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A review of the horror film Insidious starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. The film is directed by James Wan and written by Leigh Whannell, the same men who brought us Saw.A review of the horror film Insidious starring Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. The film... more
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Patrick Wilson's been a pedophile (Hard Candy), an out-of-work philanderer (Little Children), a washed-up superhero trying to make good (Watchmen), and a CIA agent (The A-Team), but in Morning Glory, he's finally got a respectable job -- as a news producer. (OK, semi-respectable). He plays an outside observor to the foibles at Daybreak, a morning talk show hosted by Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, and executive produced by Rachel McAdams, who is clueless about his attempts to make her more than just a work contact. Wilson says the role was an easy one for him, because it runs in the family...
Q: How does this movie fit with others like it that have been done about TV news?
A: I love Network, I love Broadcast News, I love Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. It's definitely a throwback to those movies, with those ridiculous moments and the heartfelt moments. Finding a common ground between your personal life and your career is messy and awkward, so we were trying to tell that story in a realistic way but still have it be through the guise of comedy.
Q: What kind of research did you do to prepare? While the rest of the cast went to the morning shows...
A: ... I went to 60 Minutes. I mean, it didn't really matter a whole lot, because I didn't need to know much other than how to decorate the room I was in, to know what story I was working on, a story that you never hear me talk about. But that being said, it was super cool to go over there, because I never knew how that show was run. I grew up around news shows, but not around something like that.
Q: Because your father and brother are both anchors...
A: My dad's been an anchor for over 40 years!
Q: So you've been researching this your whole life, in a way!
A: Yeah, I knew how it worked.
Q: Were you ever tempted to go into journalism?
A: No, no, no! (Laughs).
Q: There's a conflict in the movie about the combination, or collision of entertainment and hard news, the infotainment that pervades television news. What do you think the resolution is?
A: Well, I think entertainment and news always collide, and I agree that information is getting skewed. I remember back when it was good not to know the politics of your news anchor. My own father was like that. As a viewer, you had to choose. They present the facts, both sides, and you choose your own. Now, the only time you get the other side is when Bill O'Reilly goes on The View. But I would rather have that system than no free speech or free press at all. But let's get back to actual news, whether it's one source or the Internet, as long as we have that source. I think it's going back to news. I hope!Patrick Wilson's been a pedophile (Hard Candy), an out-of-work philanderer... more
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When hard–working TV producer Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is fired from a local news program, her career begins to look as bleak as her hapless love life.
Stumbling into a job at “Daybreak” (the last–place national morning news show), Becky decides to revitalize the show by bringing on legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford).
http://thestarceleb.com/2010/11/01/morning-glory-movie-trailer/When hard–working TV producer Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is fired from a... more
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Best comedy movies ever has loved Patrick Wilson since he played the troubled closet Mormon in the brilliant Angels In America and the oddly sympathetic pedophile in Hard Candy, so we’re curious to see him carry the comedy Barry Munday.Best comedy movies ever has loved Patrick Wilson since he played the troubled closet... more
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The best Jennifer Aniston movie in ages is actually a star vehicle for Jason Bateman. And Anistons work opposite the screens premiere mild-mannered funnyman shows her at her most engaged and pitch perfect.The Switch, which lost its more amusing, more telling title The Baster, is a romantic comedy about artificial insemination.
http://www.moviesreviews2010.com/the-switch-2010-review/The best Jennifer Aniston movie in ages is actually a star vehicle for Jason Bateman.... more
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Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner took the Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiere to New York last night where she also did the David Letterman show (video attached, you should watch it’s quite funny). She talked about what touring with Taylor has been like. Did you know in real life she has a wolf-hybrid dog? Apparently it’s a big suck but is quite scary looking.Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner took the Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiere to New... more
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"When actors talk about their big breaks, they tend to talk about the moments when they crossed the ephemeral line where obscurity morphs into ubiquity. Then you have the confounding exceptions, the cases like Patrick Wilson. The actor will be the first to explain (with no shortage of charm and self-deprecation) that his career has been an uninterrupted succession of big breaks—when his college pals were bartending, he was starring in a national tour of the musical Carousel, which landed him leads in The Full Monty and Oklahoma! on Broadway, which led to his Emmy-nominated role in Mike Nichols’s adaptation of Angels in America, which led to his stellar turn opposite Kate Winslet in Little Children. Yet to most of the public, he remains as obscure as he was when he moved to New York fourteen years ago. Doubly vexing is that Wilson, thanks in no small part to looking eerily like a young Paul Newman, has managed to date a handful of starlets at the apex of their notoriety (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Scarlett Johansson) without registering so much as a tremor on the Richter scale of tabloid obsession. “Most people outside the business, it’s safe to say, have no idea who I am,” he says. “If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it’s rarely because they think I’m someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?"""When actors talk about their big breaks, they tend to talk about the moments... more
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