Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
Sophie Okonedo Biography
Date of Birth
1 January 1969, London, England, UK
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Trivia
Trained at RADA
She is of half Nigerian/half European-Jewish heritage, but is a born and raised Brit.
Has a daughter, Aoife, from a relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin. She is no longer with him.
Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
She is a graduate of Cambridge University.
In 2005, Okenedo became the first black actress since Angela Bassett in 1994 to receive an NAACP Image Award nomination for the same role in which she was nominated for an Oscar. Previous Oscar nominees Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah were not nominated by the NAACP for the same roles.
Personal Quotes
I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
But I'm pretty secure about who I am. Anything that's truthful I'm not ashamed of.
When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.
I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting. As a black actress all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. I'd love to be able to follow that through into my newly-formed film career which I didn't expect to get at 36!
I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.
Without hammering you over the head with it, the movie gets you to ask questions. That's what good movies do.
"I'm just going where the stories are. I'll quite happily work in a tiny theater in the middle of nowhere if it's the right story. It always leaves a bit of a nasty taste in my mouth when I do something purely for money. I always end up being absolute shit in it. I'm not really an actor who can make rubbish writing good. Some people are very good at it. It's a real skill."
From IMDB
1 January 1969, London, England, UK
Height
5' 8" (1.73 m)
Trivia
Trained at RADA
She is of half Nigerian/half European-Jewish heritage, but is a born and raised Brit.
Has a daughter, Aoife, from a relationship with Irish film editor Eoin Martin. She is no longer with him.
Invited to join AMPAS in 2005.
She is a graduate of Cambridge University.
In 2005, Okenedo became the first black actress since Angela Bassett in 1994 to receive an NAACP Image Award nomination for the same role in which she was nominated for an Oscar. Previous Oscar nominees Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah were not nominated by the NAACP for the same roles.
Personal Quotes
I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
But I'm pretty secure about who I am. Anything that's truthful I'm not ashamed of.
When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.
I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting. As a black actress all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. I'd love to be able to follow that through into my newly-formed film career which I didn't expect to get at 36!
I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.
Without hammering you over the head with it, the movie gets you to ask questions. That's what good movies do.
"I'm just going where the stories are. I'll quite happily work in a tiny theater in the middle of nowhere if it's the right story. It always leaves a bit of a nasty taste in my mouth when I do something purely for money. I always end up being absolute shit in it. I'm not really an actor who can make rubbish writing good. Some people are very good at it. It's a real skill."
From IMDB
Sunday, August 5, 2007
John Cusack Interview About "The Ice Harvest"
John Cusack Interview About "The Ice Harvest"
John Cusack on "The Ice Harvest," the Film's Tone, and Relatable Characters
John Cusack on "The Ice Harvest," the Film's Tone, and Relatable Characters
John Cusack on Character Development and the Blend of Genres in “The Ice Harvest:” Cusack stars as a mob lawyer who rips off his boss in "The Ice Harvest," co-starring Billy Bob Thornton.
“It’s obviously a crime story, but we relate to these characters. It’s about the illusions of the American dream and fitting into that, and guys at the end of their rope. But I don't think we do it because we go, ‘Okay, let’s blend this genre with this’ or ‘let’s do this with this.’ You get inspired by the characters. Or you think, ‘Oh man, that’s a piece of writing that is so true. This is interesting.’ And then later we put labels on it to sell it or to do these things.
It does come in a tradition of those films, of the noir films, but it was just these portraits of white malehood in America that are just so disastrous.
I thought [my character] Charlie had this great comic, quiet desperation to him. I thought there were some other themes that were so interesting.
There was no outward polemics to the movie. It doesn’t talk about left and right. I’m sure neither one of these guys care who’s president. It’s not about that at all. But there is this kind of subtle, these subtle jabs at consumerism. These guys kind of went into some version of the American dream about get the house, get the money, get the trophy wife, get the girl on the side, get the material possessions, get the great car. Get more women. Get more drink. And none of it’s making them happy and none of it’s fulfilling them.
I remember Arthur Miller said an era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. And I thought of that. I go, ‘Yeah, these guys are just exhausted. None of it’s working.’ So they trade in that American dream and then go, ‘All right, we’ll do the outlaw dream where we make the big last score and hit the open road.’ And that’s pathetic and funny, too. These guys are lost in this dream world, or Charlie is. So why we respond to something, I don't know. Is it because it’s a noir? Is it a genre, or we’re going to do this genre? No. We just see these characters and we go, ‘Oh no, my god, they’re so fascinating.’”
John Cusack on the Contradictory Nature of the Characters in “The Ice Harvest:” “…I thought that was what was so real about it. I don't think anybody views themselves…most people view themselves as good guys but I don't think anybody views themselves as a bad guy. I think we rationalize things and we get put in these bizarre situations. These guys are definitely custodians of their own realities. They made their mess; they’re responsible for it.
No matter how low you get, I think people always want to be redeemed and they want to be free and they want to be loved. They want all those things. And then they find themselves in these horrible situations and then they have these impulses to be better than that. I don't know, that’s how I see them.”
John Cusack Reunites With His “Pushing Tin” Co-Star Billy Bob Thornton in "The Ice Harvest:" “He’s great. I really love working with him. Love it. Love it. He’ll go anywhere ,do anything. There’s nothing he wouldn’t try on a movie set. Not that you’d do it all the time, but the freedom of knowing somebody’s going to go with you anywhere you want to go. And he’s so funny and so talented, so sensitive, such a smart man.”
John Cusack Recalls Picking Up a Script and Seeing “Written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton:” “That’s one of the reasons I opened it. You see ‘The Ice Harvest’ and then you see Benton and Russo and you go, ‘Ohhh…’ You want to read. One of these guys is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the other guy, I don't know how many Academy Awards he’s won for writing and directing. He wrote ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ didn’t he? [He did] This is a great writer, a great filmmaker, so you know you’ll want to see what they’re going to do with this.
At first, I read it and I thought - it might have been just where I was in my life but I started reading it - and I went, ‘Oh, man, I don’t want to do [this]. This is too dark.’ I didn’t realize it was funny or a comedy because it was so real. It was so gritty. Then I started to understand there were some of those elements of satirical Americana in there. And then I thought it was funny. As soon as I realized it was going to be funny and grim, then I thought, ‘Oh man, this is something to do.’ And I wanted to work with Harold.”
John Cusack Praises His “The Ice Harvest” Director Harold Ramis: “He’s a great director. Amazingly bright man. And he’s been around a lot of these, I think, seminal things in comedy and film for a long time - and TV. ‘Animal House,’ ‘Second City Television,’ ‘Lampoon,’ I mean those actually were as groundbreaking to me in terms of thinking of comedy and film as Monty Python was. These were the real stars and subversive and intelligent and counterculture and disgusting yet sophisticated. He’s been around some of these really important things to me.”
From movies.about.com
John Cusack on "The Ice Harvest," the Film's Tone, and Relatable Characters
John Cusack on "The Ice Harvest," the Film's Tone, and Relatable Characters
John Cusack on Character Development and the Blend of Genres in “The Ice Harvest:” Cusack stars as a mob lawyer who rips off his boss in "The Ice Harvest," co-starring Billy Bob Thornton.
“It’s obviously a crime story, but we relate to these characters. It’s about the illusions of the American dream and fitting into that, and guys at the end of their rope. But I don't think we do it because we go, ‘Okay, let’s blend this genre with this’ or ‘let’s do this with this.’ You get inspired by the characters. Or you think, ‘Oh man, that’s a piece of writing that is so true. This is interesting.’ And then later we put labels on it to sell it or to do these things.
It does come in a tradition of those films, of the noir films, but it was just these portraits of white malehood in America that are just so disastrous.
I thought [my character] Charlie had this great comic, quiet desperation to him. I thought there were some other themes that were so interesting.
There was no outward polemics to the movie. It doesn’t talk about left and right. I’m sure neither one of these guys care who’s president. It’s not about that at all. But there is this kind of subtle, these subtle jabs at consumerism. These guys kind of went into some version of the American dream about get the house, get the money, get the trophy wife, get the girl on the side, get the material possessions, get the great car. Get more women. Get more drink. And none of it’s making them happy and none of it’s fulfilling them.
I remember Arthur Miller said an era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. And I thought of that. I go, ‘Yeah, these guys are just exhausted. None of it’s working.’ So they trade in that American dream and then go, ‘All right, we’ll do the outlaw dream where we make the big last score and hit the open road.’ And that’s pathetic and funny, too. These guys are lost in this dream world, or Charlie is. So why we respond to something, I don't know. Is it because it’s a noir? Is it a genre, or we’re going to do this genre? No. We just see these characters and we go, ‘Oh no, my god, they’re so fascinating.’”
John Cusack on the Contradictory Nature of the Characters in “The Ice Harvest:” “…I thought that was what was so real about it. I don't think anybody views themselves…most people view themselves as good guys but I don't think anybody views themselves as a bad guy. I think we rationalize things and we get put in these bizarre situations. These guys are definitely custodians of their own realities. They made their mess; they’re responsible for it.
No matter how low you get, I think people always want to be redeemed and they want to be free and they want to be loved. They want all those things. And then they find themselves in these horrible situations and then they have these impulses to be better than that. I don't know, that’s how I see them.”
John Cusack Reunites With His “Pushing Tin” Co-Star Billy Bob Thornton in "The Ice Harvest:" “He’s great. I really love working with him. Love it. Love it. He’ll go anywhere ,do anything. There’s nothing he wouldn’t try on a movie set. Not that you’d do it all the time, but the freedom of knowing somebody’s going to go with you anywhere you want to go. And he’s so funny and so talented, so sensitive, such a smart man.”
John Cusack Recalls Picking Up a Script and Seeing “Written by Richard Russo and Robert Benton:” “That’s one of the reasons I opened it. You see ‘The Ice Harvest’ and then you see Benton and Russo and you go, ‘Ohhh…’ You want to read. One of these guys is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the other guy, I don't know how many Academy Awards he’s won for writing and directing. He wrote ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ didn’t he? [He did] This is a great writer, a great filmmaker, so you know you’ll want to see what they’re going to do with this.
At first, I read it and I thought - it might have been just where I was in my life but I started reading it - and I went, ‘Oh, man, I don’t want to do [this]. This is too dark.’ I didn’t realize it was funny or a comedy because it was so real. It was so gritty. Then I started to understand there were some of those elements of satirical Americana in there. And then I thought it was funny. As soon as I realized it was going to be funny and grim, then I thought, ‘Oh man, this is something to do.’ And I wanted to work with Harold.”
John Cusack Praises His “The Ice Harvest” Director Harold Ramis: “He’s a great director. Amazingly bright man. And he’s been around a lot of these, I think, seminal things in comedy and film for a long time - and TV. ‘Animal House,’ ‘Second City Television,’ ‘Lampoon,’ I mean those actually were as groundbreaking to me in terms of thinking of comedy and film as Monty Python was. These were the real stars and subversive and intelligent and counterculture and disgusting yet sophisticated. He’s been around some of these really important things to me.”
From movies.about.com
The Ice Harvest (2005)
The Ice Harvest (2005) with John Cusack and Oliver Platt
A wickedly funny thriller that takes moviegoers on a wild ride brimming with larceny, lust and lethal behavior. In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata (Connie Nielsen), who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town with Renata. But as daylight fades and an ice storm whirls, everyone from Charlie's drinking buddy Pete Van Heuten (Oliver Platt) to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie's Christmas stocking - and the 12 hours of Christmas Eve are filled with surprises. Written by focus features
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A wickedly funny thriller that takes moviegoers on a wild ride brimming with larceny, lust and lethal behavior. In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata (Connie Nielsen), who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town with Renata. But as daylight fades and an ice storm whirls, everyone from Charlie's drinking buddy Pete Van Heuten (Oliver Platt) to the local police begin to wonder just what exactly is in Charlie's Christmas stocking - and the 12 hours of Christmas Eve are filled with surprises. Written by focus features
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Interview: Oliver Platt for "The Ice Harvest"
Interview: Oliver Platt for "The Ice Harvest"
Oliver Platt knows how to play a drunk and loser with more effortless harm than any actor working in Hollywood. But he is as equally diverse as recent stints in the likes of TV's Huff, for which he has attained an Emmy nomination and the dark comedy, The Ice Harvest. A hulking character actor who brings new meaning to the concept of versatility, Oliver Platt has appeared in a dizzying array of films that make him instantly recognizable but not instantly placeable to the average filmgoer. Since making his screen debut as an oily Wall Street drone in Mike Nichols' Working Girl (1988), Platt has lent his talents to almost every conceivable genre, including period dramas, political comedies, children's films, and campy horror movies.
The son of a U.S. Ambassador, Platt was born in Windsor on January 12, 1960, Platt and his family soon moved to Washington, D.C. Thanks to his father's job, he had an exceptionally itinerant childhood. By the time he was 18, he had attended 12 different schools in places as diverse as Tokyo, the Middle East, and Colorado. Long interested in acting, Platt received a BA in drama from Boston's Tufts University; following graduation, he remained in Boston for three years to pursue his stage career. In 1986 he moved to New York, where he performed in a number of off-Broadway productions and had the lead in the 1989 Lincoln Center production of Ubu. ollowing his screen debut in Working Girl, Platt began finding steady work in such films as Married to the Mob (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Beethoven (1992) -- which featured him and future collaborator Stanley Tucci as puppy thieves -- and Benny and Joon (1993).
He also proved himself adept at cheesy period drama in The Three Musketeers (1993), which cast him as Porthos, and at all-out comedy, as demonstrated by his turn as a struggling comic in Funny Bones (1995). Rarely cast as a leading man, Platt has always been visible in substantial supporting roles, equally comfortable at portraying nice guys, bad guys, and just flat out weird guys alike. As Ashley Judd's suitor in Simon Birch (1998), he was the straight man, while in The Impostors (1998), his second collaboration with Tucci (two years earlier he served as associate producer for the latter's Big Night), he again displayed his capacity for broad physical comedy as a struggling actor who finds himself a stowaway on an ocean liner. In Dangerous Beauty (1998), Platt was able to exercise his nasty side as a bitter nobleman-turned-religious zealot in 16th-century Venice; that same year, his capacity for exasperated quirkiness was displayed in Bulworth, which cast him as Warren Beatty's put-upon, coke-snorting campaign manager.
1999 proved to be a somewhat disappointing year for Platt, as two of his films, Three to Tango (which featured him as a gay architect) and the schlock-horror Lake Placid, which cast him as an idiosyncratic mythology expert, were both critical and commercial flops. A third film that year, Bicentennial Man -- in which Platt played the scientist who turns the titular robot (Robin Williams) into a man -- fared somewhat better. The following year, Platt's comic abilities were again on display in Gun Shy, in which he hammed it up as a bottom-rung mafioso with an overblown ego. Since then, apart from his Emmy-nominated turn in TV's Huff, Platt's diverse film credits include Ready to Rumble, Don't Say A Word, Hope Springs, Pieces of April, Loverboy and Kinsey, with both Ice Harvest and Casanova due out within weeks of each other. In this exclusive interview, the always affable actor talked to Garth Franklin.
Question: Now you're a Diplomats son, you have this sort of early kind of seemingly exotic background. How exotic was it and how does it prepare you for the life of a nomadic actor?
Platt: Well you know I think that is the key word, you are definitely prepared for that part because you are very comfortable as much as it is on some level it is very unsettling on a superficial or outward level you're very comfortable, too comfortable you know packing your bags at the drop of a hat and going somewhere. But I think in a weird way you know without knowing it if you grow up and you move all the time and you get exposed to a lot of different cultures you become quite adapted, assimilating you know because especially as a kid you kind of want to you want to fit in and so you automatically go, even if you are not aware of it you are automatically going how do they walk here, how do they talk here, what do I have to do to be like these people and I think that is the sad truth about but though maybe it has served me and a lot of people like me.
Question: Did you feel that background was something that was conducive to your desire to be an actor, was it?
Platt: I think to call it a desire is a in my case quite romantic notion. For me it actually had more to do with you know necessity and survivals in the sense that I audition for play...Christmas play when I was 8 years old and I was at a new school that I was very unhappy at and I was like the only new kid in my class and I was quite isolated and miserable and I audition for the play, Christmas play and I was the Inn Keeper that turned Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus away from the inn, I had one line I said, 'Here there is no rest or bed for poor folks such as ye, the rich they lodge here but they pay plentiful'. And the whole place for whatever reason, either my timing was good that night or I said it with a certain vigour, but the whole place went nuts when the Inn Keeper turned Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus away, I don't know if they were supposed to but when your are...so that God knows when you are standing up on stage in front of 400 people and everybody goes nuts you notice it.
Question: So it is that sense of recognition that about you...
Platt: Well just response, you know what I mean a very primitive sense of response and hate to use the word but approval.
Question: So when did that develop into a need to do more of that you think?
Platt: Well again if...I didn't stop moving at 8 I kept on moving and so you know what I found is that it is a way if I were to just audition for the play I would invariably get a part and you have a kind of automatic group of friends to hang out with, which is a very powerful thing when you are nomad.
Question: How did that nomadic experience effect you in terms of your own emotional develop, I mean was it tough?
Platt: It was very tough. It is very tough being a new kid all the time and you revaluate this stuff as you get older, I mean 1 at the end of the day I am incredibly lucky because 1 of 2 things happens to family like that that move all of the time, they either disintegrate very quickly or they get very, very close and fortunately the later situation evolved with my family.
Question: Does it reflect what happens with your own children now?
Platt: Well it reflects I am determined to move my children as little as possible, I mean I do the travelling to work at a necessity but I like that we are very, very careful. I mean I would love to raise my kids in one place if I could but you have to understand I mean I think that in itself is arguably an overreaction you know, it is okay to move once or twice in your life not the end of the world people survive it all the time and I moved 12 times and I am okay. But that is right and you just don't want to perpetrate on your own kids what you feel was perpetrated on you. Of course my parents, my father was just making a living doing his job and like I say we are very lucky that we are close as an extended family.
Question: When did you realise that you wanted to be an actor professionally that this is something that you could actually make a living doing?
Platt: I didn't I was too stupid to know that it was in insane thing to aspire to and I didn't do anything else I mean you kind of gravitate towards your talent and again my parents were and this is very unusual this but my parents were always tremendously supportive and I didn't really realise what a blessing that was until much later on till I did start to work as an actor and surrounded myself with professional actors for real, I said this is very unusual.
Question: Was there a backup plan?
Platt: You know sure there is an abstract... I don't know my backup plan is that maybe I would be you know I don't know a rock star...
Question: So nothing realistic.
Platt: Nothing remotely realistic. Not a musician a rock star.
Question: An actual rock star. But you don't see yourself as a movie star though, do you?
Platt: No I absolutely don't... and when I say rock star that shows... I more highlighted the absurdity of the back up plan.
Question: Are you glad that you've become a character actor as opposed to a movie star, a John Cusack type, I suppose a leading man, whatever that is?
Platt: You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it. Do you know what I mean? I'm a tremendously lucky guy. I think that there are aspects to being a character actor where you actually get offered more interesting roles and you have a wider variety of things you get to do.
Question: You've attained considerable success.
Platt: I work... yeah, exactly. I work enough, you know. I've never been terribly interested in being famous, it's not something that I've ever aspired to, and that's actually one of the aspects of the business that is more difficult to negotiate and can be very confusing because in a way if you don't achieve a certain degree of notoriety you're not doing your job, but what I'm much more interested in is ,doing good work. I do care about my reputation.
Question: Yeah, and people recognise you as somebody who's well known, but at the same time they recognise you as somebody who they can rely on as being a good actor who will be usually in a high-quality project. You don't seem to do a lot of shit really.
Platt: I'm lucky that way. I mean knock on something [knocking on wood sound] - please do it for me...
Question: Like this? [Knocking on a nearby table]
Platt: There you go - just touch it.
Question: There you go.
Platt: There you go. I mean it's relative, always. It's relative, and you always take the best job that's out there when you need a job. But I do think I've been very lucky.
Question: You don't have any particular aspirations beyond what you're currently doing?
Platt: Mmm... maybe producing and my interest in producing has led me to think that maybe I might need to direct one of the things that I've been developing for a while.
Question: How terrified are you at the prospect of directing, working with people like Hallström?
Platt: I wouldn't say terrified of it. I mean I'd probably be terrified if I felt I had to rely on it, but it's something I'm doing electively. I mean literally, if I had to direct these things it would be by default. I've always wanted to be a producer, it's been very attractive to me the idea of marrying sensibilities and developing stories, getting the right people to do this job, and the right person to do that job. That's very exciting for me, but I also realised... I've got something set up at the studio recently as a producer and, it's a story - it's an unpublished manuscript that has a remarkable movie at the centre of it - and I actually started to go down the list that the studio and I came up with for filmmakers and we offered to the first guy and, he would have had to piss a lot of people off to say yes but then we offered it to the second guy and I had this epiphany that producing is working your ass off on something for years and years then giving it away when the fun starts. And as soon as I realised I caught myself characterising that way I retracted the offer. Fortunately he didn't respond quickly, which allowed us to retract the offer and then I decided to...
Question: So does that mean you become a lot choosier as an actor so that you don't have to do as much stuff so you can prepare, to spend more time working on things that you want to do?
Platt: No, because I can't afford to say no to good stuff... there's so little good stuff out there now it's difficult to say no to it.
Question: So why this movie you've decided to direct?
Platt: Because I love the story. I just love the story. And again, I never set out to direct it but I'm somebody that I worked with once who was a very accomplished director and actor and writer sat me down - because we had a very satisfying working experience together - and he said, what do you want to do, you're a director and a producer and [I said] nah, nah, nah, no - love the producing, I'm not really interested in directing, and he said, well here's what's going to happen, he said you're gonna fall in love with a piece of material, you're going to try and find somebody to direct it and you're not going to be able to find someone who gets it the way you do. And he said this to me about ten years ago; it was very prophetic.
Question: So do you take on an Ice Harvest mainly for the opportunity to see how people like a Harold Ramis works?
Platt: No I take on Ice Harvest because it's a great role. I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Question: And there aren't a lot of movies that explore that.
Platt: It's not remotely sentimental, you know what I mean. It's brutally honest, and I think often hilarious, but it's a sad movie, it's sad and truthful.
Question: But you're attracted to these kind of very sad and quiet, almost pathetic characters that have within them something...
Platt: Well as long as they're layered. As long as they're looking for something, you know, as long as they're...
Question: Are you concerned that the guy in Huff is going to go so far down that audiences will stop sympathising with him?
Platt: I think in telling that life, you have to keep people invested in him. That character - one of the best characterisations of alcoholism that I ever read, it was a low-level spiritual quest. I mean eventually he's going to have to start to get some sort of awareness of the kind of trouble that he's in - or... and I think if he doesn't people will stop caring.
Question: Is that going to happen in the second season ?
Platt: I think it might happen at the end of the second season. I think the situations he finds himself in as a result of his behaviour, he has no choice but to do some sort of reckoning.
Question: Do you relate to a character like Russell in Huff or do you know people like him?
Platt: I've known people like Russell. Not intimately because people like Russell don't ultimately let anybody into their life unless they behave the same way. But the thing is... I do find him very relatable because all he is, is a very extreme case of somebody who's scared of living, he's just terrified. He's running away from a lot of different stuff. I mean he's self-destructive. I think we all have those compulsions, the question is what do you do with them?
Question: Now you're re-teaming with Mr Cusack I believe...
Platt: You know, everybody... we already have finished doing a movie we shot it in the spring.
Question: And you actually get to play a much nicer guy in that movie - how would you define that character?
Platt: You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role. But I played a somewhat eccentric science fiction writer who has recently widowed and becomes irrevocably kind of drawn to this very troubled foster kid, very traumatised foster kid, and all of his friends, including me, and I'm also his literary agent, tell him just don't... you know, don't do it. You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child. And it's kind of... it's like a... you know it's a love story metaphorically between the two of them. It's beautifully... I'm a sucker for an orphan story...
Question: Sounds very nice. You're pretty much done, I guess, with West Wing?
Platt: We do it on a case by case basis Nut, if it all ended the episode I did a couple of weeks ago, that aired a couple of weeks ago was the last one I was on that would be a very fitting end to Oliver Babish I think.
Question: What happens after you finish Huff? Are you taking a break?
Platt: I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a little break, because we've been working for five months - and I did the movie with Johnny right before that.
Question: You have Casanova coming out.
Platt: I have Casanova coming out...
Question: What was the experience like in making that film?
Platt: Casanova? Oh, a delight. I mean truly.
Question: It's full costume...
Platt: It's full costume, it's full Venice man, every frame of that movie shot in Venice, Italy, I mean pretty much, which, if you know anything about movie making, is like an insane proposition. Making movies is about moving massive amounts of equipment and people around at very short notice, you know, and Venice, Italy is a city where no cars are allowed. It's, you know, gondolas and some ski boats. Motorised wheeled transportation is not allowed. So, I mean, a producer's nightmare but an actors dream, because we all hung in Venice for three months.
Question: But it's a Disney version of Casanova...
Platt: Well, you know... I don't know what you mean by Disney version. This movie is not made for kids. It's rated R and I don't think it quite deserves that R but it's definitely a PG-13. You know, Lasse Hallström made the movie, it's not like a dumb, sanitised version - not that everything Disney does is dumb and sanitised, but I think when you say... when people use Disney, you know, to describe something they usually mean that it's like, you know, for kids, and this is not for kids.
Question: Your character is not a broad comic character for you, right?
Platt: You know, it is and it isn't I mean... as an actor I never am thinking about broad, I'm thinking about truthful. And maybe for me somehow it always ends up broad, but those are maybe the parts that I'm offered and, yeah, let the chips fall where they may. But both Ice Harvest and Casanova are naturalistic filmmaking. If I'm playing larger than life characters well, you know, that's what happens but it's not commedia dell'arte.
Question: Well you get to fool around with Lena Olin, which is nothing - most men would be very envious of I would think.
Platt: And I got paid to do it. We all have our good days and our bad days, you know.
Question: And you don't get to do kind of romantic stuff all the time....
Platt: Well, no, no, no... funnily enough with Huff there's romantic in a very kind of dysfunctional way.
Question: Well it's dysfunctional romanticism...
Platt: Dysfunctional romanticism. But, I think that Russell tries to connect with people that's what he does. I mean actually in his weird little world when he's with a hooker he's... he doesn't know it, he's trying desperately to connect with that person. He's like paying somebody to create an environment where he can try and connect on his own, on his own terms, you know, and not have to worry about the consequences.
Question: So what do you do during your down time?
Platt: I just got out of a really exciting job which I'll tell you about next time I see you..
Question: Do you miss the theatre?
Platt: Yeah, I do. I've been looking for a play to do for a long time but when you have three little kids and you've got a mortgage.
From www.darkhorizons.com
Oliver Platt knows how to play a drunk and loser with more effortless harm than any actor working in Hollywood. But he is as equally diverse as recent stints in the likes of TV's Huff, for which he has attained an Emmy nomination and the dark comedy, The Ice Harvest. A hulking character actor who brings new meaning to the concept of versatility, Oliver Platt has appeared in a dizzying array of films that make him instantly recognizable but not instantly placeable to the average filmgoer. Since making his screen debut as an oily Wall Street drone in Mike Nichols' Working Girl (1988), Platt has lent his talents to almost every conceivable genre, including period dramas, political comedies, children's films, and campy horror movies.
The son of a U.S. Ambassador, Platt was born in Windsor on January 12, 1960, Platt and his family soon moved to Washington, D.C. Thanks to his father's job, he had an exceptionally itinerant childhood. By the time he was 18, he had attended 12 different schools in places as diverse as Tokyo, the Middle East, and Colorado. Long interested in acting, Platt received a BA in drama from Boston's Tufts University; following graduation, he remained in Boston for three years to pursue his stage career. In 1986 he moved to New York, where he performed in a number of off-Broadway productions and had the lead in the 1989 Lincoln Center production of Ubu. ollowing his screen debut in Working Girl, Platt began finding steady work in such films as Married to the Mob (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Beethoven (1992) -- which featured him and future collaborator Stanley Tucci as puppy thieves -- and Benny and Joon (1993).
He also proved himself adept at cheesy period drama in The Three Musketeers (1993), which cast him as Porthos, and at all-out comedy, as demonstrated by his turn as a struggling comic in Funny Bones (1995). Rarely cast as a leading man, Platt has always been visible in substantial supporting roles, equally comfortable at portraying nice guys, bad guys, and just flat out weird guys alike. As Ashley Judd's suitor in Simon Birch (1998), he was the straight man, while in The Impostors (1998), his second collaboration with Tucci (two years earlier he served as associate producer for the latter's Big Night), he again displayed his capacity for broad physical comedy as a struggling actor who finds himself a stowaway on an ocean liner. In Dangerous Beauty (1998), Platt was able to exercise his nasty side as a bitter nobleman-turned-religious zealot in 16th-century Venice; that same year, his capacity for exasperated quirkiness was displayed in Bulworth, which cast him as Warren Beatty's put-upon, coke-snorting campaign manager.
1999 proved to be a somewhat disappointing year for Platt, as two of his films, Three to Tango (which featured him as a gay architect) and the schlock-horror Lake Placid, which cast him as an idiosyncratic mythology expert, were both critical and commercial flops. A third film that year, Bicentennial Man -- in which Platt played the scientist who turns the titular robot (Robin Williams) into a man -- fared somewhat better. The following year, Platt's comic abilities were again on display in Gun Shy, in which he hammed it up as a bottom-rung mafioso with an overblown ego. Since then, apart from his Emmy-nominated turn in TV's Huff, Platt's diverse film credits include Ready to Rumble, Don't Say A Word, Hope Springs, Pieces of April, Loverboy and Kinsey, with both Ice Harvest and Casanova due out within weeks of each other. In this exclusive interview, the always affable actor talked to Garth Franklin.
Question: Now you're a Diplomats son, you have this sort of early kind of seemingly exotic background. How exotic was it and how does it prepare you for the life of a nomadic actor?
Platt: Well you know I think that is the key word, you are definitely prepared for that part because you are very comfortable as much as it is on some level it is very unsettling on a superficial or outward level you're very comfortable, too comfortable you know packing your bags at the drop of a hat and going somewhere. But I think in a weird way you know without knowing it if you grow up and you move all the time and you get exposed to a lot of different cultures you become quite adapted, assimilating you know because especially as a kid you kind of want to you want to fit in and so you automatically go, even if you are not aware of it you are automatically going how do they walk here, how do they talk here, what do I have to do to be like these people and I think that is the sad truth about but though maybe it has served me and a lot of people like me.
Question: Did you feel that background was something that was conducive to your desire to be an actor, was it?
Platt: I think to call it a desire is a in my case quite romantic notion. For me it actually had more to do with you know necessity and survivals in the sense that I audition for play...Christmas play when I was 8 years old and I was at a new school that I was very unhappy at and I was like the only new kid in my class and I was quite isolated and miserable and I audition for the play, Christmas play and I was the Inn Keeper that turned Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus away from the inn, I had one line I said, 'Here there is no rest or bed for poor folks such as ye, the rich they lodge here but they pay plentiful'. And the whole place for whatever reason, either my timing was good that night or I said it with a certain vigour, but the whole place went nuts when the Inn Keeper turned Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus away, I don't know if they were supposed to but when your are...so that God knows when you are standing up on stage in front of 400 people and everybody goes nuts you notice it.
Question: So it is that sense of recognition that about you...
Platt: Well just response, you know what I mean a very primitive sense of response and hate to use the word but approval.
Question: So when did that develop into a need to do more of that you think?
Platt: Well again if...I didn't stop moving at 8 I kept on moving and so you know what I found is that it is a way if I were to just audition for the play I would invariably get a part and you have a kind of automatic group of friends to hang out with, which is a very powerful thing when you are nomad.
Question: How did that nomadic experience effect you in terms of your own emotional develop, I mean was it tough?
Platt: It was very tough. It is very tough being a new kid all the time and you revaluate this stuff as you get older, I mean 1 at the end of the day I am incredibly lucky because 1 of 2 things happens to family like that that move all of the time, they either disintegrate very quickly or they get very, very close and fortunately the later situation evolved with my family.
Question: Does it reflect what happens with your own children now?
Platt: Well it reflects I am determined to move my children as little as possible, I mean I do the travelling to work at a necessity but I like that we are very, very careful. I mean I would love to raise my kids in one place if I could but you have to understand I mean I think that in itself is arguably an overreaction you know, it is okay to move once or twice in your life not the end of the world people survive it all the time and I moved 12 times and I am okay. But that is right and you just don't want to perpetrate on your own kids what you feel was perpetrated on you. Of course my parents, my father was just making a living doing his job and like I say we are very lucky that we are close as an extended family.
Question: When did you realise that you wanted to be an actor professionally that this is something that you could actually make a living doing?
Platt: I didn't I was too stupid to know that it was in insane thing to aspire to and I didn't do anything else I mean you kind of gravitate towards your talent and again my parents were and this is very unusual this but my parents were always tremendously supportive and I didn't really realise what a blessing that was until much later on till I did start to work as an actor and surrounded myself with professional actors for real, I said this is very unusual.
Question: Was there a backup plan?
Platt: You know sure there is an abstract... I don't know my backup plan is that maybe I would be you know I don't know a rock star...
Question: So nothing realistic.
Platt: Nothing remotely realistic. Not a musician a rock star.
Question: An actual rock star. But you don't see yourself as a movie star though, do you?
Platt: No I absolutely don't... and when I say rock star that shows... I more highlighted the absurdity of the back up plan.
Question: Are you glad that you've become a character actor as opposed to a movie star, a John Cusack type, I suppose a leading man, whatever that is?
Platt: You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it. Do you know what I mean? I'm a tremendously lucky guy. I think that there are aspects to being a character actor where you actually get offered more interesting roles and you have a wider variety of things you get to do.
Question: You've attained considerable success.
Platt: I work... yeah, exactly. I work enough, you know. I've never been terribly interested in being famous, it's not something that I've ever aspired to, and that's actually one of the aspects of the business that is more difficult to negotiate and can be very confusing because in a way if you don't achieve a certain degree of notoriety you're not doing your job, but what I'm much more interested in is ,doing good work. I do care about my reputation.
Question: Yeah, and people recognise you as somebody who's well known, but at the same time they recognise you as somebody who they can rely on as being a good actor who will be usually in a high-quality project. You don't seem to do a lot of shit really.
Platt: I'm lucky that way. I mean knock on something [knocking on wood sound] - please do it for me...
Question: Like this? [Knocking on a nearby table]
Platt: There you go - just touch it.
Question: There you go.
Platt: There you go. I mean it's relative, always. It's relative, and you always take the best job that's out there when you need a job. But I do think I've been very lucky.
Question: You don't have any particular aspirations beyond what you're currently doing?
Platt: Mmm... maybe producing and my interest in producing has led me to think that maybe I might need to direct one of the things that I've been developing for a while.
Question: How terrified are you at the prospect of directing, working with people like Hallström?
Platt: I wouldn't say terrified of it. I mean I'd probably be terrified if I felt I had to rely on it, but it's something I'm doing electively. I mean literally, if I had to direct these things it would be by default. I've always wanted to be a producer, it's been very attractive to me the idea of marrying sensibilities and developing stories, getting the right people to do this job, and the right person to do that job. That's very exciting for me, but I also realised... I've got something set up at the studio recently as a producer and, it's a story - it's an unpublished manuscript that has a remarkable movie at the centre of it - and I actually started to go down the list that the studio and I came up with for filmmakers and we offered to the first guy and, he would have had to piss a lot of people off to say yes but then we offered it to the second guy and I had this epiphany that producing is working your ass off on something for years and years then giving it away when the fun starts. And as soon as I realised I caught myself characterising that way I retracted the offer. Fortunately he didn't respond quickly, which allowed us to retract the offer and then I decided to...
Question: So does that mean you become a lot choosier as an actor so that you don't have to do as much stuff so you can prepare, to spend more time working on things that you want to do?
Platt: No, because I can't afford to say no to good stuff... there's so little good stuff out there now it's difficult to say no to it.
Question: So why this movie you've decided to direct?
Platt: Because I love the story. I just love the story. And again, I never set out to direct it but I'm somebody that I worked with once who was a very accomplished director and actor and writer sat me down - because we had a very satisfying working experience together - and he said, what do you want to do, you're a director and a producer and [I said] nah, nah, nah, no - love the producing, I'm not really interested in directing, and he said, well here's what's going to happen, he said you're gonna fall in love with a piece of material, you're going to try and find somebody to direct it and you're not going to be able to find someone who gets it the way you do. And he said this to me about ten years ago; it was very prophetic.
Question: So do you take on an Ice Harvest mainly for the opportunity to see how people like a Harold Ramis works?
Platt: No I take on Ice Harvest because it's a great role. I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Question: And there aren't a lot of movies that explore that.
Platt: It's not remotely sentimental, you know what I mean. It's brutally honest, and I think often hilarious, but it's a sad movie, it's sad and truthful.
Question: But you're attracted to these kind of very sad and quiet, almost pathetic characters that have within them something...
Platt: Well as long as they're layered. As long as they're looking for something, you know, as long as they're...
Question: Are you concerned that the guy in Huff is going to go so far down that audiences will stop sympathising with him?
Platt: I think in telling that life, you have to keep people invested in him. That character - one of the best characterisations of alcoholism that I ever read, it was a low-level spiritual quest. I mean eventually he's going to have to start to get some sort of awareness of the kind of trouble that he's in - or... and I think if he doesn't people will stop caring.
Question: Is that going to happen in the second season ?
Platt: I think it might happen at the end of the second season. I think the situations he finds himself in as a result of his behaviour, he has no choice but to do some sort of reckoning.
Question: Do you relate to a character like Russell in Huff or do you know people like him?
Platt: I've known people like Russell. Not intimately because people like Russell don't ultimately let anybody into their life unless they behave the same way. But the thing is... I do find him very relatable because all he is, is a very extreme case of somebody who's scared of living, he's just terrified. He's running away from a lot of different stuff. I mean he's self-destructive. I think we all have those compulsions, the question is what do you do with them?
Question: Now you're re-teaming with Mr Cusack I believe...
Platt: You know, everybody... we already have finished doing a movie we shot it in the spring.
Question: And you actually get to play a much nicer guy in that movie - how would you define that character?
Platt: You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role. But I played a somewhat eccentric science fiction writer who has recently widowed and becomes irrevocably kind of drawn to this very troubled foster kid, very traumatised foster kid, and all of his friends, including me, and I'm also his literary agent, tell him just don't... you know, don't do it. You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child. And it's kind of... it's like a... you know it's a love story metaphorically between the two of them. It's beautifully... I'm a sucker for an orphan story...
Question: Sounds very nice. You're pretty much done, I guess, with West Wing?
Platt: We do it on a case by case basis Nut, if it all ended the episode I did a couple of weeks ago, that aired a couple of weeks ago was the last one I was on that would be a very fitting end to Oliver Babish I think.
Question: What happens after you finish Huff? Are you taking a break?
Platt: I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a little break, because we've been working for five months - and I did the movie with Johnny right before that.
Question: You have Casanova coming out.
Platt: I have Casanova coming out...
Question: What was the experience like in making that film?
Platt: Casanova? Oh, a delight. I mean truly.
Question: It's full costume...
Platt: It's full costume, it's full Venice man, every frame of that movie shot in Venice, Italy, I mean pretty much, which, if you know anything about movie making, is like an insane proposition. Making movies is about moving massive amounts of equipment and people around at very short notice, you know, and Venice, Italy is a city where no cars are allowed. It's, you know, gondolas and some ski boats. Motorised wheeled transportation is not allowed. So, I mean, a producer's nightmare but an actors dream, because we all hung in Venice for three months.
Question: But it's a Disney version of Casanova...
Platt: Well, you know... I don't know what you mean by Disney version. This movie is not made for kids. It's rated R and I don't think it quite deserves that R but it's definitely a PG-13. You know, Lasse Hallström made the movie, it's not like a dumb, sanitised version - not that everything Disney does is dumb and sanitised, but I think when you say... when people use Disney, you know, to describe something they usually mean that it's like, you know, for kids, and this is not for kids.
Question: Your character is not a broad comic character for you, right?
Platt: You know, it is and it isn't I mean... as an actor I never am thinking about broad, I'm thinking about truthful. And maybe for me somehow it always ends up broad, but those are maybe the parts that I'm offered and, yeah, let the chips fall where they may. But both Ice Harvest and Casanova are naturalistic filmmaking. If I'm playing larger than life characters well, you know, that's what happens but it's not commedia dell'arte.
Question: Well you get to fool around with Lena Olin, which is nothing - most men would be very envious of I would think.
Platt: And I got paid to do it. We all have our good days and our bad days, you know.
Question: And you don't get to do kind of romantic stuff all the time....
Platt: Well, no, no, no... funnily enough with Huff there's romantic in a very kind of dysfunctional way.
Question: Well it's dysfunctional romanticism...
Platt: Dysfunctional romanticism. But, I think that Russell tries to connect with people that's what he does. I mean actually in his weird little world when he's with a hooker he's... he doesn't know it, he's trying desperately to connect with that person. He's like paying somebody to create an environment where he can try and connect on his own, on his own terms, you know, and not have to worry about the consequences.
Question: So what do you do during your down time?
Platt: I just got out of a really exciting job which I'll tell you about next time I see you..
Question: Do you miss the theatre?
Platt: Yeah, I do. I've been looking for a play to do for a long time but when you have three little kids and you've got a mortgage.
From www.darkhorizons.com
Interview with Oliver Platt about "The Ice Harvest"
Interview with Oliver Platt about "The Ice Harvest"
Question: Do you see any parallel in this guy (Pete) and the guy you play in Huff?
Oliver Platt: They’re very different actually. I think the guy I played in Huff is much more like Charlie’s character. He drinks so much that it doesn’t really affect him. He has to really put a lot of chemicals into his body to get to the state that this guy is in. Charlie’s really experienced. (Pete) is in a forced crisis. The forced gaiety of Christmas has made him really focus in on how bankrupt his life is. He doesn’t have anything important, and he obviously can’t hold his liqueur. He’s not a really an alcoholic. I think he may be on his way, but I don’t think he drinks like this a lot. I think he’s absolutely flipping out.
Q: But isn’t it funny that everybody is casting you as a semi-drunkard loser?
O.Platt.: You get cast for something people see in you… I don’t know. I really don’t know. I can tell you this though; they’re certainly a lot of fun to play, especially when they’re layered. It’s very easy when you meet this guy to say, “Oh, there’s a happy drunk”, but we all know there’s no such thing really, but then we find out. I think the writing in this movie is so beautiful. The story reveals that he’s desperate.
Q: Playing a drunk person may sound simple, but there are so many little nuances, little details. Were those things that you brought yourself, and if so, how did you research?
O.Platt.: It’s a physical state more than anything else more than anything else. It’s a very relaxed state that I would get myself into. Very kind of loosey-goosey. It’s like I said, you figure it out, then you forget about it. I heard somewhere the way Meryl Streep works with an accent, she’ll totally immerse herself in it and she’ll be walking around her house and the set, until they say action, and then she completely forgets about it. And that’s why it’s just there. And it’s the same kind of thing, I think, when playing someone who’s that inebriated. Or I think in any kind of state. It’s gotta be something that informs what you’re doing, but you can’t be thinking about it when you’re doing it, or that’s what it’s going to look like.
Q: So, essentially you were drunk for a couple of months?
O.Platt.: When they said action, yeah.
Q: What’s your favorite drink?
O.Platt.: My favorite drink would have to be probably a tequila type of drink. Yeah, the members of the tequila family. Beer and tequila, I always thought were the excellent kind of rocket fuel kind of mixture, you got the upper and the downer in there somewhere, and in the middle was…
Q: Are you a happy drunk?
O.Platt.: Yeah, I think I’m pretty friendly.
Q: I watched Casanova also, and I would call you the comic relief. You are the funny guy in most films. Is this something you are looking for?
O.Platt.: You know, I take the best job I’m offered if I’m not working. Those were both great jobs in my mind. Again, because they’re layered. Both (Pete) and Papprizzio are actually incredibly well defined roles for supporting roles in terms of having a great story, a beginning, middle and end, and a lot of depth to them. I was only too happy to take both of those roles.
Q: Both of the films are also comedies around you. How do you play the comic relief in a film that is already a comedy around you? Is there a degree where you can go too over-the-top in a film that is already a comedy?
O.Platt.: In a way you can over think that kind of stuff, and it’s just your job to play the role the way you see fit. Certainly in terms of Pete, the deal that I made with myself was the only way I could screw up would be to be afraid to make an absolute idiot of myself. People that have that degree of blood alcohol level, their sense of inhibition is completely gone. They’re certainly not thinking about how they’re coming off. What the safety net was for all of this was the script. In my mind it’s a beautifully written role, and so it’s all about playing the scenes. That level of drunkenness is like playing an accent. You plug it in and forget about it.
Q: Can you tell us what Harold Ramis adds to the equation.
O.Platt.: Well, you know what he adds to the equation, he add to the equation… He’s simply there. It’s like, with one of the godfathers, the crazy uncles of American comedy sitting behind the camera you feel a lot more safe making a complete idiot of yourself in front of it. And you know this is also a man of great intelligence who’s going to keep his eye on the story, is going to tell you when you’re going too far, if you’re not going far enough. Harold sits behind the monitor and cackles a lot. That’s music to your ears. When he opens his mouth, you really pay close attention.
Director’s don’t really need to come talk to me, because I almost always go talk to them first. And I very much like to draw out what’s going on in their head, and tell them what’s going on in my head. I usually try and make a lot of contact with a director before we start shooting. I think you work really hard before you get to the set, so when you get to the set you can play and you can really surprise yourself.
Q: I assume you’re familiar with a lot of his movies?
O.Platt.: Yes.
Q: Have any favorite Ramis films?
O.Platt.: Definitely my favorite movie of his is Groundhog Day. Just because I think that it’s really… He would hate this pretentious term, but I think it’s actually kind of an important movie. I think it’s the first great existential modern American comedy. It’s a deceptively sophisticated movie. It’s about a whole lot of stuff. I just loved it. I love all the other stuff too. Caddyshack. I love Stripes. I love all that stuff.
Q: Had you known John before, and what were your impressions of him?
O.Platt.: You know, I didn’t really know him before. He had called me once because I had worked with a director he wanted to work with. I had always admired him. I’d always admired his intelligence as an actor, his subtlety. His taste too. I love not only things that he chose to do, but I think he’s an incredibly tasteful. Like effortlessly tasteful actor, someone who really understands the concept of less is more. He understands the power of the camera. If you look at this movie and when you first are meeting him and he brings the money out of the bank and puts in the car, and he has this conversation with Billy Bob, and he says two or three words, but you know so much about that character right away. There’s more from what he doesn’t say.
Q: Any stories from working with him?
O.Platt.: You know, I’m terrible at the funny stories questions. I just am.
Q: How was Billy Bob?
O.Platt.: I didn’t work with him. I didn’t even meet him.
Q: Where was this shot? Was it shot entirely on location?
O.Platt.: Well, yeah, but in Chicago.
Q: Which was cold, I imagine?
O.Platt.: It was spring, late spring, which is still cold, but it was nothing like the real winter in Chicago or Wichita Falls.
Q: How was Venice? (Where Cassanova was filmed)
O.Platt.: Venice the weather was much more pleasant.
Q: What do you think the Midwestern setting does for this noir film that distinguishes it from other things we have seen in this genre?
O.Platt.: I think that this movie is in a certain catalogue a sad, love song to the precarious state of the American male. So I think you really need to set it in America. And by America, I think we’re talking about middle America. Not New York, because even though it’s where I live and I think it’s the greatest city in the world, it’s also an international city. And LA is the same thing. It needs to be more nondescript, utterly American city. I think that’s what their going for. Also, if noir is the point of departure for this film at least in terms of genre, these are not glamorous mobsters. I think that that’s one of the most genuine modern aspects of it. These are not glamorous, very powerful people.
Q: How do you think the people in Kansas will react to this?
O.Platt.: I hope that they’ll understand that this is a poetic kind of imagining of the… every town has got strip clubs and losers. And I hear that Wichita is a beautiful place. Please quote me on that.
Kudos to Oliver Platt for spending some time with us and sharing his insights with our readers. The Ice Harvest is now playing everywhere.
The West Wing Episodes with Oliver Platt
The West Wing with Oliver Platt (9 Episodes)
Bad Moon Rising (Season 2, Episode 19)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3160253/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3160672/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3161182/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3161453/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
The Fall's Gonna Kill You (Season 2, Episode 20)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3161970/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3162439/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3162955/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3163229/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
18th and Potomac (Season 2, Episode 21)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3163682/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3164098/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3164459/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3164685/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Manchester: Part 1 (Season 3, Episode 2)
http://rapidshare.com/files/309911/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/310444/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/310917/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/311234/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Manchester: Part 2 (Season 3, Episode 3)
http://rapidshare.com/files/311615/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/312085/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/312474/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/312680/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Ways and Means (Season 3, Episode 4)
http://rapidshare.com/files/313111/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/313547/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/313848/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/314064/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Gone Quiet (Season 3, Episode 7)
http://rapidshare.com/files/317925/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/318379/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/319048/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/319178/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
The Ticket (Season 7, Episode 1)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3686780/WW_701_The_Ticket.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3687222/WW_701_The_Ticket.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3687517/WW_701_The_Ticket.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3687780/WW_701_The_Ticket.part4.rar.html
Here Today (Season 7, Episode 5)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3691988/WW_705.Here_Today.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3692358/WW_705.Here_Today.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3692813/WW_705.Here_Today.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3693028/WW_705.Here_Today.part4.rar.html
Bad Moon Rising (Season 2, Episode 19)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3160253/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3160672/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3161182/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3161453/the_west_wing.2x19.bad_moon_rising.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
The Fall's Gonna Kill You (Season 2, Episode 20)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3161970/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3162439/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3162955/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3163229/the_west_wing.2x20.the_falls_gonna_kill_you.ac3.dvdrip.xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
18th and Potomac (Season 2, Episode 21)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3163682/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3164098/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3164459/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3164685/the_west_wing.2x21.18th_and_potomac.ac3.dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Manchester: Part 1 (Season 3, Episode 2)
http://rapidshare.com/files/309911/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/310444/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/310917/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/311234/the_west_wing.3x02.manchester_part2.real.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Manchester: Part 2 (Season 3, Episode 3)
http://rapidshare.com/files/311615/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/312085/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/312474/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/312680/the_west_wing.3x03.ways_and_means.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Ways and Means (Season 3, Episode 4)
http://rapidshare.com/files/313111/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/313547/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/313848/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/314064/the_west_wing.3x04.on_the_day_before.repack.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
Gone Quiet (Season 3, Episode 7)
http://rapidshare.com/files/317925/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/318379/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/319048/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/319178/the_west_wing.3x07.the_indians_in_the_lobby.ac3.ws_dvdrip_xvid-fov.part4.rar.html
The Ticket (Season 7, Episode 1)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3686780/WW_701_The_Ticket.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3687222/WW_701_The_Ticket.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3687517/WW_701_The_Ticket.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3687780/WW_701_The_Ticket.part4.rar.html
Here Today (Season 7, Episode 5)
http://rapidshare.com/files/3691988/WW_705.Here_Today.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3692358/WW_705.Here_Today.part2.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3692813/WW_705.Here_Today.part3.rar.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/3693028/WW_705.Here_Today.part4.rar.html
Huff, ALL EPISODES
Huff, Tv Show with Oliver Platt
Psychiatrist Craig Huffstodt (Azaria) experiences his own midlife crisis.
More Info at IMDB
Huff, Season 1
Episode 1 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24435299/fufh1e01.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24441989/fufh1e01.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24501818/fufh1e01.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24502305/fufh1e01.part4.rar
Episode 2 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503020/fufh1e02.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503394/fufh1e02.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503744/fufh1e02.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503965/fufh1e02.part4.rar
Episode 3 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24504284/fufh1e03.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24504619/fufh1e03.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24504922/fufh1e03.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24505150/fufh1e03.part4.rar
Episode 4 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24505508/fufh1e04.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24505860/fufh1e04.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24506208/fufh1e04.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24506427/fufh1e04.part4.rar
Episode 5 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24506758/fufh1e05.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507050/fufh1e05.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507355/fufh1e05.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507575/fufh1e05.part4.rar
Episode 6 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507898/fufh1e06.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24508172/fufh1e06.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24508459/fufh1e06.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24508680/fufh1e06.part4.rar
Episode 7 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509026/fufh1e07.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509437/fufh1e07.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509762/fufh1e07.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509950/fufh1e07.part4.rar
Episode 8 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24510270/fufh1e08.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24510580/fufh1e08.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24510893/fufh1e08.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24511050/fufh1e08.part4.rar
Episode 9 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24511388/fufh1e09.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24511732/fufh1e09.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24512078/fufh1e09.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24512330/fufh1e09.part4.rar
Episode 10 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24512700/fufh1e10.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24513086/fufh1e10.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24513512/fufh1e10.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24513739/fufh1e10.part4.rar
Episode 11 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24514096/fufh1e11.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24514478/fufh1e11.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24514924/fufh1e11.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24515092/fufh1e11.part4.rar
Episode 12 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24515377/fufh1e12.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24515716/fufh1e12.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516000/fufh1e12.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516166/fufh1e12.part4.rar
Episode 13 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516440/fufh1e13.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516724/fufh1e13.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24517037/fufh1e13.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24517268/fufh1e13.part4.rar
Password for all : huff4you
Huff, Season 2:
Episode 1 & 2 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25237284/fufh2e01_02.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25237678/fufh2e01_02.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25237997/fufh2e01_02.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25238341/fufh2e01_02.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25238725/fufh2e01_02.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239058/fufh2e01_02.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239444/fufh2e01_02.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239509/fufh2e01_02.part8.rar
Episode 3 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239849/fufh2e03.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25240247/fufh2e03.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25240697/fufh2e03.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25241014/fufh2e03.part4.rar
Episode 4 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25241458/fufh2e04.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25241971/fufh2e04.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25242361/fufh2e04.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25242572/fufh2e04.part4.rar
Episode 5 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25242987/fufh2e05.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25243351/fufh2e05.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25243764/fufh2e05.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25244023/fufh2e05.part4.rar
Episode 6 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25244400/fufh2e06.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25244854/fufh2e06.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25245335/fufh2e06.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25245565/fufh2e06.part4.rar
Episode 7 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25245951/fufh2e07.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25246309/fufh2e07.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25246695/fufh2e07.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25246937/fufh2e07.part4.rar
Episode 8 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25247309/fufh2e08.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25247794/fufh2e08.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25248165/fufh2e08.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25248394/fufh2e08.part4.rar
Episode 9 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25249225/fufh2e09.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25249735/fufh2e09.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25250129/fufh2e09.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25250422/fufh2e09.part4.rar
Episode 10 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25250951/fufh2e10.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25251408/fufh2e10.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25251817/fufh2e10.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25252166/fufh2e10.part4.rar
Episode 11 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25252570/fufh2e11.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25253063/fufh2e11.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25253438/fufh2e11.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25253711/fufh2e11.part4.rar
Episode 12 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25254130/fufh2e12.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25254510/fufh2e12.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25254911/fufh2e12.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25255135/fufh2e12.part4.rar
Episode 13 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25255523/fufh2e13.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25255872/fufh2e13.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25256325/fufh2e13.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25256552/fufh2e13.part4.rar
Password for all: huffs2_4you
Psychiatrist Craig Huffstodt (Azaria) experiences his own midlife crisis.
More Info at IMDB
Huff, Season 1
Episode 1 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24435299/fufh1e01.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24441989/fufh1e01.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24501818/fufh1e01.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24502305/fufh1e01.part4.rar
Episode 2 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503020/fufh1e02.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503394/fufh1e02.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503744/fufh1e02.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24503965/fufh1e02.part4.rar
Episode 3 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24504284/fufh1e03.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24504619/fufh1e03.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24504922/fufh1e03.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24505150/fufh1e03.part4.rar
Episode 4 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24505508/fufh1e04.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24505860/fufh1e04.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24506208/fufh1e04.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24506427/fufh1e04.part4.rar
Episode 5 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24506758/fufh1e05.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507050/fufh1e05.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507355/fufh1e05.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507575/fufh1e05.part4.rar
Episode 6 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24507898/fufh1e06.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24508172/fufh1e06.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24508459/fufh1e06.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24508680/fufh1e06.part4.rar
Episode 7 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509026/fufh1e07.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509437/fufh1e07.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509762/fufh1e07.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24509950/fufh1e07.part4.rar
Episode 8 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24510270/fufh1e08.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24510580/fufh1e08.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24510893/fufh1e08.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24511050/fufh1e08.part4.rar
Episode 9 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24511388/fufh1e09.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24511732/fufh1e09.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24512078/fufh1e09.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24512330/fufh1e09.part4.rar
Episode 10 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24512700/fufh1e10.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24513086/fufh1e10.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24513512/fufh1e10.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24513739/fufh1e10.part4.rar
Episode 11 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24514096/fufh1e11.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24514478/fufh1e11.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24514924/fufh1e11.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24515092/fufh1e11.part4.rar
Episode 12 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24515377/fufh1e12.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24515716/fufh1e12.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516000/fufh1e12.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516166/fufh1e12.part4.rar
Episode 13 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516440/fufh1e13.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24516724/fufh1e13.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24517037/fufh1e13.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/24517268/fufh1e13.part4.rar
Password for all : huff4you
Huff, Season 2:
Episode 1 & 2 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25237284/fufh2e01_02.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25237678/fufh2e01_02.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25237997/fufh2e01_02.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25238341/fufh2e01_02.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25238725/fufh2e01_02.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239058/fufh2e01_02.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239444/fufh2e01_02.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239509/fufh2e01_02.part8.rar
Episode 3 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25239849/fufh2e03.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25240247/fufh2e03.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25240697/fufh2e03.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25241014/fufh2e03.part4.rar
Episode 4 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25241458/fufh2e04.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25241971/fufh2e04.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25242361/fufh2e04.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25242572/fufh2e04.part4.rar
Episode 5 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25242987/fufh2e05.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25243351/fufh2e05.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25243764/fufh2e05.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25244023/fufh2e05.part4.rar
Episode 6 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25244400/fufh2e06.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25244854/fufh2e06.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25245335/fufh2e06.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25245565/fufh2e06.part4.rar
Episode 7 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25245951/fufh2e07.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25246309/fufh2e07.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25246695/fufh2e07.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25246937/fufh2e07.part4.rar
Episode 8 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25247309/fufh2e08.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25247794/fufh2e08.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25248165/fufh2e08.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25248394/fufh2e08.part4.rar
Episode 9 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25249225/fufh2e09.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25249735/fufh2e09.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25250129/fufh2e09.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25250422/fufh2e09.part4.rar
Episode 10 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25250951/fufh2e10.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25251408/fufh2e10.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25251817/fufh2e10.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25252166/fufh2e10.part4.rar
Episode 11 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25252570/fufh2e11.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25253063/fufh2e11.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25253438/fufh2e11.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25253711/fufh2e11.part4.rar
Episode 12 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25254130/fufh2e12.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25254510/fufh2e12.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25254911/fufh2e12.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25255135/fufh2e12.part4.rar
Episode 13 :
http://rapidshare.com/files/25255523/fufh2e13.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25255872/fufh2e13.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25256325/fufh2e13.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/25256552/fufh2e13.part4.rar
Password for all: huffs2_4you
The Bronx Is Burning (Ep 1 - 4)
The Bronx Is Burning, Tv Show with Oliver Platt
A look at the New York Yankees attempt to win the 1977 World Series. Based on Jonathan Mahler's book "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning.
More Info at IMDB
The.Bronx.Is.Burning.E01.HDTV.XviD-BamHD
http://rapidshare.com/files/43056913/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/43058008/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/43059167/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/43055773/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part4.rar
the.bronx.is.burning.s01e02.hdtv.xvid-2hd.avi
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The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HDTV.XviD-SYS
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http://rapidshare.com/files/45106509/The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HDTV.XviD-SYS.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/45106540/The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HDTV.XviD-SYS.part3.rar
The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HR.HDTV.XviD-BamHD
http://rapidshare.com/files/44914550/The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HR.HDTV.XviD-BamHD.part8.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/44914913/The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HR.HDTV.XviD-BamHD.part4.rar
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The.Bronx.is.Burning.S01E04.HDTV.XviD-NoTV
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A look at the New York Yankees attempt to win the 1977 World Series. Based on Jonathan Mahler's book "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning.
More Info at IMDB
The.Bronx.Is.Burning.E01.HDTV.XviD-BamHD
http://rapidshare.com/files/43056913/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/43058008/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/43059167/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/43055773/da.bronx.is.burning.01.part4.rar
the.bronx.is.burning.s01e02.hdtv.xvid-2hd.avi
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=ebb0a2d
The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E02.HR.HDTV.XviD-BamHD.avi
http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=c853c3b
The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HDTV.XviD-SYS
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The.Bronx.Is.Burning.S01E03.HR.HDTV.XviD-BamHD
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The.Bronx.is.Burning.S01E04.HDTV.XviD-NoTV
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Oliver Platt Biography
Date of Birth
12 January 1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name
Oliver James Platt
Height
6' 3½" (1.92 m)
Mini Biography
The son of a career diplomat, he spent his childhood in Washington DC, Asia, and the middle east. Oliver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Drama in 1983 from Tufts University. He then trained at Shakespeare & Co. with Kristine Linklater.
Spouse
Camilla Campbell (1993 - present) 3 children
Trivia
David E. Kelley originally wanted him to play the role of Bobby Donnell on the TV show "The Practice" (1997).
His father, Nicholas Platt, is an ex ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, & the Phillipines.
Attended Tufts University.
Three children: Lily (b. 1995), George (b. 1997), and Claire (b. 1999).
Has an older brother, Adam Platt and a younger brother, Nicholas Platt Jr.
Avid Boston Red Sox fan.
A second-cousin, once-removed of Princess Diana, Princess of Wales.
Son of Nicholas Platt (b. 10.3.1936 in New York, NY), a career American diplomat, and wife Sheila Maynard. His mother, Sheila Maynard, is the daughter of maternal granddaughter of the Hon. Cynthia Burke-Roche (10.4.1884-8.12.1966, who married firstly Arthur Scott Burden (d. 6.1921) in 1906 and secondly Guy Fairfax Cary (d. 1950) in 1922). Cynthia was the sister of Edmund Maurice Burke-Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy in the Peerage of Ireland (of Irish and English extraction and son of an American Heiress), who was the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. He is also the paternal grandson of American architect Geoffrey Platt (by whom he has remote Dutch American ancestry) and wife Helen Choate.
Was friends with "Huff" co-star Hank Azaria at Tufts University.
High school graduate from the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado (near Aspen). The school's main curriculum is based on the "Outward Bound" education program, which teaches wilderness survival and expedition courses.
Personal Quotes
"The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. I thought that would be nirvana. I think of myself as an actor. If other people want to pigeonhole me, if they want to think of me as a big deal or a medium deal or a small deal, well, that's up to them."
Where Are They Now
(June 2006) Making his Broadway debut in Conor McPherson's Shining City, at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway. His brilliant performance was honored with a Tony nomination for best actor.
12 January 1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Birth Name
Oliver James Platt
Height
6' 3½" (1.92 m)
Mini Biography
The son of a career diplomat, he spent his childhood in Washington DC, Asia, and the middle east. Oliver graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Drama in 1983 from Tufts University. He then trained at Shakespeare & Co. with Kristine Linklater.
Spouse
Camilla Campbell (1993 - present) 3 children
Trivia
David E. Kelley originally wanted him to play the role of Bobby Donnell on the TV show "The Practice" (1997).
His father, Nicholas Platt, is an ex ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia, & the Phillipines.
Attended Tufts University.
Three children: Lily (b. 1995), George (b. 1997), and Claire (b. 1999).
Has an older brother, Adam Platt and a younger brother, Nicholas Platt Jr.
Avid Boston Red Sox fan.
A second-cousin, once-removed of Princess Diana, Princess of Wales.
Son of Nicholas Platt (b. 10.3.1936 in New York, NY), a career American diplomat, and wife Sheila Maynard. His mother, Sheila Maynard, is the daughter of maternal granddaughter of the Hon. Cynthia Burke-Roche (10.4.1884-8.12.1966, who married firstly Arthur Scott Burden (d. 6.1921) in 1906 and secondly Guy Fairfax Cary (d. 1950) in 1922). Cynthia was the sister of Edmund Maurice Burke-Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy in the Peerage of Ireland (of Irish and English extraction and son of an American Heiress), who was the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. He is also the paternal grandson of American architect Geoffrey Platt (by whom he has remote Dutch American ancestry) and wife Helen Choate.
Was friends with "Huff" co-star Hank Azaria at Tufts University.
High school graduate from the Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, Colorado (near Aspen). The school's main curriculum is based on the "Outward Bound" education program, which teaches wilderness survival and expedition courses.
Personal Quotes
"The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor. I thought that would be nirvana. I think of myself as an actor. If other people want to pigeonhole me, if they want to think of me as a big deal or a medium deal or a small deal, well, that's up to them."
Where Are They Now
(June 2006) Making his Broadway debut in Conor McPherson's Shining City, at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway. His brilliant performance was honored with a Tony nomination for best actor.
Surface DVDRIP *ALL EPISODES*
Surface, Tv Show with Bobby Coleman
What do naval officers in the South Antarctic Sea, a family in Wilmington, N.C., the oceanographic institute in Monterey, and fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico all have in common? They're all about to be the first to meet a new form of sea life -- it's beautiful, the kids may even want to play with it, and it likes to make the water warm. But what they don't know yet is that they are on the verge of a world disaster. "Surface" is a series full of continuously evolving twists that deliver across several long-term arcs.
From IMDB
Surface.S01.COMPLETE.DVDRip.XviD-TOPAZ
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What do naval officers in the South Antarctic Sea, a family in Wilmington, N.C., the oceanographic institute in Monterey, and fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico all have in common? They're all about to be the first to meet a new form of sea life -- it's beautiful, the kids may even want to play with it, and it likes to make the water warm. But what they don't know yet is that they are on the verge of a world disaster. "Surface" is a series full of continuously evolving twists that deliver across several long-term arcs.
From IMDB
Surface.S01.COMPLETE.DVDRip.XviD-TOPAZ
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Bobby Coleman Biography
Date of Birth
5 May 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Robert Moorhouse Coleman III
Trivia
Son of Robert M. Coleman Jr. and Doris Berg Coleman.
Younger brother of Holliston Coleman.
Was named after his grand-father and father. He is the third generation to have the name carried on.
Auditioned for the part of Max in Where the Wild Things Are (2008).
From IMDB
5 May 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Robert Moorhouse Coleman III
Trivia
Son of Robert M. Coleman Jr. and Doris Berg Coleman.
Younger brother of Holliston Coleman.
Was named after his grand-father and father. He is the third generation to have the name carried on.
Auditioned for the part of Max in Where the Wild Things Are (2008).
From IMDB
Sixteen Candles (1984) with John Cusack
Sixteen Candles (1984) with John Cusack
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
Sixteen Candles DVD-R
http://rapidshare.com/files/24320218/SC.part01.rar
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Password: VOS
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
Sixteen Candles DVD-R
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Password: VOS
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip *ALL EPISODES*
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - ALL EPISODES -
Amanda Peet's latest show
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.01 - Pilot'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3256302/s60_101.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3257175/s60_101.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.02 - The Cold Open'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3210259/s60_102.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3212717/s60_102.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3231817/s60_102.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3239971/s60_102.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.03 - The Focus Group'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3257678/s60_103.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3258089/s60_103.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3258765/s60_103.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3259225/s60_103.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.04 - The West Coast Delay'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3259920/s60_104.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3299381/s60_104.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.05 - The Long Lead Story'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3300850/s60_105.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3301690/s60_105.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3302066/s60_105.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.06 - The Wrap Party'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3302872/s60_106.part2.rar
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.07 - Nevada Day Part 1'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3254080/s60_107.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.08 - Nevada Day Part 2'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/3832710/studio60108.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3834953/studio60108.part3.rar
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.09 - The Option Period'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/4200762/studio60_109.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/4201099/studio60_109.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/4201204/studio60_109.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Stip - 1.10 - B-12'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/6010720/studio60110.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6010822/studio60110.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6010455/studio60110.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.11 - The Christmas Show'
http://rapidshare.com/files/6535929/studio60111.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6536167/studio60111.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6536440/studio60111.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6535707/studio60111.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.12 - Monday'
http://rapidshare.com/files/13297238/studio60112.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13297458/studio60112.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13297652/studio60112.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/13297803/studio60112.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.13 - The Harriet Dinner Part 1'
http://rapidshare.com/files/14363427/studio60113.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14362903/studio60113.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14362996/studio60113.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/14363042/studio60113.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.14 - The Harriet Dinner Part 2'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/18950252/studio60114.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18951678/studio60114.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18948837/studio60114.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.15 - The Friday Night Slaughter'
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http://rapidshare.com/files/19336929/studio60115.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19337340/studio60115.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19337529/studio60115.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.16 - 4 A.M. Miracle'
http://rapidshare.com/files/19499335/studio60116.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19499502/studio60116.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19499673/studio60116.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/19499788/studio60116.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.17 - The Disaster Show'
http://rapidshare.com/files/33334422/studio60117.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/33336416/studio60117.part2.rar
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.18 - Breaking News'
http://rapidshare.com/files/34580816/studio60118.part1.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/34584479/studio60118.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.19 - K & R Part 1'
http://rapidshare.com/files/35917123/studio60119.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/35919249/studio60119.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/35921361/studio60119.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/35923271/studio60119.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.20 - K & R Part 2'
http://rapidshare.com/files/37319633/studio60120.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/37320999/studio60120.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/37322392/studio60120.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/37323445/studio60120.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.21 - K & R Part 3'
http://rapidshare.com/files/38684140/studio60121.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/38697666/studio60121.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/38709768/studio60121.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/38710367/studio60121.part4.rar
Password: fronerm
or
Episode 1:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=KMYLJU47
Episode 2:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=Z631QI30
Episode 3:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=Y8XZIGDG
Episode 4:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=AO2UTKBP
Episode 5:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=ZE5S7D63
Episode 6:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=RP1T19YE
Episode 7:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P4POK4WT
Episode 8:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=WG7LL537
Episode 9:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=L8K3BZVI
Episode 10:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=EAK8L3BK
Episode 11:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=CQ42LJWO
Episode 12:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=5M7VAKM0
Episode 13:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=S7GKVTPP
Episode 14:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=PYSFZZ5X
Episode 15:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=4UPXAJIO
Episode 16:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=BTEG939T
Episode 17:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=EGBLBRLM
Episode 18:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8JDIA8B7
Episode 19:
http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=EPCL9TBF
From:Pretty Sexy Stuff
Amanda Peet's latest show
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.01 - Pilot'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3255621/s60_101.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3256302/s60_101.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3256944/s60_101.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3257175/s60_101.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.02 - The Cold Open'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3210259/s60_102.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3212717/s60_102.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3231817/s60_102.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3239971/s60_102.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.03 - The Focus Group'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3257678/s60_103.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3258089/s60_103.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3258765/s60_103.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3259225/s60_103.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.04 - The West Coast Delay'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3259503/s60_104.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3259920/s60_104.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3261007/s60_104.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3299381/s60_104.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.05 - The Long Lead Story'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3300137/s60_105.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3300850/s60_105.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3301690/s60_105.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3302066/s60_105.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.06 - The Wrap Party'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3302388/s60_106.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3302872/s60_106.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3303402/s60_106.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3303705/s60_106.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.07 - Nevada Day Part 1'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3246293/s60_107.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3251541/s60_107.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3253241/s60_107.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3254080/s60_107.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.08 - Nevada Day Part 2'
http://rapidshare.com/files/3831644/studio60108.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3832710/studio60108.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3834953/studio60108.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3839378/studio60108.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.09 - The Option Period'
http://rapidshare.com/files/4200437/studio60_109.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/4200762/studio60_109.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/4201099/studio60_109.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/4201204/studio60_109.part4.rar
'Studio 60 On The Sunset Stip - 1.10 - B-12'
http://rapidshare.com/files/6010577/studio60110.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6010720/studio60110.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/6010822/studio60110.part3.rar
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.12 - Monday'
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.15 - The Friday Night Slaughter'
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.16 - 4 A.M. Miracle'
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.17 - The Disaster Show'
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.18 - Breaking News'
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.19 - K & R Part 1'
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'Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip - 1.20 - K & R Part 2'
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Entourage episode with Amanda Peet
"Entourage" S02E01 - The Boys Are Back in Town (With Amanda Peet)
With filming on Queens Boulevard completed, Vince, Eric, Turtle and Drama arrive back in LA, ready to pick up where they left off. Eric tries to fulfill his new duties as Vince's manager, while also trying to control the frustrations caused by his relationship with Kristen. He also has to deal with Ari, who lets him know that offers to Vince have started to dry up, and that Vince should take the starring role in James Cameron's "Aquaman." Turtle steps up into his new role as the house manager and Drama finds an unconventional way to get a new set of headshots. Written by HBO
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With filming on Queens Boulevard completed, Vince, Eric, Turtle and Drama arrive back in LA, ready to pick up where they left off. Eric tries to fulfill his new duties as Vince's manager, while also trying to control the frustrations caused by his relationship with Kristen. He also has to deal with Ari, who lets him know that offers to Vince have started to dry up, and that Vince should take the starring role in James Cameron's "Aquaman." Turtle steps up into his new role as the house manager and Drama finds an unconventional way to get a new set of headshots. Written by HBO
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John Cusack Interview About "Max"
John Cusack Talks About "Max"
"Max" is the directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Menno Meyjes. The movie stars John Cusack as Max Rothman, a celebrated art gallery owner who befriends an aspiring young artist and fellow war veteran, Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor). Despite Max's assistance and encouragement, Hitler is unsuccessful as an artist and turns all of his energy to politics.
Casting the crucial role of Max had producer Andras Hamori and writer/director Meyjes stumped. No one actor seemed to jump to the head of the line until one evening the two spotted a photo of John Cusack on the cover of a magazine. Hamori recalls, "Just as if we were in a bad movie, we both paused, gasped, turned to each other and said, 'This is Max Rothman.'" Fortune further smiled on the two when Cusack reacted positively to the script. "By some total miracle, when John read the script he become intrigued by the script and fought for it. He became totally obsessed with 'Max,'" says Hamori.
JOHN CUSACK ('Max')
"Max" is a very intense movie. What was the toughest part of making this film?
I think just trying to pull it off. I think it would be like doing a classic kind of epic play. It was a pretty intense high-wire act, just trying to do this film. We were trying to portray the birth of modernism and the examination of the most kind of profound evil [while] putting a human face on it. [The story is] a confusion of art and politics and part history and social history. It's a very ambitious piece. It wasn't like you walked in and said, “Ah, this is a slam-dunk. We've got this.”
How did you get involved with "Max?"
The [script] came in and I grabbed on to it. Menno [Meyjes] had, for some reason, needed a one-armed German-Jewish art dealer and he just thought of me. He saw me more as a German for this. Where I grew up the Irish, the Jews, and the Italians all hung out together. So I grew up with screaming Irish, Jewish, and Italians debating politics.
How hard was it to concentrate on the acting with your arm physically tied behind you?
The hard part was the geometry of it was off-kilter a little bit. We didn't have a lot of money so there was a constant sense of paranoia, “Did you see the arm? Did you see the arm?” It was real hard.
How did you research your role?
I did a lot of research on German Jews and I was lucky enough to have found this book by a Yale professor who did this real exhaustive research on it. And like every one else, there were different levels of connection to the Judaism. Many of them just saw themselves as Germans who just happened to be Jewish, the same way that I'm American but happen to be Catholic. I was raised Catholic but it's not like I walk around each day thinking, “I'm a Catholic. I'm a Catholic.” They were just Germans and they were patriots.
Was special care taken to not oversimplify a character like Hitler or oversimplify his motivations?
I think we did the opposite. I think a lot of films have oversimplified this kind of power-hungry demonic monster, which is certainly true. This kind of talks about some of the other things. The nature of the film addresses the question. The nature of the film is to examine it and not oversimplify his motives.
What do you think are the culminating factors that led him to become this great exterminator?
Repressed emotions, the inability to express it, and cowardice. The film kind of postulates his inability to honestly express himself through his art caused him to then give up art and try the field of politics. Those two things together, that was his evil genius. [It] had to do with that fusion of art and politics and him being very ahead of the curve - to a horrible end.
There's no doubt that he was a sophisticated black genius. He saw the power of modern art. He hated the content of it because it was humanizing the anti-war movement but he found the power from it. He took the colors, the notions of it, into propaganda - this vapid performance art piece. He had the actual power. If you cross this confusion of art and power and his descent into the black arts, the occult, that explains a lot. Seeing it through the prism of art.
His fascism comes from anger and sexual frustration and class denied. You see it today and think, “How could some of these hardcore Islamic fundamentalists do that?” Well, they're living in poverty and they are living in some situation that feels hopeless. They can either feel hopeless and sexually frustrated living in a room full of 20 people - they don't have any upwardly mobile things to strive for - they can either be losers or they can be God's warriors. What are they going to choose? There are also the social and the class and the economic issues that we add in to it. Ultimately, I think he made a choice to turn. He made a great criminal choice not to take responsibility for own his life. He took the path of less resistance, which is to hate. That's the easiest thing to do. He wouldn't pay the price to be a great artist; the toll was too high. These are complex answers to the question about oversimplifying. I think the film is the opposite - simplistic.
Have you thought about once the film comes out there might be potential backlash? The subject matter could be misconstrued and people might think you're trying to glorify Hitler and make him an every-day kind of guy. Are you prepared to defend the film?
I think it's a deeply moral film, a responsible film, and if you say, "How dare you portray Hitler with a human sense of desire," I'd have to say, “What planet are you living on?” If you want to have that argument intellectually, sit down and have it, bring it on.
He's a complete coward and a thief. It's very comforting to think of evil as a guy who came down in pink vapors and arrived on Earth and then did supernatural evil things and then left in a cloud of dust and fire. But that's not the way it was, sorry to say.
That's what makes this film so great. It actually shows a disturbed man coming back from war.
It shows how his humanity gets poisoned and he makes choices, right? The fact that the man is human doesn't make the man less culpable, it makes him more culpable. If he's not human, then he's beyond human reckoning. You don't have to worry about it happening because he wasn't human, he's not one of us. You don't have to think about any of the factors that lead to his rise or any of that stuff, right? He wasn't human and we're all clean. If he was human, then we've got to deal with it.
The only people who've attacked the film are the people who haven't seen it. It hasn't been attacked here. This film was castigated by people who didn't have the sense to come see what we made. I sort of get off on all that, too. I like to debate. I feel that time will be really good to this film.
What do you think of Noah Taylor's portrayal of Hitler?
I think he's brilliant. I don't know many actors who'd have the guts to do it. I think he was kind of calculating the clinical [part] of how he was going to be able to do it and he just sort of let himself be vacant in a very interesting way. Spiritually vacant, you know? He's a great, great actor.
Do you think about awards when you do a movie like "Max?"
No. Theoretically you hope that it's respected and liked but I don't know if awards help it that much, in terms of the life of the movie or how respected it is. A lot of the awards now have to do with people buying them. It depends if the companies decide to buy them. Harvey Weinstein and DreamWorks paid $50 million to buy Academy Awards. It's not objective; it's not like the Nobel Prize. It's all kind of fad and where the money flows.
You've excelled at so many romantic comedies. What is your idea of romance?
I don't know. My idea of romance? It would be personal with whoever you're romantic with.
Would you ever use one of your movie character stunts to sweep someone off of their feet?
I probably would be capable of just about anything. Nothing - no stunt - would be too low.
From movies.about.com
"Max" is the directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Menno Meyjes. The movie stars John Cusack as Max Rothman, a celebrated art gallery owner who befriends an aspiring young artist and fellow war veteran, Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor). Despite Max's assistance and encouragement, Hitler is unsuccessful as an artist and turns all of his energy to politics.
Casting the crucial role of Max had producer Andras Hamori and writer/director Meyjes stumped. No one actor seemed to jump to the head of the line until one evening the two spotted a photo of John Cusack on the cover of a magazine. Hamori recalls, "Just as if we were in a bad movie, we both paused, gasped, turned to each other and said, 'This is Max Rothman.'" Fortune further smiled on the two when Cusack reacted positively to the script. "By some total miracle, when John read the script he become intrigued by the script and fought for it. He became totally obsessed with 'Max,'" says Hamori.
JOHN CUSACK ('Max')
"Max" is a very intense movie. What was the toughest part of making this film?
I think just trying to pull it off. I think it would be like doing a classic kind of epic play. It was a pretty intense high-wire act, just trying to do this film. We were trying to portray the birth of modernism and the examination of the most kind of profound evil [while] putting a human face on it. [The story is] a confusion of art and politics and part history and social history. It's a very ambitious piece. It wasn't like you walked in and said, “Ah, this is a slam-dunk. We've got this.”
How did you get involved with "Max?"
The [script] came in and I grabbed on to it. Menno [Meyjes] had, for some reason, needed a one-armed German-Jewish art dealer and he just thought of me. He saw me more as a German for this. Where I grew up the Irish, the Jews, and the Italians all hung out together. So I grew up with screaming Irish, Jewish, and Italians debating politics.
How hard was it to concentrate on the acting with your arm physically tied behind you?
The hard part was the geometry of it was off-kilter a little bit. We didn't have a lot of money so there was a constant sense of paranoia, “Did you see the arm? Did you see the arm?” It was real hard.
How did you research your role?
I did a lot of research on German Jews and I was lucky enough to have found this book by a Yale professor who did this real exhaustive research on it. And like every one else, there were different levels of connection to the Judaism. Many of them just saw themselves as Germans who just happened to be Jewish, the same way that I'm American but happen to be Catholic. I was raised Catholic but it's not like I walk around each day thinking, “I'm a Catholic. I'm a Catholic.” They were just Germans and they were patriots.
Was special care taken to not oversimplify a character like Hitler or oversimplify his motivations?
I think we did the opposite. I think a lot of films have oversimplified this kind of power-hungry demonic monster, which is certainly true. This kind of talks about some of the other things. The nature of the film addresses the question. The nature of the film is to examine it and not oversimplify his motives.
What do you think are the culminating factors that led him to become this great exterminator?
Repressed emotions, the inability to express it, and cowardice. The film kind of postulates his inability to honestly express himself through his art caused him to then give up art and try the field of politics. Those two things together, that was his evil genius. [It] had to do with that fusion of art and politics and him being very ahead of the curve - to a horrible end.
There's no doubt that he was a sophisticated black genius. He saw the power of modern art. He hated the content of it because it was humanizing the anti-war movement but he found the power from it. He took the colors, the notions of it, into propaganda - this vapid performance art piece. He had the actual power. If you cross this confusion of art and power and his descent into the black arts, the occult, that explains a lot. Seeing it through the prism of art.
His fascism comes from anger and sexual frustration and class denied. You see it today and think, “How could some of these hardcore Islamic fundamentalists do that?” Well, they're living in poverty and they are living in some situation that feels hopeless. They can either feel hopeless and sexually frustrated living in a room full of 20 people - they don't have any upwardly mobile things to strive for - they can either be losers or they can be God's warriors. What are they going to choose? There are also the social and the class and the economic issues that we add in to it. Ultimately, I think he made a choice to turn. He made a great criminal choice not to take responsibility for own his life. He took the path of less resistance, which is to hate. That's the easiest thing to do. He wouldn't pay the price to be a great artist; the toll was too high. These are complex answers to the question about oversimplifying. I think the film is the opposite - simplistic.
Have you thought about once the film comes out there might be potential backlash? The subject matter could be misconstrued and people might think you're trying to glorify Hitler and make him an every-day kind of guy. Are you prepared to defend the film?
I think it's a deeply moral film, a responsible film, and if you say, "How dare you portray Hitler with a human sense of desire," I'd have to say, “What planet are you living on?” If you want to have that argument intellectually, sit down and have it, bring it on.
He's a complete coward and a thief. It's very comforting to think of evil as a guy who came down in pink vapors and arrived on Earth and then did supernatural evil things and then left in a cloud of dust and fire. But that's not the way it was, sorry to say.
That's what makes this film so great. It actually shows a disturbed man coming back from war.
It shows how his humanity gets poisoned and he makes choices, right? The fact that the man is human doesn't make the man less culpable, it makes him more culpable. If he's not human, then he's beyond human reckoning. You don't have to worry about it happening because he wasn't human, he's not one of us. You don't have to think about any of the factors that lead to his rise or any of that stuff, right? He wasn't human and we're all clean. If he was human, then we've got to deal with it.
The only people who've attacked the film are the people who haven't seen it. It hasn't been attacked here. This film was castigated by people who didn't have the sense to come see what we made. I sort of get off on all that, too. I like to debate. I feel that time will be really good to this film.
What do you think of Noah Taylor's portrayal of Hitler?
I think he's brilliant. I don't know many actors who'd have the guts to do it. I think he was kind of calculating the clinical [part] of how he was going to be able to do it and he just sort of let himself be vacant in a very interesting way. Spiritually vacant, you know? He's a great, great actor.
Do you think about awards when you do a movie like "Max?"
No. Theoretically you hope that it's respected and liked but I don't know if awards help it that much, in terms of the life of the movie or how respected it is. A lot of the awards now have to do with people buying them. It depends if the companies decide to buy them. Harvey Weinstein and DreamWorks paid $50 million to buy Academy Awards. It's not objective; it's not like the Nobel Prize. It's all kind of fad and where the money flows.
You've excelled at so many romantic comedies. What is your idea of romance?
I don't know. My idea of romance? It would be personal with whoever you're romantic with.
Would you ever use one of your movie character stunts to sweep someone off of their feet?
I probably would be capable of just about anything. Nothing - no stunt - would be too low.
From movies.about.com
John Cusack Interview about "Must Love Dogs"
John Cusack Returns to Romantic Comedies with "Must Love Dogs"
Cusack on "Must Love Dogs," Choosing Roles, and Working with Diane Lane
John Cusack and "Must Love Dogs:" John Cusack has plenty of dramatic roles on his resume, including recent starring turns in "Runaway Jury" and the indie film, "Max." But to me he'll forever be known as the guy who gave us the best teen angst romantic comedies of the 1980s. "Better Off Dead," "The Sure Thing," "One Crazy Summer" and the best of the bunch - "Say Anything" - helped make John Cusack into one of the most recognizable actors of his generation.
Cusack adds another romantic comedy notch on his belt with "Must Love Dogs," an adult relationship comedy about Internet dating and finding the perfect partner.
John Cusack on His Decision to Do Another Romantic Comedy: “I was going to go off and do a film in Europe, and the way things happen in the film business so many times, it fell apart at the last minute.
I thought, ‘I’m going to be sitting home right now not working.’ I hadn’t had any of my own projects ready, and I then I had a call saying, ‘You’ve got to meet this guy Gary Goldberg. He really wants to talk to you.’
So I went and met him for lunch and he seemed like a great guy, and I read the script. So it just sort of came out of the blue, and they asked me to do it. But I thought the combination of Gary and Diane [Lane] and Chris Plummer – that’s a pretty great pedigree, so I was kind of happy to be asked to join such a great group.”
On Typecasting as the Go-To Romantic Comedy Guy: “I don’t think of it that way, as type casting. I think if I get offered to do a movie about relationships I’m going to download as much of what I think about them into a part, or what seems funny to me about it, or what’s on my mind about it. So, if I get offered those parts and think they can be good…
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don’t know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.”
John Cusack on the Internet: “I’m not really that much of an Internet person. I use it for final drafts for screenplays, and then e-mail. Then I call my assistant all the time and say, ‘My computer’s down. Can you have someone come fix it?’ And then she comes by and they turn it on, and that was the problem with the computer. So I’m not really that good with it. But I do the Google thing where you can Google your name and then find out what the press is saying about you. I’ve done that a few times just to see if they’re saying anything. What I did, I did check out some of those online dating things and some of those chat rooms, and I was amazed at how intense that is.“
It is pretty bizarre, but the whole instant messaging – text thing, it can replace the phone, but you can keep things going it seems like. You can stay in touch with people, even if they are all over the world, so in a sense it’s great because you can just write anybody a note any time and it seems fantastic. But there are more and more of those ads for these things, ‘We’re going to find your perfect mate. You put all your information with us.’ There’s more and more of those things on TV, isn’t there? Late at night when we’re sitting there not trying to sleep. They’re all over.”
If He Was Forced to Go Online to Get a Date… “I don’t want to get a date online. I’m trying to think of what I would put online. I’d probably put something just really funny and absurd, and then if somebody approached me with something that was equally funny, then I would know I would like them. I would try to be funny, and then if someone was funny back I would think, ‘Oh, there must be something interesting there.’ What would I put? ‘Nice person, sometimes brooding, sometimes nice.’”
John Cusack on How to Make a Good Romantic Comedy: “What I think was so great about what Gary was, and I really didn’t know Gary, I just knew that he was this kind of this impresario of television - he’s like James L. Brooks or one of those guys who made those great comedies and character-based comedies that will work forever in television. He really loves character and I think from working in television, the process keeps evolving with Gary. He’s always writing it, and re-writing it, and re-tweaking it, and throwing something out. He just loves characters.
I think he found the book and loved the idea of doing this story with Diane, but then he just kinds of falls in love with the characters and then just keeps trying to make their world more interesting, and more interesting, and he’s not precious at all. He’s really a terrific. I heard great things about him, but he really exceeded all my expectations that way. He just stands there and he goes, ‘I love this guy. I love this girl,’ and ‘How do we make this better?’ and ‘What do we do here?’"
"I think if you just approach it from being interested in the characters and not just interested in the devices or the plot twists… Obviously in a romantic comedy you know that these people are going to meet, then they’re going to get separated, and then they are going to come back together. So it’s really just fleshing out the lives in-between. Any genre can be done well or bad I guess.”
On Choosing Roles – Is it a “One for Them, One for Me” Type of Decision?: “Yeah, but this one, as I said, came out of the blue and I really didn’t know what to expect. But I knew doing something with Christopher Plummer and Diane Lane and Stockard Channing, that’s not really a ‘one for them’ kind of a movie.
I didn’t know what the experience was going to be because it came very fast, out of the blue, but it was really one of the most lovely times I’ve had making a film. The group of people they got together were so nice, and Gary set such an amazing tone. He made it all seem sort of effortless, but he really just loved the characters so it was kind of a joy to come in.
It was very light. It’s a very fun movie, and it’s supposed to be a really fun movie. It didn’t feel like I was going off to do some Diet Pepsi action movie and make some corporate mark. It really just felt like a movie about these characters, and everybody approached it with a lot of love, so it was really a wonderful time to go work on a film. I was just very, very lucky to be wanted. Sometimes they just come to you, but this was just, I think, luck. I was just very lucky to get asked to work with these people.
Then sometimes you take it because you think, ‘If I do this kind of movie maybe it will help me get the movies that I want to get made, made, or help my profile out.’ It’s kind of a dance you do with the business. This had the combination of being a really fun movie and one I think that will be really commercial, so that’s just dumb luck to get ask to be in this.”
Relating to His Character and First Dates: “Some of them you know that stuff, where you actually start talking over dinner and then you realize that you’ve been talking a long time and the person is looking at you with the face of utter incomprehension, and not laughing at your jokes. Then you realize that you still haven’t ordered yet. That’s not so pleasant. But it’s kind of awkward. It’s hard to fathom someone and everybody’s coming at it with – it’s all ripe with possibilities. Is this going to be something great or not? And sometimes the pressure of that is kind of insanely comic.”
John Cusack on the Script and Inserting His Own Style Into the Character: “When I talked to Gary, when I met him I said… Because it was a little bit of a small part, he goes, ‘Well, if we’re going to have you do it, we’ve got to make something of it.’ And then that’s his thing. His process is to just get an actor and then write and re-write and work on the set. He’s always bringing new pages on the set so I came with some ideas and then he wanted to go with them. That was kind of how he wanted to do it, and I like to work that way too. And I have ideas.”
On Working With Diane Lane: “I’d always sort of wanted to work with her so, as I said, I was very lucky to get asked to do this because I’d been following her. I probably had a crush on her since ‘A Little Romance’ when she was 13 and I was about the same age probably.”
On Improvisation in “Must Love Dogs:” “I think Gary would have it on paper and he’d be rewriting it a lot, and you come up with an idea. I would do it that way and then I’d say, ‘Well, let’s just do one where I say anything that comes out of my mouth,’ and we’d do that. Sometimes Gary would laugh and sometimes he would sort of look at me like I was insane and I don’t know how much of that he used.
We improvised a bit but there was a lot on the page and the actors kind of just went with it and went with their impulses. It’s kind of nice to do that in comedy because it’s really all about the character. It’s not like it’s a heist movie where they have to be at this moment and do this and crack the safe and get the number. Character drives plot so it’s all about these characters and what’s going on with them and what they’re feeling, so there is room for improvisation in a film like that. Gary likes to work that way. I think he’s worked with actors before who like to riff.”
John Cusack on His Upcoming Projects: “I’m shooting this film called ‘The Martian Child’ with myself and my sister Joan. Amanda Peet’s in it and Oliver Platt and Sophie Okonedo. I’m making it with the director who I made ‘Max’ with. It’s about a guy who adopts a kid with kind of special needs. It’s a really nice story.”
Cusack’s also shooting a film in Bulgaria. “I’m making a film with Morgan Freeman called ‘The Contract’ with Bruce Beresford. Kind of a hostage drama kind of thing. It sort of switches back and forth but Morgan plays a bad guy, which is pretty interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that so I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to Bulgaria.’ He’s one of those actors, kind of like Christopher Plummer or Stockard Channing or Diane [Lane] or any of those people where if somebody said, ‘Come on in and they’re going to read the phone book from L to M,’ I would just listen because they are so interesting to watch - those actors.”
On His Edgar Casey Project and His Interest in the Paranormal: “I have an interest in that sort of thing. I’m very interested in that and then my father and I started working on a screenplay before he passed away, so I have a connection with my father, too. I just think the world is fascinating. I’m interested in what you can learn from it.“
John Cusack’s Take on the Paranormal: “…I’ve had experiences where I’m pretty sure there’s more going on than [what’s on the surface]. Instincts and intuition things and things where people have known stuff they’re not supposed to know. You wake up and go, ‘Something’s up with somebody,’ and it’s happened. Just little connections to people where you’re hardwired in ways you don’t really know about or aren’t conscious of.
I’ve just studied that stuff for a while and I think he’s a fascinating creature. Houdini and all these people tried to debunk him and nobody could, so he definitely had a connection to this other world, whatever that is, that is kind of irrefutable. He was studied and there’s 40 books written about him and there’s a whole institute in Virginia Beach. He’s a fascinating figure. Spencer Tracy wanted to do a movie about him for a long time. They’ve been trying to do a movie about him for a while so I’m going to do that one.”
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Cusack on "Must Love Dogs," Choosing Roles, and Working with Diane Lane
John Cusack and "Must Love Dogs:" John Cusack has plenty of dramatic roles on his resume, including recent starring turns in "Runaway Jury" and the indie film, "Max." But to me he'll forever be known as the guy who gave us the best teen angst romantic comedies of the 1980s. "Better Off Dead," "The Sure Thing," "One Crazy Summer" and the best of the bunch - "Say Anything" - helped make John Cusack into one of the most recognizable actors of his generation.
Cusack adds another romantic comedy notch on his belt with "Must Love Dogs," an adult relationship comedy about Internet dating and finding the perfect partner.
John Cusack on His Decision to Do Another Romantic Comedy: “I was going to go off and do a film in Europe, and the way things happen in the film business so many times, it fell apart at the last minute.
I thought, ‘I’m going to be sitting home right now not working.’ I hadn’t had any of my own projects ready, and I then I had a call saying, ‘You’ve got to meet this guy Gary Goldberg. He really wants to talk to you.’
So I went and met him for lunch and he seemed like a great guy, and I read the script. So it just sort of came out of the blue, and they asked me to do it. But I thought the combination of Gary and Diane [Lane] and Chris Plummer – that’s a pretty great pedigree, so I was kind of happy to be asked to join such a great group.”
On Typecasting as the Go-To Romantic Comedy Guy: “I don’t think of it that way, as type casting. I think if I get offered to do a movie about relationships I’m going to download as much of what I think about them into a part, or what seems funny to me about it, or what’s on my mind about it. So, if I get offered those parts and think they can be good…
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don’t know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.”
John Cusack on the Internet: “I’m not really that much of an Internet person. I use it for final drafts for screenplays, and then e-mail. Then I call my assistant all the time and say, ‘My computer’s down. Can you have someone come fix it?’ And then she comes by and they turn it on, and that was the problem with the computer. So I’m not really that good with it. But I do the Google thing where you can Google your name and then find out what the press is saying about you. I’ve done that a few times just to see if they’re saying anything. What I did, I did check out some of those online dating things and some of those chat rooms, and I was amazed at how intense that is.“
It is pretty bizarre, but the whole instant messaging – text thing, it can replace the phone, but you can keep things going it seems like. You can stay in touch with people, even if they are all over the world, so in a sense it’s great because you can just write anybody a note any time and it seems fantastic. But there are more and more of those ads for these things, ‘We’re going to find your perfect mate. You put all your information with us.’ There’s more and more of those things on TV, isn’t there? Late at night when we’re sitting there not trying to sleep. They’re all over.”
If He Was Forced to Go Online to Get a Date… “I don’t want to get a date online. I’m trying to think of what I would put online. I’d probably put something just really funny and absurd, and then if somebody approached me with something that was equally funny, then I would know I would like them. I would try to be funny, and then if someone was funny back I would think, ‘Oh, there must be something interesting there.’ What would I put? ‘Nice person, sometimes brooding, sometimes nice.’”
John Cusack on How to Make a Good Romantic Comedy: “What I think was so great about what Gary was, and I really didn’t know Gary, I just knew that he was this kind of this impresario of television - he’s like James L. Brooks or one of those guys who made those great comedies and character-based comedies that will work forever in television. He really loves character and I think from working in television, the process keeps evolving with Gary. He’s always writing it, and re-writing it, and re-tweaking it, and throwing something out. He just loves characters.
I think he found the book and loved the idea of doing this story with Diane, but then he just kinds of falls in love with the characters and then just keeps trying to make their world more interesting, and more interesting, and he’s not precious at all. He’s really a terrific. I heard great things about him, but he really exceeded all my expectations that way. He just stands there and he goes, ‘I love this guy. I love this girl,’ and ‘How do we make this better?’ and ‘What do we do here?’"
"I think if you just approach it from being interested in the characters and not just interested in the devices or the plot twists… Obviously in a romantic comedy you know that these people are going to meet, then they’re going to get separated, and then they are going to come back together. So it’s really just fleshing out the lives in-between. Any genre can be done well or bad I guess.”
On Choosing Roles – Is it a “One for Them, One for Me” Type of Decision?: “Yeah, but this one, as I said, came out of the blue and I really didn’t know what to expect. But I knew doing something with Christopher Plummer and Diane Lane and Stockard Channing, that’s not really a ‘one for them’ kind of a movie.
I didn’t know what the experience was going to be because it came very fast, out of the blue, but it was really one of the most lovely times I’ve had making a film. The group of people they got together were so nice, and Gary set such an amazing tone. He made it all seem sort of effortless, but he really just loved the characters so it was kind of a joy to come in.
It was very light. It’s a very fun movie, and it’s supposed to be a really fun movie. It didn’t feel like I was going off to do some Diet Pepsi action movie and make some corporate mark. It really just felt like a movie about these characters, and everybody approached it with a lot of love, so it was really a wonderful time to go work on a film. I was just very, very lucky to be wanted. Sometimes they just come to you, but this was just, I think, luck. I was just very lucky to get asked to work with these people.
Then sometimes you take it because you think, ‘If I do this kind of movie maybe it will help me get the movies that I want to get made, made, or help my profile out.’ It’s kind of a dance you do with the business. This had the combination of being a really fun movie and one I think that will be really commercial, so that’s just dumb luck to get ask to be in this.”
Relating to His Character and First Dates: “Some of them you know that stuff, where you actually start talking over dinner and then you realize that you’ve been talking a long time and the person is looking at you with the face of utter incomprehension, and not laughing at your jokes. Then you realize that you still haven’t ordered yet. That’s not so pleasant. But it’s kind of awkward. It’s hard to fathom someone and everybody’s coming at it with – it’s all ripe with possibilities. Is this going to be something great or not? And sometimes the pressure of that is kind of insanely comic.”
John Cusack on the Script and Inserting His Own Style Into the Character: “When I talked to Gary, when I met him I said… Because it was a little bit of a small part, he goes, ‘Well, if we’re going to have you do it, we’ve got to make something of it.’ And then that’s his thing. His process is to just get an actor and then write and re-write and work on the set. He’s always bringing new pages on the set so I came with some ideas and then he wanted to go with them. That was kind of how he wanted to do it, and I like to work that way too. And I have ideas.”
On Working With Diane Lane: “I’d always sort of wanted to work with her so, as I said, I was very lucky to get asked to do this because I’d been following her. I probably had a crush on her since ‘A Little Romance’ when she was 13 and I was about the same age probably.”
On Improvisation in “Must Love Dogs:” “I think Gary would have it on paper and he’d be rewriting it a lot, and you come up with an idea. I would do it that way and then I’d say, ‘Well, let’s just do one where I say anything that comes out of my mouth,’ and we’d do that. Sometimes Gary would laugh and sometimes he would sort of look at me like I was insane and I don’t know how much of that he used.
We improvised a bit but there was a lot on the page and the actors kind of just went with it and went with their impulses. It’s kind of nice to do that in comedy because it’s really all about the character. It’s not like it’s a heist movie where they have to be at this moment and do this and crack the safe and get the number. Character drives plot so it’s all about these characters and what’s going on with them and what they’re feeling, so there is room for improvisation in a film like that. Gary likes to work that way. I think he’s worked with actors before who like to riff.”
John Cusack on His Upcoming Projects: “I’m shooting this film called ‘The Martian Child’ with myself and my sister Joan. Amanda Peet’s in it and Oliver Platt and Sophie Okonedo. I’m making it with the director who I made ‘Max’ with. It’s about a guy who adopts a kid with kind of special needs. It’s a really nice story.”
Cusack’s also shooting a film in Bulgaria. “I’m making a film with Morgan Freeman called ‘The Contract’ with Bruce Beresford. Kind of a hostage drama kind of thing. It sort of switches back and forth but Morgan plays a bad guy, which is pretty interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that so I said, ‘Alright, I’m going to Bulgaria.’ He’s one of those actors, kind of like Christopher Plummer or Stockard Channing or Diane [Lane] or any of those people where if somebody said, ‘Come on in and they’re going to read the phone book from L to M,’ I would just listen because they are so interesting to watch - those actors.”
On His Edgar Casey Project and His Interest in the Paranormal: “I have an interest in that sort of thing. I’m very interested in that and then my father and I started working on a screenplay before he passed away, so I have a connection with my father, too. I just think the world is fascinating. I’m interested in what you can learn from it.“
John Cusack’s Take on the Paranormal: “…I’ve had experiences where I’m pretty sure there’s more going on than [what’s on the surface]. Instincts and intuition things and things where people have known stuff they’re not supposed to know. You wake up and go, ‘Something’s up with somebody,’ and it’s happened. Just little connections to people where you’re hardwired in ways you don’t really know about or aren’t conscious of.
I’ve just studied that stuff for a while and I think he’s a fascinating creature. Houdini and all these people tried to debunk him and nobody could, so he definitely had a connection to this other world, whatever that is, that is kind of irrefutable. He was studied and there’s 40 books written about him and there’s a whole institute in Virginia Beach. He’s a fascinating figure. Spencer Tracy wanted to do a movie about him for a long time. They’ve been trying to do a movie about him for a while so I’m going to do that one.”
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