Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
Mini Faces of Ewan has apparently been around a while, but if I missed it, you might have too.
The site features hilarious and astonishingly detailed recreations of scenes from movies starring Ewan McGregor using 12″ dolls. The Trainspotting one is my personal favorite.
Thanks to Knitting Nancy for the head’s up on this one!
Big news… Hyperspace chat with Mary Franklin, who, in addition to being Celebration Bigwig and editor of Bantha Tracks, is also getting her due as the best bartender ever at fan sites such as RebelScum and TFN.
Perhaps The Hair will share a few recipes from the coveted bartending guide so we can attend the event in proper CJ style…
There is finally an official website for Ewan McGregor’s “Guys and Dolls.”
Natalie Portman didn’t win an Oscar… But Cate Blanchett did. Quite frankly, I’m a-okay with that, because it would be a sad, sad world if Cate Blanchett didn’t have an Oscar.
I’m quite surprised she didn’t know any better, given her background, but Natalie Portman got into some big trouble for filming a kissing scene at Israel’s Western Wall.
The sexes are supposed to be separated here. Impressed she didn’t get stoned for this goof.
Obviously the diplomatic skills of her character, Senator Padme Amidala, did not extend to her non-Star Wars life.
JoBlo.com has a very interesting set report from Ewan McGregor’s upcoming film “The Island”.
At a recent book signing, Charley Boorman shared some more information about his and Ewan’s next adventure…
Following a three-month trip motorbiking around the world with film star Ewan McGregor, actor Charley Boorman is keen to get back on the road.
“We’re hoping to do the Paris-Dakar race this year and then, if all goes well, Ewan and I will go from London to Capetown through Africa,” he said at last Thursday’s opening of the Borders store in Brent Cross shopping centre.
Variety has done a profile on George Lucas, and TFN talks them into putting it online for free. Pretty cool.
George Lucas answers to no man. Indeed, his autonomy is unique in the history of the entertainment industry: Even Walt Disney had to cope with his skinflint brother Roy.
Lucas turns 61 in May, the same month “Revenge of the Sith,” the sixth and probably last “Star Wars” picture, makes its bow. But the visionary filmmaker has no clear plans to make any more films — at least none of the obviously commercial variety.
And while he has started up several self-sufficient companies — effects shop ILM, sound firm THX, etc. — it’s not clear that he will turn his focus to any of them. Instead, his peripatetic mind seems eager to blaze new frontiers.
Hayden Christensen has landed his next role in the film The Decameron.
Before folks start wondering how his poor diction will work in a period piece, they’re modernizing it.
Um. Okay.
Mark Hamill’s Comic Book: The Movie won ‘several top honors’ (The Beat is as clueless as we are, thanks to Variety‘s subscription service.) Naturally, red carpet interviews were nabbed about the Star Wars television show: “Never say never.” IESB has video.