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a-okLeo your movie and film and acting career has been officially
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The cap sporting a cougar cap ...note to self: theres my third... after the pittster, the depster and now theres the cap - lol
amorousI have always like reading Ken Follet...from Pillars of the Earth to Triple
now that one of his book titles is destined for the small screen in the form of a mini-series
Ken Follett's "Pillars of the Earth" being shot in Hungary, Austria starring Donald Sutherland
I cant wait for his next book to come out. All about German immigrants to Russia and ending with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I cant wait. Sounds good. Later gators.
d'oh
..had a good laugh this afternoon. With rain in the past present and future, its nice that the forecast is cloudy with a chance of meatballs...
Im a big fan of Bruce "The Boss " Springsteen
...catch the gaffe here.
And btw, hope you join me in sharing a happy birthday wish to
Frida of Abba: click here to do so!
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suave...not for Clint Eastwood!
"Established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, the Legion of Honor is among France's most prestigious awards and the highest civilian honor in the country. "
French President Sarkozy names Clint Eastwood as commander of the French Legion of Honor.
French president set to make Clint Eastwood's day
Meanwhile in other news from the entertainment world, the France's branch of the Church of Scientology has ben convicted by a Paris court of fraud and fined nearly a fulll million smackers $! This as well-known 'Crash' writer-director Paul Haggis (who co-directed Eastwoods "Million Dollar Baby” ) officialy defected from the well-known religious group. That smacks!
Clint with wife at the recently held Lyon Film Festival.
You can read all about the directors exploitation of actor Matt Damons explosive star power: here!. Turns out that the Bourne Identity star is set to go deux de suite with Eastwood, this year and next!
And finally: do you still have the recessionary blues? Do you feel caught in the undertow of economic uncertainty? Are you wondering if the past 3 years will be recalled as nothing less than a blur?
Just thought Id post a link to a film that may make you see above the past headlines of this recurring cycle of 8 centuries of economic tom foolery. Feel inspired, feel better...look here..to the good ol' past!
September 10, 1993 WASHINGTON POST film
review of ‘King of the Hill’ (PG-13)
“sans faute”
Rare 18th-century bronze heads were made for a special fountain at Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s summer palace outside of Beijing. They were subsequently looted during a sack of the palace by British and French forces in 1860.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/arts/14iht-raaysl.html
Thanks for visiting.
special
I am self - deluded , and the only needed proof-positive I needed of that (just imagine finding proof-positive of self-delusion:)...was to turn on the late evening news....bombings in Pakistan? explosions in Kabul? By chance a rumbling or stirring or war with uncoverings of bombs at ready in Lebanon?
Last night, riding on a high tide of pent up emotion at the very thought in anticipation of one of my most favorite all time world hero/rock stars in town...
..even with no ticket to get in, I went downtown to hang around the venue, pick up the vibes, enjoy the crowd, and even catch a glimpse of the pyrotechnic light display and awe inspiring retro-disco glamour (alas no glimpse of the band, obviously someone thought of everything!) and listen to the muffled tones of the awesone sounds of what must be the present worlds most distinguished band: U2, which indeed could still be heard two-three blocks away (we're lucky, imagine how far the sounds of bombs carry!) before I went soliloquy like in to the misty rainy fog-like ether of night.......
...happy, satisfied.....but hungry.
I knew I'd missed the greatest band in the world...but there was something inherent that the lesson and message of the music was not lost on me...I got to see a man crying and bawling, his face a contortion of angst and grief, wailing as only men know how to do without sacrificing thier last vestiges of masculinity, how someone had sold him a 'bad ticket' and he had spent all his money on it and the gatekeeper would not let him in...(I did get to see him go in...apparently in the blink of an eye some kind person in a gesture of magnificent beneficence, gave him a ticket and he sheepishly wandered in from the slimy wetness of Vancouver)...and so it was as the ticket usher to me remarked: "Just goes to show you there are real angels out tonight as well as a@#--oles"...
So I went home; and the late night news was headlining U2 and again I was able to catch slices and cutaway shots and glimpses of the greatness on stage; all that I had missed..in glorious 16 inches of screen...
but imagine my surprise at seeing the one shot that set the tone for this blog entry and later my gentle acceptance of the reality of what I'd missed.........indeed the wheel of time turns in time for us all, etching in stone our experiences, our laughter, our tears and our hard times as well as smiles..
I would have to go to
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to see them
this year....for the free concert to commemorate the fall of the wall. Till next time then...
Thanks for visiting.
a-ok
I found this really interesting for a couple of reasons...one is answering to the consciensable problem of what would you do if you ever found 1.2 million dollars if it fell off the back of an armoured truck?
It actually happened and the man who obviously believed whole heartedly in "finders-keepers" suffered a tragic fate, not what one would nominally believe in for all that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow kind of stuff.
Partly comic I believe, it ends sadly, but if you read the pre-Internet age newspaper article on it (here)
..you might find it oddly interesting in this global recessioned world.
I thought it interesting that although the film based on the early 80's incident was made in 1993 (starring among others: Benicio del Toro, Michael Rapaport, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman) according to IMDB on the film one of the writers getting credits was one Carol Sobieski, who as reported by both Wiki and IMDB, died in 1990.(Carol Sobieski wrote the screenplay for the Oscar winning film Fried Green Tomatoes. She would not live to see the film win the awards and acclaim that it has.)
Early on in her career she previously won the Humanitas Prize.
The HUMANITAS Prize is an award for film and television writing intended to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom.
But here for your viewing pleasure, is another one of the films she gets credit for penning a screenplay for..
make sure to get this months issue of Sharp as Im tired of this reporting from the fringes thing.-
chattyRented out the first season of DAMAGES on DVD recently. Unfortunately I have just been too busy to watch any of them, not even "power-watching". But as much I like legal thrillers and drama, esp with the high quality production values of 'Damages' (star Glenn Close recently was awarded an Emmy in the series), I find my "schedule far too crowded"
... Vis a vis heres a sample of that good old fashioned aphrodisia.
And also something far more interesting; a film series trailer. I feel like apologizing for this blog entry-lol.
"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." -Eartha Kitt
coolThis would make a heck of a good film. I think-,...but-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtiZGsZvkdo
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On 2nd thought...
lyricaluntil Sept 7
Shania Twain
is offering a free sneak peek video on her site
Look at the letter she wrote (to the public...)
flirtyDemi Moore was in our daily tab today. Not in the Entertainment section or movies section but in the sports pages. Just cause we like her is what they said.
Have seen an awful lot of references to films in the business section too. Is it a passing trend or a bold new face of news delivery?
Print news morphing and stumbling into the crowded and cluttered advertising saturated marketplace of the Internet?
How long till the real birth of the real e-newspaper? The real Mccoy?
My thought? When you look like this no one cares (or dare asks?) how......."old" you are;... in years. Demi Moore attends the special advanced screening of "Spread" hosted by Gotham and Hamptons Magazines at the UA East Hampton 6 on August 8, 2009 in East Hampton, New York. ( August 7, 2009 - Photo by Janette Pellegrini/Getty Images North America.
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