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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 3, 2017 6:03:57 GMT
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 5, 2017 9:30:04 GMT
Remember when Sean Penn secretly interviewed the notorious personality El Chapo? Sean Penn drew lots of controversy because his interview surfaced after El Chapo got caught. Well, Bale in The Fighter got a mention in a Vulture report of that story: But in what Alanis Morissette might call ironic and Harvey Weinstein would probably just refer to as “fate,” now El Chapo is definitely going to get a biopic. Because that’s what happens with every story that remotely involves Hollywood, from the invention of the talkies to that time Canada Ben Affleck saved Iranian hostages. The only issue is that the guy who plays El Chapo won’t be getting the Oscar — no, that’ll go to Sean Penn. El Chapo’s the Mark Wahlberg to Christian Bale in The Fighter of this story now, the lead character who gets overshadowed by the wacky supporting turn. Everyone in the cast of Narcos is sending a selfie of themselves next to El Chapo’s mug shot. Everyone in Hollywood is getting a spray tan, trying on some fake facial hair, and doing their best Spicoli impression.www.vulture.com/2016/01/sean-penn-had-a-secret-interview-with-el-chapo.html
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 19, 2017 1:51:14 GMT
Casual conversation with the Ward brothers on SAG awards red carpet: carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/a-hollywood-cakewalk-for-boxings-tough-guys/Hollywood likes to think of itself as a tough place, but for Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, the boxing brothers and real-life inspirations for “The Fighter,” the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday was a cakewalk. It’s “a lot calmer here” than in the ring, Mr. Eklund said.
“It’s a lot of excitement – but in the ring, you gotta keep your head,” his brother, Micky, added. “You can let go a little bit here. In the ring, it’s excitement, but you gotta keep that viciousness in you. Here you can just be yourself.”
Mr. Ward has clearly not had any run-ins with Scott Rudin or Harvey Weinstein, the hard-charging producers who are now locked in a tough battle for the best picture Oscar with “The Social Network” and “The King’s Speech.” (The hard-chargers on “The Fighter,” the director, David O. Russell, and one of its stars, Christian Bale, have been all smiles on the awards circuit.) Still, we suggested, there are probably some vicious people here.
“Not really,” Mr. Ward said, shrugging. “They might think they are.”
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Post by RhodoraO on Mar 19, 2017 5:53:05 GMT
Micky Ward has put his brain up for scientific study of traumatic head injury: carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/a-fighter-does-his-bit-for-science/To further the study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (C.T.E.), “a progressive degenerative brain disease that eats away at memory and impulse control, spurs depression, and eventually leads to dementia,” Mr. Ward, 45, is offering his organs, including his brain and spinal column, after his death, according to Caleb Daniloff at Boston University. And Mr. Ward will participate in a long-term behavioral and physiological study while he is alive.
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