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I think I have an addiction to movie trailers, though I'm not sure it's intervention-worthy yet.
Update as of 8/2/08: I was so right about this.
Cool story from valentinaxxx: Little known fact: John Dillinger was friends with my family. While my father was growing up in the late 20's/early 30's, Dillinger often chose to "hide out" on the Menominee reservation. He respected the American Indian better than he did the U.S. government. One of the safe houses he stayed at was the Kaquatosh's place. In our prayers to the ancestors, we still count Dillinger as one of the family and we burn tabacco in his honor.
My father has often told me tall tales about the gangster who lived for a short while on the res, and I have even dreamed about him over the years, it's like he's more than just some gangster out of 1930's history, he's sort of a family legend, a "dirty angel" looking down on us.
Now, guess what? Johnny Depp is going to star as Dillinger in the upcoming movie, "Public Enemies" which will be filmed close to where real life Dillinger hung out with my family here in north central Wisconsin. Co-starring Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis and Channing Tatum as Pretty Boy Floyd, plus many other young hunks, the picture promises to be positively star filled.
I've always thought that it was about time Hollywood turned it eye on where I live as a good location for an old fashioned gangster flick based on Dillinger's life. There have been other films about Dillinger, but not with Johnny Depp starring in them!
I had a busy three day weekend, (Yay for President's Day). Friday I had to work at the church from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Saturday I had to take my daughter to dance class at the YMCA. While she was at dance class, I went to workout in the gym at the Y. I was able to do 22 minutes on the treadmill. I was surprised because I'd just gotten over that blasted sinus infection. I didn't think I was going to be able to go past 15 minutes. I did the leg press and maxed out at 270 lbs. (I have to do the leg press everytime I workout to help strengthen my knees) Next, I did my upper body workout. I'm really working to gain more upper body strength. I have far to go :(. I could only max out 85 lbs on the chest press and I'm currently curling 40 lbs, (bar, not dumbells) I have no doubt that I'll get stronger, I'm just disgusted at where I am right now. Oh, well, at least I'm doing it!
Saturday night, a friend from Las Vegas flew in and stayed with us for two days. He was great company and my husband finally had someone to talk ton about graphic designer woes and frustrations.
Sunday morning I had to work at the church again. It gets harder and harder to get up and go to work on Sundays. It seems like I'm always working. At least it's only for an hour and I get paid for two :D. When I came back home, I had company to entertain. My husband was the perfect host and told me to take a nap because he saw that I was tired. Later that evening, I had to go to Environgirl's house so her friend could do my hair. She finished around midnight so I was quite tired on the drive home. Environgirl's apartment isn't exactly a hop, skip and a jump away from my house, so she insists that I call as soon as I get home everytime I visit her.
I had President's Day off and I was glad! I lounged around in yoga pants and an ugly shirt all day. My friend from Vegas, my mom and I watched movies and ate a ton of snacks. I was already a big Christian Bale fan and my friend from Vegas has jumped on the bandwagon. He was very impressed with Batman Begins and later I showed him the movie Equilibrium, which is an excellent futristic / post-apocalyptic movie with Christian Bale and Taye Diggs that I HIGHLY recommend and American Psycho also starring Bale. Finally, my buddy went home and I had to wash clothes and get ready for the next day. Whew!
*I wonder how many of my students won't have their book report Tuesday morning?*
Click the picture to read more about Equilibrium.
Sylvester Stallone will reprise his role as Rambo in the fourth installment of the franchise. Also, Wesley Snipes and Jean-Claude Van Damme are teaming up for The Hard Corps. In the movie, Van Damme plays a combat veteran who becomes the bodyguard of a former boxing champ. Complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister is falling in love with Van Damme. You have got to be effing kidding me! After Rocky VI, Rambo IV and the return of Van Damme to the big screen, it can't get much worse. Unless Ah-nuld decides to do Terminator 4.
Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black are teaming up for director Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy Holiday. The film is about the friendship between two women, both of whom have recently been dumped.
Kevin Costner will play the titular role of a serial killer in Bruce A. Evans' psychological thriller Mr. Brooks.
Michael Caine is joining Clive Owen and Julianne Moore for filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's adaptation of The Children of Men. Caine is also re-teaming with Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale for Warner Bros.' The Prestige. Hugh Jackman also stars in the film, which features Caine as a retired magician who teaches tricks to Jackman's character, who has developed a rivalry with another magician (Bale).
Erin Brockovich's Aaron Eckhart has signed on to star opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Castle Rock's remake of the 2001 German film Mostly Martha. Zeta-Jones plays the titular character, a chef who loses her sister and is obligated to care for her 10-year-old daughter. Eckhart plays a fellow chef and romantic interest.
Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III) has been cast in three new movies. First, he joins Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce and Jimmy Fallon for the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl. Miller plays Sedgwick, Pearce plays Andy Warhol, and Christensen landed a role based on Bob Dylan. Christensen is also teaming up with Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Alba for the psychological drama Awake. Finally, he'll star opposite Christina Ricci in the modern-day fable Penelope, about a woman under the influence of a curse.
Charlie Sheen, Eva Longoria, Wayne Brady, Chris Kattan and Christopher Lloyd will lend their voices to Lions Gate's 3-D animated comedy Foodfight! The movie takes place in a supermarket that comes to life after hours.
Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman have signed on for the indie flick Delirious. The film follows a celebrity photographer (Buscemi), a homeless man with a desire to become an actor (Pitt) and the hottest pop star of the moment (Lohman), as their paths intersect.
Michael Vartan (Never Been Kissed) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) are teaming up for the Weinstein Co.'s thriller Rogue. The movie is about a giant crocodile stalking tourists in the Australian outback.
Emily Mortimer (Lovely & Amazing) is joining Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder) for Warner Independent Pictures' romantic comedy Chaos Theory. The movie centers on a compulsive organizer (Reynolds) who decides to live his life without planning and in the process starts a romance with Mortimer's character.
The "flying" Ford Anglia seen in the Harry Potter movies has been stolen from the lot of South West Film Studios in southwestern England.
Charlize Theron won Best Actress at the Hollywood Awards for her performance in North Country, while Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for his portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line.
A weeklong celebration is being planned in Hong Kong to mark the unveiling of a statue of Bruce Lee on the city's Avenue of Stars on Nov. 27, which would have been the actor's 65th birthday.
Late night talk show host Craig Ferguson will host the 32nd Annual People's Choice Awards live on CBS on Jan. 10.
Of the 91 countries invited, a record 58 countries have submitted films for consideration for the Best Foreign Film Award category for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. The 58 will be narrowed down to five on Jan. 31, when the nominations are announced.
Stanley Kubrick's archives will be housed at University of the Arts' London College of Communication for public viewing and student research beginning summer 2006.
Actor William Hootkins (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark) passed away Oct. 23 from pancreatic cancer. He was 58.
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