Packs a punch!

Austin can pack a lot into a tweet.  Give it up for the English/Creative Writing major.

Take Austin's latest tweet

Amy Pascal--I love working with female directors. I love females so damn much. I'm on your team. Everybody please RT @indiewire @NikkiFinke

-Aus10

Now it might look like he's giving the Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group a shout out and makes you wonder - new project?  Or is he looking for one.  

Or is he trying to say how much he likes females?

But then if you find out that Pascal gave a speech
last nightback in March (revised, my bad) " at a sold-out LA Gay & Lesbian Center gala that raised $1 million for homeless gay and lesbian youth"  where she was the honoree.  And she did something that rarely see in Hollywood a call for action for the LGBT community.   Pascal "asked the industry to scrutinize its depiction of LGBT characters in film and television: 'How about next time, when any of us are reading a script and it says words like fag, or faggot – homo – dyke – take a pencil and just cross it out '.”

And she goes on to make a remarkable speech about changing the representation of  LGBT individuals in film.  

Here is an excerpt of her speech:

"The images that impacted me as a teenager had lasting influences on my entire life and I bet that is true for most of us. What we see in the media today affects everybody, whether it’s film, TV, radio, magazines or the internet. What the media says about your sexual orientation, and the color of your skin, and the shape of your eyes, and your ethnicity… what you look like, what you weigh, what you wear, how poor you are, how awkward you are, how educated you are, and how different you are… this stuff really sinks in. What we see teaches us about how to feel about ourselves and how to feel about each other.

And now, I’m talking about kids who are gay and I’m talking about kids who aren’t gay. One group needs affirmation and the other group needs education. And, if I’m being honest, neither of those issues are high on any movie studio or TV network’s agenda…

The Celluloid Closet was made almost 20 years ago and certainly attitudes have changed, but maybe not quite so much as you or I would want or hope. Television has been much more progressive and credit has to be given to producers like Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and Ryan Murphy for really changing things.
Now movies need to catch up. There are magnificent movies being made about gay subjects with gay characters, like Brokeback Mountain and Milk. Anyone would have been proud to have made those movies. I know I would be. But when you think about some of these films, even our favorite ones, there is a theme that runs through them.

Brokeback Mountain, Milk, Boys Don’t Cry, Philadelphia, The Hours, Gods and Monsters, The Talented Mr. Ripley, A Single Man, My Own Private Idaho, Cloud Atlas – in all these movies, the main character is murdered or martyred or commits suicide or just dies unhappily. And there are far more pernicious and dangerous images that confront gay kids and their parents: the lesbian murderer, the psychotic transvestite, the queen who is humiliated and sometimes tossed off a ship or a ledge. It’s a big joke. It still happens.


How many times have you heard a character imply to another that the worst thing about going to prison isn’t being locked up for the rest of your life, it’s the homosexuality? And old stereotypes still exist. The most benign stereotypes would have a gay kid believe that they will end up being the asexual, witty best friend of the pretty girl, or a drag queen, or a swishy hairdresser. The list goes on." (Source)

Austin's tweet is his support of what she is saying.  

 One more step.  Go Austin Go!

And why would he include Nikki Finke and IndieWire in the tweet?  Because they covered the story. (We noticed you smart cookie you.)

Tweet Tweet Texas

Tweet a little. Tweet too much?

Yesterday Austin made two interesting tweets.

The first: A quick break from winter. Beautiful, hot day in North Carolina. http://twitpic.com/40sueq

Why so interesting?

Usually Austin's non sequiturs usually are telling a lot more than they appear. Like this one for instance. We knew when Austin was in LA because he tweeted that he was editing and gave a picture. But then when exactly where he was after Day 2 of editing was a bit of a guessing game. It seemed to some that he came back to Wilmy on Monday, but not one peep from Austin Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday what he was doing or where he was. Then yesterday, he's talking about North Carolina and shows a pic.

Why then and not sooner? Well it was late Wednesday night that pictures of Jake out in LA appeared. Could it have Austin waited until after it was known that Jake was in LA, to place himself in NC, not to make sure that they were on opposite but tell those looking carefully - that he was in LA longer than most people thought.


Ahhh ... no... again Miss ... what was your name again? I prefer something a little more athletic and longer... with toned thighs ... from cycling... do you even own a bike?

The other tweet? Is it a case of TMI?

Big day tomorrow. Jump off a bridge into icy cold water. Beat up a guy, hold him underwater. I was born for this. about 14 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® -Aus10Nichols

Austin tweeted this last night. But when you go back to his twitter page this morning it's not there. The only way you can find it now is through twitter search. Why the disappearance ? Did he give away too much of the plot? And seriously why would you hit a bad guy underwater? Is part of the elaborate BrookeDavis(TM) gets a baby storyline? Could the bad guys be babynapping? Will BrookeDavis(TM) cry for umpteenth time, but this time for something important?

Or is OTH going Top Secret?


And who said Jake doesn't have some Austin Fridays? ; ) He will coming up next month at SXSW. Wait that's a different kind of Austin Friday.

Here's the first clip from Source Code.



Hmmm that beard-look, looks familiar. Good call skipping the mask. The feathers might have been too much for the train.

Happy Austin Friday.

Love and Other Impressions

All the talk about LaOD being an adult RomCom with all kinds of nakedness, you'd think there would be a Red Band Trailer. Well now there is, but it's more barenaked but bawdy that makes it a Red Band, meaning a lot of dick jokes (but what do you expect from a Viagra movie).

Since Red Band usually means NSFW - saying NSFW.







Austin's been doing his twitter impersonation.

It's inspired

Top Ten List of Twitter Impersonations OMG'd Like to See Austin Do

10."Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?"
- BEN BRADDOCK (Dustin Hoffman) in The Graduate (1967)

9. "And one day, not long from now, my looks will go. They will discover I can't act, and I will become some sad middle-aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous for a while."
- ANNA SCOTT (Julia Roberts) in Notting Hill (1999

8. "I'm the Dude! So that's what you call me. You know, uh, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or uh, you know, El Duderino - if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
-THE DUDE (Jeff Bridges) in The Big Lebowski (1998)

7. "You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I weren't still in this [wheel] chair."
- "But ya are, Blanche! Ya are in that chair!"
-BLANCHE HUDSON(Joan Crawford) AND BABY JANE HUDSON (Betty Davis) in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

6. "Oh... Oh god... Ooo Oh God... Oh... Oh... Oh... Oh God... Oh yeah, right there... Oh! Oh... Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes... Oh... Oh... Yes Yes Yes.... Oh... Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes... Oh... Oh... Oh... Oh God Oh... Oh... Huh..."
-SALLY (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

5. "...I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?"
- JACK BYRNES (Robert De Niro) in Meet the Parents (2000)

4. "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum."
- NADA ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) in They Live (1988)

3. "Excuse me while I whip this out."
- BART (Cleavon Little) in Blazing Saddles (1974)

2. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
- PRESIDENT MUFFLEY (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove ... (1964)

and

1. "Uh, well, sir, I-I ain't a for-real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud."
- JOE BUCK (Jon Voight) in Midnight Cowboy (1969)

So who do you want him to do? Give your favorites.