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Not so much for the ethical dilemma of shoehorning his girlfriend into a movie for ulterior motives, but it was so condescending. When Vince started dating Sasha Grey (playing herself), he wanted her to stop doing adult films. He went so far as to try to get her a role in his movie Air-Walker. That would be a bad move in any relationship. Nobody wants to get the pity part, and nobody wants to be forced to cast your girlfriend. The real problem though was that Vince didn?t respect who Sasha was, so their relationship was doomed.
How many of these have to do with Billy Walsh? During the whole Medellin fiasco, Walsh got hired to make the mountain-climbing movie, but he rewrote the script into the sci-fi movie Silo. Despite all that, Silo was considered good enough to make. But when Medellin bombed, the whole thing was off. See, it all goes back to Billy Walsh. Hollywood is about who you know, and if you know the wrong people they can sabotage your career.
This is a serious one, because it led to drug addiction, which is no laughing matter, even in a comedy. What is funny is that Nick Cassavetes got cast as the balls-to-the-walls director pushing Vince to do his own stunts. Since when does Nick Cassavetes have a hardcore reputation? He directed The Notebook!
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We've all been there, you're browsing through Netflix trying to find a new show or movie to watch and then 20 minutes later, you're back to watching that episode of The Office that you've seen better than 20 times. With the use of television and streaming sites such as Netflix, Hulu and HBO Go, we can now watch our favorite shows or movies anytime we want. Something that not a whole lot of people realize is that while watching your favorite show, you're learning about who you want to become.
The only reason I ever bought Netflix was to watch House of Cards with Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood. After binging the first two season in a weekend, I saw so much in Frank Underwood and wanted to become just like him. Okay, I didn't want to become corrupt and become a killer, but I saw leadership traits in the man that appealed to me. He is a leader who has the ability to have people follow him and he can command those around him. Frank Underwood is a man who leads and is followed by many. Throughout the four seasons, he has been able to turn people into his allies and utilize their strengths, something not all leaders are able to do. It was after seeing Frank Underwood that I wanted to find more characters like him to analyze.
I am addicted to shows such as The Office and Entourage because of the characters and what they stand for. Michael Scott is a great example of how a leader can utilize comedy to create a fun work space for people. By utilizing comedy, he was able to create a bond with his employees that allows him to create a family like atmosphere in the work place. In Entourage, my favorite character is Ari Gold. Ari gold says whatever is on his mind, does whatever he wants and somehow is one of the most successful people in L.A. (I know he is a fictional character, but he is one of the most successful people in L.A. in the show) and he can get whatever he wants. A leader needs to be willing to be the person to take that first step and Ari Gold portrays this perfectly! One of my greatest Netflix finds was the movie 'Jobs' featuring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. It was because of this movie that I grew to love Steve Jobs for his innovative and creative mind. Steve Jobs was able to use his creativity to allow people to buy into his system and his company. He set a vision for Apple and their employees shared this vision of his.
So do I want to become Frank Underwood, Michael Scott, Ari Gold or Steve Jobs? The answer is no, but I want to develop traits that each individual has. These are all characters that I can watch daily, but I can also learn so much from. Go and find the TV or movie character you want to learn from. Look at how they lead, how they act around others, what their strengths and weaknesses are. Who knows, a day of laying on the couch and watching Netflix might just help you become the next CEO of a Fortune 500 company, it might help you become a Forbes 30 under 30 winner or it could just help you become the next President. And to think, it all could have started from watching some TV
Rex came into the entourage as Bonzo's personal assistant because he was a friend of his. "When they were going on tour one day, I got a call, literally three to four days before the tour started asking if I wanted to go, and I went." Rex and Bonzo were pals and enjoyed travelling together - Rex was the only one to accompany Bonzo on his trip up to Newcastle to record his TV interview for Tyne Tees TV's "Alright Now" in March 1980; it was also Rex who drove him down from the midlands to Windsor on the day before his death in September 1980.
After Bonzo's death and the break-up of Zeppelin, Rex continued to work for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, in addition to working on other tours including Yes, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, The Who, Bad Company, The Firm, Rod Stewart, and Elton John.He took a special interest in Jason's fledgling career and was spotted out with him a few times - including taking him along with Robert, Maureen and Carmen Plant to see Cozy Powell play with Whitesnake at Birmingham Odeon in 1982. He introduced Robert to his current manager Bill Curbishley after meeting Curbishley in Spain and hitting it off with him. He took Robert over to meet him several years later and the seeds of their business relationship were planted. Known as something of a ladies man, complaints were heard at the recording of Unledded that most of the girls in the front row (aside from Scarlet Page) were friends of his. Page and Plant apparently appreciated the view!
Interviewed around the time of Page and Plant, he explained that as their tour manager he was responsible for everything that production manager Roy Lamb wasn't. "I do everything on the daily running of the tour, all of Robert and Jimmy's stuff and all the bands stuff.."
Speaking about their rider, he said "Its absolutely minimal these days. A few basic things- finger foods, a few beers, soft drinks. Thers's no hard liquor or anything like that. Anybody can have what they want, but people don't particularly bother. The days when we used to go all out and have bottles of champagne, etc, they're all over for us."
Rex continued to work with Robert when he resumed his solo career and has only recently moved onto other bands ( most recently Metallica) after they both decided they needed a change. Robert currently employs Dave Taraskevics, who he met through Peter Gabriel, as tour manager. Rex lives in Florida (as does Jason) but still works for Curbishley and Trinifold and is still friends with the surviving members of the band and entourage. He's a bit of a legend.
Denis Sheehan was Robert's personal assistant on the 1977 US tour. The jovial Irishman had previously been a roadie for Maggie Bell, who was signed to Swan Song ( Jimmy made a guest appearance on her 1975 album "Suicide Sal"). This was the first tour where all the band had their own personal assistants - Rex King was Bonzo's, Dave Northover Jonesy's , and Rick Hobbs Jimmy's.
"They had promised themselves a break when they got back from America. Bonham and Jones went home to sort themselves out. But Plant was restless, and called Page about a remote cottage near Machynlleth, Gwynedd, which he remembered fondly from a childhood holiday. Page liked the idea. A surprise, maybe, but before Led Zeppelin's year of five-star suites he had been an inveterate solo traveller in India, America, Spain and elsewhere. Both a loner and a natural group leader, he once said: "Isolation doesn't bother me at all, it gives me a sense of security."
So, in late April, they set off for Bron-Y-Aur ("Bronraar"), hoping to recover some closeness with each-other - an echo of their first extensive meeting when Plant spent several days at Page's Pangbourne home playing records and talking music. But they did take along roadies Clive Coulson and Sandy Macgregor to take care of domestic matters.
The cottage was accessible only via muddy farm tracks. It had stone walls, no electricity, and no running water. "It was freezing when we arrived," recalls Coulson, now a beef farmer in his native New Zealand. "We collected wood for the open-hearth fire which heated a range with an oven on either side. We had candles and I think there were gaslights. We fetched water from a stream and heated it on the hot plates for washing - a bath was once a week in Machynlleth at the Owen Glendower pub."
"Me and Sandy were the cooks, bottlewashers and general slaves. Pagey was the tea man. Plant's speciality was posing and telling people how to do things," Coulson laughs and then, lest anyone takes his Kiwi sarcasm for gospel, corrects himself. "No, everyone mucked in really. I wouldn't take any of that superior shit. They were wonderful people to work for, normal blokes, they weren't treated as Gods. Although Pagey was two people, one of the lads and the boss. And I'm not sure who got the job of cleaning out the chemical toilet..........."
They drove the tracks, walked the hills, met a biker gang of local farm boys and a bunch of volunteers restoring an old house (Page said, sorry, he'd never played guitar so he couldn't join in on Kumbayah.) They took evenings "off" at the pub and talked country matters with the farmers. Page even bought some goats and had Coulson ferry them up to Bolskine House (the mind boggles) in a Transit. This amply offset the truculence of a local butcher who snarled at them in Welsh and hacked their fillet steaks to mince.
With Page strumming and Plant tootling a harmonica, the songs came - songs which, according to Page, "changed the band and established a standard of travelling for inspiration, which is the best thing a musician can do." They wrote the rudiments of material that fed into their repertoire for years afterwards, sustaining the acoustic element: Over The Hills And Far Away (Houses of The Holy, 1973), Down By The Seaside, The Rover, Bron-Y-Aur (Physical Graffiti,1975), Poor Tom (Coda, 1982), and possibly others, as well as three songs which appeared immediately on Led Zeppelin III, That's The Way, the Neil Young -influenced Friends and Bron-Y-Aur Stomp.
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