The Pop Culture of Gus Lequerica

On a short note, Heroes and Gilmore Girls actor Milo Ventimiglia wrote through his Myspace that he is with USO in a good will mission supporting and expressing gratitude to the men and woman who serve in the United States Military. Luck on your visit to Germany Milo.

According to some sources back in my home city Cartagena de Indias it seems that Michael Douglas will be teaming with Richard Gere for another possible sequel of the 1984 Romancing The Stone which was settled in Cartagena but was filmed in Mexico due the social problems back in the 80’s. If that gossip is true this will be the first movie that will be filmed in the real city and not in a substitute location. More information on the go.

Spanish born Colombian actor Pacheco health is going downhill after a treatment he received last month after he suffered a pneumonia attack. His health had a major setback after he was again hospitalized the past Saturday. Get well Pacheco.

 Left, Office actor Rainn Wilson on the Right a Goose; one of them it’s famous by laying  over his eggs all day long, the other it’s just a goose. 

The reboot of Star Trek won the Best Film Award of the Hollywood Film Festival, for the best movie of 2009 (yeah the movie rules and I’m not a Trekkie) plus Zachary Quinto was awarded with the Spotlight Award 2009 (given by the femme fatale and heroine of Lost Michelle Monaghan).

Even in the death Michael Jackson continues to generate some kind of controversy; this time AllGood Entertainment is the responsible for the latest drama; and they want more than US$300 Million in revenues for the movie that chronicled the last days of the King of Pop and even so far they want to share revenues of the Sony Catalog.

AllGood also is suing John Branca and John McClain the specials co-administrators of the Jackson State as well Frank Dileo because he acted as a booking agent and he even promised that a Jackson 5 reunion would happened but AllGood didn’t expected that Michael Jackson was going to die and now they are wanting retribution. This situation is more crazy than Britney Spears Circus (and I don’t mean the song).

The real Mario Bros, Captain Lou Albano passed today (October 14th of 2009) at the age of 76; the exact cause of his decease hasn’t been revealed. He died in hospice care. 

It seems that Chris Pine will be teaming with director D.J. Caruso to an adaptation of the book “The Art of Making Money” a book by Jason Kersten about the life of American counterfeiter Arthur Williams. According to Variety, the movie will be released in an unspecific date next year (2010).

The script will be written by Frank Baldwin who has no relation to any other famous Baldwin, not even to Adam Baldwin or to the Baldwin brothers.

The story seems to be a biopic about Arthur Williams and how he counter-fitted the One Hundred Dollar and how he forged several bills so detailed that it was impossible to distinguish the fake ones between the originals; according to Variety there is not much information about the project nor if Chris Pine will be playing Arthur Williams in the biopic or another central character. 

You probably will say the opposite but it’s true; after the cancelation of Futurama and King of the Hill, the Sunday animation block of Fox has lose some quality that was present when there was a variety of shows and thus more developers but now after almost 10 years Seth MacFarlane is the new king and that doesn’t mean that the shows have to keep the quality they were famous for.

When he was one of the most revolutionary people in the animation industry ten years ago when Family Guy was introduced right now he’s most like a conformist Simon Cowell that don’t care about using repetition as a resource to keep the viewers interest. I can’t find a piece of differences between 3 of his 4 shows except that The Cleveland Show don’t have the talking animal as a household pet but rather than a neighbor then at the end I can’t find a difference between his 4 shows at all as they are the repetition of the repetition; four shows set in different cities but with similar characters.

FOX as a network should follow the example of other national and cable channels by offering a more interesting line-up rather than giving someone the opportunity to fill space at the cost of US$100.000.00 and not, I’m not referring to Simon Cowell who by some strange reason has kept American Idol for ten years and there no is a real American Idol but mostly many ones that had fallen really quickly to the price of fame and just a few that had been in the eye of the spotlight but not without paying the consequences first.

Probably the only decent that is right now at FOX is The Simpsons but after 20 years in the air the show is losing his touch and maybe it’s time to make room for something new and interesting but first the lineup needs to be updated as the reason is having four shows that in essence are the same then is not worth to watch the channel at all.

According to Cory Monteith (Glee star) people had confused him with Chris Klein in the streets. Cory at least has taken the situation with humor because you know that some celebrities don’t like to be confused. Sure they can play brothers but to say that they look like each other? I don’t think so.

Comedian Paul Rodriguez was rushed to the hospital on the 09/30/2009;according to tmz.com Paul started to feel some heavy abdominal pains. Paul who is the Chairman of the California Latino Water Coalition was in the Capital of the Country for some meetings of the coalition but in the morning of the 10/01/2009 Paul phoned Mario Santoya an official with the Coalition saying he needed a doctor because of the pain in the chest and due some diarrhea and vomiting.

The last night before calling Santoya Paul was in an unnamed restaurant with Santoya and he seemed to be perfectly healthy and fine. The congressman at a last minute decided to go to Paul’s hotel room only to found Paul lying in the floor and immobilize because of the pain.

Santoya called an ambulance and Paul was rushed to the hospital. No more information were given by tmz.com but we wish Paul the best and a soon recuperation.

Hasbeens Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler and Danny Glover will boycott the Toronto International Film Festival due to a program honoring Tel Aviv’s 100th anniversary, called City to City.

The program aims to spotlight 10 Israeli films, yet activists have signed their name to a letter aimed at festival officials claiming that Tel Aviv was built on violence, ignoring the “suffering of thousands of former residents and descendants” as countless Palestinian villages were sacrificed.

But, not everyone agrees with this stance!

Oscar-winning documentarian, Rabbi Marvin Hier believes this act is “an attack on the heart and soul of Israel.”

He says:

“People who support letters like this are people who do not support a two-state solution. By calling into question the legitimacy of Tel Aviv, they are supporting a one-state solution, which means the destruction of the State of Israel. I applaud the organizers of the festival for celebrating on the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv. If every city in the Middle East would be as culturally diverse, as open to freedom of expression as Tel Aviv is, then peace would long have come to the Middle East.”