Film/TV/Theatre News Recap (8/9/06)
Since I want this blog to become more than just a forum for my bitching and in fact go along with my original intention of tying my personal life to the elements of popular culture that alter my life, I will begin posting pop culture news of interest. Since my interests lie mostly in film, theatre and television, I will mostly refrain from getting into music and art unless absolutely necessary. While I can analyze the shit out of the aforementioned three interests, the music I listen to is mostly based on the fact that I like the way it sounds and have little interest in music history. (I am in the process of rectifying that facet, though, and am in the middle of reading Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung after showing interest in Chuck Klosterman's oeuvre.)
I will do news recaps as much as possible, but I do not have any intention of becoming a film gossip site. These are merely stories of interest from the websites I visit frequently, repackaged for your viewing.
(Sorry about the stretched out images and hyperlinks. I'm trying to work on it.)
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'Grease': The Reality Show
The casting of a Broadway musical will become a TV reality series when NBC launches You're the One That We Want, a midseason show in which viewers will select the leads for a revival of Grease on Broadway. (The show's title was lifted from a song title in the musical.) It will be produced by Kathleen Marshall, who will serve as a judge on the TV show, along with Jim Jacobs, the co-creator of Grease, and theatrical producer David Ian. The Grease revival is scheduled to open on Broadway in June 2007, with tickets going on sale in December. It is being produced by BBC Worldwide Productions, the commercial subsidiary of the publicly funded British broadcast company. Meanwhile, auditions for Season 6 of Fox's American Idol kicked off at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena Tuesday.http://imdb.com/news/sb/2006-08-09/
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Outrage Over Burstyn's 15-Second Emmy Nomination
Ellen Burstyn's nomination for a Best Supporting Actress Emmy Award is being ridiculed by the US media, because the Oscar winner appears in Mrs. Harris for a mere 15 seconds. THe HBO drama stars Sir Ben Kingsley as Dr. Herman Tarnower - the man who invented the Scarsdale diet - and Annette Bening as Jean Harris, the woman who murdered him. Burstyn appears in a flashback sequence, and her character is listed on the Internet Movie Database as "Ex-Lover Number Three." The New York Post writes the 73-year-old's performance "required her to do nothing more than sit in a chair and speak three sentences of dialogue in a vaguely foreign accent." The newspaper claims Burstyn's nomination in the Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie category is indicative of the "deeply flawed process" leading to the nominations. Winners will be announced in Los Angeles on August 27.http://imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-08-09/
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HALO HAS A DIRECTOR
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24134
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http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24133
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http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24122
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http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24115
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060809j.php
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http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060809a.php
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NEW POSTERS
The Glorious Brian DePalma's Next Project
The First Part of Clint Eastwood's WWII Two-Film Epic
Guillermo Del Toro's Horror Fantasy
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"PRISON BREAK" SEASON 2 DETAILS
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060808g.php
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http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-robinwilliamsrehab,0,3384126.story?coll=zap-movies-headlines
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http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-feastreleasepattern,0,1331865.story?coll=zap-movies-headlines
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http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-bobsagetnbcgameshow,0,800504.story?coll=zap-tv-headlines
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http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=534414
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