Winnipeg: A busy church food bank, known for offering warm drinks and snacks to its regulars, has announced it’s closing because it is attracting too many poor people.
Chris Hansen
It’s attracting a lot of street people that make it uncomfortable,’ said Charlotte Prossen, Unity Truth Centre minister Thursday, It’s creating social unrest in the church’
Most clients of food banks have not yet come to a sense of personal responsibility in life. They are still in denial, blame or seeing the world as owing them,’ wrote Rev. David Durksen of the Unity Church of Victoria.
Ms. Prossen praised the work done by food banks, and said the church will still collect food for baskets but focus more on people’s spiritual hunger.
Now I don’t know about you, but I think that whatever Jesus died for it was not to expressly found a religion. And I always thought that if Jesus Christ had a religion, it was Judaism.
I am appalled. These people seem to think that religion is all about spirituality alone. Perhaps they recall that the Pharisees and Sadducees weren’t too happy about the people with whom Jesus associated. They were the street people of their time: prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers. Perhaps they don’t remember the parable of the wedding banquet: when those originally invited didn’t turn up, the bridegroom went out and gathered up all those on the streets to participate in the feast. Perhaps they think that the feeding of the five thousand was the feeding of five thousand Pharisees, or five thousand merchants.
When I was volunteering for the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood, I associated with street people of every kind. Some were not too presentable physically and could have used a bit of a cleanup. Some were the detritus of society: prostitutes, the unemployed and unemployable, transvestites and transexuals who lived rough because no one would house them. When I worked in the counselling office I saw 5 guests a day, and I didn’t throw them out if they weren’t my kind of person. As a Christian EVERY person is my kind of person. And they required not only spiritual food but also physical nourishment that their life circumstances couldn’t always provide for them. And we provided it for them. Not to say that I got any time off from Purgatory for this, or that anyone else did, for that matter. That’s not why this particular Christian church provided food for hungry people. It’s because that is exactly what Jesus expects of us.
My thanks (I think) to Criggo for pointing out this interesting article. And if you’re down-and-out in Winnipeg, you’ll have to go somewhere else for physical nourishment, as all you’ll get from the Unity Truth Center is a sermon, it seems.
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Ready for a fresher, updated look? Fall is typically about going for a bold, dramatic, vibrant, defined look and that seems especially true this season. Where to focus that extra punch? USA TODAY’s Michelle Healy turned to beauty experts for quick tips.
Brooke Shields
“Fuller is more flattering,” says Alexandra Parnass, beauty director at Harper’s Bazaar. “Brows are a crucial part of the facial architecture” and can be “a terrific accessory.” One fashion model this season who really exemplifies the full brow look is Arizona Muse, says Parnass. “She has the most incredible brows big, bold Brooke Shields-type brows.” Brooke Shields brows too much for you? The take-away message is “keep your brows as opposed to plucking them to oblivion,” says Parnass.
Meanwhile, if your brows are naturally thin, fill in with a brow pencil one shade lighter than their natural color, says Colleen Sullivan, beauty director at Health magazine. “It’s almost like highlights for your brow.” Don’t forget to pluck stray hairs where needed, she adds: “It’s still a groomed brow you’re going for.”
Classic black liner pencil, gel, felt tip or kohl works for everyone, every time, says Corynne Corbett, beauty director of Essence magazine. Combined with mascara, it “really opens up your eyes and wakes up your face,” she says. For evenings out and special occasions, consider lining your eyes with one of the bold, vibrant colors from blue to gold to metallics that are key fashion trends this season, she adds.
And consider going “a little retro ’60s” by giving the eye a bit of Cleopatra treatment or a “refined,” angular cat eye effect, says Corbett. Remember to use bold makeup “sparingly or as an accent,” she says, “and balance the rest of your face accordingly.”‘
Not-so-perfect options such as the half-up, half-down do, soft ponytails, buns and chignons, and shoulder-length bobs are some of the pretty and practical approaches. Jennifer Aniston, Kate Capshaw and Taraji P. Henson have all recently sported the longer bob, which is “very wearable and can be styled straight or wavy,” says Sullivan. “Often you’ll see it below the chin with a razor cut. You don’t want it so finished or perfect.”
And whether you opt for long and loose, stylishly short, or intricately braided, shine makes all the difference, and for most of us that means using some type of product spray, serum, or deep conditioner, says Parnass: “It will instantly modernize your look.”
Crimson lipstick, an autumn favorite, is especially popular this year because it “pairs nicely with the strong, graphic trend we’re seeing so much this season as well as the lady-like look,” says Corbett. A “strong real red, like Bobbi Brown’s Old Hollywood, really gets you in the mood for wools and leathers and the holidays ahead,” adds Johnson.
Emma Stone @ The Help Premiere in L.A. Plus, Rob, Kristen, Angelina, Britney and more. Check out Marc’s latest red carpet pics
Michelle Williams
In a newly released photo from the upcoming My Week With Marilyn, Michelle Williams, who plays Monroe in the flick, proves she can look exactly like the iconic blond bombshell…
Williams looks radiant in the shot with a platinum blond ‘do and wearing a white body-hugging dress, coat and black sunglasses. With purse and flowers in hand, she walks through a crowd of men while photogs swarm her on all sides.
“She was brilliant,” William’s costar Dominic Cooper told us earlier this year of the star’s performance in the flick. “She did a lot of the work. It was amazing to watch the transformation.”
My Week With Marilyn tells the real life story of an assistant (Eddie Redmayne) to Sir Laurence Olivier who was given the task of showing Monroe around England while she was there filming The Prince and the Showgirl in 1956. The film, also starring Emma Watson and Julia Ormond, will hit theaters on Nov. 4 after having its world premiere about a month before during the New York Film Festival.
The fall movie season is here, just in time to keep the dogs of summer from permanently souring you from going to the cinema. Between now and Nov. 18, serious Oscar contenders (Warrior, J. Edgar, The Skin I Live In) will be crowing for your attention alongside surefire hits as a Shrek spin-off, a Footloose remake and the new Twilight picture. Here is a list of the 40-something movies expected to open by Thanksgiving. Dates are subject to change.
Tea Leoni
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star: Adam Sandler co-wrote this comedy for his frequent co-star and collaborator Nick Swardson, who plays a small-town bagboy whose life is changed when he discovers his parents are former porn stars.
Contagion: An A-list cast that includes Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bryan Cranston star in director Steven Soderbergh’s thriller about the outbreak of a deadly virus and the CDC’s efforts to contain it.
Higher Ground: Actress Vera Farmiga ( Up in the Air, The Departed) makes her directorial debut with this drama, inspired by Carolyn S. Briggs’ memoir This Dark World, about a community that is thrown off balance when one of its members begins to question her spiritual faith.
Warrior: The Oscar buzz has already begun for this Rocky-like drama about two brothers (Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy) competing for the title of mixed martial arts world champion. Nick Nolte co-stars as the two men’s father for director Gavin O’Connor ( Pride and Glory, Miracle).
Drive: A Hollywood stunt man (Ryan Gosling) moonlighting as a getaway driver for the criminal underworld is targeted for execution after a bungled heist. Carey Mulligan ( An Education) co-stars as a young mother who is caught in the crossfire.
I Don’t Know How She Does It: Sarah Jessica Parker finds out if there’s life after Sex and the City with this adaptation of Allison Pearson’s bestseller about a career woman trying to balance her job with her recently downsized husband (Greg Kinnear), their two children and the romantic advances of a co-worker (Pierce Brosnan).
Straw Dogs: Writer-director Rod Lurie ( The Contender) attempts to reshape Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 controversial meditation on violence for a new generation. James Marsden and Kate Bosworth take over as the young married couple who move to a town where the locals (including James Woods and True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard) are less than welcoming.
Abduction: Taylor Lautner attempts to prove he’s capable of more than playing backup to his Twilight co-stars with this thriller about a young man who discovers his entire life is a lie – just as a squad of trained killers comes calling. Lily Collins, Alfred Molina and Jason Isaacs co-star for director James Singleton ( Higher Learning, Boyz N the Hood).
The Last Circus: Spanish wild man Alex de la Iglesias ( Perdita Durango) wrote and directed this pitch-black comedy about the twisted love triangle between two circus clowns and a female acrobat.
Moneyball: After Columbia Pictures balked at his script revisions, writer-director Steven Soderbergh bailed and filmmaker Bennett Miller ( Capote) stepped in to make this adaptation of Michael Lewis’ book, about an epiphany by Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who figures out how to stay competitive in the major leagues under a tight budget. Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright. The final screenplay is credited to Steven Zaillan ( Schindler’s List) and Aaron Sorkin ( The Social Network). Not too shabby.
50/50: Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a young man diagnosed with terminal cancer who relies on the help of his best friend (Seth Rogen) to beat the titular odds of survival.
Courageous: From the creators of Fireproof and Facing the Giants comes another drama about Christian faith, this one centering on four police officers whose religious beliefs are tested by a great tragedy.
Dream House: Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz (who recently married in real life) star as a couple who discover their beautiful new home was the site of a horrific murder. Naomi Watts co-stars as the meddling neighbor who knows what really went down.
What’s Your Number?: Anna Faris is a perpetually single woman revisiting her past 20 relationships, wondering if she let her true love slip away among them. Chris Evans is the next-door neighbor who helps her sort out her romantic woes.
The Ides of March: George Clooney directed, co-wrote and stars in this adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play about a governor with presidential aspirations who must learn the rules of dirty politics – and quick – if he hopes to be elected. Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood co-star.
Restless: Gus Van Sant directs this romance between a terminally ill girl ( Alice in Wonderland’s Mia Wasikowska) and a boy (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis) who likes to attend funerals.
Wanderlust: David Wain, director of the greatly underrated Role Models, teams up with producer Judd Apatow for this comedy about a stressed-out Manhattan couple (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) who decide to buck the system and embrace the counter-culture lifestyle. Turn on, tune in, drop out you know the drill.
The Way: Emilio Estevez directs his father Martin Sheen in this story about an American who travels to France to recover the body of his son, who died while traveling from France to Spain on foot.
The Big Year: Miami’s David Frankel ( Marley and Me) returns with this comedy about three avid birdwatchers (Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson) competing for the big prize at a national competition. We’re smiling already.
Footloose: The 1984 Kevin Bacon hit gets a contemporary redo by Hustle & 38; Flow director Craig Brewer. Newcomer Kenny Wormald takes over as the big-city teen who relocates to a small town where a reverend (Dennis Quaid) has outlawed loud music and dancing. This is our time, dammit! Kick off those Sunday shoes!
The Thing: This prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter chiller – still one of the scariest movies ever – features the same title but tells a different tale, revealing what really happened to those frozen Norwegian scientists the cast of the original film found slaughtered in Antarctica. Hint: A shape-shifting alien from another planet may have had something to do with it. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Jonathan Lloyd Walker co-star for director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr., who makes his debut.
Thunder Soul: Jamie Foxx served as executive producer of this documentary following the alumni from Houston’s storied Kashmere High School Stage Band as they return home after 35 years to play a tribute concert for the 92-year-old “Prof,” their beloved bandleader who broke the color barrier and transformed the school’s struggling jazz band into a world-class funk powerhouse in the early 1970s.
Dirty Girl: In 1987 Oklahoma, a misbehaving high schooler (Juno Temple) and her closeted gay best friend (Jeremy Dozier) decide to leave their troubles behind and head out on a road trip to California.
Paranormal Activity 3: Now that Saw has run its course, a new horror franchise steps in to spawn a sequel every Halloween. This third installment in the hush-hush series promises to be an origin tale – where did that demon come from, anyway? – and is rumored to be set in the 1980s.
The Three Musketeers: Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson (I know, I know; who?) are the titular trio, made a quartet by the addition of the hot-headed D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) and facing off against baddies played by Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom.
The Skin I Live In: The new film by the beloved writer-director Pedro Almodovar caused a stir when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Antonio Banderas stars as a plastic surgeon who becomes obsessed with creating a synthetic skin after his wife is burned in a car crash.
Anonymous: Director Roland Emmerich ( 2012, Godzilla, Independence Day) takes time off from destroying our planet to answer the long-burning question: Who was the real author of all those plays credited to William Shakespeare? Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson and David Thewlis co-star in this possible scenario intended to solve the mystery, written by John Orloff ( A Mighty Heart).
In Time: Writer-director Andrew Niccol ( Gattaca, Lord of War) returns with a sci-fi tale that is not – repeat, not – a remake of Logan’s Run. Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy and Vincent Kartheiser are some of the inhabitants of this alternate universe where everyone stops aging at 25. The catch? You only get to live one more year – unless you’re rich enough to buy yourself immortality.
Martha Marcy May Marlene: Elizabeth Olsen, the younger sibling of twins Mary-Elizabeth and Kate Olsen, reveals talent run deeps in the family with her portrayal of a young woman who escapes the clutches of a charismatic cult leader (John Hawkes, guaranteed a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination) and tries to rebuild her life under the care of her sister (Sarah Paulson). A haunting, spooky treat that marks the auspicious debut of writer-director Sean Durkin.
Safe: A former cage fighter (Jason Statham), rendered suicidal by the murder of his wife, finds a reason to live in an 11-year-old Chinese girl (Catherine Chan) and math whiz pursued by Russian thugs.
Puss in Boots: The delightful Shrek supporting player gets his own 3D movie – still voiced by Antonio Banderas, of course. Salma Hayek, Billy Bob Thornton and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro round out the cast.
Tower Heist: Miami homeboy Brett Ratner directs an all-star cast with this crime caper about workers at a luxury condominium plotting to take back the pensions stolen by a Wall Street plunderer. Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Tea Leoni, Gabourey ( Precious) Sibide, Casey Affleck and Alan Alda partake in the high jinks.
Immortals: Visionary filmmaker Tarsem Singh ( The Cell, The Fall) brings his inimitable style to this recounting of the legend of the Greek peasant Theseus (Henry Cavill) and his war against the tyrannical King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke).
J. Edgar: The life and times of original FBI president and famed cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo Di Caprio) are explored in this controversy-baiting biopic from director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black ( Milk).
Jack and Jill: Adam Sandler pulls double duty in this comedy about an advertising executive (Sandler) who dreads an annual visit: A Thanksgiving visit by his twin sister (also Sandler). Katie Holmes and Al Pacino (!) co-star for Sandler’s usual director of choice, Dennis Dugan ( Grown Ups, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, Happy Gilmore).
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1: The esteemed director Bill Condon ( Kinsey, Dreamgirls) takes over for the final two installments – and tries to class up the franchise – in the ongoing story about a teenage girl (Kristen Stewart), the vampire (Robert Pattinson) she loves and the werewolf (Taylor Lautner) she doesn’t.
Gomez, fresh from an appearance at the VMAs Monday night with her main squeeze Justin Bieber, rose up onto the Fox stage wearing a sequined dress that looked like it was inspired by classic Ann-Margret.
Selena Gomez
Surrounded by three video screens of various shapes and sizes that hovered above, the star of the Emmy-winning “Wizards of Waverly Place” delivered 100 minutes of innocuous and unmemorable pop dance tunes.
That distinction wasn’t entirely clear as she made her way through frothy ditties such as “Hit the Lights,” “A Year Without Rain,” “Summer’s Not Hot,” “Round and Round,” “My Dilemma” and “I Love You Like a Love Song.”
The reggae-tinged “Spotlight,” performed largely in the dark, came with a rap interlude from Gomez, who was surrounded by dancers shining handheld spotlights on her. It wasn’t the only hip hop-inspired bit of the night. Her dancers were introduced to the tune of Lil Wayne’s “6 Foot 7 Foot.”
Much of the performance felt like a low-key version of Britney Spears, which was appropriate. During a taped segment, Gomez said her first concert was a Spears show and she was the little girl in the back.
Fellow Disney act Allstar Weekend fared better in its opening set. The catchy boy band, releasing its “All the Way” album this fall, performed songs such as “Blame It On September,” “Do It to Me,” and “A Different Side of Me,” on which the band dreams of being famous.
Mixing it up, the band also threw in a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark,” which may have appealed more to the parents in the house than the fans, who instead were all over Allstar Weekend’s take on Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
On Madoff’s claims he is helping Harvard Business School develop a course on business ethics: ‘At least in his mind, he’s getting ready to help the prestigious Harvard Business School develop course work for its students from his jail cell at Butner. Madoff said that Harvard is interested in his input to develop a course business ethics. Now he tells Fox Business that the school’s focus is in building an Entrepreneurial course.’ The course, according to Madoff, will focus around my experiences building my market making and Prop trading business and my role in NASDAQ and electronic trading. I have been approached by number of other business schools but have only committed to Harvard.’ Some strange turn of events, HUH!’ he writes about academia’s interest in what he has to say. Yes, if they were true.’
Bernard Madoff
On Harvard’s response to whether Bernie Madoff is helping them design a course for business school students: ‘The entire matter is not true,’ a spokesman for the Harvard Business School told the Fox Business Network. ‘The business school is not working with Bernard Madoff on anything.’
On Madoff’s allegations that SAC capital is guilty of insider trading: ‘SAC, which is being investigated by Justice Department as part of its probe, says it has done nothing wrong, and neither the firm nor Cohen has been charged with civil or criminal securities law violations. But Madoff says SAC along with its major competitors have been relying on insider tips for years. The only reason the regulators are addressing it now is because of the uproar in Congress (about insider trading abuses) How did Geithner and Paulson escape as they did?,’ he writes referring to the former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the current on Tim Geithner, though it’s unclear what they have to do with insider trading.’ The worst kept secret was Steve Cohn’s trading as well as most other hedge funds.”
On Madoff’s interactions with SAC Capital Chief Steve Cohen: ‘How does he know SAC relies on insider information? Madoff says that while he never met Steve Cohen,’ he once called Cohen and told ‘him to stop his managers from approaching my traders with their offer to give them info if we let SAC execute our commission business”
On SAC Capital’s response: ‘A spokesman for SAC Capital counters that Steven Cohen has never met or spoken with Bernard Madoff and any such assertion is absolutely false.”
‘Madoff contends he’s not really the world’s greatest swindler who with the help of a few clerks and back office people carried out a 2-decade long white collar crime spree. Rather, he’s somewhat of a victim who turned to crime as a way of dealing with unscrupulous Wall Street types that are found all over the financial services business.’
Dr. Keith Ablow on Madoff’s psychological state: ”Madoff developed an artificial sense of reality. Now even in prison he is trying to do the same thing.’
Ablow also says that enticing the media to believe he is still important with places like Harvard, or has inside knowledge into how Wall Street really works fills a pathological need for Madoff to make people believe he is special and capable of extraordinary talents as he has done for so long in his life.’ Ablow believes it’s that pathological narcissism’ that drove Madoff to prove to the world he was a great investor even if he had to lie and cheat his way to the top.’
Taylor, who died in March of congestive heart failure at age 79, beat out actress Jennifer Aniston and soccer star David Beckham, who placed second and third place respectively, for the top spot.
Elizabeth Taylor
“It was very interesting to see a member of Hollywood royalty, Elizabeth Taylor, clinch the top spot as the most photogenic celebrity of all time; but I think this proves that she will forever be remembered for her timeless beauty,” website co-founder Rebecca Huggler said of the survey, which polled over 1,500 members of the British public.
Along with Taylor, a few other Hollywood icons were featured on the list including Audrey Hepburn (No. 5), Marilyn Monroe (No. 8), and James Dean (No. 10).
“It will be interesting to see how this list changes over the years, as there are a lot of classic celebrities in there who have been famous or passed away many years ago; proving that photographs stay with us forever,” Huggler added.
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Hollywood’s weekly news cycles have been very slow through most of August, and the buzz only got quieter this week before the Labor Day weekend. Things are so slow, that it was even difficult for this writer to figure out which story deserves to be the Top Story. There were only a total of 14 news stories (at all) to choose from for the week’s Top 10, which meant that a story had to be really obscure not to be included. This week’s hum drum announcements include new projects for Josh Brolin, Anne Hathaway, Ed Helms, Dwayne Johnson, Taylor Lautner, Zoe Saldana and director Martin Scorsese.
Haley Joel Osment
Ever since their duet at the Oscars in 2009, there has been speculation about whether Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman will ever do a movie musical together. This week, that question was answered with the news that Anne Hathaway is set to join the cast of Les Miserables as Fantine, the doomed mother of Cosette. Les Miserables is of course an adaptation of the stage musical set during the French Revolution, based upon the novel by Victor Hugo. Director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, The Damned United) is lining up a star studded cast that is rumored to include Russell Crowe (replacing the earlier reported Paul Bettany) as Inspector Javert, and Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter as the Thenardiers. Geoffrey Rush previously played Javert in the 1998 film Les Miserables which also costarred Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman and Claire Danes. The casting of Cosette and Eponine is the next step, with Miranda Cosgrove (Nickelodeon’s iCarly), Lucy Hale (NBC’s Bionic Woman), Hayden Panettiere (NBC’s Heroes) and Emma Watson (Hermione of the Harry Potter films) being considered for either role. Filming of Les Miserables is expected to start in February, 2012 in England before Hugh Jackman proceeds to Canada for filming of The Wolverine. Les Miserables is a coproduction between Universal Pictures and Working Title Films.
Director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan (Body of Lies, Kingdom of Heaven) previously worked together on 2006′s The Departed. This week, both Scorsese and Monahan signed with Paramount Pictures to develop a remake of the 1974 James Caan addiction drama The Gambler, which was itself based upon a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Gambler told the story of a college professor struggling with an addiction to gambling on basketball scores. That movie, by the way, should not be confused with the series of TV movies starring Kenny Rogers that started in 1980. Paramount hopes that frequent Scorsese collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio will star, but negotiations with DiCaprio haven’t yet started. This week, William Monahan was also revealed to be working with Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez on the script for Sin City 2.
Josh Brolin has signed with Mandate Pictures (Whip It, The Switch, Drag Me to Hell) to star in the English language remake of Park Chan-wook’s Korean action thriller Oldboy, which will be directed by Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Inside Man). Josh Brolin will play a man who is kidnapped and kept hostage for 15 years until he is finally released and sets out to take his revenge. The screenplay was adapted by Mark Protosevich, whose past work includes Poseidon and cowriting duties on I Am Legend. Back when Steven Spielberg was attached to direct this remake a few years ago, Will Smith was to have been the star.
Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson are young actresses currently best known for supporting roles in Twilight, Up in the Air, Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, and Bridesmaids. Anna Kendrick was in those first three films, and Rebel Wilson played Kristen Wiig’s British roommate in the last. Kendrick and Wilson are now signed with Universal Pictures to costar in the romantic comedy Pitch Perfect, set in the world of college a capella singing groups. Kendrick will be playing a rebellious goth girl who surprisingly becomes the singing group’s secret weapon in competitions. Since Pitch Perfect is also described as a romantic comedy, she presumably falls in love with someone too. Director Jason Moore, who directed the stage musical Avenue Q as well as episodes of Dawson’s Creek, Everwood and Brothers & Sisters, will be making his feature film debut with Pitch Perfect. Filming of Pitch Perfect is scheduled to start this fall in New Orleans.
Avatar and Star Trek star Zoe Saldana marked the first week of release for her new action film Colombiana by signing with Paramount Pictures to star in a supernatural thriller called Dominion. Although the premise is mostly being kept secret for now, what is known is that Zoe Saldana will play a woman who is half human and half angel. Saldana will also produce Dominion, which is based on a spec pitch by newcomer screenwriters Dean McCreary and Chester Hastings, who cowrote the short film Fanboy featuring Sam Raimi and J.K. Simmons as themselves. Dominion is one of the week’s Rotten Ideas mostly because of its status as yet another movie about angels.
Following delays for the studio’s planned remake of Fantastic Voyage, 20th Century Fox has signed director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Date Night, Real Steel) for their entry in Hollywood’s race to see who can get a new Frankenstein movie made first. Fox’s Frankenstein is being written by Max Landis (John Landis’ son), who has a few other projects in the works but has not yet had a feature film produced and released. Landis’ script is described as being a “sci fi take” on Mary Shelley’s novel which “focuses on themes of friendship and redemption.” The other Frankenstein projects that Fox’s version is competing with include Guillermo del Toro’s long gestating project at Universal, Sony’s contemporary version, adaptations of The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein and Wake the Dead, starring Haley Joel Osment (which currently seems likely to be the first movie actually filmed and produced). This is one of the Rotten Ideas this week because Frankenstein and Night at the Museum really don’t belong in the same sentence together.
The success and ongoing cult popularity of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl and Twilight continue to buoy the career of Taylor Lautner. Taylor Lautner and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are reportedly in negotiations to star in the ancient Hebrew war epic Goliath based upon the Biblical tale of the future King David (Lautner) and his struggles with the philistine warrior Goliath (Johnson). Director Scott Derrickson (The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) signed on earlier this year to helm Goliath, which is being produced by two of the people behind The Twilight Saga. Lautner stands at a height of 5′ 10″, which makes him seem tall in comparison to most of his costars, but Dwayne Johnson will appropriately tower over Lautner too at a height of 6′ 5″. Although Johnson might indeed make a pretty great Goliath, the idea of Shark Boy playing the young King David earns this story its Rotten Idea tag.
20th Century Fox continued to keep the 5th entry in the Die Hard franchise on the fast track this week with the hiring of the film’s director. Irish director John Moore has made all of his movies to date for the studio, with an emphasis on remakes (The Omen, Flight of the Phoenix) that also included the video game adaptation Max Payne. Die Hard 5 will mostly be filmed in Russia, with Fox hoping that it can be wrapped before Bruce Willis moves on to star in the planned sequel to last year’s Red. Die Hard 5 is described as a father-son action adventure, and was written by screenwriter Skip Woods, who wrote the video game adaptation Hitman, as well as Swordfish, and shared cowriting duties on The A-Team and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. John Moore’s RT Tomatometer record is what earns Die Hard 5 its Most Rotten Idea of the Week status, though the idea of that limping franchise getting a fifth movie was most likely enough by itself.
She was relaxing at a Villapadierna Hotel in Marbella in Andalusia, Spain after a hectic year which saw her film the Italian movie The Flower of Evil, as well as posing for the cosmetics giant.
Paz Vega
Amazingly the trim actress gave birth to her third child in the space of four years back in August, but has again managed to get her pre-pregnancy body back.
Since then she has gone on to have an impressive career at home and abroad, and starring alongside one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars in Adam Sandler’s Spanglish but the movie was one of his rare box office bombs,
Dixie Lincoln. You seem to have not grasped the point that a lot of people love to troll DM site and pick up on its inaccuracy, seedy pap pics and phoney roll models not to mention quoting other newspapers and twitter as this is all it seems to use to gather the occasional news feature!
And L’Oreal is such a nice company to be the face of, still testing its ingredients on animals. My fault for expecting celebs to care, be intelligent or interested enough to research the companies they put their names to.
Another DM pap hiding in the bushes? – Citizen Smith, Shaftesbury, Dorset, 08/8/2011 12:07 thats true! they are only there to satisfy OUR curiosity in the story though. You cant read the artical and then moan about where it came from. lol
We had about 150 turtles coming out of the bay this morning,” said Marsico. “They crossed the runway to a sandy beach area to lay their eggs.”
Jfk Turtles
The diamondback terrapin turtles were gathered on runway 4L, plus nearby taxiways, starting at about 6:45 a.m., NBC affiliate WNBC-TV in New York reports.
The turtle migration occurs annually at the airport, which is located near Jamaica Bay. The turtles typically head out of the bay to nest on the beach each summer. Marisco added that “staff has been out there since quarter to 7 this morning relocating them.
Allison Steinberg, a JetBlue spokeswoman, said the airline saw no significant delays. “All traffic was moved onto a different departure runway and we are seeing very little impact now.
Hey, do ya think they should waste taxpayers’ money and put a ‘turtle tunnel’ underneath that runway, just like that buffune in Florida wanted? HAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Like all of nature…the TURTLES were here first, long before JFK’s runways were ever built! Is it possible that they penned an article back then when concrete was poured dissrupting their egg laying season?
Yes, indeed a clear conscience comes priceless. This compassion marks the cross roads where the turtle beats the rabbit, wins the hearts of the good and restores faith in our future.
I’ll venture some malicious, human hating crows had a hand, err,um, I mean wing in all this. Bet those who had the turtles do this are somewhere laughing their ass feathers off. Course now, it could have been some domestic branch of al-qaida too, or maybe a pack of welfare sucking illegals. We might ought to go, at least, to “yellow alert”.
You idiots amaze me. How the hell did you manage to pull this story down to your political mudslinging? You are no better than the monkeys that fling their crap at each other.
“Flights were temporarily halted at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Wednesday morning after about 150 turtles ambled onto a runway.” … the turtle were said to be yelling “HELL NO WE WON’T GO!”, but nobody knows why…
I hope that the terrorist don’t read this article they might catch the turtles before they get on to the run way and strap bombs on them! But seriously you should fear the turtle Any college sports fan knows what I’m saying…
My only concern is were they properly screened by TSA agents before entering the active runway? If not, I say they should be promptly arrested and forced to submit to security procedures, including a full-shell patdown.
This was a humane and sane way of handling the situation, when I’ve experienced flight delays due to incompetence, computer glitches, or neglected aircraft maintenance. I’m glad the person on duty at the time who was in a position to make the decision on this is not an arrogagant human being, but rather one who understands that other species have a right to exist on this planet as well. Who is to say in whose space it is?
This is only part of the story . The trutles will have to cross back over the runway , after their yearly orgy and the laying of the eggs . Then the baby turtles will have to follow the same path . Did any body think to tag these turtles ? Then they’ll need to tag the babies . Next they’ll have to have J.F.K. Turtle Police . To ” Protect and Serve “. To make sure , no terrorist turtles enter the country , by the way of J.F.K. Did they body scan each and every one of them ? There might have been an underwear bomber among them . I shouldn’t have done that . By typing the words “underwear bomber ” . Now I’m on a F B I watch list . Have to report in every month , and not be able to get on a plane . I hate the thoughts of being checked for a underwear bomb . Those people put their finger in ice water , before making such test . Look for my picture at the Post Office . I’ll be the one , who looks like I’ve just got a prostate test , with an ice cold finger . See what I’ve done . Just to give you a chuckle . RON
