New Brad Pitt ‘Babel’ Stills

That George - you gotta love him. I’m just thankful he didn’t include Chin Maniston’s name. LOL

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Just the thought of it, made me throw up a little in my mouth,, YUK

#307 / Gitane
Oh Come on….I was drunk….really drunk. Remember how I kept saying I didn’t have a head for Alcohol. Well anyway that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. ;)

#308 / Estelle
I’m gonna put the blame on you. You were supposed to watch me….GC put me in your care. Did I read it write? He’s gonna be on the cover of VF? Oh Great, one mistake on my part and he’s all ready to spill his guts to the Whiners Enabler Mag. I wonder what he’s gonna say about me….he better not pull a JA coz I won’t be as kind as BP.

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ha i read that too. well if all those big named actresses are too busy, he can always take out a different “Deal or No Deal” model. and if Leo isn’t willing to hold hands w/ him on the beach, i’m sure there are bound to be other actors in hollywood that will willingly do it hehe. oh man AG, i feel for ya

Scorsese’s “Departed” sets scene for Oscar rematch
October 3, 2006 12:42:20

“The Departed”By Claudia Parsons

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Snubbed at the Oscars when “The Aviator” lost to Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby,” Martin Scorsese has assembled a dream cast for his new movie “The Departed,” setting the stage for a rematch with Eastwood.

Jack Nicholson plays a mob boss in Boston in the film about two informers, one a mobster planted in the police department, played by Matt Damon, and one a police officer who goes undercover in Nicholson’s mob, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Famed for his tales of Italian American mobsters, Scorsese turns his lens on contemporary Irish American crime in “The Departed,” whose story is based on the 2002 Hong Kong thriller “Infernal Affairs.” The movie opens on October 6.

“To have Jack Nicholson join up with Martin Scorsese and play a gangster is something that I think a lot of movie fans have been waiting for,” DiCaprio told reporters at a press day in New York.

Scorsese’s last film “The Aviator” lost out in the Oscar race to Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby,” and “The Departed” pits the two head to head again, with Eastwood’s World War II drama “Flags of our Fathers” also out in October.

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences passed over “The Aviator” in 2005 Scorsese lost his seventh Oscar bid, despite making such celebrated films as “Raging Bull” and “Taxi Driver.”

The word “Oscar” was not mentioned at the New York press event for the film, but “The Departed” has an unusually strong cast of male actors. The three big stars are backed up by strong performances from Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen and Alec Baldwin as police officers.

NICHOLSON “MADE IT MORE OBSCENE”

Damon said Nicholson was largely responsible for what became a major theme in the movie — the link between sexual prowess and power, with the mob boss’s sexual excesses contrasted with the impotence of his protege.

“Jack brought this incredible new element, this new layer to that character — he made it more obscene,” Damon said. “That felt authentic because these guys will sublimate sex into violence and violence into sex.”

The result is explicit sexual scenes, coarse language and unrelenting violence that may be too much for some viewers.

Damon said Scorsese called him the night before he filmed his first scene, in which his character meets the mob boss in a porn theater to discuss a police investigation of him.

“(Scorsese) said, ‘A funny thing has happened, Jack Nicholson had some ideas for the scene …. OK, I’ll just get to it, Jack’s going to wear a dildo,”‘ Damon said.

Asked about tabloid reports of a very explicit sex scene involving Nicholson and two women that did not make it into the final cut, Scorsese said: “Ultimately I decided what’s implicit is better than explicit in that bedroom scene.”

DiCaprio, who plays the undercover cop constantly in fear for his life, said Nicholson kept him on his toes, particularly in a scene where the mob boss interrogates him over whether he is the rat giving secrets to the police.

“I remember coming in to do the scene one morning and the prop guy told me ‘Be careful, he’s got a fire extinguisher and a gun and some matches and a bottle of whiskey,”‘ he said.

Damon said the gritty atmosphere in the film came from extensive research by all those involved — in his case that meant accompanying police on a raid of a crack-den in a scene recreated in the film.

“I was at the back of the line in my bullet proof vest,” he said. “The guys who are in the shot with me are the guys who were with me that night.”

“There’s an authenticity that you can’t fake and it’s because he uses real people,” Damon said. “Ultimately it’s a magic trick, we’re just trying to be believable.”

Despite his stature in the business, Scorsese said it was not easy to keep making films that interest him.

“What I mean by that is to keep the energy going, to keep the interest going, the curiosity going, to continue to make films … they have to mean something to me. And that’s always been a struggle because of the nature of the way the system is now in Hollywood … I’m still trying to find my way.

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i am SO in the theater for this one! $10 popcorn, here i come!

omg Gael Garcia Bernal is so hot! we want more pics of him! cant wait to see this movie!!

#320 Has the whole artcle! SORRY!

He probably had a chemical peel, too. IMO, the man has ALWAYS looked good! And, he will continue to do:

THEN.
NOW.
FOREVER.

Sorry about the mixup! |#319| Has the WHOLE article. Looks like our Braddy, is going to the OSCARS, one way or another!

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I love it, BP’s stamp is all over the Oscars this year…from docs (Could the doc on the Sudan get nominated too?), to films to his own performances - geez, he’s on FIRE!! ..and hsi stamp is all over Angie too…muahaha…sorry, couldn’t resist. LOL Besides, it’s a two way street. LOL But wow…the more I think about it…Chin had not the self-esteem to deal with this Brad. She was fine as long as he wasn’t fully being a ‘movie star,’ I’m convinced dude held back to spare her feelings of inadequacy as a lame tv sit-com hack. With Angelina, a movie star herself, and Oscar winner, not to mention a confident and assured young woman - Brad gets to FLY and do AMAZING things on his own, and with Angie…they truly are a site to behold.

The more I think about that quote AJ made during the Namibia Anne Curry interview:

“People know very little about him, I think, when it comes to where his morals are, where his values are, how he is with people, what he cares about, what he’s learned about.”

I think that was a direct jab at Chin, who had maligned him, and questioned his character and integrity and his sensitivity. With that one sentence, Angie was able to convey this very important point - despite Chin Maniston’s years with Brad, she NEVER knew him. It was AJ smacking that beech in the face hard, as if to say, it was like you and he never existed, if you can think that about him, and foster others thinking ill of him as well.

Despite his stature in the business, Scorsese said it was not easy to keep making films that interest him.

“What I mean by that is to keep the energy going, to keep the interest going, the curiosity going, to continue to make films … they have to mean something to me. And that’s always been a struggle because of the nature of the way the system is now in Hollywood … I’m still trying to find my way.

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I’ve been checking out the promo’s, and this movie looks like a cant miss. I am even more excited that Brad had a hand in it..

Georege c looks pretty hot on that VF cover! Wonder if Brad will ever consent to do another cover for that mag. He’s done several in the past. But after that X cover story?? I’m not sure.

332 | Alexanderina -WHAT?…WTH?, what about last week, x with mattwhatachmacallit?… these tabloids are pathetic.