Sweet Bird of Link
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 9:31PM 
Zimbio The 50 Most Beautiful Women Over 50
Towleroad Conflicting reports about how gay Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic is going to be.
Cinemablographer Canada's Genie nominations. Incendies, also nominated for the Foreign Language Film Oscar (see here) is big stuff.
Hero Complex Hugh Jackman now bulking up for Darren Aronofsky's Wolverine. The director wants him thicker and more feral.
Socialite's Life Nicole Kidman in Marie Claire magazine.
Awards Daily Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris to open Cannes Film Festival
Arts Beat James Franco to join Nicole Kidman in Broadway's revival of Sweet Bird of Youth. I hate my poverty that prevents me from seeing the big ticket star outings on stage. So hard to find good discounts for those short term plays.
IndieWire I hadn't heard of this Gambit project, a remake of a Michael Caine movie scripted by the Coen Bros, though they're not directing. Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz will star.
In Contention "Relatability" interesting AMPAS voter quote regarding The King's Speech.
Pajiba names today "Joseph Gordon-Levitt" day since he's joining the cast of the next Batman flick The Dark Knight Rises. The rumor is ... well, I'm sure there's a billion of them but the role is unknown.
Cinema Blend Rupert Everett thrilled for Colin Firth's current success. Nice to hear him compliment someone for a change.
The Atlantic reviews the American version of Being Human, now airing on SyFy with a second eye on the original British version. For what it's worth, I'm not crazy about either show but I think the American version shows a better understanding of how series television flourishes... at least at this early stage.
Colin Firth, Hugh Jackman, J Edgar, JGL, Rupert Everett, Woody Allen, X-Men
Reader Comments (10)
on HOOVER movie, i don't see the interest to de-gay Hoover
Love that 50 Most Beautiful Women Over 50 list. However, sorely missing Patricia Clarkson and Kristin Scott Thomas. Hate that they're ranked, but It's hard to complain about anything that brings attention to some amazing older women.
How many Wolverine movies do we need? Hugh, do something substantial, please. You're a great actor.
How are Sharon Stone and Iman more beautiful then Michelle Pfeiffer... and why is Susan Sarandon so down on the list?
on the king's speech quote - well, that's it, isn't it. it's not going to be about appreciating smart filmmaking or smart characters (that is, characters who aren't afraid to be smart, and don't appear to be significantly handicapped like russell crowe's john nash) and all about needy self-satisfied hollywood workers projecting their therapy issues and utmost sense of self-importance into their oscar vote. Of course TKS would resonate with them. It's a pretty narrow movie. you have all these brilliant historical figures like churchill acting as peripheral objects to service the king, and then the knowledge after the movie that "oh, nice that the king got over his stutter - now comes WWII and the deaths of millions, but it's ok because he got over his stutter!" I enjoyed the King's Speech, but I would have never fathomed such a reaction from other people. I mean, I have found hundreds of other movies more touching and relatable than this movie. I just don't get it.
I don’t have the patience for the 50 over 50-list. I know what older actress look great and what others need to quietly retire because they can’t fake how awful the plastic surgery has them.
Quit complaining. I live in Los Angeles were the only Broadway productions we get are shitty musicals that were hot at the Tony’s three years prior when they finally arrive here.
Jonathon -- clearly Hugh Jackman took no advice from Nicole Kidman on the set of Australia. He only ever seems to do these big mass appeal clunky things but none of them are going to last. This is the dirty secret of disposable pop culture. If you want a lasting legacy you have to do something substantial.. even if it pay nothing. you can make a $400 million hit and hollywood will start replacing it within a decade. Just ask Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire ;)
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Exactly. We still care about Cary Grant decades down the line. Why? His Hitchcock's lent higher prestige to his screwball, making it mean something. James Stewart: Vertigo and Rear Window helped preserve his career. Deborah Kerr: Black Narcissus and The Innocents did the same, to a lesser extent. Mitchum: The Night of the Hunter. Full stop. Acting in service of visions, whether overplayed (recently: Heath Ledger as The Joker) or underplayed (recently: Hugh Jackman in The Fountain), will be remembered. Acting in service of pablum? Never will.
Franco and Kidman are a horrible pairing for Sweet Bird of Youth