Ewan McGregor ... headed for another indie!

This, just in from The Hollywood Reporter:
BERLIN -- Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan are in talks to headline "The Electric Slide," based on the true story of Los Angeles-based furniture salesman turned bank robber named Eddie Dodson. McGregor is in talks to play Dodson, while Mulligan, a Shooting Star at the Berlinale and also the talk of Sundance after her turn in "An Education," is being touted as his girlfriend.Tristan Patterson, who wrote the script based on Timothy Ford's Gear magazine article "The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World's Great Bank Robber," will make his directing debut.L.A. indie production and finance banner Myriad Pictures is putting the financing together for the project and is preselling to buyers and backers in Berlin.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i265790c0e524ea2b69d994a126ecbffd

Indie movies look like dancing rings around Hollywood right now, don't they? For a start, you can make movies that Hollywood's big studios wouldn't have a bar of; and you can get them done a whole lot faster. If not for indie films, movies like Brokeback Mountain and I Love You, Philip Morris, would probably never have happened.

(Incidentally, re: Philip Morris, the DVD cut is planned to be a good deal, uh, more sizzling than the cinematic version. Okay. Right. Did they say when?!)

Anyway, here's Ewan without the lightsaber ... or the kilt ... but if you have a fancy for the leather jacket and the long hair, you'll just have to put up with the motorbike!

Adrian Paul! Does anyone speak Hungarian?!

One of my favorite shows in the 1990s was Highlander, with Adrian Paul as Duncan McLeod. I'd loved the Highlander movies, earlier (well ... maybe not #2...), and the TV series was a blast.

While rearranging the video shelves, I stumbled over the VHS tapes (why in the world isn't Highlander available on DVD? For the same reason you can't get Kevin Sorbo's Hercules, I suppose...) and I thought, "What in the heck happened to Adrian Paul?"

A quick search of Google News shows that Adrial Paul has shown up in the press very recently. In fact, he was featured in a news story a couple of days ago ... but although I'll give you the link right here, it won't do you much good to follow it unless you speak Magyar -- Hungarian!

Anyone out there speak Hungarian?! Sheesh. You wait YEARS to see some mention of Adrian Paul in the news, and when it finally happens, you can't read it. Help?! Someone?!

And while we're here, how about a couple of photos? Well ... why not!






For your further browsing pleasure, check out Adrian Paul's filmography at IMDb ... you'll be amazed. He didn't "pack it in and get a fish shop" after all! I guess we just don't get his new work downunder. More's the pity.

A touch of leather ... Brangelina style

Somebody once said leather transcends fashion, leather is a fashion of its own. Whoever said that probably wasn't a vegetarian ... or a cow, come to think of it. Still, they weren't wrong:


The other thing about leather is, like a good pair of jeans it wears well, and the more beat up it gets, the more trendy it looks. Maybe it wouldn't take you to a five-star restaurant (neither will the jeans, for that matter) but "trendy" is ... trendy.

Nice one. Somebody else once noticed how good black looks on blonds. Or blondes. The difference is all in the 'e' ... makes a world of difference for such a little letter, right?

And speaking of blond -- does anybody else remember back this far into the vastness of time:

Ye gods, I remember it well. Come to think of it, it was a lot of fun, too. Haven't wantched the vampyre movie in far too long -- but I did watch Legends of the Fall the other night and it's till a great movie.