Spike Doing Time Traveler Thing
Spike Lee did Clockers. In keeping with the theme, his next project: Time Traveler.
Per Variety, the filmmaker will cowrite and direct the drama based on the memoir by Ronald Mallett, the physicist famed for working on plans for a real-life time machine
The 63-year-old Mallett was one of the first African-Americans to receive a doctorate in theoretical physics and currently teaches at the University of Connecticut. But he’s perhaps best known for his obsession with bending time to his own will.
His inspiring pursuit was documented last year on an episode of public radio’s This American Life. When he was 10 years old, Mallett’s father died suddenly of a heart attack and ever since, Mallett sought to make time travel possible so he could rewind to that fateful day and change his dad’s fate.
“[It’s] a fantastic story on many levels [and] also a father-and-son saga of loss and love,” Lee told Variety.
Lee apparently has a soft spot for time traveling.
The helmer was previously attached to the Fox thriller Selling Time, about a man who trades years off his life expectancy for the chance to relive the worst day of his life. He’s since exited that project. Lee’s next film is Miracle at St. Anna, about a division of all-black soldiers trapped behind enemy lines during World War II.
Building Holmes on Broadway?
Tom Cruise may call her "Kate," but Katie Holmes could still be a Broadway baby.
The actress' rep said "nothing is set" but confirmed to News that Holmes is "in discussions" to star in a revival of Arthur Miller's Tony Award-winning drama All My Sons, which would mark the former Dawson's Creek ingenue's professional theatrical debut.
According to Britain's Daily Mail, which reported the possible casting coup, Holmes would play Ann Deever, a young and vivacious woman whose pilot beau, Larry Keller, went missing in World War II. Having fallen in love with his brother, Chris, and knowing that it was the actions of Larry's father, Joe, that led to his death, Ann tries to convince the young men's mother that Larry is not going to be coming home.
The high-profile cast already reportedly includes John Lithgow and Oscar winner Dianne Wiest as Joe and Kate Keller.
If Holmes, 29, indeed ends up making a splash on the Great White Way, then it won't be just her marriage to Cruise and her participation in a Batman film that puts her in the same company as Nicole Kidman.
The second ex-Mrs. Cruise won a Theater World Award 10 years ago for her Broadway debut in The Blue Room, a story of love and lust that famously required its Aussie star and her leading man to disrobe.
Cruise doesn't have to worry this time around, though. Miller may have written some fiery female characters in his time, but Ann Deever keeps the goods buttoned up.
Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna Movie Trailer
Spike Lee’s big screen adaptation of James McBride’s Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four black American soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped in a small Tuscan village on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The film deals with the Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre, but is structured with a Titanic/Saving Private Ryan flashback plot device involving a priceless Italian artifact, which is discovered in a murderer’s closet. The sculpted head from Ponte Santa Trinita, valued at $5 million, is a clue to a mystery that began 39 years earlier, when the soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.
Miracle at St. Anna stars Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Judging from the trailer, Spike Lee might be heading for an Oscar nomination with this one. Tell me what you think in the comments below.
You can watch the trailer in High Definition on Yahoo. Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna will hit theaters on September 26th 2008.
Spice Girls Rock Los Angeles
Spice Girls Rock Los Angeles
We’ve all been hoping, and waiting patiently for the Spice Girls to get on with their reunion gigs. And yesterday in Los Angeles, the five British babes made their reunion debut.
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was the scene for Mel C, Mel B, Geri, Victoria, and Emma to get together and make some killer music. And that’s just what they did.
The “Wannabe” singers brought their A-game, singing two numbers for the lingerie show. They performed their new single “Headlines” as well as their hit from 1998 “Stop.”
And they didn’t disappoint in the wardrobe department, wearing World War II-era tunics and military caps. Can you hear that? That’s the sound of a comeback!