You know how they like to remake British films with an American angle?
How about “The Kings Speech” remade with Mike Tyson and George Bush by Tyler Perry?
Here goes….
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Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
We finally got to watch this documentary tonight…
It’s a “must see”….
I always wondered why Eliot Spitzer resigned and Diaper Dave Vitter is still in the Senate….
Now, I know…
This is now out on DVD, so please rent or buy it today!
Filed under Movies, New York, Politics, The Economy
Source: Anne Hathaway, James Franco “Hate Each Other” – UsMagazine.com
The endless night begets an endless chain of stories…
I still love them both…
But friends don’t let friends work with bad writers…
Someone should have stopped them!
I still expect them to each be winners one day…
No winners here!
A source tells Us Weekly that Anne Hathaway, 28, and James Franco grew to “hate each other” as they rehearsed to host the Oscars Feb. 27.
“She had to provide all the energy — he was just phoning it in,” says a second insider. (“James seemed in his own little world,” during the Oscar telecast, says another source. “Producers were pissed.”)
In fact, as UsMagazine.com reported Monday, after the awards, Franco, 32, skipped his own party at L.A.’s The Writer’s Room.
“He went immediately back to NYC because he was pissed about how the show went,” adds a third source.
Franco’s rep responds, “This is absolutely not true,” while Hathaway’s rep says, “Anne had a wonderful experience with him.”
Still, fans should expect a new MC in 2012. Insiders say both Hugh Jackman and Billy Crystal want the gig again.
More: Source: Anne Hathaway, James Franco “Hate Each Other” – Movies, TV & Music – UsMagazine.com.
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Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist
I love this blog…
If you like glamour and old Hollywood Stars, it’s a great place to spend some time….
I strongly recommend it…
At Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist, it helps to remember that it is permanently 1962 (give or take a decade); and that the problems of the real world can be solved with a touch of glamour and a dash of style.
Thanks for visiting, have fun, and please feel free to add your wit and sparkle to the proceedings!
Click here to visit: Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist.
Scott Mendelson: Oscar 2011: Don’t Blame James Franco and Anne Hathaway, Blame the Writers
Excellent article on Sunday’s Oscar fiasco…
This is exactly what I was saying during the show…
All the writers and producers of this year’s show should be bared for life from participating in future Oscar telecasts….
James Franco and Anne Hathaway did what they could with what they had where they were, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt.
They just didn’t have much to work with….
Last year, I wrote a post-Oscar essay that got me quoted in Time Magazine. This year I have no such profundities to offer. But let me simply say that while this truly was the worst Oscar telecast in at least as long as I’ve been watching (since I was just short of 12-years-old in 1992), the blame lies not with the hosts, but with the material. Many have commented that James Franco all but started the show with a stunning display of apathy and disinterest. While we can all joke about whether he was stoned, or whether he was thinking about one of the 6,000 other activities he is currently involved in, the truth may be much simpler: Franco probably saw the material that had been written for him and Ms. Hathaway, and he damnwell knew he was in for a rough ride. So while Franco seemingly tuned out, Hathaway did the opposite, going absolutely for-broke, refusing to go down without a fight. But while Anne Hathaway and James Franco are excellent actors (and their hosting last night does not change that), not everyone can make lemonade out of lemons.
For whatever reason, the writers of Sunday night’s events seemed to think that everyone’s favorite part of an awards show is the part where two mismatched presenters ramble through poorly-scripted banter and make painful attempts to appear charming and flirtatious. Because, with few exceptions, the entire show was one piece of awkward banter after another. The whole show reeked of older writers attempting to appeal to younger viewers, with little-to-no idea how to do that. Because if there is anything that young kids love, it’s being pandered or condescended to. No, awkward references to smart-phone apps, Auto-Tunes, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and “the Internet” are not going to appear hip/cool to the young kids. And bringing Halle Berry onstage to memorialize Lena Horne is only to make it that much more noticeable that not a single minority was nominated for a major award last night. And spoiling the finales of several nominated films (True Grit, Toy Story 3, The King’s Speech) doesn’t inspire viewers to check those films out later. You want to try appealing to the young kids, first of all, try not leaving Corey Haim off your “In Memoriam” tribute. Second of all, and this gets me back to my original point, try giving the kids an entertaining show with jokes that were actually clever and reward those who actually followed the movie business with any amount of verve.
MORE: Scott Mendelson: Oscar 2011: Don’t Blame James Franco and Anne Hathaway, Blame the Writers.
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James Franco Skips Out On His Own Party After Critically-Panned Hosting Gig | Radar Online
I always thought he was one smart guy…
He knows when to walk away…
And get out of town…
James Franco reportedly didn’t show up for his own post-Oscars party at Los Angeles’ Supper Club Sunday, as the dashing star, possibly upset by his performance on the show, tweeted a pic from his private jet while leaving the City of Angels.
“Goodbye L.A.,” Franco wrote in one pic from aboard his plane, and in another wrote, “It was fun! Time to jet back to class.”
While Franco’s bash was attended by stars such as his Pineapple Express co-star Seth Rogen and two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, an insider at the affair summarized it as a “bust “, according to usmagazine.com.
via James Franco Skips Out On His Own Party After Critically-Panned Hosting Gig | Radar Online.
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Jane Russell: A Tribute
Jane Russell just passed away…
May she rest in peace and be remembered fondly….
With Marilyn Monroe, in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”:
And an even more inspiring clip from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”:
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Movies
Older Audience Makes Its Presence Known at the Movies – NYTimes.com
Great article in the New York Times….
I fear I am now part of this “older” audience, whether I like it or not, but I hope Hollywood is rethinking their products.
We love to go to the movies, but there is often nothing to go see. Then they dump all the good movies at one time, at the end of the year, for Oscar consideration and we end up missing some we would love to have seen.
I the movie moguls will take this to heart and release more quality films throughout the year.
Then maybe the theaters will clean their floors and offer decent concessions we might consider buying…
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood and older Americans have never had much use for each other. The 50-plus crowd doesn’t go to opening weekends or buy popcorn; a youth-obsessed Hollywood has happily ignored them.
But in the last few months an older audience has made a startling reassertion of its multiplex power. “True Grit,” “The King’s Speech,” “The Fighter,” “Black Swan” — all movies in contention for a clutch of Oscars on Sunday — have all been surprise hits at the box office.
And they have all been powered by people for whom 3-D means wearing glasses over glasses, and “Twilight” sounds vaguely threatening.
Hollywood, slower than almost any other industry to market to baby boomers, may be getting a glimpse of its graying future. While the percentage of moviegoers in the older population remains relatively small, the actual number of older moviegoers is growing explosively — up 67 percent since 1995, according to GfK MRI, a media research firm.
And the first of the 78 million baby boomers are hitting retirement age with some leisure hours to fill and a long-dormant love affair with movies.
“There is an older audience that is growing, and it’s an underserved audience, which makes for an obvious and important opportunity,” said Nancy Utley, co-president of Fox Searchlight, whose “Black Swan” has sold over $100 million at the North American box office. If the core audience for a particular film is over 50, she noted, “that’s now a gigantic core.”
There are glimmers of a shift. Aging action stars; theaters with adult fare, like better food; reserved seating; and, most important, movies like “The Social Network” and “The King’s Speech” that have become hits based on wit and storytelling, not special effects.
Theaters have long favored younger consumers in part because older moviegoers tend to skip the concession counter, where theaters make most of their money. The imbalance between young and old grew more pronounced over the last decade as theater chains, suffering the after-effects of overbuilding, cut back on maintenance.
Much More: Older Audience Makes Its Presence Known at the Movies – NYTimes.com.
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Judy Garland: I’m Still Here
There’s nothing like a really good Female Impersonator giving a great performance as a Hollywood legend to lift your spirits and ease you toward the weekend….
The incomparable Jim Bailey singing a song Judy Garland didn’t live to sing- but should have!
Filed under Broadway, Entertainment, Movies
Lost in the 21st Century 
Chapter 52: Sex in the South: Part 2- The Queen of the South | My Southern Gothic Life
New post up on my other blog, MySouthernGothicLife.com….
Here’s a brief excerpt and a link to the full post…
via Chapter 52: Sex in the South: Part 2- The Queen of the South | My Southern Gothic Life.
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