and Joe DuBois), so we’re definitely interested in hearing about it from you in the comments. The Paley Center Twitter account was updated last night as the panel was going on, and you can read their live Tweets here.

Here are some highlights from the Twitter stream:

Maria Lark is awesome, as usual:

“We’re not mooching on her couch like ‘Hey can we watch some pay-per-view or something.”-Maria Lark on knowing Patricia Arquette off set

Patricia Arquette discusses her first impression of Jake Weber:

“I felt a kinship with Jake when I first met him. My first impression was that he was kind of preppyish and organized.”-Patricia Arquette

I am not surprised about this at all:

Patricia Arquette admits to have actually fallen asleep in their bed occasionally. Apparently it’s VERY comfortable.
 

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