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28 Mar 2009
A word or two from your host: heeeeer's AG!
And an editorial note here ... thanks gazillions to Jade (who is the cover artist for DreamCraft and Mel Keegan) for the spanking new header for this blog! I think it looks amazing, and it also reflects where most visitors are coming from, and what they want when they get here!
In fact, you might be interested to know a few stats on this here blog, since there's over 100 posts up now, and visitors from every part of the world are browsing through as if it were a magazine ... which I suppose it is, really!
You'll have noticed the "Link Within" widgets ... I added this service about two weeks ago, and it really has added value to the blog. Visitors like it, and many wind up browsing from topic to topic ... a few have stayed for an hour!
I'm not so sure about the "Snapshots" feature, though. I know it's popular on a lot of sites (like Live Journal and (Wordpress) but I'm not totally "sold" on how it works here.
But I have checked out my Statcounter stats and made a note of what visitors are downloading as "keepers." Guys: you're sussed ... ie., I know what you like! Therefore, I can "keep it coming." And let's be honest, there is never a shortage of stuff to babble about!
Many thanks to all who have supported the blog with a click or two on whatever interesting advertising has come along. I appreciate it!
The next thing I want to add to the site here is a Movie Shoppe. Stay tuned...
In fact, you might be interested to know a few stats on this here blog, since there's over 100 posts up now, and visitors from every part of the world are browsing through as if it were a magazine ... which I suppose it is, really!
- About 40% of all visitors follow a link or an image or a Google search of some description (blog, web or image) for ... Johnny Depp!
- Johnny Depp's tattoos are the most popular single feature on the blog!
- Followed a close second by Viggo's tattoos -- and then by Viggo himself.
- Next up, folks follow links and threads and wind up here on the trail of Elijah Wood...
- And about equal numbers of people are looking for Elijah Wood and Christian Bale; and finding it here!
- Next, James Spader, without or without the long hair (but searches and visitor "came from" links show a definite preference for "with").
- And Richard Dean Anderson is right up there with James Spader, Christian Bale and Elijah Wood, in terms of how many visitors are looking, and searching.
You'll have noticed the "Link Within" widgets ... I added this service about two weeks ago, and it really has added value to the blog. Visitors like it, and many wind up browsing from topic to topic ... a few have stayed for an hour!
I'm not so sure about the "Snapshots" feature, though. I know it's popular on a lot of sites (like Live Journal and (Wordpress) but I'm not totally "sold" on how it works here.
But I have checked out my Statcounter stats and made a note of what visitors are downloading as "keepers." Guys: you're sussed ... ie., I know what you like! Therefore, I can "keep it coming." And let's be honest, there is never a shortage of stuff to babble about!
Many thanks to all who have supported the blog with a click or two on whatever interesting advertising has come along. I appreciate it!
The next thing I want to add to the site here is a Movie Shoppe. Stay tuned...
24 Mar 2009
Christian Bale must be blushing (again) when Auntie Beeb does an oopsie
You just have to chuckle, but I can also imagine some red faces -- and Christian Bale must be among them. Check this out:
BBC Breakfast has avoided censure by Ofcom after it quickly apologised for broadcasting an unedited version of Christian Bale's foul-mouthed tirade on a film set.
On 16 February, the BBC One breakfast news show featured part of the sound-clip in which Bale is heard losing his temper with a member of the film crew.
After introducing the Bale item, the word "fucking" was heard almost immediately.
The clip was stopped and the presenters apologised stating that the clip should have been edited.
The Ofcom code states that "most offensive language must not be broadcast before the watershed".
The BBC explained to Ofcom that two versions of the Bale rant item existed in its production database – one containing the most offensive language and one with this language bleeped out for transmission.
Apparently the original unedited version was played by mistake because the two different versions were not clearly labelled.
Ofcom said it considered the matter adequately resolved in view of the broadcaster's swift action to stop the clip and apologise for offence to viewers.
(From http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43399&c=1)
Nice one, Auntie.
The problem is, Christian Bale might never live this down!
Along the same lines ... but it's a very, very safe bet that it's a clever publicity stunt ... is Gary Oldman's absolutely hilarious tirade ostensibly aimed at a bunch of TV or magazine journalists who appear to be pursuing/harassing him. It's all about a movie that must need some advertising -- because this is just about the best kind of advertising it could get. God knows, even I want to see it now, to figure out what the brewhaha is about! Have a butcher's at this:
I laughed and laughed. And I'm honestly curious to know what the heck The Perfect Sleep is all about. Good one, guys: the advertising worked ... and you got the Internet to spread it "virally" for nothing, right?! Glad to help.
BBC Breakfast has avoided censure by Ofcom after it quickly apologised for broadcasting an unedited version of Christian Bale's foul-mouthed tirade on a film set.
On 16 February, the BBC One breakfast news show featured part of the sound-clip in which Bale is heard losing his temper with a member of the film crew.
After introducing the Bale item, the word "fucking" was heard almost immediately.
The clip was stopped and the presenters apologised stating that the clip should have been edited.
The Ofcom code states that "most offensive language must not be broadcast before the watershed".
The BBC explained to Ofcom that two versions of the Bale rant item existed in its production database – one containing the most offensive language and one with this language bleeped out for transmission.
Apparently the original unedited version was played by mistake because the two different versions were not clearly labelled.
Ofcom said it considered the matter adequately resolved in view of the broadcaster's swift action to stop the clip and apologise for offence to viewers.
(From http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43399&c=1)
Nice one, Auntie.
The problem is, Christian Bale might never live this down!
Along the same lines ... but it's a very, very safe bet that it's a clever publicity stunt ... is Gary Oldman's absolutely hilarious tirade ostensibly aimed at a bunch of TV or magazine journalists who appear to be pursuing/harassing him. It's all about a movie that must need some advertising -- because this is just about the best kind of advertising it could get. God knows, even I want to see it now, to figure out what the brewhaha is about! Have a butcher's at this:
I laughed and laughed. And I'm honestly curious to know what the heck The Perfect Sleep is all about. Good one, guys: the advertising worked ... and you got the Internet to spread it "virally" for nothing, right?! Glad to help.
26 Feb 2009
Men in tights: booboos in the Green Wood
Circulating right now is a king-sized case of "WFT" is going on now?!
This tipped me off to something weird happening:
Russell Crowe's Robin Hood to woo Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian: Will he finally be reunited with Oscars as well?
I mean, it's good news: "Because Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton are co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company she has scaled back her film commitments to barely one a year. That makes the news that Blanchett is about to sign up to play Maid Marian opposite Russell Crowe's Robin Hood even more intriguing."
Great news, in fact, but --
The last time I looked, Russell Crowe was going to be playing the SHERIFF to Christian Bale's Robin. I admit, it's a few months since I looked, but ... this was it. Well, as of 02-28-09, try this one on for size:
This tipped me off to something weird happening:
Russell Crowe's Robin Hood to woo Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian: Will he finally be reunited with Oscars as well?
I mean, it's good news: "Because Cate Blanchett and her playwright husband Andrew Upton are co-artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company she has scaled back her film commitments to barely one a year. That makes the news that Blanchett is about to sign up to play Maid Marian opposite Russell Crowe's Robin Hood even more intriguing."
Great news, in fact, but --
The last time I looked, Russell Crowe was going to be playing the SHERIFF to Christian Bale's Robin. I admit, it's a few months since I looked, but ... this was it. Well, as of 02-28-09, try this one on for size:
The above is a screen-cap from the important part of the 2009 Robin Hood page at IMDB.
Christian Bale is nowhere in sight, and Russell will be playing (OMIGOD!!) both Robin and the Sheriff --
He's going to hunt himself down! He's going to promise to hang and/or behead himself! He's going to menace Maid Marian for being in love with him! He's going to betray himself to Prince John!
Pardon me, folks, but I know the story. I grew up with Robin Hood. He might have been Errol Flynn, or Michael Praed, or Sean Connery, or Jason Connery, or Richard Green, or Cary Elwes, or even (god help us) Kevin Costner. But I grew up with the legend, the mythos, the story, the whole bucket-of-bolts, and I can tell you for a fact, Robin Hood is not, nor was he ever, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
So --WTF?! And here's where I throw up my hands (not to mention my brekkie) and paste in some eye candy instead. So, what the hey, here goes -- Errol, Cary and Michael, in order:
Stay tooned for further developments...
7 Feb 2009
Christian Bale: the nice guy is back
Many, many people will be incredibly pleased to read this, which just popped up on Cnn.com, under their Entertainment tab:
Bale apologizes for 'Terminator' tantrum
It's a very good interview -- a great interview, even, in which the nice guy shows through, and the issues are handled with elegance and aplomb. Here's a quote:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Christian Bale wants everyone to make fun of him for his profanity-filled tirade against a crew member on the set of "Terminator: Salvation."
Christian Bale said he was "way out of order" with his tirade during "Terminator: Salvation" filming.
"I deserve it completely," Bale told the hosts of a Los Angeles radio show Friday.
In a phone call to KROQ-FM's "Kevin and Bean" show, Bale apologized for the rant last July against Shane Hurlbut, the movie's director of photography, which was captured on a much-distributed audio recording.
"I was out of order beyond belief," Bale said. "I was way out of order. I acted like a punk. I regret that."
Bale said that although he has been able to laugh at the jokes, "it's been a miserable week for me."
"There is nobody that has heard that tape that is hit harder by it than me," he said. "I make no excuses for it. It is inexcusable."
Take a moment out to go there and read the whole thing:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/bale.apology/index.html
Nice one, Christian. Now, let's hope people will drop the whole thing and drive on. Let's get to brass tacks here: would Russell Crowe have been content with shouting and cussing?! He'd probably have wrapped a phone around the director of photography's neck ...! (Sorry, Russell. We love you, man, but I couldn't resist that one.)
Welcome back, Mr. Nice Guy!
Bale apologizes for 'Terminator' tantrum
It's a very good interview -- a great interview, even, in which the nice guy shows through, and the issues are handled with elegance and aplomb. Here's a quote:
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Christian Bale wants everyone to make fun of him for his profanity-filled tirade against a crew member on the set of "Terminator: Salvation."
Christian Bale said he was "way out of order" with his tirade during "Terminator: Salvation" filming.
"I deserve it completely," Bale told the hosts of a Los Angeles radio show Friday.
In a phone call to KROQ-FM's "Kevin and Bean" show, Bale apologized for the rant last July against Shane Hurlbut, the movie's director of photography, which was captured on a much-distributed audio recording.
"I was out of order beyond belief," Bale said. "I was way out of order. I acted like a punk. I regret that."
Bale said that although he has been able to laugh at the jokes, "it's been a miserable week for me."
"There is nobody that has heard that tape that is hit harder by it than me," he said. "I make no excuses for it. It is inexcusable."
Take a moment out to go there and read the whole thing:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/06/bale.apology/index.html
Nice one, Christian. Now, let's hope people will drop the whole thing and drive on. Let's get to brass tacks here: would Russell Crowe have been content with shouting and cussing?! He'd probably have wrapped a phone around the director of photography's neck ...! (Sorry, Russell. We love you, man, but I couldn't resist that one.)
Welcome back, Mr. Nice Guy!
5 Feb 2009
Christian Bale: rude, yes, but -- right or wrong?
Further to the "Bale Out" stories yesterday ... got a good one for you here. Christain Bale must be wondering where it's all going to end!
Now, Steve Martin's gotten hold of it, and -- well, see this for yourself! You're not going to hear the F word at all, but good golly, the guy doing the beep noises must've drawn overtime pay on this one:
Very kewl, that!
Turns out, CB said the F word 35 times in his four minute audio romp. Yep -- somebody with way too much time on ehis hands actually sat down and counted them. CB himself doesn't see to have made a response (yet), but this is interesting: Web goes psycho over Christian Bale going psycho ... it's interesting because not only does it show how everyone in earshot or web-shot has been chewing large chunks out of CB, but there's also at least one pro voice in Hollywood racing to his defence:
"I know the guy who pissed him off"
Butch Kaplan has worked as a Hollywood producer for over twenty years. His most recent films are "Babylon A.D.", "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" and "The Patriot".
This was nothing that we haven't seen before, and in this case, the actor was completely right, and I'm not surprised to hear what happened. He's what we call in the industry a 'tweeker'. It's people who are very insecure about what they're doing that they constantly need to 'tweek' things.
A lot of actors have a hard time getting into the place of the character. You're trying to make it real, you're having a really deep moment, and then there's this guy, tweeking the lights. It's as if he's saying 'what I'm doing is more important than what you're doing - it's all about the lighting'. What Bale said was rude, but what Hurlbut did was so disrespectful. And the funny thing about this, is that Bale was more right than 95% of actors who pull this stuff. Not only actors, but producers, directors. Sometimes they even get into punch-ups, and most of the time they at least storm off set and refuse to come out of their trailer. The people who act up the most actually have the most power; a little tantrum earns you respect here.
However in this case it wasn't a power trip, it was a true explosion of frustration. A case of 'I'm trying to do my job and you're totally screwing me over'."
So there you go -- the jury will now retire to deliberate the evidence!
Now, Steve Martin's gotten hold of it, and -- well, see this for yourself! You're not going to hear the F word at all, but good golly, the guy doing the beep noises must've drawn overtime pay on this one:
Very kewl, that!
Turns out, CB said the F word 35 times in his four minute audio romp. Yep -- somebody with way too much time on ehis hands actually sat down and counted them. CB himself doesn't see to have made a response (yet), but this is interesting: Web goes psycho over Christian Bale going psycho ... it's interesting because not only does it show how everyone in earshot or web-shot has been chewing large chunks out of CB, but there's also at least one pro voice in Hollywood racing to his defence:
"I know the guy who pissed him off"
Butch Kaplan has worked as a Hollywood producer for over twenty years. His most recent films are "Babylon A.D.", "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" and "The Patriot".
This was nothing that we haven't seen before, and in this case, the actor was completely right, and I'm not surprised to hear what happened. He's what we call in the industry a 'tweeker'. It's people who are very insecure about what they're doing that they constantly need to 'tweek' things.
A lot of actors have a hard time getting into the place of the character. You're trying to make it real, you're having a really deep moment, and then there's this guy, tweeking the lights. It's as if he's saying 'what I'm doing is more important than what you're doing - it's all about the lighting'. What Bale said was rude, but what Hurlbut did was so disrespectful. And the funny thing about this, is that Bale was more right than 95% of actors who pull this stuff. Not only actors, but producers, directors. Sometimes they even get into punch-ups, and most of the time they at least storm off set and refuse to come out of their trailer. The people who act up the most actually have the most power; a little tantrum earns you respect here.
However in this case it wasn't a power trip, it was a true explosion of frustration. A case of 'I'm trying to do my job and you're totally screwing me over'."
So there you go -- the jury will now retire to deliberate the evidence!
4 Feb 2009
Christian Bale: Open mouth, insert foot. Uh ... both feet.
You have to admit, for several minutes on the set of Terminator: Salvation, Christian Bale only opened his mouth to change feet.
As tirades go, it's a doozey. In case you haven't heart it ... well, be aware you're going to hear the F word ... oooooh, a lot. Seems old CB only knows one curse word, so as well as working on his people skills, he also needs to learn how to cuss properly! One word gets ... repetitive after a wile. Anyway --
You've been forewarned, right? So here goes:
Naturally, the Internet being the Internet, it wasn't long before it was uploaded and everybody in the world had heard it. By the time I listened in (and laughed my head off) it'd already been downloaded 700,000 times. I was #700,001.
Now it gets better. Some folks are really, I mean really creative. There's this one previously unknown music producer who works under the trade name of DJ Revolucion (probably because man's real name is Lucian Piane, which sounds like a librarian in hornrimmed eyeglasse). I say previously unknown, because this guy is probably the best-known music producer in the world, 24 hours later ... after he remixed the four-minute tirade into a rap-crap dance track.
Not only that, but more people are getting more creative:
I'll tell you what, you'd get a real workout, dancing to that.
Want more? There's more. You're not going to get a workout with this one -- but after the previous clip, you're probably sweating bullets and chugging Gatorade anyway, so -- take care not to inhale the Gatorade as you listen to ...
The CHIPMUNK REMIX of Christian's tirade. Seriously. Get this:
Oh, boy.
It's not that we don't appreciate the man's skills as an actor. As an actor, he's FANTASTIC. He just needs to work on his people skills ... and his cussing skills, come to think of it.
Want the full story? Here's some links to follow:
Christian Bale's rant remixed as dance song
and
You Can Now Dance To The Sound Of Christian Bale’s Fury
...enjoy!
Update on this: Steve Martin geta a-hold of the routine, and...! http://ariciasalbum.blogspot.com/2009/02/christian-bale-rude-yes-but-right-or.html
As tirades go, it's a doozey. In case you haven't heart it ... well, be aware you're going to hear the F word ... oooooh, a lot. Seems old CB only knows one curse word, so as well as working on his people skills, he also needs to learn how to cuss properly! One word gets ... repetitive after a wile. Anyway --
You've been forewarned, right? So here goes:
Naturally, the Internet being the Internet, it wasn't long before it was uploaded and everybody in the world had heard it. By the time I listened in (and laughed my head off) it'd already been downloaded 700,000 times. I was #700,001.
Now it gets better. Some folks are really, I mean really creative. There's this one previously unknown music producer who works under the trade name of DJ Revolucion (probably because man's real name is Lucian Piane, which sounds like a librarian in hornrimmed eyeglasse). I say previously unknown, because this guy is probably the best-known music producer in the world, 24 hours later ... after he remixed the four-minute tirade into a rap-crap dance track.
Not only that, but more people are getting more creative:
I'll tell you what, you'd get a real workout, dancing to that.
Want more? There's more. You're not going to get a workout with this one -- but after the previous clip, you're probably sweating bullets and chugging Gatorade anyway, so -- take care not to inhale the Gatorade as you listen to ...
The CHIPMUNK REMIX of Christian's tirade. Seriously. Get this:
Oh, boy.
It's not that we don't appreciate the man's skills as an actor. As an actor, he's FANTASTIC. He just needs to work on his people skills ... and his cussing skills, come to think of it.
Want the full story? Here's some links to follow:
Christian Bale's rant remixed as dance song
and
You Can Now Dance To The Sound Of Christian Bale’s Fury
...enjoy!
Update on this: Steve Martin geta a-hold of the routine, and...! http://ariciasalbum.blogspot.com/2009/02/christian-bale-rude-yes-but-right-or.html
3 Feb 2009
We demand video!
Much as I love Australia, there's times when you wish you were in North America: living downunder you get a terrible case of Bandwidth Envy. Down here? You pay top dollar for a squeezy-wheezy little bit of bandwidth, and when you're over your limit, ZAP -- they revert you to dialup speeds.
Meanwhile, in the USA (where else?) you can sign up with Netflix for US$9-a-month and get access to streaming video on the teev ... any movie, anytime, with a catalog of 12,000 titles to choose from right now, and growing all the time.
Wanna read the whole story that just popped up on the Star Tribune this morning: here it is!
'Scuze me now while I go gnash my teeth. Aus doesn't have the bandwidth available, and what with the internet filtering (filleting) that's due to start very soon, we're likely to lose the internet altogether -- imagine this: the internet is taken down!!! There's been talk about it. (Mel Keegan has blogged loads about this in the last few months. What you need to do it go over to The World According to Mel and click on the "Save the Internet!" label, and get ready to be appalled.
Okay -- that's the news -- where's the eye candy???
How about James McAvoy -- blond!
How's about luscious Gerard Butler looking -- well, like this:
Or are you in the mood for Christian Bale in the shower? Here goes:
And for those who are loony for Cloony, here's Gorgeous George, plus pooch:
And to round it off, how's about Mark Wahlberg, complete with tattoo:
Nice dose of eye candy!
Meanwhile, in the USA (where else?) you can sign up with Netflix for US$9-a-month and get access to streaming video on the teev ... any movie, anytime, with a catalog of 12,000 titles to choose from right now, and growing all the time.
Wanna read the whole story that just popped up on the Star Tribune this morning: here it is!
'Scuze me now while I go gnash my teeth. Aus doesn't have the bandwidth available, and what with the internet filtering (filleting) that's due to start very soon, we're likely to lose the internet altogether -- imagine this: the internet is taken down!!! There's been talk about it. (Mel Keegan has blogged loads about this in the last few months. What you need to do it go over to The World According to Mel and click on the "Save the Internet!" label, and get ready to be appalled.
Okay -- that's the news -- where's the eye candy???
How about James McAvoy -- blond!
How's about luscious Gerard Butler looking -- well, like this:
Or are you in the mood for Christian Bale in the shower? Here goes:
And for those who are loony for Cloony, here's Gorgeous George, plus pooch:
And to round it off, how's about Mark Wahlberg, complete with tattoo:
Nice dose of eye candy!
8 Jan 2009
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