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Where the Wild Things Are (as read by Christopher Walken):
David Duchovny: ‘The X-Files made me a better actor’:
David Duchovny has credited starring in The X-Files with helping him become a better actor.
Duchovny, who played Special Agent Mulder on the sci-fi series, commented that he learned a great deal during his nine years on The X-Files.
He explained: “Every day I had to go to work and every day for 14 hours year after year after year. I don’t know if I would’ve made it to this point if I would’ve just gone from movie to movie to movie like a three-month stint here and a three-month stint there.
“It was very good for me and my particular sense of myself or my craft to have to go in every day and do it.”
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[digitalspy.ca/18 jan 2012]
Nominated for an NAACP award, for the portrayal of Dom Toretto:
Vin Diesel
We all know, I tend to shy away from award shows…/smile
However, I can’t tell you how honored I am to be Nominated for an NAACP award, for the portrayal of Dom Toretto in Fast Five.
Haha… one to be proud of…
I am lucky to have such a great ensemble of actors, director, writer, producers… and even the studio. Film is truly a team effort, and everyone gave above and beyond.
P.s. Thank you NAACP for validating my work, and more importantly, validating all those who have believed in me.
[facebook.com/VinDiesel]
In defence of Stargate: Universe:
[W]hen it came to Stargate:Universe, they’d learned the lesson that square-jawed action heroes don’t always equal interesting. Universe is filled with flawed characters, so much so that the entire premise of the show was based around the consequences of having the wrong people in the right place at the right time.
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Universe had utterly different themes; cynicism and struggle where the order of the day, problems would not go away once someone had shouted “SCIENCE!” at it and the conflict was almost always internal, rather than some horrid threat from beyond the stars. Which made for great television, but after 10+ years of seeing Stargate Command take on gods and win, I can see why fans were disappointed. They wanted bright heroic romance, not dark struggle.Which is a pity, because the show was all about triumphing over the impossible.
[edfortune.wordpress.com/Ed Fortune/20 Jan 2012 ]
The First Photo of Vin Diesel on the Set of Riddick:
Filming is underway on Riddick and Vin Diesel took to his Facebook page to post a behind-the-scenes image of the eponymous character on set.
[shocktillyoudrop.com/Ryan Turek/19 Jan 2012]
Big silly kitties mangle Christmas trees:
This is incredibly beautiful…and terrifying! But mostly beautiful.
Biggest Teahupoo Ever, Shot on the PHANTOM CAMERA. [Original 720p video]:
Uploaded by leounn on Jan 13, 2012
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Song: “Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun” by M83
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This day at Teahupoo- Aug 27th 2011 during the Billabong Pro waiting period is what many are calling the biggest and gnarliest Teahupoo ever ridden. Chris Bryan was fortunate enough to be there working for Billabong on a day that will go down in the history of big wave surfing. The French Navy labeled this day a double code red prohibiting and threatening to arrest anyone that entered the water.
Kelly Slater described the day by saying “witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people’s lives all day long, it’s life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life.”
All images where shot by Chris Bryan using the Phantom HD Gold camera. To see more of Chris’ work check out his website. WWW.CHRISBRYANFILMS.COM[via: Shakesville]
It’s….magnificent!
Via: Shark Diver
Katee Sackhoff Talks RIDDICK; Reveals the Wild Story on How She Got Cast:
Question: You recently signed on to do the next Riddick movie. Was there a specific draw for you with that?
KATEE SACKHOFF: The draw there is selfish. I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! I’m a huge fan of Vin [Diesel]. I’m a huge fan of the first two movies. I don’t even know how much I can say. They’re so buried in secrecy, over there at the David Twohy camp. But, selfishly, it’s what makes me tick. It’s what I enjoy doing. It’s fun. I’ve been all over the map with my films, in the last year, and the next three or four that I have planned, so I’m excited to go blow some shit up.
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I got the job because I showed up. I truly believe that. When I was driving home that night, at 2 o’clock in the morning, I called my mom and said, “I do believe I just got that job because I showed up.” As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.[collider.com/13 jan 2012]
Better ice cream stacking!
Frank Darabont’s Amazing Walking Dead Episode That You’ll Never See:
Wondering how the second half of Walking Dead season two will be different without Frank Darabont at the wheel? Here’s one brilliant storyline the ex-show runner had planned, which was straight out of the Twilight Zone. And sadly, it will probably never see the light of day.
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[Darabont said to me], “Look, I think it would be really cool to tell a prequel story about how Atlanta fell. Do Black Hawk Down, but with zombies. And have a few main characters pass through, like a Twilight Zone episode [and] the lead will be you. And your character will go through and you’re a soldier and all these horrible things happen, the chain of command breaks down, and eventually you have to take out your superior officer to save a bunch of people. Then, eventually in the end, you get bit.”And [Darabont is] pitching me this, “You’re crawling and you crawl into this tank and you have this grenade and you’re going to blow yourself up. But you set the grenade next to you and you die. Then, we reprise the scene from the pilot, where Rick crawls in the tank and there’s a zombie there.”
And if you look closely, I played that zombie because we were setting up this prequel we were going to do. If you watch the pilot of Walking Dead, that’s me in the tank as the zombie. And then Rick blasts him and he gets deafened, and he gets that grenade which saves him at the end of the season. Well, we were going to tell the history of the grenade. We were going to tell, also, how another character who is being introduced in the second season how he comes to a certain thing. They were going to do all this cool stuff. Not doing it now. Why? Because AMC wanted to save a few bucks. That’s just one example of the king of cool, awesome forethought that this guy put into the show that is now absolutely for naught.
***[io9.com/6 jan 2012]
Anti-Choice Group Invokes Roe V. Wade To Defend 14 Year Old’s Right to Be Pregnant:
Anti-choice activists have been working hard across the country to pass parental permission and notification laws for pregnant teens seeking abortions, including tightening up teen’s abilities to use judicial bypass to obtain an abortion without informing their parents.
So it’s not very often that you hear a “pro-life” legal team arguing about a teens reproductive choice mattering more than what her parents think. Or using Roe v. Wade as an argument in their arsenal.
But that’s what is happening in Texas, where a 14 year old girl is seeking a long term restraining order against her parents, who want her to have an abortion. The teen, as well as her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s mother, want her to continue the pregnancy and have the baby. And the Texas Center for Defense of Life is helping the teen to try and make that happen.
Of course, no one who supports reproductive rights believes that a pregnant woman or even girl should be forced to either bear an unwanted pregnancy or be forced to have a termination against her will, and the use of any sort of violence, physical or emotional, in an attempt to coerce someone out of her own choice is always wrong.
But there’s still a moment of irony when a TCDL attorney declares, “This case is about a woman’s or girls teenagers fundamental rights to choose. And the Roe V. Wade decision goes both ways. In the State of Texas a teenage girl can get a judicial bypass without parental consent or notification this case is about the fact that that goes both ways so if the teen age girl wants to carry the child to term she has a fundamental constitutional right to do that.”
A teen has the right to choose on her own, but only if she chooses to carry the baby to term. If the choice was to terminate against her parents’ will, you can expect that no one from TCDL would be invoking Roe V. Wade in her defense, then. That would be when they explain that a 14 year old girl is too young to know what the mental and physical repercussions of having an abortion could have on her long term, and that parents have a right to control the physical health of their children.
[care2.com/Robin Marty/5 jan 2012]
Best (Worst?) Sex Lies of 2011:
Well, my plans to blog some of the best of 2011 totally fell apart, and for that I apologize. I thought I would make it up to you by compiling a list of some of my favorite (or most disturbing) moments in sexual misinformation. These are some of the strangest, most dunderheaded, or most appalling falsehoods of the year, at least when it comes to doin’ it. You’d think Americans in 2011 wouldn’t be so dumb, but sadly, we have a long way to go before we start getting smarter about sex.
[pandagon.net/Amanda Marcotte/31 Dec 2011]
