| Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Elijah Wood, Sharon Stone, William H ... | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:08:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Emilio Estevez wasn't old enough to be passionate about politics when Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in a Los Angeles hotel in 1968. But as the son of Martin Sheen, one of Hollywood's staunchest liberals, he has the bloodline to propel a hero-worshipping take on Kennedy's death in Bobby. The film, written and directed by Estevez, unfolds as a day in the life of workers and guests at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel, where an RFK victory rally is planned after the state's presidential primary. Since Kennedy's murder doesn't occur until the end, there's scant time for it to resonate. Instead, the bulk of the film is about stage-setting irrelevancies. An aging hotel staffer (Anthony Hopkins) plays chess and reminisces in the lobby. A fussy guest (Helen Hunt) needs new shoes.... | |
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| | | Beethoven biopic truly an ode to joy | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:19:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the movies, the life of the mind often turns to mush, and stories about genius tend to be painfully dumb. Film seems to have such a firm hold on exterior reality that the inner world of creation is simply too mysterious and elusive for commercial stories that depend on objects and actions, too obscure for a medium that depends on light. And so most filmmakers give us painters slashing away at canvases with grim determination and writers nibbling on pens that might as well be magic wands, pantomimes of inspiration spiked with the usual flavorings of perversion, despair, alienation and tragedy. At first glance the period film "Copying Beethoven" looks as if it might be following a familiar course. To begin with, there is Ed Harris in a Beethoven wig. It's a fine wig, but wigs are generally worrisome, particularly when atop a head that seems quintessentially modern American.... | |
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| | | Radar Images Fail to Detect Ice at Lunar Poles | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:04:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Long journeys require human explorers to carry plenty of water. Astronauts need an average of 1.6 kilograms (0.4 gallon) of water to sustain each of them every day, as well as an additional 27 kilograms (7.2 gallons) for other purposes, according to NASA, and boosting even one of these kilograms into orbit costs $25,000. Given plans to send manned missions to the moon and, eventually, establish a base, it would clearly be far simpler if future explorers could fulfill their water needs there. Fortunately, early radar data hinted that water ice might exist in the permanent shadows of craters at the lunar poles, and the neutron spectrometer on board the Lunar Prospector in 1998 detected the telltale signature of hydrogen within the moon's surface. If that hydrogen is locked up in the form of H2O, then as much as 26 billion gallons of water could be frozen there.... | |
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| | | Tempers flare as council debates multifamily housing plan for Hopkins Lane | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:04:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- A proposal for more than 35 units of multifamily housing on Hopkins Lane has spurred a vigorous debate about how much density the Peace Dale area can and should sustain. Lisa Fiore -- acting as Hopkins Green II LLC -- is seeking amendments to the Comprehensive Plan and the zoning ordinance to allow the construction of a 35-plus unit development on 3.78 acres on Hopkins Lane. The site is just north of three acres on which 20 units have previously been approved. Though that approval, dubbed Hopkins Green I, had lapsed, the Planning Board reinstated it in June. The latest project would include seven units of affordable housing that engineers for the developers said would be indistinguishable from the market-rate housing. Fiore is pursuing the plan under the state comprehensive permit process intended to boost Rhode Island's low- to moderate-income housing in exchange for density bonuses.... | |
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| | | Venice Film Festival Opens With Johansson's 'Black Dahlia' | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:05:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | The 63rd annual Venice Film Festival is ready to commence, with Brian de Palma's The Black Dahlia starring Scarlett Johansson, set to officially start things off. Johansson's Black Dahlia is one of 21 films competing for the Golden Lion award, the top prize at the film festival. Last year's winner of the Golden Lion award was the Ang Lee film, Brokeback Mountain, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. The Black Dahlia, adapted from the James Ellroy novel, is based on the 1940s unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring young actress in Los Angeles. Along with Scarlett Johansson, the cast for the Black Dahlia will include Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank and Mia Kershner. The story focuses on two detectives, Bucky Bliechert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) as the attempt to solve the murder of Elizabeth Short (aka: The Black Dahlia), who is played by Mia Kershner.... | |
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| | | Adult content banned from Indian TV | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 3:10:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hannibal Lecter won't be invited into the living rooms of India this week after the government banned all content deemed unsuitable for children. The High Court in Mumbai ruled on Monday that all films, music videos and film trailers shown on TV networks must be approved for a general audience by India's Central Board of Film Certification. The government followed up the ruling by blocking movie channels in the country until they comply. Police raided cable TV operators and seized transmission equipment in violation of a December court order for showing movies not cleared for children's viewing. According to the Indian Express newspaper, the bans will cause viewers to miss such films as Gangs of New York, Indecent Proposal and Silence of the Lambs, which features Anthony Hopkins as the cannibalistic Dr.... | |
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| | | Reels and wheels | | Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:07:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | On Nov. 10, "The World's Fastest Indian" premiered in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. With all of the expected ceremony and fanfare, the premiere of the 28th Annual Starz Film Festival did not disappoint. Honored guests and Denver elite joined together to celebrate the beginning of a festival devoted to independent films. .... | |
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| | | Sir Anthony Hopkins left wheel-chair bound after movie-set injury | | Posted Friday, August 04, 2006 11:03:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, July 30 (ANI): Movie veteran Sir Anthony Hopkins will be spending the next few days in a wheel-chair after he twisted his leg on the set of his new movie 'Slipstream'. The actor revealed that he had met with the accident when he slipped while running down a corridor on the sets of the new movie. "I was running down the corridor of this hospital in this scene and decided I was 28 instead of what I am," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying. "I punish my body, I punish myself. That's what I like about myself. I really give myself a rough time sometimes because I believe in that kind of energy," he added. (ANI) .... | |
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| | | Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti to Star in The ... | | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 5:02:29 AM by Blog57 Team | | Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep and Paul Giamatti are attached to star in an adaptation of Jay Parini's novel The Last Station, for director Michael Hoffman, according to Production Weekly. Set in the last tumultuous years of Leo Tolstoy's (Hopkins) life, the historical biopic centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, (Streep) and his leading disciple, Vladimir Cherkov (Giamatti). Torn between his professed codtrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny rail station at Astapovo, he believes that he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition. The film is due to begin shooting at locations in Russia in February 2007.... | |
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| | | Dennis Puccini, 58, opera volunteer | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 7:12:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dennis Anthony Puccini, a retired retail manager, volunteer with the Baltimore Opera Company and acting enthusiast, died of complications from AIDS on Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Mayfield resident was 58. He was born in Milwaukee and graduated in 1965 from Messmer Catholic High School there. He attended one year at Marquette University, where he studied costume history and design, and appeared in stage productions. He then moved around the country as a retail manager and was hired by the Mark Cross company in the late 1970s as a director of organizational development. For more than a decade he supervised store installations and hired and trained staff for stores as they opened. He retired from the company after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1991. During his battle with the disease, he worked as a volunteer for several AIDS organizations, family said.... | |
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