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January 11th, 2008Ty’s movie picks for Friday, January 11
January 11th, 2008
Your to-do list:
1. Help the Harvard Film Archive kick off their re-opening by attending the four-day Ingmar Bergman retrospective starting tonight. (That's "Summer Interlude" above.) It's winter, it's grey, you're depressed -- what better time to bow at the altar of the late, great Swedish director.
2. "Zodiac" plays for one night only at the Brattle tonight. You missed it the first time around and now it's popping up in the year-end awards. There's a reason for that but you have to see the movie to understand why.
3. "Persepolis" at Kendall Square and the West Newton.
4. "The Orphanage" at the Common and suburban theaters. How about that? Great Spanish horror hits the multiplexes!
5. "Kings" at the MFA. I'm not terribly wild about this Irish movie, but some people are, and the grumpy e-mail I just got from the director is making me feel a little guilty.
6. Buy Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack for "There Will Be Blood".
Writers Guild nominations cross the picket line
January 11th, 2008The Writers Guild may be on strike but that doesn't mean they can't tell us which movies they like. The WGA announced their nominations for best screenplays of 2007. The list follows, and as Tom O'Neil notes in the L.A. Times' Gold Derby blog, the order in which the film are listed may unintentionally be a tip-off as to which film is favored most. Uh-oh. And here I thought professional writers knew how to alphabetize. (Tip o' the hat to Scott Feinberg's "And the Winner Is..." blog for alerting me to this.)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
JUNO, Diablo Cody
MICHAEL CLAYTON, Tony Gilroy,
THE SAVAGES, Tamara Jenkins
KNOCKED UP, Judd Apatow
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, Nancy Oliver
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, Ronald Harwood, based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby
INTO THE WILD, Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer
ZODIAC, James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY:
THE CAMDEN 28, Anthony Giacchino
NANKING, Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman & Elisabeth Bentley, Story by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman
NO END IN SIGHT, Charles Ferguson
THE RAPE OF EUROPA, Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen
SICKO, Michael Moore
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, Alex Gibney
Kevin Federline wants to be a producer
January 11th, 2008
Kevin Federline is trying to make it as a producer and no longer holds aspirations of being a rap artist. He’s currently “nurturing” new artists from his home studio so he can be closer to his boys, according to E! Online:
"He loves the music business and is committed to making it a career for himself, even if it's not as a singer. He knows no one will ever take him seriously as a performer, so he's working behind the scenes as a producer."I imagine Kevin is drawing on his experience watching Britney’s career implode to help him become a producer. Now he knows what not to do to succeed starting with Rule #1 in Kevin’s studio: “Don’t be bringing no white-boy dancer husbands in here.” Guy’s a fast learner.
Wesley Snipes owed taxes on $38 million (That’s a lot of cheddar)
January 11th, 2008
Wesley Snipes faces trial for tax fraud on Monday and the IRS has revealed documents that show the actor failed to pay taxes on $37.9 million in income from 1999 to 2004. On top of that Wesley Snipes also tried to get fraudulent tax refunds for almost $11 million, according to Reuters:
Snipes, 45, was charged in a 2006 indictment along with a known tax protester and a former accountant whom the U.S. Justice Department said had been barred by a federal court from preparing other people's tax returns. The tax fraud occurred at a time when Snipes was signing movie deals worth more than $10 million each for "Blade II" and "Blade: Trinity," according to the prosecution's summary.If Blade’s not paying his taxes, than neither am I! It’s a revolution, baby! WOO!! Legal Notice: Anticlown Media in no way endorses the nonpayment of taxes by its employees or readers. Please be good citizens and file your income taxes with the appropriate agencies. If it makes you feel better, the Superficial Writer’s “revolution” only made it five steps to the employee lounge where he successfully dared our intern to eat a bunch of shrimp leftover from Christmas. On a related note, condolences to the family of Jimmy “Where’s my coffee, bitch?” Gunderson. He’ll be missed.
James Gandolfini Engaged
January 11th, 2008
James Gandolfini and his girlfriend, Deborah Lin, are engaged.
“Reps are happy to announce that he and his girlfriend Deborah Lin recently got engaged during the holidays,” a statement released by HBO said Thursday.
According to a source on perezhilton.com – where the news was first announced – the Sopranos star “popped the question while in the Bahamas … They’re thrilled.”
Gandolfini, 46, who divorced wife Marcella in 2002 after nearly four years of marriage, became briefly engaged to Lora Somoza in 2004. That relationship ended in February 2005.
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Tyra Banks: Where Is the Love?
January 11th, 2008
Her career’s on a roll, but some of Tyra Banks’s early ambitions have been shoved aside – such as having a baby.
“After the talk show started, and I had Top Model at the same time, it engulfed me so much that it dulled my maternal instinct,” the star of both The Tyra Banks Show and America’s Next Top Model Banks, 34, tells Essence magazine for its February issue.
Not that the first African-American woman to grace the covers of GQ, Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue and the Victoria’s Secret catalogue has completely abandoned hope of raising a family. “I hope that when I get more of a handle on my life it comes back,” she says of the maternal instinct.
Although Banks, who is developing shows for Warner Bros. and one with Ashton Kutcher, is not complaining, she does say, “I’d go to work and women would be crying in my arms on the talk show. But then I’d go home and put my key in my door and … nothing: no friends, no husband, no children. I feel so full when I’m at work but so empty when I come home.”
Though Banks won’t open up about it, Essence reports the buzz that she’s involved with investment banker John Utendahl, 50 – and that’s why she moved production of her shows to New York from Los Angeles.
Responds Banks huffily: “I’m very insulted by that rumor. I employ a lot of people; their livelihoods rest on my shows. The move to New York was a decision I made with my manager. It was not about a man.”
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