Links: Vampire Tears, Akira Troubles, Beach Sex Showstoppers
Friday, May 27, 2011 at 3:18PM IGN Sarah Buffy Michelle Buffy Gellar (she has four names okay?) talks about her new TV series Ringer
Joblo the first image from David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. Just two actors in a car. Woooo
Tyler Shields envision rising stars Juno Temple and Emma Roberts crying. Vampire and unicorn tears fall.
Twitch ah, the ongoing saga of the ill fated live action version of Akira. The troubled project just lost its director. Honestly, any director who signs on in his stead and is okay with the white-washing (with the retention of the Japanese character names, which makes the whole white-washing grossly confrontational and proud of itself. Ewww) deserves the mess he inherits.
Pajiba invites everyone into the pool to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend (at the movies)
Towleroad The Hangover Part II reenergizes the misunderstood topic of male nudity in film. See, Hollywood only believes in the penis as a comedy prop. Thus, this is hardly a groundbreaking film in the nudity department ;)
Johnny Wander check out these amusing Batman illustrations. Excuse me, "Batmen".
Lemonwade Barbra Streisand's version of Gypsy wants Hugh Jackman for Bernie. How about them eggrolls? My oh my what a strange film this will end up being no matter what occurs.
Natasha VC Did Darren Aronofsky trick us with The Wrestler?
How on earth will they mic the actors in the famous beach scene?Stage Door
I know I've been terrible about keeping up my theater column. But theater awaits tonight -- seeing The Normal Heart with friends -- and the Tony Awards are not far off. Here's a few theater bits to tide you over.
Broadway World The famous lyricist Tim Rice (Evita, The Lion King, Chess, etcetera) is doing a musical version of Oscar winner From Here To Eternity. He's aiming for a 2012 West End production
American Theater Wing offers up noteworthy advice to Broadway stars heading to new TV Series this fall.
Playbill Sandra Bernhard's new show, just a couple days after her birthday (I know because we share one), is called I Love Being Me, Don't You? Hee. Special guests include Rufus Wainwright, Liza F****** Minnelli and Mx Justin Vivian Bond so I'm there four times over. Although it would be silly to buy four tickets.
Reader Comments (5)
Penises are funny!
(I'm a terrible person.)
PS I should be seeing The Normal Heart soon. Can't wait!
From Here to Eternity as a musical sounds like it'll be incredibly overstuffed. I want to dislike Rice for his love of Webber, but I have a ridiculous soft-spot for CHESS.
I thought I was being too tough on poor Amy Adams and George Clooney in my recent comments here, then I read Natasha VC's post about Darren Aronofsky. Talk about loathing someone so viscerally that you almost can't explain it!
And "From Here to Eternity" as a musical? Got me to thinking about ridiculous Best Picture musicals. How about "The Godfather" with Al Pacino singing the title theme song at his Sicilian wedding? Or Ralph Fiennes in burn makeup being wheeled around in an Italian dance number from "The English Patient: The Musical"?
Owen Walter -- i think you've just hit on the next "Carrie" open and close on the same day there.
Re SMG in Ringer: So this is where the cancelled afternoon soaps narrative is going. Choose one of the favorite soap tropes and concentrate on it. But with Ioan Gruffudd in the series, I won't be able to resist taking a look.