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14 hours ago, Lyla said:

LOL, it's funny that she compares them to Gisele, when she had surgeries too. I love her, but still... 

 

I am not a fan of the Kardashians, but this woman talks very stupidly. 

 

I understood that Alex Perry wanted to talk about the difference between Kim Kardashian and Carmella Rose ....

But maybe I'm mistaken .... ??? ....

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4 hours ago, Stormbringer said:

I was thinking about it too.... maybe not :sad: 

 

1 hour ago, elfstone said:

He  had stated multiple times they were good friends

:cry:

 

If I remember correctly, Chester was the godfather of Chris' son.

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12 hours ago, Stormbringer said:

And now Chester Bennington... wtf is going on???

Yeah I saw that this afternoon.  :cry2:And Martin Landau. :cry2:

@Stromboli1 Yes, the press was trying to make it a thing, that Chester took his own life the same way his best friend did, on his friend's birthday. 

 

@gotportugal The BBC Clip about the dog getting rescued, brought tears to me.  Thanks for sharing that. I love the fact that they're carrying animal masks now too. Those are real heroes.  :hug:

@Prettyphile  Way to GO about calling the rescue for the pups! You're a hero to those two. And I think I love you for that. :hug:

 

I'm sure there's more for me to go through, that will have to be later on. 

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Martin Landau on Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen and how not to be a bad actor

He turned down the role of Spock, and turned James Mason into a bisexual. An encounter with the late Hollywood great and Oscar-winning star of Ed Wood.

I interviewed Martin Landau, the genial, generous actor who has died aged 89, back in 2000. He was 72 then and nowhere near running out of steam. His agent had advised me to place all my most important questions up front. “Martin likes to give elaborate answers,” she said affectionately. In fact, during the afternoon that I spent with Landau at his office on Sunset Boulevard, I didn’t actually get the opportunity to put many questions to him at all. Conversation for him was one delightful, never-ending after-dinner speech.

But then he had one of the more interesting careers in Hollywood. Not just because of the lives which intersected with his – yes, he dated Marilyn Monroe and was chums with James Dean – but because he still had so much to impart about acting technique.

It was not as if he had it in his bones. He was employed as a cartoonist on the New York Daily News at the age of 17, but later strayed toward acting, and in 1955 earned a place at the Actors’ Studio, one of only two to make it out of 1,000 hopefuls. (The other was Steve McQueen.)

In Landau’s case, there may have been some overlap between the professions of cartoonist and actor. As we talked, he proved himself to be a master mimic and caricaturist, slipping between accents and dialects – from Hungarian to Cockney to prim, crusted, John Mills English – like someone switching queues at the supermarket. “I’m like a parrot,” he told me. “I can’t help it.”

He did a mean Hitchcock too. The director had handpicked Landau for North By Northwest (1959) after catching him on Broadway. “Martin,” spluttered Hitchcock, “you have a circus going on inside you.” The role was Leonard, James Mason’s sinister right-hand man. Landau’s performance is all eyes. “Oh yes,” he agreed, “the eyes were everything. He only moved when he had to.”

His distinctive take on the part was well-known. “If you read the script of North By Northwest, you’ll see it’s not a huge role. But I decided to play him as a homosexual, very subtly, because otherwise he would have been just a henchman. He wasn’t a bad guy; he was just trying to keep a relationship alive by getting rid of the woman who had usurped him. I realised that all of this would make him very dangerous. It made his grievance personal. The only person who didn’t like this was James Mason because it cast aspersions on his character; it basically turned him into a bisexual.”

For a long time after that, the parts didn’t stop coming. There was a lot of television. He was Gene Roddenberry’s first choice for Spock in Star Trek, but turned it down. “I respond to the duplicity in characters,” he explained, “and there was nothing to play there.”

But he did Mission: Impossible (1966-69), in which there was little else but duplicity, and later the very sweet Space: 1999 (1975-77), with its alabaster sets and alabaster optimism. He found himself appearing in barmy historical epics like Cleopatra (1963) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

John Cleese cornered Landau in a disco in the early 1970s. “You’re fucking everywhere, Landau!,” he boomed. Cleese had been researching the genre in preparation for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and had been apparently unable to find a movie that Landau wasn’t in.

The salad days wilted eventually. In fact, there is a period of 15 years that is best left entirely unmentioned (a period that included parts in The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island and The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman). Then suddenly Landau couldn’t walk down the street without a brilliant script falling into his hands – Francis Ford Coppola’s Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) preceded an aching, Oscar-winning turn as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1995). (Both films cast him as flawed mentors to idealistic younger men.) In between those two came what remains his most complex and disturbing performance, as a pampered, complacent ophthalmologist who has his lover killed in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanours (1990).

“When I met with Woody, I almost talked myself out of that role. He told me: ‘In days gone by, I would’ve cast Edward G Robinson in this part.’ I said, ‘But that’s just wrong. Your protagonist is a liar, a cheat, a spoiled brat, a coward, an embezzler, and a murderer. He doesn’t do a single redeeming thing. Whoever plays this, you need the audience to empathise, sympathise, see themselves in him, and be horrified all at same time. Or you don’t have a movie.’ It went very quiet for longer than I like it to be. He said ‘What time’s your plane?’ I said, ‘9am’. He said, ‘Can you make it four? I want to get you fitted for your costume.’”

The performance itself was another masterpiece of economy; Landau kept everything about this terrifying character stifled, bottled up, buried. “Dialogue is what people are willing to share,” he said. “The 90 per cent that’s left – well, that’s what I do for a living. It’s about concealment. Bad actors try to cry. Good actors try not to. Drunks don’t try to be drunk, they try to be sober. Sometimes I’ll watch a drunk reaching for his glass, and it’s the most studied reach in the world.”

The resurrection of Landau’s career was guaranteed by Tucker, Crimes and Misdemeanours and Ed Wood but there was no sense as he spoke that he was wallowing in his achievements. He gave the impression of still being grateful to be back in the business that he cherished. It was an honour to meet him.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2017/07/martin-landau-alfred-hitchcock-woody-allen-and-how-not-be-bad-actor

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17 hours ago, ILUVAdrianaLima said:

Who gives a f@#K about how Beyonce's wax figure come out looking like! If people think this is news or controversy, those people need to hit themselves on the head with a solid book and get a better picture of what matters in life!

+ the woman has a very light skin color. I often wondered if papa Knowles was her genetic dad. :Angel:

Non she thinks she is a Madonna & use religious holy images to promote her life and her kids but no one seems to be offended about that.

 

 

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On 20/07/2017 at 7:06 AM, Lyla said:

LOL, it's funny that she compares them to Gisele, when she had surgeries too. I love her, but still... 

 

I am not a fan of the Kardashians, but this woman talks very stupidly. 

Gisele had a nose job but it did not change the way she looked & also the fact of her being a natural born model. She was having the "wow" factor even before the nose job.

 

Gisele at 14 before the nose job. Natural beauty not a drastic change between now and then. Maybe a little bit of botox now?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/23/18/358D446E00000578-3656510-Bundchen_can_be_seen_showing_off_her_model_poise_in_the_program_-a-50_1466701205142.jpg

 

 

kylie jenner at 14 before well.... Everything! :rofl:/ Now natural freak/same thing for the other freaks sisters.A little bit less for Kendull

http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/kyliebeforeafter2.jpg

 

 

I do not 100% agree with him on the Insta models tho.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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