Cuba Gooding Jr (Rod): That’s what I’m gonna do for you. God bless you, Jerry. Now this is what you’re gonna do for me. You listening? Tom Cruise (Maguire): Yeah, yeah, what can I do for YOU, Rod? Cuba Gooding Jr (Rod): It’s a very personal, very important thing. Hell, it’s a family motto. Now are you ready? Just checking to make sure you’re ready here it is — show me the money. OHHH!!!! SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY! Doesn’t it make you feel good just to say that, Jerry? Say it with me one time brother!
Tom Cruise (Maguire): ….Show you the money. Cuba Gooding Jr(Rod): Oh, come on, you can do better than that! I want you to say it brother with meaning! Hey, I got Bob Sugar on the other line I better hear you say it! Tom Cruise(Maguire): Yeah, ye – no, show you the money! Cuba Gooding Jr (Rod): AH! Not show YOU! Show ME the money! Tom Cruise(Maguire):Show me the money! Cuba Gooding Jr (Rod Tidwell): Yeah, that’s it brother but you got to yell that sh–! Tom Cruise (Maguire): Show me the money! Cuba Gooding Jr (Rod): Louder! Tom Cruise (Maguire): Show me the money!
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Renee Zellweger (Dorothy Boyd): I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he almost is.
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Tom Cruise (Maguire): I love you. You… complete me. Renee Zellweger (Dorothy): Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at “hello.”
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Tom Cruise (Maguire): That’s more than a dress. That’s an Audrey Hepburn movie.
Below are some remarkable drawings of celebrities by Pablo Lobato – the famous Argentinian artist. Outstanding! It’s amazing how he captured them with just a few lines. My favorites are probably Madonna and Julia Roberts. I would love to see Lobato print his work on tees, canvas totes, mugs, and so on. I’d want two of each and Julia on everything.
Madonna
The Beatles
Brad Pitt
Julia Roberts
Elton John
Jack Nicholson
It’s all in the eyes, isn’t it? If you go back, you can see that each celeb was captured in the windows to the soul. What must it be like to have so much artistic talent?! Check out http://lobaton.wordpress.com/ for many more outrageously wonderful works of artistic brilliance.
Film and television star Peter Graves died Sunday of a heart attack outside his home in Pacific Palisades, California. He was 83.
The dashing actor (one of the few who could actually carry the term dashing) had just returned from brunch with his wife and children. One of his daughters administered CPR, but Heaven apparently needed one more dashing actor.
Peter Graves had an impressive career that spanned 60 years. He was best known for his Golden Globe-winning portrayal of James Phelps on the piece of Americana and pop culture we know as ‘Mission: Impossible.’ This outstanding spy drama ran for seven seasons on CBS and later would launch hugely successful (and equally outstanding) films starring Tom Cruise.
Peter Graves also graced other television series such as ‘Fury,’ ‘Whiplash,’ ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents,’ ‘The Dean Martin Show,’ ‘Fantasy Island’ and ‘7th Heaven.’
In the mid-’90s, Peter Graves became the wonderful (and, yes, dashing) host of A&E’s ‘Biography,’ and received an Emmy for the 1997 special ‘Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow.’
The talented actor also appeared in a number of well-known and successful movies, including Billy Wilder’s ‘Stalag 17,’ opposite Oscar winner William Holden, ‘Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell’ and the 1955 thriller ‘Night of the Hunter.’
Of all of his films, however, it was the 1980 comedy ‘Airplane!’ that earned Graves the most fame in theaters. He turned in a hilarious performance as Captain Clarence Oveur in the film as well as its 1982 sequel.
Thankfully, just last October, Peter Graves received a much-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to honor his career.
According to the Times, Graves is survived by his older brother, actor James Arness (Gunsmoke), his wife, Joan Graves, whom he married in 1950, and his three daughters. He died just four days shy of his 84th birthday.
How Much Do You Know About Peter Graves?
Peter Graves was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 18, 1926
He was left-handed
Peter excelled in sports and music
He played the saxophone
Served two years in the Air Force
Studied drama at the University of Minnesota
When he first received the script for Airplane, he hated it! He called it “the worst piece of junk” he’d ever seen. However, he changed his mind when he met the writers.
Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nicknamed Lady Day, Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and song writer that could stop traffic with her voice. She got intimate with songs and music the way most people get intimate with one another. She co-wrote several songs that have gone down in jazz history, notably “God Bless the Child”, “Don’t Explain”, and “Lady Sings the Blues”. She also became famous for singing jazz standards written by others, including “Easy Living” and “Strange Fruit”.
She’s often remembered as the lovely lady with a gardenia in her hair belting out songs like nobody’s business.
Sadly, as was the case with quite a few of the stars from the past, drugs were Billie Holiday’s undoing. She was arrested several times due to an addiction she never overcame. She was even arrested on her death bed – literally. Gilbert Millstein of The New York Times, who had partly written the sleeve notes for the album The Essential Billie Holiday, described her death:
“Billie Holiday died in the Metropolitan Hospital, New York, on Friday, July 17, 1959, in the bed in which she had been arrested for illegal possession of narcotics a little more than a month before, as she lay mortally ill; in the room from which a police guard had been removed – by court order – only a few hours before her death, which, like her life, was disorderly and pitiful. She had been strikingly beautiful, but she was wasted physically to a small, grotesque caricature of herself. The worms of every kind of excess – drugs were only one – had eaten her. … The likelihood exists that among the last thoughts of this cynical, sentimental, profane, generous and greatly talented woman of 44 was the belief that she was to be arraigned the following morning. She would have been, eventually, although possibly not that quickly. In any case, she removed herself finally from the jurisdiction of any court here below.”
An incredibly tragic and sad ending for a woman who left a beautiful mark on our musical history. She deserved better – what a shame that she didn’t realize it.
To learn more about Billie Holiday, buy her autobiography on Amazon: Lady Sings the Blues.
Here’s some really interesting news: According to the LA Times, CBS Films is working on a big screen adaptation of the classic Western television show “Gunsmoke.” I SO hope this pans out, not only are westerns always great entertainment, Gunsmoke is an all-time favorite. Can you imagine the fun they’d have casting festus?! Steve Carrel, perhaps?
Brad Pitt and Ryan Reynolds have emerged as the top contenders for the role of Matt Dillon. Ryan Reynolds and his real life love, Scarlett Johansson would be perfect co-stars if she were to be cast as Miss Kitty to his Matt Dillon. However, sources indicate that, at the moment, Brad Pitt, is the front runner.
On the 1955 show, Dillon is the Western hero charged with maintaining law and order in a period Kansas town filled with colorful vagrants, misfits and desperadoes. He carries on in these adventures with the help of town physician Doc Adams and tavern owner Miss Kitty Russell.
Gregory Poirier, who wrote “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” has written a draft of the “Gunsmoke” script, and the studio is said to like it very much. I’ll let you know more details when I get my eager little hands on them.
*** Watch full episodes of Gunsmoke online at TVLand.com.
Impossible! I just came across some Audrey Hepburn posters and art prints that even I don’t have…. yet. She is just ridiculously beautiful – so graceful and lovely. Cut from a cloth that seems to have blown out of Hollywood years ago.
Elvis fans, you’re going to love this interview with Music photo archivist Michael Ochs. Ochs headed the publicity departments of Columbia, Shelter and ABC Records in the ’60s and ‘70.
In the words of Spinner.com, Ochs possesses one of the largest stores of Elvis pictures this side of Graceland. Click through the link above to read the fascinating interview with Ochs – it’s great stuff no self-respecting fan of the King will want to miss out on.
You know you want it – don’t even try to fight it. Jump over to Calendars.com and get hands on James Dean. James Dean 2010 Wall Calendar.
James Dean is such a wonderful American icon – as recognizable as Marilyn Monroe and Abraham Lincoln. In just over a year, Dean starred in three films and became a representation of the rebellious American youth of the mid-fifties. He still personifies the mystery and restlessness of adolescence today.
The outstanding photographs in this calendar pay homage to the James Dean that fans will always remember and love.
BURGLAR: Uh. Gentlemen…. Now if you’ll stop right there. Hold up your hands, please.
FRED: Barney…
BARNEY: Yes, Fred?
FRED: It’s a stick up.
BARNEY: (getting an idea) Hey, uh, wait a minute. This guy’s a burglar…
FRED: Barney, this ain’t What’s My Line.
From the Episode Fussin’ and Feudin’:
WILMA: Fred’s in there, napping. Trying to relax away the tensions. Today’s the playoff for the Lodge Golf Semi-finals, or something, in Fred’s division.
BETTY: Oh. How’s Fred doing? Is he improving?
WILMA: Last month he broke 70.
BETTY: Strokes?
WILMA: Clubs. You know Fred’s temper, Betty.
Also from the Episode Fussin’ and Feudin’:
FRED: (Dreaming that he won the golf match) My opponent for this match, Charlie Pummlestone, put up a good fight, and was ahead for a while. But as the hula dancer said, It’s how you wind up that counts. He he he he he.”
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