" Now, when you think about
penguins, first take a deep calming breath, and then think "cuddly". Take
another breath, and think "cute". Go back to "cuddly" for a while (and go on
breathing), then think "contented". With me so far? Good.. Now, with penguins,
(cuddly such), "contented" means it has either just gotten laid, or it's stuffed
on herring. Take it from me, I'm an expert on penguins, those are really the
only two options."
More by
Linus Torvalds:All weather penguin art.All artwork by Fidget
The Prestige
- October 17, 2006 Hugh Jackman, Andy
Serkis
Tuesday October 17, 2006
THE PRESTIGE Premiere
by Suzanne Philips
The
premiere for the new Disney film THE PRESTIGE was held on Tuesday, October
17th at the historic El Capitan theatre on Hollywood Blvd. The film tells
the story of two magicians in Turn of the Century England who engage in a
bitter rivalry. The films stars Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Andy Serkis,
and Piper Perabo were all in attendance. Other stars who came out to support
the film included Jackie Collins, Jon Voight and William Fichtner.
Check out THE PRESTIGE when it opens in the US on October 20th.
Sir
Ian McKellen & Franz Ferdinand
Jimmy
Kimmel Show
May 2nd, 2006
By: Suzanne Phillip
Photos courtesy:
Ruby Argumedo
Sir
Ian McKellen, Zac Efron (from High School Musical) and the group Franz
Ferdinand taped there Jimmy Kimmel Show tonight. Franz Ferdinand started the
afternoon with a sound check on the outdoor Coors Light stage. All of the
members stopped to sign autographs and personalize items for fans. I was
pleased to hear that they were checking to make sure everyone was actually a
fan and not an autograph hound. The music sounded really good, and if you
haven't had time to check out their new album YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH
BETTER, pick it up!
Sir Ian McKellen and
Zac Efron came in shortly before the show started and were gracious enough
to sign for fans. Sir Ian also checked to make sure that the people were
true fans.
I LOVE that
celebrities are so fed up with the autograph hounds now that they are
personalizing items and only signing one item per person. This is the only
way the annoying collectors will go away.
THREE
FOOLS FOR APRIL Poetry
Reading
Beyond Baroque
Venice, CA
April 1, 2006
by Suzanne Philips
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
welcomed Scott Wannberg, Viggo Mortensen and Henry (Hank) Mortensen, known
collectively as THREE FOOLS FOR APRIL, on Saturday for an evening of poetry and
song. The facility hosted two 1-hour plus shows in the same evening, with
different poems being highlighted in each session.
The three poets sat in a "kitchen table" type environment with the 70 seat
audience in an intimate setting surrounding them on 3 sides.
Scott Wannberg, whose most recent book is
HARVEY KEITEL, HARVEY
KEITEL, HARVEY KEITEL, was quick witted and a great storyteller. His
anti-war satire and anti-Bush sentiments resonated well with this audience. A
moving rendition of his poem about the death of his mother was met with much
approval and empathy from the audience. He also had the crowd in stitches with
his politically satirical songs and was a big crowd favorite.
Viggo Mortensen, best known to
many as one of the stars of THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, has long been an
accomplished poet and is on the board of directions of Beyond Baroque. Reading
his own poetry as well as some works that audience members had given him, Viggo
was clearly at ease in the room and his love for Poetry was clear to all. After
stumbling over a word in one reading he informed the audience that he was " just
an actor" who "reads the words they give me in the best way that I can". He also
joked that unlike filmmaking "Tonight can't be fixed in post production!"
Viggo's poetry was very visual and earthy, much like the man himself. His quiet
delivery and low timbered voice was much appreciated by members of the audience.
Henry (Hank) Mortensen, Viggo's
teenage son, made his debut tonight as featured poet. While having much in
common with his famous father, Henry has a style all his own. His poetry is very
biting and witty. Several of the pieces dealt with lost love and were very
insightful for someone just leaving their teenage years. Henry also read several
Haiku, one of which he had written in Japanese. After giving his dad a hard time
for stumbling over words in one of the poems, Viggo responded with "The young
are quick". Henry gave some back story on some of his poems and after spending a
long time describing one poem, Viggo laughed and jokingly said "you should have
seem him driving over here", but clarified that "no, actually he is a really
good driver." Henry and Viggo had a great time riffing on each other and you
could plainly see the love between father and son and how proud each was of the
other.
The sold-out crowd was multi-cultural and very verbal with their praise for the
readings. Many fans and friends had traveled from out of state and even out of
the country to be there tonight.
After the show, the venue sold works by all three, including a limited edition
spiral bound book that Henry had made up just for this show.
If you are interested in picking up works by any of these three guys, check out
Perceval Press.
WORLD WITHOUT SUNDAYS
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
WORLD WITHOUT SUNDAYS
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
Old Towne Pub
Pasadena, CA
By Suzanne Philips
******
Shoxwaken Hincks - lead vocal,
guitar Guy Harrington - bass/vocals Grecco Buratto - guitar/vocals Adam Hurlbut - drums
******* Last night, the Old Towne pub in Pasadena witnessed a crowd like it
has probably never seen. WORLD WITHOUT SUNDAYS scheduled a free last
minute show for the fans to coincide with the ORC convention taking
place this weekend in Pasadena. The band was scheduled to go on at
8:00 pm and by 7:30 the small pub was already packed. The extremely
tiny stage was a tight fit for the 4 guys, but they made the best of
it and rocked the packed crowd with a great show! They played for
about an hour and played lots of stuff from their CD including fan
faves like “Drunk” and “Colorblind”. All of the guys seemed to be in
a great mood and were joking with each other and laughing a lot
throughout the show. Shox’s voice was in great form and Adam has now
perfected throwing the drumstick with a twirl and catching it, much
to my personal delight. Grecco had an amazing guitar solo in “Drunk”
and Adam had a slammin drum solo that brought the house down. Several times Shox started playing chords from different songs,
mostly heavy metal, and Adam, Guy and Grecco would jump right in and
continue playing and then Shox would drop out joking that he only
knew the first few chords of most of the songs but the other guys
could just pick it up and run with it, making him look bad! Actors
and band friends Elijah Wood, Billy
The
premiere for the new Disney film THE PRESTIGE was held on Tuesday, October
17th at the historic El Capitan theatre on Hollywood Blvd. The film tells
the story of two magicians in Turn of the Century England who engage in a
bitter rivalry. The films stars Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Andy Serkis,
and Piper Perabo were all in attendance. Other stars who came out to support
the film included Jackie Collins, Jon Voight and William Fichtner. 
