"He's never afraid to appear cheesy, and that's why we love him. Stiller sings ''Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood'' with Telly. He meets a letter carrier and the cable guy, and then decides to dress as a person in the neighborhood, reappearing as a piece of cheese. ''A cheese is a really great fella, call me swiss, brie, or mozzarella''. Source: www.ew.com
"Ben Stiller ("Reality Bites"/"Tropic Thunder"/"Zoolander") directs this dark black comedy scripted by Lou Holtz Jr. An energetic zany performance by Jim Carrey as the cable guy runs amok, as the writer and director can't keep pace with the dark places Carrey takes the script. Its best feature turns out to be its constant zings at crappy TV programming geared to an addicted audience.
"After proposing marriage nice guy but spineless architect Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) is jilted by his girlfriend Robin (Leslie Mann) and forced to move into his own apartment. The over-friendly and weirdo cable technician, Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey), with a lisp, installs the cable in Steven's new crib and agrees to fix it so that Steven becomes a preferred customer with illegal free channels. Steven is roped into joining the aggressive Chip the next day on an outing to the mountain-top satellite dish where all the signals converge". Source: homepages.sover.net
"Why should I help you...I gave you free cable." "I got you the big screen TV, deluxe karaoke machine, and THX quality sound that would make George Lucas cream in his pants!".
-Jim Carrey's character in "The Cable Guy".
"The film, with many satirical references to television shows, makes a huge leap when it introduces the throwaway concept that everybody is a slave to the tube and that cable is the juice powering their narcosis.
The film's dark emotional tone is reinforced by its look. Downbeat shades of blues, greens, grays and browns, mostly in Kovacs' apartment, fortify a claustrophobic feeling that is truly off-putting". Source: www.sfgate.com
"There is a final fight scene between Steven and the Cable guy on top of a huge satellite dish during a thunderstorm. The dish has filled with rain water and the Cable guy tries to drown Steven.Despondent, the Cable guy jumps to his "death" from the satellite dish.
"We see that the Cable Guy is beginning to have a hard time telling the difference between TV and reality."The satellite dish represents everything that the Cable Guy is about in terms of entertainment and information and the future," Stiller notes. "Also it represents the lack of personal contact between people. So, that's where the climax of the movie plays out. It's this very angular steel structure that has a really retro, '50s feel to it, which the Cable Guy mirrors in his own way."
The biggest concern for each location used in the "tower/satellite dish" sequence was that rain was called for in much of the footage.
According to production designer Sharon Seymour: "The dish is the real thing. We were lucky to get them because the large dishes are rapidly going out of style. Only two manufacturers still make them. We modified ours to fit the film's needs. Ours has a small reflector in the middle, plus it had to be able to fill with water and move." Source: www.jimcarreyonline.com
Some of the Cable Guy's predictions about what cable will do for the future came true. Like having the Internet, phone and TV through cable.
The Cable guy even tells Steven that free cable is an aphrodisiac.
"Digital electronic technologies atomize and abstractly schematize the analogic quality of the photographic and cinematic into discrete pixels and bits of information that are transmitted serially, each bit discontinuous, discontiguous, and absolute — each bit “being in itself” even as it is part of a system. As well, unlike the cinema, the electronic is phenomenologically experienced not as a discrete, centered, intentional projection but rather as a simultaneous, dispersive, and neural/ “neutral” transmission. " Source: www.ejumpcut.org
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Jake Gyllenhaal spotted leaving Wing Chun Kung-Fu studio
Thursday, June 17, 2010
New Eclipse TV Spot: "Ready"
New Eclipse TV Spot: "Ready" featuring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, etc.
Kristen Stewart in Rome, Eclipse Blood is Thicker Than Water
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart in Twilight saga "Eclipse" premiere in Roma on 17th June 2010.Kristen Stewart wears a black dress designed by J. Mendel
Fall 2010
Kristen Stewart wears a black strapless Marchesa dress on a fan event in Rome.
Black Marchesa with huge flowers and Roger Vivier Sport Chics Platform Sandal
Eclipse: Blood is Thicker Than Water in (Rob's Intro - Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen)
Fall 2010
Kristen Stewart wears a black strapless Marchesa dress on a fan event in Rome.
Black Marchesa with huge flowers and Roger Vivier Sport Chics Platform Sandal
Eclipse: Blood is Thicker Than Water in (Rob's Intro - Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen)
Business insurance quotes
Ben Stiller Show - Grateful Dead Insurance Salesman
"I was lucky enough to be part of this! The Ben Stiller Show contacted Lynn Roblar of Restless Native (a store in Venice Beach at the time) and had her gather some friends with cool deadhead vehicles, and we set up a mini Shakedown in the Warner Brothers lot at The Burbank Studios".
"As Leland, a client of Reuben's who with every daredevil stunt he partakes in plummets his chances of being insured by the company, Bryan Brown also stands out, bringing a daffy likability to a person oblivious to the danger he constantly puts himself in.
Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston as Reuben and Polly in "Along Came Polly" (2004)
Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Aniston as Holden and Justine in "The Good Girl" (2002)
Aniston, who delivered the most powerful performance of 2002 in "The Good Girl", has followed up this success with two phoned-in love interest roles.
Polly's consistent noncommittal attitude toward everything she does stops being endearing midway through and becomes downright frustrating. By the conclusion, when she threatens to move away again simply because of her conflict with Reuben, you have half a notion to slap some sense into Polly". Source: www.all-reviews.com
"Along Came Polly". Though plainly Ben Stiller's vehicle, it features an endearing, oddly delicate performance by Aniston. Unsurprisingly, this film works for her in ways that Bruce didn't, for the good reason that Stiller is, in fact, a generous costar, unlike the increasingly excruciating Jim Carrey, who sucks the air out of every scene he's in. By contrast, Stiller, even while delivering his usual broadly poor-sap comedy, also falls back enough to grant his fellow players a chance to breathe.
Stiller's Reuben Feffer, a calculatedly neurotic risk assessment analyst, is at the mercy of a series of cretins, egomaniacs, and cruel circumstances. During the film's first moments, on his wedding day, Reuben frets that, with 23% of the guests over 70, one is likely to break a hip on the newly waxed floor.
When Reuben is assigned to assess the world-traveling daredevil, place-jumper, and crocodile wrestler, Leland (Bryan Brown), the decision looks, on its face, easy. The man is clearly uninsurable, based on Reuben's patented assessment software, he's also completely charming and irresistibly high-spirited; that is, he embodies a life lesson for Reuben, even as he appears to put his life in jeopardy, repeatedly.Reuben's destined to fulfill his predictable plan and Polly's equally typed, "on the non-plan plan." Source: www.popmatters.com
Jake Gyllenhaal attending a meeting in Beverly Hills
Interview with Jerry Bruckheimer & Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal in Televik (Russia) magazine.
"Jake Gyllenhaal drops his car off at valet on his way into a business meeting on Wednesday (June 16) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Earlier in the morning, the 29-year-old Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time actor was seen getting in another intense work-out. Source: justjared.buzznet.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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