When Run The Jewels get done with their current European and North American mostly-festivals tour, they're hitting the road yet again, doing a string of dates across the American south and midwest. No surprise there. Run The Jewels have been touring like fiends for the past few years straight, only taking quick breaks to record … More »
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
Some are funny, some touching, some fitting. Always interesting. The final words of 24 famous people.
“I’m bored with it all." -Winston Churchill
“Love one another." -George Harrison
“I love you, honey. Good luck with your show.” -Desi Arnaz (said on the phone to ex-wife Lucille Ball)
“Is everyone else alright?" -Robert F. Kennedy
“I’m going away tonight" -James Brown
“That's funny" -Doc Holliday (Looking at his bare feet. As a gunslinger, he always thought he would die with his boots on.)
“Is it not meningitis?" -Louisa May Alcott
“Water" -Ulysses S. Grant
“This is absurd, this is absurd." -Sigmund Freud
“Okay, I won't" -Elvis Presley (Replying to his girlfriend who told him not to fall asleep in the bathroom.)
“Does nobody understand?" -James Joyce
“Leave me alone. I’m fine." -Barry White
“Please don't let me fall" -Mary Surratt (Said just before being hung. She was the only woman convicted in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. She was the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government.)
“Lord help my poor soul." -Edgar Allan Poe
“Don't turn down the light. I’m afraid to go home in the dark." -O. Henry
“Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub." -Conrad Hilton
“Yeah, I am.” -John Lennon (Asked in the ambulance if he was John Lennon.)
“How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?" -P.T. Barnum
“I want to go. I’m ready to go. God take me.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I just drank 18 whiskies. I think that's a record.” -Dylan Thomas
“Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Yeah." -Timothy Leary
“Please don't leave me. Please don't leave me." -Chris Farley
“I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -Humphrey Bogart
“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." -John Barrymore
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Dating--it's a meat market out there. And you've got to meet someone. That's why four students at Leiden University in the Netherlands invented Tender. This art installation comments on the modern dating scene by showing a slab of meat continuously swiping through simulated profiles on the Tinder dating app.
Cors Brinkman, Jeroen van Oorschot, Marcello Maureira, and Matei Szabo made the sculpture for a class project. It will be on display at Radion Amsterdam this Saturday.
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Ozzy is fantastic! He and his human, Nick, live in Norwich, UK. He’s a cross between a Welsh Border Collie and Kelpie. Ozzy holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest crossing of a tightrope by a dog. You can watch him set that record here.
In this video, he’s doing a handstand, which is something that we’ve seen before. But he’s doing it on a tightrope! Ozzy can also do a parkour trick that Nick calls tree bouncing.
Lil Wayne sounds like his old stream-of-consciousness savant self on "Glory," the new single he released today as a Tidal exclusive. Are the rhymes here Da Drought 3 quality? No, but the flow will transport you back to those days and make you optimistic about the future of the former Best Rapper Alive. Listen at … More »
Jon Snow isn’t exactly known for his lively sense of humor, but actor Kit Harington clearly doesn’t mind getting in touch with his silly side from time to time. Even as Game of Thrones races toward another (we assume) grim finale, HBO has released the first funny promo for Harington’s other HBO project, 7 Days in Hell.
The Christopher Guest-style mockumentary centers on a fictional tennis match that goes down in history as the longest ever. Harington and Andy Samberg play the exhausted rivals. Watch the 7 Days in Hell teaser trailer after the jump.
HBO unveiled the first 7 Days of Hell teaser trailer on YouTube.
Samberg is Aaron Williams, a stereotypical “bad boy” type returning from early retirement. Harington is Charles Poole, who’s brilliant on the court but shockingly stupid everywhere else. The two face off in a match that, as indicated by the title, carries on for seven grueling days. (For comparison, the longest real-life match in tennis history lasted three days.)
Other cast members include Mary Steenburgen as Charles’ domineering mother, Lena Dunham as a Jordache executive, Michael Sheen as a sleazy TV host, Karen Gillan as a supermodel, and Fred Armisen and Will Forte as tennis historians. Real-life tennis stars like Serena Williams, John McEnroe, and Chris Evert weigh in on the supposedly legendary match as well.
7 Days in Hell is directed by Jake Szymanski. He’s known for his work on Funny or Die and SNL Digital Shorts, and about to make his feature debut with the comedy Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. (7 Days in Hell falls somewhere in between, clocking in at around 50 minutes.) Murray Miller (Girls, American Dad!, King of the Hill) wrote the script.
7 Days in Hell made its world premiere earlier this year at SXSW, earning mostly strong reviews. It makes its HBO debut on July 11.
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CoreyNot really my thing, but anything Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks and the Coens is worth a watch.
Here’s the first trailer for Bridge of Spies, the film that brings director Steven Spielberg and star Tom Hanks together with writers Joel and Ethan Coen and Matt Charman to tell the story of an American attorney who was on the forefront of a Cold War conflict involving the exchange of political prisoners in the early 1960s.
CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, and the United States long denied that his mission was related to intelligence-gathering. He was convicted of espionage in the Soviet Union and sentenced to ten years in prison. In 1962, he returned to the US thanks to a spy-swap deal between the US and Soviets.
That deal is the center of this film, but this first Bridge of Spies trailer says that the film is really about fighting for values, especially when people and governments alike have been stirred into a frightened and paranoid furor. Can Tom Hanks stand fast and represent ideals of fairness and freedom in the face of fear?
Trailer via Disney and Dreamworks. Bridge of Spies opens on October 16.
A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, DreamWorks Pictures/Fox 2000 Pictures’ “Bridge of Spies” tells the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot. Screenwriters Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen have woven this remarkable experience in Donovan’s life into a story inspired by true events that captures the essence of a man who risked everything and vividly brings his personal journey to life.
Directed by three-time Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg, “Bridge of Spies” stars: two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks as James Donovan; three-time Tony Award® winner Mark Rylance as Rudolf Abel, a KGB agent defended by Donovan; Scott Shepherd as CIA operative Hoffman; Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan as James’ wife, Mary; Sebastian Koch as East German lawyer Vogel; and Academy Award nominee Alan Alda as Thomas Watters, a partner at Donovan’s law firm. The film is produced by Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger with Adam Somner, Daniel Lupi, Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Matt Charman and three-time Academy Award winners Ethan Coen & Joel Coen. “Bridge of Spies” will be released in theaters on October 16, 2015.
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CoreySavage
@Giancarlo818 you need to start respecting the rules sir. pic.twitter.com/IvkUAphhJv
— Dee Gordon (@FlashGJr) June 1, 2015
CoreyHave this on DVD (even though it is streaming).
When we watching Dool?
Zombeavers
Netflix Streaming | Amazon Instant Video | Blu-ray | DVD
Directed by Jordan Rubin
Written by Jordan Rubin, Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan
Starring Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins, Hutch Dano, Peter Gilroy, Jake Weary
Freestyle Media | Armory Films | Benderspink | Hypotenuse Pictures
Rated R | 85 Minutes
Original Release Date: March 20th, 2015
The movie is called Zombeavers! Right now, you know you’re either in or out. If the highlight of your summer is going to be the premiere of Sharknado 3... then hitch up, jump on Netflix, grab some mind-altering substances (legal ones), and prepare to rock out with the Zombeavers. And yes, they are zombie beavers, in case you didn’t get it [...]
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The Kurt Sutter period piece, The Bastard Executioner, has been picked up for a 10-episode order by FX. The pilot, which was written by Sutter and directed by his go-to director, Paris Barclay, recently wrapped in Wales.
Check out the video and the rest of the story below [...]
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CoreyI wanted to like this movie. It did not work.
Interstellar hit home video Tuesday and our friends over at Screen Junkies have picked Christopher Nolan‘s latest for their new installment of their signature Honest Trailers series. The four-minute-long Interstellar Honest Trailer begins “From the director who apparently gets a life time pass because he made The Dark Knight, comes the movie everyone respected for being ambitious and original but also made them say… What’s he doing in a space bookshelf?!”
Screen Junkies thinks Nolan has gone “full blown Shyamalan.” Even though I really enjoyed the film despite its flaws (including yes, the award winning “sound design”), it’s hard not to agree with some of their humorously well-presented points. Watch the Interstellar honest trailer embedded after the jump.
You can watch more Honest Trailers from ScreenJunkies on Youtube.
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There is no camping without a campfire, unless your idea of camping is sitting around the warm glow of a laptop screen outside your home, so avid campers have to know their way around a pile of fiery wood.
Groups like the Boy and Girl Scouts teach young recruits how to build a campfire out of gathered wood and kindling, but the basic Tipi style they teach you doesn't last as long as the Star, and isn't as effective for cooking as the Platform.
So if you’re planning on heading to the great outdoors this summer you should check out this article that teaches you How To Build The Only Five Campfires You’ll Ever Need, and make sure you invest in a Zippo lighter (or some waterproof matches) before you go!
What happens when people start adding "-ing" to movie titles? Often, hilarity ensues. And just as often, you might discover it's an hour later and you're still adding "-ing" to movie titles and laughing to yourself or with silly friends having a similar attack of slap happiness. ...I guess you had to be there (add your best in the comments).
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Peach Sangria Popsicles | Image and recipe from Annie's Eats
Ah, summer. Nothing like a cool cocktail. Yet don't sip it too slow, or it will warm up in the heat as the conversation flows and distractions abound. Slushy, frozen drinks are refreshing, but especially during larger gatherings, the host/bartender may feel a little too tied to the blender. This group of twenty recipes is just the ticket: cocktails on a stick.Cool, premade and just-as-boozy-as-you-desire, they're sitting in your freezer, ready to be savored.
Costa Rican Watermelon Mojito Popsicles | Image and recipe from Boulder Locavore
Watermelon-Mint Tequila Popsicles | Image and recipe from Hungry Girl Por VidaCoreyLast night's episode was the best of the series. This is a good article that doesn't have any spoilers (past seeing last night's episode).
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There’s a moment in “Hardhome,” the electric eighth episode of Game of Thrones season 5, in which the usually silky score by composer Ramin Djawadi changes tone pretty drastically. What is usually a sweeping orchestral arrangement becomes a sharp, high-tempo, eerie staccato of terror. It was reminiscent of the work that Hans Zimmer did to illuminate the oncoming terror in the opening moments of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight in 2008, the same kind of high-pressure musical jabbing that introduced The Joker, one of modern cinema’s most compelling villains.
For Game of Thrones, the effect is used to re-introduce something that we’ve only seen one time before. A character that is the physical manifestation of one half of George R.R. Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire.” He’s known to book readers as The Night’s King, the potentially centuries-old big bad from north of The Wall. His emergence last season was the show teasing ahead of Martin’s books — showing us a part of the world that has yet to be revealed by the author himself. His re-emergence in this episode could be seen as an inflection point for both the show and its source material. This episode marks the big turn toward the main event, the epic conflict between Ice and Fire. We’ve been watching the instruments of Fire grow for several seasons in Dany’s dragons for five seasons, now it’s time to meet their terrifying opponent.
This will be the heavyweight fight at the heart of Game of Thrones.
That isn’t to say that there aren’t other weight classes. In the world of Game of Thrones, there are numerous divisions and levels of competition, all reaching their most contentious stages as season 5 barrels toward its final rounds. Let’s continue this boxing theme by exploring some of the other battles being waged in Westeros and beyond.
Still in Training: Lana of the Canals
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The breadth of the Arya Stark storyline is difficult to assess, even for the most seasoned book reader. We won’t get into where her story goes in the books, as this Monday column is spoiler-free, but let’s just say that no one really knows where Arya’s sadistic summer internship is headed. What we do know based on the events of this episode is that Jaqen is giving her a chance to serve the Many Faced God, one way or another. Whether that leads to Arya’s first kill in the service of the Faceless Men or her own death, it doesn’t seem to matter to A Man.
In the Lightweight Division: Sansa and Theon
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After a few weeks of tormenting Sansa and the audience that has come to root for her, the show gave her a few moments to stand tall above the meager Reek. The eunuch formerly known as Theon is still not helpful to Lady Sansa, but he does spill an interesting tidbit about her brothers. Will the knowledge that Bran and Rickon are still out there inspire Sansa to change her course in some way? Will this make her more motivated to escape the clutches of the Boltons, or will she enlist the help of someone else to go find her brothers? To our knowledge, Brienne and Pod are still out there, only a few hundred feet away, staring at the exterior of Winterfell. Perhaps they will be useful yet. Either way, Sansa might have some new goals. But they are tempered goals. We can only hope that she’s still got designs on using that tool she squirreled away in the last episode to do something horrible to Ramsay. It’s nice to get some fierce dialog work for Sophie Turner, but I’m still not sure what to make of this entire storyline. It still feels like much ado about pain and suffering.
In the Welterweight Division: Cersei Lannister
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The plight of Cersei Lannister feels like a small step above Sansa’s storyline in terms of stakes. In her mind, Cersei is still holding the keys to the kingdom. But as we’ve seen in almost every other storyline happening on the show, the events at King’s Landing are beginning to feel smaller and smaller with each passing episode. In her conversation with her Master of Creeps Qyburn, we learn that everything else in King’s Landing is pretty business as usual. Uncle Kevan has been recalled as Hand of the King, the High Sparrow retains his power and will put Cersei on trial, and Tommen is inconsolable (although most likely because of his wife’s imprisonment more than his mother’s). Will Cersei confess her crimes? She’s never been brought lower than this, forced to lick water off of her cell floor to survive. And it doesn’t appear as if anyone is in a hurry to rescue her by force. Like Sansa, Cersei is going to have to figure a way out of her captivity on her own. Which might mean doing the one thing that could destroy her family’s legacy for good.
It’s rough, but she did this to herself.
In the Middleweight Division: Stannis and The Boltons
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Not far from The Wall, the likely scene of the real heavyweight bout, the army of Stannis Baratheon continues to stagnate in the snow. This week we’re let in on a little Bolton strategy session, learning that while Roose would rather stay inside the well-fortified walls of Winterfell and let Stannis’ army starve, his son has other plans. All he needs is 20 good men and his own perverse creativity and Ramsay thinks he can win the war for The North.
This is a storyline that is losing stakes with every passing episode, as well. Stannis’ army is going nowhere fast and the biggest question that remains is whether any children we like will be burned (or perhaps worse). But there’s always the specter of the Red Woman’s magic around Stannis. It’s been a while since The Lord of Light has done something truly spectacular in the name of King Stannis. And as magic ramps up elsewhere in the world, it might be time for the Boltons to meet some of of R’Hllor’s vengeance. We can’t forget that Melisandre believes that Stannis is Azor Ahai reborn, the champion of the Lord of Light, destined to defeat The Great Other (we meet his army later in the episode). So there’s still great potential in Stannis’ quest, even though it appears currently as if he’s going to be buried alive by winter.
Ready for Promotion to Heavyweight: Tyrion and Daenerys
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Now that two of the biggest audience favorites have been paired together, the show spent some time in the company of Tyrion Lannister and the Mother of Dragons. In this sharply-written strategy jam session, Dany’s true intentions come back to the surface. All season she’s been wallowing atop a pyramid in Meereen, struggling to bring freedom to Slaver’s Bay. This is the first time she’s mentioned returning to her “home” in Westeros in a long time. The fast-injection of Tyrion into her storyline has brought clarity and purpose to Dany. Which is great, because as we’ve been able to deduce, her dragons are the key to the other side of the “Ice and Fire” equation. If she’s stuck in the political mud of Meereen, she’ll never be able to move on to the more important task of burning ice zombies from atop her children. In this regard, Tyrion has arrived just in time to give her useful council on the matters of politics.
If all else fails and the final 22 episodes of Game of Thrones are more of this, I’ll take it:
The Champ is Here: The Night’s King
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As I noted in my open, The Night’s King and his army of ice zombies matter in a huge way. When the people of The North have talked about The Long Night, they are talking about him. When Melisandre talks about the Lord of Light’s battle against The Great Other, he is the manifestation of this.
According to legend, The Night’s King was the thirteenth Night’s Watch Lord Commander (for context, Jon Snow is the 998th Lord Commander) who lived during the Age of Heroes (before the Targaryens conquered Westeros). As the story goes, he fell in love with a woman “with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars” whose skin was “cold as ice.” In their mating, he gave up his soul to this cold lady. He and his icy queen would later take up residence in the Nightfort, one of the castles along The Wall, and declare himself king. It would take the banding together of his own brother, The King in the North (a Stark) and a King-Beyond-the-Wall named Joramun, to bring him down.
And now he (or one of his descendants) is back to reclaim dominance over the realms of men and bring about The Long Night (or as we’re to believe, endless winter).
The monstrous battle sequence that closes out “Hardhome” isn’t so much a battle as it is a slaughter. The minions of The Night’s King are persistent and free of pesky mortality. But we do discover one important thing along the way. In his gnarly fight with one of the White Walker lieutenants, Jon Snow discovers the power in his Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw. Pedestrian metals are no match for ice zombie magic, but Valyrian steel seems to do the trick. This brings us to our shortlist of things that can kill a White Walker:
While the day is lost to Jon and his friends, ending with the exceptional spectacle of The Night’s King raising the dead and drafting them into his ever-growing army, there is hope on the horizon. Jon Snow now has more information about how White Walkers can be killed. The only question is whether or not there’s enough Valyrian steel in all of Westeros to stop this massive threat. As well, no one south of The Wall seems concerned about the army of the undead. Because they aren’t hip to how much magic exists in their world. They are still squabbling over lands and heirs, neither of which will matter very much when The Long Night begins.
Make no mistake, the main event on Game of Thrones has begun. The orchestra is tuning up to play out this epic Song of Ice and Fire.
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CoreyThis guy really is the worst.
Hoboken floods again So much for the flood pumps. We told you flooding will never be improved here in town. I don’t care how many compost bins, bike lanes, green roofs and pumps. Pie...
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In Spy, Jason Statham plays a parody version of the over-the-top badasses he plays in most of his other films. But now it sounds like he’s ready to return to playing it straight.
Statham confirms he’s still set to star in Viva La Madness, the sequel to 2004’s Layer Cake, for which he’s also a producer. In fact, he says it’s aiming to shoot in 2016. Get his Layer Cake sequel update after the jump.
It was first revealed in 2013 that Statham was set to produce and star in a Layer Cake sequel, replacing Daniel Craig as the unnamed leading man. Viva La Madness is based on the book by J.J. Connolly, who also wrote Layer Cake.
We haven’t heard much about the project since then, but Statham now assures Digital Spy that it’s still on:
J.J. Connolly’s written a great book called Viva La Madness, and we’re taking that book and doing something great with it. He’s such a talented writer… the book was incredible. I loved Layer Cake and this is [if anything] better.
The chance to work with someone of that calibre, do something back home, it’s the most exciting thing on my plate… We’re doing it next year, and it’s full steam ahead. We’re putting all the finance together, and we’re off and racing.
Viva La Madness picks back up with the protagonist of Layer Cake, who has decided to retire to a sunny beach. Because there would be no movie otherwise, his plans are derailed when he gets sucked back into the vicious London underworld.
There are still a few big pieces missing from the Layer Cake sequel. As of now there’s no announced director (Matthew Vaughn helmed the original) and no writer. But if the production keeps on target for a 2016 start, we should be hearing more news on those fronts soon.
Statham is coming off of one massive hit, the ensemble actioner Furious 7. He looks poised to have another in the Melissa McCarthy vehicle Spy, which opens next weekend.
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Think of the most unlikely action hero ever and the name Jesse Eisenberg might come up. Which is exactly why the red band trailer for American Ultra is so surprising. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh (Project X) and written by Max Landis (Chronicle), American Ultra is about a young man (Eisenberg) who wants to propose to his girlfriend (Kirsten Stewart) but is then revealed to be a sleeper agent, super spy. The main difference between him and other spies though is he’s a huge stoner, slacker.
Co-starring Topher Grace, Connie Britton, John Leguizamo and others, American Ultra opens August 21. Check out the first American Ultra trailers below.
UPDATE: We’ve added a green band trailer to go along with Thursdays red band.
Thanks to Yahoo for the trailer
This probably doesn’t at all look like something fans expected. It looks way more in the mold of Matthew Vaughn than the guy who did Project X. There’s definitely potential here for something really fun. A unique blend of comedy, action, weirdness and romance. We know that Eisenberg and Stewart are both fantastic and Topher Grace looks like he’s taking things to a whole new level as the film’s villain. I don’t know, this trailer – with all of its whiz, bang and flash – has me intrigued.
According to Nourizadeh, the film is going to be less about the action and more about the relationship between the two leads:
You start with this kind of like sweet love story. I don’t want to turn people off with that, but what’s really unique about this movie is the fact that it’s like this kind of crazy action-comedy, but really at the core there is this like romance and there’s this love story where all he wants to do is to propose to her. Really if you look at it, the action that comes into play is basically the stuff that’s softening it. It’s like the hurdles that you have to like overcome.
His world just gets turned upside down and he starts to realize who he actually is. For a lot of the movie, he’s just like unaware of what’s going on, why these people are trying to kill him, and he soon finds out. It’s just this weird sort of entertaining, well-rounded, totally unique movie, I think where you know you’ll be laughing one minute, you’ll be hopefully quite shocked at some of the action that we did. It’s violent, it’s graphic, it’s funny, it’s silly at times, you know it’s just got so many things going on that its hard to actually define really.
American Ultra opens August 21. What do you think of the red band trailer?
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With so many violence in the world, it can be hard to keep the faith in humanity. However, it seems there still are a lot of good people among us. And they strike quickly, too! Without asking for it, you might just encounter one good Samaritan who will make your entire day—or year!—with a grand act of kindness.
The world is still a better place. Just check out these 17 photos that will make you smile, say “aww” or even do an ugly and see for yourself.
This holiday season, Netflix will give its subscribers the gift of Bill Murray. The streaming service has picked up A Very Murray Christmas, a Yuletide special directed by Sofia Coppola. Murray stars along with a bevy of celebrities, including George Clooney, Amy Poehler, and (of course) Jason Schwartman.
Get all the details, and watch the first A Very Murray Christmas teaser trailer after the jump.
Coppola and Murray will write A Very Murray Christmas along with Mitch Glazer (Magic City). The special is described as “an homage to the classic variety show featuring Bill Murray playing himself, as he worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snow storm in New York City.” That guy has the worst luck with weather, eh?
By some holiday miracle, though, the show goes on. “Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at the Carlyle hotel to help him; dancing and singing in holiday spirit,” the press release continues.
Said guests include Paul Shaffer, Julie White, Dimitri Dimitrov, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, David Johansen, Maya Rudolph, Jenny Lewis, Phoenix, Frederic Moulin, Rashida Jones, and Miley Cyrus.
Murray first revealed his plans for the Christmas special last year. “It won’t have a format, but it’s going to have music,” he said at the time. “It will have texture. It will have threads through it that are writing. There will be prose. It will have a patina style and wit to it. It will be nice.” Coppola added, “My motivation is to hear him singing my song requests.”
No release date has been set for A Very Murray Christmas, but you can expect it to hit sometime in December. In the meantime, check out the melancholy first teaser below. If you plucked those reindeer antlers off of his head, this could easily pass as a scene from Murray and Coppola’s Lost in Translation.
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Chris Weidman
It’s not often you hear a post-fight speech that sounds like something that the leader of an armed rebellion might say to the soldiers of the realm.
Chris Weidman’s remarks to fans following his first-round TKO victory over Vitor Belfort in this past Saturday’s UFC 187 pay-per-view co-headliner, however? That might be about as close as we’re going to get to a post-fight interview that becomes an almost threatening call to arms.
“Hey, stop doubting me,” Weidman (13-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) said after his win against Belfort (24-11 MMA, 13-7 UFC). “It’s enough. Stop doubting me. You better join the team now. This is my last invitation. Join the team. I love you.”
Here’s where the thinking fan might have justifiably wondered: Wait, by “team,” does he just mean the informal confederacy of Chris Weidman fans? Do I really need an invitation from Weidman himself to “join” that team? And, hold on, did Chris Weidman just say that he loved me?
Fighters will say a lot of crazy things when they’re high off the fumes of victory. We know this. Then they sober up and realize, hey, they hardly even know you.
But the pleading, vaguely threatening invitation to “join the team”? That seems like it’s coming from somewhere real for Weidman. That sounds like a man who feels like the team is a little light on members right now, and he can’t fully understand why.
Chris Weidman and Vitor Belfort
It’s hard to blame him for feeling that way, when you think about it. This is the man who dethroned the great Anderson Silva, who beat up Lyoto Machida before beating up Lyoto Machida was cool, who took Vitor Belfort’s best shot and then left him lying in a puddle on the mat (watch the Weidman vs. Belfort video highlights).
If you’re a Brazilian middleweight who can lay claim to any sort of legendary former UFC champion status right now, chances are pretty good that you’ve been pummeled by Weidman at least once.
That he wrapped himself in the American flag before and after these performances should, you’d think, only further endear him to fight fans here at home. If Weidman had been born and raised in Dublin instead of Long Island, he’d be a hero to his people by now. They’d throw him parades and hand him giant ceremonial keys. He’d wake up one day to discover he’d been elected to public office without even running.
Instead, Weidman is an American, which seems unremarkable to fellow Americans. It’s not so different for New Yorkers. There’s just so damn many of them. Wasn’t one of them bound to be UFC middleweight champ eventually? In a city where ignoring the constant presence of others is a skill you learn quickly, maybe you can’t expect people to be impressed with you so easily.
Chris Weidman
And it does, at least from a distance, all seem very easy for Weidman. He’s had his battles, certainly. He’s been knocked around just enough to prove he can take it, but not so much as to make us worried. It’s almost like he showed up in MMA fully formed and then began rolling toward his destiny with minimal fuss.
That’s what makes the “stop doubting me” part of his open invitation a little a strange. Looking around at betting odds and media predictions before this bout, I didn’t see a whole lot of people picking against him. We might have doubted Weidman before the first Silva fight, or even after the second one, but these days? Weidman is the guy who’s supposed to win all these fights. It’s all the people who want to pry that belt from his grasp who we don’t quite believe in yet.
But then, this isn’t really about doubt any more than it’s about being the betting favorite. For Weidman, you get the sense that it’s a little more ephemeral than that.
He doesn’t want to be favored so much as he wants to be embraced. He wants that affection other fighters get, that irrational fan devotion that’s been known to last through doping scandals and DUIs. He probably wants to be able to beat up a Brazilian in Las Vegas with something a little closer to unanimous fan support, which, honestly, doesn’t seem like too much to ask.
Those are all reasonable things to want, or even expect, especially as an unbeaten champion. They’re also the kind of things that you can’t always get just by asking for them.
As enticing as his limited-time offer to join the team might sound, you get the sneaking suspicion that we’re talking about more than reserving seats on the bandwagon here. Some people say they love you because they really, truly mean it. Others do it because they just want to hear you say it in return.
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