Francisca gave me a birthday surprise. My parents are here for my birthday!
Movie Trailer of the Day: Flashy first trailer for Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, starring Tobey Maguire as narrator Nick Carraway, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, and Leonardo DiCaprio as the titular Gatsby.
Here’s the official synopsis:
The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings.
Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.
The Great Gatsby opens in 3D on December 25th.
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Sneak Peek of the Day: Skyfall looks like the return to the classic Ian Fleming novels we’ve been waiting for. Out October 24.
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TV Show Promo of the Day: J.J. Abrams — of Alias, Lost, and Fringe fame — is at the helm of Revolution, a new drama set in a post-apocalyptic world 15 years “after the lights went out” — or when a mysterious electromagnetic pulse threw humanity back into the 19th century, without cars, phones, or (gasp!) the Internet. Premieres this fall on NBC.
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Here are some more photos of my behind the scenes look at Butterflies LIVE! These photos show Grant and Jay attaching the pupae to box tops. Each pupae is glued to a piece of paper which is then glued to the box tops using a hot glue gun. (The process does not damage them, so no butterflies were harmed in the process.) This method is necessary because when the tops are placed on the boxes the pupae are able to hang down as they would naturally. It is difficult to predict when the butterflies will emerge, each will take as much time as it needs. When the butterflies finally do emerge they will be in the boxes until they are released into the Conservatory for the start of Butterflies LIVE! which begins on May 25th.
~Garrett McLees
Movie Trailer of the Day: It’s Ryan Gosling and the LAPD vs. the East Coast Mafia, circa the 1940s and ’50s. Oh, yeah — Gangster Squad also stars Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, and Emma Stone. Out October 19.
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As an avid TV watcher, I’ve always wanted to be in a Neilsen household that gets to influence the ratings. And, for one week during May sweeps, we’ve been chosen.
My excitement is somewhat tempered by a feedback mechanism that looks like it could’ve been used by people who watched Gunsmoke when it first aired.
Seriously, Neilsen?
