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Brad Bird, the guy who directed "Iron Giant" and "Ratatouille" has gotten himself a December 19, 2014 release date for his new flick "1952". No real word on what the alien encounter type film will be about but George Clooney is attached to star so honestly who really cares what it's about. George Clooney. The guy craps ladies underwear. I have no idea what that means.
I have no idea what "Smiley" is about but I've seen the damn slasher from the flick all over the place. Well I mean not like out walking around or anything but on sites and stuff. I'm not crazy. Well the flick is finally finding its way onto DVD on February 12th. If I did see him in public I think I'd tell him to take off his silly mask and maybe we could enjoy some lunch together. I think we would split some wings or something.
A new show titled "They Came Back" looks to be coming to the mighty US sometime in the near future. The show is based on a French movie and TV series and focuses on a group of people trying to find their way home who also happened to have been dead for 7 years. FremantleMedia Enterprises has picked up the rights to the project and I would say if they change one thing about the show it's the whole french thing. They should definitely make everyone speak English.
Good news every half naked girl on twitter who calls themselves "Penny Dreadful", you're about to get a crap load more followers. Sam Mendes and John Logan, the guys behind "Skyfall" are confirmed to be creating a new show for Showtime with that name. The series will place some of the literary world's most famous monsters in Victorian London. I don't know if it would happen but how fun would it be if they put them all in one apartment together? So you know Dr. Frankenstein uses all the toothpaste and Dr. Jekyll looses his shit over it.
A convicted Illinois sex offender is under arrest again after he was found wandering the halls of a local school "looking for young boys". Here's the kicker though, it wasn't even his fault. According to him Justin Bieber is telepathically telling him to seek out his prey. Makes the spirit of Dom DeLuise telling me to eat pie all the time not seem so bad.
Necessity is the mother of invention my friends. Proof of this can be found down in Florida where you can meet a woman who was being confronted by a cop, because she had just stabbed her boyfriend for not giving up his food stamps, and decided to throw a cat at him. I like to think there was some confusion down at the station when trying to figure out what the fine for assault with a feline is.


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G � When �Monsters, Inc.� was released on Nov., 2, 2001, The Family Filmgoer recommended it for kids 6 and older and described the Pixar- animated comedy as �mighty funny,� full of �zingers straight from vaudeville and sitcom land� and �magical in its view of the world.� It�s still funny, but more for 7 and older in 3-D.
The film takes the whole idea of kids� nighttime fears about monsters under their beds or in their closets and runs with it. In the movie, the monsters are real creatures with serpent hair or extra eyeballs. They can be lizard-like or giants with green and purple fur. They live in Monstropolis and work at Monsters, Inc.
Doors on an assembly line move through the factory and the monsters walk through them and into little kids� bedroom closets to scare them. It�s a job. The monsters are bizarro looking, but mostly nice. And they�re actually taught to be scared of kids. So when a tiny toddler (voice of Mary Gibbs) winds up on the factory side of her closet, due to the evil machinations of a chameleon-like monster named Randall (Steve Buscemi), all the freaks at Monsters, Inc. freak out.
She finds her way into the care of a big furry turquoise and purple monster named Sulley (John Goodman) and his pal Mike (Billy Crystal), a green rubbery eyeball with feet. The movie ends with a nice message about cultivating laughter instead of fear in kids.
An Oscar-winning animated short by Pixar, �For the Birds� (G, 2000), precedes �Monsters, Inc. 3-D,� and is, if you�ll pardon, a hoot. A flock of small birds querulously settle onto a telephone wire and try to keep a big, gangly bird from joining them. He gets sweet comic revenge.
THE BOTTOM LINE: �Monsters, Inc.� was conceived as a comedy with lots of scary bits defused by laughter. It still is, but in 3-D, some of the monsters and the chase scenes � especially the climactic one where the heroes are dangling from the assembly line doors at a great height � will seem more intense to kids under 7, especially to very little ones. It�s just different when it looks like a bad-guy monster is in the room with you.
�Parental Guidance� PG � �Parental Guidance� is perfectly OK for kids 8 and older, but they�re more likely to appreciate Billy Crystal�s wisecracking as the voice of the likable green-eyeball monster Mike in �Monsters, Inc. 3-D� (G).
In this weak new live-action comedy, Crystal�s rat-a-tat shtick will more likely appeal to older adults and leave kids wondering what the fuss is about, especially when he rhapsodizes about a great moment in baseball, circa 1951. Still, for moms and dads the movie offers a fair critique of upper-middle-class helicopter parenting.
Artie (Crystal), a small-time sportscaster, has just lost his gig with the minor league Fresno Grizzlies. So he�s not in the mood when he and his wife Diane (Bette Midler) fly to Atlanta at the reluctant request of their daughter, Alice (Marisa Tomei), to baby-sit her and husband Phil�s (Tom Everett Scott) three kids for a week. Artie and Alice are estranged because she felt neglected by him as a child. Diane is determined she and Artie will bond with the grandkids this time.
Both grandparents quickly see that Alice�s idea of parenting, full of psychobabble and free of punishment, is very different from theirs. The oldest, Harper (Bailee Madison), stresses over a violin audition. Turner (Joshua Rush) turns inward because of his stutter. And Barker (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) has an imaginary kangaroo friend.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Too many of the gags in �Parental Guidance� involve verbal, visual and aural toilet humor. The script also contains mild sexual innuendo and subtle homophobic humor. Grownups tell anecdotes about getting drunk. An adult character drinks wine. Billy Crystal�s character gets slammed in the crotch with a baseball bat and then projectile vomits onto the child perpetrator. Turner gets bullied at school and comes home with a black eye. We don�t see the fight.
�Les Miserables� PG-13 � The tragedy, suffering and grand emotions in this operatic tale of early 19th-century France (based on Victor Hugo�s classic novel) makes it perhaps too much movie for some middle-schoolers and definitely for preteens. The fact that even the dialogue is sung may also put them off. Many other teens, though, will be swept up by the epic grandiosity of director Tom Hooper�s film.
Those who have seen and loved the stage version may have issues with the way some of their favorite songs are sung. Star Hugh Jackman, for example, acts terrifically the role of the hero Jean Valjean, but he isn�t a high tenor. When he gets to �Bring Him Home,� usually sung in a melting falsetto on stage, he pushes his voice hard and it�s not pretty. Amanda Seyfried as Valjean�s grown-up adopted daughter Cosette warbles in a painfully tremulous soprano.
On the other hand, Russell Crowe as Javert, the obsessively righteous policeman who has pursued Jean Valjean for decades over a broken parole, surprises us with his husky and effective baritone. And Anne Hathaway as the doomed factory worker Fantine (Cosette�s mother) uses her lovely trained soprano to great effect in �I Dreamed a Dream.�
Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter have good fun with �Master of the House� as the corrupt innkeeper Thenardier and his wife, who raised and abused little Cosette. Filled with Christian themes about forgiveness and love, �Les Miserables� recounts how Jean Valjean, released from a chain gang after serving almost 20 years for petty thievery, lets go of his bitterness, has a spiritual epiphany, and starts a new life, thereby breaking his parole.
He becomes an upstanding citizen. When Cosette falls in love with Marius (Eddie Redmayne), one of the students involved in a doomed 1832 Paris uprising, Jean Valjean vows he�ll protect Marius for her. And all the while, Javert is on his trail.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The strongest element that earns the PG-13 rating is the sense of squalor and suffering that the film evokes. The violent clashes between students and the army muskets are not graphic, but have a fierceness. Prostitutes in low-cut rags troll the streets in one chapter, and sing crass, suggestive lyrics about their work. Characters drink. A key character jumps off a bridge and we see his body hit.
�Silver Linings Playbook� R � Uncomfortable depictions of mental illness make this deliciously offbeat, subtly acted romantic comedy iffy for teens younger than, say, 16. The profanity-laced dialogue is less of an issue for most older high-schoolers.
Bradley Cooper plays the troubled Pat, a former Philadelphia school teacher whose mother (Jacki Weaver) picks him up from a state prison and psychiatric hospital as the film opens. He has served an eight-month sentence, and he�s under a restraining order to stay away from his estranged wife (Brea Bee).
Pat found her cheating with a colleague of his. An undiagnosed bipolar patient, he overreacted big time. Now under treatment, he�s still not in control of his illness, and his dad (Robert De Niro), a semi-retired bookmaker who places bets on the Eagles, worries that Pat has come home too soon.
Things change slowly for the better after Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence of the PG-13-rated �Hunger Games�). A widow, Tiffany confesses to Pat that she dealt with her grief psychotically and promiscuously. Their relationship starts on an argumentative, even harassing, note, yet Tiffany talks Pat into partnering her in a dance contest. Pat�s dad bets on them � not to win.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The �Silver Linings ...� script (based on the book by Holden author Matthew Quick) bristles with profanity and includes a rude hand gesture, and a scene in which strangers hurl ethnic slurs. The film shows brief toplessness and a strongly implied but nonexplicit shower sex scene. Tiffany and Pat discuss their many prescriptions. Some characters gamble and drink.
�Django Unchained� R � Absolutely not for anyone under 17, this bloody and profane new film by Quentin Tarantino nevertheless has much to say and much enjoyment, terrific performances and action sequences to offer adults with strong stomachs.
Tarantino has plundered the styles of lurid spaghetti westerns, kung-fu revenge fantasies, plain old Hollywood horse operas and nostalgic films about the Old South. The result is a tale about an unlikely duo who wage their own mini-war against slavery in 1850s America.
A German-born bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) buys the freedom of the slave Django (Jamie Foxx) because Django can identify three wanted men Schultz is after. Schultz always kills the men he�s hunting and hauls their bodies to the nearest U.S. Marshal to collect his bounty.
Django tells Schultz that his beloved wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), was sold to another plantation to punish him for some infraction. (Her name came from an owner who spoke German.) Schultz offers to help Django find Broomhilda, as long as Django teams up with him to help kill his list of wanted men along the way.
It is a bloody trail that includes battles with slave traders and a smug plantation owner named Big Daddy (Don Johnson). At another plantation called Candieland, owned by oily Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), Django�s and Schultz�s goals come together.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Several scenes show slaves being whipped and one man set upon by dogs. Male slaves are forced to fight each other to the death for the entertainment of whites. This includes the sound of bones breaking. The ultra-violence includes explosive, deafening gun battles, great amounts of spattered blood, and bodies ripped open by bullets. The script includes frequent use of the N-word and other racial slurs. A horse is killed in a gunfight. There are strong intimations of rape, and we see a female character briefly naked. Characters smoke and drink.

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If Erykah Badu, Little Dragon, and Beach House, met-cute and made jazzy, passionate pop music together, the resulting mix might sound something like a song by the Seshen (as those are its main influences). The seven-piece Oakland band is known for its blend of sounds and regions, with robust musicianship by bassist Aki Ehara, drummer Chris Thalmann, percussionist Mirza Kopelman, Kumar Butler on samples, and Mahesh Rao on keys, filled out by fierce vocalists Lalin St. Juste and Akasha Orr. Though mostly, at this point, it's known for a little track called "Oblivion."
The electronic pop song, off the band's self-titled 2012 debut LP, employs the consistent Seshen method, a live rock band set-up with deeply soulful singing, cosmic hip-hop beats, and densely layered effects and samples.
Most recently, the Seshen remixed fellow On the Risers Trails and Ways' "Border Crosser." Next up, the band will drop "Turn," the first single off its upcoming EP, due later this year.
Description of sound: Our sound utilizes electronic textures and layers that seek to blur the distinction between the abstract and the familiar while incorporating influences from a variety of genres.
What piece of music means a lot to you: There's seven of us so there are many pieces of music that have moved us, some of which include: Mama's Gun (Erykah Badu), Voodoo (D'Angelo), Pink Moon (Nick Drake) and the works of Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, James Blake, Bob Marley, and Broadcast, to name a few.
Favorite local eatery and dish: Too hard to narrow it down to one!! We love Souley Vegan in Oakland, Pancho Villa in the Mission, and Zachary's Pizza (spinach and mushroom deep dish pizza).
Who would you most like to tour with: Little Dragon or Animal Collective would be amazing but more immediately it'd be fun to tour with some of the other Bay Area bands we love like Bells Atlas or DRMS.
The Seshen with Guy Fox, Ash Reiter. Feb. 22, 9pm, $10. Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, SF. www.rickshawstop.com, www.theseshen.com


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Antifeatures by Benjamin Mako Hill
While NTS included a series of server applications not bundled with NTW, Microsoft maintained that the NTW and NTS operating systems themselves were, "two very different products intended for two very different functions." NTS, Microsoft claimed, was suited and tailored for use as an Internet server while NTW was grossly inadequate. Aiming to enforce this difference, both the NTW code and the license agreement restricted users to no more than ten concurrent TCP/IP (i.e., Internet) connections; NTS remained unlimited.
Many users noticed that NTW and NTS were very similar. Digging further, an analysis published by O'Reilly revealed the kernel, and in fact every binary file included in NTW, was identical to those shipped in NTS. The sole difference between the two products' cores lay in the operating systems' installation information. The server version contained several options or flags that marked it as either NTW or NTS. If the machine was flagged as NT Workstation, it would disable certain functionality and limit the number of network connections. Billed as a simple web server useful for personal use, Microsoft's Personal Web Server (PWS) included on NTW was, in fact, identical to the company's enterprise-focused IIS shipped with NTS; when IIS started on a machine flagged as NTW, it would proceed to eliminate and limit functionality. On NTS where flags were set differently, new functionality would appear, and limitations--including the ten-connection ceiling--disappeared.
The ability to run an unlimited number of connections, as well as many of the other characteristics that differentiated NTW and NTS, are what I call antifeatures. An antifeature, in the way I use the term, is functionality that a technology developer will charge users to not include. It is more difficult for Microsoft to limit Internet connections than it is to leave them unconstrained, and the limit is not something that any user would request. DRM and Treacherous Computing systems are, in many ways, extreme examples of antifeatures. Users don't want either and they are hugely expensive and extremely difficult for developers to implement.
Region-coded DVDs, copy-protection measures, and Apple's optional DRM music store--where users initially paid more for the DRM-free tracks--are also excellent examples. It takes a large amount of work to build these systems and users rarely benefit from or request them. Like blackmail, users can sometimes pay technology providers to not include an antifeature in their technology.
But sometimes, as in the case with many DRM systems, users cannot pay to turn their antifeatures off at all! An example of such an antifeature can be seen in the fact that Mozilla and Firefox were blocking pop-ups for years before Microsoft got around to adding the feature to its competing Internet Explorer browser. Despite the fact that Firefox has become fancy about pop-up blocking recently, simply not showing pop-ups (i.e., the way the feature was originally implemented in Mozilla and celebrated by users) is easier than showing them. Microsoft held back not because it was difficult, but because others parts of Microsoft, and their partners, used and made money from pop-ups. Ultimately, Microsoft lost droves of users to the free alternative that was willing to put users first. Until 2005, another proprietary web browser, Opera (which offered pop-up blocking before Firefox did) displayed an irremovable banner advertisement unless users paid for premium version of the software. No users liked the banners, and obviously, it's more difficult to show advertisements than it is to leave them out.
Unfortunately, for the companies and individuals trying to push antifeatures, users increasingly often have alternatives in free software. Software freedom, it turns out, makes antifeatures impossible in most situations. Microsoft's predatory NT pricing is impossible for GNU/Linux, where users can program around it. A version of Firefox funded by advertisements would be too--users would simply build and share a version of the software without the antifeatures in question. Ultimately, the absence of similar antifeatures form some of the easiest victories for free software. It does not cost free software developers anything to avoid antifeatures. In many cases, doing nothing is exactly what users want and what proprietary software will not give them.


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Here's some help for them since their memories are getting old.
Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964,
accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft.
Selective Service Number is 326 46 228.
Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.
Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.
Bill Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the military.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States
Army Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority
of COL. E. Holmes.
Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.
Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at
the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969,
as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by
Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and
registrant who has failed to report...
remain liable for induction.
Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311,
drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has
already been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!
Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive
from justice under Public Law 90-40.
Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General
(1976), while a fugitive from justice.
Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977,
from President Carter.Bill Clinton becomes the FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON
ever to serve as President of the United States.
All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests,
public laws, and various books that have been published,
and have not been refuted by Clinton ..After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton
promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia ,which killed five U.S.
military personnel,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia ,
which killed 19 and injured 200 U.S. military personnel,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa,
which killed 224 and injured 5,000,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished.After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole,
which killed 17 and injured 39 U.S. sailors,
Clinton promised that those responsible be hunted down and punished.Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people
in New York and Washington , DC , who are now dead would be alive today.
It is a strange turn of events.
Hillary gets $8 Million for her forthcoming memoir.
Bill gets about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be written.
This from two people who spent 8 years being unable to recall
Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret)
Please forward this to as many people as you can!
We don't want this woman to even THINK of
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Avery Dennison Certifies 25
The certification is a two-part test that includes a written exam and hands-on vehicle wrap installation demonstration.
Avery Dennison recently announced that 25 graphic installers have achieved Avery Dennison Car Wrap Certification in the U.S. and Canada so far this year. The certification is a two-part test that includes a written exam and hands-on vehicle wrap installation demonstration.
"The Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions team congratulates these installers on passing the Avery Dennison Car Wrap Certification exam," says Paul Roba, technical manager for Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions. "It's a rigorous exam that requires extensive training and expertise. Avery Dennison certified wrap installers are best-in-class."
Avery Dennison says that, since launching the program in 2011, it has built one of the largest networks of certified wrap installers in the United States and Canada. The following graphics installers have been Avery Dennison-certified in 2013:
Joe Alexander, Gecko Wraps
Antonio Arajuno, Wrap Effect
Jordon Boston, Revolution Wraps
Ray Carson, Sign Masters Signs
Ronnie Colon, Strictly Window Tint
Carlos Estrada, Car Wraps
Doyle Fuller, Complete Graphics
Mike Groves, Signs of Innovation
Ian Haerr, IH Installations
Jenna Hardy, Mario Design
Damien King, Icon Tinting and Graphics
Chris Komski, Signs for Success
Hoi Keung (Michael) Lee, Impressive Wrap
Trent Marshall, Industry Sign & Graphics
Douglas Mee, AB Installations Inc.
Patrick Mulreaney, AB Installations Inc.
Thien (Tim) Pham, The Wrap Artist
Pierre Tien, Shinzo Media Group
Tyler White, The Print Firm
Rich Wilke, Signs for Success
Steven Yu, Shinzo Media Group
Chris Zagst, Vector Graphics LLC
Valeriy Zakaryukin, V. Creative Graphics
Jianxin (Raymond) Zhao, Impressive Wrap
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The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1928
Description: Weekly newspaper from Caldwell, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 24, 1928
Creator: Cromartie, C. E.
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Anthony Rizzo again bats third as the Cubs open a weekend series against the Astros at Wrigley Field.
Dale Sveum's lineup looks much like it has recently, with Alfonso Soriano batting fourth and Bryan LaHair fifth. Steve Clevenger again catches, with Paul Maholm on the mound. He has not won a game since May 9.
The lineup:
DeJesus, cf
Castro, ss
Rizzo, 1b
Soriano, lf
LaHair, rf
Clevenger, c
Barney, 2b
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Upcoming Signings For This Week! (Including Andre Ethier)
Recently, I've received e-mails from KABC, Frank & Son and Barnes & Noble asking me if I can post their upcoming signings with several Dodgers. I just reply to the nice e-mails and tell them that I have already posted all that info a long time ago!
Just in case you missed it. Signings that are going on this week!
Click the name for the details.
June 16 Shawn Green
June 17 Tony Gwynn Jr
June 18 Andre Ethier
June 18 Tommy Lasorda
June 18 Tony Gwynn Jr
June 18 Ramon Martinez
Autograph Alley Schedule @ Dodger Stadium {linked here}
Thanks everyone for your kind words last night. As you can imagine, I'm a bit overwhelmed.
Not much posting this week. Most likely, I'll be blogging at 2 a.m. so I suggest that you bookmark the blog so you won't miss a thing! If you have recently send a e-mail, I'll respond soon. Inbox currently has 37 unread e-mails. I'm sorry but I'll get to you!
Thanks everyone!
3 comments:
- raiders said...
Thanks for the info u the man
- June 14, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- Roberto Baly said...
You're welcome! :)
- June 14, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Hey Roberto, Do you know when is the next Andre Either autograph signing going to be here in Southern Cali?
- June 24, 2011 at 11:09 PM
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In the world of Hollywood, Grant Heslov's got a pretty good gig: he's George Clooney's wingman.
Heslov's been close friends with Clooney since their days shooting hoops in between auditions as up-and-coming actors (Heslov didn't do too shabby, with supporting roles in films like "True Lies," "Enemy of the State" and "The Scorpion King"), and when his pal eventually got the juice to get his own creative projects off the ground, Heslov shifted into a role as writer-producer, helping Clooney craft the screenplays for "Good Night and Good Luck" and the recent "Ides of March," as well as directing the Clooney-starring "Men Who Stare At Goats."
Heslov tells PopcornBiz that he and Clooney have a back-and-forth writing process, tossing ideas around like they did the basketball. "We really kick the story around and bounce stuff off and we sort of hit our heads against the wall," he says of their approach. "And then it just depends on who has an affinity for a certain piece, so there is no real set way. It's not like I write a scene and then he writes a scene and then we meet and talk about it. We sit in the same room. We write the scenes together. We knock it around. We'll read it overnight. We'll come back in and say, 'This doesn't work.' It's just sort of really collaborative."
U.S. & World
Despite the usual early struggles and setbacks as they launched their Hollywood careers, Heslov says neither one of them was ever ready to drop out and find a more stable career. "I don't think that George ever got very close to it, but I had a day job – I was more than close," says Heslov. "I went to USC and studied theater. When I was in college I got a television series as an actor, but then I graduated from college and then I didn't work for two years. I worked at a limousine company for a few years and then I worked some more, but it was sporadic – It was like guest-starring stuff you'd get. Then I bought editing equipment and I started editing actor's demo reels, and that's sort of how I learned a lot about filmmaking. Because not only was I just editing stuff, I was also re-editing, because people want the be the main thing in the scene. Then I started editing some short films. I edited Paul Thomas Anderson's first short film in my apartment. It turned into a nice little company, actually, and I ended up selling it. That was my day job, but then I finally got to a point where the acting had taken over."
Heslov says that of their old gang of friends from the early 90s salad days "everybody has made it – but not everybody has made it in show business. Some of them decided that it wasn't for them. A couple of guys never were in show business and so that wasn't an issue, but everyone has sort of come to a good place, sort of found their niche and where they're supposed to be and we're all still buddies. [Actor] Richard Kind was one of our buddies and obviously he's done well. He has a part in 'Argo' and is really funny in it."
"Argo" is the next film from Heslov and Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures, a bizarre true-life story set during the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran, in which CIA uses a fake Hollywood movie shoot to enter Tehran and try to smuggle out a small group of Americans hiding out at the Canadian embassy. The film stars and is directed by another multi-hyphenate: Ben Affleck.
"Somebody in my company brought me article that was in 'Details' Magazine. I read it and I said, 'This would make a fantastic film. Let's get the option,'" says Heslov. "Then we hired this guy [Chris Terrio] to write it, who really hadn't written much, and he wrote a fantastic script. George and I were going to make it. Neither one of us was going to direct it. We were going to find a director, and maybe George was going to be in it, depending on who the director was. And while we were making 'Ides of March' we got a call from the studio saying that Ben Affleck had read it and was really interested in directing it and possibly being in it. We said, 'That sounds really interesting,' because we thought that his last film ("The Town") was great. So George and I got on the phone with Ben and we had a long talk and talked about it and decided, 'Yeah, you should do it.' It's cool. We just finished our fifth week of shooting."
As an intriguing side-note, the real-life CIA hired comic book artist Jack Kirby – co-creator of Captain America, Thor, the Fantastic Four and countless more characters – to create a series of storyboards and conceptual designs that helped sell the illusion that a real movie was going to be made. "Jack Kirby is in it, yeah – not the Jack Kirby, but yes, " says Heslov. "It's a small part, but the storyboards play a significant role in the piece. We've actually shot the Jack Kirby stuff already with Michael Parks. He's like in every Quentin Tarantino movie and he was a big star when he was younger."
Heslov says that, no matter their creative successes or failures, he and Clooney always agree on a very simple philosophy: "I know that I can speak for George in this, too: we want to make films where when we are old and sitting at the Farmer's Market having breakfast that we can look back on and say, 'Wow. We made some films that we're proud of,'" he says. "''Some of them that people got and some of them people didn't get, but they're the films that we wanted to make.' I think that's it. I hope that we can make a difference within our unions and within the things that are important to us in our town."


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BUDAPEST,Hungary -- Lewis Hamilton won the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, prolongingMcLaren's dominance on the slow and winding Hungaroring circuit.
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