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August 2010

Aug 31, 2010384 notes
Aug 30, 20105 notes
#brilliance
Aug 30, 20104 notes
“I mean, when it comes to time travel, always go full retard.” —Gabe Delahaye, via
Aug 30, 2010
#the lake house #time travel #Videogum
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There’s an interview with Elba where he explains how he’s not interested in being a good actor or doing interesting films, he just wants to make money and treat the game like a business. It’s kind of cool that he basically is Stringer Bell in real life, but it’s gonna lead to him having a crappy career/getting shot.

[…]


Q: Are you concerned about recent criticism of your choice of roles?

A: You know, Terry, you gotta think about what we got in this game for, man. Huh? Was it the rep? Was it so our names could ring out on some fucking hipster streetcorner, man? Naw, man. There’s games beyond the fucking game.

”
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The “why can’t Idris Elba be cast in anything remotely good?” conundrum finds a temporary answer, however depressing it might be.

(via - scroll down)

Aug 29, 20101 note
#Idris Elba #Stringer Bell
“E quindi mi appresto a leggere, interessata, anche perchè, Lost a parte, non è che i quotidiani nazionali si preoccupino poi spesso di quello che succede aldilà dell’Oceano Atlantico, televisivamente parlando (e anche non televisivamente parlando, se è per questo, eccezion fatta per le splendide braccia di Michelle Obama). Vabbè, si parla di Boardwalk Empire – e ci mancherebbe pure, produce Martin Scorsese, scrive il tizio dei Sopranos, recitano Michael Pitt e Steve Buscemi, ambientazione nell’Atlantic City del proibizionismo, io sbavo da quando è uscito il primo trailer -, si parla di Lone Star e di The Event (il nuovo Lost, sì, voglio proprio vedere). Ma a un certo punto c’è anche una cosa tipo “la ABC si prepara a lanciare Castle, nuova serie con Nathan Fillion nei panni di uno scrittore di gialli che si improvvisa detective per la polizia” e avanti così per almeno cinque/sei righe.
Ora. Castle è un procedurale mediamente bruttino che alcuni di noi si sorbiscono per il semplice fatto che il protagonista è l’uomo che tutte le donne etero e gli uomini omo vorrebbero, e perchè è stato l’indimenticato Capitano Malcolm Reynolds in Firefly e, ogni tanto, in Castle, fa delle stupide cose da nerd che non possono che farci impazzire di gioia. Castle non è che sia proprio la serie di punta della ABC, il network di Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, V e quella merda di FlashForward. Ma, soprattutto, Castle è alla sua TERZA STAGIONE, è stato trasmesso, più volte, anche in Italia, doppiato, su RaiDue, e ne avevano sentito parlare pure le mie due amiche che di tv americana se ne strasbattono altamente.
In sostanza, è come se, sulla prima pagina di Cultura&Spettacoli, parlassero dell’imminente lancio di un film già distribuito due anni fa, o di un nuovissimo best seller pubblicato nel 2007. Non è la fine del mondo – figurarsi, non è come manipolare l’informazione per mantenere la gente all’oscuro di fatti importanti, o come parlare di stronzate culinarie invece che di terremoti, tsunami o processi a Berlusconi… Chi è davvero interessato alla tv americana, sicuro non si documenta sulla Repubblica, al mare, a metà agosto. Tutti gli altri, probabilmente, nemmeno si accorgono dell’errore.
Io, lo stesso, continuo a non capacitarmi. La rete straborda, da mesi, di informazioni sulle nuove serie; ci sono trailer, articoli su giornali online e su blog, ci sono stati gli Upfront in primavera. Basta spendere dieci minuti e qualche click su Google per trovare tonnellate di informazioni da scriverci dieci articoli. E quindi, continuo a non capacitarmi: perchè?
Bah, sarà che io vorrei fare quel lavoro lì – scrivere di tv – e invece me ne stavo, puzzosa e spettinata, sulla terrazza del Frigidaire a leggere un articolo scritto da qualcuno che non aveva la minima idea di quello di cui stava parlando. Puzzosa, spettinata e felice, per la precisione. Ma pur sempre disoccupata. C’è pieno l’internet di gente che fa quel lavoro lì meglio, e gratis. Poi dicono che il Web uccide i giornali. Vabbè, gli Offlaga, forse, mi direbbero: brutta bestia, l’invidia. Ma che poi, anche no.”
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nuovo, nuovissimo, praticamente da buttare - motore a propulsione d’improbabilità.

(via naimablu)

(via kaw)

Aug 29, 201011 notes
#vergogna #shame is a very powerful tool you should try it sometime
Aug 29, 20102 notes
#giovane cinefilo #James Franco #jimbo
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Other lucrative marketing deals for Ms Brown came from the soft-porn industry, with semi-nude photos for magazines such as Penthouse and Centrefold causing further embarrassment for Grant. And in 1996 she even made an X-rated docu-drama of the events with pornographer Ron Jeremy, called “Sunset and Divine: The British Experience”.

Gangster Brown, her pimp and father to her two girls, had been angry that night that she was working in the street and not in the hotel room he’d rented for her. But he quickly changed mood when news of the potential windfall reached him. “It went from miserable to the best night of my life,” he says. “The money poured in, poured in, poured in. She had interviews, meal commercials, lingerie, lipstick, several things. We worked with the Betty Boo commercial, and we had a lot of money. We bought a new house, new cars, Rolls Royce, everything you could think of.”

”
—“The $50 Trick (or how Divine Brown turned an encounter with Hugh Grant into her fortune)”, The Independent
Aug 28, 2010
#divine brown #hugh grant #The Independent
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Divine, now 41, earned more than £1 million from media interviews and guest-show appearances.

Most of the money was spent on showy cars and a flashy lifestyle, but enough was invested wisely in property to allow her to put her two older daughters, Cheyenne, 21, and Brianna, 20, through college.

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—“As Hugh Grant hits 50, we track down Divine Brown - the LA hooker with whom he wrecked his image and lost Liz Hurley” (via Daily Mail)


(Pretty questionable article tone-wise, but - yeah.)

Aug 28, 2010
#divine brown
“Women are wary about asking for pay rises because they are worried they will be seen as pushy – and, unfortunately, they’re probably right. Laschever says women who are assertive at work are often perceived as too aggressive and are sometimes punished for it, both by male and female colleagues. “They tend to get rebuffed, and socially ostracised. Other women see this and realise it looks scary and risky to behave like them. Far better, they think, to sit tight and wait to be offered whatever it is – a promotion, pay rise, good project – rather than ask for it.” But, of course, this is no way to further your career.” —Why women won’t ask for a pay rise | Life and style | The Guardian (via feathers)
Aug 27, 20102 notes
Aug 27, 2010
#Jesse James #Kat Von D #rimozione da tiffany
Ten hostels in Europe for under £15 | The Guardian → guardian.co.uk

(via nobordersdaily)

Aug 26, 20103 notes
Aug 25, 20101 note
#scream queens #reality tv #Gabby West
Aug 25, 20107 notes
#inception #neptune #he so dreamy #no love lost between subject and menswear
“You better bang out a script, cuz that’s all you’re banging.” —Not like I’d normally post something from the AV Club comment section, but Eli Roth is allegedly trying to stretch “Thanksgiving” into a full feature.
Aug 25, 2010
#eli roth #av club #CHI E' IL TUO AMICO?
Aug 25, 20104 notes
#lafayette reynolds #true blood #jesus
“Del resto, se Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Alison Brie e Elisabeth Moss ti dicono “grazie di aver pensato a me, magari riparliamone quando avrò un amante nano non famoso a cui pagare la dialisi e starò toccando vertici di disperazione solipsista”, e nonostante questo tu hai un giornale di donne nude da riempire, cosa fai? Continui a scendere nella gerarchia finché non becchi quella affamata subito.” —I reblog myself cause I’m prettier than you.
Aug 25, 20101 note
#Playboy #rimozione da tiffany
“(I like how “The Sixth Sense” has become the standard-bearer for this kind of thing. Unless I’m referring to that other movie where Bruce Willis was dead the whole time—and given his output in the last decade, that’s certainly a possibility.)” —Zack Handlen, from “What really constitutes a spoiler?”
Aug 25, 20101 note
#zack handlen #av club #spoilers
Aug 25, 20102 notes
#mad men #rimozione da tiffany #elisabeth moss #January Jones #christina hendricks #alison brie
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It’s such a high school poet sentiment to feel like you’re not going to make it to 25. Really it’s just a lack of imagination. It’s much cooler to picture yourself as some kind of out-of-control celebrity murdered in a fiery wreck, than a slightly less attractive version of yourself living in a shitty apartment and trying to figure out what the fuck you’re going to do with the rest of the time before you die. But aging is difficult. Obviously, I could be projecting a little bit here about my own youthful struggles with the passage of time and the approach of adulthood (although I never thought I would die young. I am going to live forever, duh), but I don’t think so. There are an awful lot of movies about boys who refuse to grow up, and I didn’t write them. Assholes wrote them.


One of those movies is The Last Kiss. And if fucking sucks.

”
—Gabe Delahaye
Aug 24, 2010
#Videogum #gabe delahaye #the last kiss #MAH HERO
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