Enough sex, more violence: Dornan to try an action film
Jamie Dornan will keep his
clothes on, mostly, in this newly announced Netflix original movie Jadotville. Variety had the story.
It’s an action picture based on real events in 1961 when Katanga province was trying to break away from the Democratic Republic of Congo. At Jadotville, 150 lightly armed United Nations soldiers from Ireland held off a much larger rebel force for six bloody days.
The Irishmen finally ran out of ammunition and surrendered; they spent a nasty month as prisoners but every man survived.
Dornan plays their commanding officer. This will be the first big movie for director Richie Smyth, a veteran of commercials and music videos.
Watch for this on Netflix in spring, 2016. There’s also talk about a limited cinema release, to qualify the picture for big- screen awards.
Dornan is 32.
People unclear on the concept:
On Long Island the other day, a guy stole a couple of surveillance cameras from the exterior of a place called the Heritage Motel. Police have admirably clear pictures, NBC reports, showing the culprit looking into the lenses as he unscrews the cameras from their mountings.
They’ve disseminated the image, and are waiting for somebody to phone in and identify the thief.
Here’s a shock: Lady Gaga
has done something normal. Well, somewhat normal.
The Times Herald- Record is one of my favourite newspapers in the metro Poughkeepsie area, and this week the paper’s executive editor had quite a scoop: he wrote that he was present when Lady Gaga was showing off her engagement ring: she has accepted a proposal of marriage from her longtime main squeeze, Taylor Kinney. I mean, is getting married normal any more? But I digress. The editor, Barry Lewis, wrote that Gaga “displayed the evidence — given to her by the star of Chicago Fire — to her family and friends on Valentine’s Day at her parents’ restaurant, Joanne Trattoria, on the upper west side of Manhattan.” This was Saturday night; Lewis just happened to be at a nearby table with his wife.
Kinney’s 33. Gaga’s 28.
Quote of the day: Anna
Kendrick, on Conan O’Brien’s show the other night, invoked one of the mysteriously unavoidable realities of the modern age:
“It’s always girls taking naked pictures in the mirror, and their room behind them is a disaster.”
If she were a man viewing such pictures, she went on, ( s) he would think: “Nice abs, girl. But put that bowl of mouldy Captain Crunch in the sink, first.”
Annals of commerce: Red Bull,
which sells 100 squintillion cans of the stuff every year, is suing a 2,500 barrel a year brewery called Old Ox, for trademark infringement. No, really. The Washington Post reports that the northern-Virginia startup brewery is being buried in complaints. Actual quote from one Red Bull document: “An ‘ ox’ and a ‘ bull’ both fall within the same class of ‘ bovine’ animals and are virtually indistinguishable to most consumers. In addition, an ox is a castrated bull.”
Sounds like those lawyers are a little bit over- stimulated.