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Barney's On the Beat
Writers' Roundtable: When Helen (The Queen) Mirren was asked at the Arlington the other night how she went about choosing a role, she replied: First she read the script. Then she checked out the director. Writers have long been the low man and woman on Hollywood's totem pole, but at a Saturday screenwriters' panel, six of them got cheers and rousing applause when they walked onto the Lobero stage. Starstruck audiences hanging on every word uttered by their idols normally have little interest in who put those words in the actors' mouths. But for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival panel discussion, movie mavens packed the Lobero to hear what screenwriters of such films as The Queen, Little Children, and Little Miss Sunshine had to say about their role in the moviemaking process. “Writing is a very lonely profession," confessed Guillermo Arriaga, Mexican director, teacher, and screenwriter of Academy Award nominee Babel.
Cursive fills the Troubador with indie rock
It was standing room only at the Troubadour in Los Angeles earlier this month for a special, one-night-only show from popular indie rockers Cursive.
At the beginning of the night, the Eastern Conference Champions took the
stage. The Pennsylvanian trio features John Ostrander on
vocals and guitar, Greg Lyons on drums and synth and Vern on bass. They play "sleazy 'stache rock," according to bassist Vern, with a style of writing that will make you want to dance and then punch someone in the face because they are rocking so hard.
The ECC began to play some very catchy tunes that the entire crowd seemed to be into. The lead singer's polished, almost Thom Yorke-ish voice and the vibrant sound of his guitar meshed well with the well-written bass lines and dead-on drums.
Local sci-fi series character goes lesbian in film
Consider it a blessing that director Mike Madigan's hard-edged lesbian in "Demeter" isn't based on pals of his own. "I don't know if I have any gun-wielding friends like that," laughs Madigan, a Troy resident who wrote the fan film. Turning Demeter, a minor character of the local sci-fi series InZer0, into a lesbian just seemed appropriate. But Rio Scafone, the Royal Oak-based actress who plays her, insists it's not because of her abrasive shell - or "anti-Barbie" behavior, as Scafone puts it. Her street worn aura just needed a few doses of humanity - and homosexuality. "We wanted to kind of give her a story that made her a little more human," says Madigan, who met Scafone at an InZer0 episode screening. "So we hint to the fact that before everything in the world went to hell, she actually worked on the stage and in the theater ...
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