Hugh Grant has admitted to losing his temper with a woman on the set of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
Grant, 62, stars in the fantasy-adventure film opposite Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, and Michelle Rodriguez.
In a new interview with Total Film, the actor recalled that he did a lot of “grovelling” after he became angry with a woman on set whom he had thought was a studio executive. She was, in fact, a chaperone of a young child actor.
“I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one,” Grant said. “I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better.
“Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. A lot of grovelling…”
He added: “I did a Christian Bale.”
In 2009, Bale issued an “unreserved” apology after...
Grant, 62, stars in the fantasy-adventure film opposite Chris Pine, Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, and Michelle Rodriguez.
In a new interview with Total Film, the actor recalled that he did a lot of “grovelling” after he became angry with a woman on set whom he had thought was a studio executive. She was, in fact, a chaperone of a young child actor.
“I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one,” Grant said. “I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better.
“Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. A lot of grovelling…”
He added: “I did a Christian Bale.”
In 2009, Bale issued an “unreserved” apology after...
- 3/7/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
Even before James Gunn announced the upcoming slate for the newly-launched DC Studios that he heads with Peter Safran, we knew that superhero television was about to change. For years, DC succeeded on television where it had arguably struggled on film, thanks to the hugely successful Arrowverse on CW. From the gritty series Arrow that launched in 2012, the Arrowverse grew into a massive superhero soap opera, making up for the absence of the DC Trinity with fan-favorites like the Flash and the Atom, and rehabilitated D-listers like Wild Dog and Vibe.
But for all of its popularity and success, the Arrowverse is nearly over. With The Flash in its ninth and final season, and Superman & Lois officially not part of the same universe, the massive franchise seems to be at an end. And although Gunn has been clear that the DC Studios slate will not only include television offerings but...
But for all of its popularity and success, the Arrowverse is nearly over. With The Flash in its ninth and final season, and Superman & Lois officially not part of the same universe, the massive franchise seems to be at an end. And although Gunn has been clear that the DC Studios slate will not only include television offerings but...
- 3/6/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
Hugh Grant is finding honor in opening up about losing his temper. The “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” actor admitted to getting angry at a woman on set whom he assumed was a studio executive. However, she was in fact a chaperone of a young child actor. Grant noted he did a “lot of groveling” after realizing his mistake.
“I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one,” Grant told Total Film (via Yahoo! Entertainment). “I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better. Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. A lot of groveling… ”
Grant added, “I did a Christian Bale.”
The “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” star referenced Bale’s famous apology after a tape was leaked of him yelling at “Terminator: Salvation” cinematographer...
“I lost my temper with a woman in my eyeline on day one,” Grant told Total Film (via Yahoo! Entertainment). “I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better. Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl. Terrible. A lot of groveling… ”
Grant added, “I did a Christian Bale.”
The “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” star referenced Bale’s famous apology after a tape was leaked of him yelling at “Terminator: Salvation” cinematographer...
- 3/6/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Robin Wright seems ready and willing to slip back into her Amazonian armor for the recently announced Wonder Woman prequel series on HBO Max. Though she does have to wonder if she is “too old” to get the call to reprise her role as the ageless Antiope.
One of four new TV series announced as part of the new Dcu’s “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters,” Paradise Lost is set on Themyscira, the hidden island home of the Amazon warriors created by the Olympian gods to protect mankind. Set before the events of the two Wonder Woman films, the series...
One of four new TV series announced as part of the new Dcu’s “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters,” Paradise Lost is set on Themyscira, the hidden island home of the Amazon warriors created by the Olympian gods to protect mankind. Set before the events of the two Wonder Woman films, the series...
- 2/22/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
After teasing that he and fellow DC Studios CEO Peter Safran today began talking up some of the movies and shows we can expect. And that includes new versions of Batman, Superman, Supergirl, Green Lantern and more. Watch the announcement here, and read the full breakdown below.
Gunn started by confirming that the existing DC movies still to be released — Shazam! Fury Of The Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom – will all still make it to cinemas, with The Flash and its universe-rebooting nature proving key to helping to usher in the new paradigm. They will lead into what Gunn and Safran are calling 'Gods And Monsters', effectively the first chunk of the first part of the plan. It'll be a mix of TV (both animated and live-action) and movies, with games tying in as needed.
So what can we expect? Gunn talked up 10 initial titles.
Gunn started by confirming that the existing DC movies still to be released — Shazam! Fury Of The Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom – will all still make it to cinemas, with The Flash and its universe-rebooting nature proving key to helping to usher in the new paradigm. They will lead into what Gunn and Safran are calling 'Gods And Monsters', effectively the first chunk of the first part of the plan. It'll be a mix of TV (both animated and live-action) and movies, with games tying in as needed.
So what can we expect? Gunn talked up 10 initial titles.
- 1/31/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
To mark the release of Proud Mary on 30th July, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
Lethal, professional hit-woman Mary (Taraji P. Henson) works for the most notorious crime family in town, headed by Benny (Danny Glover). When Mary shoots a protected mobster in order to save a young boy, she must take on a rogues’ gallery of crime figures, from the Russian Mafia to those closest to her, including her former lover. Armed with her wits – and a closet full of guns – Mary must do whatever it takes to be the last woman standing in this energetic and explosive action thriller. Directed by Babak Najafi with a screenplay by John Stuart Newman & Christian Swegal and Steven Antin and a story by John Stuart Newman & Christian Swegal, Proud Mary was produced by Paul Schiff and Tai Duncan, with Glenn S. Gainor and Taraji P. Henson as executive producers.
Lethal, professional hit-woman Mary (Taraji P. Henson) works for the most notorious crime family in town, headed by Benny (Danny Glover). When Mary shoots a protected mobster in order to save a young boy, she must take on a rogues’ gallery of crime figures, from the Russian Mafia to those closest to her, including her former lover. Armed with her wits – and a closet full of guns – Mary must do whatever it takes to be the last woman standing in this energetic and explosive action thriller. Directed by Babak Najafi with a screenplay by John Stuart Newman & Christian Swegal and Steven Antin and a story by John Stuart Newman & Christian Swegal, Proud Mary was produced by Paul Schiff and Tai Duncan, with Glenn S. Gainor and Taraji P. Henson as executive producers.
- 7/30/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Michael Schur's choice of TV subjects started out very small, growing over time until his latest show is about life, the universe, and everything. Schur started out writing for Greg Daniels on The Office, telling obscure stories about obscure people whose lives and dreams rarely grew beyond a paper company branch office in Scranton. Then he and Daniels created Parks and Recreation, which began almost as small, focusing on the staff of an Indiana town's parks department, before expanding outward until Leslie and Ben both had prominent national government jobs (one of them perhaps becoming President by the end). Then he and Dan Goor did Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which is about New York cops, focusing mainly on squadroom goofiness but occasionally showing the detectives taking down drug rings, mobsters, and even a serial killer. Now, though, comes the Schur-created The Good Place (it debuts Monday at 10 on NBC with back-to-back episodes,...
- 9/16/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Iron Man thinks like John Stuart Mill, while Captain America is a Kantian – but the real insight comes from the fact that each sees the other side’s argument
These days the world feels precarious. It seems we face new threats every day from extremist forces both domestic and international. At the same time, we’re developing new ways to detect and predict these threats, using advanced surveillance and drone technology to enhance our safety and security – but at what cost to our liberties and freedoms? Must we choose which of these we value most and give up on the other?
Some of our favorite superheroes can help us think about this timeless conflict. In Marvel Comics’s Civil War storyline, the latest movie version of which is released on 6 May, Captain America, Iron Man and the rest of the Marvel heroes face off over the same issues of liberty...
These days the world feels precarious. It seems we face new threats every day from extremist forces both domestic and international. At the same time, we’re developing new ways to detect and predict these threats, using advanced surveillance and drone technology to enhance our safety and security – but at what cost to our liberties and freedoms? Must we choose which of these we value most and give up on the other?
Some of our favorite superheroes can help us think about this timeless conflict. In Marvel Comics’s Civil War storyline, the latest movie version of which is released on 6 May, Captain America, Iron Man and the rest of the Marvel heroes face off over the same issues of liberty...
- 4/21/2016
- by Mark D White
- The Guardian - Film News
Iron Man thinks like John Stuart Mill, while Captain America is a Kantian – but the real insight comes from the fact that each sees the other side’s argument
These days the world feels precarious. It seems we face new threats every day from extremist forces both domestic and international. At the same time, we’re developing new ways to detect and predict these threats, using advanced surveillance and drone technology to enhance our safety and security – but at what cost to our liberties and freedoms? Must we choose which of these we value most and give up on the other?
Some of our favorite superheroes can help us think about this timeless conflict. In Marvel Comics’s Civil War storyline, the latest movie version of which is released on 6 May, Captain America, Iron Man and the rest of the Marvel heroes face off over the same issues of liberty...
These days the world feels precarious. It seems we face new threats every day from extremist forces both domestic and international. At the same time, we’re developing new ways to detect and predict these threats, using advanced surveillance and drone technology to enhance our safety and security – but at what cost to our liberties and freedoms? Must we choose which of these we value most and give up on the other?
Some of our favorite superheroes can help us think about this timeless conflict. In Marvel Comics’s Civil War storyline, the latest movie version of which is released on 6 May, Captain America, Iron Man and the rest of the Marvel heroes face off over the same issues of liberty...
- 4/21/2016
- by Mark D White
- The Guardian - Film News
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How crazy was the Joker in The Dark Knight? Ryan looks at what game theory can tell us about the villain and his motivations...
“You wanna know how I got these scars?” Heath Ledger’s Joker asks in The Dark Knight. It’s a rhetorical question the Clown Prince of Crime utters twice in the film, followed by two very different stories - one involving his alcoholic father, the other concerning his ex-wife and a razor blade.
These stories are the perfect illustration of the character’s ambiguity, as written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. One story could be true, the other false. Or they both might be true; the Joker’s scars may have become as ghoulish as they are because of these two separate incidents. Or maybe neither is true; it’s all part of the trickster’s slippery persona.
Like John Doe in David Fincher’s Seven,...
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How crazy was the Joker in The Dark Knight? Ryan looks at what game theory can tell us about the villain and his motivations...
“You wanna know how I got these scars?” Heath Ledger’s Joker asks in The Dark Knight. It’s a rhetorical question the Clown Prince of Crime utters twice in the film, followed by two very different stories - one involving his alcoholic father, the other concerning his ex-wife and a razor blade.
These stories are the perfect illustration of the character’s ambiguity, as written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. One story could be true, the other false. Or they both might be true; the Joker’s scars may have become as ghoulish as they are because of these two separate incidents. Or maybe neither is true; it’s all part of the trickster’s slippery persona.
Like John Doe in David Fincher’s Seven,...
- 3/10/2016
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Christopher Reeve Foundation for spinal cord and stem cell research (photo: Darryl Hannah and Christopher Reeve in 'Rear Window') (See previous post: "'Superman' Christopher Reeve and his Movies: Ten-Year Death Anniversary.") In his 1998 autobiography Still Me, Christopher Reeve recalled: "At an especially bleak moment [prior to an operation that might result in his death], the door [of his hospital room] flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay." The "old friend" was the recently deceased Robin Williams, whom Reeve had befriended while both were studying at Juillard. Eventually, Reeve became a staunch advocate for spinal cord and stem cell research, sponsoring with his wife the Christopher Reeve Foundation — later renamed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (and formerly known...
- 10/11/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Alfred Hitchcock silent movies added to Unesco UK Memory of the World Register (photo: Ivor Novello in The Lodger) The nine Alfred Hitchcock-directed silent films recently restored by the British Film Institute have been added to the Unesco UK Memory of the World Register, "a list of documentary heritage which holds cultural significance specific to the UK." The nine Hitchcock movies are the following: The Pleasure Garden (1925), The Ring (1927), Downhill / When Boys Leave Home (1927), The Lodger (1927), Easy Virtue (1928), Champagne (1928), The Farmer’s Wife (1928), The Manxman (1929), and Blackmail (1929) — also released as a talkie, Britain’s first. Only one Hitchcock-directed silent remains lost, The Mountain Eagle / Fear o’ God (1926). Most of those movies have little in common with the suspense thrillers Hitchcock would crank out in Britain and later in Hollywood from the early ’30s on. But a handful of his silents already featured elements and themes that would recur in...
- 7/18/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hitchcock's silents are now on the Memory of the World register – I can think of five others that deserve the same recognition
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
If, when you consider our national heritage, you think of murder, guilt, sex and cheeky humour – well, somebody out there agrees with you. The decision to add Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent movies to Unesco's UK Memory of the World register puts his early work on a cultural par with the Domesday Book and Field Marshal Douglas Haig's war diaries – also selected for the list this year.
The nine silents were all directed by Hitchcock in the 1920s and include better-known films in the director's classic thriller mode such as The Lodger and Blackmail as well as comedies (Champagne, The Farmer's Wife) a boxing movie (The Ring) and dramas (The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, Easy Virtue and the lush, rustic romance The Manxman). The collection was nominated by the BFI,...
- 7/12/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Man of Steel 2013 box office: $250 million milestone in North America (photo: possibly after his Man of Steel workout, Henry Cavill chats with director Zack Snyder) Directed by Zack Snyder, and starring Henry Cavill, Man of Steel passed the $250 million milestone at the North American box office on Monday, July 1, 2013. On that day, Man of Steel added $3.04 million, for a domestic cume of $251.62 million, according to figures found at Box Office Mojo. After adding another $2.78 million on Tuesday, July 2, the Superman reboot’s domestic total currently stands at $254.4 million. Not adjusted for inflation, Man of Steel is no. 28 on Box Office Mojo’s chart of the fastest movies to reach $250 million at the North American box office: 18 days. The no. 1 title is Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, with 6 days. Other movies that also took 18 days to reach $250 million — years ago, when ticket prices were lower — are Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...
- 7/4/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Man of Steel weekend box office: Above estimates, but real June record remains beyond the reach of Superman 2013 reboot (image: Henry Cavill as Superman in Man of Steel) Somewhat surprisingly — it’s usually the other way around — Warner Bros.’ Man of Steel grossed more than $3 million above studio estimates released on Sunday, June 16, 2013. Directed by Zack Snyder (300, Sucker Punch), and starring Henry Cavill (The Tudors, possibly the upcoming The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), the 2013 Superman reboot scored $116.61 million from 4,207 North American locations according to weekend box-office actuals found at Box Office Mojo. Once Thursday evening figures are added, the $225 million-budgeted Man of Steel‘s domestic cume reached $128.68 million by Sunday evening. Now, Man of Steel‘s adjusted $116.61 million doesn’t change the June Box-Office Record Chart in any way. The Superman reboot remains ahead of the former official June champ, the Tom Hanks-, Tim Allen-voiced Toy Story 3‘s...
- 6/18/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Henry Cavill Superman: Man of Steel vs. Superman movies of years past [See previous post: "Man of Steel Trailing Original Iron Man in Ticket Sales."] As mentioned in our previous posts, the $225 million-budgeted Man of Steel grossed an estimated $113.08 million this past weekend, including $9 million from Thursday midnight screenings. Directed by Zack Snyder, the 2013 Superman reboot stars Henry Cavill as Clark Kent aka Superman. (Photo: Henry Cavill in Man of Steel.) Released in late June 2006, Bryan Singer’s $270 million-budgeted Superman Returns, starring Brandon Routh as Superman, debuted with $52.53 million, or about $64 million today. Even taking into account that Superman Returns lacked the box-office-boosting advantage of 3D surcharges, Man of Steel is obviously a much bigger hit than its immediate predecessor. Superman Returns eventually reached $200.08 million in North America, plus a slightly more modest $191 million internationally. Man of Steel will not only easily surpass Superman Returns at the domestic box office, but it’ll also earn at the very least twice as much as Superman Returns internationally.
- 6/17/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Henry Cavill Man of Steel to trail Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man 3 [See previous post: "Man of Steel Weekend Box Office: June Record May Not Be Broken."] As long as it grosses at least $100 million by Sunday evening — and that’s a given — Zack Snyder / Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel will boast the second-biggest opening of 2013, behind only Shane Black / Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man 3, which collected $174.14 million in early May according to Box Office Mojo. As mentioned in the previous post, Man of Steel is expected to score anywhere between $115-$140 million. Note: Figures for both Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 include Thursday evening shows. (See updated posts: “Man of Steel trailing Original Iron Man” and “Man of Steel vs. Superman movies of years past.”) (Photo: Henry Cavill Superman in Man of Steel.) For comparison’s sake: without the advantage of box-office-inflating 3D surcharges or Thursday evening screenings, the Jon Favreau-directed Iron Man debuted with $98.68 million...
- 6/16/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Man of Steel vs. Superman Returns (photo: Amy Adams as Lois Lane in Man of Steel) [See previous post: "Man of Steel Box Office: June Record Likely (Sort of)."] Released in late June 2006, Bryan Singer / Brandon Routh’s Superman Returns opened with $52.53 million, or about $64 million today. Even taking into account that Superman Returns lacked the advantage of box-office-inflating 3D surcharges, Man of Steel will clearly soar much higher. (See updated post: “Man of Steel to Trail Iron Man 3: Box Office” — and possibly to trail the original Iron Man as well.) Superman Returns cumed at $200.08 million in North America, in addition to $191 million internationally. Considering the exponential growth of the international market in the last decade, expect Man of Steel to earn much more outside of than in North America. Remember, without the international market, movies that cost $225 million (not including marketing and distribution expenses) would likely never, ever get made. Directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve in the title role,...
- 6/15/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Man of Steel box office: Will latest Superman reboot break June domestic record? (Photo: Henry Cavill in Man of Steel) Directed by Zack Snyder, and starring Henry Cavill as Superman, Man of Steel had, as expected, a strong opening at the domestic box office on Thursday evening. The latest Superman reboot collected an estimated $12 million, in addition to another $9 million at midnight showings for a grand total of $21 million. For comparison’s sake: Starring Robert Downey Jr, Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 debuted with $15.6 million from Thursday evening / midnight showings in early May. (See also updated post: “Man of Steel Box Office: June Record Likely — Sort of.”) Now, to compare Man of Steel‘s Thursday late evening $21 million take to the midnight box-office grosses of, for instance, Gary Ross / Jennifer Lawrence’s The Hunger Games ($19.74 million), Robert Pattinson / Kristen Stewart / Taylor Lautner’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ($30.1 million), Christopher Nolan...
- 6/14/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
'Hef', who created Playboy magazine in 1953, proves himself to be a master of self-publicity at the launch of his new film venture
Hugh M. Hefner is the son of devout Methodist parents, the creator of "Playboy" magazine, the inventor of Bunnies, and the sort of man who can summon a press conference in which he lets it drop that in his opinion the essence of Judaeo-Christianity is close to the Playboy philosophy.
He held his conference yesterday in the Playboy Club in Park Lane, London, smoking a pipe, drinking neat Coke, and seriously holding the hand of a girl whom he introduced as Barbara, his girlfriend, with whom he was having a serious relationship. Barbara said she had been brought up in an American small town where "The morals went beyond what was real," but now she was doing her own thing.
Before the true confessions, in the suffocating half-dark...
Hugh M. Hefner is the son of devout Methodist parents, the creator of "Playboy" magazine, the inventor of Bunnies, and the sort of man who can summon a press conference in which he lets it drop that in his opinion the essence of Judaeo-Christianity is close to the Playboy philosophy.
He held his conference yesterday in the Playboy Club in Park Lane, London, smoking a pipe, drinking neat Coke, and seriously holding the hand of a girl whom he introduced as Barbara, his girlfriend, with whom he was having a serious relationship. Barbara said she had been brought up in an American small town where "The morals went beyond what was real," but now she was doing her own thing.
Before the true confessions, in the suffocating half-dark...
- 9/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
When Jonathan Croall researched the life of his matinee idol father, he was shocked by what he found – and at last the reason for his emotional reserve
My father never talked about the war. Only now, some 30 years after his death, have I found out what he went through on the western front in 1918, and discovered how deeply it affected his personality. This was one of many surprises when I decided recently to research his life and career as an actor. I was startled to find a very different person from the one I remembered, a discovery that has altered my view of him, and also left me with certain regrets.
He was 43 when I was born, a passive presence about the home, very much dominated by my strong-willed mother, his third wife. He was amiable and kind, inspiring affection, but he was also lazy and weak, and emotionally reserved.
My father never talked about the war. Only now, some 30 years after his death, have I found out what he went through on the western front in 1918, and discovered how deeply it affected his personality. This was one of many surprises when I decided recently to research his life and career as an actor. I was startled to find a very different person from the one I remembered, a discovery that has altered my view of him, and also left me with certain regrets.
He was 43 when I was born, a passive presence about the home, very much dominated by my strong-willed mother, his third wife. He was amiable and kind, inspiring affection, but he was also lazy and weak, and emotionally reserved.
- 2/11/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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Let’s get the anecdotal/name dropping portion of this blather out of the way up front:
Five, maybe six years ago, I was leaving the British Broadcasting Company’s offices in Manhattan, where I’d been brainstorming a kids’ show with a producer and some writers, including Sean Kelly, who was accompanying me to Third Avenue. Sean mentioned that when he was editor of the late, lamented humor magazine, the National Lampoon, and the Lampoon shared a midtown building with my usual employer, DC Comics, he considered asking me to contribute something to his pages, but that someone told him that I wouldn’t be interested.
Now, let me take a deep breath and aver, emphatically, that I would have been delighted to have my work appear in the hippest and funniest magazine on the racks. I don’t know and don’t want to know who Sean spoke with,...
Let’s get the anecdotal/name dropping portion of this blather out of the way up front:
Five, maybe six years ago, I was leaving the British Broadcasting Company’s offices in Manhattan, where I’d been brainstorming a kids’ show with a producer and some writers, including Sean Kelly, who was accompanying me to Third Avenue. Sean mentioned that when he was editor of the late, lamented humor magazine, the National Lampoon, and the Lampoon shared a midtown building with my usual employer, DC Comics, he considered asking me to contribute something to his pages, but that someone told him that I wouldn’t be interested.
Now, let me take a deep breath and aver, emphatically, that I would have been delighted to have my work appear in the hippest and funniest magazine on the racks. I don’t know and don’t want to know who Sean spoke with,...
- 9/8/2011
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's extensive Internet presence gives us a look inside the inner workings of a madman. Meet a young man obsessed with Muslims, liberals, commercial techno music, and World of Warcraft.
Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, like most nutjobs, had a substantial Internet presence. He had an active Facebook page, blogged, posted YouTube clips, and distributed a manifesto online. But now he is in police custody--and the world is trying to figure out exactly what Breivik's beliefs are.
Under the Anglicized name “Andrew Berwick,” Breivik wrote a 1,500-page Norwegian-language manifesto titled “2083--a European Declaration of Independence” that contained an unwieldy mix of anti-left-wing invective, criticisms of multiculturalism, disdain for immigrants, support for far right-wing elements in the United States, the Netherlands, and Israel, and support for something called “The Vienna School of Thought”--an anti-immigration movement he claimed countered the “Eurabia project and the Frankfurt School (neo-Marxism...
Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, like most nutjobs, had a substantial Internet presence. He had an active Facebook page, blogged, posted YouTube clips, and distributed a manifesto online. But now he is in police custody--and the world is trying to figure out exactly what Breivik's beliefs are.
Under the Anglicized name “Andrew Berwick,” Breivik wrote a 1,500-page Norwegian-language manifesto titled “2083--a European Declaration of Independence” that contained an unwieldy mix of anti-left-wing invective, criticisms of multiculturalism, disdain for immigrants, support for far right-wing elements in the United States, the Netherlands, and Israel, and support for something called “The Vienna School of Thought”--an anti-immigration movement he claimed countered the “Eurabia project and the Frankfurt School (neo-Marxism...
- 7/25/2011
- by Neal Ungerleider
- Fast Company
Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom) On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British Thrillers" series. They are: The 39 Steps (1935), starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll; Number 17 (1932), featuring the now-forgotten John Stuart and Anne Grey; The Lady Vanishes (1938), starring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty, and a cast of first-rate supporting players, including future Oscar winner Paul Lukas; Young and Innocent (1937), with Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney. The 39 Steps is the film that turned Alfred Hitchcock into an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. The film goes from one situation [...]...
- 11/27/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Britain's Prince William has been left off a list of famous students who attended his university.
The royal and his girlfriend Kate Middleton - who have been dating for five years after meeting at Scotland's St Andrew's University - were not included on a list of alumni at the institution's new million museum.
A spokeswoman from the university told Britain's The Daily Mail newspaper: "They are not part of the museum nor are there any plans at present to include them."
Famous names which are on show include "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, "Monty Python" star John Cleese, Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy, "The Jungle Book" writer Rudyard Kipling, and philosopher John Stuart Mill.
The royal and his girlfriend Kate Middleton - who have been dating for five years after meeting at Scotland's St Andrew's University - were not included on a list of alumni at the institution's new million museum.
A spokeswoman from the university told Britain's The Daily Mail newspaper: "They are not part of the museum nor are there any plans at present to include them."
Famous names which are on show include "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, "Monty Python" star John Cleese, Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy, "The Jungle Book" writer Rudyard Kipling, and philosopher John Stuart Mill.
- 11/26/2008
- icelebz.com
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