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Why can't a kiss just be a kiss?

Poor James Franco. (And poor Sean Penn. But for the moment, poor James Franco.)

In the relentless publicity interviews he's been doing for his new movie, "Milk," there's plenty to ask about his performance as the neglected lover of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, the gay rights martyr. So what does every interviewer — from David Letterman to the Philippine Daily Inquirer to public radio's Terry Gross — want to discuss most?

The kissing.

Wasn't it really difficult to kiss another man? Implied: Without throwing up, seeing as you're so obviously straight? Did you rehearse it? What was it liiiiiike?

Underlying it all is this notion that a gay kissing scene must be a male actor's worst Hollywood job hazard, including stunt work, extreme weather or five hours of special-effects makeup. We live in a pseudo-Sapphic era in which seemingly every college woman with a MySpace page has kissed another girl for the camera; but for men who kiss men, it's still the final frontier.

There's a whiff of discomfort of the Seinfeldian, "not-that-there's-anything-wrong-with-it" variety. It's a post-ironic, post-homophobic homophobia, the kind seen most weeks in "Saturday Night Live" sketches or in any Judd Apatow movie.

Judging from interviews during the years, actors who have filmed scenes in which they have pointed a revolver at someone's head and pulled the trigger still think gay kissing is the grossest thing they've done for a movie. Franco has tried to walk a fine line of laughing along in such interviews, while pointing out that "Milk" is essentially a movie about fighting for acceptance. He's had to rehash the same stories again and again:

No, he and Penn did not rehearse the kissing. Yes, one scene involved more than a minute of continuous kissing with Penn on Castro Street in front of hundreds of people. Yes, there were breath mints. Yes, it was strange, but no more so than a scene in which he had to cook dinner, which he would never, ever do in real life.

"I didn't want to screw it up," Franco told Letterman on "Late Show" last week.

"See, if it's me, I'm kind of hoping I do screw it up," Letterman shot back. "That's what you want, isn't it?"

"To screw it up?" Franco asked.

"I mean, do you really want to be good at kissing a guy?" Letterman said as his audience howled with delight.

"If you wanted, I'd be willing to kiss you right now," Franco offered. (Then he kissed Dave on the cheek. More screams.)

"This kind of thing goes on any time there's a movie where two men kiss; and whether it's a gay audience or a mainstream audience, it's something everyone wants to know about. It's titillating," says Corey Scholibo, entertainment editor for the Advocate magazine.

But the joking "just isn't funny anymore," he says. "It's especially not as funny as it might have been a month ago, before Proposition 8 was passed," amending California's constitution to forbid gay marriage.

"No one ever asks Neil Patrick Harris what it's like to play a straight guy who sleeps with lots of women" on the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Scholibo says. "No one ever asks him how 'gross' it is to kiss a woman."

To answer this, Scholibo puts forth the biggest academic "duh" in cultural studies: "Everything in culture is rooted in the idea of masculinity, patriarchy ... You have to be disgusted by two men kissing, otherwise there goes (your) masculinity. If an actor were to say he enjoyed a scene where he kisses another man, then he's somehow less of a man."

Straight actors who have played gay roles usually give the same answer: a combination of disgust, bravado and the sure-is-weird feeling of stubble not their own.

"Soon as they say 'cut,' you spit. You want to go to a strip bar or touch the makeup girls. You feel dirty," Chris Potter, from Showtime's "Queer as Folk," once told MSNBC. (Another actor from that show, Hal Sparks, was more circumspect: "When you don't have the internal impetus that makes you gay in the first place, you're kind of flying blind in that area. I don't get it. But then that's even more evidence, I think, for the argument that people should be allowed to be who they are.")

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger fielded kissing questions a thousand ways when "Brokeback Mountain" was released in 2005. After the stubble answer ("One word," Gyllenhaal told People about Ledger's face: "Exfoliate") and the ooky answer ("That why we had stunt doubles," Ledger quipped about the love scenes to CBS's "Early Show"), Gyllenhaal finally started saying it was like kissing anybody else — "like doing a love scene with a woman I'm not particularly attracted to," he told the London Telegraph.

Rex Wockner, a syndicated San Diego journalist who for nearly two decades has compiled a weekly "Quote Unquote" column of people talking about gay-related topics, shared some of his favorite "kissing" quotes from celebrity interviews.

# Dennis Quaid told The Associated Press in 2002 about "Far From Heaven": "By Take 3 it was just fine, just another scene. We both went after each other like a couple of linebackers to begin with. And (the director) had to, like, stop ... and say, 'Hey, it's a '50s screen kiss, OK?'"

# Toby Jones seemed over the moon in 2007, discussing Daniel Craig in "Infamous": "I've never dreamt that I would kiss James Bond. ... Now I've done it, I can say that I hope I am the first of many. ... It was slightly abrasive, but ultimately rewarding. And neither of us are gay."


Female actors sound like an enlightened other species in interviews about kissing other women on-screen. The men talk as if they're now ready to accept their golden statue.

"These answers do often sort of seem to play to the assumed homo-discomfort of the audience," Wockner says. "I mean, a long, long time ago, I kissed girls. It wasn't gross, it just wasn't all that interesting. But kissing a guy for the first time, that felt very different. So if these actors were being fully honest, rather than going for laughs or guffaws or playing to the assumed gay-kissing phobia of the audience, (they) would instead say, 'You know, it was just sort of uninteresting, sort of not really anything. ...'"

Kissing, after all, is kissing, and it feels great.

Unless it doesn't.

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Aragorn wrote:Daniel Craig talks `Defiance` and the global reaction to `Quantum`
Quantum Of Solace - 14-12-08

British heartthrob Daniel Craig may now be known as 007, but he is as accomplished an actor on stage or screen as exists in Britain.

Following on the heels of the critically mixed "Quantum of Solace", Craig returns to the screen in "Defiance", the true story of three Jewish brothers who escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.

In this interview, Craig talks about the film, its issues, relevance to contemporary audiences and his reaction to the reception of the latest Bond film. Daniel Craig talked to Dark Horizons:

Question: You've played a Mossad agent and now this role. Does that give you some insight into the Jewish experience and are you converting?

Craig: No. No, I'm not. Does it give me an insight into the Jewish experience? I suppose that it does, but religion was not a factor in taking this job. It was just literally one of those situations that I sort of looked at, read it and thought that it was an amazing story.

Question: Was it the story or the character?

Craig: Both. I mean, the character is in just a dreadful, dreadful, dreadful situation. There's no going away from it. God forbid any of us should be put into that situation, but something is asked of him and he's very reluctant to do it and I love the fact that they're sort of saying, 'No, you must do this.' He's going, 'No. Fuck off. I mean, I want to protect my brothers and I want to look after what's left of my family and I want to run away.' And they were saying, 'But you don't have a choice here.' I think that process and obviously we condense it in the film and this is over a three or four year period, we condense the whole thing in the film but it's incredible.

Question: Did you have a period of self-analysis once you saw the story and thought about how you would've handled the situation?

Craig: Completely. I think that hopefully is one of the questions that people ask themselves when they're coming out of the film, but I don't know.

Question: How you would've reacted?

Craig: I mean, it's unimaginable what those people went through. Obviously you'd like to think that you'd do the right thing.

Question: Does physical geography help you define the way you play a character like this, the fact that you working in that environment in the forest in that weather? According to various sources the trailers were a half mile away.

Craig: It was a quarter mile yesterday and it's gotten up to several miles today. It'll be sixteen miles away by the end of the day. We didn't have a trailer. We had a bucket and a tarpaulin and I was happy with it. Yes, of course it does. It has a huge influence on what you're doing and it did have an influence on us, the fact that we all decided that we'd rather not spend time in our trailers, that we'd rather spend the time on set. I think that's key to a lot of what went on there on the set. It was cold. It was miserable. It was wet. It was uncomfortable, but you always have in the back of your mind the idea that you have a bed to go back home to that night and that there is some hot food somewhere within the forest. You're prepared to go looking for it at some point. These people did three winters there and that's just mind blowing.

Question: People have said that they were surprised that such a big movie star like you didn't go back to your trailer. You don't strike me as being a big movie star type person.

Craig: I don't strike you as being a big movie star? Thanks. [laughs] This is going well. I don't spend much time in my trailer anyway even if it's huge and it never is. The last place that I want to be is in a smelly caravan. I mean, I'd rather be on set trying to get some work done.

Question: Did you read the Beilski story and meet their family? What did you do when you met them?

Craig: We did, yes. We sat and we drank and we talked and we had a conversation and we didn't talk much about Tuvia, but we sort of talked about…I just wanted to get a feel for them really. They were just sort of incredibly forward people, really energetic and really full of life and a proper family. They're like families are, sitting there and shouting at each other. Why whisper when you can scream. They're kind of like all families are and they're full of life. I mean, both Liev and I said, 'These guys are kind of scary guys.' They were like, 'Hey! Come on!' I can imagine that that's how their parents were, their father was.

Question: It seems there was more brutality in the real brothers’ experience than was in the movie. Was it out of respect for the family that that wasn't shown?

Craig: It's not at all that, I think. I think we tried to be as straight as possible. The events that take place in the movie happened. They happened in different ways. They happened in different contexts, but they actually kind of all occurred. This film takes over a year to happen roughly speaking and we've condensed a huge amount into that period, but we haven't shied away from anything. It's known and it's fact that they had to survive and in order to survive they had to do bad things. It's documented and it's there.

Question: Tuvia had to do the martial law thing when his leadership was threatened. Can you talk about finding that part of the character, him being very tough on those people?

Craig: He was. Again, it was clear if you read about it that there were power struggles and there were very serious power struggles. You can judge it if you like. One could judge it and ask if it's just because he wanted to remain in power or if he was just trying to keep it together. It's probably a little bit of both. It was just a completely extreme situation, and again, the question that you ask yourself is what would I do. Would I for the greater good of the group take this person out and quell this dissension aggressively and violently or do I leave it alone and allow the whole thing to just sort of disintegrate.

Question: How physically demanding was this film given that you like to do all your own stunts?

Craig: I mean, obviously there aren't the same amount of stunts as in the 'Bond' film, but it was physically demanding because we were literally filming on slopes like this in wet, cold weather all day long. We had a crew of grips that were running around with track and putting them at all sorts of angles. I mean, we were all physically running and up and down these hills day.

Question: You're going after tanks and stuff in the film too though.

Craig: It was lying down, shooting at them. I wasn't really going after them. That was Liev. He did that.

Question: The reaction to this latest 'Bond' film was very different than the reaction to 'Casino Royale'. Did that surprise you?

Craig: No, because 'Casino Royale' was based on a novel and we're always going to have that. When you do a movie like that where the basis of a story is really strong and also the momentum of it, everyone thought that it was going to be shit. So when it wasn't they were all just completely surprised. I think that 'Quantum of Solace' is as good a movie as 'Casino Royale'. I think that the difference is that last time people were surprised by the fact that they enjoyed it. The fact is that we get reviews in newspapers that we'd never had reviews in before. Certainly with the internet we get seven and a half million reviews which are all worth looking at obviously.

Question: The financial success of the film though must suggest that people really respond to you as Bond.

Craig: I don't try to intellectualize that. I do know what we've done is make a movie that the first time I saw it I got a huge kick out of it. Ultimately that's what we're trying to do at the end of the day, putting a movie out that's an entertaining, exciting, hopefully slightly moving 'Bond' movie. That's all our goal ever was. The way that people have taken to it is just amazing.

Question: Do you think that calls for the next one come a little quicker after this opening weekend?

Craig: I haven't heard anything, but then I'm not answering my phone.

Question: What more do you want to do with Bond, what other parts of him would you like to explore?

Craig: Well, I genuinely think we've got a blank page now. We've finished this story off. 'Quantum of Solace' was exactly the right thing to do. We started something with 'Casino Royale' and we wrapped it all up with 'Quantum of Solace'. We're ready to begin again and we can do what we want.

Question: So you think that it'll be a throw back?

Craig: Submarine space and outer space.

Question: Are you still looking at Ian Fleming story elements because that worked so well in 'Casino Royale'?

Craig: Yeah, but there's nothing left. It's all done unless someone finds a dirty manuscript under the couch, we're stuffed.

Question: What about the Gardner books?

Craig: I've never read them. I would bet any money that someone sort of optioned them and that they're tied up in something else. It's a very closed box.

Question: How was doing the language work in this film that you had to do?

Craig: It was a nightmare for me. I'm just the worst student in the world. I left school at sixteen. I literally cannot conjugate a verb in English. You can't conjugate a verb in English, can you? So, God knows what I know. So that's it. I really did screw up there because I actually don't really know what a verb is. Liev has years of education ahead of me and took to this very well and learned the language a little. I had to do it phonetically, learn it and understand it. I understood what I was saying, but Russian is a tricky language to get far with. It's quite easy to sort of communicate in Russian, but to actually sort of speak the language is hard.

Question: Did Liev make fun of you for it?

Craig: He tried to [laughs].

Question: Do you have to have a mastery of languages to be an actor?

Craig: No. I think that you have to have an ear. I mean, part of acting is sort of mimicry, but I don't like acting as mimicry. I don't think that mimicry is very interesting in acting. I think that you have to have an ear. I've tried to learn languages and I know there's a certain stage that you get to where you have to make that sort of leap of faith and go, 'Okay, I know how to put this accent through my mouth.' It's a really hard process to go through. As an actor you have to try and make that leap because you're trying to communicate and communication is the name of the game. If you're not doing that you're kind of failing.

Question: Is it important for you to do projects other than 'Bond' between the films?

Craig: It's not really the method that I go by. Look, I'm not going to take another part as a British spy who drives nice cars. That's definitely not going to happen, but I'm not closing the door on anything.

Question: What kind of things ideally would you like to do?

Craig: I'm keeping a very open mind about it.

Question: So there's nothing else on the horizon about it?

Craig: Not for the moment. A holiday.

Question: How will you be spending the holidays?

Craig: Happily, hopefully [laughs]. Very quietly.

Question: How shocking was the revelation that the Jews fought back? Have you seen people reacting to that notion?

Craig: Well, I knew about it a little bit. I knew that there was a Jewish resistance, but the only things that I've read about it is that it was wiped out mercilessly. It makes complete sense. Of course they did. The fact that nobody did would've been totally strange, but there were major pockets of resistance everywhere. People did fight. The fact is that there was really nowhere to run. The situation here is that the resistance happened within places like this where there was a forest, where people could get away from them. The local population was in cahoots. Unless you could get on a boat and get out of Europe you were absolutely stuck. This was an incredibly well organized exercise by the Germans. I mean, they did it really efficiently as we all know. I think that our knowledge of the second world war is based on, and so it should be, what the result of The Holocaust was. Those are the images and the knowledge that we have of that period as we should and we should be reminded of it as often as we possibly can.

Question: Why do you think that The Holocaust remains so cinematically timely?

Craig: Well, that's a sort of weird question. I mean, I don't know if it's a question of whether it does. It just should.

Question: It should remain so?

Craig: Yeah. There was an article in 'The New York Times' that said world war two movies have become genre movies and I can't argue with that. Every movie in a sense is a genre movie, but a genre movie suggests that we were cynically sort of going out to make money with this project. That was never the object. This is recent history and especially if you're in places like Lithuania or even if you're in France or parts of France or parts of Germany or parts of Holland – this is recent history. It still has a huge effect on the way that Europe is shaping itself. You only have to look at Bosnia and Croatia and what happened there. What happened in the second world war was used to inflame that situation and it's still there. Those hatreds still lie very, in some places, close to the surface, just below it. The treaties that were put into place after the second world war to stop it from happening again have all been fucking walked over steadily every year since.

Question: Especially in the last eight years.

Craig: I think every year since. I mean, obviously the last eight years haven't helped, but the human rights treaties and the laws about genocide and trying people in the international courts, they tried and haven't succeeded. That's why stories like this have resonance still. But also with this story it's about surviving and how you survive with your humanity intact as opposed to coming out the other end a monster.

Question: Being a father, some of those paternal notions would probably show up in a role like this. Do you imagine when you do something like this protecting your own offspring?

Craig: Well, in that situation I keep my family out of my work. I'd never use them for that reason. I think it's a sort of weird notion. Of course that's your instinct. Your instinct is, 'I would protect this tooth and nail.' But that's the thing, isn't it? That's what was so dreadful about this happening and any other circumstance like this happening in recent times. The notion in this is that family matters more than anything else and that's what keeps you together, but obviously we throw into that this brotherly relationship where the two of them kind of hate each other and the fact is that they can't live with each other. It's more complicated and the more complicated it is hopefully the more interesting it becomes. Of course there's the paternal instinct to sort of look after people, but there's just as strong an instinct to be looked after and it's a reciprocal thing. You help someone and the idea is that they'll help you back. It's all of those things, paternally, brotherly, sisterly.

Question: Culturally we mourned those who were lost during that period. Have we not celebrated those who survived enough?

Craig: I think there's an element of that. I think there's an element to the fact that stories like this represent that. For me this is an allegory for the modern life or parts of the modern life for parts of the modern world. When do we stop fighting? When do actually decided to stop fighting so that we can live and despite the fact that there's this society that Tuvia had to kind of build up with a very authoritarian manner, and had to be because of the circumstances, the decision not to go to war and start living and start living as human beings, when do we actually make that switch and go, 'Can we stop this now and get on with life?' It's a debate because obviously these men fought and they fought for their lives. But they fought to sort of get back to normal. That just rings true with me.

Question: Did you hear any stories about Tuvia's adjustment after all of this?

Craig: He found it very difficult. He went to Israel. I think that he fought in The Six Day War. He was given a commission, I think, and made an officer and didn't really succeed. Then he came to New York with the family and they started a cab firm in New York and forgot about it, left it. But that's a testament to them as much as anything. The fact is that in spite of the horrific things that they went through they managed to live a life of peace afterwards and kind of forgot it and lived a life. It must've been tremendously difficult. I'm sure that he got very little sleep.

Question: Where does your egoless attitude come from?

Craig: Listen, you're absolutely determined to make me egoless. I'm certainly not. I'm a nightmare on set. I just paid them all off. It's just the way that I like to work. You're asking me a question about my ego which is embarrassing to answer. The way that I like to work is with people. If you separate yourself from the work in process then there's no connection. Otherwise why go to work.

Question: What are your hopes for the New Year?

Craig: I can't answer questions like that without it sounding like a stock answer. Obviously I want world peace. What can I tell you? For myself I want health for my family. I want health for my friends. I'd like to continue what I'm doing. It's what everybody wants really.

Question: Do you want to go back to the theater?

Craig: Yes, I'd love to.

Question: Are you looking for something to do?

Craig: I'm not looking for something, as it were. I mean, if something comes along.

Question: Is there a classic role you'd like to do?

Craig: No. Too many lines. Too many words.

Question: Is there something about your level of fame now that you truly enjoy and something you truly despise?

Craig: My privacy is obviously the thing that gets invaded. I weigh it all out.

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I finished reading it. Thank you Aragorn for sharing this long and in-depth interview :D
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Thelma wrote:I finished reading it. Thank you Aragorn for sharing this long and in-depth interview :D
My pleasure :D
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Daniel Craig to walk red carpet on January 6th at `Defiance` premiere

Event - 16-12-08

According to All in London, Daniel Craig's newest picture - the story of a Jewish family in exile during World War II - is set to debut in Leicester Square on January 6th 2009.

The events are expected to kick-off around 6pm but the crowds will no doubt be gathering much earlier than that.

Craig co-stars alongside Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell who play his brother and sister, respectively in the epic true story.

"Defiance" is driected by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai).

The Sun are giving away tickets to the London premiere.

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woa, that was awesome. i read so many recent quotes in that interview that was taking out of context from this already. the interviewer asked good questions, got distracted, or tried to distract DC, then pounced with "egoless" questions and obviously antagonizing questions...jezzz-are they trained to do that? and it ended with such an awfullll taste in the mouth-not enlightening the person DC really is. maddening!! i read somewhere that "daniel craig wants 'world peace' for the new year", what do you want? i think it was on cnn? wankers!! i will learn him to conjugate my verbs any day! ~g
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awesome, which video did you want me to look at cuz tom cruise is in there too! did you read my other post? ~g
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Thank you Ah, I love Pierce.
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Thelma wrote:
Thank you Ah, I love Pierce.
this is an old video, no, cuz i saw photos of this encounter? always nice to see pierce, yes. delicious.
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Adelaide Scene Award winners 2008

Best Dressed Celeb

Daniel Craig 16.7%

Nicole Kidman 14.6%

Lara Bingle 13.4%

Kate Moss 12.3%

David Beckham 10.4%

Brad Pitt 8.8%

Katie Holmes 8.7%

Victoria Beckham 7.7%

Daniel Johns 5.2%

Tom Ford 2.3%


Best Popcorn Film

Mamma Mia 28.0%

Quantum of Solace 22.1%

Iron Man 19.3%

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 15.8%

Hancock 12.3%

Eagle Eye 2.4%


All the results : http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 43,00.html
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That Fine Line
December 16, 2008 by Not Drowning Mother

I read recently about a woman jailed for stalking actor John Cusack and I wondered how one became a “stalker” as opposed to just a “dedicated fan”. It must happen slowly over time without you really knowing it’s happening and suddenly you find yourself standing on the wrong side of that fine line between an enthusiastic appreciation for someone’s work as an actor and a pathological obsession. For example, it might start off innocently enough with, say, repeated viewings of ”The Sure Thing” or “Better Off Dead” and a few appreciative fan letters dotted with your perfume. And then you get all revved up by “Grosse Pointe Blank” and maybe indulge in a spot of queuing-in-inclement-weather just to catch a glimpse of the Man Himself on the red-carpet and shout “John! John! I’ll have your babies, John!”. And then somehow you weather the doldrums of “Serendipity” and send off a few more fan letters, perhaps written in your own blood to show exactly how much you care. And then suddenly there you are, parked in your car directly outside his residence, carving the words “I [heart] JC”on your forehead with a stanley knife. Et voila! You’re handed a restraining order and branded as a stalker for the rest of your life. See how easily it can happen?
I guess that slippery slope into stalkerdom has been a bit on my mind as a few nights ago I was ever-so-slightly coerced into seeing “Quantum of Solace” again, which made me feel a bit of a Capital F “Fan” of the beautiful Daniel Craig. You see, I really don’t make a habit of wasting precious cinema time on films I’ve already seen and in fact, now I think about it, the last film I saw twice in the cinema was “The Matrix” in 1998. But then I saw that twice because I didn’t quite understand it the first time (having seen it under jetlag conditions in Boston). And for the record, I didn’t understand “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” either but not because I was jetlagged but because they were stupid, and needless to say, I didn’t extend them the same double-viewing treatment. No, siree. Not this punter.
Luckily for me, my second viewing of “Quantum of Solace” gave me two gifts: it not only brought me just a little bit closer to understanding what the fuck was going on with that plot, but it also brought to my attention the fact that ol’ Danny Boy is wearing white trousers for a good part of the film. Yes, you read that correctly: White. Trousers. Now call me a fuss-pot, but I have never liked a man in White Trousers. There’s just something deeply wrong about it. Same goes for black trousers and brown shoes. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. And yet, the black-trousers-brown-shoes combo was another fashion crime committed by the wardrobe department on QoS. I’d like to think Daniel would dress himself differently, given a chance, but I Just. Can’t. Be. Sure.
HOWEVER, despite all this Daniel Craig is still hot. Hot! Hot! Hot! And not just trapped-in-a-burning-hotel kind of hot. The man knows how to pout. And how to fill a suit. And how to drive an Astin Martin while pouting and filling a suit. AND YET, the white trouser question remains. Would he…? Could he…? And it’s that which stops me from becoming a full-blown stalker. If only John Cusack had done his fans the same courtesy, he could have saved himself, his stalker, and the US legal system a whole heap of trouble.
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1. on December 16, 2008 at 10:44 pm Nellie
If you really want the full man-candy effect of DC in white trunks, you _must_ see Casino Royale. Every woman I know who saw this film had saucy dreams about DC. Am fanning my face as I type, just remembering. But watch out, this could seriously lead to full blown stalkerness. Now, must get my stanley knife out….
The top notch acting in the Weisz/Craig/Spall 'Betrayal' is emotionally true, often v funny and its beautifully staged with filmic qualities..

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I'd help Daniel conjugate his verbs. :twisted:
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Germangirl wrote:That Fine Line
December 16, 2008 by Not Drowning Mother

I read recently about a woman jailed for stalking actor John Cusack and I wondered how one became a “stalker” as opposed to just a “dedicated fan”. It must happen slowly over time without you really knowing it’s happening and suddenly you find yourself standing on the wrong side of that fine line between an enthusiastic appreciation for someone’s work as an actor and a pathological obsession. For example, it might start off innocently enough with, say, repeated viewings of ”The Sure Thing” or “Better Off Dead” and a few appreciative fan letters dotted with your perfume. And then you get all revved up by “Grosse Pointe Blank” and maybe indulge in a spot of queuing-in-inclement-weather just to catch a glimpse of the Man Himself on the red-carpet and shout “John! John! I’ll have your babies, John!”. And then somehow you weather the doldrums of “Serendipity” and send off a few more fan letters, perhaps written in your own blood to show exactly how much you care. And then suddenly there you are, parked in your car directly outside his residence, carving the words “I [heart] JC”on your forehead with a stanley knife. Et voila! You’re handed a restraining order and branded as a stalker for the rest of your life. See how easily it can happen?
I guess that slippery slope into stalkerdom has been a bit on my mind as a few nights ago I was ever-so-slightly coerced into seeing “Quantum of Solace” again, which made me feel a bit of a Capital F “Fan” of the beautiful Daniel Craig. You see, I really don’t make a habit of wasting precious cinema time on films I’ve already seen and in fact, now I think about it, the last film I saw twice in the cinema was “The Matrix” in 1998. But then I saw that twice because I didn’t quite understand it the first time (having seen it under jetlag conditions in Boston). And for the record, I didn’t understand “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” either but not because I was jetlagged but because they were stupid, and needless to say, I didn’t extend them the same double-viewing treatment. No, siree. Not this punter.
Luckily for me, my second viewing of “Quantum of Solace” gave me two gifts: it not only brought me just a little bit closer to understanding what the fuck was going on with that plot, but it also brought to my attention the fact that ol’ Danny Boy is wearing white trousers for a good part of the film. Yes, you read that correctly: White. Trousers. Now call me a fuss-pot, but I have never liked a man in White Trousers. There’s just something deeply wrong about it. Same goes for black trousers and brown shoes. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. And yet, the black-trousers-brown-shoes combo was another fashion crime committed by the wardrobe department on QoS. I’d like to think Daniel would dress himself differently, given a chance, but I Just. Can’t. Be. Sure.
HOWEVER, despite all this Daniel Craig is still hot. Hot! Hot! Hot! And not just trapped-in-a-burning-hotel kind of hot. The man knows how to pout. And how to fill a suit. And how to drive an Astin Martin while pouting and filling a suit. AND YET, the white trouser question remains. Would he…? Could he…? And it’s that which stops me from becoming a full-blown stalker. If only John Cusack had done his fans the same courtesy, he could have saved himself, his stalker, and the US legal system a whole heap of trouble.
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1. on December 16, 2008 at 10:44 pm Nellie
If you really want the full man-candy effect of DC in white trunks, you _must_ see Casino Royale. Every woman I know who saw this film had saucy dreams about DC. Am fanning my face as I type, just remembering. But watch out, this could seriously lead to full blown stalkerness. Now, must get my stanley knife out….
Too funny and too familer. CR and QOS are the only films I have paid to see twice . I love the white pants . Maybe its a FL. thing.
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i love you guys...did i say that today yet.!!! ~g.
umm, ME first cal! i will also help him propogate his adjeculations. or adjectives-sorry, where am i? nope not naughty thread.

german girl, you make me feel better about myself and that is important in a relationship. especially a disfunctional relationship. are we all co-junkie dc dependents?

~g, drunk with love :?
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