Ewan McGregor has contributed a recipe to a charity cookbook raising money for Rachel House, a Scottish children’s hospice. The cookbook can be ordered at www.chas.org.uk. Ewan’s recipe (and U.S. translations!) are beneath the cut. Thanks to Rach for the link and info!
Don’t quit your day job?
Heroes‘ Masi Oka does consulting work for ILM three times a week, despite finding acting sucess. He worked on the prequels and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Lucas/Colbert – it’s crumbelievable!
Thanks to Starwars.com, we now know that the video of George’s full appearance on The Colbert Report last night is up. Woo!
Okay, no – it’s just the same entry video. I think I hate Comedy Central’s site. Anyway, Starwars.com has pictures and stuff. Colbert Nation (the show’s ‘fan’ site, wink wink) has more pictures and a recap and it doesn’t force Firefox to go all seppuku on me.
Colbert vs. Lucas
A lightsaber battle – to the death! Also, another version of the Green Screen montage.
George Lucas on The Colbert Report!
George showed up – SURPRISE – as one of the two finalists in Colbert’s Greenscreen Challenge. (See an entry montage) Colbert introduced the first clip, with the creator, Bonnie (not that Bonnie) on the phone, and then announced that the creator of the second clip, one ‘George L.’ was with them in the studio.
The clip was footage from the the opening ROTS battle, with Stephen, battle droids, and a very special guest. You can watch it on Comedy Central’s site or starwars.com.
Alas – George lost, puppydog eyes and all. He hung out for the rest of the show, both of them holding in the laughs only slightly better than Horatio Sanz on SNL, and ended with a heroic lightsaber duel. Who won? George. I believe that’s the first time Colbert let a guest win anything.
I’ll keep an eye on Youtube for more clips, but right now there’s not much there. Pirates, where are you when I need you? Slacking. How typical.
Business Week profiles George
All the news of the last week, with none of the crazy assumptions. Really, I just think he needs to give more interviews. Of course, that would also make such articles a lot less newsworthy…
George speaks
IESB interview with George Lucas, where he clarifys some remarks from last week. Um, he did say quiting blockbusters, not movies entirely, right? Because that’s pretty much exactly what I heard. Oh well.
I was going to link this in the video post, but then I decided to go with the whole cute thing. George is many things, but I wouldn’t really call him cute.
Read it again, for the first time
Watch a video, why not?
Jeremy Bulloch is reaching out to the Star Wars community to help out Starhyke, a sci-fi comedy series he’s starring in. Check out the series’ two-minute trailer on Youtube or Google. Babylon 5 fans might note that Claudia Christian is also in it.
Trying to resist the head-chopping jokes
Pictures of Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman on the set of The Other Boleyn Girl, an adaption of the book of the same name. Portman is playing Anne Boleyn, with Johansson in the title role.
Since the costume-porn is minimal on that one, I’ll throw in some scans of Kirsten Dunst in Vogue pimping Marie Antoinette.