Prop weapons

Gun nuts are everywhere. Even in countries where guns are illegal. Consequently, there's a large international market for adult-sized toy guns. Cheap plastic "airsoft" guns are a boon to the extreme low budget filmmaker. That and software to add muzzle flashes and shell casings popping out to your movie. And blood spatter.

Blanks are loud and dangerous. People have been killed by them.

One director told the story. He loaded a blank cartridge into a high powered rifle and handed it to the actor who immediately aimed it at him. The director dived for cover.

"Aw, I wanted to shoot you!" the actor said.

The poor actor had only worked with very low powered blanks on stage. The blank loaded into that rifle would have been deadly at that range. And if the director hadn't dived for cover, the actor would have pulled the trigger.

Today, the only danger we face is that of being humiliated by people spotting us acting out scenes with toy guns.

We live in a golden age! Almost.

I did watch A Fool There Was a while back, the 1915 silent movie, a story of lust and seduction. Theda Bara plays a "vamp" who takes revenge on a snooty bourgeois woman's sleight by taking her husband away from her. He gets weaker and weaker as Theda sucks the life out of him. The wife tries to get him back, but he's unable to pry himself away.

It looked so easy! Anybody could make a movie back then! If only film hadn't cost so much! And average income wasn't so low!

Tiger Woods Car Accident | Video

Tiger Woods was injured in a single-vehicle accident outside his home early Friday and a local police chief says the golfer's wife smashed out the back window to help get her husband out of the SUV.

Check out the video report, below;

Watch Adam Lambert AMA Performance Video

Adam Lambert caused some strong reactions after his American Music Awards (AMA) Performance. He closed the show, and did he close the show! Lambert left some folks with their eyes bucked and their tongues hanging out.

It was done for shock value and all I 'gotta say is "mission accomplished." Adam Lambert says there is a double standard going on in the entertainment world. If Madonna and Britney can be provocative, why can't he?

Okay... we hear 'ya... Check out the video, below:

There's a career Roger Corman should have smothered in its cradle

James Cameron on 60 Minutes

I wish Morley Safer would learn to contain himself. I'm sitting here with the TV on. Safer is gushing like a schoolgirl over James Cameron. But 60 Minutes has been going downhill for years. There was that senile moron Mike Wallace who thought he was really sticking up for the little guy by defending Israel against Palestinian refugees and their anti-Semitic pleas for Israelis to stop killing their children.

Cameron has made a new movie costing $400,000,000.00. I don't know if this formula works for movies with absurdly large budgets, but they used to say a movie had to gross two and half times its cost just to break even. This thing could gross a billion dollars and still lose money.

Obnoxious insurance geezer

No offense to elderly persons who work in the insurance industry. Unless you're obnoxious.

A couple of years ago, an obnoxious ill-tempered geezer appeared on Community Access TV. I missed the beginning of it. It looked like he was speaking to a class locally.

He was an insurance company guy and he was gloating over his role in the movie industry, threatening to shut down productions that were falling behind schedule. He talked at length about Ben Stiller and the making of Zoolander. It fell behind schedule and this obnoxious geezer started hanging around threatening to shut it down. So Ben caught up and the obnoxious geezer went away. Then he fell behind production again and the geezer came back.

He mimicked Ben Stiller saying, "I can't work this way!" Accused him of "crying".

Maybe it was necessary for the guy to be a jerk when dealing with directors who were falling behind schedule, going over budget and threatening to cost the insurance company vast sums of money. But this geezer was also a jerk while publicly discussing it.

He seemed to take satisfaction with the fact that Stiller hadn't directed another movie since. In fact Stiller has directed several things since then including Tropic Thunder.

I wonder who the old guy was. Maybe he's dead now.

Ride the High Country

Okay, westerns weren't so bad

Well, now I feel bad for what I said about westerns. I watched Ride The High Country the other day and it was excellent of course. Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea. With Eugene, Oregon's, own Edgar Buchanan. But there was no talk about someday living on a ranch, and didn't one guy have a semi-automatic rifle? Someone pointed out that the toilet pictured in one scene was a little too modern, so it did have that anachronism.

Soviet westerns available on You Tube

At Home Among Strangers and The White Sun of the Desert

I never liked westerns. They were all about illiterates dressed in ugly clothes, in ugly buildings on an ugly landscape. Their only recreational activity was hanging around in bars and their greatest aspiration was to own a ranch. They had a lot of violence, which should have been appealing, but the fights generally consist of nothing but two men punching each other in the face. The gun fights weren't much better. Everyone had the same gun. Either a Colt revolver or a Winchester rifle. There was no variation. They could at least throw in a Derringer.

But I did kind of like the Osterns I've seen so far----Soviet movies inspired by American westerns, set in Soviet Asia in the 1920s.

In the Soviet film At Home Among Strangers, it was refreshing to see members of the Cheka as heroes. Made in 1974, in color with a few scenes in black & white.

There is a famine in the USSR. The government needs gold to import food. Cheka men transport the gold by train. When the train is robbed by bandits on horseback, a Cheka agent goes undercover to get the gold back.

They wear much more attractive clothes, they have a variety of weapons, although they go heavy on Nagant revolvers, and the architecture is more appealing.

And the whole thing is available on You Tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiAlFkw1EOU

And here is The White Sun of the Desert on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDEpRLPbSGM

Miley and Max behind the scenes

Miley and Max clothing line behind the scenes.

Miley Cyrus rocking Jersey

DEMI MERCEDES DARLING

Demi got a brand new Mercedes as her first car, ...its really beautiful and i love the fact that she didnt want an ecologic car as miley's PRIUS- that's just demi, i love her

Demi lovato and Chloe Bridges SLEEPOVER

Demi and Chloe matching pjs, some say demi's pj is really short. but what do you think?? is demi following miley's steps, ...

who's pics are worst MILEY'S OR DEMI'S'??

Just saying im a fan of both girls. but they make mistakes as we all do. and they are teenagers.

i've always been of the idea that demi is fake and used to hide her real side, now she's just being her, and she doesnt care what other people says, demi can also be a real bitch, but whatever...she tried to be de good disney girl, but she couldnt pretend to be someone that she's never been. she was just hiding her inner demi. but whatever, i dont care about her pictures , neither what she wears. i love her voice.

on the other hand i think miley's also made mistakes, but she's no fake. and she can also be a bitch, i dont care what she wears, or her pictures. but people judge miley a lot, for example, if demi has a piercing ( which she does) nobody says anythng, but if its miley, everyone judge her. on the clothes too. demi wears shorts, and skirts and a lot of things and usually she doesnt get crap about it, as miley. I know miley's been wearing really short clothes, but that's just her.

on selena, i think she's a good person, but i think she's really deep, and sometimes fake.

that's just my opinion. i respect both girls, and i know they've made mistakes and they are not perfect. and they get so much pressure for being on the spotlight. and i understand if u have other opinions. i also like selena. just saying

Rihanna 20/20 Interview | Full Video

Rihanna tells, in graphic detail, what happened the night she and Chris Brown got in an argument, with Chris Brown beating her to a pulp as a result. Check out Parts 1 and 2 of last night's broadcast of Diane Sawyer, on ABC's 20/20 TV show, interviewing Rihanna.

Here are some quotes:

On what she said happened that night:
“I caught him in a lie. And he wouldn’t tell the truth … I was being more annoyed at that point in our relationship he had to lie about something so stupid. I couldn’t take that he kept lying to me. And he couldn’t take that I wouldn’t drop it. And … it was ugly.

“I was bleeding. I was swollen in my face,” she said. “So there was no way of me getting home, except for, my next option was to get out of the car and walk. Start walking in a gown, in a bloody face. So I really don’t know what my plan was. I didn’t have a plan. That whole night was not part of my plan.”

On getting back with Chris:
“I don’t have a desire at all to be with him,” she said… I can’t see how we … would get back together, but I’m also not God and I can’t predict the future.”

On whether or not she hates Chris Brown:
“I don’t hate him at all. I actually love and care about him and I’m concerned about him doing well. I want him to do well, have a great career, have a great life and grow up, and just take this as something that you had to go through to grow up and learn.”

Rihanna - 20/20 Interview - Part 1


Rihanna - 20/20 Interview - Part 2

Lisa Lampanelli, Lewis Black and Carrot Top, And Rick Schmidt.

How did she know?

Okay...I heard comedienne Lisa Lampanelli interviewed on the radio this morning. She's going to perform here in Eugene. She talked to the DJs on a local radio station.

They mentioned other comedians who've performed here. She noted that people in Eugene sat quietly for Carrot Top, but yelled "You suck!" at Lewis Black.

Now, I wrote about that shameful event in the first entry on this blog. The moron yelling at Lewis Black. But how did Lisa Lampanelli know? As I said at the time, I thought the idiot who did it would be bragging about it to the world, but I couldn't find anything about it on the internet.

At least we were polite to Carrot Top.

Rick Schmidt on Netflix

Would-be and, I suppose, actual filmmakers have been reading Rick Schmidt's book, Feature Film-Making at Used Car Prices for years. The original version talked about making a 16mm feature for $6,000. It went up to $10,000 a few years later. Now the book has been revised and calls for digital video rather than 16mm.

The book mentions Jon Jost and Wayne Wang, whose movies I've seen. But I've never seen a Rick Schmidt movie. He's now produced about 20 of them. Schmidt conducts feature film workshops now. Ten people to get together and collectively write and direct a movie. So it appears from his website that he's making a movie a year or more.

I haven't seen Schmidt's movies in video stores. There's nothing on You Tube. He's selling them for $29.95 on his website.

But now it looks like Netflix is making his 1983 movie, Emerald Cities, available. You can save it but you can't rebt it yet.

Adam Lambert Releases First Single | Video

Adam Lambert releases his first single: “For Your Entertainment.”

This is off his upcoming album of the same name. He has received glowing reviews on this song. And his fans can't seem to get enough of his song or him!

This is his track list as posted on the Rolling Stone website:

1 “Music Again” 3:16 – Rob Cavallo, Justin Hawkins of the Darkness
2 “For Your Entertainment” 3:35 – Claude Kelly/Dr. Luke
3 “Whataya Want from Me” 3:47 – Pink, Max Martin
4 “Strut” 3:29 – Adam Lambert, Kara DioGuardi
5 “Soaked” 4:33 – Muse
6 “Sure Fire Winners” 3:32 – Rob Cavallo
7 “A Loaded Smile” 4:04 – Adam Lambert, Linda Perry
8 “If I Had You” 3:48
9 “Fever” 3:26
10 “Sleepwalker” 4:25 – Aimee Mayo, Chris Lindsay, Ryan Tedder
11 “Aftermath” 4:26
12 “Broken Open” 5:03
13 “Time for Miracles” Bonus Track 4:43 – Rob Cavallo

For you entertainment will be released on November 23rd. You can also pre-order For Your Entertainment on Adam Lambert's website.

Pre-sales for Lambert's new album have already outsold Babara Streisand, Madonna, and Mariah Carey.

Check out the Adam Lambert's new single, below:

Is nick miley's John Smith??

remember when miley said she would be Pocahontas, and the only thing left was look for her John Smith? is it coincidence that nick had that outfitt just days ago?? or he was miley's secret JOHN SMITH??

Demi makes a fan her dream come true

There was this fan, who had a sign that said demi sing with me. and demi picked her to sing with her on stage. woah that's luck. And demi makes a fan her dream come true

Miley Pocahontas rocker

miley cyrus partying at a local club. she sang I love rock n roll. and left shortly after.

Nick Jonas SOLO TOUR CONFIRMED

ACCORDING TO RYAN SECREAST nick jonas has confirmed his solo tour starting 2010. This is just weird, can you imagine nick touring ALONE, without joe, and keivn. Some cant believe it, some cant wait. But what do you think?? ....

Ryan Seacrest Stalker Arrested

Chidi Uzomah, mug shot

Ryan Seacrest’s stalker, Chidi Uzomah in Orange County, CA.

This stalker was determined to get to his prey, Ryan Seacrest. The man is already on probation for attacking Seacrest's security guard last month. Chidi Uzomah obviously is out of control and cops need to do something fast!

Police sources say the man arrested today at the E! building is Chidi Uzomah, the same crazy guy that attacked Ryan’s security guard last month outside an Orange County hospital.

A source inside the building said Uzomah had a knife on him today and is being detained by LAPD.

Chidi Uzomah went into the lobby and asked to see Ryan Seacrest. The guard recognized Uzomah and called police.

Chidi Benjamin Uzomah, who is 6′4″ and 200 lbs pleaded guilty last month in the O.C. hospital incident to three misdemeanors. Uzomah was given three years probation and ordered to stay away from Seacrest.~source

Taylor Swift Pranked by Ellen | Video

In celebration of the annual Halloween Holiday Ellen Degeneres pulled a lot of pranks on her guests. The best prank is in the video clip, below.

Ellen scares Taylor Swift in her dressing room and Swift's reaction is... well.. pretty swift [no pun intended]. It's hilarious! Check it out: