Ann-Margaret puts on a lavishly mod song and dance number for Canada Dry.
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Retromercial: Ann-Margaret for Canada Dry
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Retromercial: Ann-Margaret for Canada Dry
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Ann-Margaret puts on a lavishly mod song and dance number for Canada Dry.
Runtime: 2 min 30 sec
Brian Cain: Wedding Crashers “The Perfect Girl”
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Brian Cain is finishing up his time at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and he decided to throw an intonation project* into his portfolio. Working with Vince Vaughn’s rapid-fire “Perfect Girl” monologue from Wedding Crashers, Brian did a great job keeping pace while managing to throw in a few clever ideas of his own. My favorite bit—in both the original monologue and in Brian’s piece—is the “just the tip” gag. Apparently, I’m still 15 years old.
*For the uninitiated, projects like Brian’s have become standard fare in motion graphics classes. In my experience, they’re most often referred to as “intonation” assignments, because students are challenged to visually represent not just the content of the audio but also the way it which it is expressed—the intonation used by the speaker.
Although the basic concept of representing spoken words verbatim on screen and in real-time is probably almost as old as animation itself, MK12’s 2001 “Brazil Inspired: Macho Box” is often cited as popularizing the style for contemporary motion graphics.
Other examples include:
“Say What Again” by Jarratt Moody
“Feeling Good” by Tamara Gildengers Connolly
“The Lion’s Roar” by Mig Reyes and Matt Born
“Ya no se que hacer conmigo” from Milagrito Films (not student work)
For a higher res version of “The Perfect Girl,” visit Brian’s site.
Carnahan Says Antoine Fuqua’s Pablo Biopic Will Be ‘Horrible’
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Filed under: Action, Drama, Casting, Deals, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts
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With White Jazz seemingly shelved for the time being, Smokin' Joe Carnahan is in a fighting mood and not about to let anybody knock his Pablo Escobar biopic off its perch. And what exactly does he think of the Oliver Stone-produced Pablo biopic that's to be directed by Antoine Fuqua? The one that will focus on Pablo's relationship with his brother and start shooting in early 08'? Um, not much. On his blog, Carnahan takes that subject head on, stating that the movie is "getting turned down by a lot of folks ... memo to aspiring screenwriters, if you want to know how not to write a screenplay, pick up that piece of shit and use it as reverse tutelage." Ouch. But he's not done yet. "It not only does a disservice to the craft of writing, it mocks one of the greatest figures in Latin American history with a non-existent, wholly fictionalized Butch and Sundance angle involving Pablo and his brother Roberto. It's laughably lame."
Nope, he's still not done. "Good luck chumps. And it doesn't matter if you get out of the gate six months earlier than me. I will have an announcement after the new year that will absolutely break your hearts and kill whatever middling credibility you have ... and you deserve that heartbreak, trying to push a shitty, insultingly bad Pablo pic into production against mine and being nasty and conniving and devious about it." He closes his rant with a "war is war" warning, but isn't very specific about what provoked all this ire. Does anyone have any more info on this brewing Pablo biopic war?
Permalink | Email this | CommentsNo Criminal Charge for Brandy over Fatal Car Crash
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
R&B singer Brandy will not be charged with a crime for a fatal car crash last year, authorities said Friday.
“The City Attorney’s Office has decided not to file misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charges against Brandy Norwood in the case stemming from a Dec. 30, 2006, traffic collision,” that office’s spokesman Frank Mateljan said in a statement.
“After conducting a thorough investigation, which included consulting with some of the top accident reconstruction experts in the country, City prosecutors concluded that there was insufficient evidence from which a jury could find Ms. Norwood guilty of such a charge beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said.
The case had been under review by prosecutors for nearly a year.
Brandy’s attorney Blair Berk also issued a statement on Friday. It said, in part: “We are extremely pleased that after a more thorough and extensive investigation by authorities … Brandy Norwood should not be charged with any crime whatsoever relating to the accident back in 2006.”
The statement added: “These past 12 months have posed an extraordinary hardship for Brandy and her family, who have been unfairly forced to live under a cloud of suspicion initially caused by the ill-advised and premature press release sent out by the California Highway Patrol accusing Brandy of wrongdoing before the police investigation was even finished.”
She concluded, “Brandy continues to be mindful that she was so fortunate to be uninjured in this accident and there was a life lost that should be remembered.”
On Dec. 30, 2006, Brandy rear-ended a 2005 Toyota Corolla while traveling on an L.A. freeway, setting off a chain-reaction crash that involved two other cars.
The driver of the Toyota, Awatef Aboudihaj, a 38-year-old mother of two, died the following day from injuries she had sustained.
Police said the singer, 28, was not distracted or under the influence at the time of the accident.
Investigators initially recommended a charge of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, which carries a penalty of up to a year in jail.
Brandy still faces four wrongful-death lawsuits filed on behalf of Aboudihaj’s parents, her widower, her two children and another victim of the crash, Mallory Ham.
A civil trial date is set for Jan. 28.
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Letterman and Ferguson to Return with Full Writing Staffs
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Just in time for the New Year, some fresh laughs will soon be back on late night television.
The Writers Guild and David Letterman’s company, Worldwide Pants, which produces Late Night with David Letterman and The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, reached an independent agreement Friday.
Those two shows will be allowed “to return to the air with their full writing staffs,” according to a statement from the Guild. “This is a comprehensive agreement that addresses the issues important to writers, particularly New Media,” which refers to the use of their work on the internet.
“I am grateful to the WGA for granting us this agreement,” Letterman said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight. “We’re happy to be going back to work, and particularly pleased to be doing it with our writers.”
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David Faustino Divorce Is Final
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
The 3-year marriage of Married … With Children star David Faustino and his wife, Andrea, is officially over.
After filing divorce papers in Feb., their petition was granted Friday on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
In the original papers, Faustino stated that he did not want to pay spousal support. Court papers released Friday reveal that a settlement has been agreed to between the parties, but was “not being attached to the judgment for privacy purposes.”
Faustino, 33, met Andrea Elmer, 31, at a spiritual center in Los Angeles in 1999. They had a quickie wedding on Jan. 24, 2004, in the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, and separated in May 2006.
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Golden Globes Update: Show Might Not be Televised
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Filed under: Awards, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Newsstand
I'm sure a lot of you don't care either way, but there's now a chance The Golden Globes ceremony scheduled to air live on NBC this January 13 may not show up on the boob tube at all. Anne Thompson reports over on her Thompson on Hollywood blog that word from within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (or HFPA) is that one option -- should the writers still be on strike on that day -- is to not televise the ceremony in order to ensure a high celebrity presence. Call me a moron, but I'm not sure of the difference between televising an event and not televising an event as it pertains to "crossing the picket lines." Thompson's article makes it sound like actors are allowed to cross the picket lines if the Globes aren't televised, though I just assumed they wouldn't cross the picket lines regardless. Maybe I'm missing something though; feel free to clue me in.
As it stands right now, the Globes won't have any writers to pen those presentation speeches as the WGA has already turned down a waiver which would allow writers to work on the show. Additionally, it's believed that if the show was to go on as planned -- with the WGA out picketing in full force -- a good majority of actors and actresses would not cross the picket lines. Not televising the show, however, also brings into question what sort of contractual obligations HFPA has to NBC. As Thompson points out, "If the show is not televised, NBC will lose the revenue it would have generated via advertising (the Globes show earns strong ratings), and the Globes will lose the money they would have been paid. But at this point it is much more important to the HFPA (which has enough cash in its coffers to miss one year's telecast) for the Globes show to go on with celebrities walking down that red carpet (even with no writers to pen the presentation speeches) to present and accept awards than for them to face the possibility that most stars will not cross an active picket line."
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Permalink | Email this | CommentsRetromercial: Star Wars Hoth World Play Set
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Is your Star Wars Hoth World die cast micro play set still in its original blister packaging?
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Retromercial: Star Wars Hoth World Play Set
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Is your Star Wars Hoth World die cast micro play set still in its original blister packaging?
Runtime: 59 sec
