The Loquacious Limey

Since scoring a hypnotic debut in ‘Inglorious Basterds,’ his first major movie to be filmed outside Europe, Christoph Waltz is being widely suggested as Oscar material, and according to DHD he has now proved he deserves such high regard by landing one of the most coveted roles in any current production; The villainous ‘Chudnofsky,’ in [...]

If you think Actors get rich making movies, you should check out their agents.
A secret memo, just leaked to Hollywood news site, ‘The Wrap,’ gives disturbing details of how much cash these unseen suits really make. Apparently penned by chief bean-counter, Irvin Weintraub, the fax [WM are famous for loving Luddite technology!] lists the salaries [...]

Actor Johnny Palermo, whose brief but rewarding career spanned a gamut of shows from ER to Days of Our Lives, died Monday in a fatal and as yet unexplained car accident in North Hollywood. He was 27.
Johnny was the passenger in a car driven by his girlfriend, Alessandra Giangrande. Both were pronounced dead at the [...]

Now slowly rebuilding his life after losing Natasha in March, Liam Neeson is  in final discussions with Fox to join their upcoming remake of 80’s kitsch icon, ‘The A-Team.’
The 6′4” Irishman, who turned 57 last Sunday, will play Colonel John ‘Hannibal’ Smith, assuming the role first brought to life by the late George Peppard, while [...]

When the expenditure on diets and health exceeds the federal government’s budget for health education and welfare combined, you know that something, somewhere’s gone wrong.
In 2007, the US population spent $76-billion on diets and health-related merchandise. And you can be sure most of that staggering fiscal largesse was completely and utterly wasted. To succeed as [...]

The story of “Slumdog Millionaire,” from its modest birth, to the brush with extinction when Warner Independent closed, then cheating death at the last minute to be re-born as a seemingly irresistible magnet at Award ceremonies is almost worthy of a movie by itself.
Here is a film that breaks every accepted Hollywood ‘rule’ – Unknown [...]

As you may have read, Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy award winning Actor who created the cult TV show “The Prisoner,” died yesterday in Los Angeles after a short illness. He was 80.
Arguably one of the most iconoclastic, talented and focused Actors of his generation, Mr. McGoohan made an indelible impression on Britain’s television audience in [...]

If you read the LA Times today you may have noticed the NAACP is demanding that the Entertainment industry immediately redress what the Association regards as an unacceptable racial imbalance in the casting of TV and movies; The article goes on to explain there could be severe and undisclosed penalties, which a spokesman said would [...]

The news came in from Reuters a few hours ago; “Actor Keanu Reeves was cleared on Monday of any liability for injuries a paparazzo claimed he suffered when he was struck by the actor’s car.”
Altogether, now – Yeeeessssssss!
It was blindingly clear from its very inception that this entire affair was a petulant shake-down. The ‘photographer’ [...]

As you may have heard elsewhere in the Blogosphere, Samuel L. Jackson has now joined the growing throng of celebrities lending their name and caché to the battle against Prop. 8.
This splendid Actor joins an impressive list of Hollywood’s elite who are determined to defeat this inexcusable attack on personal choice and freedom. The roll-call [...]