Two men have been arrested in a plot to murder Justin Bieber at Madison Square Garden by strangling him with a paisley tie and castrating him, which seems oddly specific.
No, Google did not censor porn.
If you've got one of those fancy Samsung televisions with the video camera built in, the latest firmware has a flaw that can allow hackers to take control of the camera and microphone and spy on you. That electronics-free room for private time is sounding better and better all the time.
Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin has scored seats on the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee; the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee; the Senate Special Committee on Aging; and the Senate Budget Committee. These committees have oversight on several pending Glbt bills, including Enda, the Safe Schools Improvement Act, and the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act.
People who watch reality television generally have lower self-esteem,...
No, Google did not censor porn.
If you've got one of those fancy Samsung televisions with the video camera built in, the latest firmware has a flaw that can allow hackers to take control of the camera and microphone and spy on you. That electronics-free room for private time is sounding better and better all the time.
Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin has scored seats on the Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee; the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee; the Senate Special Committee on Aging; and the Senate Budget Committee. These committees have oversight on several pending Glbt bills, including Enda, the Safe Schools Improvement Act, and the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act.
People who watch reality television generally have lower self-esteem,...
- 12/13/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Ashton Kutcher appears set to star in an indie movie about Steve Jobs, from his hippie days to controlling one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Christwire does Maggie Gallagher better than Maggie Gallagher does Maggie. It's going to be fun seeing her in person again Wednesday.
Well, this could change things. NBC has an internal investigation underway after it came to light that they edited the 911 call from George Zimmerman. The edit certainly changes the racial aspect, because Zimmerman didn't volunteer "He looks black." He was responding to the 911 operator asking "Ok, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?"
Charity Wakefield has been cast as Marilyn in Mockingbird Lane, The Munsters reboot. As is tradition, she'll be playing the ugly one.
California state colleges are considering asking voluntary questions of students and applicants to determine sexual orientation in an effort to see if they're serving...
Christwire does Maggie Gallagher better than Maggie Gallagher does Maggie. It's going to be fun seeing her in person again Wednesday.
Well, this could change things. NBC has an internal investigation underway after it came to light that they edited the 911 call from George Zimmerman. The edit certainly changes the racial aspect, because Zimmerman didn't volunteer "He looks black." He was responding to the 911 operator asking "Ok, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?"
Charity Wakefield has been cast as Marilyn in Mockingbird Lane, The Munsters reboot. As is tradition, she'll be playing the ugly one.
California state colleges are considering asking voluntary questions of students and applicants to determine sexual orientation in an effort to see if they're serving...
- 4/2/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
In what may be one of the most ridiculous lawsuits in history, a woman is suing because she went to see Drive and it wasn't enough like Fast and the Furious for her tastes. She's suing over deceptive marketing and hopes to take it class action. Frankly, I'd be suing if it was like Fast and the Furious.
CBS originally exiled How to Be a Gentleman to Saturday nights, but before it even aired in that wasteland the show ceased production and was canceled.
MTV's O Music Awards will be attempting the record for World's Longest Dance Party, and will provide publicity and methods of donation to benefit Glbt groups like Glsen as part of the livestream.
When I saw an online comic of Steve Jobs at the Pearly Gates and St. Peter checking his name off on an iPad, I thought it was a sweet tribute. But now that...
CBS originally exiled How to Be a Gentleman to Saturday nights, but before it even aired in that wasteland the show ceased production and was canceled.
MTV's O Music Awards will be attempting the record for World's Longest Dance Party, and will provide publicity and methods of donation to benefit Glbt groups like Glsen as part of the livestream.
When I saw an online comic of Steve Jobs at the Pearly Gates and St. Peter checking his name off on an iPad, I thought it was a sweet tribute. But now that...
- 10/9/2011
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Torchwood has added Buffy the Vampire Slayer producer Kelly Manners to the team. Meanwhile, Eve Myles has rented a 1960s home in Hollywood, right under the sign to call home while filming the new season. But the good news is that she’s promised not to stay.
Gregg Araki’s omnisexual Kaboom is coming to IFC in January, giving you your chance to see Thomas Dekker get his bisexual on. Or that’s what the marketing print says, even if the press photos are pretty heterosexual.
The real David Karofsky is neither a bully nor a closet case, but he did go to school with Brad Falchuk, the co-creator of Glee. It seems that Falchuk names most characters he creates after people in his past. On Glee alone there’s Karofsky, Rachel Berry, and Puck is based on Noah “Zuck” Zuckerman. But nobody’s mad about it.
The National Portrait...
Gregg Araki’s omnisexual Kaboom is coming to IFC in January, giving you your chance to see Thomas Dekker get his bisexual on. Or that’s what the marketing print says, even if the press photos are pretty heterosexual.
The real David Karofsky is neither a bully nor a closet case, but he did go to school with Brad Falchuk, the co-creator of Glee. It seems that Falchuk names most characters he creates after people in his past. On Glee alone there’s Karofsky, Rachel Berry, and Puck is based on Noah “Zuck” Zuckerman. But nobody’s mad about it.
The National Portrait...
- 12/2/2010
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
You Have No Idea How I Suffer For My, Um, Art
If there is any task I truly hate as the editor of AfterElton.com, it's having to deal with the Hot 100 every year. The sheer torture of having to check each and every one of your Hot 100 comments for the photos of hot guys you have posted is excruciating.
I can't tell you how much I dread having to— ooh, someone just a posted a new picture of Eddie Cibrian! And check out that one of Sendhil Ramamurthy! Smokin'!
Cibrian is Spanish for "sex on a stick"
Um, where was I? Anyway, I was going to share my Hot 100 pics this week, but it occurs to me that you guys are probably sick of hot guys by this point. In fact, I can sense you are hungering for something more intellectual, so today's column is devoted to a discussion of quantum mechanics.
If there is any task I truly hate as the editor of AfterElton.com, it's having to deal with the Hot 100 every year. The sheer torture of having to check each and every one of your Hot 100 comments for the photos of hot guys you have posted is excruciating.
I can't tell you how much I dread having to— ooh, someone just a posted a new picture of Eddie Cibrian! And check out that one of Sendhil Ramamurthy! Smokin'!
Cibrian is Spanish for "sex on a stick"
Um, where was I? Anyway, I was going to share my Hot 100 pics this week, but it occurs to me that you guys are probably sick of hot guys by this point. In fact, I can sense you are hungering for something more intellectual, so today's column is devoted to a discussion of quantum mechanics.
- 4/30/2010
- by michael
- The Backlot
NEW YORK -- ABC's Good Morning America weatherman Tony Perkins will leave the show Dec. 2 to take a job with Fox's local morning show in Washington, D.C., to be closer to his family. Perkins, who left Fox affiliate WTTG-TV in 1999 for "GMA" will return to the station that where he worked between 1993 and 1999. He'll start at WTTG as the weekday weathercaster Jan. 3. In an email to "GMA" staff Wednesday morning, Perkins said there would also be a chance to work on Fox Television projects but didn't elaborate. Perkins couldn't be reached for comment but in the email he said: "Just as I have been blessed with the opportunity to work with such a great staff and on such a great show, I was also blessed to be presented with this new opportunity at this time."...
- 10/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If it's drab to begin with, adding color does not heighten tension or increase drama. That's the problem with this new, colored "Psycho"; the grainy, Gothic textures that were wickedly pitched to high-crazy dimension in Alfred Hitchcock's classic have been dulled and mottled by the use of dull grays and browns.
And with director Gus Van Sant's faithful, frame-for-frame recapitulation, "Psycho" has failed to find a new edge as a horror film in this day and age. Despite an eerily rounded lead performance by Vince Vaughn in the Tony Perkins role, "Psycho" is unlikely to attract more than the curioso and cineaste crowd -- who, in the characteristic reactionary manner of cutting-edge folk, will likely niggle about this film's up-to-date perfidiousness but complain rightfully about its overall moribund nature.
If you've been to a more than two-day film school, you know the story: sexually unfulfilled secretary on the lam (Anne Heche), after absconding with $400,000 from her boss, stops for a night at an off-the-beaten-track motel. Down-home, decent-seeming motelier Norman Vaughn) takes her in and offers to bring her dinner. He's a benign, kindly sort who, as we soon find out, has all sorts of demented mother-son problems.
Originally based on the atrocities committed by late-'50s Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein -- a reclusive nonentity who butchered his mother and made table lamps from her skin -- the scenario is a provocative insight into schizophrenia. It predated Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Wayne Williams, John Wayne Gacy and all those murdering maniacs we take much more for granted today. Truly, "Psycho" was a real shocker in its day, and marketeers capitalized on this with wild ad campaigns -- "No one admitted after the first 10 minutes, etc." In this heinous era, well, you'd probably have trouble making a tabloid or a court show with such a story.
Indeed, although Van Sant has distilled the inherent creepiness of the setting and laid bare the inner surface mania of Norman Bates' crazed murdering, by playing this classic so close to the vest, he has also failed to capitulate the story line to contemporary dimensions. Younger audiences, perhaps never having seen the original, will be disappointed that, say, Norman is not dragged-up enough for his dementia; in short, this Norman Bates, even by the loony, boy-next-door standards of serial killers, is presented in such old-fashioned garb and limned with such over-obviousness in his clothing and his belongings that audiences will be disappointed by its lack of subtlety.
In short, this new "Psycho" is not crazy enough. Unlike the original, this one packs no surprise, and by its faithful aesthetic, Van Sant has paradoxically failed to convey the essence of the Hitckcock's bizarre creativity.
Still, its smartly done in many aspects and, once again, screenwriter Joseph Stefano has deftly re-detailed this horrifying psychological tale. Nonetheless, the distillation at this time lacks the original's bravura and impact. It's still a brilliant tale, but a faithful remake does not transcend -- and certainly not equal -- the original.
Fair-cheeked Vaughn is well-cast as Norman Bates, a frightening boy-man with killer rage. As the Janet Leigh character, Heche's birdlike mannerisms and nervous peccadilloes make her a credible victim, but we don't empathize with her character as much as we did with Leigh's glamorous amorality.
The supporting characters are generally well chosen, particularly William H. Macy, whose intrusive, pesky performance in the Martin Balsam role of a private detective looking into the whereabouts of the murdered woman is perfect. Other cast choices, such as Philip Baker Hall as a meat-and-potatoes sheriff, are similarly on the mark and add textural oddity to this twisted tale.
Praise to Danny Elfman for his musical production and adaptation; Bernard Herrmann's assaultive, sharp score is truly one of moviedom's all-time classics and still brings uneasy dimension to this retro-ripper. Unfortunately, other technical contributions are, alas, faithful to the original -- they add little juice or verve to this true-to-the-line but unfaithful-to-the-spirit regurgitation.
PSYCHO
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present
Producers: Brian Grazer, Gus Van Sant
Director: Gus Van Sant
Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano
Executive producer: Dany Wolf
Director of photography: Chris Doyle
Production design: Tom Foden
Editor: Amy Duddleston
Costume design: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Music produced and adapted by: Danny Elfman
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Based on the novel by: Robert Bloch
Associate producer: Joseph Whitaker
Sound mixer: Ron Judkins
Color/stereo
Cast:
Norman Bates: Vince Vaughn
Marion Crane: Anne Heche
Lila Crane: Julianne Moore
Sam Loomis: Viggo Mortensen
Milton Arbogast: William H. Macy
Dr. Simon: Robert Forster
Sheriff Chambers: Philip Baker Hall
Mrs. Chambers: Anne Haney
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
And with director Gus Van Sant's faithful, frame-for-frame recapitulation, "Psycho" has failed to find a new edge as a horror film in this day and age. Despite an eerily rounded lead performance by Vince Vaughn in the Tony Perkins role, "Psycho" is unlikely to attract more than the curioso and cineaste crowd -- who, in the characteristic reactionary manner of cutting-edge folk, will likely niggle about this film's up-to-date perfidiousness but complain rightfully about its overall moribund nature.
If you've been to a more than two-day film school, you know the story: sexually unfulfilled secretary on the lam (Anne Heche), after absconding with $400,000 from her boss, stops for a night at an off-the-beaten-track motel. Down-home, decent-seeming motelier Norman Vaughn) takes her in and offers to bring her dinner. He's a benign, kindly sort who, as we soon find out, has all sorts of demented mother-son problems.
Originally based on the atrocities committed by late-'50s Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein -- a reclusive nonentity who butchered his mother and made table lamps from her skin -- the scenario is a provocative insight into schizophrenia. It predated Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Wayne Williams, John Wayne Gacy and all those murdering maniacs we take much more for granted today. Truly, "Psycho" was a real shocker in its day, and marketeers capitalized on this with wild ad campaigns -- "No one admitted after the first 10 minutes, etc." In this heinous era, well, you'd probably have trouble making a tabloid or a court show with such a story.
Indeed, although Van Sant has distilled the inherent creepiness of the setting and laid bare the inner surface mania of Norman Bates' crazed murdering, by playing this classic so close to the vest, he has also failed to capitulate the story line to contemporary dimensions. Younger audiences, perhaps never having seen the original, will be disappointed that, say, Norman is not dragged-up enough for his dementia; in short, this Norman Bates, even by the loony, boy-next-door standards of serial killers, is presented in such old-fashioned garb and limned with such over-obviousness in his clothing and his belongings that audiences will be disappointed by its lack of subtlety.
In short, this new "Psycho" is not crazy enough. Unlike the original, this one packs no surprise, and by its faithful aesthetic, Van Sant has paradoxically failed to convey the essence of the Hitckcock's bizarre creativity.
Still, its smartly done in many aspects and, once again, screenwriter Joseph Stefano has deftly re-detailed this horrifying psychological tale. Nonetheless, the distillation at this time lacks the original's bravura and impact. It's still a brilliant tale, but a faithful remake does not transcend -- and certainly not equal -- the original.
Fair-cheeked Vaughn is well-cast as Norman Bates, a frightening boy-man with killer rage. As the Janet Leigh character, Heche's birdlike mannerisms and nervous peccadilloes make her a credible victim, but we don't empathize with her character as much as we did with Leigh's glamorous amorality.
The supporting characters are generally well chosen, particularly William H. Macy, whose intrusive, pesky performance in the Martin Balsam role of a private detective looking into the whereabouts of the murdered woman is perfect. Other cast choices, such as Philip Baker Hall as a meat-and-potatoes sheriff, are similarly on the mark and add textural oddity to this twisted tale.
Praise to Danny Elfman for his musical production and adaptation; Bernard Herrmann's assaultive, sharp score is truly one of moviedom's all-time classics and still brings uneasy dimension to this retro-ripper. Unfortunately, other technical contributions are, alas, faithful to the original -- they add little juice or verve to this true-to-the-line but unfaithful-to-the-spirit regurgitation.
PSYCHO
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment present
Producers: Brian Grazer, Gus Van Sant
Director: Gus Van Sant
Screenwriter: Joseph Stefano
Executive producer: Dany Wolf
Director of photography: Chris Doyle
Production design: Tom Foden
Editor: Amy Duddleston
Costume design: Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
Music produced and adapted by: Danny Elfman
Music: Bernard Herrmann
Based on the novel by: Robert Bloch
Associate producer: Joseph Whitaker
Sound mixer: Ron Judkins
Color/stereo
Cast:
Norman Bates: Vince Vaughn
Marion Crane: Anne Heche
Lila Crane: Julianne Moore
Sam Loomis: Viggo Mortensen
Milton Arbogast: William H. Macy
Dr. Simon: Robert Forster
Sheriff Chambers: Philip Baker Hall
Mrs. Chambers: Anne Haney
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/7/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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