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  • #1

    Now This I'm Excited About

    Travolta playing John Gotti with James Franco playing Gotti Jr.

    Travolta may not look like him, but I think at this stage in his career, he'll likely knock it out the park.

    And good to see Ingels still kickin.

    ETA: The link I had before apparently now shows what emily has mentioned, so I immediately removed it.
    Last edited by roscoegino; 01-25-2011, 05:56 PM.
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    Re: Now This I'm Excited About

    what about this one: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...n7268287.shtml

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    • #3
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      That threw me for a loop. I had expected him to play Freddie Mercury next. Maybe that wasn't a wide enough stretch.
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      • #4
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        I clicked on that link and it took me to an article about a King of Queens actor suing over some oral sex scandal.
        Chicks Who Script podcast

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        • #5
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          Originally posted by emily blake View Post
          I clicked on that link and it took me to an article about a King of Queens actor suing over some oral sex scandal.

          Ignore that.
          "I ask every producer I meet if they need TV specs they say yeah. They all want a 40 inch display that's 1080p and 120Hz. So, I quit my job at the West Hollywood Best Buy."
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          • #6
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            Gotti? WTF? Aren't they some fictitious arse-hats in gay spin-off of a "reality-TV" programme?

            I think I saw an episode once and was bored to tears as some I-love-myself 20-something drove around in shiny sports car while his mum made spaghetti and meatballs. The chef or whatever in the restaurant then asked customers if they like the food and how they felt about [insert her name her] Gotti having made it for them.

            I think that half the customers wondered who the hell she even was...
            Cufk, Tish, Sips.

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            • #7
              Re: Now This I'm Excited About

              travolta did a really good job playing president clinton in primary colors.

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                I think they've gone to the Mafia well once too often. Only fictional mobsters are interesting. Real ones like Gotti are just brutes. And I say this as someone with Italian heritage. I'm really tired of Hollywood's fascination with the mafia.What's left of it is a bunch of decrepit old men clinging to the last vestiges of their empire.
                Advice from writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick. "Try this: if you can replace your female character with a sexy lamp and the story still basically works, maybe you need another draft.-

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                • #9
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                  And I say this as someone with Italian heritage
                  "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
                  -Maya Angelou

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                  • #10
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                    Originally posted by sc111 View Post
                    I think they've gone to the Mafia well once too often. Only fictional mobsters are interesting. Real ones like Gotti are just brutes. And I say this as someone with Italian heritage. I'm really tired of Hollywood's fascination with the mafia.What's left of it is a bunch of decrepit old men clinging to the last vestiges of their empire.
                    I agree with that, or at least on John Ghotti. If you look at what the man actually said/ believed, he was an awful racist, spewing a lot of hatred for blacks in particular, and doesn't deserve to be glorified with a film adaptation because of it.

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                    • #11
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                      Originally posted by WriteByNight View Post
                      Back at you...
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                      • #12
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                        Originally posted by nathanq View Post
                        I agree with that, or at least on John Ghotti. If you look at what the man actually said/ believed, he was an awful racist, spewing a lot of hatred for blacks in particular, and doesn't deserve to be glorified with a film adaptation because of it.

                        Exactly. First we have to realize why the Mafia took root in the early 20th century ... Italians where "later" immigrants.... The groups who immigrated before them -- especially the Irish who could speak English ... had the slight advantage of of timing and ability to speak the language. Even the most menial or backbreaking labor jobs, went to them first.

                        The Mafia was able to flourish early on because Italian immigrants were on the fringes -- they couldn't speak the language, they had old world customs that didn't fit the game plan... blah blah blah... So the dons gained favor with their paisans by "taking care of their own." Of course, exploiting them along the way.

                        You can almost understand the mindset in that period of time. But once the next generations assimilated into the society, gone were the excuses that these poor folks were marginalized.... these later generations could have (and many did) gone to college, gotten jobs, careers, and made honest livings... like over 90% of people of Italian background did and continue to do.

                        Later generations drawn to the mob life were/are just lazy goons, nothing but criminals who happened to have a vowel at the end of their names. Gotti had a lot of options -- he chose to kill people instead. And he died a nobody in prison.

                        Seriously -- there's no second act to his life story worth watching.
                        Advice from writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick. "Try this: if you can replace your female character with a sexy lamp and the story still basically works, maybe you need another draft.-

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                        • #13
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                          I feel what you're saying, sc111. I know many of these images of Italians and Italian Americans are hard on the brethren. It goes too far at times. We know you guys have made countless meaningful contributions that Hollywood has never really touched upon with any depth.

                          But the allure I have for Mafia stories hinges on the American Dream and Italian culture (the food, the fashion, the music, the customs, etc). Okay, it's a warped version of the American Dream, but it's still the American Dream. As far as the violence in these mob pictures, there's this feeling that someone could get killed at any moment. Yeah, it's sick, but I kinda like that.

                          But hey, I would love to see more non-Mafia Italian American movies. You can recommend some if you like.
                          "I ask every producer I meet if they need TV specs they say yeah. They all want a 40 inch display that's 1080p and 120Hz. So, I quit my job at the West Hollywood Best Buy."
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                            Originally posted by nathanq View Post
                            I agree with that, or at least on John Ghotti. If you look at what the man actually said/ believed, he was an awful racist, spewing a lot of hatred for blacks in particular, and doesn't deserve to be glorified with a film adaptation because of it.
                            As a mobster, he was far from alone in his attitude toward Blacks. I was born and raised in NYC. It's a heirloom. Yet those guys would sooner kill their own people. My friends and I were never really offended by those moments in THE GODFATHER and GOODFELLAS. As we saw it, they were the bad guys who weren't all that different from Latins and Blacks (as Eddie Murphy so famously pointed out in his concert film RAW).

                            What else could we expect?
                            "I ask every producer I meet if they need TV specs they say yeah. They all want a 40 inch display that's 1080p and 120Hz. So, I quit my job at the West Hollywood Best Buy."
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                            • #15
                              Re: Now This I'm Excited About

                              Originally posted by roscoegino View Post
                              But hey, I would love to see more non-Mafia Italian American movies. You can recommend some if you like.
                              Ummm.... Bridges of Madison County? Melodrama about Meryl Streep as an Italian war bride in the heartland.

                              My Cousin Vinny? Every stereotype you could think of rammed into one comedy.

                              It just seems to me -- in a country whose discovery is attributed to one Italian, and named after another Italian, there should be -- oh, I don't know -- a half dozen screen worthy films about Italians who are not in the Mafia?
                              Advice from writer, Kelly Sue DeConnick. "Try this: if you can replace your female character with a sexy lamp and the story still basically works, maybe you need another draft.-

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