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☆ Chris Pine on His Best Movie Roles: 'Wonder Woman,' 'Star Trek,' 'Unstoppable,'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Whether he's playing the handsome leading man in a rom-com or an intensely focused franchise star, Pine has the uncanny ability to adapt into the movie star that's needed at any particular moment. I learned more from that set about what it means to be a movie star than probably anything else. On turning down 'Wonder Woman' twice before director Patty Jenkins convinced him by bringing up 'Casablanca'"Wonder Woman." Warner Bros. PicturesBy the time you did the "Wonder Woman" franchise, you had done your fair share of blockbusters. Even think of "Wonder Woman 1984" — that's a blockbuster movie that is a hero's journey not about revenge.

Persons: Chris Pine, he's, Don Mattingly, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Gwynne Gilford, Robert Pine, Sergeant Getraer, Jack, Pine, Anne Hathaway, David Caruso, it's, Kirk —, Kirk, William Shatner, Karl Urban, McCoy, Karl, Spock, Zach, Quinto, Leonard, Nimoy, Abrams, Shatner, Denzel, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, Mark Bomback, I'm, you'd, Ben Foster, Taylor, Sheridan, David, Mackenzie, Jeff Bridges, Jeff, Ben, hadn't, Patty Jenkins, Patty, Steve Organizations: Business, Yankee, Washington, Walt Disney Pictures, CSI, Paramount Pictures, Denzel Washington, Denzel, Denzel Washington —, CBS, Warner Bros ., gonzo Locations: cardigan, Pine, Coast, heartthrob, Miami, Casablanca

☆ Chris Pine is 'stunned' the 'Wonder Woman' franchise is over
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIt's been four years since the last "Wonder Woman" movie debuted in theaters, and Chris Pine still can't believe the successful franchise has ended. In the movies, Pine played American spy Steve Trevor, the love interest of Gal Gadot's Diana Prince/Wonder Woman character. In 2017's "Wonder Woman," directed by Patty Jenkins, Trevor teams up with Prince to fight with the Allies in World War I, and eventually, the two fall in love. Chris Pine and Gal Gadot in "Wonder Woman." The rest is history, as the first "Wonder Woman" movie became a sensation.

Persons: —, Chris Pine, Pine, Steve Trevor, Gal Gadot's Diana Prince, Patty Jenkins, Trevor, Prince, Jenkins, James Gunn, Peter Safran, I'm, Patty, Steve, gonzo, Gal Gadot, Rebecca Blackwell Organizations: Service, Allies, Business, Warner Bros, DC, DC Comics, Galaxy, DC Studios Locations: American, Casablanca

☆ The Super Bowl in Las Vegas: What Would Hunter S. Thompson Think?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Billy Witz | Sinna Nasseri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

“When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don’t waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Get right into felonies.”It’s been more than a half-century since Hunter S. Thompson went in search of the American dream on his drug-addled, off-the-rails road trip to Las Vegas. His 1971 book, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” became an essential read for generations of teenagers who were just starting to question the world and came to define the desert gambling mecca. The book also gave birth to a new literary form, gonzo journalism, in which the reporter was a leading character — in this case a pill-popping, pot-smoking, tequila-swilling, acid-dropping “dope fiend” plunging headlong into the story.

Persons: ” It’s, Hunter S, Thompson, ” Locations: Las Vegas

☆ How a quick-thinking flight attendant and several passengers helped save 6 flamingo eggs aboard a flight
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Christina Maxouris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Six flamingo eggs from Atlanta’s zoo were chosen to be transported to the Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle, which had older flamingos that were past their breeding age. The plan was simple: a Woodland Park zookeeper would transport the six eggs from Atlanta to Seattle on a roughly six-hour flight, using a portable incubator to keep the eggs warm. “The flamingo eggs would not have survived in a non-functioning portable incubator for five hours,” Joanna Klass, a Woodland Park Zoo animal care manager, said in a news release. A flamingo named ‘Sunny’The six Chilean flamingo chicks were the first to hatch at the Woodland Park Zoo since 2016, the zoo has said. May and her granddaughter met the the flamingo chicks at Woodland Park Zoo last year.

Persons: Amber May, ”, May, ” Joanna Klass, “ We’re, –, ’, Bernardo, Magdalena, Amaya, Rosales, Gonzo, Jeremy Dwyer, Lindgren Organizations: CNN, Alaska Airlines, ”, Zoo, Sunny Locations: Seattle, Woodland, Atlanta

☆ E. Jean Carroll and the Value of a Woman ‘Past Her Prime’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jessica Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today she’s typically described as a former advice columnist — but that term doesn’t really do justice to E. Jean Carroll’s career pre-Donald Trump. Long before she was one of the longest-serving advice columnists in America, Ms. Carroll blazed trails as a gonzo-style journalist The Times once called “feminism’s answer to Hunter Thompson.”She profiled Lyle Lovett and went camping with the notorious New York curmudgeon Fran Lebovitz for a cover story in Outside. She wrote a famous piece on Dan Rather for Esquire, appeared in the “Best American Best Crime Writing,” and was the first female contributing editor at Playboy — back when people really did read it for the articles. Today, at best, she’s “former Elle advice columnist” E. Jean Caroll.” At worst, she’s the crazy Trump rape lawsuit lady. Or, as she put it in court recently: “Previously, I was known simply as a journalist, and now I’m known as the liar, the fraud and the wack job.”

Persons: —, Jean Carroll’s, Donald Trump . Long, Carroll, Hunter Thompson, ”, Lyle Lovett, Fran Lebovitz, Dan Rather, she’s, Elle, Jean Caroll Organizations: Times, Playboy, ” Locations: America, New York

☆ Opinion | Has Latin America Found Its Trump?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The election of Javier Milei, a wild-haired showboating weirdo with five cloned mastiffs and a habit of psychic communion with their departed pet of origin, as president of Argentina has inspired a lot of discussion about the true nature of right-wing populism in our age of general discontent. Milei has many of the signifiers of a Trumpian politics: the gonzo energy, the criticism of corrupt elites and the rants against the left, the support from social and religious conservatives. At the same time, on economic policy he is much more of a doctrinaire libertarian than a Trump-style mercantilist or populist, a more extreme version of Barry Goldwater and Paul Ryan rather than a defender of entitlement spending and tariffs. You can interpret the Trump-Milei divergence in several ways. Another reading is that, yes, the policy is somewhat negotiable but there are actually deep ideological affinities between right-wing economic nationalism and what might be called paleolibertarianism, despite their disagreement on specific issues.

Persons: Javier Milei, Milei, gonzo, Barry Goldwater, Paul Ryan, Trumpism, Ross Perot, Ron Paul Organizations: Peronist, Trump Locations: Argentina

☆ ‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manohla Dargis | More About Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This is the 33rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which continues to expand even as its cultural interest and resonance diminish. “The Marvels” will dominate the box office, of course, at least during its opening weekend, just because it will flood theaters. It’s almost as if the suits at Marvel Studios know it doesn’t matter if their movies are any good. Carol Danvers, a former Air Force pilot who inadvertently picked up her superpowers once upon a time. When she first appears here, she is hanging out with her scene-stealing orange tabby, Goose (played by Tango and Nemo), on her spaceship and doing something important-looking.

Persons: they’ve, Nia DaCosta, Brie Larson, Marvel a.k.a, Carol Danvers, Goose, overextended escapade Organizations: Marvel, Marvel Studios, Air Force, Tango

TORONTO (AP) — You don’t expect to see a movie named “Dicks: The Musical” on the marquee and neither did its makers. Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson, who created and star in “Dicks: The Musical,” certainly struggled to believe it. But “Dicks: The Musical," a freewheeling queer cult-favorite-to-be, is a gleefully tasteless bid to break free of comedy doldrums. “People maybe want to go for a bigger laugh but they’re afraid they’re going to offend too many people. As Jackson and Sharp developed the movie, they carved out the role of God, as narrator, for Yang.

Persons: “ Dicks, Bowen Yang, —, Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson, ”, ” Jackson, Hanna, Barbera, Megan Thee, Megan Mullally, Nathan Lane, Larry Charles, “, Sharp, ” Sharp, Jackson, Yang, “ It’s, ‘ Barbie, ’ ”, ” chimed Yang, Charles, Seinfeld ”, Abbott, Costello, Sacha, Baron Cohen, doesn’t, ” Charles, they’re, ” “ Dicks, Kori Adelson, ’ ” Sharp, ” Yang, Mullally, ” “, Jake Coyle Organizations: TORONTO, Megan Thee Stallion, Toronto, New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, bros, UCB, Chernin Entertainment, Twitter Locations: York, Los Angeles

☆ Toronto film festival kicks off with Miyazaki's 'The Boy and the Heron', few stars
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Cast members Camila Morrone, Willem Dafoe and director Patricia Arquette attend the world premiere of "Gonzo Girl" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 7, 2023. REUTERS/Mark Blinch Acquire Licensing RightsTORONTO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Toronto International Film Festival opened on Thursday with "The Boy and the Heron" by famed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the first time an animated feature has taken the coveted spot. Studio Ghibli executive Junichi Nishioka said it was an honour for "The Boy and the Heron" to have been chosen as the opener for the festival. The film, a semi-autobiographical story of a young boy struggling with the death of his mother, is expected to Miyazaki's swan song. "Gonzo Girl" stars Arquette, Camila Morrone and William Dafoe were among the few actors gaining union approval to promote their films.

Persons: Camila Morrone, Willem Dafoe, Patricia Arquette, Mark Blinch, Hayao Miyazaki, Craig Gillespie's, Lee, Kate Winslet, Taika, Kristin Scott Thomas, Junichi Nishioka, Arquette, William Dafoe, Morrone, Duncan Crabtree, Divya Rajagopal, Nivedita Balu, Jenna Zucker, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: Toronto, Film, REUTERS, Rights, Hollywood, Ghibli, Guild of America, Screen, American Federation of Television, Radio Artists, Reuters, SAG, Thomson Locations: Toronto , Ontario, Canada, United States, Ireland

☆ TIFF 2023: What to watch at the Toronto Film Festival
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Jenna Zucker | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The logo of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is seen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsTORONTO Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is back for its 48th edition, welcoming movies from around the world to premiere in Canada. The event comes right after the Venice Film Festival, where actor Adam Driver slammed the streaming sites for their lack of flexibility over the demands of writers and actors guild. Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson are expected at the festival to promote their film "Daddio." Last year, German film "All Quiet on the Western Front" premiered at TIFF and won four Oscars, including best international feature film.

Persons: Mark Blinch, Cameron Bailey, Adam Driver, Driver, Ferrari, Roy Thomson, Peter Street, Nickelback, Sean Penn, Dakota Johnson, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Shailene Woodley, Pete Davidson, Paul Giamatti, Hayao Miyazaki, Patricia Arquette's, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anna Kendrick's, Chris Pine's, Michael Keaton's, Knox, Lil Nas, Rustin, Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion's, Campion, Jenna Zucker, Divya Rajagopal, Denny Thomas, Sandra Maler Organizations: Toronto, Film, REUTERS, Hollywood, Venice Film, Roy Thomson Hall, Royal Alexandra Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, Wales Theatre, King, University, SAG, TIFF, Thomson Locations: Toronto , Ontario, Canada, Venice, Toronto's, Spanish

☆ The Armed Is One of Punk’s Biggest, Oddest Mysteries. That’s Changing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Mike Isaac | More About Mike Isaac | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are bands that are challenging to get into, and then there is the Armed. Its self-produced, highly weird music videos have a “Jackass”-meets-David Lynch aesthetic, with surprisingly advanced production values for an obscure Midwestern hardcore group. The Armed considers itself more of a collective or an art project than a band, with dozens of rotating members. Now, the Armed has a grand opportunity to capitalize on its years of toiling in relative obscurity. Harder acts like Scowl, Gel and Zulu are thriving, and Turnstile, the Baltimore-based hardcore group, has found a way to bridge hardcore to the mainstream.

Persons: David Lynch Organizations: Porsche Locations: Detroit, Baltimore, ”

☆ Latest news on Russia's war in Ukraine, Kyiv drone attack repelled
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Chris Lau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Ukrainian forces have made gains along the southern front, according to Kyiv military officials and battlefield reports. Ukrainian forces are "entrenching themselves in the reached positions,” he said, adding that Russian troops were "resisting strongly." In an update Tuesday, the general staff said Russian forces continued to focus on preventing Ukraine’s advances along the southern front, indicating stiff resistance. “They managed to force units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation to retreat to more advantageous positions,” Russian military blogger War Gonzo said. In the east: Ukrainian forces drove back the Russians near Andriivka, just south of the embattled city of Bakhmut, spokesperson Kovalov also claimed.

Persons: Andrii Kovalov, “, ”, Gonzo, Kovalov Organizations: Ukrainian, Ukrainian Defense Forces, Russian Federation Locations: Staromaiorske, ”, Velyka Novosilka, Russian, Melitopol, Orikhiv, Ukraine, Robotyne, Ukrainian, Andriivka, Bakhmut

☆ Russia says it thwarts big attack in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Asked to comment, a Ukrainian military spokesperson said: "We do not have such information and we do not comment on any kind of fake." Further north, near the long-contested city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces were reported to have been "moving forward" by the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi. Russia has launched hundreds of drones and missiles on Ukraine since early May, chiefly on Kyiv, with Ukraine saying it was targeting military facilities but also hitting residential areas. Russia now controls at least 18% of what is internationally recognised to be Ukrainian territory, and has claimed four regions of Ukraine as Russian territory. Ukraine vows to eject every last Russian soldier from its territory and casts the invasion as an imperial-style land grab by Russia.

Persons: Oleksiy Danilov, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Bakhmut, Oleksii Reznikov, Semyon Pegov, Gonzo, Staff Valery Gerasimov, William Burns, Vladimir Putin's, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, UKRAINE Putin, Guy Faulconbridge, Lidia Kelly, David Ljunggren, Philippa Fletcher, Nick Macfie Organizations: Ukraine's Security, Defence Council, Reuters, Ukraine's General Staff, Strategic Communications, Ukrainian Defence, Twitter, Staff, Russian, CIA, Wall Street, UKRAINE, Kremlin, Thomson Locations: Russia, Ukraine, KYIV, Moscow, Ukraine's Donetsk, Bakhmut, Donetsk, South Donetsk, Ukrainian, Berkhivka, Luhansk, Russia's Belgorod, Velyka, Vuhledar, Russian, Kyiv

☆ Once valued at nearly $6 billion, Vice files for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Claire Atkinson | Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Vice filed for bankruptcy, wiping out equity holders who poured in hundreds of millions, including TPG and James Murdoch. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday in New York's Southern District Court. The company's filing listed assets and liabilities in the range of $500 million to $1 billion. Vice had run multiple sales processes with a range of different banks but never received an offer palatable to its owners. The bankruptcy filing reveals just how many companies and investors pinned their hopes on Smith's hype about the potential growth trajectory of the TV and online venture.

☆ Nicolas Cage, Ranked From Wild to Mild
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the early 1980s, Nicolas Cage got his first big breaks in Martha Coolidge’s “Valley Girl” and Amy Heckerling’s “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” films that zeroed in on the peculiar allure of his dopey bad boy persona. Watching him was like eating a banana split: You tasted something nutty, sweet, indulgent, all-American. Since then, few actors have been able to match how nimble a polymorph Cage is in genre, how easily he power-bounces between action (“National Treasure”), comedy (“Moonstruck”) and horror (“Pay the Ghost”). He’s done the same for a who’s who of boundary-pushing directors, including the Coen brothers (“Raising Arizona”), David Lynch (“Wild at Heart”) and Spike Jonze (“Adaptation”). Each is rated on a scale of bees — one for sleepy, five for loony — in honor of the insects that tortured him in the 2006 remake of “The Wicker Man.”

☆ Inside the Wild World of Celebrity Keynote Speakers: Drugs, Alcohol
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

"I never saw myself as a speaker, let alone a motivational speaker," Leonard tells me while his assistant irons his jeans. 'When I ramble," Hunter told me, "hit me in the leg!" Every plane had been grounded, including the one stuck on the tarmac with an increasingly inebriated Hunter Thompson trapped inside. But by far the most all-consuming task was booking gigs for Hunter Thompson. Just before a debate with G. Gordon Liddy at Brown University, Hunter demanded that Betsy Berg, whom I now worked alongside at GTN, score him some crystal meth.

☆ ‘Everything’: Foods, and Now an Oscar Movie, With All the Fixins
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Ben Zimmer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” dominated the Academy Awards last Sunday, winning seven awards, including Best Picture. The gonzo comedy indeed has a bit of everything, combining science fiction, martial arts and family drama in a narrative that bounces among multiple parallel universes.

☆ Final farewell: From Sidney Poitier to Pope Emeritus Benedict a look back at the influential figures who died in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +55 min

Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August. The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Dan Reeves, 77. A Cuban-born artist whose radiant color palette and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice. A prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films.

LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday ordered his troops to withdraw from the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson and take up defensive lines on the opposite bank of the River Dnipro. In televised comments, General Sergei Surovikin, in overall command of the war, reported to Shoigu that it was no longer possible to keep Kherson city supplied. The news followed weeks of Ukrainian advances towards the city and a race by Russia to relocate more than 100,000 of its residents by ferrying them to the opposite side of the river. The announcement had been anticipated by Russia's influential war bloggers, who described it as a bitter blow. Compounding the sense of Russian disarray in Kherson, Moscow's number two official there, Kirill Stremousov, was killed in a car crash on Wednesday.

☆ 'Decision To Leave' review: The latest Korean drama you need in your life
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Review Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

This month the spotlight is on South Korean crime drama “Decision To Leave.”CNN —A language barrier lies at the heart of swoon-worthy Korean police procedural “Decision To Leave.” Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) is a polite Busan cop, Seo-rae (Tang Wei), the Chinese wife of a dead businessman. Park Hae-il and Tang Wei as a detective and suspect drawn together by the death of a mountain climber. The interview: Writer-director Park Chan-wookPark Chan-wook attends the "Decision To Leave" UK Premiere during the 66th BFI London Film Festival on October 14, 2022. Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesThe Korean master told CNN he wanted to adhere to then subvert film noir in “Decision To Leave,” playing with tropes, structure and the male gaze. For more details on his “very meta approach,” why he cast Tang Wei and why “Vertigo” was far from his mind, read the full interview.

Briciul - platformă de recenzii de filme - i-a dat o apreciere filmului „Youth” de Paolo Sorrentino – cel mai bun film la premiile Academiei Europene de Film din 2015. „Youth – memoria sublimului” de Gonzo pe Briciul. Însă Sorrentino se joacă cu clişeele la fel precum Warhol se juca cu cultura de consum. Cei frumoşi şi cei urâţi, cei deştepţi şi cei proşti, cei săraci şi cei bogaţi, muritorii de rând şi intelectualii de top. Filmul lui Sorrentino a divizat criticii în două tabere, una care-l elogiază şi alta care susţine că Youth e prea simplist şi şablonat.

Persons: Paolo Sorrentino, Warhol, Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Elveţia . Compozitorul, îşi, Sorrentino, Mark Kozelek, Maradona, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fassbinder, Diego Maradona, Youth, Caine, Paolo Organizations: Academiei Europene, Youth Locations: Elveţia, german, Grande, Grande Bellezza, pământeşti, Sorrentino

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