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Friday, January 14, 2011

HENRY'S CRIME ~ KEANU REEVES INTERVIEW

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Henry's Crime - Keanu Reeves interview

Keanu Reeves talks about starring in and producing heist-thriller-come-romantic-drama Henry's Crime, and why it's become something of a passion project for him. He also talks about working alongside James Caan and how he compares to former co-stars Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, plus why a Samurai Western is next for him.

Is it fair to describe Henry's Crime as a passion project for you as both star and first-time producer?

Keanu Reeves: Yes, in the sense that I was part of developing and putting the script together for the past four years, I guess.

So what made you decide this was the film to get involved with on that level?

Keanu Reeves: About seven years ago, I started a production company with a friend of mine and he had this idea of a guy committing a crime he'd already committed [having gone to prison after unwittingly getting involved in a bank robbery]. So we met with Sacha Gervasi, the writer, and he took to it, so then began four years of trying to figure it out - how to tell this crazy story of a toll booth operator who eventually has to play Yermolay Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard and has to rob a bank on opening night.

What did you like about Henry in particular?

Keanu Reeves: I liked his journey. I liked this guy who was kind of at the end of the world... You know, we find him at a toll booth, and he's neither asleep nor awake. And we find out he's a man with no dream, a man who has always just gone along with a kind of quiet dissatisfaction, but through zany circumstances ends up looking to change his life by robbing a bank. I thought that was funny. And then I thought having to play Lopakhin, having to go on stage in an odd way... there's a lot about identity in the film, and developing and evolving. Part of that is being stuck and how we need help to break out of that. And I liked where he ends up - he ends up in love and having to try and win the girl.

Is the identity aspect of it something you can identify with personally as an actor, in terms of finding your way in the profession and in Hollywood?

Keanu Reeves: Yeah, but it's not only Hollywood. As an actor, you're always begging [laughs]. So it was just fun because by playing Henry, I got to play more than one role in a weird way. He kept changing and becoming more and more human as we meet him.

So what's proven more challenging for you as an actor: Shakespeare [in Much Ado About Nothing] or Chekhov [in Henry's Crime]?

Keanu Reeves: [Draws breath and smiles] Challenging? Hmm... Well, I'd never done any Chekhov before. Actually, that's not true. In school, I did part of a scene from a one-act play he wrote called The Bear. But Chekhov is fun! There's a lot of subtext, and it's fun and funny.

I'd imagine another part of the fun of Henry's Crime is starring alongside such a great cast. James Caan, in particular...

Keanu Reeves: Yeah, it was nice to see him do comedy because he's funny...

And there's that truth-telling aspect to his character - you're never sure whether he's being honest or not...

Keanu Reeves: Yeah, which is great. He had fun with that, and I think that's probably the strongest part of what he related to in the role... this conman who doesn't want to leave jail because "they do everything for you in here!" [Laughs]

I gather he came to your house for a table-read at first? Was that a "pinch me" moment for you personally?

Keanu Reeves: He did, and that was very exciting. But having worked on the script and been a part of it for so long, to have people like James Caan say, "Yeah, I like the script, so I'll take an evening and come over and read the thing", was rewarding but also cool. And then to be acting with him, for him to accept the role, and to get to play with him was fun.

I gather he liked to improvise and mix it up a bit. Did he do anything to catch you off-guard?

Keanu Reeves: He's not really interested in that. He kind of tests you in a way - especially when I'm playing Henry, who is pretty held in. He would shove me around a bit.

How does that compare to going up against the likes of Jack Nicholson [in Something's Gotta Give] and Al Pacino [in The Devil's Advocate]?

Keanu Reeves: You know they're all from kind of the same era. Jack's probably a little earlier. But they're just great. I mean, the economy they have in their acting and their availability. They're so dynamic. They're so interesting to watch and have such unique voices. They just know what they're doing - you're on the floor with Al and Jack and they have a beauty to their acting.

So how much do you still continue to learn as an actor from experiences such as those?

Keanu Reeves: You're there and you keep saying to yourself, "Damn that's good! That's really good!" [Laughs] And they also have such a believability to them and yet there's a performance going on. It's marvellous.

How much did you enjoy going up against Vera Farmiga in Henry's Crime? She's a feisty one in this!

Keanu Reeves: Yeah, she is - isn't she great? I like how many times she says, "What?!" It's like a study in how to get different feelings out of a word. But we got along well, which was nice. She's a gamer. She shows up, she's ready to go and she wants to have fun - she wants to play, to get the scene and she's kind of a "take charge" gal... and very committed. She was going through that Oscar campaign [for Up In The Air] and flying in and out, but she was wonderful.

What attracted you as a producer to Malcolm Venville as a director?

Keanu Reeves: One of the producers on the film saw Malcolm's work and showed it to me. So we looked at some of his shorts, his commercials and his photography and then I met with him - we had dinner in Los Angeles. I liked his framing because he has this kind of intimate objectivity, especially in his photography. But how he spoke about the film... he'd say it was very emotional, so I knew there was a kind of empathy to the characters.From the script, he could see it could be quite light, but it needed a little backbone. And I felt Malcolm could bring that - bringing the emotion to it and somehow underlying the high jinks that take place. I mean, the story's crazy! But hopefully delightful!

Now that you've started to produce your own films, is that something you're going to continue with? And can you see yourself directing at some stage? What's next for you?

Keanu Reeves: I'm here in London working on a film called 47 Ronin, which is a kind of Western, I guess, set in the 1700s with Samurai. And I hope to continue producing. I still have the production company and we're developing scripts and trying to raise money and get them made. As for directing, I don't know... we'll see [smiles].

Interview: Rob Carnevale
Photos: PA/Entertainment

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Keanu Reeves is better known for sci-fi blockbusters than stage classics, so when his latest film role involved a part in a Chekhov play the Matrix star decided he may need some tips.

He knew just where to come — to London to meet West End giants Simon Russell Beale and Sir Jonathan Miller.
In his new film Henry's Crime, released tomorrow, Reeves plays a robber who winds up acting in a production of The Cherry Orchard.
The fate of Reeves's character Henry mirrors that of merchant Lopakhin in the 1904 play.
Along with the film's London-based director Malcolm Venville, Reeves researched his character by interviewing Russell Beale, who played Lopakhin at the Old Vic in 2009, and Sir Jonathan, 76, who directed the play at The Crucible, Sheffield, in 2007.
Henry's Crime is written by Sacha Gervasi, who won an Evening Standard Film Award last year for his heavy metal documentary Anvil. The new dark comedy, which also stars Vera Farmiga and James Caan, was a hit at last autumn's Toronto Film Festival. Reeves, 46, sought out Venville to direct the film after seeing his debut movie, last year's British gangster drama 44-inch Chest.

Venville, 51, said: “Keanu came to London and we did a lot of research together. We went to various Cherry Orchard productions, rehearsals and met Chekhovian actors. Simon gave us tips. And just to have an audience with Sir Jonathan for half an hour was great fun. He got on well with Keanu.”
He added: “I'm really grateful to Keanu for getting this film financed and made. This was his labour.”
Russell Beale, 49, was this week given the Freedom of the City of London for his services to drama.

ARTICLE BY RYAN GILBEY IN THE GUARDIAN.CO.UK

Keanu Reeves: 'I would've broken Kubrick'

No matter what they think of his acting, everyone seems to love Keanu Reeves. He tells Ryan Gilbey about Bill & Ted's return, hogging extra takes and becoming an internet meme

- Ryan Gilbey
- guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 January 2011 21.30 GMT
- Article history

Keanu Reeves is not the greatest film actor in the world, nor is he anywhere close to the worst, but he has some claim to be the most enigmatic, as well as the most warmly adored. That much became indisputably clear last May when the "Sad Keanu" phenomenon erupted online. Reeves had long been cherished, and occasionally mocked, for his work in pictures as diverse as the Matrix trilogy and My Own Private Idaho, Speed and the Bill & Ted films. But it took an unexceptional paparazzi snap of the actor sitting on a park bench, staring disconsolately past the half-eaten sandwich in his hand, to ignite widespread concerns for his welfare and to act as the catalyst for the sort of celebrity deification that only usually comes with death.

Henry's Crime
Production year: 2010
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 107 mins
Directors: Malcolm Venville
Cast: Fisher Stevens, James Caan, Judy Greer, Keanu Reeves, Peter Stormare, Vera Farmiga
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Outnumbering the hundreds of Photoshopped versions of the image that began circulating – Sad Keanu perched alongside Forrest Gump, or gazing at a miniature Sad Keanu on the ground, who in turn was peering at an even tinier Sad Keanu – were messages of support, and testimonies from those who had met Reeves, or simply been inspired by him. Fans pointed out the setbacks and traumas that had dogged the Beirut-born, Toronto-raised actor, from his father deserting him and his mother when Reeves was three through to his sister's leukaemia and the death of his former girlfriend in 2001, two years after she gave birth to their stillborn daughter. What started as light-hearted internet wildfire quickly acquired a serious, even spiritual dimension. Internet forums were littered with stories of Reeves's generosity and altruism: how he had spent $5m on treatment for his sister, bought Harley-Davidson motorcycles for the special effects team on The Matrix Reloaded, given $20,000 to a hard-up set-builder, and frequently bought breakfast and lunch for minor crew members. June 15 was designated Keanu Day by Sad Keanu enthusiasts, and only a total louse would complain that he didn't merit the honour.
There really hadn't been any precedent for such a particularised display of devotion, but then where are the precursors to Reeves himself? There have been other dopey buffoons capable of bringing humorous gradations to the word "Woah!"; other action heroes who could cling to the underside of a speeding bus or strike mid-air kung-fu poses; other indie heartthrobs who could simper sensitively through curtains of hair. No one, though, had previously combined these incompatible elements, or exuded such humility and sincerity in the process. Factor in Reeves's discretion and lack of acclaim – despite being linked to everyone from Parker Posey and Winona Ryder to Diane Keaton and Trinny Woodall, he is as much of a stranger to the gossip columns as he is to the awards season roll-call – and you have an A-list star who has inspired curiosity and protectiveness in equal measure.
When I meet Reeves in a London hotel, there's an air of sobriety about him. He's formal and well-mannered, refusing to sit down before I do. He's dressed in black, apart from grey desert boots and a rainbow-coloured friendship bracelet. His hair is still long and centre-parted; a beard clings in inky clumps to his thin face. But this is no Sad Keanu. The 46-year-old may be hopeless at concealing the discomfort he feels at talking about himself, but whenever the conversation wanders off-piste he becomes larky and liberated.

Take our discussion of his latest film, Henry's Crime, a charming confection about a blue-collar nobody who serves time for a bank heist in which he played no part, only to decide upon his release that he may as well rob the joint anyway. Reeves describes the chasm between the picture's modest shoot (it's the first fruit of Company Films, his own production outfit) and the extravagances typical of blockbusters such as the Matrix movies: "Those films afforded me the chance to do, like, 40 takes," he explains, "and you don't oftentimes get to do that. On Henry's Crime, it was, like, 'Take three? Wow!'" What a shame, I remark, that he never got to work with Stanley Kubrick, the king of the neverending takes. And with that, Reeves is off and running.

"I would've been his wet dream!" he enthuses. "After take 400, Kubrick would've been, [adopts grizzled Brooklyn accent] 'All right, cut!' and I'd be, like, 'Stanley, can I do one more?' 'Whaaat?' 'Look, I know I'm just drinking this glass of water, but I think I can find another side to this. Let's just do one more, OK?' 'Arrrgh, OK, Reeves.' You know what? I would've broken Kubrick. 'Please, sir, can I have some more?' 'Take 600. All you gotta do is walk across the road.' 'Come on, Stanley, one more!'"
He's very proud, he tells me, of Henry's Crime, which he shepherded for five years from conception to release. "Henry has no dream. He's gone along with his life. I feel that's a real story. Sometimes we just go along with things. With him, it stops being OK, and when he decides to rob the bank, he starts to live. It's preposterous, but hopefully it's delightful, too. To me, it's a really good afternoon film. I've had a couple of people come out after it and say, 'Wow, we saw your film and we just wanna go have sex now.' Maybe it just makes you wanna hold someone close. Of all the comments I've heard, that's my favourite." He's missing a trick, I tell him, if he doesn't plaster that quote all over the poster. "Yeah!" he laughs, warming to the idea. "'Watch Henry's Crime! Guaranteed sex! If your girl doesn't put out after this, we'll give you half your money back!'"
Reeves is a snug fit as Henry. His knack for playing the blank page, the human blur, has been mistaken in the past for stupidity or vacancy. Not at all. What he has is a singular Zen-like serenity, a stillness and poise, which can be just as hypnotic amidst the kinetic fury of Speed and The Matrix as it is in the more contemplative dreamscapes of Little Buddha or A Scanner Darkly. The misconception is partly Reeves's own fault. Interviewed in the early 1990s, he played up the stoner-slacker image cultivated in early films such as River's Edge, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Parenthood and I Love You to Death, and declared himself "a meathead".
But 1991 brought two career-changing films. In Gus Van Sant's semi-Shakespearean road movie My Own Private Idaho, Reeves played a Prince Hal figure, with River Phoenix as the hustler who's in love with him; the two actors co-wrote what is now considered the pivotal scene, a campfire heart-to-heart in which Phoenix's character makes his feelings felt. In what seems indicative of Reeves's eclecticism, the same year also brought his performance as a gutsy young FBI agent in Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break, the only known entry in the surfer-heist-action genre.
"Point Break was one of those wonderful surprises," he sighs happily. "I hear it wasn't such an easy sell for Kathryn. 'No, really, he can be an action guy.' 'Come on!' 'No, really.' It was such a leap of faith. Thank you, Kathryn! You changed my life!" He also singles out Bernardo Bertolucci, who saw in him the "impossible innocence" required to play Siddhartha in Little Buddha. "When Bertolucci called, well, that was a nice day. Yes, indeed. I've had a couple of breaks, which is what we all need. You know, we're just dust in the wind, after all." He smiles to himself for smuggling in a Bill & Ted quote.
Despite having worked in the first decade of his career with Stephen Frears (in Dangerous Liaisons), Bigelow, Van Sant, Bertolucci, Coppola (Bram Stoker's Dracula) and Kenneth Branagh (Much Ado About Nothing), it still took many years for Reeves to shake the general impression that he was, in the unforgettable words of one character in Point Break, "young, dumb and full of cum". In fact, he has always been merciless with himself; Sam Raimi, who cast Reeves against type as an abusive husband in The Gift, noted his tendency to berate himself after each take. "He has a severe intensity," Raimi once remarked. "After a take, he'd step outside and you'd just hear him cursing himself. Just shouting, loudly, at himself." Reeves squirms a little when I bring it up. "Yeah," he shrugs. "Well, on the Matrix films, for sure I was very particular about the physical side of the acting. I felt that with the aesthetic of what the Wachowski brothers were going for, you know, I was part of that and it was my duty just to make it all look good."
After Point Break and Speed, the Matrix trilogy ratified Reeves as an action star, and also gave him one of the largest pay-deals in Hollywood history, bringing him an estimated $260m. Not that it's encouraged him to play it safe. His range remains impressive, taking in everything from middlebrow love stories (The Lake House, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee) and romcom (Something's Gotta Give) to fantasy (Constantine, The Day the Earth Stood Still) and US independents (Thumbsucker).

When I mention Street Kings, a sinewy little thriller that provided him with a rare latter-day opportunity to return to meathead territory, he smacks his lips: "Ah, Street Kings," he says, in mock-grand thespian English. "That was almost good. It had a certain … vitality." I wonder how easily he reconciles himself to those films which don't turn out as strong as might have been hoped. "It comes with age, doesn't it?" he says, in a trembling John Gielgud voice which suggests he is about to address me as "dear boy". The habit indicates not only goofiness, but a desire to keep any serious or prying enquiries at bay. If he's joking about a subject, chances are he won't have to address it directly.

Given that he is now four years shy of 50, it would probably be best to make that third Bill & Ted film sooner rather than later. Reeves tell me that there are writers working on it as we speak, and that he'd love to play that good-natured dimwit Ted one last time. "We'll see what they come up with," he says. He's in such cheery spirits that I don't mind mentioning the matter of Sad Keanu, but there's a definite downwards shift in room temperature when I do. It's not that he's frosty about it exactly; he just seems nonplussed whenever anything pertaining to his image comes up.
He says he heard about Sad Keanu some time after the fact. "I was made aware of it. And I thought it was funny. Yeah. But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer. Even though, conceptually, what was going on was pretty funny." He says this evenly, in a way that does not suggest he took any great succour or amusement from the whole episode. He seems uncomfortable with the attention, however benign in essence, and why wouldn't he be? In the last few years, he has had to contend with a lawsuit from a paparazzo who accused him of assault (the jury cleared Reeves in an hour) and a $3m paternity suit from an Ontario woman who claimed the actor had disguised himself as her husband before fathering her four children. Reeves, who had never met the woman, took a paternity test, and the suit was dismissed.
Still, I'm determined to convince him that there was a heartwarming side to the Sad Keanu affair, so I read him an excerpt from an article by this paper's Kira Cochrane. "The public feels for him," she wrote. "We want to protect Keanu because we can tell he's good." He stares back at me with a faint smile and says,"That's nice," in a way that suggests he considers it to be anything but. Oh dear. I do hope all this talk of Sad Keanu hasn't made Keanu sad.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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KEANU REEVES: I'M NOT A FIGHTER ~ press association/uk

Keanu Reeves: I'm not a fighter

(UKPA) – 5 hours ago

Keanu Reeves has confessed he is terrible at fighting in real life.
The star of The Matrix admits he may appear a champion fighter on screen, but in real life he doesn't know what to do.
Keanu told Total Film magazine: "I'm a really good movie fighter but it doesn't translate to the real world."
He went on: "If they gave out black belts for movie fighting, I'm second dan. But in real life? I'm nothing."
As well as martial arts expert Neo in the Matrix movies, Keanu is known for playing dopey drop-out Ted in Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure.
The 46-year-old Canadian actor confirmed he and co-star Alex Winter are working on getting a third Bill And Ted movie made.
He said: "We're trying. Alex and I are still friends and we're talking to Chris [Matheson] and Ed [Solomon - the writers].
"I would love to play the role and I'd love to work with Alex and Chris and Ed again."

HENRY'S CRIME ~ UK RELEASE DATE ~ JANUARY 14, 2011

THE FIRST POSTER FROM 'HENRY'S CRIME' ~ KEANU REEVES NEW FEATURE UK RELEASE DATE JANUARY 14, 2011

HERE IS AN ARTICLE FROM: http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2011/01/06/the-first-poster-for-henrys-crime-starring-keanu-reeves/

A couple of days ago we were the first to post the new trailer for Keanu Reeves’ new movie, Henry’s Crime and today Entertainment Films have sent over the poster. Henry’s Crime is set for release January 14th. We’re lucky enough to be interviewing Keanu next week so if you have any questions you’d like us to try and ask, please feel free to send them through or add them into the comments section below.
Henry’s Crime also also stars Vera Farmiga and James Caan and sees Henry (Reeves) escape from prison to commit the crime that he never committed in the first place!
Have a read of the synopsis below for more info or scroll down to view the poster.

Synopsis: Working the night shift as a toll collector on a lonely stretch of highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry (KEANU REEVES) is a man without ambition, dreams or purpose. He gets his wakeup call early one morning when he becomes an unwitting participant in an ill-conceived bank heist.
Rather than give up the names of the real culprits, Henry takes the fall and goes to jail. There, he meets the irrepressible Max (JAMES CAAN), a con man who’s grown far too comfortable with the familiarity and security of his ‘idyllic’ life behind bars. He’s not about to leave prison. But he helps plant an idea in Henry’s mind that will change his life forever.
Upon his release one year later, Henry finds his purpose. Having done the time, he decides he may as well do the crime. Discovering a long forgotten bootlegger’s tunnel, which runs from the very same bank to a theater across the alleyway, he recruits his reluctant former cellmate to stage a robbery. Their plan is simple: By infiltrating the theater and its current production of “The Cherry Orchard,” the unlikely duo will buy just enough time to dig their way to the bank vault and drive off into the sunset. Unfortunately, that plan also includes Henry taking the lead role in the play, where he finds himself slowly falling for the production’s mercurial leading lady, Julie (VERA FARMIGA).

FIRST POSTER FOR "HENRY'S CRIME" STARRING KEANU REEVES

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2011/01/06/the-first-poster-for-henrys-crime-starring-keanu-reeves/

The Dead Weather - "I Cut Like A Buffalo" Version II (Official Video)

OH THAT JACK WHITE...

Creepy Christmas.

ooo ~~ i love creepy christmas parties!! they are the best!!

Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries

a treat from berman

Top US Official MURDERED for Exposing Cause of Bird & Fish Kills WMD Pho...

i was discussing the fact that first we had birds fall from the sky, then we had fish coming up dead. my friend bob sends me this along with an article about seas turning red in india...oh my!

She and Him - I Put a Spell on You

one o' the only reasons to own a tv set ~~ conan o'brien is back on the air!! i have adored this soul since the day i laid eyes upon him...watch him and see why i'll forever love that man!! i have a couple weeks o' shows to watch!! i've laughed so hard during each one so far ~~ i think i'll have the best abs in towne if he keeps crackin' me up!!!

Thursday, January 6, 2011

A VIEW FROM SPACE

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48244

Elijah Wood Dancey Dance

I WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO DO ELIJAH'S PUPPET MASTER DANCEY DANCE!!!
LET'S DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barbra Streisand- Being At War With Each Other (sister&brother remix)

when i was a super wee lass ~~ i adored barbra streisands voice!! i went straight into the wherehouse on sunset boulevard and western avenue (tis no longer there) while me mum shopped at alpha beta, i purchased my first LP with my own money ~ twas barbra streisand's 'the way we were' LP.

i listened to this song repeatedly on rainy days!! the first album i ever fell madly in love with!! it's my fave gem in my collection!

Barbra Streisand Berlin Happy Birthday

i got this treat 3 different times!! how sweet and supremely excellent is that!!!????

Happy Birthday Mr. President

my all time fave version o' this song!! i used to call folks on their birthday and sing this to them!! i got pretty dang good at imitating her voice!! now with facebook n all i can give the actual version to folks for their special day and have done it since 2007ish when i first joined facebook.

lucky me ~~ sam gave this lovely treat for my special day!!!

Cat singing Happy Birthday song

aww cuteness from lady mallory

Wendybird

i received this lovely treasure from the lovely lady ever heart!! way cool!!

Edith Massy Sings

received this lovely treat from my fave page on facebook ~~ decaying hollywood mansions!!

Vivian Maier, street photographer and nanny

i had chills from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the whole time i watched this! oh, wow!

Royksopp - What Else Is There (Trentemoller Remix)

an introduction to goodness from my crunch crunch friend!!! she always has crunchi goodness!!!

Fitz & The Tantrums: LIVE [First Fridays (at Natural History Museum)] - ...

one o' the reasons i am completely addicted to facebook ~~ my cyberfbfamily have the most amazing taste in music, movies, art and fashion!! i adore each and everyone o' them!! may their lights shine for all eternity!!!

thank you for being my source of entertainment, news and wonderful events!!! i love you all!!!!

Twin Flames ~ Journey to Unconditional Love

Barbra Streisand Berlin Happy Birthday

aww bday email treat from joey!!! i loves my babs!!!

Edith Massy Sings

this bday treat is from charles l ~~ decaying hollywood mansions i love you!!!

African Grey parrot BoBo saying Happy Birthday in Cantonese

see why i love facebook??? i get the bestest treats from my cyberfamily!!! they made my 43rd bday spectacular!!!! this is from bob r!

Happy Tree Friends - Happy Birthday

my friend alan on facebook sent me this treat for my birthday!!! lol i love it!!! ne'er heard of this happy tree friends!! i think i love them!!

I Just Called To Say I Love You

my world over on facebook has made this years birthday a quite remarkable one!! this is my special thank you to all of them for their beautiful, uplifting, funny, loving and caring wishes they gave me! they truly made me feel supremely special!!!

thank you facebook for connecting me to folks from my past that i never thought i'd see again! the sunset strip was a massive influx of people. one weekend they were around ~ the next they became famous and you ne'er saw them againe.

i love them all and just wanted to tell them all and thank them for being them!! i love them all!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hooray For Hollywood ! Performed by Doris Day

Hollywood High School ~ My Alma Mater! Located at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue. I went there from 1982 - 1985. I loved that institution of learning! I loved my teachers, my counselors, my principle and most of all the students. The majority of which ~ thanks to Myspace and Facebook ~ I am now back in contact with.

The football field is located on the backside of the campus. Across from this field is a massive apartment building with rows of windows facing the goal posts. On this field during first period the marching band assembled to learn to play this song.

I felt so sorry for the occupants of that building! Starting right after the last bell rang, the horn section would begin it's assault on this tune. It was early. It was loud. It was awful!

It took me many years to be able to listen to this song without hearing the students of my class massacre one of my favourite tunes. I grew up loving "That's Entertainment!" I watched every installment that KTLA - channel 5 showed.

One would think by the end of the school year they'd ever get the song down. I don't think they ever did in any of the years I attended that school! Oh, my goodnesses, come to think of it...I do believe my 10th grade year (my 1st year there ~ they've changed it since I graduated - with honours - 9th graders are there as well! whoa, dude!) was the only year Hollywood High was in the Hollywood Christmas Lane Parade. My 11th and 12th grade years there were NO marching bands to be in the parade. It was so sad.

I grew up on the street the parade route began. I'd attended every parade since I was 4 years old and now that I am a student there and can proudly watch my school march along side my fave high school marching band Locke High! Nope. Not any o' my years. I sort of lost interest in the parade after that. I hid from it. Far, far, far away from it!

It's taken me over 20 years to be able to listen to this song without hearing that horrendous horn section of a high school marching band rip it to shreds. It's nice to be able to appreciate the smoothness of Day's voice as she croons this lil' diddie!

~~ WHERE ANY OFFICE BOY
OR YOUNG MACHANIC
CAN BE A PANIC
WITH JUST A GOOD LUCKIN' PAN

AND ANY BARMAID
CAN BE A STAR MADE
IF SHE DANCES
WITH OR WITHOUT A FAN

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
WHERE YOU'RE TERRIFIC
IF YOU'RE EVEN GOOD

WHERE ANYONE FROM
TV'S LASSIE
TO MONROE'S CHASSIS
IS EQUALLY UNDERSTOOD

GO OUT AND TRY YOUR LUCK
YOU MIGHT BE DONALD DUCK

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!

Hooray For Hollywood! That's Entertainment!

A video o' my home towne ~~ my ol' skate park. I enjoyed flying on 4 wheels (on my skateboard) and sometimes 8 (on rollerskates) on this smooth paved surface. I've been to many a towne big and small and so far there hasn't been one yet that can pull me away from the place that became my play ground ~~ HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!!! ~~

january 5th, 1968

Today is January 5th, 2011. On this date in 1968 I was borne. Some say that one does not remember things from infancy, but I am convinced that I do. I have told my older brother of these 'dreams' that I had and he confirmed for me that yes, these events did happen, they are not dreams.

My first memory is of pale blue light. I am on a hard surface. It's dark but the hint of blue shines through whatever it is that is loosely surrounding my head and face. It feels like I am wrapped tightly in what looks like a white blanket or something. I can see the patterns in the material covering my eyes ~ the light is filtering through. It's almost like it's one of those cotton blankets from the '60's that I adore so. The light is so pretty. Super pale blue.

(The light he tells me is the light from the television set he set me on the floor in front of. He would wrap me in a blanket and lay there with me as he watched his favourite shows.)

The sounds I hear are sounds that now I realize what they are and it cracks me up. I remember hearng the names, Moe, Morticia, Gomez, Speed, Trixxi and Chim Chim were so familiar to me for many, many years. The sound of laughter and the rush of speeding cars. Weird gong noises really made me giggle.

(These are the sounds of the television shows he watched with me: The Addams Family, The Twilight Zone, The Three Stooges, Speed Racer and Benny Hill. Now I know why I adore each and everyone of them! My big brother watched them all while he took care of me. Ok so I can't stand Benny Hill now ~ tho' I love all things British!)

I guess this is where I start my blog...with the sound of canned laughter, car chases, groovy ghoulies and a stooge thrown in here and there! I want to use this forum to remember the crazy world that was hollywood that I grew up in. I still live near there and all the places I adore are gone. I want to relive my 'hood and share with you the joy that was and is my lovely, adorable, beautiful, shady, ellusive, dark, riveting, enticing, inviting tinsel towne. It's Hollywood...it's the place I was borne ~~ January 5th, 1968 ~~ HAPPY 43RD BIRTHDAY TO ME!

me in Orlando, Fl

May 2010

Me waiting in the rental car while the Adams family shopped.