Yikes , this is not good: “Law enforcement officials confirm … Stahl’s wife filed a missing person’s report with the L.A.P.D. on Monday … saying she last saw the 32-year-old actor on May 9. [… I]t is believed Stahl had been frequenting the Skid Row area of Downtown Los Angeles recently … and there are concerns he may have gotten himself involved in some bad stuff. Back in February, Nick’s wife had filed court papers, expressing serious concerns that Nick may be using drugs … and sources say she fears drugs may have something to do with his disappearance.” [ TMZ ]
Also in this morning’s edition of Biz Break: Sony Classics reunites with an Oscar-winner, Music Box takes a risk with a Hemingway, John Woo gets in on a remake, and more… Samuel Goldwyn Takes Gyllenhaal’s Grassroots The distributor has announced from Cannes its acquisition of Stephen Gyllenhaal’s activist dramedy featuring Joel David Moore as an idealist running for office — against Cedric the Entertainer — in Seattle in 2001. Jason Biggs, Lauren Ambrose, Cobie Smulders and Tom Arnold co-star. Susanne Bier’s Latest Lands at Sony Classics A year after releasing Bier’s Oscar-winning foreign-language feature In a Better World , the venerable art-house distributor has struck a deal to release her follow-up Love is All You Need . Pierce Brosnan leads the romantic comedy, which is set in Sorrento, Italy, and tells the story of “a group of people all seeking love, about passion and happiness, about jealousy and loneliness. First and foremost, it’s a story about having the courage to change your life – even when you think it’s too late.” And around the ‘net… Aaron Sorkin Makes Steve Jobs Deal with Sony It’s official: Sorkin will adapt Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography for the screen. “There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin,” said Sony chief Amy Pascal in a statement. “In his hands, we’re confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing.” Deadline reports . Morgan Freeman’s Political Comments Irk WB Shareholder The actor’s claims during the Dolphin Tale press tour that the Tea Party movement and Republican politics are “racist and wants to screw the country” drew fire from a shareholder on Tuesday’s Time Warner conference call. TW CEO Jeff Bewkes, meanwhile, declined to intervene in Freeman’s upcoming publicity duties for The Dark Knight Rises , THR reports . Music Box Nabs Starlet Director Sean Baker’s controversial, sexually explicit SXSW sensation Starlet has a buyer in Music Box Films, which announced its acquisition of the Dree Hemingway-starrer today at Cannes. Variety reports . John Woo to Grapple with Beast Also from Cannes comes word of Day of the Beast , John Woo’s planned remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 Yakuza classic Youth of the Beast . “This remake is my salute to the great films and filmmakers produced by Nikkatsu’s 100 years in cinema history,” Woo said in a statement. “It is exciting for me as well as an honor.” Deadline reports .
Matthew Epler has created a series of customized sex toys for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann (pictured above in respective order) based on hard polling data. Writes Epler: Grand Old Party demonstrates… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Towleroad Discovery Date : 15/05/2012 15:51 Number of articles : 2
Matthew Epler has created a series of customized sex toys for Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann (pictured above in respective order) based on hard polling data. Writes Epler: Grand Old Party demonstrates… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Towleroad Discovery Date : 15/05/2012 15:51 Number of articles : 2
Nina Dobev was on Conan and she Did a yoga move in shorts and a tank top. That’s all I really have to say about that……I mean other than that she’s some Canadian 23 year old from Toronto who I have never met because I guess our dog sleds never crossed paths on our way to the local Canada Ice Party….where everyone leaves their igloos and eats bacon, maple syrup, beer and whateever the fuck Canadians do…that involve me not fucking Nina Dobrev before she was famous…parking outside her school offering her lifts home so that seeing her do Yoga in shorts and a tank top…would mean much more to my penis than it does now…
This weekend sees the release of Dark Shadows , marking the eighth time director Tim Burton has teamed with Johnny Depp , his second-favorite performer on screen. (He no doubt frequently has to tell Helena Bonham Carter as much.) So natural is their pairing that we have come to expect a certain level of quality and/or box-office performance from their combined efforts, and an announcement of a new Burton title has generally come to carry the expectation of a Depp appearance. Although Hollywood has long brought us such fruitful and lucrative actor/director relationships — from both Cary Grant and James Stewart’s collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock to Robert De Niro’s legendary work with Martin Scorsese — consider nine other long-term pairings packing a little (or a lot) less luster. Héctor Elizondo / Gary Marshall After Marshall cast character actor Elizondo in his feature directing debut, soap-opera spoof Young Doctors In Love , the two became friends to such an extent that the actor has now appeared in every one of Marshall’s 17 movies. Be it the modern fairy tale Pretty Woman , to the retro fairy tales of The Princess Diaries , or Marshall’s latest unwatchableholiday pictures, Elizondo always manages to steer things a bit closer to the side of classy. Matt Walsh / Todd Phillips As Phillips rose up the Hollywood ladder with his frat-boy-centric films he has done two things: struck box office gold, and taken actor-comedian Matt Walsh with him. Walsh has the kind of face you note, if not outright recognize, thanks to a long career of comedic appearances. But this co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater is arguably best known as the doctor to whom the Vegas revelers turn for information in The Hangover , and Walsh worked with Phillips for a sixth time in the follow-up, Due Date . Many of those roles found him playing a character by the name of Walsh. Michael Par
I don’t know why I wasn’t invited to this year’s Costume Institute Gala , I like to dress up in an adult costume and pretend I’ve got a real job. Sometimes in the afternoon, after my nap of course, I like to put on a nice suit, loosen the tie like I’ve had a long day at the office and head out to the local happy hour to hit on unsuspecting business hotties. Good times. Anyhow, here’s Candice Swanepoel at the party last night showing off her perky chesticular goodness. Nicely done.
During a concert at The Hollywood Bowl last night, Chris Martin and Coldplay paid tribute to Adam Yauch , the Beastie Boys “MCA” who died at the age of 47 this week. “”We’re sending all our love to the Beastie Boys,” Martin said as he concluded the cover of the group’s classic “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party).” Yauch passed away Friday after a three-year battle with cancer. As the music industry and fans around the globe mourn, watch this emotional performance now: Coldplay – “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)” (Beastie Boys Tribute)
MTV News looks at the best Beastie clips of all time, including ones directed by MCA (or Nathanial Hornblower) himself. By Gil Kaufman Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch Photo: Ron Galella/ Getty Images There are bands that make great music and others that make great videos. But there is a rare breed of act that makes both. Since their very earliest days, the Beastie Boys were in that latter category. From the frat-boy fun of 1986’s “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” video to what will likely be their final clip, a 2011 all-star clip to promote the Hot Sauce Committee Part Two single “Make Some Noise” and the “Fight for Your Right Revisited” film, the B-Boys not only had fun, they made sure we did too. With the passing of Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA) on Friday (May 4) at age 47 following a three-year battle with cancer , MTV News takes a look back at some of the trio’s most beloved clips, as well as the ones directed by Yauch under his Swedish pseudonym, Nathaniel Hornblower. “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” This is the one that launched MCA, Ad-Rock and Mike D to global stardom. The party anthem was accompanied by a very literal video in which, well, the fellas throw a crazy party and trash the joint. “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” Young, wild and free, the Boys lampoon heavy-metal knuckleheads after a cheesy club promoter turns them away when they show up with their “instruments” (i.e. scratch-ready records). Wearing metal wigs and Poison-worthy spandex, they soon strip down to their streetwise uniforms and start raising some hell and engaging in the kinds of shenanigans they became infamous for when they hit the road with Madonna on their first major tour. It’s silly and amateurish, but then again, so were they at that time. “Hey Ladies” In one of the first of many clips in which the trio would slip into a number of alternate personas, this video from Paul’s Boutique had it all: sushi chefs, eight-track tapes, disco dancing, human clocks, cowbells, pimp suits, a mariachi band, fake mustaches and goatees, scuba diving, Afro wigs, “Saturday Night Fever” homages, a “Free James Brown” subliminal message, a 1970s Vincent Van Gogh and the original appearance of booty pads. “So What Cha Want” They weren’t all high-concept. Yauch was behind the lens for this 1992 mind-tripper, which simply tracked the three MCs as they flexed and rapped their way through a forest tricked out with negative-image special effects intercut with ominous nature footage. “Sabotage” The ne plus ultra of Beastie videos, this ’70s cop-show spoof directed by pal Spike Jonze is one of the funniest and most creative clips in music-video history. Action-packed and simultaneously utterly ridiculous, the mini-movie finds the Boys cruising the streets of San Francisco in a late model sedan while chasing the bad buys in an increasingly ridiculous series of wigs, mustaches and costumes. Yauch appears as the dapper Sir Stewart Wallace, as well as Nathan Wind playing Cochese. Filmed by Hornblower, this classic spoof of Japanese monster movies from 1998’s Hello Nasty is again awash in absurd costumes as Yauch makes popping, locking killer robots look expensively cheap. Between shots of the haz-mat-suit-wearing MCs posing and rapping in Tokyo subway stations and streets into a fish-eye lens, we see their scientific alter egos trying to save their giant robot from getting short-circuited by a sea creature. “Body Movin’ ” Yauch/Hornblower went highbrow with the video for this Hello Nasty single, which was inspired by the beloved cult 1968 Italian cat-burglar caper “Danger Diabolik.” Once again, Yauch dressed himself and his partners-in-crime in absurd outfits and had them act out everything from laughable sword fights (complete with a bloody Yauch beheading) to catapult escapes, helicopter vs. car chase scenes and midair parachute wrestling matches. “Ch-Check It Out” Not as well known, this kinetic Hornblower clip from 2004 is another mix of aggressive into-the-camera rapping, with bits of everything from “Star Trek” homages and swamp airboat chases to the Boys in old-lady drag throwing fish across the avenue at their male counterparts.
This was beautiful. Michelle Malkin smacked down lib Juan Williams for comparing the #Occupy terrorists, rapists, criminals and thugs to the peaceful tea party movement. From the video: “These occupiers and the Democrats behind them, can no more disown the … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 03/05/2012 03:49 Number of articles : 2
