I still can't believe Phillip Seymour Hoffman is dead. Anyway, maybe not like this, but he was not alone. Oh, he felt alone, that's for sure, and if you want to blame addiction, you have to think twice, because his death seems to be a frame, logically based on previous "facts". I do not subscribe to this kind of trash. I think that what he said in that interview on "60 Minutes" (“It was all that [drugs and alcohol], yeah. It was anything I could get my hands on . . . I liked it all..”), and … [Read more...]
Top 100 Actors in 2012
This is not my list, it is the imdb list, called STARmeter, which is a poll using proprietary algorithms that take into account several measures of popularity for people, titles and companies. The primary measure is who and what people are looking at on the IMDb.com and IMDbPro websites. This can't be rigged because rankings are based on a cumulative total of more than 3 billion pageviews per month. Imdb has designed the ranking algorithm so that the actions of one user (or small group of users) … [Read more...]
New Sub-Categories
I think to add two or maybe three sub-categories to Motion Picture, with actors and actresses biographies, one by one, some personal opinions on them and so on. Of course, there will be people I like and people I don't agree with all the time. I had this in mind for a long time now, wanted to start with Robert Downey, Jr., just because he had crossed my way more often. I started actually with Sacha Baron Cohen, on the Romanian blog, which used to be a category on this one, you read now. I've … [Read more...]
Year 1963
I've got the inspiration to create something on the special year 1963, from a recent friend from Twitter, an artist maybe born on that year, and I found a few very interesting issues. Starting from web pages specialized exactly on this, to show artistically, things happened during the requested year, to an up to date research based on a special day, your birthday, for sample. [source] Politics - France and West Germany sign the Elysée Treaty, ending four hundred years of conflict … [Read more...]