July 12, 2008
The new and yet to be released movie, sequal to Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight has been continuiously accumulating fantastic reviews left and right. Although this movie is about Christian Bales character, Bruce Wayne AKA: Batman, the main focus of the critics review seems to be about a different character. The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger. Several reviews are listed below. -A, nameless, Australian film critic said Heath Ledger was "Manically mesmerizing." and "Overshadowed everyone else." -Garry Maddox, a critic for The Sydney Morning Herald said this movie was; "A hypnotic farewell from the Joker." -The Australian Newspapers critic, David Stratton had said that Heath Ledgers was "An unforgettable, genuinely creepy, villian" and his portrayal of the Joker reminded him of a mix between "Marlon Brando, James Cagney, and a touch of Edward G. Robinson." -Vicky Roach of The Daily Telegraph said "There was a morbid intensity to the intrest in Ledgers final performance" but she also said "His triumph in creating one of the most memorable villains in recent cinematic history should be celebrated." Ledgers Co-Star Christian Bale, who plays Batman, had said "I do think that Heath has created an iconic villain that will stand for the ages, and of course, I would love to see him get an award." The quote is in response to the critics speculation of a posthumous Oscar. The odds dont seem to tip in Heaths favor in the category of winning a posthumous Oscar, Peter Finch has been the only person to ever win an Oscar, for "Network" in 1976. Five other actors, however, have been nominated for an Oscar after passing away; James Dean (twice), Jeanne Eagels, Massimo Torisi, Ralph Richardson, and Spencer Tracy. Despite the nominations, only Finch has received that rare Oscar. Although Ledger does seem the, unlikely, forerunner to posthumously win the Academy Award for best supporting actor in February of 09, seeing as he has already won plaudits from international critics and co-stars. Aside from the Oscar buzz, in Heaths home town of Perth in Western Australia, a theatre has been named after him in honor of the commitment he had for acting. Thus ensuring his legacy would live on. The naming ceremony for the noted theater took place last week. Alan Carpenter, a state premier for Western Australia said "The $85 million, 575-seat theatre was a fitting tribute as Ledger was always supportive of young actors." He had also said "I think what were doing is continuing that support for young people who want to make a career in the arts and acting, stage and in film, whatever it happens to be." and that "Heath Ledger was totally dedicated to the craft of being an actor and thats what made him successful" In the commercials, that said dedication is clearly evident. I know that Im more then stoked to see this movie and if it wasnt for the fact that Im going to be attending Warped Tour, I would be at the earliest showing available. Be sure to go see it, I know I will. 7.18.08 Disclaimer: I got the information from an article on Yahoo, but I wrote this myself
Posted by cobralingus on 07/12/2008 7:58 AM Comments (0)
June 16, 2008
Billy Ray Cyrus claims Ann Leibovitz is "Just another paparazzo" since she took this picture of Miley for Vanity Fair. In regards to Ann Leibovitz he said, I quote, "I was catching these crawdads and all the sudden this paprazzi lady jumps out ... and starts snapping away,". -He can't be serious! Ann Leibovitz is "just another paparazzo"!? Oh please! She is probably the world's most famous photographer for potraits. I don't think any member of the paparazzi has the credentials that could even start to compare to her shadow! - 1970-1983 she worked for Rolling Stones magazine
- She was the concert-tour photographer fro the Rolling Stones' Tour in 1975
- Since 1983, she's worked as a featured portrait photographer for Vanity Fair
- She was the last person to professionally photograph John Lennon
- In the 1980's she photographed celebs for an international campaign American Express credid cards.
- 1991 she held an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery
- A major retrospective of her work was held at the Brooklyn Museum (Oct 2006-Jan 2007), which was based on her book. "Anne Leibovitz: A Photographer's life, 1990-2005".
- 2007, Anne was asked by Queen Elizabeth II to take the queen's offical picture for her state visit to Virginia.
- 2007, the Walt Disney Company hired her to do a series of photographs with celebs in different roles/scenes for Walt Disney World's "Year Of A Million Dreams" campaign.
- 2008, she had taken the controversial picture of Miley Cyrus.
That's just a very breif summary of the work done by Anne Leibovitz, thanks to Wikipedia. ( I didn't want to get anything wrong, or mix something up.) Everytime I start thinking about this situation, I always seem to get really worked up. They're turned such an innocent photoshoot into something dramatic. She wasn't even really topless in the first place. If they're so worried about 'children' seeing these kind of pictures, then it's much too late. The pictures Miley took of herself are much worse, and with possible intentions other then being 'artistic'. If parent's had been so worried over a bare back what are they going to do next, petition for a ban against bathing suits? This is old news, I shouldn't be spending too much time talking about that. Anyway.
Apparently at the University of Florida, there's going to be a call called... Get ready for this... From Innocence to Hannah Montana: Childhood through the Visual ArtsThe class will be using great works of art, slide shows, various other visual aids, and works of art from the Harn Musueam collection. The five class sessions will be focused around the ideas that through history children have been seen as; smaller members of the workforce, innocent beings full of fun and play, victims of voilence, and as people who's sexual nature is only just starting to exist. Couldn't they have picked a better title? Something like 'From Innocence to Adulthood: A Transition through Visual Arts'? I better stop here, or else I'm going to start ranting and get terribly off topic.
Tags: anne leibovitz, art, billy ray cyrus, cobralingus, college, encyclomedia, hanna montana, melanie, miley cyrus, photography, vanity fair
Posted by cobralingus on 06/16/2008 11:16 AM Comments (2)
June 14, 2008
After six long years of controversy for R. Kelley and a month long trial, which was centered on whether R. Kelly was the one in the sex tape with an underaged (13) girl... the jury found him not guilty on all fourteen counts regarding his child pornography trial. -ALL counts? Come on. Regardless of the fact if he was guilty or not, if you were a memeber of the jury and had to sit through such a long and somewhat interesting trial, wouldn't you want him to be even a little bit guilty? I mean, that trial could've taken precious time out of their lives, they could've been doing things like...watching Jeopardy, eating bonbons while taking a bubble bath...or watching "Cold Case Files" with the door locked, lights out, and curled up in their bed scared senseless. If convicted, R.Kelly would've been facing 15 years in prison. -Well, at least Paris Hilton would've felt better about her 45 DAYS in prison. This would've made her jail time seem like a quick trip to grandmother's house, excluded the delicious baked goods. Yum. Neither R.Kelly or the "alleged victim" testified in the case, but the prosecution had a star witness (Lisa Van Allen) that said she engaged in three-way sex with R.Kelly and this "alleged victim" -I don't know about R.Kelly, but if it was me in his situation...I would've wanted to get up on that stand and argue for myself that I wasn't guilty, even though he probably was. I know that he has money in places he can't even find it, and can hire attournies that eat Jeffrey Figer's courtcases for breakfast, but I would want to at least put a good two cents in...everyone knows he could afford it. Hell, even I have two cents in the pocket of my comfortable pocketless pajama pants. Yay for Deliahs, they were on sale too.
The defense attourneys argued "The man on the tape" (coughrkellycough) didn't have a large mole on his back like R. Kelly does. The D.A even said that Kelly's likeness could have been "computer-generated". Even though a "defense witness" told the jury there wasn't mole on the man's back in the sex tape, the prosecution witness displayed freeze frames of the same sex tape. In these freeze frames, a dark 'spot' could be seen as the man turns to take off his pants. -Are they serious? Computer generated? I know there are some people out there dying, perhaps even literally, to create dirt on celebs...but who would really go as far as to computer generate an entire sex tape. If they computer generated this man's back to look like R.Kelly, then maybe it's possible that Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are all "computer generated" as well. Alert the press! ...I still can't believe they spent precious hours over a finger-nail sized mole. I mean, sure I would want to maybe spend some time talking about someone if they had a Godzilla sized tumor, a mole the shape of The Virgin Mary or Jesus...but a regular fingernail sized mole, that's boring. How dark was the "location" where this sex tape was filmed? I don't mean to sound racist, but R. Kelly's skin isn't that lightly colored...and I'm pretty sure moles arn't white so when in situations such as these they can just scream out "I did it, I did it! Convict me already!". I think what they should've done, is re-create the sceanario with a little "Bump N' Grind" and see what happens then.
While the defense was trying to discredit Van Allen when she told the jury that she and the "alleged victim" had several three-way sexual "encounters" with R. Kelly. One of the places included a basketball court. Van Allen also said R. Kelly used to carry a duffel bag filled with his homemade sex tapes. But...thanks to a cross-examination, when the defense was trying to discredit Van Allen while accusing her of trying to extort money from R. Kelly, she admited to stealing his $20,000 diamond-studded watch from a hotel. -Three-way "sexual encounters", not my cup of tea...but it was his apparently. He even, apparently, set up a cozy tea party on a basketball court. I wonder if Kobe Bryant was there as well. I bet they would've fit in well together next to The Mad Hatter from Disney's "Alice In Wonderland", although in this case it should probably be "Alice In Wonderland ft. R. Kelly and Kobe Bryant" produced by Chi-Town. A dufflebag filled with his homemade sex tapes? I'm sure someone would've noticed him carrying around something like that. It's not like he needs a break into the entertainment buisiness anyway, so I don't understand the point of him having to carry them around, it's not like sex tapes are musical demo's. You just don't carry them around to hand them out, hoping for a big break. But apparently his next big break was potentially going to the big house. As for stealing the $20,000 watch...good for her, she deserves a nice tip...whether it was "stolen" or not.
It's not like this is the first accusation of having sex with an underage girl, there's been accusations of him having sex with underage girls since 1991! Why are some people so surprised by this? It's just like the speculation of whether Elton John was a homosexual or not, turns out he was (and still is, congrats on your marriage!). It's the same thing with R. Kelly, so you can stop acting surprised. I've grown used to it by now, it's sort of like turning on the news; same situations, but with different people and different places.
For old times sake, I think we should take a trip down memory lane and remember some controversy of R. Kelly Maybe this can be like a pow-wow around a camp fire, including an acoustic guitar and s'mores. I love those, they're delicious. Yummy.
-The reported marriage to Aaliyah, who was at the time just at the ripe old age of 15. And so it begins.
-Rumors that he had married Alex Shipton. They both denied that. Yawn, boring.
-Two other sex suits were filed by underage girls. They were both settled and he denied realtions with either one of them. He said that the settlement was only to protect his emerging career. Do you smell that? Because I do. "What is it that you smell?", you ask? Well, I'll tell you. It's the smell of LIES. Sure he might have done it to protect his career, but I highly doubt he didn't do it. "Oh, sorry Mr. Prosecutor, I just seemed to have tripped and well...did your father ever give you the 'birds and the bees' talk? Because I swear I didn't do that."
-A woman sued him saying that, while she was 16, he got her pregnant and forced her to get an abortion. She just screwed herself out of 18 years of child support, and not just any child support, child support that she could probably live on for the rest of her life. Maybe that's why R. Kelly liked, illegally, young women. Apparently they were easy to influence. I say she should've kept the proof that that the baby was his, and he forced her to get an abortion. He would've been effed then. Besides, if it was true...wouldn't the parents have something to say?
-Besides his trial in Chicago, a county in Florida (Polk County), considered pressing further charges. The charges would include 12 counts of posession of child pornography. The authorities "said" to have found a digital camera, of his, that had 12 pictures of underage girls, three of them showing R. Kelly and a "her" engaged in intercourse ...at least it wasn't "engaged to be married".
-There were allegations that in R. Kelly's "duffle bag of goodies" there was one with Deleon Richards, the wife of a Detroit Tiger (Gary Sheffield). Me-owwww.
-A dancer sued him for "invasion of privacy" when tapes of her "private acts" had began to get around. She said that the taping was without her consent, the distribution was without her consent, and she was not properly protected. Awww, someone sounds like she might be a bit jealous.
-A former employee of Henry "Love" Vaughn filed a lawsuit against, surprise surprise, R. Kelly. He accused R. Kelly of assult, false imprisonment and breach of contract that "Defrauded him of songwriting royalties." Well, looks like this man was out of luck. He was the wrong gender AND age for R. Kelly. He might've had more luck with Micheal Jackson, but this man is probably too old for M.J's tastes.
-He once said, and I quote, "I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now." ....Don't flatter yourself, honestly.
-He compared his legal troubles to Osama Bin Ladin once in an interview, Blender magazine to be exact. He said, I quote once again, "Bin Ladin is the only one how knows exactly what I'm going through" PUH-LEEZE! I honestly doubt that Bin Ladin even knows who R. Kelly is. That's probably one of the last people he would want to, even remotely, compare himself with beacuse...you know...If you compare yourself with one of the most, if not the most, wanted terrorist in America it'll score you brownie points. Way to go. If you want to say someone knows what you're going through, call up Micheal Jackson.
Thanks for reading through this...rant of mine. =]
<3 Melanie.
Tags: celebrity, cobralingus, controversy, court, melanie, micheal jackson, music, music news, news, paris hilton, r kelly, rap, sex tape
Posted by cobralingus on 06/14/2008 6:49 AM Comments (1)
May 16, 2008
According to several magazines and E! news, the happy couple have just recently been celebrating with friends and family before the up and coming wedding. It's said that yesterday Ash had her 'bachlorette' party with her mother and sister Jessica attending. The get together was held at her parents' home in Encino.

And according to OK! magazine, Wentz was also having his share of celebrating along with his father, the other members of Fall Out Boy, Joel Madden, and even father-in-law to be, Joe Simpson himself. The bachelor party took place at Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills Looks like the wedding bells aren't but just a day away for the couple!
Posted by amymarissa on 05/16/2008 12:52 PM Comments (2)
May 15, 2008
For weeks since the engagement we've all been wondering when the 'big day' is going to happen right? According to some sources of which no one is really sure if the story is completely true or not, the couple are to wed in a super secret location in Cali this Saturday with many friends and family. But of course, there is always going to be something to change the story. In the most recent news from the Queen Of All Media, Perez Hilton of course, the date might even be sooner, much sooner as in...and super obsessive Pete Wentz fangirls prepare yourself.......TODAY.

This is what perezhilton.com says about the supposed extremely soon wedding:
"It's under way!
The Pete Wentz / Ashlee Simpson wedding is definitely taking place, either this weekend or sooner possibly.
Multiple sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that a white limo was spotted outside the Chicago-area home of Wentz's parents on Thursday morning.
Seems like Pete's folks are heading out for the big soiree already!
Additionally, there is buzz that recently dumped Jessica Simpson will take ex-boyfriend Tony Romo as her date to the wedding to "save face."
That's very kind of him, if true, to let her do that!"
Now, now. I'm not saying that this is entirely true or that you should believe it....BUT it could be. Let's just wait and see shall we? But in the meantime, I want to know what you guys think. Discuss, and fangirls...get a box of tissues. Update:
In more current news about the wedding, perezhilton.com has something to say:
"We haven't been able to confirm it yet, but….
We're hearing loud whispers that Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are getting married this weekend in…San Diego.
Speculation that the nuptials will be there reached a fever pitch on Thursday when suddenly single sister Jessica Simpson was spotted in S.D."
Hm....true or not? Let's see.
Posted by amymarissa on 05/15/2008 12:44 PM Comments (0)
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