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Hello everyone. How are all of you guys doing? In my part of the world the sun has been good to us all week, and it will continue to do so!! So therefor, Im heading to the beaches, again. Please post whatever news or mentionings in this thread throughout the entire weekend. And if the sun is shining outside your window, and if you can go out to enjoy it, what are you waiting for? Go! =)
News
Well, nothing new.
Mentionings
I'm not sure if this has been posted already. I just found it. And if you're like me, who found this trailer (below) cute, this is for you. I do not know much about this movie, but I would like to see it. Impersonators can be fun. Can't they? It looks like, a somewhat, funny movie. The guy that plays Michael Jackson is what I would say good looking. If this is old news, please forgive my lateness.
'Mister Lonely' Misses
Harmony Korine is evolving, somewhat. The director of "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey Boy" has created visually and narratively ugly stories of losers and loners, films as uninspiring to look at as to listen to.
With " Mister Lonely," at least the "visually ugly" element is absent. The story makes no sense and is painfully irrelevant, but at least it looks interesting. Not always logical, but interesting.
Diego Luna plays a man who does Michael Jackson impersonations in the streets of Paris. He meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton), who talks him into going with her to live at a commune of celebrity impersonators.
On the island, people, including three children, live their whole lives as the characters they portray. But their own personalities peek out. Charlie Chaplin is a possessive husband. Abraham Lincoln swears nonstop. Queen Elizabeth sleeps with the pope. They — and Madonna, the Three Stooges, Sammy Davis Jr., James Dean, Shirley Temple, Buckwheat and Little Red Riding Hood — decide to put on a show.
Meanwhile, in South America, a nun doing a charity food drop in the jungle falls out of the plane and prays all the way down that God not let her die. The two stories do not mesh in the end.
Luna and an atypically glamorous Morton are sweet together; they both have a unguarded, almost childlike aura of trust. Morton, whose face is a marvel of emotions, can create an endearing character out of anything, or, in this case, out of nothing. (Morton's adorable daughter, Esme Creed-Miles, 8, portrays Shirley Temple.)
There might be something deep inside this movie, a message about believing in yourself or your choices or grabbing life by the horns or something like that. I guess I could find it if I tried. Korine just doesn't make me want to try.
MISTER LONELY is an IFC Films release of a film directed by Harmony Korine, from a script by Avi Korine and Harmony Korine;112 minutes. Unrated, with foul language. Opens today at Real Art Ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27uQjGWcxc
http://www.courant.com/entertainment/movies/hc-misterlonelyrev.artjul25,0,6687541.story
Obama in Berlin looks to restore transatlantic ties
U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama yesterday kicked off a European tour in Berlin, saying he aimed to give a fresh start to transatlantic ties, from the city where the Cold War was ended.
Obama, who arrived from Israel, met first with German Chancellor Angela Merkel while a crowd of supporters cheered and snapped pictures outside. The Illinois senator also met Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, as reported by Agence France-Presse.
The presumptive Democratic candidate said he wanted the United States and Europe to rediscover their common ground.
"There is no doubt that part of what I want to communicate on both sides of the Atlantic is the enormous potential of us restoring a sense of coming together," he told reporters.
"Obviously Berlin is representative of the extraordinary success of the post World War II effort to bring the continent together and to bring the West together, and later to bring the East and the West together," he said.
Merkel's spokesman also said that the German leader had "very open" and wide-ranging talks with Obama, touching on foreign policy issues like Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East peace process.
Their talks covered the trans-Atlantic economic partnership, climate and energy issues, the state of the global economy and international cooperation to "solve important global questions," spokesman Ulrich Wilhem said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. After meeting with Merkel for about an hour, Obama left in a motorcade to the Hotel Adlon where President George W. Bush stayed in 2002 - also the same hotel where pop singer Michael Jackson drew criticism for holding his child out a window from his room later that year.
Continues http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110816
E&J and Jay-C start with Dead Broke and shoot for the stars
James Cummings and Edgar Higginbotham II come from two very different places but found that they have one important thing in common — their love of music.
native of Oakland, Calif., Cummings (aka Jay-C) learned the ropes of the music industry when he interned with Sony Music Entertainment in high school. Higginbotham (aka E&J), is from the swamps of Baton Rouge, La., and his exposure to music came from a record player.
Higginbotham said he listened to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album every day as a child.
"Couldn't stop listening," he said. "I've been addicted to music ever since."
Higginbotham later played drums and piano in school bands, but during his freshman year at Southern University A&M College, he was introduced to freestyling, or rapping without a script or predetermined lyrics.
Continues http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/ENT/807250308/1005
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- It was probably one of his freedays, don't cha think?
News
Well, nothing new.
Mentionings
I'm not sure if this has been posted already. I just found it. And if you're like me, who found this trailer (below) cute, this is for you. I do not know much about this movie, but I would like to see it. Impersonators can be fun. Can't they? It looks like, a somewhat, funny movie. The guy that plays Michael Jackson is what I would say good looking. If this is old news, please forgive my lateness.
'Mister Lonely' Misses
Harmony Korine is evolving, somewhat. The director of "Gummo" and "Julien Donkey Boy" has created visually and narratively ugly stories of losers and loners, films as uninspiring to look at as to listen to.
With " Mister Lonely," at least the "visually ugly" element is absent. The story makes no sense and is painfully irrelevant, but at least it looks interesting. Not always logical, but interesting.
Diego Luna plays a man who does Michael Jackson impersonations in the streets of Paris. He meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton), who talks him into going with her to live at a commune of celebrity impersonators.
On the island, people, including three children, live their whole lives as the characters they portray. But their own personalities peek out. Charlie Chaplin is a possessive husband. Abraham Lincoln swears nonstop. Queen Elizabeth sleeps with the pope. They — and Madonna, the Three Stooges, Sammy Davis Jr., James Dean, Shirley Temple, Buckwheat and Little Red Riding Hood — decide to put on a show.
Meanwhile, in South America, a nun doing a charity food drop in the jungle falls out of the plane and prays all the way down that God not let her die. The two stories do not mesh in the end.
Luna and an atypically glamorous Morton are sweet together; they both have a unguarded, almost childlike aura of trust. Morton, whose face is a marvel of emotions, can create an endearing character out of anything, or, in this case, out of nothing. (Morton's adorable daughter, Esme Creed-Miles, 8, portrays Shirley Temple.)
There might be something deep inside this movie, a message about believing in yourself or your choices or grabbing life by the horns or something like that. I guess I could find it if I tried. Korine just doesn't make me want to try.
MISTER LONELY is an IFC Films release of a film directed by Harmony Korine, from a script by Avi Korine and Harmony Korine;112 minutes. Unrated, with foul language. Opens today at Real Art Ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27uQjGWcxc
http://www.courant.com/entertainment/movies/hc-misterlonelyrev.artjul25,0,6687541.story
Obama in Berlin looks to restore transatlantic ties
U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama yesterday kicked off a European tour in Berlin, saying he aimed to give a fresh start to transatlantic ties, from the city where the Cold War was ended.
Obama, who arrived from Israel, met first with German Chancellor Angela Merkel while a crowd of supporters cheered and snapped pictures outside. The Illinois senator also met Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, as reported by Agence France-Presse.
The presumptive Democratic candidate said he wanted the United States and Europe to rediscover their common ground.
"There is no doubt that part of what I want to communicate on both sides of the Atlantic is the enormous potential of us restoring a sense of coming together," he told reporters.
"Obviously Berlin is representative of the extraordinary success of the post World War II effort to bring the continent together and to bring the West together, and later to bring the East and the West together," he said.
Merkel's spokesman also said that the German leader had "very open" and wide-ranging talks with Obama, touching on foreign policy issues like Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East peace process.
Their talks covered the trans-Atlantic economic partnership, climate and energy issues, the state of the global economy and international cooperation to "solve important global questions," spokesman Ulrich Wilhem said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. After meeting with Merkel for about an hour, Obama left in a motorcade to the Hotel Adlon where President George W. Bush stayed in 2002 - also the same hotel where pop singer Michael Jackson drew criticism for holding his child out a window from his room later that year.
Continues http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=110816
E&J and Jay-C start with Dead Broke and shoot for the stars
James Cummings and Edgar Higginbotham II come from two very different places but found that they have one important thing in common — their love of music.
native of Oakland, Calif., Cummings (aka Jay-C) learned the ropes of the music industry when he interned with Sony Music Entertainment in high school. Higginbotham (aka E&J), is from the swamps of Baton Rouge, La., and his exposure to music came from a record player.
Higginbotham said he listened to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album every day as a child.
"Couldn't stop listening," he said. "I've been addicted to music ever since."
Higginbotham later played drums and piano in school bands, but during his freshman year at Southern University A&M College, he was introduced to freestyling, or rapping without a script or predetermined lyrics.
Continues http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080725/ENT/807250308/1005
Today is Friday, July 25, 2008
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- It was probably one of his freedays, don't cha think?
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