What's going on? Not much, just a reunion of 4 Non Blondes. At The Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center's annual fundraising event "An Evening With Women" on Saturday night, Linda Perry reunited with her fellow Non Blondes to perform "What's Up," the group's one major hit. More on the event can be found at The Hollywood Reporter. Watch "What's Up" below.
4 Non Blondes Perform 'What's Up' For First Time In 20 Years
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Katy Perry, Tyler The Creator, 'Weird Al' Yankovic Each Cover 'Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built For Two)'
Artist Mark Ryden -- the man behind Tyler, The Creator's "Wolf" album artwork -- recruited the Odd Future ringleader and a handful of other artists to produce covers of Harry Dacre's 1892 popular song, "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)." Katy Perry, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, Metallica's Kirk Hammett and long-time Tim Burton composer Danny Elfman each provided their own unique take on the tune, appearing on the LP "The Gay Nineties Old Tyme Music: Daisy Bell." The compilation was put together for Ryden's new exhibit "The Gay 90s" at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.
While the album received a limited print of 999 copies, the songs are now online, and each is accompanied by some pretty weird visuals crafted by Ryden himself, which you can watch below.
While the album received a limited print of 999 copies, the songs are now online, and each is accompanied by some pretty weird visuals crafted by Ryden himself, which you can watch below.
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New Mexico Librarian Gets Blast From The Past When She Uncovers Letters From 1967
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico librarian discovered a blast from the past, specifically 1967.
Lola Delaney tells The Daily Times (http://bit.ly/1gny3It) that she was recently cleaning the library of Hermosa Middle School in Farmington when she went through a cardboard box. Delaney says inside were 31 letters all dated April 1967.
According to the letters, they were written by students and meant to be given to the class of 1987.
In the letters, the students touch on numerous topics including the Vietnam War, the space race and miniskirts.
Delaney says the students who wrote the letters have been invited to an annual celebration May 19 at the school, where the letters will be available to read.
She says she doesn't know if students in 1987 ever received them.
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Information from: The Daily Times, http://www.daily-times.com
Lola Delaney tells The Daily Times (http://bit.ly/1gny3It) that she was recently cleaning the library of Hermosa Middle School in Farmington when she went through a cardboard box. Delaney says inside were 31 letters all dated April 1967.
According to the letters, they were written by students and meant to be given to the class of 1987.
In the letters, the students touch on numerous topics including the Vietnam War, the space race and miniskirts.
Delaney says the students who wrote the letters have been invited to an annual celebration May 19 at the school, where the letters will be available to read.
She says she doesn't know if students in 1987 ever received them.
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Information from: The Daily Times, http://www.daily-times.com
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If 'Star Wars' Was A Tarantino Film... You Know Where This Is Going
From Bobby Burns, who created the awesome "Frozen" as a horror film trailer, comes this Tarantino-esque vision of "Star Wars." Biggest difference, really, is the soundtrack.
Via Viral Viral Videos
Via Viral Viral Videos
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Artist's 'Ruins' Rise On The High Line
When the High Line opens its third and final section this fall, allowing access to an untamed segment from 30th Street to 34th Street, park visitors will have company in the form of art designed to fall apart.
"Some people call them ruins," said Adrián Villar Rojas, who has been commissioned to create a new series of outdoor sculptures for the site, dubbed the High Line at the Rail Yards.
The artist, however, prefers to think about the state of his works in a different way. "The material is breathing," he said.
"Some people call them ruins," said Adrián Villar Rojas, who has been commissioned to create a new series of outdoor sculptures for the site, dubbed the High Line at the Rail Yards.
The artist, however, prefers to think about the state of his works in a different way. "The material is breathing," he said.
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Watch OK Go's 'Here It Goes Again' Video Without Music
YouTube user Mario Wienerroither has dedicated his channel to producing musicless music videos, and the latest model is OK Go's hit song "Here It Goes Again." The original video featured the band stealthily maneuvering throughout a field of treadmills, but after stripping the music and adding his own sound effects -- all the shoe scuffs, grunts and "wee's!" one would expect -- things look a little less slick. Watch the video above, and the band's original video below for comparison.
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Watch Kids React To Avril Lavigne's 'Hello Kitty'
When Avril Lavigne released her music video for "Hello Kitty" in April, it seemed like everybody had something to say about it. Some called it racially insensitive, a few Japanese fans came to the singer's defense and Avril herself tweeted a deeply insightful, "LOLOLOL!"
These little kids, though, are pretty much speechless.
"I have no words," said one adorable and terrified 10-year-old girl, while another 12-year-old looked on, completely baffled: "I can't describe this right now."
Kids, you're not alone.
These little kids, though, are pretty much speechless.
"I have no words," said one adorable and terrified 10-year-old girl, while another 12-year-old looked on, completely baffled: "I can't describe this right now."
Kids, you're not alone.
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Inside Uruguay
"The Other Hundred" is a unique photo book project aimed as a counterpoint to the Forbes 100 and other media rich lists by telling the stories of people around the world who are not rich but whose lives, struggles and achievements deserve to be celebrated. Its 100 photo stories move beyond the stereotypes and clichés that fill so much of the world's media to explore the lives of people whose aspirations and achievements are at least as noteworthy as any member of the world's richest 1 percent.
This project has a special meaning for me because for as long as I can remember, lists of the rich and famous have had a perverse hold on me. Populated with figures unlike anyone I had ever met with lifestyles the opposite of what I had always been taught was the right way to behave, they clearly could not be held up as models for emulation. And yet, with their wealth, power and influence, weren't they also meant to be models of success -- figures we should be looking up to? Clearly there was confusion here -- possibly even a contradiction. My conclusion was that rich lists were built around a lie. The reality is we can't all be rich. Most people on this planet can't even aspire to having even the tiniest fraction of wealth; 8 out of 10 live on U.S. $10 or less a day.
This is not something to celebrate, but nor should it have us despairing. Rather, it should tell us that if we want to look for success, then we should look elsewhere than those celebrations of excess epitomized by the Forbes' billionaires list and its many imitators. From this insight emerged the idea of "The Other Hundred": to turn the notion of a rich list on its head and celebrate instead not just those at the other end of society, but also the myriad ways in which people around the world use multiple means to gauge their own success and satisfaction -- some material, others not. Developing this idea took a while. I knew I didn't want to celebrate poverty. Being poor is a bad thing; everyone should have enough to satisfy his or her fundamental needs. But nor do people wake up with the dream of becoming millionaires; rather, people set about realizing more concrete, local tasks with the ideas and materials at hand.
One year later the end result of this musing was "The Other Hundred" (www.theotherhundred.com), the first book in what I now know will be a series -- a collection of 100 photo stories from 91 countries across six continents and selected from more than 12,000 images from 156 countries.
Many other ideas, themes and questions came up in the making of this book, and I hope it takes readers on a journey that helps them understand the world a little bit better. But the main goal remains to show the incredible variety of human life that exists in the world and which we almost never hear about. I would like to think that we succeeded.
We are currently working on the second edition of "The Other Hundred" for a December 2014 publication, focusing on the entrepreneurs left out of the mainstream media. These are the millions of people around the world who have ventured out and done things their own way without ever graduating with an Ivy League MBA, hiring an investment bank, planning an IPO or dreaming of fame and fortune.
Montevideo, Uruguay
Photographer: Ana Maria Robles
Every year on the second day of February, a large crowd gathers at Ramirez beach in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, to celebrate the festival of Yemanjá, an African sea goddess who protects fishermen, symbolizes motherhood and owns all the sea’s fruits and riches. Many people bring offerings to thank her and ask for her blessing and protection in the year ahead. Some of these offerings are placed on small altars lit with candles, others are put into small floats that are then released onto the sea.
At Ramirez beach, thousands of people gather to celebrate their annual tribute to Yemanjá.
Candombé music, an inheritance of Montevideo’s Afro-Uruguayan population, plays throughout the day. Dancers moves in circles, searching for the trance that will help them connect with Yemanjá.
A woman prays at one of the many small altars assembled on the beach.
Many people dress up specially for the day in robes of white or light blue, Uruguay’s national colors.
Although originally a festival of Uruguay’s African population, Yemanjá is now celebrated by people from all parts of Montevidean society.
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You Won't Believe This Unlikely Combination Of Drums, A Bell And ... A Typewriter
By now it's common knowledge to almost everyone that the best way to elevate any type of musical performance is with the addition of a typewriter. Wait, what's that you say? It's not common knowledge in the least?
Well, in that case, it probably will be once you watch this incredible music video above from Andrea Vadrucci that combines drums, a call bell and the unlikely addition of a typewriter that comes together like peanut butter and jelly.
Well, in that case, it probably will be once you watch this incredible music video above from Andrea Vadrucci that combines drums, a call bell and the unlikely addition of a typewriter that comes together like peanut butter and jelly.
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What 'Star Wars' Would Look Like If Quentin Tarantino Were The Director
Bobby Burns, who recently reimagined "Frozen" as a horror movie, just put his magic touch on "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope," depicting the movie as if it were directed by the great Quentin Tarantino. Using the cuts, music, fonts and, apparently, actors that one would expect from a Tarantino film, the trailer has us hankering for a sci-fi space western. "The Hateful Eighth Dimension," perhaps?
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Hugh Jackman Says He's Not Ready To Give Up Wolverine Role Just Yet
BEIJING (AP) — Hugh Jackman said Tuesday he wasn't ready to give up playing the popular X-Men character Wolverine as he visited China to promote the franchise's latest movie, which includes local elements intended to appeal to the massive Chinese audience.
He also told The Associated Press that he thinks he will need future treatments for skin cancer after a second cancerous growth was removed from his nose last week. "X-Men: Days of Future Past," the seventh movie in the mutant superhero franchise that has grossed $2.3 billion worldwide, premiered in Beijing on Tuesday. The Australian actor, who has appeared in every X-Men movie over 14 years, said it may have been premature for him to have said the next one would be his last.
The latest film sees Jackman travel back to 1973 in a bid to change history and save humans and mutants from destruction. It has Chinese elements, including the casting of Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, highlighting how Hollywood studios are keen to attract audiences in the world's second-biggest movie market as box-office revenue growth flattens out at home.
Fan, who has a small role as the teleporting superhero Blink, said that the movie would gross more in China because of her participation. When the movie's action moves to the superheroes' last place of sanctuary, a remote monastery, the Chinese subtitles indicate it is: "China." However, Fan said at a news conference Tuesday that some of the columns looked "European."
Jackman said there was a change in Hollywood owing to China's growing might.
"The Chinese market in particular is just booming, so the larger the market becomes the more the stories are going to reflect what that market wants," he said in an interview. "I see collaboration in every way as a positive. At the end of the day audiences sniff out cynicism, they sniff out if something is just a marketing driven thing."
Jackman, 45, whose nose was bandaged after a basal cell carcinoma was removed last week, said he will probably have many more cancerous growths. His type of skin cancer is slow-growing and can recur, but it is highly treatable.
He told The Associated Press: "I'm realistic about the future and it's more than likely that I'll have at least one more but probably many more, which is not uncommon for an Aussie particularly from English stock growing up in Australia where I don't remember ever being told to put sunscreen on."
He added: "But the beauty of this is it's all preventable, it's just about getting proper check-ups. I can be typical man, a little lazy, I couldn't be bothered and now I'm not lazy at all."
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" will be released in China and the United States on May 23. It has an all-star cast, including Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart. "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage, who plays a scientist wanting to destroy the mutants, was also in Beijing to promote the movie. The blockbuster franchise has grossed $2.3 billion worldwide.
While Jackman previously said that he was pretty sure he wouldn't act in any further X-Men movies after the next one, which is scheduled for release in 2017, he told the AP: "I think I might have overplayed my hand a little bit by saying I'm almost sure that the next one will be my last."
He also told The Associated Press that he thinks he will need future treatments for skin cancer after a second cancerous growth was removed from his nose last week. "X-Men: Days of Future Past," the seventh movie in the mutant superhero franchise that has grossed $2.3 billion worldwide, premiered in Beijing on Tuesday. The Australian actor, who has appeared in every X-Men movie over 14 years, said it may have been premature for him to have said the next one would be his last.
The latest film sees Jackman travel back to 1973 in a bid to change history and save humans and mutants from destruction. It has Chinese elements, including the casting of Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, highlighting how Hollywood studios are keen to attract audiences in the world's second-biggest movie market as box-office revenue growth flattens out at home.
Fan, who has a small role as the teleporting superhero Blink, said that the movie would gross more in China because of her participation. When the movie's action moves to the superheroes' last place of sanctuary, a remote monastery, the Chinese subtitles indicate it is: "China." However, Fan said at a news conference Tuesday that some of the columns looked "European."
Jackman said there was a change in Hollywood owing to China's growing might.
"The Chinese market in particular is just booming, so the larger the market becomes the more the stories are going to reflect what that market wants," he said in an interview. "I see collaboration in every way as a positive. At the end of the day audiences sniff out cynicism, they sniff out if something is just a marketing driven thing."
Jackman, 45, whose nose was bandaged after a basal cell carcinoma was removed last week, said he will probably have many more cancerous growths. His type of skin cancer is slow-growing and can recur, but it is highly treatable.
He told The Associated Press: "I'm realistic about the future and it's more than likely that I'll have at least one more but probably many more, which is not uncommon for an Aussie particularly from English stock growing up in Australia where I don't remember ever being told to put sunscreen on."
He added: "But the beauty of this is it's all preventable, it's just about getting proper check-ups. I can be typical man, a little lazy, I couldn't be bothered and now I'm not lazy at all."
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" will be released in China and the United States on May 23. It has an all-star cast, including Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart. "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage, who plays a scientist wanting to destroy the mutants, was also in Beijing to promote the movie. The blockbuster franchise has grossed $2.3 billion worldwide.
While Jackman previously said that he was pretty sure he wouldn't act in any further X-Men movies after the next one, which is scheduled for release in 2017, he told the AP: "I think I might have overplayed my hand a little bit by saying I'm almost sure that the next one will be my last."
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Don't Bother Paying Attention, This Play Wants You To Fall Asleep
The theater, as magical and transformative as it can be, can also get a bit dry, and long, and sometimes, if we're being honest, a little boring. At times, this feeling of boredom is perceived as an almost necessary step to fully understanding and appreciating a theatrical performance. Yet, what if instead of pushing through the drowsiness until the glorious intermission and the snack bar that awaits, you were actually encouraged to fall asleep?
This is exactly the premise of "Dream of the Red Chamber," a durational performance installation that takes place somewhere between reality and a dreamland. The piece, conceived of and written by Jim Findlay and Jeff Jackson, immerses viewers in the tale of Cao Xueqin’s 18th century Chinese novel "Dream of the Red Chamber," framed by a fragmented series of hypnotic, metaphysical dreams. Dubbed a "literal dream play," the piece asks their viewers not to pay attention, allowing the performance to creep into the subconscious of the audience, scrambling notions of time and reality in the process.
The unconventional performance leaves a different impression on each individual audience member. Based on their respective levels of engagement, viewers may exit the theater anywhere from well-rested to completely transformed, or any of the myriad places in between. We reached out to Jim Findlay, who also directed the work, to learn more about the radical endeavor. Read on to learn about the play's de-linear storyline, comfy set and unconventional aims. At the very least, "Red Chamber" will allow you to act out your transgressive fantasies, as far as theater etiquette goes. At most, the piece could transform the way you expect to interact with a work of art.
The play is described as "an epic love story between a stone and a flower." Can you expand on the plot?
It's based on an 18th century Chinese novel of the same name. It's about a stone that the goddess Nüwa creates in order to repair a break in the sky. She makes 36,501 stones which is just a little too many. She casts a stone she's made down to the bottom of a mountain in the heavens. The stone falls in love with a flower in the heavenly realm, and waters that flower every day. This stone can walk around -- [laughs] it's heaven. That stone decides it wants to take a trip down to Earth to be reincarnated as human. The flower goes to the goddess who is in charge of these things and says that she also wants to go down to Earth because she owes the stone a debt of tears, because the stone had spent all the time watering and nurturing the flower. She decides to be reincarnated on Earth purposely to pay back her debt of tears to the stone. They are reincarnated as cousins in a politically connected family in the capital and basically they have a sort of romance. The story is largely the story of what happens down on Earth but its framed by the story of the stone and the flower.
What inspired you to encourage your audience members to fall asleep?
I am interested in work that defies the normal expectations of the attention that the audience is normally expected to pay. There is a long tradition of boredom as a device for achieving a heightened state of awareness, kind of meditatively. I'd also read this novel many, many years ago and had an idea that I wanted to do something with it. Then [a collaborator] told me: "If you're gonna make a piece for a sleeping audience that would be the perfect material." It's all about how our conscious life here on Earth is a feign, and there is another existence that is more real in our dream states. A little light went off in my head and in the course of three seconds it became an idea I was obsessed with.
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Now the theater has replaced seats with beds, is that right?
The environment is sort of an installation. The beds are inside the space with performers and video projections, so you're immersed in this world and the world includes 40 beds. The audience is invited to use the beds to lie down and sleep or rest, close their eyes and see where the piece takes them. We operate the piece like you would any digital art installation; it's not like a typical theater show where there is a ticket and you show up at a particular time and you take your seat and then the show starts. We show it durationally, so the show starts at 5 p.m. and goes until midnight some days and from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. others. People are invited to come and go as they please.
What kind of reactions have you seen to the piece thus far?
The piece is structured so there is no beginning, middle or end. The narrative happens over the course of the whole performance so you might come in 4 hours after its started and see the very beginning of the play, or you might come in at the very beginning just in time for the end. Things are structured in the piece like they're structured in our dreams, in a non-linear fashion.
The piece suggests the act of sleeping opens this territory of time travel. The most common response from people who do sleep is I fell asleep, I woke up again, I felt like maybe I'd slept for 45 minutes and I'd slept for 2 hours. Or they woke up and they'd completely lost track of time. It's very common that people wake up and are sure they'd seen things happen to the room that didn't really happen, or they'd believe they'd dreamed things up but they were really happening. There's an interesting confusion between where your mind wanders and the secondary elaboration of your subconscious mind. Our job as performers is to trigger these processes and not merely to deliver a clean story, per se. It's more about an experiential state of mind where the audience can create their own stories.
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Is there any wrong way to experience the play?
We prefer that you not pay any attention. One of the big things we found early on when we started doing research for this is once you disrupt that normal relationship between audience and performer, where the audience pays attention and the performer has a responsibility to be entertaining, once you disrupt that there's a whole new set of parameters that come into what it is to experience a work of art. The piece is a lot about creating a situation where the audience gets to think about how they experience art because they're being asked to experience it in a way that's so different than what they're used to.
There's absolutely no wrong way. I always fantasize that someone could come into the piece, be there for five minutes, absolutely get it and love it, evanesce in a Buddhist-type way into a higher consciousness and disappear from the planet. Or they might spend 12 hours and get really frustrated, but still get something out of it. I've had a lot of people say they've come and spent some time there, and they don't really feel the impact of the piece until they get back into the real world. The piece tends to live with you and pop up in ways you wouldn't expect. Because we're operating in a subconscious terrain, it seems like the piece lingers.
When you put it like that, it sounds like a poem.
It's definitely constructed like a poem more than other narrative forms. I think that's a good reference point. If the audience came in thinking of it as a song or a poem that would be good. We are trying to allow the audience to find their own entry point. It's not something where you get it or you don't get it. The more you engage the piece the more you get out of it.
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Findlay's "Dream of the Red Chamber" is presented by Times Square Arts in partnership with Allied Partners and Brickman Real Estate. It runs from May 9 until May 17, 2014 at the Brill Building in Times Square. Admission is free. Visit the website for details about the all night performances.
This is exactly the premise of "Dream of the Red Chamber," a durational performance installation that takes place somewhere between reality and a dreamland. The piece, conceived of and written by Jim Findlay and Jeff Jackson, immerses viewers in the tale of Cao Xueqin’s 18th century Chinese novel "Dream of the Red Chamber," framed by a fragmented series of hypnotic, metaphysical dreams. Dubbed a "literal dream play," the piece asks their viewers not to pay attention, allowing the performance to creep into the subconscious of the audience, scrambling notions of time and reality in the process.
The unconventional performance leaves a different impression on each individual audience member. Based on their respective levels of engagement, viewers may exit the theater anywhere from well-rested to completely transformed, or any of the myriad places in between. We reached out to Jim Findlay, who also directed the work, to learn more about the radical endeavor. Read on to learn about the play's de-linear storyline, comfy set and unconventional aims. At the very least, "Red Chamber" will allow you to act out your transgressive fantasies, as far as theater etiquette goes. At most, the piece could transform the way you expect to interact with a work of art.
The play is described as "an epic love story between a stone and a flower." Can you expand on the plot?
It's based on an 18th century Chinese novel of the same name. It's about a stone that the goddess Nüwa creates in order to repair a break in the sky. She makes 36,501 stones which is just a little too many. She casts a stone she's made down to the bottom of a mountain in the heavens. The stone falls in love with a flower in the heavenly realm, and waters that flower every day. This stone can walk around -- [laughs] it's heaven. That stone decides it wants to take a trip down to Earth to be reincarnated as human. The flower goes to the goddess who is in charge of these things and says that she also wants to go down to Earth because she owes the stone a debt of tears, because the stone had spent all the time watering and nurturing the flower. She decides to be reincarnated on Earth purposely to pay back her debt of tears to the stone. They are reincarnated as cousins in a politically connected family in the capital and basically they have a sort of romance. The story is largely the story of what happens down on Earth but its framed by the story of the stone and the flower.
What inspired you to encourage your audience members to fall asleep?
I am interested in work that defies the normal expectations of the attention that the audience is normally expected to pay. There is a long tradition of boredom as a device for achieving a heightened state of awareness, kind of meditatively. I'd also read this novel many, many years ago and had an idea that I wanted to do something with it. Then [a collaborator] told me: "If you're gonna make a piece for a sleeping audience that would be the perfect material." It's all about how our conscious life here on Earth is a feign, and there is another existence that is more real in our dream states. A little light went off in my head and in the course of three seconds it became an idea I was obsessed with.
Now the theater has replaced seats with beds, is that right?
The environment is sort of an installation. The beds are inside the space with performers and video projections, so you're immersed in this world and the world includes 40 beds. The audience is invited to use the beds to lie down and sleep or rest, close their eyes and see where the piece takes them. We operate the piece like you would any digital art installation; it's not like a typical theater show where there is a ticket and you show up at a particular time and you take your seat and then the show starts. We show it durationally, so the show starts at 5 p.m. and goes until midnight some days and from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. others. People are invited to come and go as they please.
What kind of reactions have you seen to the piece thus far?
The piece is structured so there is no beginning, middle or end. The narrative happens over the course of the whole performance so you might come in 4 hours after its started and see the very beginning of the play, or you might come in at the very beginning just in time for the end. Things are structured in the piece like they're structured in our dreams, in a non-linear fashion.
The piece suggests the act of sleeping opens this territory of time travel. The most common response from people who do sleep is I fell asleep, I woke up again, I felt like maybe I'd slept for 45 minutes and I'd slept for 2 hours. Or they woke up and they'd completely lost track of time. It's very common that people wake up and are sure they'd seen things happen to the room that didn't really happen, or they'd believe they'd dreamed things up but they were really happening. There's an interesting confusion between where your mind wanders and the secondary elaboration of your subconscious mind. Our job as performers is to trigger these processes and not merely to deliver a clean story, per se. It's more about an experiential state of mind where the audience can create their own stories.
Is there any wrong way to experience the play?
We prefer that you not pay any attention. One of the big things we found early on when we started doing research for this is once you disrupt that normal relationship between audience and performer, where the audience pays attention and the performer has a responsibility to be entertaining, once you disrupt that there's a whole new set of parameters that come into what it is to experience a work of art. The piece is a lot about creating a situation where the audience gets to think about how they experience art because they're being asked to experience it in a way that's so different than what they're used to.
There's absolutely no wrong way. I always fantasize that someone could come into the piece, be there for five minutes, absolutely get it and love it, evanesce in a Buddhist-type way into a higher consciousness and disappear from the planet. Or they might spend 12 hours and get really frustrated, but still get something out of it. I've had a lot of people say they've come and spent some time there, and they don't really feel the impact of the piece until they get back into the real world. The piece tends to live with you and pop up in ways you wouldn't expect. Because we're operating in a subconscious terrain, it seems like the piece lingers.
When you put it like that, it sounds like a poem.
It's definitely constructed like a poem more than other narrative forms. I think that's a good reference point. If the audience came in thinking of it as a song or a poem that would be good. We are trying to allow the audience to find their own entry point. It's not something where you get it or you don't get it. The more you engage the piece the more you get out of it.
Findlay's "Dream of the Red Chamber" is presented by Times Square Arts in partnership with Allied Partners and Brickman Real Estate. It runs from May 9 until May 17, 2014 at the Brill Building in Times Square. Admission is free. Visit the website for details about the all night performances.
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Piercing Photography Show Reveals The Genuine Power Of Getting Up Close And Personal
Anyone who has opened a photo album, a graphic news story or a stunning issue of National Geographic knows the power of a piercing photograph. Although we're far from knowing the secret to a masterful image, it's safe to say those who snap a memorable shot aren't afraid to get all kinds of intimate with whatever is on the other side of that lens.
Today we're salivating over Fuchs Projects' "Up Close and Personal," an exhibition that explores the vast potential of a camera when it invades the personal space of its subject, be it Miranda July or a fast food hamburger. Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, the 63 images on display range from funny to touching to eerie to shocking. One photographer captures the expressions of his family members directly after revealing his AIDS diagnosis, while another uses a skin condition called "dermatographia" to render designs on her flesh, capturing the results on camera. The only thing the images all have in common? Their bold choice to crop out extra space and capture their subjects in all their unbridled intensity.
Big names like Zoe Strauss, Annie Leibovitz and Hank Willis Thomas mingle with emerging photographers in the Bushwick exhibition, aligned in their hunger for the perfect shot. Behold, 10 photographers who aren't afraid to get up close and personal, with commentary provided by Fuchs Projects' Rafael Fuchs. Let us know your favorites in the comments.
"Up Close and Personal" runs until May 13, 2014 at Fuchs Projects in New York.
Today we're salivating over Fuchs Projects' "Up Close and Personal," an exhibition that explores the vast potential of a camera when it invades the personal space of its subject, be it Miranda July or a fast food hamburger. Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel, the 63 images on display range from funny to touching to eerie to shocking. One photographer captures the expressions of his family members directly after revealing his AIDS diagnosis, while another uses a skin condition called "dermatographia" to render designs on her flesh, capturing the results on camera. The only thing the images all have in common? Their bold choice to crop out extra space and capture their subjects in all their unbridled intensity.
Big names like Zoe Strauss, Annie Leibovitz and Hank Willis Thomas mingle with emerging photographers in the Bushwick exhibition, aligned in their hunger for the perfect shot. Behold, 10 photographers who aren't afraid to get up close and personal, with commentary provided by Fuchs Projects' Rafael Fuchs. Let us know your favorites in the comments.
"Up Close and Personal" runs until May 13, 2014 at Fuchs Projects in New York.
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Channing Tatum Is The New Gambit In 'X-Men'
Channing Tatum will play the new Gambit in the X-Men universe. "X-Men" film producer Laura Shuler Donner confirmed the casting in a red carpet interview with Total Film. She told the interviewer, "He’s a rogue. Channing, he’s a rascal, just like Remy LeBeau. And he can handle the action. We all know that. And he’s got a really good heart."
Tatum has said publicly that he's always wanted to play the Cajun mutant Gambit in an "X-Men" film at some point. A few months ago, Shuler Donner told Empire magazine that she was on board with the casting, too. "I’m dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum. That doesn’t have to be a great big movie. It’s a thief in New Orleans, it’s a whole different story. He’s on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He’s such a sweetheart."
But, as Vulture points out, no Gambit movie has gone into production just yet. But perhaps, Tatum could claim the role for "X-Men: Apocalypse" in 2016, even though Taylor Kitsch played Gambit in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Check out the video below, in which Shuler Donner spills the beans:
Tatum has said publicly that he's always wanted to play the Cajun mutant Gambit in an "X-Men" film at some point. A few months ago, Shuler Donner told Empire magazine that she was on board with the casting, too. "I’m dying to do a Gambit movie with Channing Tatum. That doesn’t have to be a great big movie. It’s a thief in New Orleans, it’s a whole different story. He’s on board, and I have to get the studio on board. How can anyone resist Channing? He’s such a sweetheart."
But, as Vulture points out, no Gambit movie has gone into production just yet. But perhaps, Tatum could claim the role for "X-Men: Apocalypse" in 2016, even though Taylor Kitsch played Gambit in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."
Check out the video below, in which Shuler Donner spills the beans:
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What Do You Get When You Cross A Cat With A Serial Killer?
These serial killers are real pussies.
Texas painter Sarah Hamilton recently took her love of cats and her fascination with serial killers and merged them into series of paintings she refers to as "Serial Catter."
"I love cats and I have always been interested in serial killers and the notion that cats are like serial killers -- how they manipulate their prey and different things," 33-year-old Hamilton told The Huffington Post.
Hamilton's paintings depict felines in the likes of such criminals as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Dennis Rader.
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Texas painter Sarah Hamilton recently took her love of cats and her fascination with serial killers and merged them into series of paintings she refers to as "Serial Catter."
"I love cats and I have always been interested in serial killers and the notion that cats are like serial killers -- how they manipulate their prey and different things," 33-year-old Hamilton told The Huffington Post.
Hamilton's paintings depict felines in the likes of such criminals as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Dennis Rader.
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Follow The World's Largest Vote In Stunning Instagrams
Millions of Indians headed to the polls on Monday as the country entered the final phase of its record national election. India's 814 million eligible voters cast their votes over a period of six weeks and exit polls suggest a win for the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Narendra Modi. Results are expected on Friday.
Whether in India's mountainous north or on the beaches in the south, photographers across the country have set out to document the vote. Some of them united through Scroll_In, a collaborative Instagram feed that collects images from votes and political rallies across the nation.
Take a look at some of the gorgeous photos below, and head to Scroll_In's Instagram page for more pictures.
Balancing atop a road divider, musicians from Munna band, oldest brass and wedding band of Benares (Varanasi) wait for the remaining participants of Rahul Gandhi's roadshow to pass by. The band was employed by the Congress party to entertain their supporters on the last day of campaigning in the general elections as the last 41 constituencies including Benares go to polls day after. #loksabha2014 #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #congress #munna #band. Photo by @ravimishraindia
India's First Voter - Flashing his inked finger, dressed in traditional gear, Shyam Saran Negi poses for photographs outside the polling booth at Kalpa Primary School. Negi, a ninety seven year old former schoolteacher of the same school, holds the unique distinction of being India's first voter since he was the first citizen to vote in the Indian Republic's inaugural election of 1951. #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #loksabha2014 #kalpa #himachalpradesh. Photo by @arkadripta1
Laxman Soren and his wife walk across a bamboo bridge installed over an inlet of the Subarnarekha river. Despite the long walk to the polling station, Soren is mildly happy the elections weren't scheduled for the monsoons as the river swells and blocks out their village, Kanthi, from the rest of the mainland. #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #westbengal. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Polling officials carrying electronic voting machines prepare to board designated buses to their respective booths at a distribution centre in Seethammadhara, #Visakhapatnam, #AndhraPradesh. #Loksabha2014 #ScrollElections #IndiaVotes #IndiaElections. Photo by @harshavadlamani
Dispatches from Lalgarh - 34yrs old Chaya Sarder is one of the many who has not been able to vote for the last 10years due to political instability and violence in Lalharh. After almost a decade Lalgarh will witness polls on the 7th of May in the second last phase of the general elections. #Midnapore #WestBengal #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Supporters of Trinamool Congress Party wait for Mamata Banerjee to arrive at an election rally in Sonarpore. #loksabha2014 #tmc#india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Manjulaben Bhatt was the first one to arrive at BJP candidate Vinod Chawda's public meeting in Anjaar at 5pm to get a good seat. Photographed an hour later she was the only spectator as the candidate was running late for the meeting which was to start at 6pm. It's 7pm now and she is now joined by a trickle of spectators but there's no sign of their candidate. #loksabha2014 #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #bjp #kutch #bhuj #anjaar
Forty year old Samir Mukherjee begins to wrap up his sound system after the end of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's election rally in Sonarpore. Samir has been working in the sound business with his brother since the last 15 years and has provided sound equipment to more than 100 rallies of several political parties. #sonarpore #westbengal #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #tmc. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party remove their party posters off the city walls as part of a cleanliness drive post the polls in Assam. panbazar#guwahati#Assam#LokSabha2014#Scrollelections#Indiavotes. Photo by @Arkadripta1 #indiaelections
Narendra Nath Dubey Adig, an independent candidate from Varanasi rides alone on a boat to go from one side of the Ganga to the other to campaign. An advocate by profession, Narendra has been contesting every election for the past 4 decades and first stood as a candidate in the year 1984. He claims he stopped counting his age once he turned 22 but stated 44 in the nomination form for the current general elections. Besides being famous for his infectious laughter, Narendra is equally infamous for setting afire a copy of the Indian Constitution in 1987 outside Varanasi High Court in protest of the English language #loksabha2014 #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #uttarpradesh #varanasi #benares #india #narendra. Photo by @ravissahani
People queued up to vote at a polling station in Baba Nagri area in Kangan, some 50 km from Srinagar, Kashmir during the third last phase of polling in the ongoing general elections. #loksabha2014 #india #indiapolls #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #kashmir #srinagar. Photo by @shahjaveed
Latergram from yesterday - Silhouetted against a cloud of dust, a boy holds on to a Bharatiya Janata Party flag at a public meeting chaired by Narendra Modi at Polo Ground, Vadodara , Gujarat. #loksabha2014 #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #vadodara #baroda #bjp #namo. Photo by @baldie_ak
Group of men from Dhubri district of #Assam await the arrival of their relatives coming home for casting vote on an abandoned aircraft staircase outside #Guwahati #Airport. #Loksabha2014 #scrollelections #indiavotes #india #northeast Photo by@Arkadripta1 #indiaelections
Whether in India's mountainous north or on the beaches in the south, photographers across the country have set out to document the vote. Some of them united through Scroll_In, a collaborative Instagram feed that collects images from votes and political rallies across the nation.
Take a look at some of the gorgeous photos below, and head to Scroll_In's Instagram page for more pictures.
Balancing atop a road divider, musicians from Munna band, oldest brass and wedding band of Benares (Varanasi) wait for the remaining participants of Rahul Gandhi's roadshow to pass by. The band was employed by the Congress party to entertain their supporters on the last day of campaigning in the general elections as the last 41 constituencies including Benares go to polls day after. #loksabha2014 #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #congress #munna #band. Photo by @ravimishraindia
India's First Voter - Flashing his inked finger, dressed in traditional gear, Shyam Saran Negi poses for photographs outside the polling booth at Kalpa Primary School. Negi, a ninety seven year old former schoolteacher of the same school, holds the unique distinction of being India's first voter since he was the first citizen to vote in the Indian Republic's inaugural election of 1951. #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #loksabha2014 #kalpa #himachalpradesh. Photo by @arkadripta1
Laxman Soren and his wife walk across a bamboo bridge installed over an inlet of the Subarnarekha river. Despite the long walk to the polling station, Soren is mildly happy the elections weren't scheduled for the monsoons as the river swells and blocks out their village, Kanthi, from the rest of the mainland. #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #westbengal. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Polling officials carrying electronic voting machines prepare to board designated buses to their respective booths at a distribution centre in Seethammadhara, #Visakhapatnam, #AndhraPradesh. #Loksabha2014 #ScrollElections #IndiaVotes #IndiaElections. Photo by @harshavadlamani
Dispatches from Lalgarh - 34yrs old Chaya Sarder is one of the many who has not been able to vote for the last 10years due to political instability and violence in Lalharh. After almost a decade Lalgarh will witness polls on the 7th of May in the second last phase of the general elections. #Midnapore #WestBengal #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Supporters of Trinamool Congress Party wait for Mamata Banerjee to arrive at an election rally in Sonarpore. #loksabha2014 #tmc#india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Manjulaben Bhatt was the first one to arrive at BJP candidate Vinod Chawda's public meeting in Anjaar at 5pm to get a good seat. Photographed an hour later she was the only spectator as the candidate was running late for the meeting which was to start at 6pm. It's 7pm now and she is now joined by a trickle of spectators but there's no sign of their candidate. #loksabha2014 #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #bjp #kutch #bhuj #anjaar
Forty year old Samir Mukherjee begins to wrap up his sound system after the end of TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's election rally in Sonarpore. Samir has been working in the sound business with his brother since the last 15 years and has provided sound equipment to more than 100 rallies of several political parties. #sonarpore #westbengal #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #tmc. Photo by @soumyasankarbose
Volunteers of Aam Aadmi Party remove their party posters off the city walls as part of a cleanliness drive post the polls in Assam. panbazar#guwahati#Assam#LokSabha2014#Scrollelections#Indiavotes. Photo by @Arkadripta1 #indiaelections
Narendra Nath Dubey Adig, an independent candidate from Varanasi rides alone on a boat to go from one side of the Ganga to the other to campaign. An advocate by profession, Narendra has been contesting every election for the past 4 decades and first stood as a candidate in the year 1984. He claims he stopped counting his age once he turned 22 but stated 44 in the nomination form for the current general elections. Besides being famous for his infectious laughter, Narendra is equally infamous for setting afire a copy of the Indian Constitution in 1987 outside Varanasi High Court in protest of the English language #loksabha2014 #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #uttarpradesh #varanasi #benares #india #narendra. Photo by @ravissahani
People queued up to vote at a polling station in Baba Nagri area in Kangan, some 50 km from Srinagar, Kashmir during the third last phase of polling in the ongoing general elections. #loksabha2014 #india #indiapolls #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #kashmir #srinagar. Photo by @shahjaveed
Latergram from yesterday - Silhouetted against a cloud of dust, a boy holds on to a Bharatiya Janata Party flag at a public meeting chaired by Narendra Modi at Polo Ground, Vadodara , Gujarat. #loksabha2014 #india #indiavotes #indiaelections #scrollelections #vadodara #baroda #bjp #namo. Photo by @baldie_ak
Group of men from Dhubri district of #Assam await the arrival of their relatives coming home for casting vote on an abandoned aircraft staircase outside #Guwahati #Airport. #Loksabha2014 #scrollelections #indiavotes #india #northeast Photo by@Arkadripta1 #indiaelections
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Wade Guyton May Be Torpedoing His Own Sales
Tonight’s contemporary-art sale at Christie’s, called “If I Live I'll See You Tuesday,” should be unremarkable, insofar as it's selling the same artists who always appear at contemporary-art auctions. There’s a twist, though: Christie's is trying to tout this sale as hardcore, dangerous. The house made a slick promo video featuring professional skateboarder Chris Martin and a soundtrack by Awolnation, in which we see Martin snake his way through storage bins, salesrooms, and freight elevators, giving high-fives to black workers and nodding to others preparing works on their way to auction. Martin glides in slo-mo past art featured in the sale: work by Christopher Wool, Wade Guyton, Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Dan Colen, Cady Noland, John Currin, and other blue-chip names. Christie's crows that this sale has been "curated" by an in-house person named Loic Gouzer and that it seeks to represent "the gritty and underbelly-esq [sic] side of Contemporary Art ... tough, controversial ... built around a mood and an atmosphere ...to convey the darker side of what art can be." I say it’s just a bullshit ploy to massage client egos and reel in rubes.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Letters Reveal Feelings On Marriage To John F. Kennedy
Newly discovered letters reveal Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's feelings about her marriage to President John F. Kennedy and reaction to his death. The 14 years of correspondence with an Irish priest will be auctioned in Ireland in June, The Irish Times reported.
In the letters with Fr. Joseph Leonard, Kennedy wrote in 1952 that her time with the then-senator gave her "an amazing insight on politicians -- they really are a breed apart."
She also wrote that then-boyfriend Kennedy was consumed by ambition "like Macbeth," and she noted her concern that Kennedy might be like her father, John Vernou Bouvier, a Wall Street stockbroker and socialite.
"He's like my father in a way -- loves the chase and is bored with the conquest -- and once married needs proof he's still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy," she wrote.
In 1953, the year Kennedy married the senator, she wrote to Leonard: "Maybe I'm just dazzled and picture myself in a glittering world of crowned heads and Men of Destiny -- and not just a sad little housewife. ... That world can be very glamorous from the outside -- but if you're in it -- and you're lonely -- it could be a Hell."
A year later, she wrote, "I love being married much more than I did even in the beginning."
Kennedy met Leonard, a Vincentian priest in Dublin, in 1950 when she was visiting Ireland. However, Kennedy saw Leonard only one other time, while she was visiting Ireland with her husband in 1955.
After JFK's assassination in 1963, Kennedy wrote that she was having difficulty finding comfort in her Catholic faith. However, "I have to think there is a God -- or I have no hope of finding Jack again."
In her last letter to the priest, before his death in 1964, she wrote, "I feel more cruelly every day what I have lost -- I always would have rather lost my life than lost Jack."
Jacqueline Kennedy died in 1994 at the age of 64. She never published an autobiography.
Philip Sheppard, a spokesman for the auction house selling the letters, called the words "in effect, her autobiography for the years 1950-1964." The lot includes 33 letters as well as 21 other pieces of correspondence and photos associated with Kennedy and Leonard, the New York Post reported.
The Irish Times said a reporter was told about the letters by the auction house and had an arrangement that allowed the publication to quote only a certain number of letters, and none of them in full, according to The Washington Post.
In the letters with Fr. Joseph Leonard, Kennedy wrote in 1952 that her time with the then-senator gave her "an amazing insight on politicians -- they really are a breed apart."
She also wrote that then-boyfriend Kennedy was consumed by ambition "like Macbeth," and she noted her concern that Kennedy might be like her father, John Vernou Bouvier, a Wall Street stockbroker and socialite.
"He's like my father in a way -- loves the chase and is bored with the conquest -- and once married needs proof he's still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy," she wrote.
In 1953, the year Kennedy married the senator, she wrote to Leonard: "Maybe I'm just dazzled and picture myself in a glittering world of crowned heads and Men of Destiny -- and not just a sad little housewife. ... That world can be very glamorous from the outside -- but if you're in it -- and you're lonely -- it could be a Hell."
A year later, she wrote, "I love being married much more than I did even in the beginning."
Kennedy met Leonard, a Vincentian priest in Dublin, in 1950 when she was visiting Ireland. However, Kennedy saw Leonard only one other time, while she was visiting Ireland with her husband in 1955.
After JFK's assassination in 1963, Kennedy wrote that she was having difficulty finding comfort in her Catholic faith. However, "I have to think there is a God -- or I have no hope of finding Jack again."
In her last letter to the priest, before his death in 1964, she wrote, "I feel more cruelly every day what I have lost -- I always would have rather lost my life than lost Jack."
Jacqueline Kennedy died in 1994 at the age of 64. She never published an autobiography.
Philip Sheppard, a spokesman for the auction house selling the letters, called the words "in effect, her autobiography for the years 1950-1964." The lot includes 33 letters as well as 21 other pieces of correspondence and photos associated with Kennedy and Leonard, the New York Post reported.
The Irish Times said a reporter was told about the letters by the auction house and had an arrangement that allowed the publication to quote only a certain number of letters, and none of them in full, according to The Washington Post.
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Adam Driver May Play Han & Leia's Dark Side-Loving Son In 'Star Wars: Episode VII'
The potential of Adam Driver taking on the villain role in "Star Wars: Episode VII" was one aspect of J.J. Abrams' new installment that fans of The Force seemed to agree on. The assumption, of course, was that the "Girls" actor would play a Sith Lord in the vein of Darth Vader or Darth Maul.
But maybe not. The latest rumor, via Jedi News, indicates that Driver will play the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia. His character will still be villain-esque, though, having reportedly been "seduced" to the Dark Side. That'll center one of the major "Episode VII" plot points on Han and Leia's efforts to pull him back from Anakin Skywalker territory.
Of course, this rumor will likely remain exactly that for quite some time. Abrams and company don't seem too anxious to reveal the plot of "Episode VII" anytime soon, so it's at your discretion to trust the Rebel sleuths who regularly spill the dirt to Jedi News.
Either way, we know for certain Driver is playing someone in "Episode VII," thanks to the cast photo that was posed to the "Star Wars" Facebook page a couple of weeks ago. With this latest rumor, it seems especially likely that Max von Sydow may take the lead villain spot instead. Ain't It Cool reported last week that the rumored title -- "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Ancient Fear" -- referred to von Sydow's character, who "makes [the 'Exorcist' demon Pazuzu] look like a pussy."
But maybe not. The latest rumor, via Jedi News, indicates that Driver will play the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia. His character will still be villain-esque, though, having reportedly been "seduced" to the Dark Side. That'll center one of the major "Episode VII" plot points on Han and Leia's efforts to pull him back from Anakin Skywalker territory.
Of course, this rumor will likely remain exactly that for quite some time. Abrams and company don't seem too anxious to reveal the plot of "Episode VII" anytime soon, so it's at your discretion to trust the Rebel sleuths who regularly spill the dirt to Jedi News.
Either way, we know for certain Driver is playing someone in "Episode VII," thanks to the cast photo that was posed to the "Star Wars" Facebook page a couple of weeks ago. With this latest rumor, it seems especially likely that Max von Sydow may take the lead villain spot instead. Ain't It Cool reported last week that the rumored title -- "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Ancient Fear" -- referred to von Sydow's character, who "makes [the 'Exorcist' demon Pazuzu] look like a pussy."
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Here's The First Look At Ben Affleck As Batman
Zack Snyder has posted the first photo of Ben Affleck as Batman in the director's forthcoming "Man of Steel" sequel.
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The picture comes one day after Snyder teased Batman fans with a picture of the new Batmobile, which was covered in a tarp.
Affleck is set to star as Batman in "Batman vs. Superman." Henry Cavill will play Superman in the film, with Gal Gadot set as Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg in the role of Lex Luthor. Warner Bros. is set to release the future blockbuster on May 6, 2016.
The picture comes one day after Snyder teased Batman fans with a picture of the new Batmobile, which was covered in a tarp.
Could be time to pull the tarp...Tomorrow? http://t.co/Nmm0QqWYYH pic.twitter.com/E6iKluZNDj
— ZackSnyder (@ZackSnyder) May 12, 2014Affleck is set to star as Batman in "Batman vs. Superman." Henry Cavill will play Superman in the film, with Gal Gadot set as Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg in the role of Lex Luthor. Warner Bros. is set to release the future blockbuster on May 6, 2016.
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