1984 (3,1) Ms. Smith

Winston is in the dreaded Ministry of Love, and he is in a common cell with a number of other prisoners. One of the most striking things about this chapter is that, although this is a very dark chapter, filled with animalistic violence and hopeless despair, Orwell disperses scenes that are irrepressibly comical that make you laugh aloud and guffaw. One must be impressed by the artistry in this lively play of light and dark.

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Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp doesn’t want you to think of Tonto as the Lone Ranger’s sidekick.

Native Americans are more often than not depicted as the villains in American cinema. The star of Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger hopes that his portrayal of Tonto will help repair some of the wrongs made by Hollywood in the past.

“Since cinema has been around, Native Americans have been treated very poorly by Hollywood. What I wanted to do was play Tonto not as a sidekick — like ‘Go fetch a soda for me, boy!’ — but as a warrior with integrity and dignity,” he recently explained to the folks at Total Film.

He added, “It’s my small sliver of a contribution to try to right the wrongs of the past.”

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Elvis

Elvis is obviously awed and ecstatic to begin his movie-acting career. It is a shame that he will eventually become bitterly disappointed over the movies that he makes.

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I know I’ve been lucky in an awful lot of ways. But I think the luckiest thing that ever happened to me is that I’m beginning to realize my biggest ambition. All of my life, I’ve wanted to be an actor, though I never was in any school plays or recited a line other than the Gettysburg Address for my sixth-grade homeroom class. But always sticking in the back of my head was the idea that somehow, someday, I’d like to get the chance to act. I came out to Hollywood almost three months ago, and Mr. Hal Wallis of Paramount Pictures asked me to take a screen test. I jumped at the chance. I went in to take the test and Mr. Wallis told me not to worry about trying to act like John Barrymore or anybody. He told me to just act like myself. I studied up on what they wanted me to do, and then before I knew it I was in front of the camera. I wonder if you can ever know what it’s like to be standing in a movie sound stage and hear a bell ring and people shout “Quiet”, and then all of a sudden realize that everyone’s watching you, and you’re supposed to be acting out a part. I’ll tell you, it’s enough to make your legs slide out from under you.

-- Interwiew with Elvis on August 28, 1956 at the 20th Century-Fox studios, Hollywood, California.

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Photo: Elvis on the set of ‘Love Me Tender’.

68. My Ultimate Journal

I started reading my Three Journal material, and I am very happy with it. I feel as though I have finally found my voice and my purpose, after all these years fiddling around with this project and then that project. That's not to say it couldn't be better, but it works for me. The limitation rests more on my own lack of talent rather than on the project design. Now I just have to keep building on it, and I can enjoy rereading it till the end of my days, my ultimate journal, the record of my loves and friends that I have known and lost.

My only regret is that I wish I had something going on so that I am at least shooting for a payday, such as a good short story, something real, something social, instead of just something to wile away my hours and run out my life.

Daily Fun

Peggy and Kittens by *DeeOtter

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