BreakinG NewS:
Fred Vidal, alias Mike FULLER, Is Already Officially FRED KELLY For AFTRA In Hollywood, New Professional Name!

Fred VIDAL WriteS To JournalistS: I Will Marry ‘AMERICA’ (a Surname!) Next Year, As SILLY, My  MusiC OrienteD DVD AccesSes The REcorD IndustrY, NexT WeeK!

The PRESS RELEASE Text Communique Is Not Finished And In Progress, With Possible Upgrades On TWITTER FV, Today Satuday And Tomorrow Sunday. Enjoy This Live Development Of A Success Story!!

http://twitter.com/fredvidal

TEXT AS POST At 10:08am This Saturday!
(have a great weekend!)

A Personal Message From Fred VIDAL, PhD To The American And International PRESS, From Los Angeles, CA, Now, ON VOX!! To Be Diffused By Emails And Faxes To Selection 500 Journalists (or less_ During MontH Of DECEMBER 2009!

The Release Of A DVD Of The Best Songs Of Fred VIDAL On YoutuBe Is The First step Of a Diffusion Of His Music To Record Companies And the Population Of Los Angeles, And New York, Before A Commercial Distribution On The Internet Of The Concept-Album FV IN LA. On Youtube, The Hit Of HeRe CoMeS ThE NiGhT Cover (A sonG written By VaN MORRISON In the 60’s, revisited By FV In A Metal-Pub Rock Way) Is a GooD SuRprise (400 Views In December, in 4 Weeks). http://www.youtube.com/bramstocker77 Fred VIDAL Began his Career In The Rock Industry In 1977 With punk Rock Band BRAMSTOCKER In Nice, French Riviera (the Movie-Music Entrepreneur Is an American Citizen since 2006, After IMMIGRATION In 2003, following 1990’s Sessions Of Work In New York and personal Visits in Washington, DC For Preparation Insertion In The UniteD StateS and Writing PhD In Semiotics/Media Studies). On TWITTER, Fred Shares With 1,800 Followers His TWEETS Mixing Social Science, SciFi Scripts Plot Contents (F-COP: Aftermath NOVEL In Progress On His WordPress BloG, After Success e-Novel ThE MaN WiTh ThE VelVeT EyEs Since Last SprinG). http://fredvidal.wordpress.com

GOSSIP GIRL, An Example That Must Be Followed In The TV And Movie Industry, As The American Entertainment Business Is Not Enough Focusing On The Sale Of Films And TV-Shows DVDs, Preferring To Boost The Rent/Location Of Them! BUY A DVD Of GossiP GirL, If you Want To Admire The Quality Of The ShoW And Know Better Why Fred VIDAL, PhD Is A Fan Of This Series And A Personal Fanatic Of The Lead Character and The Actress Blake Lively.

A LinK To Share With The GG Universe:
www.gossipgirl.net

FV IN LA Is A SignaL Of Fred VIDAL ComeBack In The MUSIC INDUSTRY! The young Actor (since 2003) Is Back To The Sets Since Last Summer (IRON MAN 2, HEROES, THE GREEN HORNET, CHUCK, EASTWICK TV-Shows, some more) For XTRA-TIME evaluation Of His Preparation Of ACTING Career In HollywooD As President Of TIMEFFRAMES ( A ThinK SmarT CLUB For The AmericaN FILM INDUSTRY Empowerment And Improvement InTo 2010’s Developemt Of The After-Crisis Era For Entertainment In The United States). A Book-Post of His Acting Memories, ‘From Spielberg To Eastwood, My Acting Work In Hollywood’, Is scheduled This Month on The Web (Fred VIDAL worked As A Day-Time Player, for non-speaking roles mostly, with Dozens of important actors, directors, producers of The American Film Industry, like Martin SHEEN, On THE WEST WING, Katie HOLMES, for his first day on a set in 2003, For BASTILLE Day, Jennifer ANISTON,  Ashton KUTCHER in Valentine’s Day, Photo-Double Of Steve CARELL In The Office’s NBC TV-Show, a lot more). With Clint EATWOOD, Director, He Played Humphfrey BOGART, In a Scene Of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS.

Fred’s In A Process Of Development-Reorganization Of His MOVIE ActivitY In HollywoodLanD, LA With Dissolution Project Of LimitED Liability COMPANY FRENCH COP And Creation Partnership TIMEFRAMES In Hollywood, A CluB-Work, Semi-Commercial, That Could Be The Next Step Of HIS START-UP StrateGy StoppeD By Lake Of Synergies-Solidarity In His NETWORKING Work 2005-2009 (Chambers of commerce, Business and Mixer Organizations). Vidal’s Didn’t Succeed To Stay Full-Time Producer As His Screenwriting Work, At the Same Time, Got A Spectacular Success On The Internet, With More 350,000 Readers Of His Blog-Newspaper On WORDPRESS, http://fredvidal.wordpress.com

Regarding His Musical Inspiration And Movie

Great PIC: RED CARPET Complex Mag + Harley Davidson EVENT Hollywood CA - 17.10.07 Credit: Rachel Worth /WENN! Fred VIDAL, David HASSELHOFF, Alicia ARDEN, Great Actress And The Public Relations Of Fred VIDAL from 2007 to 2008, for more Than a Couple Of Months, And A Friend!

Orientation Of Career And PersonaL Life, Fred VIDAL Is… (writinG ContinueS in a moment, STAY TUNED!!)

2nd PART: CORPORATE ROOM And ‘AMERICA’ I LoVe YoU FOREVER!, 3rd Part In Line For Online THIS AFTERNOON, SAT, Before 6pm pt, BeginninG Is ScheduleD!

Regarding His Musical Inspiration And Movie Orientation Of Career And PersonaL Life, Fred VIDAL Is Focusing On More With The Creation Of TIMEFRAMES, A THINK SMART CluB (MottO: Ready For The Best), Created For A Brainstoorming About The Future Of Hollywood, A Nation In Crisis, A Nation Inside The Nation, The American One, With A Community That is a Family and An Identity, A population Of Actors, Movie Producers And Directors, Screenwriters. What Future For Them? A Crisis Or An Anti-Crisis Era With The Happening of The 2010’s? TIMEFRAMES Thinks that The Problem Of MGM Future (With UNITED ARTISTS That could Be a Solution To produce More movies for Young Talents of The Industry) and The Negotiations In progress Between NBC And COMCAST (explained daily In The Local DAILY NEWS as A Crucial Matter For The LA County) Are Emblematic Of a World That chages, even if it’s sometimes in chaotic Way. So Let’s Choose The Best Attitude With a Debate, and No more Strikes that Kill progress, that TIMEFRAMES Proposes As a Mixer-Concept (An invitation To be Sent to Hollywood Insiders for an Orientation Party In Hollywoodland, In December the 13.

Last But Not Least, Fred VIDAL Is ThinkinG about The personal Success Of Hiss professional Life In a Corporate but Private too Environment, in a Context where Celebrities Are Involved In Public Media. He will Be next year In a Process Of Developing His Life To Build A Family, hoping To give You GOOD NEWS About That, Soon Too. It’s the responsability Of actors and public Figures to Express themselves About their Life, without ambiguity and Miscommunication. This Program Has A Name: AMERICA as Fred’s Love Surname Is The One Of Our COUNTRY, The United States.

Thank you.

This text is a Project/Draft and Will be updated and Upgraded, Tomorrow SUNDAY, December 6. 2009.

Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen as Holly and Kit in Malick’s masterwork Badlands (1973). Warren Oates as her father.

Holly practices her clarinet on a bench, waiting for her father. Her father pulls up. They go home. Holly goes upstairs. Her boyfriend Kit comes over. He and her father have words. Kit shoots Holly’s father.

Having come down the stairs, Holly goes to her father’s side.

Kit watches and lights a cigarette.

She knows her father is going to die and that Kit has shot him, and she is not really shocked or reproachful, per se. It’s difficult to judge whether Holly is an unthinking person or if she is a person who just floats — don’t be fooled by her voice-over narration; Malick plays with contrasts between what’s reported and what we actually observe — through her life, someone who expects nothing and accepts everything.

Either way her father’s death is not a surprise. But because she expects nothing, she isn’t sure what Kit will do next. She is only slightly afraid that he might do something to her. You can read that here.

What Kit does next is he goes to a service station to get a can of gasoline. There is a coin-operated game there, a voice-recorder. He punches through the glass of the game. This act of time-consuming vandalism when he is trying to quickly throw together a plan to conceal a crime is open to interpretation: Kit either makes his own fun, or he cannot brook the bourgeois notion that some witless rube, some fool who has wandered a million years afield from the purpose of man as a hunter, might pay to have his own voice recorded, then, by hearing it played back, feel delight worth the coin he paid. Or maybe Kit has different ideas of how to make a mark, and what ought be recorded. I don’t know. I’m not Kit, and I don’t know Malick and his mind. This is guesswork. Kit leaves with his gas.

He uses the gas to douse Holly’s house, with her father’s corpse still inside.

Holly watches. Darkness is all around her and she is only lit by the lights from within the house. She is getting ready to turn her back on that light, and go in to the dark completely. She’ll go with Kit now.

The fire that began in Holly’s bed is about to consume their entire house. It was a choice that started there and now she has no choice but to go forward with Kit.

Malick handles the destruction of Holly’s house and her father’s body by focusing on the doll and the dollhouse as they burn. This is important. The end of small-minded, cast-mold imitations of real life, the end of modeled and scaled efforts at simulated perfection, leaving innocence behind in ashes. What now, Holly?

I will tell you what now. They leave Fort Dupree, South Dakota, and embark on a several-state killing spree before being captured. Really disturbing, incredibly-acted, understated film, almost totally perfect, and very gorgeous from the compositional perspective. A mixed bag. You very much need to be in the right mood.

The film drew inspiration from the real story of mass killer Charles Starkweather and his teenaged accomplice, Caril Ann Fugate, who killed eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming in January, 1958. Besides Malick’s Badlands, the pair of jerkwad murderers also inspired Natural Born Killers, the 1993 Tim Roth and Fairuza Balk TV mini-series Murders in the Heartland and, though I have never heard it confirmed, rather obviously and less seriously The Frighteners. Starkweather also pops up in works by Stephen King. That’s all I want to say about it. Go look it up if you want more.

I don’t feel like going in to all that partner-killer, famous-murder-spree, monstrous fucking shit right now. I will just say I have not grown into an adult who — nor an adult with the patience to tolerate another adult who — makes a huge to-do over killers. Exceedingly not. It’s why I didn’t even link you up with a wiki hook to that asshole Starkweather and his girl. So please don’t start in on me with factoids or comments about them, thinking we’re buddies-in-kink, if searching for killers because that’s how you get your kicks is how you found this post.

I’m not saying it’s not worth talking or thinking about — anyone with a stake in the success of society as a cooperative effort needs to worry and think and talk about people who break the rules, how they do it, why, and how we deal with it. But glorification and gory gushing on the intricacies of those transgressor’s little personal details? Making them celebrities while forgetting their victims’ names? Not interested.

FLICKERS: Get set for “the greatest opera film ever, filmed in 3D and HD video, featuring 1000 extras, 150 musicians and chorus members from the Paris

SHEEN: walking The Walk

Opera, 50 dancers and 20 of the world’s greatest singers.” No kidding. It’s the all-new Tales Of Hoffman, an extravagant film debut for director Robert Carsen. Is Michael Levine designing the sets? Of course. The 150-minute spectacle will be shot in Paris, Milan, Prague and Venice, locations include the Paris Opera and La Scala, and Renee Fleming and Rolando Villazon are set to topline a cast which includes Scott Hendricks, Anne Sophie Von Otter and Bryn Terfel. Stay tuned … Martin Sheen is in Spain, shooting The Way with Deborah Kara Unger for his actor-writer-director son Emilio Estevez. It’s a story about El Camino de

McCORMACK: texting?

Santiago, the famous pilgrimage route that has existed for more than 1000 years. Shirley MacLaine walked the 500 miles from the French village of Saint Jean de Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela in 1994 — she was 60 at the time — and got a bestseller out of it. Can’t wait to see what Emilio does with it … and Jason Lewis, Eric McCormack and Carly Pope are shooting Liam Card’s Textuality, a comedy about a guy and a girl on the brink of romance who must first end the multiple relationships they were managing through their Blackberries before they met. Also on hand to bring actor-writer Card’s first feature film screenplay to life are director Warren P. Sonoda, producer Marc Rigaux and executive producer Michael Baker. Sounds like fun.

NOW THAT’S GOING GREEN: Looking for enviro-friendly Xmas gifts? Street pole banners featuring those striking images from the National Ballet are being combined with recycled seatbelts and inner tubes (!!) to create National Ballet tote bags and messenger bags. They’re all made with 100% recycled material and you can buy ‘em at the Ballet Boutique at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

BOYD: Peter, Paul & Liona?

QUOTABLE QUOTES: “I’m looking to form a Peter, Paul & Mary style trio (so sad that poor Mary recently died) and wondered if any of you happen to know someone who might fit the bill. He has to be able to play folky acoustic guitar (or even classical, but not essential), and have a good singing voice (preferably a tenor,) plus live in North America. If he happens to be single, nice looking, slim, somewhat enlightened and intelligent and between the age of 50 and 65 so much the better “

The seeker? Guitar virtuoso Liona Boyd, e-talking a musical APB to her friends and fans in her recent newsletter.

UP UP & AWAY: Air Canada is testing whether travelers want to pay to surf the Web, send email or work via the Internet while flying. Internet service on select Toronto-Los Angeles and Montreal-Los Angeles routes will run until January 29. Passengers will pay $9.95 per flight to use a laptop computer and $7.95 to use a personal electronic device, such as a smartphone. Air Canada also began charging extra fees last week to book Preferred seats with additional leg room, starting at $14. Preferred seats refer to the bulkhead and exit row seats in Economy Class that offer added legroom. “These coveted seats are now available to all Air Canada and Jazz® customers for a fee that varies by fare option and destination.”

Hmmmmm. And the fee for using the washroom is …??

TOMORROW:

The Bible tells me so.

For Long Island info (ie: taking a train or bus, meeting others) see: here.

Bernard Lafayette to lead the World March for Peace and Nonviolence across Brooklyn Bridge

What: The World March for Peace and Nonviolence starts a three-day tour of the USA with a March over the Brooklyn Bridge led by Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Civil Rights activist and adviser to Martin Luther King.

When: Mon. Nov 30, starts 1 pm, finish 3pm

Where: Starting at Brooklyn Boro Hall to City Hall, via the Brooklyn Bridge.

Who: The international base team of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence with their international Spokesperson, Rafael de la Rubia, Dr. Bernard Lafayette, hundreds of nonviolence activists from around the State, all the students and teachers at Brooklyn International High School and others, religious leaders, Consuls and New York City Council Members.

Why: The World March for Peace and Nonviolence is travelling through 100 countries on 6 continents calling for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and the withdrawal of troops from foreign territories among others.  Starting on 2^nd October in Wellington, New Zealand, the March is due to arrive in Punta de Vacas, Argentina on the 2^nd of January at the end of a 93 day tour.

Endorsements: Presidents of 11 countries; Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Cate Blanchett, Martin Sheen, Yoko Ono, Art Garfunkel, Philip Glass, Ed Asner and hundreds more.  For a complete list, go to www.theworldmarch.org

Lataa Ohjelma (MP3)

Eeppisen mittaisessa juhlajaksossamme esitellään uusi tunnari, palkitaan kommentoijia ja ennen kaikkea käydään läpi panelistien Top 10 suosikkielokuvat kautta aikojen. Mittaa jaksolle tosiaan venähti melkein kolme ja puoli tuntia, mutta älkää säikähtäkö. Annamme tämän kuunteluun kuuntelijoille muutaman viikon kuunteluaikaa ennen uusia jaksoja ja podcastia voi kuunnella vapaavalintaisissa osioissa.

Juhan Top 10 elokuvat:
- Modern Times
- Amélie
- Seven
- Pulp Fiction
- Á Bout de Souffle
- Apocalypse Now
- Dr. Strangelove
- Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä
- Annie Hall
- Requiem for a Dream

Henrikin Top 10 elokuvat:
- WALL-E
- The Great Dictator
- Metropolis
- The Incredibles
- Galaxy Quest
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Finding Nemo

Since it’s Thanksgiving weekend over the Pond, Classic Clip Friday this week celebrates a few memorable scenes from the best Thanksgiving episodes of a few of my favourite TV shows (or, at least, the ones I could find online) .

We’ll start with the greatest thanksgiving scene in TV history. I already dedicated a complete post to the Turkey drop scene from WKRP In Cincinnati but it’s well worth revisiting, especially given the time of year.

To set it up, you should know that WKRP’s manager, Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump) had decided to organise a special Thanksgiving promotion, to try and boost the radio station’s profile, but hadn’t told anyone what it was – just that he needed 20 live turkeys.

 Les Nessman (Richard Sanders), a somewhat less than worldly-wise news reporter - whose serious, professional demeanour belied the fact that he was utterly useless - is sent to a shopping mall to cover the event:

Next up, a couple of great scenes from the much-missed The West Wing. First, President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) talks turkey with the Butterball Hotline:

But he’s just a big softy, really, and so when called on to ”pardon” a turkey…

Moving on, now, one of the greatest TV shows of all time and another of the all-time great Thanksgiving episodes. Here’s what happened when the Cheers gang decided to have their meal together on the big day:

And finally, Friends, a show that always pushed the boat out to deliver some great Thanksgiving episodes… and this one, with a very special guest star, was probably the most famous of the lot:

A Book, Etincelle – MY XTRA TIME, From Steven SPIELBERG To Clint EASTWOOD, By Mike FULLER, PhD To Write The Fred VIDAL Acting Memories 2003-2009 As FRED KELLY, New AKA Of Fred VIDAL, Is On Stage For Sketches (COMEDY IMPRO) Beginning This Week, In Los Angeles!

B.N.:

SUNDAY: As HeRe CoMeS Th NiGhT HITS On Youtube At almost 250 Views now, PARLOPHONE RECORDS 25th Friend Of FRED VIDAL Official Since This Morning!!

Preview: Fred VIDAL’s Acting Memories Will Be ALPHABET, From A To Z, By NAMES Of Actors He Met, DIRECTORS & Producers Who Hired Him As XTRA!

VIDAL’s ACTING Memories BooK-PosT Includes MARTIN SHEEN For Episode THE WEST WING, 1st ever DAY SAG WORK 2005, ImportanT SET!

Who Is Frederic VIDAL? A Fictional name? no, An actor Who Appears AlwaYs At the Right & GOoD Time! On SET or NOT!! more to come

A Book, Etincelle – MY XTRA TIME, From Steven SPIELBERG To Clint EASTWOOD, By Mike FULLER, PhD To Write The Fred VIDAL Acting Memories 2003-2009 As FRED KELLY, New AKA Of Fred VIDAL, Is on Stage For Sketches (COMEDY IMPRO) Beginning Next Week, In Los Angeles!

The Comple Text ASAP.

On TWITTER FV, http://twitter.com/fredvidal

As He Prepares the WritinG Of A Post Of MEMORIES Of His Acting Best Days: My Working Days on A Set With SPIELBERG And EATSWOOD,  Fred KELLY ready To IMPRO onstage.

W-FV: A Book, My EXTRA Time, From Steven SPIELBERG To Clint EASTWOOD, By Mike FULLER, PhD To Write The Fred VIDAL Acting Memories 2003-2009!

EASTWOOD , It was In 2005 or 6? BUT It Was For A Movie From The FUTURE Due To QUALITY WORK, So 2009!

MY EXTRA TIME WITH SPIELBERG AND EASTWOOD? I Like That! (a publisher) Fred’s Mr. SPIELBERG Friend On MYSPACE!! I checked! Good! Congrats!

Before To Begin A General Writing Of My 6 Years SETS Memories, I Want To Express My Gratitude To EverybodY, Including YVONNE STRAHOVSKI Of The CHUCK TV-Show Serie (and not series). On the Set Of this OnE, I Felt Not guilty To find Her LOVELY!! Fred VIDAL, November 27.

FRED KELLY onstage IMPRO tour 2009 Holiday Season: Will Be, Not As BILLY CRISTAL’s A. Awards HOST, But a Non-Singing BOB DYLAN freewheelin’!

But BILLY CRISTAL (also seen In Long Beach in the Past) aNd Jerry SEINFELD Will Be The TOP MASTERS Of Fred VIDAL Game & PLAY!! onstage Only!

He Plays Well THE GUITAR, He Has A GOOD VOICE (even if criticized), He’s Writing His Lines ON TWITTER ALL THE TIME, So Y Not On Stage Too?!

CHARLIE CHAPLIN featured AS THE GREAT DICTATOR, Featured In Article’s NEWSPAPER ‘IMPRO-MEMORY-COMEDY’ Now Blog To InforM Subject FV Stage!!

It was Chaplin’s first true talking picture, & more importantly was Only major film of its period 2 bitterly satirize Nazism & Adolf Hitler!

NO CONFUSION: CHARLIE CHAPLIN Is THE 1st IN THE MOVIE INDUSTRY Who Criticized A DICTATOR, And It Was A TRIUMPH 4 His Masterpiece In The 30’s

The Great Dictator is a comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940. Music Too!

It was Chaplin’s first true talking picture, & more importantly was Only major film of its period 2 bitterly satirize Nazism & Adolf Hitler!

The Great Dictator is a comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. First released in October 1940, it was Chaplin’s first

Thanks WIKIPEDIA! Some don’t Agree because There was Also The Dictator Himself Showing He was a BEST CLOWN IN TOWN, In Germany, fortunately!

FRED VIDAL Acknowledges He’s FAN CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Even If Thomas SPEARS Met CHAPLIN In Hollywood (+ PARIS, one told me), FRIENDS Vs NAZISM!

In Alternate HISTORY You never Sure About WhO You Meet, You OnlY KnoW That you’re NoT in Another Dimension, You IN ANOTHER SPACE! scientific

PARALLEL OR ALTERNATIVE?? THE TWO OF THEM, A PLANET!

TOM CRUISE Had PROBLEMS 2 PRODUCE Valkyrie, VIDAL TOO For SILENCE THOMAS SPEARS But He Has Not The MONEY Of TOM, So NO FILM, A One Man Show!

When You Want To KILL A DICTATOR, You Must WAKE up EarlY & BUILD A STRATEGY. HERO FILM VALKYRIE Do ThE Same The Best He Can, V. Good Movie!

In Silence Thomas Spears ONSTAGE (He already Did It In 30’s After Betrayal HITLER), You part of ALTERNATIVE AND PARALLEL PlaneT, Not Earth!!

In Silence Thomas Spears ONSTAGE, It’s A Ticket To An ALTERNATIVE (or Alternate) AND PARALLEL Earth! A PREMIERE, the 2 Concepts TOGETHER!!

When You OUT The Theater/Music Hall, You BACK ON Your earth!!!

It’s LIKE CRISS ANGEL, For A PLANETARY CRUISE/TRIP!! (CyB, H. Blvd) Parallel-Alternate, Nice Place!! SAD SPEARS couldn’t Kill HITLER Here!!

YES, sure, BuT On The Other Hand, HE KILLED HIMSELF (Hitler)!! But a little too late!

But THE JEWS Will Find HIM And Kill Him A SECOND TIME, Back In The 1930’s, In The GERMAN SPY Universe!! another chapter of the book

DON’T KILL HIM Too Much, PUT ONE In NUREMBERG, To Give Information!! (FAN STS) laughs

It’s In The MOVIE, if a movie one day

Basically HITLER Had probably Several PHOTO DOUBLES. Consequently We Are sure Only That Real ONE Died In 1945 In our Reality (not P&A Earth)

Fred VIDAL Was On The P&A (Parallel & Alternative) EARTH last Summer! He Found Nothing Interesting, BUT It Was in 2009. SPACE-TIME Explains!

La rabbia giovane (Badlands, 1973) di Terence Malick

Il Nebraska non è una terra facile da vivere, così come non lo sono in generale le periferie di questo pianeta.  E il destino dei suoi abitanti a volte sembra essere scritto nei propri cognomi, come accade a l protagonista Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen), il cui nome, come suggerisce il ragazzo stesso, sembra essere “carrozziere”.  In realtà il 25enne lavora come netturbino ma è scontento del suo lavoro e della vita che conduce in questa cittadina del Nebraska. Tutto questo fino a quando incontra la ragazza che le cambierà la vita: la giovanissima (appena 15 anni) Holly Sargis.

Tra i due nascerà una storia d’amore silente e straziante, fatta di poche parole e ancor meno effusioni. E forse errato anche chiamarlo amore, perchè la ragazza ammira nel giovane soprattutto la somiglianza che ha con la star hollywoodiana James Dean. Ma se l’attore americano era divenuto celebre per la sua interpretazione di Rebel Without a Cause (Gioventù bruciata), i due ragazzi diventeranno protagonisti di una nuova storia che si potrebbe intitolare “Assassini senza motivo”.  In effetti, più che la passione, è la violenza gratuita che traspare negli atti dei due ragazzi, una freddezza spietata che porterà ad uccidere 11 persone, tra cui, per primo, il padre di Holly Sargis.

L’alienazione che Terrence Malick mostra è inquietante, nessuna giustificazione agli atti di violenza, nessun idillio per i due fidanzati, nessun senso di colpa per gli atti di brutalità che seminano nel loro percorso. Il loro, in effetti, è un viaggio nel nulla. Le frontiere in Nebraska sono inesistenti, così come lo sono i pionieri, sostituiti da fantocci nati per emulazione, marionette che sembrano muoversi all’interno di una pellicola senza regista, frutto di un montaggio casuale. Anche il rapporto uomo-natura è annullato. La natura non è ostile e non è amica, è solo un grosso nulla che icombe, che osserva l’uomo consumarsi nella sua disperazione. Forse può essere un riparo dalla legge ma alla fine dalla legge non si vuol scappare.

Il giovane Carruthers terrorizzò l’america assonnata del dopoguerra a suoni di pallottole, la destò dalla noia e dal torpore e regalò uno scenario brutale di sangue e violenza. Questo era il suo messaggio, questa la sua bruta e spietata fantasia. Il film di Malick è ispirato, in effetti, ad un storia veria, quella del giovane Charles Starkweather e Caril Ann che nell’inverno del 1957 seminarono il terrore negli Stati Uniti. La storia è così brutale che nemmeno a Quentin Tarantino sarebbe saltata in mente di scriverla, e infatti, il giovane sceneggiatore si limitò a registrarla riadattandola per la stesura di Natual Born Killer (1994). Anche il Boss ne rimase colpito fortemente e ne trasse una splendida canzone, Nebraska, che diede il titolo a uno degli album più belli della storia del rock.

Testo Nebraska di Bruce Springsteen

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Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen): Se potessi cantare una canzone su come mi sento ora… Diventerebbe famosa…

Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek): Lo tennero in isolamento per no fargli fare amicizia con i carcerati. Sapevano che sarebbe piaciuto, specialmente agli assassini.

I’m sure I wasn’t the only member of Team Edward that could really care less about Edward last night during the midnight showing.

Arriving in the line at 5pm may have created the greatest build up pf anticipation that I have EVER experienced for a midnight showing…and I have been to countless. In all honesty, I did not expect New Moon to be good after the disappointing premiere of Twilight last year. But Chris Weitz, a fantastic director, gave me hope that maybe I didn’t have to worry.

After 6 1/2 hours in line, we were finally let into the theater, and I found my way inbetween two great movie watchers, one of them in particular.

Knowing the story of the book, I had no idea how Chris Weitz was going to create something fabulous, especially with an actor playing Jacob that I didn’t necessarily like. But he did. I will never doubt Taylor Lautner again, in anything that I ever see him in for the rest of my life.

Not only did this film have an actual storyline, unlike Twilight, because of the leaps and bounds the script has over the first, the acting is also better. After Twilight, you never would have known that Kristen Stewart, Rob Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are a group of very talented actors. ESPECIALLY Taylor.

We all know how the story ends, and who Bella chooses. But…just…WOW. I would never have found the strength to say ”No” to Jacob like she does countless times. And I’m not just talking about the abs, although…I’m sure they play a part. LOL. Taylor interprets Jake’s desperate love for Bella just PERFECTLY.

He doesn’t even need the words to describe it. Just the looks on his face tell the audience all we need to know. The way that he naturally takes her hand at the movie theater and almost kisses her in the truck….then DOES in the house right before Edward calls! (I was literally holding my breath screaming “YES!” in my head…then hated Edward for the rest of the movie) And when he whispers that sentence in his peoples language to her right before he kisses her….mmmmm….I seriously, melted! Melted into complete mush in my seat. LOL

Okay…done talking about Taylor. For the moment.

It is beyond obvious that the quality of writing in New Moon is in another league compared to the disaster that Twilight was. As I said before, better writing automatically creates better acting performances. As an aspiring screenwriter myself, I know at least that much about the film industry. And with no more exact scenes being pulled directly out of the book, but being CREATED for the big screen…the audience and fans of the books finally get what we already should have had with the Twilight.

But the one thing that was directly from the book that I was glad to see, was the passage of time after Edward left. That part in the book shocked me…and the way that it is shown in the movie…with camera circling around Bella as we see the change in season out the window…was PERFECT. I loved it.

I am still astonished about how Chris Weitz was able to put together such a good film version of the book that many would say the slowest, and maybe even worst of the books. Although for me, Breaking Dawn holds the title of my least favorite for the books, I do have to agree that New Moon is the slowest paced book of the series. And it just shows how much of a great storyteller Chris Weitz is to be able to pick and choose all of the RIGHT things from the book and presenting them in a way that a MOVIE needs to, not a book. That was the problem with Twilight. They were trying to make it TOO MUCH like the book, and because of that, the story was way over the top, and failed miserably to capture the fan’s hearts.

But New Moon will not have that problem. It has not only renewed faith in all Twilighters that these films don’t have to disappoint. That the stories of the books can be made into a GREAT MOVIE. 

I can honestly say that I believe New Moon is as great of a version of the books as both of the Narnia movies. So close to the story told in the books that I can almost find nothing that is missing. Everything that I wanted to see…I saw.

My greatest concern with New Moon was whether the audience would get over the absense of the Cullens. But the relatiohship and conflict between Jake and Bella is writing and shown so well, the audience doesn’t even give a second thought to the Cullens. Not even Edward, in most cases.

And where Twilight was failed miserably with dorky special effects, those in New Moon far from disappoint. Not only did the wolves look KICK ASS period, but  their transformations were FANTASTIC and believeable. And the fight scene with the Volturi are just a taste of what we will get in Eclipse.

Speaking of….the Volturi. Exaclty what I always pictured. Michael Sheen was a perfect Aro and Dakota Fanning a perfect Jane. A VERY CREEPY Jane. The girl sitting next to me asked why she dressed like a little girl, with the schooly uniform and shoes….BECAUSE CREEPY KIDS MAKE MY SKIN CRAWL…LOL…I believe that was the point.

All in all…a fantastic film. I loved it…and plan on seeing it many times over. In fact, I’m going again in a few hours…LOL…with a new Jacob Shirt…LOL

De acterende familie Estévez bestaat uit vader Ramón en kinderen Carlos, Emilio, Ramón en Renée. Ramón is de zoon van een Ierse moeder en een Spaanse vader, beiden Amerikaanse immigranten. De acterende Ramón besloot zijn familienaam achter zich te laten en een artiestennaam te zoeken. Hij was erg gelovig en vond de naam bij Fulton J. Sheen, een katholieke bisschop en theoloog. Het werd uiteindelijk Martin Sheen. Klinkt niet slecht. Maar klinkt het zo veel beter dan Ramón Estévez? Dat heeft ook wel iets. Iets exotisch. Sheen bouwde een stevige carrière uit met als hoogtepunt de rol van Captain Willard in de oorlogsfilm Apocalypse Now van Francis Ford Coppola. Geniale film, geniaal geacteerd. Hij bleek ook naast zijn filmcarrière erg productief en kreeg vier kinderen: Carlos, Emilio, Renée en Ramón. Estévez dus, niet Sheen. De vier kinderen stapten zoals dat hoort in de voetsporen van hun vader en gingen acteren. Emilio, Renée en Ramón behielden hun vaders geboortenaam, Carlos nam de artiestennaam van zijn vader over. Emilio Estévez heeft als ‘grootste’ acteerprestatie de rol van Gordon Bombay in The Mighty Ducks neergezet. Renée en Ramón moesten het met heel wat mindere B-films doen. Het grootste succes in de familie was uiteindelijk weggelegd voor zoon Carlos, die zichzelf omdoopte tot Charlie Sheen. Iedereen kent zijn naam, zijn gezicht, maar eigenlijk heeft hij een belabberde filmografie. Of vindt u Major League, Scary Movie 3 & 4, Hot Shots en de tv-serie Two and a Half Men om mee uit
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
East Wing Martini

My mind tends to work in strange and mysterious ways.  Not all of them logical.  Few of them, in fact.  First thing I thought of when I saw the name of this cocktail was the old West Wing TV series.  I loved that show, at least in the earlier years.  I didn’t watch much of the last season or two.  It lost a lot of charm for me after Aaron Sorkin left the show, some of the spark just wasn’t there anymore.  And of course my conservative boyfriend hated it, a bunch of Democrats spouting off every week.  I suppose for me it was a fictional respite from the very long years of the Bush administration … one could tune in once a week and think, “if only …” (if only our President actually had a brain!  if only somebody like Leo McGarry really existed in the Oval Office!  if only Toby Ziegler would try smiling for just one episode!) and so on.  But after all this reminiscing, I realized I really know little to nothing about the “East Wing” of the White House.  Assuming that’s what this drink is named after.  WHY it would be named after it is another matter entirely.  I’m not going to go there because I have no clue.  It’s only my job to take you off to some hithertofore unexplored realms of imagination before telling you what I think of the martini I’m drinking.  Hmmm.  Sounds like a bartending version of The Twilight Zone.  Hope that giant eyeball doesn’t start looking like a cocktail olive.

Will somebody PLEASE get Stockard Channing a martini?

The East Wing consists of 6 parts vodka, 1 part Campari, 2 parts cherry brandy, and the ubiquitous lemon twist.  The East Wing of the White House is apparently where the First Lady’s office is now and where her staff works, although apparently that choice can vary from administration to administration.  I couldn’t find out online whether or not that’s where Michelle Obama has her office.  It seems like a long walk to work from wherever the First Family resides in the West Wing, but then again, it beats driving and she usually wears flats, so I’d give that a two thumbs-up call for commuting.  Maybe this martini is considered a dignified girlie drink worthy of First Ladies and hence the name.  Or someone just pulled it out of their ass.  Probably the latter. 

So in mixing this, my red alert flag should have gone off because I’m starting to realize that Campari is right up there with Pernod in terms of “liquor to avoid” for me.  Although it isn’t nearly as strong.  It just doesn’t blow my skirt up, though.  But for having one part Campari to 6 parts vodka, this was far more palatable to me than the equivalent proportion of Pernod would have been.  I shudder at the mere thought.  This is a lovely shade of reddish gold with a hint of pink to it, a very pretty drink, and the cherry brandy (I used Bols, I’ll be honest that prior to now I never knew what “Bols” made, I’d just heard the name as some kind of liqueur but it never clicked) mollified that bitter/herb bite of the Campari.  A tad more cherry brandy and a bit less Campari and this might be just right for me.  In this form, I would actually give it 3.5 stars – it was good.  Much better than I expected.  Worth sampling again in 2010.

Cheers,
Cathy

The End of Poverty? (2008) is a startling documentary that brings comprehension to the origin of global poverty. The opening question by narrator Martin Sheen sets the direction of the film; “In a world where there is so much wealth, with modern cities and plentiful… http://www.dainsmoviereviews.com/2009/11/end-of-poverty-documentary-review.html

It wasn’t all doom and gloom at Friday’s premiere of “The End of Poverty?” at Village East Cinemas. The film, which traces the origins of global poverty back to the Age of Exploration, offers a reason for hope: things might soon get so bad that the impoverished will rise up in armed rebellion.

The documentary, narrated by Martin Sheen, argues that economic imperialism is the cause of widespread poverty in the Southern Hemisphere. According to the film, international economic policymakers at the IMF and World Bank ransom the natural resources of poorer countries, using coercive loans and crushing debt. At the same time, “structural violence” left over from colonialism has rendered these nations helpless, passive witnesses to their own despoliation. More>

Brilliant. Time to talk about our Ten lists once more, so settle in for the long haul and try and keep up. Much discussion ensues as Sam tries to extol the virtues of Ingmar Bergman, praise the magical realism of Billy Liar and attempt to make sense of All About Lily Chou-Chou. John continues the theme, causing slight, though understandable, consternation with his uncensored views on Raging Bull and confessions of multiple tears during Schindler’s List. Tom rounds the night off in business-like fashion with praise for The 400 Blows, controversial dislike for the second half of Stalker and man-crushed love for Le Samourai.

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Il film Wall Street del 1987 posso dire di saperlo a memoria: l’ho usato per imparare meglio l’inglese o meglio l’americano….. l’ho visto mille volte anche in inglese…… un film che cito spessissimo. Un favoloso Michael Douglas ed un grande Charlie Sheen.

Quando uscirà vi consiglio di andarlo a vedere: se è come il primo penso che sarà davvero bello!!!

Poi con tutto quello che è successo negli ultimi 20 anni di finanza spericolata e di globalizzazione selvaggia penso che ci sarà molto su cui pensare e riflettere. E poi Oliver Stone è uno che raramente delude!

Spero di vedere presto questo film!

I love the theatre and was recently fortunate enough to have the chance to watch two great American actors at work. The play ‘A short wake’ is set in a New-York funeral parlour, and focuses on two estranged brothers who are re-united at their father’s wake. The play is wonderful, funny, sometimes dark and laced with numerous expletives. Both actors were wonderful, and had the audience mesmerised throughout.

Afterwards, I managed to interview the stars, Joe Estevaz and Nick Hardin. Joe Estevaz is a veteran actor with 160 films, over 50 plays and his own TV show to his name. He comes from a legendary acting family, Brother of Martin Sheen and uncle to Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. While Nick Hardin, a New-Yorker, now living in Ballymoney, is also a veteran with an equally successful career. Both actors are extremely proud of their Irish connections and were delighted to be appearing on the Irish stage. Joe, whose mother is from Tipperary, carries an Irish passport and Nick is married to a woman from Ballyshannon. Nick, who has visited Donegal many times, spoke of his fondness for the County and suggested that ‘Even God himself has a holiday home in Donegal’. I’m not sure if he was suggesting that Donegal was heaven, or was hinting at the condition of planning permission in Donegal. At the end of the interview, Joe said that as his grandmother’s maiden name was Duffy, (I’m not sure if I believe him!) and as we were practically ‘cousins’ that I should come to the closing party afterwards. Unfortunately, I had other plans- But I think I might use that line in the future. ‘Joe Estevaz and Martin Sheen are cousins of mine’. Well, practically.

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Brilliant. Time to talk about our Ten lists once more, so settle in for the long haul and try and keep up. Much discussion ensues as Sam tries to extol the virtues of Ingmar Bergman, praise the magical realism of Billy Liar and attempt to make sense of All About Lily Chou-Chou. John continues the theme, causing slight, though understandable, consternation with his uncensored views on Raging Bull and confessions of multiple tears during Schindler’s List. Tom rounds the night off in business-like fashion with praise for The 400 Blows, controversial dislike for the second half of Stalker and man-crushed love for Le Samourai.

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Oh! How I missed you both! Jed… Abbey… welcome back! Good call from the Health Care for America Now folks in getting them to make this video:

From the HCAN YouTube page:

The House will vote on their historic health care bill tomorrow. Now is the time to call your Representative in Washington and make sure they know you stand for quality, affordable health care for all.

Actors Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing, who’ve had some on-screen “experience” with politics, have recorded a special message for Health Care for America Now supporters for this moment.

Call 1-877-264-HCAN (4226)

Learn more here.

Much love for President Obama, obviously, but I have always wished Jed Bartlett was president… or at the very least Matthew Santos. I’m a huge fan, as the picture from my office wall will attest:

Santos/McGarry

One of my friends from the Richmond, VA campaign I ran in 2005 gave that bumper sticker to me. I love it, but didn’t want to put it on my car to get ruined.

Folks might also notice I have an affinity for Obama and – my most favorite Congressman in the whole world – Rep. Patrick Murphy. He’s the best.

Mired in production difficulties and problems from day one, 1970’s Catch-22 manages to be an entertaining, black comedy about war and the absurdity involved with it. Mike Nichols took on the task of bringing Joseph Heller’s brilliant novel to the screen, but Buck Henry tinkered with the book so much that much of it was almost unrecognizable on screen. Nevertheless, Heller approved of the finished product.

That’s not to say many others did, however, as the picture didn’t do well at all with critics or at the box office. It is now seen as somewhat of a cult film. There is some good stuff in Catch-22, even if there isn’t really a discernable cohesive narrative or thread to follow. The characters are entertaining, the script is witty and entertaining, and the tone of the movie is deeply sardonic and rich with dark humour.

Alan Arkin stars as Captain Yossarian, a U.S. Army bombardier stationed in Pianosa during World War II. He is continually dispatched on dangerous missions and watches his friends die. The whole thing is driving him a little bit crazy, so he tries to escape combat duties. The problem is the “catch-22” employed by the army: a pilot is crazy to fly more missions but sane if he doesn’t want to and the only way to be grounded is to be determined crazy. In other words, flying the missions would prove the man to be crazy, but asking not to fly them would only prove sanity and, thus, would mean more missions.

Nichols’ film becomes concerned with how various people cope with such convoluted logic. We explore various characters along with Yossarian, including Lt. Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight) and his bizarre black market scheme, Major Major (Bob Newhart) and his inability to do his newly-assigned job, and Captain “Aarfy Aardvark” (Charles Grodin) and his commission of murder.

Catch-22 had some difficulty going up against MASH in 1970 and was Paramount’s big gamble against the powerhouse picture from Robert Altman. Catch-22 tried largely to bank on star power, using the likes of Anthony Perkins, Art Garfunkel, Orson Welles, and Martin Sheen in the picture. In the end, it was the lack of cohesive narrative that probably cost it the most, as it can be a little hard to follow with its reliance on flashbacks and bizarre sequences.

In that respect, though, Nichols does capture the absurdity of the war. His use of strangely convoluted logical corners and David Watkin’s cinematography make for interesting aspects, helping drive the movie into some truly odd places. Newhart’s performance, for instance, is devilishly comic and reinforces the sense of incompetence flowing through this particular military base. Keep an eye out for the changing pictures on the wall in Major Major’s new office, too.

Of course, doing justice to Heller’s peculiar tour de force is going to be an uphill climb and Nichols’ picture doesn’t quite do it. While Heller’s novel was so batshit crazy that it made sense, Nichols’ movie adaptation doesn’t quite work with the ultimate irrationality of the concept of the catch-22. Instead, it takes bits and pieces from the book and attempts to find its own ground. It makes nothing out of Yossarian’s insane insanity, choosing instead to play it extraordinarily straight in a sea of absurd supporting characters.

That said, there are still plenty of reasons to check out Catch-22. The performances are solid from top to bottom, even if they do employ many of the anti-war movie stereotypes from time to time, and the cinematography and meshing of the violent with the comically absurd is worth a look as well. Nichols certainly doesn’t knock this one out of the park, but there’s enough goofy, bizarre fun within Catch-22 to make it worthy of a recommendation.

6.9/10