Joaquin Phoenix’s desire to retire: we should have seen the Signs. »

By Burbanked on Nov 4, 2008 in Celebrities, Featured, Movies  |  303 views  |  

I tend to be more or less of a heartless bastard when it comes to the fading and extinguishing lights of Hollywood talent, but there have been times when legends pass into the night and I get an emotional tickle in my throat. We’ve seen both Sydney Pollack and Paul Newman go in the last [...]

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Katherine Heigl’s new movie one-sheet tells it like it is. »

By Burbanked on Oct 14, 2008 in Celebrities, Movie Marketing 101, Movies, Newest, One-Sheetery  |  384 views  |  

Wow! I have to say I’m a bit surprised by the marketing tactics behind this new Katherine Heigl one-sheet.It’s a little wordy for my taste, but one has to admire the bold honesty of putting it out there. (image courtesy of TheBadandUgly.com)

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Some of our favorite actors fade away…and with others we’re not so lucky. »

By Burbanked on Sep 30, 2008 in Celebrities, Development Heck, Movies  |  450 views  |  

Hollywood’s celebrity actors enjoy fame, piles of money, truckloads of scripts for underlings to read, and regular infusions of narcotics legal, psychological or otherwise that feed particular narcissistic addictions. They keep the showbiz hype machine greased up and moving along with flack-placed stories about personal exploits, wacky political opinions, daftly-named offspring and more.
But what happens [...]

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Thank you, Eddie Murphy. All is forgiven. »

By Burbanked on Jun 25, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrities, Movies  |  1,128 views  |  

Finally, some good news coming out of Hollywood! I just read today that a revolutionary new technology has been created to help moviegoers stop feeling so bad about spending money for substandard product at the theater. You know I’m a big fan of spending my movie money wisely, so I just had to share this [...]

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Dear Sharon Stone: »

By Burbanked on Jun 24, 2008 in Blogging, Celebrities, Gossip, Movies, Off the Rails, TV  |  949 views  |  

Hi, Sharon Stone. It’s me, Burbanked. I figured, as a fellow western Pennsylvanian and an accredited member of the burgeoning Pittsburgh film bloggers community, I would take the initiative to reach out and bestow upon you the kind of true kindness that only kind people can give so freely and kindly.
Sharon Stone, it’s time for [...]

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Whatever Walter Koenig’s paying his publicist, it’s not enough. »

By Burbanked on Jun 4, 2008 in Celebrities, Gossip, Movies  |  555 views  |  

ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Hello, this is Walter Koenig calling. Is Warren available? Yes, of course.”
“Hi, Warren. Yeah, great. Listen, I appreciate all the press notices I’m getting for agreeing to stand in as George’s best man at his gay wedding - ”
“That’s okay, it’s his event, he’s the bride - ”
“No I didn’t.”
“Anyway, what I was wondering [...]

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Thanks, Harvey Korman, for doing that voodoo you did so well. »

By Burbanked on May 30, 2008 in Celebrities, Movies  |  665 views  |  

Of course a lot is being said and written about the passing of comic actor Harvey Korman at the age of 81. And from what I’ve seen so far, much of the movie bloggers’ tributes rightly focus on Korman’s terrific turn as Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles.
But as it happened, I never [...]

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