The Batman and The Joker are Entertainment Weekly’s cover boys…with all the hype of The Dark Knight I think it was a great choice. Inside the pages Christopher Nolan (the director) has nothing but praise for Heath Ledger and the role he played in the movie.
On Heath’s commitment to his character: â€The guy had serious nuts. What I needed was someone who wouldn’t be afraid of the comparison with Jack Nicholson. And then I saw Heath’s incredible performance in Brokeback Mountain. Such a lack of vanity. This was an actor who wasn’t afraid to bury himself in his character — to a massive extent.â€
On having the same vision for the The Joker as Heath: â€We had the same take on the character. We didn’t have a script yet, but we had ideas. The idea of anarchy as an absolute. The idea of chaos as the most frightening thing to society. The idea of a motiveless criminal, somebody who just wants to watch the world burn.â€
On Heath spending months working with a voice coach fine-tuning the Joker’s cackling cadence: “He tried to articulate to me what he was doing with his voice, but it was sometimes hard to understand. He talked about ventriloquist dummies, the way their mouths moved, the way their voices wouldn’t appear to come out of them. He said he wanted the voice to have a mocking quality, a sort of disconnectedness.â€
On Heath splattering makeup across his face throughout the film: â€He started applying the makeup himself — just to see what it would look like if he put it on with his own hands. We talked about how streaking the paint could get across the idea of corruption, of decay.â€
This role of The Joker would have changed Heath no matter what…and seeing him come alive again on the movie screen will be moving. Laughing and crying…amazing and terrifying…good and bad…
Lindsay Lohan spent her birthday night at Teddy’s. It looked like only her and Samantha Ronson were the only ones that were having fun. They are so doing it!!
The new season of Big Brother is coming in a couple of weeks…and finally I get to see some spoilers from this season. Well other ones other than the ones that Evel Dick blogs about..They have learnt lessons from last season because we all know that Big Brother 9 SUCKED! So here are some spoilers…
There will be thirteen house guests.
They will all be complete and total strangers, without exception.
Harkening back to season 1, the cast will be extremely diverse, all different ages, from different places and walks of life. Parents, students, blue-collar, white-collar, all very specific personalities. The Big Brother obsession with youth has apparently taken a season off.
There will be live audiences once again for the live evictions, but it will be different from how they did it in season one.
There will still be twists, and the game will begin before the players enter the Big Brother house.
I’m glad they are stepping up the game some more…summer has always been my favorite because of Big Brother!
Back in the 90’s there was a lot of sweet things….New Kids On The Block, Warrant and mostly The New Mickey Mouse Club. I was only one of the many people in our high school that could actually watch that show, because they didn’t have cable out in the middle of nowhere, and I had a satellite dish. And watch it I did!
Four kids in this picture have gone on to do great things…can you pick them out? Find out who they are after the jump!
Here is my latest obsession…this song! “Someone Else But You” by emzy.collins is something amazing. He sings his heart out with this one…and I can’t get it out of my head! I sing it when I am watching TV, working, and even trying to sleep! Listen…and you’ll be addicted too!
