Posts by Ian Dalziel
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hairy-toed ingrates...
We can all relax, Michael 'Saruman' Laws has
weighed in to the fray, with all gums bleeding...
his remarkable insights were obviously created
in a room without mirrors:GOD SAVE us from actors and artists! There are no sane actors – only varying degrees of personality disorders that some parlay into commercial gain.
and this :
But this is the corollary conceit of celebrity. Just because one is in films, on television, profiled in magazines and newspapers, there exists an expectation of intelligence. Wisdom, even.
...curiously omitting Radio hosts and mediocre Newspaper Columnists from the list, then from some alternate universe he presents this "fact":
The argument of the actors is relatively simple. We want to share in the anticipated commercial success of this Rings prequel, The Hobbit. We missed out last time because we didn't expect this cinematic masterpiece to be, well, a cinematic masterpiece. Nor the runaway commercial success that it became.
...that's right all those actors on that multi-million dollar trilogy thought it was just some low budget throwaway with no hope of success...
and ending with this volte-face gem:
It is time that our actors were taught the appropriate lesson – that it really isn't about them. After all, anyone can play dress-up.
...so which is it Micky "anyone can act"
or "only the insane can act" ?
Holmes and away...
An unrelated aside - listening to Paul Holmes blathering on ( Mediawatch about Delhi coverage) - is it just me, or is that whole verbal "Question" / "Answer" shtick getting a little tired now, he certainly gives it a very tiresome delivery... -
MGM & Warners near agreement over The Hobbit...
...it's win win for both!an excerpt from Never say there and back again;
A Hobbit's tale:
"...Bilbo Bond slipped the ring on his goldfinger
and, to the bewilderment of the circling SMERSH orcs, winked out of sight.
With the familiar heft of his trusty Walther PPK in hand he set off to wipe that Smaug look off
Blofeld's face." -
greater than some of its parts...
SAG still pays collected residuals to the family of dead actors in perpetuity (apparently)...
and I believe some people appearing in ads receive residuals on any repeats after a contracted number of screenings...
so for actors it is surely the equivalent of music's "needle money"...
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Nudity in the Hobbit
and I thought they were Shire than that...
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the acting kaiser...
The mere thought of Gerry Brownlee 'suggesting' a course of action is a true worry.
obviously, for the good of the country, all actors will be rounded up and put in re-education camps for threatening the stability of the economy during this time of national emergency. There may have to be examples made...
The reconditioning practices of Pav Love combined with Hobbit-forming substances will save the day! -
I googled his name and couldn't find anything
really?
he comes up in 4 of the first 5
when I search and
your comment is 6th -
Watched a family gather bags of cones one year.
ditto the Ginkgo trees, there'll be some sad harvesters this year when they find out the one in The Arts Centre has gone - a victim of the Earthquake apparently (well removed so cranes could get in I heard)
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Things are hotting up...
just the other day on the sun
a passable impression of Mount Doom in Mordor -
So, not so. Well, maybe not so.....
well "there is a lot of smoke" ...
...and mirrors? -
Hosed off actors...?
Time for Peter Jackson to do the
Flick the Little Fire Engine movie, then?