| Somewhere up there, Jack Buck is smiling | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 11:28:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | My friend S.W. Zemboven is a St. Louis Cardinals fan, and that must be his real name since he once received mail addressed that way.In fact, S.W. might be the only St. Louis Cardinals fan I know around here, so in that regard I'm happy for him now that his Cardinals are baseball's world champions ... even though S.W. is a Duke basketball fan and even though he once brought a young man to the brink of tears and public humiliation in front of his girlfriend the day the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl.(The young man in question had the gall to be rooting for the Ravens that day, which was wrong on his part since S.W., with a white-hot passion, hates anything and everything that has anything to do with Baltimore. And for the record, I was not that young man. Not that S.W. hasn't brought me to the brink of tears and/or public humiliation — yes, it's an odd friendship — but on that particular day when the Ravens won the Super Bowl, I was at Daggett's Super Bowl party handing out business cards I had printed that morning that read, "Don't even ask because I'm not discussing last night's Maryland-Duke game." ...... | |
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| | | Mad steeze marks NEPSA awards | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 7:04:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | The stars of the NEPSA Video & Art Awards are the first to admit they are better athletes than they are actors, but some of the acting wasn't all that bad. While most of the Colorado skiers and snowboarders turned in performances on par with Keanu Reeves, two local rippers turned the Hollywood homeboy's Johnny Utah character inside out with the winning entry, aptly titled "Point It." The film, an alpine spoof of 1991's "Point Break," which featured Reeves, showcases irreverent big-mountain skiers Kiffor Berg, 29, and Ted Davenport, 25. "Our acting skills are almost nonexistent. As we would go over the footage, we'd be like, 'Oh my god. We are so bad,'" Davenport said Friday, the day after he became $1,000 richer when he and Berg won, and split, the $2,000 purse.... | |
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| | | A Scanner Darkly: Keanu Reeves' Best Movie | | Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:05:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | (AUTHOR'S NOTE: This article could and should be considered a movie review. Two of my recent articles, one on the Pirates of the Caribbean and another on Miami Vice, were not intended to be movie reviews because they weren't movie reviews; they weren't movie reviews at all. So, for the brain-dead segment of my readership, I guess I should deliberately point out what is a movie review and what is just mindless commentary on pop culture. With that said, if you want to see Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly then you probably shouldn't read this. Why would you purposely read about a movie that you want to see before you actually go see it? I will never understand this mindset.) A Scanner Darkly, the darkly humorous, half-animated venture from schizophrenic director Richard Linklater, is one of, if not the best American film to slip under the box office and critical radars this year.... | |
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| | | Hollywoodland': not sharp enough to combat unanswered questions | | Posted Friday, September 15, 2006 7:11:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's a tough proposition to film a murder mystery that has no solution. Actor George Reeves, TV's "Superman," was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in 1959. Rumors of foul play persist to this day, but the truth remains just that: a mystery. "Hollywoodland" is director Allen Coulter's study of Reeves' death, and the years leading up to it — when the actor began a long-term affair with a married woman, found fame doing a kiddy show he despised, and sank into alcoholism and depression when typecasting cost him his career. Coulter tells the tale in flashback, as a low-rent detective named Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) tries to prove that Reeves (Ben Affleck) was murdered. It starts out as a way for him to make a buck and get his name in the papers, but it quickly involves into something of a crusade: as much as he wants to vindicate the late actor, Simo is even more desperate to vindicate himself.... | |
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| | | Drug-addled, disturbed, depressed … but Philip K Dirk saw our ... | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 1:01:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Even before the pills and a tidal wave of paranoia overtook him, Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982) was something less than the prose stylist of his generation. Characterisation was not his forte; dialogue was not his strong suit; even his punctuation left something to be desired. What he brought to the game was a mind so addled it could be mistaken for genius. Dick was a disturbed child who worked hard on his only talent and managed, finally, to turn it into overwhelming dementia. His tragedy was also his triumph: private madness became the sort of pulp fiction of which the movies cannot get enough. One of his better books, A Scanner Darkly, has just been turned into the latest Keanu Reeves "vehicle". Dick might just have laughed. Or wept. The movies came too late for an intensely intense man.... | |
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| | | Ryder Lusts After Co-star Reeves | | Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:08:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | WINONA RYDER would love to get intimate with her A SCANNER DARKLY co-star KEANU REEVES, and constantly tells him about her crush. The 34-year-old found it easy to play Reeve's love interest in the animated feature because her feelings for THE MATRIX star run deep. She says, "Keanu knows I have a huge crush on him, I tell him all the time. "My character cares very much about Keanu's character, and with Keanu it's very easy to care about him... I was frustrated because we didn't get to make out properly." 15/08/2006 07:31 .... | |
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| | | Keanu Reeves’ ‘love-making’ bed up for grabs on eBay! | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:05:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, July 23: The bed on which actor Keanu Reeves and his ex-girlfriend reportedly shared a number of mush moments is up for sale on eBay. The money will go towards paying a girls college tuition fee. The Bali-inspired craftsman`s bed belonged to one of Reeves` former girlfriends, who passed it on to a friend last year. But the woman, who just gave birth to a baby girl is keen to sell off the bed to make room for her daughter, and is hoping to make a little money in the process. The anonymous owner of the bed, who asked to remain nameless for the fear of upsetting Reeves or his ex, has placed the item on auction website eBay and is hoping to make quick bucks from the sale. "The bed is probably worth about $400 but with its connection to Keanu, I hope to get more.... | |
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| | | Keanu Reeves Bed For Sale | | Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 3:04:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | The bed on which movie hunk KEANU REEVES once made sweet love is being auctioned off to help bolster a little girl's college fund. The one-of-a-kind bed belonged to one of Reeves' former girlfriends, who passed it on to a friend last year (05). Now, the pal - a new mum - is keen to get rid of the Baliinspired craftsman's bed to make way for her daughter, and she's hoping to make a little money in the process. The bed's current owner, who asked to remain nameless for fear of upsetting Reeves or his ex, has placed the item on auction website eBay and hopes to make thousands from the sale. She says, "The bed's probably worth about $400 but with its connection to Keanu, I hope to get more. "If I get even $2,000, I'd be happy. It came with a mattress that I got rid off immediately. Perhaps I should have kept it.... | |
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| | | Film Friday: Bill and Ted and It's Sequel Were Brilliant, But ... | | Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 5:00:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Torontoist isn't paid by the word, which is why we can allow ourselves long, rambling posts where we complain about the things that annoy us. Sorry, did we say “allow ourselves?" We meant “subject you to". And here we go again. Now, Toronto is a lovely place, and as places go, it's done a lot for film. It's cheap to film here! We've got the Toronto Film Festival! David Cronenberg. And… Keanu Reeves got his start here. We get the feeling that we've already complained about Keanu Reeves, but as the star of A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater's cel-shaded adaptation of the Phillip K Dick novel, Hollywood has gone too far. His confused pause during the reading of the line “My brain has… Two Hemispheres?" In the trailer might match his terrific pause during the Matrix Revolutions in the line “Love? But that is a… Human emotion".... | |
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| | | A Scanner Darkly Becomes Reality | | Posted Monday, July 03, 2006 11:05:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | If Phillip K. Dick isn't the most adapted sci-fi novelist in the history of motion pictures, then he's pretty close in the running. His ultramodern and innovative book, A Scanner Darkly is about to hit the big screen and the Warner Independent Pictures film stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson. This is perhaps one of the author's most personal stories because it retells many of his own life experiences. The gifted and accomplished writer struggled with drug abuse and he loads his novel with the realities of addiction, tragedy and humor, while putting his unique sci-fi twist into the story. Set in the near future of Orange County, California, undercover cop Bob Arctor (Reeves) follows orders to spy on his friends; but can he stay away from falling victim to the addicting drug himself? ComingSoon.net got the chance to talk with director Richard Linklater, Reeves and Ryder about the film and their take on Dick's own personal challenges.... | |
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