Winnipeg Free Press - September 24/09
Top 5 Gary Busey Being Gary Busey Videos
EVEN before his bizarre reality show confirmed that Gary Busey was a bit odd, the actor had a reputation as being a loose cannon. While a quick search on YouTube will pull up some great Busey moments, Banned in Hollywood has gathered the top five videos of Busey doing what he does best — captivating and confusing audiences with his strange “Buseyisms.”
25 Reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival in 25 Sentences
THE Toronto International Film Festival recently wrapped up, and despite what you see on entertainment news shows, the festival is more than celebrity sightings, fancy gala dinners and walking the red carpet — there are actually movies being premièred. If you didn’t get enough info on which films were hot and which to avoid when they hit the theatres, Esquire magazine has 25 reviews in 25 sentences. It’s a fast, fun way to get a feel for the festival.
10 Weirdest Celebrity Food Commercials
AS an actor, there can be periods where times are tough. The good roles may have dried up, the scripts you are being sent read like a made-for-TV movie and your prospects are looking bleak. If you are a musician, maybe you’ve blown your advance from the record label and need a quick way to make cash for your mortgage.
While not all celebrities are willing to do whatever it takes to get some cold, hard cash, Slashfood has pulled together some who have with the 10 Weirdest Celebrity Food Commercials. From Steven Seagal hawking energy drinks to Bruce Willis pitching Seagram’s Golden Wine Coolers or Jason Alexander singing and dancing in an ad for McDonald’s McDLT, here are 10 reasons why celebrities should stay away from this type of work.
AFTER 20 years, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has decided to take a break. Although he won’t stop releasing music, the reclusive musician recently announced that after his tour with Jane’s Addiction, he will be retiring from touring as N.I.N.
Along with spending more time in the studio, Reznor plans to continue to take on the music industry while trying to establish new distribution methods in a post-CD world. Reznor spoke to The Onion’s A.V. Club about how the grind of touring with N.I.N. started to feel like being in a play, his life under a record label’s control and his future plans.
“My experience with being on a record label over the years has been when both of your agendas are in sync, and they’re the same goal, it’s great to have another army of people and resources and money. But most of the time, they’re not the same,” Reznor explains to the A.V. Club’s Kyle Ryan.
“Their agenda is just simply to sell plastic discs at any cost, and yours is to preserve — at least in my case — your integrity, and hopefully sell some plastic discs, too. I wouldn’t do a Right Guard commercial or be on WWE or whatever, but they would want you to do that if it meant they could sell more plastic discs.”
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 24, 2009 E3
