Mike Cera -Awkward Character-

Michael Cera in "Clark and Michael: Life After the Show"
I think Michael Cera has a promising career, he's been casted in new roles that will make him advance in different acting palettes. I've read disquisitions about his typecasted awkward act, but I believe Mike will trascend this "character", he can turn it off as interpreter, I saw a lot of potential watching him in "Clark & Michael" series. Although he's mastered his awkward virtue, Mr. Cera can start from Cero, besides he is really attractive with that occasional resemblance to Beck Hansen and a young De Niro.

Sometimes an actor is specially comfortable living as a particular character, and sometimes that creation can become bigger than his persona for the viewer's eyes, in other extreme cases, the persona could be dangerously absorbed by the character. Using this simil of Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe, we see the story of an actress who reinvented herself:

"Meanwhile, Fox (despite firing Marilyn from her last movie) was about to offer her $1 million a picture to continue being precisely

that character". "It might even be possible that Marilyn's efforts to dispel America's fears about sex", Andrew O'Hagan recently wrote in the London Review of Books, "were somehow related to her attempts to dispel her own fear of madness. [...] If, acceding to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the sign of first-class intelligence is "the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the head without losing the capacity to function", Marilyn's ability to juggle her twin identities was a feat of supreme psychic prestidigitation.

To a certain degree, Marilyn Monroe is a schizophrenic's idea of America". Source: www.gadflyonline.comMarilyn said that her character Cherie in "Bus Stop" (1956) wouldn't have kept her nice teeth and she was supposedly naked under her sheets during the film because she thought that her character would really have been naked in real life.

"I don't think that I've ever made a fully realized piece of art. I've always felt like the best stuff within anything I've made has been the stuff that I didn't intend to be there, that I look at and say, how did that happen? that's the stuff that makes it worthwhile to me. Because if you could imagine it, why do it? Why take that journey?" -Jeff Tweedy from Wilco.
Will Arnett as G.O.B. and his puppet "Franklin" in "Righteous Brothers", "Arrested Development".Michael Cera as Paulie Bleeker in "Juno" (2007).
"you start to worry that his whole persona is some sort of Dadaist media prank.
[...] Cera once did an entire stand-up routine during which he read an earnest poem about his ex-girlfriend, while on the verge of tears. There were no jokes, save for the meta-joke of squirming in the presence of someone so vulnerable. “But that’s the only way I can feel comfortable addressing an audience”, he says. “Having that security blanket of being in character. I’ve never done straight stand-up, where you just are yourself. That’s too terrifying to me.”Cera also plays in a band THE LONG GOODBYE with his friend Clark Duke, another former child-actor he met in L.A.
Rivers Cuomo, Weezer's Wizard.
"ALONE: THE HOME RECORDINGS OF RIVERS CUOMO"

Cera’s a huge fan of Weezer, the grunge-pop band, whose resident genius, Rivers Cuomo, endured a mental meltdown and wound up living in an apartment with the windows covered and the walls painted black. I ask Cera whether he ever wonders, in his own life, if personal demons are prerequisites for great art. He considers this, then says, “I’m not really trying to make great art.” Source: Nymag.com/movies

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings
in "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist" (2008).

"Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a comedy about two people thrust together for one hilarious, sleepless night of adventure in a world of mix tapes, late-night living, and, live, loud music. Nick (Michael Cera) frequents New York's indie rock scene nursing a broken heart and a vague ability to play the bass. Norah (Kat Dennings) is questioning pretty much all of her assumptions about the world. Though they have nothing in common except for their taste in music, their chance encounter leads to an all-night quest to find a legendary band's secret show and ends up becoming the first date in a romance that could change both their lives".
Source: www.rottentomatoes.com
"Youth in Revolt" (2008) is the irreverent story about the wild adventures of a teenage boy named Nick Twisp who meets the girl of his dreams while on a family vacation and has to turn his life and the lives of all those around him upside down in order to be with her". Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

"In further moments of awesome casting, Michael Cera has been cast as the titular hero in Scott Pilgrim's Little Life (2009), Edgar Wright's adaptation of the graphic novel series of nearly the same name. "Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life" will detail some of Scott Pilgrim's most tumultuous weeks: playing inept indie rock, avoiding finding work, and meeting the girl of his dreams and learning he'll have to destroy her ex-boyfriends in mortal fisticuffs if he wants to hook up
with her. Paramount currently has plans for a fall start date on the movie, with no release date announced. Cera's next movie, "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", is out November 3rd. His other upcoming projects include "Year One", a caveman comedy produced by Judd Apatow and directed by Harold Ramis, and "Youth in Revolt", directed by Miguel Arteta and based on the cult book by C.D. Payne.

Edgar Wright is also working on another comic adaptation: Ant-Man, whose script has yet to be finished. We'll see if he'll be able to fit that in before starting on Scott Pilgrim".
Source: www.rottentomatoes.com

Also, Michael Cera will be playing George Michael Bluth in the film version of "Arrested Development" (2009).Michael Cera and Alia Shawkat in "Righteous Brothers", "Arrested Development" Season 2, Episode 18.

"Arrested Development" Episode Pilot's dialogue:

-George Michael: Yeah, I know. I’m tempted to kiss you again just so we can teach them a lesson.

-Maeby: And why would that teach them a lesson?

-George Michael: Oh, I mean, to freak them out.

-Maeby: Yeah? But that doesn’t make any sense.

-George Michael: Well, isn’t that what makes it funny? I’m laughing. Go fish. Uno.

"That awkwardness was at the heart of the character for which people know him best: George Michael Bluth, the painfully confused adolescent with an inappropriate crush on his cousin in the fanatically admired sitcom "Arrested Development." "I was excited about people thinking I was an idiot".
Before he was in preschool, Cera says, he knew he'd be an actor. He was obsessed with becoming Bill Murray, the star of "Ghostbusters," and he watched that 1984 film over and over when he was 4. Cera still carries a "Ghostbusters" wallet, trivia he has not shared with the film's writer, Harold Ramis, who wrote and will direct Cera's next feature film, "Year One" with Jack Black. "I'm not going to show it to him", Cera said. "I'm afraid it'll change the whole dynamic." Cera started acting professionally, in local commercials, when he was 9. He was 14 when he filmed the pilot for "Arrested Development."
"We were just trying to make each other laugh", Duke said. "And sometimes it does feel like it's just a big in-joke between us." A 10-minute pilot version was shot for Duke's college thesis and eventually found its way to Matt Kaplan, the online content supervisor at CBS Interactive.
So without commercial sponsors and focus groups, "Clark and Michael" unfolds in weekly bursts of 7 to 10 minutes long, filled with the awkward silences that Cera likes so much and plenty of absurdist low-key mockery of life on the show-business fringe, including one scene in which Cera, after having a script rejected, cries in a bathtub and refers to a well-known screenwriting guide". Source: www.iht.com

"I was fortunate enough to attend a preview screening of Jason Reitman’s new film, "Juno", earlier in the week and I really think that it will be one of the big hits of 2008. It stars the freakishly talented Ellen Page, who plays a confident yet confused 16 year old, dealing with the issues of an unplanned pregnancy while still at school - That might sound a little too serious for some, but the film is delivered in such a way that it oozes charm, and has some of the best one-liners this side of "Donnie Darko".
Source: Getbiglittlekid.com

HAPPY EASTER HOLIDAYS!!

Source: Iheartjake.com
I hope Jake gets better. Playing basketball is more dangerous than I would have figured out!
Have a very happy Easter holiday time, weirdos!!

Jena Malone and Tina Majorino

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Wristcutters Video

WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE SONG


"The film is deliciously dark, but a morbid premise doesn't stop "Wristcutters" from being uplifting at the same time. Director Dukic has constructed his love story with such a wonderful balance of dark humor and empathy. The film's characters have come to the lowest points in their lives, and one cannot help but feel both their despair and their joy at discovering that there is still hope. The most beautiful thing about "Wristcutters" is that the emotions it provokes seem to come, not from the film, but from within the viewer's own soul. Knowing that Zia's life and his capacity to love have not ended with death makes it impossible, despite all expectations, not to smile".
Source: media.www.34st.com

Leaving Medical Center

"what happened to Jake’s leg? Some time in the last two days he must have hurt himself."
Source: Imnotobsessed.comOn 18th March - Leaving A Medical Center In Beverly Hills. Pictures by Iheartjake.com

Zooey Deschanel at the SXSW Festival

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward at the SXSW Festival, Austin, TX, 15th March.

Arrested Development state

"W. H. Auden, a poet with an artistic sensibility strikingly similar to De Vries’, has commented, "What no critic seems to see in my work are its comic undertones. Only through comedy can one be serious"; and De Vries himself has talked at length about the twin problems of "serious" and "comic".

Anyway, it’s false to life to separate elements from counterparts with which they are inseparably mingled in reality. You can’t be talking about the serious and comic separately and still be talking about life, any more than you can independently discuss hydrogen and oxygen and still be dealing with water.

Robert Frost understood (and exemplified) this principle beautifully, I think. He says somewhere ... something about how if we want to be charming or bearable the way is almost rigidly prescribed: if it is with outer seriousness it must be with inner humor; if it is with outer humor it must be with inner seriousness.

There are writers—and you can have them—who think that all you have to do to write a serious book is to lack humor. They are sorely mistaken—as mistaken as those benighted cut-ups who think that all you need to write nonsense is to lack sense.

[...] Wanderhope speaks harshly; perhaps it is utterances like the following that prompt Mr. Fuller’s "shallow and sentimental" judgment:

How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to dismantle the universe star by star, like a treeful of rotten fruit. . . . Man is inconsolable, thanks to that eternal "Why?" when there is no Why, that question mark twisted like a fish hook in the human heart. "Let there be light", we cry, and only the dawn breaks.

[...] From the beginning Joe is, as he puts it, one of God’s clowns (p. 15). He is special. His witty "irreverence" disguises the fact to most of his friends that he is as taken aback by the world as Don Wanderhope when he wonders how slapstick tragedy can get. Joe, however, has more intelligence than the early Wanderhope, and more honesty, too; he is not content to reply on a sophomorically stoic philosophy. Instead, he adopts a pose which he feels suits better—that of the slapstick clown. Like earlier De Vriesian characters, he puns; but unlike his predecessors, Joe puns with an urgency. The world refuses to make sense, so he laughs at it—and at himself".
Source: www.compedit.com

"Arrested Development was so dizzyingly absurd, jaundiced, silly, multilayered, and brilliant that it seemed less a sitcom and more the answer to a secret prayer for real entertainment we’d been unconsciously uttering for years. Guess now we’ll file it away in the same rarefied circle with Nirvana, Calvin and Hobbes, and Fruit Brute cereal—stuff we knew was good when it was around, but just how good only once it was gone". -Violet Glaze-
Source: www.citypaper.com

"Americans don’t want to be tricked by their art. We shuffle uncomfortably past Soup Cans in museums (and flip over Arrested Development) because we’re not sure if it’s a trick or genuine art. Is it a documentary? reality tv? comedy? When do you laugh? Is incest funny? Do housekeepers live in buses? Why is there a little bit of me in every disturbing character?"
Source: Blog.lib.umn.edu

MICHAEL BLUTH QUOTES (JASON BATEMAN):

"Lindsay and her husband, Tobias. You know, deep down, they-they both love each other very, very much".

"You know, your average American male is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development".

GEORGE MICHAEL BLUTH QUOTES (MICHAEL CERA):
"I have Pop-Pop in the attic".
-George Michael: You know, I can see why your mom likes it.
It is a really nice tree...
-Maeby: We've got to get it torn down.
-George Michael: ...that must die. Stupid tree.

Read five possible plotlines for the next "Arrested Development" film coming in 2009 from Blog.spout.com.

In the duet show with his perfectly paired talented friend Clark Duke -partner in crime and sibarite-looking colleague at once- Clark and Michael.com, Michael Cera has continued to offer us generous doses of ad-lib jokes, dead-pan type humor, dry comedic spoofs and substantial sketches marked by constant acid-tongued occurrences, irreverent send-ups and improvised songs which pile up as hodge-podge memoirs from a stand-up discourse we collect all through this sui géneris journey.

MICHAEL CERA COLLAGE:

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We have a new affiliate with Martha MacIsaac.com, devoted to the actress of "Superbad" Martha MacIsaac, the flirty Evan's dream girl Becca. She appears in this video featuring some scenes of Michael Cera:

At The Farmer's Market, Pacific Palisades

On 12th March -
At The Farmer's Market in Pacific Palisades.
"Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon looked super cute and cuddly as they enjoyed a morning of shopping at the Farmer’s Market in the Pacific Palisades sans kids. I think these two make a great couple, both are low key and down to earth".
Source: I'm not obsessed
It's like people cannot refrain themselves of comments calling them gay and heartless ho, can they?

"Superbad" Video

Arteta and Holden Caulfield

"Slowly she develops a friendship with a quiet, sad-eyed cashier at work, played wonderfully by Jake Gyllenhaal. He calls himself Holden, after his hero, Holden Caulfield, from J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Holden dreams of emulating Salinger by making his fame as a writer and then escaping to the life of a recluse". Source: www.cinescene.com

"It has taken over two years, but the big-screen adaptation of Youth in Revolt is finally gearing up. Previously, our esteemed Erik Davis raved about the book when Dimension Films bought the rights, and then when Michael Cera signed on to star. Now The Hollywood Reporter says that Miguel Arteta is this close to jumping back into the movies and helming the flick. Should the final negotiations wrap up nicely, this will be the director's first film since The Good Girl five years ago. Meanwhile, Cera will be playing the title character, Nick Twisp -- "a smart, sexually obsessed teen living in a world of moronic adults." A little more specifically, as Erik described last year: "we follow Nick through what he writes in his own personal journals, and join him in his neverending quest to win the love of 'Sheeni' Saunders." Source: www.cinematical.com
"Nick Twisp himself is, without a doubt, this generation’s Holden Caulfield, with a much more resounding voice for adolescents wrapped in the sex-driven and oppressive society around them.

With screenplay written by Gustin Nash, Youth In Revolt will be directed by Miguel Arteta (The Good Girl, Six Feet Under), and is set to hit theaters by early 2009". Source: movies.gearlive.com