Sam Shepard passed away at the age of 73 on July 27 after complications from Als, and on Tuesday, musician Patti Smith penned a beautiful tribute to her late friend in The New Yorker. Patti looked back on her decades-long friendship with the legendary actor, writing, "We knew each other for such a long time. Our ways could not be defined or dismissed with a few words describing a careless youth. We were friends; good or bad, we were just ourselves. The passing of time did nothing but strengthen that." Patti also wrote about her favorite memories with Sam and how he promised that he would one day take her across the American Southwest, though their plans came to a screeching halt when Sam was "stricken with a debilitating affliction." "He eventually stopped picking up and leaving. From then on, I visited him, and we read and talked, but mostly we worked.
- 8/2/2017
- by Monica Sisavat
- Popsugar.com
One week before production is scheduled to start on writer-director Ondi Timoner’s “Mapplethorpe,” the biopic starring Matt Smith as photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, “Imposters” actress Marianne Rendón has been cast as Patti Smith, IndieWire has learned. The role was originally slated for Zosia Mamet until she dropped out over scheduling conflicts.
What the film doesn’t have, however, is the support of Patti Smith.
Read More: HBO’s ‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ Doc Raises Questions, Producer Has Answers
A singer, poet, and influential member of the 1970s punk rock movement, Smith documented her seminal personal and artistic relationship with Mapplethorpe in the 2010 memoir “Just Kids,” which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. However, a rep for Smith said she opted not to be involved in the production in any way, declining to comment as to why.
“When I saw Marianne for the first time, I knew we’d finally found our Patti,...
What the film doesn’t have, however, is the support of Patti Smith.
Read More: HBO’s ‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ Doc Raises Questions, Producer Has Answers
A singer, poet, and influential member of the 1970s punk rock movement, Smith documented her seminal personal and artistic relationship with Mapplethorpe in the 2010 memoir “Just Kids,” which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. However, a rep for Smith said she opted not to be involved in the production in any way, declining to comment as to why.
“When I saw Marianne for the first time, I knew we’d finally found our Patti,...
- 7/3/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
A version of this article originally appeared on ew.com.
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
- 2/21/2017
- by Madeline Raynor
- PEOPLE.com
"I think that after we die, we become something else," Zal Batmanglij says. "The question is, 'What is that?'"
"I cannot possibly know what happens after you die," Brit Marling says. "And I feel really Ok to sit in that space of deep unknowingness."
The director and his partner-in-crime/star let their imaginations run wild on the subject when they began work on The OA, a fascinating new science-fiction series they created together that is ostensibly about near-death experiences. It stars Marling, who co-wrote most of the episodes, as Prairie Johnson,...
"I cannot possibly know what happens after you die," Brit Marling says. "And I feel really Ok to sit in that space of deep unknowingness."
The director and his partner-in-crime/star let their imaginations run wild on the subject when they began work on The OA, a fascinating new science-fiction series they created together that is ostensibly about near-death experiences. It stars Marling, who co-wrote most of the episodes, as Prairie Johnson,...
- 12/23/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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Last night's Penny Dreadful was the final episode of the show, as there will be no fourth season...
This article contains spoilers for the Penny Dreadful season 3 finale. We’ll point them out when we get to that bit.
Penny Dreadful has come to an end. It’s been revealed today that the season 3 finale was actually the series' ultimate end. There will be no fourth season. That’s your lot.
Showtime’s CEO David Nevins had this to say on the cancellation...
“John Logan deftly created a truly beautiful, brilliantly-written, epic drama series that has drawn a passionate fanbase to our network. After three fulfilling seasons, John has told the story he set out to tell and brought the series to a close in an incredibly poetic way. It has been an honor to work with him and this amazingly talented cast, and we’re thrilled...
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Last night's Penny Dreadful was the final episode of the show, as there will be no fourth season...
This article contains spoilers for the Penny Dreadful season 3 finale. We’ll point them out when we get to that bit.
Penny Dreadful has come to an end. It’s been revealed today that the season 3 finale was actually the series' ultimate end. There will be no fourth season. That’s your lot.
Showtime’s CEO David Nevins had this to say on the cancellation...
“John Logan deftly created a truly beautiful, brilliantly-written, epic drama series that has drawn a passionate fanbase to our network. After three fulfilling seasons, John has told the story he set out to tell and brought the series to a close in an incredibly poetic way. It has been an honor to work with him and this amazingly talented cast, and we’re thrilled...
- 6/21/2016
- Den of Geek
Robert Mapplethorpe decided he was an important artist long before he was even making important art. Growing up in 1950s Queens, New York, he escaped to art school in Brooklyn, searching for a way to transform himself. He was the outcast who took drugs and dressed weird, until he found his path to stardom. That ambition shines through in the new HBO documentary, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures. Directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey — the producers of RuPaul's Drag Race who have also examined oddballs and outliers in documentaries such as Party Monster,...
- 4/5/2016
- Rollingstone.com
At January's Sundance Film Festival, many people went to see Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's documentary "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures" freighted with expectations. Now the well-reviewed portrait of the artist is finally airing on HBO, as several major exhibitions of his art are on view at the La County and Getty museums as well as Norway and the U.K. Several questions raised by the documentary—like, where was Patti Smith, who memorably wrote her memoir "Just Kids" for her first big love?— are answered below by New York producer and art expert Katharina Otto-Bernstein ("Absolute Wilson"), whose Film Manufacturers Inc. backs international narrative and documentaries. Still in the works: Matt Smith of Doctor Who fame is set to play Mapplethorpe in Ondi Timoner's feature starring Zosia Mamet ("Girls") as Patti Smith. Watch: Exclusive Clip of HBO Mapplethorpe...
- 4/5/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
On February 15th, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj will both be returning to the Grammys — and both will be vying to take home their first trophy. Like Patti Smith (one nomination), Nas (11) and Snoop Dogg (17), neither has won a gramophone of his or her own. Here's a rundown of the pop stars, punk icons and rock geniuses whose work has never been recognized by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
Snoop Dogg
Times nominated: 17
As of 2015, Snoop Dogg was tied for first place in the dubious competition to...
Snoop Dogg
Times nominated: 17
As of 2015, Snoop Dogg was tied for first place in the dubious competition to...
- 2/9/2016
- Rollingstone.com
W Magazine Rooney Mara loves the sex scene from Rust & Bone. Who knew?
Decider Joe Reid reminds you to catch up with the Golden Globe and Critics Choice winning Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Guardian wonders who historically accurate The Big Short is... this is such a predictable part of awards season, yes?
Guardian after a bit of rights shuffling the Little House on the Prairie movie is back on
Coming Soon Spider-Man (2017) set for IMAX so you can see Tom Holland real big like when he swings and flips and supers around
EW Matt Smith and Zosia Mamet are going to star in a Robert Mapplethorpe biopic. This is not, as far as we can tell, an adaptation of Patti Smith's Just Kids book, that was supposedly going to be adapted. So perhaps there are competing projects?
Awards Daily on why she thinks The Big Short is going to win Best...
Decider Joe Reid reminds you to catch up with the Golden Globe and Critics Choice winning Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Guardian wonders who historically accurate The Big Short is... this is such a predictable part of awards season, yes?
Guardian after a bit of rights shuffling the Little House on the Prairie movie is back on
Coming Soon Spider-Man (2017) set for IMAX so you can see Tom Holland real big like when he swings and flips and supers around
EW Matt Smith and Zosia Mamet are going to star in a Robert Mapplethorpe biopic. This is not, as far as we can tell, an adaptation of Patti Smith's Just Kids book, that was supposedly going to be adapted. So perhaps there are competing projects?
Awards Daily on why she thinks The Big Short is going to win Best...
- 1/27/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Andrew Reynolds is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
Matt Smith has been cast as acclaimed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in an upcoming biopic of the avant-garde photographer. Mapplethorpe – which will be written and directed by Dig! helmer Ondi Timoner – has the full backing of The Mapplethorpe Foundation and is a separate entity to the recently announced adaptation of Just Kids, singer/songwriter Patti Smith’s...
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Matt Smith has been cast as acclaimed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in an upcoming biopic of the avant-garde photographer. Mapplethorpe – which will be written and directed by Dig! helmer Ondi Timoner – has the full backing of The Mapplethorpe Foundation and is a separate entity to the recently announced adaptation of Just Kids, singer/songwriter Patti Smith’s...
The post Matt Smith to Play Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in Biopic appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 1/27/2016
- by Andrew Reynolds
- Kasterborous.com
Writer-director Ondi Timoner has cast her principals for her upcoming biopic on the queer photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Deadline reports that Mapplethorpe will star erstwhile Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith as the titular artist and Girls' Zosia Mamet as his former lover and Bff Patti Smith. Production starts in the summer and has the backing of the Mapplethorpe Foundation. The biopic is one of three projects on the photographer about to hit your screens: An HBO documentary on the photographer, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, premiered at Sundance, and Showtime is adapting Smith's memoir Just Kids, when tells the story of the duo's days as a couple of broke 20-somethings living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York.
- 1/26/2016
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
Patti Smith: M Train (Knopf)
Smith's previous book, Just Kids (winner of the National Book Award in 2010), was straightforward biography and much loved by fans of the '70s downtown NYC music scene for its insight into her development into one of the major figures of the punk movement. M Train is also autobiographical, but has a quite different effect, reflecting, one could say, the fact that she was a writer before she was a rock 'n' roller -- and hey, the French Ministry of Culture named Smith a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest artist honor of the French Republic, two years before she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
M Train is unconcerned with her music career (though her tastes in music are occasionally alluded to); instead, it bounces among what she's reading and her literary influences, her trips to various...
Smith's previous book, Just Kids (winner of the National Book Award in 2010), was straightforward biography and much loved by fans of the '70s downtown NYC music scene for its insight into her development into one of the major figures of the punk movement. M Train is also autobiographical, but has a quite different effect, reflecting, one could say, the fact that she was a writer before she was a rock 'n' roller -- and hey, the French Ministry of Culture named Smith a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest artist honor of the French Republic, two years before she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
M Train is unconcerned with her music career (though her tastes in music are occasionally alluded to); instead, it bounces among what she's reading and her literary influences, her trips to various...
- 12/8/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The nominees for the 58th Grammy Awards have been revealed, and while the Big Four categories lacked any major surprises, this year's full crop of nominations did have some unexpected hopefuls in unfamiliar categories. From the year's leading rapper up for Best Dance Recording and a diss track garnering the voters' love to Patti Smith hoping to end her long Grammy shutout with a Spoken Word win and Roger Waters' 1992 LP getting a 2015 nod, here are the weirdest, most surprising and unknown Grammy nominations.
Kendrick Lamar's dominant 2015 – the...
Kendrick Lamar's dominant 2015 – the...
- 12/7/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Rock stars have been writing autobiographies for years — Ian Hunter published his classic, Diary of a Rock n Roll Star, way back in 1974, at Mott the Hoople's height — but ever since 2010, when Keith Richards's Life turned into an unexpected blockbuster and Patti Smith's Just Kids took home the National Book Award, a steady stream of pop memoirs has turned into a deluge practically every season. This fall saw the release of a weighty homage to influence from Elvis Costello, a precise volume from Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, a meditative sequel to Smith's award-winner, and tell-alls from John Fogerty, Chrissie Hynde, and Grace Jones. Apart from Smith, who chronicles her life more recently, each of these authors offers some version of an origin story alongside bold, headline-grabbing tales (Hynde and Jones lead the pack there) and anecdotes that, while not as shocking, should be of interest to fans. We...
- 11/5/2015
- by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- Vulture
During a conversation at the Hearst building, Patti Smith said that in addition to her two nonfiction works, Just Kids and M Train, she was also working on a detective novel. "I have my detective. I've been working on it for a few years at my own pace," Smith said. And while a publishing agreement prevented her from divulging further details, she did say that she had cast the British actor Clive Owen in mind as the detective.Fortunately for us, Owen is making his Broadway debut in Old Times, so Vulture relayed the news last night that the rocker was using him as her muse for her fictional private-eye. “Get out,” Owen said. “I’m very excited to hear that. I’m going to put on record she better send it to me when she’s written it. She better! I want that to go public.” Did you hear that,...
- 10/7/2015
- by Bennett Marcus
- Vulture
The world's least likely Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan, Patti Smith, recorded a surreally sincere elegy for the goofy Adult Swim show, which will end later this month. "I'd never dreamed I'd be in Aqua Teen/13 seasons, what did it mean?" she sings plaintively to a gentle piano part. "A Master Shake, Meatwad, a floating head/and now you're dead and it's the end of Aqua Teen Hunger Force." The show's series finale – officially titled "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We...Mean It)" – will air on August 23rd.
- 8/20/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Patti Smith will produce and co-write—with Penny Dreadful showrunner John Logan—a series for Showtime based on Just Kids, "her 2010 memoir of her years spent in New York City with Robert Mapplethorpe," reports Alison Herman for Flavorwire. More projects in the works: Nadav Lapid will shoot Micro Robert in Paris; Christopher Guest is making his next mockumentary for Netflix; Jim Carrey has landed a pilot order at Showtime; Fred Schepisi will direct and James Ivory will produce an adaptation of Peter Cameron's Andorra; Aaron Eckhart is joining Tom Hanks in Clint Eastwood's Sully; Tom Hardy will likely star in 100 Bullets; and Tom Cruise is preparing a sequel to Jack Reacher. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Patti Smith will produce and co-write—with Penny Dreadful showrunner John Logan—a series for Showtime based on Just Kids, "her 2010 memoir of her years spent in New York City with Robert Mapplethorpe," reports Alison Herman for Flavorwire. More projects in the works: Nadav Lapid will shoot Micro Robert in Paris; Christopher Guest is making his next mockumentary for Netflix; Jim Carrey has landed a pilot order at Showtime; Fred Schepisi will direct and James Ivory will produce an adaptation of Peter Cameron's Andorra; Aaron Eckhart is joining Tom Hanks in Clint Eastwood's Sully; Tom Hardy will likely star in 100 Bullets; and Tom Cruise is preparing a sequel to Jack Reacher. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2015
- Keyframe
First announced over a year ago, it seems not much progress has been made on the Steven Spielberg-produced live-action "Halo" TV series.
Talking about the project at the Television Critics Association press tour, Showtime president David Nevins was asked if he could offer an update on the project and whether Showtime was still involved.
Nevins said: "It's still in development. Still in very active development." Pressed for a potential date he aded "No time soon."
Showtime was more immediately talking up its other projects in the works including a new coming-of-age drama pilot being produced by Lena Waithe and Common, a pilot for the drama "I'm Dying Up Here" set in the 1970s L.A. comedy scene which Jim Carrey will produce, and a limited series based on Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids" which John Logan will produce.
Source: IGN...
Talking about the project at the Television Critics Association press tour, Showtime president David Nevins was asked if he could offer an update on the project and whether Showtime was still involved.
Nevins said: "It's still in development. Still in very active development." Pressed for a potential date he aded "No time soon."
Showtime was more immediately talking up its other projects in the works including a new coming-of-age drama pilot being produced by Lena Waithe and Common, a pilot for the drama "I'm Dying Up Here" set in the 1970s L.A. comedy scene which Jim Carrey will produce, and a limited series based on Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids" which John Logan will produce.
Source: IGN...
- 8/12/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids is one of those books that is just full of magic. Charting the protopunk's bohemian New York Days with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, Smith's work nabbed the National Book Award for nonfiction for damn good reason. One doesn't have to be a fan of Smith's music, nor of the Underground/Avant-Garde/Punk scenes, to appreciate her intimate, gentle and soaring text. It's just a great book about youth and love and the desire to create. Bar none.So of course a legendary artist's life needs to be adapted to the screen, right? For good or ill that seems inevitable. As it just so happens Smith herself has been co-penning such an adaptation with Penny Dreadful mastermind John Logan since 2011. It is today...
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- 8/11/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Showtime CEO David Nevins has announced a new partnership between "Penny Dreadful" scribe John Logan and Patti Smith, whose famous autobiography "Just Kids" (2012) is finally getting the Hollywood treatment it deserves. Set in the 1970s, Smith's 2010 National Book Award-winning memoir dug deep into the life of artist Robert Mapplethorpe, and chronicled Smith's relationship with the renowned photographer before he died of AIDS in 1989. It also captured the New York scene of the period, chasing the star-studded party sprees alongside the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Andy Warhol. It didn't hurt that the president of the network was a fan either: "'Just Kids' is one of my favorite memoirs of all time. Not only is it a fascinating portrait of artists coming of age, but it's also an aspiring story of friendship, love and endurance," Nevins stated, on the heels of Showtime's TCA presentation in Los Angeles.
- 8/11/2015
- by Ruben Guevara
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rock legend Patti Smith is teaming with Showtime for a limited series adaptation of her 2010 memoir, Just Kids. Showtime president David Nevins announced the project Tuesday during the Television Critics Assocation's summer press tour, noting that Smith will co-write and co-produce the series with Penny Dreadful creator John Logan, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Just Kids, which won a National Book Award in the nonfiction category, focuses on Smith's relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the late Sixties and early Seventies – and features stories of her encounters with pop culture giants like Jimi Hendrix,...
Just Kids, which won a National Book Award in the nonfiction category, focuses on Smith's relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the late Sixties and early Seventies – and features stories of her encounters with pop culture giants like Jimi Hendrix,...
- 8/11/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Showtime has picked up the adaptation of Patti Smith's best-selling memoir Just Kids as a limited series. Smith has been working on a script with Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (of Gladiator and The Aviator fame) for the past four years, about her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City throughout the '60s and '70s. “The medium of a television limited series offers narrative freedom and a chance to expand upon the themes of the book," said Smith, who is also co-producing the series. While there haven't been any casting announcements, she has said that she wants Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson — or perhaps a couple of unknowns. "We were 20. We were unknowns, and I think it should be unknowns," she said. In other non–Twin Peaks–related news, Showtime has renewed Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex for 12-episode fourth seasons. The network also...
- 8/11/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
Book a room at the Chelsea Hotel and settle in: Showtime is developing Just Kids, rocker Patti Smith’s memoir about her complicated relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, as a series.
The network announced the news at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills.
Desert Wolf Productions, headed by Penny Dreadful‘s John Logan, will produce the series.
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“Just Kids is one of my favorite memoirs of all time,” David Nevins, president of Showtime Networks Inc., said in a statement. “Not only is it a fascinating portrait of artists coming of age,...
The network announced the news at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills.
Desert Wolf Productions, headed by Penny Dreadful‘s John Logan, will produce the series.
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“Just Kids is one of my favorite memoirs of all time,” David Nevins, president of Showtime Networks Inc., said in a statement. “Not only is it a fascinating portrait of artists coming of age,...
- 8/11/2015
- TVLine.com
Penny Dreadful creator John Logan is expanding his relationship with Showtime. In a competitive situation, the pay cable network has acquired the rights to Patti Smith's memoir, Just Kids, for a limited series to be co-written and produced by Smith and Logan. The limited series will be to be produced with Logan’s Desert Wolf Productions. "Just Kids is one of my favorite memoirs of all time," said David Nevins, President of Showtime Networks Inc. "Not only is it a…...
- 8/11/2015
- Deadline TV
Patti Smith’s memoir “Just Kids” will be adapted into a miniseries by Showtime, the premium cable network announced Tuesday. Co-written and produced by John Logan, the memoir will be produced with Logan’s Desert Wolf Productions. “‘Just Kids’ is one of my favorite memoirs of all time,” said David Nevins, President of Showtime Networks Inc, in a statement. “Not only is it a fascinating portrait of artists coming of age, but it’s also an inspiring story of friendship, love and endurance. I’m so thrilled that Patti Smith will bring her unique voice to writing the scripts along with the gifted John Logan,...
- 8/11/2015
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Following the tried-and-tested Hollywood formula of making sequels, Patti Smith will follow up her National Book Award–winning memoir Just Kids with another memoir, M Train, coming in October. Smith says the book is a "roadmap to my life," and will use 18 different "stations" — all of them cafés, it seems — that were important for her creative process. The cover photo below is from EW, and shows Smith at the West Village café 'ino on its last day in business.
- 4/13/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
What becomes a legend most? Not the biopics we see each year at the movies, Patti Smith suggests to me. We were meeting to talk about her first Original Song for a film, "Mercy Is" from this spring's $100 million hit Noah when the conversation veered into her own status as a showbiz legend, the godmother of punk. She shudders when I wonder aloud if anyone will make ever make a movie of her best-selling memoir "Just Kids" which recounts her storied relationship with fellow artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Though she's undoubtedly been interviewed thousands of times by now in her forty years of stardom, and she questions (indirectly) the whole point of the star profile and the interviewing process -- 'if you really want to know me, it's all there in the work' -- she is a patient and warm interview. She instantly recalls the old massive paraphenalia that journalists used...
- 11/20/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Arts Spotlight: Given the chance, what would Philip Roth change about his classic Portnoy’s Complaint? Is there something more Patti Smith wanted to say in Just Kids? How did Robert Caro feel revisiting The Power Broker for the first time in forty years?Pen America has asked 75 of America’s greatest writers and artists to annotate a first edition of one of their classic works to be auctioned by Christie’s on December 2nd. Proceeds from First Editions/Second Thoughts will benefit the mission of Pen to promote freedom of creative expression worldwide.Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Stephen […]...
- 11/6/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
The new trailer for John Logan’s “Penny Dreadful” gives us a Victorian London filled with sex, blood, red-eyed monsters and a terrifying master. “Where is your master?” asks Timothy Dalton’s character at one point. Also read: Timothy Dalton Cast on Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ He gets the last answer he wanted: “Behind you.” Showtime debuted the trailer at the Television Critics Association winter press tour Thursday. The series features Victorian-era characters like Frankenstein’s monster and Dorian Grey. Also read: Patti Smith Adapting ‘Just Kids’ With John Logan Josh Hartnett plays an American whose introduction to Eva Green...
- 1/16/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Frankie Alvarez as Agustin in Looking
(Photos: HBO)
HBO’s Looking features several familiar faces– folks like Jonathan Groff (Glee, Spring Awakening), Russell Tovey (Sherlock, UK’s Being Human), Murray Bartlett (August, Guiding Light) and Scott Bakula (Oh, just about everything.) But one main cast member who might be less familiar to TheBacklot readers is Frankie J. Alvarez. The Cuban-American Julliard graduate plays Augustin, one of the trio of gay friends at the center of the Michael Lannan-created series.
When the series opens, Agustin is working as assistant to an artist (Ann Magnuson) and he’s making a major life change by moving in with longtime boyfriend, Frank (O.T. Fagbenle). Alvarez gave us a peek into what we can expect from Agustin. Also how he, as a straight man, navigated playing a gay man and what this first season of Looking has in store for viewers.
TheBacklot: First, tell...
(Photos: HBO)
HBO’s Looking features several familiar faces– folks like Jonathan Groff (Glee, Spring Awakening), Russell Tovey (Sherlock, UK’s Being Human), Murray Bartlett (August, Guiding Light) and Scott Bakula (Oh, just about everything.) But one main cast member who might be less familiar to TheBacklot readers is Frankie J. Alvarez. The Cuban-American Julliard graduate plays Augustin, one of the trio of gay friends at the center of the Michael Lannan-created series.
When the series opens, Agustin is working as assistant to an artist (Ann Magnuson) and he’s making a major life change by moving in with longtime boyfriend, Frank (O.T. Fagbenle). Alvarez gave us a peek into what we can expect from Agustin. Also how he, as a straight man, navigated playing a gay man and what this first season of Looking has in store for viewers.
TheBacklot: First, tell...
- 1/14/2014
- by Jim Halterman
- The Backlot
Hot off the news that she’ll be on the third season of Girls comes word that Kim Gordon is also writing two books. The Sonic Youth and Body/Head performer told The New York Times that one of them is a memoir titled Girl In A Band that will be published at some point in the future by HarperCollins, and will detail “her choice to leave Los Angeles in the early ’80s for the post-punk scene in New York City, where she formed Sonic Youth.” Here’s hoping she uses the Patti Smith Just Kids model and puts out ...
- 9/9/2013
- avclub.com
Legendary punk provocateur Patti Smith returned on Monday to her birthplace to play a sold-out gig at the Vic Theatre.
Smith, 66, has perhaps never been more prolific than she is today. Her 2010 memoir "Just Kids" won just about every award for which it was eligible and the poet-artist-singer-songwriter continues to release new musical material and play regular live shows.
In her set at the Vic, Smith played two hours worth of songs new and old and also offered a spirited "Free Pussy Riot!" tribute, according to the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot.
Photographer and friend of HuffPost Joshua Mellin was also on hand at the show and caught some great shots of Smith, shared below.
Tickets are reportedly still available for Smith's Tuesday night show at the Vic.
Smith, 66, has perhaps never been more prolific than she is today. Her 2010 memoir "Just Kids" won just about every award for which it was eligible and the poet-artist-singer-songwriter continues to release new musical material and play regular live shows.
In her set at the Vic, Smith played two hours worth of songs new and old and also offered a spirited "Free Pussy Riot!" tribute, according to the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot.
Photographer and friend of HuffPost Joshua Mellin was also on hand at the show and caught some great shots of Smith, shared below.
Tickets are reportedly still available for Smith's Tuesday night show at the Vic.
- 5/7/2013
- by Joseph Erbentraut
- Huffington Post
Look who's wearing a Mockingjay pin: Patti Smith, rock star and National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids.
As everyone who's read The Hunger Games knows, the original Mockingjay pin was given to Katniss Everdeen by Madge Undersee. It originally belonged to her aunt, Maysilee Donner, who died as a tribute in the 50th Hunger Games, and the pin came to represent Katniss and, later, trustworthiness in the name of the rebellion.
This pin, however, was worn by the musician during her one-off gig at Rockaway Beach, and was spotted and snapped by our eagle-eyed friends at HuffPost Arts & Culture.
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As everyone who's read The Hunger Games knows, the original Mockingjay pin was given to Katniss Everdeen by Madge Undersee. It originally belonged to her aunt, Maysilee Donner, who died as a tribute in the 50th Hunger Games, and the pin came to represent Katniss and, later, trustworthiness in the name of the rebellion.
This pin, however, was worn by the musician during her one-off gig at Rockaway Beach, and was spotted and snapped by our eagle-eyed friends at HuffPost Arts & Culture.
See the original photo:
Similar pins are now on sale via Etsy and Wal-Mart.
Do you wear a Mockingjay pin? What does a Mockingjay pin symbolize to you? Let us know in the comments!
- 4/1/2013
- by Andrew Losowsky
- Huffington Post
For music fans and intrigued bystanders alike, the access-all-areas autobiography provides an unprecedented insight into the lives of our musical heroes. Even at a time when the roving eye of the world’s media is more omnipresent than ever, the official autobiography still manages to give us something that other sources would never be able to extract – the innermost thoughts and experiences of the individual in question.
Over the years, there have been some brilliant, emotive and creative autobiographies (Patti Smith – Just Kids, Anthony Kiedis – Scar Tissue), and some not so great exercises of self-indulgence (Scott Weiland – Not Dead And Not For Sale), the latter reminding us that a bulging ego and an empty piece of paper isn’t necessarily the best combination.
However, in compiling the list of the ten music autobiographies that we would most love to get our hands on, we must do so with the assumption that we,...
Over the years, there have been some brilliant, emotive and creative autobiographies (Patti Smith – Just Kids, Anthony Kiedis – Scar Tissue), and some not so great exercises of self-indulgence (Scott Weiland – Not Dead And Not For Sale), the latter reminding us that a bulging ego and an empty piece of paper isn’t necessarily the best combination.
However, in compiling the list of the ten music autobiographies that we would most love to get our hands on, we must do so with the assumption that we,...
- 3/1/2013
- by Jenna Cousins
- Obsessed with Film
Musician Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids was a National Book Award Winner in 2010 (and a sequel is apparently in the works,) but maybe you didn't know that she has a deep admiration for a writer of another era: the Brontë sisters.
And so in April, she is giving a special performance in Haworth, the village where the Brontës grew up and lived, to support the upkeep of their former house.
According to the Brontë Blog, "Her performance in Haworth will raise profile and funds for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and will take place as part of the Museum’s contemporary arts programme."
The Telegraph and Argus reports that "the gig came about after Smith, a huge fan of the Bronte sisters, visited Haworth last year, and offered to play to raise funds for the museum Bronte Parsonage Museum."
Of course, this isn't the first musician to feel an affinity with the nineteenth-century writers.
And so in April, she is giving a special performance in Haworth, the village where the Brontës grew up and lived, to support the upkeep of their former house.
According to the Brontë Blog, "Her performance in Haworth will raise profile and funds for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and will take place as part of the Museum’s contemporary arts programme."
The Telegraph and Argus reports that "the gig came about after Smith, a huge fan of the Bronte sisters, visited Haworth last year, and offered to play to raise funds for the museum Bronte Parsonage Museum."
Of course, this isn't the first musician to feel an affinity with the nineteenth-century writers.
- 1/23/2013
- by Andrew Losowsky
- Huffington Post
Vulture has released a new interview for Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund, where the pair spoke about the revealing nature of ‘On The Road’.
Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund are in the middle of a game of Q&A chicken. They’re sitting in a courtyard at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons on a hot November morning, staring at each other over a small table, waiting for the other one to crack first and answer my question. The only movement comes from the smoke wafting off his cigarette and the slowly forming half-smile on each of their faces.
All I’ve done to provoke this battle of wills is to ask, “Which of you is most like your character in On the Road?” In the new film adaptation of the classic Jack Kerouac–penned road trip novel (which opens today in limited release), Hedlund plays the charismatic bohemian Dean Moriarty, and Stewart is cast as Dean’s carnal free spirit of a girlfriend, Marylou. Neither actor wants to brag that he or she closely resembles an iconic literary character, so it becomes obvious to both that a round of mutual compliments is the only way out of this question. But who will be brave enough to suck it up and go first?
“He’s got a lot of Dean in him,” Stewart finally says.
“He’s got a lot of teeth in him?” Hedlund replies, in mock-confusion.
“Dean!” she insists, as they both start laughing. It isn’t hard to coax a smile from Stewart and Hedlund, even if their screen personas would suggest otherwise. Both are best known for their straightforward, sullen work in big-bucks franchise roles — she in Twilight, he in Tron Legacy — and you can see what drew them to On the Road, a film populated not by computer programs but flesh-and-blood people, where the characters aren’t undead but instead, really living.
In truth, Hedlund and Stewart are both closer to their roles than they’d readily admit. Like Neal Cassady, the Beat figure whom Dean is based on, Hedlund grew up in the heartland, spending his childhood on a farm so remote that you have to fly into Fargo and drive three hours away to find it. To win the part in On the Road, Hedlund channeled the vibe of the novel and wrote several soul-baring pages about his own life, offering them to director Walter Salles after his first audition by asking, sincerely, “Can I read you something I wrote?” It worked.
As for Stewart, “You wouldn’t be attracted to a project if you had to fake it,” she says. Though Marylou is more impetuous and sexually assertive than the other roles she’s played, Stewart claims, “I don’t feel like I’m stepping outside of myself when I’m playing parts. Even if it’s really different from the apparent version of who I am, I’m always somewhere deep in there.”
It isn’t jarring to go from green-screen blockbuster work like Snow White and the Huntsman to something this intimate and sweaty? Again, Stewart half-smiles; she’s spent most of her career alternating juggernaut Twilight films with barely budgeted indies like The Runaways and Welcome to the Rileys. “I don’t mind making big movies, ‘cause you get to sort of bitch and complain with the other actors about what’s keeping you from being able to really feel it,” she says with a self-deprecating chuckle. “But then at the end of the day, you could be in a white room; the whole thing about being an actor is you have to have an imagination.”
A lack of inhibition helps, too. In On the Road, Hedlund plays a cool character full of Beat bravado, but he’s still asked to do things that might make other young actors flinch, like shedding his clothes, dancing with wild abandon in long unbroken takes, or simulating rough sex with Steve Buscemi. Ask him about finding the freedom to go to those places, and Hedlund surprises by daring to quote not a venerated literary icon like Kerouac but Ethan Hawke, whose book Ash Wednesday, he says, made a big impression on him as a teenager.
“‘The only thing in life worth learning is humility,’” quotes Hedlund, who vaguely resembles Hawke with his brown goatee and earnest literary bent. “‘Shatter the ego, then dance through the perfect contradiction of life and death.’” His explanation: “It encourages you not to walk with your head down and your hands in your pockets and be closed off to life, but to be open and nonjudgmental and accessible to experience a lot of wonderful journeys within this short life of ours.”
Do those inhibitions come down permanently after simulating the envelope-pushing sex scenes of On the Road? Stewart says yes and acknowledges that in general, she’s perceived to be a closed-off person, but that she’s working on it. “It’s funny: By putting up walls, you think you’re protecting yourself, but you get to live less,” says Stewart. “If you’re hiding behind a wall, then you can’t see over it. You’re depriving yourself of so much if you’re trying to be too aware of what you’re putting out there, you know?”
She adds, “If you feel someone breaking those walls down, let them. Those are the people that you need to find in life, rather than people that you’re just comfortable with.”
With that in mind, it’s no wonder that Hedlund and Stewart want to end our conversation by discussing Just Kids, Patti Smith’s book about her artistically enriching and culture-defining friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. “It had a very similar effect on me as reading On the Road did when I was 15,” says Stewart, who’s currently reading the novel for a second time. “I had a serious urge to create shit after I read it, to go out and find people, and travel.”
When I bring up the recent report that Smith is a fan of Stewart’s — suggesting that maybe one day, she could find herself starring in another adaptation of a bohemian coming-of-age book — Stewart demurs and meets eyes with Hedlund again. “I will never be the type of person like Patti Smith who has that compulsion to be constantly creating,” she laughs, confessing, “You feel diminished somehow [after reading it]! You’re like, ‘God! I gotta build myself back up again! I need to actually use every second! Why am I sitting around, ever?’”
Vulture...
Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund are in the middle of a game of Q&A chicken. They’re sitting in a courtyard at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons on a hot November morning, staring at each other over a small table, waiting for the other one to crack first and answer my question. The only movement comes from the smoke wafting off his cigarette and the slowly forming half-smile on each of their faces.
All I’ve done to provoke this battle of wills is to ask, “Which of you is most like your character in On the Road?” In the new film adaptation of the classic Jack Kerouac–penned road trip novel (which opens today in limited release), Hedlund plays the charismatic bohemian Dean Moriarty, and Stewart is cast as Dean’s carnal free spirit of a girlfriend, Marylou. Neither actor wants to brag that he or she closely resembles an iconic literary character, so it becomes obvious to both that a round of mutual compliments is the only way out of this question. But who will be brave enough to suck it up and go first?
“He’s got a lot of Dean in him,” Stewart finally says.
“He’s got a lot of teeth in him?” Hedlund replies, in mock-confusion.
“Dean!” she insists, as they both start laughing. It isn’t hard to coax a smile from Stewart and Hedlund, even if their screen personas would suggest otherwise. Both are best known for their straightforward, sullen work in big-bucks franchise roles — she in Twilight, he in Tron Legacy — and you can see what drew them to On the Road, a film populated not by computer programs but flesh-and-blood people, where the characters aren’t undead but instead, really living.
In truth, Hedlund and Stewart are both closer to their roles than they’d readily admit. Like Neal Cassady, the Beat figure whom Dean is based on, Hedlund grew up in the heartland, spending his childhood on a farm so remote that you have to fly into Fargo and drive three hours away to find it. To win the part in On the Road, Hedlund channeled the vibe of the novel and wrote several soul-baring pages about his own life, offering them to director Walter Salles after his first audition by asking, sincerely, “Can I read you something I wrote?” It worked.
As for Stewart, “You wouldn’t be attracted to a project if you had to fake it,” she says. Though Marylou is more impetuous and sexually assertive than the other roles she’s played, Stewart claims, “I don’t feel like I’m stepping outside of myself when I’m playing parts. Even if it’s really different from the apparent version of who I am, I’m always somewhere deep in there.”
It isn’t jarring to go from green-screen blockbuster work like Snow White and the Huntsman to something this intimate and sweaty? Again, Stewart half-smiles; she’s spent most of her career alternating juggernaut Twilight films with barely budgeted indies like The Runaways and Welcome to the Rileys. “I don’t mind making big movies, ‘cause you get to sort of bitch and complain with the other actors about what’s keeping you from being able to really feel it,” she says with a self-deprecating chuckle. “But then at the end of the day, you could be in a white room; the whole thing about being an actor is you have to have an imagination.”
A lack of inhibition helps, too. In On the Road, Hedlund plays a cool character full of Beat bravado, but he’s still asked to do things that might make other young actors flinch, like shedding his clothes, dancing with wild abandon in long unbroken takes, or simulating rough sex with Steve Buscemi. Ask him about finding the freedom to go to those places, and Hedlund surprises by daring to quote not a venerated literary icon like Kerouac but Ethan Hawke, whose book Ash Wednesday, he says, made a big impression on him as a teenager.
“‘The only thing in life worth learning is humility,’” quotes Hedlund, who vaguely resembles Hawke with his brown goatee and earnest literary bent. “‘Shatter the ego, then dance through the perfect contradiction of life and death.’” His explanation: “It encourages you not to walk with your head down and your hands in your pockets and be closed off to life, but to be open and nonjudgmental and accessible to experience a lot of wonderful journeys within this short life of ours.”
Do those inhibitions come down permanently after simulating the envelope-pushing sex scenes of On the Road? Stewart says yes and acknowledges that in general, she’s perceived to be a closed-off person, but that she’s working on it. “It’s funny: By putting up walls, you think you’re protecting yourself, but you get to live less,” says Stewart. “If you’re hiding behind a wall, then you can’t see over it. You’re depriving yourself of so much if you’re trying to be too aware of what you’re putting out there, you know?”
She adds, “If you feel someone breaking those walls down, let them. Those are the people that you need to find in life, rather than people that you’re just comfortable with.”
With that in mind, it’s no wonder that Hedlund and Stewart want to end our conversation by discussing Just Kids, Patti Smith’s book about her artistically enriching and culture-defining friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. “It had a very similar effect on me as reading On the Road did when I was 15,” says Stewart, who’s currently reading the novel for a second time. “I had a serious urge to create shit after I read it, to go out and find people, and travel.”
When I bring up the recent report that Smith is a fan of Stewart’s — suggesting that maybe one day, she could find herself starring in another adaptation of a bohemian coming-of-age book — Stewart demurs and meets eyes with Hedlund again. “I will never be the type of person like Patti Smith who has that compulsion to be constantly creating,” she laughs, confessing, “You feel diminished somehow [after reading it]! You’re like, ‘God! I gotta build myself back up again! I need to actually use every second! Why am I sitting around, ever?’”
Vulture...
- 12/26/2012
- by LexiconAficionado
- twilightersanonymous.com
Read more at the La Review of Books:
Ever since Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One hit the shelves in 2004, a flurry of musicians have published memoirs seeking to emulate this new and improved version of the celebrity tell-all.
In the past, the musician’s memoir was notoriously scandal-fueled, full of shocking revelations about sex, drugs, and money. These new autobiographies leave that stereotype behind. Musicians are artists after all, and their memoirs transcend the genre, becoming works of art in their own right.
Everyone from Cyndi Lauper to Jay-z has published a memoir recently, so to help you navigate all of the options, here is a selection of some of the best memoirs by musicians.
Read more about Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Jay-z’s Decoded.
Read more about Neil Young’s Waging Heavy Peace.
Ever since Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One hit the shelves in 2004, a flurry of musicians have published memoirs seeking to emulate this new and improved version of the celebrity tell-all.
In the past, the musician’s memoir was notoriously scandal-fueled, full of shocking revelations about sex, drugs, and money. These new autobiographies leave that stereotype behind. Musicians are artists after all, and their memoirs transcend the genre, becoming works of art in their own right.
Everyone from Cyndi Lauper to Jay-z has published a memoir recently, so to help you navigate all of the options, here is a selection of some of the best memoirs by musicians.
Read more about Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Jay-z’s Decoded.
Read more about Neil Young’s Waging Heavy Peace.
- 12/21/2012
- Huffington Post
Patti Smith has lead a more interesting life and accomplished more than many of us can hope for, so much so that it requires numerous memoirs to fully document. Her 2010 critically acclaimed and National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids, detailed her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe and she tells Billboard that a music-based follow-up is on the way. “I don’t have a big rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, a sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll story to tell. I think I have maybe a better story. Through rock ‘n’ roll I traveled the world, worked with my late brother and, best...
- 12/19/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Patti Smith recently announced that she is planning a sequel to bestselling memoir Just Kids.
Smith won one of literature's most prestigious awards, the National Book Award, for the memoir in the Nonfiction category in 2010.
Just Kids chronicled the musician poet's tumultuous relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It contains lots of juicy tidbits and run-ins. Smith had dinner with Andy Warhol and chilled with Allen Ginsberg. She lived in the drug-addled world of the 60s and 70s. However, Smith seemed like she was trying to cram too much into one short book.
There seems like there's definitely more to Smith's story. In Just Kids, she was supremely focused on Mapplethorpe and not as much on herself. Smith feels the same, as she told Billboard "Just Kids was very focused on Robert and my relationship with Robert and wanting to be an artist, and the next book will be more, perhaps,...
Smith won one of literature's most prestigious awards, the National Book Award, for the memoir in the Nonfiction category in 2010.
Just Kids chronicled the musician poet's tumultuous relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It contains lots of juicy tidbits and run-ins. Smith had dinner with Andy Warhol and chilled with Allen Ginsberg. She lived in the drug-addled world of the 60s and 70s. However, Smith seemed like she was trying to cram too much into one short book.
There seems like there's definitely more to Smith's story. In Just Kids, she was supremely focused on Mapplethorpe and not as much on herself. Smith feels the same, as she told Billboard "Just Kids was very focused on Robert and my relationship with Robert and wanting to be an artist, and the next book will be more, perhaps,...
- 12/18/2012
- by Zoë Triska
- Huffington Post
Patti Smith has revealed plans for a second volume of her memoirs. The singer-songwriter and protopunk icon released the award-winning Just Kids in 2010. The book centred around her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. > Patti Smith: 'Outside Society' Album review Smith told Billboard: "[The book] is in more of the Just Kids vein and even in the similar time period, but shifts more to family, [late husband and MC5 guitarist] Fred ['Sonic' Smith], music. "So it's a different perspective. Just Kids was very focused on Robert and my relationship with Robert and wanting to be an artist, and the next book will be more, perhaps, music-based." She added: "I don't have a big rock 'n' roll lifestyle, a sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll story to tell. "I think I have (more)...
- 12/18/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
After winning a National Book Award for Nonfiction for her 2010 memoir Just Kids -- which focused on her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe -- Patti Smith is planning a sequel that will flesh out and add to the story. Smith tells Billboard the next book "is in more of the Just Kids vein and even in the similar time period, but shifts more to family, Fred (Smith, the MC5 guitarist and her late husband), music. So it's a different perspective. Just Kids was very focused on Robert and my relationship with Robert and wanting to be an artist, and the next book
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- 12/18/2012
- by Gary Graff, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After a busy week in NYC, Kristen Stewart headed to the airport today to wrap up her trip to the city. Kristen was on the go during her time in the Big Apple and made an appearance at the 12/12/12 charity concert for Hurricane Sandy relief where she showed her support for those affected by the storm and introduced Jon Bon Jovi. Kristen was also in town to do press for her new film, On the Road. She made quite the fashion splash when she premiered the movie yesterday while wearing a see-through Erdem minidress. After the premiere, Kristen headed to the afterparty where she hung out with her costars Kirsten Dunst and Garrett Hedlund, and rock legend Patti Smith. Patti, who is adapting her bestselling memoir Just Kids for the screen, recently revealed that she would like to cast Kristen and Robert Pattinson to play herself and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe...
- 12/14/2012
- by Maria Mercedes Lara
- Popsugar.com
Kristen Stewart played the legendary Joan Jett in 2010's The Runaways, but could she also take on punk rocker Patti Smith?
According to Patti herself, absolutely.
Patti is currently working with Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan on the script for a film adaptation of her bestselling 2010 memoir Just Kids, about her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe when they were just starving artists in NYC, and thinks none other than Twilight's first couple would make a good fit.
Related: Kristen Stewart -- 'I'm a Miserable C***'
"I remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, 'Those two kids could have easily played us when they were first starting,'" she tells Entertainment Weekly. "There's something in his eyes. And Robert [Mapplethorpe] was also a bit shy, and a bit stoic. Kristen has a very special quality. She's not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic...
According to Patti herself, absolutely.
Patti is currently working with Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan on the script for a film adaptation of her bestselling 2010 memoir Just Kids, about her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe when they were just starving artists in NYC, and thinks none other than Twilight's first couple would make a good fit.
Related: Kristen Stewart -- 'I'm a Miserable C***'
"I remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, 'Those two kids could have easily played us when they were first starting,'" she tells Entertainment Weekly. "There's something in his eyes. And Robert [Mapplethorpe] was also a bit shy, and a bit stoic. Kristen has a very special quality. She's not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic...
- 10/12/2012
- TheInsider.com
Most people think of Patti Smith as a punk legend. Based on who she’s imagined playing herself and late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a biopic, she would also make an utterly magnificent casting director. “I remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, ‘Those two kids could have easily played us when they were first starting,’ ” the singer told Entertainment Weekly. “There’s something in his eyes. And Robert [Mapplethorpe] was also a bit shy, and a bit stoic. Kristen has a very special quality. She’s not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic.” Uh, we don’t know if we would really characterize Kristen as either, but either way we love this casting call. Leather jackets, soulful longing, starving artistry: This is all we want to see Rob and Kristen do, forever. Let’s get these kids back to their roots!
- 10/12/2012
- by Halle Kiefer
- TheFabLife - Movies
Patti Smith is working with screenwriter John Logan on an adaptation of her memoir Just Kids, but it's a slow-going process, she tells EW. "That’s the kind of thing that has to be done at the right time, and treated very tenderly," she says. In the meantime, she has her eye on a few actors who could play her and Robert Mapplethorpe. "I remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, Those two kids could have easily played us when they were first starting," she says. "Kristen has a very special quality. She’s not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic." Smith also likes Mia Wasikowka and Saoirse Ronan, but alas, none of the starlets quite fit the bill. "Robert and I were very young," Smith says. "We were 20. We were unknowns, and I think it should be...
- 10/12/2012
- by Margaret Lyons
- Vulture
Is singer-writer and early punk inspiration Patti Smith a fan of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson?
You bet.
The iconic performer, who is steadily working with Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (in between touring) on the script for a film adaptation of her 2010 bestselling memoir Just Kids, about her relationship with photographer Robbert Mapplethorpe when the two were starving young artists in New York City, voiced her appreciation of the Twilight stars to EW just before her small, private concert for Los Angeles radio station Kcrw on Wednesday. She added that she could see the pair playing her and Mapplethorpe on...
You bet.
The iconic performer, who is steadily working with Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (in between touring) on the script for a film adaptation of her 2010 bestselling memoir Just Kids, about her relationship with photographer Robbert Mapplethorpe when the two were starving young artists in New York City, voiced her appreciation of the Twilight stars to EW just before her small, private concert for Los Angeles radio station Kcrw on Wednesday. She added that she could see the pair playing her and Mapplethorpe on...
- 10/12/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW.com - PopWatch
'So You Think You Can Dance's' Cat Deeley: 'I was supposed to be a lawyer or a doctor or accountant'
Cat Deeley hosts Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" but was never a serious dancer herself.
"I got sucked into ballet as a kid," she tells Zap2it. "It was supposed to make me a bit more girly and graceful. I preferred to be catching frogs."
Though ballet didn't take, the fashion sense, evident in Deeley's glamorous wardrobe for the Wednesday dance competition, did. And that obsession started as a girl.
"As long as I had an opinion about it, I could wear whatever I wanted," Deeley says. Her main criterion, she recalls, was "how spinny the skirt was, how much it stuck out."
Pics: 'So You Think You Can Dance' Season 9 Top 20
Though she has stylists eager to dress her, Deeley is an avowed secondhand store browser.
"My favorite thing in the world is to go to a great flea market and just have a hunt,...
"I got sucked into ballet as a kid," she tells Zap2it. "It was supposed to make me a bit more girly and graceful. I preferred to be catching frogs."
Though ballet didn't take, the fashion sense, evident in Deeley's glamorous wardrobe for the Wednesday dance competition, did. And that obsession started as a girl.
"As long as I had an opinion about it, I could wear whatever I wanted," Deeley says. Her main criterion, she recalls, was "how spinny the skirt was, how much it stuck out."
Pics: 'So You Think You Can Dance' Season 9 Top 20
Though she has stylists eager to dress her, Deeley is an avowed secondhand store browser.
"My favorite thing in the world is to go to a great flea market and just have a hunt,...
- 7/11/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Actress Shailene Woodley has named her dream role - she's desperate to play rocker Patti Smith on the big screen.
The Descendants star admits she's obsessed with the godmother of punk and has been reading Smith's memoir Just Kids, about her bohemian days in New York's infamous Hotel Chelsea.
She tells Asos Magazine, "Movies are where my heart is at. I love dark roles - roles that appear scary. Not in a horror film way, but like Black Swan or The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Films that take the audience on an emotional journey. And I would love to play Patti Smith in a film one day - I'm re-reading her autobiography, I'm obsessed with it."
The 20 year old also confesses she isn't tempted to sign up for a big-budget blockbuster - because she'd rather be known for playing smaller, more interesting parts.
She adds, "I don't pay any attention to all of that stuff (fame). I never have. I know nothing about the industry, nothing about the business and I intend to always be that way. There are more options coming in for me (since The Descendants), but that really doesn't affect me, because I will never do a movie I'm not passionate about. I'd rather be in a two-minute scene in a phenomenal Meryl Streep movie than the lead of an action-hero film."...
The Descendants star admits she's obsessed with the godmother of punk and has been reading Smith's memoir Just Kids, about her bohemian days in New York's infamous Hotel Chelsea.
She tells Asos Magazine, "Movies are where my heart is at. I love dark roles - roles that appear scary. Not in a horror film way, but like Black Swan or The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Films that take the audience on an emotional journey. And I would love to play Patti Smith in a film one day - I'm re-reading her autobiography, I'm obsessed with it."
The 20 year old also confesses she isn't tempted to sign up for a big-budget blockbuster - because she'd rather be known for playing smaller, more interesting parts.
She adds, "I don't pay any attention to all of that stuff (fame). I never have. I know nothing about the industry, nothing about the business and I intend to always be that way. There are more options coming in for me (since The Descendants), but that really doesn't affect me, because I will never do a movie I'm not passionate about. I'd rather be in a two-minute scene in a phenomenal Meryl Streep movie than the lead of an action-hero film."...
- 5/2/2012
- WENN
On stage and screen, John Logan rules — after he has written about ancient Rome (Gladiator), the Empire of Japan during the 1870s (The Last Samurai), and a depression-era 1930s (Hugo), Logan will be focusing his attention to early ’60s New Jersey when the Four Seasons were a favorite band for sure. Jersey Boys is [...]
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- 1/11/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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