August 2001
August 12, 2001
Leelee's Release Dates
With Leelee Sobieski's two latest films just around the corner (in the USA), i thought i would post the release dates.
'The Glass House' opens on September 14th
'Joy Ride' (once known as 'Squelch') opens on October 5th
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[Mike Smith]
August 02, 2001
Uprising Summary
*****
Here is a summary written by Leonard Rubenstein of Leelee's most recent mini-series 'Uprising'.
Uprising, which has only just finished being filmed in Bratislava, Slavakia also stars Ben Crystal, Sadie Frost, Andy Nyman, David Schwimmer, Chloë Sevigny, Donald Sutherland, and James Woods.
*****
Using radically refashioned archival footage of the Warsaw ghetto, this interview with Jon Avnet the director of Uprising talks about Marek Edelman who is an evocative memoir of his role in the rebellion that held back the Nazis for almost a month in 1943. The film begins with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw with inadequate space and plumbing. An overhead tracking shot shows the number of people assembled in the first months of the relocation. The daily struggle against hunger and disease, especially among the dispossessed arrivals seen in their pitful rags, is aggravated by the German demands for "deportations to the east" that many begin to suspect are camouflaged mass murders. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghetto realize they are doomed, and the rudiments of resistance are planned by a handful of the young, including Edelman. Following some sporadic, spontaneous fighting at the ghetto railhead, the Umschlagplatz, in January, led by Moredecai Anielewicz, the scene is set for the more famous and prolonged battle that will begin on 19 April 1943. In the intervening time, many of the ghetto residents construct hidden shelters or bunkers in the basements and cellars of the buildings, often with tunnels leading to other buildings. The handful of fighters who have weapons take to these shelters, giving the uprising the advantage of defensive positions. - Leonard Rubenstein
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[Mike Smith]
August 01, 2001
Leelee makes "Casting Call"
In the September 2001 issue (number 120) of "Wizard: The Comics Magazine," the staff chose Leelee to play a role in a completely hypothetical film based upon Brian Michael Bendis' "Powers." The text is as follows:
Leelee Sobieski as RETRO GIRL
Okay, Sobieski ("Here on Earth") may be a little young, but she's got the all-American girl-next-door looks that are perfect to play Retro Girl, the world's superpowered sweetheart. Plus, she'll be dead for most of the film anyway, so who's gonna care?
Oh, I think we'll all care, sir. I think we'll all care.
The magazine retails for $4.99 US, $6.95 Canadian, which I think is something like $3480745 Australian. Wizard's website is http://www.wizardworld.com and Bendis' site is http://www.jinxworld.com. Specific information about "Powers" can be found at http://www.jinxworld.com/powers.htm.
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[BeLowGroov]
August 01, 2001
Huff and Puff
Leelee is to star in a new drama called 'Hoffman'.
Estimated to be in theaters on August 2002 starring John Cusack, Molly Parker, Noah Taylor, Ulrich Tomsen, and Paul Hipp. The film's
directed by Menno Meyjes.
Basic plot: A Munich gallery owner befriends a young Adolf Hitler just after World War I.
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[Kenneth Roz]
August 01, 2001
New News Area
I've added a new news script to make the adding of future news easier.
Don't forget to check out the message board over at the community area!
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[Kenneth Roz]
