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Jokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger will play The Joker in the next Batman film, titled The Dark Knight, film studio Warner Brothers has announced. The Australian actor reprises the role memorably played by Jack Nicholson in 1989's Batman film. Ledger earned an Oscar nomination as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. British actor Christian Bale will play the Caped Crusader for a second time after last year's Batman Begins, with Christopher Nolan again directing.
Kevin Costner built it and they have come
Not Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of the Chicago Black Sox, but tourists -- who flood into Dyersville, Iowa to see the baseball diamond carved into a cornfield for Field of Dreams. Now Costner himself is returning, for the first time since he made the 1989 film. He'll be on hand on August 11th, when the Netflix-sponsored Rolling Roadshow tour -- which airs classic movies at the locations where they were filmed -- shows the movie on an inflatable screen in the outfield. There's a catch -- fans who show up for the free screening will have to put up with a set from Costner's rock band first. In the words of Kev, "The movie was significant in my career, and the band is an important part of my future." See, there's ALWAYS a catch...and sometimes it's not pretty. Before the Iowa event, Kevin Smith's original Clerks will be screened at the New Jersey convenience store where he filmed it. No word on whether "Silent Bob" plans to make an appearance.
"He needs to be welcomed into the Jewish community by a public circumcision."
--Joy Behar on Mel Gibson on yesterday's The View.
Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger will play The Joker in the next Batman film, titled The Dark Knight, film studio Warner Brothers has announced. The Australian actor reprises the role memorably played by Jack Nicholson in 1989's Batman film. Ledger earned an Oscar nomination as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. British actor Christian Bale will play the Caped Crusader for a second time after last year's Batman Begins, with Christopher Nolan again directing.
Kevin Costner built it and they have come
Not Shoeless Joe Jackson and the rest of the Chicago Black Sox, but tourists -- who flood into Dyersville, Iowa to see the baseball diamond carved into a cornfield for Field of Dreams. Now Costner himself is returning, for the first time since he made the 1989 film. He'll be on hand on August 11th, when the Netflix-sponsored Rolling Roadshow tour -- which airs classic movies at the locations where they were filmed -- shows the movie on an inflatable screen in the outfield. There's a catch -- fans who show up for the free screening will have to put up with a set from Costner's rock band first. In the words of Kev, "The movie was significant in my career, and the band is an important part of my future." See, there's ALWAYS a catch...and sometimes it's not pretty. Before the Iowa event, Kevin Smith's original Clerks will be screened at the New Jersey convenience store where he filmed it. No word on whether "Silent Bob" plans to make an appearance.
"He needs to be welcomed into the Jewish community by a public circumcision."
--Joy Behar on Mel Gibson on yesterday's The View.
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