And Then Everybody Could Be True Friends
So what would Hollywood be like if the stars ran things? A sampling of their priorities, according to Entertainment Weekly:
Robin Williams: “Besides an open bar? Make a grip the head of a studio. And have all the electricians be script supervisors.”
Jodie Foster: “Fewer movies. It’s important to make films that have real stories, and you can’t do that when you are writing something in two weeks and shooting it a week later.”
Samuel L. Jackson: “I would make sure people that greenlight movies are artists and filmmakers, and not bean counters.”
Jennifer Aniston: “I’d demand honesty, from all ends, from the top, top, top to the bottom. I think everyone would be much happier if everyone just said what was up.”
Loose talk
Sylvester Stallone, on his plans for the fifth “Rambo” flick: “I want to come up with something that is incredibly thoughtful and not a throwback to body counts and headbands. It won’t be ‘He’s back. He’s in a tank. And he’s really peeved.”’
Suppose he’ll spend his big night at home?
Ian Holm turns 66 today.
Promotion, emotion - what’s the difference?
Ethan Hawke confesses that Uma Thurman is the first female co-star he’s fallen for, in their upcoming sci-fi thriller “Gattaca.” “I hope people will go see this because it’s a good film, rather than somebody’s having an affair with somebody else,” Hawke says. However, he adds: “It does add something. Anything that helps (sell tickets), you know.”
That’s just another happily weded man talking
Sean Penn may have mellowed, but he says it’s because of his happy marriage (to Robin Wright Penn), not medication. “A doctor had a pen on paper to give me a Prozac prescription, and I wasn’t going to take it,” he tells GQ. “I was worried about losing the highs and lows.”
It seems like a logical Man of Steel city
Pittsburgh has been selected as the site of Tim Burton’s new “Superman” movie, starring Nicolas Cage. Cage told the Los Angeles Times he’ll play Clark Kent’s alter ego as an “outsider,” highlighting his insecurities along with his superhuman qualities.
His tastes range from evolution to revolution
Steven Spielberg may favor dinosaurs and aliens on film, but he prefers reading about real life. “I don’t read fiction unless it’s connected to a movie,” Spielberg says. “I like to read about wartime. Historical figures from the past. Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere.”
He’s resigned to people doing the white thing
Spike Lee, asked by Detour magazine what he thinks of being pegged as a “black” director: “I think the majority of white Americans are unable to look at someone black and not see the color of their skin first. That’s just the reality … We’re not at that point in this country. The country is not mature enough to get beyond that point.”
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