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13 articles from 2009

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Looking for Inspiration for Hotel Design? Try Violent, Profane Movies

9 November 2009 8:30 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Quentin Tarantino's cult classic, Reservoir Dogs, with its cast of violent, sociopathic killers with names straight out of a Crayola box--Mr. Orange, Mr. Blue, Mr. Pink--was the inspiration for a 10-pack of rooms at the recently-opened Paradise Tower at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. Like skulls stenciled on your bedroom wall? Got that. A bed illuminated by blue neon? Check. Wall-sized images of topless women enjoying a post-coital smoke above the headboard? No problem.

"Everyone was so afraid we'd look like another Morgans Hotel property," says Hard Rock Cmo Phil Shalala. "But we kept our brand." Indeed.

The ten pool suites in "The Dime" were designed by South African designer Mark Zeff of ZeffDesign and Las Vegas-based designer Mark Tracy of Chemical Spaces to be decadent, party-like-a-rock-star spaces. Each one is outfitted with the accoutrements critical to the life of a hard-partying young music or entertainment industry »

- Linda Tischler

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Eric Roberts: The Hollywood Interview

2 November 2009 10:23 AM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)

Rediscovering Roberts

Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.

By Terry Keefe

(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)

“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Pee-Wee Herman Returns To Television On 'Jay Leno'

23 September 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

In the two weeks it has existed, "The Jay Leno Show" has mostly been a study in stale stand-up and retread bits from Jay's run on "The Tonight Show." But so far his lineup of guests has been pretty interesting. He lucked into his conversation with Kanye West last week, and last night he welcomed another former MTV Vma star to his gigantic set: Pee-Wee Herman. Paul Reubens, the man inside Herman's head, has used the Pee-Wee character sparingly since his arrest for indecent exposure back in 1991, but he's bringing the persona back for a stage show in Los Angeles starting in November.

Reubens, who became an icon when the movie "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" and the Saturday morning show "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" became gigantic hits, sat across from Leno in his desk-free interview set-up to joke about his abstinence ring, his early experiences with the theater and how confused he always »

- MTV News

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TV Review: Hugh Laurie’s House Shatters M.O. in Sly Season-Six Premiere of ‘House M.D.’

20 September 2009 9:26 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Unrelenting pain, obsessive drug use and chronic hallucinations. Yeah, House has a problem. He’s broken. But can he be fixed? And will he let himself?

Television Rating: 4.5/5.0 For the first time, Dr. Gregory House is embracing denial no more. In the undeniably worth-your-time two-hour Fox premiere of season six of “House M.D” on Monday, Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie instead shatters his M.O. by admitting his addiction to the narcotic painkiller Vicodin. He works on a drug detox as he tries to win jurisdiction over his hallucinations.

Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House for the sixth season of “House”.

Photo credit: George Holz, Fox Broadcasting Co.

This time, calling the season opener an “epic premiere event” isn’t just the marketing folks blowing smoke up your whoopie cake. And this time, House mostly doesn’t step foot in a hospital where he usually plays the mastermind and callous doctor. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Tiff 2009 Two Days In: What’s Good & Bad So Far

12 September 2009 1:19 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Coming up to the third day of the film festival and thus far I have seen The Informant!, which I liked very much despite some problems with decision making by the director, Broken Embraces, which features just a stunning performance from the astonishing Penelope Cruz, Antichrist, a repellant yet unforgettable film, Hugh Hefner, a superb documentary that should earn an Oscar nomination, Bright Star, a disappointing film from Jane Campion, Jennifer’s Body, a rather average horror film from the pen of Juno (2007) writer Diablo Cody and the superb Up in the Air, from the great Jason Reitman.

 

Matt Damon and George Clooney are both so good, so strong in their respective films that choosing one over the other for the Oscar seems impossible, but if I had a vote it would go to Clooney for his stunning work as a man who thinks he is living a life he loves, »

- John Foote

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Ten Things You Never Knew About Penélope Cruz

25 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Penélope Cruz is possibly one of the most envied actresses in modern cinema. After a number of award-winning performances in her native Spain, she started commuting to Hollywood and starred alongside a generation's worth of hunky leading men, including Matt Damon (All The Pretty Horses), Johnny Depp (Blow), Nicolas Cage (Captain Corelli's Mandolin) and Tom Cruise (Vanilla Sky). She also captured the attention of legendary directors Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar along the way. Read on for some fascinating facts about the stunning star. 1. Born Penélope Cruz Sánchez on April 28, 1974 in Madrid, her mum was a hairdresser and her dad a car mechanic and salesman. 2. In her early acting days, Cruz starred in the video for 'La Fuerza Del Destino' ('The Force Of Destiny') by '80s Spanish pop group Mecano. She (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

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'Wanted' Screenwriter Gets His Game On - Who's Next?

17 August 2009 7:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

In the same way that higher-profile actors are jumping on the video game ship sans shame, so too are movie writers like Wanted's Chris Morgan. Morgan has signed up for a rather daunting task - working as the story director for the massive and practically holy sci-fi series The Wheel of Time by the late Robert Jordan. Variety reports that this job entails "overseeing the writing on the titles, working with executive producers and writers to help develop story arcs and helping to digest the book series' 10,000 pages and over 1,700 characters."

(Of course, Morgan and the other two screenplay writers, Derek Haas and Michael Brandt, were taken to task by fans for not sticking to the original comic book story all that much. However, compared to comic book purists, the wrath of Robert Jordan fans can be deadly. Or so I hear.)

Morgan isn't the only screenwriter who has »

- Jenni Miller

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Franka Potente plays along with "House"

3 August 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

I need September 21 to hurry up and get here already because that’s when House is coming back to the airwaves, and then I can stop watching the same 10 episodes of Golden Girls I’ve been memorizing all summer long. (Sophia Petrillo is cute and all, but I want to have Olivia Wilde’s kittens.)

As if I needed another reason to get excited, German beauty, Franka Potente will be guest starring in the season’s two-hour premiere.

For those of you who do not know the greatness that is Franka Potente, let me draw your attention to the amazing film, Run Lola Run (Lola Rent). Writer and director Tom Tykwer created the story of Lola, a girl who has 20 minutes to find money for her drug dealer boyfriend or else he’s going to rob a grocery store. Ok, the plot sounds lame; like why doesn’t she dump »

- Stubbs

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The Reelist: Johnny Depp, American Original

30 June 2009 3:30 AM, PDT | TribecaFilm.com | See recent Tribeca Film news »

If you were going to cast a beautiful man to play your off-center character, you can't do better than the strange and wonderful Johnny Depp. From Benny and Joon to Ed Wood to Dead Man, he's been remarkably reliable as a free spirit-on-film. And unlike the majority of working actors, Depp is constantly choosing directors at fertile, interesting points in their careers - Lasse Hallström (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Terry Gilliam (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), and Ted Demme (Blow) - if they get on well enough, he's likely to work with them again, which speaks well for the actor. Depp's longest-running director-relationship, with Tim Burton, is a marriage of two simpatico minds. Depp's career could be split into two eras: pre-Pirates of the Caribbean/post-Pirates. Before the hit/albatross-around-his-neck, Depp was an intriguing, beautiful actor best known for his eclectic, eccentric taste. After starting out as a 21 Jump Street teen-hunk, »

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Emma Roberts Loves Gwyneth Paltrow and ... Chuck Palahniuk?

8 April 2009 8:17 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Emma Roberts in 2009. Click here to see Bruce Weber’s photographs of her from 2007.At 18, Emma Roberts, Eric’s daughter and Julia’s niece, is poised to carry on the family legacy—and escape its shadow. Having begun her career at the tender age of nine, as Johnny Depp’s daughter in the drug-smuggling drama Blow, she cultivated a teen fan base through the Nickelodeon TV show Unfabulous and through G-rated flicks like Nancy Drew and the recent Hotel For Dogs. Now of voting age, Roberts is ready to graduate from “child-friendly” to “more mature,” as evidenced in her latest film, Lymelife, a quirky indie starring Rory Culkin and Alec Baldwin. Vf.com caught up with her in New York. Lymelife is a coming-of-age story and feels as if it’s a coming-of-age role for you, too. Do you feel that way? Emma Roberts: Definitely. I was so excited »

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Top Ten: After Kate Winslet, Who?

4 March 2009 10:48 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next?

Or rather... who is most overdue?

Contrary to popular belief, it ain't easy to win an Oscar. It certainly wasn't easy for Kate the Great. You need more than an accent, a disability, a good or popular movie, old age makeup or mimicry skills. You also need star charisma, a role that compliments or complicates that charisma and media support. Above all else you need luck combined with surgically precise good timing. History is full of performers who never won the movie's top prize despite plentiful contributions to the art of acting.

For the following list I'm ignoring outstanding performers who have never »

- NATHANIEL R

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Cruz: 'My life is more balanced now'

9 February 2009 6:52 AM, PST | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Penélope Cruz has said that she has a much-improved work-life balance compared to her younger days. The Blow star told The Telegraph that she has turned down roles she liked to make sure she stayed healthy. "I've worked myself to exhaustion in the past, but now my life feels more balanced," she said. "It was a hard lesson to learn that sometimes it is so much healthier to say no even to a role that you like." Cruz (more) »

- By Mayer Nissim

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Ugh, More Johnny Depp Casting Rumors

4 February 2009 5:04 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Johnny Depp is the Riddler! Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter! Johnny Depp in Inxs biopic! Johnny Depp is Tonto! Johnny Depp is a vampire in Dark Shadows! Johnny Depp is Dillinger! Johnny Depp is Moe in Three Stooges! It doesn't end. Whether it is a bonafide story or a ridiculous rumor there is some strange fanboy love for Johnny Depp that begins to wear on rational thinking people and strangely enough, the same people that are goo-goo for Depp are the same people that would quickly insult people for loving Twilight all while they blow loads all over The Dark Knight. It's intolerable. The latest news needed to be mopped off the floor comes as rumors fly out of "In Touch" magazine of all places, which is "reporting" news that Johnny Depp and Sean Penn are being sought to star as Moe and Larry in an upcoming Three Stooges film for the Farrelly brothers. »

- Brad Brevet

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