STAR TREK – Coming May 2009

J.J. Abrams and Paramount have finally issued promo ‘posters’ at the official site for the upcoming STAR TREK movie which is being called variously STAR TREK ZERO (as it’s a prequel) or STAR TREK XI (the eleventh movie in the franchise) or just plain STAR TREK. They of course can’t use STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE – that’s already been used. =)

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2008 Emmy Awards Announced

In a new twist, 2 basic cable shows, MAD MEN and DAMAGES, also managed to achieve Best Series nominations, something basic cable programs had never managed to do until now.

Here are just some of the 2008 nominees (with the ones I’d like to see win in red):
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MERCY: Duffy’s Soulful Singing is Super

Recently, I was listening to a TV music channel in the background when MERCY by Duffy came on. I looked up to watch, expecting to see a retro-1960’s black girl’s group singing it, only to be surprised to see this little Welsh blond belting it out. Needless to say, I was quite amazed at what a great voice she has, part Billie Holiday, part Ronettes, and a little Ben E. King mixed in. =)

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Knox & Vivienne – The Newest Jolie-Pitts

It appears the Jolie-Pitts have added a few more to the growing brood: twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline join Maddox, Zahara, Pax and Shiloh. I’m not so hot on the name Knox, but Vivienne Marcheline flows nicely. (For someone who’s trying to bring children’s issues to people’s attention, especially all the orphaned and abandoned kid’s needing parents, I think Angie needs to maybe reconsider her birth control choices… Or maybe Brad does, hmmm? But that’s just my opinion. LOL)

Guess it will be time to adopt again next, eh? Wonder which country they’ll go for next? (Can you say “Cheaper By The Dozen?” LOL)

This time around she had a C-Section, so I guess more Lara Croft movies in small swimsuits will be off the table for awhile or forever…  (Then again, with today’s movie magic and makeup magic, who knows?)

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FINAL FILMS: Actors Who Died Too Soon

With Heath Ledger’s death before THE DARK KNIGHT was released, he joined a sad, but growing number of actors and actresses who died before their last movie was finished and/or released.

Not all final movies have gone on to break box office records like THE DARK KNIGHT–in its opening 10 days it’s already done over $330 million–but they all mark a sad moment when a Hollywood star was lost.

Here are just some of the actors who passed too quickly and their final films:

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Name	Last Movie	Year Died	Age	How They Were Taken
Aaliyah	THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED	2001	22	Plane crash.
John Candy	WAGON’S EAST	1994	43	Coronary embolism leading to heart attack while sleeping.
Gary Cooper	THE NAKED EDGE	1961	60	Prostate cancer which metastasized to his bones. Filming was finished, but the film had not been released yet.
James Dean	REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE	1955	24	Car crash. Received first posthumous Best Actor Oscar and only actor to have two posthumous nominations.
Dominique Dunne	THE SHADOW RIDERS (TV)	1982	22	Strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend before the film was released.
Chris Farley	ALMOST HEROES	1994	33	Drug overdose.
Gloria Foster	THE MATRIX RELOADED	2001	67	Complications from diabetes after filming was finished but before the movie was released.
Clark Gable	THE MISFITS	1960	59	Heart attack. Filming had been completed but the movie had not been released yet.
Jean Harlow	SARATOGA	1937	26	Uremic poisoning during filming after years of kidney problems.
Richard Harris	HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS	2002	72	Hodgkin’s disease a few weeks before the movie was released.
Phil Hartman	SMALL SOLDIERS	1998	49	Shot to death by his wife before she committed suicide.
John Hodiak	ON THE THRESHOLD OF SPACE	1955	41	Heart attack at home while getting ready to go to the studio.
Raul Julia	STREET FIGHTER	1994	54	Stroke after suffering from stomach cancer a few days before filming ended.
Heath Ledger	THE DARK KNIGHT	2008	28	Acute (fatal) intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine.
Ernie Kovacs	IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD	1962	42	Car crash before filming began.
Brandon Lee	THE CROW	1993	28	Accidental gunshot wound during filming. A prop gun that was supposed to have only blanks still had a bullet lodged in the barrel from an earlier test firing of blanks that were made from real cartridges to cut time.
Bruce Lee	ENTER THE DRAGON	1973	32	Supposedly died due to hypersensitivity to the muscle relaxant in Equagesic. His death was ruled “death by misadventure.”
Carole Lombard	TO BE OR NOT TO BE	1942	33	Plane crash while on a war bonds tour during post-production.
Bernie Mac	SOUL MEN;  MADAGASCAR:  ESCAPE 2 AFRICA	2008	50	Pneumonia
Marilyn Monroe	SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE	1962	36	Accidental chloral hydrate and Nembutal overdose.
Heather O’Rourke	POLTERGEIST III	1988	12	Septic shock from an acute bowel obstruction.
River Phoenix	DARK BLOOD	1993	23	Heroine and cocaine (speedball) overdose.
Tyrone Power	SOLOMON AND SHEBA	1958	44	Heart attack during a strenuous dueling scene.
Oliver Reed	GLADIATOR	1999	61	Heart attack during a filming break after a heavy drinking and arm wrestling bout.
John Ritter	BAD SANTA	2003	54	Aortic dissection (rupture) from a congenital heart defect while filming his TV series, but before the film was released.
Adrienne Shelley	WAITRESS; SERIOUS MOONLIGHT	2007	40	Originally considered a suicide, it was reclassified a homicide when a man confessed to strangling her and hanging her body in her shower after she caught him stealing from her purse.
Spencer Tracy	GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER	1967	67	Heart attack after filming, but before film was released.
Natalie Wood	BRAINSTORM	1981	43	Accidental drowning.

May They All Rest in Peace…

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