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| 11-10-10 04:44pm - 4966 days | #353 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Canadians are some of our finest neighbors. Lots of Canadians move to LA and become big name actors. So we wouldn't deliberately nuke Canada. But because we Los Angelenos are basically a peace-loving peoples, we might not be too accurate in the nukes we are firing at San Francisco and Sacramento. In case any of those nukes happen to drop onto Canada, we are sending our apologies in advance.  and  to our good friends the Canucks.Is Canuck considered offensive or derogatory by Canadians? I looked it up, and the source I checked said the term "Canuck" could be considered offensive slang. I never realized that before. Do many Canadians consider the word offensive? Seriously, no offense intended. | |
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| 11-10-10 05:11pm - 4966 days | #354 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
It's not enough that Gerard Butler is a rich and famous movie star. He also has to act like a businessman and steal the name of a company in order to make even more money. Shame on Gerard Butler. And the company whose name Butler is trying to steal is fighting back. They are suing Butler for $2 million for trademark infringement. Aren't lawyers wonderful? A $2 million lawsuit because a famous actor is using a company name similar to one that was already in existence. But maybe the other company will get lucky: They might not only get some publicity, they might also win some cash. But my guess is that if Butler named his company "Evil Twins Entertainment" and the other company is named "Evil Twin Productions", there won't be any large settlement. Those are two different names. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Gerard Butler sued by Evil Twin for $2 million (Reuters) Source: Reuters 3 hours, 3 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If there's any actor who should be able to pick the name of his production company without getting into legal trouble, it's Gerard Butler, right? Butler, after all, was briefly a lawyer before going on to star in "300," "Phantom of the Opera" and "Law Abiding Citizen." But he's been sued for trademark infringement over the name of his production company. Here's the beef: Butler and business partner Alan Siegel named their shingle Evil Twins. But there's another Hollywood company operating under the banner Evil Twin Prods. According to the complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Los Angeles, Evil Twin Prods was started by Kristen Armfield and Harri Mark in 1996. They have a registered trademark on "Evil Twin." According to Evil Twin's website, the entity has worked on promotional TV spots for "High School Musical 3," "The Dark Knight," and Coldplay's last album. The lawsuit claims that Butler and Siegel announced their Evil Twins Entertainment in March 2008. Ever since then, the first Evil Twins says there's been confusion in the marketplace and it has received correspondence and telephone calls intended for Butler's Evil Twins. The complaint also says that Butler has been made aware of the controversy and posted a note on his website: "DO NOT contact other Evil Twins or Evil Twin companies listed in Los Angeles." The current version of Butler's website only admonishes people that "there is no 'productions', 'films' or any other words in the title of" his company. The plaintiff is demanding an injunction and either actual damages or $2 million in statutory damages for alleged unfair competition. Reached for comment, Siegel laughed and told The Hollywood Reporter he has nothing to say at this time. (Editing by Zorianna Kit) | |
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| 11-10-10 05:50pm - 4966 days | #355 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I've never taken the term canuck as offensive. A small warning about using the term Canuck if you are visiting certain hockey cities. There is a hockey team called the Vancouver Canucks and calling an Habs fan a Canuck could get you in deep trouble. I'm pretty sure it's the same in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary. If you visit any of these cities then make sure the person is wearing a Vancouver Canuck Jersey before calling him a Canuck. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-10-10 06:29pm - 4966 days | #356 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Naw, you're safe on that one. Canuck is not offensive to me or to anyone I know .. unless their whole purpose in life is to be offended at something! | |
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| 11-11-10 03:27pm - 4965 days | #357 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Dino De Laurentiis is dead at 91. The man was a superstar producer, producing a huge amount of movies of all kinds. He was responsible for movies with great critical acclaim, as well as major blockbusters and a wide variety of other movies. When he was around 70, he married a woman of 29, and had 2 kids with her. So you have to give him another 20 points for that alone. "Dino always said you need three things in life: brains, heart and balls, and I hope I've exemplified that advice throughout my career," Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who credits De Laurentiis with his big break in movies, said Thursday in a statement. (De Laurentiis produced the Conan movies, one of Schwarzenegger's earliest starring roles.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< De Laurentiis, pivotal producer of 'Serpico,' dies By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer Jake Coyle, Ap Entertainment Writer – 31 mins ago Dino De Laurentiis, one of the last great, intrepid film producers who with unmatched showmanship shepherded movies as varied as "La Strada" and "Barbarella," has died. He was 91. "My grandfather was a true inspiration. He was my biggest champion in life and a constant source for wisdom and advice. I will miss him dearly," granddaughter Giada De Laurentiis, a star chef and host on Food Network, said Thursday. De Laurentiis helped build the Italian film industry during the heyday of its New Wave, oversaw seminal American films such as "Serpico" and "Blue Velvet," and pursued blockbusters in flops like "Dune" and critical fiascos such as the 1976 remake of "King Kong." In producing more than 500 wide-ranging films over six decades, he presided over an incredible mix of high and low. That the same filmmaker could be involved with Federico Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria" and Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Conan the Barbarian" would seem to contradict normal understanding of taste. Instead, he was irrevocably drawn to the spectacle of the movies. "Our industry is a special one," he told The Associated Press in 1998. "You deal every day with different people, creative people. Every day is different at work. To produce a movie, you have to create the star, you make script, you find director. You have to shoot the movie." De Laurentiis, who died Wednesday night in Beverly Hills, pioneered the way films were sold internationally. He played the part of entrepreneur in grand style, dressing in fine suits and frequently sipping cappuccino. The sprawling studio complex he built on the outskirts of Rome he dubbed Dinocitta (Dino City). "The extraordinary thing that Dino taught all of us is the true figure of the independent producer," film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis said Thursday about his uncle. "He always behaved in the U.S. as a major studio, even though he was a one-man show." Raised outside of Naples and one of six children born into the family's pasta-making business, De Laurentiis quickly realized that his destiny was in moviemaking. Though he initially trained in Rome to be an actor, De Laurentiis once said, "I see my face in the mirror, and I said, 'No, my ambition is not to be an actor.' I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on." He was central to the rise of Italy's film industry, which in the 1950s rose to international prominence as the Italian New Wave. Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi sent a telegram of condolences to the family on Thursday, saying De Laurentiis had been a "protagonist of a century of cinema in Italy and America." Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said his "long and passionate" career had "contributed to the rebirth of Italian cinema in the post-World War II years." De Laurentiis' initial success began after World War II, starting with "Bitter Rice," in 1948, which launched the career of his first wife, Silvana Mangano. In 1950, he went into business with another rising director, Carlo Ponti. They soon dominated the Italian movie business, monopolizing top stars such as Mangano, Sophia Loren (who later married Ponti) and Marcello Mastroianni. Their first international production was the epic "War and Peace" (Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer) in 1955. With the lure of huge salaries, he often imported international movie stars to boost a film's prospects. For Fellini's "La Strada," which won the Academy Award for foreign language film in 1957, he persuaded Anthony Quinn to come to Rome. De Laurentiis also produced Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria," which won the foreign film Oscar a year later. At Dinocitta, De Laurentiis married Hollywood stars with spectacle: "Barrabas" (Quinn); "The Bible" (George C. Scott, Ava Gardner); "Anzio" (Robert Mitchum); "Waterloo" (Rod Steiger). He also made more offbeat fare, such as Roger Vadim's sex romp, "Barbarella" (Jane Fonda). De Laurentiis was one of the first producers to understand the box-office potential of foreign audiences, and helped invent international co-productions, raising money by pre-selling distribution rights outside North America. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2001. He began to move away from his base in Italy in the 1960s when the government changed the rules to mandate totally Italian productions to qualify for subsidies. He sold Dinocitta to the government in 1972. He relocated the studio in Wilmington, N.C., and dubbed his production company the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. The Oscar-winning "Serpico," in 1973 with Al Pacino, was De Laurentiis' Hollywood debut. Charles Bronson's "Death Wish," Robert Redford's "Three Days of the Condor" and John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist," followed. He often stayed loyal to young, talented directors, even though the results weren't always strong. He made "Buffalo Bill and the Indians" with Robert Altman. Even after Michael Cimino's huge flop "Heaven's Gate," De Laurentiis made "Year of the Dragon" and "Desperate Hours" with him. Despite the failure of "Dune," he stuck with David Lynch and two years later produced the acclaimed "Blue Velvet." Lynch recalled him as having "more energy than ten people on PCP." "If something ever came up that required something to be done, Dino's hand would in one millisecond go to the phone and deal with the thing, get the thing done," said Lynch. "There's maybe no rhyme or reason to what struck his fancy, but when he got it, he was just a pitbull." De Laurentis also continued to be a small factory for tackiness. Though he had earlier worked with revered filmmakers such as Victorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini and Ingmar Bergman, some of his schlock included the plantation drama "Mandingo," the horror film "Amityville II," the cult comedy "Army of Darkness" and Madonna's "Body of Evidence." "Dino always said you need three things in life: brains, heart and balls, and I hope I've exemplified that advice throughout my career," Schwarzenegger, who credits De Laurentiis with his big break in movies, said Thursday in a statement. Though flops like "King Kong" and "Hurricane" could be shaken off, personal tragedy took its toll. In 1981, his son Federico was killed in a plane crash. The strain of the loss helped end De Laurentiis' marriage to Mangano. They were divorced in 1988, the same year De Laurentiis Entertainment Group went into bankruptcy, finished off by the flop of "King Kong Lives." De Laurentiis, close to 70, was undaunted and started over. Within two years, he had a new wife, 29-year-old Martha Schumacher, formed a new company and started producing moneymakers again. "My philosophy is very simple," he once said. "To feel young, you must work as long as you can." Survivors include three daughters with Mangano — Rafaela, Francesca and Veronica — and two with Schumacher: Carolina and Dina. Funeral arrangements have not yet been determined. ___ Associated Press writer Nicole Winfield in Rome, Colleen Barry in Milan, AP Television Writer Frazier Moore in New York and former AP writer Candice Hughes contributed to this report. | |
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| 11-11-10 03:45pm - 4965 days | #358 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
That would have been in the early '90s--and therefore prior to Viagra or Cialis or whatever the hell else gives men 4-hour boners--so you really have to give him credit. Or are all Italian men just born with turbochargers?  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 11-12-10 12:38am - 4964 days | #359 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
3D erotic film from Hong Kong. Made for $2.6 million U.S. dollars. But evidently will be shown in theaters, as well as DVD distribution. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< EXCLUSIVE: 3D 'Sex & Zen' to Offer Pick and Choose Edits Source: The Hollywood Reporter Thu Nov 11, 2010, 10:00 pm EST HONG KONG – Up to a dozen “tailor-made” versions of erotic 3D film Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy are set to spring up across the globe come the film’s release in the summer of 2011. The film’s producers will offer differing cuts to cater to the censorship standards and cultural tastes in different regions. Buyers are encouraged to “pick and choose” edits, not only for their regions, but also for theatrical and DVD releases, to address the censorship concerns of various territories. The tactic has proved effective, as the rights to the title have been snatched up for Italy, France, Peru, Russia, and Singapore during the American Film Market, after an eight-minute preview in 3D was screened. The film’s distribution rep Alvina Wong said buyers can choose, with the producers Stephen Shiu Sr. and Stephen Shiu Jr. and director Christopher Sun to put together “tamer versions” suitable for their respective territories. Rights were pre-sold for New Zealand, Australia and Korea in Cannes. Produced by the Shiu father-and-son team through their One Dollar Production, the HK$20 million ($2.5i million) action-packed film was shot entirely in stereoscopic 3D. It is a reinvention of the 1991 blockbuster Sex and Zen, inspired by the 17th century Chinese erotic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat, that spawned a wave of copycat period erotica set in historical China. Hong Kong’s Menfond, the digital effects house behind Jet Li’s Fearless, the alien dog in Stephen Chow’s CJ7, and the conversion to 3D of Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas takes charge on the 3D effects of vigorous, sometimes sadomasochistic, action sequences. Hong Kong release of the film is set for May or June 2011. | |
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| 11-15-10 08:30am - 4961 days | #360 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Incestuous love and sex invade the site of the new Harry Potter film. Read all about here, where Emma Watson acts "like an animal" locking lips (and other body parts) with co-star Daniel Radcliffe. Are these future porn stars in the making? Radcliffe got $20 million for each of the last 2 films in the series (the one opening this week, and the one opening next year). Watson (a female, therefore entitled to lower pay for similar work) got $15 million for each of the last 2 films. So $40 million for Radcliffe, $30 million for Watson. Will some porno film company cough up enough cash to get these stars in their next porn production? Radcliffe went naked for a stage play of Equus, so he might have been considering a role in some porno movie. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Radcliffe, Watson share torrid 'Harry Potter' kiss (AP) Source: AP 2 hours, 51 minutes ago LONDON - Daniel Radcliffe was expecting a tender embrace when it came time to kiss co-star Emma Watson in the new "Harry Potter" film. What he got was torrid necking, Watson working magic with her lips "like an animal," he said. "I thought it was going to be like a soft, sensual sort of moment, and it was this very vigorous kissing scene," said Radcliffe, reprising the title role in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," the second-to-last of the big-screen adventures about the teen wizard, which opens Friday. "She really went for it, I have to say. It caught me slightly off guard, but yeah, I'm not complaining. Many men would lose a limb to be in that position, so I was absolutely fine with it," Radcliffe said in an interview. Opening worldwide this week, the film casts Harry and best pals Hermione Granger (Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) out into the world to fend for themselves, and the journey puts severe strain on their friendship. Under the spell of an artifact containing part of evil nemesis Voldemort's soul, Ron is sent into a jealous rage by a vision of Hermione, the girl he loves, and Harry taunting him as a third wheel in their relationship. Hermione and Harry then turn to each other and do some kissing that looks positively bestial. "That was mainly Emma, I have to say," said director David Yates. The first take was too tame, and Yates said he told the actors it needed to be more "pagan and mad." That's when Watson really delivered. "I guess I just realized that I would have fewer takes to do if I just got on with it and just gave David what he wanted, which was a passionate kiss. Which was something that would really rock Ron's boat and really be quite painful and nasty for him to watch," Watson said. Grint shot Ron's raging reactions alone, without Watson and Radcliffe on set. But he was on hand for Watson and Radcliffe's portions, though he was struck by a case of the giggles watching the colleagues he grew up with in the "Harry Potter" franchise getting down and dirty. "When they were there actually filming that kiss, they did actually want me there to kind of play off something, but I just found that too funny," Grint said. "Emma sent me out because I kept laughing. It just looked really strange." Though they were partly clothed, the scene leaves the impression that Radcliffe and Watson are stripped naked. Both wore jeans, while Radcliffe went shirtless and Watson had the front of her torso covered, leaving her back and shoulders bare. "I didn't want to put them through complete nudity," said director David Yates. "I didn't think it was necessary, because we were going to put some smoke around them" for the scene, which Ron witnesses through a hallucinatory fog. Watson was thrilled that the scene delivered the sort of amorousness the filmmakers wanted. "I'm proud of it, and considering how bloody awkward it was, I'm really impressed that we managed to make it look anything other than awkward," Watson said. "Because Dan and I are like brother and sister, so it was tough making it look passionate, believe me." Edited on Nov 15, 2010, 08:38am | |
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| 11-15-10 08:02pm - 4961 days | #361 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I don't think any of the 3 main Harry Potter stars need to ever worry about money because they are multi-millionaires. That said I am very curious to know what they will do now. They don't need to work(if you call acting a job) but then again they can't really not do something with their lives. It's not like any of them are in their 40's or something. I mostly think that like many young stars. They will get into bigger trouble has they grow older. They'll get tired of always being identified with one character. We haven't seen them do anything except those movies. I know that Daniel has done some avant garde theater but I think he's the only one that has done something other than the Potter movies. Emma has potential but I suspect that she will have to do something pretty raunchy to break the curse of child actors. It worked for Anne Hathaway. I don't think she was offered any other Disney roles after her nude scnes in Havoc. I guess we can't expect a nude scene from Emma in the near future. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-16-10 02:44am - 4960 days | #362 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I've seen nude photos of Emma Watson (from the Harry Potter series) on the Internet. But I'm sure they were all fake, just like there are nude/doctored photos of most movie stars posted on the Internet at different sites. I didn't see the Emma Watson photos at an actual pay site, just at one of those pages that show a bunch of different nude photos. There were several photos of Emma Watson. She's a cute girl, and I imagine some people enjoy looking at nude photos of her, even if the nude body that is being displayed does not really belong to Watson. | |
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| 11-16-10 02:57am - 4960 days | #363 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
OFF TOPIC I watched part of Season One of Spartacus, a TV series. There are 4 DVDs for Season One, and I have seen Disc 1, 2, and 4. The series is OK to good. Some of the elements in the way the series is shown could be improved: the CGI way they show blood spurting all over when people are hacked to death looks like a cartoon, and could be more realistic, or at least more like real blood instead of the fake CGI blood. And the dream sequences and pauses where they show how Spartacus misses his dead wife could be toned down. They are mixing blood and gore with romantic visions from the true romance novels written for teen girls and women, and the fit is definitely not perfect. A better series is Deadwood, or Rome. Those are two series that are on DVD that you should rent, if possible. Both are adult series, and very enjoyable. Deadwood is a western series, set in the 1800s. Rome is set in ancient Roman times, when Rome was the center of the civilized world. | |
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| 11-16-10 06:13am - 4960 days | #364 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I saw Kick-Ass today on DVD and was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't expecting that much, which was partly why the movie exceeded my expectations. But the movie also has a nice plot, a lot of action, and an 11-year-old girl who can really kick ass. Rated R for violence and strong language, and there is plenty of violence and strong language. I was surprised an 11-year-old girl was allowed to curse so much, because legally she couldn't see this movie without her parents' permission, which they probably wouldn't let her do, even though she is one of the stars of the movie. The girl is Chloe Moretz, and she is great. She's the new Dakota Fanning or Abigail Breslin. Chloe Moretz is also the star of "Let Me In", which is a vampire movie that is a remake of a Swedish movie. I think Kick-Ass is definitely worth a rental from Red Box for $1. Or catch it on cable. | |
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| 11-16-10 07:47am - 4960 days | #365 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
Yes, Kick Ass was a fun little movie. And yes, Chloe did curse quite a bit though it seemed to fit the role. Ms Moretz also had a supporting role in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. While she was good in that role, the movie left a lot to be desired, imo. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 11-16-10 06:37pm - 4960 days | #366 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The series didn't appeal to me but I think that a large part of that is because of th Movie Spartacus with Kirk Douglas. The only thing I know about this series is the amount of naked men and women that appear in it. These are the first nude scenes by Lucy Lawless of Xena. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-16-10 07:06pm - 4960 days | #367 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I don't know if anyone has seen Scott Pilgrim VS the World but I realy enjoyed this movie. It's a little hard to describe. Basically it's a guy that has to fight each of the previous boyfriend of a girl he just met and really wants to date. The fights are all filmed in a sort of video game style. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-16-10 09:32pm - 4960 days | #368 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I saw Spartacus with Kirk Douglas when it had its original theatrical run. The movie was considered sexy (and violent) back then, with Kirk Douglas and the gorgeous Jean Simmons. There was a scene with Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis that took place in a bath. The scene was supposed to imply homosexual tendency for Laurence Olivier, but I was too young at the time to understand that, and it wasn't until many years later, reading about the movie, that I first knew that Olivier was supposed to be propositioning Curtis (Olivier was a high-ranking noble, and Curtis was a slave). I thought, at the time I saw it, it was a spectacle, because it was a big-time event-type movie. They seemed to have more of those big-event movies back then, even though the movies today cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and the movies back then were much cheaper. But I don't really know how the movies' relative cost in the 1950s and 1960s compares to today's movies, when you take inflation into account. The Spartacus with Kirk Douglas is far different from the TV series Spartacus. I assume that the budget for Spartacus the movie was far bigger, at the time, than today's Spartacus. The old one had many big-name stars, the TV series has no big-name stars. I enjoyed the Kirk Douglas Spartacus. It was spectacular in many ways, and the writing/speech was elegant. The TV Spartacus is far different. But if you aren't expecting or demanding a spectacular event-type series, I think the TV Spartacus is not bad. There are no big-name actors, and there are elements that are jarring (the CGI blood, the strong emphasis on wildly romantic love that appears to be directed to a female audience). But I thought the series was definitely watchable. Not a great series, but watchable. As I said, I think Deadwood and Rome were much better, more enjoyable TV series. | |
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| 11-16-10 10:05pm - 4960 days | #369 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
And even if they are real she's really known for her underage roles. I don't want to know the attraction to a very recent child star from a series of kids' films...it's got that creepy Olsen Twins fan feel to it. Kind of like Brooke Shields' early child roles, a few of which were pretty risque. Like fully nude risque!  I would have to question what her parents were thinking at that point. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 11-17-10 01:12am - 4959 days | #370 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
They were probably thinking how much money their kid might make, acting in movies. And I assume that Brooke Shields has made a lot more money by becoming an actress than if she had become a teacher or telephone operator or secretary. She didn't have to take the risque roles. But they certainly gained her a huge amount of attention, which almost certainly increased the money she made. I dimly recall the "Nothing comes between me and my Calvin Klein jeans" ads with Brooke Shields. Even though some women say that females are exploited by sexy photos or being used in sexy ads, the women in the photos and ads can make a large amount of money. | |
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| 11-17-10 02:29pm - 4959 days | #371 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Do not take this man to a movie theater, unless you absolutely know beforehand that he will enjoy the movie. It would also be a good idea to see if this man was armed (with a shotgun, handgun, knife, or anything else that could serve as a weapon) before letting him inside the movie theater. And while you're at it, maybe you could check to see if he was currently taking medication for his bipolar disorder. I believe that some people with bipolar disorder can become really angry at times. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Wisconsin man shoots TV over Palin's 'DWTS' dance By Todd Richmond, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Authorities say a 67-year-old rural Wisconsin man enraged over Bristol Palin's Dancing with the Stars routine blasted his television with a shotgun, leading to an overnight standoff with a SWAT team. A Dane County Sheriff's detective says in court documents that Steven Cowan, of the town of Vermont, felt Palin was not a good dancer and was only on the show because of her famous mother. They say Cowan loaded his shotgun and blasted the TV before turning the gun on his wife, who escaped. Tactical officers surrounded the home and managed to talk Cowan out Tuesday morning. Cowan was charged second-degree reckless endangerment and could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Authorities say he has bipolar disorder. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. | |
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| 11-17-10 08:20pm - 4959 days | #372 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
I think it is somewhat common for child stars to take risque roles to try and disconnect from their clean-cut image. Jessica Biel did that semi-nude photoshoot, and I don't even know if she was of age when she did it. I'm sure most of these women know perfectly well what they are doing when they do nude rolls, they are trying to maintain, transform, or increase their fame. Didn't the dude that plays Harry Potter get nude on stage or something a few years ago? Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 11-17-10 10:03pm - 4959 days | #373 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Brooke Shields might be an exception to the rule, if there's even a rule on these uncomfortable issues. I think up to a certain point her parents made the decisions for her--including a nude-prostitute-at-12 role--but she has definitely achieved considerable success beyond just issuing a designer jean ultimatum. Hell, she graduated from Princeton (does "The Blue Lagoon" look good on a college application?) and even had her own TV series for a few years, all apparently without a major drug habit or Scientology conversion. Supposedly she didn't even lose her virginity until she was 22 so she might not be typical child star-turned-paparazzi-fodder. I think the whole exploitation accusation is a little superficial. Women like Shields know that modeling and similar work can get them a lot of money without even showing that much skin, so who's being exploited? Us the consumer, wagging our fingers while also opening our wallets? I think the women get the last laugh on this one (and probably Calvin Klein too). "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 11-17-10 10:21pm - 4959 days | #374 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Didn't Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana do one recently with Annie Leibowitz? Though I think it was fully nude, it certainly wasn't explicit. The controversy works every time--free publicity for everyone! "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 11-18-10 07:18am - 4958 days | #375 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
This movie star was before my time. In fact, I never heard of her, that I can remember. I've seen some silent films, on regular TV years ago, that were interesting because they were silent, and the style of acting was usually so different. We have few films stars remaining from the 1920s and earlier, and they will soon be gone. One of the oldest active stars that I know of is Eli Wallach, who just received an honorary Oscar this month. Eli Wallach started acting in the movies in the 1950s. He is now in his 90s. It's amazing, and wonderful, that someone that old can still have an active career. That his brain still works, that his body is still working. Clint Eastwood is 80, which is hard to believe. He is one of the biggest directors in Hollywood, as well as one of the biggest former superstar actors. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Silent film star Marie Osborne Yeats dies at 99 (AP) Source: AP 36 minutes ago SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. - Silent film child star Marie Osborne Yeats, who was known as Baby Marie Osborne in films such as "Little Mary Sunshine," has died in California. She was 99. Daughter Joan Young tells the Los Angeles Times that Yeats died Nov. 11 at her San Clemente home. The cause of death wasn't disclosed, but Yeats had suffered three strokes in her later years. Director Henry King launched Baby Marie to stardom in 1916 with "Little Mary Sunshine," a film written for her. "Little Mary Sunshine" was the first in a series of Baby Marie Osborne films that captivated audiences worldwide and led to Baby Marie dolls and paper dolls. Her film career ended after the 1919 comedy "Miss Gingersnap," and she later worked as a studio costume supervisor. Edited on Nov 18, 2010, 07:22am | |
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| 11-18-10 07:07pm - 4958 days | #376 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I think Brooke is the exception rather than the norm. I'd argue that at 12yrs old she didn't have much say in her role as the daughter of a prostitue and who winds up having her virginity auctioned off. You have to wonder what was going through the mind of her parents to think that it was a great idea for their daughter to appear fully nude in a movie about prostitution. At some point she chose the roles she wanted to play and the adds she would do. The fact that she appears rather well adjusted makes her the exception. For every Brooke there are hundreds of Taylor Momsen. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-18-10 07:16pm - 4958 days | #377 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
That controversial photoshoot goes back top 2008 when she was only 16. I'd say that Miley hasn't been clean cut since about 2008. Her charater of Hanna Montana is the only thing that has remained clean cut and if that's all we knew of her then that would be fine but her name is on many sites, magazines or entertainment shows and that's where the line of clean cut Hanna clashes with slutty Miley. It's a little sad to see the path that she's on and to realise that it's not if it will happen but when it will happen. We already know about the sex part. How long before we hear about the drugs? Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-20-10 04:59am - 4956 days | #378 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The Dutch parliament approved plans to raise the sales tax from 6 to 19 percent on tickets for theaters, cinemas, rock concerts, and other cultural events. When times are tough, we all have to learn to suffer together. But it's strange how the people with less money are the ones to suffer the most. The rich have more disposable income. The middle class and poor have less disposable income, and raising the price of tickets means it's harder for them to save the money to attend those events. >>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<< Artists stage nationwide protests against cuts (AP) Source: AP 32 minutes ago THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Singers, painters and television presenters were demonstrating across the Netherlands on Saturday against the government's plans to slash funding and subsidies for the arts as part of an (EURO)18 billion ($25 billion) austerity package. Thousands of members of the public also were attending events around the country, and organizers called for protesters to scream together to express their anger at the changes. On Thursday the Dutch parliament approved plans to raise sales tax from six percent to 19 percent on tickets to theaters, cinemas, rock concerts and other cultural events. The new right-wing administration also has pledged to cut funding for the arts by (EURO)200 million ($274 million) in the coming five years. In Amsterdam, musicians, presenters and comedians were gathering Saturday afternoon at a central square to listen to music and protest statements against the proposed cuts. In The Hague, members of the public were planning a late-night gathering after theaters and cinemas close to listen to a trumpeter from a local orchestra play The Last Post and hold a minute's silence. Organizers said in a manifesto published online that the cuts have been justified in parliament by lawmakers who say the arts are only for a wealthy elite. "But a 13 percent rise in sales tax hits all of the public because tickets get more expensive," organizers said. "By cutting culture budgets and raising tax on tickets culture will become an elitist pastime and less accessible for people with less money." | |
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| 11-20-10 07:01pm - 4956 days | #379 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Thumbs up from me on the Harry Potter movie - very good | |
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| 11-22-10 07:38pm - 4954 days | #380 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
No question in my mind that this is the best Harry Potter movie of the entire series. You can see that the actors are very comfortable in their roles and the fact that they split the movie in 2 parts is perfect because they don't have to do major editing between the book and the film. I always felt that the previous movies would have been better if they had been longer. My biggest problem is having to wait 6 months to see the end. Fair warning for anyone with young children. Their are quite a few disturbing/scary scenes in this movie and I would be weary for children under 10. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-23-10 07:20am - 4953 days | #381 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
As Charlie Sheen is well aware from experience, it pays to be careful when you're around prostitutes and porn stars. Especially when you are a Hollywood star who gets paid millions per year and with a reputation to protect. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Charlie Sheen Sues Porn Star for Extortion in Hotel Debacle Us Magazine - 21 minutes ago Charlie Sheen is going back to court. On Monday, an attorney for Sheen, 45, filed a lawsuit against porn star Capri Anderson, claiming that she tried to extort him for $1 million, TMZ reports. Anderson, whose real name is Christina Walsh, was Sheen's companion in the Plaza Hotel suite the night of Oct. 17 -- when the Two and a Half men star reportedly went on a drunken, naked rant and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to the suite. PHOTOS: Charlie Sheen's craziest controversies Sheen's suit claims that Anderson demanded "at least one million dollars" in exchange for keeping quiet about the incident; she threatened to go to prosecutors and have Sheen's probation (related to his Christmas Day scuffle with wife Brooke Mueller) revoked. In interviews with Nightline and Good Morning America, Anderson has claimed that Sheen put his hands around her throat and threw things at her during his tirade. Counters Sheen's lawyer: "At no time did Sheen assault, batter or threaten Walsh." Anderson allegedly tried "to embarrass him and attempt to damage his career by going to the media with her false tale," the suit charges, calling her "an opportunistic pornographic film star and publicity hungry scam-artist." Anderson is also accused of stealing Sheen's $165,000 Patek Phillippe watch during the melee. Sheen is asking for unspecified damages. | |
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| 11-23-10 07:13pm - 4953 days | #382 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The latest news is an a text messages between Sheen and Capri after the incident in which they discuss a sum of 20,000$ that he's willing to have wired to her bank account. We discover that she did not have a bank account and it's pretty much some back and forth to discover how he can give her the money. I would be willing to bet that Sheen's lwayers were responsible for leaking this text message. This will pretty much kill Capri's case against Charlie. She may wish that she had taken the money when she had the chance. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 12-07-10 02:13pm - 4939 days | #383 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Helen Mirren reveals the gay truth about Hollywood: The Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 Women in Entertainment breakfast is an annual event that brings together some of the entertainment industry's most powerful female executives and shot-callers. The event was held today, Tuesday, December 07, 2010. Helen Mirren received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. Hollywood "continues to worship at the altar of the 18- to 25-year-old male, and his penis," she said. She did not say how many bjs she has given, or reveal the bj secrets of her fellow actors. But it takes courage to tell the general public the inside story of how Hollywood really operates. | |
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| 12-07-10 02:48pm - 4939 days | #384 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Sounds like Porn Valley!  | |
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| 12-08-10 06:45am - 4938 days | #385 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
I suspect I may be only person who hasn't seen ANY of the Harry Potter movies yet? All the clips/trailers I've seen so far make it look daft. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 12-08-10 07:52pm - 4938 days | #386 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
1-Did you read the books? 2-Does the subject matter interest you? 3-Do you like to see movies made for a teen audience? If you have answered no to all or at least 2 of the above questions then don't bother with Harry Potter because you will regret it. The subject of Inception came up at the office and I said that I hadn't seen it in theaters and didn't plan to see it on DVD. I may one day watch it if it plays on TV but for some reason I have little interest in this movie and I love Sci/Fi. I bought the dark Knight when it came ou on DVD because I hadn't seen it in theaters and everyone raved about it. I fast forwarded through most of the movie and I gave the movie to a friend. I haven't seen it anywhere and plan to never watch it again. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 12-08-10 08:28pm - 4938 days | #387 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
If you fast-forwarded through the fight scenes of The Dark Knight, you missed the action. I saw the movie in the theater, and couldn't clearly see what was happening in some of the fight scenes because the lighting was dark, and the camera jumped around too much. I saw the movie again on DVD, and I still couldn't clearly follow the action for the same reasons I had a hard time seeing it in a theater. I understand the darkness is supposed to be atmospheric, and the jerky camera-work is supposed to add excitement, but I would rather be able to see clearly what is supposed to be happening on the screen. But the jerky camera-work is the current fad for action movies, because it adds so much to the excitement of the moment. What it does for me is leave me confused and unhappy. | |
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| 12-09-10 10:30am - 4937 days | #388 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I am glad someone else agrees with me on that. The jerky camera work completely spoiled the last two movies of the Bourne trilogy for me. I also found things too jerky on the latest Bond and didn't even bother to finish watching it. That's the first Bond movie ever that wasn't watched from beginning to end. The second Zorro movie, same thing: too many close ups during action, blurry speed, jerky camera. I wish the critics would stop raving about some of the directors that use an innovation like jerky cameras. But when it comes to this subject there, just like in Porn, are many who either don't mind or don't notice. Bourne three was praised to high heaven by critics and viewers alike. | |
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| 12-09-10 07:40pm - 4937 days | #389 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The jerky camera work wasn't even my biggest problem with the movie although that particular subject is a reason why many action movies made today are difficult to watch. No biggest problem with the movie was the entire plot line. 1-The Joker is suppose to be this insane petty criminal and yet he's able to infiltrate a meeting of high ranking gang leaders and later on take control of an organisation. 2-He's such a mastermind criminal that Inspector Gordon has to fake his death so that he and Batman can capture the Joker in a sequence thatwas designed so that we could have a batcycle in the movie. 3-The movie is really dark and not only in the way it's filmed but the entire plot line is dark. The first Batman was dark but this one took it even further and in my opinion way too far. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 12-10-10 12:10am - 4937 days | #390 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Anyone else looking forward to the new Coen brother's movie? I can't think of the last time I planned on seeing a movie when it opens at my local theatre, but True Grit looks pretty good... I know it is sort of a remake of a decent older film, although I guess they consider it an alternate adaptation of the same work. Black Swan looks swell as well. Two decent looking movies by two of my favorite filmakers at the same time, if Wes Andersen had a film coming out too I'd probably be forced to crap my pants. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 12-18-10 10:28pm - 4928 days | #391 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I wasn't interested in seeing True Grit until I saw a preview a couple of days ago - looked good - I might go see it in a theater. Some things by the Coen Bros I love, some I really dis-like. I saw "The Fighter" today and highly recommend it. I was a fan of Irish Mickey Ward - his fights were incredibly dramatic, heart-in-your-throat fights - especially his final career fights - a trilogy with another heart-in-your-throat fighter, Arturo Gatti. Mark Wahlberg is from those Boston-area working class suburbs and this film got them exactly right. Wahlberg has always had great comic timing and large parts of this movie are hysterically funny - a fact that hasn't been mentioned in the reviews that I saw. It wasn't just me recognizing all these people I had seen when I lived in that area - the whole theater - sparsely populated as it was at a noon-time matinee - was roaring with laughter. Wahlberg is always good. The real surprise was Christian Bale, one of the most wooden actors in films - giving an amazing, wonderful performance - might earn him an academy award nomination - it's that good. It was like he was channeling Daniel Day Lewis. | |
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| 12-20-10 12:05am - 4927 days | #392 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Funny you say that, the only movies I have like Wahlberg in were The Departed and Boogie Nights. Most of the other movies I have seen I found him quite irritating. Maybe I just can't see past Marky Mark... Which Coen movies do you dislike? Aside from Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty, I can't think of any I didn't enjoy... I guess Burn After Reading was mediocre, but I still sort of enjoyed it. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 12-20-10 01:32am - 4926 days | #393 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There were two Coen brothers movies that I really enjoyed: No Country for Old Men Miller's Crossing The rest of their movies were ok or boring. I had a hard time understanding why there was so much fuss about Fargo. I still don't understand, other than thinking that people see/understand/view/appreciate a picture in many different ways that I do not. I might see True Grit, because I like Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. I'm thinking Clint Eastwood could have taken the Jeff Bridges part. I haven't seen the movie, but it seems like Bridges has played a similar role at least several times in the past. But I've been a fan of Bridges since the early 1970s. | |
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| 12-20-10 06:00am - 4926 days | #394 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The female star of True Grit just turned 14. True Grit is her first major movie role. And she already talks like a true Hollywood professional, with the Hollywood bullshit down pat. They must give lessons to these kids in how to speak in interviews, because they almost all sound alike in the way they talk. But you have to admire and respect how kids can learn the talk so young, and do it so well. "Don't get me wrong. I don't take this too seriously. I have fun with it," Steinfeld said. "My parents always tell me, 'If you're not having fun, you're not in the right place.' And there's not a moment in this, in everything, that I'm not having fun." She just finished True Grit, which was supposed to be a physically demanding movie, a lot of physical action, unpleasant physical activity, etc. And every moment of it was great fun? Bullshit. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Movie News & Gossip Teen star Steinfeld shows new `Grit' in debut role (AP) Source: AP 2 hours, 26 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - John Wayne's original "True Grit" was a vehicle for a worldly wise actor in his 60s in another gruff Old West role he long since had perfected. The new take on "True Grit" is a star-making showcase for Hailee Steinfeld in her screen debut as Mattie Ross, the 14-year-old who sets the violent story of retribution in motion. Wayne's main trail buddy was Kim Darby, who was in her early 20s when she played Mattie in 1969's "True Grit," based on Charles Portis' novel. Joel and Ethan Coen's version, opening Wednesday, more faithfully adapts Portis' story, with Steinfeld's Mattie pulling a team of veteran actors in her wake, including Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper. Steinfeld, who just turned 14, earned a supporting-actress nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Awards for "True Grit," and she has buzz for the same honor at the Academy Awards. Is she practicing her Oscar speech? "No-o-o-o, not yet. I mean, honestly, just to be a part of it, that's the biggest award I could get right now," she said in an interview. "It is so surreal. Recently, when I saw the film for the first time, just as the credits started rolling, I thought back immediately to the day I was sitting on the floor in my bedroom just waiting for the phone to ring, thinking to myself ... whoever gets this job, it's like winning the lottery. And now I see this film put together, and it's just so incredible. I'm so proud of it." Her character is a force of nature, a 19th-century pioneer teen with a fierce puritanical streak who hires ornery lawman Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) to hunt down her father's murderer (Brolin), with Damon a preening Texas Ranger joining the search. The flowery rhythms of Portis' dialogue, delivered with almost Shakespearean flourish, were tough enough for the seasoned actors, let alone a newcomer who had acted only in student films, commercials and a couple of small TV roles. Casting directors traveled the country for months, looking at thousands of girls, and the Coens met with a handful of the best. "They're all 14-year-old girls, and predictably, they're all terrible. Not all, but 99-point-whatever percent," Ethan Coen said. Mattie was an especially hard role, requiring an inexperienced actress to convey her "very adult, very self-possessed, very stiff-necked Protestant sensibility," Ethan Coen said. "You think, boy, that whole adult self-possession and the acting chops, maybe that doesn't exist in a real 14-year-old girl." A few weeks before shooting started, they found Steinfeld, who lived in Los Angeles. The Coens auditioned her opposite Bridges and Pepper, who plays another outlaw Mattie encounters. Just as Mattie was fully formed at 14, they found Steinfeld had maturity and instincts beyond her years. "She's totally unintimidated coming into this room with Jeff Bridges and Barry Pepper and doing these scenes," Joel Coen said. "It's not a question of experience or training or any of the rest of it. Either you've got it or you don't, sort of genetically, naturally, whatever it happens to be." Bridges spends almost the entire movie in Steinfeld's company, but any worries he had about his young co-star quickly vanished. "I was concerned right up to the first day we shot a big dialogue scene, and then I saw how invested she was in the character, how much talent and skill she had as an actress," Bridges said. "I was so thrilled and relieved." Brolin, whose breakout role came in the Coens' "No Country for Old Men," said his own daughter auditioned to play Mattie. But there were no hard feelings when she got a look at who had won the role. "I remember when my daughter came on the set and met Hailee, and she goes, `Oh my God! She's perfect!'" Brolin said. Steinfeld decided at age 8 she wanted to try acting, inspired by a cousin who was doing commercials and a friend who was in a stage play. She raised the idea with her father, a personal fitness trainer, and mother, an interior designer. Her parents insisted that she study acting for a full year to make sure she was serious. Then she got an agent and started trying out for roles. Like many actors, child or adult, she spent years auditioning with little to show for it. "The most frustrating part was, I would get very close to booking things, and the biggest thing that was held against me was I was always too green," Steinfeld said. "I would be up against girls who had been acting since they could speak. "That was frustrating, because I was thinking to myself, 'I must not be that bad if I'm getting that close, but I'm not getting it.' So I hit that point where I definitely became a little bit more serious about it. ... And then, after that, things started to change." Once Steinfeld landed the "True Grit" role, the Coens treated her the same way they did the rest of the cast, making no note of her precocious talent, Damon said. "It was almost like, don't talk about the fact that this person next to you is levitating. Don't make a big deal out of it. We're not even going to acknowledge that it's happening. Then at the end, you go ..., `That girl was flying!'" Damon said. Pepper marveled at Steinfeld's stamina as they shot in the cold mountains near Santa Fe, N.M., "and she's being dragged through rivers, and she's got my cold leather boot on her neck, and she's getting tossed around and shot at. I just thought, 'This is remarkable, the poise and the professionalism of this young woman.' She's just off to the races. She showed true grit in a lot of different ways, because she took everything the brothers threw at her," Pepper said. Steinfeld is looking for her next film role. The acclaim she's earning for "True Grit" should help, but she's not fretting too much about where her career is headed. "Don't get me wrong. I don't take this too seriously. I have fun with it," Steinfeld said. "My parents always tell me, 'If you're not having fun, you're not in the right place.' And there's not a moment in this, in everything, that I'm not having fun." | |
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| 12-20-10 09:25am - 4926 days | #395 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Let's see Blood Simple - great film - loved it Raising Arizona - it's OK Miller's Crossing - good film Barton Fink - HATED it! Hudsocker Proxy - I'm not a fan Fargo - LOVE it! One of my favorite films The Big Lebowski - one of the most annoying films ever O Brother, Where Art Thou - Love it! One of my favorite films Man Who Wasn't There - the film that wasn't there - bleah Intolerable Cruelty - I stayed away Ladykillers - I think I stayed away - don't remember it No Country For Old Men - brilliant film Burn After Reading - gave up after 3 minutes of watching A Serious man - don't remember it I can't think of another film-maker (or pair of film-makers) where my opinion veers so much all over the place. Usually, if I like someone's films, that's pretty consistent through their work. | |
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| 12-20-10 12:21pm - 4926 days | #396 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I agree but the movies they make are all over the place--romantic comedies, black comedies, thrillers, neo-noirs--so it seems pretty hard to simply like a movie just because they directed it. The only thing I can think of that links them is they way they seem to fill their films with weird, quirky, WTF characters. At least every one of their films that I've seen there will be a character who comes on screen and I go "What the hell was that?!" "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 12-21-10 12:54am - 4925 days | #397 | |
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slutty (0)
Active User Posts: 475 Registered: Mar 02, '09 Location: Pennsylvania |
Ah man, big lebowski is one of the best films ever... Perhaps its an age thing, I know a lot of older folks that can't stand that movie, most of my friends love it. I don't think there is a movie I have seen more than that one. I agree their movies do tend to be all over the place, but their quirky characters tend to be what I love about their movies. I don't think there are any filmmakers that bat 1.000, I guess Aronofsky has come pretty close - but that'll change I'm sure with the forthcoming wolverine film. I will pretty much give them a lifetime pass for the Blood Simple, Fargo, Lebowski, No Country combo. They are one of the few that I will pretty much go see no matter what. Bunny Lebowski: I'll suck your cock for a thousand dollars. Brandt: Ah hahahahaha! Wonderful woman. We're all, we're all very fond of her. Very free-spirited. | |
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| 12-22-10 09:36pm - 4924 days | #399 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
As a kid growing up, The Lone Ranger was one of the shows I used to watch on TV. Reading this article, I now realize how gullible I used to be as a child (and still am, I suppose). Quote: Foy landed the job on The Long Ranger in 1948, leading in every show with: "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi-Yo Silver!' ... The Lone Ranger!" The Lone Ranger was a western series. But he had "a fiery horse with the speed of light"? A horse with the speed of light, that could not be realized by any physical object except light? Of course, I didn't study physics until high school, so I didn't realize a horse with the speed of light was impossible. I just thought it meant he had a fast horse. And what about the "fiery" horse? I guess it just meant the horse was exciting somehow. At least, that's how I understood it then. Today, thinking about it, I'm not sure what a fiery horse is supposed to be like or do. Except be exciting somehow. And add to the Lone Ranger's glamor and excitement. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Fred Foy, Famed Lone Ranger Announcer, Dies at 89 TV Guide - 2 hours, 56 minutes ago Fred Foy, an announcer best known for his work on The Long Ranger radio and TV series, died Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. He was 89. Foy died of natural causes at his home in Woburn, Mass., his daughter told the news agency. See other celebrities we lost this year A Detroit native, Foy began his radio career in 1942 before he was drafted into Army later that year. He served in the Armed Forces Radio unit during World War II. Foy landed the job on The Long Ranger in 1948, leading in every show with: "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty 'Hi-Yo Silver!' ... The Lone Ranger!" Radio historian Jim Harmon called Foy "perhaps the greatest announcer-narrator in the history of radio drama." In his book, Radio Mystery and Adventure and Its Appearances in Film, Television and Other Media, Harmon said Foy "pronounced words like no one else ever had — 'SIL-ver,' 'hiss-TOR-ee.' But hearing him, you realized everyone else had been wrong." Foy also performed on radio series such as The Green Hornet, and later worked for ABC as the announcer on The Dick Cavett Show and narrating documentaries. Foy is survived by his wife of 63 years, Francis, their three children and three grandchildren. | |
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| 12-23-10 10:26am - 4923 days | #400 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I saw Tron Legacy last night and as much as I'd like to recommend it. The movie is not very good I think that people who liked the orginal Tron will get a thrill at seeing where the technology has taken the concept but the rest will have a less enjoyable time. This may not be the first one to do it but it's the first and I hope last one I will see that does this. The movie claimed that it was in 3D but just at the very beginning of the film. There's a written note stating that many sequences in the movie are in 2D and to keep your glasses on. A movie is either 2D or 3D but it shouldn't be both. Specially if you are charging me 13$ for a 3D movie. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 12-23-10 11:58am - 4923 days | #401 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I'm waiting to see Tron Legacy on DVD. $13 seems a very steep price to pay. And watching 3D movies causes eye strain for me. I will probably see True Grit in the movies, however. I like Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon, and the reviews I've seen are very positive for True Grit. What surprises me is that Matt Damon hasn't made another Bourne movie in several years. The Bourne movies were big money-makers. And I believe Damon has passed up on the chance to get large paychecks by not making more Bourne movies. I guess he is trying to make different kinds of movies in addition to the straight action-adventure-spy movie. But very few actors would have passed on such large paychecks for such popular movies. Not that Damon is going broke. I assume he has been well paid for the movies he did make. Edited on Dec 23, 2010, 12:07pm | |
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| 12-23-10 01:27pm - 4923 days | #402 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
Here's what Damon has to say about it: "Universal has made it clear that they want Jason Bourne to carry on long into the future with or without Matt Damon, thus creating a solid franchise that can continue on throughout the decades with any actor playing the character ala James Bond. Matt Damon recently caught up with MTV, and he revealed that he is not at all happy about Universal's plans for future Bourne installments: I have no idea what (Tony Gilroy) has planned. But he's a very smart guy, so I'm sure it's going to be good. I do know that whatever he's doing won't preclude Paul Greengrass and I from coming back and doing ours. What they ultimately want is a franchise that can kind of go on and on. We explained to them that our character isn't like James Bond. You can't send him on a mission. There's character development, there's an arc that the character has traveled through the three movies. You don't just start over at the beginning of every movie. I think what they're looking for is a way to build that in so that they can continue without Paul and me eventually. I love the character. I love the stories. But only if Paul Greengrass says he will direct again. So far, though, he's decided not to. I'd definitely say yes if he went for it. I know he would have a great story, and it would protect the legacy of what we created." So it sounds like it's more about wanting to be part of something that carries on the same story and not wanting to be part of something that takes off from the original story. | |
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| 12-25-10 06:24am - 4921 days | #403 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
PP, thanks for the update on the Jason Bourne movies. I liked the first one the best, did not like the second and third movies using more of the herky-jerky handheld camera style that is currently popular. Give me a movie where I can see clearly (and understand) the physical action that is taking place on the screen. | |
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