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Thursday 19 June 2008
What makes Broadbent phenomenal?
What makes Jim Broadbent such a phenomenal actor? It�s a question not easily answered, but certainly worth consideration. Is it his notable appearances in blockbusters like Moulin Rouge!, Bridget Jones�s Diary or this summer�s fourth Indiana Jones movie?
While always solid support, I�d argue the English actor�s real presence has instead been made with roles in more independently-spirited films like his Oscar-winning turn in Iris, Topsy-Turvy or, perhaps, most recently as eccentric patriarch Arthur Morrison in the touching drama When Did You Last See Your Father?
In the memoir-based film, Broadbent plays the father of acclaimed author Blake Morrison (Colin Firth). After discovering Arthur has a terminal illness, Blake returns to take care of his family while dealing � primarily in flashbacks � with painful memories of his difficult, possibly duplicitous dad.
�I had a sort of head start in knowing about the character I suppose,� Broadbent said while promoting the film in Toronto. �I identified with it as a son of a father and also as a son whose father died in similar circumstances; of cancer, at home, with all the family around.�
The drama is an intelligent, well-crafted tearjerker that explores the complexities of family life.
�(Father and son relationships) are never as simple as sometimes made out,� Broadbent points out. �There is always an awful lot of grey area.�
That �grey area� is exactly what gives this film its emotional impact. While not a clearly dubious character, Arthur does have a quality that has emotionally tortured his son. As director Anand Tucker explains, it�s a subtlety only a pro like Broadbent could have portrayed.
�(Broadbent) manages to be that slightly monstrous, terrible, overbearing creature that Blake gets more and more angry and feels more and more betrayed by,� explains Tucker. �Then at the key moment at the end of the movie, (he) turns it all around and suddenly you realize that he is the father who just loved his son.�
Perhaps the real reason to appreciate Jim Broadbent is best expressed by Tucker, who says, �he can take you on a journey with a character you think is quite difficult and yet you still end up loving him.�
Ah, I think my question was just answered.
>> Read Metro's review on When Did You Last See Your Father?
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Wednesday 11 June 2008
Evander's Liquid Diet
Evander Holyfield has pulled a Bill Clinton, who famously translated the word "is." Evander now says there's a difference between being "broke" and "not liquid.""I'm not broke. I'm just not liquid," the ex-champ tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, insisting he didn't "blow" the hundreds of millions he scored in the ring.
His lawyers claim the 109-room mansion is no longer up for auction. Maybe he sold more of those "Real Deal" grills.
Evander made nearly $250 million from his fights over the last 24 years. And that doesn't include AFTRA scale for "Dancing."
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Friday 6 June 2008
Driver Won't Wed Baby's Father
Pregnant actress Minnie Driver has dismissed the idea of a rush wedding to her unborn baby's father, because a marriage certificate is "not important" to her. The Riches star, 38, revealed she was pregnant with her first child during a March 13 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. However, Driver has so far refused to reveal the identity of the unborn tot's daddy, and on Thursday was forced to deny Californian musician Craig Zolezzi was the child's other parent. But, regardless of who the father is, she has warned fans not to expect a quickie wedding. Asked whether she will marry the baby's daddy, she says, "Definitely not in the near future. It's not important to me. I don't think a piece of paper lends itself to the idea of being a good parent and I want to be a good parent."See Also
Saturday 31 May 2008
DJ Patife
Artist: DJ Patife
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Na Estrada
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
DJ Patife had contact with the drum'n'bass scene through admirer DJ Marky patch working in a record book computer storage. DJ Patife's first gig was at São Paulo's Arena Music Hall. In 1997, he travelled to Europe with Marky. There, he attended Roni Size in the delivery of the Mercury Prize. With crescent popularity, Patife released his first record album in 2000, Sounds of Drum'n'bass. The album was praised by England magazines Muzik and MixMag, resulting in an invitation to firing the record album in that rural area. In 2000, Patife, Marky, and the Drumagick duet played for 5,000 people in São Paulo. Patife's remix for Max de Castro's "Pra Você Lembrar" was a hit in the Londoner dance tracks and was included in the main England dance magazines' playlists. Three of Patife's songs were included in the digest Brazil EP, released in England by V Recordings. In 2000, he participated in Otto's double-CD Changez Tout - Samba Pra Burro Dissecado and in Fernanda Porto's album. Patife played in the 2001 reading of the Rock in Rio fete. Also in 2001, he performed in the U.S., Scotland, London, and Amsterdam.
Thursday 29 May 2008
Bread
Artist: Bread
Genre(s):
Rock
Blues
Pop
Discography:
Sound of Bread
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Very Best of Bread
Year: 1989
Tracks: 16
Guitar Man
Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Baby I'm - A Want You
Year: 1972
Tracks: 12
Manna
Year: 1971
Tracks: 12
On the Waters
Year: 1970
Tracks: 12
Anthology
Year:
Tracks: 20
Bread was one of the nearly popular pop groups of the early '70s, earning a string of well-crafted, melodic soft rock singles, all of which were written by keyboardist/vocalist David Gates. A sitting musician and producer, Gates met in 1968 guitarist/vocalist James Griffin, world Health Organization had already released a solo album called Summer Holiday. Griffin hired Gates to produce a new album, and the pair off shortly became a mathematical group, adding guitarist/vocalist Robb Royer from the band Pleasure Fair, world Health Organization Gates had produced early in its life history. The trio before long signed with Elektra Records, becoming one of the label's low gear pop bands. Naming themselves Bread, the group released its self-titled debut album in late 1968. Although it was filled with approachable, melodic subdued careen that became the band's signature heavy, the record had no hit singles.
With their second album, On the Waters, Bread established themselves as hitmakers. "Make It With You," the first base single released from the album, became a number nonpareil hit, which light-emitting diode to "It Don't Matter to Me," a birdcall taken from Wampum, becoming a Top Ten hit. With On the Waters seemly a gold record book, the group embarked on a turn, adding a full-time drummer, Mike Botts, to the lineup. Manna, released in the natural spring of 1971, wasn't as large a remove as the former book, even so it launched some other Top Ten hit with "If." Royer left wing the group after the album and was replaced by Larry Knechtel, a Los Angeles session musician world Health Organization played on records by the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees, among others. The new batting order released its get-go single, "Mother Freedom," in the summertime of 1971; the single scraped the Top 40 at number 37. Bread's side by side single, "Babe I'm-a Want You," became a number terzetto collide with at the end of the year. After "Everything I Own" reached number five in January of 1972, an record album called Baby I'm-a Want You was released. Peaking at number terzetto, the record book became the group's most successful album. The group's fifth record album, Guitar Man, followed in the fall of 1972.
At the beginning of 1973, Bread disbanded later on a difference between Gates and Griffin. Griffin claimed that, when the chemical group was conceived, the pair off agreed that the singles would be dual-lane equally between the deuce songwriters; Gates wrote most of Bread's hits and wanted to keep to pen the singles. The 2 parted shipway, with each of the musicians pursuing solo careers. Bread reunited in 1976, releasing Confused Without Your Love in early 1977. The claim rail became their last Top Ten hit, peaking at number nine-spot. The success could non maintain the group together as tensions 'tween Gates and Griffin began to step up once again. After Griffin split from the group, Gates assembled a new interpretation of the stria and toured under the name Bread. Griffin sued Gates for victimization the identify, which the span co-owned. A judge ordered the group not to perform, disk, or collect royal line payments until the causa was resolved; it wasn't resolved until 1984. In the meantime, Gates and Griffin chased solo careers. Of the 2 musicians, Gates was more successful, marking a number 15 make in 1978 with the title topic to Sayonara Girl. However, his career declined in the '80s; by the '90s, he was running a California cattle ranch. Griffin relocated to Nashville, forming Dreamer with Randy Meisner in the early '90s.
Bill Whelan