Monday, February 23, 2009

6 degrees of Luke Perry to Peter Fonda

For my first addition i will take obscure actor Luke "Dylan McKay" Perry and 6 degree treatment him to Peter Fonda since it is Fonda's birthday today...Thundercats are go! 

1. Luke Perry> Fifth Element> Bruce Willis
2. Bruce Willis> Pulp Fiction> Christopher Walken
3. Christopher Walken> Deer Hunter> Robert DeNiro
4. Robert DeNiro> The Score> Marlon Brando
5. Marlon Brando> Apocalypse Now> Dennis Hopper
6. Dennis Hopper> Easy Rider> Peter Fonda. 

and that ladies and gents is a connection from Luke Perry to Peter Fonda is six degrees.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Rourke: Academy punched his cigarette

We were suppose to witness the resurrection, so what happened? Mickey Rourke was suppose to win the Academy Award for best actor. It was going to be the storybook ending of a man who had burned down his own city, battled his own demons, redeemed himself and returned triumphantly yet somehow Sean Penn won his second academy award. As amazing as Penn's performance was in "Milk" about gay rights activist Harvey Milk, it was Rourkes time to shine at the Oscars. His face battered like a warrior who had seem to many battles, with wrinkles that tell a different tale. A line Rourke is the wrestler would sum it best: "An old battered piece of meat. The accpetance speech was going to be one to remember, he would walked up to the stage with a standing ovation entail, flipped off the camera and said Fuck you to the doubters and his "Wrestler" director Darren Arronofonsky, thanked his dogs, and how he was nearly finished in Hollywood, and nearly forgetting co-star Marissa Tomei's name before congratulating her on getting naked and climbing to the top of the pole in stilletto hills. It would have been the perfect speech for a night about "Hollywood." Yet the Academy voted safe and went with Penn, but now one can only hope that Rourke is really back from the dead and more nominations to come. Rourke surely is about to Ram-jam Hollywood and its politics.