| Tom Waits makes a great Satan in "Parnassus," but don't tell his mama |
[Dec. 27th, 2009♥11:49 pm] |
Director Terry Gilliam's latest script called for a vaudevillian take on Satan, a Prince of Darkness in a pencil-thin moustache.
When Tom Waits agreed to step into the role for "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," Gilliam was thrilled.
"If you're going to have a devil in your life, Tom is the man," he said.
Indeed, given Waits' technicolour performance in the film, it seems a role he was born to play - just don't say that to the woman who gave birth to him.
"Don't tell my mom," Waits told The Canadian Press earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival. "She's really upset. Pretty pissed off about the whole thing."
Why, exactly?
( why does his mother hate on her son's inherent awesome? )
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Nothing is bolded, because it is Tom Waits and he is awesome. Also, did anyone here see "Parnassus?" Was it good? |
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| Brittany Murphy's Husband Claims Being Victimized by Press |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥01:23 am] |
Brittany Murphy's husband Simon Monjack has accused the media of publishing unfair stories about him following his wife's tragic death - insisting the press is targeting him because he is not an attractive Hollywood star. Murphy passed away earlier this month, December 2009 after suffering a cardiac arrest at her Hollywood Hills home in Los Angeles.
Monjack is adamant many of the reports that have surfaced after Murphy's death have been unfairly negative, with some publications detailing his past financial problems and calling him a "conman." And the British screenwriter is convinced he is being victimized by the press because he doesn't compare to his wife's ex-boyfriend, actor Ashton Kutcher.
He tells Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, "I know I have been called a conman. I am not perfect. I never said I was. But there has been so much rubbish written about me and Brittany. Most of what you read is made up. My problem is that I do not look like Ashton Kutcher... Nor do they like the fact that she married someone who was not famous. (In Hollywood), stars like stars to marry other stars."
And Monjack has slammed reports which suggested his late wife was taking a dangerous cocktail of prescription drugs before her death, insisting most of the pill bottles which officials found in their home were old.
He adds, "I know what the inference is by all those pills. That she was some kind of addict, but addicts hide away their pills. They do not leave them on the nightstand like Brittany. Some of them were old and date back to when Brittany had some ailment or other. You know how people accumulate things and never throw them away."
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[Dec. 28th, 2009♥06:15 pm] |
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50 random fashion icons including a few shoes-biased icons :)
photo credits to french vogue, italian vogue... random fashion magazines.
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[Dec. 28th, 2009♥12:56 am] |
Click the cut for some screenshots of the upcoming season...
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| Lily Allen: "Britney Spears is a legend" |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥03:42 am] |
Allen reportedly defends Britney in the new Harper's Bazaar magazine, saying Britney is a legend and Lady Gaga needs to sit down and shut it!
The question posed to Allen was: Britney Spears or Lady Gaga?
( Her exact answer... )
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This post is also an excuse to post this:
Britney, take tips from whoever directs the D&G commercials. |
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| John Waters' Ten Best Films of 2009 |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥12:24 am] |
1 Import Export (Ulrich Seidl) The most sorrowful movie of the year is also the best. The miserable lives of Ukrainian immigrants in Vienna make this agonizing but brilliantly directed opus the cinematic equivalent of slitting your wrists. A new genre? Depression porn? Hey, I got off.
2 Antichrist (Lars von Trier) If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, this is the movie he would have made
3 In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) A smart, mean, foulmouthed British satire about the struggle for global power that asks the all-important question: How do you debate the invasion of Iraq if your gums start to bleed in the middle of your presentation?
4 World’s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait) Why, oh why, wasn’t this blackest of comedies a hit? Appallingly rude, decidedly family unfriendly, this autoerotic-suicide tale of a hateful son and his clueless father left the viewer gasping in surprise.
5 Brüno (Larry Charles) Don’t listen to the critics—it’s better than Borat. Imagine a hetero teen couple in a mall on a first date somewhere in Middle America watching Sacha Baron Cohen pantomime every known gay male sex act, ending in a joyous “facial.” Sometimes audiences get what they deserve.
6 Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) How do these great art films get financed? European socialism, that’s how, and I’m glad the taxpayers abroad put up the dough for this Tracking Shots“R”Us masterpiece. Only the Dardenne brothers could get away with not showing the dramatic action that climaxes the whole movie. Just think if they had to test-screen this film in America!
7 Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) There was some grumbling from Cannes that this wasn’t one of Pedro’s best, but boy were those rumors wrong. It’s a beaut! A relentlessly intelligent melodrama filled with so many dizzying plot points that you’ll experience vertigo.
8 The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel) Now here were some kids who knew how to cause trouble! Hmmm...What should we do today? Stop the Olympics or blow up a commercial airplane? These radicals made the Weathermen look like pussies.
9 Whatever Works (Woody Allen) Gerontophilia never seemed so appealing. This time, Woody goes a little gay and lives to tell about it with lovely, comic success. I am so mad I don’t have this director’s career.
10 The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) Bleached hair, hit-and-run accidents, in-laws with hepatitis? Huh? I didn’t get it, but I sure did love it!
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| Fashion Faceoff |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥03:20 am] |
Two stars, one look. You decide who wears it better: Blake vs. Victoria – and even more match-ups!
STEPHANIE VS. BRITNEY
The reality star went shopping in Los Angeles in her French Connection dress, while the pop star hit the stores Down Under in the blue version of the ruffled frock.
ASHLEY VS. NICKY
The Twilight star paired her Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet jacket with distressed jeans to run errands in L.A., while the heiress tops her LBD with her leopard faux fur jacket for a store party in Los Angeles.
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[Dec. 28th, 2009♥12:57 am] |
+ American Idol , Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Elvis and Annabelle, Gossip Girl, High School Musical, One Tree Hill, Rockville CA, Skins, Supernatural, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Big Bang Theory, Vampire Diaries
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| Need, Chapter 34C |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥01:00 am] |
Title: Need
Author: luckyj52587
Pairing: Jackson/Ashley, implied R/K
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone
Summary: This is a many-chaptered story following Jackson/Ashley from the start of New Moon filming, and beyond.
Author's Note: Here's the last part of the Glamour UK extravaganza.
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| Lindsay planning more charity work; to visit Guatemala next |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥01:28 am] |
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan is planning a trip to Guatemala for charity work after returning from a visit to India, said her mother Dina Lohan.
The actress flew to New Delhi earlier this month to shoot a BBC documentary about child poverty and human trafficking. The charity work “humbled and moved” former wild child Lohan so much that she is now working on taking her philanthropic efforts to Central America, with the help of TV titan Oprah Winfrey, according to WENN.
“Lindsay definitely wants to give more back. We are now planning a trip to help the children of Guatemala, which will be filmed by Oprah’s (TV) network,” said Dina.
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[Dec. 28th, 2009♥05:40 am] |
Keira Knightley Signs Up For New Cronenberg Film
Star joins Inglourious Basterds' Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz in David Cronenberg's film of Christopher Hampton's psychoanalytical play.
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| Heather Graham wants to play a pregnant stripper, remains the perfect woman |
[Dec. 28th, 2009♥12:27 am] |
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GRAHAM WANTS TO STRIP PREGNANT IN THE HANGOVER SEQUEL
HEATHER GRAHAM can't wait for a sequel to hit movie THE HANGOVER - because she wants to play a pregnant stripper.
The Boogie Nights star has yet to see a script for a much-anticipated follow up but she's already pitching ideas to writer/director Todd Phillips for her character, Jade.
She says, "I think Stu should get her pregnant, and that she should do a pregnant strip dance. I know it sounds so wrong, but it sounds so right."
Failing that, Graham tells Eonline.com she'd like to see a bachelorette party theme for the sequel: "That'd be really cool. Seriously, I wish. We need to get someone to write that script."
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I'd give a week's pay to see this. I love her so. |
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| Paul Oakenfold on Brittany's Great Musical Potential |
[Dec. 27th, 2009♥10:41 pm] |
Until Brittany Murphy lent her voice to the penguin Gloria in the 2006 animated hit Happy Feet, the public had gotten only a taste of the chanteuse within the actress on a No. 1 dance club track called "Faster Kill Pussycat," written and produced by Grammy-nominated British trance artist Paul Oakenfold.
"Brittany trained as a singer before she did as an actress," Oakenfold tells PEOPLE. "She was a great actress but she had great vocal potential."
At first, Murphy wasn't so sure she wanted to be attached to Oakenfold's song. She told PEOPLE in 2006, "I've been singing my whole life and [recording] a lot of anonymous vocals. And this was another anonymous vocal, 20 minutes behind the booth in the recording studio two years ago. Then Paul had asked me if I'd put my name on it. The song is so incredible, I said 'Yes,' and we made a video."
But Oakenfold intended Murphy to be the centerpiece of his music video all along. "Her presence on the video is very powerful," he says. "She is very commanding visually and that's what we wanted. We wanted that energy and she did a great job."
As for putting her name on the song, Oakenfold recalls, "I said to her, 'Why hide behind something? You have a really great vocal. People are going to be shocked and pleasantly happy with what they're going to hear. You are not one of these actresses who are trying to sing and not doing a good job of it.'"
And he should know.
"I demoed three other girls on that song," Oakenfold says, "and some of the girls were pretty big singers – and Brittany blew them away."
In recent years, Murphy had been in the process of recording her own album. "She would have done well," Oakenfold says. "She wanted to try this with me, this smoky blues sound with electronic rhythms. She wanted to sound more traditional originally but I told her we should go more edgy. She was really excited by that and it's just a shame it never got as far as people thought it could. It's just a shame that the world is not going to hear more songs of Brittany Murphy."
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