Poor Gwyneth ... - NEW: Bonus Kim K Kontent!!!

[westen44]

I've seen "Europa" and "The Kingdom" by Lars von Trier.  But "Melancholia" was my favorite by far.  Kirsten Dunst was perfect for that role--something which I'm sure was obvious to Lars von Trier from the start.  That's one of those few movies I could watch over and over.  Usually, I can't do that.  It probably helps to be a sci-fan and also a fan of Kirsten Dunst. 

[uwe]

Melancholia is great art, no doubt. More on the poetic side of his work. Dogville is another classic from him, but a lot more disturbing, not a nice mirror held to mankind.

[westen44]

I want to see "Dogville" sometime.  I had almost forgotten about "Medea" that I saw quite some time ago. 

[4stringer77]

I think Gwyneth Paltrow would have been pretty good in Melancholia. You know she was in the same movie with Phil Collins and David Crosby? The Dustin Hoffman version of Hook back in 1991.

[uwe]

Gwyneth ain't such a bad actress if she has a decent role, I'll give her that. But for some years now, noteworthy roles haven't been coming or she has been deliberately choosy/doesn't need the money and hassle.

[Dave W]

Who would want to put up with her shit?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Who would want to put up with her shit?

...anyone going for anal with her on the wrong day. (Sorry. Couldn't resist) I have that book mentioned in her article. It should be required reading for every adolescent in the US. The chapter on anal is frank, yet funny, and has lots of language that makes this forum look tame. At least Gwyneth tapped a good source.

[Dave W]

...anyone going for anal with her on the wrong day. (Sorry. Couldn't resist) ...

[4stringer77]

She's about 45 now. Unless she can pull a Meryl Streep, her roles will continue to diminish.

[4stringer77]

Yeah, I was gonna raise the Bosch/DP connection too. And I liked the first line up too, but with Evan's smooth crooning and Simper's melodic, but very early sixties style bass playing, they were too firmly entrenched in the ending decade (DP's 3rd album was released in early 69) and not well poised for the coming one. Blackmore had heard Led Zeppelin II and that was the death knell for that particular line up which would have probably along the way developed into more pastoral English prog, but they wouldn't have conquered American FM radio.

Rod Evans, that first DP singer and the voice of Hush, has disappeared off the face of this earth for decades now. He was last heard of in the early 80ies with the ill-fated and -advised bogus-DP that toured a few southern States in the US. From then on all trace is lost - no one knows whether he is even still alive. He still has earnings from his DP days, he had to surrender them for some time in the wake of the court action settlement of his bogus DP antics, but they were resumed a while ago, must be fed to some escrow account, no one has declared him dead yet and he seems to have no known living relatives. Your chance to claim that he was your dad!

My mom bartended in the late 60s in Boston when she was in college, told me a cool story about seeing Procul Harem tossing a bunch of money around, but I wasn't born until 77 and Rod probably wouldn't have been around New Hampshire then.
Screw Led Zeppelin, this is the best version of Smoke on the Water!

While I'm at it, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown band are better than Bruce Springsteen.

[uwe]

Wow, thanks, I never saw anything of that length and audio quality of the Bogus Purple!  had expected it to be even (much) worse. Granted, the rendition is hamfisted, but so are a lot of Smoke on the Water versions if not played by Purple. Evans voice is immediately recognizable, but his limits are immediately obvious too: He's flat throughout (one of the reasons why he was dismissed in 1969: "He had issues pitching when the music got louder.") and he is rhythmically insecure though the Smoke on the Water verse is hardly a sophisticated rap by Eminem.

But a real historic piece, vielen Dank!

No issues with Cafferty, yes, he sounds like the Boss, but he wasn't the only one who was Springsteen-inspired back then.



Even these more recent guys are in a way.

[Dave W]

Gwyneth gets a mention in Popular Science even though she hasn't advocated this practice.... yet.

[westen44]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/even-gwyneth-paltrow-doesnt-know-wtf-goop-is-doing_us_5936e244e4b0099e7fafbfa8

[uwe]

Ah, so Goop is fake news yet again. Hopefully no one cut diplomatic ties to Gwyneth because of it. Must be Russian hackers.

[Dave W]

She does admit knowing about the jade eggs. I'm not surprised that she sells a lot of them. There's a sucker born every minute.