Been giving much attention to men of film and sports on the blog lately, so this will be my last entry about the opposite sex for a week. Promise.
This is what Jeff Bridges has to say about acting, family and his wife in GQ;
Think about it — all movies, everything is about love. And having a family. Then you have a purpose for making the money and doing the things you do. It gives you a grounding, to go off and do your stuff. The kite has a string. Sue should get a credit on all my movies, wouldn’t be able to do this [without her].
FYI, Jeff Bridges has been married to his wife for 33 years.. Which is a fairy tale in Hollywood.
We love Jeff Bridges for being Jeff Bridges.
Then comes Johnny Weir with a big personality. He ought to be Lady Gaga’s BFF and Perez Hilton’s BF. Just adorably handsome and skates beautifully at the same time. All the ladies Love him, I adore his particular gay persona.
Imagine the lovely Johnny Weir walking on thin ice with the Korean humanoid short-track skaters… The worst possible senario; they would whip out the heterosexuality from him with no trace of gay left but a pink tassel on ice.
As for Johnny’s future; he should have a long visible career after he retires from skating. Watch his much talked about reality show Be Good Johnny Weir on the Sundance Channel. Am almost positive he will not disappoint.
We’ve come a long way in 4 years. Because in this Vancouver Winter Olympics, men’s figure skating was hot pink and dramatically entertaining. Let’s not forget, there were a lot of falling and slipping, and a little bit of bitchy whining by the blond silver medalist. But who cares of about the medals when stimulating personas dominated the ice.
Evan Lysacek is a combination of a symphonic black stallion and a stoic, with slightly cheese, fairy tale prince who commands respect from his villagers in the Mediterranean. Because whatever Evan whispers: they listen. Whatever Evan dictates: they follow. Whatever Evan spits at: they clean up. We really did’t care about his quadruple loops, as long as he swirled on ice wearing his big shoulder padded Vera Wang draped with crystal serpents. Evan owned the ice with his strong demeanor and masculinity. But then…
He decided take his skates off and wore his hair down like a toupee on Larry King show. By covering his forehead with swept bangs, which offset the elongated his face and Greek nose, making him look like an 18 year old alter boy. Sigh. What a buzz kill.
He then said I would love to try out for Dancing With the Stars.
No more comment. …
As of today, South Korea has collected 10 medals total in short-track skating, 5 of them being gold. Bliss….
If there are two sports arenas I could attend it would be tennis (obviously) and short-track skating. Thanks to Apolo and the Korean speed skaters. In this year’s Vancouver’s Olympics, the acutely frightening Koreans are in the house to WIN. Why shouldn’t I cheer for my fellow relatives as they converted short-track skating into the new transformation of gold medal fiery. Someone told me the other day that, like Nadia Comaneci in 1976 Olympics, SK skaters are indistructable humanoids.
I say, these guys not only win but terminate other skaters in thin air. Imagine your heart compounding with painful palpitation while witnessing the speed skating finals where Lee Jung Su haunts Apolo from behind like a laser beam. (I almost fainted three times while watching the race). Then Lee vanished ahead to the finish line like the Matrix. You can’t help but appreciate Lee Jung Su’s serpent-like mastery.
It’s uncanny how all Korean skaters either start from last or middle of the competition before they zero in on their prey and attack to the finishing line. Even though the Korean skaters appear to be aggressive, that is far from the truth.. These guys have figured out the formula, and they are mathematically strategic in their pacing and navigation. And their SPEED & AGILITY…. Holy kimchi.
No, we Koreans can’t run like the Kenyans, or jump like the Lakers, but we can ice.
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Am favor of stand-up comedy 25% of the time when it’s funny. And 5 out of 25% is really funny, as in funny to the bone, a mental combustion funny. And Joe Wong is that kind of a funny. Joe Wong’s jokes are not your usual sloppy slapsticks or vulgar ghettoness. His jokes are uniquely twisted, considerate, esoterically intelligent, well-paced and timed.
Thank God for Joe Wong, he thinks he will end up in heaven, illegally…. Bahaaaaa.
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yessica biel with a flashlight was on David Letterman Wednesday night… zzzz…. next…
Then came Christoph Waltz of Basterds, watch here, THANK YOU Dave.
Mr. Waltz is a straight as an arrow intellect who will soon take precedence in motion pictures. To put it more eloquently, he is the type who weaves the adeptness of literature and philosophy into his medium the way a Viennese master would in his oil paintings.
Waltz is an artist who happens to be a performer… So you can understand why he bolted out of LA during his visit there faster than he could speak it… He said Disneyland scared him, hee hee. Can you imagine his impression of John Travolta or Nick Cage?
While yessica biel was fame whoring and pointing a flashlight onto her big veneered teeth, Christoph credited Quentin Tarantino “for bringing my belief as an actor which is much more than a career and made me remember why I wanted to become an actor in the first place 30 years ago“. Why can’t Hollywood create more actors like he?
Although, it’s a good thing that there is only ONE Waltz, with a few more Oscars to follow…
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Am going to a Bar Mitzvah this weekend. Maybe I will clue in with broader understanding of A Serious Man afterwards.
I love the Coen Brothers for their twisted plot and odd dialogues. And their idea of esoteric bluntness in all their films, as it compliments my personality, is a big turn on.
However, I found A Serious Man to be flat, uncaring and cold, which means the Coen Brothers executed their point across. Vadai, beVadai!
Maybe it should be watched a second time around to be reconsidered…
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I wonder if I will get zapped by the flaming ego of James Cameron…
Avatar, like The Titanic, is a motion picture epic that will be hummed and tranced for decades to come. The box office says so…
The challenge I bring here is that James Cameron is not original. James does remakes.
James refurbishes (or regurgitates) a pre-exhisting story, adds his enormous egotistical obsessive-complusiveness, millions of dollars, great music, technology, a crew of 740 thousand and out comes: The Titanic and Avatar.
He is entertaining for sure, but not authentic for my taste…
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If you saw Brothers then you would agree that Tobey was SNUBBED by the Academy for his Supporting role, or even Leading…
Tobey really belts out his mental and physical torment and isolation in the second half of the movie. But the dinner scene between Tobey and Bailee Madison (who plays his young daughter) where they struggle with their broken bond is almost too overwhelming to watch.
(This little Bailee is a must watch because in few years she will set the tone as a respected young actress, and OMG Noah Cyrus will only dream she hadn’t pole danced like a Hooters…)
All in all, Tobey Maguire and Sam Shepard carried the weight of this movie to a complete circle as they battle with their wounded fragility inside the hard shell. We bleed and care for these two men till the end.
I don’t recall Natalie Portman and Jake Gyllenhaal in this movie…
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Saw Invictus.
It’s an encyclopedic fact that Clint Eastwood always cooks up inspiring dramas with victorious endings to captivate the viewers’ emotions. For this we should be holding a torch when watching his movies, to honor him and his characters. Yes. Yes.
Morgan Freeman was The Nelson Mandela effortlessly in every take. (I just wish he hadn’t slept around with his step-granddaughter… Ewww.)
The only fair argument is that Matt Damon was luke warm and forgettable in Invictus… Therefore had no business being nominated for his supporting role as Francois Pienaar. Matt Damon played Matt Damon, not Francois. As Matt Damon played Matt Damon in Oceans 11 to 75, Bourne Matt Damon, and so on. In the last decade he has been Matt with no versatility…
So why not Tobey? Why was he forgotten?
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