Miscellaneous Magazines

[Barbara]

After having an interesting discussion with my friend at dinner about Italian Family values, and how the Broccolis have NONE, we cruised over to nearby Barnes and Noble where we looked at, but did not leaf through, the Men's Interest section.

I then asked a female associate of B&N if they kept certain magazines behind the counter and out of the reach of children, and she said no. She asked what I wanted and I said, quietely, "Playboy." She found it for me.

When my purchases were rung up, I put the magazine cover down, in the vane glorious hope no one would know. Evidently, when the barcode is swiped, the name of the magazine comes up. :-P

Long story long, I read the interview, and I must admit I was very surprised that the person interviewing Pierce asked about the NRDC and the Teri Schivo case. That being said, bringing those topics up seemed a bit forced, that is there was no natural flow to the interview. You can definately tell when the tape recorder was turned on, turned off, and when things were edited out. In particular, mentioning Charlotte and Chrisopher seemed unnecessary and a part of the interview only because it is a juicy gossip. I'd rather that section was spent talking about his painting.

I also thought the part about Pierce serving this guy champange was a bit much. I don't know if that is made up (he has been know to feed interviewers), or if someone said he (PB) should serve the folks from Playboy champange. Who knows.

I am looking forward to reading the retrospective on the publication of "Lolita" and the Marilyn Monroe article. I feel bad for Pierce's sake (Moonlight dancing, naked harem girl leading, sensualist that he is), that he didn't get to pose with the babes.

-- B

[Ace]

I liked the fact that the interview covered many subjects, and considering it's 7 pages long that's not surprising that it did. I was glad the Bond stuff was actually only a fraction of the interview.

I'd prefer if questions about children were left out but not surprised that they were asked, it's a large part of his life and it's been in the news.

Playboy usually spends a few days, sometimes over weeks doing interviews with a subject, though from the references of this one this seems like it might have taken one day -- though that's hard to tell. Their interviews are often very free flowing and ranging. I also doubt the questions were asked in the same sequence they appear. There was probably quite a bit jumping around in subjects. There was probbaly also some parts that were left out because of space.

It was done in Hawaii which means it was done last summer around the time of the Entertainment Weekly and right after Premiere & GQ interviews.

My favorite quote from many:

"At 18 or 19 I auditioned for all the big drama schools. I mean, I was a lightning bolt. Harriet said so. At my first audition I was so lightning-boltish that I literally fell off the stage from nerves. "

[respectanimals]

admin said:

I'd prefer if questions about children were left out but not surprised that they were asked, it's a large part of his life and it's been in the news.

I agree that the more personal questions were possibly thrown in for their gossip effect, but I think Pierce handled them very well. Given that one of the main images pushed with regard to him in the media is that he's a father/family man, it's not really going over the line IMHO for the interviewer to have asked about his children, because as ACE pointed out, unfortunately for them it's been all over the media. It's a totally different story however with regard to these news sites that just keep reprinting pieces of the interview for the sole purpose of causing gossip, as they usually leave out important information giving their readers the completely wrong impression. Also, sometimes questions in interviews that seem kind of out of line allow the actor/actress to clear up certain misconceptions/rumors that have been generated in the press about themselves, just as long as the person writing the article isn't editing the questions and answers too much. Many actors/actresses even give the interviewer topics that are NOT up for discussion prior to doing the interview, but maybe Pierce is a little too open and honest and doesn't feel the need to worry about such things. I mean, honestly, how many of us have read about the Teri Hatcher incident and wondered what was really up with that? With all the publicity Pierce has had to do being the spokesperson for Bond all these years, it just seems to me that he handles the media with a lot of class.

[sparklingblue]

I hate to ask dumb questions, but what was the Teri Hatcher incident? I only know that they didn't get on so well.

[Ace]

Oh don't get me started on the likes of Contact Music, The Mirror etc and all the outlets that pick up their butcherings as news stories.

Case in point the new 'I Never Hit Terri" headlines. Reported as if there had been rumors that he'd hit her because she showed up late for the past 8 years and he's now finally denying it. Oh please!

It looks like they're going to pick out every line as that Playboy interview, reframe it and use it headline grabbing "News"

The rumors have been that she slapped him for real in that scene in TND and that she did it take after take as she messed up her lines. In fact it's information that Teri gave to the press and the makers of the TND book back in 1997! There were never any rumors that Pierce hit Teri. or that Teri hit Pierce off set.

As for the stuff with Pierce and Teri, it was that they didn't get along during the shoot but then she was there only a few days. During that time Teri did not get on with anyone. She locked herself in her trailer for hours and didn't come to the set on time, snubbed lots of the cast and crew and did much of the primadonna stuff she's been rumored to do since she was on Lois & Clark and is still doing on Desperate Housewives..

Word came out later she was pregnant and having morning sickness but she didn't tell anyone on the film. She's said that now herself, that she only told them later. Though maybe the costume people knew since supposedly they designed her clothes to hide her early pregnancy -- but that could be anither rumor..

Ace

[sparklingblue]

Thanks for the explanation, Ace.

[Ace]

Acvcording to an issue on sale on Ebay

This is the NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005 issue of MOVIELINE'S HOLLYWOOD LIFE MAGAZINE featuring AMANDA PEET on its cover.

Issue Features: PIERCE BROSNAN GREG KINNEAR THE MATADOR 4 pp

[Chayna]

respect animals wrote about Travel & Leisure mag interview:
The photo must have been strictly for internet use as there isn't a photo with the article, just a small cartoonish drawing of Pierce.

Anywhere we can see this drawing please?

Chayna

[Ace]

Here it is, it's quite small and really just a sketch

[Yuliya]

And it is Pierce why...? Because the magazine authorities say so?

Thanks for posting the picture.

[respectanimals]

admin said:

Acvcording to an issue on sale on Ebay

This is the NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005 issue of MOVIELINE'S HOLLYWOOD LIFE MAGAZINE featuring AMANDA PEET on its cover.

Issue Features: PIERCE BROSNAN GREG KINNEAR THE MATADOR 4 pp

Barnes & Noble finally got it in stock!

The article is four pages as advertised, with 1 full page color photo of Pierce and one full page color photo of Greg, with text running over both photos. The photographs were taken by Davis Factor at Le Merigot Hotel in Santa Monica, just after TIFF. Most of the article is written as a conversation between the two actors. There are two additional smaller color photos...one from The Matador and another casual one of the two of them.

An interesting tidbit of information is that the Grooming was done by Bron Roylance (best man at Pierce's wedding). I recognized the name, as I had just recently read a the HELLO! magazine which featured Pierce and Keely's wedding, and he appeared in the Biography on A&E Biography Channel, but I never knew who he was, much less that he was the makeup artist on Pierce's films (including Seraphim Falls). You learn something new every day. Cool!

[Ace]

Bron is one of Pierce's oldest friends and they met when Bron did make-up on Remington Steele and he's worked on many of his movies since then. If you looks at PB's website you can see that Bron has taken most of the candid photos on it and he's also the one holding the video camera in one of the behind the scenes Matador vids.

I haven't found a copy of Movieline yet. It's not as prevelant as it used to be years ago.

Ace

[Chayna]

Thanks for the sketch Ace. I've seen better ones by fans.

Chayna

[respectanimals]

admin said:

I haven't found a copy of Movieline yet. It's not as prevelant as it used to be years ago.

Sorry Ace, I figured you would surely have a copy by now or I would have offered to do this sooner:

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As a mother of two small boys myself, I especially enjoyed this part:

PB: You don't get things done when you have kids. You get up and you say, "I'm going to do this, this and this," and by noon you haven't done any of those things.

LOL! That is soooo right. Case in point, at this very moment I need to kick my youngest out of the office, as he may think spinning around in an office chair is fun, but it's making me feel like I'm going to throw up.

Have a nice evening everybody and enjoy the article!
Ellen

[Ace]

Thanks Ellen! I haven't had the chance to trek over to the larger magazine only places and it's not available at any of my local stands.

That quote is very funny! There was an interview he did last year when he said he woke up at 4am because the house was quiet then and that way he could get things done before the kids got up. All I can say to that is EEK!

[Lauryn]

I see I'm seriously behind the times. (There's another interview from Movieline up. I hope it's as good as the old one with Lawrence Grobel.)

Anyway, thanks, respectanimals for posting the Playboy interview. My husband, in an apalling display of bad timing, had let his subscription lapse. I could have reminded him to renew but I'm not sure he deserves such largesse. (And his timing would still be off.)

After reading the reaction to PB's "ranting" (so-called) in the interview from certain James Bond fans (Ace knows the ones I mean) I half expected to see the SMA wallpaper the room with four-letter words like Denis Leary on a bender, ciggie dangling from his lips. Never mind that the portion that liberally employed the F-bomb had nada to do with his take on the Borgia family but with being stereotyped and pre-judged in general. Really, Bond fans should get out more. Frankly, the further removed from Bond the more enlightening the conversation was.

The SMA is always a good read when he's in the more unbuttoned mode that something like Playboy fits. I have to say I had an aha! moment when he confessed his attraction to Jessica Lange. I wrote her in to Mr. Steele's fantasies in a couple of fan fics -- undeniably gorgeous and alluring and seems his type. Nice to have official word on it, LOL!

[Ace]

Alas Movieline as a magazine isn't what it used to be since it was renamed Hollywood Life-Movieline (what's up with that title?) But this is more a light hearted back and forth between PB and Kinnear and while it's only two pages long it's pretty amusing. PB actually was a chicken sexer! I thought he was joking about what was the worst job in the world during that interview when he mentioned it!

As for PB in unbuttoned mode, as he is in most of the "lads mags", it makes me pine for all those FHM and Maxim interviews I have not read and don't have in my greedy little hands.

[Lauryn]

admin said:

Alas Movieline as a magazine isn't what it used to be since it was renamed Hollywood Life-Movieline (what's up with that title?)

True. It's more a Young Hollywood / fashion-spread / gossiper now. Oddly enough, the new Movieline Hollywood-Life has popped up as one of those unsolicited gift subscriptions that they send out to libraries hoping to snag one for pay and some new readers. I can get my paws on this one at work for free unless someone's walked off with it.

But this is more a light hearted back and forth between PB and Kinnear and while it's only two pages long it's pretty amusing. PB actually was a chicken sexer! I thought he was joking about what was the worst job in the world during that interview when he mentioned it!

Apparently not, LOL! Gives new meaning to the phrase "watch the birdie!"

Brosnan and Kinnear would make a great comedy team outside of the movies, too. I'm already champing at the bit to see The Matador and now I find out that it kicks off with the toenail painting scene! The run-up to this film is going to be one long tease.

As for PB in unbuttoned mode, as he is in most of the "lads mags", it makes me pine for all those FHM and Maxim interviews I have not read and don't have in my greedy little hands.

Eh? I handed you that FHM one on a platter with extra hot sauce and you still haven't put it up on your website. Tsk, Tsk!

[Ace]

I haven't? No matter. I have the FHM interview and that's all that really matters. But I want more more more!

I am so behind in the Interview section. I have to put up these last couple Ellen gave me as well as Playboy. I've actually scanned them all and now have to spell check and format etc. And I have tons others that I should scan and put up. I just need a solid block of time on the weekend.

Of course I've also been scanning publiicty photos from his earlier films and now just have to figure out how I'm going to incorporate them on the site -- with new separate sections along with any reviews and articles? All in the Gallery? Then find the time And where oh where will I get all the needed space. I guess I'll have to make up a new identity for one of my current hosts for another 100mb.

[sparklingblue]

I finally got round to reading the whole Playboy interview. I really liked it because it's so open, funny and very touching at several points. I feel that he and I have shared some of the same childhood experiences (not being accepted by the other kids) and learned the same things from them. Oh, and I loved the fact that he calls the women working for him "mermaids".