Legendary actor Leonard Nimoy died from complications related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nimoy's Star Trek remember him.
"I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love."
William Shatner
"Leonard’s integrity and passion as an actor and devotion to his craft helped transport STAR TREK into television history."
Nichelle Nichols
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George Takei, William Shatner mourn the death of ‘Star Trek’ star Leonard Nimoy
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By Emily Yahr February 27
Leonard Nimoy of ‘Star Trek’ dies at age 83
View Photos Actor Leonard Nimoy, most known for his role of Mr. Spock in the television show “Star Trek,” died. He was 83.
Shortly after word got out about Leonard Nimoy’s death, his fellow “Star Trek” stars George Takei (Sulu) and William Shatner (Capt. Kirk) mourned the passing of their close friend.
Shatner tweeted a photo of the two of them, with this caption: “I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love.”
[Obituary: Leonard Nimoy, a pop culture force as Spock on 'Star Trek,' dies at 83]
Takei got on the phone with MSNBC during “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” as host Kristen Welker asked him to share what he wants the public to remember about Nimoy.
“You know, the word ‘extraordinary’ is often overused, but I think it’s really appropriate for Leonard. He was an extraordinarily talented man, but he was also a very decent human being. His talent embraced directing as well as acting and photography. He was a very sensitive man. And we feel his passing very much. He had been ill for a long, long time. And we miss him very much."
George Takei
On a humorous note: checkout Nimoy's great guest appearance on SNL.
Chris Kyle was a seriously flawed individual. Kyle was also known to be a public pathological liar.
Kyle claimed he punched out Jesse Ventura. A court ruling revealed that the incident never took place. Kyle's widow has to pay Ventura a 1.845 million for libel.
Kyle claimed he went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and killed 30 armed looters from a rooftop. Police told reporters they never heard of any sniper related homicides. The story is pure bullshit.
The real Chris Kyle was a guy who bragged about shooting Iraqis. How much of his war experience is true is up for debate.
A man who grew-up in Texas and served 4 tours in Iraq isn't going to have an enlightened view of Iraqis. Kyle's unfortunate racism is almost expected. That doesn't explain or excuse his pathological lying.
Update: Another sickening quote from Chris Kyle.
Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina, though that was never substantiated.
"'The Greatest Love of All', by Whitney Houston is one of the best, most powerful songs ever written about self-preservation and dignity. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late to better ourselves. Since, it's impossible in this world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves."
The character Patrick Bateman, from the movie American Psycho.
Christian Bale's monologues on bad 80s pop songs are some of the best comedy scenes ever put onscreen. The character Patrick Bateman is so shallow he searches for meaning in Top 40 songs.
This line is priceless. John Barrowman told Jonathan Ross that the line was meant as a joke. Barrowman was shocked that the director kept the line in the movie. I'm glad the director did.
This is very sad. Robert De Niro's father, was a painter. He separated from De Niro's mother when he was 2 years-old. Rober De Niro Sr. could not find happiness in his lifetime because of the stigma against homosexuality during his lifetime. The younger De Niro reads from his father's journal. The journal entries show the elder De Niro to be very lonely and feeling as though he will never find love. From a journal entry by De Niro Sr.
Being a painter is an affection like being a homosexual. One had to have the strength to continue working without the thought of recognition even before or after death, just as one had to have the strength to accept life alone without the thought of a romantic attachment.
Q: I think people may be curious because, in a way, you are coming out for your father. He may not have been hiding his lifestyle or who he was, but it’s not something that is common knowledge.
I felt I had to. I felt obligated. It was my responsibility to make a documentary about him. I was always planning on doing it, but never did. Then Jane Rosenthal, my partner at Tribeca [Enterprises], said, “We should start doing that now.” It was not intended to be on HBO. It was just something I wanted to do.
De Niro: I had footage from a guy who used to follow my father around in the ’70s. We started with that. I bought it from him and gave the footage to Thelma Schoonmaker, who was Marty Scorsese’s editor. I asked her what she could do with it, and she assembled it and put it together — it was falling apart. Then we started the documentary [with director Perri Peltz], really working, using pieces that would make sense. My original idea was to do it for the kids, about my father — whatever it would be. I didn’t know how long it would be. The thing with HBO is, I felt they would be objective about certain things. I said, “Let’s see what we come up with.”
Conservatives say they do not discriminate against gays. If you tell gay people that God does not approve of them or that they do not have the right to marry than how do you expect gay people to feel. De Niro Sr. lived through a time when anti-gay public service announcements were made.
Update: Katie Couric interviews De Niro about his father.
Filmmaker Caleb Slain created this loving tribute to the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. What the lips from Hoffman's movies show is the magnificent range he had as an actor. The video also has audio of Hoffman's 2010 KNOW interview.
Kevin Dutton did a study of the behavior of the British movie spy James Bond. Dutton concludes that Bond is a cold blooded killer that society needs to keep it safe.
Bond is "absolutely one of the classic examples of a functional psychopath," Dutton says. He possesses characteristics that can be used to "benefit society rather than detract from society."
It is Bond's lack of conscience and remorse that society ought to value the most, as we need people like that to do our dirty work. For instance, a member of the special forces can't dwell on killing a person, Dutton points out. If you do, Dutton says, "then the next bullet could be going through your head."
Buzzfeed has three photos of New York Times columnist David Brooks from his high school stoner years. Teenage David Brooks looks like a character from the stoner classic Dazed and Confused.
"Oh my God, yeah! It's constant! It's how you're treated, it's how you're looked at, how you're expected to look in a photoshoot, it's how you're expected to shut up and not have an opinion, it's how you... If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss."
Actress Ellen Page, on facing sexism in the movie industry.
'Road To Hell' (Streets of Fire 2) May Be the Strangest Sequel Ever Made
I haven't seen Road To Hell but it the concept is so fascinating that I want to. The movie is now playing the festival circuit. The official website states that Road To Hell will be officially released later this year. The question is what kind of market will there be for a dark art house sequel to the 1984 cult classic Streets of Fire.
The trailer to Strees of Fire.Streets of Fire bombed at the box office. It gained a cult following because the movie is visually amazing. The rock music scenes are some of the best ever filmed. The actors are lip-syncing but there is a great intensity in their performances. The Blasters even make a musical cameo in a biker bar.
Director Walter Hill planned for Streets of Fire to be the first movie in a trillogy of the adventures of mercenaries Tom Cody and McCoy. The characters are played in the movie by Michael Pare and Amy Madigan. At the end of the movie Cody and McCoy leave Cody's hometown in a stolen car. The next two movies were suppose to be The Far City and Cody's Return. Hill never got the opportunity to make the movies since Streets of Fire wasn't a box office hit.
I love Streets of Fire. It is probably one of the most expensive B movies ever made. The movie has a great energy level and a weird cinematic alternative universe. Cars, music, and the way people talk all exist in different eras. Roger Ebert noted the dialogue.
The language is strange, too: It's tough, but not with 1984 toughness. It sounds like the way really mean guys would have talked in the late 1950s, only with a few words differentÑas if this world evolved a slightly different language. The performances fit this world nicely.
Cody and McCoy talk like this the most. Even when there is a scene when Cody tells McCoy not to point a gun at him. Both characters tend to deal with people through intimadation and insults. Willem DaFoe's bad guy biker Raven can't compete on a dialogue level. DaFoe does make his best attempt to chew scenery. This is the face of an actor more than happy to go over the top.
Streets of Fire had a cool vibe. Cody and McCoy seemed bad ass. There is a fun scene where a guy tries to cut Cody with a butterfly knife. Cody takes the knife from the punk, gives it back and tells him to try again. There is also the fight with railroad hammers near the end of the movie. Cody drops his hammer after he disarms Raven. Cody proceeds to beat him barehanded. Streets of Fire exists in the alternative universe of cool.
We now get to Albert Pyun's unofficial sequel to Streets of Fire called Road To Hell. Pyun and his wife explained the concept behind the sequel.
Cynthia mentioned that it was the result of an argument that she and Albert had had about the ending of Streets of Fire. Albert had thought it was one of the most romantic endings of all time. Cynthia thought it was deeply tragic and showed that Tom Cody was doomed. She wrote "Road to Hell" to show what she thought would have happened to him.
This is the trailer to Road To Hell.
In Road To Hell we see a potentially insane Cody capture two women that killed patrons at the strip clubs that they worked at. It is hinted that Cody killed McCoy. I don't think Walter Hill ever pictured the sequel to Streets of Fire being a low budget art house version of Natural Born Killers. The reaction online have been fascinating. One review described the movie as being extremely brutal.
The film is divided into two halves. The first half is the crazed, nightmarish portion that feels completely out of tune to what made Streets of Fire so interesting. It has Cody meeting two blonde female thrill killers on the shoulder of a stretch of desert in the middle of what might very well be hell itself. Cody exhibits some very out-of-character behavior such as punching women (repeatedly) in the face, tying them up, berating them and stripping them, and later resorts to startling and unexpected murder. If this is the same Cody from Streets of Fire, I’d like to see the flashbacks that made him this way. The scenes within this first portion of the film are haphazardly presented, but still strangely compelling in their hot and fevered manic depravity. This is the half that fans of Streets of Fire are going to hate. Luckily, I’m not a big fan of Streets of Fire so I was able to be objective and see the entire film as simply a movie of its own, but more importantly as an ALBERT PYUN film. I went with the strange flow, which led to the second half of the movie.
Road To Hell may actually be a horrible movie. Whatever it is it sounds ballsy.
Two songs from the Streets of Fire performed by the Roxy Gunn Project. Lead singer Gunn plays Cody's estranged daughter in RTH.
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