Ms. Amused

Looks like Morgan will be ok

Freeman’s injuries included a broken arm, a broken elbow and “minor shoulder damage,” but the actor “was in good spirits when I spoke with him a short time ago” at the hospital trauma center in Memphis, his publicist, Donna Lee, told Reuters in a statement on Monday. - Source

He will have surgery but seems to fair to say that he’ll make a full recovery. It’s not like he’s an action star a la Christian Bale so we’ll be seeing him again on the screen!

James Doohan (of “Beam me up Scott” fame)’s son writes about the repeated failed attempts to give his dad the funeral he wanted. In Space.

And also in very worrisome news, Morgan Freeman was seriously injured in a car accident! NOOOO!!!!

As cleolinda on LJ put it… NOOOO NOT PRESIDENT GOD!!

When older actors pass away, like George Carlin, it hurts and it’s hard but it’s less devastating (for me at least) than when people like Heath die because none of us live forever and they were getting to the end of their life anyways. George had bad heart health for some time anyways.

But Morgan Freeman… he may be old but he’s also very in demand and prolific in great roles which puts him on the screen several times a year it seems. He’s in so many movies that I love that it’d be brutal to lose him though nature dictates we will one day.

Just NOT YET!!!! please not yet… not for another 20 years at least.

There’s talk about a Batman curse since Heath died earlier this year. Supposedly it was talked about on set… but why? Were there injuries and other mishaps leading up to Heath’s death and now Morgan’s accident?

Some people are even including Bale’s recent appearance in the tabloids as part of the curse. But I discount that because that’s just opportunistic parasitic family members trying to make a buck by hook or by crook. And oh yea, I don’t believe Bale “assaulted” anyone. Yelled, sure. But beat? No way. I looked up old interviews and noticed that he rarely talked about his mom and that it was mostly all about his dad. Bad relationship much?

Since I’ve already rambled to Nepal and back… might as well finish off by saying:

I SAW DARK KNIGHT ON FRIDAY AT MIDNIGHT AND LOVED IT!

Not a perfect film but I actually prefer that. Too perfect movies make my head explode. I am even more sorry that Heath is dead because it is a CRIME that there’s no way to finish the Joker story.

Well someone, I think A, actually brought it up “What if they got Depp to finish it?” and that made me stop and think. I’d been thinking that no one would tolerate anyone stepping in for Heath to finish the story but how about an actor that people are lauding for having done just that on a different film? I dare say even Colin Farrell would work but not Jude Law.

The Joker was the ONE character in Dark Knight that I didn’t “see the actor” in. And that was only because between the heavy feature obliterating makeup and the voice modulation, even a focused attempt to see Heath under the makeup rarely worked.

Put Depp through makeup/costume tests and I’m sure they can get him to look very much like Heath’s Joker. Depp is also talented enough that I believe he could “find” Heath’s Joker’s mannerism & style and carry them on.

So yea… maybe there’s hope after all to continue the Joker.

Gonna force myself to save the tangent rant about one of the reasons why people say that Angelina Jolie should not be cast as Catwoman but instead point out what I’ve determined to be the current truth about casting for the next Batman movie.

There is NO casting other than the obvious already played ones, the surviving characters from Dark Knight (I listed them but realized it’d be a spoiler).

Apparently a number of actors signed multi picture deals, ie Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart both reportedly signed 2 picture deals. But just because the contracts exists, doesn’t mean they have to be used in the 2nd picture of the deal.

It was reading that Christopher Nolan isn’t even attached for a 3rd Batman picture that made me realize that at this stage, absolutely nothing is set in stone. The next movie might not even be made. Common sense dictates that the buckets of cash and records breaking run of Dark Knight is enjoying will drive the studio to make another movie at some point. But that’s about the only thing you can count on.

Fare Thee Well James Doohan, George Carlin, & Heath Ledger and GET BETTER SOON Morgan Freeman!!

And someone stick Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Michael Caine in a padded bomb shelter til 2009! Oh and Christopher Nolan too!

The best thing about the Golden Girls for me was always Sophia Petrillo and her mouth.

I’m now bitten with the yen to acquire GG on dvd and have a Sophia marathon/wake. 7 seasons are all on dvd now.

Thank you Estelle! Gone but never forgotten.

Picture it, Sicily 1916. A beautiful young lady walking along the beach….

He never gets “too big for his britches”. I love that he’s still a goof ball and very easy to talk to.

Reading this interview with him makes me really want to go see Journey to the Center of the Earth now. Before I was just interested because I like Brendan’s work. The talk about the footballs and treadmill sold me.

This is a great summer… Brendan times 2! and DARK KNIGHT!!!

Just to remind you of the eye candy…

No George NO!!

I’m in tears now to read that George Carlin is dead.

My introduction to George Carlin was in Outrageous Fortune which was also my introduction and the beginning of my fondness for Bette Midler. It was also the first time I saw Shelley Long in and while I loved her in in it, can’t say so much for the rest of her stuff, it’s hit or miss for me.

But George stole the show…. as he always does any time I see him in something. I love Kevin Smith for casting him in Dogma and then again in his pet project, Jersey Girl. I actually love George best as the grandfather in JG than anything else that I’ve seen him in it. Unlike a lot of Kevin’s fans, I get what Jersey Girl was about and I think it’s wonderful. Will Smith did too which is why his cameo “as himself” is excellent as well.

Man… George…. so many times I wanted to go see him perform live. I lived in Vegas for two years and George played several times while I was there but curse my deafness, I opted out of paying the high ticket prices for a performance I wouldn’t understand without the captions.

But what I can do is get his performance dvds (that are captioned) and watch them instead. In honor of what I would have loved to see in person.

Oh George… it should have been the other one that is a failure at his job… not you. I hope your final weeks were happy ones.

18 June 2008

Radcliffe Toning Up For Nude Scene Stint On Broadway

Actor Daniel Radcliffe is determined to tone-up his body before appearing on Broadway’s Equus in the nude - and he’s not ashamed to admit it. The Harry Potter star, 18, will disrobe in the Broadway adaptation of the Peter Shafer play later this year - just as he did onstage in London when the play opened there in 2007. And Radcliffe made sure to stop by the gift lounge before Sunday’s 62nd Annual Tony Awards, where he shamelessly picked up a Scorcher Butt Machine - a piece of exercise equipment with “a special emphasis on butt shaping”. He says of his new work out regime, “They don’t have things like this in England. We never get gifts.”

If you liked Pan’s Labyrinth, you’ll like this one too. If Pan’s was a little too dark for you, this one is less dark.

They share similarities by being in a wartime, a kid whose home is invaded by barracked soldiers, but finds a little magic in their life.

The movie doesn’t reach the level of storytelling magic that 80s master trifecta (Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Never Ending Story) did but it’s sweet and enjoyable. The 3d work on the water horse is pretty good, only a couple times does it look odd.

Definitely worth watching. Ben Chaplin turns in a nice performance as does the rest of the cast, even the little boy who is the lead character.

And how can you resist that cute face?

I’d been wondering why everyone was freaking out so much about the team splitting up on NCIS cause… when did that happen?

Turns out that right after the climatic death of a character, the credits rolled and I stopped the DVR. Usually when there’s a two hour finale, it goes from start to finish… not 1 hr episode and 1 hr episode.

Also I’d been in a distracted enough state that I didn’t pay attention to or notice that A) I’d only been watching for an hour and B) the progress bar was at the halfway point, not the end. The latter especially because I hit the stop button and not the pause.

So now I’m VERY thankful that I decided to keep the finale for a few days because I might want to rewatch it to be sure I didn’t miss anything.

I’ve not been to Disneyland in a long time but now I wish I had….

Someone talks about playing Jack Sparrow at the park and the DisneyNazis who fired him.

It’s a very entertaining read and is only two pages so go read it! If the accompanying photo is him, damn is he a ringer for the real deal!

So when is there gonna be a Pirates 4 already?

Just WHAT is up with all the season finales these days? A major character (or two) has been shot (or blown up) in just about every show that I watch. Seems like there’s a mass exodus of regular characters as well.

Jesse L Martin left Law & Order (yes I was living under a rock and hadn’t heard of his departure beforehand)

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