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Five Ways to Put the I in I.T.
18 December 2009 2:01 PM, PST
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So, here we are, in our home office. And we like it, we really do. We like the fact that we can pretty much do what we want, whenever we want to. We like the fact that there's no boss breathing down our necks (good oral hygiene or not). That we can stroll into the kitchen and make ourselves cups and cups of tea. What we wear on the job--or what we don't wear, naturism fans. When we work. But what we don't like--and I think I can speak for all of us here, is when tech goes bad, when all your base are belong to the nasty little gizmo gremlin and it seems that nothing can fix it. And these moments make me long for the days when I.T. support was just a four-digit extension away.
A long, long time ago, when I was a rookie feature writer,
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- Addy Dugdale
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Kate Moss` seven-year-old daughter Lila can already walk around in high heels
10 December 2009 3:06 PM, PST
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Model Kate Moss has said her seven-year-old daughter Lila can already walk around in high heels. The 35-year-old is mum to daughter Lila with her ex-boyfriend and magazine editor Jefferson Hack. Asked if her daughter steals from her wardrobe, she said: 'Yes, shoes. She can walk around in heels already. 'I've told her they're only for special occasions. I don't want her in heels yet - she's only seven!' She also revealed that her ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp, 46, gave her one of the best items of clothing she has ever received. She said: 'For my 21st, Johnny [Depp] bought me a copy of the dress Julie Christie wore in Shampoo. 'He had it made
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Kate Moss And Her Classic Old Jeans
10 December 2009 12:54 AM, PST
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The supermodel was given the denims by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and admits she can’t bring herself to throw anything out of her wardrobe.
She said: “Do I ever throw out clothes? Definitely not! I’ve got classics.
“Keith Richards gave me a pair of black jeans he bought in Brazil in 1969 and I still wear them – they fit me perfectly.
“For my 21st birthday, Johnny Depp bought me a copy of the dress Julie Christie wore in ‘Shampoo’. He had it made and every sequin is hand-sewn. I still wear it.”
Kate – who dated Johnny in the 90s - is holding on to many of her fashion favourites to pass on to seven-year-old daughter Lila Grace, and says her shoes have already caught the youngster’s eye.
She added to Glamour magazine: “Accessories stand the test of time and you can hand them down to your children.
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Kate Moss' 40-year-old jeans
9 December 2009 11:01 PM, PST
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Kate Moss wears a pair of 40-year-old jeans. The supermodel was given the denims by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and admits she can't bring herself to throw anything out of her wardrobe. She said: "Do I ever throw out clothes? Definitely not! I've got classics. "Keith Richards gave me a pair of black jeans he bought in Brazil in 1969 and I still wear them - they fit me perfectly. "For my 21st birthday, Johnny Depp bought me a copy of the dress Julie Christie wore in 'Shampoo'. He had it made and every sequin is hand-sewn. I still wear it." Kate - who dated Johnny in the 90s - is holding on to many of her fashion favorites
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Top 10 flops of the 00's
30 November 2009
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With the decade coming to a close at the end of the year, it's time to take stock. Here is a list of the biggest financial flops of 2000's first decade.
#10: 2008's "The Spirit". With a price tag of $60 million, graphic novelist Frank Miller's movie took in barely a third of that, despite a fabulous cast that included Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Spain's Paz Vega.
#9: The ambitious but too-pointed 1970¹s B-movie homage "Grindhouse". The movie made only $25 million but cost $67 million, which tainted maker Quentin Tarantino a loser in 2007. Meanwhile, America's enfant terrible has redeemed himself with "Inglourious Basterds".
#9: The remake of the 1970's classic, "Rollerball", released in 2002. $70 million price tag, $19 million in sales. The failure seems to have tanked the career of formerly success director John McTiernan, who later got 4 months for lying to the FBI in the Anthony Pellicano affair.
#7: "The Invasion
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'70s behind-the-camera greats: How Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond put the cinema in cinematography
18 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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Last night on PBS, I caught the reverent and fascinating documentary No Subtitles Necessary: László & Vilmos, a look at the art, influence, and longtime brotherly friendship of the two most fabled Hollywood cinematographers of the 1970s, László Kovács and Vilmos Zsigmond. Like anyone else immersed in the classic American movies of that time (and, really, who isn't?), I knew who these two men were, understood a few things about their art, and had a dim awareness of the fact (coincidence -- or something more?) that they were both Hungarian émigrés.
I was amazed, though, at how much I didn't know,
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- Owen Gleiberman
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Vilmos Zsigmond: From Hungary with Cameras
12 November 2009 2:35 PM, PST
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A new documentary about film-maker Vilmos Zsigmond shows the risks he took filming secret footage of Soviet troops in Hungary
The visionary Hungarian-born cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond does not care, I suspect, to dwell in the emotional terrain of the past. Perhaps the roots of that lie in the dying embers of 1956, when Soviet troops invaded his homeland and crushed the Hungarian revolution. To look back then, as he fled Budapest with clandestinely shot footage, would have meant death. "We had to be careful," Zsigmond says, "because the Russians had killed people just for taking still photographs."
Zsigmond's life is the subject of a warmly received documentary by James Chressanthis called No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos, which has just reached Los Angeles. The Laszlo in question is the late, great cinematographer László Kovács, Zsigmond's spiritual brother and companion on that fateful flight to the Austrian border more than half a century ago,
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- Jeremy Kay
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Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST
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Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne.
Forget It Bob, It’S Chinatown
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
By
Alex Simon
The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ever: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown"; all elements of a film now regarded by scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as one of the greatest pieces of American celluloid ever made. Chinatown was a collaboration between a who’s-who of ‘70s film icons. Directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, starring Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, shot by John Alonso, and scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1974, but brought home only one: for its writer. Robert Towne was barely 40, and Chinatown his first produced original screenplay, his previous efforts having been literary adaptations, such as 1973’s The Last Detail.
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Dempsey Creates Hairdressing Show For ABC
22 October 2009 3:06 PM, PDT
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Enchanted star Patrick Dempsey has sold a new sitcom idea about hairdressing to U.S. TV network bosses at ABC.
The actor created the show, tentatively called Coif, with his wife Jillian, who is a top stylist, and they've brought writers onboard to create the plot for a pilot.
He tells TV Guide magazine, "It's kind of like Cheers or Friends, but it takes place in a beauty school in Los Angeles."
And he has Warren Beatty to thank for perfecting the show: "We watched Shampoo a lot."
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Film: Review:Spread
14 August 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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“How can you trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders? Man can’t even trust his own pants.” These words of wisdom, uttered by Henry Fonda in Once Upon A Time In The West, might have saved the women of Los Angeles from the scourge of Ashton Kutcher’s heartbreaker in Spread. Strutting around in designer casual that threatens to slide off his lean frame—hence the belt and suspenders—Kutcher plays a professional cad who’s somewhere between Warren Beatty in Shampoo and a Bret Easton Ellis character. He’s ingratiating and slightly pathological, using his metrosexual
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East Hamp-Tweeting at the Spread Premiere
11 August 2009 2:25 PM, PDT
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On Camera, Online. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Below, Leighton Meester; Kutcher and Moore; and Anne Heche. Photographs by Kirillwashere.com. The East Hampton Tweet scene was buzzing with star wattage last weekend when Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, and other A-list types headed to Long Island’s East End to celebrate the premiere of Kutcher’s new indie drama Spread—not to mention document every second of the festivities. Creating a fuss on Main Street, the Gotham-magazine-sponsored premiere drew hordes of paparazzi, screaming fans, and curious locals vying for Twitpics of @aplusk and @mrskutcher, who arrived hand in hand on the red carpet. A far cry from Dude, Where’s My Car?, the movie is one part Shampoo (Kutcher conferred with Warren Beatty, the king of Los Angeles Lotharios, for advice) and one part Entourage. Kutcher stars as Nikki, a freeloader who uses his looks to seduce rich, hot older
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Ashton Kutcher Proud Of His "Schwantz"
10 August 2009 1:33 AM, PDT
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Ashton Kutcher is proud of his "schwantz." The U.S. actor - who stars as a serial seducer of rich women in his latest movie "Spread" - is happy for any of his colleagues to see his appendage, but did starve himself so his stomach would be flat for the film.
He said: "Once you do the first nude scene and the whole crew has seen your schwantz then you're fine."
"I didn't have to worry about diet. Pretty much I generally take on whatever is the abusive diet of my character. This guy pretty much didn't eat much, so he had this body."
Ashton deliberately set out to find a part where he could play a rogue akin to Warren Beatty in "Shampoo" or Richard Gere in "American Gigolo" and sought out the former to ask his advice.
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DVD Of The Week: Lookin' to Get Out
14 July 2009 1:50 PM, PDT
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Lookin' to Get Out
Directed by Hal Ashby
1982, 105 minutes, USA
Warner
As chronicled in Nick Dawson's book Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel (further clicking: my podcast with Dawson), Lookin' to Get Out was a wildly over-budget production, filmed during a chaotic and desperate time in Ashby's professional life. When ultimately released in an abbreviated, studio-sanctioned edit that was out of the Shampoo auteur's hands (Ashby was only an Oscar-winning editor, no big whoop), the film bombed so badly that it isn't even disparaged today; like most of Ashby's work in the '80s, it was forgotten. As Jon Voight—who starred, produced, co-wrote and worked on the butchered version of this long-lost Vegas farce—recalled to me last April, it was Dawson who first informed him that a director's cut (or as the new DVD positions, an "Extended Version") secretly survived:
I asked Nick, "Where'd you see it?
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DVD: Review: Lookin’ To Get Out!
30 June 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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The ‘80s were a lost decade for many titans of ‘70s cinema, but few fell harder or steeper than Oscar-winning editor turned director Hal Ashby. In the ‘70s, Ashby logged an astonishing run of classics that included Harold & Maude, The Last Detail, Shampoo, Bound For Glory, Coming Home, and Being There. Ashby’s winning streak ended abruptly with 1981’s long-shelved Second-Hand Hearts and continued until his early death. So while the release of an extended version of a Hal Ashby film with never-before-seen footage should be a cause for celebration, viewers would be wise to view the extended cut
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DVD Review: Hal Ashby's "Lookin' To Get Out: The Extended Version"
22 June 2009 8:01 PM, PDT
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By Lee Pfeiffer
Warner Home Video continues to earn the gratitude of movie fans by releasing special editions of films that had limited commercial appeal. The latest example is director Hal Ashby's Lookin' to Get Out, a 1982 comedy that was a notorious box-office disaster - and one that virtually ruined Ashby's career. Like fellow gadfly director Sam Peckinpah, Ashby could be a temperamental personality who prided himself on clashing with studios over issues of artistic integrity. His acclaimed hits include Coming Home, Being There and Shampoo, but -like Peckinpah- he wore out his welcome with his employers and was relegated to filming "by the numbers" movies in return for a paycheck.There has been a renaissance of interest in Ashby's career of late, so hopefully this director's cut of Lookin' to Get Out will find an appreciative audience.
The film stars Jon Voight (who co-wrote the script) as Alex Kovac,
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How to Make Indiana Jones V; Dazed and Confused Update
22 June 2009 10:17 AM, PDT
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It’s Alive! Indy Five Frank Marshall, who was probably the most whip-cracking producer on the set of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, tells British movie rag Empire that the team is gearing up to make a fifth installment in the cliffhanger series. This bit of news is nicely in keeping with a bloggy hunch that appeared on this site about a year and a half ago. Marshall says no script is in place — but, I ask you, when has that ever stopped a real man from making a motion picture?
Now the fans can start moaning. To you and me and Chester down the block, the whole Indiana Jones series is not much more than a pleasant way to spend some time in a dark theater with a monster bucket of popcorn giving you a salty lapdance as you drink in some chases and maybe
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Cat Stevens To Perform At Hal Ashby A.M.P.A.S. Tribute On June 25
20 June 2009 3:11 PM, PDT
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There will be a major tribute to director Hal Ashby at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on June 25 in Los Angeles. The event sold out immediately, but there are provisions for stand-by tickets. Among those paying tribute to the late director are Jon Voight, Seth Rogen, Haskell Wexler and the singer Yusuf, formerly known as Cat Stevens. There will be a number of Ashby's films screened during the month including Coming Home, The Last Detail, Harold and Maude, Shampoo, The Landlord and Being There. For details click here
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A.M.P.A.S. Los Angeles Events For June Schedule Announced
22 May 2009 10:18 AM, PDT
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the June events for Los Angeles. For tickets and more info visit www.oscars.org
2008-2009 Contemporary
Documentaries
Wednesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn
TheaterThe Academy’s free 2008-2009 Contemporary Documentary series
closes with screenings of “Salim Baba,” “Please Vote for Me” and “My Kid Could
Paint That.”
Wednesday evenings, through June 3, at 7 p.m. Doors open at
6 p.m.
Linwood Dunn Theater
1313 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028
All
seating is unreserved.
Admission is free.
(310)
247-3600
www.oscars.org
“Gunga Din” (1939) – How Did They Do That?
Friday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Samuel Goldwyn TheaterOscar winners Ben Burtt and Craig Barron
discuss the “1939 state-of-the-art” sound and visual effects of “Gunga Din,”
followed by a screening of the classic George Stevens’ adventure
film.
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly
Hills, CA 90211
Doors at 6:30 p.m.
All seating is unreserved.
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"Lost" Angelina Jolie Flick Unearthed! Daddy Jon Voight Releases Director's Cut!
21 March 2009 8:31 PM, PDT
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27 years later, Angelina Jolie's first movie role is getting a big-screen debut!
The film, co-written by Jolie's dad, Jon Voight, is called "Lookin' to Get Out" and is directed by Hal Ashby ("Shampoo" and "Being There"). Voight also co-stars in the film as Alex Kovac.
Jolie was just an itsy-bitsy 4-year old when she appeared in the film. And apparently, her part was cut. Now, her daddy's re-releasing the film after finding out that Ashby re-cut the movie before his death in 1988.
"Lookin' to Get Out" will debut at the Sarasota Film Festival in April, or you can wait for the DVD release on June 20th.
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Lost Jolie Film Set For Director's Cut Release
20 March 2009 6:25 PM, PDT
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Angelina Jolie's first movie role in a forgotten 1982 comedy is set for release - 27 years after it was made.
Jolie was just four when she appeared alongside her actor father Jon Voight in cult Shampoo and Being There director Hal Ashby's Lookin’ To Get Out, but her part was cut and the film only had a limited release.
Ashby re-cut the film before his death in 1988 and his family and Voight, who starred in the director's Coming Home, have worked tirelessly to get the new film a release.
Voight, who also co-wrote the film, says, "We had all sorts of drama in the making of it and in the final stages, Hal was not able to finish the film, so there was some damage done to the film and it came out in a crippled form. Unfortunately, nobody saw the film in a proper state."
The actor had no idea Ashby had re-cut the film - and handed the finished product to film archivists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Voight only learned of the existence of the director's cut when he was approached by Ashby's biographer Nick Dawson two years ago.
Dawson introduced the actor to Lee Ashby McManus - the daughter Ashby never met - and she revealed Lookin' To Get Out was her favourite film, because she felt sure Jolie's role at the end of the movie was based on her.
Voight tells BlogTalkRadio.com, "She said, 'I think the little girl at the end, who was played by Angelina Jolie... was me.' I thought about it and I said, 'It is very possible it was you.' I remember discussions we had and it was supposed to be a little boy, and Hal wanted a little girl."
The Oscar winner is thrilled the film will eventually be seen as his director friend intended: "It's a big deal to me... I like this film very, very much."
The director's cut of Lookin' To Get Out, which also features Ann Margret and Rocky star Burt Young, will debut at the Sarasota Film Festival in Florida next month, ahead of the movie's DVD release on 20 June.
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