Brittany Murphy (November 10, 1977 – December 20, 2009) was an American actress and singer. She starred in films such as Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City and Riding in Cars with Boys, and performed vocals on a range of films.
She starred in two Edward Burns films: Sidewalks of New York (2001) and The Groomsmen (2006). In 2009, she was cast in the Lifetime TV movie, Tribute, as the main character, Cilla. She was set to appear in the Sylvester Stallone film, The Expendables, which will be released in 2010.
On June 6, 2006, Murphy and Paul Oakenfold released the single “Faster Kill Pussycat”, from the album A Lively Mind. The song became a club hit, and hit number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play chart. It also hit number seven in the UK singles chart in June 2006.
She dabbled in music again with the release of the film Happy Feet, in which she covered Queen’s “Somebody to Love” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Boogie Wonderland”.
In late 2002, Murphy began dating Ashton Kutcher, her co-star in Just Married.
At 8:00 a.m. on December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to “a medical request” at the Los Angeles home Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack, shared. She had apparently collapsed in a bathroom. Firefighters attempted to resuscitate Murphy on the scene and she was subsequently transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead on arrival at 10:04 a.m. after going into cardiac arrest.
William Bradley “Brad” Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He has been cited as one of the world’s most attractive men, a label that entices the media to report on his off-screen life. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one.
Pitt began his acting career with television guest appearances which included a role on the CBS soap opera Dallas in 1987; later gaining recognition as the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis’s character in the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise. Pitt’s first leading roles in big-budget productions came with A River Runs Through It (1992) and Interview with the Vampire (1994). He was cast opposite Anthony Hopkins in the 1994 drama Legends of the Fall which earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. In 1995, he gave critically acclaimed performances in the crime thriller Seven and the science fiction film Twelve Monkeys, the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Four years later in 1999, Pitt starred in the cult hit Fight Club. Subsequently in 2001, he starred in the major international hit Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and Ocean’s Thirteen (2007). He has had his biggest commercial successes with Troy (2004) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Pitt received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance in the title role in the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Following a high-profile relationship with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Pitt was married to actress Jennifer Aniston for five years. As of 2009, he lives with actress Angelina Jolie in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. He and Jolie have three adopted children, Maddox, Zahara, and Pax, and also three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Pitt owns a production company named Plan B Entertainment, which produced the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, The Departed, among other films. Since beginning his relationship with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues both in the United States and internationally.
Another movie in NYC, familiar places and wishes to be there.
Besides that…
The movie is about Emma Lloyd, who has made a career out of her sensible, mature and responsible approach to relationships. She has a hit radio talk show, an impending book deal, and a loving relationship with her fiancé, Richard, a conventional sort-which is precisely what Emma is drawn to.
Then Emma finds out that she is already married to a man she’s never met before, a result of a misguided prank that leaves her bewildered and very confused. Worse than that, her plans for the future are now threatened. With her wedding just around the corner, Emma must find the mystery man and obtain an annulment. Emma tracks down her “accidental husband” – Patrick, a charming neighborhood fireman, with a big secret…that he was behind the “accidental” marriage. Unable to fess up, Patrick goes along with the ruse pretending to be just as baffled as Emma. While at first their opposite approaches to life create much tension and chaos, Emma soon starts to admire his carefree passion for life and doubt her own conservative, button-down views on life and love. As Emma’s wedding draws near, she is faced with the choice between her safe life with Richard or the chance to live in the passionate and spontaneous world that Patrick inhabits.
Tonight I will definitely watch Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Because of NYC of course and the Plaza Hotel and the Central Park, and also because of Macaulay, his adventures and funny faces.
Kevin and his family are heading down to Florida for Christmas, but when Kevin gets mixed up at the airport and gets on the wrong flight, he ends up in New York. Instead of complaining or panicking, he just plain enjoys it. He goes on the ultimate tour with his father’s bag of money and credit cards and cons himself into the Plaza Hotel claiming he’s there with his dad. But the Wet Bandits who have now re-named themselves as the Sticky Bandits are in New York as well and are planning on stealing all the money from a toy store that is going to be given to the children’s hospital. But Kevin is going to make sure that they don’t mess around with the kids and has set his uncle’s abandoned apartment up for a fun house of traps.
Yesterday, on the eve of Saint Nicholas, I’ve watched the first Home Alone movie. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen this movie. My favorite of the series is Home Alone 2. I guess it is for NYC and the Plaza Hotel. Home Alone is both one of the best holiday films of all time and one of the most popular movies from the 90’s. It’s one of those “feel good” movies, the kind that make you want to cuddle up on the couch with family and relax and enjoy it.
I can hardly imagine Christmas without it. I’ve always enjoyed seeing Macaulay Culkin at that age. He was an extremely talented kid and this movie made him a superstar.
A Hollywood producer, Ben (Robert De Niro), witnesses a poor test screening for his new film, Fiercely, mostly caused by the fact that its ending features its main character (played by Sean Penn, who plays himself in the film) being graphically shot dead, along with his pet dog.
Adding to Ben’s problems, he is having trouble making a clean break from Kelly, his second wife, and Bruce Willis is refusing to shave the large, thick beard that he has grown, which will result in the studio pulling the plug on their new project, and in turn put a certain end to Ben’s career. Any attempt to reason with Willis inevitably meets a violent, foul-mouthed response.
Willis does eventually shave his beard off, and the film goes ahead.
This film has an impressive cast including Robin Wright Penn as Ben’s second wife, Kelly; John Turturro as Dick, the stereotypical shifty agent; Stanley Tucci as Scott, the blocked screenplay writer; Michael Wincott as Jeremy, the temperamental director; Catherine Keener, as Lou, the hardcore studio exec; Bruce Willis as the demanding movie star; and Sean Penn as himself.
De Niro is doing a great job although this movie does not appeal to everyone. He has some wonderful moments and moments when he is just plain, but you can recognize him in every scene. And there are so many aspects of him. His gestures are simply brilliant.
It’s been more than a month since I’ve seen a recent movie, 2009 release. I wanted to see Spread before going to NY but it wasn’t available on the Internet. When I came back I was not in the mood for movies and today I decided to look for it. I found it and other movies for that matter…
Set in modern day Los Angeles, Spread is a hard biting story about Nikki (Ashton Kutcher), who has slept his way into a life of privilege. He shares his secrets with us as he hosts parties and beds scores of women, all while living it up at the Hollywood Hills home of a middle-aged female attorney, Samantha (Anne Heche). Everything is going swimmingly until Nikki meets a gorgeous waitress named Heather (Margarita Levieva), who is playing the same game that he is. As the truth of their life unravels, they find themselves sexually charged by a game of one-upsmanship that has them dining at fine restaurants and crashing posh parties, until the truth of their lives forces them to choose between love and money.
The real story begins here – the one that is worth to see, and that is NOT a romantic comedy. The story of the closed doors. The story of selling the expensive staff for nothing. The story of the beginning and the end of love.
Nikki is the man without a plan, without friends, he survives because of the attractive appearance, that will not remain over time. That’s why “Spread” is the real drama of dreamer’s collision with the reality that he tried to ignore so far.
The ending is not about happiness or tragedy – it’s about bitterness, shame and folded 5-dollar note in the hand… And Nikki will return to the house where he used to enjoy the life, but in the different role now, proving that the history is always repeating itself.
This movie post kind of interrupts the ones about NY spots, but Nikki actually goes from LA to NY to ask Heather to marry him. He climbs the stairs of the well known Times Square subway station, so it makes a great link to that hot, crazy spot.
I am back, 10 days after. It was a day full of flights and airports and check-ins. Went to Frankfurt without even wanted it. Great airport by the way. But I prefer JFK better.
Today I’ll talk about a sad news though. The death of Patrick Swayze. In 2008, recently back from the United States, we heard about his illness. They only gave him then 6 months. He lived another 20 months. The fact that his death coincides with another return from the United States is lamentable.
He fought until the very end and this makes him greater.
“If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I’ve tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself. And that keeps me going, that gets me up in the morning. My work … is my legacy.”
Swayze was mostly known for a handful of supporting roles when he broke through with his performance as dance instructor Johnny Castle in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.” Co-star Jennifer Grey, who played his young lover, Baby Houseman, in the film, described Swayze as “gorgeous and strong.”
“Patrick was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace. … He was a real cowboy with a tender heart. He was fearless and insisted on always doing his own stunts, so it was not surprising to me that the war he waged on his cancer was so courageous and dignified,” Grey said in a statement Monday.
When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he’s told that because it’s the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD’S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they’re still being pursued. And it’s just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.
I am going to see this movie… 5 minutes from now at HBO.
When I first saw the poster of this movie I thought it was about Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. I never watched the trailer or read a plot summary. I just watch the movie, knowing nothing except the names of these great actors.
I was wrong about the title. It’s about two women. But I haven’t got the feeling that Phoenix is torn between the two.
I never thought this possible, for me at least. I could never love two men at the same time.
I would have felt comfortable with both endings, but I think the character made the right choice. He chose life over death and gave himself a chance. Maybe a better one.
I think you could fell in love with the way someone is loving you and feel pretty good about it. That is not enough though, there has to be more. And I think that’s the case with our character.
Alice