so i’m 20% Brannan, 20% Lo-Fi, 20% X-Pro II, 5% Hefe, 10% Earlybird, 5% Normal, 20% everything else. Hmmmm.
Stanley Kubrick Head-to-Head with the Famous Phallic Figure from ‘A Clockwork Orange’
Please erect—I mean, direct—your attention to today’s Overly Descriptive Title photo.
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FADE IN: INTO THE MAYNESTREAM
reading this makes me feel like I should be working on my grammar and “big words” . lol! what a great interview though.
n ten short years Eddie Redmayne has gone from the London stage to the world stage. Along the way, he has inhabited a gallery of characters as varied and dissimilar as one could imagine. His theatre work includes classic Shakespearean roles in U.K. productions of Twelfth Night and Richard II; an acclaimed performance as the gay son of an adulterous father whose mistress would be more at home in a barnyard than a bedroom in Edward Albee’s The Goat; and the portrayal of an inquisitive studio assistant to Abstract Expressionist icon Mark Rothko in John Logan’s Red. His filmography is similarly eclectic: in Savage Grace, he played Julianne Moore’s incestuous, schizophrenic son; in The Yellow Handkerchief he was an itinerant Native American in love with Kristen Stewart; and in Hick he was a pedophile meth addict posing dangers to Blake Lively and Chloe Grace Moretz. Not exactly your garden-variety leading-man resume.
He crept closer to the mainstream with My Week with Marilyn, as the aspiring filmmaker entrusted with watching over Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl. Now Redmayne is really threatening to blow his penchant for playing troubled souls, earning raves for his role as the lovestruck student revolutionary, Marius, in the phenomenon known as Les Misérables, along with Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried.
Although Les Miz may seem like an even more traditional path for the thirty-one-year-old actor to take, it actually represents yet another quantum challenge, for he had never sung in a professional capacity before. After a rigorous audition process, Redmayne came away with the role and is now attracting the type of talk that often results in shiny trophies. Not that that’s anything new to him, having already made room on his mantel for various theatre awards, including the prestigious Olivier in the U.K. and a Tony for his role in the Broadway production of Red.
you have to be tougher. you have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary
—very true words spoken by Grace Coddington in The September Issue. I wish I had learned this lesson in my teens and in college instead of being a wee shy lass. girls (and guys), never be afraid to speak your mind. you have nothing to lose (via evachen212)
Vintage BOP musings
photo source : google images
Back in the day, I didn’t buy that much BOP, 16 or Tiger Beat magazines as I’d want to. It was super expensive (being an imported US magazine in Manila) and my poor student allowance wasn’t that much - I allotted it anyway to my bi-weekly book shopping at National Bookstore (Sweet Valley, Sweet Dreams, Lovestories, RL Stine etc etc). And when I do buy magazines, I took care of it. The pin-ups were in clear files so it wouldn’t ruin it. Those I didn’t like I traded with my friends who shared the same obsession (and OC-ness with the pin-ups).
So when my boss’ kids decide to rip magazines apart for posters (which btw, was Big Bopper used to be until it stopped making it?), I always sigh. That’s another post for another day though.
I googled this “vintage” BOP cover (sorry I don’t know who to credit, I can’t find who scanned/uploaded) just because I wanted to see one. And here’s some observations/comments etc :
1) RIP Jonathan Brandis. :( I still get sad remembering you passed away so young. I guess I will just have to watch Neverending Story 2 and Ladybugs to commemorate your total teen mag domination in the 90’s.
2) Mark Paul Gosselar is still on tv. That cop show I keep on forgetting.
3) LUKE PERRY is my boss’ neighbor! He is totally such a dad now. And he is nice - well, he’s kind of sweet for moving the trash bins (boss’) if its put down wonky by the trash collector, to the side of the streets. He’s done that several times so either the trash collector just has bad aim, or he’s annoyed with us for not doing so.
And for the record, I do like Dylan in the “original” 90210. Even if he got Brenda almost preggers and hooked up with Kelly and… I can’t keep track. :(
4) OH who is that little guy on the right hand corner? Leonardo DiCaprio? WHO?
5) I liked Eddie Furlong. I was convinced he’d make it big. bigger than Leo. I was wrong. (what the hell happened to him, btw?)
6) Jamie Walters. whoa. He used to date Drew Barrymore right? Or was he engaged to her? Where is he?!? And why is “how do you talk to an angel?” playing in my head
To those who do NOT know this song, here is YT link :
p.s. who is that Kenny G doppelgangger on that YT video?
I absolutely LOVE this movie……..and it brings me to tears every single time!
I feel the same way.
This is one of the best marriage proposals ever!
RIP Marina Keegan
Marina Keegan was someone I didn’t know. I only know of her through an LA Times article : http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-marina-keegan-news-brief-20120528,0,5156559.story?track=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_mediu
She was killed in a vehicular accident last Saturday. She was only 22, recently graduated from Yale.
She wrote so well, with this passage particularly struck me as beautiful and true:
“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything,” she wrote. “We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”
It just made me a little bit sad, that someone who was so young, and vibrant and ready to take the worlld has left so tragically.
Life is really, too short.
