When I first saw the clips of Joaquin Phoenix’s rap performance, I and many other people assumed that all of this nonsense about him quitting acting and going into music was just a big hoax. There is no way he was going to quit a promising acting career and go into the rap music world. No freaking way.
Entertainment Weakly has a story that claims the hoax rumor is indeed true. An unnamed source is claiming that Phoenix told them “It’s a put-on. I’m going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey (Affleck) is going to film it”. If this is true…it’s awesome. He would be mocking all the pretentious self-important actors that go into music (I’m looking at you Jamie Foxx!). If it’s real…well…it’s not good and Phoenix is nuts like the rest of them.
For the tens of you that read my silliness on a regular basis, you have no doubt noticed the lack of new material on the site over the past few days. There will not be much material from me over the next few weeks because…well…Ms. Cinematically Correct is about to officially become Ms. Cinematically Correct.
It does pain me to not write about last night’s “Lost”. How freakin’ awesome was that episode?!?! Is there any doubt that Ms. Hawking is Daniel Faraday’s mom? I’ll even go out on a small limb and say that Charles Widmore is his father, now that we know Widmore was on the Island as a kid. I’ll try to sneak away and type up my thoughts tonight.
After a few minutes of internal debate due to potential Internet embarrassment, I have decided to open up voting for the 2009 Cinematicals. You can do so by clicking “Vote For The 2009 Cinematicals” here or use the menu bar above here.
Please vote. If anything, you can give me some grief over my unabashed love of “The Dark Knight” and “Role Models”.
Here is the teaser for “500 Days of Summer”. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel and will be in theaters on July 24th, 2009. There are many certainties in life…one of them is that I will be in a theater on that date watching this movie.
The Academy has released their nominations. I’m sure that those people that were nominated are very pleased…but that’s nothing. Wait till they find out they were nominated for a Cinematical!
My rules are simple: In order to be nominated, I need to have actually seen the movie. That’s it. Also, I have actually factored in comedies. A comedy is still a movie, no matter what the Academy wants you to think. So…you are in the mix “Role Models”.
Ahem…here are the nominees.
Normally, I don’t post stories or pictures of blond hots. This is simply a coincidence.
Scarlett Johansson is one of the numerous folks appearing in the cinematic crotch kick called “He’s Just Not That Into You”. The soundtrack sounds like it has some decent stuff on it but it features a musical sacrilege. Scarlett Johansson has covered “Last Goodbye” by Jeff Buckley. It is freaking terrible. It’s just Scar Jo singing with a piano accompaniment. There’s no slide guitar at the beginning, no cool bass line, nothing. If you are going to cover a song with that badass of a guitar lick, leave it in the song.
It’s streaming at Stereogum. Click away to hear the brutality.
There is quite a stir about these new pictures of Jessica Simpson from the 99.9 Kiss Country 24th Annual Chili Cook Off in Florida. As you can see, Jessica has put on a bit of weight. I personally don’t think that the weight looks that bad. She could eat a small village of people and still be pretty.
What does Tony Romo think of this? Maybe she tacked this weight on to replicate opposing defenders for an off-season workout? Lord knows that Romo could use the practice…the spare that he is.
Here are the real issues: those jeans and an f’ing chili cook off? Isn’t she a big star? Good God…how beaten she has to be with that type of thing. She should fire her booking agent and whomever dresses her immediately. The belt…the tank top…the disgustingly high waisted mom jeans…redneck chili cook off…simply terrible.
The Pop Culture Icon Hall of Fame was a very grandiose idea for me. One, it required me to come up with something once a month…which requires way more thought than I am capable of doing. Second, it requires people to actually vote for it here. Quite frankly, I was a bit saddened by the lack of voting the first time around so I became unbelievably depressed, sat at home, ate ice cream, listened to Gloria Gaynor…it was incredibly depressing. Like George McFly, I don’t think I can handle that kind of rejection. I’ve gotten over it and chosen another nominee and it is…
…find out who after the jump…
Look, I like Kate Winslet. She’s a great actress and I will forever bitch about the fact that she was hosed over for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. It’s good that she is finally getting some awards for her work, even if it is for the wrong movie.
However…she needs to give it a rest already. The Golden Globes speech was already a bit much, but now, almost pulling the same bit at the awful, awful SAG Awards is kind of annoying. Although, it is not as annoying as Susan Sarandon. She wanted to congratulate a group of actors for “having the courage to go into acting”? It takes courage to run into a burning building Susan, not to say some words that other people wrote for you to say. I respect actors because they are doing something I can’t do…but courage? Come on.
Here is the very beginning of the Winslet speech. One would think you would have some idea you could win the award…since you were one of the finalists and everything.
There are a bunch of celebrity birthdays today. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Paul Newman would have been 83 today. Forget Walt Disney or Ted Williams, somebody should have tried to freeze Paul Newman. I am going on record that Newman was The Coolest Guy That Has Ever Lived In Recorded Human History. The list is like Jesus…then Newman.
Today is also the 53rd birthday of Edward Van Halen. Is Eddie the greatest guitar player ever? No…but he is the most boozed up guitar player ever. Seriously folks, Lindsay Lohan read about Ed’s last trip to rehab and said, “Damn, that guy has a drinking problem.” You know…it’s funny because she is all jacked up all the time…hello…is this blog on?
These two awesome humans share a birthday with a long list of pretty talented people. You have the underrated Scott Glenn, the funny Ellen Degeneres, the brilliant Bob Uecker, badass chick singer Lucinda Williams, and Greatness himself, Wayne Gretzky. I go with Mario Lemieux as the greatest hockey player ever…but I’m not Canadian so my hockey opinion means jack.
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