The Somewhat Ambitious

LUKE SKYWALKER’S LIGHTSABER IS FOR SALE.
A reader has pointed out that Profiles in History is holding a Hollywood memorabilia auction, at which Luke’s iconic weapon (not sure if its the one from ‘Jedi that he built himself, or the one Alec Guiness foisted from his still smouldering dad) will be up for auction. Also for [...]

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Guess who is interviewing Philip Petit, the performer who tightrope-walked between the two towers in 1974 and subject of the award winning doco Man on Wire?
(Hint: It’s me. Also, I clearly don’t understand the notion of hinting.)
It’s at Cinema Nova on Wednesday the 15th, on Lygon street. More info will be posted when I stop [...]

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Remember on Star Trek: The Next Generation when Lt. Barclay had made all those twisted fantasy programmes on the Enterprise holodeck in which he could fulfill all of his sickest dreams involving the three musketeers, Wesley eating pie and Troi talking dirty on a swing?
Yeah, me neither.
Anyway, turns out the holodeck could become a reality, [...]

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Paul Newman died yesterday of lung cancer at the age of 83.
/Paul

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If you happen to own a guitar (an electric one, not one of those hippie bullshit wooden whatevers strummed by Ani Difranco*) and find yourself frequently out of reach of your amp, guess what? You’re an idiot. Stop carrying an electric guitar around, it makes you look like an extra in Wayne’s World. But if [...]

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This photo was taken recently at Dragoncon ‘08, and is probably the single coolest costume I’ve seen in at least a week (I woke up in a costume store last weekend. Long story). I wonder what his last words were. I’d bet good money that he said something to do with Cookies, but it’s hard [...]

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Contrary to Homer’s (the Simpson, not the ancient Greek poet) suggestion that all movies are better if you speed them up, I’m starting to think that the key to comedic glory is locked in replaying things at half pace. In particular, if you replay footage involving Jeff Goldblum at half pace. Or, more specifically, if [...]

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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is showing the incendiary Lynch film Blue Velvet tomorrow night at 10pm. The ACMI cinema is at fed square, and if you haven’t been there before, they have an amazing cinemateque program. I’ve seen Blue Velvet about eighteen billion times (in dog years, thats like, what, twelve?) [...]

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To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Childs Play (the Citizen Kane of shitty doll-related horror films), a bevy* of people dressed as the veritably Shakespearian antagonist wandered around times square for a promotional photoshoot/pranky funtime. My main issue with this is that if I got a bunch of friends to dress up as Orson Welles’ [...]

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DONALD LaFONTAINE, THE VOICE OF GOD.
26-8-1940 - 1-9-2008
Don LaFontaine, the husky-voiced guy who started trailers off with “in a land… before time” or “on the run… from himself”, has died of an undisclosed illness at the age of 68. He had recorded over 5000 film trailers, television commercials, network and video game ads, and I’m [...]

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