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Happy Birthday: Jon M. Chu

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jonmchu.jpgJon M. Chu

Born: November 2, 1979 in Palo Alto, California, USA

I started making films in fifth grade when my family and I would go on vacations and my mom decided to let me be in charge of the camera… Rather than shooting our family in front of the London Bridge or the Eiffel Tower, I was making sci-fi thrillers and murder mysteries.

Was hired by Sony Pictures to direct their feature “Bye Bye Birdie” but Sony never green lit the film due to budgetary concerns. Sony recently got back into business with Chu to direct their big budget tent pole “Masters of the Universe”.

 

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Happy Birthday: k.d. lang

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Born: November 2, 1961 in Consort, Alberta, Canada

Birth Name Kathryn Dawn Lang
Nickname The Alberta Rose

mmering. I feel at ease right now because it’s at a manageable level. People aren’t chasing me around with cameras and making me feel uncomfortable anymore. I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it’s controlling you it doesn’t feel good at all.

[on social networking] It gives me the heebie-jeebies,to be quite honest. The tweeting thing, to me, is just really unnerving. I’m not not interested in [hearing about] somebody having a MacDonald’s burger and then ‘oh my god, there’s a dog crossing the street’.

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Interview with Festival Director Ian Skorodin (Los Angeles Skins Festival)

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laskinsfest.jpgLA SKINS FEST annually showcases works by independent Native American filmmakers that provide insight into the beauty, complexity and diversity of Native American people. The festival helps filmmakers show their work so audiences of all ages and interests can enrich their experience and understanding of Native American cultures.

Interview with Festival Director Ian Skorodin 

Matthew Toffolo: What is your Film Festival succeeding at doing for filmmakers?

We offer great venues, a great audience and, most importantly, we offer great support for our filmmakers. Our support system includes additional programming that includes development initiatives that offer career opportunities at the network and studio level.

MT: What would you expect to experience if you attend the festival next year (2017)?

Attendees can expect to see the best movies from Native America as well as meet several talented filmmakers. This year, we are having an opening night event at the comedy central stage featuring a sketch comedy showcase of native american actors. We have several development workshops for adults and youth in partnership with networks and studios. Our mixers host the largest urban collection of Native Americans in the US located here in Los Angeles.

MT: What are the qualifications for the selected films?

The LA SKINS FEST requires that films be by Native filmmakers or about Native America.

MT: Do you think that some films really don’t get a fair shake from film festivals? And if so, why?

Film festivals are a competitive field and not every film fits into the festival circuit.

MT: What motivates you and your team to do this festival?

We are motivated to showcase Native American writers, directors, actors, and producers. We feel there is incredible talent that has not entered the mainstream marketplace. We want to address that absence and offer a genuine opportunity to be a part of the entertainment industry.

MT: How has the festival changed since its inception?

The festival has grown in the amount of films we show and the level of our venue. This year we are opening at Barnsdall Art Park Gallery Theater and continue through the weekend at the Mann Chinese Theater. These are great venues with a long history in Los Angeles.

Our sponsors have also grown to include numerous studios, networks, art organizations, the City of Los Angeles and Native American tribes. This has been crucial in growing our festival and offering the best showcase for Native American filmmakers.

MT: Where do you see the festival by 2020?

in 2020, the festival will offer genuine distribution opportunities for Native American cinema. The LA SKINS FEST will showcase new Native American movies that can be used to find distribution and new opportunities for its participants.

MT: What film have you seen the most times in your life?

Once Upon A Time In America.

MT: In one sentence, what makes a great film?

Strong characters with purpose offer the strongest cinematic experience.

MT: How is the film scene in your city?

Los Angeles is the entertainment capital of the world and is very much on the minds of everyone here.

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Interviewer Matthew Toffolo is currently the CEO of the WILDsound FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival. The festival that showcases 10-20 screenplay and story readings performed by professional actors every month. And the FEEDBACK Monthly Fesival held in downtown Toronto on the last Thursday of every single month. Go to http://www.wildsound.ca for more information and to submit your work to the festival.

Interview with Festival Director Ginger Marisa Tontaveetong (ASIFA International Animation Society)

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asifa.pngTheir aim is to put the spotlight on artist and animators locally and globally. Their signature event ASIFA-South RYO Animation Festival has been running for 14 years. With local panels involving professional locally as well as a monthly online panel with professionals in the industry around the world from Canada to the West Coast to Asia, they seek to provide our members and local community with the latest update of know-how.

URL: http://www.asifa-south.com

Interview with Ginger Marisa Tontaveetong

 Matthew Toffolo: What is your Film Festival succeeding at doing for filmmakers?

Ginger Marisa Tontaveetong: Our film festival has succeeded in extending exposures for our filmmakers/animators beyond the life of the festival to worldwide locations. With our screening selection from RYO (Southern Spotlights), the block is shared with ASIFA (International Animation Society) chapters around the world in which content is selected to screen around the world with participating locations such as Colorado, Australia, China, and more.

MT: What would you expect to experience if you attend the festival next year (2017)?

GMT: In 2017, we are planning to increase the size of our screening and really focus on spotlighting our filmmakers. As we have two annual signature screenings each year: RYO animation and International Animation Day screenings, we will be consolidating the two screenings into two different blocks. These blocks are competitive. As with 2016 RYO, the judges were industry professionals based in Atlanta ranging from Directors to Producer from the Emmy award animated series Archer to Bento Box Entertainment’s HULU web series The Awesome. We will also be arranging a Animation VERSUS Puppetry Smackdown event along with other professional industry panels. But perhaps most of all, at heart, we keep our filmmakers our top priority and aim for visibility and promotions. We are planning to have a platform for filmmakers in attendance to be able to showcase and talk more about their work and introduce them to the natives and local artists/ animators in Atlanta. Our RYO screening is held in the landmark Plaza Theatre and in addition to our Atlanta location for International Animation Day this year, we also are screening our International Animation Day selection in Savannah’s Trustee Theater.

MT: What are the qualifications for the selected films?

GMT: Films selected for 2017 may fall under two different categories:
For Southern Spotlights: Qualifications are for animation that are created by animators in South US or have southern ties (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, etc. Maryland included) These films will be selected for trade and showcase on International Animation Day screenings with other ASIFA chapters (50+) around the world. They must not be longer than 15 mins. and have 70% animated content. Puppetry entries are also accepted. This is a competitive category with a Best in Show and Audience Choice Award.

For International category, all animated shorts are accepted with a special attention to animation that addresses diversity, issues, and relevant world contents. This category is a showcase with one award called Animation for All that focuses on best entry for its content.

MT: Do you think that some films really don’t get a fair shake from film festivals? And if so, why?

GMT: This is true. Film festivals are very subjective and sometimes filmmakers may not realize why their entries do no qualify as festivals rarely provide feedback as to why a film is rejected. Our screening is focused on Animation so while there are content that are great that are life action, they are disqualified right away because those do not fit our qualifications. Another criteria is based on length of content and sound quality. If an animation is too long and content is not strong throughout, it may be brushed over in favor for two shorter animated shorts. From my experience, a lot of things are also very subjective to the taste of the juries and committees involved. In other cases, I’ve also seen some animation picked because of the names they are attached to as opposed to the quality because some festivals believe a bigger name will get them more audiences. We have actually passed over some big-named entries because we didn’t believe the content this round was as strong as their other works or the works submitted by other filmmakers.

MT: What motivates you and your team to do this festival?

GMT: ASIFA-SOUTH as an organization hangs on four main goals, two directly related to the festival are promotion of artist visibility and diversity in animation. In order to make sure filmmakers have a platform to showcase their film and encourage animators to produce independent work, we aim to make sure their work gets as much exposure as possible around the world. We also strongly are conscious in our choices to make sure our picks are diverse not only in technique but in narrative and have content that promotes LGBT themes, politics, and functionality diversity. We want not just diversity in content but to showcase the stories directly from representational filmmakers as we believe it is important to hear directly from minority groups their stories in their own vision.

MT: How has the festival changed since its inception?

GMT: ASIFA-SOUTH was established about two decades ago as ASIFA-Atlanta. Our path as an organization and the screenings have changed alot since a turnover change of committee members in 2014 with a stronger and more urgent vision of what animation can be for the world and how it can influence the coming generation. We have started to focus more on diversity as a core message, with a very diverse committee with all representation of gender and race (Of our 15 committee members, we have representation in LGBT, equal parts gender, Asian, Blacks, Caucasians, Latino, etc)

MT: Where do you see the festival by 2020?

GMT: By 2020, we will move into expansion of becoming an Animation Conference with the animation screenings as part of the hi-light. We aim to become a professional hub which caters to the advancement of the animation industry in the South. We also see ourselves working with more of our other festival partners to maximize exposure for animators so expect to see a screening of our programs not only in Atlanta but neighboring states as well so that filmmakers, especially those in the South, will be able to conveniently visit their closest location to see their films and engage with the audiences better.

MT: What film have you seen the most times in your life?

GMT: This would be a tie-in with Jurassic Park chronicles, Deep Blue Sea, and Tremors…I love animation but I also really love creature features.

MT: In one sentence, what makes a great film?

GMT: Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but if you are making a film you are passionate about, be it narrative or abstract, that makes it a great film.

MT: How is the film scene in your city?

GMT: Atlanta is a great hub for filmmakers and is booming. Due to the tax incentive here, it is one of the top locations for the film industry with lots of activities. We also have a lot of supporting organization and an amazing art/film community such as Film Bar Monday, where industry professionals gather each Monday to mingle without business cards, Atlanta Film Society that really pushes out filmmaker works with year round programs and support, as well as support groups and agency such as My Animation Life that does recruitment for animators, Art is King which supports entrepreneurial skills for artists, Georgia Production Partnership that protects the film tax incentive (up to 30%), and Georgia Game Development Association that hosts the biggest Game and Interactive Development conference in the South East (SIEGE). As a community, this is really the rising backbone of indie films and what we are working to support. We also have the Puppetry Center of Art here that support puppeteers and filmmakers with grants to create their own performance and films.

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Interviewer Matthew Toffolo is currently the CEO of the WILDsound FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival. The festival that showcases 10-20 screenplay and story readings performed by professional actors every month. And the FEEDBACK Monthly Fesival held in downtown Toronto on the last Thursday of every single month. Go to http://www.wildsound.ca for more information and to submit your work to the festival.

HACKSAW RIDGE (USA/Australia 2016) ***** Top 10

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hacksaw_ridge_poster.jpgDirector: Mel Gibson

Writers: Andrew Knight (screenplay), Robert Schenkkan (screenplay)

Stars: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Vince Vaughn, Hugo Weaving.

Review by Gilbert Seah

After about a decade absence from the director’s chair (his last film was the misunderstood APOCALYPTO in 2006), the director of BRAVEHEART and THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST returns in top form as if redeem in himself of all the bad press he had garnered since he said and did some foolish things. It’s another situation in this 21st century social media era where the outside events of the director “tarnish” the actual film itself. Think “Birth of the Nation”. Two films that should potentially receive multiple Oscar nominations. But will they? And should they?

The film is a true story, bravely told, inspiring as well, set in World War II featuring the most unlikely of heroes – a pacifist who refuses to carry a rifle. Not only does the film boast inspired direction by Gibson, but it also contains perhaps the best performance of the year by a young actor, the most recent SPIDER-MAN, Andrew Garfield – if not the best performance of his career. It should be a crime against someone like Garfield for being so good-looking and talented at the same time.
The true story of medic, Private Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield), who won the Congressional Medal of Honor despite refusing to bear arms during WWII on religious grounds. Doss was drafted and ostracized by fellow soldiers for his pacifist stance but went on to earn respect and adoration for his bravery, selflessness and compassion after he risked his life — without firing a shot — to save 75 men in the Battle of Okinawa.

The script by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan can hardly go wrong. What the story needs, the script does. Firstly, it strongly establishes the reason for Desmond’s behaviour and beliefs. The contradiction of the father’s character is also smoothly tied in with conviction. The film is basically divided into two parts. The first is Desmond’s basic training (boot camp) where he is mocked by both his superiors and his fellow soldiers. He is also given the dreaded blanket party at night. The second part of the film and the most brutal is his service in the battlefield. At times, the film feels like Stanley Kubrick’s FULL MEATL JACKET which contains two similar segment but Gibson’s second section, unlike Kubrick’s is the more exciting one.

Besides Garfield’s outstanding performance, Vince Vaughan delivers an equally impressive one, the role of a stern sergeant, much uncharacteristic of what audiences expect from him. Aussie Hugo Weaving (THE MATRIX movies; PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT) is also perfect as the hard drinking father who when finally does good and justice for his son, whose performance will break the hardest of hearts.

Those who are able to remember THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST will see more tortured scenes in the film. The battle scenes – with heads exploding; guts pouring out; dismembered bodies and wounds infested with maggots and rats are not easy ones to watch. The scenes rival Spielberg’s unforgettable beginning sequence in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and one can only guess what is yet to come with Christophe Nolan’s upcoming DUNKIRK.

The closing credits serve to prove to the audience that as wild as this story might be, the truth exists. Archive footage of the real heroes as depicted in the film speak out, often saying the identical words in the film’s script.

America needs her heroes in these difficult times of terrorism and racism. AMERICAN SNIPER and SCULLY are heroes depicted in films that have done extremely well at the box-office. Opening close to Remembrance Day, this film deserves to do well and might be the hit the flailing studio Lionsgate needs. Forget DOCTOR STRANGE! This film hits the mark!

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-1hz1juBI

 

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Evolution! Mallorca International Film Festival

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by Gilbert Seah

The fifth annual Evolution! Mallorca Int’l Film Festival will be held from November 3 – 12  It is one of the fastest growing film festivals in the Mediterranean. 

The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF) attracts over 2000 attendees from over 20 countries worldwide.  In 2016, EMIFF aims to expand the presence of international filmmakers and strengthen its position within the worldwide film festival calendar.  Since it’s 2012 inception, the number of films screened has tripled, counting over 70 movies from 22 countries during the 2015 festival program.  Ticket sales have continuously increased, selling out 90% of all EMIFF screenings and events.  In conjunction with its sister-screening event in Hollywood, CA, EMIFF is becoming an international launching pad for promising new talent in all film genres. 

EMIFF is proud to partner with sponsors who support the arts and emerging artists.

2016 EMIFF Gold Sponsors include: Premier FX. Silver Sponsors include First Mallorca Real Estate. Additional sponsors include: Rialto Living, Finca Hotel Can Coll, Perrier Jouet, Port Adriano, Govern de las Islas Baleares, Ajuntamiento de Palma, Consell de Mallorca, Islas Baleares Film Commission, Mallorca Film Commission, Mercedes AutoVidal and Museum of Contemporary Art Es Baluard.

The EMIFF is also a true destination event, with spectacular scenery in which to show high quality international films amidst the natural beauty of the island of Mallorca.  It has has quickly become a hot destination, popular with locals and film goers around the world who come in for the festival’s screenings, celebrity attendees, and numerous industry and special events. 

This year, the festival will honour Danny DeVito with a special tribute award in-person.

More information on the festival is here:

http://www.evolutionfilmfestival.com/eiff-contact

The festival was founded and is directed by a talented young festival director German actress Sandra Seeling Lipski.  Sandra is a buzzed about festival director on the international scene, and her multifaceted career as a successful festival director / actress / filmmaker, with an unusual international background, marks her as someone truly unique.

Events include Opening and Closing Night Galas

Gala Tribute to Iconic Actor/Director Danny DeVito

Spotlight Screenings of acclaimed feature films WILD and HEAVY HEART – festival spotlight on New German Cinema

Screening of Documentary OASIS SUPERSONIC and Spanish premiere of TOUR DE FRANCE with Gerard Depardieu.

The festival will present 17 films in Narrative feature and 6 in Documentary feature Competition, 18 short films, as well as additional events and special screenings.  Special events include the Opening Night Screening of El Destierro, produced by local Goya nominated filmmakers Toni Bestard, Marcos Cabotá and Diana de la Cuadra. Centerpiece is the Evolution Honorary Award Presentation to iconic filmmaker Danny DeVito, Spotlight Screening of acclaimed narrative film A Heavy Heart (Winner for Best Actor in a leading role at 2015 German Film Awards), a Closing Night Screening of Tour de France, starring Gerard Depardieu, and an Awards gala at Mercado Gastronómico San Juan.

Festival passes and individual tickets are available at present.

Ticket sales and additional festival information can be found at: 

www.evolutionfilmfestival.com

FESTIVAL FILM SLATE BELOW:

 

OPENING NIGHT FILM

El Destierro, Director: Arturo Rui (Spain) Spanish Premiere. 

Two soldiers are forced to live together in a small bunker. The intense war outside will soon erupt between them.

Cast and Crew will be in attendance

 

SPOTLIGHT GALA SCREENING

Sky, Director: Fabienne Berthaud (France) 

Romy is on holiday in the USA with her French husband, Richard, the journey wears out the couple. After an ultimate fight, Romy decides to break free. Actors: Diane Krüger (Troy, Inglorious Bastards), Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead). 

Director will be in attendance. 

 

CENTERPIECE GALA TRIBUTE & SCREENING – HONORING Danny DeVito

Legendary actor/director Danny DeVito will be honored with the inaugural Evolution Honorary Award. The Evolution Honorary Award is given to an iconic and visionary filmmaker who inspires audiences, breaks boundaries, and has created visionary entertainment that has touched generations. Danny DeVito’s tremendous body of work exemplifies storytelling passion and skill. We are proud to present a screening of Mr. DeVito’s classic 1989 film The War of the Roses, followed by a conversation with Mr. DeVito.

 

CLOSING NIGHT GALA SCREENING & AWARDS PARTY

Tour de France, Director: Rachid Djaidani (France)

A young Muslim rapper is forced to spend some time with a crotchety white racist. Enemies become friends, and learn a little something about the banality of their ignorance.

 

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Luca Tanzt Leise, Director: Philipp Eichholtz (Germany) 

After years of depression Luca reinvents herself with the help of new friends. 

 

Nirgendwo, Director: Matthias Starte (Germany) 

A stranger in his own life, Danny reluctantly returns to his childhood home after his father’s sudden passing. He rediscovers his hometown as a summery paradise.

 

Anna’s Life, Director: Nino Basilia (Georgia)

Anna a single mom is forced to take four jobs to support herself and her autistic son, she decides to leave Georgia but it’s easier said than done. Director will be in attendance. 

 

A Heavy Heart, Director: Thomas Stuber (Germany) 

A former East German boxing champion working as a bouncer and debt collector reflects on life when he is diagnosed with ALS. 

 

Pura Vida (After Words), Director: Juan Feldman (US)

A librarian facing a mid-life crisis travels to Costa Rica in search of enjoying life to the fullest. 

 

Kiss Me Kill Me, Director: Casper Andreas (US)

While confronting his unfaithful boyfriend, Dusty blacks-out. When he comes to, his boyfriend has been murdered and he’s the prime suspect. Director will be in attendance. 

 

Parasol, Director: Valéry Rosier (Belgium)

Holiday time, a Mediterranean island. The determination, no matter the cost, to make things change. Nostalgia for a past that never existed.

 

Bittersweet Days, Director: Marga Melià (Spain)

Julia rents a room to Luuk. Their cohabitation will make them rethink their lives: are they living the way they really want to? Director will be in attendance. 

 

Where to Miss?, Director: Manuela Bastian (Germany) 

We follow Devki’s story, as it tell us why Indian women find it difficult to free themselves from their traditional roles.

 

Dusky Paradise, Director: Gregory Kirchhoff, (Germany – Made in Baleares)

After the death of his parents a young man travels to Mallorca to live in their house and look after their turtle. 

Director in attendance. 

 

Autumn Fall, Director: Jan Vardøen (Norway)

Ingvld entangles herself with two men, it is a very dangerous journey.

 

Buddymoon, Director: Alex Simmons (US)

Jilted groom David is convinced by his best man Flula to continue with his planned honeymoon. Lead actress Lilith Stangenberg in attendance. 

 

Hotel Problemski, Director: Manu Riche (Belgium)

For the refugees of the multinational residential centre somewhere in Europe, this black comedy reveals their daily stuggles and laughs.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION

Oasis: Supersonic, Director: Mat Whitecross (UK)

An in-depth look at the life and music of Manchester-based rock band, Oasis. 

 

The Karamazoffs (A walk on the SoHo years), Director: Juan Gamero (Spain)

In the 1960s, New York’s SoHo was occupied by artists from around the world, The Karamazoffs, a group of Barcelona artists relive their experience during those wild years in SoHo.

 

In Europe’s shadow, Director: Florian Schnell (Germany) 

Human rights activist Elias Bierdel commentates throughout the film and meets refugees from different countries and activists. 

 

De Lola à Laila, Director: Milena Bochet (Spain) 

From mother to daughter the film shifts to a reflection about female emancipation, fight, movement and cinema.

 

The Key to Dalí, Director: David Fernández (Spain) 

Tomeu L’Amo, a Majorcan scientist and artist bought an unknown painting in an antique shop 25 years later, he tries everything to get it certified as a real Dalí. Cast&Crew will be in attendance. 

 

CAPSULE REVIEWS for the opening and closing night films will be added during the weekend.

OPENING NIGHT FILM:


EL DESTIERRO (THE EXILE) (Spain 2015) ***1/2
Directed by Arturo Ruiz Serrano

The film’s intriguing plot sees two Spanish soldiers are guarding an outpost during wartime and discover a polish woman, hurt and unconscious.  Writer/director Serrano leaves the audience to figure which war it is, not that it matters.  When Teo (Chani Martin), the religious one is first sent to the deserted outpost in the midst of a harsh winter, his beliefs run heard to head with the more animalistic Silverio (Eric Frances).  Things get worse when a beautiful Polish girl Monika Kowalska shows up wounded.   Silverio aims at satisfying his sexual urges while Teo wants her delivered as an enemy to the army.   They nurse her back to health.  The film serves as both a thriller and a character study of the three characters.  Each one is given due importance thoughSerrano gives the film a bias towards Teo’s point of view.  One thing about the film is that one can never guess what is going to happen next – both in terms of incident or character development.   An overall absorbing film.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/152586406

SPOTLIGHT GALA:

SKY (France/Germany 2015) ***
Directed by Fabienne Berthaud

A runaway movie in which the runaway is a female fed up with her marriage.  Romy (Diane Kruger) and Richard (Gilles Lellouche) are a French couple on vacation in America. They play at being free and wild in the California desert, but can’t escape the shadow hanging over their relationship. A drunken night in a bar leads to a violent confrontation. Romy sees a chance to remake her life.  She accidentally bashes Richard’s head with a lamp and flees the scene.  In the process, she undergoes a series of adventures, finding her true love at the same time.  It is a female flick with a lot of segments offering a woman’s point of view.  Just like WILD, the female seems to encounter friendly harmless males.  The film is called SKY because it is always changing.  And so do the events in the story.  They keep changing so that nothing is expected, which could be a good thing and bad as well.  The film is an ok watch but stretches the audience’s credibility.  At least Kruger and Lellouche are totally watchable.

Happy Birthday: Lyle Lovett

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lylelovett.jpgLyle Lovett

Born: November 1, 1957 in Klein, Texas, USA

Married to: Julia Roberts (25 June 1993 – 22 March 1995) (divorced)

I’ve been lucky to be able to make the records I’ve wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Betsy Palmer (1926–2015)

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betsypalmer.jpgBetsy Palmer (1926–2015)

Born: November 1, 1926 in East Chicago, Indiana, USA
Died: May 29, 2015 (age 88) in Danbury, Connecticut, USA

[Getting the role of Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th (1980)] My agent called and said “How’d you like to do a movie?” Great! I had not done a movie in years, California? No, it’s going to be shot in New Jersey, and it’s ten days work, [I’ll] make $1,000 a day. But there’s a catch: It’s a horror film. I said “Oh no! It’s bad enough I’m known as a game show player on I’ve Got a Secret (1952). I said “Send me the script.” He sent it to me, I read it, and I said “What a piece of shit!” No one’s ever going to see this thing! It will come, it will go, that’s the end of it. I called him, and said “I’ll do…

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Happy Birthday: Jenny McCarthy

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jennymccarthy.jpgJenny McCarthy

Born: November 1, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Married to:
Donnie Wahlberg (31 August 2014 – present)
John Asher (11 September 1999 – 2005) (divorced) (1 child)

“I think the whole computer geek thing is totally attractive…I mean, like all I’d get is total obedience.” On finding Mr. Right.

There was a problem with studios how to write for me. It’s a complex kind of character I am, because I’m built like a bunny but I talk like a dude.

BASEKETBALL
1998
dir. David Zucker
Stars:
Trey Parker
Matt Stone

 

John Tucker Must Die
2006
dir. Thomas
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Brittany Snow
Sophia Bush
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Campbell
Courteney Cox
David Arquette
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Happy Birthday: Penn Badgley

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pennbadgley.jpgPenn Badgley

Born: November 1, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

[on what he wish he had been told as a teen] I wish I had known that vulnerability is universal for everyone, regardless of how cool or not cool they are. You have such a heightened awareness of yourself, so even small things seem life-changing – a bad day turns into, ‘Oh my gosh, my life is over.’ If I were still a teen, I would want to hear: ‘It’s okay. Take a deep breath and move on,'”

EASY AEASY A
dir. Will Gluck
Stars
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