Archive for June, 2008
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‘Go on Gene, make my day and return to acting!’ That was the plea from veteran actors Clint Eastwood and Gene Hackman’s agent after the news that Hackman has decided to retire from the movie scene for good.
Clint told MTV.com that he recently saw Hackman, who initially made the decision to retire in 2004 and commented, ‘I’d love to see him come back, but I think it’s not very nice to ride him. He’s too good an actor not to be performing, but by the same token, he probably thinks that’s enough.”
Hackman, who’s career in movies began when he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse where he met fellow actor Dustin Hoffman and the two were awarded the dubious honor of Least Likely to Succeed. A bit part came his way in the 1964 film Lilith, starring Warren Beatty.
In 1992, Eastwood approached Hackman for the role of Little Bill Daggett in Unforgiven. Hackman initially refused, but eventually conceded and took the part. He ended up winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and prior to that, his portrayal of Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in The French Connection, won him the Oscar for Best Actor.
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It was a rhetorical question that maybe radio host, Don Imus, would have been better off not asking that has once again landed him in hot water with the Reverend Al Sharpton and WABC and Citadel Broadcasting Corp.
Following his remarks back in 2007 while commenting on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team Imus was fired from his job only to be taken on a few months later by WABC at a substantially higher salary and with a much highlighted profile.
So with the current backlash against Don’s remarks on Monday relating to Dallas Cowboys defensive back, Adam “Pacman’ Jones, who has had run-ins with the law and is serving a suspension from the National Football League, if the past is anything to go by we should soon see Imus’s having a hike in his salary and being appointed to maybe Fox News or CNN as a host!
Jones, who has a well-chronicled history of trouble and has been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005, was being debated with Warner Wolf on the Imus show, when Imus asked, ‘”What color is he?” “He’s African-American,” Wolf responded.
“Well, there you go,” Imus said. “Now we know.”
But Imus now insists that his remark was an attempt at sarcasm, highlighting the fact that because the guy was black he was being persecuted and hounded.
Whatever, Imus!
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With no mammoth success on the music scene in past few years, and with little or no interest from the media either in her her life or her sibling’s lives, Janet Jackson has now jumped on the reality show band wagon.
Jackson is to have her own reality show which will see her scouring the YMCA’s, church groups and local community centers in a bid to seek out her own ‘prodigy!’
Sounds a lot like X Factor, American Idol and Pop Idol - we think its already been done by someone with a little more credibility and flare than Jackson, Simon Cowell.
We can expect to see this show axed after the first season!
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