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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 20, 2017 6:48:38 GMT
Random references to Bale (as opposed to pop-culture references or proper industry mentions). I'd first set this up as a board, but I've realized it should really be a thread that belongs under Cool Bale Stuff. The Miscellaneous board will be deleted after I've moved all its' items to this thread.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:10:11 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:10:33 GMT
This article compares an underrated wine to Christian Bale: Chenin blanc: This white grape produces a remarkably broad spectrum of compelling wine styles
Beppi Crosariol
Chenin blanc is the Christian Bale of grapes: versatile, capable of memorable performances and beloved by critics, yet deserving much wider recognition. As the name betrays, the grape is French, rising to its greatest expression on the banks of the Loire Valley that cuts a long swath east-west across the country’s north.
The white variety seemed poised for prime time as far back as the 1960s, when your parents (or grandparents) may have occasionally splurged on a fancy-sounding Vouvray at the local French restaurant. Vouvray, named after a commune in the Loire, is 100-per-cent chenin blanc. The wine’s appeal back then, apart from its elegant-sounding and easy-to-pronounce name, was likely its frequent dollop of sweetness. Like riesling, chenin blanc enjoys the rare distinction of yielding a broad spectrum of compelling styles, from bone dry and off-dry to syrupy sweet. It also makes fine bubbly approaching the majesty of Champagne. It really should be called chameleon blanc.
Unhelpful French labelling customs render it hard to tell whether the wine you’re buying will be dry or sweet, though sometimes that Vouvray will indeed be designated as sec (dry), demi-sec (off-dry), moelleux (sweet) or doux (very sweet). The most interesting dry chenin blancs, to my palate, come from Savennières, an appellation in the Anjou-Saumur district on the Loire’s north bank. Almost all Savennières is dry, and good ones can be an epiphany, though dry Vouvray is much improved and can give Savennières a run for its money at $15 to $25 a bottle.
Regardless of sugar content, the grape’s great virtue is its sweet-tangy tension, frequently suggesting honey, chamomile, orchard blossoms and luscious stone fruit, always with a jumper-cable jolt of food-friendly acidity. Sommeliers go ga-ga for chenin because that yin-yang profile enables it to pair surprisingly well with a host of “difficult” foods, such as sweet-spicy Asian dishes and sushi accompanied by salty soy sauce and peppery wasabi. It doesn’t hurt that many a fine chenin blanc, particularly moelleux and doux, can develop arresting complexity with 10 or more years in the cellar – a feature that’s always cause for veneration where wine snobs are concerned.
French chenin blanc acreage has declined considerably since the 1950s, but things are looking up for underloved CB thanks to another country, South Africa. The Cape boasts the largest chenin blanc plantation in the world, roughly twice the size of France’s. Grown there for centuries and often referred to locally as steen (which was thought to be a distinct variety until 1965), it has tended to yield an ocean of bargain-basement, crisply refreshing whites, sometimes bland but sometimes impressive for the money. Fast-forward to now. A growing group of exacting South African winemakers is treating the country’s old vines – which yield concentrated fruit and complex wines on par with fine Savennières and Vouvray – like a long-lost treasure. Chenin blanc’s new Cape crusaders include Ken Forrester, De Trafford and De Morgenzon, whose best wines can run to $30 or more. But you can still land a fine one from those small producers and such widely available brands as Bellingham, Boschendal and Mulderbosch for well under $20 – or about the price of a DVD of Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale’s as the Caped Crusader. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/wine/chenin-blanc-th is-white-grape-produces-a-remarkably-broad-spectrum-of-compelling-wine -styles/article22637242/
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:11:04 GMT
How Bella Thorne met CB. A funny, charming story:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:11:21 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:11:39 GMT
CB invited Boyd Holbrook to work in KOC: What was it like to work with Terrence Malick on one of his upcoming films?
HOLBROOK: He’s very elusive and mystical, and all that stuff. I don’t know if I’ll be in the movie. I think I’m in it, but I don’t know for how much. He has a very different approach and he makes very specific films. It was great to work with Terrence and Christian [Bale]. That’s how I got onto the film. I did a couple scenes with Christian Bale in Out of the Furnace, and he told me to come down to do this movie in Austin, with him and Terrence Malick, so I was like, “Okay, cool. Let’s do it.” collider.com/boyd-holbrook-on-narcos-terrence-malick-and-jane-got-a-gun/
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:11:54 GMT
Drew Barrymore on having one date with Bale:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:12:13 GMT
Daniel Radcliffe auditioned to play CB's son in Equilibrium: James McAvoy, his co-star in new movie Victor Frankenstein, doesn't share Radcliffe's Potter spell concerns, but tells him the title reminds him of 2002 sci-fi flick Equilibrium.
"I auditioned for that when I was nine," informs Radcliffe.
"For the part of Christian Bale's son, and if I'd got it, I wouldn't have been able to do Potter, so thank God I was sh*t that day." www.plymouthherald.co.uk/8203-Daniel-Radcliffe-James-McAvoy-talk-Victor/story-28274619-detail/story.html
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:12:51 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:13:08 GMT
Bale though Teresa Palmer was a real stripper on KOC: You've got a full dance card for the next few months! Can you tell me about preparing your character for Knight of Cups? I loved Knight of Cups because there was actually no time for preparation. I didn’t know I was doing the movie until the night before. I got a phone call that said, Do you want to go tomorrow? It’s a film with Terrence Malick. He’s written a role for you. All we know is it's this one scene with Christian Bale, and you play a stripper. I had auditioned for another character and I hadn’t gotten that, so he had written . I turn up on set not knowing anything. Christian is in his accent—his American accent. And of course I think he’s a method actor, and he’s staying in character, so then I try to stay in this stripper character. I make up this elaborate back story about me being a dancer, and I have a daughter. On top of it, Terrence doesn’t tell Christian that I’m an actor. He just says that I’m a real stripper.
Christian actually just did an interview saying that he thought I was a stripper for so long. Then he was driving down Sunset Boulevard, and he saw a poster for Warm Bodies, and saw my face, and he was like, Hang on a minute. It was just so funny. It was just me thinking I had to have a back story. It was really funny Did he reintroduce himself to you? No, I ended up doing it. He probably just doesn’t remember. He heard my name was Teresa at some point, and I was like, Oh my God. I’m so sorry! You know when you first started talking to me, I thought that you were in character, so I was trying to be in character, so I made up this whole back story, and I’m actually Australian. I’m actually an actor. I’m not really a stripper. He literally laughed about it for like a week..From GQ.
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:13:27 GMT
When did James Brolin became CB's father? Funny question by David Polland to Josh Brolin on DP30:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:13:41 GMT
CB on Oscars seating arrangement:
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:14:02 GMT
A cast member on stageplay Billy Elliott remembering that time when CB was the only boy in class: She spends every night on stage teaching the son of a macho miner to dance, but singer and actress Annette McLaughlin says Welsh Oscar-winner Christian Bale is her real-life Billy Elliot.
Londoner Annette plays the role of dance instructor Mrs Wilkinson in the multi award-winning West End stage production Billy Elliot The Musical, which is running at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, until July 16.
But Annette had her first ‘Billy Elliot’ moment some 20 years earlier as a seven-year-old training with the Royal Ballet School alongside Haverfordwest -born actor Christian Bale.
“Christian was the only boy in the class and all the girls were all in love with him. He was really cool. He played the drums really well and being the only boy in the class he had a lot of attention,” Annette said “Then one term he never came back as he had auditioned for Stephen Speilberg’s Empire of the Sun. All the girls in the class were heartbroken, but he was on his way. I have loads of text books from primary school that say I ‘heart’ Christian Bale. It’s hilarious to look back now as he’s such a mega star.
“I often wonder whether Christian ever kept up his ballet exercises on the barre. But I doubt it. He was never forward in telling people about his dance background And even though Bale may not have continued with the fancy footwork, Annette is pleased that Billy Elliot has reached so many young boys into the world of dance. www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/theatre-news/christian-bale-actress-real-life-11537645
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:14:19 GMT
A Danish photographer escaped from ISIS by copying Bale in Rescue Dawn: A Hostage's Escape From ISIS
Before leaving for his trip to Syria he had seen the film Rescue Dawn starring Christian Bale as an American pilot who is taken hostage during the Vietnam War. In the film Bale uses a nail to work open his handcuffs, allowing him to escape the torture camp.
Daniel thought of this scene as he contemplated the old lampshade on the floor. He pulled it towards him with his feet. Perhaps things could work out in real life as they did in the movies.
He took his time jiggling and fiddling with the lampshade’s metal spokes and eventually managed to break a piece off the shade that was about seven centimetres long. He inserted the end of the metal into a hole in the handcuffs so he could bend it slightly. It formed the shape of a key, which he might be able to use in the same way as Christian Bale’s nail.
Daniel stuck the metal into the handcuff lock and turned it. He fiddled with it for several hours at different angles until finally, he heard a click: the lock was open. He sat quietly for a moment. The only thing he knew for certain was that he was on the first floor and could jump out of the window, but he had no idea how far down it was, nor what was outside the house. It didn’t matter. He just wanted out. Better to die on the run than live under torture. europe.newsweek.com/escape-isis-last-surviving-foreign-hostage-487278?rm=eu
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Post by RhodoraO on Feb 21, 2017 1:14:38 GMT
Turkish stunt man on Bale: He will no doubt never forget the day he did stunt work for Christian Bale in "Flowers of War." He recalled that day proudly: "When the action director of 'Flowers of War' asked me if I could stunt in the movie, I immediately accepted it. I didn't know Christan Bale was starring in it. When I found out, I was so excited, I could hardly believe it. I looked so much like him that the director Zhang Yimou from time to time got us mixed up. A lot of people in Turkey couldn't believe it but they saw the results of my determination and gave their support. Being Bale's stuntman also paved the way for other films; it brought me prestige." Afterward, he started receiving a lot of offers from abroad. www.dailysabah.com/feature/2016/08/16/turkish-stuntman-aims-to-take-on-hollywood
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