She’s not all that hot, but she is naked….and I guess that makes her relevant to perverts like me….even if the typical busty and voluptuous isn’t really my thing, I like my busty girls to be skinny, you know making their tits a mystery or blessing for nature, making me wonder how such a miracle happened, you know like they were my version of the Christ child, ready to be worshipped by my dick…when the girl is built like this…the big fake tits are just kind of a given…not all that impressive, but like all low level Glamour Models who are better suited as strippers, I’m totally down with staring, cuz naked chicks are fun….even when they are fat.
Russell Crowe and Darren Aronofsky are busy with Noah. Will Smith is apparently tackling the Biblical brother rivals Cain in Abel in his directorial debut. Paul Verhoeven is taking on the big man himself in Jesus of Nazareth and now his earthly mother will be getting a big screen focus. Mary Mother of Christ will show Jesus’ life up until about adolescence and the recently retired Peter O’ Toole is apparently coming out of retirement to join the project, which is being billed as a prequel to The Passion of the Christ . The project is still casting, based on a script by Benedict Fitzgerald, who co-wrote Mel Gibson’s bloody crucifixion pic and Barbara Nicolosi. 15 year-old Odeya Rush ( The Odd Life of Timothy Green ) will play the role of Mary. Peter O’ Toole is apparently heading out of retirement to play Simeon, who blessed the infant Jesus, and Julia Ormond will play the mother of John the Baptist, Elizabeth, according to The Guardian. Ben Kingsley, meanwhile is apparently eyeing to play the era’s evil monarch, King Herod and producers are apparently hoping Judi Dench will take the role of Anna the Prophetess, a widow between 84 and 105 years old. They are also going after Hugh Bonneville to play Satan. Texas-based televangelist/author Joel Osteen is executive producing the project, and Aussie filmmaker Alister Grierson, who directed James Cameron’s deep sea dive film Sanctum , will direct Mary Mother of Christ. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ made over $611 million worldwide and over $370 million domestically. [ The Guardian ]
Legendary auteurs, they’re just like us! When iconic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman passed away in 2007, he left behind one of the greatest bodies of work known to cinema — and a vast, meticulously catalogued VHS collection, the subject of the upcoming Swedish documentary Bergman’s Video . Among his tapes, somewhere between the Bunuel and the Tarkovsky: Jurassic Park , Ghostbusters , and The Blues Brothers , which at least partially explains the ghosts and Jake/Elwood-esque sibling dynamic in Fanny and Alexander . The dinosaurs, not so much. [ Cineuropa via Movie City News ]
There’s a movie for every special occasion/holiday, but when it comes to Easter you’ve got a lot of very, very different viewing options. Why go the traditional bunnies and kiddies route (a la Hop ) or take a more pious tack ( Passion of the Christ , anyone?) when there are so many other, less predictable ways to celebrate? I’ll start with a few to whet your whistle as you dip into the chocolate basket this Sunday… Easter Parade (1948) Fred Astaire + Judy Garland + hats make Easter about winning that special guy/gal’s heart and not about, you know, Jesus. — Critters 2: The Main Course (1988) Those aren’t Easter Eggs — they’re Critter eggs! Hunt carefully. — Mallrats (1995) “You know what?? THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY!” Thanks a lot, Kevin Smith. — Resurrection (1999) “All the victims were 33 years old — the same age as Christ when he died.” This forgotten gem stars Christopher Lambert — who also co-wrote the script! MAKE YOUR EASTER SUNDAY A HORROR EASTER SUNDAY! — Chocolat (2000) Because Easter –> chocolate –> Chocolat ! Mmm, chocolate. It’s what Easter’s all about, right? — Donnie Darko (2001) Make it a double feature with 1950’s Harvey (like the Aero’s doing this weekend in Los Angeles) and you’ll get enough freaky life-sized bunny action to last you until next year. Got any other suggestions? Leave ’em below.
Movieline is pleased to introduce Inessential Essentials, a regular feature about some of the most intriguing — if not necessarily most obvious — new home-viewing options on the market. We begin today with a film practically doomed by controversy a quarter-century ago, resurrected for DVD and finally given the treatment it truly deserves this week on Blu-ray. — Ed. What’s the Film : The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), new on Blu-ray via Criterion Collection Why it’s an Inessential Essential : Adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel by the same, The Last Temptation of Christ is a moving and heart-felt testament of religious faith. It’s also probably not the first film you’d think of when you think of when you think of Martin Scorsese’s filmography. Temptation follows Jesus of Nazareth (Willem Dafoe) in his long journey from looking at God’s presence as “the ultimate headache,” to quote Temptation screenwriter Paul Schrader, towards seeing death in the service of God as an act of divine mercy. The Last Temptation of Christ isn’t the only film of Scorsese’s to focus on a troubled protagonist’s spiritual crisis. Like several of Scorsese’s protagonists, Jesus gradually comes to understand the difference between how he can behave and how he should behave according to his moral principles. He’s a man first, and only by film’s end does he really become the messiah, too. Still, because of its sexual implications, the film was a source of major controversy when it was released in 1988 and even before then when Scorsese originally tried unsuccessfully to make The Last Temptation of Christ with Paramount Studios in 1983 on a considerably bigger budget. According to David Ehrenstein’s liner notes, Scorsese was told he could make the picture with a budget of $15-20 million. But then a letter-writing campaign from Christian fundamentalists stopped the 1983 production dead in its tracks. Scorsese would go on to make Temptation with a considerably smaller $7 million with Universal Studios. Nearly 25 years later, as comedian Billy Crystal “joked” during the most recent Oscars telecast, Scorsese is still always going to be the guy that did Goodfellas and other “crime pictures.” How the DVD/Blu Makes the Case for the Film : Predictably enough for a Criterion release, the Blu-ray features a number of exceptional special features, including a terrific audio commentary track that selectively alternates between Scorsese, Schrader, Dafoe and screenwriter Jay Cocks. The track is especially good since it only lets any one of these four talking heads speak when they have something worth saying, such as when Scorsese explains the background behind Mary Magdalene’s tattoos, or Cocks’s description of Scorsese’s filmmaking approach: “The simplest, most direct way is usually the most heart-felt, the way which technology can interfere the least in the way of the emotion.” Both the Criterion Collection’s DVD and Blu-Ray releases of The Last Temptation of Christ also feature a decent interview with Peter Gabriel, who scored the film. Gabriel talks a little about how he and Scorsese worked toward “avoid[ing] the clichés of Christ goes to the movies […] Marty had some strong opinions of some people he wanted me to integrate and whose work he wanted me to play with. I spent some time in the National Sound Archive doing some research and trying to educate myself a bit. And although I didn’t try and master Arabic scales, I was just trying to soak in some of the feelings and find key performers that could bring power and passion.” Other Interesting Trivia : Also according to Ehrenstein’s liner notes, director Franco Zeffirelli pulled his Young Toscanini from the 1988 Venice Film Festival line-up when he heard that Temptation would also be screening that year. Zeffirelli hadn’t yet seen Scorsese’s film when he made that appropriately theatrical gesture. But he still was outraged by Temptation , saying that it was “truly horrible and completely deranged.”
Oh, for Christ’s sake: A few hours after David Letterman’s head writers tweeted in stereo that Lindsay Lohan would deliver Thursday’s Late Show Top 10 list, Lohan herself tweeted a denial : “I am NOT going to be doing David Letterman, I’m not sure how this happened, but I am sorry for the confusion…” Aren’t we all — particularly, this morning, CBS.
The contemporary Christian church is a front for all of the activities proscribed in Christ's Sermon on the Mount. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTOAF5zIZ4g added by: Progresshiv
Utah leads the nation in male youth suicides, and there was a tragic reminder of that fact yesterday. On July 19th, Todd Ransom, a young gay man from Salt Lake City, committed suicide. It is unclear why exactly Todd took his life, but his friends report that he faced disapproval from his family and struggled to reconcile his sexual orientation with his Mormon upbringing. I never knew Todd, despite sharing several mutual friends with him. But his death has greatly saddened me and countless others. There will be candle-light vigil held in memory of Todd tonight at 9:00 PM outside the state capitol building. In response to this and other recent gay Mormon suicides, my friend Isaac shared his own personal struggle as a gay Mormon on Facebook. With his permission, I’m posting the full note here. When I was a little boy, my beautiful mother would take me in her arms and together we would sing the words of the LDS primary song: I am a Child of God And he has sent me here Has given me an earthly home With parents kind and dear. There was no qualifier of “unless I grow up to be gay.” And yet nearly twenty years later things seemed to come full circle as I sat sobbing on the bathroom floor of a dirty missionary apartment where, after taking a knife from my hands and calling for help, my mission companion took me in his arms and began singing in a soft trembling voice “I am a Child of God”. I had struggled since childhood to combat what I felt was my true nature in favor of what my church taught was the plan of God. Weary, beaten, and worn I couldn’t fight anymore. I was lucky. I failed. But sadly there are those we love who do not fail. Tearfully we learn of and mourn those who we cannot judge for being weary of the fight and succumbing to the constant barrage of lashes coming from Utah’s predominant religion and dominant political party; their invariable actions declaring that we are not worthy of the same treatment as everyone else—that we are less than. When will we learn that this is not a game? The harsh rhetoric is not something to be used to score political points or to climb the rungs on the ladder of piety. When the stripping of legal status and protections from gay relationships is celebrated like a Super Bowl victory, what does the gay person feel? When a state senator tells gay adolescents they shouldn’t come together to talk about their struggles in accepting their sexuality, what message does that send? When a bishop stands at the pulpit and preaches that loving committed gay relationships will destroy their family and asks for time and money to ‘defeat’ them, what unimaginable fear shakes the soul of the gay child in the pews? We MUST normalize gay relationships. Every day that passes where being gay is viewed as undesirable and gay relations viewed as abnormal, is one more day that pushes our loved ones one step closer to the edge—to the point of no return. I’ve said it before and I reaffirm it now: This is a fight for life! As an LDS missionary I was taught that my purpose was to “Invite others to come unto Christ.” The LDS Church has admittedly done much good and provided legitimate hope and peace to many, but my dear Latter-Day Saints, your actions as members and the actions of your church organization when it comes to your LGBT children, brothers, sisters, and friends has done anything but invite me to come unto Christ. Gandhi put it beautifully: “I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Your message on LGBT related issues is a message of intolerance, of hatred (both external and internal self loathing), torment, and of death. And regrettably, too many children of God are hearing that message loud and clear. added by: toyotabedzrock
‘Amazing! Incredible! Paul McCartney rules!’ Joe Jonas raves to MTV News after the show. By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Akshay Bhansali and Matt Elias Nick Jonas and Joe Jonas at Hard Rock Calling Photo: Marc Broussely/ Getty Images The Jonas Brothers have never been shy about their fandom for all things classic rock. So when Nick and Joe attended the Hard Rock Calling festival in London’s Hyde Park, they got the chance to see some musical heroes like Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Elvis Costello. “Amazing! Incredible! Paul McCartney rules!” Joe raved to MTV News after the show. “It was really cool to see how many different age groups there were at the concert. For us, we grew up on Paul McCartney and the Beatles, and it was always on in the house, so I think Paul McCartney is a legend, and Elvis Costello, that will live on for a long, long time.” Nick, who is currently starring as Marius in “Les Mis
‘I don’t think there’s been a really fantastic Viking movie ever made,’ he tells MTV News of Mel Gibson-directed project. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Leonardo DiCaprio Photo: MTV News In one of last year’s stranger bits of Hollywood moviemaking news, word dropped in December that Mel Gibson and Leonardo DiCaprio were teaming up for a brutal period drama about Viking culture . Mel would direct, Leo would strap on the horn-bedecked Viking helmet, and the world would surely fork over cash to check out what that duo created. Yet projects come and go. One need only visit DiCaprio’s IMDb page to see how many films he reportedly has in the works. Is this Viking epic really going to happen? Most definitely, the actor told MTV News. “I always wanted to do a Viking movie,” he said. “I’m a big history buff, and I don’t think there’s been a really fantastic Viking movie ever made. Those were some of the most barbaric people ever in history.” Expect barbarism to be on full display in the movie, as it was during earlier Gibson films like “Braveheart,” “The Passion of the Christ” and “Apocalypto.” DiCaprio, for his part, has done the period-drama thing before — “The Quick and the Dead,” “Romeo + Juliet,” “Gangs of New York” — but never in something that promises to be as raw, and perhaps as bloody, as this Viking flick. But ask DiCaprio why he wants to make this movie with Gibson, and his answer will have nothing to do with amassing a gnarly body count. “I’d love to see Mel Gibson’s version of that, because certainly with ‘Apocalypto’ and some of the other films he’s made, he’s been able to transport me back in time unlike very many filmmakers have been able to,” he said. Are you looking forward to what Mel and Leo come up with? Let us know in the comments! For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Inception’ Related Photos Frame-By-Frame: “Inception”
