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Here are some snaps of Keira Knightley whilst filming William Monahan’s upcoming London Boulevard in London.

The film tells the story of an ex-con who becomes involved with a reclusive actress.

(photo source = Bauer-Griffin)

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce have announced next year’s Hollywood Walk of Fame honorees.

Motion picture honorees will be Russell Crowe, Adam Sandler, James Cameron, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Gale Anne Hurd, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Emma Thompson and Mark Wahlberg.

The TV honorees are Bill Maher, Chris Berman, Jon Cryer, Peter Graves, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sam Waterston.

Recording artists to be recognized are Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, the Funk Brothers, Alan Jackson, Chaka Khan, Van Morrison, Marco Antonio Solis, ZZ Top and the late Roy Orbison.

Andrea Bocelli and the Cirque du Soleil’s Guy Liberte will represent live performance and theater.

These all seem fairly well deserved, but Mark Wahlberg, really.  I guess he’s famous, but the only good thing he’s ever done was Boogie Nights, and by all accounts he was a total dick on set.  At least that’s the way John C. Reilly tells it.

[source = The Hollywood Reporter]

Another day and another set of photos of Kristen Stewart and Joan Jett together for work on The Runaways.  I have to say that I like them spending so much time together ‘cos it can really only be a good thing for the movie.  Hopefully it’ll turn out to be another great starring vehicle for Kristen.

I kinda like the t-shirt she’s wearing too.  I wonder if everyone working on the flick gets one.

I like all celebrities for the most part.  I think deep down everyone wants to be famous, and that’s what makes it so appealing to see how the other half lives.  With that in mind I try not to be mean or harsh when I make posts here, despite sometimes being annoyed by certain celebrities.

Paris Hilton is one such person.  I think she’s very attractive, and she seems to have some money, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why she’s famous.  She doesn’t appear to do anything.

But who am I kidding, if I could live the life she does I’d do it in a second, so good for her.

Anyway, these are snaps of Paris and her family as they arrive to have dinner at Mr Chow in Beverly Hills.

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Jason Biggs

According to Nikke Finke, this is the younger-skewing sitcom written by Mitchell Hurwitz and Jim Vallely, and starring Jason Biggs, that CBS thinks could do well paired with The Big Bang Theory. “The network is happy with the way it came in.” Good thing, too, because this is CBS’ biggest commitment and there’s a giant penalty. Five scripts are already in.

I’m not gonna bother with a full review of the script because frankly it was pretty terrible.  Call me a stickler, but I think a sitcom should actually be funny, and this one isn’t.

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Who's the leader?

Only next weeks double episode to go, and then no more Lost until January 2010.  That’s a hell of a wait, so these remaining 3 hours had better be good.

With that in mind, I hate to say it, but I’m actually disappointed after an episode of Lost.  That’s not to say that this episode was particularly bad, just not what I expected it to be.

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I just got back from seeing STAR TREK and I loved it.  Now, I’m no Trekkie, or Trekker, or whatever is politically correct to call diehard Trek fans, but I have seen some of the previous films, and in my mind the new reboot blows them all away.  Each of the new actors playing the central roles fits perfectly, but I thought that Chris Pine as Kirk and Simon Pegg as Scotty were the two main standouts.

I went into the film knowing next to nothing about the plot, so I’m not going to give too much away here in case anyone’s actually reading my blog, but I will highlight some of my personal pros and cons of the film.

Pros:

• A great reboot that sets the stage for future films without the need for retcon.
• The fight on the drill
• Brilliant choices for the main roles
• Eric Bana as a kick ass villain
• The special effects were absolutely amazing
• So was the score
• The whole scope of it is something that I’ve never seen in a Star Trek film before

Cons:

• The birth of Kirk sequence (that specifically, not the whole opening)
• The little alien hanging around with Scotty (it reminded me of an Ewok)
• The standing ovation for Kirk at the end

Final Grade: A-

This is my first attempt at reviewing a script on my new blog, but I’m not even going to pretend to be good at analysing a script.  What I’m going to do instead is give general impressions of the scripts I read with some broad reasons why I like or dislike it.

So, the script I have for TOY STORY 3 is an early draft which has apparently been discarded for a completely new story.  I think with the standards that Pixar has set for itself with it’s catalogue of films, that this is actually a good thing.  That’s not to say that the story isn’t any good, I just don’t think it matches up to the level of quality that we all expect from a Pixar flick.

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