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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Chandeliers & Phantom of Opera

HISTORIC CHANDELIER HUNG AT UPTOWN THEATRE: "The city’s beloved Uptown Theatre, with its old Hollywood glamour and class, has just installed a historic chandelier that once hung in the balcony corridor of the Loew’s Capitol Theatre (Manhattan, NY) from 1919-1968. The chandelier later hung in the Loews Cheri Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts and, most recently, was rewired, restored and displayed in the Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, NY) for an exhibit on Loews’ 100th anniversary.
Christine Taylor and actor Ben Stiller attending an event to honor Ben Stiller hosted by the Museum of the Moving Image on November 12, 2008 in New York

The hanging of the chandelier celebrates the history of the theatre as well as Loews Cineplex’s 100 year anniversary".
Source: cinematreasures.org

Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum at 'The Day After Tomorrow' - Berlin Photocall on 5th May 2004 in Berlin, Germany

Emmy Rossum as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

-Did all of the actors perform their own singing?
-Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Miranda Richardson, and Patrick Wilson all performed their own singing.
-How did the film creators create the gigantic chandelier, which the enraged Phantom sends crashing down into the audience?

-Three versions of the chandelier had to be created: a “hero” piece for day to day filming, a “stunt” replica for shooting the crashing sequences, and a version outfitted for electricity for the scenes set in 1919. Based on the general shape and size of the chandelier that adorns the Garnier, the films chandelier is 17 feet high and 13.2 feet wide, weighing 2.2 tons. Valued at more than $1.3 million, the piece is covered with over 20,000 full cut Swarovski crystal chandelier pendants.
It took four months to construct and four days to assemble the chandelier at Pinewood studios. It was then raised to the domed ceiling of the Auditorium, which had to be reinforced to make up for the weight of the huge chandelier. The top of the set was built around the chandelier after it was hung". Source: www.hollywoodlot.com

Edie Sedgwick's look was all about contrasting elements.
She had boyishly short hair but wore fantastically long, elegant chandelier earrings.

Regal Collection Chandelier 8186-60By Livex Lighting

A
chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Towards the end of the 20th century, the chandelier is used more as a decorative focal point and designed as part of an array for home lighting in the rooms. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamps and complex arrays of glass or crystorama lighting to illuminate a room with refracted light.
One famous chandelier is the chandelier in the Opera Garnier which in the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera is crashed by the Phantom. The earliest candle chandeliers were used in medieval places of assembly.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Was Jake's habit of smoking a cause for Reese to leave?


"An acquaintance of Reese and Jake acknowledges that they
were very smitten with each other for quite awhile and seemed perfectly matched.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon spent the final day of 2008 going shopping with Jake's mom Naomi Foner at Santa Monica Farmer's Market in Los Angeles on December 31, 2008.

Unfortunately, Jake had a habit that Reese could not live with, and he wouldn’t give it up. He smoked way too much. And we’re not talking nicotine here. Not only did it rub Reese the wrong way, but she worried about her children being exposed to his bad habits.
So, regretfully, she moved on. Note: those of you who insist that Jake is gay are NUTS". Source: www.janetcharltonshollywood.com

Reese Withespoon has been a long time representative for AVON products and beauty campaigns.

Who knows which were the whole reasons for Jake and Reese to split up? Janet Charlton has been proven right sometimes and proven wrong other times, like for example last year, when she announced an imminent rupture between Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor, and she had to delete it from her site because she was flat out wrong:
"Janet Charlton decided to pull her Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor getting divorced story from yesterday. She didn't give an explanation. Just one minute it was there and the next it was gone. I got an e-mail from Ben's publicist and I thought I would share it with you, because you know, I'm a sharer.

To Whom It May Concern:
Christine Taylor and Ben Stiller attending the premiere of "Tropic Thunder" at the Mann Village Theatre on 11th August, 2008 in LA

The blog posting on your site pertaining to Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor that you picked up from Janet Charlton is FALSE. We have spoken to Janet and she has taken down her post.

The moral of this story is don't believe everything you read".
Source: www.crazydaysandnights.net

Whichever the motives were for Jake and Reese's break-up (some people say it's due to Jake's closeted gayness/bisexuality, others due to Reese's uptightness), it's obvious Reese doesn't like smokers -nicotine or pot- (although his husband Ryan Phillippe allegedly made use of pot too). She's not like Kirsten Dunst (more with an European sensitivity towards the marijuana use). Seeing pictures of hotties exhaling smoke has always seemed to me attractive somehow (let's start with two stills from "Brothers"):
Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brothers" (2009)
Matthew McConaugheyEwan McGregor
Paris HiltonJames McAvoySherilyn FennKristen Stewart smoking her pipeRobert PattinsonXavier SamuelJohnny DeppMarlon BrandoJude LawRobert Downey Jr.Connie NielsenGerard ButlerGaspard UllielOlivia Wilde

Thursday, July 29, 2010

SCOTT PILGRIM REMIX : RAMONA

Scott Pilgrim vs the world poster.

Mary Elizabeth WinsteadMichael Cera at "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" - Los Angeles Premiere on 28th July 2010Anna Kendrick at "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" on 28th July 2010 - Los Angeles Premiere

SCOTT PILGRIM REMIX : RAMONA starring Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Track: "Second Cup"
Artist: Nigel Godrich
Dialogue Remix by Osymyso
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

Duncan Jones talks about Source Code and Judge Dredd

"While director Duncan Jones is in the middle of post-production on his latest feature "Source Code", he has enough time to sit down and chat about his career thus far. He's received critical acclaim for his wonderful work with the 2009 film "Moon". Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell in "Moon" (2009)

If you were fluttering around the Internet at any point early this year, people claimed that the feature did not get the Academy praise it deserved.

Well, Jones is back on the science fiction scene again with "Source Code".
On Set photos from Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal and
Michelle Monaghan on 15th March 2010

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan shooting "Source Code" at Millennium Park on 9th April 2010 in Chicago, Illinois

The upcoming production stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who wakes up only to find himself inside the body of a commuter who ends up witnessing a horrifying train explosion. Jones lets us in on when we should expect the tale to be out.

Well, I think it is safe to say that the film will be out early next year. My edit is complete, and we are working hard on visual effects, choosing a composer and trying the film out on a few people just to see how it goes over.
During the conversation, one of the things brought up was another film that Duncan is signed on for called "Mute". However, nobody really knew that at one point in time Jones could have been holding in his hands the script for a "Judge Dredd" movie.
I would have loved to do the Judge Dredd movie that is underway. I was in fact sent the script to look at. Its a great script, and I hope I will not rue the decision of passing on it. Thing was, I had such a strong idea of what I wanted to do with a Dredd movie, I could not bring myself to take it on and not do it my way! ... and it's not like I could do it as a sequel either; my Dredd would have been really weird, and dark and funny, but not your traditional introduction to a hero character. I don't even know if I could have made my version of the film pitch-able. It was maybe too off the wall". Source: www.latinoreview.com

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Kirsten Dunst attends a press conference for the new film "Melancholia"

Kirsten Dunst, Keifer Sutherland, Stellan SkarsgÄrd attending a press conference for the new film "Melancholia" (due out in 2011), on 27 Jul 2010.