* now lives in L.A trying to make it as an actress. But (a big but just like her tush) a glance at Imdb profile suggest she could be earning her stay in La La Land in some other way.
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R.I.P., 'The L.A. Complex': Why this finely crafted, little-watched soap deserved better
It’s true: When this Canadian import first debuted on The CW in April, its premiere had the dubious honor of being crowned broadcast TV’s lowest-rated drama debut of all time. The numbers didn’t improve much in subsequent weeks, or when the series returned for a second season in August — season 2′s finale in September drew just 390,000 pairs of eyeballs. So it’s no surprise that yesterday, Canada’s Bell Media confirmed that it will not order a third season of Complex for its MuchMusic channel. Though The CW has not yet responded to EW’s request for comment, it’s very likely that the American network, too, will pass on a return trip to L.A.
And that’s a real shame, because The L.A. Complex is — was — one of the best dramas on television.
Don’t believe me? I can understand skepticism; after all, we’re talking about an apparent Melrose Place ripoff produced by the same folks who make Degrassi (and starring Cassie Steele, who survived nine seasons of jailbait sex, drunken boob-flashing, and ill-fated coke snorting at Degrassi Community School). But smart writing, naturalistic performances, and a large dose of irreverence helped the series transcend its ho-hum premise — group of dreamers live in the same apartment complex while trying to make it in Los Angeles — to become a sharp, refreshing dramedy.
Plus, The LA Complex must be the only show in TV history to feature a subplot about an aspiring actress getting into a twisted love triangle after having a threesome with a pair of performers who play siblings on a fake show that’s clearly a parody of Seventh Heaven.
But there’s much more to The LA Complex than sheer, ballsy ridiculosity — although it really, really never met an over-the-top storyline it didn’t love. Actors like Andra Fuller, Jewel Staite, Joe Dinicol, and even Steele kept the show grounded by delivering characters who were always well-drawn and believable, even when caught up in quasi-unbelievable situations. And for every case of arson or flirtation with the Church of Scienetics — The L.A. Complex‘s answer to a certain trendy Hollywood religion — the show would throw in a realistic storyline about a couple competing against each other for a comedy writing job or a washed-up star doing whatever it took to get her indie comeback movie made. Fuller’s arc as a gangsta rapper struggling with his homosexuality was particularly poignant and sensitively handled.
All the great things I cited about the show back in August remained true throughout season 2, despite a few missteps involving new additions to the cast. (Did anyone really care about Beth and Simon, ever?) And though the last Complex episode aired ended with a shocking murder, the finale also offered a decent amount of closure for many of its characters. So while I’m going to keep crossing my fingers for a last-minute reprieve — sign the petition! — at least The L.A. Complex‘s handful of fans won’t be tortured by a series of cliffhangers that will never be resolved.
So goodbye, sweet L.A. Complex. You deserved much better than you got, and I hope everyone involved in the show can move on to similarly good things. Hey, at least you were cut down in your prime rather than wearing out your welcome; if nothing else, as far as TV goes, it’s better to burn out than fade away.
* My apologies first to couple of L.A. Complex fans but this a helluva good news. It's time Jewel Staite stop playing coy and join her pal Morena Baccarin in nudieland. She is going to be 31 next year, her marriage broke down and career is in real danger of fizzling out. She better haul her ass out of Vancouver and return to L.A if she is really serious about her future. Are we about witness another Kathleen Robertson blooming at such late stage? I believe so.
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Why HBO's "Girls" Is Boss
Hi. In case we haven't been formally introduced, my name is Ashley and I enjoy any form of media in which woman are presented as the strong, badass, super heroes that we truly are. Hence, HBO's "Girls".
The first time I watched "Girls" I was in an angsty mood and quite honestly wanted to hate the show. That didn't last long. A stead-fast Lena Dunham convert, I melted at the hilariously wry Brooklyn-centric neuro-drama in about .2 seconds.
After powering through the entire season with my equally hard to win over sister, I was hooked- giggling and relating with the best of em. My favorite episode of Season 1, for the record, was "Welcome To Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident". Whose wasn't? Oh, and also Jessa's outfit in the final episode and the fact that both Bobby Moynihan and Coney Island were present. YESSSS.
Here are the reasons I think smart women follow "Girls":
#2. The cast rocks. Word for women of substance. No offence Black Lively, but this show ain't for you. And if it becomes "Gossip Girl-ish", I'm jumping ship. With that in mind, and yes I have only seen the trailer, but already I would prefer if Allison Williams gained a few pounds. She looks super skinny in the promos and good god, we don't need any sort of sibliminal eating disorder ingrained in this show. PLEASE. We love it precisely for countering that.
#3. Beautiful. Awkward. Nudity. Awkard nakedness in silence that is pretty. Reasons fans appreciate "Girls". Being naked and uncoiffed is finally goddamn fine, nay it is normal and great.
#4. The dudes are imperfect as (cough: dudes are). THANK YOU. (And yes, women are imperfect too, though this cast of females makes that hard to believe.)
#5. Ms. Dunham's got fans. After her debut film, "Tiny Furniture" which toured the Indie film circuit and was amazing, she earned groupies. Those groupies (myself included) followed her to her next equally awesome project, "Girls". She also brought with her a couple of fantastic actors from "Tiny Furniture". Can you spot them? Long story short, committed Lena Dunham fans watch "Girls".
#6. Girl power!! OK, that didn't come out right. Female friendship that is real and honest and hysterical and messy and ocassionally argumentative, and generally life-supporting? Yes.
Season Two of "Girls" airs Sunday January 13 on HBO.
Playboy Asks TYT Host To Pose
One of the TYT Network hosts was approached by Playboy for a "Women of Youtube" special edition pictorial. Who was it?! Ana Kasparian? Sam Schacher? Misty Kingma? ...Cenk Uygur?
Answer: Kim Horcher a recent TYT staff hire from TYT University's GeekSpeak and Common Room. Would it be wise for her to accept or decline? (She has already declined) Can a woman in media maintain her credibility if she poses nude? Is there a difference in public opinion of a woman who has publicized "sexy" photos vs. nudes? What if the photos are "leaked?" Are nudity and sex tapes actually good career moves? Does the concept of celebrity outweigh morality? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian debate.
* Something doesn't feel right here. Playboy are either contacted by the B to C-listers, has-beens and upcoming mini-celebs (or their rep) requesting test-shoot which usually leads to full-spread on mag. The PB guys are also contacted through third party or feelers sent to them alerting them the particular girl is pretty liberal about posing nude and open to invitation. It takes time to put together "women of" series; gathering credible and checking out information/tips is always a priority.
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The 20 hottest lesbian sex scenes in the history of TV
To prepare for Thanksgiving, most of our friends have been posting something they're thankful for every day on Facebook and Twitter. We have not participated in the festivities, but only because we've been saving up our thankful list so we can unleash it all at once. And now we're ready. This Thanksgiving, we are thankful for lesbian characters having lesbian sex on lesbian television. Specifically, we are thankful for these 20 lesbian sex scenes, all of which very nearly caused our TVs to burst into flames. In a good way.
Bo and Lauren's "Fa(t)e" Sex, Lost Girl
Callie and Arizona's "The Doctor Is In" Sex, Grey's Anatomy
Cristina and Isabel's "Make Love Not War" Sex, Tierra de Lobos
Kima and Cheryl's "Put a Baby in Me" Sex, The Wire
Ellen and Sharon Stone's "Who's Laughing Now" Sex, If These Walls Could Talk 2
Sue and Maud's "Finger This, Fingersmith" Sex, Fingersmith
Frankie and Cat's "Let's Never Text" Sex, Lip Service
Gia and Linda's "Makeup Artist and Her Model Muse" Sex, Gia
Shane and Carmen's "Literally Every Sex Scene Ever" Sex, The L Word
Thirteen and Whoever's "Too Hot for Primetime" Sex, House
Kalinda and Lana's "The Garage Door is Open" Sex, The Good Wife
Maria and Samantha's "So You Think You're a Lesbian" Sex, Sex and the City
Not even a strap-on could cure Samantha's penis-drive, but her three-episode foray into lesbianism was as hilarious as it was hot. Also, it was the first time we ever saw her have feelings.
Maya and Emily's "Under the Sea" Sex, Pretty Little Liars
Maya and Emily were on and then they were off and then they were on and then they were off and then they were on fire. Maya decorated Emily's bedroom like the ocean, and they both dove in.
Melanie and Lindsey's "Tibette Schimette" Sex, Queer as Folk
We figure Melanie and Lindsay grew weary of being compared to Bette and Tina, so we always appreciated it when they had all the sex to show us who was boss. Well, except that time they threw a bunch of vases at each other and did it on the kitchen table. That scared us a little bit.
Naomi and Emily's "Fuck It, Go Ahead and Disappoint Me" Sex, Skins
Let the record show that blowbacks and skinny-dipping are the gateway to full-fledged lesbianism.
Pepa and Silvia's "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" Sex, Los Hombres de Paco
Even without Paco peeping through the keyhole, Pepa and Silvia's first time lasts about eleven on-screen minutes. It's sensual and sweet and the beginning of something wonderful.
Thelma and Cassie's "Ghost Dreams" Sex, Hex
Hallucinogenic ghost sex is one way to get around the murder of a lesbian character. Someone should have told Alice Pieszecki.
Tina and Bette's "Stir Fry" Sex, The L Word
Bette and Tina had a lot of good sex over the course of six seasons, but their adulterous afternoon reuniting was one of the hottest, and not just because Bette left some stir fry cooking on the stove and probably very nearly burned down the house.
Willow and Kennedy's "Close Your Eyes and Think of Tara" Sex, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
We're still not over Tara McClay's death. No, indeed. But we will begrudgingly admit that Willow and Kennedy's bedroom romp — the first lesbian sex scene on primetime network TV, actually — was awesome on our eyes, even if it was hard on our hearts.
Lucretia and Gaia's "Orgasmic Opiate" Sex, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
To make up for the fact that Xena never really had sex with Gabrielle on Xena: Warrior Princess and Myka and H.G. never really had sex on Warehouse 13, Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray decided to combine their penchant for subtext with opium and get it done.
Maya and Emily's "Under the Sea" Sex, Pretty Little Liars
Melanie and Lindsey's "Tibette Schimette" Sex, Queer as Folk
Naomi and Emily's "Fuck It, Go Ahead and Disappoint Me" Sex, Skins
Pepa and Silvia's "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" Sex, Los Hombres de Paco
Thelma and Cassie's "Ghost Dreams" Sex, Hex
Tina and Bette's "Stir Fry" Sex, The L Word
Willow and Kennedy's "Close Your Eyes and Think of Tara" Sex, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Lucretia and Gaia's "Orgasmic Opiate" Sex, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
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Netflix Doesn't Have to Be HBO
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December 4, 2012 |
Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) is hoping that 2013 will be its "I told you so" moment.
The stock has shed 75% of its value since peaking during the summer of last year, but it's hoping to make a programming statement with several original shows next year.
- House of Cards -- directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey -- is slated for Feb. 1.
- The revival of Arrested Development follows in the spring, as Netflix is rolling out the long overdue fourth season of the cult favorite.
- Hemlock Grove is a creepy monster mystery series by noted horror director Eli Roth.
- Orange is the New Black is a drama based on Piper Kerman's memoir detailing a year spent in a women's prison.
- Lilyhammer -- the show that started it all earlier this year, as Netflix's first original show -- will be back for a sophomore season next year.
HBO, it's not
It's a pretty diverse catalog of content that viewers will only be able to see on Netflix -- at first. However, let's not be so quick to crown Netflix as the new HBO. The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column yesterday rightfully pointed out that Netflix is simply licensing the content from third-party producers. It's not like Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX ) HBO that has ownership rights to most of its content.
The benefit to Netflix's strategy is that it's not overly invested in a potential dud. Of the $2 billion allocated to content for Netflix next year, original programming accounts for less than 5% of that.
That's not a bad wager. Since these shows will be initially exclusive to Netflix, it wouldn't be a surprise if these shows make up at least 5% of the total viewing consumed by the service's streaming customers. Who cares if it doesn't own the shows beyond that? The same can be said for the movies and TV shows that are on Netflix already.
Would it be neat if Netflix had some more skin in this game? Sure. A larger investment could've opened up the door for syndication rights on cable networks, DVD sales, and digital downloads. Bears would have to respect the potential for a crossover hit, making this more than just a streaming middleman.
However, that will come in time if it's financially feasible. What if Netflix -- right now -- is drafting a licensing deal that include the right for a piece of the property if it takes off?
Then again, maybe it's better if Netflix never dabbles in content ownership at all.
Dinner bell for creative types
There's a reason why programming costs at Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI ) have gone down over the past year, even though the satellite radio service's subscriber base has grown. It's just too easy to nab major celebrities and radio personalities.
Sirius XM has 23.4 million subscribers, and what artist or radio host doesn't want to reach a large audience of listeners with enough discretionary income to pay for radio? Sirius XM also offers the uncensored and hands-off freedom that terrestrial radio can never offer.
The same thing could happen to Netflix.
Tight scrutiny on free broadcast television is why all of the envelope-pushing and Emmy-grabbing shows are on HBO, Showtime, or AMC Networks (NASDAQ: AMCX ) . Do you really think that AMC's Mad Men or Walking Dead would air on NBC or CBS without some heavy-handed editing? Directors and producers that crave free rein with their content may prefer going through Netflix.
There's also a matter of reach. Netflix now has more than 25 million domestic subscribers and more than 30 million accounts worldwide. Don't be surprised if some shows practically give themselves away to Netflix, hoping that they can make it up in DVD sales and syndication. When you think about all of the pilots that get passed up by the conventional network and cable channels, Netflix is now a feasible distribution channel.
The competition is starting to hop on the original programming bandwagon. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) and Hulu are hoping that they place the right bets on content that viewers will want to see.
It's hard to fault Netflix for being ahead of the curve -- again -- with that.
Original content also makes it possible that this won't be a fight to the death, especially as the cord-cutting trend continues. If someone is saving $100 or so a month by saying goodbye to cable television, why not pay $8 a month to Netflix and another roughly $6 a month for Amazon Prime for differentiated streaming content?
Netflix is the new casting couch. Nice!
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On Demand for HBO/Cinemax/Starz/Showtime disappearing.
Have you noticed there's almost nothing to watch On Demand? The pay channels are stripping down, making the extra cost of subscribing to them a waste of money.
They've all turned to original programming, like cinemax's Strike Back, which I love to hate. Way to intense, but great characters.
So it's no surprise Netflix just out bid Starz for Disney movies.
NY Times: Walt Disney Studios said on Tuesday that it had completed a deal to show films from its Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm banners on Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with Starz.
The agreement is the first time that one of Hollywood’s Big Six studios has chosen Web streaming over pay television.
In a statement on Tuesday, however, Starz said that it had decided to part ways with Disney, not the other way around.
“Our decision not to extend the agreement for Disney output past that time allows us the opportunity to implement our plan to dramatically ramp up our investment in exclusive, premium-quality original series which will best meet the needs of our distributors and subscribers,” the company said in the statement.
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Ukranian Porn Star Seeks Asylum in Czech Republic
THE CZECH REPUBLIC — Ukranian porn star Anastasia Grishay, aka Wiska, is seeking permanent asylum in the Czech Republic after being booted out of her homeland in 2010 for allegedly producing and distributing adult material.The former star, whose films include “Rocco: Animal Trainer,” “Gang Up,” “Angel Perverse 13” and others, has been given 15 days to leave the Czech Republic.
“They don’t care that we can’t go back to Ukraine,” Grishay told The Sun. “I was left alone with a child, worked as a model in various magazines. When I was asked to star in a porno movie I accepted because I needed the money.
“I have been trying to explain that I did not do it out of a love for the business but because I had to feed my son.”
Although Czech authorities have rejected her initial plea, Grishay would reportedly be the first porn star to be granted asylum in the European Union.
Grishay maintained that although she appeared in porn films she only shot her scenes in Hungary and the Czech Republic but never in her home country.
After her country toughened its anti-porn laws in 2010, local cops raided Grishay’s house in the Ukraine and found porn on her husband’s computer that the performer claimed was for private use.
“They don’t see the difference between storage and production. I signed away my rights to my performance so how could I be distributing? We never kept my films on the disks,” Grishay said.
Grishay explained that she was forced to flee to the Czech Republic after social services authorities threatened to take her three children into care, considering her an “unworthy mother” because of her porn career.
The performer's trouble reportedly surfaced in the Czech Republic when cops began investigating her after Communist Member of Parliament Leonid Grach tipped them off, angered by her appearance on TV talk shows.
The Ukrainian feminist group Femen — known for their provocative (and sometimes nude) demonstrations across the continent are backing Grishay’s request.
Grishay said she intends to appeal to the European courts if necessary.
* always hate it when they use the children as an excuse to explore their own inner whorishness. Imagine how her children going to feel when they're at that age, discovers mom was a porn star (one of the best I may add) and only explanation from Wiska: "I did it for you, honey". The kids are so going to be fucked-up.
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Les Moonves Says Cable Operators Should Pay Up For Popular Networks: UBS Confab
The CBS chief flipped the argument that Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt made yesterday when he said that he may drop pricey cable channels that generate hash-mark ratings. “That means for the channels that are getting viewers, he’s going to pay more,” Les Moonves told the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference today. “He should pay the most for the guy who’s the No. 1 network.” Moonves milked the laughs: “We’re going in next year for $7″ per month per subscriber. Although he acknowledged that he’s joking, he added that “it’s bugged us that cable channels showing reruns of our shows were getting paid more” than CBS was for its first-run programming.
Moonves kept things light, referring at one point to actor Angus T. Jones as “that kid on Two And A Half Men who’s getting paid $300,000 per episode to talk bad about me.” Jones recently called on people to stop watching the show due to its “filth.”On a more serious note, Moonves reiterated his call for ads to be sold based on the number of people who watch up to a week after they air — up from the current three days. That would provide a 10% lift for CBS. He says the change should take place in a year and a half, “I’m willing to bet on that.”
Moonves also repeated points that his chief researcher David Poltrack made yesterday in defense of broadcast TV. The weak ratings for CBS and other networks so far this season “is not a content issue,” he says. “This has been an aberration” with the election and additional NFL games airing on Thursdays. “By the end of the year…you’re gong to see the comps really level off.” He adds, though, that “one thing we need to have happen is for Nielsen to get better” measuring audiences on DVRs, VOD, and streaming platforms. He calls this season “a tipping point” to demonstrate that overnight ratings “are less and less significant than they ever were.” With all of the new technologies, “it’s a brave new world out there.”
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Dig is a short film produced for the European launch of the Sony PWM-F55 camera. It was premiered at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland on 28th November 2012.
It was shot in 4K raw and posted in DaVinci Resolve. The uploaded file is an 1080P MP4 at 20Mbps derived from an HD ProRes master.Dig was produced by Fried Pixel Films, a new venture from Cinematographer Steve Lawes and Director Martin Scanlan, for Sony Europe.
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Red hot
Bond Girl. Mutant. Director.The dazzling — and dazzlingly candid — Famke Janssen has a flair for drama.
By JOHANNA SCHNELLER
Famke Janssen has a matter-of-fact explanation for her other-worldly résumé: “I suppose I look like an alien,” she says.
At least, fiercely unusual. In the film “Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters,” due in January, Janssen plays an evil sorceress pursued by Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton (as the grown-up siblings). In the upcoming Netflix series, “Hemlock Grove,” she’ll be a centuries-old matriarch of a mill town populated by werewolves. She’s also played a mutant in three X-Men films, and an iron-thighed assassin in “GoldenEye,” the James Bond flick that made her famous. Even in the more earthbound FX TV series “Nip/Tuck” her sexy character had a twist — she used to be a man.
Most of those projects were not to her taste. “Not at all, as a matter of fact,” Janssen says serenely, by phone from the Toronto set of “Hemlock Grove.” Her deep voice still bears the blocky accent and phrasing of her native Holland. “Those genres don’t appeal to me. I watch movies from the 1930s obsessively, and from the 1970s, and European and other foreign movies. But my career is based on the way I look. For every actor it is.” She laughs. “I am nothing like those characters that I play, but I know I look like I would be.”
This is fine with her, she adds; she’s simply grateful she’s working. And when monster hits like “Taken” and “Taken 2” come around (she plays Liam Neeson’s ex-wife Lenore, in the two films), she feels extra lucky.
Janssen’s candor is refreshing, but, in her chosen profession, it’s also a bit alien. At 48, she’s outlandishly beautiful, a tall, strong-jawed, coal-eyed brunette striding through Planet Blond Hollywood. When she was 20, she moved from Amsterdam to New York to model (her clients included Chanel), and attended Columbia University, where she studied writing and literature. When she told her agent she wanted to act, “The woman said, ‘Good luck. It’s never going to happen,’ ” Janssen remembers. When she took time off from acting to write and direct her first feature, 2011’s “Bringing Up Bobby,” she was told she was nuts by naysayers.
“I’ve had plenty of those,” Janssen says. “The challenging thing about being in the arts is you have to create your own destiny. There’s no one specific way to do anything. And there are a lot of people who sit on the sidelines and judge and tell you what you should have done.”
Janssen’s response is to keep on pushing: “Being an actor can be frustrating because you’re at the mercy of other people, hoping there happens to be a part for you in something that people are filming in the future. You’re sitting by the phone waiting rather than being proactive in your life. Of course, when you’re Meryl Streep or Daniel Day-Lewis it’s a different story, but most of us are not that lucky. It’s not like I turn down those parts and opt for the alien creatures. It’s what’s offered to me. But I get bored quickly if I’m not challenged enough and, in my acting career, I’m not always challenged.”
That’s why she loved writing and directing “Bringing Up Bobby.” “Everything being in my own hands, calling the shots, it was fantastic. It suits my personality so well,” Janssen says. “Was mine the best movie ever? No. But I can’t imagine living another life now that I’ve tasted that one.”
Making it, however, was a five-year slog that included “everything going wrong that could go wrong,” she says, from hailstorms to money dropping out and actors dropping out, to 105-degree weather. Another challenge: “Taking three years off from acting at my age, in an industry that’s really ruthless and relentless when it comes to women aging.”
So when horror-meister Eli Roth came calling with “Hemlock Grove,” Janssen signed on. She’d been offered series before but turned them down because they felt too formulaic. “I’ve seen friends [who] by the end of those shows, they can’t wait to get out,” she says. “It becomes by the numbers. It wasn’t for me.”
“Hemlock Grove” felt different. “It has a ‘Twin Peaks’ feel, this unique, strange world,” Janssen says. “And my character was really appealing, an actress in her former life, very theatrical, complex. She speaks in a 1930s-style, mid-Atlantic accent that I had to fight for her to have. You never know where you stand with her because she’s highly manipulative.” Janssen snorts. “Of course she would be, that’s always what I’m asked to play. But she has a lot of potential over time.”
Janssen also liked that the show will be Netflix’s second original series (the first is David Fincher’s “House of Cards”), with all 13 hours available at once in 2013. “It’s a new way of broadcasting, the way of the future,” she says.
Bottom line, however, Janssen says she signed on “for one very simple and not glamorous reason: money. I want to continue writing and directing, so I have to get a steady income on the side.” She’s just finished a screenplay and is mulling over directing one written by someone else. “I’ve learned that you have to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks,” she says.
In her downtime, Janssen makes sure to feed herself artistically: She reads, travels, and goes to museums and plays. She also walks her Manhattan neighborhood with her dog, cranks up music and dances alone in her apartment — “I sweat, and I feel better,” she says — and watches her favorite 1930s films. She wouldn’t have seemed alien in that era.
“Women were so delicious then,” she says. “They were not dumbed down. Women started out as the protagonists in the film business. They were allowed to be beautiful and smart and funny and dowdy — they were allowed to be everything. Then, I don’t know what happened. Women were pushed to the background.”
Janssen’s hero is the late artist Louise Bourgeois (who she never met). “She just created,” Janssen says. “There were times in her life when she was successful and other times when she wasn’t. But nobody could stop her. I think had she been male she would have been as famous as Picasso. She’s my example of how I would like to live. No matter what happens, whether I’m successful, whether people respond to what I do, I just want to keep creating.”
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‘Showrunners’ Trailer #2: Documentary Puts TV Makers in the Spotlight
by Angie Han
Whereas TV was once thought of as cinema’s lowbrow cousin, these days the small screen is where some of Hollywood’s greatest artistry can be found. It’s tough to argue that a show like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or Mad Men has any less merit than the latest feature effort by David Fincher or Michael Mann — particularly when Fincher and Mann are themselves are crossing the divide to direct episodes of House of Cards or Luck. Driving that new renaissance are the visionary showrunners who manage everything from the storylines to the casting to the budget to put their stamp on every episode.
Showrunners: A Documentary Film looks at just how these men and women do their jobs. Among the interview subjects are TV icons like Joss Whedon (Buffy, etc.), J.J. Abrams (Alias, etc.), Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), and Damon Lindelof (Lost), plus stars like Kristen Bell, Ray Romano, and Don Cheadle.
Director Des Doyle is currently raising funds for post-production via Kickstarter, and has just revealed a new trailer:
Showrunning is widely considered one of the most complicated jobs in the business, and it’s easy to see why. Not only do they have to oversee every aspect of production, balancing creative and commercial concerns, they have to do so for years if they’re lucky enough to work for a hit series. If you love television and are at all interested in the process behind it, Showrunners looks worth checking out.
… Which is where you come in. There’s no Showrunners if the filmmakers can’t complete the film. While all of the interviews have already been shot, they still need more money for the post-production steps, including editing, color correction, and audio mixing. If you’d like to chip in, or if you just want to learn more about the project, head to Kickstarter for details.
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The Morning Show - Allison Williams talks 'Girls'
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Golden Boy and Chuck Star Yvonne Strahovski Hates Time Warner Cable As Much As You Do
The blonde bombshell talks boxing, sleeping with Dexter, and how a certain cable company got on her last nerve.
[Editor's Note: Spoiler Alert.] I have to ask: on Dexter, you were naked and plastic-wrapped to a table as he prepared to kill you. Was it as creepy as it looks?
It's pretty creepy. If I had just been on the metal table it wouldn't have been as bad, but because there was a sex scene [with Michael C. Hall] that followed it afterwards, it was a little more [uncomfortable] than usual. [End spoiler alert.]
He's so awesome to work with. We had such a blast. I haven't seen the last two episodes because my cable broke and I was on hold with Time Warner for 40 minutes. And they still didn't answer the phone so I gave up. You should print that.
No kidding! I've had similar problems with them recently!
Let's print bad stuff about Time Warner! It's so much fun talking to an automatic voice!
Read the rest here
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22-years old Tahitian surfer and model Hanalei Reponty : Kesler Tran for bentrova.to
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