TV Obits: Tatum, Bruning, Gorski
A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away.
- Chase Tatum: The young wrestler was also an actor, having appeared on TV shows such as Punk’d and music videos for Outkast (he was once their road manager). He also appeared in the 2007 movie Who’s Your Caddy? and appeared as a baby in the 1976 horror flick Creature From Black Lake. Police say the 34 year-old died of an accidental drug overdose.
- Robert Bruning: The actor was a regular on several Australian series, including Homicide, Division 4, The Long Arm, and The Sullivans, and appeared in episodes of Farscape, Skyways, The Outsiders, and many other shows. He died of a heart attack in Wellington, New Zealand.
- Roberta Gorski: She was an assistant to David Goyer on the CBS series Threshold and was an executive assistant on such movies as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, National Treasure, King Arthur, Harsh Times, and Bad Boys II. She died of a brain aneurysm at age 40.
- If you missed it, our obituary for Charlton Heston is here.
Street Kings Movie Trailer
The movie trailer for Fox Searchlight’s Keanu Reeves crime-thriller Street Kings (formerly titled The Night Watchman) has hit the web.
Street Kings stars Keanu Reeves as Tom Ludlow, a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. The film also stars Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Naomie Harris, Jay Mohr, John Corbett, Cedric the Entertainer, Amaury Nolasco, Terry Crews, Common and The Game. Watch the trailer below.
Definitely not Training Day, or even Harsh Times, Street Kings looks like a typical crime thriller, with the same overused themes we’ve come to expect from David Ayer.
Watch the trailer in High Definition on Yahoo! Movies. Street Kings hits theaters on April 11th 2008.
Movies with the Most Instances of the F-Word
Our friends at BoxOfficePsychics have pointed us to a listing of the films with the most instances of the F-word. Check out the f’n list below.
F**k (2005) - 824
Nil by Mouth (1997) - 428
Casino (1995) - 398
Alpha Dog (2007) - 367
Twin Town (1997) - 318
Summer of Sam (1999) - 315
Running Scared (2006) - 315
Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002) - 311
Menace II Society (1993) - 300
Goodfellas (1990) - 300
Narc (2002) - 297
Harsh Times (2006) 296
Another Day in Paradise (1998) - 291
Made (2001) - 291
Dirty (2005) - 280
Jarhead (2005) - 278
Bully (2001) - 274
State Property 2 (2005) - 271
Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 269
Pulp Fiction (1994) - 265
The Big Lebowski (1998) - 260
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) - 248
Dead Presidents (1995) - 247
The Boondock Saints (1999) - 239
The Departed (2006) - 237
Empire (2002) - 236
True Romance (1993) - 234
State of Grace (1990) - 230
My Name Is Joe (1998) 230
Gridlock’d 1997 227
The Devil’s Rejects (2005) - 224
Eddie Murphy Raw (1987) - 223
Suicide Kings (1997) - 222
Black and White (1999) - 215
American History X (1998) - 214
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) 213
Layer Cake (2005) 210
Scarface (1983) 207
Spun (2002) 203
A Bronx Tale (1993) 200
Foolish (1999) 200
8 Mile (2002) 200
DysFunktional Family 2003 200
I Got the Hook Up 1998 197
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - 196
Overnight (2003) - 191
Magnolia (1999) - 190
Monster (2003) - 187
Hustle and Flow (2005) - 186
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ 2005 185
Formula 51 (2001) - 180
Flawless (1999) - 178
Superbad (2007) - 176
Christian Bale Joins Johnny Depp in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies
When Hollywood needs a bankable actor to snag a Wild West outlaw, Pablo Escobar or a few thousand Terminators, they send for Christian Bale, so why not send him after John Dillinger? This summer’s Dark Knight is in talks to star in the 2009 mobster drama Public Enemies for director Michael Mann. Bale’s rumored for the role of FBI agent Melvin Purvis, who became an American hero in 1934, the year his relentless manhunt for Dillinger culminated in the 31-year-old gangster being shot dead after he fled from a movie theater by Purvis’ men. To fire off another few rounds of cool, Johnny Depp is already signed to star as Dillinger, his first mobster role since 1997’s Donnie Brasco. Other gangsters yet to be cast include Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson.
Don’t tap my phones or have me tailed, but I’d like to see Bale in a role where he isn’t the stoic cat to a flamboyant mouse, or in the case of the terrific Rescue Dawn, a stoic, half-crazed mouse that surprisingly didn’t eat a cat. Even with Nolan’s Batman films, it seems like Bale is always the icy match to another actor in the opposing corner. I almost expect his films to have a “versus” on the posters. In my mind, this started circa 2005 with the quickly swept away Harsh Times. Does his agent have a Jordan vs. Bird complex? That’s better than a Space Jam complex, but it’s still curious.
Yeah, I guess I’m pining for a Patrick Bateman-esque role, where he, oddly, felt more thawed out than in Equilibrium. Can you imagine the dude in something like Music and Lyrics? Would you wonder the whole time whether his character was going to bust into a Mr. Blonde psycho shuffle? As for Depp, so many of his recent roles have slipped in and out of an ornate straight jacket, I almost expect his Dillinger to wear rouge and talk to peacocks; mobster as Little Edie Beale.
This film had me sold at Mann and Depp, so attaching another four reputable letters is okay with me.