I just read a article where Brad Pitt has been invited to consult on a new project in Dubai
Dont get me wrong i think Brad is a cool dude,
and it states that acting is his profession, architecture is his passion , well get in line Brad boy we have a lot of them on this forum just like you,me for one but i have not gotten the calls yet for the consulting gigs, but i do get inquires all the time about my home for the use of benefits, and the United states Historical society would like to tour the home when they have there conference in Tulsa Oklahoma in October, does that count? but just not lucky enough to get the private showing of the Frank Lloyd Write home in Penn owned by the Kaufman's, as a gift from Angie, or Paling around with Frank Gherey for a couple of days I am sure Frank got a kick out of it like Brad did,
Would it be cool if Brad has been on the forum all these years we just did not know it under one of the screen names, did we once have someone named STUD? or cool dude or pretty boy, I don't remember that far back.
Angelina
Although Angelina is now a hot ticket, a few years ago she was married to Billy Bob Thorton carying a vial of his blood around. I can only guess she has paid someone a lot of money to reinvent her image to her current goddess state. I think she has some dark problems we have yet to see.
I used to work in LA and Hollywood...
ALL stars are manufactured and processed and packaged. Some are nice inside the packaging and some are not. Some are sane inside the packaging and some are quite nuts.
Angelina is no different than Brad, or Paul, or Cary, or Clark, or Valentino. She is packaged. And the design of her package that you see comes from the public relations firm that she works with. This is how it is with all stars. You don't see or read anything about them that their PR firms don't want you to. Even the negative publicity is managed.
People still do not really understand that Hollywood is in the business of illusion; that film (now digitally recorded) has always been closer to magic than art. Orson Welles understood this and exposed it by openly saying that that was what it was.
There is substance at the center of the live stage. There are sets and actors and a stage play that is the spine of it all.
There is nothing at the center of movies. They are all illusion. And movies are at their most illusionary and deceptive when they pretend to be realistic.
From John Ford to Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, filmakers have tried to fill the illusion with myth, but still there is nothing there.
Hitchcock filled the emptiness with obsessive dreams.
Fellini tried to fill the vast emptiness of film with his naricistic dreams.
But great as these directors were, and try as they might, at the end of every movie there was nothing. The lights come on and the illusion is gone.
The reason Citizen Kane by Welles is the greatest film of all time and the reason that JFK by Stone will one day join it as one of the greatest films of all time is that they are both mysteries inside of riddles wrapped in enigmas, to borrow from JFK. There is nothing at the center of either, but enigma, and nothing but enigma portrayed at the center of both. Kane uses the enigma of a famous man as a metaphor for the enigma of the self. Citizen Kane says there is nothing in you, not even you, there's just a bunch of memories and actions and hopes that create the illusion of you. Charles Foster Kane is enigmatic, because there truly is nothing there.
Every character in JFK is enigmatic because there is nothing at the center of any of them, least of all Jim Garrison--at least as portrayed by Stone. Stone uses the enigma of an assasination conspiracy as a metaphor for the engima that results from enigmatic persons interacting.
So: the Angelina we are all referring to is an illusion. To say that something dark is waiting to come out is to say that something real can come out of a magic trick--out of an illusion. All that can come out of illusion is illusion.
Hooray for Hollywood...
I'll interject to say that I...
I'll interject to say that I think that, of all the above mentioned, Paul Newman is least of all manufactured. From his Newman's Own brand, to the Hole & The Wall Gang, to the sizeable charitable donations you will never read about, both he and his wife Joanne are a very real (almost to a fault by Hollywood standards) and soulful couple, choc a bloc with integrity and genuine character, rather than noisy charity and a collection of mannerisms. Very little Hollywood here.
...the Newmans projected is p...
...the Newmans projected is perhaps more reality based than the duo Ray&Charles,they were not a unaware,relaxed pair...
Show me someone in or out of the limelight who is.
My point was that the Newmans have always been a far less stylized bunch than today's crop.
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