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Akira Kobayashi Turns 72

post from C I N E B E A T S on 04 November 2009 11:13:29 AM. © C I N E B E A T S

The many faces of Akira Kobayashi One of my favorite Japanese actors turned 72 yesterday so I thought I’d make some time to wish Akira Kobayashi a very happy belated birthday. Earlier this year I had planned on paying tribute to Kobayashi during[...]

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Archana Taide hui pareshaan

Suhani aka Archana Taide of Swarg has been recently got married on screen with Shubh (Pracheen) but during this process, the people on the sets have teased her a lot by asking one question.

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(Siren) Song of Russia

post from Thrilling Days of Yesteryear on 04 November 2009 10:30:00 AM. © Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

For those of you who may have not heard the news yet, there?s been quite the celebratory popping of champagne corks over at the blog maintained by Campaspe, a.k.a. the Self-Styled Siren. The Siren has charmed the likes of the high muckety-mucks at TCM (along with New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick?though I strongly suspect he just tended bar while Campaspe worked the room, winning over Bobby Osbo and Company with her classic film buff wiles) into letting her program Shadows of Russia, a twenty-film retrospective scheduled for January 2010 that will concentrate on Russia-and-Commie-oriented flicks, including a prime-time showing of Mission to Moscow (1943), The Scarlet Empress (1934), Reds (1981), Ninotchka (1939) and The Way We Were (1973).

Also featured in this festival are Turner Classic Movies premieres of The North Star (1943), My Son John (1952) and I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)?I?m particularly interested in seeing this last one, since I?m familiar with the syndicated radio series of the same name starring Dana ?How ?bout one more for the road?? Andrews. (The movie version stars TDOY fave Frank ?Nightbeat? Lovejoy.) John is considered a camp classic (so I?ll naturally have to set the DVD recorder for that little goody) and I?m also anxious to see Rasputin and the Empress (1932; the only film to feature John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore), Spring Madness (1938), The Strawberry Statement (1970) and one that I have seen but can never see enough, The Bedford Incident (1965)?which features TDOY icon Richard Widmark at his rat bastard best. (Honest to my grandma, Widmark has a line in this movie that goes: ?Yeah, it's a lot of work being a mean bastard,? prompting actor Michael Kane to respond ?Sometimes I can't help admiring how effortlessly you do it, captain?almost as if it came naturally.?)

Here?s the official press release from TCM, in which the true identity of the Siren is carelessly released to the world?and I thought about reprinting that info here?but then I remembered (thanks to hours of chapter-play watching) that in serials, the individual that stumbles across the secret identity of either hero or villain doesn?t make it to end of the chapter alive. I do want to reiterate that I am pleased as punch that the Siren has been rewarded with this opportunity; she?s the ne plus ultra of classic film bloggers, and once paid me the highest compliment by remarking that my taste in films was ?iconoclastic.?

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Casting Notes: Alan Cumming in Burlesque; Mirren
Does Espionage; Dempsey Steals Laughs; Weaver and Shawkat Hit Cedar Rapids

post from /Film on 04 November 2009 10:22:35 AM. © /Film

It's casting notes time again. Alan Cumming has joined Steve Antin's Burlesque, about "an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds herself at a neo-burlesque club." Christina Aguilera is the girl, Kristen Bell is the rival dancer, and Cumming is the gender-bending club MC. So this is really a failsafe in case that Showgirls sequel falls through? [Variety]After the break, news about Helen Mirren, Patrick Dempsey, confirmation on a Gerard Butler role and more for the Ed Helms flick Cedar Rapids. Helen Mirren will work alongside Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis in the espionage thriller Red, based on the WildStorm/DC comicbook. The comics, about a former CIA operative being pursued by a high-tech assassin, were written by Warren Ellis. Erich and Jon Hoeber wrote the script, while Robert Schwnetke is directing.Patrick Dempsey will be in the currently untitled heist comedy written by credited Hangover scribes Jon Lucas and ...

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Taylor and Kristen Interview From Brazil

post from Shockya.com on 04 November 2009 10:17:02 AM. © Shockya.com

Watch a new interview with Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at a press conference in Brazil for the upcoming film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. New Moon stars Robert Pattinson (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Nikki Reed (K-11), Ashley Greene (Skateland), Taylor Lautner, (My Own Worst Enemy), Jackson Rathbone (S. Darko) Dakota Fanning and Kellan Lutz.Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Twilight and New Moon.Movie Synopsis: After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a [...]

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ARABIAN NIGHTS In 3D

post from Rama's Screen on 04 November 2009 10:07:01 AM. © Rama's Screen

When I think of Arabian Nights, immediately I remember that one Aladdin soundtrack and the lame 2000 TV movie starring Jason Scott Lee. But ARABIAN NIGHTS originated from an ancient collection of Middle Eastern tales called ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, it’s about queen Scheherazade telling her husband king Shahryar 1001 stories that include characters [...]

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Which Actress Has a Troublesome Girlfriend

post from Gawker: Defamer on 04 November 2009 09:43:29 AM. © Gawker: Defamer

It's hard to be in the Hollywood closet. Either you're consoling your girlfriend in the ladies' room or buying expensive male escorts. A plastic surgery-obsessed star and dueling actresses are also keeping secrets. Let's throw those doors wide open.

1. "This B+/A- list closeted television actress from a hit network drama was having drama of her own in the bathroom as her girlfriend was complaining that she felt left out and wanted to meet our actress' friends. Our actress kept her head on a swivel while trying to keep the conversation as quiet as possible. The girlfriend is very, very young and a gorgeous blonde." [CDaN]

2. "Which comedian has a penchant for rent boys? The comic regularly orders £1,000-a-night lads - but is always polite enough to offer them a cup of tea after. Your extra clue: Not many funny men could afford this." [UK Mirror]

3. "This C+/B- list television actress formerly on one of the most interesting shows of all time which is still on the air went around the event asking almost everyone if they had just a little bump of coke she could have to get through the night. Our actress is in the midst of a career transition." [CDaN]

4. "Two Actresses (both who can sing) were competing for a movie role. The movie involves singing and the role has now been filled. We have now heard that the reason one actress was chosen over the other for the upcoming film had little to do with talent. The one with that landed the coveted role has a ?history' with the director and threatened to reveal some dirt on him if she wasn't cast. Coincidence? We think not. Not Anne Hathaway." [BuzzFoto]

5."Whenever we look at this actress' face, we think "she looks weird". Are her cheeks higher? Did she get her eyes lifted? Are her boobs larger? Is it the frozen Botoxed forehead? The Restylane-pumped lips? Actually, it's all but one of the above. Girl, where are your parents? Are they actually encouraging this? If you feel the necessity to get all this plastic work done while you are still young and pretty, we're expecting that by the time you hit 40, you are going to look like a freak show act. We actually thought you earned jobs because you had talent, but who can focus on your acting when you are starting to look like an alien?" [Blind Gossip]

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Christopher Walkens PA-PA-PA-POKER FACE!

Christopher Walken is da man! In a recent Halloween appearance on BBC1’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, instead of showcasing his usual talent, dancing or singing, Walken read the lyrics to Lady Gaga’s song POKER FACE. It’s way funnier than Cartman’s rendition. You have got to check out the vibrant video below because once Walken [...]

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Birthday Suit: Do You Dig Gig

Celebrating the birthdays of the filmic and famous. Because, why not? If it's your big day, holla at us in the comments.

Gig and Matthew

Today's Birthdays 11/04
1868 La Belle Otero Spanish actress, courtesan to royalty, La Folies Bergere dancer and star of a scandalous silent short performing the "Valse Brilliante". Where's her biopic? In order to inject life into that zombie-like genre (no brains, only forward motion) I really think filmmakers need to look at more obscure but still fascinating figures, further back in time. If they stop trying to win Oscars and just try to tell interesting stories, I bet they'll still win the Oscars. Try harder, Hollywood.
1913 Gig Young won the supporting actor Oscar for They Shoot Horses Don't They?, a totally brilliant and Oscar historical film. Emcee roles are sometimes gold for awards contention, right?
1918 Art Carney of Harry and Tonto Oscar-winning fame
1946 Frederick Elmes, wonderfully expressive cinematographer who made those masterful David Lynch films so beautiful (Mulholland Dr, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart). Also favored by Ang Lee. Sadly, he's never been nominated for an Oscar. Next up: Jim Sheridan's remake of the Danish film Brothers.
1960 Kathy Griffin... suck it! The comedienne turns 49 today. I keep wondering when she'll change the title of her show because she's so not a D-Lister anymore.
1969 Matthew McConaughey, romantic comedy person, sun worshipper.

Finally, since we've already broached the subject of better biopic candidates why not Robert Mapplethorpe? The famously controversial and sexually fixated photographer seems ripe for a risque movie. I don't know if you've heard this (I hadn't... or I'd forgotten it out of the inability to categorize its weirdness) but early this year Eliza Dushku (yes, her) bought the rights to his life for just such a project. Hollywood is such a strange place. The real question is how the hell you'd ever make his life into a biopic without being willing to go the NC-17 route. And who is ever willing to do that? And who would play Patti Smith? To celebrate Mapplethorpe's birthday today -- he would have been 63 -- take a black and white photograph of yourself ~~with a bullw... uh...~~ never mind.

Would you see a Mapplethorpe biopic?

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Blind Side Clip

You may watch below a series of preview clips of The Blind S...
Movie Trailer
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