“Cheri” – Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend – DVD RELEASE
October 21, 2009
So here’s my plug…
My gal pal and former on and off collegue, actress Michelle Pfeiffer, can be seen in the new DVD release of “Cheri”.
This is a beautiful and tragic love story about two people who are destined for each other, if only they didn’t have that big age difference lingering over them. They’re both in different places in their lives, viewing the future in different ways, and yet so drawn to each other.
Cheri is a fantastic period piece in that it completely relies on nuances and the things that are not said, and you can’t make a film like that without casting professional actors to bring it to light. Michelle Pfeiffer plays “Lea”. It just doesn’t get any better than that, plus its nice to see Michelle in a film for a change, her break between films is way too lengthy. When her younger counterpart, “Cheri” played equally well by Rupert Friend says how beautiful she is, you know he’s not just sucking up, he really means it. Both leads are breath taking and the erotic chemistry is highly evident, as is the possessiveness that comes along with that. What starts out as sex and eroticism eventually evolves into romance and love.
Naturally, what follows suit to this kind of connection is the tragedy and the heartbreak. Cheri’s immaturity eventually shows its true colors in vile ways, and it’s Lea who realizes what they have and had is a rare and most indescribable love. This is long before Cheri does. It’s painful to watch Pfeiffer silently and slowly crumble before our eyes over their demise while attempting to keep her strong dignity in tact. Rupert Friend crumbles after its seemingly too late and unable to comprehend or handle it in the most eloquent of ways.
Kathy Bates offers a light and bouncy comedic turn to this otherwise deep and dark love story. Even if you don’t vibe the plot or story line, this picture is stunning to watch visually with the location, sets and elegant costumes.
I want to take a moment and publicly acknowledge the loss of one of the Entertainment Business greats, Michael Jackson. There is no one in the world that will or has ever come close to reaching every point on the globe, and who doesn’t know his name. I grew up with artists like him and Madonna who essentially altered and revolutionized the Entertainment and music culture in the 80’s, and something like that will never happen again. I remember seeing him as a kid on TV singing “Rock With You”. I remember racing with everyone else to get our hands on the “Thriller” record that had just come out prompting kids on the playground to don a white glove. I remember my Dad lighting his shows and the infamous Pepsi commercial shoot where one of his lights exploded catching Michael’s hair on fire. I remember the sea of people that would gather where ever he was. He is going to go down in history as one of the most incredible genius artists of this century. We haven’t seen anything like it before.
I had broken out of my office in Westwood, California and was in the village yesterday afternoon. Helicopters were swirling above me and sirens were going off from every angle. I was annoyed, thinking, “What the fuck is all this racket?” I’m a Zen cow okay; I like noise if it’s symphonic, not chaotic. It didn’t dawn on me that I was in my usual place across the street from the UCLA Medical Center where they were rushing Michael Jackson in to save him.
The noise was so outlandish that I cut my outing short and hiked up back to the office, as I waited for the light to change I saw my colleague, right hand in business, Daniel across the street, I held my phone up and snapped one of him, as we made our way into the intersection, he stopped and said, “Michael Jackson just died”. I stood there in the middle of the car gridlocked street in the center in public view stalled, as I moved into shock, “What? Are you joking?” He shook his head serious and somber. I couldn’t move for a split second, then continued on, and as I moved into the lobby and took the Elevator to the top floor I was greeted with, “Kevin did you hear? Did you hear?” It was true and had hit the news and internet waves in a matter of seconds! I had never seen something like that, everyone was all over it so fast.
My Grandmother of all people who I rarely hear from called me and said, “Why was he taken?” I was realizing fast that this was moving globally and hitting people of every generation. I just said it had to happen now to wake the world up. We are in crises mode. People everywhere are at the lowest and most distant and lost I’ve ever seen. Something like this has woken everyone up. They’ve been asleep, maybe it’s brief, but this is something positive, very few are dwelling or making comments on his recent legal issues and allegations that have never been proven by the way, but are simply remembering this great artist. The negative is suddenly not important to the mass majority. There is nothing but love. I am in awe with humanities warm reaction towards him right now. They aren’t attacking him, but rather embracing him. It’s unfortunate that his death was needed to wake us all up. He will go down in the History books.
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CHERI
OPENS TODAY!
Cheri stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a turn-of-the-century French courtesan who starts a scandal-making relationship with a much younger man played by Rupert Friend. Kathy Bates co-stars as a madam and his Mother.
It’s Michelle’s return to the movie theater after headlining in Hairspray, Stardust and I Could Never Be Your Woman back during the Summer of 2007. And while crowds have been flocking in theaters around the world wanting to see if this 1920s period piece might afford Pfeiffer awards-season buzz, the real question on everyone’s minds was whether the 51-year-old actress, who plays a sultry seductress in the film opposite Rupert Friend, looked as stunning in this film as she did during her 80s and 90s sex-symbol heyday. (She does.) Vanity Fair reporters said she is STILL smoking and smoldering hot!
Throughout the last few months Michelle has been on a plane traveling all over the world hitting all the press junkets for this movie. I went to see her about a couple weeks ago when she made it to L.A. for more press, those things can be quite tedious, but it’s all part of the job.
A young, nervous journalist was brought into the room; he was visibly shaken as he approached Michelle quietly sitting there. Although the room was somewhat crowded, it didn’t ease the fear in him any less. I was able to sniff it out, but didn’t want to interrupt to tell him its okay. Michelle is rather oblivious to the intimidation that she radiates. She just thinks they don’t like her. He was allowed in the room to ask a brief question, but then in a sudden fan boy moment, no longer a journalist he says, “You’re my favorite actress. Ever.” Michelle remained gracious and the ice cracked cool in her voice, “Thank you.”
Then he nervously went on with his allowed question, “Now that your children are teenagers you won’t subject those that love your work another five year hiatus, will you?”
She said gently, “Was that hard for you?”
With a very emphatic shout he erupted, “YES. IT ACTUALLY WAS!” I think we all jolted, but no more than Michelle who finally let down her cool demeanor and laughed, then the charismatic, sexy Michelle came out. She assured him that she does want to work more now, and that she loves working, but merely waits for projects that interest her in doing.
“Cheri” is based on one of French novelist Colette’s high society page-turners, the film stars Kathy Bates as a madam who commands her spoilt offspring Chéri (Rupert Friend) to end his longstanding affair with her sultry former colleague and courtesan, Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer), so that she might reap the social benefits of his arranged marriage to the dull and virginal Edmée (Felicity Jones).
The film, set in France’s Belle Époque, is gorgeous to look at not just because of the ridiculously attractive cast (relative newcomer Rupert Friend is close competition with Pfeiffer for the beauty prize), but also the sumptuous costumes and production design.
Conjure up the ideal screen role for a famed film beauty, a woman now “of a certain age,” and she would almost certainly be the spitting image of Lea de Lonval, aging courtesan in love with a callow, gorgeous young wastrel. The heroine of Colette’s novel “Cheri” seems tailor-made for Michelle Pfeiffer, one of the screen’s leading sex symbols of the ’80s and ’90s.
Pfeiffer’s Lea de Lonval still wears her beauty well, yet the lines on her washed-out visage are difficult to ignore. There’s no doubt that Pfeiffer is brilliantly cast as this worn-down yet still vital woman, as her face, despite some non-ignorable tightness about the cheekbones, is beginning to show its age; her impeccable, carved beauty remains, yet in a stricter, more severe, perhaps even more divine tone.
In “Cheri”, Pfeiffer as always, makes for a welcome camera subject though in a perhaps unavoidable turn of events the film lavishes most of its attention on rigorous youth, i.e. the face and body of her young lover. As Cheri, the spoiled dandy son of her nasty rival ex-courtesan Madame Peloux (Kathy Bates), Rupert Friend is Pfeiffer’s perfect complement: with his aquiline nose, rosebud lips, and alabaster skin, he also has a harsh beauty, but one tied to the frivolities of youth. At first, Cheri seduces Lea for mere sexual gain, and clearly due to some unspoken one-upmanship with his mother, who watches the come-ons from a nearby window; but six years later, he remains her bedfellow, and, unheralded, their lust has become love.
What follows is a rather lugubrious affair, detailing the sexual and emotional withdrawal the two experience when torn apart by social custom. The increasing darkness of “Cheri” only sheds light on the inappropriateness of its fleet early moments, which include a bouncy montage credit sequence describing “whores of every description,” with faux-didactic voiceover and cartoonish “period” imagery.
Similarly, the emphatic score by Alexandre Desplat throughout has been amped up in order to make dramatic and palatable what might have been overly somber and motivationally subtle.
This film is a slow-burning tale of doomed romance, in which the two lovers, with their pale skin and rigid countenances, look like two hot marble statues mating.
The Director, Stephen Frears creates an atmosphere that is consistent: from camera prowls through Maxim’s to shadowy backroom opium parlors, the film’s sets are dramatic and cluttered, its costumes showy and bold. Gorgeous inside and out, a parade of prettiness, even when Lea finds herself alone, drowned in ornamental solitude.
Pfeiffer and Friend are mostly compelling, Pfeiffer for her sharp, laserlike focus and, as always, her empathy (it’s one of the things that has set the icily beautiful actress apart from impenetrable, self-possessed movie goddesses like Angelina Jolie or Nicole Kidman). Rupert for his rich mix of youthful bravado and withering indecisiveness.
When Cheri is forced by his mother into an arranged marriage, Lea enters a long-suffering stage, and the loss slowly eats away at her. Pfeiffer’s good at quiet implosion (see “The Age of Innocence”), and she’s able to give “Cheri’s final scenes a dignity they may not have had with another actor, imbuing her closing lines with an attractive combination of the sensual and the maternal. If the film had felt like it earned this final outpouring of emotion, and if we felt like we got to know the character’s inner life and how she defines herself other than as just a young man’s lover, then Pfeiffer’s performance would have registered as more than just a poignant outline. Critics are hailing it as her best work yet, wait until award season.
Cheri opens everywhere Friday, June 26, 2009
Michelle Pfeiffer Interview for ‘Cheri’ from Moviefone
June 25, 2009
From MovieFone comes this new interesting interview with Michelle Pfeiffer to promote Chéri where the actress talk about the movie and some of her past work such as The Fabulous Baker Boys, Scarface and Batman Returns…
Michelle Pfeiffer Interview for ‘Cheri’
Michelle Pfeiffer makes a welcome return to the big screen as a retired courtesan in ‘Cheri,’ a costume drama set in Belle Epoque Paris. After a lifetime of sex as purely a business transaction, her character, Lea de Lonval, finally falls head over heels — unfortunately, her love is a man 30 years her junior (Rupert Friend) and the son of a former rival prostitute (Kathy Bates).
It’s a rare lead performance for the mother of two last seen in 2007’s ‘Hairspray‘ and ‘Stardust.’ In an exclusive interview, the 51-year-old Pfeiffer told us about reuniting with her ‘Dangerous Liaisons‘ director and screenwriter for ‘Cheri,’ playing Catwoman again and aging gracefully. (Just don’t call her a cougar…)
By Kevin Polowy
What appealed to you about your ‘Cheri’ character?
Well, she’s full of contradictions in a way, and not your stereotypical prostitute. And I think when one says “courtesan,” one has certain images and qualities that come to mind. She was elegant and incredibly sophisticated and a shrewd businesswoman, and above all else, she was really a moral person. And I’d never seen a prostitute portrayed in that way. And then, of course, I was beyond thrilled to be working with [director Stephen Frears] and [screenwriter Christopher Hampton] again. So there was no reason not to do it, basically.
Is this ‘Liaisons’ reunion something that was planned?
No, it was out of the blue. I hadn’t even heard of it before Stephen called. He somehow tracked me down through my hairdresser. I was working on another film and her cell phone rang and it was Stephen, looking for me. And then it happened really quickly. Within months we were shooting.
Do you think these two films you three have worked on together share much in common?
No, I don’t actually. I mean, other than they’re both set in France and they’re both period pieces … other than that they’re really totally different films.
“Cougar” is such a buzz word right now, and ‘Cheri’ is centered around an older woman-younger man relationship. Think that will help business?
I can’t wait for that word to go out of fashion, I just think it’s … I’m so over it. Not that I was ever really into it. Where did that start, anyway? How did that evolve? Well, it’s not really what the movie’s about. But if it brings people into the theater, I’m all for that.
I hate to get all Cosmo on you, but the people want to know: What’s your secret to aging so well?
Well, the truth is that when I’m doing press and when I’m making movies, I am super disciplined. I eat really well, I make sure I get enough sleep, I exercise religiously — and all of that really matters … And I have a whole team, so it’s not really fair. It’s not real [laughs]. I couldn’t keep this up everyday of my life, nor would I want to, because life would be really boring. But, ultimately it’s you are what you eat and you have to exercise. It’s really simple stuff, and it’s stuff that people don’t really want to know about … It’s not about the newest, latest diet, the newest fad. It’s not about some cream you put on your face. It’s really about what you eat. I’m a big believer in that. And I’m a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there’s nothing more aging than misery.
You seem to choose roles pretty carefully these days. We’re lucky if we see you in one movie a year.
I’m always just looking for good material, and sometimes it takes a while to find. And if it’s something that’s going to take me away from home during a time that my family can’t come with me because it’s during the school year, it has to be something that’s really exceptional. My agent and I call those “dead of winter” scripts, and those are really rare. And, for me, ‘Cheri’ was a dead of winter script. So that’s pretty much my criteria.
Do you think opportunities for women in Hollywood have improved over the course of your career?
Yes and no. For a while it seemed as if it were improving. It doesn’t seem like that lately, not just for myself, but when I look around and see the kinds of roles other actresses are taking. But I think that’s because there are just fewer movies being made. There’s always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it’s that trickle down effect … There’s this movie I want to make, and the director came to me and he said, “Nobody wants to make a drama.” He just simply said to me, “You don’t know how scary it is out there.” It’s really an interesting time in our industry.
Batman movies are back. Would you ever consider playing Catwoman again?
Oh yeah, it would be really fun. I don’t think that’s going to happen. I think they like to get a new face for the different characters, and I understand it. But yeah, that was really fun. I had a good time.
Are there any other characters you’ve played that you’d like to revisit? (watch the E! Online video)
I’d really like to revisit Susie Diamond [from 'The Fabulous Baker Boys'] today, where she is today, and where those brothers are. I think there’s an opportunity there. That’s one that comes to mind.
What’s your fondest memory of making ‘Scarface‘?
That was really a hard, hard movie. I’m trying to think of a fond memory [laughs]. I think it was actually before I started … It was three months of auditioning and it was incredibly stressful, and at one point I was completely out of the running, and then was called back to screen test. Anyway, I was on my way to the airport and I found out that I got the part. So one of my close friends and I picked up a bottle of champagne and two coffee mugs and drank champagne in the parking lot at LAX to celebrate.
You do a good job of staying out of the public eye when you’re not working, and you’ve complained about paparazzi in the past. What is your view on the current state of celebrity journalism?
I don’t know how these young actors live with it, honestly. Because it used to be — which was already sort of intolerable for me — that they kind of left you alone unless you had some sort of heat on you, whether it was a film coming out, or you had something going on in your life that was kind of newsworthy. Now they just literally camp outside, they just follow them everywhere all the time, 24/7. I couldn’t live that way, I couldn’t. And it’s so dumbfounding to me that there are no laws to protect them. There’s no recourse. It’s really something.
So what’s next for you? What do you have upcoming?
A drama that nobody wants to make [laughs].
Michelle Pfeiffer continues to hit the ground running making the publicity rounds. She showed up to join the women of “The View” with her sexy younger co-star of “Cheri”, Rupert Friend, whom she spends throughout the film having an erotic romantic seduction dance with in the film, which has everyone all hot over after viewing screenings around the world to date. Opens June 26th
One of the films I did with Michelle was “The Deep End of the Ocean”, which also starred Whoopi Goldberg, and they have a friendly little reunion here on the View, and she reveals her lighter side when Rupert tells the audience a story about how there is a scene where Michelle’s character is receiving a massage and he asks her if when he comes on camera can he hit her on the butt, and she says, ‘Yes, you can hit my fannie all you like.’, not realizing that in England the “fannie” is the front, not the behind. Rupert is English. She realized she had something terribly wrong when she saw the look on his face.
Check out the video below in this wonderfully, fun interview:
“I’m not saying I’m sexier to other people. But part of feeling sexy is feeling comfortable in your own skin, and less inhibited, and that goes along with getting older. Feeling more confident, dropping a lot of the BS.”
Cheri EPK Press/Publicity Junket – MP discusses shooting “Cheri”
Michelle Pfeiffer is busy once again promoting her new film, “Cheri”, due out on June 26th.
She said about the film, “I play a turn-of-the-century courtesan, which is the elegant term for what’s basically considered a modern-day call girl. In those days women weren’t allowed to own real estate, so my character’s an unexpected type. Not what you’d think of as a regular prostitute. She was an independent shrewd businesswoman.”
She appeared looking stunning and radiant yesterday afternoon on her arrival to the Ed Sullivan Theater to tape her interview at “Late Show With David Letterman” to promote Chéri.
BUT…Whatever you do, don’t call her a “cougar”! She said, ““I so hate that term! Men are sugar daddies and women are cougars? Men are strong and women are bitches?”
Former beauty contest winner, repeatedly listed among the world’s most beautiful, labeled one of filmdom’s sexiest stars, Michelle Pfeiffer is now a mother of two and in her 50s. So, did she use body makeup because she’s maybe nude in this?
She says to that, “Let’s just say you see a lot of skin. But each scene depends on the lighting. It’s low and kind of gold, I didn’t need it. But we did use body makeup to blend out skin tones. The whole thing to looking great in films is your lighting. Forget anything else. It’s the lights . . . direct light, soft light, overhead light, pink light. If they have the right key light on you, it makes no difference what face creams you use because they can make bags under your eyes disappear and all the lines on your cheek go away. This is what can age you 20 years or take 20 years off. Any of us know to make friends with the lighting director because that’s the guy who’s your best friend in making a movie.”
Making the rounds…..
Cheri Premiere in New York – June 2009
The screening of “Cheri” was hosted by the Cinema Society and held at the Directors Guild of America Theater in New York City yesterday. Of Course, Michelle Pfeiffer attended the event alongside her husband David E Kelley as also Kathy Bates and Rupert Friend did, also the director Stephen Frearsand screenwriter Christopher Hampton.
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Michelle Pfeiffer gives the “cougar” concept a whole new meaning in the 1920s period fantasy ‘Cheri,’ in theaters June 26, and ET has her take on romancing a sexy younger man — two decades younger — onscreen!
“[My onscreen love interests are getting] younger and younger — I never would have predicted,” Michelle tells ET. “Lucky for me [Rupert Friend] is just incredibly smart, and really, really funny and a really fun person to be around. I enjoyed him very much.”
So, how does Michelle stay looking so youthful at 51?
“You look at all these magic bullets for weight loss and this and that, and the truth of the matter is we don’t want to take the time to work out, or we don’t want to take the time to eat healthy and just lead a healthy lifestyle — which ultimately is what you have to do,” she says.
“All of those other things have crazy side effects, and are maybe a temporary fix, but we don’t really want to know about that,” she continues. “I haven’t found any of that stuff to work. Somebody said to me once, ‘If your grandmother used it, you can consider it kind of safe.’ I use that as my barometer.”
An adaptation of the 1920s French novel by Colette, ‘Cheri’ finds Michelle as an older woman grappling with middle age who teaches a wealthy young man (Rupert) in the ways of love. But when he is forced to end the relationship after marrying someone else, he retreats into a fantasy world. In more ways than one, the shit hits the fan.
“She’s a courtesan, which I guess would be the equivalent to a modern-day call girl,” explains Michelle. “When you say that, there are certain images that come to mind, and certain qualities and behaviors, and she was so different than the stereotypical kind of prostitute, really.”
Also starring Kathy Bates and Felicity Jones, ‘Cheri’ was directed by Stephen Frears (‘The Queen,’ ‘The Grifters’).
Watch ET for more with Michelle Pfeiffer!
Personal Effects – DVD REVIEW
May 12, 2009
Personal EffectsThis plays more like an Indie flick, and you wouldn’t think so with a cast like Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates, but in order for this picture to be evaluated properly it needs to be understood that this isn’t a fast paced Blockbuster movie, but rather a moody, slow character piece with an unraveling beautiful love story in the subtext. Ashton Kutcher plays a young man whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. He’s a silent, but tough guy who has trouble with communicating what’s really going on underneath. He’s a man’s man. He does an impeccable job at conveying what he’s thinking just by watching his face and his eyes. I’ve never seen him do more honest acting work than in this film. Michelle Pfeiffer is a true gem in this, not just a stunning beauty, but she brings a great spirit to the screen and with her character, showing raw emotion to charismatic and charming humor. She plays a woman whose husband was killed by a family friend with a gun. Ashton and Michelle’s characters have that first common understanding between each other when they meet at a group therapy session for those that lost someone close to them. They slowly begin to develop a friendship that later grows more intimate, clinging onto one another in an underlying way to connect with someone they can relate to. Michelle’s character has a deaf son who holds a lot of bottled up anger and rage over his father’s death, but is befriended and helped by Ashton’s character taking him out of pain and into new heights. Ashton has his Mother played brilliantly in a small, but significant supporting role by Kathy Bates who is raising her daughter’s daughter. The love story aspect between the two leads is very real, honest and sexy, poignantly done. This is a sleeper, a slow methodical and feel good piece on loss, love, friendship and family. This is a unique film about the human condition.
There’s a scene between Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher that is so erotically charged, practically everything, but taking off their clothes that I’m surprised they didn’t give this an NC-17 just for displaying that kind of intensity. The three leads show some absolutely incredible dramatic realism. Kathy Bates should’ve got some kind of award acknowledge for this one, but if only someone could’ve put it out there and market it.
BUY IT NOW:
Entertainment Weekly Review: Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Kathy Bates are pretty high-wattage names for what’s basically a straight-to-DVD drama, Personal Effects. So it must stink, right? Actually, Kutcher is a pleasant surprise as a quiet, awkward college wrestler looking for justice after his sister is brutally murdered. He doesn’t find it, but he does find sympathy in the arms of an equally damaged Pfeiffer. Apparently the guy has a way with older women. A piddly making-of doc is the lone EXTRA. B, By Chris Nashawaty -
Personal Effects DVD out May 12, 2009 with Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates
April 30, 2009
This plays more like an indie flick, and you wouldn’t think so with a cast like Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates, but in order for this picture to be evaluated properly it needs to be understood that this isn’t a fast paced Blockbuster movie, but rather a moody, slow character piece with an unraveling beautiful love story in the subtext. Ashton Kutcher plays a young man whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. He’s a silent, but tough guy who has trouble with communicating what’s really going on underneath. He’s a man’s man. He does an impeccable job at conveying what he’s thinking just by watching his face and his eyes. I’ve never seen him do more honest acting work than in this film. Michelle Pfeiffer is a true gem in this, not just a stunning beauty, but she brings a great spirit to the screen and with her character, showing raw emotion to charismatic and charming humor. She plays a woman whose husband was killed by a friend with a gun. Ashton and Michelle’s characters have that first common understanding between each other when they meet at a group therapy session for those that lost someone close to them. They slowly begin to develop a friendship that later grows more intimate, clinging onto one another in an underlying way to connect with someone they can relate to. Michelle’s character has a deaf son who holds a lot of bottled up anger and rage over his father’s death, but is befriended and helped by Ashton’s character taking him out of pain and into new heights. Ashton has his Mother played brilliantly in a small, but significant supporting role by Kathy Bates who is raising her daughter’s daughter. The love story aspect between the two leads is very real, honest and sexy, poignantly done. This is a sleeper, a slow methodical and feel good piece on loss, love, friendship and family. I don’t consider my five star giving for this overly generous, it’s five stars for the kind of movie that it is, for this kind of genre, a unique film about the human condition.
There’s a scene between Michelle Pfeiffer and Ashton Kutcher that is so erotically charged, practically everything, but taking off their clothes that I’m surprised they didn’t give this an NC-17 just for that. The three leads show some absolutely incredible dramatic realism. Kathy Bates should’ve got some kind of award acknowledge for this one, but if only someone could’ve put it out there and market it.
Jagger’s Revolution: A Screenplay
The screenplay draft adaptation and companion to “Jagger’s Revolution”, where a beach dude with a distaste for bad dating etiquette struggles with a crush on an Aussie lifeguard.
-(February 2008)
Jagger’s Revolution
Jagger is an aristocratic beach thug who rules the dating world with an iron fist, while wrestling with a hard biting crush on a hot Australian lifeguard who just might be his ideal mate.
-(November 2006)
Michelle Pfeiffer turns 50!
April 29, 2008
Michelle Pfeiffer is 50 today! Proving that 50 really IS the new 30!
It’s only right that I pay homage to her, after all, my professional life in the entertainment field began in her office, and there’s just something about 50. She makes the number look good, no actually HOT! According to a poll given to the young male set, voted 1 above all the others.
It was just days after my twenty-third birthday in 1996. I was the only male in a team of three strong females in there thirties; one of the females was actress/producer, Michelle Pfeiffer and I was just head hunted by her development director to join them at her little company, Via Rosa.
I used to hate having to go in at 7:00 am when we were shooting something, I’m a morning person, but not that early, and then when I found out Michelle was being picked up at 4:30 AM in Brentwood and driven to Universal Pictures to rush into the trailer for wardrobe, make up, and be camera ready by 8:00 a.m. to unleash an emotional scene, I thought, “okay maybe I shouldn’t complain, but be grateful.”
She also says that the word fuck is an incredible word, because it’s so descriptive, can be used in so many ways, lovingly or in the most hateful way, and sometimes just no other word will do.
Her long time assistant sent me passes to the “Hairspray” premiere last Summer and I took an actor friend of mine. He was talking it up with some industry people and watching Michelle in his eyeline. As I approached him from behind, I heard him say, “God she’s so beautiful! I wish I could go up to her.” I leaned into his ear and said, “It’s easier than you think”. I grabbed him and led him through the crowd and the flashing bulbs. I could hear him mumbling, “oh my god, oh my god”. He started to tremble nervously as we approached her. I said, “It’s okay, remember she’s just like you and me”. He didn’t believe me though. Her blue eyes widened and pierced through him when I introduced him. “Uhhhhh.” She’s always had that affect on people. He could barely put his hand out to shake hers. I shouted above the crowd that was shouting Michelle’s name so she’d look their way, “you’ll have to forgive him he’s really nervous, but wouldn’t you be if you were meeting you.” She let out a silent laugh, where her mouth opens wide, but no sound comes out, then she leaned into him, “don’t worry I’m scared of myself sometimes.”
Zac Efron makes a beeline to her.
She’s been on too many beautiful people lists to count, and been called a sexy dream to ever grace the silver screen, opting to choose acting parts that suit her darker nature including one of sheer bliss in one of her most indelible roles as Catwoman in ‘Batman Returns’…
“I don’t know who I am anymore”.
She says on screen as she breaks into several pieces right before your eyes with tears and laughter, her identities fusing and splintering, thoroughly undoing her, noted as one of the best performances ever given in a super hero film.
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Michelle Pfeiffer’s “I Could Never Be Your Woman” on DVD!
February 11, 2008
Unfortunately, America was never given the opportunity to see this sweet romantic comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer, called “I Could Never Be Your Woman”, and not for any reason except the company that made the film went bankrupt.Luckily, you will all finally have a chance to not just see it but also own it if you like. The DVD release for Michelle Pfeiffer’s “I Could Never Be Your Woman” will be released Tuesday, February 12, 2008, just in time for Valentine’s Day.