Jon Favreau Talks Genre-Mash Cowboys & Aliens

In an interview with TOH’s Anthony D’Alessandro last week at the National Italian American Federation Gala, where Jon Favreau was lauded with the org’s Special Entertainment Achievement Award, the actor-director gave up some nuggets of intel on his upcoming summer genre-mash Cowboys & Aliens, starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.

Kitschy high-concept vehicles can be a turnoff on their title alone. 

Before moviegoers even approached the ticket booth, they could smell the stench of ridiculous in polyester pics such as 1996’s Mars Attacks! ($37.8 million), 2006’s Snakes on a Plane ($34 million) or 2007’s Grindhouse  ($25 million) – all of which crashed at the domestic B.O., despite having credible talent attached.

However, with Cowboys & Aliens, Favreau and Universal are hoping to best such Z-movie stigma by selling the summer tentpole as a straight-up, serious X-Files western, evident in the first trailer (see below) they released back in November. 

Working to Favreau’s advantage: westerns and offbeat sci-fi and horror such as True Grit ($171 million), District 9 ($115.6 million) and Zombieland ($75.6 million) made strides at the recent domestic B.O.

Lost Marilyn Monroe Photos Were Shot

In 1980, photographer Anton Fury paid two dollars at a Parsippany, New Jersey garage sale for a folder full of black and white negatives of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield (he calls it "probably my greatest garage sale discovery ever"). The photos have apparently never been published before, according to CNN, and their origins remain a mystery. Fury is working with Beverly Hills art dealer David W. Streets hoping to find out more about the photos, which they believe were taken in 1950. Streets says "I know they were taken here in Los Angeles...from the backgrounds that we see in the photos...You see Hollywood Hills, Hollywood 1950s architecture." He's hoping people see the photos and figure out more details, so pipe up if that pool looks familiar.

RIP Jonas Bevacqua

Jonas Bevacqua, co-founder and creative director of LRG, was found dead in Los Angeles today. Though we don’t often cover LRG here at Highsnobiety, we have nothing but respect for what Jonas and his team achieved with the brand and the strong influence they hold to this day. A true visionary, Jonas Bevacqua was 34 years old. Rest in peace

nba finals

Throughout the leagues and tournaments I've organized, coached in, and played in, I've seen a lot of adults play basketball in my lifetime. This year in the NBA, I observed a lot of the lessons about basketball -- lessons which I learned the hard way through mostly painful losses and a few exhilirating championships come to fruition.

And now it's come to this, the 2011 NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat. Deciding this one isn't any easier than it was deciding last year's duel between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers. However, I'm sure you can agree that there is a decidedly different feel to this one.

Gypsies Tramps & Thieves

Summer is just around the corner and that means vacation time  beckons. Most American families load up the SUV  (and sometimes even strap the pets to the roof of the car) and head out  to see America, and by ‘see America’ we mean  parents pointing out fascinating landmarks to  their overfed mindless meatsack  children in the backseat who instead stare at an overhead DVD screen showing a Pixar film that they have watched, like, a million times already,  while shoving fistfuls of Chicken McNuggets  into their slackjawed gaping maws while wondering if the next Hampton Inn has a swimming pool where they can stand chest-deep in the water while air bubbles slowly escape the fleshly folds of their lardaceous bodies.

gil scott heron Dead

 The author of the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" – which helped pioneer sounds that would fuse to become rap – has died in New York City. Musician Gil Scott-Heron was 62.

A friend who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company confirms he died Friday afternoon at a hospital. Doris C. Nolan says he died after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.

Scott-Heron recorded "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" in the 1970s in Harlem.

He mixed minimalistic percussion and spoken-word performances tinged with politics in a style he sometimes referred to as bluesology. He recorded more than a dozen albums and wrote a handful of books.

Scott-Heron was born in Chicago on April 1, 1949. He was raised in Jackson, Tenn.

Rachel Griffiths Jokes About Brothers & Sisters

Although the fate of brothers and sisters  is unknown to the season finale of the exhibition on May 8, and actors in this show do not expect the bubble necessarily good news for a series of five years of age. Rachel Griffiths made a surprise appearance at Australia's Logie Awards Show last night the equivalent of an Emmy, as the Australian actress joked about heading down to the welfare office in the country because they want the job any time soon. In accordance with Australian television blog TV tonight, "said the host Logies" I'm out of work very soon to be reviewed with the center ... and he said: "It seems as if you left work and would like to participate.
Got to the line ABC TV for official confirmation from "the return of brothers and sisters, the delegate said," may take any decision..............

rick springfield

Would make the Rocker Rick Springfield, the idea of ​​a little more before he rolled last night - "Jesse Girl" singer was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, according to the people.
Was withdrawn Springfield, 61, over in Malibu for a traffic violation by a police officer smelled alcohol emanating from the president's car Springfield, I discovered that he was under the influence of alcohol. Once he makes some serious tests - the level of alcohol in his blood was 0.10, while the legal limit of .08 - Springfield arrested.
Just a name known to drown in a bucket and a DUI, unfortunately in the case of sugar famous and great leadership to seriously as well................

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teacher appreciation week

With Teacher Appreciation Week, and this time some of our favorite people to celebrate in the world. Education at home until these mothers, many of the trainers, teachers and trainers in the lives of my children, and make it in the first week sorg'n much more.
And teacher appreciation week starts today, do not worry, you have all week to help your kids one of these large projects (mostly free!). Just make sure it runs on time. Christina modernity intermittently children of parents had some good ideas to create a teacher stay with the items that you will find in the target, or delivery of a local office store. Pull it all together with this checklist to print free (top), label, and you have way more useful than anything else, and you a cup of coffee. My suggestion only? Add some chocolate ..................

islamabad

Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda leader and alleged mastermind of 9 / 11, reported killed near Islamabad, Pakistan.
U. S. President Barack Obama has confirmed the news in his speech the American people.
Last night around 1:30 there were reports of a helicopter crashing in Abbotabad at PMA Kakol, but no further details. It is likely that the two events be related to mundjenë.
Saleem Safi, a senior journalist and analyst, said that the residential area of ​​Abbotabad house was struck last night. According to his sources, several helicopters landed near the house taking off, but later the house is destroyed and the inhabitants of that house, dead or alive were taken by helicopter.

osama bin laden dead

The President announced that Osama bin Laden had died Sunday night in a televised speech to the nation. His death was the result of the operation, which began in the United States today, Abbottabad, Pakistan, against a compound where he believed that bin Laden is hiding, according to U.S. intelligence. The president said after an exchange of fire, a small group of U.S. troops kill bin Laden and invaded his body.
Note that Obama would speak to 09:45, and less than an hour before it was originally scheduled to go on the air. Unusual combination of time and the fact that the White House did not talk about this issue, a storm of speculation.
Officials have long believed bin Laden, the man wanted in the world, he was hiding in a mountainous region along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan ...............

michele bachmann

Made by MP Michel Bachmann (R-Minn.) a grave mistake that landed her in the news a few months before the emergence of tydens'n at the end of this week's edition of "Fox News Sun"
The return of March, said Bachmann a group of local Republicans, New Hampshire, "the state where you heard shooting in the world at Lexington and Concord." The first shots of the Revolutionary War was launched in the state of Massachusetts, and not the granite.
Sunday morning, Bachmann suggested that the error due to lack of knowledge of geography or history, but her use of the prompt as you speak.
"Then I promise I will never use teleprompter Obama," she said. "I am determined to keep the promise............

dwyane wade

A year ago, Dwyane Wade was dominant in the playoffs against the Celtics, even though the heat.

Despite the heat, and low 4-1 in the opening round series, averaged 33.2 points on .564 shooting Wade.

Wade has seen this season, though, is another story from Boston, at least during the regular season, byna'n landing in the productivity of two thirds of the playoffs, averaging 12.8 points on .281 shooting as the Heat 1-3.

On the other hand, he led the Ray Allen, who are often linked by Wade, Celtics in the registry in the season series four games with 20.3 points per game on .492 shooting ............

Heat Vs. Celtics Final Score

Dwyane Wade spent all four games of the regular-season series against the Heat battle the mighty Boston Celtics. It's only one game playoff for Lloyd to change the story.
Wade scored 38 points including 23 in the first half and 13 in the fourth quarter to lead the Miami Heat for the first time the series hit the Eastern Conference finals against the Celtics 99-90 victory in Miami.
Wade supports the heat in the fourth quarter of the chaos that included Paul Pierce, who will be issued after two technical fouls deserve - one for "butt" James Jones, another to view the hard disk and some jawing - passes through several Celtics, and hit 28 points from team the Celtics, who managed 36 only in the first half.
But he was not alone: ​​LeBron James of the game are very quiet, and scored 22 points and added six rebounds and five assists, and Jones was deadly from a distance of three and as a result of an error shooter sank five three-pointers made all 10 free throws for him. That was the other members of the Miami big three, Chris Bosh, and scored just seven points...............

edible arrangements

Experts declared the economy in all parts of the world Wallingford, CT coup more than two centuries of free market theories, on Thursday that the foundations of capitalism "categorically refuted" the presence of fruit company designed the food basket of the agreements.
According to the experts, and election on the basis that the Connecticut State skewered pieces of fruit in the eye shows bunches of flowers faded, and modern economic models, and expanded continuously in the past decade despite the complete lack of any clear consumer appeal.
"In theory, might have done in the market away with the arrangements for food for a long time," said President of the Economic Association of America, Orly Ashenfelter, and added that one of the fundamental principles of capitalism is the idea that companies producing goods or services are unwanted and will fail. "This is the way it is supposed to work, but somehow, even though there is no product of any value at all, this company not only do they pay every week, but also to generate strong profits...........................

Heat Vs. Celtics Predictions

I thought in this series against the Celtics, Heat, for a period of time, and I do not really know how I feel about my pick. This is the ultimate "very close" series, and I can see pretty much every opportunity to come by.

I think that the first match will tell us how to play the rest of the series. Miami desperately needs to win Game 1 in a series of chance you have. Would not only surrender home-court advantage with a loss, but they also begin the process of self-doubt that have plagued the times of the year. Miami and a few strips of a big win, but when you lose, they tend to lose in bunches. They started 9-8, then 21.22, and lost four of the 12, five, 14, lost five in a row, close and then win 15 of 18. To Oorul side by side with a lot of new parts of the season, you do not have a lot of organization to retreat when they start losing. They point fingers, and sulk for some time, and then figure out something that works. But in a series of qualifying in short, it will not cut it. Boston, meanwhile, could win the series if they lose in any case for Game 1, but they have themselves the best shot if he wins.

However, the way I tend Miami in this series. Boston won three of four in the regular season, but the circumstances have changed. Celtics really can not rely on Shaquille O'Neal at this point, and his presence was a great exposure to weakness in Miami and set screens for the Liberation of Ray Allen. Without this element, Boston lost its competitive advantage.................

paul pierce

Games after the game in selected cases, can the NBA and access via a gathering of chief of staff questions about the playoff game or play specific invitations to respond. To this day, and the Associated Press chose to talk to Danny Crawford in omstrede'n called Pierce in the fourth quarter of the game.
The following is the text, by CBS Sports:
What's left Paul Pierce may not be worth the technical with 2 7:00 Q:?
Crawford: .. This is what we call ironic verbal insults and face about (Dwyane) Wade and the Code, this is a mockery of the mouth and it just so happens to be wrong Pearce II of the "technical ..
What is left of the technique Pierce 07:59 (James) Jones Red Q:?
Crawford: "The first technical foul, which was during a dead ball and approached Jones and the right in his face there was a head butt, but right in the face after a foul by hard .."
Question: Why Jones is a technical with 7:59 left?
Crawford: "We have just seen that Jones was hard bad beat Paul nice to do a lot what he called Jones a line technician is likely to be seen he was not as much as we think .... thought he was in aggressive or engaged, but after watching video, and this is something we will have to wait to see again. "
Q: It was a technical error for Wade, taunting verbal or otherwise?
Crawford: "actually walked on Pierce and this is why they Wade, Standing Pierce and then answer it.............