Before Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed his Oscar winning Pulp Fiction and his masterpiece Inglourious Basterds and giving us movies we won’t soon forget, he gave friend a birthday he would never forget in My Best Friend’s Birthday. The 23 year old genius still looks the same as he did in that 1987 short, but a little more like Elvis back then.
Eli Roth is one of the Inglourious Basterds in the bloody brilliant movie that comes out tomorrow, August 21st! Eli plays Sgt Donny Donowitz aka The Bear Jew and his role will go down in the movie history books, but how that will happen you will have to find out later. Not only is Eli playing the guy who swats off Nazis’ heads with a baseball bat, but the Cabin Fever and Hostel director also directs the film within the film Nation’s Pride and he did a fantastic job with that extra responsibility. That propaganda movie will make you laugh and cringe at that same time in a way only Eli can make it work.
Although Eli has acted before in his own movies and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, this is his first major acting role and you would never know it watching him on the big screen. He is just so believable and funny as The Bear Jew and he told us at The Weinstein Company’s roundtable for the WWII epic that this was the only role for him.
No, the only role for me was “The Bear Jew.†I was like this is it, to be a Jewish guy from Boston that beats Nazis to death with a baseball bat. I have been training for my whole life for that part. There as no other role. That’s what I said to him, “This is it.†I think there are some actors, who feel, no actors in this cast, but other actors he worked with that felt that they were now that I’ve been in a Tarantino movie I can do anything. But for us, this was endgame. This was it. Like the ultimate dream for all of us to be in a Tarantino movie. And we know there is no such thing as a small part in a Tarantino film. You can be Floyd in True Romance or Christopher Walken in Pulp Fiction. Every part is a chance to create a classic cinema moment and everybody is going for it. I felt so lucky. The first table read you look around the room with Christoph Waltz and August Diehl, and all these incredible European actors, Melanie Laurent, you felt G-d this movie is going to be amazing. It’s going to be something so special and so different. It was a thrill to be a part of it.
One thing that wasn’t always a thrill for him was a piece of costume he wore for the role in this period piece . Something BJ Novak said he didn’t have to endure and didn’t know what type of a relationship Eli had had with the costume lady to suffer through that. Well I don’t want to hold you back from scratching your itch any longer here is what it is…
Plus being in wool underwear will make you want to kill anything. I mean we were totally period thing. Even if it wasn’t seen, like the socks, the underwear, wool wife beaters, my G-d you can’t imagine what I smelled like, I smelled like a bear. It was disgusting, but the costume, and Quentin’s like, “yeah, you’re getting a cool leather jacket.
Something that wasn’t disgusting for him is that thing that will land him in movie history and it is a huge spoiler why such an honor will bestow him, so if you want to see what he told us about the change that QT rewrote for him in the middle of filming the movie then click here!
Project Runway is finally back tonight at 10p on a new network, Lifetime, in a new location, LA with new producers, Bunim Murray and even with all those changes it is still the same old show we know and love. Seriously I am so excited for Project Runway to see how all the new things added to The Weinstein Company’s show will change it up and largely because I have missed it so much!!! There is one other huge add for the show on its new network, they are adding a spinoff Models of the Runway and we finally hear what they have to say about some of those hideous outfits they are forced to wear from their designers. This show is going to be hot and I can’t wait to watch it at 11p to see how cold they get towards each other. And one last thing to lead into all Project Runway premiere night on Lifetime…an All-Star Challenge that starts it off at 8p!!!
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Zachary Quinto became a Hero to arcades across America yesterday when he teamed up with Stride Gum to help Save the Arcades that are closing their doors permanently because they are slowly becoming out of date. If you are gamer who wants to save at least one arcade before they run out quarters and all the games go silent then play Zapataur on the Stride Gum page and help them reach the next level.
Now back to Zachary Quinto, how awwwdorable is Spock playing those video games? Seriously Stride picked the perfect person for their campaign because he is like a Geek G-d because he is on Heroes and in Star Trek. On the Heroes note, I can’t wait for the new season when it premieres on NBC on September 21st.
It has been over 20 years since Motley Crue’s Vince Neil and Guns N’ Roses Axl Rose began to openly hate each other, and their feud has been silent almost as long…until now. According to Jam!, Vince is bashing Axl again and I so agree with Vince this one. When he was asked about Guns N’ Roses much anticipated dud Chinese Democracy, he had this to say…
Neil says, “For that (album) to fail was pretty crazy after so many years of being recorded.”
And the Motley Crue star is opening up about what he suggests is unprofessionalism on Rose’s part, adding, “A buddy of mine went to go play guitar for him. They rehearsed for three months and Axl never once turned up. Rule number one: show up!
“He’s been doing that for many years. Finally I think the fans just went, ‘F**k it – can’t do this anymore.’ You can’t be a fan when you can’t see the band.”
I doubt Axl will have anything to say about this because we haven’t heard him once defend that piece of crap album since it was a colossal failure. That and I think Vince could so take him now with barely effort.
