James Cameron, the director of the soon-to-be-released flashy yet craptastic film Avatar, was interviewed by 60 minutes yesterday to discuss the upcoming film.
In the interview, James talks about sitting down with the head of Orion, who wanted famous football player and double murderer OJ Simpson to play the title role in The Terminator.
James Cameron stated:
“The head of Orion, who were gonna release Terminator, called me up and said, ‘Are you sitting down? I have cast this movie. I was at a party, and it’s OJ Simpson for the Terminator.’
And I said ‘This is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.’ “
Can you imagine? Watching OJ Simpson appear naked in a blue light from the future, to hunt, stalk and attempt to brutally murder an innocent blond woman and her boyfriend?
Awkward.
Not to mention the fact that if Arnold Schwarzenegger hadn’t received the role of the relentless robot, California probably would not have such an excellent Governator now.
source: JIM CAMERON ON 60 MIN: STUDIO WANTED OJ FOR TERMINATOR [Film Drunk]
Watch out Arnold! Reality TV actor, Spencer Pratt wants your job!
“The Hills” actor says that he definitely wants to pursue politics one day. I guess if Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger can do it, why not?
During the last Presidential election, he was seen wearing a t-shirt that read, “God, Guns, & Glory” in support of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin. After Barack Obama won the election, him and girlfriend Heidi Montag were seen sporting Obama t-shirts. How convenient. Flip-floppers.
He says, “Don’t know if I’ll be getting elected any time in the next century or so, but definitely going after mayor of L.A. and at least Governor. I’ll probably stop at Governor.”
Adding, “I mean, if people were really pushing for me [to run for president] at that point, I’ll probably have to step in that role. That pressure may be a little much. I’ll start with California because I love California so much…my state and my birth place.”
Way back before Sylvester Stallone ever was Rocky Balboa or John Rambo, he was a starving artist, if you will. In 1970, Stallone filmed his first flick, but it wasn’t the sort that would make it to the silver screen.
In the movie, “The Party At Kitty And Stud’s“, which was renamed to “Italian Stallion“, he starred as “Stud.” Stud apparently “serviced” a bunch of Kitty’s friends one after another.
Stallone said that he did this movie because he was desperate and had no food to eat.
Have a look at the trailer (which is in no way NSFW):
Here’s also a creepy looking scene from the movie (also not NSFW):
Here’s a second trailer for the movie:
They seem to really be pimping out that Playboy quote where he says that he was starving and needed food. I guess back then it was a good selling point to get your X-rated flick a mention in the magazine.
Stallone is currently working on the post-production of the movie, “Kambakkht Ishq“, which is slated for a 2009 release. This movie is rumored to have Arnold Schwarzenegger as a part of the cast.
In addition, he’s working on the pre-production of “The Expendables“. 50 Cent is rumored to be a part of the cast for this movie and is said to be playing an agent.
Despite being paid only $200 for the role of Stud, he rakes in the millions now. How’s that for food money?
Steven Spielberg is the latest high-profile donor giving money to fight California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage in the state.
The director and his wife, Kate Capshaw, donated $100,000 to the No-on-8 campaign, the couple announced Tuesday.
“By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other,” the couple said in a statement.
Brad Pitt gave the same amount last week to Californians Against Eliminating Basic Rights. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. Barack Obama are also on record against Proposition 8.
source: Steven Spielberg Donates $100,000 to Support Gay Marriage [people]
If movies were completely scientifically accurate, they’d probably be as interesting as a Physics 101 lecture.
In real life, there are no explosions in space, gas usually doesn’t explode from a lit cigarette.
Some movies, though, put science front and center in the story and more often than not the science proves to be head-slappingly bad. Here are the top 10 offenders:
Armageddon
We could put together a long list of all the things wrong with Michael Bay’s feel-good ode to global destruction, but NASA has already and they counted at least 168 mistakes. But perhaps the biggest problem is that the plot itself — splitting a Texas-sized rock in two with a single nuke — has a Texas-sized hole in it. We don’t have a nuclear bomb anywhere near powerful enough to do the job. As strange as it might seem, this is a case of a Michael Bay movie not having a big enough explosion.
Independence Day
That mammoth mothership hovering over the earth in geostationary orbit would be doing more than just freaking out the world’s population. Because of its close proximity and mass — 1/4th that of the moon, according to the film — the flying saucer’s gravitational pull would cause massive tidal waves, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. The aliens wouldn’t even have to roll out their anti-matter ray to blow up the White House — it would already be underwater.
Starship Troopers
Could a band of cave-dwelling, preverbal giant insects really have the sophisticated mathematics and technology to hurl a rock millions of miles through space to crash into Earth? Plus, 70% of the planet’s surface is covered in water, so they only had a 3 out of 10 chance at even hitting solid ground, let alone a major city like Buenos Aires.
The Day After Tomorrow
Roland Emmerich brought his trademark academic rigor to the realm of climatology and the result proved to be so silly that NASA refused to help with the filming of the movie. For one thing, it would require most of Antarctica to melt in order to submerge New York City to the level it is in the movie. If all the rays of the sun were directed at the South Pole, its ice would melt in about two and half years. This ridiculousness drove Duke University paleoclimatologist William Hyde to publicly state, “This movie is to climate science as Frankenstein is to heart transplant surgery.”
The Core
In the movie, the Earth’s inner core — a nickel-iron mass about 1500 miles in diameter — stops rotating, causing the planet’s magnetic field to collapse and microwave radiation from space to blast through the atmosphere. But microwaves aren’t affected by magnetism, and the radiation that comes from space is too weak to damage anything here. What’s more, if the core did stop rotating for whatever reason, we’d have more to worry about than that. The energy stored in the core would have to go somewhere, and the effect on the planet would be equivalent to five trillion nuclear bombs going off at once.
The Matrix
Much in the way of physics in the Matrix — like dodging bullets and running up walls — gets a pass because it’s all within a massive virtual world. But in reality, our supposed robot overlords are a bit dim. Humans are a remarkably inefficient energy source. Instead of turning the human race into Duracells, the machines would probably get more energy just setting those goopy people pods on fire.
Jurassic Park
Having a wildlife park full of dinosaurs would be a really cool idea if it weren’t for a few problems. No, not imperfect security or the possibility of spontaneous lizard sex changes. The problem is that it would be almost impossible to clone the dinosaurs based on DNA pulled from the guts of a 25 million-year-old mosquito. The dinosaur DNA’s double helix most certainly would have been broken down into individual chunks, mixing together with whatever else the mosquitoes might have eaten along with some of the insect’s own genetic material. Any creature constructed from that mess might be the stuff of nightmares, but probably wouldn’t look like a T. Rex.
Total Recall
The red planet’s gravitational pull is roughly 1/3rd that of the Earth’s. So if, for example, an Austrian bodybuilder were to visit Mars, he would be bounding across the room like Michael Jordan. Another problem: when exposed to the thin atmosphere of Mars, like bad guy Cohaagen at the end of the movie, you would likely suffer from a raging case of the bends and you would asphyxiate — both of which are plenty lethal — but your head wouldn’t bulge out and explode like an overused stress toy.
Outbreak
A monkey threatens a small town with a virus that kills everybody in less time than your average DMV visit, and only Dustin Hoffman can stop it. The trouble with a disease that virulent is it kills the host too fast to spread. Otherwise, we would be dead from the Ebola virus. Also, it generally takes longer to make a cure from monkey serum than it does to make a latte. Dustin Hoffman does look great in a hazmat suit, though.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones has survived a lot of improbable adventures, be it fleeing ancient spherical boulders or fighting off cult members while dangling off a rope bridge. But few scrapes have tested the bounds of believability more than Indy’s escape from a nuclear bomb blast thanks to a lead-lined fridge. The problem is that, even if he didn’t get flattened, horribly burned or suffocated (kids, don’t hide in refrigerators), Indy almost certainly would have gotten a lethal dose of radiation from the fallout. And that’s a lot scarier than snakes.
There are many ways to measure talent in Hollywood. But for the authors of “Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back,” size is everything.
Borrowing the title of filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s classic scandal bible, authors Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter have dared to publish the pictures and stories too explicit and actionable for even the pulpiest supermarket tabloids.
Among those featured in full-frontal shots are Mick Jagger, Daniel Radcliffe, Ewan McGregor, John Malkovich, James Woods, Richard Gere and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. We leave it to you to decide whether all the snaps are authentic.
The authors also write about the reputed size of many other stars in the book, due June 1. Johnny Depp was known as “donkey d-”, they say. Sean Connery posed nude for art studies, and one student said:”It was the biggest I’ve ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil.”
Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one – especially not the dead, who can’t sue. Lack of sources don’t stop them from claiming:
Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Ronald Reagan. The authors also claim Monroe had a tryst with Joan Crawford but refused to make it an ongoing affair. “She had bad breath,” Monroe allegedly told roommate Shelly Winters. “Besides, she wanted to do things to me that no woman should do to another woman.”
James Dean showed a disconcerting interest in a 12-year-old boy in the early 1950s. Director Elia Kazan believed the tale: “I’ve known many actors who have been twisted up in their sex lives, but never anybody as sick and unhealthy as Dean was.”
Elvis Presley had a gay old time with Nick Adams, who played Johnny Yuma in the hit TV series “The Rebel.”
Lucille Ball launched herself into show business as a hooker, and her husband Desi Arnaz had a fling with Cesar Romero.
Cary Grant had an incestuous relationship with his stepson, Lance Reventlow.
Sir Winston Churchill got “musical” with actor and songwriter Ivor Novello.
Strange things happened to Judy Garland’s body (this in the chapter on “Fan Worship and Necrophilia”).
Police believed Bette Davis killed her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth, by hitting him on the head and causing a hemorrhage that lead to his death two weeks later. But a grand jury – six men who confessed to being ardent fans – found her innocent.
California governor – actor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told a magazine that marijuana is not a drug. The ex-Hollywood actor said that he had not taken drugs, even though he was shown smoking a joint in 70s documentary Pumping Iron.
Out of left field (literally), a group of Idahoans have filed a petition with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at CageHilton.com, asking for the ‘eternal incarceration‘ of Paris Hilton.
The Governator has vowed to take “seriously” a bid to spare Paris Hilton a stretch behind bars.
He’ll personally review any petitions or letters the office receives on Hilton’s behalf, said Aaron McLear, a spokesman for California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“The governor will certainly pay attention to it and act accordingly,” McLear said. “He will treat it seriously, like we do all other requests for his help.”
Schwarzenegger’s office said it has not yet received the petition launched by Hilton fan Joshua Capone calling for the governor to pardon the pampered heir-head.
It has already garnered more than 1,000 signatures.
“Should we receive the request, we’ll take action,” McLear said. “At this point, we have not received a formal document, so it’s premature because she needs to exhaust all her judicial remedies first.”
In other words, he’ll glance it over… chuckle at the absurdity, then throw it out like the trash she is. Seriously, it’s a canned answer. I can’t wait until he issues a formal statement with his decision.
MEANWHILE:
Paris fired her lawyer and is back behind the wheel. See THIS Arnold?!?
Paris Hilton has taken the meaning of ‘dumb blonde’ to unimaginable new heights, after she was pictured behind the wheel of her car just days after being handed a jail sentence for violating a driving ban.
The soon-to-be jail bird was snapped driving her £100,000 blue Bentley convertible less than a week after being handed a 45 day jail term.
The 26-year-old was given the sentence for breaking the terms of her probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
After rehiring her publicist, Elliot Mintzover the weekend, now Paris Hilton is using an online petition to Arnold Schwarzenegger, via her ‘My Space’ account, asking for a pardon.
Asking the Governor of California to pardon something this small, what a joke!
If this happened to you or me we’d immediately be thrown in the slammer for twice as long! We’d probably lose our licenses and our cars. She’s getting off easy if you ask me. I mean she violated her probation TWICE!? What the hell does she want, an award?
Sweetie I don’t believe they issue pardons for such minor infractions. But I do think Arnold should grant a pardon if Paris can spell his last name. Let’s practice S-c-h-w-a-r-z-e-n-e-g-g-e-r
Seriously, I’d already have my hair dyed and only be answering to “Leslie” right now. I’d work as a fry cook in some Midwestern greasy spoon. I’d be the mysterious stranger in town, and pray that no one has the Interweb. And hope that my knock-your-socks off tuna melt would convince people to protect me.
He’ll personally review any petitions or letters the office receives on Hilton’s behalf, said Aaron McLear, a spokesman for California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
