Colin Farrell and Leonardo DiCaprio...The Two "Alexanders" Saving the World....
RestInParadise
YOU GO BOYS!!!!
Colin Farrell Combats Homelessness With Poetry, And Leonardo DiCaprio
Campaigns To Rescue Our Environment, Reforest Burned Out California,
and Fight Global Warming. Oh be still my heart!
Colin Farrell reads poetry, Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me," for
homelessness fundraiser....
Posted on Colin-Farrell.net November 22. 2003
"Focus Ireland's Dharma"
> I again steered some feathers. This time I am deeply moved and I feel
> obligated to post this mail that I got from a certain person from
> U.S.A. It is not complete e-mail, because it involves some private and
> intimate things, as well
> as it talks about personal problems concerning homeless friend who
> died couple of months ago. I just want you to read this. Do not pass
> it because it does not (directly) apply to Colin Farrell. I am being
> highly objective and rational about it, and I did thought twice before
> posting this, just as well as you can not be aware citizen of the
> world if you are not aware of the 'real' world life problems.
>
> Thank you and remember: homelessness does exist.
>
> 'I was so greatly moved by Colin's choice of poems for Focus
> Ireland's fundraiser against homelessness, because it shows so
> honestly and so strongly the spirit of 'arrogant'defiance against the
> 'tithes' of society, and the love of voices against economic and
> social tyranny. For children who start their lives with nothing but
> hunger and trauma, for old folks who become frail and unable to fight
> for themselves, for people of all sorts who go a little bit crazy,
> lose their eyesight, or fall ill, there is a great chance that they
> will end up on the streets. Every step of the way there are fines,
> fees and car impoundments everywhere to pay, like 'tithes' even to the
> 'sea'. Dublin's history may be very different from San Francisco's, but
> the working class fight against economic and political oppression is
> universal. It is those voices I am so glad Colin is bringing back to
> light for the sake of the poor, misled, and disabled on the streets.
> They really have no voice now. It hasn't been fashionable for a very
> long time for famous people to address poverty and hunger likes it was
> years ago with the 'Feed the World' campaign, as if it doesn't sell
> enough magazines for being too depressing. For all the 'bad boy' hype,
> let's hope Colin's current shock value urges people to anger to change
> the pressures that lead to homelessness, and to offer a few new ways
> out. I am so happy he brought extra attention to the movie "Veronica
> Guerin." I don't pretend to know what his motivations are in choosing
> such quality messages in his movies, but the total effect is nice. The
> Hollywood glitter is nice to watch from time to time, but without
> heartfelt social action like this the entertainment world seems only
> empty and shallow.
>
> Unfortunately, the issue of criminalizing homelessness now might make
> some of the more stupid people in the world assume that somehow
> homeless people are all cold criminals that don't deserve help.
> Homeless people tend to get that way
> because they DON'T "cheat" another to survive. Many people fail to see
> that poor people are forced to defend themselves for their own
> survival, whether it is against the man in the street trying to kill
> you, or against the social,
> political, and economic conditions that keep a man down and his family
> struggling. How can you solve the problem of homelessness for any
> young adult or child when they cannot apply for any kind of public
> assistance once the have been in trouble with the law? How can we
> continually treat these people like criminals when many time their
> crimes of prostitution, petty shop-lifting, or fighting are the only
> things one can do to avoid abusive foster homes and juvenile hall?
> Being labelled a criminal is not the same as being homeless, but
> solving the problem of homelessness and making it easier for kids on
> the run to apply for housing help without getting in trouble would go
> very far in reducing the problem of crime.
>
> There just is no affordable housing in this area anymore, what with
> the success of the Silicon Valley edging out all available homes and
> shelters, and the panic of the upper class to criminalize the lower
> classes for defending their
> lives and families against violence, for selling themselves when they
> own nothing else, and for self-medicating with street drugs, poisonous
> substitutions for legal medications homeless people can not get on
> their own. Let's hope the
> rest of the world takes a look at Dublin's efforts now, and that
> fundraising for the homeless becomes a Hollywood trend again too.
>
> I hope you'll continue to publicize Colin's efforts for Focus Ireland,
> and maybe enlighten some of the rest of the world about the class
> struggles that Colin now embodies for this generation. So Minerva....
> Thanks again for your interest, and for your wonderful Farrell site
> that keeps me entertained and enlightened. Us 'little people' love
> you.'
>
> No, thank YOU for your letter Nikola1Tesla, and you know who you are
> and THANK YOU Colin Farrell, for reading Dublin Made Me by Donagh
> McDonagh. If you only knew what you did with this act.
>
> MINERVA
>
> Posted by Minerva at 09:46 AM
>
>
> Synopsis
> A rich and colourful celebration of the poetic heritage of Ireland, this
> CD book anthology features classic and contemporary Irish poems read by
> 100 of the best-known voices in Irish life, including Colin Farrell,
> Maeve Binchy, Bono, Pierce Brosnan, The Corrs, Bertie Ahern,
> Bob Geldof, Seamus Heaney, Marian Keyes and Sinead O'Connor. The
> collection includes famous poems such as Yeats's "The Fisherman" and
> Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alongside new work from Ireland's
> finest living writers.As well as forming a living testament to the
> best of Irish writing, the collection is also a reminder that words,
> both oral and written, do make a difference with all
> royalties going to Focus Ireland, the country's largest and most
> respected charity for the homeless.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007174071/ref%3Dsr%5Faps%5Fbooks%5F1%5F1/202-7611551-2073449
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________________
I can't find this available on Amazon in the United States just
yet....
Meanwhile, there is a vey different style Northern California project
that is helping some struggling American kids to survive ....
Woodie's Northern Expozure 5
http://www.calilove.com/eastcocorecords/
All messages from thread
From: RestInParadise (nikola...@aol.com)
Subject: Colin Farrell, Bono, Bob Geldof, Pierce Brosnan, &
Leonardo DiCaprio Save the World
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2003-11-23 16:54:13 PST
November 4, 2003 from "Colin-Farrell.net":
About "Voices and Poetry of Ireland"
Edited by Theo Dorgan to Benefit the Homeless through "Focus Ireland"
"Bono and Paul McGuinness have contributed to Voices and Poetry of
Ireland, a 3 CD and book anthology of Irish poetry that will benefit
Focus Ireland, an organization that aims to combat homelessness and
advance the rights of
homeless people.
The list of contributors to Voices and Poetry of Ireland, which is
supported by Poetry Ireland, reads like a Who Is Who of Ireland. The
book that accompanies the CDs contains the text of the poems, as well
as photos and biographical information of the readers. Priced at Euro
40, the CD and book set will be available from Harper Collins in two
weeks.
Voices and Poetry of Ireland is a 3 CD and beautiful hardback book
anthology of classic and contemporary Irish poems from poets such as
Yeats, Kavanagh, Wilde, Kennelly and Heaney read by over 100 of the
best-known voices in Irish life such as Bono, Colin Farrell, Pierce
Brosnan, Bertie Ahern, Maeve Binchy, Bob Geldof and Terry Wogan. The
objective of this rich and colourful celebration of Irish poetic
heritage is to raise much-needed funds for Focus Ireland, one of
Ireland's largest voluntary agencies solely dedicated to combating
homelessness. Founded by Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy in 1985 it helps over
4,000 people each year throughout the country.
The poems, drawn up in consultation with Poetry Ireland, reflect
something of the diversity and variety of poetry from Ireland and
includes both famous and historical poems alongside new and even
unpublished work from among our finest living writers. The Book
contains photos and biographical details on the well-known readers and
the text of the poems which they bring to life on the accompanying
CDs.
This is the poem by Donagh MacDonagh that Colin is reading.
Dublin Made Me
DUBLIN made me and no little town
With the country closing in on its streets
The cattle walking proudly on its pavements
The jobbers, the gombeenmen and the cheats
Devouring the fair-day between them
A public-house to half a hundred men
And the teacher, the solicitor and the bank-clerk
In the hotel bar drinking for ten.
Dublin made me, not the secret poteen still
The raw and hungry hills of the West
The lean road flung over profitless bog
Where only a snipe could nest
Where the sea takes its tithe of every boat.
Bawneen and currach have no allegiance of mine,
Nor the cute self-deceiving talkers of the South
Who look to the East for a sign.
The soft and dreary midlands with their tame canals
Wallow between sea and sea, remote from adventure
And Northward a far and fortified province
Crouches under the lash of arid censure.
I disclaim all fertile meadows, all tilled land
The evil that grows from it and the good,
But the Dublin of old statutes, this arrogant city
Stirs proudly and secretly in my blood.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing to do, Colin Farrell. You really
are a man of many virtues. Posted by Minerva at 11:28 PM"
And also, from U2 site....
http://u2log.com/archive/002611.shtml
And the link to Amazon....
THAT, like Leonardio Dicaprio's substantial efforts to help clean up
and protect the environment, make me so glad Hollywood actors are not
forgetting the people that love them. :
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7318577.htm
Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003
DiCaprio Speaks Out Against Global
Warming
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Leonardo DiCaprio is using his fame to call on elected
officials to reduce American dependence on oil and slow down global
warming.
The 29-year-old actor and conservationist narrated an online film
called
"Global Warning" as part of an Internet campaign organized by Global
Green USA, an affiliate of Green Cross International.
The campaign, which began Thursday, urges people to oppose the energy
bill that's under debate in Congress by signing a "Pledge of
Allegiance to American Energy Independence." The bill would provide
$23 billion in tax incentives and includes measures to produce more
coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power.
The "Titanic" star said people should use energy more efficiently by
supporting renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
In the film, DiCaprio criticized elected officials who "gained too
much
money and power off our addiction to oil" as being resistant to
change.
"We must demand a separation between oil and state," he said. "We can
vote for leaders who care about protecting your health, the air and
the
environment."
DiCaprio owns two hybrid cars powered by both gasoline and
electricity,
said Global Green president Matt Petersen, who worked with DiCaprio on
the campaign.
---
On the Net: http://www.globalgreen.org/
©2003 Google
Please look at the amazing site, both right AND left
www.leonardodicaprio.com
RestInParadise
Almost forgot one of the most important links of all:
the home page this project.....
PLEASE visit.
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Yes I WILL 'hype for food' for the homeless.....
Aside from the current rumor about these two co-stars carousing and
possibly smooching in a London dance club last night (after the London
premiere of Colin's new film, "Intermission," these two have so much
more to love than pretty looks, brilliant minds, and adorable babies.
Shining humanitarian efforts like the following article about "Beyond
Borders" "Tomb Raider" Angelina Jolie, (who is currently working and
apparantly playing beside Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander")
our bad boy can't go wrong. Is it her nurturing efforts taming our
bad boy, or has he grown into man all on his own?
Enquiring minds.... go house & feed the world & stop corrupt politics!
Sun, October 19, 2003
www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/OttawaSun/ Today/2003/10/19/pf-230020.html
Angelina Jolie Beyond Borders
The former wild child now sees clearly what's important in life
By BRUCE KIRKLAND, Sun Media
LONDON -- Looks can be deceiving, especially if the looker is someone
as alluring and dangerous as Angelina Jolie, the sensuous bombshell of
Lara Croft fame. Yet this is the same woman who, on Wednesday, will
shyly and even humbly face United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
to receive the first United Nations Correspondents Association Citizen
of the World Award. She is being honoured for her work as a goodwill
ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
"It means that I've done good by an organization that I care a great
deal about and that I didn't let them down, that I represented them
properly and that they're happy with that," says Jolie when the Sun
asks her to explain the importance of the ceremony. "And it means
that, if I die tomorrow, I can leave my son something that says I did
something good with my life."
But a Hollywood mythos has built up around the 28-year-old,
Hollywood-born daughter of U.S. movie star Jon Voight and French
actress Marcheline Bertrand. People are obsessed with Jolie's
two-dozen tattoos, her self-confessed bisexuality, the size of her
breasts (which were temporarily enhanced for the first Tomb Raider
flick), her youthful bouts with depression, her childhood fascination
with the embalming business, her knife play with occasional slips into
self-mutilation, her two spectacularly failed marriages (to Jonny Lee
Miller and Billy Bob Thornton) and even the nature of her passionate
love for brother James (Jamie) Haven.
Jolie's frank, uncensored way of talking has reinforced the image of a
flake. Just two years ago, she told the Sun that her friends know "I'm
a little nuts" and that she has suffered through rites of passage in
which "I have drowned in being deep and complicated and dark."
Jolie said sadly, "It's hard for me. It's hard to be free." But then,
of course, she was still married to Thornton in a tempestuous union
which they both said would only end if they spontaneously burst into
flames during sex. They each tattooed the other's name on their
bodies. They each carried silver vials containing drops of the other's
blood.
Loony tunes? Looked like it then. But, once again, looks are
deceiving. Today, Jolie is transformed.
She is divorced and no longer communicates with Thornton (or with her
unstable father after what she considers his cruel and aggressive
interventions in her life). The Billy Bob tattoo has been lasered off
her left shoulder, although the scar tissue is still healing. She is
no longer dating and says she has not had sex for more than a year. As
a single mom, Jolie is raising her adopted son, Cambodian-born,
two-year-old Maddox. She is looking into adopting another child.
Jolie also has a hefty new movie coming Friday, Martin Campbell's
tragic romantic drama Beyond Borders, co-starring the rugged British
star Clive Owen. The film is a tumultuous love story set against the
milieu of humanitarian aid workers who struggle to doctor, feed and
shelter refugees displaced by brutal wars in Ethiopia, Cambodia and
Chechnya.
It was researching this film five years ago -- when it was still to be
directed by Oliver Stone, who coincidentally is currently directing
her in the historical epic Alexander In Morocco -- that started the
long process of transformation.
At the time, Jolie was in Mexico shooting Original Sin. Caspian
Tredwell-Owen's Beyond Borders script landed in her hands and she read
it quickly. "And I cried and I really wanted to understand and I
really wanted to take the journey. Then the film didn't go and we
didn't know if it was ever going to go. It has always been such a
complicated film to make."
STARRING ROLE
No kidding. Under Stone's guidance, Kevin Costner and Catherine
Zeta-Jones were supposed to co-star. Then Zeta-Jones dropped out,
during her first pregnancy, and was replaced by Meg Ryan, who dropped
out, to be replaced by Jolie. On the men's side, Costner gave way to
Ralph Fiennes, whom the producers decided was not manly-man enough. So
Clive Owen (of Croupier renown) stepped in for his first Hollywood
starring role ("I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed working with her,"
Owen now enthuses about his co-star, who says she got the giggles
every time she came near him).
Still, five years ago, Jolie was "really upset" when the project
stalled because she was fired up by the idea of investigating refugee
camps, which her character does in the film. "I cried when I got the
phone call that it wasn't going to happen and I had this moment of
realizing, 'Well, I'll just go! I'll take the journey. I'm a person.
I'll go myself.' "
Jolie says she collected books on the UN and on aid relief. She did
her due diligence and then hooked up with the High Commissioner for
Refugees, persuading officials at the organization to let her go to
Sierra Leone, which was in the throes of civil war, to visit refugee
camps for two weeks.
"I kind of didn't know what was going to happen and what to expect. I
just knew I should become more aware of what was going on in the
world. I really wanted to know. Then I went out and it completely
changed my life. By the time I came home, I was a much better person.
"I would never complain again about the stupid things I used to
(complain about), or be self-destructive, or not realize on a daily
basis how lucky I am to have a roof over my head and enough good to
eat and that my son is healthy! I think I used to have so many other
things going on in my head, things I'd be sad about or tortured myself
with. I couldn't sleep at night because I'd be self-destructive."
Sometimes that happened, she says, "because I didn't feel enough."
Jolie feels plenty now, in an intense yet responsible, mature way that
suggests she is no longer a flake.
Her mothering instinct has flourished, thanks to her adoption of
Maddox, whom she also lovingly calls Mad or Madness. Jolie met him, as
an infant of three months, at an orphanage in Cambodia. She had
returned for the UN after shooting parts of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
there. In tribute to Maddox and as part of her commitment to
humanitarian aid, Jolie has established a $5-million, 60,000-hectare
wildlife refuge in northern Cambodia. Local people have been hired to
supervise the project, giving them a crucial stake in its survival and
success.
Next door is a 21-hectare plot legally owned by Maddox. Jolie built
three modest houses on stilts on the property and one serves as an
alternate home for them when they are not at her New York apartment,
at her English country home (their primary residence) or on the road
shooting movies.
With Jolie looking to adopt again, she says it doesn't matter whether
it's a girl or a boy. "But I'd like it to be (from) a different
country than Maddox because I'd like to introduce a new culture and a
new religion to our family."
She also would have to get a new tattoo. Jolie recently added one for
Maddox -- a Buddhist symbol and script tattooed onto her left shoulder
blade. The Thai artist used the traditional long needles and hammer
method. Jolie was obliged to kneel and fold her hands together in
prayer. "I kind of felt like it was something that I was going through
for Maddox because it's for protection. I kind of felt that I should
suffer through something, that it was part of something that was a
ritual, a prayer for him."
TATTOOS
The tattoos, while fascinating to others, are personal for her. And
useful in her movie negotiations. "Most of my tattoos are only a
problem for nude scenes," she says with a mischievous grin, "so it
tends to help me." She pleads with directors, "I can't cover that
one!" Or, "It'll take an extra three hours!" So she can sometimes
avoid the nudity.
In life, she avoids the men. "I'm not looking. I'm really happy being
a mom right now and I don't have a lot of extra time." If she ever is
attracted to another man, he will probably have to be committed "to
helping others," she says.
Meanwhile, a film such as Beyond Borders represents her true passion,
aside from being a mother to Maddox. Her character Sarah Jordon goes
through some of the things that Jolie has gone through herself in
learning about the world and dedicating herself to humanitarian relief
work.
"I think she's a great character," Jolie says. "If I end up being like
her in my life, I'd be proud."
As for Beyond Borders, Jolie is excited and proud that it is both a
romantic saga and a realistic social issue film.
"Yeah, I just love being part of a film that I really think is worth
making. We do a lot of films and they're entertaining and there are
some aspects that are interesting or worth talking about. This,
obviously, at the end of the day, is something I would like my son to
see (when he grows up)."
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nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03112...@posting.google.com>...
RestInParadise
representatives for the poor, lawyers who fail to investigate their
clients cases for innocence while their remaining families struggle
and starve alone.
Case in point:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=eddie%20rapoza
Even after a year innocent Eddie Rapoza still sits in Maguire jail in
San Mateo County, after his "foot stuck" on the gas pedal causing his
minivan to barrel over a cliff into the Pacific in Moss Beach, killing
his family and severely injuring himself. Prosecutors and police
laughed at the thought that anyone's foot could just "stick" to a gas
pedal, claiming that is impossible. They charged him with
intentionally murdering his pregnant wife, unborn child, and four year
old daughter. They are trying to look "tough on domestic violence" by
considering the death penalty in his case.
They failed AND STILL IGNORE the adjustable pedals Eddie's wife moved
higher to accomodate her 7 month pregnant midriff. They ignore that
such pedals were recalled by other makers like Ford in 2002 for
causing feet to catch between brake and gas. They choose the
capitalize in a similar Scott and Laci Peterson case about a pregnant
woman "murdered," and are unfairly trying to look tougher on domestic
violence after complaints that San Mateo County was too weak.
San Mateo has no "public defender," opting instead for a cheaper
"private defender" program where busy private lawyers take a much
smaller payment to do cut rate work without investigating fully. What
saves the county a little bit of money unfairly ruins innocent
families and devestates entire communities, like East Palo Alto.
If Eddie's busy court appointed lawyer had bothered to invetigate AT
ALL, his lawyer would have discovered that Eddie's 7 month pregnant
wife's minivan, a 2002 Dodge Caravan, was the first of it's kind to be
equipped with "adjustable pedals," which she could move up to three
inches closer to her so that she could still reach them. A short lady,
she HAD to move the seat back and the pedals up to fit behind the
wheel at 7 months pregant. Eddie never knew to move the pedals back to
where his foor could not hook beneath the unusually high brake pedal
after depressing the gas. He didn't understand at the time why his
foot was trapped, and no one believed him. Since then, other car 2002
manufacturers like Ford had a recall over this very thing. But nobody
is helping Eddie. Please somebody help.
Eddie was arrested in the hospital while still suffering from his own
injuries just after the accident where his wife, baby, and daughter
died and he had many many broken bones. His jail mug shot shows him
still in a thick neck cast.
He does not remember being questioned about what happened, and wonders
how police claim they questioned him with he was having surgeries and
was on hospital administered anisthetics. Police claim he said "I
want to kill myself" in the hospital, so they wrote the case up as a
"murder/suicide attempt.
Eddie has unsuccessfully petitioned to remove his lawyer twice. His
court appointed lawyer is a very busy official with the local bar
association, too busy to answer calls or visit Eddie more than once in
the last YEAR while preparing for trial, prefering instead to send a
woman on his defense team who claims that Eddie can't possibly be
smart enough to understand the law, so they won't bother trying to
explain it to him. Eddie has his GED and reads and writes very well,
thank you. He understands they want him to take a deal for life in
prison in lieu of the death penalty, though he lost his beloved family
in a truly horrific accident they ridiculously call murder, and that
they are trying to cover up the ineptitude of San Mateo's legal system
by neglecting & crucifying him and many others like him.
San Mateo's DA has a 97% conviction rate. NO county could possibly
have a conviction rate THAT high if the court appointed private
defenders were doing their investigations and their jobs right for the
poor.
Please somebody help him. There are many like him, but please someone
at least help this one.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=eddie%20rapoza
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03112...@posting.google.com>...
RestInParadise
of Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me" is supporting.
HERE!!!! >>>> www.focusireland.ie
PLEASE visit.
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Yes I WILL 'hype for food' for the homeless.....
Is it Angelina Jolie's influence??
Looking beyond the current rumor about these two co-stars carousing and
possibly sharing a friendly smooch in a London dance club last
weekend (after the London premiere of Colin's new film, "Intermission,")
it's clear that these two superstars have so much
more to love than pretty looks, brilliant minds, and adorable babies.
Shining humanitarian efforts like the following article about "Beyond
Borders" "Tomb Raider" Angelina Jolie, (who is currently working and
apparently playing beside Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander")
our bad boy can't go wrong. Is it her nurturing efforts taming our
bad boy, or has he grown into man all on his own? Mums the word.
Hank
enlightened me with:
>Instead of Conquering It
>
>YOU GO BOYS!!!!
>
>Colin Farrell Combats Homelessness With Poetry, And Leonardo DiCaprio
>Campaigns To Rescue Our Environment, Reforest Burned Out California,
>and Fight Global Warming. Oh be still my heart!
>
>Colin Farrell reads poetry, Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me," for
>homelessness fundraiser....
>
>
1) Alexander was the ultimate conqueror ... so if they want to
set an example, they wouldn't portray him just to feed their greed.
2) The burned out CA forests wouldn't need to be re-forested
if the CA environmental movement didn't protest and go to court every
time the forest service wanted to clear out brush and dead trees, all
which go up in flames immediately. So if DiCaprio cared about the
environment he would protest environmentalists. Global warming is a
junk-science hoax, by the way.
3) The homeless problem only came up in the last 35-40 years.
Why is that? Regulations instituted by people who claim to care
about the downtrodden drove cheap apartments out of business. If my
building must have a handicapped ramp, hot running water, and meet all
kinds of codes and regulations, I can't afford to charge a small
enough amount that the downtrodden can afford. So instead they are
'homeless' ( unless they kidnap a girl, then they are 'drifters' -- to
protect the feel-good 'homeless' name from a bad rep)
I can go on.
Feel the burning stare of my hamster and change your ways!
RestInParadise
There is no evidence whatsoever anywhere that any envirionmentalist in
California would risk the health and safety of our forests by trying
to prevent neccessary maintenance. Did you pull this garbage out of
your ass?
I don't see Adam Werbach or the Sierra Club advocating going to court
over something so completely stupid.
If I am wrong... drop me some kind of reputable link and I'd be happy
to look into it. I can't find any that support your claim.
Now don't tell me you don't see that Alexander the Great is an
incredibly influential historial figure. He was taught by Plato, who
was taught by Aristotle, who was taught by Socrates. That lineage
doesn't make him God on Earth, but Colin Farrell or Leonardo DiCaprio
portraying him in a movie speaks nothing of GREED to me-- it shows a
huge, risky, and self-sacrificing effort to explore the very
foundations of much of our modern world in a very mysterious and
dangerous part of this world.
Are you so ignorant that you want to keep that hidden in the deep dark
past, and are you so out of touch with reality that you would judge an
actor "greedy" for doing this project rather than some Sci Fi
blockbuster comicbook action adventure?
Or are you just trying to spark needless controversy?
Hank <hank...@NOSPAMgeocities.com> wrote in message news:<61p9svs6j1s59oufr...@4ax.com>...
RestInParadise
Correction!! I got that lineage of ancient wisdom slightly out of
order...
My last post should read:
1. Socrates tutored Plato
2. Plato tutored Aristotle
3. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great.
>>>directly, live, and in person
All these men had an enomously profound direct effect on the evolution
of the civilizations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All were
strategic philosophers.
What's wrong with making a movie about a real man you should have been
required to study in school, instead of some impossible modern fantasy
tale?
Conquerers existed and formed societies. Why pretend otherwise? To
ignore their strategies simply because you might disagree with a
conqueror's undemocratic policies means you may never recognize a
wannabe modern conqueror using the same techniques.
Hank <hank...@NOSPAMgeocities.com> wrote in message news:<61p9svs6j1s59oufr...@4ax.com>...
RestInParadise
> >
> > Feel the burning stare of my hamster and change your ways!
Same to you, buddy! : www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
RestInParadise
RestInParadise
<snip>
>
> 1) Alexander was the ultimate conqueror ... so if they want to
> set an example, they wouldn't portray him just to feed their greed.
<snip>
>
> Feel the burning stare of my hamster and change your ways!
Below is a really nice article talking about Colin Farrell's
"couragous" "bravery" in taking another challenging bad guy role in
the new Irish film "InterMission," released in the UK and Europe
already but not in the US until 2004.:
"Stormy rides in Dublin's fair city
Nov 28 2003
INTERMISSION Cert: 18, 105 mins
THANK God! Doctors have achieved a major medical breakthrough. Now
there is a
cure for the dangerously deceptive condition known as Love Actually
Syndrome.
Film fans lulled into believing that the world really is full of
shiny, happy Richard Curtis people should form orderly queues to
receive the antidote - interMission.
Starring my hero, the courageous Colin Farrell, and directed by
brilliant first-time filmmaker John Crowley, this wonderful Irish
production is one the great movies of the year. Just like Curtis's
romantic tapestry, writer Mark O'Rowe weaves together a series of
interlocking love stories. But against the backdrop of the
crime-ridden Dublin you don't read about in the leprechaun Emerald
Isle tourist books, interMission's multi-layered tales from the bad
stuff are firmly rooted in reality.
I applaud Farrell's bravery in taking on the role of a viciously
misogynistic crook whose hopeless plan to rob a bank helps pull all
the strands together. This great actor delivers a spellbinding
performance incorporating tremendous charm and terrifying menace.
At the helm of the complex proceedings, Crowley - a renowned theatre
director
who looks set to become Tinseltown's new Sam Mendes - succeeds in
corralling
shocking violence, hilarious comedy and gentle pathos into one
glorious
celebration of REAL life.
Some of the scenes are astonishingly dramatic. Others will have you
weeping with
sorrow and then laughter. Veteran Colm Meaney is unbelievably funny as
tough
Garda detective Jerry Lynch - a bulldozer of a cop with a punching
penchant for
administering his own kind of "personal justice".
Cillian Murphy is excellent as jilted John - a tearaway whose lawless
life triggers an intermission in his love affair with Deirdre (Kelly
MacDonald). And how does it all end? With a drunken wheelchair race
around the local pub, of course. Actually, balls to love. There is
darkness all around. But, cured of Curtisitis, I have seen the light.
interMission blew me away - I loved every crazy second of it."
Dear Hank...
Colin Farrell taking the role of a bad guy in a movie makes him no
more "greedy" than he was playing bad guy "Bullseye" in Daredevil.
Are you trying to tell me actors should only play good guys?? We'd
have no movies, no drama, no plot develpoment, no contrasts, no
themes. Who are you? Stepford critic?
An actor playing a controversial character who was involved in what
you consider unpopular events does more to draw world attention to
tricky situations that people have more interest in, and may care more
about changing for the better.
Colin did a damn fine job drawing extra attention to the anti-crime
movie "Veronica Guerin" recently in a cameo appearance discussing
soccer player Eric Cantona on a bar TV. He also played a common
criminal years ago in a small role for "Ordinary Decent Criminal,"
representing a poor young desperate kid running with a band of outlaws
led by a man who had been wrongly oppressed by the housing authority
years before. Playing that character makes him no more a street thug
than playing a boy with autism in a London play years ago make him
autistic.
Ruthless characters become that way for a reason. There's no reason
audiences wouldn't want to know what drives a man to become angry.
Even when Colin Farrell played "Jesse James" in Disney-esque American
Outlaws, we learn part of the true-life Jesse James story, that he
only became an outlaw after the Civil War, when robber baron
railroaders tried to steal his families land and killed his mother.
Representing criminals in movies does not mean that the actor is one,
or that he agrees with their character's choices or is asking anyone
else to emulate them in their lives. It's asking the audience to
emphatically recognize what motivates each characters choices as the
story unfolds, according to what drives them inside and why, good OR
bad. Would you complain about a thespian playing the role of MacBeth,
and believe Shakespeare's plays encourage kids to want to become
homicidal royalty?
Playing characters that seem to you ruthless, morally questionable, or
conflicted often raises the stakes so much more for the the audience
to consider what's right for them from what's wrong and why. Playing
a role and telling a story educates the rest of us about things we may
not have known about before. In most cases, if you have no conflict,
you have no story, simple as that.
Your friend,
Miss Rest
RestInParadise
"Thank God things have worked out
for me. I could just as easily have f - - - ed everything up and not found
acting. I'd be out on the streets, would have really lost my way."
NY POST/By MEGAN TURNER
----------------------------------------
LIKE a pistol crack, Colin Farrell shot out of nowhere to become one of the
most buzzed-about young actors in Hollywood.The impudent grin and beefcake
charms he flaunted as an anti-authoritarian soldier in last year's Vietnam war
drama "Tigerland" had critics comparing him to George Clooney and Russell
Crowe, and Vanity Fair dubbed him "the Irish Brad Pitt."
Female moviegoers everywhere sat up and took notice. And so did Tinseltown's
filmmakers.
The 25-year-old Irish looker, who married his English actress girlfriend in
Tahiti last month, was quickly deluged with film offers.
Joel Schumacher, who plucked him from obscurity to star in "Tigerland," snapped
him up for "Phone Booth" when Jim Carrey dropped out. When Ed Norton passed on
"Hart's War," it was Farrell who was chosen to star opposite Bruce Willis.
Want more big-name associations? He's just wrapped Steven Spielberg's eagerly
awaited sci-fi thriller "Minority Report," opposite Tom Cruise, and is looking
at playing Dean Moriarty in the film of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road."
Just last week, he committed to join Al Pacino in the suspense thriller "The
Farm," a deal which will see his salary double from the $2.5 million he picked
up for "Minority Report."
But today Farrell is talking about "American Outlaws," the Jesse James film
opening Friday. And it's obvious his sudden rise hasn't affected his tendency
to shoot from the lip.
"It's not going to change anyone's life," he says of the film. "It's a light,
popcorn take on the whole Jesse James story. If it was true-to-life, it would
be a lot darker - times were harder than they are portrayed in the film, men
were tougher, the women were dirtier. And there was blood."
Mythologizing or not, "American Outlaws," which also stars Scott Caan and Ali
Larter, showcases the same Steve McQueen-like blend of machismo and sensitivity
that made Farrell a stand-out in "Tigerland."
In real life, Farrell certainly looks and acts the part of the wild-card rebel,
with his newly shaven head - the result of a botched bleach job - and an Irish
lilt liberally sprinkled with curse words.
"I've always kind of done my own thing," he acknowledges. "I wasn't really
great in school and I didn't finish school. Thank God things have worked out
for me. I could just as easily have f - - - ed everything up and not found
acting. I'd be out on the streets, would have really lost my way."
There have been more than 30 films made about the life of western outlaw Jesse
James, but Farrell says he could understand if U.S. actors had a problem with a
brash young Irishman now romping in and taking over the role of an American
icon.
"If I was a 25-year-old American actor, would I be p - - - ed off?," he says.
"I'd kind of be going, 'For f - - - 's sake, why can't we look in our own back
garden?' I could understand that, I suppose.
"But, although I'm not aware of an Irish icon being played by an American, Tom
Cruise did 'Far and Away,' Chris O'Donnell did 'Circle of Friends,' Brad Pitt
did 'Devil's Own' - these were all big parts in big films that could have been
played by indigenous Irish actors."
With his American accent perfected, Farrell has Hollywood at his feet. But it's
hard not to believe him when he says he could just as easily walk away.
"It's nice to have as much choice of scripts as I can," he says. "But I don't
and I never have had any huge expectations; I've never put any pressure on
myself to get to a certain place.
"I was thinking just the other day: If it gets too much, I'll knock it on the
head and go back to Ireland and find a field somewhere and just sit and read."
RestInParadise
....Colin Farrell agreed. "Introduce yourself to someone who looks
isolated," he said. "Everyone is just like you. They just want to make
a connection."
www.2003specialolympics.com/images/pics/colinfarrell.jpg
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/special_olympics/summit/index.asp?article=mtv
MTV and Global Youth Summit Send a Message
By Suzanne Freeman
Sunday, June 23雄ou can't
change the world, so you have
to change yourself. That was
the message of a discussion
forum taped here today for
MTV. Celebrities Colin Farrell
and Samantha Mumba joined
members of the Global Youth
Summit at the Special Olympics
World Games in Dublin,
Ireland, to discuss
discrimination of people with
mental disabilities.
"It's really important to bring
back the spirit of the games to
China, so they can see the
world through his eyes," said
Global Youth Summit member
Yibiao Guo, 19, of his disabled partner Yi
Shan, 15
The meeting at Dublin City University was taped to air at a later date
on MTV. Other celebrities participating were Hip Hop founder Rev. Run
of Run DMC (Joseph Simmons), and U.S. Secretary of Education Rod
Paige. Acting as emcee was Special
Olympics President Timothy Shriver. Also in the audience with the
Global Youth Summit members were TV journalist and author Maria
Shriver and founder of Special Olympics Eunice Shriver.
"Have you ever heard someone say children are our future?" asked
Secretary Paige. "You are not only our future, you're our here and
now. You can be a leader now."
The best way to be a leader is to change yourself, not to try and
change others, said Timothy Shriver. His sister Maria asked everyone
to look around the room and see who they could be a friend to. She
encouraged everyone to do that in their own communities.
"Don't be afraid to turn to the person next to you," she said.
Colin Farrell agreed. "Introduce yourself to someone who looks
isolated," he said. "Everyone is just like you. They just want to make
a connection."
Non-disabled Global Youth Summit members told how they made
connections with their disabled partners.
Joanna Castro Macera, 17, said
she met her disabled friend
Claudia Requena, 15, at a
gymnastics competition in their
home country of Peru. "We made
good friends and it changed my
life," she said, putting her arms
around Claudia. "It is impossible
not to be happy with her."
Ralulimi Mukovhe, 16, explained how she and her friend Manwadu
Rothiwa, 15, of South Africa communicate. "Sometimes I don't
understand him, but he makes etchings to make me understand."
"I want to bring her to my neighborhood and meet my other friends,"
said Sura Talal Gbazal, 16, of her friend Suzan Al Mimi, 16. Both are
from Jordan. "We should not call them disabled. She is the one who is
abled. She doesn't hate. She is so open. She is just so loving. This
is the first time someone gave me this much of love. When I introduce
her to my friends, I am going to tell them what it is like to have
that much love."
Cheung Wing-hing, 18, and Tam Wai-yip, 19, of Hong Kong, China, hugged
and told the group, "We will use our lives to affect others."
Alessandro Troiano, 18, and Diego Santilli, 15, met in a swimming pool
away from their school. Schools in Italy do not have integrated
programs with abled and disabled students working together they
explained.
"That's the key," said moderator Tim Shriver. "They were having fun
together. They learned to communicate by having fun. You don't change
things by preaching or by guilt. You change them by having fun. By
showing people, who's more lucky than us?"
RestInParadise
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> It's all about sex --mostly false allegations:
>
>
> http://www.geocities.com/tom5515/frame.htm
I like your link. I don't think Paris Hilton had sex with
Michael
Jackson either. What does that have to do with Eddie Rapoza?
Eddie is a REAL person. I am begging for REAL help for him.
He's under the impression that his current "court appointed"
attorney,
Jeff Boyarsky, who worked on one of the Billionaire Boys Club
cases,
is either too busy to work on his case or has no interests in
really
helping to exonerate innocent men who can't pay full price.
Eddie has tried several times to change to another attorney, but
judges always refuse. Eddie thinks it's a kangaroo court
manuever,
and is desperately trying to get letters about this out to the
media.
He and about 30 other prisoners at Maguire jail, such as Robert
Jimenez, have signed petitions about multiple legal abuses. They
are
also trying to tell their stories about horrific jail conditions,
mail
being tampered with by guards, guards losing personal property,
money,
and medication, and overcrowded jails forcing inmates to sleep in
shower stalls and hallways cold and unprotected. Prisoners are
not
being given proper medical treatment, and many are losing their
eyesight, their organ function, and their lives unneccessarily.
Why
is there no media attention to this crisis????
Many are incarcerated for "victimless" crimes such as addiction
to
pain relief, or failure to pay parole fines. Many are innocent
and had
cut rate court appointed private defenders who couldn't be
bothered to
work up a proper defense case, leaving San Mateo's DA with a 97%
conviction rate. The California prison population has gone up
400% in
one decade, while in the last ten years prisons have been closed
faster than built. What is going on????? San Quentin's
prisoners are
being forced to SLEEP in the excercise yard in bitter freezing
cold--
last weekend's temperature dropped below 30 degrees. If talking
about
sex brings a little attention to something so hugely important
that
will otherwise be ignored-- then "sex sex sex sex sex sex sex,
Paris
Hilton, Michael Jackson, XBOX, playstation, Colin Farrell,
Britney
Spears, Madonna, Russel Crowe, JFK, Christmas, football,
yu-gi-oh.
That's all I gots to say.
Any advice?
Please write or go visit if you can help in any way, shape, or
form.
Eddie Rapoza
#1067187
c-o Maguire Jail
300 Bradford
Redwood City CA 94063-0387
RestInParadise
has some college, has been in trouble with the law, and
defies army rules and regulations. In one case he runs
across a fellow in his platoon who is married with a kid.
"What are you doing here?" he wonders aloud. Informing the
grunt with barely a six-grade education of his rights, Bozz
succeeds in getting the man a discharge.
The blaring orders of the sergeants who are running the
show and who at times see nothing wrong with pushing their
men down in the dirt, stepping on their heads when they get
out of line, produce in Bozz a barely suppressed hostility.
He expresses his defiance with a smirk, as though to say
"this is all a game, fellas...have a few laughs while you're
doing push-ups and being awakened at 4:30 each morning by
morons who get their jollies from kicking around their own
people."
TIGERLAND
Reviewed by Harvey Karten
20th Century Fox/Regency Enterprise
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writer: Ross Klavan, Michael McGruther
Cast: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr.,
Thomas Guiry, Shea Whigham, Russell Richardson, Cole
Hauser
Someday we'll get a movie written by a North Vietnamese
or Viet Cong fighter giving a truthful account of the
training program set up by the people of that beleaguered
Southeast Asian nation who fought for their independence
against the Chinese, the French and the Americans. We
already know that there are some cultural differences that
separate the northerners from their compatriots in the south,
but for the most part they are of the same cultural
background. Not so the American fighting units. Not only did
the U.S. servicemen generally have no passionate reason to
fight 12,000 miles away since, after all, they were not
defending their country; nor did they feel they had the support
of a sizable majority of the countrymen back home; but in
addition, since the U.S. embraces a large landscape with
different sectional, cultural, ethnic and religious differences,
there was bound to be considerable friction within their own
squadron. That chafing is the subject of Joel Schumacher's
movie.
"Tigerland," is semiautobiographical, dealing with director
Joel Schumacher's own period of training in a Louisiana
camp known as Tigerland--a camp which simulated actual
fighting conditions in the jungles of the 'Nam and which was
preceded by a rigorous training program in yet another
Louisiana location. Filmed largely with hand held cameras
and natural lighting in accordance with the Danish-style
Dogme 95 movement, "Tigerland" often looks like some
documentary coverage of a typical barracks. We get the
impression that the Louisiana program was the American
approach writ small. A washed-out olive green aura
encompasses many sections of this fictionalized bit of history
giving the feeling of immediacy. We witness what was going
down in 1971, to some extent a microcosm of American
society today.
Schumacher lucks out with a largely unknown cast of
awesome performers, particularly the lead character, Roland
Bozz, played by the Irish actor Colin Farrell--a handsome,
charismatic man who can probably look forward to some big
Hollywood contracts. Emulating the ambiance of
such films as Oliver Stone's "Platoon" and Stanley Kubrick's
"Full Metal Jacket," "Tigerland" takes us into the bivouac and
the mindset of a group of grunts, most of whom were drafted
and who had educations well short of college. At no point in
the story does anyone discuss his opinions of the war--which
was the case with most soldiers throughout the nation who
were concerned more about survival than political theory as
they prepared to be shipped out to the hellhole of the the Far
East.
The story is narrated by Private Jim Paxton (Matthew
Davis), a man who enlisted with the quixotic notion that he
would be the Ernest Hemingway of the 1970's, sitting
with notebook in hand recording the blow-by-blow action of
the fighting to capture the zeitgeist of the grunts with whom
he would share a unique camaraderie. By contrast, Wilson
(Shea Whigham) is the sort of person you'd think the
army would want, a guy with a natural killer instinct who
couldn't give a fig about the reasons for the war but who
simply wanted to bag himself some trophies of "gooks" and
"dinks"--as the Asians were commonly referred to by the
fighting units.
Colin Farrell runs away with the show. As Roland Bozz, he
has some college, has been in trouble with the law, and
defies army rules and regulations. In one case he runs
across a fellow in his platoon who is married with a kid.
"What are you doing here?" he wonders aloud. Informing the
grunt with barely a six-grade education of his rights, Bozz
succeeds in getting the man a discharge.
The blaring orders of the sergeants who are running the
show and who at times see nothing wrong with pushing their
men down in the dirt, stepping on their heads when they get
out of line, produce in Bozz a barely suppressed hostility.
He expresses his defiance with a smirk, as though to say
"this is all a game, fellas...have a few laughs while you're
doing push-ups and being awakened at 4:30 each morning by
morons who get their jollies from kicking around their own
people."
Shot by Matthew Libatique, whose resume includes such
surreal films as Darren Aronofsky's current "Requiem for a
Dream" and the even more experimental "Pi," "Tigerland"
affords by contrast a realistic look at an actual training
program. If the Vietnamese enemy ever got a look at what
went on inthis training camp, it would be emboldened at least
a much as it was upon hearing of the massive protests in the
U.S. against the war. Blacks are fighting whites, sergeants
battling G.I.'s, psycho killers going after wise guys with an
education...all serve to give "Tigerland" the sort of dramatic
force enjoyed by the audience for Robert Altman's 1983
adaptation of David Rabe's play, "Streamers"--a couple of
days in an army barracks at the dawn of America's
involvement in Vietnam which turned into a parable about
manhood and death.
Rated R. Running time: 109 minutes. (C) 2000 by
Harvey Karten, film_...@compuserve.com
Vox
Colin Farrell is such a fucking bore. The male Julia Roberts.
Hey Colin, do us all a favour, lay off the "I'm Irish
so I drink a lot" routine and fuck off.
On 29 Nov 2003 13:31:18 -0800, nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise)
wrote:
RestInParadise
> Colin Farrell is such a fucking bore. The male Julia Roberts.
>
> Hey Colin, do us all a favour, lay off the "I'm Irish
> so I drink a lot" routine and fuck off.
Ah the green eye of jealousy... We can't all be as well liked as a
Colin Farrell or a Julia Roberts. I took the time to do a lil
searching on your email signature & discovered what might be
motivating your geeky jealous moaning about other people who seem able
to easily attract and inspire most anyone they want, anytime. Amid
your treasury of posts looking for discounts on computer parts, I
found this written by your address:
From: Brian Constan (s...@ss.com)
Subject: Re: female escorts required
Newsgroups: uk.adverts.personals
Date: 2003-10-24 10:19:22 PST
Looking forward to being a customer
Best of luck
btw you need a contact e-mail address on you web site"
So, Vox, did you have a good time?
No wonder after that you find mere movie stars so boring. I myself
have moved past the juvenility of "Pretty Woman" and am looking
forward to Julia Robert's new film Mona Lisa Smile.
What exactly do you have against actors who have the capacity to be
more charming and engaging than you?
If you're not hot for Colin Farrell, why did you bother reading the
post? Not too many women wouldn't want to be "bored" inside out by him
all night long. Giving you a complex, is he?
RestInParadise
>
> Hey Colin, do us all a favour, lay off the "I'm Irish
> so I drink a lot" routine and fuck off.
>
By the way... it dies look like Colin's routine AND Julia's routine
may be changing a bit in the future. A recent Julia Roberts interview
states that (just like Colin Farrel, and just like Angelina Jolie)
she's craving to have a little baby and would be delighted to be a
parent. Looks like there's going to be lots of Hollywood lullabyes in
the works.
My Darling Child Lyrics
Artist:Sinead O'Connor
My darling child
My darling baby
My darling child
You gave life to me
My darling child
My darling baby
My darling child
You came and saved me
My darling child
My darling baby
My darling child
God gave you to me
Me little ninja
My little dancer
Me little streetfighter
Me little chancer
Me lovely boy
Me lovely babby
My pride and joy
Me little puppy
Me little wolf
Me little lamby
My favourite boy
My angel babby
Me little ninja
Me little dancer
Me little streetfighter
Me little chancer
Me love me boy
Me love me babby
My pride and joy
Me little puppy
RestInParadise
San Quentin
by John R. Cash
Recorded 2/24/69
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me
You've hosted me since nineteen sixty three
I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die
And long ago I stopped askin' why
San Quentin, I hate every inch of you.
You've cut me and have scarred me thru an' thru.
And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man;
Mister Congressman why can't you understand.
San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
Do you think I'll be different when you're through?
You bent my heart and mind and you may my soul,
And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.
San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell.
May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
May all the world forget you ever stood.
And may all the world regret you did no good.
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.0311...@posting.google.com>...
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<snip>
> Hey Colin, do us all a favour, lay off the "I'm Irish
> so I drink a lot" routine and fuck off.
>
.......Routine? .......What routine?.......
"The Washington Post"
Wednesday, April 9, 2003; Page C01
The 'It' Guy
Colin Farrell and Hollywood Find in Each Other a Dream Come True
By Tom Shales
NEW YORK
You could blow a gasket trying to find something wrong with Colin
Farrell. Granted, he has a bad habit or two: He smokes too much, he
admits to drinking too much, he curses the proverbial blue streak, but
these are all superficial things. He is living a life that millions and
millions of men would love to live, and living it grandly.
Perhaps we mere mortals should think of him as living it for us. We get
to watch and cheer him on and dream of what it might be like.
"I have what I have, whatever that means," he says in his soft Irish
baritone, sitting in a cold white room at 20th Century Fox in New York.
"But you know, the most ambitious person in the world might not be able
to dream as large as I'm living, dream as large as I'm experiencing.
"The last three years have been insane, you know, just insane," he says
of his rapid rise to stardom. "I just stay at the same pace. There's
madness in the world around me, sure. There's nothing I can do about
that. I just work as hard as I can work and play as hard as I can play."
At both he has excelled spectacularly. He's an even bigger star today
than he was a week ago, because he's proved in industry parlance that he
can "open a movie." Over the weekend his new film, "Phone Booth," a
low-budget, high-tension thriller, grossed $15 million and took over
first place at the box office. It's very likely that Colin Farrell's
ineffable magnetism is what pulled moviegoers into the theaters.
Not enough that he is young (27), gifted and smart. No, he's got to be
devilishly handsome too, with as penetrating a pair of brown peepers as
ever shone from a screen, and great thick eyebrows that add to the
visual intensity. "I do have big eyebrows, brother," he acknowledges.
"Stick 'em on with Velcro every morning."
Farrell's combination of qualities, talent being but one of them, makes
him a very potent presence. There's a commanding seriousness but also a
boyishness that is pure charm. And though it is a part of the process he
does not enjoy, he obligingly paraded that charm all over the tube in
the days and nights leading up to the opening of the film, appearing on
every talk show that would have him, and on all of them coming across as
disarmingly genuine.
It was a performance in that he's much more quiet and introspective in
person, but either on the air or off it, one senses prodigious explosive
possibilities under the essentially gentle, fun-loving exterior. He has
what James Dean and Marlon Brando had, and all those who've emulated
them have aspired to: dangerousness.
"No publicist is controlling Colin Farrell," says Conan O'Brien, on
whose "Late Night" NBC talk show Farrell was particularly funny last
week, perhaps because they are kindred Irish spirits. "Fame is not
wasted on him. He is really enjoying himself. As a talk-show guest he's
great, because he comes to play."
On the show, O'Brien noted the "screaming girls" that follow Farrell
from venue to venue. "They're all on the payroll," Farrell muttered.
He may not like the publicizing part of the job, but he accepts it. He
goes on TV uncomplainingly and plays a slightly exaggerated version of
his real self. To Regis Philbin on "Live With Regis & Kelly" he abruptly
shouted a loud "Shut up!" that sort of shook the studio, and while it
was clearly prankish, one could sense how formidable Farrell could be if
truly rankled.
In People magazine and its clones, he is now a veritable fixture, not
ducking paparazzi and talking candidly about how he fathered a child,
due in about six months, with model Kim Bordenave. He "absolutely" will
play a role in raising the kid, he says: "Oh yeah. Bring the child up in
love. I'm psyched."
Liz Smith, last of the great New York columnists and someone who's seen
it all, marveled about Farrell in her column the other day: "He drinks,
smokes, looks as if he has never seen a bar of soap, expresses a devout
interest in the opposite sex, uses profanity on every occasion. He's
perfect!"
But, she added, "He can really act" and predicted "a nod" at Oscar time
next year for his work in "Phone Booth." He has other jobs stacked up
like planes waiting to land and is returning to Toronto to finish "A
Home at the End of the World," based on a novel by Michael Cunningham.
This will be followed by a small role in "Veronica Guerin" and large
ones in "S.W.A.T.," based on the old TV cop show, and then the magnum
opus "Alexander the Great" under the direction of pugnacious Oliver
Stone. The sparks ought to be flying on that set. Second-unit shooting
has already begun, but Farrell won't be needed until late this year or
early next.
His breakthrough film was "Tigerland" (2000), a grim tale of American
soldiers in training for shipment to Vietnam, directed by Joel
Schumacher, who is the man who discovered Farrell. The movie was not a
blockbuster in any sense, but Farrell made a tremendous impression.
Those seeing him for the first time and knowing nothing of his
background probably wouldn't have dreamed he was born in Ireland and
speaks with a heavy accent, because his Americanese was flawless.
"For 'Tigerland,' I spent a lot of time, six weeks or so, on my own,
going around touring America's big cities to get the accent down," he
says, having demolished a Big Mac and now puffing on a Marlboro. "I
hadn't seen any of America or Americans except Los Angeles, so I wanted
to get on the road and see the real America. I kept a journal and got a
sense of the country and the people, the big cities and small, and spent
some time with a great vocal coach.
"I also spent time listening to tapes and reading texts and newspapers,
trying to get the sounds down. I think it was easier for me because I
grew up watching American television, on a [expletive] diet of 'T.J.
Hooker' and 'Magnum, P.I.' and 'CHiPs' and 'The A-Team,' shows that were
all popular when I was growing up in Ireland."
His "Tigerland" character, an embittered cynic, was from Texas. His
"Phone Booth" character, a glib publicist, is supposedly from the Bronx.
He hasn't yet decided how he'll talk as Alexander the Great because "who
the hell knows" what he sounded like? The odds are, Farrell will nail
it.
Making "Phone Booth," he says, was "the most interesting job I ever did,
and the most lacking in moments of boredom and the most lacking moments
of loss of inspiration. It was just so fast. We rehearsed for three
weeks. We also sat around a table and talked and tried to make sense and
just made sure we all knew exactly what page we were on.
"And then we shot it in succession, in chronological order, Scene 1
through Scene 120 or whatever, which is, as you know, a blessing for an
actor. Never happens. It was as close to theater as the filmmaking
experience can really ever get. And for me, being on the set every day,
doing eight- or nine-minute takes, it was just a gift. There was no time
for pauses or overdeliberating what your character was going through."
How's that again? What was he saying? You have to pay attention. You can
lose yourself in the resonance of that voice, in the charismatic way
Farrell expresses himself, even in those infernally perfect good looks.
Like, every little bit of stubble is in the right place and in the right
proportion to the other bits of stubble. Farrell can grow a mustache and
goatee by dinnertime. When he appeared in Steven Spielberg's "Minority
Report," starring Tom Cruise, he blew Cruise right off the screen. It's
not likely Cruise will want to make a movie with him again anytime soon.
The Midnight Oil
Farrell may indeed go on long drinking binges, which he calls not binges
but a term unprintable here, and he may indeed live and love the high
life when he's not working -- he'd just spent five hours a few nights
earlier at Scores, New York's plush topless lap-dance bar, and in a
private back room of course -- but it hasn't taken a visible toll the
way it has on many another young actor. There are no dark circles under
the eyes or premature gray hairs or any outward signs of dissipation.
This, like many other things about Colin Farrell, may have to do with
his Irishness. Or so he believes.
"When I'm not working, put a pack of cigarettes and a pint of beer in
front of me, and I'm in good company," he says. "I'm the happiest little
man in the world. Of course I could smoke less and I'm sure I could
drink less, but there's girls back in Dublin who drink more in a night
than I drink in a week.
"I get in trouble now and then, and they tell me it's a bad thing, but
we Irish boys like to go out and have a good [that unprintable word],
you know. And it can be during the week sometimes, and we still do the
work, one hundred percent, to the best of our abilities, and our
abilities are not diminished by the night before. It's something that's
inbred, it's part of the [expletive] genes. So that cliche about the
Irish is quite true.
"Not that we're a bunch of people that sit in a bar and talk to each
other like a bunch of [expletive] morons -- it's not that. We are people
who like to have a good time. We like to tell stories, and we like to
talk to people. We are quite lyrical and emotional -- another cliche, I
suppose. We've very proud. As a country and as a people, we want to be
great. We don't necessarily need or have to be greater than anyone else.
We don't even really concern ourselves with those silly competitions. We
just want to be great ourselves.
"I don't know what it is. But I'm very grateful I was born where I was
born. Our literature, our music. It's a small land, but it's a land
that's full of passion and full of storytelling and full of music and
full of song and full of laughter. I'm so proud of being Irish. No man
is an island unto himself, but Ireland is an island unlike any other, a
great one to hail from."
Wow.
Conan O'Brien thinks Farrell's awareness of his roots, and the roots
themselves, are what helps keep him from falling in love with himself.
"The Irish want you to do well, but if you start to do too well, they'll
take you down a notch," he says. "They don't want you to put on any
airs. Part of the culture is that you can't take yourself too
seriously."
Farrell often travels about with one or more members of his family in
tow, his mum or a sister, and that is another thing that helps keep him
honest, O'Brien thinks. He believes that Farrell is entirely on the
level, that he's the down-to-earth rogue he appears to be. "If he's
faking it, he's really good. He should get an Oscar just for that."
(O'Brien, says Farrell, is a "goofy, crazy good boy.")
McConaughey or Grant?
Images of Farrell drinking in pubs with mates, carousing till all hours
and wandering the streets -- memorably celebrated in a Vanity Fair cover
story last year -- aren't necessarily all benign and merry. Devoutly
heterosexual and unashamedly macho as he is, one wonders whether Farrell
might harbor a homophobic streak somewhere, or what he and those randy
mates would do if they encountered, say, a gay couple walking home from
a different kind of bar.
"Sexual preference? Jesus, no, it means nothing to me," he says. "Or
race or religion either." One of his mentors is "as gay as Christmas,"
Farrell says, "and so's my brother. I've been around gay guys since I
was, oh, 16. They're just good pals. From Day One we got on, made jokes,
and I thought nothing of it.
"How do I handle a gay proposition?" He doesn't blink. " 'Not
interested, thanks,' " he says. "You know, it's amazing the changes in
people. This fellow I know who eight [expletive] years ago would have
been freaked to be in the same room with someone who was gay, now thinks
nothing of it, just because society has opened up a little and the gay
population has become more visible.
"These same people who would've freaked a few years ago -- well, they're
not on their knees [bawdy slang], don't get me wrong -- but they know
that a good person is a good person."
One might think that even Farrell's decision to become an actor would be
mocked as slightly sissified by down-home cronies. "No," he says with
finality. "My dad, when I told him I wanted to be an actor, he laughed
and he said, 'A play actor? Ha ha ha ha.' And then the first [expletive]
check came in and he said, 'That was a good idea.' You know it's not
something tangible with acting, it's not something you make with your
hands, it's not a service you provide anyone in particular except for
maybe entertaining them and sometimes maybe provoking thought if it's a
good piece."
But he likes it. And he does it well. Farrell for all his youth and zest
for partying seems to have what few other men in his position would be
likely to have, which is wisdom. Maybe the accent makes him sound wiser
than he is, but there's something solid and stable beneath the Playboy
of the Western World facade. And so he seems more than the actor du
jour, the current buzz boy, the latest pop icon. He seems as if he could
even become a movie star in the old tradition, a lasting presence like,
yes, Cary Grant or Gary Cooper.
It's easy to overstate these cases. In the mid-'90s, one magazine cover
trumpeted Matthew McConaughey as the man who would "save Hollywood," and
another said he was "about to be as big as a mountain." And what has his
career amounted to? Zilch. But Farrell seems to be on another level
altogether, as if he could stay around as long as he wants and not wear
out his welcome or fizzle like a spent comet.
How far does he want to go?
"I'm far enough already," he says. "I was far enough when I was working
at home. I traveled a path that in its madness somehow seemed a natural
progression in my life, in the chances that I had as a young man in
Dublin. I did a play, and someone saw it, and an American agent came
over and said 'Let's give it a go' and I said okay. And then I went to
Los Angeles for three weeks and went to meetings and put myself up at
the Holiday Inn."
And Schumacher took a chance and cast him as the lead in "Tigerland,"
which Farrell calls "an act of blind faith," and that was that.
Has it changed him, this crazy journey, these years of madness and
ascending so quickly to the top? "I don't think so. I don't want to be
obnoxious just because my head happens to be 35 feet and I'm on a cinema
screen," he says. "That doesn't make me a special person or a brighter
person or a better person or a nice person. That's simple [expletive].
"And I'd be called on it pretty quick."
© 2003 The Washington Post Company
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<snip>
> Hey Colin, do us all a favour, lay off the "I'm Irish
> so I drink a lot" routine and fuck off.
>
.......Routine? .......What routine?.......
NEW YORK
The Midnight Oil
Wow.
McConaughey or Grant?
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HORIZONTAL,,,THURSDAY 4PM TO 430PM EASTERN TIME, 11-19-2003
---------------------------------------------------
Global Green USA Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Launching 'Global Warning'
On-line
11/19/03 7:08:00 PM
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Matt Petersen of Global Green USA, 310-394-7700, ext. 105;
310-864-0549 (cell); e-mail: mpet...@globalgreen.org; web:
http://www.globalgreen.org Simone Katz of Bomaye Company, 323-934-1933
News Advisory:
-- Global Green USA Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Launching 'Global
Warning' On-line; Global Green USA Calls for Defeat of 'Dirty' Energy
Bill, Action by Leaders in Washington to Promote Energy Independence
While Combating Climate Change
Environmental Group Asks for Americans to Join Them in Signing the
Pledge of Allegiance to Energy Independence at
http://www.globalgreen.org; Pledge Will Be Sent to Senate Minority
Leader Tom Daschle Urging Defeat of Energy Bill, Increased Support of
Renewable Energy and Clean Vehicles as Centerpiece of our National
Energy Agenda
WHAT: In conjunction with the launch of "Global Warning" (Produced by
Tree Media Group and Birken Studio - see below), Global Green USA is
initiating an on-line campaign to ask Americans to urge defeat of the
energy bill in Congress. By signing the "Pledge of Allegiance to
American Energy Independence," individuals commit to take action in
their own lives and call upon our leaders in Washington to support
policies that increase our use of renewable energy, green building,
clean vehicles, and other sustainable technologies. Signing the pledge
and embracing this vision would help ensure a future of American energy
independence without adding to the growing problems caused by global
warming. Leonardo DiCaprio signed the Pledge of Allegiance to American
Energy Independence last May during the Global Green annual dinner where
he was honored for his environmental leadership.
"Global Warning" is also released in context of the recent vote in the
US Senate on the McCain-Lieberman climate change legislation, which
represented a swing from the 95 - 0 vote on the Kyoto Protocol in 1997
to 43 US Senators voting to take action on global warming in 2003.
Regardless of the fate of the current energy bill, the Pledge campaign
will continue building support for binding action on global warming
energy independence in Congress next year. "American energy independence
and combating global warming go hand in hand," stated Matt Petersen,
President and CEO of Global Green USA. "The dirty energy bill is just a
laundry list of giveaways for coal and nuclear industry, while providing
tax breaks for Hummers." People can visit www.globalgreen.org sign the
"Pledge of Allegiance to American Energy Independence", and urge defeat
of the energy bill in Congress.
WHO: Global Green USA, in partnership with Birken Studio, the Leonardo
DiCaprio Foundation (http://www.leonardodicaprio.org) and Tree Media
Group (http://www.treemedia.com), sponsored a motion media piece titled
"Global Warning." It was produced by Birken Studio and Tree Media Group.
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 19, 2003 - 4 PM to 4:30 PM Eastern/1 PM to 1:30 PM
Pacific, a video feed featuring Matt Petersen (president and CEO, Global
Green USA), Stephen Schneider (professor, Stanford University and
climate change expert), and a showing of the "Global Warning" film.
WHERE: Satellite coordinates: TELSTAR 6/ TRANSPONDER 4 - C-BAND-
DOWNLINK FREQUENCY 3780 HORIZONTAL. TROUBLE NUMBER 202-251-6919. Visit
http://www.globalgreen.org to view the pledge, the text of "Global
Warning's" narration, and the link to viewing "Global Warning" on-line.
WHY: "Global Warning" was created to educate Americans on the cause of
global warming and the impact of climate change, while highlighting our
nation's dependency on fossil fuels and urging the use of alternative,
existing green technologies.
For more information on Global Green USA, please visit
http://www.globalgreen.org. Global Green USA is the American affiliate
of Green Cross International, led by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
http://www.usnewswire.com/
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> Vox <s...@ss.com> wrote in message news:<p1kksv8093a9ck0rr...@4ax.com>...
> > Colin Farrell is such a fucking bore. The male Julia Roberts.
> >
> > Hey Colin, do us all a favour, lay off the "I'm Irish
> > so I drink a lot" routine and fuck off.
> >
By the way... it *does* look like Colin's routine AND Julia's routine
RestInParadise
al.,
We are here. Like it or not, for good or bad, we are here. Who are
we? We are the downtrodden and dispossesed, the self-torturing, the
disenfranchised convicts, drug and alcohol addicts, the unemployed and
unemployable. We are the children of poverty, financial and
spiritual. We have and will have children of our own, grandchildren
too. We are ex-cons, uninsured, homeless, of many colors and speaking
many tongues. We are the enemy in what has become a domestic war
against ourselves.
And who are you? You who like the tough talk of Tough on Crime? You
who watch as budgets are cut in education and health care while you
militarize a police force? Bullet-proof vests, automatic weapons,
helicopters, tanks, robots ... the testosterone is oozing through the
streets, more prisons, longer sentences, tighten the belt, spartan
conditions, task forces, gang units, gun courts. And what is there to
show for it? Unemployent stays low because half the population
oversees those "out of the workforce", the dregs, the rabble, the
enemy? Please tell me there is a deeper reason. Do you feel safer?
More humane? More like a cohesive society with a shared sense of
purpose, who can identify Us and Them? Do you live in a gated
community or gentrified neighborhood? By the way, have you read the
Declaration of Independence and US Constitution - or do you only know
the first phrases?
It's about time we got together. Please know that I have yet to meet
a convict who wants their child to be a thief, an addict, a dealer, a
prostitute, or a violent individual. Most of us still have hope for
ourselves even when stuck in the darkest dilemmas, ruts and catch-22s.
Most of us believe in crafting laws and instilling order. Many of us
have burrowed beneath the surface to find a spiritual sense of being,
an understanding force at least as powerful as those we succumbed to,
and many of use wouldn't escape if you opened the front door. Did you
know that approximately 10 million Americans are either incarcerated,
on probation, on parole or once were in those categories? Each of
those 10 million have families, friends, neighbors ... and so closer
and closer does the We interface with the You. Don't you think it's
time we talked?
Are you ready? Can you accept that the road we are travelling points
toward a grim and painful future? Do you have the heart to face
monumental failures while bravely struggling beyond where we are now?
I know that some of you are, and that some of us are, and this is what
gives me hope. You need our insights just as we need your structure.
It is never over, especially when a real solution, a real treatment
for our sickness, is yet to begin.
In Solidarity,
Bruce Reilly (a.k.a
Bruha)
P.O.Box 8274
Cranston, RI 02920
USA
P.S. - I am trying to conceptualize an effective guerilla media
campaign to promote this cause. Ideas are welcome. Collaboration is
prayed.
Vox
wrote:
>Vox <s...@ss.com> wrote in message news:<p1kksv8093a9ck0rr...@4ax.com>...
>> Colin Farrell is such a fucking bore. The male Julia Roberts.
e. Amid
>your treasury of posts looking for discounts on computer parts, I
>found this written by your address:
This is classic, I've made a new stalker!
It would be even more amusing if this idiot new a thing or two about
checking headers to determing the real source of an email post.
Newsflesh chief, those emails that end in, "nospam.com" or
"fuckoffleavemealone.com" don't all come from the same person.
Idiot
Quit trying to stalk me, you demented freak.
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Duff Reveals Theory On Why She Was Punk'd By Kutcher
Teen Hollywood - 20 hours ago
... star Hilary Duff suspects she fell victim to Ashton Kutcher's
pranks on his hit show Punk'd because she disclosed her preference for
Irish actor Colin Farrell. ...
http://www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=54718&cat=1027
Now is this a rumor, or is this a rumor? Say it isn't so, Ashton.
Duff Reveals Theory On Why She Was Punk'd
By Kutcher
December 4, 2003
Teen pop star Hilary Duff suspects she fell victim to Ashton Kutcher's
pranks on his hit show Punk'd because she disclosed her preference for
Irish actor
Colin Farrell.
The 16-year-old So Yesterday singer "freaked out" when a driving
lesson turned nasty after her teacher attacked another motorist,
smashing his headlights with a baseball bat.
Then, just when she thought her day couldn't get worse, she was
car-jacked by a thug who made off with her purse.
Duff later learned the whole episode - which aired in
October - was a prank, and she has her suspicions as to why it
happened.
She says, "When Ashton and I were filming Cheaper By The
Dozen, Amanda Bynes and I presented together at (the MTV
Movie Awards). She was like, 'Ashton looks hot,' and I said,
'Forget Ashton - look at Colin Farrell.'
"The next day on-set, Ashton was like, 'You better watch yourself!'"
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Demi Moore to marry Ashton Kutcher
RTE Interactive, Ireland - Nov 27, 2003
... few months longer. Portwood is quoted as saying: "Demi and Ashton
are
a great couple and serious about their relationship. But they ...
Duff Reveals Theory On Why She Was Punk'd By Kutcher
Teen Hollywood - 20 hours ago
Teen pop star Hilary Duff suspects she fell victim to Ashton Kutcher's
pranks on
his hit show Punk'd because she disclosed her preference for Irish
actor Colin Farrell ...
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2003/1127/moored.html
27/11/2003 Demi Moore to marry Ashton Kutcher
Demi Moore is to marry Ashton Kutcher, according to his mother.
Reports in the US media claimed the pair were planning to marry at any
minute. But Diane Portwood said she was sure her son would wait a few
months longer.
Portwood is quoted as saying: "Demi and Ashton are a great couple and
serious
about their relationship. But they're going to wait at least another
six months
before marrying."
Portwood said she did not care about the 16-year age difference.
Friends of Moore's ex-husband Bruce Willis say he is not so happy.
One friend said: "He is worried about his three daughters. They have
been
through one tough divorce. He doesn't want them to suffer another."
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Colin Farrell's SWAT Co-Stars
Rapper LL Cool J and Hot Action Cop Samuel L. Jackson Rage Against the
Machine
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1096732,00.html
'I was fist in the air, loud, screaming, fighting the machine'
Samuel L Jackson, the man with the million dollar stare, talks to Aida
Edemariam
Monday December 1, 2003
The Guardian
When Samuel Leroy Jackson was a
young stage actor in New York, doing
rounds of auditions, one of his favourite
techniques was trash-talking the
competition. "I'd go in to an audition and
I'd come back out and say to everyone
sitting in the room, 'OK, you can go
now.' And everybody's like, 'What?'" He
smiles wickedly. "You set 'em up so
that when they go in they're already
thinking about you." He doesn't have to
do auditions any more, but he still
trash-talks - mostly on golf courses,
where he spends all his free time. "You try and establish your
dominance before you hit the first ball." And how do you do
that? "Intimidation. Verbal intimidation. Your presence."
It helps, of course, to have presence, and Jackson certainly isn't
lacking in that regard. The parts that vaulted him into Hollywood
- crack addict Gator in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991),
Jheri-curled hitman Jules in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction
(1994) - played to his strengths: his lupine menace, his mocking
humour, his controlled unpredictability - and his sheer skill with
a monologue. The much-quoted passage from Ezekiel with
which Jules dispatches his boss's enemies ("And you will know
that I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you") is the
apogee of trash-talking. It is also both a stroke of genius and the
ultimate actor's test: that the redemption of a hard man, and the
climax of a film, should depend on simply saying the same
words slightly differently. Which was as much Jackson's as
Tarantino's doing. "They said that they'd never actually seen how
the movie was going to end until I did that speech."
At London's Dorchester hotel, which is crawling, in
mid-afternoon, with men in various shades of florid
self-satisfaction, it's the other side of Jackson that's on display:
the charmer, the professional interviewee. He's been at it all day,
promoting a new cops-and-robbers movie called SWAT, and it
seems to suit him - he's laid back and cheerful, loping into the
room in his characteristic Kangol hat, dropping into a leggy
sprawl on a small overstuffed sofa. He isn't as big as he often
seems on screen, and, in a soft grey hoody, is even,
conceivably, cuddly. But the eyes behind the narrow blue
shades are sharp, all-noticing; one would not presume anything.
"You can sit here," he says, patting the sofa next to him. He
makes no attempt to move. I perch on a nearby chair.
Jackson was born in 1949, in Washington DC, but was raised
as an only child by his mother and grandparents, in the factory
town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended a segregated
school, but "I didn't think anything of it. It was a pretty nurturing
environment. Plus the majority of the teachers that I had had
taught my mother and her brothers and sisters, so they felt like
they had an investment in me." They also knew how determined
his mother was that he should get out, evade the dead-end
factory jobs, go to college, be a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher,
and they pushed him harder than the rest of the students. But
he decided to be an actor, and "it was like you want to be a
what? Are you crazy? Then when they finally see you on
television, it's" - his supple, gorgeously southern voice dips,
echoing the proud, parental whisper - "well, you know, my son's
an actor."
His mother - his mom, with all the drawling, specific
Americanness that spelling entails - is obviously a major
influence. I ask him if there's a trick to being menacing, and he
says no, not really. But then he thinks again. "Um. I guess I
have a pretty intense stare, which I think I inherited from my
mom. She'd just look at me that way and I'd know. You could
feel the heat on the back of your neck" - his hand goes up to his
hairline, tenderly, as if he can feel her gaze still - "and it was
her. She's very intimidating."
At Morehouse College, in Georgia, Atlanta, which proudly
describes itself as "the nation's only private, historically black,
four year liberal arts college for men", he studied drama, met the
woman to whom he's still married, the actress LaTanya
Richardson (she went to the women's college, Spelman, across
the road), and got into trouble. "I was a 1960s radical who did
drugs and drank. I was pretty much fist in the air, loud,
screaming, fighting the machine." He was expelled for nearly
two years, for demanding that the college teach black studies
and be more involved with Atlanta's black community, and for
locking the professors into a room until they agreed to negotiate.
After that he kept a lid on the political activism, but not on the
drink and drugs. When he moved to New York (where, for nearly
20 years, he acted mostly on stage, working with the Negro
Ensemble Company and originating roles in August Wilson's
The Piano Lesson and Two Trains Running), he enthusiastically
followed the advice of a drama teacher who believed in the
Richard Burton/Oliver Reed school of thespianism: on wine or
bourbon by 8am, then drinking and smoking weed steadily
through to performances in the evening. He had "a really good
time for a long time", but then nosedived. "I was watching too
many people get ahead and I wasn't. I was feeling a little too
sorry for myself." When his wife and eight-year-old daughter Zoe
found him sprawled unconscious on the kitchen floor, a line of
coke on the table, it was time to stop.
His raddled addict in Jungle Fever (only two weeks out of rehab,
he didn't need makeup) was "the first thing I ever did clean", and
despite his fears that he would lose his edge, it was a revelation.
There was "a depth of character, a transference of feeling from
me to an audience that hadn't been there before". Finally, aged
42, he was able to "get in touch with what I actually felt, and
thought, and turn that into a positive action that touched the
audience, made people say: 'Wow, that's my brother, that's my
son, that's my cousin.' It would have been easy to just go in and
play the addiction. But I wanted to deal with the fact that it's all
about relationships, and how you destroy or manipulate them."
He stole the show.
He has been grateful for his stage experience. "Being in the
theatre gives you presence. It teaches you certain kinds of
positions in terms of dominance and submission. Or how to
disappear, so that people pay attention to the person who's
speaking. You often see other film actors picking things up,
twiddling their thumbs, and you want to say 'Be still! The other
person's talking!' It also gives you groundwork for being able to
build a character that you don't get in cinematic acting. You
learn how to form relationships, what a character's particular
background is, so that when you do show up on screen, people
can see a whole person. Sometimes when an actor shows up
you go 'Wow!' And when they leave you think, 'I want to go with
him!' You know he's going somewhere, and he's doing
something, and you may never see him again in the film, but he
made an impact on you. Well, that person's probably somebody
from the theatre." Jackson might as well be describing himself.
Interestingly, though, Tarantino turned him down when he
auditioned for a role in the very theatrical Reservoir Dogs. "I was
at Sundance that year. I went to see it and told Quentin it was a
good movie. He said," - Jackson takes on Tarantino's lighter
staccato - "'How did ya like the guy who got your part? Don't
worry, don't worry. I got something for ya. I got something for
ya.'" Pulp Fiction was written with Jackson in mind, and earned
him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. Rather
endearingly, he was caught on camera swearing instead of
politely clapping when he didn't win.
Jackson may now have his choice of roles, but he has often
required his agent to put him forward for parts that do not
specifically demand a white man. He's visibly irritated when I
bring up the 2002 Oscars, and the fuss that was made of Halle
Berry and Denzel Washington. "Why can't they just be actors?"
There was also a fuss made, by some African-Americans, about
Berry's relationship with Billy Bob Thornton in the film for which
she won her Oscar, Monster's Ball; the anti-mixing instinct
doesn't seem to have changed since Jungle Fever (in which
Berry also, incidentally, got her break playing a crack addict).
"Well I just did a film where I was sleeping with Juliette
Binoche," he says, half-heartedly gainsaying me. "It's not out
yet, but I don't think they'll be cutting that, because that's what
the storyline is." Country of My Skull, directed by John
Boorman, is, however, about apartheid. In films where colour is
not an issue, such The Pelican Brief, such scenes have been
cut.
Jackson has been working steadily and soberly, and displaying
great range, ever since, from Die Hard With a Vengeance to the
adulterous father in the lovely Eve's Bayou (which he also
produced); from arms dealer Ordell Robbie in Jackie Brown to
recovering alcoholic and well-intentioned parent Doyle Gipson in
Changing Lanes. In 2000, USA Today named him the
hardest-working actor of the decade. But SWAT, for instance, is
Hollywood by numbers, instantly forgettable. Jackson plays a
forcibly retired SWAT officer brought back to help the troubled
LAPD because, as one character baldly puts it, "he's the gold
standard of ass-kicking". It may have made $130m, but US
critics were unimpressed: "SWAT is like a chauvinist on a first
date," said the Charlotte Observer, and Rolling Stone described
it as a "perfectly generic, proudly soulless summer action flick".
Why did he do it? "Well, it's the kind of game I played all my life
when I was a kid, and it's the kind of movie I went to see when I
was a kid." A glimpse, then, of the Jackson who reportedly still
reads comics in his trailer and begged George Lucas to put him
in Star Wars, even if only as an anonymous stormtrooper (he
plays Mace Windu, leader of the Jedi Council). Does he ever feel
like a hack? A slight pause. "Only a few times." When? "I'm not
going to tell you that!" He laughs. "You don't want to know that."
Yes I do. "No you don't." I try a different tack. Has he ever done
a film just for the money? "Not yet. I'm not desperate for
money." Another pause. "I've done something for a plane,
though." What about those Barclay's ads? "I like those!" (And in
fact, if it was for the money it wouldn't really be worth it, as he
was probably paid a couple of hundred thousand. It has been
reported he did them because they were shot by Jonathan
Glazer, director of Sexy Beast.)
Jackson reads seven or eight scripts a week. He'd like to do a
romantic comedy, but what he really looks for are scripts with
lots of dialogue or, even better, monologues. "Which is the very
interesting thing about Quentin's films, except for Kill Bill: people
talk. It's rare." David Thomson has written: "If ever there was an
actor ready to play some of the jazz greats - Miles, Mingus or
even Ellington - this is the guy." I put this to Jackson. He's
immediately interested. "I've been in dialogue with somebody
about a Marvin Gaye project. He's not a jazz great, but still an
interesting musician, and led an interesting, kind of bizarre life."
Then, suddenly: "So - you know somebody with a script?
Check, woman! Find out! Come on, unfair! Please?" He's
mocking. I feel wrong-footed, as if there's a right answer I'm not
getting. Why on earth would I know about scripts for Samuel
Jackson? Then he smiles. "Sorry." More trash-talking, it seems.
· SWAT is released on Thursday. (UK)
On video in US 12/30/03
Special report
United States of America
Nah, not trash talking. Somebody get to work on a script, pronto!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
LL Cool J Lends a Hand To His Old
Neighborhood
Entertainer helps secure funds to build affordable housing
By Elizabeth Cady Brown
STAFF WRITER
November 20, 2003
In the single "Farmers Boulevard - Our Anthem" on his
1990 album "Mama Said Knock You Out,"
Queens-born rapper LL Cool J said he would never
forget where he came from.
"Back in the days, before I was Cool J," he rapped,
"Sittin on a garbage can, rhymin to my man/Talkin bout
big money and future plans/I always told the brothers, if
I got a contract/When the money started flowin, I'd be
back."
LL Cool J has kept that promise. Gov. George Pataki
will announce today that 29 affordable housing projects
in New York City and Long Island will receive $29.4
million in state aid, including a 54-unit housing
development in Hollis that LL Cool J has championed
for two years. It is a mile from where the 35-year-old
rapper, whose real name is James Todd Smith, grew
up and where his mother still lives. He has homes in
the city and in Los Angeles.
The Hollis project is one of only a handful of housing programs in
the city and
Long Island that will receive more than $1 million in low-income tax
credits. Allen Cathedral's Neighborhood Preservation and Development
Corp. in Jamaica,
founded by the Rev. Floyd Flake, pastor of The Greater Allen Cathedral
of New
York in Brooklyn, will be the lead developer. [CORRECTION: The Greater
Allen
Cathedral is in Jamaica, Queens. Due to an editing error, the church's
location
was incorrect in a Neighborhoods page story yesterday. Pg. A02 Q
11/21/03]
"I am pleased that visionaries like LL Cool J and Rev. Floyd Flake
have joined
with us," Pataki said. "It takes these kinds of team efforts by
community leaders, government and the private sector to make dreams
come true for many
hard-working New Yorkers."
Edwin Reed, the chief financial officer at Allen AME Neighborhood
Preservation
and Development Corp., remembers getting to know LL Cool J when the
singer
joined the church six years ago. "He approached us wanting to do
something
good for his neighborhood and community, and showed a sincere
interest," Reed
said.
At the same time LL Cool J was looking for a way to help, Allen AME
was
completing a study of the community's development needs. "The
conclusion of
the study was that the commercial development had not kept pace with
residential development in southern Queens," Reed said. "Overall, we
are looking
to get a better mix of commercial and residential development that
will provide
goods and services to people."
More than 60 percent of the lots in Community Board 12, which
includes Hollis,
Jamaica, South Jamaica, St. Albans and Springfield Gardens North, are
one- or
two- family residences, according to the Department of City Planning,
compared
to 20 percent in Astoria and Long Island City and 30 percent in
Maspeth and
Ridgewood.
Allen AME determined that ideal development would create new
commercial
space and preserve the residential character of the community through
four-story
buildings with one floor commercial and three floors residential.
"The Allen AME project sounds great," said Yvonne Reddick, district
manager of
Community Board 12. "The plans I saw with commercial underneath and
residential above are going to be beautiful."
For Reddick and the other members of the board, it was also critical
that the new housing be affordable. "In the last 10 years, a lot of
new development has been built, but a lot of them are $300,000 to
$400,000. That's not what we consider affordable."
Leaders at AME agreed wholeheartedly. "We also think it's important
that it be
affordable housing," Reed said, "because it is that part of the market
that gets
priced out so easily. We need to maintain the economic diversity of
the
community because communities are stronger if we have everyone taking
ownership."
Once consensus was reached on the goals for new development, Allen AME
began surveying properties and reaching out to supporters. The church
already
owned an entire block of mostly vacant buildings on Merrick Boulevard
between
111th Avenue and 110th Road, so that seemed a natural site for the
first project and one that could benefit from the development.
LL Cool J funded most of the cost of the detailed proposal that was
presented to the state to apply for the funds.
"We had come up with the concept for a four-story mixed-use building,"
Reed
recalled, "but when LL got involved, he added an interesting twist. He
wanted to
have some of the apartments be handicapped friendly."
LL Cool J explained in an interview that his wife's aunt has multiple
sclerosis and has been confined to a wheelchair for a number of years.
"Just seeing her in that wheelchair and the things she's had to go
through, I've seen how difficult being handicapped can be," he said.
"I've always wanted to do something for my
community, but she really motivated me." Nine units in the building
will be
customized for disabled tenants.
Allen AME hopes the city will approve the necessary zoning change by
June,
clearing the way for construction to begin in August. There is a sense
of urgency surrounding this project because it is intended to be a
catalyst for urban redevelopment throughout Queens.
In that endeavor, residents of Hollis are grateful to have the support
of LL Cool J.
"He's not a stranger to the community and he's somebody that the
community
loves," Reddick said. "I think that anybody that has become as
successful as LL,
I think they should remember to give something back to the community.
That's
what he's doing."
Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc.
RestInParadise
RestInParadise
From: edonline (edonlineSPAMOUT!@comcast.net)
Subject: FCC gives Bono a pass on 'F' bomb
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2003-10-07 10:44:34 PST
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/6954210.htm
Posted on Tue, Oct. 07, 2003
FCC gives Bono a pass on 'F' bomb
DAVID HO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - When it comes to cursing, the government says, it's all in the
delivery. That's the view of the Federal Communications Commission in its
decision that U2 singer Bono's colorful language during the Golden Globe
Awards didn't violate federal indecency rules.
The FCC rejected complaints from the Parents Television Council and more
than 200 people, most of them associated with the council, who accused
dozens of television stations of violating restrictions on obscene
broadcasts by airing portions of the awards program last January.
The complaints objected to Bono's uttering the phrase "this is really,
really, f------ brilliant."
The FCC, using the F-word more often to explain its decision than Bono did
on the air, said the word "may be crude and offensive, but, in the context
presented here, did not describe sexual or excretory organs or activities."
That distinction is a key test to measure whether a statement meets a
federal standard for broadcast indecency.
David Solomon, chief of the FCC's enforcement bureau, said in the ruling
that Bono used the vulgarity as an adjective or to emphasize an exclamation
and that "the use of specific words, including expletives or other
'four-letter words' does not render material obscene."
The Parents Television Council, a Los Angeles-based watchdog group, said
Tuesday it would appeal the decision and the FCC is "splitting hairs."
"It's not shocking to us on the FCC decision because they're a toothless
lion," said Lara Mahaney, director of corporate and entertainment affairs
for the council. "They don't take indecency seriously and that's why you see
it proliferating on the broadcast airwaves."
The FCC rejected the complaints on Friday and announced the decision this
week.
"We have previously found that fleeting and isolated remarks of this nature
do not warrant commission action," Solomon said.
From: Dean Scoville (comi...@concentric.net)
Subject: Re: FCC gives Bono a pass on 'F' bomb
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2003-10-08 10:41:20 PST
That's really fucking brilliant.
RestInParadise
Farrell and Leonardo Di Caprio, will bring
renewed 21st century fame to the Macedonian
king."
www.indiewire.com/onthescene/onthescene_031208thes.html
December 8, 2003
Finding Ancient History (In Town) and Modern Conflicts (On
Screen) In Thessaloniki
by Brian Brooks
Although Thessaloniki as a city is eclipsed by its
bigger brethren, Athens, to the south, this
ancient Greek city, which has its origins in the
Neolithic Ages and today reigns as the capital
of the Macedonian region, was once the second
most important cultural center in the Byzantine
and Ottoman Empires. Remnants of the city's
long past are evident in ruins, monuments and
in its charming Old Town area as well as a
statue in honor of perhaps the area's most
famous ruler, Alexander the Great. Perhaps
fittingly, the legendary conqueror is now the
subject of two dueling Hollywood features by
Baz Luhrmann and Oliver Stone.
No doubt the two films, set to star Colin
Farrell and Leonardo Di Caprio, will bring
renewed 21st century fame to the Macedonian
king. But I for one, only overheard one passing
reference to the films currently at various
stages of production while I was attending the
recent International Thessaloniki Film
Festival. This festival is resolutely, at least for
now, a very international film festival with only
minor heed given to Hollywood, although there was
a surprise screening of Clint Eastwood's
latest, "Mystic River" mid-way through the event.
Of the 14 films entered in the festival's
international competition, only one, Vincent Gallo's
controversial Cannes 2003 feature, "The Brown Bunny"
vied for the festival's top prize, the
Golden Alexander. This year, WWII-set Russian film
"The Last Train" by Alexei German, Jr.
took that top prize, while Italian pic "Il Dono"
(The Gift) by Michelangelo Frammartino
took the Silver Alexander. The awards were given out
in a packed auditorium at the Olympian
Theatre in Aristotelous Square in the heart of the
city. Throngs of people crammed -- and I do
mean crammed -- through the entrance of the Olympian
ahead of the ceremony. Pandemonium
at the door was actually quite typical throughout the
festival as well, with queue control most
definitely not a top planning priority.
Argentine director Celina Murga received the best director
award for her film "Ana y Los
Otros" (Ana and the Others) about an urban-sophisticate
who returns to her provincial town.
Greece, which not surprisingly featured prominently
throughout the festival, took the prize for
best screenplay, which was presented to Dimitris Indares
for "Gamilia Narki" (Totally Married). Iran also
featured fairly prominently during
the fest. Director Ali Reza Amini
received the award for artistic achievement from the Olympian
stage to loud applause for his film,
"Danehaye Rize Barf" (Tiny Snowflakes). Fellow Iranian
director Jafar Panahi was in Thessaloniki to
serve on the jury for the international
competition and to tout his latest film,
"Crimson Gold." Panahi held a somewhat intimate press
conference at the festival headquarters earlier
in the week, which as an American,
was especially a treat since Iranian
directors (and other filmmakers from so-called "rogue states")
have routinely been banned
from traveling to our "free" United States,
especially under the current administration. Panahi,
in fact, returned his Freedom of Expression Award
given to him by the National Board of Review
in the spring of 2001 in protest of his treatment at
JFK Airport in which the director was chained
to a bench while in transit from a flight from
Hong Kong to Montevideo. Panahi was returned to
Hong Kong.
Politics is an inevitable subject for any Iranian
visiting abroad, and the first question from the
assembled journalists touched on the subject of
freedom in Iran. "I don't want to become a
political director, that is not my intent," said
Panahi through an interpreter. Nevertheless, he
acknowledged the fact that because his films deal
with social issues, the regime in Iran was
afraid to release his films. "Crimson Gold" follows
the life of a pizza delivery man who witnesses
the privilege lived by a few in Tehran and experiences
the hypocrisy of the system that keeps it
in place.
"The [government's] policies have resulted in
the disappearance of the middle class in Iran,"
commented Panahi on some of the underlying themes
of his film. "Two social classes exist now,
the impoverished and the economically well-off.
The underclass is much larger." Touching on
the issue of screening the film in Iran, Panahi
said distributors and filmmakers around the world
have petitioned the Iranian government to allow
his films to screen, "but to no avail, not even
screenings for a select number of people."
Dimitri Eipides, director of Thessaloniki's New
Horizon sidebar, moderated the Panahi press
conference, praising the director for his
contribution to cinema. Eipides, who also does
international programming for the Toronto
International Film Festival, is a true advocate
and supporter of independent film. This year, he
programmed 35 independent productions from
around the world. One particular film that
seemed apropos was Julie Bertuccelli's
Georgian-set "Since Otar Left." The day prior
to the screening of the film I attended, CNN
and BBC World gave live shots of that country's
revolution, which removed its long-time
president Edouard Shevardnadze. BBC World labeled
the bloodless revolt the "Velvet
Revolution," while rival CNN named it the
"Rose Revolution" -- CNN must have won, because by
the end of the week, BBC was using "Rose Revolution"
as well). At any rate, the film captured
the difficulty of life in the country with its
moribund economy and unpredictable blackouts that
has lead to a mass emigration by people seeking
a better life in Europe.
In other programs, Georgian director Otar Iosseliani
received a tribute at the festival. The
filmmaker, who also chaired the jury for the
international competition, had a retrospective of his
work during the 10-day fest along with Hong Kong
director Wong Kar-wai, Portuguese director
Jao Cesar Monteiro, who died earlier this year, and
Greek director Nikos Panayotopoulos.
Celebrated Canadian artist Michael Snow was also
feted at the festival, presenting a collection
of his films from his early work, "Wavelength" (1967)
to his latest "Corpus Callosum"
(2002). Eipides, who introduced Snow at a press
conference, called the filmmaker "a
revolutionary who took a camera and made art [whose]
work changed the panoramic view of
cinema." For his part, Snow praised the
democratization of filmmaking. "The future of
independent production is wide-open," he commented
before a group of journalists. "Making
and distributing [film] is becoming more and more
owned by everybody."
For its part in promoting filmmaking, The
International Thessaloniki Film Festival established a
script development fund to promote film production
from the Balkans region of Europe. Called
the Balkan Fund Awards, the festival honored four
projects for development financing. This
year's winners include "Small Crime" by Christos
Georgiou and Srdjan Koljevic (Cypus
Greece and Serbia Montenegro), "The Journey" by
Artan Minarolli (Albania), "Grbavica"
by Jasmila Zbanich (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and
"The Coat" by Kutlug Ataman (Turkey).
Funding may yet pose a challenge for Thessaloniki
next year. The festival, which also organizes
a documentary fest in March, may experience a cut
in resources from the government, which is
at pains to finance the upcoming Olympics in Athens,
according to some staffers. If the
crowded, and perhaps a bit unruly, audiences are
any indication, however, Thessaloniki will
again be the focus of Greece's greatest film event in 2004.
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03112...@posting.google.com>...
> Instead of Conquering It
>
> YOU GO BOYS!!!!
>
> Colin Farrell Combats Homelessness With Poetry, And Leonardo DiCaprio
> Campaigns To Rescue Our Environment, Reforest Burned Out California,
> and Fight Global Warming. Oh be still my heart!
>
> Colin Farrell reads poetry, Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me," for
> homelessness fundraiser....
>
>
> Posted on Colin-Farrell.net November 22. 2003
>
> "Focus Ireland's Dharma"
>
>
> > I again steered some feathers. This time I am deeply moved and I feel
> > obligated to post this mail that I got from a certain person from
> > U.S.A. It is not complete e-mail, because it involves some private and
> > intimate things, as well
> > as it talks about personal problems concerning homeless friend who
> > died couple of months ago. I just want you to read this. Do not pass
> > it because it does not (directly) apply to Colin Farrell. I am being
> > highly objective and rational about it, and I did thought twice before
> > posting this, just as well as you can not be aware citizen of the
> > world if you are not aware of the 'real' world life problems.
> >
> > Thank you and remember: homelessness does exist.
> >
> > 'I was so greatly moved by Colin's choice of poems for Focus
> > Ireland's fundraiser against homelessness, because it shows so
> > honestly and so strongly the spirit of 'arrogant'defiance against the
> > 'tithes' of society, and the love of voices against economic and
> > social tyranny. For children who start their lives with nothing but
> > hunger and trauma, for old folks who become frail and unable to fight
> > for themselves, for people of all sorts who go a little bit crazy,
> > lose their eyesight, or fall ill, there is a great chance that they
> > will end up on the streets. Every step of the way there are fines,
> > fees and car impoundments everywhere to pay, like 'tithes' even to the
> > 'sea'. Dublin's history may be very different from San Francisco's, but
> > the working class fight against economic and political oppression is
> > universal. It is those voices I am so glad Colin is bringing back to
> > light for the sake of the poor, misled, and disabled on the streets.
> > They really have no voice now. It hasn't been fashionable for a very
> > long time for famous people to address poverty and hunger likes it was
> > years ago with the 'Feed the World' campaign, as if it doesn't sell
> > enough magazines for being too depressing. For all the 'bad boy' hype,
> > let's hope Colin's current shock value urges people to anger to change
> > the pressures that lead to homelessness, and to offer a few new ways
> > out. I am so happy he brought extra attention to the movie "Veronica
> > Guerin." I don't pretend to know what his motivations are in choosing
> > such quality messages in his movies, but the total effect is nice. The
> > Hollywood glitter is nice to watch from time to time, but without
> > heartfelt social action like this the entertainment world seems only
> > empty and shallow.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the issue of criminalizing homelessness now might make
> > some of the more stupid people in the world assume that somehow
> > homeless people are all cold criminals that don't deserve help.
> > Homeless people tend to get that way
> > because they DON'T "cheat" another to survive. Many people fail to see
> > that poor people are forced to defend themselves for their own
> > survival, whether it is against the man in the street trying to kill
> > you, or against the social,
> > political, and economic conditions that keep a man down and his family
> > struggling. How can you solve the problem of homelessness for any
> > young adult or child when they cannot apply for any kind of public
> > assistance once the have been in trouble with the law? How can we
> > continually treat these people like criminals when many time their
> > crimes of prostitution, petty shop-lifting, or fighting are the only
> > things one can do to avoid abusive foster homes and juvenile hall?
> > Being labelled a criminal is not the same as being homeless, but
> > solving the problem of homelessness and making it easier for kids on
> > the run to apply for housing help without getting in trouble would go
> > very far in reducing the problem of crime.
> >
> > There just is no affordable housing in this area anymore, what with
> > the success of the Silicon Valley edging out all available homes and
> > shelters, and the panic of the upper class to criminalize the lower
> > classes for defending their
> > lives and families against violence, for selling themselves when they
> > own nothing else, and for self-medicating with street drugs, poisonous
> > substitutions for legal medications homeless people can not get on
> > their own. Let's hope the
> > rest of the world takes a look at Dublin's efforts now, and that
> > fundraising for the homeless becomes a Hollywood trend again too.
> >
> > I hope you'll continue to publicize Colin's efforts for Focus Ireland,
> > and maybe enlighten some of the rest of the world about the class
> > struggles that Colin now embodies for this generation. So Minerva....
> > Thanks again for your interest, and for your wonderful Farrell site
> > that keeps me entertained and enlightened. Us 'little people' love
> > you.'
> >
> > No, thank YOU for your letter Nikola1Tesla, and you know who you are
> > and THANK YOU Colin Farrell, for reading Dublin Made Me by Donagh
> > McDonagh. If you only knew what you did with this act.
> >
> > MINERVA
> >
> > Posted by Minerva at 09:46 AM
> >
> >
> > Synopsis
> > A rich and colourful celebration of the poetic heritage of Ireland, this
> > CD book anthology features classic and contemporary Irish poems read by
> > 100 of the best-known voices in Irish life, including Colin Farrell,
> > Maeve Binchy, Bono, Pierce Brosnan, The Corrs, Bertie Ahern,
> > Bob Geldof, Seamus Heaney, Marian Keyes and Sinead O'Connor. The
> > collection includes famous poems such as Yeats's "The Fisherman" and
> > Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alongside new work from Ireland's
> > finest living writers.As well as forming a living testament to the
> > best of Irish writing, the collection is also a reminder that words,
> > both oral and written, do make a difference with all
> > royalties going to Focus Ireland, the country's largest and most
> > respected charity for the homeless.
> >
> >
> > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007174071/ref%3Dsr%5Faps%5Fbooks%5F1%5F1/202-7611551-2073449
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> I can't find this available on Amazon in the United States just
> yet....
> Meanwhile, there is a vey different style Northern California project
> that is helping some struggling American kids to survive ....
> Woodie's Northern Expozure 5
>
> http://www.calilove.com/eastcocorecords/
>
>
> All messages from thread
>
> From: RestInParadise (nikola...@aol.com)
> Subject: Colin Farrell, Bono, Bob Geldof, Pierce Brosnan, &
> Leonardo DiCaprio Save the World
> Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
> Date: 2003-11-23 16:54:13 PST
>
>
> November 4, 2003 from "Colin-Farrell.net":
>
> About "Voices and Poetry of Ireland"
> Edited by Theo Dorgan to Benefit the Homeless through "Focus Ireland"
>
> "Bono and Paul McGuinness have contributed to Voices and Poetry of
> Ireland, a 3 CD and book anthology of Irish poetry that will benefit
> Focus Ireland, an organization that aims to combat homelessness and
> advance the rights of
> homeless people.
>
> The list of contributors to Voices and Poetry of Ireland, which is
> supported by Poetry Ireland, reads like a Who Is Who of Ireland. The
> book that accompanies the CDs contains the text of the poems, as well
> as photos and biographical information of the readers. Priced at Euro
> 40, the CD and book set will be available from Harper Collins in two
> weeks.
>
> Voices and Poetry of Ireland is a 3 CD and beautiful hardback book
> anthology of classic and contemporary Irish poems from poets such as
> Yeats, Kavanagh, Wilde, Kennelly and Heaney read by over 100 of the
> best-known voices in Irish life such as Bono, Colin Farrell, Pierce
> Brosnan, Bertie Ahern, Maeve Binchy, Bob Geldof and Terry Wogan. The
> objective of this rich and colourful celebration of Irish poetic
> heritage is to raise much-needed funds for Focus Ireland, one of
> Ireland's largest voluntary agencies solely dedicated to combating
> homelessness. Founded by Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy in 1985 it helps over
> 4,000 people each year throughout the country.
>
> The poems, drawn up in consultation with Poetry Ireland, reflect
> something of the diversity and variety of poetry from Ireland and
> includes both famous and historical poems alongside new and even
> unpublished work from among our finest living writers. The Book
> contains photos and biographical details on the well-known readers and
> the text of the poems which they bring to life on the accompanying
> CDs.
>
> This is the poem by Donagh MacDonagh that Colin is reading.
>
> Dublin Made Me
>
> DUBLIN made me and no little town
> With the country closing in on its streets
> The cattle walking proudly on its pavements
> The jobbers, the gombeenmen and the cheats
>
> Devouring the fair-day between them
> A public-house to half a hundred men
> And the teacher, the solicitor and the bank-clerk
> In the hotel bar drinking for ten.
>
> Dublin made me, not the secret poteen still
> The raw and hungry hills of the West
> The lean road flung over profitless bog
> Where only a snipe could nest
>
> Where the sea takes its tithe of every boat.
> Bawneen and currach have no allegiance of mine,
> Nor the cute self-deceiving talkers of the South
> Who look to the East for a sign.
>
> The soft and dreary midlands with their tame canals
> Wallow between sea and sea, remote from adventure
> And Northward a far and fortified province
> Crouches under the lash of arid censure.
>
> I disclaim all fertile meadows, all tilled land
> The evil that grows from it and the good,
> But the Dublin of old statutes, this arrogant city
> Stirs proudly and secretly in my blood.
>
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful thing to do, Colin Farrell. You really
> are a man of many virtues. Posted by Minerva at 11:28 PM"
>
> And also, from U2 site....
>
> http://u2log.com/archive/002611.shtml
>
> And the link to Amazon....
>
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007174071/ref%3Dsr%5Faps%5Fbooks%5F1%5F1/202-7611551-2073449
>
>
>
>
> THAT, like Leonardio Dicaprio's substantial efforts to help clean up
> and protect the environment, make me so glad Hollywood actors are not
> forgetting the people that love them. :
>
> http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/7318577.htm
>
> Posted on Fri, Nov. 21, 2003
>
>
> DiCaprio Speaks Out Against Global
> Warming
> Associated Press
>
> LOS ANGELES - Leonardo DiCaprio is using his fame to call on elected
> officials to reduce American dependence on oil and slow down global
> warming.
>
> The 29-year-old actor and conservationist narrated an online film
> called
> "Global Warning" as part of an Internet campaign organized by Global
> Green USA, an affiliate of Green Cross International.
>
> The campaign, which began Thursday, urges people to oppose the energy
> bill that's under debate in Congress by signing a "Pledge of
> Allegiance to American Energy Independence." The bill would provide
> $23 billion in tax incentives and includes measures to produce more
> coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power.
>
> The "Titanic" star said people should use energy more efficiently by
> supporting renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.
>
> In the film, DiCaprio criticized elected officials who "gained too
> much
> money and power off our addiction to oil" as being resistant to
> change.
>
> "We must demand a separation between oil and state," he said. "We can
> vote for leaders who care about protecting your health, the air and
> the
> environment."
>
> DiCaprio owns two hybrid cars powered by both gasoline and
> electricity,
> said Global Green president Matt Petersen, who worked with DiCaprio on
> the campaign.
>
> ---
>
> On the Net: http://www.globalgreen.org/
>
>
>
>
> ©2003 Google
>
>
>
> Please look at the amazing site, both right AND left
> www.leonardodicaprio.com
RestInParadise
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El Queso <the_chees...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3FD17E1A...@yahoo.com>...
> It is amusing how many people are offended by the mere use of
the word.
Holy Shit. Kerry fucked up the front page of the Islamic
newspaper in
Iran.
www.iribnews.com/Full_en.asp?news_id=193938&n=35
And... from the New York Post
www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/12875.htm
KERRY HIT FOR CUSS AT BUSH OVER WAR
By ED ROBINSON
December 8, 2003 -- Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry
used
the F-word in blasting President Bush's Iraq policy, and the
White
House wants an apology.
In an interview in the latest Rolling Stone magazine, the
Massachusetts senator says, "Did I expect George Bush to f- - -
it up
as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did."
That drew a strong reply yesterday from White House Chief of
Staff
Andrew Card.
"I've known John Kerry for a long time and I'm very disappointed
that
he would use that kind of language," he told CNN's "Late
Edition."
"That's beneath John Kerry . . . I'm hoping that he's
apologizing, at
least to himself, because that's not the John Kerry that I know."
But instead of apologizing, the Kerry campaign returned fire.
"John Kerry saw combat up close [in Vietnam], and he doesn't
mince
words when it comes to politicians who put ideological
recklessness
ahead of American troops," said campaign spokeswoman Stephanie
Cutter.
"I think the American people would rather Card and the rest of
the
White House staff spend more time on fixing Bush's flawed policy
in
Iraq than on Sen. Kerry's language."
Kerry, who voted for war in Iraq, made the comment in response to
a
question about rival candidate Howard Dean's anti-war message.
NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings,
Inc.
NYPOST.COM, NYPOSTONLINE.COM, and NEWYORKPOST.COM
are trademarks of NYP Holdings, Inc.
Copyright
2003 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reversed
RestInParadise
and *not* about Eddie Rapoza or Colin Farrell-- Here's an exceptional
link to an article about HER in the Rolling Stone:
www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2156
Kelly at the White House, Bono, and Colin Farrell are not in bad
company.
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> From: nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise)
Please anybody with any real good ideas to help Eddie Rapoza, please
let me know, or visit or write Eddie. Thank you!
RestInParadise
moving forward....
Will we have head to head double feature competition, or two very
different perspectives on one amazing story?
www.nydailynews.com/front/story/144073p-127479c.html
An extraordinary history... an extraordinary world... an extraordinary
man...
Class is in session-- Hope you have the time now if you missed it in
school.
www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/EL10Ag02.html
RestInParadise
out on screen? :-P
If Christmas carols had existed then, what would have been on
Alexander's 10 days of Christmas wish list after conquering the known
world?
"four of my best friends, three wives a-banging, two mistresses
a-sighing , and a totally hot Angelina Jolie"
FUN FACTS
NY POST/By D.J. REITER
-----------------------------------
Why all the interest in Alexander? "He's a great subject for modern
films,"
said Guy M. Rogers, a professor of classical studies at Wellesley
College.
"He fought on the front lines of every major battle and conquered most
of the
known world by age 32. He is one of the most fascinating people ever
to have
walked the Earth."
During his short lifetime, Alexander:
Conquered all of Greece, North Africa, Asia Minor and Persia.
Was rumored to be lovers with Hephastion, his best friend.
Married three women - Roxane, Statiera and Parysatis - and also had at
least
two mistresses.
Had an Oedipal complex with his mother, Olympia - who may have had a
role in
the murder of his father, Philip.
Parted ways with Aristotle, his teacher, after an argument over
whether
foreigners were barbarians (he thought not).
Held a state funeral for his horse, Bucephalas, and built a city in
India in
his honor.
Died mysteriously at 33 of an unknown cause - possibly malaria,
pneumonia or
poison.
RestInParadise
done with help from the research team that worked for the film:
www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/
Alexander the Great, a movie being made by Oliver Stone, starring
Colin Farrell as Alexander, Sir Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy, Angelina
Jolie as Alexander's mother, Olympias, Val Kilmer as King Philip II,
Jared Leto as Alexander's best friend, Hephaestion, Rosario Dawson as
Alexander's wife, Roxane and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Cassander
"In association with Egyptian Dreams - supplier for the Oliver Stone
movie "Alexander" starring Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great"
Complete with photos of all the actors fresh from filming...
Historical A chat board, and all that official stuff...
And loads of intriging historical seriously academic info about the
contoversial man himself, Alexander, the world he changed, and the
legacies he left behind.
Director: Oliver Stone
Alexander: Colin Farrell
Ptolemy I: Sir Anthony Hopkins
Olympias: Angelina Jolie
King Philip II: Val Kilmer
Hephaestion: Jared Leto
Roxane: Rosario Dawson
Cassander: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Antiginous: Ian Beattie
Young Ptolemy: Elliot Cowan
Craterus: Rory McCann
Young Alexander : Connor Paolo
RestInParadise
Subject: Re: Colin Farrell: Oscar Gaelic Translation
Newsgroups: alt.gossip.celebrities
Date: 2003-03-30 21:53:27 PST
The language of the Irish is referred to as the old lanuage by the Irish
people. There are three forms of Gaelic, Scot, Welsh and Irish. They differ in
pronunciation and use of certain words but Gaelic is still spoken most widely
in Ireland. Often the first words in Gaelic a tourist hears is "Caed mile
failte" --> A hundred thousand welcomes
MC
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03120...@posting.google.com>...
> Vox <s...@ss.com> wrote in message news:<p1kksv8093a9ck0rr...@4ax.com>...
<snip>
> By the way... it does look like Colin's routine AND Julia's routine
RestInParadise
http://www.showbizireland.com/news/june03/30-farrell68.shtml
Much Thanks
RestInParadise
UK!!
(I had no idea til I tried to do it myself for my Mom's Christmas
present)
Just use the same link that has already been listed here previously:
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0007174071/ref%3Dsr%5Faps%5Fbooks%5F1%5F1/202-7611551-2073449
It will automatically ship to the US with "International Shipping"
and Amazon carries over the same info from any existing account and
address you may already have with them in the US
This is how the form looks.......
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We thought you would like to know that the following item has been
sent to:
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please visit:
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Umm.. does anybody know what that translates to US?
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03112...@posting.google.com>...
> Instead of Conquering It
>
> YOU GO BOYS!!!!
>
> Colin Farrell Combats Homelessness With Poetry, And Leonardo DiCaprio
> Campaigns To Rescue Our Environment, Reforest Burned Out California,
> and Fight Global Warming. Oh be still my heart!
>
> Colin Farrell reads poetry, Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me," for
> homelessness fundraiser....
>
>
> Posted on www.Colin-Farrell.net November 22. 2003
<snip>
>
> "Focus Ireland's Dharma"
RestInParadise
http://usuarios.lycos.es/drenaissance/colin/4images/categories.php?cat_id=4
;-P
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RestInParadise
become the greatest power struggles in TODAY'S modern world.
The lyrics to "Evil" on Sonic Jihad by Paris give a pretty good
explanation of why it's to anyone's benefit to study the methods of
evil men, even if you don't share their world view. How can you even
begin to overcome what you don't understand?
http://www.guerrillafunk.com/paris/sonic_jihad/
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03112...@posting.google.com>...
> Awwww, crap.
>
> Correction!! I got that lineage of ancient wisdom slightly out of
> order...
>
> My last post should read:
>
> 1. Socrates tutored Plato
> 2. Plato tutored Aristotle
> 3. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great.
>
> >>>directly, live, and in person
>
> All these men had an enomously profound direct effect on the evolution
> of the civilizations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All were
> strategic philosophers.
>
> What's wrong with making a movie about a real man you should have been
> required to study in school, instead of some impossible modern fantasy
> tale?
>
> Conquerers existed and formed societies. Why pretend otherwise? To
> ignore their strategies simply because you might disagree with a
> conqueror's undemocratic policies means you may never recognize a
> wannabe modern conqueror using the same techniques.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hank <hank...@NOSPAMgeocities.com> wrote in message news:<61p9svs6j1s59oufr...@4ax.com>...
> > On 23 Nov 2003 23:54:54 -0800, nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise)
> > enlightened me with:
> >
> > >Instead of Conquering It
> > >
> > >YOU GO BOYS!!!!
> > >
> > >Colin Farrell Combats Homelessness With Poetry, And Leonardo DiCaprio
> > >Campaigns To Rescue Our Environment, Reforest Burned Out California,
> > >and Fight Global Warming. Oh be still my heart!
> > >
> > >Colin Farrell reads poetry, Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me," for
> > >homelessness fundraiser....
> > >
> > >
> >
> > 1) Alexander was the ultimate conqueror ... so if they want to
> > set an example, they wouldn't portray him just to feed their greed.
> > 2) The burned out CA forests wouldn't need to be re-forested
> > if the CA environmental movement didn't protest and go to court every
> > time the forest service wanted to clear out brush and dead trees, all
> > which go up in flames immediately. So if DiCaprio cared about the
> > environment he would protest environmentalists. Global warming is a
> > junk-science hoax, by the way.
> > 3) The homeless problem only came up in the last 35-40 years.
> > Why is that? Regulations instituted by people who claim to care
> > about the downtrodden drove cheap apartments out of business. If my
> > building must have a handicapped ramp, hot running water, and meet all
> > kinds of codes and regulations, I can't afford to charge a small
> > enough amount that the downtrodden can afford. So instead they are
> > 'homeless' ( unless they kidnap a girl, then they are 'drifters' -- to
> > protect the feel-good 'homeless' name from a bad rep)
> >
> > I can go on.
> >
> > Feel the burning stare of my hamster and change your ways!
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RestInParadise
www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc756.html
Look beyond the obvious.
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03120...@posting.google.com>...
RestInParadise
underhanded wartime strategies in use in Alexander's day, and not much
different really from those military strategies of our own time....
www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc756.html
For instance, Crassus's manipulation of political power by instigating
Spartacus's revolt of the slaves... etc... (remember-- 'Spartacus'--
the name of the computer program Colin Farrell's CIA "Recruit"
character showcased his talent with...
All sorts of dirty tricks in Rome from various Ceasars... For God's
sake... read about the devestating destruction of the US Constitution
with the so-called "Patriot Act." Paris has so much to say about
that--- and I don't mean Paris Hilton.
Anyway... check it out before it gets censored again...
www.guerrillafunk.com/thoughts/doc756.html
nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03121...@posting.google.com>...
> On top of all that, "Alexander" had a direct effect on what was to
RestInParadise
hot action cop
Album:
hot action cop
Title:
busted
Everybody knows trouble is easy to get
Burned out dealer to the teachers pet
For some fun there is always sex
Hiding in the corner like a shy t-rex
Mmmmmmmmmmmm..mmmmmmm
Around your home are the ways and means
Guns hiding under porno magazines
There's booze and thrills, cheap thrills and dreams
Murder is a game on a pc screen
[Chorus1]
Little baby lost to the world outside
Trying not to let anyone inside
Learning what you get from a TV set
And it makes you crazy
Hiding all the way on the bathroom shelf
Busted in the mirror by an image of yourself
Beautiful as this whole world can be, you just don't see it
And it makes me crazy, yeahhh..Aww
This chicks trying to pay for things
Swinging from a pole with a nipple ring..(yeah)
This dudes trying to ease the stain
Tying off his arm with a nylon string
Mirror mirror can you tell
If they are kneeling in confession or if they just fell
The mirror looks back and it knows damn well
It's really hard living when you're living with yourself
[Chorus2]
Little baby lost to the world outside
Trying not to let anyone inside
Only love you get is from a TV set
And it makes you crazy
Hiding all the way on a bathroom shelf
Busted in the mirror by an image of yourself
Talking in your head
Laying awake in bed in the twightlight screaming
And it makes me crazy
It drives me crazy yeah
It makes me crazy yeah…
Awwwwww wahhh awww wahhhh
Everybody lost to the world outside
Trying to fill a hole that will grow till the day that you die
Never knew it would be this way
Living in a place that u never wanna face night and day
Never knew it would be this way
And it drives me crazy
Everybody lost to the world outside
Losing all control of the boat they drive
Only love you get is from a TV set
And it makes you crazy
Hiding all the way on the closet shelf
Busted in the mirror by an image of yourself
Talking in your head laying awake in your bed
And it makes me crazy
Artist:
The Coup
Album:
Party Music
Title:
Heven Tonite
[Chorus]
Preacher man wanna save my soul
Don't nobody wanna save my life
People we done lost control
Let's make heaven tonite
Preacher man wanna save my soul
Don't nobody wanna save my life
People we done lost control
Let's make heaven tonite
Now as I sleep may the oxygen inflate my lungs
May my arteries and heart oscillate as one
If police come may I awake escape and run
In the morning may I have the sake to scrape the funds
And if I take the plunge
May it be said that I wasn't afraid to shake my tongue
Show the state what's wrong
Makin' sure that the callin' bell of fate was rung
Cuz if they could the would
And probly tried to
Rape the sun
Someone said that this is just my body
Wait for the Afterparty
Where ain't no shut-off note
And every wallet there is knotty
Feet are on the asphalt
Dick in the dirt
This system take vickin' to work
Listen alert
Check out the introvert
In the corner with the rip in her skirt
Stomach pains so she grippin' her shirt
Ain't never had dinner
So she know she ain't gettin' dessert
Don't try to tell me it's her mission to hurt
I got faith in the people and they power to fight
We gon make the struggle blossom
Like a flower to light
I know that we could take power tonight
Make 'em cower from might
And get emergency clearance from the tower for flight
I ain't sittin in your pews less you helpin' me resist and
refuse
Show me a list of your views
If you really love me
Help me tear this muthafucka up
Consider this my tithe for the offer cup
[Chorus]
I used to think about infinity
And how my memory is finna be
Invisibly slim in that vicinity
And though the stars are magnificent
Whisky and the midnight sky can make you feel insignificant
The revolution in this tune and verse
Is a bid for my love to touch the universe
Strugglin' over wages and funds
Let the movement get contagious and run
Through the end when it's gauges and guns
And if we win in the ages to come
We'll have a chapter where the history pages are from
They won't never know our name or face
But feel our soul in free food they taste
Feel our passion when they heat they house
When they got power on the streets
And the police don't beat 'em about
Let's make health care centers on every block
Let's give everybody homes and a garden plot
Let's give all the schools books
Ten kids a class
And give 'em truth for their pencils and pads
Retail clerk - "love ballads" where you place this song
Let's make heaven right here
Just in case they wrong
[Chorus]
Can't wait for Colin Farrells next movie "A Home At the End of the
World," based on the book of the same name by pulitzer prize winning
author, Michael Cunningham. It's more than a damn fine gorgeous read
and a half.
RestInParadise
for the server?)... In case you're really curious about these vocal
kids from Cali-- try this instead....
www.siccness.net/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67153&perpage=15&pagenumber=13
And... in case Colin Farrell fans didn't see my correction of my
earlier error.. the Amazon UK address listed below will STILL work for
Colin Farrell's Focus Ireland homelessness fundraiser project Voices
and Poetry of Ireland," even though the Amazon US site doesn't list it
at all. The Amazon UK site still ships to the US. Coo!
>
>
>
> nikola...@aol.com (RestInParadise) wrote in message news:<7942a1eb.03112...@posting.google.com>...
> > Instead of Conquering It
> >
> > YOU GO BOYS!!!!
> >
> > Colin Farrell Combats Homelessness With Poetry, And Leonardo DiCaprio
> > Campaigns To Rescue Our Environment, Reforest Burned Out California,
> > and Fight Global Warming. Oh be still my heart!
> >
> > Colin Farrell reads poetry, Donagh MacDonagh's "Dublin Made Me," for
> > homelessness fundraiser....
> >
> >
> > Posted on Colin-Farrell.net November 22. 2003
RestInParadise
www.nynewsday.com/entertainment/nyc-a3590266dec19,0,4569264,print.story?coll=nyc-flash-headlines
It's All Greek to Him
Liz Smith
December 19, 2003
'They say blonds have more fun, but not necessarily 45 beers worth of
fun!"
So says an exhausted and angry - though still funny - Colin Farrell,
from the London set of "Alexander." Colin, a buttery blond for his
role
as the famous Greek conquerer, is reacting to a scurrilous report out
of London - picked up here by The Washington Post. This story
supposedly comes from Farrell's "personal guide" during the film's
shoot in Morocco. It had the sexy Irishman drinking in unbelievable
excess, partying to all hours, harassing his movie "mother" Angelina
Jolie (she plays Olympias in the film) and generally behaving badly.
The "guide" suggested Colin "was clearly unhinged" and needed
"pyschiatric help."
One problem, Colin says: "I don't know who this person is. I never met
him. Not one -- time! Look, I accept a lot of what is said and
written about me; this is the job, this is the contract I signed, and
certainly, I've helped the image along at times. But this latest is
such an
invasion, such a defamation of me as a human being - and so incorrect.
I wasn't even staying in the hotel where they have me banging on
Angelina's door.
"Anyway, this is not just about me anymore. I have a child, a son, and
I have to take responsibility for what is true in my life and what is
not true. And so I intend
to take legal action against those who invented this stuff. Steps are
being taken right now."
Colin was chatting between scenes, and director Oliver Stone was
anxious to have his leading man in front of the cameras, but I did
manage to ask him about
the experience of playing Alexander, who died at 33, but not before he
had changed the world. "As you know, Liz, this business ain't always
brain surgery, but
you recognize a worthwhile challenge when it comes. This has been the
greatest and so far the most fulfilling challenge of my career. The
Oliver Stone script is so
beautiful and pure."
And what about Angelina Jolie? "She is an incredible, amazing actor,
for whom I have the utmost respect. We worked together only two days,
and it was
naturally a very strange experience to have her play my mother, but
she was a joy to work with." (Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer
and Jonathan
Rhys-Meyers also share scenes with Colin.)
I think Colin Farrell will always be a bit of a wild guy - hey, we
don't want him to start writing children's books or anything - but he
has now seen the power of
image and publicity, and how easily it can be manipulated out of one's
own control. Fame can be a heavy burden.
RestInParadise
something I agree with that found on the internet & reposted here-- I
don't know the author, but I would hope to further his "guerilla media
campaign" as best as possible. Hope you understand-- We are all part
of this cruel incarceration generation.)
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**quoted from a post found elsewhere on the internet**
RestInParadise
www.siccness.net/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=35
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RestInParadise
It's a great day for the Irish...."
"Hellraising actor Colin Farrell is to take on an unlikely role in his
next project-- that of Irish patron saint Saint Patrick" Possible
co-stars Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, and fellow Irishman Pierce
Brosnan....
www.teenhollywood.com/d.asp?r=56252&cat=1027
"We're feeling so inspirish sure because we're all the Irish- Its a
great day"
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oatmeal?
www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13731988_method=full_siteid=89488_headline=-FOR-PITT-SAKE-LOOK-AT-COLIN-name_page.html
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FOR PITT'S SAKE LOOK AT COLIN Dec 17 2003
By Rick Fulton
COLIN Farrell definitely has a touch of Brad Pitt about him for his
new swordand-sandal extravaganza.
The Irishman spotted with dyed blond locks, tunic and armour for the
film Alexander looked the spitting image of Brad in his get-up as
Achilles in Troy.
And there's also a look at Rory McCann in the Oliver Stone-directed
film about Alexander the Great.
Glasgow-based Rory had a horse friend in tow as he and Colin filmed in
London this week.
Rory, who plays Crateros, was chosen by Stone after he saw the 6 ft 6
in kilted actor stripped to his vest in a television advert for
Scott's Porage Oats.
His last big role was in Channel 4's The Book Group when he played a
wheelchairbound would-be writer.
Now Colin and Rory have teamed up with Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto,
Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers for the
blockbuster.
It charts the rise of hero Alexander from his beginnings in Macedonia
to conqueror of the world more than 2300 years ago.
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www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/
"be good to each other"
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And here they are, riden 'em instead of smokin 'em this time.
http://www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/magazines/sundaymailcolinangie1.jpg
http://www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/magazines/sundaymailcolinangie2.jpg
Whose to say whether the relationship gossip is true or not?? I am
not a mind reader, and neither is the article's author, but these
sweet photographs say a thousand words at least about what looks like
a wonderful friendship.
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too-- Nothin wanky or nerdy about it, not to me. Sweet dreams
everybody.
Interview with Colin Farrell in Morrocco during filming of
Alexander....
(also from "Colin Farrell::Fansite"....)
http://www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/nightandday1.jpg
Awesome archive with plenty of Oliver Stone's "Alexander" periodical
pics
www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/photoarchives6.html#mail
from this site: www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/
Happy New Year!!
Christmas Day Photos In Cairo, Egypt:
www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/magazines/sundaymailcolinangie1.jpg
www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/magazines/sundaymailcolinangie2.jpg
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www.alexander-rc.com/archives.html
The year in review....plus buttons for all sorts of new info, links,
and spectacular pictures about Oliver Stone's project, due in 2004,
plus updates regarding Baz Lurhman's new release scheduled for a 2005
release.
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http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/alexander/
regarding Alexander....
"Why are you doing this?
Go to
Major Published Biographies
If you want reliable information about Alexander, you will certainly
find many sources here. The academic sections alone contains some 110
links. I have aimed, however, to provide something far larger and more
interesting -- a comprehensive picture of how Alexander is perceived,
used and abused. Alexander looms far above most of the other classical
"greats" as a figure of world culture. No Pericles or Caesar made it
into the Book of Daniel or the Koran; nobody in medieval Japan
thrilled to legends of Cicero. Demosthenes was never played by William
Shatner or Richard Burton.
Alexander's name continues to carry great weight. Greek, Macedonian,
even Albanian, nationalists claim him; Indian and Iranian nationalists
hate him with equal vigor. Some Christians believe his conquests
prepared the world to receive the Gospel. Some Jews believe he
worshipped at the temple in Jerusalem. Some Muslims consider him a
prophet. Zoroastrians credit him with the destruction of much of their
sacred literature. Tiepolo painted his sexual continence. Homosexuals
and bisexuals interpret his amours rather differently. Epileptics,
left-handers, pederasts, dandruff sufferers... everybody has their
claws in him.
There are people who think he's buried in Illinois.
It really gets interesting when the Internet brings these different
groups together. Thus, through this site you can drop on a group of
Baha'is discussing Alexander's sexuality, drawing on the Koran, Shi'ah
allegory, Persian nationalism, the novels of Mary Renault, and western
academic scholarship.
I can be reached at edi...@isidore-of-seville.com. Submissions,
comments and corrections are welcome. I won't, however, do your
homework.
Sincerely,
Tim Spalding
Brookline, MA"
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Entertainment
Leonardo, girlfriend Giselle Bundchen, trek the trails of Machu Picchu
LIMA Jan 2 - Superstar couple Leonardo DiCaprio and Giselle Bundchen
spent the night Saturday in the ruins of the Incan city of Machu
Picchu, sloshing through the rain under umbrellas on the medieval
trails.
The star of ``Gangs of New York'' and his Brazilian supermodel
girlfriend travelled from Cuzco to Machu Picchu in relative solitude
on the luxury Hiram Bingham train.
But once they arrived at the mountaintop city, the couple lost any
hope of disappearing among the tourists and found photographers
waiting for them in the rain.
A 15-year-old Chilean burst past their bodyguards asking for an
autograph, which she brandished like a trophy to her star-struck
friends.
The two later hiked to Inti Puquio, one of the highest ruins, and
spent an hour taking in the vast view of the mountainside below.
Their mothers were supposed to join them on the hike, but a bout with
altitude sickness kept them both at the hotel in Cuzco, a city already
at an altitude of 3,000 metres (10,000 feet).
DiCaprio and Bundchen planned to return to Cuzco on Sunday, and could
travel on to Brazil for the New Year's holiday. - AFP
Tajuk-tajuk Berita
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`Sex and the City' begins final fling
Britney Spears to perform in Portugal in June
Theron put on the pounds for her role in ``Monster''
Screenwriter Robert Towne to develop remake of Hitchcock's classic
``The 39 Steps''
Rush guitarist arrested in Florida
Singer Daniel Bedingfield hospitalised a week after car rolls
Rapper 50 Cent's album the U.S. top seller of 2003
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Angelina Jolie--- A glorious and true angel of mercy for children, for
refugees, and for the environment, in lands where so many are now
starving after decades of bloodshed. This inspiring link shows a nice
photo of this fine lady of compassion and clearly devoted mother. In
the midst of so much world chaos, pain, and confusion, there is light
and hope for this human race yet. In the words of the late great
Tupac Shakur, "They have money for wars, but can't feed the poor- You
gotta keep ya' head up." Angelina Jolie is a blessing, and the finest
humanitarian example for all our children, regardless of what
deceptive tyrants and thieves do to destroy the peace of this planet,
and to mislead the helpless. Keep ya head up, lady.
www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040103.wjoli0103/BNStory/Entertainment/
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Rapid City Journal, SD - Dec 30, 2003
... A donation of $10,000 from Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie helped
to support
the Big Foot Memorial Ride as it entered the Pine Ridge Reservation.
...
Monday January 5, 2004
Sturgislinks.com
Angelina Jolie's gift rescues Indian ride
By Jomay Steen, Journal Staff Writer
WOUNDED KNEE -- With 118 riders circling their mounts for final
prayers and ceremonies on Monday, American Indians concluded of one of
the biggest Big Foot memorial rides.
A donation of $10,000 from Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie helped to
support the Big Foot Memorial Ride as it entered the Pine Ridge
Reservation.
After the Oglala Sioux Tribe suffered a budget deficit this fall, the
tribe cut expenses, which included support for basketball games,
powwows and social events. On the chopping block was a traditional
feed at the end of the Big Foot Ride.
But like her superhero alter-ego, Laura Croft, it was Jolie to the
rescue. "She donated $10,000; of that, $9,000 went out to the nine
districts to buy dinners and gifts," Eileen Janis, assistant treasurer
said.
The Big Foot Memorial Ride received $1,000 for food, transportation
and hay. "She had contacts who told her about the ride," Janis said.
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member Dana Dupris stepped off his horse
into one of the coldest days of the 14-day ride on Dec. 29. But even
with the extreme cold, snow and high winds, he said it was worth it.
"It's a chance to remember the suffering of our ancestors' last days,"
Dupris, 48, said.
The American Indian riders from Standing Rock, Cheyenne River and Pine
Ridge reservations experienced the beauty of the land, the changing
landscapes and the magnificent sunsets that no camera can capture.
But the 300-mile ride commemorates the tribal bands of Sitting Bull
and Big Foot as they journeyed to Pine Ridge after tribal police
killed Sitting Bull.
What awaited Dupris' ancestors, their final destiny, was a mass grave
at Wounded Knee.
"I ride because our relatives were massacred at Wounded Knee, but the
second reason is to educate the younger people in our community about
our culture," Dupris said.
Betty High Elk, 43, of Green Grass started the ride at Bull Head,
Sitting Bull's last camp.
She had been a rider several years before, but this year, she worked
as a support person, cooking dinners and lunches for the riders.
High Elk served up 200 pounds of beef and an entire buffalo. Every
day, supporters served 50 pounds of mashed potatoes and four sheet
cakes. One certainty about the ride was that people arrived hungry at
the chow line.
"I started out with a 25 pound roast, two turkeys, and it went like
that," High Elk said, snapping her fingers.
The event goes through a lot of food, grain and gas, but it's
something they plan for and sacrifice for, she said.
"What you're riding for on that day — you pray and think of the
people," High Elk said.
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bodily functions.... What will Alexander do?
www.mrtimes.com/012104/entertainment.html
SWAT overcomes action cliches
By Chris Campbell
SWAT:
It's not often that watching a man vomit would be considered a "nice
touch" in a movie, but Colin Farrell pulls it off.
He's a cop named Street doing his daily training ritual, a grueling
series of runs and exercises that causes him to literally spew on a
beach. It's just a quick shot, but backed by the Rolling Stones' funky
Shattered, it's a touch that shows his dedication without being
gratuitous.
SWAT is all about dedication, a soft-pedaled message that doesn't get
in the way of some brisk action in this above-average movie about
L.A.'s elite unit that does the dirty work.
The movie is directed by Clark Johnson. I mention this fact because
Johnson acted in and directed some of the episodes of one of the great
TV dramas, Homicide: Life on the Streets.
SWAT is not in the same league as the searing Homicide, but it does
borrow some of the same flourishes that counteract the movie's obvious
cliches.
Yes, there's the disgraced cop getting his second shot. There's the
cranky captain always threatening to fire his staff. There's even the
wily ol' veteran training the rookies.
But SWAT gets around these cliches with a surprising sense of humour
and a visual style and brisk pacing.
Street gets screwed by his partner during a bank hold-up that opens
the film. It's based on a real incident in which robbers clad in a
body armour take over a street and it's an intense, effective opening.
Street gets a second chance when Samuel Jackson arrives to start up a
new unit. It's familiar territory, but Jackson and Farrell have enough
swagger to pump some life into the story.
The jury is still out on Farrell. He was effective in such films as
Tigerland and Phone Booth, but often seems to play the same character.
After all the training is done, they are thrust into chaos after a
French drug czar is captured. The thug offers $100 million to anyone
who springs him and the city goes nuts as gangs line up to take their
shot.
The action scenes are fast-paced and kept fairly simple. After the
pompous and endlessly noisy Bad Boys 2, I found SWAT to be lean and
economical.
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Golden Boy in his Alexander role,) on how his project due in 2004 will
be different than Baz Lurhman's starring Leonardo DiCaprio due in
2005, and on how his 27 year old plot consultant Robin Lee Fox wrote
the book on Alexander:
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reprinted from Colin Farrell::Fansite
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It's spelled "Baz Luhrmann," with two "n"s. And, Oliver Stone's writer
friend was 26 years old when he wrote the Alexander book in the 70s.
But didn't you enjoy the nice pictures of both Colin's former Minority
Report co-star Tom Cruise (currently in his Last Samorai role) AND
Colin Farrell on horses promoting two different movies on the SAME
page, as well as the tale of Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell's first
glass shattering meeting in Santa Monica? I did. Giddyup!
www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/empire_alex.jpg
reprinted from Colin Farrell:Fansite
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"A Home At the End of the World" stars Colin Farrell as Bobby.
wonderful link:
http://members.aol.com/pbhact/12-31-02.html
> Can't wait for Colin Farrells next movie "A Home At the End of the
> World," based on the book of the same name by pulitzer prize winning
> author, Michael Cunningham. It's more than a damn fine gorgeous read
> and a half.
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> It makes me crazy yeah?
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Ananova:
Mel Gibson to play DiCaprio's father
Mel Gibson is to play the father of Leonardo DiCaprio in new movie
Alexander The Great.
He joins Nicole Kidman, who plays Leo's mother even though she's just
eight years his senior.
The £100million film, directed by Moulin Rouge's Baz Luhrmann, starts
shooting in Australia next year, after being pulled out of Morocco
over fears of terrorist attacks.
Luhrmann is now looking at the New South Wales mining town of Broken
Hill and nearby desert for its main setting.
He has sought Prime Minister John Howard's help to find 500 troops and
300 horses that are needed to film the vast battle scenes.
Story filed: 08:35 Tuesday 1st July 2003
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freak error page... So far this link works to something similar, for
now....
http://www.guerrillanews.com/forum/wwwthreads.pl
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photos of Oliver Stone's Alexander....
www.allstarz.org/~colinfarrell/filmalexander.htm#photos
Many men on many horses. Giddyup!
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defusing landmines!! Go girl! Lovely photo of her in full SWAT style
bomb squad attire:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_693334.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
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and about the horrors of war, during filming of Tomb Raider 2.
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_693334.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
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pic from Colin Farrell::Fansite forum.
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wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
history to life on film.
"Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
Alexander the Great
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 — Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
for his historical epic "Alexander" in Thailand this week, a publicist
said Wednesday.
Hundreds of Thai and foreign cast and crew members will gather
Thursday to start filming scenes for the movie about the life of
Alexander the Great, which stars Colin Farrell as the Macedonian
conqueror, said a spokesman for the production, Michael Singer.
"Alexander" also stars Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and Val Kilmer.
It wasn't immediately known whether any of the actors is visiting
Thailand for the filming.
"It is a large-scale movie. We are shooting large-scale scenes here.
We are involving elephants," he told The Associated Press, without
elaborating. "We have a lot of participants, both in front of and in
back of the camera, who are Thai."
The shoot is expected to last several weeks and end in early February.
This is the final stop for the "Alexander" production crew, which
began shooting last September and already has shot parts of the film
in Morocco and at studios outside London, Singer said.
Stone wrote and is directing the film about the relentless conqueror
Alexander, who was born in 356 B.C. and had assembled the largest
empire the world had ever seen by age 32."
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Colin's lair....
Even if this tale is ridiculously embellished.... it's still amusingly
adorable.
Any first hand witnesses to the scene? Do we have paparazzi photos on
hand?
"What's with those Celts??"
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
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> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
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> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
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These folks at the Colin Farrell Fansite are going to town with all
kinds of in depth information about this upcoming blockbuster Oliver
Stone's "Alexander".... Check out the dialogue.... these people know
their shit!
http://www.colinfarrellfansite.org/viewtopic.php?t=965&start=390
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
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> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
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> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
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www.ropeofsilicon.com/moviearticle.php?artID=217
ALEXANDER Thailand Set Report
By: Brad Brevet | Jan 20, 2004
Just heard from a friend from the set of the new Warner Bros. epic
Alexander and boy does he paint a brilliant picture. Here is what we
got out of our little chat:
"We had our first full day of shooting yesterday and it was hella
long, plus the moccasins we wear for our costumes are not Nike Airs so
our feet hurt like a motha. It is cool but no joke, we worked 20 hours
yesterday."
"We left the hotel at 3:45 am for the set and right before we left
Colin [Farrell] rolled in with a few buddies and one of them had a
beer bottle in his hand, definitely coming in from the night before."
As for Colin's part in the filming; he was spotted with two others
riding horseback just coming up to see what was going on but he did
not shoot.
As far as what they were shooting we got word that it was four
separate scenes. Shooting is taking place in a jungle like setting in
the Udon Thani province in Thailand. The ground is covered in leaves
and the cast and ground is consistently sprayed down with a fire house
to create that "tropical" effect. Also amidst the forest are several
fog machines and a drummer some 50 yards away beating a large drum
every 5-10 seconds.
The first scene "was of all of us [Alexander's army] lined up in army
formation on a hill that was slowly rising up behind us, and our
commander was in front and was pacing back and forth and said, 'you
will hit them with your left...and then hit them with your right,' in
a very deep English accent."
A second scene was very similar to the first but covering the left
flank of the formation, and the third scene is a little more intense
as it focuses on what are called choppers, and the head commander
yells out, "Bring the assault teams forward!" Then the battle captain
yells, "Choppers, prepare your blades. Follow me!"
Our insider reports that, "The choppers are an assault team that
attacks elephants. Each elephant has a guard at each leg to keep him
from being attacked, so the first four guys in the assault team are to
attack these four guys and the second four guys have no shields but
have long hooked blade weapons tied to their hamstrings and they gut
the elephant."
He described it as "fog everywhere, a creepy battle drum, and a US
Marine Corp. captain yelling orders to an army of guys with medieval
weapons. No joke, Oliver [Stone] hired a USMC advisor to run the
extras and be the military advisor."
The fourth scene they shot "was when our battalion is ordered to lower
our spears then a horn sounds signaling our troops that we are being
attacked from behind, half the troops steady and half turn to fight."
As for what they are wearing he said, "I am wearing a burlap sac with
arm and head holes cut in it along with a burlap pair of undies. I
have an arched short sword and a big silver shield. Most of us have to
wear hair pieces so that we have locks hanging out our helmets, mostly
black but with blonde streaks, they also made us shave our legs."
The piece of land they are shooting on is reportedly 20-30 acres and
they will stay there until approximately the 31st when they will move
about 5 hours northwest to continue the shoot. The scenes are
supposedly the battles that went on in India and so far the only
warriors shot have been the Macedonians.
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www.vkn.com/movies/alexander/news.html
Val's yet another long time Hollywood veteran with a long standing
reputation for humanitarian, cultural, and educational projects too.
Go Madmartigan!! This whole cast is something really special.
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Q: "Do you ever worry that it's getting harder to keep your feet on
the ground?"
"A: "Not really. Honest to God, I am what I am, and I know just
because I have some fuckin' red carpet under feet it doesn't make me a
better person than the next one. I really know that. Look at a
homeless person. I don't know how he got there, but I do know that
just because there's a town car waiting for me at the airport and a
nice suite at a lovely hotel does not a better person me make. That's
a fuckin' fact. I was born that way. My mother cultivated some decent
beliefs in me from a young age, and knowing that I don't ever have to
really check myself and try and keep my feet on the ground."
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mother, Olympias.
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http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/cl-ca-gritten18jan18,2,2623711.story
SNEAKS 2004
A world to conquer
There's a spring in Oliver Stone's step as he strides around a
re-creation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the setting for a scene
in his epic new movie, "Alexander."
By David Gritten
Special to The Times
January 18 2004
"Let's go, guys!" he yells cheerfully to no one in particular,
clapping his hands as some 200 extras, dressed variously as Macedonian
soldiers, Indians, Persians and skimpily dressed Babylonian women,
scurry into position. Eccentrically, Stone has chosen to wear a
wide-brimmed hat (indoors!) to complement his sports shirt and chinos.
He's flashing his gap-toothed smile a lot. Clearly he's in an
ebullient mood.
It's understandable. Stone has long wanted to make a film about the
military conqueror Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who in his 32
years created the most stupendous empire the world had seen,
stretching from the Balkans to the Himalayas, and including what is
now Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Iraq and
Pakistan. "I started talking about this in 1989, when the German
producer Thomas Schuehly approached me," Stone recalls. But when
making a film of Alexander's life finally became feasible, he was not
alone in wanting to do it.
After the success of "Gladiator" a couple of years ago,
sword-and-sandals epics suddenly seemed viable for the first time in
40 years. And the story of Alexander the Great was clearly the one to
bring to the screen. At one point, it seemed there might be three
competing biopics — confusingly, all earmarked to be made in
Morocco. Martin Scorsese was briefly reputed to be interested, while
Italian producer Dino de Laurentiis had plans for an Alexander epic,
directed by Baz Luhrmann, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. A
little more than a year ago, Stone looked like an underdog.
He threw in his lot with the giant European-American production and
distribution company Intermedia, wrote a strong script, and generally
behaved as if his rivals didn't exist.
Stone's tenacity paid off. Two days before he found himself marshaling
extras on the Hanging Gardens set, the "Alexander" production learned
that the De Laurentiis-Luhrmann-DiCaprio version had fallen through
for now. He finally has a clear run at the story — and he
believes that in the person of Irish actor Colin Farrell he has the
definitive Alexander.
"The competition got nasty at times," says Intermedia Chairman Moritz
Borman, speaking by phone from his office in Munich, Germany. "Quite
frankly, when we started, they had Baz Luhrmann, who had just done
'Moulin Rouge.' Leonardo was at that time a bigger star than Colin. I
had the smaller package, so to speak. But Oliver's script is
extraordinary. So I had a screenplay. They never did. They just had
different versions."
Still, this "smaller package" comprises a budget described by Borman
as "hovering around $150 million." The film also stars Anthony Hopkins
as Ptolemy, who founded the Macedonian dynasty in Egypt; Val Kilmer as
Alexander's father, Philip; and Angelina Jolie (in real life only a
year older than Farrell) as his mother, Olympias. Jared Leto plays
Hephaistion, a Macedonian warrior who is Alexander's closest friend.
A mammoth operation
The production itself is conceived on a truly monumental scale,
spanning three continents. Shooting began in Morocco's deserts and
Atlas mountains in late September. Interiors were shot here for three
weeks over the Christmas-New Year period. "Alexander" has now moved to
Thailand for jungle battle scenes; the 85-day shoot concludes early
next month.
Borman likens it to "a very big road movie." A staggering 20,000
costumes have been designed. The film's armorers created 9,000 arrows,
3,000 shields, 3,000 swords, 4,000 bows, 200 cavalry lances and 350
axes and clubs.
"In Morocco, we had close to 1,000 soldiers provided as extras by the
army," producer John Kilik recalls. "We have a crew of about 120 here
in London, but in Morocco it was up to about 500. We had 2,000 people,
and 120 horses. We'd have two units going, one with five cameras, the
other with three, and Oliver going back and forth. It's like a
military operation."
Alexander intrigued Stone from their first introduction.
"When I read the Random House classic book of the 1950s, he took my
imagination. The beauty of the man, combined with his dashing exploits
and his strong parents — he's fascinating material. He had an
idealism I find very rare," Stone says. "He truly believed in the
myths and executed them. He outshone Achilles and practically matched
the myths of Hercules, in his way. It's an astounding story: a boy who
followed his dreams.
"People don't do that often in life, and when you find them, you want
to know about them."
Another reason Stone relished the prospect of an Alexander film was
the sheer challenge: "No one's done it. No one's written something
about Alexander's life that's remembered. There was a bad opera.
Robert Rossen, bless his soul, took it on and completely missed it,"
says Stone, referring to the director's 1956 film "Alexander the
Great." "Why didn't Shakespeare try it? Or Marlowe, or the Roman
playwrights? It's bizarre."
Stone and his team have seen for themselves why Alexander's life
proves such a daunting project. "The big films I made before were
contemporary," Stone says. "With this we had to start from scratch,
make every single piece of clothing and armor, because nothing is
available. We go back 23 centuries, so whatever you need —
pottery, glasses — there's nothing you can get."
Even the climate has caused headaches for the production. "In Morocco,
we had sandstorms," Stone says. "To some extent, I kept shooting
through them, but we still lost 2 1/2 days out of 37 there. The key is
to make it a guerrilla operation — get in and out fast."
Then there was the small matter of finance. Borman admitted that
shooting started on "Alexander" before all the money was in place.
Intermedia sold distribution rights territory by territory. But not
until Warner Bros., its U.S. distributor, also agreed to finance the
film's distribution in Britain and Italy was the project on safe
financial footing.
Enthusiastic star
While getting an epic made is one thing, persuading audiences to see
it is another. Much of its success will depend on Colin Farrell, who
plays Alexander. And today he is decidedly under the weather, with a
bout of flu. Between takes he huddles in a corner of the set, next to
a heater.
Farrell has grown his dark hair to chin length and dyed it blond. His
limbs are bronzed with tanning oil. He looks the part, in a tunic and
sandals, yet there are occupational hazards with such a costume
— as he drags deeply on a cigarette, ash falls on his bare thigh
and Farrell mutters an obscenity.
"Painful," he says finally. "Especially when your legs have been
shaved." But even through his illness, his enthusiasm for "Alexander"
is evident. "In the last four years I've been lucky enough to do some
big jobs," he says. "But I've never done anything like this. It's a
very noble endeavor, this film. Alexander was a man who gained
absolute power. He was ruler of what people knew the Earth to be at
that stage. He's the original Greek tragedy, you know? He was running
away from a lot, running toward a lot and trying to find himself in
the middle."
Farrell insists that Stone's script (which he based on a biography of
Alexander by British historian Robin Lane Fox) is itself a coherent
historical account.
"You can never know enough, so you read 'The Iliad' and Sophocles, you
get a feeling for the gods," he says. "But Page 1 to Page 158 [of the
script], that's the bible. You can just run with what Oliver wrote and
make it your own."
As for Stone, he's thrilled with his leading man. "See that?" he said,
after the day's filming. "Colin has the flu, but you wouldn't know it.
I ask him for choices with a line, and he just adjusts it four
different ways. He's so upbeat…. Oh, yeah, and he's nasty in an
Irish way. All his best lines are under his breath. It's hard to get
all that. This is a young man's story, and what young American actor
has all that?"
Farrell casts his gaze upward, around the enormous set. "Our
production designer and costume designer [Jan Roelfs and eight-time
Oscar nominee Jenny Beavan] are geniuses. They create this world, and
all you have to do is exist in it. I've seen some amazing sets, but
look at this!"
He has a point. It's an extraordinary spectacle — a huge space
with pillars, columns, fountains and real hanging plants, imported
from Holland. The costumes of the extras, representing half a dozen
nationalities, are so vivid that at first glance it can give one a
sense of visual overload. The scene marks the entry into Babylon of
Alexander and his Macedonian comrades, who are greeted warmly. But a
member of the city's ruling family is concerned about how they will be
treated by these invaders, and Alexander speaks to her reassuringly.
Intriguingly, Farrell speaks in a softer version of his own strong
Irish accent — and many of the actors cast as his allies are
Irish or English. This was deliberate policy on Stone's part: "These
men were Macedonians, not cultivated Greeks, and it seemed to me they
occupied a similar position that the Irish and Scots did to the
English in the British Empire," he said.
It isn't hard to figure out why Stone was drawn to Alexander the
Great; he is fascinated by power and its exercise. He has made two
movies about U.S. presidents ("JFK" in 1991 and "Nixon" in 1995) and
his last two films, "Commandante" and "Persona Non Grata," focused on
Fidel Castro and Yasser Arafat, respectively.
"One thing that comes out in this film is that the Olympic gods start
to lose their hold on man," Stone says. "Mankind goes toward
Christianity, that comes 300, 400 years later, but men start to look
for personal salvation as opposed to the Olympic gods, who weren't
enough. Alexander shows you that man can do it, become the highest
reflection of gods."
So the trick is to make a movie that reflects that ambition? Stone
smiled: "Exactly."
'He outshone Achilles and practically matched the myths of Hercules,
in his way. It's an astounding story: a boy who followed his dreams.'
— Oliver Stone
writer-director of "Alexander"
This is the caption to the picture of Colin & Angelina:
'Alexander'
Precocious conqueror Colin Farrell has flashbacks to childhood and his
rise to power as he expands his great empire. Oliver Stone directs.
With Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins and Val Kilmer.
Warner Bros., Nov. 5
(Jaap Buitendijk
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
>
> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
>
>
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
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Q: Any word on the Oliver Stone, Alexander the Great movie?
Don't know, man, but I'm there if it happens. I am there if it
happens.
Oliver wrote a phenomenal, fuckin' script. It's just about amazing,
amazing things. Everything's in it. There's greed. There's jealousy.
There's love. There's pain. There's hope. There's desperation. There's
pride. There's friendship. There's betrayal. It's an amazing, amazing
story. There's so much in it. It's so dense it nearly reads like bad
fiction and these are historical figures.
Q: How does Alexander's personal life read?
It's kind of tragic. He gets to a stage where he doesn't know who to
trust. He doesn't know who's on his side. He doesn't know if he's
doing the right thing. He's just obsessed with the idea of destiny and
the he was born to do these things, to be at this level of greatness,
to lead his people to this place. It all gets very convoluted towards
the end, and quite messy.
I don't know as much as if I ever got to do it as I will know. Because
there'll be a lot of research and a lot of work that'll have to go
into it.
Obviously bi-sexual, which wasn't even an issue back then. There was
no term for bi-sexual, it was just the way society was. People made
love to men, women and it was only later on that you had to pick one
side of the fence.
It's amazing. Oliver wrote and amazing, amazing script.
Q: Does he treat that subject fairly?
I think he treats it fairly by actually not putting a huge light over
it. In those days it wasn't a big deal.
Philip of Macedon had a wife and Alexander's mother in Olympia, and he
kept eunuchs and he kept women and boys. Philip of Macedon, the king,
was making love to everyone and in that day it was just a normal
thing. So yes, it's touched on, but it's so much more about
Alexander's personal journey and the journey of his people through
this time.
Q: In contrast to the smaller films you've don, how does the prospect
of doing something that's going to be on an epic scale compare?
It's huge.
Between Daredevil and starting S.W.A.T. I went home and I did a film
which I'm sure none of you have heard of called Intermission. You
wouldn't have heard of it because it's like a three million dollar
Irish picture. I believe it turned out well. I think it's going to
Cannes. So I did that.
After S.W.A.T. I'm going to go do A Home at the End of the World,
which is a Michael Cunningham novel, he adapted his own novel into a
screenplay, wrote the most beautiful screenplay. Five characters,
small film. Tom Hulce is producing. Michael Mayer from New York,
theater director, is directing and I'll do that next.
So I'm just trying to do that thing that a lot of actors talk about:
mix it up. Do some big ones. Do some of the smaller, more intimate
ones.
Alexander will be huge thing. The most attractive thing, apart from
the story of Alexander of Macedonia and that time and doing that epic
thing is to go in there and [work] with Oliver Stone for what probably
will be a six month shoot, will be something I'm sure I'll fuckin'
never forget. So I'm all for it.
Q: With that schedule, all the movies and the press that accompanies
them, you're going to be working non-stop. When do you say 'no'?
You say 'no' when you find yourself looking at something you don't
want to do or don't want to be a part of. I go to work. I do a film.
The reason I'm there, the part I like is being on the set or reading
the script before you get to the set. Being an actor. That's what my
job is.
This is all the peripheral shit that you don't think about when you
decide at sixteen, 'I'm going to be an actor.' You don't ever think
you're going to be sitting in a room with twenty people microphones
all over your face. You don't. You see Larry Holmes do that before a
fuckin' heavyweight fight, this shit. You don't think about it when
you're going to be an actor.
But then you get the chances you get, as I've got, and you end up in
America doing films and you learn very quickly that this is part of
it. It's not the fun part, it's not the creative part, but it's part
of it. You get paid money to do your job and you have to sell the film
and this is it.
So when do you say 'no'? I have a lot of energy. I'm twenty-six and I
love my job and I'm feeling my way as I go and I'm trying to do
different things and that's all I know.
....... cont...
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
>
> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
>
>
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
RestInParadise
Gorgeous radio interview HERE:
www.kiss92.fm/ciss/content/Celebrities/interviews.html
Photo, HERE:
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> Colin fights for the homeless....and has fun doing it.
>
>
> http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/klementine/colin/cf41.jpg
>
>
> pic from Colin Farrell::Fansite forum.
www.kiss92.fm/ciss/content/Celebrities/interviews.html
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HERE!! (scroll down! on the link page)
www.kiss925.fm/ciss/content/Crew/madDogBillie.html
#1 is him coming in to claim the "bounty" for homeless friend Dave
#2 is him promising to come in, knowing just what he'll do.
And there are wonderful photos....
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>>>>>>Check it out...
http://www.techcomforces.com/html/alex__gallery.html
Click on Colin's picture here to watch the online video of Colin at
Oliver's Bangkok award:
http://www.techcomforces.com/html/alex_t_v__segments.html
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From the Set of ALEXANDER in Thailand Part 2
Well, after a long wait in between updates we have finally gotten word
from our insider over in Thailand from the shoot on the set of
Alexander.
The scenes that were described finished shooting on Tuesday of this
week and I will warn you now that if you don’t know anything
about Alexander the Great there is a bit of a spoiler involved with
this recap, and with that said let’s get to it…
The shooting covers a span of eight days, all of which were battle
scenes and Colin Farrell was involved at full tilt playing the role of
Alexander the Great. Other notables on hand were Jared Leto, Rory
McCann, Ian Beattie, and Elliot Cowan.
It is worth mention that Jared Leto was plays the role of Hephaestion
a Macedonian nobleman, closest friend and alleged lover of Alexander
the Great and Ian Beattie plays Antigonus, one of the oldest and
ablest of Alexander's Macedonian generals.
The first scenes that were shot involved the attack on the elephants
by the Macedonians that I described in my first set report as the
choppers are led by Antigonus into battle against the elephants, only
this time the elephants were there in full force.
Our insider describes it, "the elephants were decorated in gold plate
looking armor with carriage baskets on the back for carrying
passengers, they were going up on two feet, spinning around very fast,
and moving forward and backwards. We were attacking the elephants from
each side, basically, we had one guy at each leg."
"We were very, very close to the elephants and it was a bit difficult
not to get stepped on. My adrenaline was pumping because, on one hand,
I'm doing my job by acting like an elephant slayer and on the other
hand I'm doing my job by trying to stay alive! All of us were a bit
wide eyed after each take."
That was not the only part the elephants played as the major portion
of the shoot was dedicated to the massive battle toward the end of the
film involving Persians, Macedonians, Ethiopians, the Indians, and
more…
As far as costumes go, "The Ethiopians were wearing an African cloth
wrap and had leopard fur sashes draped across there chests while
carrying zebra skin shields. The Persians wore blue pants with cream
colored patterned tops with middle east style head wraps. The
Macedonians were wearing either leather armor, or gold plated armor."
"The Indian army all looked virtually the same, they wore cream
colored cloth wraps for pants which kind of looked like MC Hammer
pants then they had a either a leather or bright colored cloth, very
thin, going from shoulder to waist. Then the kings and princes of
India wore similar pants but made of silk and had a ton of beaded
ornaments and jewelry around there necks along with leather arm bands,
very cool looking!"
The cast had to take into consideration fire hoses being used to wet
them and the ground, elephants (20 or so), and wooden arrows being
shot all around them.
During the battle with the elephants and the main battle scene to
simulate people being hit by arrows, "they tied a couple cables to
guys and yanked them back and to the ground to make it look like they
were really getting hit by arrow. They were real arrows but they were
never shot at us, they will be added with CGI, but they did use real
arrow in big scenes. They shot them over us and in between us, it was
pretty crazy seeing arrows with plastic tips landing at your feet!"
So I know you are anxious to hear what part Colin played and here
comes your SPOILER, so if you don’t want to know how Alexander
ends or comes close to ending, look away and shut your eyes, or click
here to look at some photos.
So the battle is reigning on and the Macedonians soon start to run
"when Colin rides behind the infantry and says something like
‘Macedonians, why do you run!,’ then another commander
yells, ‘Regroup in the name of the king.’ We fall back in
and Alexander and all the other leaders ride through us on horse back,
which was crazy because they didn't really tell us where they would be
coming from. Basically you just jumped out of the way to save your
ass!"
"So did they shoot the scene where Alexander dies?" you ask well our
insider says, "from what I know, he dies after the battle," and here
is how it goes down…
"He is riding a huge black stallion through a big ass battle where
everyone is swinging swords and smashing shields then an elephant
spears the horse with its tusks while Alexander takes a direct shot
from an arrow to the chest, the horse dies and Alexander falls to the
earth. At this point the Macedonians start to fight really hard for
there fallen king and to rescue him, they advance and push back the
Indians enough to be able to carry Alexander out on a huge silver
shield."
"He was lying on his back with the arrow sticking out of his ribs
being held above the men’s heads, his body was almost lifeless
and the whole scene was very dramatic, and as the five men carry his
body out through the Macedonian army, we were to look up at him, try
to touch his hand or arm, and say something like ‘God Speed
Alexander,’ or ‘Get well my king’ or whatever seemed
right."
By the sound of the battle scenes it seems as if the elephants are
absolutely magnificent! The "elephants would run full speed at our
battalion only to stop on a dime, grab a spear out of our hands and
snap it with there trunks, one time they had a elephant knock over a
real tree, one time the elephant was gutted, an Indian prince was
throwing spears from atop an elephant, and one time an elephant
stomped someone’s head."
Exciting eh? Well here is how they did the gutting and the head
stomping…
First to the gutting, "They had this huge rubber intestine that they
fixed to the elephants belly that when touched fell down all bloody
and nasty." Simple enough, but just wait…
Now to the head stomp, "The head was cool. They had a mannequin with a
head made of plaster and was filled with blood and brain looking
stuff, then they had a fake elephant leg stomp on the head of the
mannequin for the close-up while a pile of steaming intestines lay
next to the body." Now that is what I am talking about!
Also he mentioned that Jared Leto’s character, Hephaestion, "got
messed up in battle and was laying all bloody and wounded, while
Alexander was carried off, and Ian Beattie’s character
[Antigonus] had one eye, the other eye was shot out by a cross bow."
Our insider described the entire shoot as, "Extremely physical,
everyone was a bit battered and bruised from the battles. One stunt
man broke his leg by being bucked off a horse into a tree and another
guy had his horse run his knee into a tree."
Shooting is said to still be going on in Ubon Thani, but our insider
believes that they are small scenes with no battles "I don't even
think the stunt team made it," he said.
I don't know about you, but that is enough to get me excited for this
flick, can't wait for November, but until then click the link below to
get more Alexander.
Article link:
http://ropeofsilicon.com/moviearticle.php?artID=238
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Broadcast Tuesday Feb 3rd on Access Hollywood
Colin Farrell and Oliver Stone in Bangkok
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"It's been an amazing experience and one that we've all cherished, all
the lads, dearly...." (cheer : yeah! hear hear!!)
Out in public for the first time since shooting began on Oliver
Stone's top secret Alexander, a bleached blonde Colin Farrell came to
the Bangkok International Film Festival, with his fellow cast members
Val Kilmer, and Jared Leto, to support their director, who received an
honorary award.
"Who wouldn't work with Oliver Stone? Give me a break."
On location for the past 5 months, everyone has been tight lipped
about this 100 and 30 million dollar epic. (big visual of "130 Million
Epic" words superimposed over video)
The only images released were these production stills (spinning into
upright focus these are just two pics of Colin on horseback as
Alexander, looking FINE!) but now..... Colin is talking:
"I never read a script.....like the script that Oliver wrote..... for
Alexander" (that gorgeous Irish voice!!)
"And we have another, hopefully another 7 , 8 days, and and then ah,
it's..... it's all going to STONE!!... (grinning happily, looks at him
& laughs...) I wash my hands (grins)...(more laughing) ...All going to
HIM." (huge grin!! & Col reaches his arm over toward Oliver, who is
offscreen...)
from the Toronto-Star
Stone wraps Alexander shoot
SEAN DALY
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
BANGKOK— Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning director of Midnight Express and
Born On The Fourth Of July, is wrapping up filming his new epoch drama
Alexander in a village two hours outside Thailand's largest city.
"We shot some great landscapes in India and Pakistan for our film, but
we wanted to shoot in Thailand because (the country) has a very good
infrastructure for film," he commented after receiving a career
achievement award from the Princess of Thailand at a gala marking the
conclusion of the second Annual Bangkok Film Festival.
"I made a movie here in 1993 called Heaven And Earth and had a
wonderful time. The crews are great. They still are."
Stone — whose resumé also includes the political dramas JFK and Nixon
told reporters he has no plans to make a film about the current U.S.
president, whom he has often spoken strongly against.
"I think Michael Moore is in a better position to do that kind of
thing. There will be a newcomer who will be better equipped to deal
with the Bush administration. There is a karma, a balance. They won't
be able to get away with this forever."
Stone was joined at the celebration by actors Colin Farrell, Rosario
Dawson, Val Kilmer and Jared Leto, who all appear in Alexander.
Though the cast has been filming in Thailand for the past three weeks,
Farrell admitted he has not seen many of the local sights — including
Patpong, the city's famed red-light district. "We have been working 19
hour days, so I haven't had time to see much," he says.
Other celebrities at the festival were able to take advantage of the
region's many attractions.
Rachel Leigh Cook spent a half day shopping at local street vendors
and then took in a transvestite cabaret show with the director of her
movie The Big Empty, which screened at the festival.
Bai Ling, who has five movies on tap this year including Star Wars:
Episode III, took a day trip to the island province of Phucket, where
she strolled along topless beaches.
And Tiffani Thiessen, best known from TV's Saved By The Bell and
Beverly Hills 90210 is continuing to make the most of the
trans-Pacific trip with her new boyfriend, actor Brady Smith.
It is their first vacation together since being set up four months ago
by Thiessen's best friend, actress Jenny Garth.
"We are going to do a little hiking and ride an elephant," she shares.
"It is going to be so much fun."
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
>
> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
>
>
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
RestInParadise
Version of Alexander?
This: www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1364B000000FA3F6FBCA1F14C200
Go Leo!!
Leonardo DiCaprio, Laurie David Open NRDC Environmental Action Center
From Natural Resources Defense Council
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Santa Monica Office Named 'Greenest' Building in America
SANTA MONICA, CA (January 22, 2004) -- Actor and environmentalist
Leonardo DiCaprio will join producer and environmentalist Laurie David
to dedicate NRDC's (the Natural Resources Defense Council) new David
Family Environmental Action Center and Leonardo DiCaprio e-Activism
Zone. The dedication will take place Thursday, January 22, 2004 at
10:00 am. Mr. DiCaprio and Ms. David are both members of NRDC's Board
of Trustees.
The Action Center and e-Activism Zone are on the ground floor of
NRDC's new Southern California office, which the U.S. Green Building
Council (USGBC) this week awarded a "Platinum" rating, recognizing the
highest possible achievement in sustainable design. The environmental
advocacy group's building is now the "greenest" in the country.
Named for actor, director and environmentalist Robert Redford, the
building combines cutting-edge technologies and materials with
elegant, energy-efficient architecture to create a showcase for green
building design and to promote environmental activism.
"We aspired to build the most environmentally friendly office we
could, so it feels terrific to have the Green Building Council award
us their highest rating," said NRDC president John Adams. "This
project shows others what is possible, and it is already helping to
propel the green building revolution."
The storefront Action Center, sponsored by Ms. David and her husband,
TV writer/producer Larry David, comprises museum-quality exhibits on
issues such as global warming, ocean pollution, everyday toxins, and
green building solutions. An overhead timeline places environmental
milestones in historical context. The Center also sells outdoor
clothing, gear and accessories made from sustainable materials,
including recycled plastic bottles and organic cotton. The public
space was conceived because of a local requirement for ground-floor
retail to promote pedestrian activity.
"They told us the first floor had to be retail," said Ms. David, "and
it turned out to be kismet: because of that requirement we now have
this magnificent public space that's helping us mint new environmental
activists."
The e-Activism Zone includes four high-speed Internet terminals linked
to NRDC's activist network, enabling users to learn about
environmental issues of immediate concern and to influence public
debate instantly by sending messages to government and corporate
officials.
"Nearly five hundred thousand NRDC online activists have sent over
five million messages on key environmental issues over the last three
years," said Mr. DiCaprio, whose own foundation raises awareness about
global warming, endangered species and alternative energy sources.
"Online activism is an incredibly powerful tool for protecting the
planet, and the purpose of the e-Activism Zone is to keep expanding
its reach."
NRDC campaigns director Ruth Hunter created the Action Center and
e-Activism Zone with a handpicked team of museum and exhibit
professionals from the Getty Center, the California Science Center and
the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
"We found the top experts in the field and paired them with our own
environmental program staff, and the results are pretty exciting,"
said Ms. Hunter. "The exhibits are dramatic and informative; they pull
you in and make you want to get involved."
The design team was led by Tim McNeil and Leta Wong Sherman, and
included Jude Jansen, Cassie Carter, Michael Rigsby, Susan Cho and
Nicole Trudeau.
"The Action Center and e-Activism Zone will enhance our relationship
with the public and help us put down deeper roots in Southern
California," said Mr. Adams. "We never could have accomplished this
without the early support of Leonardo DiCaprio, Laurie and Larry
David, and a terrific friend and supporter of NRDC, Gil Friesen."
NRDC's office building achieved the "Platinum 2" rating this week by
pushing the envelope on environmental design and construction
techniques. It uses 60 percent less water than a standard building of
its size by capturing and filtering rain, shower and sink water to
irrigate landscaping and flush toilets. It reduces electricity
consumption 60 to 75 percent by maximizing natural light and using
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
>
> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
>
>
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
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What's Leonardo DiCaprio Up To While Waiting To Make Baz Lurhmann's
Version of Alexander?
This: www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?objid=D1D1364B000000FA3F6FBCA1F14C2600
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UN refugee agency ambassador Angelina Jolie documents visit to
displaced Chechens
Angelina Jolie
28 January 2004 – Actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has
released a new online journal documenting her mission to the Russian
Federation, where she met displaced Chechens as well as refugees in
Moscow and North Ossetia.
For four days last August, Ms. Jolie travelled to the republic of
Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, meeting Ingush President Murat
Zyazikov and displaced Chechens living in camps. Her journal reflects
both the displaced people's fears about security in Chechnya and the
authorities' view of the situation.
"I know that if thousands of people were dying every day in
California, London or New York, it would be very different. But most
of these people are in places like Africa, Chechnya, the Balkans,
Central Asia and Colombia, and maybe the world is used to hearing
about their deaths? Is it old news? Are they too many? Or is it that
they have nothing we feel to give to us in return? Which is of course
wrong because they have everything to offer," she writes in the
journal.
"At the end of the day, what should that matter, we are equal,”
she concludes. “They are families like us. And they need our
help, our support. And in areas like Chechnya, they need us not to
forget."
Ms. Jolie also writes of her concern for humanitarian personnel
– from a long list of aid workers attacked in the Caucasus
region to those killed when the UN headquarters in Baghdad was bombed
just days before the start of her mission.
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
>
> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
>
>
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
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Were you somewhere in limbo on the knolly grass, or in old school deep
thought? A glimpse into Oliver Stone's own history..... Happy
Valentine's Day!!
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Sat 14 Feb 2004
Prowlin' Wolff
BOOK REVIEW
David Robinson
Sometimes, when you want to tell the truth, you have to tell a lie.
And if Tobias Wolff hadn't once told one great, shining lie, the
chances are that he would never have become what he is now: a writer
hailed as America's Chekhov, one of the great truth-tellers of modern
fiction.
As anyone will know who has already read This Boy's Life, his
powerfully sparse memoir of growing up with his mother and hated
stepfather in a grim industrial town 30 miles north of Seattle, that
lie was simple enough. All the 14-year-old Wolff had to do was to
steal headed notepaper from his bog-standard school and forge a letter
from his teachers applying on his behalf for a scholarship to Hill
School, the East Coast's Eton.
At the time, he was a C-grade semi-delinquent adolescent, but the
letter made him out to be one of the brightest the school could ever
hope to have through its doors. "I felt full of things that had to be
said, full of stifled truth," he wrote in This Boy's Life. "I believed
that in some way that was not factually verifiable I was a straight-A
student. In the same way, I believed that I was an Eagle Scout and a
powerful swimmer, and a boy of integrity."
His new book, Old School, though cast as a novel rather than a memoir,
is really the next chapter in the life of this lying boy of integrity.
It's 1960 and the unnamed narrator is a pupil in a cloistered
Arnoldian arcadia, where the poet Robert Frost is about to pay a
visit. There's nothing unusual about that: each year, one of America's
great writers comes to give a talk to the school; each year, its
pupils compete for the honour of a private meeting.
The heart of the novel lies in the intensity of that competition. For
these are "book drunk" boys, each desperate to be anointed by their
literary idols, each writing stories and poems that use the visiting
author's work as a prism to look at their own lives. And when it is
announced that Hemingway, the most famous writer in the world, is to
visit, their creativity goes into overdrive.
For the narrator, that means night after night retyping Papa's work,
hoping that some of its invisible secrets will become apparent. But
how can they? His life hasn't any of the epic scale of Hemingway's.
And even at the basic level of confessional fiction, there are many
things about his background that he doesn't want to own up to: that
his father is Jewish and a disappointment to him; that in some sense
he has yet to work out, he himself doesn't really belong in this
elitist WASP hothouse.
So he does exactly what Tobias Wolff did in applying to Hill School in
This Boy's Life: he borrows a fiction that is true. In an old magazine
from an equally elitist girl's school, he finds a story with just the
right blend of alienation and honesty. Very well: he will retype it
and it will become his.
The story is selected by Hemingway as the competition winner but its
true origins are soon uncovered. The narrator, expelled from school,
goes off to Vietnam (as did Wolff), becomes a writer (ditto), is so
successful that he is, decades later, invited back to the school
(ditto: and consider the multi-layered ironies involved when Wolff
goes back to his alma mater in two months to read from Old School).
But, as a beautifully written coda makes clear, the narrator isn't the
book's real hero. That role goes to a teacher whose sense of honour
makes him resign from the school on the same day as the narrator packs
his bags. Dean Makepeace leaves not because he's told a lie but
because, however inadvertently, he's lived one - even though it's the
kind of lie most people wouldn't even think twice about.
The plot may seem slight, but it is heavily freighted with ideas and
written with the kind of clear-eyed stylistic purity that commands
attention. What kind of life, Wolff is asking, produces writing? In
what sort of writer's work can the most truths be found? Can writing
be taught - and even if it can, is it worth any more than an
honourable life well lived?
Time perhaps to part the veils of fiction and ask the man himself.
I have interviewed Tobias Wolff before. The last time was seven years
ago, when he was over here to promote a collection of short stories.
The thick moustache has grown whiter, but otherwise he seems hardly to
have changed: still as lean and worked-out as his prose, still as
commanding a presence in the room as he probably was in his Vietnam
days as a Special Forces lieutenant on the Mekong Delta.
It struck me then, as now, in the way he talked about rewriting his
short stories, the pains he took to get an exactitude of tone, just
how determined he was to make his fiction avoid the obvious. In his
Vietnam memoir, In Pharoah's Army there it was again: nothing
melodramatic, not the slightest particle trace of cliché, only oblique
vignettes of experience he had made completely his own. Things
happened in Vietnam that he still is unwilling to talk about - just
as, in Old School, Dean Makepeace never discusses how he was wounded
in the First World War. Yet unless Wolff can make his experience both
completely authentic and fully personal, he seems to avoid writing
about it.
After Vietnam, for example, he studied for four years at Oxford. He
knew Clinton there - maybe, he jokes, it was he who passed the joint
the future president didn't inhale - but he has never written about
that and, he says, probably never will. After Oxford, he worked
briefly in the Washington Post, at the time of Watergate. Woodward was
aloof, he said, but Bernstein wasn't: he'd swing by the obituaries
desk, where Wolff was working at the time, to share the stories that
were slowly toppling Nixon's White House. Once again, if you looked
for any Tobias Wolff story about anything as straightforwardly
momentous as that, you'd look in vain.
Zelig, I tell him: that's what you are - Woody Allen's human cipher
who inserts himself into most of the 20th century's most momentous
events. He laughs and takes the story back to Old School.
"One of the reasons the boys at Hill School were so intense about
literature was that there were so few other distractions," he points
out. "No girls, no radios, no television. Well, there was that one and
only time ...
"It was during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and Kennedy was going
on television to speak to the nation. Our house master thought it
would be a good thing if we saw it, so we all trooped into his room.
One of the boys in there with me was Oliver Stone and …" He pauses,
registers my incredulity, smiles, and continues, "years later, when I
watched JFK and saw that scene where boys are watching Kennedy's
broadcast, I thought: that was us …"
Again, that's not a story he'll ever write. It's somebody else's; we
can already re-run that clip in our mind's eye, it's not really his
own. But nuanced feelings of being an imposter among the young elite
of Hill School, living a life based on deception: yes, that's
something he can write about. And when you look at Woolf's
extraordinary background, you can perhaps see why.
Arthur Sanders Wolff III, his father, was a conman and an alcoholic.
He lied obsessively, compulsively: about his background (he was
Jewish, not Episcopalian as he claimed to be), about his income, his
job, and most of all, his prospects. Such was the trail of bad debts,
large and small, that by the time Tobias was four, no grocery store
within 20 miles of his family's Connecticut home would serve them.
When his parents divorced, he and his elder brother Geoffrey ended up
living a continent apart. Geoffrey stayed with his father, about whom
he wrote a memoir The Duke of Deception (1980) and a novel Bad Debts
(1969); Tobias headed west with his mother. Both Arthur and Geoffrey
had attended Hill School and it was this common link, as much as
anything, that made Tobias determined to write his own ticket there.
Nobody has, as far as I know, ever studied the links between conmen's
sons and writers, but there's a thesis there to be written. I mention
John le Carré's writing about his own father Ronnie, a swindler on a
truly epic scale - much bigger than "the Duke of Deception" - and
Wolff leaps at the connection.
"Absolutely. When I was reading Le Carré's A Perfect Spy, I had this
absolute jolt of recognition: my God, I thought, I know this life,
these people, the kinds of feelings this man has as he's growing up in
the shadows of all this fraudulence, trying to work out a truthful
life for himself and trying on different versions of the truth for
himself and sometimes getting further and further away from it.
"In a way that's what I'm talking about in Old School - the power of
literature to make you feel less alone in the world, the thing you get
from a good book that this is my life he's talking about, this is my
soul, someone else has understood. It doesn't have to mirror your own
existence - I get that feeling from Jane Austen too - but with le
Carré, I feel I'm on completely familiar territory."
For all their importance in Old School, however, books and writers
hardly figure in This Boy's Life. Again, it seems, Wolff is leaving
out the obvious, working out his own angle. "Yes, because it's almost
de rigueur that any writer's memoir talks about what a passionate
young reader they were. I did mention in it that I changed my name to
Jack after Jack London and I hoped I wouldn't have to go into any more
detail than that.
"Then after the book came out, I thought, maybe I should have said
more about books. Maybe as a short story writer you get used to
leaving things to the reader's imagination: they tend to feel insulted
if you tell them too much. But it's a different thing if you're
writing a memoir, so when I started thinking about how much literature
had meant to me, that's where Old School came from." Perhaps this
time, he admits, he's exaggerated the boys' literary precociousness to
compensate.
The short stories he's writing now, when he's not at the University of
Stanford, California, working with writers on America's most
prestigious fiction programme, have nothing to do with his own
multi-genre excavations of his past. The fraught class consciousness
of his time at Hill School, the selflessness of his masters (the novel
is dedicated "to my teachers"), those first moments of discovering the
power of shaping words as a teenager - all the building blocks for his
career as a writer - will be reimagined no more.
"At a certain point, you think ‘I've done a lot of this, I've done
enough,'" he says. "But the truth is, you can never get it all out."
And he's right: even when you write the most careful, detailed,
unobvious, nuanced, personal, truth-seeking, hard-won fiction -
something, in other words, very like Tobias Wolff's - you never can.
• Old School by Tobias Wolff, is published by Bloomsbury, price
£12.99.
This article:
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=177672004
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> Real Elephants!! A nice change from Microsoft generated CGI. Can't
> wait to see these beautiful beasts help bring this amazing time in
> history to life on film.
>
>
>
> "Oliver Stone Shooting Film on Alexander
> Oliver Stone Will Begin Shooting in Thailand for His Film About
> Alexander the Great
>
> The Associated Press
>
>
>
> BANGKOK, Thailand Jan. 14 ? Oliver Stone will begin shooting scenes
RestInParadise
elephant intestines and battle special effects... followedup by a
report of lost film........ Doh!!!
www.colinfarrellfansite.org/viewtopic.php?p=84380#84380
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> BANGKOK? Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning director of Midnight Express and
> Born On The Fourth Of July, is wrapping up filming his new epoch drama
> Alexander in a village two hours outside Thailand's largest city.
>
> "We shot some great landscapes in India and Pakistan for our film, but
> we wanted to shoot in Thailand because (the country) has a very good
> infrastructure for film," he commented after receiving a career
> achievement award from the Princess of Thailand at a gala marking the
> conclusion of the second Annual Bangkok Film Festival.
>
> "I made a movie here in 1993 called Heaven And Earth and had a
> wonderful time. The crews are great. They still are."
>
> Stone ? whose resumé also includes the political dramas JFK and Nixon
> told reporters he has no plans to make a film about the current U.S.
> president, whom he has often spoken strongly against.
>
> "I think Michael Moore is in a better position to do that kind of
> thing. There will be a newcomer who will be better equipped to deal
> with the Bush administration. There is a karma, a balance. They won't
> be able to get away with this forever."
>
> Stone was joined at the celebration by actors Colin Farrell, Rosario
> Dawson, Val Kilmer and Jared Leto, who all appear in Alexander.
>
> Though the cast has been filming in Thailand for the past three weeks,
> Farrell admitted he has not seen many of the local sights ? including
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Seabiscuit!"
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"Hotdog drops by the set of Oliver Stone's Alexander and discovers
bleached hair, bisexual heroes and, er, unusual choices of accents...
Story=David Michael.
Oliver Stone's changing history again. "It's become an interesting lab
experiment," says Stone of his latest film Alexander, standing on set
in the middle of the desert in Marrakech, Morocco. "We've had
historians down on the set, but when you actually do it, you find out
things you don't expect, and that's what happened. We've had to change
a lot of what history says happened."
Stone's keen to play down the much-mooted rivalry with Baz Luhrmann's
planned Alexander project. With Luhrmann's film pushed back to 2005
(and possibly even longer) and Leo DiCaprio now in doubt as the star,
the public will see Colin Farrell's peroxide-haired and shaven-legged
Alexander first.
Like Luhrman, Stone has had the story of Alexander doing the rounds in
his mind for a good decade now. "It's a special dream," says Stone.
"Millions of people worldwide have admired him and as a dramatist it's
a tremendous challenge because it's never been done before, although
it's been available.
"I couldn't have done this story when I wanted to do it ten years
ago," he adds. "I wrote a script in '96 while in Greece, but I didn't
like it. It was Tom Cruise at the time who wanted to do it."
In terms of going head-to-head with Baz Luhrmann's Alexander project,
Stone stole all the early thunder. While terrorist bombings in
Casablanca in mid-2003 resulted in Luhrmann's film beating a retreat
from Morrocco to Australia, Stone refused to be deterred from his
ideal location.
Stone also got the actors he wanted. Val Kilmer, he hopes, will become
a lucky talisman. In the last cinema head-to-head -the story of Wyatt
Earp- it was Kilmer's deranged performance as Doc Holiday that gave
Tombstone the clear edge over Kevin Costner-starring Wyatt Earp.
Stone also won the services of Sir Anthony Hopkins, who was
origionally stuck in the middle of the two camps. As Hopkins told
Hotdog "I know Dino (De Laurentis) wanted me to play something in
Baz's film, but the script wasn't written, and I don't know what they
were going to offer me. Origionally Oliver Stone had asked me if I'd
wait, and I told him yes. Then Oliver's film started first, so I went
ahead with him."
With David Hare's (The Hours) script to Luhrmann's Alexander still
incomplete, and the film on the backburner, Hopkins is bouyant about
Stone's script. "Oliver's script is really good," he says. "Powerful,
full of information, and full of knowledge."
Speaking in his Morroccan trailer after a tough day's shoot Colin
Farrell agrees. "Some of the things I've worked on, you have to work
on the script to make it better," he says. "But this one you have to
make yourself better." You have to fit your game to match the script.
The script itself is phenomenal."
Farrell proclaims Alexander "the biggest challenge of my life" with
the horses in the film getting special mention. "The horses are
tricky," says Farrell, shaking his head. "Especially the ones I'm
filming the Battle of Gaugamela on, because they're a bunch of fucking
donkeys. It's definitely been a challenge with them."
His director, though, thinks Farrell is up to it. "Colin has been
inspired," says Stone. "I don't know the stories about his private
life, but he has his fun. He likes to play hard, but he works
extremely hard- he doesn't even go off for lunch."
As for his horse riding skills? "Colin is the best athlete actor I've
come across." praises Stone. "He's great on a horse, he's so fast-- he
surprises you like Alexander. Alexander wasn't very big, but he was
very fast."
Alexander was also very bisexual, which is an aspect of his legacy
that audiences are expecting potential controversy from. But, explains
Farrell, it was all the rage in those days.
"There was no term for it then, it was just part of the culture." the
actor points out. "What happened was older men, 50- to 70-year olds,
used to spend the evening with younger men and impart their knowledge
to them and then they'd go to bed together. It features (in the film),
It's not a gay film, it's not a straight film- it's just a fucking
story."
With immensely impressive sets and props, which have all been
handcrafted by local tradesmen, the film is set to look spectacular.
In terms of box office, Stone's Alexander has a chance of hitting all
the winning notes of Gladiator promoting Colin Farrell into the A-list
of acting talent along the way. In fact it's hard to pick any flaws in
the production.
Well, that is until you're informed that Jared Leto (who plays
Hephaestion, Alexander's closet companion) will do his on-set
interview in his character's accent. What accent's that? The response
is unexpected-"Irish." The logic, apparantly, is thus, in an attempt
the mimic the transcendence of Macendonian and neighboring dialects,
the film will draw inspiration from various Celtic tongues to add
authenticity within the confines of it being an English-speaking film.
So Alexander the Great will have Farrell's Irish accent in all it's
glory. Fecking hell!
Irish has long been the albatross of all accents in the movies, but
here there is a real danger that Farrell, Leto and co-could transform
a $150 million epic into pure pantomime. It seems when Alexander
reaches screens in 2004, it will be the film that finally answers one
eternal question: Oliver Stone, madman or genius? "
Who the hell is this interviewer?? Irish accent=Pantomime? Albatross?
I want his head on a stick!
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> One of the boys in there with me was Oliver Stone and ?" He pauses,
> registers my incredulity, smiles, and continues, "years later, when I
> watched JFK and saw that scene where boys are watching Kennedy's
> broadcast, I thought: that was us ?"
> "At a certain point, you think ?I've done a lot of this, I've done
> enough,'" he says. "But the truth is, you can never get it all out."
>
> And he's right: even when you write the most careful, detailed,
> unobvious, nuanced, personal, truth-seeking, hard-won fiction -
> something, in other words, very like Tobias Wolff's - you never can.
>
> ? Old School by Tobias Wolff, is published by Bloomsbury, price
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And...click on the photo of Colin in Bangkok at Oliver Stone's award
ceremony for an online video interview of Colin & Co. on "Hollywood
Access"
http://www.techcomforces.com/html/alex_t_v__segments.html
"Who wouldn't work with Oliver Stone? Give me a break!"
"I never read a script.. like the script that Oliver wrote.. for
ALEXANDER."
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> One of the boys in there with me was Oliver Stone and ?" He pauses,
> registers my incredulity, smiles, and continues, "years later, when I
> watched JFK and saw that scene where boys are watching Kennedy's
> broadcast, I thought: that was us ?"
> "At a certain point, you think ?I've done a lot of this, I've done
> enough,'" he says. "But the truth is, you can never get it all out."
>
> And he's right: even when you write the most careful, detailed,
> unobvious, nuanced, personal, truth-seeking, hard-won fiction -
> something, in other words, very like Tobias Wolff's - you never can.
>
> ? Old School by Tobias Wolff, is published by Bloomsbury, price
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http://www.colin-farrell.net/information.php?quotes
Find out.....
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March 8, 2004
Only a few short days after ComingSoon.net talked to Angelina Jolie
about her upcoming role in Oliver Stone's historical epic, Alexander,
Val Kilmer, in town to discuss his role in David Mamet's Spartan, also
had some interesting things to say about this highly-anticipated movie
and working with Stone and Jolie. (Warning: There are a few spoilers
for the movie.)
"I was the big, drunken, fat happy king. King Philip," Kilmer revealed
with a chuckle, "There's a party for his wedding where I kiss four
other women, and my wife, Queen Olympias (played by Jolie) isn't even
there, and then on page 5, he rapes her. He hasn't been with her for a
while, and they start fighting. I knock over her basket full of
snakes, and the snakes are all over the floor. I then pull the sheets
back when we're on the bed, and my five-year-old son, young Alexander,
is in the bed. I'm so horrified that I leave. All through the film, he
thinks that Olympius is destroying his psyche, and she ends up doing
that, which is kind of why he dies."
Although she is responsible for the death of his character, he still
had some nice things to say about his "queen". "Angelina is fantastic.
Anybody that good is not an accident. The job is to make it look easy
and she does that. She is a very impressive actress, who works really
hard and she's very thorough. She's fantastic in the role, because she
plays this very powerful character, who outlives them all. And she
looks great old, too!"
Alexander will be Kilmer's second film with Oliver Stone after The
Doors, and he offered a bit of insight into the director's drive and
personality. "Mellow is not a word you can attach to Oliver," he told
us, "He's always been interested in the spiritual aspects of life, but
now he's more dedicated to it. Now, he has more of a young man's sort
of mentality and seeing what he can get away with it. He's always been
very frank and open about his lifestyle, as he is now. I find him very
sincere about that, and I'm very impressed with him as a storyteller.
He really wants to know as much as he can about something, and I think
that it's evident where his mind has grown as an American with Nixon,
since it's a total reversal from where he started off. He hated the
guy forever, but he grew to understand that everyone represents
something. I think Alexander will probably be his best film; it's the
weirdest epic that you'll ever see! One thing that is amazing, and
it's really well done, is that you go from his childhood, being taught
by Aristotle, right through to his death at 37 or 38 years old."
Kilmer also mentioned that he would love to play Batman again, and
that the real reason he didn't do Batman and Robin was because he was
already committed to being in The Saint, debunking long-time rumors
about a conflict with director Joel Schumacher.
The actor's next movie pairs him with Robert Downey Jr. for an L.A.
detective story, directed by Shane Black, writer of the first Lethal
Weapon movie. It is currently called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
Look for more on Spartan sometime in the next day or two.
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Colin Farrell organized a celebrity bowling tournament in Los Angeles
recently to help raise money for an orphanage in Bangkok. A source
told the Daily Mirror that Colin was so touched by the warm reception
he received while in Bangkok filming "Alexander" that he wanted to
give something back to the Thai people.
http://www.fox23news.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=B06531E3-B8EA-44F9-AD54-AE119F729F0D
Actor Colin Farrell has showed his sensitive side by organizing a
ten-pin bowling afternoon for thousands of orphans in Thailand.
The Irish star filmed new movie Alexander in Bangkok last year, and
was touched by the plight of the children - so returned to the country
to organize the day-out last week.
A source explains, "Colin had a great time in Thailand - and did
misbehave a few times. But he was touched by how kind the people were
and wanted to give something back."
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The Big picture
Stars Fight Against Colon Cancer
EIF Ambassadors Mandy Moore and Colin Farrell join Bloomingdale's in
the fight against Colon Cancer by wearing a limited edition T-shirt
designed by Joie in upcoming PSA's in national and local magazines and
newspapers. They're trying to help raise money for The Entertainment
Industry Foundation's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.
Both the mens and womens tees will sell exclusively at Bloomingdale's
for $28, and the net proceeds from each Tee sale ($24.50) will be
donated to EIF's NCCRA. The tee will also be available for purchase
through Bloomingdales.com and Bloomingdale's By Mail.
Katie Couric will be kicking off the fundraising on Wednesday, March
10th by hosting a special evening at Bloomingdale's 59th Street. In
addition, Bloomingdale's will make a donation to EIF's NCCRA for every
purchase customers make on their Bloomingdale's charge card from March
10th through March 21st.
For more information, visit www.eifoundation.org.
Colin Cares About Your Colon
By Holly Aguirre
February 23, 2004
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Hollywood bad boy Colin Farrell is really a
nice guy at heart. As EIF Ambassadors he and actress/singer Mandy
Moore join Bloomingdale's in the fight against colon cancer by
sporting limited edition T-shirts.
Designed by Joie specifically for the campaign, the shirts will be
worn in upcoming public service announcements in a national effort to
help raise money for the Entertainment Industry Foundation's National
Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (EIF's NCCRA) co-founded by Katie
Couric, Lilly Tartikoff and EIF.
Both the mens and womens tees will sell exclusively at Bloomingdale's
for $28.00 and the net proceeds from each Tee sale ($24.50) will be
donated to EIF's NCCRA.
Katie Couric kicks off the fundraising on Wednesday, March 10 by
hosting a special evening at Bloomingdale's 59th Street in New York.
In addition, Bloomingdale's will make a donation to EIF's NCCRA for
every purchase customers make on their Bloomingdale's charge card from
March 10 through March 21.
The partnership between Bloomingdale's and EIF's NCCRA began in
September 1999.
"Bloomingdale's has made it fashionable to talk about colon cancer. We
are proud of this great achievement. This has brought the awareness to
so many on how to prevent this disease, which is 91% curable if
detected early. We are proud to be a founding sponsor of the NCCRA and
will continue to support this worthwhile cause," says Michael Gould,
Chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale's.
Moore's "Saved" debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and
Farrell will next be seen in Oliver Stone's epic "Alexander."
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- "KEEP A STAR CLOSE TO YOUR HEART!" MANDY MOORE AND COLIN FARRELL
JOIN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, BLOOMINGDALE'S & JOIE IN
THE FIGHT AGAINST COLON CANCER
March 01, 2004
Plus so much more great information... here>
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- "KEEP A STAR CLOSE TO YOUR HEART!" MANDY MOORE AND COLIN FARRELL
JOIN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION, BLOOMINGDALE'S & JOIE IN
THE FIGHT AGAINST COLON CANCER
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Colin Farrell organized a celebrity bowling tournament in Los Angeles
recently to help raise money for an orphanage in Bangkok. A source
told the Daily Mirror that Colin was so touched by the warm reception
he received while in Bangkok filming "Alexander" that he wanted to
give something back to the Thai people.
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SEE THESE INTERVIEWS ONLINE!!
Online Video links: Angelina Jolie talks Colin and Alexander on Carson
Daly show, St. Patrick's Day 3/17/04
PLUS Two Val Kilmer Interviews on 3/8/04: Regis and Kelly, & Dayside
with Linda Vester
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Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 10:46 am
Press Release: United Nations
UN Goodwill Celebrity Angelina Jolie Urges Aid To Sudanese Refugees In
Chad
Actress Angelina Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has urged individuals and
corporations around the world to donate money to help Sudanese
refugees in Chad.
Ms. Jolie, a United States national, has personally donated $50,000 to
water projects in Chad, where an estimated 110,000 Sudanese refugees
have gathered after escaping civil conflict in Sudan's strife-torn
Darfur region, according to UNHCR.
UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said today that Ms. Jolie has called on
other individuals to help finance the projects, which supply clean
water to the arid, desert areas where the refugees have taken
temporary shelter.
Mr. Redmond said Ms. Jolie is the first person "to make a major
private donation" to UNHCR's emergency appeal for Chad. The United
States Government has provided $5 million of the $7.5 million received
so far.
The UNHCR has said it needs more than $20 million this year to help
the refugees and internally displaced people in Chad and Darfur.
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INTERVIEW: Capt. Dale Dye
By: Joe Lavers
Filed: Wed, July 30, 2003
http://www.theaveragejoes.net/?subaction=showfull&id=1059543741&layout=news_film
(Click the link-- great photos with the article)
"You may have read my earlier rambling nonsense passed off as news
reports on Alexander (click here to view articles, but some other
weird stuff shows up), Oliver Stone's next feature film starring Colin
Farrell as 'the Great' as well as Angelina Jolie, Rosario Dawson, and
Anthony Hopkins. Well, today I am honored to present not only my
conversation with Capt. Dale Dye, but our very first interview and
300th article to boot!
Capt. Dye, who gets his first shot at 2nd unit directing on Alexander,
works closely with H'wood with his company Warriors Inc., which helps
make military situations more realistic. He's been on such productions
as Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Spy Game, Starship Troopers,
Mission: Impossible, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, and
yes, even Tobe Hooper's Invaders From Mars. Movies he didn't do are
Pearl Harbor and Windtalkers (Good man). Heck, just click here to
learn more about him.
Anyways, Capt. Dye is an amazing person and I only hope I'll get to
know more of him.
Capt. Dale Dye (left) puts up with Joe’s (right)
‘recalcitrant’ questions.
JOE LAVERS: I’m curious about when you first had a desire to be
involved in the motion picture business and the process you used to
realize your goals.
DALE DYE: Well, I think the truth of the matter is that I have always
been a kind of a movie fan. In particular anything to do with the
military. For some reason I was just fascinated by the business
of… I’m a visual person, and I was fascinated by the
imagery that I was seeing on the screen. The interesting thing, I
think, Joe, was what I was seeing on the screen upset me. It
wasn’t the military that I knew. It was Hollywood clichés
dreamed up by people who really had no clue about what it was like to
really serve. And some of those images were very, very negative, as
they tend to be if you don’t have any understanding, if you
don’t have any insight into what’s going on. So, I think
what I finally decided to do when I retired from the military was, you
know, I’ll go fix that. I’ll just square it away.
I’ll just unscrew it.
Now, the interesting thing is that since I never had any real
association with motion picture making, with television, anything like
that, I didn’t understand that there was a certain hierarchy and
a certain power structure, I just thought it was a bunch of guys with
a couple of cameras and here we go, you know, and somebody wrote a
script. So, I decided to come to Hollywood and being a Marine I just
kicked the doors down and said “The following attends, you
people are screwed up and I want to get you unscrewed!” And of
course, I think the only reason they didn’t call security and
have me arrested immediately was because I was kind of entertaining.
Nobody had ever come at them in that fashion. And what occurred to me
after fruitless attempts to get somebody to listen to my idea, and
I’ll tell you what my idea was in a few minutes, but to get
somebody to listen to my idea that they were wrong, that they
weren’t doing this correctly, that they were doing a disservice.
I just needed to learn how motion pictures were made. How they worked.
So I took a lot of little, crappy jobs where they didn’t pay me
anything. Fortunately I had my military retirement. So I didn’t
need to pay the bills and make a living, I was okay with that. I could
sneak out of paying my bills.
So, what I did was I went to an intense school, what I mean by that is
a school of hard knocks, I got out there and I worked on film sets. I
volunteered here, I volunteered there. And I realized that it was
going to be a long haul, it was going to be a tough deal because
motion pictures and television is a very closed little community. Lots
and lots and lots of people want into it either as directors or below
the line workers, gaffers, grips, that sort of thing, or as actors,
actresses. It’s a glamorous business and there’s a lot of
money in it. So, hundreds of thousands of people who show up here in
L.A. everyday, for all intents and purposes, want into the motion
picture industry, but it’s such a closed little clique, because
people are protecting their empire, that it’s very difficult to
get into it. So what I decided was that I needed a hook, I needed a
different angle, I needed a way to do what I wanted to do and my
agenda was to see that motion pictures correctly portrayed the men and
women of our nation’s Military services. If that was warts and
all, fine. I’m not saying lie about it. I’m not saying
portray a revisionist history here. I’m simply saying
let’s be fair. Let’s admit that not every kid is 19 years
old, black, from the ghetto, toothless, and some kind of criminal who
smokes dope and that’s all he does in the Military. Nor is every
NCO fat and a sargeant and stupid and from the south. I wanted to
correct those clichés, that’s how I initially approached it.
Platoon [1986, R], one of the many films Capt. Dye has worked on.
As I said, I ran into some problems, so I began to have to take a
little bit of an intellectual view of this. I knew that just attacking
it head on with a fixed bayonet, as I usually would solve problems as
a Marine, wasn’t really going to work. I would have to have a
little finesse, a little technique. I’d have to know what I was
talking about and start moving in the right circles. So I developed a
theory based on some things I learned in college - I never graduated
from college before I enlisted in the Marine Corps; I had to pursue my
degree part time while I was serving. But I had a degree in English
literature and I had learned in my communications studies about a
theory called cognitive dissonance. Here’s what it means:
If I raise you for eighteen years and for those eighteen years Dale
tells Joe “Look. This is black, this is white.” And so you
grow up understanding this is black, this is white. Then suddenly, in
some experience, I say “Joe, now wait a minute. No, no, no. This
is black, and this is white.” After eighteen years of telling
you one thing I’m telling you another thing. Or… if all of
the imagery in your life tells you that this is this and suddenly I
come in and say “No, no, no, it isn’t. It’s
this.” You have trouble following me. You disconnect, you
cognitively disconnect. And it occurred to me maybe that’s
what’s happening with films.
Look, we are a media saturated society. I read somewhere that the
average television in the average American home is on for something
like 10-14 hours a day. It’s nothing but white noise. It’s
nothing but background noise. We subscribe to more newspapers than we
can conceivably read. We subscribe to more magazines than we can
conceivably page through. Even in our cars we’re being bombarded
with word pictures. What’s happening is we’ve become
saturated. Even if we don’t give a big rat’s butt about
something, we know what it looks like. We know what it sounds like
because we’ve just seen a report on television that’s live
from that area, live from that battlefield. Now, if thirty minutes
after you saw that report I take you into a theatre and get your
twenty bucks in my hand and then show you something completely
different from that, it disconnected. That’s my theory. And I
began to sell my theory in that fashion. I began to say: “Look,
you must let me train these people. There is no actor good enough,
unless he’s been a soldier, to portray the unique worldview and
the unique experience and the unique behavior of combat soldiers. You
gotta’ be there. You gotta’ understand it.”
So my theory was in order to fix that cognitive disconnect problem,
I’ll take these folks out and I will make them soldiers for a
period of time. So that when they perform onscreen, they can’t
lie. It will look just like what you saw in that documentary or in
that news report. And, I pushed that agenda. I pushed that theory. And
I think it was the combination of my theory, which made sense to some
of the artsy fartsy intellectuals, and my hardheadedness that I was
going to do this and would not give up because it needed to be done.
And I think that’s how I made it happen.
General George S. Patton was an icon that helped Capt. Dye consider
acting.
JL: Did you always plan to mix acting with military advising?
DD: No, not at all. It wasn’t my desire at all to mix acting
with military advising. The truth of the matter is on my first major
motion picture, which was Platoon back in… we started in
’85 and released it in ’86, Oliver Stone, who was the
director who listened to me and gave me a chance to exercise my
theories, saw me actually training troops, and he recognized that
there was a certain performance element in there that really rang
true… and why not? I was essentially only doing what I had done
for twenty-some years in the United States Marine Corp. So, he said to
me “Listen, if you can just do what you do right here, I want to
put you in front of the camera and I want you to say these
words”.
I was a little nervous about it, but I remembered, or I reflected on
something that I heard many years ago and I’ve always sort of
contemplated. It was a dictum voiced by General George Patton, who
said that he thought the best leaders were the best actors because
they had to play so many roles and they had to represent their troops
and they had to motivate their troops and they had to come out of
whatever depression they were in and be up and be intelligent and be
on top of it. That’s what actors do. And once Oliver offered me
this opportunity and then I began to reflect on Patton’s dictum
and I said “You know, maybe this is okay. Maybe I can do
this.” and the upshot was that I sort of became type-cast as the
general, admiral, everybody. And I’ve done about thirty-three
-five films, mostly in those roles, although I’ve done a few
others.
JL: Have you studied with any acting teachers?
DD: No, I haven’t. I’ve gone to the best school in the
world, and that’s working with all the major actors.
Interestingly, Oliver Stone once told me if I ever took an acting
class he would never hire me again. He thinks there’s something
natural about my performance and he didn’t want that shaded or
obfuscated in any fashion. So my school has been watching, working
with, listening to, and being mentored by some of the best actors in
the world. I’ve been privileged to work with them, and
they’ve been kind enough to help me out.
The Bridges at Toko-Ri [1955], with William Holden and Grace Kelly, is
an aviation film that “was brilliantly done.”
JL: What’s your favorite movie you wished you had been involved
with?
DD: Boy, that’s a tough one. There are several films that I
really kind of wish I would have worked on. I would have loved to have
worked with Sam Peckinpah, who was himself as a director and a
screenwriter, he was a combat veteran from World War II in the first
infantry division. I would have loved to work with Lee Marvin in The
Big Red One, directed by Peckinpah. I would have loved to have been in
Peckinpah’s Steel Helmet, which is just absolutely a tour de
force by Gene Evans, a film most people haven’t seen, it’s
a black and white about Korea made for less than a quarter of a
million dollars. But a brilliant tour de force on what an old infantry
sergeant is about. I would have loved to have been involved in that. I
would have loved to have been involved in The Bridges at Toko-Ri,
it’s an aviation film. It was brilliantly done. And other than
that, frankly, I’ve been able to work on some of the most
brilliant military films out there, so I’m not too frustrated.
JL: What’s your favorite movie you were involved with?
DD: Boy, that’s a toughie because everyone of them is so
different. I’m looking forward to Alexander; ancient Macedonia,
ancient Greece. I loved doing Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks. I loved
doing Saving Private Ryan with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. I loved
doing Band of Brothers, which was an extraordinary, long-term
television maxi-series sort of thing that I wanted to do. I really
loved doing that. There have been an extraordinary… You’d
have to narrow the question. I have worked on a few I didn’t
care for because the director wouldn’t listen, there was an
agenda at work somewhere, or I just needed money and had to take a
job, but for the most part I’ve been privileged to work on
really, really fine films with brilliant directors and actors and
producers. And as such, it’s really hard to draw a favorite.
Platoon has a special spot in my heart. I loved Rules of Engagement
that I did with Billy Friedkin. I’ve done a number of films with
Tommy Lee Jones, virtually anything he does we have a great time
doing. Hard to draw, hard to underscore a favorite.
JL: You’ve worked with many celebrated directors. In one or two
words, describe these ones:
Oliver Stone [Alexander, Natural Born Killers, JFK, Born on the 4th of
July, Platoon] - Visionary.
Paul Verhoeven [Starship Troopers] - Difficult and recalcitrant.
Robert Zemeckis [Forrest Gump] - Funny, technologically oriented, has
a good time at what he’s doing.
Steven Spielberg [Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers] - Genuine
14-carat storyteller. A guy who really knows where the emotional
buttons are and how to push them.
Tony Scott [Spy Game] - Difficult and sometimes a clone of his
brother, Ridley. They are hard-headed filmmakers, they know what they
want and sometimes don’t care to hear your advice.
William Friedkin [Rules of Engagement] - Billy is one of the legendary
1970s film auteurs. Very funny guy. Can be difficult on his crew, he
does not suffer fools gladly, but has a great respect for the military
and is a guy I’d work with again in a minute.
Brian de Palma [Mission: Impossible, Casualties of War] - Brian is
very, very camera oriented and not so story oriented. With Brian,
sometimes story points get lost in camera moves.
John Frankenheimer [The Fourth War] - John Frankenheimer, a terrific
guy. God bless him, I’m sorry that he’s gone. John was a
very practical filmmaker. He’d been around a long time. He knew
stories. He spoke in short hand and he expected you to understand it.
But when he shot, he was very efficient, very quick. He knew what he
wanted and he knew how to get it.
Tobe Hooper [Invaders From Mars] - Tobe Hooper is probably one of the
kindest and sometimes weirdest director you’d ever want to work
for. This is a guy who really understands the science fiction genre
and he is so good with a camera. Tobe grew up with cameras. He’s
a very efficient and quick director; he sees the film unspooling and
sees his edits as you’re going along. He’s a pleasure, a
delight to work with.
JL: Describe the process you use to train actors to come across like
real soldiers.
DD: It is a full immersion effort. I’ve always believed that
soldiering, in particular combat soldiering, is so alien to the
experience of most people, especially people in show business,
especially actors. Many of them never wore a uniform in their life if
it wasn’t out of the wardrobe department. That what they tend to
do is parrot or try to perform like the last bad war movie that they
saw because it’s their only frame of reference. So I change
their frame of reference. I take them to the field, I isolate them in
a jungle or in a desert, and I make them live as that character. I
remove any reference or distraction that doesn’t apply directly
to what we’re doing. There are no cell phones, no agents, no
civilians around. They will get the Hell beat out of them. I reduce
them to the lowest common denominator and I put one thought in their
mind that’s central philosophically. Everything else is detail -
“How do I wear my boots? How do I carry my weapon? How do I do
combat reloads? How do I live in this hole? How do I dig this
hole?” That’s all peripheral.
There’s one philosophy that is sort of antithetical to the
upbringing of most actors and yet it is the core of a soldier’s
philosophy, and that’s this - “The sun does not rise and
set on my ass. It’s not about me, it’s about the unit.
It’s about our mission. And it’s about not letting my
buddy down and being confident that he won’t let me down.”
Now that’s new to actors; where it’s all about me, me, me.
How much face time can I get? How many lines can I get? How much money
can I get for this part? That’s all about me, me, me, me, me.
Well, no. I teach them that there is something larger and more
important than themselves. And the great thing is, if I do it right,
they bring that to their performance, so that the performance
isn’t a lie, so that you see that he’s not concerned about
him and how cool he looks. He’s concerned about the unit. And if
you expand that, he’s concerned about the film, not just his
performance in it. So I make them rough and tumble, reduce them to the
lowest common denominator, unscrew their head, pour out all the me,
me, me ego crap, and pour in the right stuff.
JL: What happens to the actor who can’t cut it?
DD: He goes.
Tommy Lee Jones in Rules of Engagement [2000, R] was one actor who
could cut it.
JL: Which big name actors have you worked with that have impressed you
with their ability to cut it?
DD: Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Tommy Lee Jones, Sam Jackson, Cuba Gooding
Jr., Tom Berenger, well, there’s a bunch of them. Dustin
Hoffman, Donald Sutherland. These are all serious actors. These are
guys who understand that what I’m doing is not harassing them,
what I’m doing is not beating the Hell out of them, what
I’m doing is offering them an insight into their role. And
they’ve all gone through it and they’ve all stuck it out,
and they’ve all understood. There are more, but that will do for
now.
JL: Without naming names, have there been very many actors who wash
out?
DD: I’ve never had one completely wash out. I’ve
recommended the firing of a few because they didn’t get it, and
they have been fired. I have had some recalcitrant people who just
wouldn’t get it. But I wouldn’t let them quit. And so, in
the end, they went through the training whether they got it or not.
The good part about that is, even if I didn’t care for their
attitude, they were smart enough to learn and pick out what they
needed for their performance.
JL: Have you ever thought of directing a feature film?
DD: I’ve thought of very little else for about the last ten
years. Once I realized what film was about, once I realized that I had
the ability to teach and to mentor and to illicit performances that
were spectacular from certain actors, which is really leadership, is
really what a director needs to do, I caught the bug and I said I can
do this and I need to do this. I studied the technology of it - how to
use the camera, how to paint with the camera if you will, what
different lenses will do, what lighting is about. I’ve always
wanted to do it and I have done it in certain instances, but
I’ve done it uncredited and I’ve done it without really
having the major responsibility of doing it. Now that has changed.
JL: Any ideas, stories, or scripts?
DD: Yes, I’ve written upwards of eight scripts, one of which was
sold and made into a movie called Firebirds. Nic Cage, Tommy Lee
Jones, Sean Young, and myself. But I’ve been sort of
unsuccessful in getting anymore scripts sold. I’ve had a few
optioned, but they never got made into movies; standard writer’s
story. So, yeah, I want to tell a story about Beirut and my service
there in ’82 and ’83. I have a very good Vietnam story
that I want to tell. I have a Middle East story that I want to tell
based on the ’91 Gulf War. And if my 2nd unit directing gig here
[on Oliver Stone’s upcoming Alexander] is successful, if that
gives me some leverage into making some of my own stories into films,
there will be other topics that I’ll uncover and want to go
after.
JL: Do you have any more novels in you?
DD: Yes, I do. I’ve got a couple. I’ve got one
that’s being circulated in New York now called The Laos File,
which I’m trying to get published. I am currently writing my
autobiography. The only problem with that, of course, is I’m not
dead so there’s no ending.
JL: What can you tell me about Oliver Stone’s upcoming Alexander
the Great project and your work on it?
DD: Alexander is a huge, sweeping prehistorical spectacle almost. It
is the story of Alexander of Macedon, son of Philip II of Macedon, who
was probably one of the greatest strategists, tacticians, diplomats,
leaders, field marshals of the ancient world and some would say in
history altogether. We’re going to tell his story. We’re
going to try to examine what made Alexander ‘the Great’.
Oliver has written an extraordinary script, probably the best writing
I’ve seen him do since Platoon. And that’s saying a lot
because he’s a brilliant writer. But this script is
extraordinary. I’m going to help him by directing his 2nd unit,
which will be my first credited, accredited time at that sort of
thing. I’m very excited about it. It stars Colin Farrell, a
young Irish actor who’s very hot these days, and just a host,
just a plethora of British actors who you would know, but I
can’t name them all here. I think it’s going to be, from a
military standpoint, it’s going to be a look at how brilliantly
he used what we would consider primitive technology and what an
extraordinary tactician he was. We’re going to look at why
people loved him, why they were following him for the years and years
it took for him to campaign and virtually conquer the known world. It
is an ambitious undertaking, but I can’t think of anyone better
to do it with than Oliver Stone.
JL: What are your opinions towards the other Alexander film with Leo
DiCaprio and Baz Luhrmann?
DD: I tell you, I don’t know much about it. I think they would
go a long, long, long way to come up with a script that’s
anywhere near as insightful, as brilliant as Oliver’s. I think
they may take a look at what we bring out because they have cancelled
now and decided that they’re going to delay on it into the next
year. They may get a hint of what’s going on and might just move
on to greener pastures.
JL: What projects are you working on now and/or in the near future?
DD: Well, I just quit a successful talk radio job at KFI AM 640 radio
in Los Angeles. My company, Warriors, Inc., is now sort of focused on
the Alexander project. I have a couple of projects upcoming in the
next year. I’m going to have to be careful here and dance
delicately. Let’s just say I have two Spielberg projects coming
up in the next year. One is a feature film and the other is an
extension of the Band of Brothers concept into the Pacific in WWII.
JL: Thank you very much.
DD: Sure, Joe.
And that was Capt. Dale Dye, Alexander's 2nd unit director.
Stay average.
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Comments - 9
By: Nick Navarro
Filed: Wed, July 30, 2003 12:49 am
I had no idea you were such a small guy, Joe!
By: sirreelfilms
Filed: Sun, August 3, 2003 10:11 pm
I try to maintain an online image of a 93 year old fat man with rabies
By: Joe Lavers
Filed: Mon, August 4, 2003 02:39 pm
I took the picture. Capt. Dye was standing on a box.
By: Ricky Retardo
Filed: Fri, August 8, 2003 09:36 am
cheers on the interview, dude.
By: Alex
Filed: Sat, August 9, 2003 06:19 pm
I'll tell you what - I want that "Platoon" Special Edition DVD. Oh
yeah, nice interview.
No, seriously, great interview, I didn't read it until now because
I've been busy (not really, I'm lying, I just didn't feel like sitting
my butt down and reading it all). Man, he talked a lot compared to
most reviews - you definitely got some good stuff out of Capt. Die
Another Day - er, Dye...
Nothing ever came out of my Meg Ryan interview - she never returned my
second e-mail. Lousy celebrity types. If I ever get hold of someone,
I'll let you know, Joe.
By: John Ulmer
Filed: Sat, August 9, 2003 07:06 pm
Thanks, guys.
Yeah, since it wasn't a publicity kinda thing I had all the time in
the world!
By: Joe Lavers
Filed: Sat, August 9, 2003 11:58 pm
Hey, Joe. When ya gonna do a follow-up interview? Like..."Capt. Dye,
second unit director, from the set of Alexander"...
By: Ricky Retardo
Filed: Tue, October 28, 2003 09:33 am
http://www.geocities.com/afvn/dye.html
Hi -- Great Interview with Capt. Dale Dye. Dale is a real Marine. See
pic above taken shortly after he recovered our dead in Vietnam.
By: Bob Morecook, former ...
Filed: Thu, November 6, 2003 01:13 pm"
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I got a photo from my friend.
Bin Bunruerit, one of Thai Star in Alexander took the pic with Colin
on 28Jan04 (1st day I met Colin at the set) and I saw when they are
taking this pic together ... wanna see ?
nikola1tesla wrote:
Hey! Lookie what I found! I was trying to find info about Bin, the guy
in the pic with Colin, & I came up with this site about another Thai
guy playing a prince in Alexander.......
http://www.kamronmodel.com/
Thaifan wrote:
"I'm friends with Kamron Boonteesud, one of the Thai cast in
Alexander. Kamron sent some pictures for me to put on his website. In
the website logs I saw visitors from this site
www.colinfarrellfansite.org and came to look at this thread. Since you
all seem to be interested in this, I'll give you some links to more
pictures (not yet appearing on any pages on Kamron.tv, but shown here
by direct link) from the Alexander set in Thailand, with Colin, Bin
Bunluerit, Jaran Ngamdee, and Oliver Stone. Enjoy."
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OUTSTANDING BBC COLIN FARRELL RADIO INTERVIEW!!
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Colin discusses his 8 hour screentest for Oliver Stone's Alexander.
He read parts of Oliver's script, as well as Shakespeare, and tried
out various costumes.
He also says the days of acid in the desert are completely over--
Oliver is dedicated to his $144 million project & is "clean as a
whistle."
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Bloody gory-geous
By Holly Jarvis
WE always knew he was a mighty swordsman, but here's Colin Farrell
looking every inch the phwoar hero.
We caught the Irish star in all his bloody glory on set of the £100
million movie Alexander.
Looking super-toned and fighting fit, Farrell plays Alexander the
Great, a military genius who pretty much conquered the world—
not just the ladies.
Muscle
By 356BC, the Greek hero had built an empire stretching from the
Balkans to the Himalayas. And sitting astride his horse, Bucephalus,
Farrell's a dead ringer for Alexander —covered in gore,
battle-scarred...and blond.
For as well as putting on 20lbs of muscle for the role, the
hell-raiser had to shave his legs and bleach his dark hair!
The swords and sandals epic, also starring Angelina Jolie and Anthony
Hopkins, will hit the big screen in November.
Filmed in Morocco and Thailand, the film used 2,000 extras, 120
horses, 20,000 costumes, 9,000 arrows and 3,000 swords.
No expense was spared to create Alexander and, even though Farrell
reckoned his long locks made him look like a "surfer", the actor has
received a tidal wave of praise.
A set insider said: "Colin is seen as a Jack the lad, but he took his
part seriously and loved getting fit."
For the role, the ladies' man spent months perfecting his bareback
skills —unusual for Farrell because it involved a horse.
Broke
He said: "I had to ride without a saddle, something I haven't done
before. It's a pain in the b******s, quite literally."
As well as getting saddle-sore, Farrell, 27, also broke his hand and
foot after performing an Irish jig on a night out in Bangkok.
And while staying at a £1,500-a-night suite in Marrakesh there were
claims that he drank until dawn and dropped his trousers in various
bars.
But then, like Alexander, the boy from Castleknock has always been a
dab hand at unleashing a lethal weapon.
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Dancing in Alexander!!
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Pinched from the Alexander discussion board:
http://www.constellation-change.co.uk/pages/productions/dance45.htm
Here is an interview with Piers Gielgud, a famous choreographer, who
choreographed all the dancing in Alexander. This comes from the Dance
On Film site.
This is a great interview! It reveals a bit about the movie, as well
as casting and Stone's vision over all:
Carol: You have Choreographed two feature films which are due out in
2004 - Alexander for Oliver Stone, and Being Julia for Istvan Szabo.
What do you think you bring to those projects from a choreography
point of view?
Piers: Until I see the finished films it will be hard to see if I've
done anything for either of them. I try to avoid looking at rushes to
avoid the disappointment of seeing my work cut to ribbons in the final
version, which it usually is.
There is only a small amount of dancing in Being Julia (waltzing at a
garden party) and I think Istvan (Szabo) thought he wouldn't need a
choreographer, so I was brought in at the last minute when he realised
he did (I'd like to see someone try and make a film without a
director!). I had to teach two of the principals - Jeremy Irons and
Leigh Lawson - how to waltz convincingly. They worked hard and both
had superb partners (west end dancers Lauren Brooke and Frankie Wedge)
so I thought they both looked quite convincing. I think I did a
reasonably good job and I hope it gives something to the finished
film.
Alexander, by complete contrast, has a lot of dancing in it. Oliver
(Stone) decided to emphasise two of the film's pivotal scenes with big
dance numbers, so the choreography was substantially more significant
than it had been for (Being) Julia. In addition there was a lot of
background dancing to deal with. I only worked on Julia for 1 week,
but I worked on Alexander from the beginning of July to the end of
December 2003. I had to do a lot of research for authenticity (dancing
from Macedonia, and around the vast Persian Empire back in 350BC - I'm
basically a ballet man but for film you must be able to do anything
you are asked). I also had to collaborate closely with the 'Oscar
winning' composer
Vangelis who is fabulous to work with. All his music for Alexander is
incredible. I think it will eclipse anything he has done before.
Working with him on the music for the dances was a unique and
altogether mind blowing experience. Oliver is also a dream to work
with. He knows exactly what he wants and how to go about getting it.
It's a true collaboration. He works very closely with you and he
values your opinion and input. He also has an uncanny method of making
you want to do your very best for him. The script is extraordinary
(remember that Oliver's first Oscar was for screenwriting) and the
fact that he has placed so much emphasis on dance, leads me to believe
that the choreography could make a significant contribution to the
finished film. I certainly think that Oliver got some of my very best
work from me.
Carol: Alexander has a huge dance cast. How long did it take to get
everyone together before shooting?
Piers: It felt like forever! My first job on joining the production
was to help the Casting Director, Lucinda Syson, find the two main
characters that dance. Most difficult to find was the eunuch Bagoas
who had to be an androgynous 17-year-old boy of extraordinary beauty,
as well as being an amazing dancer, who could act. Lucinda had been
searching for months, looking at both male and female actors, dancers,
models, transsexuals, real eunuchs etc. but to no avail. My wife
Suzanne suggested the Spanish ENB dancer Francisco Bosch, who she'd
recently signed. We both coached him on his dialogue and I
choreographed a solo for him, which he performed for Oliver in his
office. Oliver was blown away and Francisco was virtually offered the
part on the spot. The part of the Princess Roxane was too difficult an
acting role for the dancers we submitted, and it eventually went to
the actress Rosario Dawson who is fortunately a gifted amateur dancer.
Suzanne went on to cast all the remaining dancers in Alexander but
because of the other films with dancers going on at the same time,
very few people were available. I only had a full cast together
literally by the first day of rehearsal on each occasion. I was very
lucky in that all the dancers I got to work with were truly amazing. I
like to work with the same people when I can, and now I'm seriously
spoilt for choice. There was a very magical atmosphere on Alexander -
it's going to be a tough act to follow.
Carol: It's a great time to be a choreographer working in Cinema, with
films like Bye Bye Birdie and The Company coming soon. Are you excited
about the opportunities being generated for dancers on film at the
moment?
Piers: Definitely (have either of them booked a choreographer yet?)
but I am also concerned. Suzanne and I have had to work very hard to
make sure that our dancers are treated properly on Films. Dancers are
frequently kept waiting for ages in the freezing cold before being
asked to dance full out with no breaks between takes. They're rarely
given a class or a warm up. They are usually expected to dance on
surfaces that are dangerous, and have to avoid dangerous objects (on
one film recently, a group of dancers had to negotiate a herd of
terrified sheep!). It's a miracle the injury rate isn't higher. Most
of the time they are treated like extras, which is completely
unacceptable. I'm a qualified Health and Safety officer (Nerd alert!)
and I was able to do Risk Assessments for the Alexander dancing
scenes, which were fully implemented by the production. Suzanne and I
are currently working with Equity on a dancers' film contract that
should iron out all these problems in the future. We've asked all our
dancers who've done a film in the last year to contribute by
completing a questionnaire regarding their treatment and the
conditions they were asked to work under. Most of the Alexander
dancers, however, said that it was the most amazing job they've ever
done, and I do believe that it is great experience for dancers to work
on feature films and to work with great men like Oliver Stone.
Personally I find film choreography the most rewarding of all, and I'm
glad that so many films want to feature dancers right now. I hope it
stays that way for a long time.
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CARRYING A TUNE IN TINSELTOWN
• Colin Farrell croons I Fought the Law in the film
Intermission. Director John Crowley says he was "somewhat reluctant"
when producers proposed that Farrell sing. But the song sounded so
good that it's included on the soundtrack, and it even "received the
thumbs-up from (The Clash's) Mick Jones himself," Crowley says.
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"Alexander The Great was a son of a Macedonian King. he was blindingly
handsome, a natural leader, and a ruthless general with some serious
mother issues. And after the assassination of his father, Phillip, in
336 B.C., he embarked on the greatest conquest the world has ever
seen, snapping up land from modern-day Greece to Iraq to India. At the
time of his death, he was hailed as a living god. He was only 33.
So how do you go about playing a guy liked that? "You need some
serious fookin' balls, man," snorts Colin Farrell, who went
bottle-blond for the part. "Serious, serious balls."
That's one thing Oliver Stone's Alexander won't be short on. With a
raucous, lusty cast--including Angelina Jolie as Alexander's mad
mother, Val Kilmer as his one-eyed father, and Jared Leto as his best
friend and sometime lover--a $150 million-plus budget, and a 143-page
script, written by its director, Alexander promises to be one of the
more fascinating historical dramas ever made. While audiences--and a
few overseas distributors--may have reservations about Farrell as the
famous general, Stone's doubts were extinguished almost immediately.
"There's an amazing adaptability to him," says Stone. "He was a huge
shot of testosterone for this thing."
The movie won't be out until Nov 5, but Stone offered EW an exclusive
early look at his peripatetic production. Filming started last October
in the deserts of Morocco, where the director shot Alexander's famous
battlefield victory over the Persian Empire. It was a massive scene,
which featured hundreds of professional soldiers and more than 9,000
arrows, 3,000 shields and swords, and 1,000 lances.
The crew then trooped to damp, cold London soundstages to film palace
scenes and a few others with Anthony Hopkins, who plays Alexander's
friend Ptolemy in old age and narrates the film. Finally, in January,
it was on to Thailand to shoot the end of Alexander's campaign,
including a dizzyingly complicated battle complete with war elephants
and charging steed. The problem? Turns out elephants and horses are
like cats and dogs--they absolutely hate each other.
"The elephants eventually got into it. When I said 'Action', their
eyes would sort of sparkle," says Stone. "The horses, on the other
hand, were very skittish. And dangerous. They wrapped some people
around trees at full gallops, and we did have a few injuries--but no
deaths. Nothing serious."
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> ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY MAGAZINE ISSUE #761 APRIL 23, 2004
Yeah!!--- COLIN FARRELL!! goes full-frontal nude in The Independent
Film "A Home At the End of the World," to be released on July 23rd
2004.
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Entertainment Weekly Issue #762/763 April 30, 2004
(Spiderman/Peter Parker cover)Page 96
A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, RATED R
"Starring Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Dallas Roberts, Sissy
Spacek, Matt Frewer
Written by Michael Cunningham
Directed by Michael Mayer
Nine years before he wrote The Hours, novelist Michael Cunningham
fashioned this twist on the romatic triangle about two childhood pals
and an older woman. "We always talked about it as a couple that's made
up of three people," says Mayer, a theater director Thouroughly Modern
Millie) making his film debut. "The perfect couple for each of them is
a combination of the other two. And as much as you want it to work,
it's an impossible bit of geometry.
When Farrell expressed interest in the role of the inexperienced
Bobby, who finds himself caught between the affections of his gay best
friend (newcomer Roberts) and his new girlfriend (Wright Penn), Mayer
embarked on a mini film festival. "I watched Tigerland and Hart's War
and said, "He's a wildly attractive and dynamic actor, but there's
nothing in either of these films to suggest he has what it takes to
play Bobby." So Mayer flew to L.A. for a personal read-through. "It
was just the two of us sitting on the sofa in the lobby of the Chateau
Marmont. And he completely sold me."
The actor's vulnerable performance includes one postcoital scene where
he goes full-Farrell. "Colin agreed immediately when we were shooting
it," Mayer recalls. "He said, 'We've got to see that Bobby is a sexual
being now.' It's gonna stay [in the final cut]. We've got our R
rating." The GOOD NEWS. Home could do for Farrell what the Hours did
for Nicole Kidman. The BAD NEWS. What's a small sexual drama doing in
a summer like this? (July 23) "
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> >Mark Ferrante wrote:
> >I can't just pick one, so I'll name a few:
> >
> >Dean Cain
> >Matt Dillon
> >David Labiosa
> >Jesse Bradford
> >Mario Lopez *********
> >Easai Morales********
> >A. Martinez
> >Boston Rob from Survivor
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> "I may disagree with what you say but I will defend, to the death, your right
> to say it." - Voltaire
And the highest praise from the San Francisco Chronicle the "Little
Man in the Chair" is CHEERING!!!
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Villains and lovers, full of blarney, face off in working-class Dublin
Ruthe Stein, Chronicle Senior Movie Writer Friday, March 26, 2004
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SPOILERS WARNING!!!!!!!
Intermission: Romance. Starring Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Kelly
Macdonald, Colm Meaney, Shirley Henderson and Deirdre O’Kane.
Directed by John Crowley. Screenplay by Mark O’Rowe. (R. 106
minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
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The title of the dazzling Irish film "Intermission'' refers to a
time-out called by a restless boyfriend who feels stuck in a
relationship. His wanderlust has a domino effect. Soon various people,
led by the jilted girlfriend, are falling into bed with partners they
might otherwise never have met, let alone slept with. Some mistake
their lust for love; others can't be bothered deluding themselves.
If this plot sounds familiar, let me assure you, "Intermission'' is a
breed apart from anything coming off the Hollywood assembly line or,
for that matter, from the saccharine romances Britain has lately
produced starring the overly adorable Hugh Grant. Knowing how much the
Irish enjoy sticking it to their neighboring Brits, you could
conjecture that this is deliberate -- that luminaries of the Irish
film community actually set out to make the anti- "Love Actually.''
Whether intended or not, "Intermission'' is a painfully raw
examination of the power of love to build up those under its spell --
in this case, a group of working-class Dubliners -- and to tear them
apart. It's a roller- coaster ride up and down life's bumpy track. The
movie is often unsettling -- random acts of violence outnumber those
of kindness. But it's also touching, startlingly original and even
profound. How many cinema experiences can you say that about?
Far from coy, "Intermission'' announces its intention to jolt the
audience in the opening scene. Colin Farrell -- the best known, though
not the best of the movie's extraordinary ensemble cast -- sweet-talks
a store clerk with pure blarney about how he might be the man of her
dreams. "On the other hand,'' Farrell says with the thick Irish brogue
he's held in check in Hollywood movies, "I could be some villain just
waiting for a chance to smack your jaw.'' With that, he socks her hard
and runs off with the contents of the cash register.
Farrell, in full skinhead mode, is menacing as Lehiff (the characters'
names seem lifted from James Joyce), a petty crook who later beats up
Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), the girlfriend left out in the cold by John
(Cillian Murphy). Lehiff's actions are deeply disturbing, but other
roughhousing is -- dare I say -- amusing. The distraught wife of
John's replacement in Deirdre's bed attempts to build up her
self-esteem by seducing a younger man. The wife (played with a saucy
sense of entitlement by Deirdre O'Kane) becomes feisty during their
lovemaking, or, as she calls it, "sporting.'' Her partner doesn't mind
the scratches down his back -- indeed he proudly shows them off -- but
when she punches him in the face, he's had enough.
Director John Crowley, working from Mark O'Rowe's rich screenplay,
tells multiple stories while keeping the focus on John and Deirdre.
They're split up in the movie, yet you can see what they were like as
a couple, the ways their personalities meshed and where they got into
trouble. The two are brought to life by Murphy and Macdonald, charming
actors who deserve to be better known in this country. They make you
care about John and Deirdre and want the best for them, even when they
don't seem to know what that is.
The ancillary characters are so special that they deserve their own
movies. There's the blustery cop Jerry (played with puffed-up
importance by the great Colm Meaney), who thinks it only fitting when
he's asked to be the subject of a TV show. My favorite is Deirdre's
wounded sister, Sally (Shirley Henderson, in another of the film's
pitch-perfect performances), who has eschewed personal grooming since
her beau dumped her in an unusually cruel fashion and who now sports a
discernable moustache. Allusions to Burt Reynolds are made. We know
Sally has met Mr. Right because he's the only one who doesn't seem to
notice the shadow falling over her mouth.
-- Advisory: This film contains sexual situations and violence.
E-mail Ruthe Stein at rst...@sfchronicle.com.
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“That’s fockin’ delish”
FROM THE NEW YORKER
HEISTS
by ANTHONY LANE
“The Ladykillers,” “Intermission.”
Issue of 2004-04-05
Posted 2004-03-29
Why remake “The Ladykillers”? The original, directed by
the Scotsman Alexander Mackendrick in 1955, was not the cream of the
Ealing comedies—that supremacy belongs to “Kind Hearts and
Coronets”—but it outstrips the tweeness of some of its
fellows, giving off a peculiar blend of charm and menace. It was that
combination, presumably, which tweaked the fancy of America’s
leading magpies, the Coen brothers. They rarely spy a genre that they
do not wish to pilfer.....................“The
Ladykillers,” like “The Man Who Wasn’t There”
and “Intolerable Cruelty,” is the product of artists who
have settled for making films about films, reluctant to consider the
pull and messiness of life beyond the theatre. “The
Ladykillers” succeeds as homage but as nothing else.
Should you need respite from the Coen brothers, you could do worse
than “Intermission,” which has messiness to spare. Judging
by the spotty appearance of this picture, its budget was approximately
a hundredth of that afforded to “The Ladykillers,” yet it
comes with ten times the zip. Colin Farrell found time, in his busy
hell-raising schedule, to fly to Dublin and film the role of Lehiff, a
jutting fellow who can grin wooingly at a woman and, within seconds,
descend to the level of the brutes. He, like the Professor, is party
to theft; together with blue-eyed John (Cillian Murphy), he plans to
rob a bank by taking hostage the bank manager’s girlfriend,
Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), who just happens to be John’s ex. If
you lack a fine palate for serendipity, avoid this movie.
The great thing about “Intermission” is that you barely
have time to spot the gaps. John Crowley’s film is high on its
own briskness, and its glances at Irish backstreet life—where a
policeman (Colm Meaney) can jump out of his car, chase after a
suspect, and come back to find the car stolen—land it securely
in the terrain that was mapped out by Stephen Frears’s
“The Snapper” and “The Van.” Those films were
similarly blessed with the sardonic presence of Meaney, who looks
relieved, as ever, to get off the U.S.S. Enterprise and return to home
turf. Crowley is tempted, as the Coens are, to construct a character
from running gags, which feels to me like cheating; yet there’s
no denying his humane delight in making sure that all the folks
onscreen, from cops to robbers, are bad at what they do. Of the many
plotlines—I could mention the singles night for older ladies, or
the bus driver with a vendetta—the silliest one concerns a
stolen bulk order of steak sauce. John and his mate even squirt the
stuff from plastic bottles into their tea, and encourage a skeptical
Lehiff to do the same. My happiest memory of this movie is seeing
Colin Farrell gingerly sniff the mug of brown liquid and then take a
sip. “That’s fockin’ delish,” he says.
Couldn’t somebody be persuaded to run this line on the poster?
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Vocabulary Study List.......
1. Banjanxed - From Irish term for "broken," "ruined," "messed up" or
"out of order." May be "banged (about)" plus "smashed."
2. Stephen Hawking -preeminent brilliant world-reknowed genius
physicist (A Brief History of Time)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
3. Knackered - knackered [from knacker] adj :
tired, dead tired, worn out, “I’m bloody knackered”,
also broken beyond repair, “that car’s knackered”,
syn. jiggered.
4. TCB -Taking Care of Business
5. "Ronny" -a girl mustache
6. Clannad - name of a band that "blends elements of traditional Irish
and contemporary music" http://www.clannad.net/clannad/clanhome.asp
7. How to season a wok - http://www.wokshop.com/tips_hints_season.html
8. Solve for Extra Credit -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=police+brutality+
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I just saw InterMission.
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It's really affected me a LOT differently than I thought-- I thought
it would be more funny and campy, and it IS both funny and campy, and
I don't know if I'm in the minority or not, but it made me cry 7
times. It's a reality style tearjerker. You know how JBA's amazingly
awesome Colin fanfic can be hilarious one moment and sharply painful
in the same heartbeat??-- This does that too.
There's a lot of drama, & I don't want to ruin the plot for anyone--
it's aggravating, frustrating, sexy, sad, scary, sweet, very funny,
very real, sometimes gross & rude-- complicated. I loved it.
Colin's character I thought was going to piss me off by the way I knew
the film opened, but his bit about wanting a normal life with a wok &
kitchen applicances and a home to go to is an all too real and familar
way street kids, & lost orphans, & hungry thieves, anyone used to
being abused by cops, grow to act. The look on Col's face as Lehiff--
saying he's Celtic too, shows so much lost puppy hurt confused & angry
pride, but still pride. It's a what-the-fuck-God-dammit-get-real look.
There's a lot more to his character than I thought from reading the
press blubs & reviews, & there's something so bittersweet painful &
familiar there about him that nobody prepared me for. I wanted to see
more of Colin-- he gave a crushing good performance of an all too real
archetype. I LOVE watching his character eat-- it makes me feel all
warm & happy & gooey inside to see him getting his vitamins.
But, very little of the actual movie story is about Lehiff, Colin's
character. The rest of it is surprising twists & turns, but me, I kept
wanting to see Colin. So did half the theater of giggling college
coeds, gay couples, & retired old ladies. He springs up throughout the
whole movie start to finish, so don't leave your seat. He blows a cute
smoke ring you can almost smell, his punches are raw & bloody, and his
scenes with Colm Meany are furiously intense. The rest of the film is
also a bunch of melodramatic bittersweet moments-- You'll laugh,
you'll cry, I hope at points you'll get very, very angry, you might
want to call your mom (or not?) when it's over, you'll probably be
reminded of various relationships, you might want a stiff
drink----bring some tissues if you got issues.
The Music is OUTFUCKINGSTANDING-- Get the soundtrack.
It's a frustrating good grainy movie that grows into a great,
surprising, shocking, and satisfying set of emotional conclusions.
You'll have no problem whatsoever getting any of the Irish dialect--
It's very understandable & makes the soap-opera-esque story so
different & interesting to my American ears. Go see it.
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Since Oliver Stone based his screenplay on Robin Lane Fox's Alexander
book.... I looked for some reviews. Sounds like a great read & a great
author.
An excellent, balanced biography, December 18, 2003
Reviewer: jlind555 (see more about me) from Riverdale, NY USA
Robin Lane Fox was only 27 when he wrote his biography of Alexander,
but it's twice as good as many Alexander biographies written by
authors who were twice Fox's age. Fox was a very young Oxford don when
he researched and wrote this book, and his immaturity shows in a few
spots when he makes assertions that seem to be based on "because I
said so". But overall, it's a very, very well-researched and
well-written biography that presents Alexander in a balanced light,
being neither hagiography nor hatchet-job. It should be mentioned here
that Fox's speculation that Philip's murder was probably masterminded
by his wife Olympias was not original; it's specifically outlined in
Mary Renault's "Fire From Heaven" and Renault is mentioned more than
once as a resource in Fox's biography. (One might wonder why a
biographer would list a historical novelist as a resource, but Renault
scrupulously researched her own novels for historical accuracy before
she published them.) The one jarring note in this book is Fox's
substituting modern place names for historical names; it may be easier
to look them up on a map but unless you already know that Ekbatana is
the modern-day Hamadan, it gets a tad confusing. However, this is a
minor cavil. Fox writes extremely well; his style carries you right
along in the narrative, and there are voluminous footnotes for
reference at the end of the book. One comes away somewhat awed that
someone so young could have written such an excellent biography on one
of history's most towering figures.
The best so far, October 2, 2002
Reviewer: crystalcolors (see more about me) from MO, United States
This book is the 7th book I read on Alexander, and I find it the most
thorough one. He looks at events and episodes from all sorts of
different angles, both pro and con point of views, and write as many
variations of stories as he could get on the same events. For example,
on Alexander's death, he writes 3 or 4 different versions told or
written by different people back then. Some say the King was poisoned,
collapsed during the drinking party, some say he died of unknown
fever, some say this and some say that. Fox lists out all the possible
versions on the same events, carefully examines them, and writes his
comments with good common sense, keeping himself on the neutral
ground. He rarely says this is what happened. It is for you to decide.
He also added other information such as the way of life back then, the
way different peoples thought, lived, believed, treated each other,
religions, how they understood divinity and the way they fought in
war, in addition to the geography, culture, medicine, plants, food,
clothings in various areas of the empire back then. It is interesting
to find how all these things affected and related Alexander and what
he did.
As he says in the beginning of the book, this is not a biography but a
search of Alexander the Great. So, there's no straight telling of what
had happened.
Fox's insight is deep and thorough, makes you think. It's not just a
study of one man, but a study of human kind. But if you don't have a
logical mind, it may bore you, because sometimes he hangs onto one
event, spending 3-4 pages sometimes even more on just one thing, to
investigate. Very informational and powerful work.
My only complaint is that this edition has such fine print, the font
size is so small (probably size 6 or 7), and to read more than 500
pages with the kind of small print wears your eyes out. It made me
realize that it's about time for me to get bifocals. I strongly
recommend this book, but keep a magnifier at hand, rest your eyes once
in a while.
A tour de force yet many unforced errors, September 28, 2002
Reviewer: mantinea (see more about me) from Dalkeith, Western
Australia
My comments relate to a hardback edition published by the Folio
Society but the same as the setting copy published by Penguin.
There are notes to each chapter at the back of the book but it is
still difficult to source the author's assertions.
The error in the following passage ought to be obvious to all:
"... New Tyre stood on a walled island two and three-quarter miles in
circumference, cut off from the coast by half a mile of sea, shallow
at first but soon dropping to a depth of some 600 feet."
If there had been a chasm of 600 feet (a depth equal to the height of
a 60 storey building!) it would have required the equivalent of all
the stones in the Great Pyramid of Egypt to have filled it even if it
were only one-tenth the distance from New Tyre to Old Tyre. The
Classical author Arrian says that the sea had a depth of 3 orguias
(fathoms) at most: i.e. only about 18 feet or 5.5 metres. Perhaps a
typesetter mistook 6.00 metres for 600 feet.
But the Folio Society claimed (in a letter to me dated 1 October 1997)
to have "got in touch with Robin Lane Fox who said that, although it
was impossible to verify, it was correct to the best of his
knowledge." A quick look at the sea depths shown in "The Times Atlas
of the World" reveals that one would have to sail at least 5 miles
west of Tyre to find a depth of 600 feet!
With such a clearly verifiable simple error left uncorrected, how many
other more complex errors are there?
Great work of a Great man, July 29, 2003
Reviewer: Avid Reader (see more about me) from Franklin, TN
I devoured "The Unauthorized Version" and "Pagans and Christians", two
towering works by the same author at a later period in his life. This
work on Alexander gives us a glimpse of the evolution of Fox's writing
as well as his insights and conclusions on the subject which are still
fresh and surprisingly valid after all these years.
As usual, Fox examines and refers to numerous ancient document,
customs of the times, differences in languages and somehow makes clear
to the reader even the most confusing of subjects, such as the
interplay between clans, tribes, family and nationalities. What is so
remarkable about this writing is the universal quality of the prose
along with the surprising but perfectly valid conclusions.
Many historians seem afraid to offer conjecture or opinions but Fox
has deliberately gone out on a limb several times - for example, his
conclusion that John, the last Gospel penned, was actually the closest
to the original sources. In this book we are given a picture of the
life and times of one of the most influential person in history - as
much for what he stood for as what he accomplished. This is history at
its finest.
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RestInParadise
By SHEILA JOHNSTON
MARRAKESH, MOROCCO - Actor Colin Farrell is wearing a fez and long flowing
white robes. The occasion is a formal candlelit banquet for 1,500 at the Royal
Palace thrown by the country's king, Mohammed VI, this week to celebrate the
Marrakesh Film Festival. Most of the other men sport the regulation tux and
black tie. But, hey, when in Morocco...
Farrell is here filming "Alexander," director Oliver Stone's swordand-sandal
epic about the ruthless Macedonian warriorking (356-323 B.C.) who, by the age
of 32, had built the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Two days later,
Farrell and Stone take an evening off to talk about the movie.
This time Farrell has traded his Lawrence of Arabia outfit for a full-on hippie
look: bare feet, bleached hair, black caftan, swaths of silver neck chains and
a costume ring on his little finger. Has Morocco made a strong impression on
him? "What does it f?? well look like?" he says with a grin.
The shoot began with a bang just over two weeks ago with a huge battle scene
involving 800 extras. Stone seems relaxed despite coming straight from a long
day on location in the nearby desert. "The sandstorms have surprised us but,
knock on wood, it's going well and the Moroccan army has been extraordinarily
helpful."
Those soldiers are there not just as extras, but also to maintain security.
After the suicide bombings that claimed 45 lives in Casablanca last May, many
movie productions beat a hasty retreat from Morocco.
Stone praises his producer, Moritz Borman, as "the only man I know who did not
back off. Others, as you know, did." That remark is a veiled barb at Dino De
Laurentiis and his competing project, which has Leonardo DiCaprio penciled in
as Alexander and is still hesitating over where to shoot.
GENTLER THAN GENGHIS?
Adds Stone, "Most of my films have been hard to make, but I've never had such a
complicated movie as this." Budgeted at somewhere between $150 million and $200
million, it will be the most expensive European movie ever.
"America would not make the movie we wanted," gripes the director.Despite the
warlike subject, Stone is keen to play down this angle. "Alexander was not a
conqueror in the sense of Genghis Khan," he says. "He was Alexander the
wanderer, the want-toknower, the enlightener. He wanted to unify in a way that
was ultimately almost impossible. But, my God, he had vision."
Farrell says the film will also be upfront about Alexander's voracious bisexual
appetites (Jared Leto co-stars as his favorite general and "lifetime
companion").
"I don't mean to be cheesy and talk about sexual preference, race and religious
creed," says Farrell. "But I will actually be cheesy and say, [the film's]
about all those things. It takes place geographically in an area where the
maddest things and the most horrific things happen. Look at CNN today and you
will see it in Israel, Syria, everywhere. The story seems to me to be about our
uncertainly about the next culture and the next country. But through
uncertainty can come massive possibility, if you look at other people and
listen to the next man."
It remains to be seen whether Alexander the Great will really emerge from the
film as a kinder, gentler hero. But Farrell himself is certainly more than game
for a scrap. When a colleague politely suggests that the actor - who worked out
extensively for the role - is still a little, well, on the puny side, the Irish
bad boy shoots back, "I'll see you outside in five minutes!"