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<title><![CDATA[Rolling Stone Pisses Off Comedian So Comedian Writes Letter To Rolling Stone]]></title>
<link>http://dieactordie.wordpress.com/?p=1479</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>dieactordie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t decide if this is real, a prank or just stupid.
Apparently, one of the comedians featu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can't decide if this is real, a prank or just stupid.</p>
<p>Apparently, one of the comedians featured in <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/22791344" target="_blank"><strong>The Rolling Stone Comedy issue</strong></a>, was pissed at the other comedians because they were featured in The Rolling Stone Comedy Issue. Here's the letter and then head over to <strong><a href="http://www.jossip.com/" target="_blank">Jossip</a> </strong>to <a href="http://tinyurl.com/5yfj54" target="_blank"><strong>read more of the story</strong></a>.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Dear Editors,</p>
<p>I am one of the comedian featured in this year’s Comedy Issue. I won’t say which one, for reasons that will soon become apparent.</p>
<p>The issue made me sick. The majority of the people in it are, for the most part, the worst sort of comedy whores, and you, as a magazine, are a pimp. I don’t know a more polite or politic way to put it. They soulleslly perform what should be sacred rituals in return for sums of money. Whores.</p>
<p><!--more-->Here is what comedy should do, what it needs to do: challenge assumptions about the society, about the planet, about the species, symbolically threaten those in power so that they always remember the powerless, refocus attention on human weakness as a way of restoring human strength. Great comedy is political by its very nature. These people are corporate. They work for NBC or CBS or HBO and so, it seems, do you. I don’t want to take a shot at anyone in particular, because the problem isn’t in the particulars. It’s in the general idea: a gutless world with gutless media chronically it gutlessly.</p>
<p>As I say, this isn’t sour grapes. I was in the issue. But it hurts me at my heart to see a bunch of effing stupid clowns carrying the torch for American comedy, which has the potential to be (and has been) one of the most powerful cultural, psychological, and (even) artistic forces on the planet. Albert Brooks (I’m not him — that should be a clue) says that the Internet is cripplign comedy because it doesn’t give performers time to develop their acts. I spread the blame to you, to them, to networks, to suits, to boardrooms, to peacocks, to pinheads. Comedy used to rock and roll, at least. It was about getting into everyone’s face, not showing your own.</p>
<p>Shame on you. I hope you rot. I mean that with all the love in the world. I doubt you’ll have the guts to print this. Remember? Gutless.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Me</p></blockquote>
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<p>So, here are the comedians in the issue: Russell Brand, Dave Letterman, Tina Fey, Billy Crystal, Sarah Silverman, Robin Williams, Tracy Morgan, Don Rickles, Martin Short, Maragret Cho, Albert Brooks, Mindy Kaling, Steven Wright, Dane Cook, George Lopez, Larry David, Phyllis Diller, Bill Maher, Ray Romano, Richard Belzer, Steve Coogan, Amy Poehler, Craig Ferguson, David Cross, Cedric The Entertainer, Wanda Sykes, Gilbert Gottfried, Jimmy Fallon, Danny McBride, Zach Galifianakis, Susie Essman, Eric Idle, Julie Louis-Dreyfus, Katt Williams, Eddie Izzard, Matt walsh, Will Forte, Pasul Scheer, Robert B. Weide, Bill Lawrence, David Wain, Garry Shandling, Adam Herz and Mel Brooks.</p>
<p>Take your <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/09/16/comedy-issue-smackdown-whos-the-unnamed-comic-criticizing-rolling-stone/" target="_blank"><strong>pick</strong></a> (HINT: It's not Albert Brooks).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Pôster de "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People"]]></title>
<link>http://nerdmodeon.wordpress.com/?p=961</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Silent B</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Vocês lembram de Todo Mundo Quase Morto? Apesar da tradução infame do título, a sátira aos film]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">Vocês lembram de <strong>Todo Mundo Quase Morto</strong>? Apesar da tradução infame do título, a sátira aos filmes de zumbis de Simon Pegg e Edgard Wright é brilhante. A parceria de Pegg com Nick Frost, que protagonizaram o filme como Shaun e Ed, continuou em <strong>Mandando Bala</strong>, filme que avacalha a força policial e a vida bucólica da Inglaterra.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Agora, Simon está de volta com <strong>How to Lose Friends and Alienate People</strong>, filme americano que mostra um autor ingês que vai para New York e tenta se encaixar em uma revista famosa. O problema é que  <strong>ninguém</strong> (eu disse NINGUÉM) gosta dele. A história é baseada no livro homônimo de <strong>Toby Young</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Além da história e do ator promissor, o resto do elenco também é bom:<strong> Kirsten</strong> <strong>Dunst</strong>, <strong>Gillian Anderson</strong>, <strong>Megan Fox</strong>, <strong>Jeff Bridges</strong> e <strong>Danny Huston</strong>. A pérola estréia no dia <strong>8 de outubro</strong> lá fora, com direção de <strong>Robert B. Weide</strong>.</p>
<p>Agora, vamos ao que interessa: saiu um novo pôster do filme, que vocês conferem abaixo. Para ver o antigo, outras imagens e o trailer, acesse o <a href="http://jovemnerd.ig.com.br/categoria/jovem-nerd-news/" target="_blank"><strong>Jovem Nerd News</strong></a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Kurts Vonnegūts un kino]]></title>
<link>http://istabas.com/2007/07/09/kurts-vonneguts-un-kino/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Istabu Autors</dc:creator>
<guid>http://istabas.com/2007/07/09/kurts-vonneguts-un-kino/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Par Kurtu Vonnegūtu (Kurt Vonnegut) ir daudz runāts, bet šķiet, ka šoreiz vēl kā nekad, lielu]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Par Kurtu Vonnegūtu (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</a>) ir daudz runāts, bet šķiet, ka šoreiz vēl kā nekad, lielums „daudz" ir absolūti abstrakts. Paskatīsimies no neierastāka skatu punkta.</p>
<p>Kurts Vonnegūts ir gana ekranizēts, un es šeit pieminēšu tikai tās filmas, kuras tapa pēc pazīstamāko grāmatu motīviem. Jā, subjektīvi.</p>
<p><strong>Ardievu, melnā pirmdiena!</strong></p>
<p>Grāmata „Čempionu brokastis jeb ardievu, melnā pirmdiena!" dienas gaismu ieraudzīja 1973. gadā. Pats autors izteicās, ka „šī grāmata ir mana dāvana sev pašam piecdesmit gadu jubilejā", piebilstot, „Es esmu ieprogrammēts piecdesmit gadu vecumā uzvesties kā bērns - apsmiet amerikāņu himnu, zīmēt ar flomāsteru nacistu karogus, pakaļu caurumus un daudz ko citu". Romāna vadlīniju veido Kilgora Trauta un Dveina Hūvera savstarpējās attiecības, kas daiļdarba beigās noved pie satikšanās uz šīs „bojāejai nolemtās planētas". Kurts Vonnegūts nevar atstāt vienaldzīgu, un romāns „Čempionu brokastis" ir īpaši spilgts autora daiļradē, pateicoties izteiktai ironijai, melnajam humoram, neizzūdošai nolemtības sajūtai un, protams, atziņām.</p>
<p>Filma „Čempionu brokastis" (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120618/">„Breakfast of Champions"</a>) pirmo reizi tika izrādīta 1999. gadā... Brūss Villiss (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000246/">Bruce Willis</a>) Dveina Hūvera lomā un Alberts Finnijs (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/">Albert Finney</a>) Kilgora Trauta lomā. Nepārliecinošs sniegums, bet jāņem vērā sarežģītības pakāpe. Romānā notiek Kurta Vonnegūta monologs (drīzāk - dialogs ar lasītāju), kas veido tik ļoti nepieciešamo saiti, kura padara daiļdarbu interesantu, aizaujošu un saistošu. Diemžēl filmā šīs saites pietrūkst.</p>
<p><strong>Politiķi nav lasījuši Vonnegūtu</strong></p>
<p>„Māte nakts" pirmoreiz tika publicēta 1961. gadā. Tā stāsta par kādu amerikāni, kas pēc pirmā pasaules kara pārceļas uz Vāciju un kļūst par ievērojamu nacisma propagandētāju, publicistu, lugu autoru, radio diktoru. To redz un tā uzskata visa pasaule. Patiesībā Viņš ir ASV slepenais aģents, kas nacistisko runu, publikāciju, radio reportāžu veidā ziņo šifrētu informāciju. Vēlāk, pēc kara, Viņš šo patiesību nespēj pierādīt. Tā nu galvenais varonis beigu beigās nonāk cietumā un gaida, kad viņu tiesās ar nāves sodu.</p>
<p>Ja mūsu politiķi būtu šo grāmatu izlasījuši, par čekas maisu atvēršanu nebūtu ne runas.</p>
<p>Filma „Māte nakts" (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117093/">„Mother Night"</a>) uz ekrāniem parādījās 1996. gadā. Galveno varoni attēlo Niks Nolte (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000560/">Nick Nolte</a>). Šīs filmas režisoram Keitam Gordonam (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330360/">Keith Gordon</a>) ir izdevies sajust nianses. Drāma nav tikai problēmu un konfliktu apkopojums un režisors to parādīja ar epizožu smalkumu un ļoti akurātu darbu. Vienā no filmas fragmentiem mēs redzam arī pašu Kurtu Vonnegūtu. Iekš <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0903361/">imdb</a> Viņa loma ir nodēvēta par „Sad Man on Street"...</p>
<p>Manī šī ekranizācija paliks kā visspilgtākā, un es pat nespēju atbildēt uz jautājumu - kāpēc? Iespējams, tamdēļ, ka grāmata nesastāv no tik liela daudzuma humora (kaut vai - melnā humora), cik vairums citu. Iespējams, tamdēļ, ka filma man likās tik sasodīti skumja... Bet baudāmi skumja...</p>
<p><strong>Drēzdeni atceroties</strong></p>
<p>„Lopkautuve nr. 5 jeb Bērnu krusta karagājiens", iespējams, ir Kurta Vonnegūta pati pazīstamākā grāmata. Tā nāk klajā 1969. gadā un kļūst par tobrīd absolūto līderi „New York Times" bestselleru sarakstā.</p>
<p>Romāna galvenais varonis - ceļotājs laikā - Billijs Piligrims piedzīvo Drēzdenes bombardēšanu, kas notika Otrā pasaules kara izskaņā un par kuru vēsturnieki piemin salīdzinoši reti.</p>
<p>Drēzdenes bombardēšanu piedzīvoja arī Kurts Vonnegūts.</p>
<p>1972. gadā grāmata piedzīvoja ekranizāciju, kas visai tuvu atbilst grāmatas tekstam. Šī ir filma, kuras interpretācija no komēdijas līdz traģēdijai ir īpaši individuāla. Es gandrīz nesmaidīju.</p>
<p>Uzņemties filmēt filmu pēc tik izcilas un apbrīnojamas grāmatas motīviem ir liela atbildība. Filmas režisors Džordžs Rojs Hils (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001351/">George Roy Hill</a>) par šo filmu ieguva Kannu filmu festivāla žūrijas balvu.</p>
<p><strong>ETC.</strong></p>
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<p>Kurts Vonnegūts nomira šī gada 11. aprīlī. Viņa meita Edija Vonnegūta raksta: „I never expected Kurt to actually die. He was supposed to break the code and live forever." (<a href="http://www.vonnegut.com/news.asp">atsauce</a>). Tā gadās. Šobrīd Roberts B. Veids (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004332/">Robert B Weide</a>) strādā pie dokumentālās filmas <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1009015/">„Kurt Vonnegut: American Made"</a>, kas dienas gaismu varētu ieraudzīt 2009. gadā.</p>
<p>„Dzīve ir dažkārt patiešām jocīga. Bet dažkārt nemaz nav". Kurts Vonnegūts. „Kaķa šūpulis".</p>
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<title><![CDATA[News: Simon Pegg]]></title>
<link>http://pocketfilms.wordpress.com/?p=259</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pocketfilms</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Shaun of the Dead and Spaced star Pegg is, with this week&#8217;s Hot Fuzz, making yet anothe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former <em>Shaun of the Dead</em> and <em>Spaced </em>star Pegg is, with this week's <em>Hot Fuzz</em>, making yet another strong case that he's the first British comic with a real chance to make it big in America since Peter Sellers - but will he be able to maintain the momentum?</p>
<p>He's certainly got a fair few more in the works - from a planned new sitcom about a pub quiz team (with his <em>Spaced</em>, <em>Shaun</em> and <em>Hot Fuzz</em> co-star and real-world best buddy Nick Frost), <strong><em>La Triviata</em></strong>, due some time this year through to the animated stoner comedy <strong><em>Free Jimmy</em></strong>, for which Pegg wrote the English screenplay (it was originally Norwegian) about a junkie elephant on the run and provides voice duties alongside the likes of Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Samantha Morton, David Tennant, Emilia Fox and Phil Daniels.</p>
<p>But there are also some bigger projects on the way, like the romantic comedy <strong><em>The Good Night</em></strong>, with Martin Freeman, Penelope Cruz, Danny DeVito, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Gambon, or former Friends star David Schwimmer's directorial debut <strong><em>Run, Frat Boy, Run</em></strong>, with Pegg starring alongside Thandie Newton and <em>The Simpsons</em>' Hank Azaria.</p>
<p>By far the most promising, however, is Pegg's starring role in a big screen adaptation of Toby Young's bestselling memoir of life at a high-end New York magazine, <strong><em>How to Lose Freinds and Alienate People</em></strong> - to be directed by Robert B Weide, best known for his work on the cult comedy <em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em>. That could well be enough to get Pegg into the Hollywood comedy A-list...</p>
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