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Archive for August, 2008Luke Ford Photo GalleryFriday, August 29th, 2008Luke FordFriday, August 29th, 2008
ALL ABOUT LUKE FORD Full Name: Luke Ford Bio: Like Cliff Robertson (Charly) and Leonardo DiCaprio (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) before him, Australian actor Luke Ford first achieved substantial recognition and critical acclaim playing a mentally impaired character: that of Charlie, a young man saddled with autism and ADHD, in Elissa Down’s sensitively handled drama The Black Balloon (2008). Ford clearly weighed the role with considerable seriousness and professionalis; in preparing for it, he made several trips through public places, such as shopping malls, and engaged in deeply autistic behavior to evaluate the reactions of unsuspecting passersby. Balloon scarcely constituted Ford’s first role (several had preceded it, including a turn as Iphicles in the 2005 American miniseries Hercules), but it did mark one of his first leads. He followed it up by doing an about-face and embarking on a much different cinematic excursion: a role in the mega-budgeted Hollywood adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), opposite Brendan Fraser and Jet Li. Trivia: Signed on to star in the third installment of the Mummy series, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR opposite Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello in 2007. In the film, he plays Alex O’Connell, son of Rick O’Connell played by Fraser and Evie O’Connell played by Bello. The film was released on August 1, 2008. Was short listed for a ‘Best New Talent’ Logie Award for his work on Australian TV series McLeod’s Daughters. Quotes: “Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.” “At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.” “At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.” “Everything we do affects other people.” “I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.” “I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.” “I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.” “I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.” “I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn’t fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.” “I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.” “I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.” “I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.” “I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.” “I’ve often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.” “In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.” “Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.” “Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.” “My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.” “The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.” Filmography: Luke Ford Filmography as an Actor: Everybody Wants To Be ItalianTuesday, August 26th, 2008
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ITALIAN Director: Jason Todd Ipson CAST: Jay Jablonski … Jake Bianski SYNOPSIS: A lovelorn urbanite who has spent nearly a decade trying to win back his ex-girlfriend gets involved in a romantic case of mistaken ethnicity in director Jason Todd Ipson’s warmhearted relationship comedy. It’s been eight years since Jake’s girlfriend left him, and despite the fact that she’s now married with three children, he refuses to move on. Fed up with their depressive pal’s unwillingness to let go of the past, Jake’s friends set him up on a blind date with a beautiful Italian woman from Boston’s North End. Though Jake is convinced that such a woman would never even consider dating a non-Italian, a quick crash course in how to fake it may prove just the trick to helping him learn to love once again. Everybody Wants To Be Italian Movie PhotosTuesday, August 26th, 2008Ballet ShoesSaturday, August 23rd, 2008
BALLET SHOES Director: Sandra Goldbacher CAST: Emilia Fox … Sylvia Brown SYNOPSIS: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, and Lucy Boynton headline director Sandra Goldbacher’s made for television adaptation of author Noel Streatfield’s classic novel of the same name. The setting is 1930s London. Orphans Pauline (Watson), Petrova (Paige) and Posy Fossil (Boynton) have all been adopted by eccentric explorer Professor Brown (aka “Gum”), and raised as sisters by Brown’s benevolent niece Sylvia (Emilia Fox). Before the three girls get to know their adventurous adoptive father, however, Gum vanishes for over a decade. Though her faithful retainer Nana (Victoria) does her best to keep the family afloat, Sylvia simply can’t keep up with the demands of raising a family, and her health begins to deteriorate. Eventually, faced with dwindling financial resources, she decides to take in lodgers. Those who arrive as household guests include the lively academics Dr. Smith (Harriet Walter) and Dr. Jakes (Gemma Jones), plus curvy dance instructor Theo Dane (Lucy Cohu) and kind-but-pensive Mr. Simpson (Marc Warren). As the non traditional family begins to see their lives changed by these new arrivals in ways that they never anticipated, Pauline, Petrova, and Posy enroll in the local theater school and set about establishing themselves as stars of the stage. But while Pauline dreams of becoming a world famous actress and Posy longs to grow into a graceful ballerina, Petrova just wants to take to the sky as an aviator. TRIVIA: Emilia Fox plays the part of Sylvia Brown in this adaptation. Emilia’s mother, Joanna David, played the part of Theo Danes in the 1975 BBC adaptation of the same story. QUOTES: [Miss Jay meets Pauline and Winifred after their Alice auditions] |
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