tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175349542024-03-14T11:49:45.326-07:00Movie MartinMartin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.comBlogger8545125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-19682162519509585692017-12-29T20:04:00.000-08:002017-12-30T15:03:04.324-08:002017: The Year in Review<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It i</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">s the end of 2017, but it may as well be not be, for this year – even on the heels of <i>last</i> year – has felt beyond-interminable, this in spite of its many ferocious pulls in pretty much every single f---in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">direction.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">That</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s part of the reason I took a sabbatical from this non-sense about which, yes, I ha</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">ve been </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">known to be quite serious, to become much more of aware of the world beyond the movies.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">To keep tabs on the real world.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">To try and keep up not only with the Kardashians, for a change, but with the people who are supposed to be representing and leading this country and, closer to the ground and to home, with my community.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Still had time to watch some films, though. Some movies and some flicks, too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Most of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’em were good and fun, although a few were fairly awful. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Not as terrible as...you know what? He</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s not worth it. He is not me, he is not us; he</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s got zero to do with this, and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> he certainly doesn</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’t deserve any more attention.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">So here</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s to the year that was, and to 2018, which, IMHO, is already full of promise.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white;">I tell ya, it</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s gonna be a good one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">Because woof.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">Now, without further ado, my picks with a little silliness thrown back in for good measure.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">10 Best Films of the Year (in alphabetical order)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Battle of the Sexes</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>The Big Sick</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Call Me by Your Name</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Dunkirk</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>The Florida Project</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Get Out</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><i>Lady Bird<br />Logan</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>The Shape of Water</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Honorable Mention (tie):</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;"><i>Beach Rats</i> and <i>Beatriz at Dinner</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Directors:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Guillermo del Toro (<i>The Shape of Water</i>), Greta Gerwig</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Lady Bird</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">), Luca Guadagnino (<i>Call Me by Your Name</i>), Patty Jenkins (<i>Wonder Woman</i>), Jordan Peele (<i>Get Out</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Look:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Charlize Theron in <i>Atomic Blonde</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Makeover:</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Chris Hemsworth</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s in <i>Thor: Ragnarok</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Props:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <i>It</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s myriad red balloons</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Setting:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <i>Call Me by Your Name</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s Italian countryside</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Switcheroo:</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> Allison Williams</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’ in <i>Get Out</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Best Supporting Actors:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Willem Dafoe (<i>The Florida Project</i>), Armie Hammer (<i>Call Me by Your Name</i>)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">, Andy Serkis (<i>War for the Planet of the Apes</i>, <i>Star Wars: The Last Jedi</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">), Patrick Stewart (<i>Logan</i>) Michael Stuhlbarg</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> (<i>Call Me by Your Name</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Most Welcome to the A-List:</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Gal Gadot (<i>Wonder Woman</i>)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Most Ready to Channel Ivanka Trump for a Remake of <i>Single White Female</i> That Ought to Be Titled <i>Single White Nationalist</i>:</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <i>Unforgettable</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s Katherine Heigl</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Most Surprising:</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <i>The Foreigner</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s Jackie Chan </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">(Jackie Chan!)</span><br />
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A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) on <time datetime="2017-08-16T02:49:29+00:00" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Aug 15, 2017 at 7:49pm PDT</time></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">Bless yourself and genuflect, people – the Queen is having a birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tanti auguri, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BX3YKGYhxAu/?taken-by=madonna">Madonna</a>! May all your dreams of love and peace come true, <a href="https://twitter.com/themartinharo/status/897693628109393920">today, always, and forever</a>.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And never stop dancing.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Video: Instagram.com/madonna.</span></span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-60262507459506369132016-12-30T22:31:00.000-08:002017-01-03T11:40:24.963-08:002016: The Year in Review<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">A wallflower 2016 certainly was not, wouldn</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’t you agree.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">But it was a most interesting and intriguing year, one in which new voices were heard, and quieter stories triumphantly bubbled up to the surface, and, for that matter, not a </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">minute too soon or too late, too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">So here</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s to that – to <i>that</i>, at the very least – and to 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Captain America: Civil War</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Eye in the Sky</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>The Invitation</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>Jackie</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The surprise single – which dropped the day before last winter</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’s Super Bowl and which Queen B defiantly and confidently </span><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/02/coldplay-co-slay-super-bowl-50.html" style="font-size: 14px;">performed</a><span style="font-size: 14px;"> at the big game before dropping her latest game elevator, <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/04/all-lemonade-is-tidals.html">LEMONADE</a></i>, in the spring – had it all:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A declarative and definitive acknowledgement of self.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It was a long-con rally cry for a year that</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s not yet over and, best of all, for a story – a history...a herstory – that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s yet to be fully written.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Formation</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” is not only <i>the</i> song of the year. It is the song of the future.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Time to get, <strike>ladies</strike> <strike>people</strike> everyone. Time to get.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Indeed, time to slay:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="288" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mwA-g5n6UWk" width="512"></iframe></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-72807442900704899852016-11-08T23:57:00.000-08:002016-11-09T11:56:16.446-08:00Donald Trump Is America’s President-Elect Now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCQKPG3I4F4/WCNSYrMimTI/AAAAAAAAh74/luYP0Eydgv4_4wwpwENvDz3cYUsl8v8iACLcB/s1600/Donald%2BTrump%2Belected%2B45th%2Bpresident%2Bof%2Bthe%2BUnited%2BStates%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCQKPG3I4F4/WCNSYrMimTI/AAAAAAAAh74/luYP0Eydgv4_4wwpwENvDz3cYUsl8v8iACLcB/s320/Donald%2BTrump%2Belected%2B45th%2Bpresident%2Bof%2Bthe%2BUnited%2BStates%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In the tightest, most stressful and divisive of races, <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/11/donald-trump-wins-2016-presidential-election-1201851190">America elected reality-TV star-turned-populist politician Donald Trump as its 45th president tonight</a>. <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/search?q=Hillary+Clinton&max-results=20&by-date=true">Secretary Hillary Clinton</a> called the man a few minutes ago and conceded the race.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">For real.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Time to get to work, people. Mike Pence is our new VP.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">While I congratulate the Republicans on their win, and the Trumps and the Pences, I hereby pledge to stand up to any – <i>any</i> – shenanigans, you hear, President-Elect Trump. I will fight for liberty and equality for all. I will not take any notion of abuse lightly, and I will work against it and I will let you know it.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You have <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2012/11/consider-this-one-barackd.html">big shoes</a> to fill, Donald Trump. Bigly.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Don</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’t ruin us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Update 1:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> What did you think of the <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/11/donald-trump-speech-2016-presidential-election-1201851431">first speech delivered by President-Elect Trump</a>, an acceptance of the presidency of the United States given late on Nov. 8? I thought it was conciliatory, and I am happy to move away from division as encouraged. I trust he, too, is serious about that piece of business.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Update 2:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> And now, for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/martin.haro/posts/10157755936470717">concession speech from Hillary Clinton</a>, delivered before noon on Nov. 9....</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;">With her remarks, the trailblazing Clinton asked that we keep an open mind to President-Elect Trump, and that we fight for what we believe is right and for that which we hold dear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Are you ready? Are you going to fight for what you believe in?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Good. Because I am.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Update 3:</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> To the Clinton supporters I say quit licking your wounds and wallowing in guilt (that you did not do more) and shock. Completely unnecessary.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">What we must do is acknowledge the writing was on the wall all along – it was there in red (it was unmissable). Half this country supported Donald Trump for a reason. I personally failed that side, which I saw and recognized and on whose behalf I barely spoke up. Guilty as charged: I got caught up in the rhetoric, in a desire to make herstory and reassure myself and others that we go high when others go low. I was swept up in my own disdain. And I placed way to much trust in the status quo, which now will go unchallenged in the manner I planned to (time to revise that course of action).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">President-Elect Trump ran with scissors – but he did ask <i>us</i> for guidance on Nov. 9. I plan on giving it to him, on reaching out to his supporters. On being the change I want to see in the world. Because I have gotten over his win. You should as well. Fast.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">Perhaps, he means it. Maybe, he does want to make us great again.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">I know...that is so kinda <i>so</i> Pollyanna. But, to be fair, our priorities, my priorities have been whack as of late. We can and should be doing better – all of us.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">We have not. Racism and sexism and xenophobia are real. Black people, black <i>men</i> are incarcerated en masse and shot down with impunity. Women make less money and their health is under siege. Immigrants like myself are vilified. Guns will go unchecked. We know it now. Also real are economic struggle and the feeling that the walls are closing in on ya.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">Barack Obama ran on hope, and for many, <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2015/06/gay-marriage-wins.html">hope delivered</a>. For countless others yet, it did not.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">Hillary Clinton posited that we are stronger together. For sure, we are.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">So let us all come together now. Less iLife, more <i>we</i>Life.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #333333;">That is how <i>we</i> will <i>keep</i> America great.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-11438180106508820122016-11-08T16:32:00.001-08:002016-11-08T16:32:39.646-08:00Manning the Machine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Emmy nominee <a href="http://twitter.com/DarrenCriss">Darren Criss</a> sure is pluggin</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> away.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The erstwhile curly haired heartthrob of TV</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Glee</i> has been glittering away as Hedwig on Broadway and beyond – I saw him in San Francisco last month, and lemme tell ya...the kid can work dem platform heels! – and, now, he</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s getting back into the TV-meets-music game</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Criss is going <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/07/darren-criss-royalties-sitcom-fox">to co-executive produce a new workplace comedy titled <i>Royalties</i></a> for Fox.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The show will revolve around the unseen and unsung heroes behind the pop stars we know and love – or, at least, the fictional version of some of </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’em</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">. Y</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’ know, the writers and producers and marketing people. The machine behind the talent.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Our way in as viewers will be the o</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ne-hit wonder who gets all prodigal and returns to the company in order to score a big hit once again</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Photo: SFGate.com.</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-84811193287795993192016-11-08T15:52:00.001-08:002016-11-08T15:53:48.899-08:00M’s with Her!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Madonna is with her!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Because Rebel Hearts stick together, the Queen of Pop put on a <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/07/madonna-surprise-hillary-clinton-concert">surprise mini-concert</a> at Washington Square Park in New York City last night, the eve of Election Day 2016, in support of <a href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/">Hillary Clinton</a>, the badass woman who just might become the first female president of the United States later today.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The somewhat-intimate set included acoustic performances of </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Express Yourself,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” John Lennon</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Imagine,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” and a mash-up of Peter, Paul and Mary</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“If I Had a Hammer,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” and M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">s own </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Rebel Heart.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” It was a simple affair, from what I can tell, and a true celebration – an artist using her voice and a guitar to speak her mind and endorse the candidate in whom she most wholeheartedly believes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: Billboard.com.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-29407168601201699852016-11-08T08:06:00.000-08:002016-11-08T16:06:58.135-08:00He’s in the Herd, Too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The men of <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-tale-of-black-love.html">Moonlight</a></i> are killing it, yo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Not only are Trevante Rhodes and <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-educator.html">André Holland</a> in one of the best films of 2016 (trust), the pair already is linin</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’ up exciting new projects for the future.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We know that Holland is going to be in Ava DuVernay</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>A Wrinkle in Time</i>, and now, for his part, Rhodes is all <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/moonlight-star-trevante-rhodes-join-chris-hemsworth-horse-soldiers-943106">set to co-star</a> opposite Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, and Michael Peña in <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/09/hes-in-herd.html">Horse Soldiers</a></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">The Jerry Bruckheimer co-production will center on a a U.S. Special Forces team led by an untested captain that was sent into a rugged, mountainous region of Afghanistan in the aftermath of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Things, of course, needless to say, probably went awry. Ergo this dramatization.</span></span></span><br />
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Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-20526911606324447192016-11-08T07:19:00.000-08:002016-11-08T16:20:56.000-08:00American Animal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1404239">Evan Peters</a> is branching out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The American Horror Story player is going <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/evan-peters-american-horror-story-movie-american-animals">to star in <i>American Animals</i></a>, a movies based on the true story of four young men who thought they were in a movie and attempted a most audacious heist – the most boldly brazen ever attempted in the United States.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">That</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s it for details. So consider me curious.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Documentary filmmaker <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1717925">Bart Layton</a> (<i>The Imposter</i>) w</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">ill write and direct.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3659660">Corey Hawkins</a> is about to break through with TV</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’s <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/reset-time.html">24: Legacy</a></i>, which is premiering this winter – but the actor is determined to keep working on his craft.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And that is why he is turning to Broadway.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hawkins is headed back to the Great White Way (he appeared in 2013</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s mixed-race <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>)</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> to star with Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey in a <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/corey-hawkins-joins-cast-six-degrees-separation-943900">revival of John Guare</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/corey-hawkins-joins-cast-six-degrees-separation-943900">’s <i>Six Degrees of Separation</i></a> – a play that has nothing to do with Kevin Bacon, btw.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">The <i>Straight Outta Compton</i> standout will play Paul, a young con man who pretends to be the college friend of the son of a well-to-do New York City couple, the Kittredges.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">How very <i>The Talented Mr. Ripley</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance originated the role on Broadway (all the way to a Tony nomination) before Will Smith portrayed Paul for the big screen back in his pre-Will friggin</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’ </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Smith early-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’90s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">days.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><i>Six Degrees of Separation</i> will kick off previews for a 15-week engagement on April 5. The show is set to open on April 25.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Photo: WashingtonPost.com.</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-85243494933344927312016-11-06T21:04:00.000-08:002016-11-07T09:04:18.762-08:00Obviously Donatella<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sorry, <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2007/09/flip-flop-following-11th-hour.html">Maya Rudolph</a> – it</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s gonna be <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/she-wants-to-stay.html">Lady GaGa</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Obviously.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Ryan Murphy has cast the Golden Globe-winning Mother Monster (FX</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>American Horror Story: Hotel</i>) as fashion designer Donatella Versace on his <i>other</i> cable anthology-series franchise, <i><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/lady-gaga-american-crime-story-gianni-versace">American Crime Story</a></i>. The multi-hyphenate will be featured during the forthcoming third installment of the show, the season focusing on the Gianni Versace</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"> murder (the beloved gone-to-soon designer was killed in 1997 in front of his Miami Beach home by a serial killer named Andrew Cunanan).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">I can</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’t believe I</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’m saying this, but that</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s some perfect casting right there. After all, Lady GaGa already played La Versace – kinda...ish – in the Italian fashion house</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <a href="http://jezebel.com/what-lady-gagas-versace-ads-look-like-without-photoshop-1563552623">Spring 2014 ad campaign</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Versace season of <i>American Crime Story</i> will be based on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vulgar-Favors-Cunanan-Versace-Largest/dp/044022585X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478537756&sr=1-1&keywords=Maureen+Orth%2C+Vulgar+Favors">Maureen Orth</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vulgar-Favors-Cunanan-Versace-Largest/dp/044022585X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1478537756&sr=1-1&keywords=Maureen+Orth%2C+Vulgar+Favors">’s <i>Vulgar Favors</i></a>. That installment will follow the show</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’s second season, which will focus on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.</span></span></span><div>
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Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-30683649362090063932016-11-06T16:51:00.000-08:002016-11-08T16:52:07.545-08:00The Horseman Who Will<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2015/09/step-aside-emily-thorne.html">Liam Neeson</a> (who is about to court Oscar this winter, with Martin Scorsese</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s decades-in-the-works </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Silence</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">) and </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001403" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Neil Jordan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"> are teaming up again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Northern Irish actor and his Irish <i>Michael Collins</i> director are going <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/11/liam-neeson-neil-jordan-the-trainer-todd-komarniki-hanway-films-1201846361">to work on <i>The Trainer</i></a>, the story of a premier horse trainer in west Ireland who loses it all – including his will to live – following tragedy.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">His life is basically saved by a young girl named Nadya, a refugee making a new way for herself in a strange new land.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Of course, the two bond over their shared love for equines, especially one that just may gift them the win that they both need.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">So...Awards Bait Alert?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">You know it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Photo: IFTA.ie.</span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-24054251492046584192016-11-04T18:29:00.000-07:002016-11-08T18:37:41.407-08:00The Peacock Ain’t Feelin’ the Cruelty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sw4-7-PFbWo/WCKL1LrYDyI/AAAAAAAAh7o/iYsqG5jGHnQJEDOsWqpMZKd3FJrNZ-XQwCLcB/s1600/NBC%2Bpasses%2Bon%2BSarah%2BMichelle%2BGellar-led%2BCruel%2BIntention%2BTV%2Breboot%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sw4-7-PFbWo/WCKL1LrYDyI/AAAAAAAAh7o/iYsqG5jGHnQJEDOsWqpMZKd3FJrNZ-XQwCLcB/s320/NBC%2Bpasses%2Bon%2BSarah%2BMichelle%2BGellar-led%2BCruel%2BIntention%2BTV%2Breboot%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">So NBC has (wisely?) decided not share its <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-new-annette-hargrove.html">Cruel Intentions</a></i> with us.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/02/kathryn-merteuil-is-back.html">Sarah Michelle Gellar</a>-led TV reboot (the pilot for which was shot on location in San Francisco) always sounded to me like a bad fit for the Peacock. I mean, if she couldn</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’t cuss, what was SMG</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s Kathryn Merteuil supposed to do? Rely on on-screen emoji?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">That woulda been hella silly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The powers that be reportedly will be <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/31/cruel-intentions-reboot-nbc-passes">shopping the show</a> to other networks and to the streamers (I bet)</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: Yahoo.com.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-82228862887237377712016-11-04T10:23:00.001-07:002016-11-04T10:23:25.542-07:00Country Fans Need a Beyoncé Lesson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See? No reason to get all ridikolous, <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/03/cma-awards-beyonce-dixie-chicks-performance-not-scrubbed">country fans</a>: Collaboration is good.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">That</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s precisely what <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/02/beyonce-slays-the-country-music-awards-a-political-statement-unto-itself.html">the Dixie Chicks did with Beyoncé</a> – work together to create something beautiful – when Queen B joined </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">em on stage a couple of nights ago at the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"> Country Music </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Awards for a very special and <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/02/cmas-2016-beyonce-dixie-chicks">badass performance</a> of the <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/search?q=Beyonc%C3%A9,+LEMONADE&max-results=20&by-date=true">LEMONADE</a></i> maker</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“<a href="http://www.dixiechicks.com/news/2016/11/2/get-your-free-download-of-daddy-lessons-by-beyonc-feat-dixie-chicks-1">Daddy Lessons</a>,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” which you can listen to and download for free <a href="http://www.beyonce.com/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Evidently, a great backlash (with some disappointing and ugly racial undertones) met the collaboration (and even Beyoncé</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s mere presence at the show), which is silly because country music is for all and <i>of</i> all. I <a href="https://twitter.com/themartinharo/status/781875246441779200">believe</a> that <a href="https://twitter.com/themartinharo/status/793891946460655616"><i>LEMONADE</i> is absolutely a country album</a>, much more than the click-bait-y confessional the media and some people made it out to be, and I think that we can all agree Beyoncé</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s pretty f---in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’ amazing, so I don</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’t get how anything bad could be said about this collab. But folks will surprise.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">We have so many pressing matters to worry about these days, pettiness ought to fall to the bottom of the list, knowwhatImean?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Let</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s get it together, America.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">We really are and will continue to be stronger and better and funner together.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Photo: EW.com.</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-84591290806562766112016-11-03T22:11:00.001-07:002016-11-03T22:11:33.305-07:00Dr. Jack Ryan Girl, Thankyouverymuch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">When <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/05/jack-ryan-krasinskid.html">John Krasinski</a> becomes Jack Ryan for Amazon (some sweet time next year, I should guess), <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/11/tom-clancy-jack-ryan-cast-abbie-cornish-female-lead-john-krasinski-1201848329">Abbie Cornish</a> is gonna be right there with him.</span></span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Indeed, the <i>Limitless</i> star had landed the female lead on the exactly titled <i>Tom Clancy</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><i>’s Jack Ryan</i> that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">producer Carlton Cuse (A&E</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Bates Motel</i>, TV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Lost</i>) is working on, taking on the role of Dr. Cathy Mueller, an infectious-diseases specialist.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Yes, she will serve as a love interest for Krasinski – but did you take note of her title? Girlfriend ain</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’t gonna be your typical damsel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">No siree she won</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: CelebrityHive.com.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-47527444925346420862016-11-03T12:00:00.003-07:002016-11-03T12:02:11.625-07:00Headed to the Yuba River Valley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/08/reverse-splash.html">Channing Tatum</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">s going west with Netflix.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The actor is going <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/11/netflix-gold-rush-feature-spec-script-yuba-1201846324">to produce</a> – at the very least – </span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.tracking-board.com/netflix-set-to-acquire-gold-rush-spec-yuba-with-channing-tatum-producing">Yuba</a></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for the streamer.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A western set in the Gold Rush of yore, the film was written by newcomer Eamon O</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’S</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ullivan and will be a sprawling period tale centering on two main characters.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">FYI: The Yuba river valley was notorious once for its unabashed lawlessness.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">So now you kinda know what you</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’ll be getting into, kids.</span><br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c97ix4H-bno/WBowzmdDStI/AAAAAAAAh5I/kf64KcJdExc4n5jaJwznXTbrlqLoWjxFACLcB/s1600/Moonlight%2527s%2BAndre%25CC%2581%2BHolland%2Bcast%2Bas%2BPrincipal%2BJenkins%2Bin%2BAva%2BDuVernay%2527s%2BA%2BWrinkle%2Bin%2BTime%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c97ix4H-bno/WBowzmdDStI/AAAAAAAAh5I/kf64KcJdExc4n5jaJwznXTbrlqLoWjxFACLcB/s320/Moonlight%2527s%2BAndre%25CC%2581%2BHolland%2Bcast%2Bas%2BPrincipal%2BJenkins%2Bin%2BAva%2BDuVernay%2527s%2BA%2BWrinkle%2Bin%2BTime%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="250" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-unluckiest-number.html">13th</a></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/02/ironing-that-wrinkle.html">Ava DuVernay</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s next 100-million-dollar production, the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620680">adaptation of Madeleine L</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620680">’Engle</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620680">’s <i>A Wrinkle in Time</i></a> starring <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/09/wrinkle-girl.html">Storm Reid</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> and Oprah, just got a little bit of that <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-tale-of-black-love.html">Moonlight</a></i> shine.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2428245">André Holland</a> (</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">FX</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>American Horror Story: Roanoke</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Cinemax</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>The Knick</i>)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> has been <a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/01/wrinkle-in-time-zach-galifianakis-andre-holland-rowan-blanchard">cast</a> in the production, as Principal Jenkins.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Also joining in on the fantasy fun will be Zach Galifianakis, <i>Pan</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s Levi Miller, <i>Celeste & Jesse Forever</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s W</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">ill McCormack, Rowan Blanchard (the Disney Channel</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Girl Meets World</i>)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">, and Bellamy Young (TV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Scandal</i>)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Holland & Co. join a robust cast that already includes </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, and <i>Beyond the Lights</i></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’ G</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ugu Mbatha-Raw</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: Zimbio.com.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-40162938513595802572016-11-02T09:42:00.001-07:002020-06-12T15:14:17.454-07:00Their Fair Wisdom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ru3wj59wy8/WBoXL79JyvI/AAAAAAAAh44/yJZYdQsYoE8Oz2mwxNsxUwCwJtlDTFz6wCLcB/s1600/Annette%2BBening%252C%2BElle%2BFanning%252C%2BGreta%2BGerwig%252C%2Band%2BBilly%2BCrudup%2Bstar%2Bin%2B20th%2BCentury%2BWomen%252C%2Btrailer%252C%2Bposter%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Ru3wj59wy8/WBoXL79JyvI/AAAAAAAAh44/yJZYdQsYoE8Oz2mwxNsxUwCwJtlDTFz6wCLcB/s320/Annette%2BBening%252C%2BElle%2BFanning%252C%2BGreta%2BGerwig%252C%2Band%2BBilly%2BCrudup%2Bstar%2Bin%2B20th%2BCentury%2BWomen%252C%2Btrailer%252C%2Bposter%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="215" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It is the Fall of the Woman, and as such, the women shall rise.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Big-picture-wise, we have Hillary Clinton, of course. Silver-screen-wise, there will be <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/womanly-going.html">Certain Women</a></i> to mind <i>and</i> also, <i><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/20th-century-women-trailer-annette-932825">20th Century Women</a></i>.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">At least, you must admit it is going to be an interesting autumn.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup, and directed by <i>Beginners</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’ M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ike Mills, festival-darling <i>20th Century Women</i> is set in Santa Barbara, Calif., in the late </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’70s and </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">explores how three different, vibrant women each teaches a young boy (Lucas Jade Zumann) about girls, life, and love.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sounds like a coming of age for all of </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’em, and I</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’m in – oh yes I am. You know any year that La Bening represents is bound to be a good year.</span></span></span><br />
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<i style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">20th Century Women</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> will hit some theaters on Christmas Day – ya gotta bait dem awards, after all – before going wide on Jan. 20</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: A24.</span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-9200516894651080172016-11-01T12:05:00.000-07:002016-11-01T12:09:31.961-07:00The Hiddle-hunk Does Gucci<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bIGcexDbqf0/WBjnDYo-4XI/AAAAAAAAh4o/Pc9BA2hTM5cvewX_e3cmWSGMTUt56vVtQCLcB/s1600/Tom%2BHiddleston%2Bstars%2Bin%2BGucci%2Bmen%2527s%2Btailoring%2Bcampaign%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="292" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bIGcexDbqf0/WBjnDYo-4XI/AAAAAAAAh4o/Pc9BA2hTM5cvewX_e3cmWSGMTUt56vVtQCLcB/s320/Tom%2BHiddleston%2Bstars%2Bin%2BGucci%2Bmen%2527s%2Btailoring%2Bcampaign%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Where have I been?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tom Hiddleston is <strike>going to be</strike> doing some <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-hiddleston-gucci-campaign-932419">modelin</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tom-hiddleston-gucci-campaign-932419">’</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">, for <a href="http://www.instagram.com/gucci">Gucci</a>. Because <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2015/12/guilty-jared.html">Jared Leto</a> cannot have all the fun.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Dude sure looks good in It Designer <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alessandro-michele-los-angeles-film-942434">Alessandro Michele</a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">creations, huh (the campaign is all about men</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s tailoring, btw)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Now. Can someone hook the Hiddle-hunk up with Speedo?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: HollywoodReporter.com.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-45607985357906924752016-11-01T11:50:00.001-07:002016-11-01T11:50:34.508-07:00He’s a Keeper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M77RqCSJVFE/WBjj5MFgUYI/AAAAAAAAh4c/nVp5N7b7D9AUIz22i1U1fxhSLe-zko8PwCLcB/s1600/Joe%2BAlwyn%2Bjoins%2BGerard%2BButler%2Bin%2BKeepers%2Bthriller%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M77RqCSJVFE/WBjj5MFgUYI/AAAAAAAAh4c/nVp5N7b7D9AUIz22i1U1fxhSLe-zko8PwCLcB/s320/Joe%2BAlwyn%2Bjoins%2BGerard%2BButler%2Bin%2BKeepers%2Bthriller%252C%2BNovember%2B2016.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Joe Alwyn is about to take </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-halftime-to-remember.html">Billy Lynn</a></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-halftime-to-remember.html">’</a><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-halftime-to-remember.html">s Long Halftime Walk</a></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> but the up-and-comer is already looking far beyond the Nov. 11 release of Ang Lees new cutting-edge film.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Bf has working with <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/ready-to-fall-third-time.html">Gerard Butler</a> to look forward to now.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Indeed, Alwyn is set to co-star opposite the Scot who</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’s always saving the administration in <i><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/afm-gerard-butler-joe-alwyn-team-psychological-thriller-keepers-942417">Keepers</a></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A psychological thriller, the project will revolve around three lighthouse keepers on a remote island off the Scottish coast. <i>Trainspotting</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0611932">Peter Mullan</a> also is on board, and the story will be inspired by a true unsolved local mystery.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">So you know that something bad is gonna happen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Photo: DominicMarley.com.</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-83989764557893439702016-10-31T11:33:00.000-07:002016-10-31T11:33:04.420-07:00Pretty Deadly Mars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Guess they knew they should strike while the <i>Deadpool</i>-was-a-hit iron was hot.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">All glibness aside, I</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’m talking about <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/03/going-mars-too.html">Life</a></i>, a space-set thriller about finding, well...life on Mars, and how said life just might try to take yours</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">. Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, and <i>The Girl on the Train</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s Rebecca Ferguson star.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Check it</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/30/life-trailer-jake-gyllenhaal-ryan-reynolds-rebecca-ferguson" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">trailer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"> now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Photo: ScreenRant.com.</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-33541446734215575852016-10-28T12:25:00.000-07:002016-10-30T10:44:26.813-07:00Forever, Biblically Young<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Biblical epics are tricky – but don</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’t think that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s gonna keep <a href="http://twitter.com/TomCruise">Tom Cruise</a> from trying his luck with one.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The star is set to headline <i><a href="http://deadline.com/2016/10/david-heyman-methuselah-tom-cruise-joachim-ronning-1201844480">Methuselah</a></i> for producer David Heyman (the upcoming <i>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them</i>, the Harry Potter franchise).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Up-and-coming director Joachim Rønning (<i>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales</i>, <i>Kon-Tiki</i>) is attached to helm the life story of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah">longest-living figure in the Hebrew Bible</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Photo: SamishLeather.com.</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-7290642512975450872016-10-28T00:58:00.000-07:002016-10-30T10:24:16.797-07:00Hello Hello, J. Lo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s all turning s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">hades of...a musical for <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/stronger-with-j-lo.html">Jennifer Lopez</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">NBC has tapped the hardest-working multi-hyphenate in the industry – as you oughta know, she stars on the Peacock</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Shades of Blue</i> – for the role of Rosie on <i><a href="http://deadline.com/2016/10/nbc-bye-bye-birdie-live-musical-holiday-1201844187">Bye Bye, Birdie Live!</a></i>, its next holiday musical presentation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">La Lopez will executive produce the 2017 title – the story of a rock singer named Conrad Birdie who travels to a small Ohio town for a farewell TV performance...and to kiss his biggest fan (enter J. Lo</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Rosie) before he is drafted into the Army – with her longtime manager and creative partner Benny Medina. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas – whom, if memory serves, runs the triple threat</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s production company – also are on board as producers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Harvey Fierstein – who will be featured on this season</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">s </span><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/07/grande-penny.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><i>Hairspray Live!</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"> special airing on Dec. 7 – is writing the teleplay adaptation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Photo: Pinterest.com.</span></span></span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-45955219065678123552016-10-26T12:25:00.001-07:002016-10-26T12:26:05.352-07:00Ready to Fall a Third Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This because like, last spring</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2013/10/ready-to-fall-again.html">London Has Fallen</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> did (comparatively) so, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">so</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;"> well?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2014/04/storm-fixer.html">Gerard Butler</a> and the powers that be are putting together an action-packed threequel to cap the unlikely franchise they launched in 2013 with the sleeper hit <i>Olympus Has Fallen</i>.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i><a href="http://deadline.com/2016/10/gerard-butler-millennium-films-avi-lerner-angel-has-fallen-olympus-has-fallen-1201843139">Angel Has Fallen</a></i> will see Butler reprising his role as the indefatigable Secret Service agent Mike Banning, this time to keep <i>himself</i> safe from terrorists hellbent on taking him out, this, natch, in order to come down on Washington, D.C., again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">If he is to be in the movie, though, Aaron Eckhart just might die in this one: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">“Angel</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">” will serve as the code name for...Air Force One.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Here</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s to hoping he makes it to the escape pod we were told about in Harrison Ford</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">’s <i>Air Force One</i>, huh.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Production on <i>Angel Has Fallen</i> is expected to get underway during the first half of 2017. A director has yet to be announced.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Someone should call on Mimi Leder.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px;">Photo: ComingSoon.net (<i>London Has Fallen</i>).</span>Martin Harohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11207107822406452412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17534954.post-2951677240997536692016-10-26T08:19:00.002-07:002016-10-26T08:19:35.570-07:00Reset Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It was a day for trailer premieres yesterday, what with the drop for the <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/gimme-gilmores.html">preview of Netflix</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/10/gimme-gilmores.html">’s <i>Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life</i></a> <i>and</i> that of (network) TV</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">’s much-anticipated <i><a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/search?q=24:+Legacy&max-results=20&by-date=true">24: Legacy</a></i>, the <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-new-day-tripper.html">Corey Hawkins</a>-fronted reboot that Fox will debut right after <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/search?q=Super+Bowl+LI&max-results=20&by-date=true">Super Bowl LI</a> in February</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Click <a href="http://deadline.com/2016/10/24-legacy-trailer-corey-hawkins-miranda-otto-jimmy-smits-fox-1201842755">here</a> to watch the trailer for the new show, which is to co-star <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/01/24-hour-woman.html">Miranda Otto</a>, <a href="http://moviemartin.blogspot.com/2016/02/like-ctu-boss.html">Teddy Sears</a> (The CW’s <i>The Flash</i>), Dan Bucatinsky (TV’s <i>Scandal</i>), and Jimmy Smits. The story of a heroic Army Ranger (Hawkins) who turns to CTU upon his return home to the United States, for help in saving his life and stopping what could be a massive terrorist attack on America, looks like it’s gonna be one heckuva ride</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><i>24: Legacy</i> is scheduled to kick off with a two-night launch on Feb. 5-6.</span><div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Photo: ShadowAndAct.com.</span></div>
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