Gloucester - The night Sebastian Junger arrived in town, it was a rather mild and cloudless day. There would be need to use the phrase “The Perfect Storm” to hype the writer’s talk and signing at Raleigh’s Quail Ridge Books. It was The Perfect Mild.
This appears to be a rarity in today’s journalism. Anything that happens now gets blamed on “A Perfect Storm” of calamities after Junger’s book about the doomed fishermen. Wall Street meltdown, Bp well disaster and McRib are all given The Perfect Storm treatment. Sadly enough, he does not get a nickel every time it’s said on TV.
This appearance didn’t include tales of the people who put seafood on your table or George Clooney’s pranks. Junger spoke of the men who fight for America in Afghanistan. The Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the...
This appears to be a rarity in today’s journalism. Anything that happens now gets blamed on “A Perfect Storm” of calamities after Junger’s book about the doomed fishermen. Wall Street meltdown, Bp well disaster and McRib are all given The Perfect Storm treatment. Sadly enough, he does not get a nickel every time it’s said on TV.
This appearance didn’t include tales of the people who put seafood on your table or George Clooney’s pranks. Junger spoke of the men who fight for America in Afghanistan. The Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment of the...
- 6/25/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
Jesus Christ, I barely know who Cam Gigandet is, and now Disney is remaking Gidget, which has no relation to the former except in the consonants. Gidget was a 1959 movie starring Sandra Dee, and a 1965 television series starring Sally Field. She was a tiny girl who likes to surf. Can anyone match that description to the talentless actress who will eventually take on the role? (Variety)
Here are the 20 most pointless episodes of "Lost," although if things keep going the way they have been going, the entire series may have been ultimately pointless. (Vulture)
Charlie Sheen has signed on to another two years of TV's top rated comedy, "Two and a Half Men," ending speculation that he might bail on the show. Why does no one have a problem with a known wife abuser starring in a network sitcom? Why is everyone just looking the other fucking way? (HuffPo)
Ellen Page...
Here are the 20 most pointless episodes of "Lost," although if things keep going the way they have been going, the entire series may have been ultimately pointless. (Vulture)
Charlie Sheen has signed on to another two years of TV's top rated comedy, "Two and a Half Men," ending speculation that he might bail on the show. Why does no one have a problem with a known wife abuser starring in a network sitcom? Why is everyone just looking the other fucking way? (HuffPo)
Ellen Page...
- 5/18/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Photos from MacGruber, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Your Highness, Alice in Wonderland, Cop Out.
"The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced it will host the world premiere of Lionsgate and Marv Films’ "Kick-Ass" for its 2010 Opening Night on March 12th in Austin, Texas."
"Jon Favreau's 3D comic adaptation "Cowboys & Aliens" at DreamWorks is apparently slated to start shooting in July..." (full details)
"Shooting is scheduled to kick off tomorrow on Marvel Studios' "Thor" at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach..." (full details)
"The two Guillermo del Toro-directed Hobbit films will begin filming this June for a 14-month shoot in New Zealand..." (full details)
"In less than a month, 'The Hangover' has become the #1 comedy of all time on the DVD charts. Combined consumer and rental sales have topped 8.6 million units, 1.5 million of which were Blu-ray purchases..." (full details)
"Producers on 'The Wolf Man...
"The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced it will host the world premiere of Lionsgate and Marv Films’ "Kick-Ass" for its 2010 Opening Night on March 12th in Austin, Texas."
"Jon Favreau's 3D comic adaptation "Cowboys & Aliens" at DreamWorks is apparently slated to start shooting in July..." (full details)
"Shooting is scheduled to kick off tomorrow on Marvel Studios' "Thor" at Raleigh Studios in Manhattan Beach..." (full details)
"The two Guillermo del Toro-directed Hobbit films will begin filming this June for a 14-month shoot in New Zealand..." (full details)
"In less than a month, 'The Hangover' has become the #1 comedy of all time on the DVD charts. Combined consumer and rental sales have topped 8.6 million units, 1.5 million of which were Blu-ray purchases..." (full details)
"Producers on 'The Wolf Man...
- 1/7/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jack Nicholson once wrote a screenplay about a struggling Hollywood actor trying to raise the cash for his girlfriend's abortion - but the project was cast aside for its risque plot.
And now no one can find the script - because the movie executive who passed on the raw screenplay in the early 1960s is now dead, and he never made a copy of Nicholson's .
Universal ' former story editor Michael Ludmer has brought the lost script to the attention of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, insisting Nicholson's screenplay, titled To Hold A Mirror, will "make a fine movie even today".
Ludmer says, "It was a story editor's dream come true - riveting, thoughtful and, above all, entertaining."
Nicholson, then a little-known B-movie star, had planned on directing and starring in the film, but Universal boss Julian Ludwig refused to greenlight the project because he feared it would be an X-rated movie.
Contacted by the Times, Nicholson's longtime agent, Sandy Breisler, had no recollection of the script.
And now no one can find the script - because the movie executive who passed on the raw screenplay in the early 1960s is now dead, and he never made a copy of Nicholson's .
Universal ' former story editor Michael Ludmer has brought the lost script to the attention of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, insisting Nicholson's screenplay, titled To Hold A Mirror, will "make a fine movie even today".
Ludmer says, "It was a story editor's dream come true - riveting, thoughtful and, above all, entertaining."
Nicholson, then a little-known B-movie star, had planned on directing and starring in the film, but Universal boss Julian Ludwig refused to greenlight the project because he feared it would be an X-rated movie.
Contacted by the Times, Nicholson's longtime agent, Sandy Breisler, had no recollection of the script.
- 4/17/2008
- WENN
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