RSS

Category Archives: Tom Hooper

USA TODAY AND NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGES, POST OSCARS NIGHT

01 Mar

Geoffrey Rush of Australia hugs Tom Hooper who picked up the best director gong at the Oscars for The Kings Speech on the cover of USA Today. The newspaper contrasted Oscars glory for the Brits of London with the Wisconsin unionists battle with the State and the Koch Brothers. Heady glitzy glory vs the tension of real people in community at grass-roots living level battling people who work for billionaire interests–not bad news overage-contrasting today.

New York Times stays well away from Oscars being the lead story this year opting to show America’s military face in the Peace Keeping role in the world by The Times choosing to keep an eye on military movements occurring in the world at this time (Libyan rebels get the spot of honor). This news was coupled with American babies not being safe, with levels of radiation for babies being beyond legal levels as these babyograms reveal. Thankfully these pics are from past archives of US medicine. To get these images requires too much radiation, for babies to handle.

Oscars fit for a swan and a king, were front page news too for Natalie Portman and Colin Firth made the cut from California on the cover of The Times.

Everyone in the US is talking about these things today as water cooler talk.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 35789 on 2.28.11~

 
Leave a comment

Posted by horiwood on March 1, 2011 in America, Awesome Aussies, California, Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Libya, London, Military, New York, News, Oscars, Tom Hooper, UK, Wisconsin

 

BEST DIRECTOR, OSCARS 2010, FOR THE KING’S SPEECH SAYS “LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER”

28 Feb

Accepting his award for best director at the 83 Annual Academy Awards tonight in LA, Tom Hooper of The King’s Speech thanks his mom for his Oscars success.

In a life update on Skynews, a Hooper fan Kirsty MacDonald writes “Hooper thanks his mum for The King’s Speech after she first saw they play and said that Tom should direct it into a film.”

On Oscar’s stage, Hooper says “The moral of my tale is, you should listen to your mother.”

Good words.

~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.27.11~

 
Leave a comment

Posted by horiwood on February 28, 2011 in Directors, Oscars, Tom Hooper, UK

 

HOLLYWOOD’S DIRECTOR’S CUT – LA TIMES CALENDAR SECTIONS – HOT STORY

23 Jan

Six Hollywood film directors bring Los Angeles industry town news hot Hollywood story this week, in the much sought after LA Times Calendar Section. The five lads and a bespectacled lassie are: “David Fincher, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper, Darren Aronofsky, Lisa Cholodenko and Ethan Coen share a passion for filmmaking.” Well – we certainly hope so!

THE ENVELOPE ROUND TABLE DIRECTORS ON DIRECTING by John Horn.

“Some spent years fighting to bring their movies to the screen. Others had the great fortune of seeing the pieces fall into place almost overnight. A few of the directors work so closely with their actors they almost become their therapists. One simply turns on the camera and lets his performers fly.

The six filmmakers who recently came together at the Los Angeles Times to talk about their craft have dramatically different work and directing habits. And their films could hardly be more diverse: David Fincher‘s Facebook film “The Social Network,” Ben Affleck‘s crime story “The Town,” Tom Hooper’s historical drama “The King’s Speech,” Darren Aronofsky‘s ballet tale “Black Swan,” Lisa Cholodenko‘s family comedy “The Kids Are All Right” and Ethan Coen‘s western“True Grit” (directed with brother Joel).

But they all achieved something exceptional in 2010: They created movies that not only were critical and commercial hits but also became a part of the pop cultural conversation. For all their differences, these six directors share the same passion for storytelling and concerns about moviemaking — those early moments when failure seems imminent, praying for the weather to cooperate, kicking holes in doors over financing headaches.”

For the full story go here. My favorite director of this line up – is perhaps Darren Aronofsky this year.

Other bloggers who love to cover Hollywood news too at times are: Mediaite; Mosaic; Mother Jones; MSNBC; New York Daily News; New York Observer; BuzzMachine;  Read the rest of this entry »

 
Leave a comment

Posted by horiwood on January 23, 2011 in America, Ben Affleck, California, Darren Aronofsky, David Fincher, Directors, Ethan Coen, Industry Town News, Lisa Cholodenko, Movie News, Tom Hooper, UK