Archive for January, 2008

Beautiful and Crazy?

January 29, 2008

No, not her, but Sean Young, the (still) gorgeous star of Blade Runner, No Way Out and the MP who pairs up with Harold Ramis in Stripes. 

By various accounts bored, drunk and seeking attention, the white fur coat-clad star started heckling director Julian Schnabel at the DGA Awards–and making comments about Piaf star Marion Cotillard in French! 

Schnabel “suggested that she should finish his speech for him and started walking off the stage. Music began playing for his exit, but the audience urged him to stay and keep speaking, and he did. Young, meanwhile, was removed from the ballroom.”

She got attention, all right, although probably not the kind she was seeking; it’s off to rehab for Bladerunner’s radiant replicant Rachel, who Letterman points out went to the awards and started “heckling the winners.”

Perhaps the cruelest comeback Schnabel made?  “Who was that?”

Young

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CSI: Coroners Steal Incessantly?

January 24, 2008

Stealing from the dead has a long and dishonored tradition, from Egyptian tomb robbers to Italy’s tombaroli.  But we have a right to expect that when we pass on, our Target and Victoria’s Secret gift cards go to our survivors, rather than be stolen by a coroner paid by tax dollars.

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Heath Ledger: End of a Knight’s Tale

January 22, 2008

The world pauses from its financial misery to recoil in horror at the death of Heath Ledger, the young, talented and accomplished actor (and father) found dead of a ’suspected’ drug overdose in New York this afternoon.

Sleep well, young Knight.

Another talented young man with everything to live for, another lost to the seductive power of drugs.

Watched Neil Young sing this last night; didn’t know ’The needle and the damage done…every junkie’s like a setting sun’ would be playing in my head today.

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Joe Francis’ Latest Problem

January 22, 2008

No, it’s not legal or even the IRS.  It’s financial–or lack of same.  What’s happening while Joe rots in jail is that his empire has to be impacted by the same ill wind that’s riling the ‘adult industry’—free porn.

Why buy DVDs of “Girls Gone Wild” and subject yourself to Mantra Film’s questionable business practices when you can watch for free–or even make a few bucks as a do-it-yourselfer?

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