Sunday, October 12, 2014
Stephen Collins accused of admitting to molesting minors in therapy - Justice News Flash
10/09/2014 // West Palm Beach, Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release)
Los Angeles – “7th Heaven” star Stephen Collins is being accused of having admitted to molesting three underage girls during a secretly recorded therapy session in 2012. As reported by People, TMZ recently posted an audio recording alleged to have been Collin’s taped confession, that the actor’s ex-wife, Faye Grant, previously turned over to authorities.
Grant claims she played no part in the recent release of the audio to the media stating, “I woke up today to learn that an extremely private recording I handed over to the authorities in 2012 per their request in connection with a criminal investigation was recently disseminated to the press…I had no involvement whatsoever with the release of the tape to the media.”
Grant and Collins divorced in 2012 after 27 years of marriage. The two share one daughter together, 25-year-old Kate Collins.
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NYFF review: Actors, camera soar in surreal "Birdman" - CBS News
Michael Keaton stars as an action-movie star trying for a comeback on Broadway in "Birdman," a comedy lifted by great performances and sublime cinematography. Fox Searchlight
You are in a dirty, cramped dressing room of a Broadway theater, tinged with generations of acting history, successes and regrets. It's here where the voices of actors past might speak to you, with encouragement more elegant than "Break a leg."
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Stars hit the red carpet at the 52nd annual cinema event at Lincoln Center
But Riggan Thomson can't hear those voices, thanks to the inner voice of his super-ego speaking so loudly no ego could drown it out.
Riggan (Michael Keaton) is days from Opening Night of his Broadway play, an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story which he has also written and directed. His life's blood is in the production. It's a life that has seen its share of success (three top-grossing "Birdman" superhero movies) and failures (divorce and a daughter straight out of rehab).
And alas, the signs aren't boding well when an actor is injured during rehearsals, requiring a last-minute replacement: Mike Shiner (Edward Norton), whose passionate quest for realism on stage includes drinking actual gin and attempting to make love for real with his co-star and partner, Lesley (Naomi Watts).
Michael Keaton and Edward Norton comes to blows in "Birdman."
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Riggan also faces countless other pressures, including a pregnant girlfriend, Laura (Andrea Riseborough); a worried producer, Jake (Zach Galifianakis); and a theatre critic (Lindsay Duncan)who promises to bury his production with her review.
A treat of black comedy mixed with magical realism and powerful emotions, "Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" had its U.S. premiere Saturday at the New York Film Festival.
Masterfully directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Babel," "Amores Perros"), the film unspools for the most part in the manner of a single unbroken take, conjured from the last few days before Opening Night. Taking place mostly within the confines of the theater's backstage, where actors, costumers, stagehands and reporters jostle, argue, fight or make out, the story is mostly told through Riggan's POV, though the camera often drifts away to eavesdrop on others' conversations.
Emma Stone in "Birdman."
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The stunning camerawork is by cinematographer Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki (whose work has graced the movies of Alfonso Cuarón and Terrence Malick, and who won an Oscar last year for "Gravity"). Shot without artificial lights (there was no room for them in the exceedingly cramped quarters of the St. James Theater), in long extended takes that are cleverly edited together, the camerawork creates a fluid sensation of being airborne through the entire film, sometimes getting thisclose to the actors.
It's a process that required extensive rehearsals and technical run-throughs -- and which generated an atmosphere for the actors that was (according to Keaton) the most intense he'd ever experienced.
The seamless technical work makes the script's intense emotional points all the more powerful, as Riggan faces a growing fear that he, his precious play (titled "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"), even his life are no longer relevant to an audience, or to his family.
His daughter, Sam (Emma Stone), is extremely blunt in her assessment of his motivations and self-image:
"You are doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich, old white people whose only real concern is going to be where they can go have their cake and coffee when it's over. Nobody gives a **** but you. And let's face it, Dad, you are not doing this for the sake of art. You are doing this because you want to feel relevant again. Well, guess what? There is an entire world out there where people fight to be relevant every single day, and you act like it doesn't exist. Things are happening in a place that you ignore -- a place that, by the way, has already forgotten about you! I mean, who the **** are you? You hate bloggers, you mock Twitter, you don't even have a Facebook page! You're the one who doesn't exist!"
It's a movie that, like Muhammad Ali, floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
Released by Fox Searchlight, "Birdman" opens on October 17. It is Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief violence. Running time: 1:59.
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Bill Hader Triumphantly Returns To Host 'Saturday Night Live' With Musical ... - Starpulse.com
Recent alumni returning to host "Saturday Night Live" have lately served as an excuse to fill the episode with cameos from former cast members and friends of the show, with last season's finale hosted by Andy Samberg a particularly egregious example. That tendency is not a good fit for a show with a large repertory cast including several rookies and sophomores fighting to make themselves known. Luckily, this episode only featured two cameos, only one of whom was a former cast member, and neither of whom overwhelmed the show. Hader did resurrect a few of his most memorable characters, but he didn't get in the way of what the current cast is doing. The bottom line is, it is pretty much impossible to have a bad episode hosted by Bill Hader. He was in a lot of sketches while a cast member, because he could take on the lead and the utility roles just as easily. Thus, putting him in the entire episode, as is the norm with the hosts, served to guarantee at least one good performance per sketch. Let's take a closer look at each segment of the show:
Kim Jong-Un - The running time of this sketch was about 3 minutes, a speed that is practically unheard of for "SNL" cold openings in 2014. It harked back to a time when the first sketch could get in there with a familiar routine, make it point, and get right to the "Live from New York!" But the weird thing about this sketch was that Bobby Moynihan's Kim Jong-Un impression is not particularly popular, nor has North Korea really been dominating headlines. This sketch did not really focus on being timely anyway, instead making bizarre observational points about the Korean leader, such as how he fancies himself the world's greatest athlete and that his haircut resembles Brad Pitt in his current movie. Ultimately, this was admirable for being stranger than most openings, but disappointing for being too slight to do something with that strangeness. B-
Bill Hader's Monologue - It has gotten to the point at which a musical "SNL" monologue must be about making fun of the fact that it is a musical monologue. That does not, however, excuse the tiredness of this premise. The surprising, but appropriate, appearance of Harvey Fierstein did excuse it somewhat, though. Although, perhaps this could have been more successful with an even more left-field choice. Bill kind of sounded like Keith Morrison while recounting his childhood. As with Fierstein, he has an impression of the "Dateline" reporter in his repertoire. B
Danny DeVito To Lip Sync One Direction's 'Steal My Girl'? - 2paragraphs.com
Actor Danny DeVito (Get Shorty, Taxi, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) will have a role in One Direction’s new music video Steal My Girl. No one knows why exactly, but the boy band did show appreciation of DeVito on set by posing with the 69-year-old’s “trollfoot.” DeVito has been photographing his bare foot in various places and positions and posting them on social media sites as a kind of amateur art project. (Is it a boot-y call?)
The song Steal My Girl is the lead single of 1D’s upcoming album, Four, which will be released on November 17. Here’s the chorus: “Everybody wanna steal my girl / Everybody wanna take her heart away / Couple billion in the whole wide world / Find another one ’cause she belongs to me .” The chorus is followed by a number of na na na nas. Maybe that’s where DeVito will come in. Maybe he’ll lip sync those na nas like his contemporary Chevy Chase did in Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al.