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Three Christs director Jon Avnet has one of the most impressive IMDb pages in Hollywood: He produced films from Risky Business to Black Swan, and has worked with everyone from Tom Cruise to Joan Didion. He's also faced a lot of rejection — and figured out how to get past it.Three Christs, which Avnet co-wrote as well as directed, stars Richard Gere as a psychologist in the 1950s trying to treat three schizophrenic men who all believe themselves to be Jesus Christ. They’re played by Peter Dinklage, Walton Goggins and Bradley Whitford.In the new MovieMaker Interviews podcast, Avnet talks about why he wanted to get the mostly true story to the screen, and what he learned in the process. He also gives an amazing crash course on Hollywood perseverance, and gives inside accounts of projects from Risky Business to FX's Justified to Up Close and Personal, the film he directed that starred Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer and was written by John Gregory Dunne and Didion. And he tells us about his gift for getting people who shut him down professionally to change their minds.As we spoke Avnet was hard at work on Four Good Days, a film he’s producing that is directed by Rodrigo Garcia. It stars Mila Kunis as a woman dealing with addiction, and Glenn Close as her mother, who is trying to help her. It premieres this Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.Here are highlights of the episode, with timestamps:2:00: Interview begins, with a discussion of Three Christs.5:20: Here's how much Jon Avnet likes research.13:30: Working with Joan Didion and John Griffin Dunne on Up Close and Personal.23:30: Let's talk about Tom Cruise's Risky Business underwear slide.26:55: A few words about perseverance: "Most people who do what I do deal with rejection all the time."28:00: "Don't say no — say maybe."31:55: Dealing with critics: "You got to make the movie. They didn't."36:30: "Jump in the steam of life and maybe you'll go down the river a little bit." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This is not my beautiful, inescapable office. This is not my beautiful job as a parole officer. Dogs, wizards, food slurries, and the deceptive nature of FX's Justified discussed throughout.
This show is dedicated to the five US Army Rangers killed by friendly fired in southern Afghanistan: Sgt. Scott Studenmund, 24Pvt. Aaron Toppen, 19Justin Helton, 25Justin Clouse, 22Unnamed Ranger pending family notificationDefending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and "Cool" Mike is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections.Special Guest: Nick Searcy (born March 7, 1959) is an American actor who currently portrays Chief Deputy United States Marshal Art Mullen on FX's Justified. He also had a major role in the Tom Hanks-produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon as Deke Slayton.It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic!You never know what we'll talk about: conservative, constitution, freedom, liberty, obama, tea party, gun control, republican, libertarian, stop white guilt, word
Steve Cooper talks with actor John Kapelos. John is best known for his role as Carl the janitor in The Breakfast Club however his resume doesn't stop there. He has appeared in other movies such as The Boost, Sixteen Candles, Internal Affairs, Nothing in Common, Weird Science and Roxanne. He is also a familiar face to TV where he has been a regular on series such as Forever Knight, Desperate Housewives and Queer as Folk and has guest starred in Seinfeld, Psych, Criminal Minds, Modern Family, iCarly, The Mentalist, Monk, House: MD and CSI: New York just to name a few. He can currently be seen on Fx's Justified and his working on his third CD Too Hip for the Room.
Melissa (TheTelevixen.com) returned to the podcast to discuss upcoming series premieres. February, March, and April will feature lots of new shows, and we are excited. At the 46:02 mark, we switched topics to FX's JUSTIFIED, discussing the first four episodes of season 5.
Hey ATA Listeners, tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this podcast as our full reviews for this week dealt with Cora and Captain Hook breaking out of the fairytale world into the real world on Once upon a Time and Castle trying to escape the arsenal of redheads living at his apartment. Then Go On had Bob Costas make an attempt to break out of his image as a sportscaster with Modern Family beginning to break into the world of dramaedy while the gang on Big Bang Theory tried to break out of reality by turning a bad situation of being stuck on the side of the road into a Star Trek: TNG Landing Party mission. And last but not least we rounded out the week with the Person of Interest Team using the art of espionage to actually break Reese out of jail as the fantastic writers of Fringe set up a final last-ditch effort jailbreak to save September's son Michael who is the key to saving the world from the Observers. Also this podcast has got a Airwaves Rundown section featuring the addition of FX's Justified as well as a voicemail segment where Michael J. Petty gives his thoughts on the penultimate episode of Fringe and Woo Kim presents his two cents on the SHIELD TV Series news revealed in our News with Nico section.
The guys interview Alexandra Kyle, a child-actress turned America's Funniest Home Videos screener who's about to start a new chapter in her acting career. Listen in as these three talk about film acting, growing up in movies, FX's Justified, and inappropriate IMDB comments!
The guys interview Alexandra Kyle, a child-actress turned America's Funniest Home Videos screener who's about to start a new chapter in her acting career. Listen in as these three talk about film acting, growing up in movies, FX's Justified, and inappropriate IMDB comments!
Plenty to get to this week as we tackle some news in television and talk films and "the next Lost" before getting to the main course, FX's Justified, which returned three weeks ago. We talk about the characters, Elmore Leonard, the on screen chemistry and tone of the show, plus the hopes of the show runner. Justified convo spins into other TV at times but the guys do their best to keep it on track. As always, Buffalo Rodeo provides the theme song - "All the Same" - which can be found at buffalorodeo.bandcamp.com. The band is almost set to release a new album and we love em!
William Ragsdale, Gary Hawkins on FX's new series, "Justified," will be making an appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio! After attending Hendrix College where he appeared in plays with Sling Blade actress and fellow Arkansan Natalie Canerday, he gained attention as the young hero of Fright Night and Fright Night II, a series of humorous vampire films co-starring Roddy McDowall. He also performed in theatre productions of Neil Simon plays Biloxi Blues[3] and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Ragsdale has had a sporadic career on prime-time television. He starred for three years in the Fox Network sitcom Herman's Head. He had a brief recurring role in Judging Amy as the obnoxious son of Richard Crenna's character. He played a TV producer on Grosse Pointe, which lasted one season. He was cast in the pilot for Charmed, but turned down the series to star in the short-lived sitcom Brother's Keeper. He appeared on Ellen as a boyfriend of the character Ellen Morgan (Ellen DeGeneres), before Morgan (and DeGeneres herself) came out of "the closet" as a lesbian. He played bit roles in numerous movies and television series, including a four-episode stint on Less Than Perfect. Oddly enough, he lost movie roles in both Glory and Biloxi Blues to Matthew Broderick, but did work with Broderick in the 2009 film Wonderful World.