Tom Cruise: “I learned to sing for five hours a day”
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In an interview with Playboy magazine, Tom Cruise talked about his role in "Rock of ages" and how the singer received the approval of the group Def Leppard. Excerpts from the interview read below.
- July 3 you will be 50. At this age, most men suffer from indigestion, bald, and monitor pressure. How do you manage to look almost twice younger then your age years?
"Honestly, no idea (laughs). I work. I'm always with my family. Train a lot, a little sleep. Toil, in a word."
- You do not even have wrinkles, unlike your peers. You do plastic surgery, or maybe just going to?
- "I do not do and do not intend to."
- What does this line mean to you?
"When I played in "Rebound", my first movie I remember lying in a hotel room at night, thinking about how I like my job. I wanted to shoot from 4 years old, and therefore hoped that, if I'm lucky in a "Rebound", maybe I could do it all my life. Approaching 50, I still do it. July 3, I'll be in Iceland on the set. My family, my wife - they understand me. I spent most of many birthdays on the set, they were all excellent. "
- What have you learned since then, as you passed 20?
"I have always adhered to some values. Family to me means a lot. When I'm on the set, all come to me. When Katie is working, I and the children are with her. We are always together. And I'm always with my mom and sisters. I've always wanted to be a father, husband. I have a good labor education - I worked part time, from eight years: clipped lawns, collecting fallen leaves, sign and send greeting cards for Easter and Christmas. "
- Did you go from house to house, offering your services?
"Yes, I did it in Canada and Kentucky. I was brought up by women, the mother had to pay the bills herself. We all contributed. Therefore, the work is so important to me."
- And what did you do with the accumulated money?
"As far as I can remember, I wanted to ride a motorcycle and racing cars. I wanted to play on them all sorts of jumps and other tricks. Every birthday, I would like to receive as a gift only a motorcycle. When I turned 12, I bought it for myself."
- How difficult is it to learn to do somersaults on a motorcycle in 12 years?
"It is very difficult (laughs). I am also one that is not taught. Many times I broke up because I love to drive fast. And all sorts of other tricks done. When we lived in Canada, I was doing gymnastics and usually did a somersault, jumping straight from the roof. I found the highest point on the roof and tried to figure, before landing in a snowdrift. "
- You were still the fruit!
"Yes, (laughs). I usually invited to such representations neighborhood kids and my sisters. Sisters have always said the same words: "Tommy, you break the death, and the mother will kill you!" Of course, I broke the legs and the nose" .
- In addition to broken limbs, what was the outcome of your experiments?
"I learned that even in tough times you have a choice - to allow circumstances to take the upper hand over you, or to defeat them by yourself. My choice - learn to cope with them."
- It has some relation to those tricks that you perform in the movies?
"I always train very hard. In order for the "Last Samurai" wield a sword and do it in rough terrain and it does not dislocate my knee, I trained for a year for six hours, seven days a week. Same thing I do for the "Rock of ages" - five hours a day learning to sing and three hours - to dance. "
- Did you know that you can sing of "Rock of ages"?
"I knew I could hold a note. I sang in clubs when I was 14, and in the choir in high school. But I never took voice lessons. Nobody ever taught me how to use my voice."
- How do you develop a voice for singing in stadiums?
"This man was an opera singer, and he taught me how to control my voice. This is similar to the mastery of an unfamiliar sport, or getting used to the new role. I had to figure out how to pass air through the vocal cords and in what place in the chest and head to direct it. These need to perform exercises daily to strengthen my voice. "
- The first song you sang before a crowd was Pour Some Sugar on Me, and the musicians of the group Def Leppard were on a set and watching you. Feel the pressure?
"Yes, (laughs)."
- Your character is hard to take seriously. It is ridiculously dissolute, and his only friend - a baboon.
"He's a slave of rock 'n' roll. When he was on stage, he gives it the whole himself. Beyond its emotional relationship he is looking pretty strange ways, and here begins the comedy."
Malin Akerman will play Debbie Harry
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An independent project CBGB about the eponymous cult New York music club in the strong pace adds to its cast. Casting tape head Alan Rickman, who plays Hilly Crystal, the permanent owner of the famous institution.
This week, Briton joined Malin Akerman. For the stars of "Watchmen" is prepared the role of Debbie Harry, front-woman of the group Blondie, regularly performing on the club scene, considered a mecca of punk rock and new wave and rave popular place for infrequent visitors were such persons as Andy Warhol and William Burroughs.
At CBGB, which existed from 1973 to 2006, also gave concerts bands like The Ramones and Talking Heads. Male Vocalist of the first team, Joey Ramon, perform, Joel Moore ("Avatar"), the role is assigned to the Ramond Johnny Julian Acosta ("Castle"). Chita Chrome guitarist of punk band The Dead Boys, which had great importance in the development of institutions Hilly Crystal, will play the star of "Harry Potter" franchise Rupert Grint. The actor, incidentally, is part of another project, and the musical theme. He has been involved in the drama "Drummer" on The Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, who is going to shoot Randall Miller, who is also director therefore CBGB. The script of the tape of the New York club director wrote with Jody Savin.
Producing the project take on the authors themselves, as well as music business guru Brad Rosenberger. Crystal's daughter Lisa is also planning to take part in the production of the film, whose filming should start next month in Savannah, Ga., and after move to New York.
Malin Akerman will appear soon in one of the roles in the musical "Rock of ages" with Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin. Rupert Grint in this year has already seen in the war drama "Snow Prison" coming out in cinemas in January 2013th. Joel Moore, who in February of this can be seen in the thriller "The game of survival," with Amanda Sayfred in October, will appear in Oliver Stone's "Savages".
Movie about Rolling Stones
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The tenth studio album by British rockers The Rolling Stones «Exile on Main Street» is one of the best recordings of the group. The eccentric entrepreneur Richard Branson, founder of record label Virgin, found the story quite interesting record of the plate to turn it into a feature film.
By the spring of 1971, the band was in great debt to its native Britain, but to pay all taxes, Mick Jagger and his friends could not, which led to their departure from London. Jagger settled in Paris, while guitarist Keith Richards rented a villa near Nice. The other band members were scattered in the south of France. Basement Richards' villa converted into a studio where he recorded album «Exile on Main Street».
Then the group split with its manager Allen Klein, as a result of losing the right to trial a number of his compositions, written before 1971.
Working in the basement into a continuous party: changing session musicians, guests came, the flowed river of alcohol, and through the veins of Keith Richards with a vengeance ran heroin. Released in May 1972 «Exile on Main Street» was warmly received by critics and is still considered one of the best albums in the history of rock music.
History of the plate has already been shown on the screen recently - in 2010 released a documentary film "Rolling Stones" in exile". The project will be Branson's book by Robert Greenfield, "Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones”, published in 2008. The film tells about the personal and professional relationship between Jagger and Richards, and the script will write brothers Brandon and Phil Murphy, whose studio Sony has recently invited to write a biopic about Steve McQueen.
Branson and Jagger band brings together not just a future film project: a 90-company Virgin Richard has released three albums of rockers.
Note that the "Exile on Main Street" is not the only project on the "Rolling." In September will be released documentary on the fiftieth anniversary of the group, which now takes Brett Morgan.
Composer Hans Zimmer about his new project
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Composer Hans Zimmer does not like to repeat, especially when working on the sequels. So he promises to come up with something new for "The Dark Knight 2: The Legend Continues", one of the most anticipated projects of summer 2012.
For a film by Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight 2" Hans Zimmer has designed musical score, based on the sounds of crowds, he suggested that people all over the world send him to record his vote, which he uses to create the soundtrack.
"It seemed like a good idea - have a part of monotone scores discordant tune. So, I thought," But what I will make hundreds of thousands of people do this? "And then we have organized a Web site in Germany, which sent wishing to record their votes. Success rather curious. "
"You have to watch the sequel as a completely independent film. Before I started," Sherlock Holmes "and before Chris started shooting, I conceived the idea. I went to the music department of Warner Bros. And asked:" I have already had the right to order a couple of days the biggest, most insane band in order to conduct an experiment for "Dark Knight"? If everything goes right, if the result does not like me or Chris, we will pretend that these two days and was not at all. "
"I had the idea to write music, or in any other way to get the orchestra to play differently. And, in general, it is possible, and the passages of our experiment began to appear in the trailer. In my possession are 25 minutes, very radical, very unlike anything that the material. There were two excellent points. First, when Chris came to the recording studio and has welcomed and appreciated what I was doing there. A second point that I am, in a sense, think cooler is the fact that the musicians had never before worked in this way, this experience very much. And months later, when I was working on "Sherlock", the band is still remembered those two days. So I know I'm on the right track. However, my only enemy right now - this time because I have too many ideas. "
"As for Chris, we always talk about him the same thing:" He's so secretive. "Well, I think this has two main reasons. First, in order to get a really good result, you should remain with yourself. And if all you are watching via the Internet, I think it interferes with creativity. And I think "The Dark Knight" - a perfect example that demonstrates this idea. All know that we are making a film about Batman. But as long as it went into the rolling, one could not imagine what it would be, this new film about Batman. "
Barbra Streisand backs to movie
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A year ago, Barbra Streisand wanted to play in the film version of the musical "Gypsy," but its author, Arthur Lorents did not want to see actress in his own creation. After the death of Lorents much has changed, and now Universal launches movie with Streisand, who will produce Joel Silver. Already hired a screenwriter for the project.
Among the works of Arthur Lorents are the musical "West Side Story" and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope". His musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale debuted on Broadway 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, immediately becoming a star.
The premiere of "Gypsy" was held on Broadway in 1959. Many critics still consider it one of the best American musicals. Moreover, the theater critic The New York Times, Frank Rich saw "Gypsy," the American response to British musical "King Lear."
At the heart of the musical are the memoirs of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee, but the plot is given a lot of time relations of the heroine with his mother Rose, whose name has become the archetype of the mother in show business. Have the power and intolerant Rose have two daughters, Louise and June, which the mother pushes the scene. Together they travel through the States of the 1920s, and eventually the shy Louise becomes a star of burlesque, and no longer requires excessive care of the mother.
After the premiere of the musical in Broadway history of the mother and daughter turned into a feature film "Gypsy", which played an assertive mother, Rosalind Russell and Louise - who died tragically in 1981, Natalie Wood. For her performance as Rose in the 1993 television movie based on the musical "Gypsy," Bette Midler was awarded the "Golden Globe".
The modern version of "Gypsy," writes winner of "Oscar" for the script of the drama "Gosford Park" by Julian Fellowes. He is the author of the popular British series "Downton Abbey," as he reworked the play Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for the same movie Carlo Karleya.
Barbra Streisand has long dreamed of playing Rose on the big screen, so that her dream is gradually coming true. For producer Joel Silver's work on "Gypsy" the musical will be the first of his career. Recall that on producer account are such actions as "Lethal Weapon," "The Matrix" and "Sherlock Holmes."
Streisand returned to films after a long break due to the comedy "Meet Fockers." This year, the actress will be seen as the mother of the hero Seth Rogen in the comedy "My mother curse."
Biographical film about Beach Boys
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Biographical film "The Drummer" of the drummer for the band The Beach Boys Dennis Wilson can not be considered an expensive Hollywood project, which, however, does not interfere with this independent film to gain a solid cast. Aaron Eckhart plays the main character, Vera Farmiga - participant of the group Fleetwood Mac, Christine McVie. Also in the film will be occupied Chloe Grace Moretz and Rupert Grint.
Dennis Wilson was not only a drummer, but also the founder of The Beach Boys, which included brothers Brian and Carl Wilson and Mike Love's cousin. The group was formed at the suggestion of Dennis in August 1961 and immediately gained popularity due to the songs about surfing. Despite the fact that the image of the group was based on a California beach and surfing culture, from all the participants only Dennis is really surfed.
The Beach Boys influenced the formation of many musicians, including Elton John and Fleetwood Mac. As far as Dennis Wilson, his role in the group had not been a leading - sometimes Brian Wilson hired drummer to record albums. Dennis resigned to the situation, but eventually began to record solo projects. His only solo album Pacific Ocean Blue was released in 1977 and became a cult album a few years later, after the death of Dennis - he was drowned December 28, 1983, while in an intoxicated state.
Note that The Beach Boys drummer was familiar with Charles Manson, who in the late 1960s, was interested in music career. Manson and his commune "Family" often stayed in the house of drummer, who introduced Charles to the producer Terry Melcher. For some time he was interested in Manson's album, but ultimately refused. It was assumed that suppressed anger at the man who rejected his music, and resulted in the brutal murder of the wife of director Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate of her house guests, as Melcher once lived in it.
Star of movie "Kick Ass" and "Hugo" Chloe Moretz plays the daughter of Dennis Wilson, Jennifer. Jennifer Wilson, she is one of the producers of the film.
Rupert Grint, familiar audience for the franchise, "Harry Potter", won the role of Stan Shapiro, mail delivery man in the company of William Morris and a friend of Dennis in the last years of his life.
At the helm of "Drummer" is director Randall Miller, whose latest film "Bottle Shock" was released in 2008 (it starred Chris Pine and Alan Rickman). Filming will begin on June 15. The plot of "Drummer" will focus on the last six years of Dennis Wilson life.
Super Bowl XLVI set a new historic record
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Pasted in the night from Sunday to Monday Super Bowl XLVI set a new record in the history of American television. Sports game has been watched by 111.3 million viewers, it is better to achieve the former by 300 thousand. It is noteworthy that the audience of the final is growing for the seventh consecutive year. Rating in the category 18-49 was 40.5.
The peak of spectator interest, of course, came in the last half hour, when the decisive moments in a match watched 117.7 million viewers. A half-hour break of Madonna's performance has been watched by 114.0 million viewers.
The most successful programs to date is as follows:
• 111.3 million - Super Bowl XLVI, NBC
• 111.0 million - Super Bowl XLV, Fox
• 106. 5 million - Super Bowl XLIV, CBS
• 106.0 million - M.A.S.H. Finale, CBS
• 98.7 million - Super Bowl XLIII, NBC
Following the Super Bowl NBC channel put the second season premiere of The Voice this year. Reality show last year has suddenly become popular, so it was entrusted with this important timeslot. The program did not disappoint, saving 37.6 million viewers. Rated in the category 18-49 (16.3) ahead of it, and Glee (11,1) and the premiere of reality Undercover Boss (16,2), but has not held up a little Grey's Anatomy (16,5) in 2006.
We should also mention the fact that during the NBC advertising actively promoting its new Smash, showing a lot of different spots. The series is shown on Monday and goes right after the “The Voice”, so the expectations from the ratings should be highest.
Interview with Daniel Radcliffe
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MTV resource at the annual "Thanksgiving Week" has taken an interview with Daniel Radcliffe, "the actor, whom we are extremely grateful in 2011."
- Daniel, this is your first full year without Harry Potter. How has it passed?
"It was a great year, it was very successful. I have completed some projects that are now very proud, especially the musical "How to Succeed in Business without doing anything". The process of working on it, regular runs and rehearsals, as a result of I've been able to improve my game, gave me great pleasure. It was a cool year, but I think the next one will be even better. It will be released "The Woman in Black", and I still have planned a couple of projects. The next two or three years will be very important in my career, and if 2011 was not a watershed year in my life, it can be called just a start. "
- The most memorable event for you this year was ...?
"Definitely, speech at the ceremony of Tony Awards. We were the first who opened the ceremony and had a very strange feeling, preparing for the show. I was not nervous for a long time. Suddenly, a huge screen sails up, and you find yourself with the guys on stage for all to see and feel like a prize in a game-show, noting how at you from the front row watching Al Pacino, who sat next to Bobby Cannavale and Mark Raylens - all these wonderful actors - and you should now speak with your speech. It was probably the most surreal triumphant moment this year - performing at the Tony Awards. It was cool, and someday I will certainly tell about this to my grandchildren. "
- What have you learned about yourself and your abilities as an actor?
"I learned one very important thing, and I have yet to learn how to use it in my career, whether it be play, comedy or drama - the more I try to restrain and suppress my natural eccentricity, the worse I play. I'm pretty impetuous in my movements and jerk ... I realized that in the process of trying my best to be somebody else, and actually, I should learn to behave naturally on stage and in film. I have to understand the next lesson: Do not be shy of your strangeness. Enjoy it. "
- Would you like to star in a musical?
"Oh, yes, my doubts about participation in the" How to Succeed ... "was due to the fact that I was playing one role over the years I spent at Harry very long time. Now I want in track to be a lot of various characters. Yes, I really want to play in a musical. "
- Looking for Potter, and, remembering that after all you went through during the final part of the promotion of "Deathly Hallows," do you not remember anything unusual?
"Oh no, everything was as usual. During these crazy days when you have time to give a few interviews to go on the red carpet, talk to fans, you'll shut up slowly, turn on the autopilot and only beg that, by the end of promo tours are not go crazy. I was also a little bothered that I was not so upset as the others. One day I saw crying Rupert, it was the last day of filming, and when I was pretty sad, but I had never seen Rupert such emotional as he was at premiere ... I can no longer continue to talk about how I loved the time spent on the set of "Potter." It was the most amazing, happiest moments in my life, but all good things must end. We can’t do the same thing forever. And as long as the viewers will want from us that it will be terrible. I am very glad that I took part in the project, which ended on a good note, and that now, like everyone else I move forward. "
- You hope to continue cooperation with JK Rowling?
"Yes, very much hope so. With those who are directly and indirectly had a great influence on my life, of course, I hope. I do not know whether she is going to write anything else about Harry, and perhaps many years later I myself will shoot something about him - we did well with him to know each other. "
- Looking for 10 years ahead, how do you think, what will you do - your best and worst-case scenario?
"My worst nightmare that in 10 years later I do not work at all and do nothing. Even if after 5 years, I suddenly decide to leave the film industry and become an archaeologist, well, that would be cool. The best scenario, over 10 years I will be behind some great movies, I do not know exactly how much ... well, if we assume that the eight parts of the "Potter" we rented for 10 years, will double this number ... say, 16 pictures? Who knows?”
FOX season schedule
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FOX TV channel announced their inter-seasonal schedule. There were no any major surprises. The two-hour premiere of the series "Alcatraz" will be held on January 16. Preliminary show "Touch" is already 4 January, after American Idol; "House MD" will be shown on March 19. Revived "Breaking In" with the premiere of the second season starts on March 6. "The Finder", as suggested earlier, will take the slot "Bones". Terra Nova is already in the schedule, because the season finale (but not necessarily the show) will be released on December 19.
Monday:
January 16
8:00-10:00 - Alcatraz (two-hour premiere)
January 23
8:00-9:00 - House MD (premiere in the new timeslot)
9:00-10:00 - Alcatraz (premiere in the new timeslot)
March 12
8:00-10:00 - Alcatraz (the two-hour episode)
March 19
8:00-9:00 - House MD
9:00-10:00 - Touch (premiere show)
Tuesday:
January 17
8:00-9:00 - Glee
9:00-9:30 - New Girl
9:30-10:00 - Raising Hope
March 6
8:00-8:30 - New Girl (Repeat)
8:30-9:00 - Breaking In (premiere second season)
9:00-9:30 - New Girl
9:30-10:00 - Raising Hope
Wednesday:
January 4
8:00-9:00 - Glee (Repeat)
January 18
8:00-10:00 - American Idol (season premiere of 11, part 1)
January 25
8:00-9:00 - American Idol
9:00-10:00 - Touch (preview)
Thursday:
January 12
8:00-9:00 - Bones (Repeat)
9:00-10:00 - The Finder (premiere show)
January 19
8:00-9:00 - American Idol (season premiere of 11, second part)
9:00-10:00 - The Finder
Friday:
January 13
9:00-10:00 - Fringe
Sunday:
January 7
7:00-7:30 - Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
7:30-8:00 - The Cleveland Show (Repeat)
8:00-8:30 - The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 - The Cleveland Show
9:00-9:30 - Family Guy
9:30-10:00 - American Dad
January 15
8:00-8:30 - The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 - Napoleon Dynamite (premiere)
9:00-9:30 - Family Guy
9:30-10:00 - Napoleon Dynamite (the slot)
January 29
7:00-7:30 - Bob's Burgers (Repeat)
7:30-8:00 - The Cleveland Show
8:00-8:30 - The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 - Napoleon Dynamite
9:00-9:30 - Family Guy
9:30-10:00 - American Dad
March 11
7:30-8:00 - The Cleveland Show
8:00-8:30 - The Simpsons
8:30-9:00 - Bob's Burgers (premiere)
9:00-9:30 - Family Guy
9:30-10:00 - American Dad
Michael Jackson’s relatives are ready for the movie about singer life
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Lawyer John Branca, representing the Jackson family, turned to the production company Ivan Reitman Montecito Picture Company with a proposal to work on a biographical film about Michael Jackson. It will go there only on certain periods of life of the late singer.
Business partner of Reitman in Montecito Picture Tom Pollock has confirmed that talks are underway, but they are still at an early stage. No written agreement exists.
Heirs of Jackson now oversee the representation of Cirque du Soleil «Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour", so there is no hurry with the launch of the film project. Nevertheless, the fact of the consent of relatives for a biopic about the musician make the most of Hollywood agents, saliva bleed - get a role in this film will be very, very prestigious.
Montecito Picture Company was established in 2000. The first picture of the new company became the debut comedy of Todd Phillips' “Road Trip". Among other projects, "Eurotrip," "Disturbia," "Love you, dude," "Up in the Air" and "No string s attached".
Which periods of Jackson’s life will be honored to be displayed on the big screen is not disclosed. Biography of the singer's full of a variety of events, since he began performing on stage with five years as a member of The Jackson 5. Solo career began in 1979 and in 1982 released the album Thriller, which to this day is considered the best-selling in the history of music. The singer has made an enormous contribution to pop music, movies and dance. During his life, Michael was honored with 13 awards "Grammy." The self-proclaimed King of Pop attracted media attention for his unusual personal life, plastic surgery, the country of purchase and litigation.
Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009. The cause of death was "Propofol" drug overdose, in combination with sedatives. November 7 Jackson doctor Conrad Murray was recognized for manslaughter of his client. He faces between one and four years' of imprisonment. The verdict will be announced on Nov. 29.