Movie-makers are mad about weddings.
Be they dramas, romantic comedies or satires, we're all invited to multiple marital celebrations every year at the cinema.
And 2009's crop starts Friday, when best friends duke it out for the perfect wedding in "Bride Wars," a new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson.
If you enter the word "wedding" into the Internet Movie Database's search engine ( tulsaworld.com/imdb ), 89 subcategories will immediately pop up. Among them are: canceled wedding (217 titles), wedding dress (111 titles), royal wedding (42 titles) and wedding cake (42 titles).
Below is a sampling of a few wedding films that stand out, in good times and in bad.
Worst wedding bust-up
In 2008’s “Made of Honor,” Patrick Dempsey’s last-minute effort to stop the nuptials of his best friend, Michelle Monaghan, are easy to anticipate and eye-roll worthy.
Best runaway bride
Claudette Colbert in 1934’s “It Happened One Night.” Spoiled heiress meets ambitious newspaper man (Clark Gable) after ditching her new, wealthy husband.
Worst wedding movie line
Julia Roberts in “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997): “I’ve got exactly four days to break up a wedding, steal the bride’s fella and I haven’t one clue how to do it.” Obvious, much?
Best jilted groom
Adam Sandler in “The Wedding Singer” (1998). It’s hard not to feel sorry for Sandler’s ironic fate after getting dumped by his fiancée. Drew Barrymore is his perfect remedy
Best wedding villains
At the beginning of “Wedding Crashers” (2005), Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson tie for tops in this category. They’re rude, crude and they’ll do anything to get what they want from desperate wedding guests. And we love it.
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
'Delhi Belly' is not a sex comedy: Imran Khan
Ranbir Kapoor had opted out of "Delhi Belly", saying he wouldn't be able to watch the film with his parents. Imran Khan, on the other hand, is cool with the sexual content of his uncle Aamir Khan's English film, but maintains it is not a sex comedy.
"I'd have no problem watching it with my mom or girlfriend. I've a cool rapport with my mom," Imran said.
Imran rejects the notion that "Delhi Belly" is a sex comedy. "It's a caper comedy. But, yes, the language is on the stronger side," he said.
Imran has lost weight and is looking gaunt for his role in "Delhi Belly", which he insists is being made for creative reasons. He admits that since it is in English, it was bound to have a limited appeal.
"This new gaunt look is for 'Delhi Belly'. I needed to lose that muscular look. So I've stopped gyming completely. I'm not exercising at all. No lifting of weights. And I'm eating as much as I want because I'm not prone to fat at all," said Imran, who won many hearts with his chocolate boy looks in his debut "Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na".
"For 'Kidnap' and 'Luck', I needed a bulkier role. I played a daredevil and had to jump off the 20th floor. I insisted on doing it myself although the body-double was present. I got a shouting afterwards from my mom, girlfriend and Sanjay Dutt. In fact, Sanjay Dutt phoned Aamir to complain. After having jumped from that height, I've lost the fear of stunts," he said.
But he did get a dressing down from uncle Aamir.
"It's true Aamir was unhappy when he heard that I insisted on performing my own stunt. He called me over and said, 'You've to be more responsible towards yourself and your family.'
Imran says the stunts always look more real when an actor performs them himself.
"You can always tell the difference between an actor doing it and a double doing it. So I'll think about it. But for now I've had enough of stunts. I want to take a break and do something lighter. 'Delhi Belly' is just the break I needed."
Two back-to-back action films, and Imran is now saying goodbye to the genre for a while.
"I got no chance to do any stunts in 'Jaane Tu...'. I made up for that in 'Kidnap' and 'Luck'. Now in 'Delhi Belly' I've no action scenes.
"My next action film will have to be really big. I grew up being thrilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. And I had decided if I do those kinds of stunts, I'd do them on my own," Imran said.
"I'd have no problem watching it with my mom or girlfriend. I've a cool rapport with my mom," Imran said.
Imran rejects the notion that "Delhi Belly" is a sex comedy. "It's a caper comedy. But, yes, the language is on the stronger side," he said.
Imran has lost weight and is looking gaunt for his role in "Delhi Belly", which he insists is being made for creative reasons. He admits that since it is in English, it was bound to have a limited appeal.
"This new gaunt look is for 'Delhi Belly'. I needed to lose that muscular look. So I've stopped gyming completely. I'm not exercising at all. No lifting of weights. And I'm eating as much as I want because I'm not prone to fat at all," said Imran, who won many hearts with his chocolate boy looks in his debut "Jaane Tu...Ya Jaane Na".
"For 'Kidnap' and 'Luck', I needed a bulkier role. I played a daredevil and had to jump off the 20th floor. I insisted on doing it myself although the body-double was present. I got a shouting afterwards from my mom, girlfriend and Sanjay Dutt. In fact, Sanjay Dutt phoned Aamir to complain. After having jumped from that height, I've lost the fear of stunts," he said.
But he did get a dressing down from uncle Aamir.
"It's true Aamir was unhappy when he heard that I insisted on performing my own stunt. He called me over and said, 'You've to be more responsible towards yourself and your family.'
Imran says the stunts always look more real when an actor performs them himself.
"You can always tell the difference between an actor doing it and a double doing it. So I'll think about it. But for now I've had enough of stunts. I want to take a break and do something lighter. 'Delhi Belly' is just the break I needed."
Two back-to-back action films, and Imran is now saying goodbye to the genre for a while.
"I got no chance to do any stunts in 'Jaane Tu...'. I made up for that in 'Kidnap' and 'Luck'. Now in 'Delhi Belly' I've no action scenes.
"My next action film will have to be really big. I grew up being thrilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. And I had decided if I do those kinds of stunts, I'd do them on my own," Imran said.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Russell Brand wins British Comedy Award
Controversial comedian Russell Brand has won the best live stand-up award at the British Comedy Awards.
Brand took the prestigious title in the wake of the row over the prank calls he and TV host Jonathan Ross made to actor Andrew Sachs on Brand's Radio 2 show.
Brand resigned from the BBC following the incident and Ross was suspended from all BBC duties for 12 weeks.
Accepting his award from Adam Sandler in LA, Brand said: "I would like to dedicate this award to Jonathan Ross."
He continued: "There are no comedy awards without Jonathan Ross, he is the king-maker."
Brand, who is now pursuing his Hollywood movie career, asked Sandler if he would like to do a radio show - to huge laughter.
Angus Deayton hosted this year's awards show at the London Television Studios, standing in for Ross, who stepped down after his BBC suspension.
This is beneath me to be honest: I've won real awards, Golden Globes and Emmys
Ricky Gervais, Best Television Comedy Actor
Full list of winners
Ross may not have been at the ceremony but Deayton lost no time in making jokes about the reasons for his absence.
"Normally at awards shows, it's the winners that can't be here but this time it's the host," he said.
He said Ross must be waiting at home anxiously wondering if the phone would ever ring again - giving him an insight into the life of his brother Paul Ross.
Deayton said Brand could not be at the awards as he was on a beach in Hawaii - no doubt "distraught" at losing his Radio 2 slot.
Ricky Gervais won the coveted title of Best Television Comedy Actor for last year's Extras Christmas Special.
Gervais could not accept his award in person and had instead prepared a video message.
Sitting in a regal-looking bed in his pyjamas, Gervais joked: "I can't be bothered to be here, there in person.
"This is beneath me to be honest: I've won real awards, Golden Globes and Emmys."
He went on to raise howls of laughter from the London audience, as he revealed pop singer George Michael was in the bed with him.
Michael was just one of the many famous faces to have taken part in Extras, thereby agreeing to be the butt of many of the jokes in the episode concerned.
'Good friend'
Sharon Horgan won the award for Best Comedy Entertainment Actress for the BBC show Pulling.
Alan Carr won the award for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality.
Carr is best known for hosting TV shows the Sunday Night Project and Celebrity Ding Dong.
Accepting his award from US actor Alec Baldwin, Carr said: "Thank you ever so much, see you on Celeb Air."
Harry Hill's TV Burp won the award for the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, for which Friday Night with Jonathan Ross had also been shortlisted.
Ross's show was criticised last month by the BBC Trust for the use of lewd language in separate interviews with Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Aspel.
"He was not necessarily a household name but he should have been," said Deayton.
The award was accepted by Perkins's daughter Charlotte who said her father would have been "extremely surprised and utterly honoured to receive this award".
She added that her father loved everything about his work.
Frank Skinner came to the stage to announce Gavin and Stacey as the winner of the Best TV Comedy Award.
Skinner joked to Deayton: "Your suspension's dragging on a bit."
Deayton hosted BBC One's Have I Got News For You until he was axed in 2002 over newspaper revelations he had used cocaine and prostitutes.
Hollywood actress and the Licks singer Juliette Lewis presented Best Comedy Drama of 2008 to darkly comic BBC Three show Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Best New British Comedy went to The Inbetweeners, a series about a group of teenagers.
Best Male Comedy Newcomer of 2008 also went to the show's Simon Bird.
Katy Brand won Best Female Comedy Newcomer for Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.
Golden Balls host Jasper Carrott picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award, handed to him by actor Robert Powell.
Television writer David Renwick, who is known for One Foot in the Grave as well as mystery series Jonathan Creek, was given the Ronnie Barker Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award.
Striking a poignant note in the night's proceedings was the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy award.
This was given posthumously to comedy producer Geoffrey Perkins who died in a road crash earlier this year, aged 55.
Best newcomers
Perkins was the comic genius behind many of British TV's best-loved comedy shows, including Father Ted, the Catherine Tate show and the Fast Show.
Deayton, who had worked with Perkins on many occasions, paid tribute to his "good friend".
Brand took the prestigious title in the wake of the row over the prank calls he and TV host Jonathan Ross made to actor Andrew Sachs on Brand's Radio 2 show.
Brand resigned from the BBC following the incident and Ross was suspended from all BBC duties for 12 weeks.
Accepting his award from Adam Sandler in LA, Brand said: "I would like to dedicate this award to Jonathan Ross."
He continued: "There are no comedy awards without Jonathan Ross, he is the king-maker."
Brand, who is now pursuing his Hollywood movie career, asked Sandler if he would like to do a radio show - to huge laughter.
Angus Deayton hosted this year's awards show at the London Television Studios, standing in for Ross, who stepped down after his BBC suspension.
This is beneath me to be honest: I've won real awards, Golden Globes and Emmys
Ricky Gervais, Best Television Comedy Actor
Full list of winners
Ross may not have been at the ceremony but Deayton lost no time in making jokes about the reasons for his absence.
"Normally at awards shows, it's the winners that can't be here but this time it's the host," he said.
He said Ross must be waiting at home anxiously wondering if the phone would ever ring again - giving him an insight into the life of his brother Paul Ross.
Deayton said Brand could not be at the awards as he was on a beach in Hawaii - no doubt "distraught" at losing his Radio 2 slot.
Ricky Gervais won the coveted title of Best Television Comedy Actor for last year's Extras Christmas Special.
Gervais could not accept his award in person and had instead prepared a video message.
Sitting in a regal-looking bed in his pyjamas, Gervais joked: "I can't be bothered to be here, there in person.
"This is beneath me to be honest: I've won real awards, Golden Globes and Emmys."
He went on to raise howls of laughter from the London audience, as he revealed pop singer George Michael was in the bed with him.
Michael was just one of the many famous faces to have taken part in Extras, thereby agreeing to be the butt of many of the jokes in the episode concerned.
'Good friend'
Sharon Horgan won the award for Best Comedy Entertainment Actress for the BBC show Pulling.
Alan Carr won the award for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality.
Carr is best known for hosting TV shows the Sunday Night Project and Celebrity Ding Dong.
Accepting his award from US actor Alec Baldwin, Carr said: "Thank you ever so much, see you on Celeb Air."
Harry Hill's TV Burp won the award for the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme, for which Friday Night with Jonathan Ross had also been shortlisted.
Ross's show was criticised last month by the BBC Trust for the use of lewd language in separate interviews with Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Aspel.
"He was not necessarily a household name but he should have been," said Deayton.
The award was accepted by Perkins's daughter Charlotte who said her father would have been "extremely surprised and utterly honoured to receive this award".
She added that her father loved everything about his work.
Frank Skinner came to the stage to announce Gavin and Stacey as the winner of the Best TV Comedy Award.
Skinner joked to Deayton: "Your suspension's dragging on a bit."
Deayton hosted BBC One's Have I Got News For You until he was axed in 2002 over newspaper revelations he had used cocaine and prostitutes.
Hollywood actress and the Licks singer Juliette Lewis presented Best Comedy Drama of 2008 to darkly comic BBC Three show Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Best New British Comedy went to The Inbetweeners, a series about a group of teenagers.
Best Male Comedy Newcomer of 2008 also went to the show's Simon Bird.
Katy Brand won Best Female Comedy Newcomer for Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.
Golden Balls host Jasper Carrott picked up a Lifetime Achievement Award, handed to him by actor Robert Powell.
Television writer David Renwick, who is known for One Foot in the Grave as well as mystery series Jonathan Creek, was given the Ronnie Barker Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award.
Striking a poignant note in the night's proceedings was the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy award.
This was given posthumously to comedy producer Geoffrey Perkins who died in a road crash earlier this year, aged 55.
Best newcomers
Perkins was the comic genius behind many of British TV's best-loved comedy shows, including Father Ted, the Catherine Tate show and the Fast Show.
Deayton, who had worked with Perkins on many occasions, paid tribute to his "good friend".
Friday, November 28, 2008
Jeff Smith reveals his ‘dark’ side
When he started creating the comic series Bone, people ridiculed him saying it would be a big flop. But today his work is regarded nothing less interesting than the legendary Lord of the Rings. American comic book artist Jeff Smith says, “I love books which start off as a simple kid’s story and becomes darker as it goes on.”
Jeff created the comic characters of Bone at a very young age. He started a daily four-panel black and white strip for a student newspaper while studying in Ohio State University. The strip was then known by the name of Thorn. It became Bone only when he started self-publishing it as a comic series from his garage in early 90’s. Expressing his obsession with long stories Jeff feels that Ramayana and Mahabharata have huge potential to become into a great comic series. “Ramayana and Mahabharata have so many interesting characters that just the description of each character will become a series in itself. But you have to find somebody crazy enough to create detailed comics out of these great epics,” he says.
Incidentally Bone has a lot of Indian flavour in it. Jeff says, “I am married to an Indian woman and that did influence my creation of Bone. For example it has bullock carts, crowded, bustling and narrow streets like any of the Indian bazaars."
Jeff has been in talks with the Warner Brothers to create a motion picture out of his creation Bone. He has agreed to do so because he thinks they understood his creation.
He says, “I have seen so many film-makers who want to do something very cheap and clichéd just to sell something easily. But I am glad the way Warner Bros is treating my creation.”
Jeff created the comic characters of Bone at a very young age. He started a daily four-panel black and white strip for a student newspaper while studying in Ohio State University. The strip was then known by the name of Thorn. It became Bone only when he started self-publishing it as a comic series from his garage in early 90’s. Expressing his obsession with long stories Jeff feels that Ramayana and Mahabharata have huge potential to become into a great comic series. “Ramayana and Mahabharata have so many interesting characters that just the description of each character will become a series in itself. But you have to find somebody crazy enough to create detailed comics out of these great epics,” he says.
Incidentally Bone has a lot of Indian flavour in it. Jeff says, “I am married to an Indian woman and that did influence my creation of Bone. For example it has bullock carts, crowded, bustling and narrow streets like any of the Indian bazaars."
Jeff has been in talks with the Warner Brothers to create a motion picture out of his creation Bone. He has agreed to do so because he thinks they understood his creation.
He says, “I have seen so many film-makers who want to do something very cheap and clichéd just to sell something easily. But I am glad the way Warner Bros is treating my creation.”
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