Saturday, November 28, 2009

Prop weapons

Gun nuts are everywhere. Even in countries where guns are illegal. Consequently, there's a large international market for adult-sized toy guns. Cheap plastic "airsoft" guns are a boon to the extreme low budget filmmaker. That and software to add muzzle flashes and shell casings popping out to your movie. And blood spatter.

Blanks are loud and dangerous. People have been killed by them.

One director told the story. He loaded a blank cartridge into a high powered rifle and handed it to the actor who immediately aimed it at him. The director dived for cover.

"Aw, I wanted to shoot you!" the actor said.

The poor actor had only worked with very low powered blanks on stage. The blank loaded into that rifle would have been deadly at that range. And if the director hadn't dived for cover, the actor would have pulled the trigger.

Today, the only danger we face is that of being humiliated by people spotting us acting out scenes with toy guns.

We live in a golden age! Almost.

I did watch A Fool There Was a while back, the 1915 silent movie, a story of lust and seduction. Theda Bara plays a "vamp" who takes revenge on a snooty bourgeois woman's sleight by taking her husband away from her. He gets weaker and weaker as Theda sucks the life out of him. The wife tries to get him back, but he's unable to pry himself away.

It looked so easy! Anybody could make a movie back then! If only film hadn't cost so much! And average income wasn't so low!

Tiger Woods Car Accident | Video

Tiger Woods was injured in a single-vehicle accident outside his home early Friday and a local police chief says the golfer's wife smashed out the back window to help get her husband out of the SUV.

Check out the video report, below;

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Watch Adam Lambert AMA Performance Video

Adam Lambert caused some strong reactions after his American Music Awards (AMA) Performance. He closed the show, and did he close the show! Lambert left some folks with their eyes bucked and their tongues hanging out.

It was done for shock value and all I 'gotta say is "mission accomplished." Adam Lambert says there is a double standard going on in the entertainment world. If Madonna and Britney can be provocative, why can't he?

Okay... we hear 'ya... Check out the video, below:

Sunday, November 22, 2009

There's a career Roger Corman should have smothered in its cradle

James Cameron on 60 Minutes

I wish Morley Safer would learn to contain himself. I'm sitting here with the TV on. Safer is gushing like a schoolgirl over James Cameron. But 60 Minutes has been going downhill for years. There was that senile moron Mike Wallace who thought he was really sticking up for the little guy by defending Israel against Palestinian refugees and their anti-Semitic pleas for Israelis to stop killing their children.

Cameron has made a new movie costing $400,000,000.00. I don't know if this formula works for movies with absurdly large budgets, but they used to say a movie had to gross two and half times its cost just to break even. This thing could gross a billion dollars and still lose money.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Photos, Video - Models in Bikini for Kingfisher Calendar Girl 2010

Kingfisher and NDTV Good Times launches Brand New Reality show
Contestants of the Reality show Kingfisher Calendar Girl 2010
It’s that time of the year again! It is time for the making of the Kingfisher Calendar 2010.
It's exclusive, it's sexy, it's eagerly awaited each year. And 2010 will see a slightly new twist on the old tried and tested bikini bombshell format of the annual Kingfisher Calendar.