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EntertainmentMarch 05 Maddox, Part II: Brangelina To Adopt A BoyThe Jolie-Pitts skipping the blob phase and going straight for the JK-age orphans.
by Ryan Porter
It's a boy for Angelina Jolie. The actress has applied to adopt a Vietnamese boy between the ages of three and four, Vietnam's director of the Ministry of Justice's International Adoption Department has said. Orphanages must be going nuts over there. It's like when Daddy Warbucks was looking for an orphan in Annie, but better. Daddy Warbucks wasn't even a hottie. The new Jolie-Pitt team member will be younger than kindergarten soccer-star Maddox, 5, and older than the little girls, Lays connoisseur Zahara, 2, and baby Shiloh, a.k.a. the Blob, 10 months. "Normally it takes about four months to process an adoption request but if she has found the child, it could take much less," the official said. What a coy little clue! He's dropping hints like he's on Desperate Housewives. More satisfying answers come via People magazine. "The process began shortly after Shiloh was born," a secret source says. "It has been a long process and [Angelina] is now simply waiting for further information." Angelina filed to adopt through an American adoption agency as a single parent, as joint adoption with Brad the dad Pitt is not possible in Vietnam because the couple aren't married. Angelina will be subjected to numerous interviews and background checks, so the adoption agency has a lot of back issues of Life and Style to digest. "That process could take a long time to unfold," People's source continues. "It is wonderful that people are excited about it [but] the news that papers have been filed is only the beginning of a very comprehensive and detailed process." Luckily, because the American adoption agency is handling the formalities, Angelina will not need to travel to and from Vietnam, freeing up her time to do what she does every night--try and take over the world (in a good way). What do you think? Email ryan.porter@msn.com. February 12 It Was All About the Timberlake
As for the performances, it was all about Justin Timberlake, who made me wish I'd caught his concert at Madison Square Garden here in New York last week. He's the whole package as a performer, and it was absolutely the highlight of the otherwise boring, cringe-inducing self congratulations of the rest of the show. Other highlights: Chris Brown, who outshined both Smokey Robinson and Lionel Richie during their "three generations" performance. Other lowlights: The overhyped performances by The Police and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Meh. The Chili Peppers had to rely on a confetti machine to stir up some enthusiasm. Whatever. Guess the show's producers have decided to go ahead and embrace the nickname "The Grannys." The show, overall, was old and tired. - posted by Kim Even In Death, Anna Nicole Has Zsa Zsa To Contend With
Anna Nicole Smith, not surprisingly, attracts just as much drama in death as she did when she was alive. There's soooo much to pour over but I think D Listed has done a fine job gathering up ever tidbit of drama involving the larger-than-life Anna Nicole, (whom I pay homage to here).
But this one, this one's too much:
"The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father. 'If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me,' von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead. Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90 [um, go Zsa Zsa!], have been married for more than 20 years."
Sigh. If only Jacqueline Susann was around to write about all of this.
--posted by Kim Ennio Morricone Doesn't Need No Stinking OscarOn top of creating some of the most iconic musical scores in cinema history (like "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" for starters), composer Ennio Morricone is just flat out, effing cool.
"Hollywood composer Ennio Morricone is disappointed he will receive an honorary Academy Award later this month, because it was his lifelong ambition to avoid winning an Oscar. Morricone, who has scored music for over 400 films, has been nominated for Best Original Score Academy Awards for 'Days Of Heaven,' 'The Mission,' 'The Untouchables,' 'Bugsy' and 'Malena' in the past, but failed to pick up an Oscar for his efforts. The 70-year-old insists he liked the idea of joining iconic director Stanley Kubrick in missing out on a win - but concedes his Oscar may 'fill a hole. After five nominations I expected nothing, in fact I hoped I'd remain without an Oscar. I would have remained in the company of illustrious non-winners. I see the Oscar as a little bit of a fluke - even if those who win deserve it. That doesn't mean that I'm not happy about it. I have received so many beautiful, incredible prizes, but there was a little hole. Maybe the Oscar fills the hole.'"
It's almost like Johnny Rotten turning down his honor from The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame only, I'm assuming Morricone will attend the Oscars and he's actually kind of, sort of happy to receive one. Nevertheless, this attitude should make for an interesting acceptance speech. Can't wait to watch. --posted by Kim David Walker's Ten Essential Black Films
In honor of Black History Month, my ex-colleague, film critic, filmmaker and pal David Walker wrote up an interesting list of the Ten Essential Black Films.
Here's what he said about Gordon Parks Jr.'s great, great 1972 picture "Superfly:"
"It is never mentioned among the best crime films of the 1970s like 'Mean Streets' or 'The French Connection,' but director Gordon Parks Jr.'s tale of a mid-level cocaine dealer trying to go legit is up there with the best films of that era. In an Oscar-worthy performance, classically-trained actor Ron O'Neal stars as Priest, a dope dealer who has seen enough, and longs for a better life. Priest hatches a plan to unload a massive amount of blow and retire forever from the life. But his plan begins to fall apart as outside forces conspire against him, and Priest is forced to make some difficult decisions. Driven by Curtis Mayfield's Greek chorus-like score, 'Super Fly' was one of the most pivotal films of the '70s blaxploitation era -- a gritty, rough-around-the-edges tale of moral ambiguity that recalled the classic gangster films of the '30s and '40s. The film itself would become the center of attention as political backlash grew surrounding blaxploitation films, and it was that backlash that helped to keep 'Super Fly' from gaining its rightful place in the pantheon of American cinema."
Read the rest of his list here. --posted by Kim February 06 Aren't Artificial Enhancements Illegal in the NFL?Did you catch Billy Joel’s performance of the National Anthem at the beginning of Super Bowl XLI? Not counting Cher’s “Believe,” in which it’s used for artistic effect, have you ever heard a more deployment of pitch correction in your life? Seriously. Go back and listen to it again, closely. I hear E.T. fiddling with the knobs on the autotune. Prince was great, though. And clean. Also thought it was hilarious that he quoted “All Along the Watchtower,” in light of his semi-recent religious conversion to Jehovah’s Witnesses. As my friend Devon once famously said as we were all in a bar watching a big game he wasn’t interested in, “Yay, sports.” -- Shrug 365 Days II: The Outsider Strikes BackA few years ago, an enterprising young man (well, he's relatively young, I believe) named Otis Fodder started a project called 365 Days. Warning: You may never speak to me again after hitting that link. But if you loosen your straps a little and have massive amounts of time to kill, you will find a collection of some of the strangest music ever to hit thrift shops, late-night college radio shows with nothing to lose, and America's most beloved manic-depressives.
365 Days was -- well, is, they ain't gone away yet -- a compendium of "outsider music." This is a sub-sub-subcategory of pop music of dubious origin. RE/Search magazine termed it "Incredibly Strange Music." It's a collection of industrial corporate music, religious puppet records, cracked exercise routines set to music, home tapes that were never meant to be heard, school concert bands, instructional albums -- basically any type of music that really just exists on its own plane outside the music mainstream. Or the solar system, for that matter.
Every day during the year 2003, Otis, or as I prefer to call him, "Oats," put up a new track of outsider music, giving his and others' bizarre collections a more or less permanent home on the internet, not to mention your greasy little hearts. Then darkness fell, and we had nothing but the memories.
Until now! Thanks to help from the greatest freeform station to ever exist, New Jersey's WFMU, Otis Fodder has returned with a second helping of 365 Days. With the powerful servers behind the giant WFMU machine, Fodder not only refreshes his weirdo music every day -- if he feels like it, he'll put an entire album up.
This is a godsend for those of us who wanted the full-length versions of Rev. Michael Mills' hilariously uninformed expose of Satan in rock music, or the complete fan club recordings of David Cassidy, or the full and complete Armed Forces Workout.
It's dadgum inspirational. Enjoy it today. I sure did.
--Shrug A 'Gilmore" Comeback?
I don't think Luke and Lorelai need to be married with a kid on the way by the end of the season, but even Christopher/Lorelai fans seem to agree that the rushed hook-up and quickie Paris wedding of those two has been the epitome of the show's rapid decline since last season's Luke's-got-a-daughter-and-he's-keeping-her-a-secret-from-Lorelai storyline. Can new producer David Rosenthal finally undo the mess he inherited from show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino? Should this be the final season of the show? And how would you want to see it all end if the Gilmores do leave the airwaves in May? - posted by Kim Like Father, Like Son
I'm guessing lots more dysfunction will play out in next week's two-hour episode, but here's the big question: What could possibly be the motivation for Phillip Bauer's dastardly deeds? Graeme was a weasel to be sure, but that was another whole level of cold-blooded behavior to smother your own kid with your bare hand. And the family is clearly powerful and wealthy, so, again, what's Papa Bauer's motivation? And just how bad do you think he is? Oh, and Emmy moment for Kiefer Sutherland with Jack's reaction to Graeme's revelation that he was behind the murders of David Palmer, Tony and Michelle. One of the rare times when we've seen salty discharge from Jack's eyes ... In other "24" news, we're gonna have to wait a bit longer on that big-screen movie. The script, Variety reports, wasn't ready for the movie to be filmed after the current, and sixth, season of the show, so it'll now go into production after season seven in May 2008. In the meantime, Kiefer will spend his summer vacation this year filming a supernatural thriller called mirrors. - posted by Kim Channel Surfing--February 6, 2007
- Jordana Brewster is Mrs. Smith, and now we have Mr. Smith: "Smokin' Aces" star Martin Henderson. - Kirstie Alley as a minister? This could be the funniest show of next season, but maybe not intentionally so. Her pilot, "The Minister of Divine," BTW, is another American remake of a Britcom, "The Vicar of Dibley." - Oscar-nominated "The Queen" director Stephen Frears, who also directed the George Clooney 2000 live TV remake of "Fail Safe," is directing Stephen Dorff's CBS drama pilot. - The Super Bowl ratings? It was the third most-watched program in TV history. Ever. Wow. - Speaking of the Super Bowl, this dude planned to go all Ahmad Rashad and propose to his girlfriend during Sunday's broadcast. That didn't work out, so now he's set his sights a bit lower: He'll propose during "Veronica Mars." Here's hoping for his potential future wife's sake that he puts even half as much effort into their marriage. - If you missed the Jeremy Piven-hosted "Saturday Night Live" last month, you missed the silly, but fun "MacGyver" spoof "MacGruber," which you can now check out at NBC.com. - The New York Times' TV reporter Bill Carter weighs in today on the Jeff Zucker failing-upward drama. - And the Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, profiles Sarah Silverman and her sister/co-star Laura. - posted by Kim |
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