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Friday, May 06, 2011

Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson at "Water for Elephants" press conference in Australia

New promotional still of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight saga: "Breaking Dawn" (2011)

Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson attending the press conference for "Water for Elephants", on 5th May 2011 in Sydney, Australia.


Preview of Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon's T4 Interview
Interview airs tomorrow on T4 at 11.50AM (GMT)

Reese Witherspoon in Glamour Magazine Russia (May 2011)

Believing in miracles: "The Way" by Emilio Estevez, "Love & other drugs"

Edward Zwick directed Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in the dramedy "Love & other drugs" (2010)

"Jamie meets sarcastic, sexy Maggie Murdock (Hathaway) while he's shadowing Dr. Knight (Hank Azaria) during rounds. She bares her breast as he looks on. The catch - she has early onset Parkinson's disease.
When Bohemian artist Maggie discovers that Jamie is a salesman and not an intern, she decks him in the parking lot. The two won't admit it, but it's love at first sight.

It's 1998, the age of Big Pharma and medical miracles. Viagra is about to be released. Jamie is poised for super success. The little blue pill is the drug everyone wants!
Maggie gives up. Jamie has dragged her to lectures around the country. Progress and even cures are documented with chelation therapy and other approaches. Maggie insists there is no cure. She only believes in drugs". Source: www.associatedcontent.com

"I believe in miracles a lot more now," says 48-year-old Estevez, who also wrote and directed The Way. "And I have taken the word 'coincidence' out of my vocabulary. I believe that there is divine intervention. "Miracles happened on a daily basis and it got to the point where the crew were true believers too. If they didn't have any spirituality going into this, they did have by the end".
"Lives changed on this film. My son Taylor met his wife on the Camino and they now live in Burgos, in northern Spain. "Other relationships were also forged by crew members. One said she met the man of her dreams there and got married." Source: www.dailyrecord.co.uk

"Martin Sheen plays Tom Avery, an American ophthalmologist who receives word that his son has been killed while walking the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage trail in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain sometimes referred to as The Way of Saint James. Perhaps impulsively or perhaps in desperation, Tom decides to walk the pilgrims’ trail himself, to finish the journey his son began.
Obviously, such a role calls for an actor of immense talent, both to convey the depth and layers of feeling of a parent mourning his child and to eschew the more melodramatic histrionics that would cause such material to become overly and overtly sentimental. Sheen, one of our national acting treasures, is perfect for such a part, bringing it gravity but also dignity.

I love that in introducing a movie about fathers and sons, rituals and traditions, Estevez chose to describe Sheen by borrowing from another famous director, John Huston, talking about his own father. “He never tried to sell you something.” Source: 1morefilmblog.com


A video tribute to Andrew 'Andy' Clark (Emilio Estevez) the 'jock' in the hit 80's movie "The Breakfast Club" (1985) directed by John Hughes. Song: Lonely No More by Rob Thomas

Cary Grant's gay rumors, Blake Shelton apologizes LGBT after mocking Jake Gyllenhaal

Cary Grant and Shirley Temple as Dick and Susan in "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947)

"Cary Grant's daughter has penned a memoir about the famous actor, admitting he liked it when people called him gay. The British screen icon, who was married five times, was often dogged by rumours that he was bisexual. But his daughter Jennifer Grant, 45, says the Hot Saturday star actually liked the mystique surrounding his sexuality because it 'made women want to prove the assertion wrong'.
In the memoir, Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant, Jennifer writes: '(You) Can't blame men for wanting him, and wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. 'When the question arises, it generally speaks more about the person asking.'
In the Thirties, rumours swirled about his close friendship with fellow actor Randolph Scott, who he met on the set of the 1932 film Hot Saturday.Shortly afterwards they moved into a Malibu beach house together, which became known as Bachelor Hall". Source: www.dailymail.co.uk


Jake Gyllenhaal, Gay icon, Pet icon or Stubble icon?

For example, at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas over the weekend, Shelton joked about actor Jake Gyllenhaal ending his relationship with singer Taylor Swift.
After noting that he didn’t “understand in the first place” why anyone would break up with someone like Swift (“she’s beautiful, she’s talented, she’s sweet”), he paused and noted, “wait a minute, he [Gyllenhaal] was in Brokeback Mountain.”
The comment prompted laughter and applause from the audience – and according to some, kicked off a stream of cracks at the expense of the LGBT community that have since become part of Shelton’s repertoire.
Update: As of 11:50 a.m., GLAAD’s Director of Communications Rich Ferrano announced that, after working with the gay activist organization’s Entertainment Media team over the course of the morning, Blake Shelton issued an updated apology for last night’s comments. Shelton’s tweet reads: “I want my fans and The Voice fans to know that anti-gay and lesbian violence is unacceptable!!!!”
Source: lgbtweekly.com

Olivia Wilde in Glamour magazine, June 2011

Olivia Wilde in Glamour magazine, June 2011

Thursday, May 05, 2011

"Source Code" more poignant than "Inception", Jake Gyllenhaal sells risky conceptual elements

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Colter Steven in "Source Code" (2011)

"So begins Source Code, a stunning work of modern science fiction from hyper-talented British filmmaker Duncan Jones.
While the science underpinning Source Code is wonky at best, the fiction in play is grippingly solid throughout.

Better still, courtesy of a cracking screenplay by Ben Ripley, the sparse and uncluttered direction of Duncan Jones teases a soulfulness from Colter's tale that is genuinely moving.

In its best stretches, Source Code achieves both the power and the poignancy that ever so slightly eluded last year's brain-addling hit Inception.
As Colter, Gyllenhaal deploys a commanding, yet believable presence that sells the riskier conceptual elements of the tale with no questions asked". Source: www.heraldsun.com.au

The Beaver - Red Carpet and Q & A: SXSW 2011


Two-time Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award® winner Mel Gibson in THE BEAVER -- an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life. Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until a beaver hand puppet enters his life. (PG-13)

Charlie Sheen "Wild Child" video

“Charlie Sheen is making his indulgences in excess louder, hoping that people will still see him as a ‘wild child’ and not in mid-life crisis”, media psychiatrist and bestselling author Carole Lieberman M.D. told us.

“Though his acting career is a success, his love life is a disaster and a source of constant pain. His substance abuse has begun to take a more serious physical toll, so that he’s not able to bounce back as quickly as he once was.”
Natalie Kenly and Charlie Sheen

Although Charlie has been in and out of both jail and rehab for years, clinical psychologist and Attorney-At-Law Dr. Sheila Forman thinks the 45-year-old actor might finally clean up his act". Source: www.hollywoodlife.com

Jeffrey Ross: "Do I find him charming? Yes. Is he sober? Yes. He’s also smart and pretty crazy... But I don't know the crack-head, I know this guy who wakes up early every day, runs five miles, eats well, treats the people around him great and is trying desperately to get his life on track and his kids back, that's what I see". Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com



Charlie Sheen "Wild Child" video: featuring scenes from his films "Platoon", "Wall Street" (with Daryl Hannah), "The Wraith" (with Serilyn Fenn), "Lucas" (with Kerri Green), "The Chase" (with Kristy Swanson), "Terminal Velocity" (with Nastassja Kinski), "Beyond the Law" (with Linda Fiorentino), "Hot Shots" (with Valeria Golino and Jon Cryer), "Two and a half Men" (with Melanie Lynskey, Emmanuelle Vaugier) and stills of Charlie Sheen and his partenaires, girlfriends, ex-wives Denise Richards, Brooke Mueller, Natalie Kenly, etc.

Songs "Wild child" by Lou Reed and "Oooh girl" by The Golden Boys