23 posts tagged “hollywood”

We were chatting about non-US actors adopting American accents on Jaklumen’s blog and I thought of several American actors who do pretty good English accents.
   First up, Rénée Zellweger as Bridget Jones:

   Secondly, James Cromwell as HRH the Duke of Edinburgh in The Queen:

Normally I don’t get excited about sci-fi but this intrigues me:

    I am a Willis fan and seeing Rosamund Pike in this helps, too. She’s a real doll.

If we don’t have any more Journeyman, maybe we can get our fix through the very similar The Time Traveler’s Wife, a movie version of the top-selling novel, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana.

I know how it ends, so let’s say it qualifies as a chick-flick.

[Cross-posted from Lucire] Campari launched its 2009 calendar, starring Jessica Alba, at a celebrity event in Milano yesterday. We’ve featured a few of Mario Testino’s stunning images from the calendar, with Alba promoting the red spirit in each one, some subtly, some less so (with the Campari bottle being quite noticeable). Also noticeable: make-up has been getting a lot more glamorous as 2009 begins.

[Cross-posted from Lucire] In the main part of our site today, photographs of and quotations from Charlize Theron as she is inducted by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a Messenger of Peace, focusing on violence against women. As we reveal, this matter is very near and dear to Theron’s heart, and she has spent a great deal of effort working for women’s rights over the years—not to mention her roles in films like Monster. Lucire says, ‘Welcome,’ to Charlize in officially promoting UN initiatives, as we have been doing.

Is it just me or is Liz Mitchell, I mean, Elizabeth Banks, in every talked-about new American film? And why are women called Elizabeth Mitchell always famous? (There’s Liz Mitchell, the New Zealand fashion designer; Elizabeth Mitchell, the actress from Lost whom we profiled a few years ago; and Elizabeth Banks, who was actually born Elizabeth Mitchell but had to change her name to avoid confusion with Elizabeth Mitchell.)
   Miss Banks is in W., Zack and Miri Make a Porno (profiled at Lucire not long ago) and Role Models. W., I understand, is not about the 23rd letter of the alphabet brought to you by the Children’s Television Workshop.

If you had to go on a two-week vacation with any celebrity, who would you pick as your travelling companion and where would you go?

Easy: Alicia Witt (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). She seems to be the most intelligent woman in Hollywood, once a child genius and probably the only one who could continue a decent conversation with me through that entire period. One of these days I really have to interview her for Lucire. As to where: somewhere where neither of us has been to see how one would cope with the culture shock.
   Here Alicia parodies her show in New York:

This wasn’t on YouTube when I last blogged about A Man Called Sloane, America’s coolest spy since Matt Helm pretended to be Dean Martin pretending to be Matt Helm, but here are some trips down memory lane for a few of you …

   What was very odd, for trivia buffs out there: Robert Conrad’s name appears before the title, which according to the commenters on YouTube, makes this unique among QM productions. It’s just the highlights plus the opening sequence, but considering I hadn’t seen this since 1981, it was a lovely revisit. And that typeface would be considered very trendy right now.

Another great actor passes on: Harvey Korman from The Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles and History of the World Part One. (He regarded these as his best credits.) ‘Korman reportedly suffered complications related to the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm he experienced four months ago,’ according to IMDB News. Two clips follow—I’m afraid I haven’t found any of ‘Count de Money! Count de Money!’

   Mr Korman gave a wonderful series of interviews from earlier this year, which are quite enjoyable.    You will be missed, Harvey.