Paul Bullock Nov 13, 2017
The website for Jurassic Park: The Lost World remains online - and it was once hacked, and made more, er, 'duck-focused'....
For a brief moment in May 1997, Universal Pictures was promoting a major blockbuster about ducks. With the internet growing into the vital marketing tool it’s become today, the studio pushed its financial might behind the online sphere, creating a comprehensive, immersive and interactive site for the sequel to one of its biggest hits. However, just after The Lost World: Jurassic Park was released, something went badly wrong.
“They're quacked,” reads a CNN article dated May 28th 1997 and brilliantly titled Hackers fowl Up Lost World Site. “The dinosaurs of The Lost World were no match for hackers who broke into their Web site and with a stroke of a key changed the film's name to The Duck World: Jurassic Pond."
The stroke of a key...
The website for Jurassic Park: The Lost World remains online - and it was once hacked, and made more, er, 'duck-focused'....
For a brief moment in May 1997, Universal Pictures was promoting a major blockbuster about ducks. With the internet growing into the vital marketing tool it’s become today, the studio pushed its financial might behind the online sphere, creating a comprehensive, immersive and interactive site for the sequel to one of its biggest hits. However, just after The Lost World: Jurassic Park was released, something went badly wrong.
“They're quacked,” reads a CNN article dated May 28th 1997 and brilliantly titled Hackers fowl Up Lost World Site. “The dinosaurs of The Lost World were no match for hackers who broke into their Web site and with a stroke of a key changed the film's name to The Duck World: Jurassic Pond."
The stroke of a key...
- 11/7/2017
- Den of Geek
Actor Robert Carradine - who starred in the cult classic Revenge of the Nerds - was cited for reckless driving after narrowly surviving a brutal head-on collision with a semi-truck on March 5. Carradine, 60, and his wife Edith were driving on a Colorado highway last week when his car veered across a dividing line and crashed into an oncoming rig, the Colorado State Patrol confirms to People. Both vehicles were traveling around 60 miles per hour at the time of the crash, according to the police report. "The fact that they were wearing seatbelts is why they are with us today," Sgt.
- 3/12/2015
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Actor Robert Carradine - who starred in the cult classic Revenge of the Nerds - was cited for reckless driving after narrowly surviving a brutal head-on collision with a semi-truck on March 5. Carradine, 60, and his wife Edith were driving on a Colorado highway last week when his car veered across a dividing line and crashed into an oncoming rig, the Colorado State Patrol confirms to People. Both vehicles were traveling around 60 miles per hour at the time of the crash, according to the police report. "The fact that they were wearing seatbelts is why they are with us today," Sgt.
- 3/12/2015
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- PEOPLE.com
Do you believe in miracles? Robert Carradine and his wife, Edie, were injured in a grisly car crash last week near Dolores, Co., a spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol telling the Cortez Journal that the couple survived the accident because they were wearing seatbelts. A photo posted on the Journal's website shows the obliterated front of the Revenge of the Nerds star's 2003 Mercury Marauder, which was totaled. "He was northbound on Highway 145 and drove right into the oncoming lane," Sgt. James Saunders told the paper. "There were no apparent contributing factors." Neither speed nor alcohol or drugs factored into the crash and the road was dry at the time, authorities...
- 3/12/2015
- E! Online
London, Oct 18 – A nurse at the Broadmoor hospital has reported to have been forced to quit her job over allegations that she was sexually involved with two dangerous inmates, one of them being HIV-positive child rapist – James Saunders, known as ”The Wolfman”.
The police investigations have started against Saunders.
The other patient was also under the care of the blonde nurse in Broadmoor’’s Kempton Ward.
“The nurse and Saunders regularly met in the laundry room for sex,” the Daily Mail Reporter quoted a hospital source as telling the News Of The World.
“The.
The police investigations have started against Saunders.
The other patient was also under the care of the blonde nurse in Broadmoor’’s Kempton Ward.
“The nurse and Saunders regularly met in the laundry room for sex,” the Daily Mail Reporter quoted a hospital source as telling the News Of The World.
“The.
- 10/18/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
'Dostoevskian' French actor with an aura of tormented youth
With his emaciated but hypnotically handsome face and lithe body, the French actor Laurent Terzieff, who has died of respiratory infection aged 75, graced the stage and films for more than half a century. There was always an aura of tormented youth about Terzieff which he carried into the classic roles of his maturity such as Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV (1989) and Shakespeare's Richard II (1991). His perfect diction and rhythmic precision made his rendering of Jean Cocteau's narration of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex in Bob Wilson's production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996 particularly exciting.
Terzieff's special talents were used by many of the great theatre producers of the day: Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook, Roger Planchon, Maurice Garrel, Roger Blin and André Barsacq. He also directed dozens of plays, many at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Montparnasse. Paradoxically, given his tormented persona as an actor,...
With his emaciated but hypnotically handsome face and lithe body, the French actor Laurent Terzieff, who has died of respiratory infection aged 75, graced the stage and films for more than half a century. There was always an aura of tormented youth about Terzieff which he carried into the classic roles of his maturity such as Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV (1989) and Shakespeare's Richard II (1991). His perfect diction and rhythmic precision made his rendering of Jean Cocteau's narration of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex in Bob Wilson's production at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996 particularly exciting.
Terzieff's special talents were used by many of the great theatre producers of the day: Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook, Roger Planchon, Maurice Garrel, Roger Blin and André Barsacq. He also directed dozens of plays, many at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Montparnasse. Paradoxically, given his tormented persona as an actor,...
- 7/21/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Alan Rickman's newly released film Bottle Shock, the actor is called upon to create an entrepreneurial and rather uncomfortable life for his character. The film tells the real-life story of Steven Spurrier, a British expat wine purveyor living in Paris in the mid-1970s. Spurrier is someone only Rickman could play: an open-minded snob, ripe for introduction to the upstart California wine industry. Also required by the role: Rickman must eat KFC and drive a Gremlin. Yes, this is the iconic actor with the mellifluous voice and aloof demeanor who elegantly plays 19th-century romantic leads and 21st-century stylized villains. This is the actor who is at home on Broadway and London stages, as well as in cult-inducing goofy film comedies. And yet, to hear him tell it, he found the get-his-hands-dirty work on Bottle Shock inspiring and challenging. Most of us remember our first sighting of the actor. For the lucky ones,...
- 8/15/2008
- by Dany Margolies
- backstage.com
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