Into the…
Into the bedroom, /
Cuddling, I took my snacks. /
No mask was required.
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43 Inconceivable Facts About “The Princess Bride” You Probably Never Knew
43 Inconceivable Facts About "The Princess Bride" You Probably Never Knew.
1. The Princess Bride was almost made into a movie in the ’70s, and a then-unknown Arnold Schwarzenegger was seriously considered to play Fezzik.
2. By the time the movie was actually made, Schwarzenegger was too expensive to hire.
3. The Rodents of Unusual Size were men in rat suits.
4. One of the R.O.U.S. actors got into a fight with his wife and burned down the kennel they owned, so the film crew bailed him out of jail so he could film the Fire Swamp scene.
5. Director Rob Reiner auditioned over 500 women for the role of Buttercup, including Courtney Cox, Meg Ryan, Uma Thurman, and Whoopie Goldberg.
6. Robin Wright is originally from Texas but barely needed any dialect coaching for Buttercup’s English accent. Her father is British.
For more trivia about The Princess Bride: http://www.buzzfeed.com/keelyflaherty/inconceivable-facts-about-the-princess-bride-you-probably
Are All Movie Heroes the Same Person? – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society
Are All Movie Heroes the Same Person? – Pacific Standard: The Science of Society.
Perhaps you’ve heard they’re making another Star Wars film. Perhaps you’ve read up on the backgrounds of the new cast members and heard that the Oscar-winning Lupita Nyong’o will also be joining the crew on their adventures in a galaxy far, far away. Maybe you delivered a furtive fist pump upon seeing the leaked production photos, which show actual physical buildings and creatures on set in Abu Dhabi, as opposed to studio rooms adorned with green screens. Whether you’re a fan of the nearly 40-year-old franchise or not, the hype surrounding its next installment—scheduled for release in December 2015—is pretty hard to ignore.
While several factors deserve credit for Star Wars’ ongoing popularity—the ballet-like lightsaber duels, the roguish charm of Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, the massive amounts of toy merchandising—it’s quite possible that the space opera’s greatest strength lies in its reliance upon the work of American mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Read the rest at: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/movie-heroes-person-joseph-campbell-monomyth-83796/#.U6SbO7MNr_o.facebook
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Crime Writer Michael Connelly Shares Secrets With Students | TheLedger.com
Crime Writer Michael Connelly Shares Secrets With Students | TheLedger.com.
Sample:
Bestselling crime novelist Michael Connelly had just returned from two weeks in New York, where he met with writers planning scripts for a new TV series adapted from his books about the Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch.
He planned to take part in a conference call Thursday evening to help determine who would direct each episode for the first season of “Bosch.”
In between, Connelly stood in the Mini Theater at Harrison School for the Arts on Thursday afternoon, handing out copies of the script for the first episode of “Bosch” to a group of teenagers. Connelly, also author of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” spent nearly two hours talking to some 30 students in the Motion Picture Arts program at the Lakeland school.
Connelly, who lives in Tampa, talked about the writing process, the creation of characters and the challenges of adapting novels for TV and movies. He also treated Motion Pictures Arts instructor Rick Jansen’s class to the opening scene of the pilot for “Bosch,” which is still in production will be available for streaming on Amazon as early as next fall.
“I think that’s really nifty,” senior Eric Moots said afterward about Connelly’s visit to the school. “I don’t think this could happen anywhere besides Harrison.”
Continued at: http://www.theledger.com/article/20140419/NEWS/140419149/1002/sports?p=1&tc=pg
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