AN INCONVEINIENT TRUTH

This film is an absolute must-see, the single most important film ever made!!! ~ The Hollywood Bureau

Source: http://www.climatecrisis.net

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.

If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.

With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point - and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective, to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most important cause of his life - convinced that there is still time to make a difference.

With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization.

The New Face

Image courtesy of Next NY Photo: Seth Sabal

Voila Hanna Paat was discovered by New York City modeling agency NEXT. This stunning 5 foot 11 inch 16 year old hails from Estonia. We predict big things for this gorgeous new face; she is winning great praise from industry insiders already. Every time this statuesque beauty walks down a runway she captivates new fans.

Keep your eye on this beauty as she redefines and inspires – we predict big things for this future supermodel.

Celebrities on this Season's "The Simpsons"

The list of impressive and eclectic guest voices continues to grow, with actors like Kiefer Sutherland, Natalie Portman, Michael Imperioli, Joe Pantoliano, Joe Mantegna, The White Stripes and Dr. Phil McGraw making voice appearances next season on The Simpsons airing Sundays (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

Homer becomes a made man in the 18th season premiere episode "The Mook, The Chef, The Wife And His Homer," airing Sunday, Sept. 10 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT). After Lisa befriends Fat Tony's (Mantegna, reprising his role as Springfield's infamous mob boss) son Michael, Fat Tony invites the Simpsons over for dinner as a sign of gratitude. Shockingly, Fat Tony is shot by a rival family moments after Michael admits he would rather be a chef than take over the family business. Fat Tony's main thugs, Dante and Dante Jr. (guest voices Pantoliano and Imperioli), want Michael to be the new kingpin, but when he declines, Homer steps up and leads the family on a major mob spree.

The White Stripes guest-star as themselves in "Jazzy And The Pussycats" Sunday, Sept. 17. After Bart's arm is mangled by a tiger that Lisa rescued from the local pound, Bart organizes a benefit concert to raise money for an operation to repair his drumming arm.

Dr. Phil McGraw, Fran Drescher and comedian Richard Lewis stir up tricks and treats in the annual "ghoultide" Halloween trilogy, "Treehouse of Horror XVII," Sunday, Nov. 5. In "GI (Annoyed Grunt)," Sunday, Nov. 12, after Bart gets out of a commitment to join the Army at 18, Homer falls prey to a couple of Army recruiters and lands himself in basic training. Homer, of course, treats this like summer camp and infuriates his hard-nosed colonel (Sutherland) when he is unfazed by the constant hazing and humiliation.

Other upcoming guest voices include famed authors Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen. Later in the season, Portman, Lovitz, White, Hamlin and Idle also pay Springfield a visit.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Klein and Freddie Prinze Jr. have agreed to star in the comedy, New York City Serenade. A film that is loosely inspired by the life of actor-filmmaker Frank Whaley, who also wrote and will direct……………. the New York-based flick revolves around two close friends who realize that sometimes to keep a friend you have to grow up and grow apart. Prinze plays Owen, an aspiring filmmaker suffering in a job at the local photomat; he's engaged to Lynn (Sigler), his only love in life. Owen's childhood friend Ray (Klein) is a drummer, ex-husband and father who plays the dive bar circuit, often for drunken crowds prone to violence.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler is in final negotiations to co-star alongside Klein & Prinze.

No production schedule has been set for New York City Serenade.

MIAMI VICE Hits Theaters

For almost 30 years director Michael Mann has reined as one the most compelling filmmakers, and his consistent level of artistry has created an indelible influence on cinema. His stylish, lasting dramas from Manhunter and Heat to The Insider and Collateral examine the complicated dynamic -- and sometimes indefinite margin -- between criminals and those struggling to keep one step ahead of them, even at the cost of their own psyches.This Friday Michael Mann premieres the feature film based on the 1980’s hit franchise on which he first gained his reputation in television: Miami Vice.

According to writer F.X. Feeney, in his book Michael Mann (Taschen, 2006), "After Collateral, Mann lost no time choosing Miami Vice as his next project. What attracted him to the original teleplay in 1984 -- the reality of life undercover -- he finds no less compelling in our new, 'globalized' millennium." Mann's interest in telling the story of a dark world connected through "multicommodity," continues Feeney, lies in the fact that "drugs, weapons, pirated software, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, even human beings are all routinely trafficked and sold, across international boundaries."In the mid-'80s, the television series Miami Vice, with a brilliant pilot screenplay written by the show's creator Anthony Yerkovich, arrived and created a tectonic revolution in television. Drawing its creative inspiration from Mann's work, Miami Vice became one of the most groundbreaking series in television history, pioneering a new way in which televised dramas were conceived and staged. As Film Comment critic Richard T. Jameson remarked at the time, "It's hard to forbear saying, every five minutes or so, 'I can't believe this was shot for television!'"

Now, the filmmaker comes back to his "new Casablanca," Miami, where third world drug running intersects with the billion-dollar corporate-industrial complex -- for the first postmillennial examination of what globalized crime looks and feels like -- with a big-screen contemporization of Miami Vice, one unrestricted by the limitations of television.

The roles he helped to create of Miami vice cops "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs are inhabited by COLIN FARRELL and Academy Award winner JAMIE FOXX, who both underwent extensive training and simulations by undercover officers from the DEA, FBI, ATF, Miami-Dade Police Department (including S.W.A.T.) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) -- people who themselves tread the dangerous world of international trafficking.Crockett and Tubbs work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida. During the film the lines will get crossed as the partners start forgetting not only which way is up, but on which side of the law they're supposed to be........

Directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino screened footage from their new exploitation double feature Grindhouse today at the 2006 Comic-Con International. The 5 minute clip titled Planet Terror opened with the same Technicolor type opening that Kill Bill had. This film was shot digitally however the film is grainy with a very "campy" feel. Tom Savini is playing a sheriff and he hears some weird noises coming from his police car. He then realizes that the prisoner that he had captured has escaped. The clip screams on as Savini has a finger bitten off – then we transition through effects to a shot of Rose McGowan running around missing a leg while the film’s lead Freddy Rodriguez gives her a table leg as a stump. The clip progresses into a scene of Rodriguez engaged in a knife fight zombie-like creatures.

According to the director, these things look like zombies but they are not. Rodriguez kills a few of them and then as more descend upon him he runs up the wall, does a Hong Kong style flip and we burn into a shot of Rodriguez outfitting McGowan’s stump with a machine gun. Then they are next seen on a motorcycle as McGowan shoots the creatures that jump in their way.

After this we were treated to a faux trailer for a movied called Machete with Danny Trejo, a rough biker character that wears a long trench coat lined with long knives and swords who kills bad guys and gets all the girls.

Tarantino, whose slasher movie Death Proof (the second of the Grindhouse features) starts shooting in about four weeks, told attendees at the Con that he always wanted to make a exploitation film that lived up to the cool poster artwork that accompanied most of the vintage exploitation movies. "We're going to make two, sleazy grindhouse movies that will deliver on the posters… and beyond!" said Tarantino. "This isn't some Twilight Zone the Movie f**king thing. This is not a faux double feature. This is two f**king movies for the price of one! You're $10 will be well spent at the Grindhouse, baby!"

Rodriguez said the Planet Terror shoots were solely at night and that he is talking with John Carpenter about providing music for the feature.

Tarantino also added that he would like to make two anime Kill Bill prequels. The first would be an origin film about Bill and his mentors, while the second would be another tale including The Bride.

Source: Blender

The mighty men of San Angelo, Texas, rarely let a solo run longer than it takes to finish a beer.

Reviewed by Jon Dolan

Los Lonely Boys have a vision for America: a lime in every Corona, a wah-wah guitar solo on every jukebox and what happens in Texico stays in Texico. The brothers Garza — guitarist Henry, bassist JoJo and drummer Ringo — remade pedal-stomping jams as dinner-date pop by streamlining stodgy Lone Star axe-slinging into tight packages that don’t confuse proving their manhood with testing your endurance. Sacred, the follow-up to their multiplatinum 2003 debut, adds flourishes like the country-tinged rocker “Outlaws” and the Havana slow dance “I Never Found a Woman,” but the bros stick to the script they wrote three years ago — Santana solos minus girly cameos, Los Lobos vocal warmth minus L.A. artsiness. Just tres hombres messing with the blues as politely as any real man can.

Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television announced the launch of a new, live, national morning program, scheduled to begin airing in January 2007. The new show will originate from New York and will air on all the owned-and-operated Fox affiliates. Hosted by Mike Jerrick and Juliet Huddy of FOX News Channel's DaySide, the show will be live from 9-10 a.m., in most markets, and feature entertainment and general interest programming. Both anchors will continue their DaySide duties until Fall 2006.In making the announcement, Fox Television Stations CEO, Jack Abernethy, stated, "The timing is perfect for us to launch this program as the morning news blocks on our Fox stations are stronger than they've ever been. That strength, coupled with the changing face of the morning news landscape, convinced us that the time to take advantage of this opportunity is now."

According to Bob Cook, President and COO of Twentieth Television, "We are extremely excited about bringing this national morning program to the Fox Television Stations and will look to build off the unprecedented success of their local morning news programs to create appointment viewing." He continued, "The vibrant chemistry between Mike and Juliet will be a refreshing addition to the morning show arena."The Fox Television Stations group, headed by Chairman Roger Ailes, is one of the nation's largest owned-and-operated network broadcast groups, comprising 35 stations in 26 markets and covering nearly 45% of U.S. television homes. This includes five duopolies in the top 10 markets: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Washington D.C.; as well as duopolies in Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix and Orlando.

Sony Pictures has sent The Hollywood Bureau the new second teaser poster for the next Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man 3. The poster hit various North American theaters this week displayed in a backlit lenticular, which, depending on the angle in which you face the poster, will change Spidey's suit from red to black.

A third adventure with Tobey Maguire again playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Kirsten Dunst playing Mary Jane Watson and Sam Raimi in the director's chair. Spider-Man 3 is set to hit theaters May 4th, 2007 and stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Topher Graceand Bryce Dallas Howard.

Source: Blender

When you broke in 2000 with “I’m Like a Bird,” you were a funky boho chick, kind of an anti-Britney. Now you’re releasing your third album, and you’ve turned into a midriff-baring sex bomb. What happened?

I made the new album in Miami and I felt really sexy there. Miami accepts booty! Plus, when I came into the business, I was really intimidated by all those girls who had been on the Mickey Mouse Club when they were kids. I’m just now catching up, accepting my job more. My video choreographer taught me how to move in all these different ways. I’m more at ease with my body than I have ever been. Is your booty your best asset? Physically speaking, yes. I like it. It’s good. It’s nice to have something to hold on to. It’s just coming out of the woodwork, though, so it’s still shy. It doesn’t want too much spotlight.

Your first record, Whoa, Nelly!, sold 2 million copies; your second one, 2003’s Folklore, sold one-quarter of that. Did you worry that you were washed up at 24?

I was talking to Jimmy Iovine, the boss at my new label, and he thinks that Folklore is like U2’s Pop — not quite there. I wasn’t smiling and jumping up and down anymore; I was wearing a guitar and looked serious. Four or five songs have Portuguese folk music. That’s just crazy. After Folklore, I realized I had maybe taken certain things for granted. Like, isn’t everyone’s first performance on SNL? Isn’t everyone’s first interview with Vanity Fair? Doesn’t everyone open for U2 and win a Grammy? Whoops! I should have appreciated all that stuff, especially the free clothes.

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Sheryl Crow sat down with Vanity Fair Magazine for an in depth interview – discussing her battle against breast cancer and her break-up with Lance Armstrong.

Crow says it was difficult to be apart from ex-fiancé Lance Armstrong after she was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. "It was difficult, you know, I know he wanted to be there.” Crow and Armstrong announced their breakup in February. The 44-year-old rocker says the split was "devastating" for both of them. "I do think about Lance every day," she says. "And I think about his kids every day." When Crow learned she had cancer, she contacted the seven-time Tour de France champion, who was on a solo road trip from Lake Tahoe to Oregon.

"When I got that news, I can't even describe it," says Armstrong, who is a survivor of testicular cancer. "It was the cruelest twist. ... I actually turned around to make the drive to L.A. We talked along the way and she said, `You know, I just don't think that's a great idea.' According to Armstrong, Crow told him she felt "it would be hard on her in trying to manage the breakup and the diagnosis. And I totally understood."

Says the 34-year-old Armstrong of their split: "We were at different points in our lives." Crow says her romantic relationships never seem to lead to the altar. "I think that if I wanted to be married I would be married by now," she says. "And, for whatever reason, I haven't done it. I've picked people who've helped me to not make that happen."Crow will begin a tour with John Mayer on Aug. 24 in Pittsburgh. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Emmy Nominations Announced

Suspense drama 24 and Grey's Anatomy, the hit medical drama that focuses as much on its interns' love lives as medicine, were among the top nominees announced today for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

The leading nominee, with 16 nominations, was the miniseries Into the West.
Grey's Aanatomy and 24 were nominated for best drama, the other nominees are House, The Sopranos and The West Wing. The nominees for best comedy are Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Scrubs, Two and a Half Men and The Office.

Desperate Housewives, which lost its status as critical darling in its sophomore season although it held its ratings, wasn't nominated in the comedy category it won last year. Lost met the same fate, missing out on a best-drama bid although it won the honor in 2005.

For 24, Kiefer Sutherland received a best-actor bid. Among the Grey's Anatomy stars recognized were Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh and Chandra Wilson. The show was shut out of the best-actress and actor categories.

Other best-actor nominations went to Peter Krause of Six Feet Under, Denis Leary of Rescue Me, Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Martin Sheen of The West Wing.
Three best-actress bids went to stars of shows that have left the air: Frances Conroy of Six Feet Under, Geena Davis of Commander in Chief and Allison Janney of The West Wing. Other nominees were Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Kyra Sedgwick of The Closer.

The nominees for best actress in a comedy series were Stockard Channing of Out of Practice, Jane Kaczmarek of Malcolm in the Middle, Lisa Kudrow of The Comeback, Debra Messing for Will & Grace and Louis-Dreyfus for The New Adventures of Old Christine.

Louis-Dreyfus, who won previously for Seinfeld, was joined by another past Emmy winner, Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond) to announce nominations in the top categories in a brief televised ceremony Thursday at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre.

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards will play the swashbuckling father of Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow character in the third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed that Richards would have a cameo role in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End which is due to start filming next month in California. Depp has said he adopted the body language and annerisms of the veteran guitarist to create Captain Jack's character."We're all looking forward to the idea of Keith coming in and doing a cameo," Depp said in London. He went on to say "You never say it's definite until the guy steps on the set and the camera is rolling. But it's looking very, very good," he said.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!