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JoniJoni wrote:
bumblebee wrote:
JoniJoni wrote:Daniel Craig's ex-girlfriend one of G20 masterminds

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/200 ... -21236631/
Forever defined as Craig's ex and a Playboy bunny. Poor woman.
Not to forget "a 41-year-old former topless model".

Pity her, they make it sound like there's not much chance for a comeback.
poor woman? are you serious?

sorry, I don't feel sorry for her.
She has sold her "story" to the tabloids just at the moment when DC was announced as the next James Bond.
She made some money with telling everybody that he is a animal in bed and that he prefers big boobs :lol: (well at least nack then)
And now she has to deal with that image of her... :twisted:
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Dunda wrote:
JoniJoni wrote:
bumblebee wrote: Forever defined as Craig's ex and a Playboy bunny. Poor woman.
Not to forget "a 41-year-old former topless model".

Pity her, they make it sound like there's not much chance for a comeback.
poor woman? are you serious?

sorry, I don't feel sorry for her.
She has sold her "story" to the tabloids just at the moment when DC was announced as the next James Bond.
She made some money with telling everybody that he is a animal in bed and that he prefers big boobs :lol: (well at least nack then)
And now she has to deal with that image of her... :twisted:
Lighten up Dunda, we were making a joke.
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JoniJoni wrote:
Dunda wrote:
JoniJoni wrote: Not to forget "a 41-year-old former topless model".

Pity her, they make it sound like there's not much chance for a comeback.
poor woman? are you serious?

sorry, I don't feel sorry for her.
She has sold her "story" to the tabloids just at the moment when DC was announced as the next James Bond.
She made some money with telling everybody that he is a animal in bed and that he prefers big boobs :lol: (well at least nack then)
And now she has to deal with that image of her... :twisted:
Lighten up Dunda, we were making a joke.
oh, ok :oops: :oops:

maybe a few drink to much yesterday, I didn't get it! :shock:
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calypso wrote:
calypso wrote:
JEC57 wrote:

I agree with you Faustine.

There are no doubts, from more objective sources around at the time, that Ted Hughes was self-absorbed and egocentric. I also think there is something in a man like that which draws a particular type of woman.

I liked the film "Sylvia" because it dared to question what has become almost "received wisdom" - that Sylvia was a helpless fawn to Ted's marauding lion.

There was far more to that relationship than meets the eye. Unfortunately, the feminist backlash in the 60s and 70s against Hughes meant that it has only been recently that people have questioned whether there was more to this than meets the eye.

That their son has committed suicide is tragic. While medical science has not isolated a "suicide gene", there are several well-respected studies which show that clinical depression runs in families, as does bipolar disorder. It is a shame that he did not find someone to share his life with on a permanent basis who could have helped him with his burdens. I feel for the sister left behind. She has a burden of her own to carry.


gracias for both your replies. this subject is close to me for number of the reasons.
i am trying to process it all.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... Plath.html
'Nick did not have the suicide gene. It's drivel', say friends of the tragic son of Sylvia Plath.


Excellent Calypso. Thank you for this post. Hemmingway's family legacy comes to mind. But it seems Nicholas was destined by the outside world and he had a difficult time not being affected by that. He never knew his mom,,,just his father...the father that had now 3 people take their own life. Did the father write about the darkness/light of suicide, WTF?? It is the "noble way" to go---who knows what darkness lies...it is a rational decision made by an irrational mind. shitty it is. it sounds like we lost a great person.
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http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/26131.html

Top 20 Heroes, according to Entertainment Weekly
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Empire Awards 2009
Best Newcomer: Gemma Arterton
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Empire Awards 2009
Best Thriller: Quantum of Solace
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Empire Awards 2009
Mr. Craig didn't win. :cry:
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SO happy QOS got something! :!:
BUT Bale?????? :shock: :shock: :x He was so bland, it was absolutely Ledger's film!
All others were more deserving than he, not talking only about Dan but other actors like Downey etc.
VERY happy about Gemma! I was 1000% sure this awfully pretty boy Pattinson would win. Such a pleasant surprise! 8)
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Dunda wrote:
She has sold her "story" to the tabloids just at the moment when DC was announced as the next James Bond.
She made some money with telling everybody that he is a animal in bed and that he prefers big boobs :lol: (well at least nack then)
Could you tell more about that? Never heard this story ...
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James Bond tops movie heroes poll

Bond News - 30-03-09

Superspy James Bond has been named Hollywood's top hero ahead of Indiana Jones, Superman and Harry Potter in a new U.S. magazine poll.

Bond, who has been played on screen by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, came in at number one in the Entertainment Weekly Top 20 Heroes Poll, with Harrison Ford's adventurer, Indiana Jones, coming in second.

Also making the top 10: Alien heroine Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, Robin Hood, Spider-Man and Die Hard's John McClane.

Ford is the only star to land two characters in the top 10 - his Star Wars hero Han Solo also features.

Meanwhile, the Wicked Witch of The West from The Wizard of Oz beat Darth Vader and cannibal Hannibal Lecter in a related top villains poll.

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A Royale Pain (the best of film nudity)

Of course no “best of nudity” would be complete without mentioning a Bond film. Few mainstream films have gained as much continual attention over their use of nudity. First raising eyebrows in 1962 for its introduction of Ursula Andress in what was for the time a string bikini, the films would perpetuate such a tradition of scantily clad beautiful women that for some, the Bond Girls were more of a draw than the action and titular spy put together. By the time Timothy Dalton hit the screen as the international man of mystery, the 80’s had arrived and brought with them a women’s movement that had a view to kill the film’s blatant sexual depiction of women (and with a history of names like you-know-what Galore, who can blame them?) Their complaints didn’t change much. The women became slightly stronger, a bit more fleshed out (no pun intended), but when Bond returned in the 90’s he once again had beautiful women on each arm. It seemed sex and Bond were destined to be.

That having been said, this mention goes not to the luscious (though poorly acted) thighs of Denise Richards or the barely concealed breasts of Ursula Andress or the nubile body of a young Diana Riggs but rather to a character which, despite being in over forty years of cinema, has only appeared fully nude once.

Bond himself.

Nudity can be a form of vulnerability, and few scenes get this across as well as Casino Royale’s torture scene, featuring a nude Daniel Craig, a chair with a hole in the bottom, and a very heavy rope. It’s almost as if Bond’s years of womanizing on the silver screen have come back to make him pay in spades. Indeed, director Martin Campbell’s handling of Bond has him play more of a sexualized object than any of the women in the film. As journalist Vicky Allan writes, “He (Bond) is the one who gets skewered.”

Interestingly, Casino Royale’s ball-whacking scene was in the novel, which was released in 1953. But Casino Royale’s rights were already wrapped up with another company, so Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli decided to make Dr. No as the first Bond film instead. Dr. No the film was surprisingly faithful to the book, though Ursula Andress’ iconic emergence from the sea has nothing on the book’s Honey Rider, first appearing half naked on the shore, and choosing to cover her broken nose (a souvenir of rape) rather than her other assets. By the time the much darker Casino Royale was available to make, the series was already caught up in its trend-setting formula of sex, action, and levity. One wonders what direction the series might have taken had Casino Royale been the first Bond film, though one can’t imagine that any version could be better done than 2006’s reboot.

indeed, it is the most popular Bond to date. It seems a Bond who gets his scrotum whipped was just the medicine the series needed. And nobody does it better than Daniel Craig.

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Alexis Raben stared in The Invasion, it's a lenghty interview so I post only the parts regarding Daniel:

Alexis Raben - Miss March - Miss March

RG: In your career, you were in The Invasion. How did you land that job and what did you learn from those two big names in that movie?
AR: Well the landing of the job was really a very standard, mass audition. I was lucky enough to fit and then they brought me back and back, again and again to make sure that I could actually do it again and again. As far as learning, you could definitely say that both Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and I keep mentioning the name of Jeffrey Wright because I felt that working with him was just as important as of an experience. But I guess he’s not as quite the A-list name.
RG: [Laughs]
AR: They’ve all done more complex and demanding roles, but I feel like the focus and the presence that they gave on the set was just as anything else, just as in any other role. It was reassuring to see that kind of presence and that kind of respect for the work and respect for your co-workers as well. It was interesting because we started shooting this thing just before Daniel Craig was announced as the new Bond, and then he was announced and then we came back for some re-shoots when he had already shot it and it came out and it was very successful. The presence on-set, the focus, the dedication to the work was exactly the same. The niceness, the attentiveness, kind of warmth to everybody around him was exactly the same. I find that to be hugely reassuring and encouraging as far as the state of the people working at succeeding in the industry.
RG: I think you do have the classic look of a Bond girl. What do you think?
AR: [Laughs]
RG: I don’t know. I’m thinking of From Russia with Love, like a remake or something like that. Would you want to take the role of a Bond girl?
AR: Well first of all, they just had like a half-Russian girl, so there’s totally not going to be another one…
RG: [Laughs] AR: …Until like I’m 50.
RG: They’ll give you a different European… [Laughs]
AR: But then, I can do all kinds of other European accents. There was a time when I was doing method training in New York City, when I would have said, “Oh no! I want to do a serious role.” The more I worked and the more I learned, the more I [said] “Fantastic! Who wouldn’t want to go through that adventure, who wouldn’t want to do a Bond girl, you know?” The more you work, the more you experience, you become so much more down-to-earth and kind of get what it’s about, and then you drop all like air and weird pretensions.

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http://itn.co.uk/news/f6bdfc9566604e8f0 ... 87957.html

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But wait, there’s plenty more where that came from. Psychologists — ever eager to unlock the secrets swelling in the luscious red subconscious of Unknowable Woman — did another study. This one, which I consider to be particularly relevant to women’s health, showed that women with high testosterone levels want to bone a movie star named Daniel Craig.
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/200 ... royd-show/


I'm usually not a big Julia Roberts fan but she was quite good. I feel her maturity is a plus. It fits her. As for Clive Owen, he is one of my favorite actors. And only Daniel Craig can pull off the finely cut clothing they cover him in
http://marktrexler.blogspot.com/2009/03 ... icity.html
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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