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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
 The first picture and video from the Indiana Jones shoot are now available over at indianajones.com. It’s incredible how much online excitement one man, sitting down, wearing a hat can generate. But there you have it. Yes, he may be looking considerably older and this whole thing might be a bad idea, but is that gonna stop any of us from qeueing up to hear that music blaring from the cinema screen one more time?
Indiana Jones 4 will be released in the summer of 2008 and alongside Harrison, will feature Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent and Ray Winstone.
Check out the video of the first day of shooting here.
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy  In what I hope is fleeting, Luc Besson-sort of earnestness, Gary Oldman seems to be fed up with acting. Although he's had some super-successful mainstream stints recently in the Harry Potter and Batman franchises, the spark appears to have dimmed for the actor. He says: "I've had a great career, and I'm very lucky to do what I do. But I've been doing it a long time, and you can get tired. You might say I want to change careers or to do something else." He's tempted to return to the stage, but he fears that it's not just a movie-related disinterest: "I get misty-eyed about it, yeah. And I get offers. My love for acting... It's withered." It has been 21 years since Oldman had his breakout role as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy. While two decades is a decent chunk of time, is it really enough for him to say adios? Since starring as the troubled music icon, he's made a great career, morphing into a myriad of roles -- one of the few chameleons that we actually have in the movie biz. He played Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, vamped out for Dracula, took on dreadlocks for True Romance, became the maestro for Immortal Beloved, modernized as Zorg in The Fifth Element, played a Russian terrorist in Air Force One, tried a stint as Pontius Pilate on television, played a little person named Rolfe in Tiptoes and of course, he also plays a great Sirius Black and James Gordon. I really can't imagine a movie world without him, although it would be nice to see him in the meaty, gritty films of his past. While shining a bat signal or helping Harry Potter is fun, perhaps he'd feel better about his career if he could sink his teeth into another Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, or Leon. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
James Lewis touches upon what ought to be common knowledge about JFK but isn’t. From his domestic tax policies to his foreign policy, JFK much more resembled the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party than anything in the Democratic Party of today.
John F. Kennedy’s memory has been so thoroughly media-massaged by now that some […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Writing in The American Conservative, the great Steve Sailer provides 12 reasons why “respectable” immigration reporting and public policy debate is so one-sided and mired in inane political correctness (”La Raza’s Lapdogs“). #3 through #6 are particulary on point:
3. While libertarians enjoy displaying their feelings of economic superiority- their Randian confidence that they can claw […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
From the London Daily Mail (link via AmRen):
Three in every four register office weddings taking place in some parts of Britain may have been a “sham” to allow immigrants to live in the country, it has emerged
The scale of the scandal, which Labour ignored for many years, has been revealed for the first time by […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Our list of our favourite films of the last 50 years continues as Christine tackles the next ten years of our countdown.
Read on or start over with Ian’s Top 10 of 1957-1966
1967-1976
Christine Bohan
10. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Everything you were ever told by your parents about how crime doesn’t pay is wrong.Bonnie and Clyde shows us that not only is crime AWESOME, it’s also damn sexy and only ever carried out by the beautiful people. Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty (seriously, he was attractive once) make stealing money and killing people with their mates look like the most fun ever. Except for the whole ‘getting shot up by the police in a gratuitously excessive shower of bullets’ thing at the end of course.
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
The Koran is composed of 114 chapters, each of which is called a Surah.
“O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them.” (Surah 5:51)
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Good news from SCOTUS:
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court loosened restrictions Monday on corporate- and union-funded television ads that air close to elections, weakening a key provision of a landmark campaign finance law.
The court, split 5-4, upheld an appeals court ruling that an anti-abortion group should have been allowed to air ads during the final two […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Filed under: Drama, Thrillers, Casting, Celebrities and Controversy, War  Back in March when Chris Ullrich brought word of Bryan Singer's World War II thriller Valkyrie -- about Nazi officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who carried out a failed assassination attempt against Hitler in 1944 -- he mentioned that the von Stauffenberg family wasn't too keen on the casting of Tom Cruise as the famous Nazi. While some months have passed, faith in Tom hasn't increased. In fact, von Stauffenberg's son says that the actor: "should keep his hands off my father." I'm sure that this won't deter Cruise at all, and he'll do what he can to prove the son wrong -- he already did it with Anne Rice and Lestat, but then again, one is a fictional character, and the other is a flesh and blood family member. If complaints were due to Cruise's acting or the like, I could understand it, but it seems that this is all due to the actor's deep commitment to the Church of Scientology. While I could see that being relevant in a story about Jesus or something else that's religious, I don't see how someone disliking body thetans makes any difference in a story about war and assassination. Yet the von Stauffenberg offspring says that Cruise's roots in Scientology are "off-putting" and that he fears that the film "could turn into horrible kitsch." But he won't stop it; he just wants to complain and hope that Cruise leaves the project: "He should climb a mountain or go surfing in the Caribbean. I don't care, as long as he stays out of it." I really doubt he'll get his wish, as the film goes into production this summer with Cruise and co-stars Kenneth Branaugh, Stephen Fry, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Carice van Houten. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
Morgan Freeman is playing Nelson Mandela in a movie he's co-producing called "The Human Factor." He follows Danny Glover's version of the icon and world leader -- remember TV's "Mandela." This probably will probably require Freeman to be a lot more mannered. It's at least harder than playing God. (Who'll play Winnie?) [BBC]
And: Anika Noni Rose might be the least known of the Dreamgirls (and still, a Tony to Beyoncé's Grammys and Jennifer Hudson's Oscar), but she's making more movies, having just been cast in Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency," co-starring Jill Scott -- yes, that Jill Scott. Rose will play a sort of Watson to Scott's Sherlock Holmes in modern Botswana. I'm praying it works. In the meantime, Jennifer, what are you up to?
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The first picture and video from the Indiana Jones shoot are now available over at indianajones.com. It’s incredible how much online excitement one man, sitting down, wearing a hat can generate. But there you have it. Yes, he may be looking considerably older and this whole thing might be a bad idea, but is that gonna stop any of us from qeueing up to hear that music blaring from the cinema screen one more time?
