Again, I offer refuge for those who, like me, feel they are being force-fed this endless presidential campaign. You might say we are being Strasbourg-goosed by it — this endless diet of the Hillster, the Obamster and the Oldster.I spent a recent weekend with a visitor named James McConnell of Tyler, Tex. He is […]
THE skies were grey but Jack Black could not have dreamed of a better night for the Sydney premiere of his latest film. As the voice of the black and white panda Po in the animated Kung Fu Panda, Black helped the production company Dreamworks karate kick its way to top billing at the US […]
Never known for his humility, director James "King of the World" Cameron describes his upcoming 3-D movie Avatar as "the single most complex piece of filmmaking ever made."The $200 million project is being produced mainly in New Zealand, with Weta Digital handling the effects. Cameron claims Avatar will out-do, in sheer quantity, the digital character […]
Rory Root Dead at 50Rory Root, visionary comics retailer and owner of the San Francisco comics bookstore Comic Relief, died of complications from a hernia operation at an Oakland, Calif. hospital May 19. He was 50. Root was a well known comics retailer and among the first to recognize that it was both necessary and […]
Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer. But will he be a demon on wheels?Out of all the summer ‘08 blockbusters, few are as enigmatic as the Wachowskis’ big-budget adaptation of the 1960s Japanese series originally titled “Mach GoGoGo.” They’ve told us that the movie will bring the cartoon to life, they’ve told us that […]
How to Survive the Media without Getting Clobbered! By Gayl Murphy…ya gotta tell It to sell it!HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 4/19/08 – “The movie really holds up, with or without the pterodactyls,” says Jamie Mann of ‘Warbirds’, premiering on the SCI FI channel tonight. Mann plays a WWII WASP (Women’s Air Service Corps) pilot ferrying […]
“I Am Legend”Will Smith can even turn the end of humanity into a blockbuster. Smith’s latest sci-fi smash is the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel about a researcher who may be the last man alive (it was previously filmed as Vincent Price’s “The Last Man on Earth” and Charlton Heston’s “The Omega Man”). Alone […]
For her role as a blind violinist in the new horror film The Eye, Jessica Alba put in quite a bit of time making sure the performance looked authentic. She went to two schools for the blind and spent four and a half months learning the violin, including during her downtime […]