Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Monday, January 11, 2016
Bowie did America.
David Bowie wrote and performed, 'This is Not America' for the film, 'Falcon and the Snowman.' Interesting, the federal mess that the actor of that film Sean Penn has gotten his attention-seeking wanna-be-a-martyr dumb ass into by hanging out an international fugitive, as Bowie in contrast suffers, endures and departs privately. One is the falcon, and the other was the snowman...
Sean Penn’s new real-life role as investigative reporter could land him in trouble with both Mexican drug runners and the DEA, experts say.
Rolling Stone magazine ran the actor’s interview with one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, two days day after El Chapo was apprehended by Mexican law enforcement.
“Depending on what the cartels and/or the many corrupt Mexican cops and Mexican government officials believe El Chapo divulged during the interview, Penn, and whomever else was present, may be in more physical danger than he could ever imagine,” said Michael Levine, a 25-year DEA veteran and author of the bestseller “Deep Cover, Mexican Government Drug Corruption from the Inside.”
“He poked his head into a nest of vipers with an amazing global reach,” Levine added. “He was a fool. As public as Penn is he will be a sitting duck.”
Mexican Attorney General Arely Gomez said Friday that El Chapo's dealings with Hollywood types helped them nab the fugitive.
"Another important lead that allowed us to locate him, was the discovery that Guzman intended to make a movie about his life," Gomez said. "To that end, he established communication with actresses and producers ... In fact, the surveillance allowed us to document the meetings between these people his (Chapo's) lawyers."
A law enforcement official told FOX411 that not only could Penn be in danger, so could his family.
“It won’t happen now. They (the Cartel) wait,” the insider said. “Him or people close to him are in danger. They don’t single out the one person. They go for the person’s family.”
LINK: http://gawker.com/the-best-parts-of-sean-penn-s-insane-out-of-touch-60-m-1753612497
LINK: http://gawker.com/the-best-parts-of-sean-penn-s-insane-out-of-touch-60-m-1753612497
But El Chapo’s cohorts may not be Penn’s only worry going forward. A former federal agent old FOX411 that there is “enough to bring charges against Penn depending on how authorities could articulate that he had hid the location of a fugitive, knowing that El Chapo is a national security threat to the U.S."
The ex-agent explained that "because Hollywood is not considered press, they don't get the same rights as a reporter. So Penn is not protected the same as a member of the press. The charges could be aiding and abetting/accessory to a fugitive.”
Levine agreed that Penn could be in hot water. “Penn, depending on facts that I am unaware of, is certainly in grave danger of being busted by both DEA and/or the Mexican government,” he said.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is indeed leading a federal probe over Penn's ties to El Chapo, and prosecutors are seeking a subpoena to search his cell phone, the NY Post reports.
But criminal defense lawyer David Houston says it will be difficult to charge Penn with anything.
“He’s only liable if he did something that actually assisted him (El Chapo). Giving someone food, shelter, money anything that would sponsor their continued flight would represent as a problem,” Houston said. “The question is whether or not having knowledge is sufficient to constitute a criminal charge. Naturally, if he had done anything to facilitate the interview that could be characterized as assisting the individual in his attempts to avoid law enforcement he could have a problem.”
Mike Baker, former covert operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency and President of Diligence, doubts Penn is on the El Chapo hit list, but thinks the actor was dumb for pulling the stunt.
“Guzman is responsible literally for the deaths of thousands of Mexicans and for the countless deaths and suffering of U.S. citizens and others around the globe through his command of a significant part of the global drug trade. He was a wanted fugitive, and Penn and Rolling Stone ignore all that in the name of what? Producing a piece of pseudo journalistic crap that glamorizes Guzman, airs Guzman's opinions, panders to this murdering, disgusting bit of filth? It's hard to get your head around the naïveté and self-righteousness of someone like Penn.”
Robert Stutman, former special agent in charge of the New York Field Division and President of the Stutman Group, says he was once targeted for assassination by the Colombian cartel. He thinks the filmmaker will be all right as long as the Cartel’s “machismo” was not insulted in any way.
“I had a contract on my head from Pablo Escobar’s people for 19 months. It was a half million dollar contract on me," he said. "They thought I did something to insult their machismo. The ego always gets these guys. This episode proves it once again. We took all kind of precautions but if they want to kill you, they will kill you.”
R.I.P. David Bowie - SHOCKED
David Bowie has died after a battle with cancer, his representative confirmed.
“David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief,” read a statement posted on the artist’s official social media accounts.
bye, BROMLEY David...
Congrats :)
Congrats to Winslet, Stallone and Sorkin - all worthy and deserving winners!
http://variety.com/2016/film/awards/golden-globes-aaron-sorkin-steve-jobs-1201676601/
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Holy Guacamole!!! The Vatican is gonna hook me up with a Golden (Globes) live laptop stream !!!
Thanx, Big Poppa Francis ! SPECIAL THANK YOU, SISTER NANCY!!! Amen. Bye. ..
p.s...
To hell with NBC
NBC network has made a public announcement that it will NOT be streaming their Golden Globes ceremony tonight. Sadness. bye.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Friday, January 8, 2016
Teethy Museum.
Bruce (film prop shark's name) showing off his chompers in ‘Jaws’ (Universal)
Cue the music and clear the water, Jaws is resurfacing in Hollywood.
The only surviving shark model from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster is heading to the Academy Museum, the under-construction facility in Los Angeles that will house the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ unmatched collection of cinema memorabilia.
Aside from the Jaws specimens, the Academy Museum’s holdings include 62,000 pieces of production art — ranging from a Planet of the Apes mask to a model horse head made for The Godfather to the lion’s mane and ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz — in addition to 12 million photographs, 80,000 screenplays, prints of 80,000 films, 55,000 posters, and reams of printed materials, including production notes, diaries, correspondence, storyboards, and personal scrapbooks. The museum will be housed in the historic May Company building on L.A.’s Miracle Mile and is set to open in 2017.
bye and TGIF.
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Few.
A few more days until the Golden Globes awards show. Looking very foward to it. It should be like a reality tv comedy show- but with trophies.
Let go of the romanticism already.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/01/05/kodak-goes-retro-with-new-super-8-camera/
p.s. Adele(xo) suffering in the gym 'selfie' ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Pre-production.
"Done your bird, done your time," said the swallows to the wrists.
© Copyright 2015,
LUX/UK Jane Public Pictures/
The Bromley Film Project.
Special FX warehouse memo :
A true cinephile until his death.
In 2001, I went to the Cinema Village theatre on a weeknight ( I think it was on a Thursday ) and got a seat in an essentially empty tiny arthouse movie theatre. Essentially is the key here, because the only person/s there in the dingy theatre was an old retired man who opted to sit right next to me- it was Ed Koch the ex-mayor of NYC and his morbidly obese bodyguard. The film we were there to see was a wanna-be indie vampire film titled, 'The Forsaken.' The film was crap (despite its awesome desert moodiness and special effects), but Ed was so cool and real. Halfway through the movie Ed fell asleep and snored. The point of all of this is that upon seeing this trailer today, I was reminded of that evening and just how impressed that I was on how passionate he was about cinema and independent films. He told me, 'Joey, I watch them all. Crap or not, I give em all a shot." Ed was so cool. He inspired me that night. And he also unintentionally made me glad that I don't fall asleep during movies and snore like he does. R.I.P. Ed. This film did you justice. bye.
He did it.
p.s. Ronald Reagan supported the Second Amendment AND a ban on assault weapons...
In Oregon, the Northern Paiute tribe has condemned the ongoing occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by white right-wing militia members. On Saturday, a self-styled right-wing antigovernment militia calling itself the Citizens for Constitutional Freedom took over the wildlife refuge in support of two ranchers sentenced to prison for setting fires that burned federal land. Leaders of the occupation include Ammon and Ryan Bundy, the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who refused to pay decades’ worth of cattle grazing fees, prompting a standoff with federal rangers in 2014 in Nevada. The militia has called for the wildlife refuge land to be "returned to them." But leaders of the Northern Paiute tribe said that if the land of the wildlife reserve in Oregon should be returned to anyone, it should be returned to the tribe. The tribe has rights to the land under a treaty signed by the U.S. government more than a century ago. On Wednesday, tribal council member Jarvis Kennedy contrasted the federal government’s treatment of the armed militia members with the violent, forced removal of the Northern Paiute more than a century earlier. bye.
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Saturday, January 2, 2016
Preparing to review and compose for new film scene...
bye.
© Copyright 2015,
LUX/UK Jane Public Pictures/
The Bromley Film Project.
Friday, January 1, 2016
'The Best of Enemies' debate documentary.
inspiring. there is nothing better than to witness strategic fighting of the wit.
Totally shocked on 'It's Alive 3'
bye.
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