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Post by Yuliya on Aug 21, 2004 15:37:07 GMT -5
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Post by Ace on Aug 21, 2004 16:51:22 GMT -5
Show off! I told you I only had the one pic and the text. Did you get your text scanner to work? Oh you should probably change your copyright year at the bottom to 2004 if that matters to you. Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Aug 21, 2004 18:31:48 GMT -5
Show off! I told you I only had the one pic and the text. Did you get your text scanner to work? No, I didn't. What's you point? Aren't you glad to see more pictures? Yuliya
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Post by Ace on Aug 21, 2004 19:20:29 GMT -5
Argghhhh.... sorry so sorry! I modified your post instead of replying to it and lost part of it. ---------------------------------------------------------- Of course I'm glad to see more pics. I was just wondering. Glad my text could be of use to your superior pics. Notice the photo of them in the castle it's one of the deleted scenes! I found that pic and the corresponding one of the "help" staring back at them on a Laws Polish site. The deleted scenes and alternate ending are suppossed to run from 14-17 minutes in total, so that's where the original 103 min as oppossed to final 87min running time came from. That's a lot of cuts to a film already deemed "done". Several DVD reviews have said the original/alternate ending is better, but then it would have to be. It takes place in Ireland from what I gather of that lovely photo of them kissing on the hill. Ace
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Post by Yuliya on Aug 22, 2004 4:59:29 GMT -5
What photo of them kissing on the hill? You make me want to buy the DVD without any reasonable discount. I don't do that kind of thing. Don't worry about deleting a part of my post, there was nothing important in there, so I won't bother trying to remember what I said. And I thought you were being sarcastic (which of course you were even if you wouldn't admit it. ) and wanted to point out where my text came from (which you did, too. ) No, I didn't get my text scanner to work and I don't think I will; not in the nearest future; it's incompatible with my version of Windows. I still have several articles I can post (that are scanned but are waiting to be formatted and posted) but after that I'll only be able to post what I can steal. I have no scruples where it comes to texts - if I have the article, I'll scan the pictures, I'll work on the layout, I'll proof-read the text, but all scanned textx look the same, so why bother? Does anyone know of a free text recognition program? It makes it more interesting to post articles that aren't available online.
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Post by Ace on Aug 22, 2004 6:57:14 GMT -5
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Post by curious george on Aug 22, 2004 8:56:53 GMT -5
:: makes note to assiduously check for updates :: cg
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Post by Yuliya on Aug 23, 2004 2:35:34 GMT -5
What do you mean what picture? Don't you assiduosuly check my site for updates every day? What do you mean no? What do you mean - check your site for updates every day? Don't you assiduously inform us every time you post something? What do you mean no? Actually, I remember seeing those pictures, just never realized they were from the original ending - or that they were taken on the top of a hill, for that matter. Where were my eyes, I wonder?
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Post by Ace on Aug 23, 2004 5:51:25 GMT -5
No I don't. I update too much and too often and sometimes just little things like an extra photo, link or article and well I don't want to be a boor. Speaking of which just updated something and should post that to the appropriate category. Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Aug 28, 2004 17:22:46 GMT -5
Ohhhhhhhh!!! Nice pics! (I think I need to make a new icon. ) This looks like a great ending! I couldn't refrain from reading the comments about the DVD, and now I'm even more excited about it. I hope to see a lot of Ireland in it, too. Steele one month to go!
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Post by Ace on Oct 31, 2004 12:49:17 GMT -5
Cross Posting Lauryn's post here as a TEASER for the forthcoming full Rated R (or at least an ahem hard PG-13) interview. Suffice to say, you've be warned or promised depending on your age and tastes, ================================= Hello all. As promised. The relevant naughty bits. (If such generally offends you, avert your eyes. I don't want to be banned before my posts get out of single digits.) This is from a September 1999 article in FHM, a Brit "lads" magazine (in the US, think Maxim). I got my paws on it courtesy of a Euro pal. Speaking of geography, Brosnan recalls this particular production of The Changing Room as being in Westcliffe-on-Sea, which is, I think, in Essex. So it looks like they, um, spread it about. NB: I'm a creature of habit so most of my posts, in the future, will use the shorthand form, "SMA", for Mr. Brosnan, as in the former Sexiest Man Alive. We all know, the SMA, Drama Centre alum, unlike most who receive training in the UK, is a practitioner of The American Method (no acting from merely the vocal chords and neck up, please!) And as you'll see, before going on stage, warm-up exercises are central to any performance. Here's the segue to the, ah, "money" portion of the interview. FHM: Do you ever want to whack a paparazzo?
PB: A lot of those guys just press your button and it's a very dangerous situation, because they want you to hit them. They can make money from that, so they're really aggressive. Sadly, you even worry when you're walking bollock naked from the bathroom to the bedroom that there could be some guy with a zoom lens on a roof a mile away. And I don't want my old chap appearing in the papers. Which isn't to say that on a good day, if the conditions are warm, it's not a very fine example.
FHM: So nice, I believe, that it's been on stage...
PB: Yes, that was in a play about a rugby team. I did it in Westcliffe-on-Sea, and they were knocking the back wall of the theatre down at the time, so it was extra chilly. There we were, eleven guys, waiting to go on stage naked, and all the lads were bashing the old bishops trying to get a semi -- a nice, lazy way to make it look bigger before going on stage. Sadly, we didn't have any fluffers in those days.
FHM: Did you try that Chippendale's trick, where they tie a rubber band around the base to keep the blood in it?
PB: They do that? Well, that technology did not exist in my day, or the lads would have definitely popped down to the stationers. We did it the old fashioned way.
FHM: Did you get any good reviews?
PB: Ha, ha! Reasonable, as I remember.etc, etc, There's more to it, much more (whoa! I'm giving this thing the biggest build-up since the invention of floor wax!) which I will send to Ace for her website when I have time to transcribe. Talk about a hand job. Sorry. Must be the heat. The article in full is, PIERCE BROSNAN. The Bond actor on the art of painting, fluffers, and lamping a mouthy Italian car thief. ========================== Stay tuned. Ace
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Post by curious george on Oct 31, 2004 17:41:54 GMT -5
My! cg
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Post by sparklingblue on Oct 31, 2004 18:29:24 GMT -5
Not a bashful one, is he? Great!!
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Post by Ace on Nov 3, 2004 11:15:31 GMT -5
Well really what else was there to do, they were naked, it was cold, such is life and art. Here's a recent small one from the National Post, not nearly as salacious and quite short and mostly the reporter reporting than interviewing. Losing his licence to kill doesn't bother busy BrosnanPierce Brosnan had four months to get over the fact that Bond, James Bond, may not be in his future. And he's fine with that. As it is, the 51-year-old has a few other things on the go. He plays a jewel thief in the heist comedy After the Sunset, which opens next Friday. He's shooting The Matador in Mexico City and he's in the early stages of working on a sequel to The Thomas Crown Affair. Who needs Bond? Time will tell who needs whom, and some insiders say Brosnan isn't out of the Bond picture just yet. But last summer talks did break down when Brosnan demanded a large pay increase and greater control over selecting a director for the next one. The producers refused both demands, and some speculate they hinted at the idea of a younger Bond for the next instalment as a negotiating ploy. Brosnan shrugs it off. "My contract was for four movies, they invited me back for a fifth," says the Irish actor. "Then somewhere in the middle of negotiations they changed their minds. Did I take umbrage by this, did I get slighted by this? No, I didn't. It's a hard business." But not that hard. Brosnan got an Aston Martin sports car out of his Bond fortunes, a gorgeous vacation home in Hawaii and hefty salaries for reviving the franchise. For now, Brosnan has moved on, although he did have a Bond-like incident in Mexico City, which caused him to behave more like Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan. "The first week that we were there," he says, "the guy doing the security for all the heavily armoured SUVs was coming out of the studio and he was taken at gunpoint. They didn't kill him or anything, but they took him to the nearest ATM machine. It's called express kidnapping." Brosnan grimaces when asked if he would defend himself if faced with a similar confrontation. "Let's say, I made friends with my minders very quickly," says the actor, smirking. ================================ Pretty stupid question by the reporter about defending himself. If the head of security could be snatched and did the smart thing by accessing the ATM why would PB do any differently? Ace
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Post by sparklingblue on Nov 3, 2004 18:38:01 GMT -5
The reporter can't seriously believe that PB thinks he is Bond. No one would think of heroics in a situation like that.
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Post by Ace on Nov 4, 2004 13:58:20 GMT -5
Daily Record: BEDDING WOODY'S A CLOSE SECOND TO KISSING SALMA SAYS MOVIE HUNK PIERCE BROSNAN
Nov 4 2004 By John Millar PIERCE BROSNAN'S cool and super-sexy James Bond image could have been shaken - and maybe even stirred - by a bedroom scene in his new movie After The Sunset.
Because the handsome 51--year-old, who has finally handed in his licence to kill, gets between the sheets with one-time Cheers favourite Woody Harrelson!
After making the screen sizzle with leading ladies like Halle Berry and Braveheart beauty Sophie Marceau, Harrelson has to be the strangest bedfellow of the former 007's film career.
But, as Pierce points out, this bedroom scene is played purely for laughs.
Irishman Pierce is cast as a top jewel thief who, with his girlfriend Lola (Salma Hayek), has retired from a life of crime to chill out in the Bahamas.
They're pursued by FBI agent Woody and a complex set of circumstances result in Salma kicking Pierce out of their home.
He then has to spend the night with Woody.
When we meet at London's swish Dorchester Hotel, Pierce, who lives in Malibu with his beautiful wife Keely and their family, laughs when I ask if he had any trepidation about playing the scene.
Pierce said: 'It was the first day of filming, too - there is nothing like jumping in at the deep end.
'But Woody made a great leading lady, one of the finest.
'Halle Berry, Salma Hayek... Woody Harrelson - it just has a natural flow to it.' It obviously helped that Pierce and Woody were good mates.
Pierce said: 'We knew each other from TV days. He was in Cheers and I was in Remington Steele. And I just like the guy.'
Pierce reckons the bedroom scene with Woody is one of the most endearing in the fast-moving comedy.
He said: 'I had no problems about going there. I thought it was a funny scene with two oddball characters who are a bit like the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.'
Pierce couldn't be much further away from his Bond days as he takes on the look of a rich beach bum with a beard speckled with grey for his latest role.
He jokes: 'I worked deeply hard on this transformation.
'I live on the beach in Malibu and in Hawaii so I had a certain sense of the style of island life.
'I grew the beard to get away from the obvious look of the Bond movies. I saw my character as an old hippy so that became the look.'
Pierce's legions of female fans will be delighted to hear he appears bare-chested in some scenes. But although he looks in fine shape, he insists he didn't spend hours in the gym preparing for the movie.
Pierce said: 'What you see is what you get. The guy I play is comfortable in his own skin and enjoys his life enormously.'
BUT Pierce isn't going to let the pounds creep on. He believes it's a vital part of an actor's job to stay in shape.
He said: 'You have to look after yourself physically. You are constantly being judged. I keep up a workout regime and watch what I eat.'
Pierce describes his life in movies as having his cake and eating it.
He said: 'Everyone is well aware I am a married man with kids who loves family life. I had my family there during the making of After The Sunset, so I had the comfort of that and the great joy of going off and working with these great people.'
Pierce loves heist movies, After The Sunset is the third he has made, after The Heist and The Thomas Crown Affair.
He said: 'I find them appealing. They go back to my childhood and films like The Italian Job and The Anderson Tapes.'
Pierce is considering making a sequel to his version of The Thomas Crown Affair.
He said: 'I have been asked on several occasions if we might do it and we hired a writer last week, so we'll have a crack at it.'
But Pierce adds that doesn't look as if this means that he will be reunited with Rene Russo, his sexy co-star in the film.
Even more interestingly, Pierce also reveals he might try to hit the high notes in a musical movie. He said: 'I was talking about doing something in the vein of the Road musicals made by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby,.'
Last weekend, at the Irish Film and TV Awards in Dublin, Pierce received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish film industry.
During the ceremony, he suggested that another Irish star, Colin Farrell, might be just the man to step into his former role for the 21st Bond movie.
Pierce said of the awards night: 'It was wonderful, an emotional and memorable evening.
There could have been bitterness at the way Pierce's Bond reign ended, but he paid fulsome tribute to the 007 movies.
Pierce said: 'It's a demanding role and I had a great decade playing the character. I am grateful for the opportunities I got and for being part of that legacy.
'But it's over for me and I wish them well.'
After The Sunset is released on November 19.
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Post by curious george on Nov 4, 2004 19:55:50 GMT -5
Wow - PB in a "Road" type movie?? He certainly has the capability of playing comedy, but with whom would they pair him for such an "I've known this guy forever" buddy movie? Any suggestions?
(can we have a show of hands from those who are even familiar with the Hope/Crosby/Lamour classics?)
:: raises hand ::
cg
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Post by Ace on Nov 4, 2004 21:31:54 GMT -5
I love the Road films even the mediocre ones are fun. Problem is I don't think anyone could write one anymore. Comedy is hard, fast paced zinging comedy is harder. The only films that seem to get that right now are animated films, maybe because they take 4 years to make and they can hone their script and every second if film counts. And not all of them work out either.
Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Nov 5, 2004 0:01:42 GMT -5
I love the Road films even the mediocre ones are fun. Problem is I don't think anyone could write one anymore. Comedy is hard, fast paced zinging comedy is harder. The only films that seem to get that right now are animated films, maybe because they take 4 years to make and they can hone their script and every second if film counts. And not all of them work out either. Ace You said a mouthful. Try something easier, like nuclear physics. That "gag born every minute" stuff has to seem like a breeze. You need a frame (not neccessarily a plot, LOL!) to work around so it helps to have actors with an established shtick. (Which is why they tend to cast a lot of stand up comics in animated features.) In the Road pictures Hope and Crosby had honed their personas to a fare-thee-well so the whole thing works like shorthand, audience-wise. If Brosnan plays the Hope part he can forget about ever getting that Oscar! Let's see. The usual song and dance man on the skids, emphasis on the latter. That I can believe. <wink> (The SMA is easy on the eyes but I don't think he has a musical bone in his lovely body.) If it's old Hope week at IDT, I nominate the Christmas semi-classic, "The Lemon Drop Kid." Breezily Runyon-esque and not too soggy with sentiment. Bob plays a race track tout with a nice line in cowardice and double dealing. Perfect for the railbird once known as Remington Steele, wouldn't you say?
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Post by Ace on Nov 5, 2004 1:15:34 GMT -5
You said a mouthful. Try something easier, like nuclear physics. That "gag born every minute" stuff has to seem like a breeze. You need a frame (not neccessarily a plot, LOL!) to work around so it helps to have actors with an established shtick. (Which is why they tend to cast a lot of stand up comics in animated features.) In the Road pictures Hope and Crosby had honed their personas to a fare-thee-well so the whole thing works like shorthand, audience-wise. I meant to mention that, that so much of the Road pictures were based on persona, the audience was already in on the gag with the casting. It's reminscent of the Rat Pack films from the 60's. Most weren't particularly high art but you knew the actors were friends and part of the fun was watching Sinatra, Martin, Davis Jr. et al goof around together. LOL! He should evidently take the Crosby role then if he wants that statuette. As for muscial skills, lets be fair, he plays the flute (supposedly very well). Somehow though I can't see him pulling one out of his pocket and breaking into Mozart instead of singing a song, though no doubt it would be preferable. I really wonder though how serious he was about this song and dance stuff. It seems as if most of the time when he's playfully jerking the press' leg they're oblivious. He gave one interview saying after Evelyn, that he enjoyed singing so much he was doing an album of Christmas songs. The interviewer thought he was serious and he had to tell him he was joking. Then other media outlets picked it up (or rather part of it) and it was printed as fact. And recently you have the media actually believing he seriously recommened Daniel Radcliff as the next Bond. ;D Paramount could make it, they love remakes! Ace
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