Poor Lords Rich Us

Austin's got a new project and it's with an old friend of John's

Austin is slated as part of the cast for Poor Lords.  And it's JFC's doctor
Garrett Delahunt confirmed as part of the cast too.

And the tag for this story:

When a wayward stripper and an overprotective sailor find themselves on the run together, they quickly discover that their past secrets have a way of catching up with them.

 Poor Lords is a modern myth about two outcast lovers and the ethereal journey they take in search of a home they never had. Having strayed far from her strict religious upbringing, Ruth finds herself living a life she never intended as a low-class stripper, among other unmentionable things. Glenn is a Navy deserter in hiding, barely making ends meet as a custodian. When Glenn violently defends Ruth’s honor against a grabby patron, he loses his job and Ruth makes the impulse decision to run away with him. Troubles quickly mount as the marooned couple struggles to navigate their volatile relationship and fugitive status. Complicating things further is the scorned strip club manager - Jim - who won't let go of Ruth easily. A confluence of misadventures and narrow escapes leads them to a local river with mysterious power. Despite the young lovers’ deep affection, each must learn to trust the other through heartbreak, triumph, and the questionably random fates that befall us all.


Can't they just rewrite it and make Austin's the wayward stripper. Ruth works - Babe Ruth.  Now that's a stripper name.

Who wouldn't love a stripper with a big - bat -ehm swing!

And you know he believes in Sparkle Motion.

 And you want bet he knows how to work a pole?

Luck of the (Texas) Irish

 Some more pictures of Austin and Co. on the set of San Patricios.

It definitely looks more modern day and a story of two Irish brothers Tommy and Sean.

They did an awesome job casting Patrick Flueger and Austin as brothers.

Both brothers are married.

Tommy (Austin) is married to Margaret played by Julianna Guill and their daughter Emily played by Farrah Sinclair Mackenzie.

Sean is married to Claudia played by Daniella Alonso

Also starring in the movie Kris Kristofferson and Beau Bridges. Not sure if they are brothers too or not.  Stay tuned.   

No doubt Austin will love getting a chance to work with both of them.  Talk about Texas bad ass... that's Kristofferson.  Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Director, Producer.  Kristofferson wrote Me and Bobby McGee which was made famous by his one girlfriend Janis Joplin, sang with Waylon, Willie and Johnny as Highwaymen,  went toe to toe with Barbra in Star in Born, and made two movies with one of Austin's favorite directors Sam Peckinpah in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid  and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia just to name a few things on his long resume. 

 Beau is part of an acting dynasty and has a long career starting with working with his dad and brother.  He and Austin have a couple of things in common a not only played characters named Baker (Fabulous Baker Boys) but have both worked with Beth Grant. Austin in House of Usher, and Beau in the hilarious black comedy Sordid Lives.  

Double Feature

Prisoners is sneaking a peek, and Austin's getting deep.

There was a sneak peek of Jake and Hugh today and a little more about the Prisoner storyline.

Detective Loki and Jackman's Keller Dover are working on different levels in Prisoners. "This is instinct meeting institution, and neither of us looks very happy. But there are similarities between the two of them, which is why they butt heads."

A scene in which Jackman confronts [Jake] in his car, about keeping a suspect in custody, also marks a key point in the unfolding drama.

"They have a chance to work together, but at this moment, my character goes off on his own," says Jackman. "This is where there is a parting of the ways. And it's the beginning of some pretty hairy stuff."

 Torture to be exact. Jackman kidnaps the man he believes committed the crime (played by Paul Dano in full creepy mode). It's a desperate, criminal effort to extract vital information about the disappearance of his daughter and another missing girl.

Jake goes on to say "The movie doesn't condone violence, but at that same time it's so relatable to need to solve the situation yourself as a parent, taking things into your own hands."

Everyone is considered a suspect, including Detective Loki (Jake) who is obsessed with the criminal mind.  Maria Bello plays Hugh's wife and  Terrence Howard and Viola Davis plays the parents of the other missing girl.

Prisoners comes out September 20th


And then there's Austin

Earlier he tweeted....

 Deep into rehearsals for my new movie. Story of two brothers in Texas. Hope y'all like this one. -AUS10

Hmmmm it sounds a little what.....Cane & Abel?   One Tree Hill?  Dallas?   

Don't go too deep Austin or you'll need to strap on your big rubba boots.

But it also looks likes from Liev's twitpic today that Austin's might be a part of the last episode  of Ray Donovan's first season that they started shooting this week.

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Strong or Stronger?

A few years ago the talk was about Jake and Matt Damon competing to play Lance Armstrong in a biopic.  After all the of the recent events there was a Whew... Jake missed that bullet.

But  would he consider going for a second round?

Paramount Pictures and JJ Abrams'  Bad Robot partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are planning to make a movie about Lance's epic rise and fall.   They’ve secured the screen rights to Cycle Of Lies: The Fall Of Lance Armstrong, a proposal for a book that will be written by Juliet Macur for HarperCollins. "

"Macur is a sports reporter for The New York Times, and she has covered Armstrong for over a decade, through the cyclist’s recovery from deadly cancer to his capturing seven Tour de France title."  She's covered the doping  allegations long before Lance's confession to Oprah.

 While the movie Jake was in the running for was a heroic story of triumphant over adversity,  Abram's picture will be a fall of grace story which in fact would be a more compelling story.  The complexity of the deception and the complicated layered character study of a man deceiving the world and himself that he's doing anything wrong.  Talk about Oscar bait.

So WWJGD?

Would he throw his hat in the ring for the new picture about the fallen hero and use what he knows about Lance?

Or does he walk about and say "whew.....that was a close one"?

All in.....???

 Jake's going back to his roots-  indie roots.

  According to The Hollywood Reporter Jake is going to be on the road and headed to the tables.   Reports are that he is going star in Mississippi Grind.

 The focus of the movie is  two gambling addicts enabling each other on a road trip through the South "with dreams of recouping everything they've lost on bad bets."  Jake's  going play the younger of the pair, while the elder — which THR dubs "a plum role for Hollywood's fortysomething set" — has yet to be cast.

With a budget of less than $10 million it looks more like intimate kind of movie with short shooting schedule.  Will Jake try to squeeze it after his play wraps and before the end of the year?  Or will the Grind be Jake's first project of 2013?

Jake's got some work to do for this one.  He's a big bag of tells.

Maybe he needs to get someone to show him how to do a legit poker face.

 It looks the movie is more about the dynamic of the two pair than exploits of one or the other.   Casting the right person to work off of Jake is key to his success as well as the movie's.

 So who do you see as part of this betting pair?

The OMG Movie Club

This month's movie was My Beautiful Laundrette.

South London, of the 1980's, the city being reconfigured by the Thatcherite “revolution” and the social tensions, and seen through the eyes of the Asian community My Beautiful Laundrette tells the story of the unlikely romance between a working-class British thug and a first-generation Pakistani entrepreneur.

Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is sent away by his disillusioned alcoholic father, still unable to get over his wife's suicide, to go work for Omar's Uncle Nasser, a successful businessman. Taking on the challenge Omar soon rises to accept Nasser's proposition that he begin his business career by reviving a down on its luck laundrette.

The laundrette offers all kinds of opportunities for Omar -- lucrative, romantic and ultimately, utopian. Enter Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) when Johnny's skinhead street gang terrorized Omar's uncle Nasser. Johnny is a former friend with implications of more from their past. No matter how their re-acquaintance came about it is obvious there's still a palpable connection between Omar and Johnny. In fact, it's true love. Together they work to make the laundrette the best they can think it can be. Johnny helping Omar to manage and renovate the peeling walls, bubbling washers and useless public phone booth turning the forgotten and neglected in something beautiful. Much like they do for the other.




With a unconventionality, charm, wit, combined with a grittiness look it touches on virtually every thread of race, class, and capital in the British social fabric while telling a love story of two young men who are not only lovers and supposed adversaries in race, and class, finding themselves not belonging to anyone except each other.

Couple of thoughts:

Do Omar and Johnny truly fall in love for the first time this time? Or do they fall back in love? Rekindling something that once was either fleeting or maybe experimental phases in the their lives? Did they let themselves be open this time to the feelings before?

Do you think who does the wash and for whom and what can and cannot be washed and by the laundrette itself was symbolic of economic setting, social and sexual oppression, mobility and class, desire to dream, and potential equity?


My Beautiful Laundrette - British Film Guide

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!

This is from an interview in AV Club with Tracy Morgan, who co- stars in Nailed .

AVC: You're scheduled to play a major role in Nailed, David O. Russell's next film. What's your character like?

TM: Well, I play a guy that has an anal prolapse. And we're like a political version of The Wizard Of Oz. And I'm like the lion, and Jessica Biel is Dorothy, and Kurt Fuller is the Tin Man. And we just head off to the government to get health care for everybody. [Laughs.] All three of us have health problems, health issues, and we couldn't get health care. So we travel to the government to get health care. And things happen along the way.

AVC: What is an anal prolapse?

TH: It's where your asshole falls out. When you push too hard, it prolapses, it falls out. I'm lifting weights and I happen to catch a prolapse. Yeah. If you go online, you can see it. It's really crazy.

AVC: So are you trying to get a new asshole? Is that what your character is seeking?

TM: Yeah, I want 'em to fix it.

AVC: Did you do a lot of research into anal prolapses for the role?

TM: No, dude! No, my asshole's never really popped out. [Laughs.] It's a character, dude.

AVC: David O. Russell is known for having unconventional working methods. Did you find that to be the case when you were working on Nailed?

TM: Yeah, he can be. But we all had the same goal in common. We all want great stuff. It's a great movie at the end of the day, so we didn't mind. We went along with it, his methods. We went along with everything he's doing. We know he's a genius, and that was all that mattered.

If Dorothy is a nymphomaniac, the lion has an anal prolapse, you shudder to think about the Tin Man.

If they are on the way to the Emerald City does this make Jake ? A member of the lollipop Guild? The mayor? The Captain of the Winkie Guard? Or the great and powerful Oz?

OMG Movie Club: One more week to get your drag on. We will discuss Priscilla, Queen of the Desert next Saturday.

Stripes and Solid

Who says horizontal stripes are not flattering. Nothing like a side by side comparison. The consensus. Très Magnifique! And another shirt to share. Definitely not prison issue, but more Continental. They make stripes look very solid indeed. You do wonder if Jake is working the man-ny tail underneath his chapeau. Could we see a beret next? Now Austin in this shirt with a French naval beret, that could work.

Despite all the insanity of the EuroTrip it looks like Austin has the power of the man of mystery. Guess Jake is taken care of the International part? Austin has another credit to his resume, that now includes a Chris Carter movie.

Fencewalker. A small personal independent film unlike anything else from Carter. From the Hollywood Reporter is looks like Fencewalker is a semi autobiographical coming of age story, but the rumors from the cast and crew include a black comedy, a horror movie and a young politician being groomed for the Presidency. In reports on IMDB, even the actors and crew weren't sure what they were filming. Who knows if it is classic Carter confusion to keep things under wratps or not. What we do know is this Austin is playing a character named Tweedy. And looks like it will be another retro look for our funky fashion fellow. Xzibit is also cast, as well as Katie Cassidy, David Cassidy's daughter and granddaughter of legendary actor Jack Cassidy. One location has been in Bellflower, CA, Chris Carter's hometown and pictures from the set show a classic All American hometown setting. Have to keep watching for it.


The Truth is Out There ...

Rendition: Review of the Facts

Sometimes to understand a movie you need to do a little homework. You may read the book, others you read the reviews, and almost always watch the trailer. But Rendition deals with a topic that many know little about but hopefully more will come to know. This is something that has happened and continues to happen today.

Wicked wrote a post regarding the real life rendition of Sabri Ben Kahla. (see OMG's sidebar) Rereading it makes you stop and think, not can this happen? but why are we doing this? Another case you may know of is the case of Khaled El-Masri, an entirely innocent victim of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program who was released without ever being charged. As Hollywood as these cases sound, unfortunately they are not, but are real life cases.

Gavin Hood asks the same question in Rendition. What are we gaining from extraordinary rendition? Is it worth it? Are there pros and cons? What are they? What outweighs the other?

The goal of Rendition is not just to entertain but inform. At Rendition's official site under Film Info and then World View there is a great multimedia resource list regarding the practice of extraordinary rendition. Check it out.

I do add this one thing from the American Civil Liberties Union's website regarding rendition:

"Since 1990 the U. S. has utilized an intelligence-gathering program involving the transfer of foreign nationals suspected of involvement in terrorism to detention and interrogation in countries where -- in the CIA's view -- federal and international legal safeguards do not apply. Suspects are detained and interrogated either by U.S. personnel at U.S.-run detention facilities outside U.S. sovereign territory or, alternatively, are handed over to the custody of foreign agents for interrogation.In both instances, interrogation methods are employed that do not comport with federal and internationally recognized standards."

"...some experts estimating that 150 foreign nationals have been victims of rendition in the last few years alone. Foreign nationals suspected of terrorism have been transported to detention and interrogation facilities in Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and elsewhere. In the words of former CIA agent Robert Baer: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear -- never to see them again -- you send them to Egypt."

ACLU - Fact Sheet:Extraordinary Rendition

ACLU - El Marisi vs. Tenet Case

OMG - Real Life Rendition - Sabri Ben Kahla

Rendition Official Site

Boston Bound Brothers

It looks like Boston might be the location for Jake's new movie The Brothers. Shooting would begin in November. Sadly Jake will miss the Sox post season,unless he feels the need to come up early to soak up the local culture. But he may still be here for one of Boston's newer traditions. I'm talking about the Santa in Speedos Run in December. We know he runs, he's got the hat, from past interviews we know he has been dared to wear the speedo. Now to do that with a hundred or so guys down the streets of the Back Bay of Boston in December?

Boston has great restaurants, great music, and great hotels. Will we see him in the North End for great Italian? Probably. In Cambridge, soaking up the academic vibe, and visiting Natalie's old haunts? Maybe.

My money is on Jake front and center at the Celtics/Lakers game, November 23rd. Thanksgiving on the Vineyard and Celtics/Lakers the next day, it could be a great weekend in New England to share.


Thanks to Pure for the early morning Boston heads up.
All pictures courtesy IHJ.

Brothers in Boston

Santa Speedo Run

Hot Legs

Ted always said that Toothy's legs were underrated. But do you think they can stand up to the test of Joe's famous pantyhose ad? I guess we will have to wait and see.

I am sure Toothy will be hitting the gym, the road, and the stairs to get those long limbs in tiptop shape.

Now. Do you think he will get them insured for scratch and dent?

And hey.Thanks Rattler, for suggestion.