News and Updates
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2007 -
GRINDHOUSE LA PREMIEREHere are some pictures of Rose from the Grindhouse LA Premiere.
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2007 -
HOLLYWOOD GRINDS ITS GEARS AT PREMIEREHere is an article about Grindhouse
Hollywood Grinds Its Gears at Premiere
After directing his Grindhouse actresses in sadistic scenes of death and dismemberment, Quentin Tarantino was repaid in full at the film¡¯s premiere ¡ª with a cake presented by femme fatales Rose McGowan, Rosario Dawson and Marley Shelton for his 44th birthday.
Shortly after midnight Tuesday morning, the sexy sirens led a bawdy chorus of Happy Birthday to You as Tarantino welcomed a bear hug from Grindhouse co-director Robert Rodriguez.
Earlier on the Orpheum Theatre stage, executive producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein thanked the directors for following them to The Weinstein Co. After the brothers¡¯ ugly 2005 split from Disney.
But the celebration was not without mishap. Just before the star arrivals, a water main break flooded the red carpet, causing Tarantino to fret about ruining his ¡°groovy¡± black boots. ¡°I¡¯m glad they fixed that,¡± he said.
Opening April 6, Grindhouse is actually a double bill of Rodriguez¡¯s sicko zombie flick, Planet Terror, and Tarantino¡¯s road rage revenge tale, Death Proof. Homages to low-budget ¡¯70s exploitation fare, the films are tied together by movie trailers for such fictitious features as Don¡¯t! and Werewolf Women of the S.S.
¡°Two movies for the price of one,¡± noted Rodriguez, differentiating the film from Tarantino¡¯s Kill Bill, Vols. 1 and 2, which Rodriguez joked were actually ¡°one movie for the price of two.¡±
Kurt Russell, who plays Death Proof¡¯s Stuntman Mike, came without companion Goldie Hawn, who was in New York. But he has agreed to appear alongside her in Ashes to Ashes, a ¡°woman¡¯s story¡± that Russell said Hawn is writing and will direct after years of development. ¡°My character holds a mirror up to hers,¡± said Russell of the plot. ¡°It¡¯s going to be Goldie¡¯s opus.¡±
Death Proof¡¯s Rosario Dawson wowed in an emerald Donna Karan gown, while McGowan opted for a sexy, strapless red Bill Blass ¡ª a bit more glamorous than the machine-gun prosthetic leg she sports in Planet Terror.
Distracted on the red carpet by Rodriguez affectionately snapping photos, McGowan blushed, saying, ¡°He¡¯s going to embarrass me later.¡±
It has been a year since Rodriguez announced his separation from wife Elizabeth Avellan, who is a producer on the film, yet remained in Texas with their five children: Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue and Rhiannon.
Though noting that, at 7, Rebel is ¡°way too young¡± to attend the premiere, Rodriguez said he had no reservations about casting the boy in Planet Terror as a character who ¡°meets an untimely fate.¡±
Blaxploitation films are a genre that film legend Sidney Poitier successfully avoided.
¡°I can¡¯t tell you exactly why, but I made a conscious choice to avoid them because they did not seem true to my heart,¡± said Poitier at the after-party, showing his support for daughter Sydney Tamiia Poitier, who appears as Jungle Julia in Death Proof.
¡°My father was pressured to do a lot of that stuff in the ¡¯70s, but he chose to play black men in a light that they were not seen in at that time,¡± boasted the 33-year-old of her Oscar-winning dad.
But Josh Brolin, who plays Planet Terror¡¯s zombified doctor, recalled his own father, actor James Brolin, slumming in 1977¡¯s low-budget The Car, about a possessed killing machine with ¡°dark windows, chasing people and running them over.¡±
Young Brolin watched such schlock at drive-in theaters with an uncle who ¡°would get drunk on a 12-pack of beer.¡±
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2007 -
ROSE TALKS ABOUT BLACK OASISHere Rose talks about the new movie that she is going to be staring in!
Last week the Hollywood trades announced that actress Rose McGowan is treading back into drive-in territory with Black Oasis, a surreal biopic of B-movie actress Susan Cabot (The Wasp Woman) from director Stephan Elliot (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert). Cabot's film career (which ran from '47 until '70) ended abnormally when she was murdered with a set of nunchucks in '86 by her own son, Tim.
Needless to say, her life was destined to be recounted on the big screen as McGowan elaborates during this weekend's Grindhouse (opening April 6th) press junket. "Cabot was about four-foot-ten. I'm not that short, but I'm not super-tall, she's certainly a lot smaller, and she'd wear these eight-inch platforms," the actress says. "She had just such a sad life and she was sure she'd be an A-list actress. She was engaged to King Hussein until he found out her real name was Harriet Shapiro and that she was Jewish." Cabot, whose credits also include The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent and the film noir classic Kiss of Death, ultimately had a child, however, her son "had dwarfism and she put him through all of these experimental treatments with shots and hormones. It was such a bizarre relationship with them. He became obsessed with Bruce Lee, hence the nunchucks, that made him feel masculine but he didn't look masculine because of all the hormones. She was a very suffocating mother."
McGowan hopes to begin shooting Black Oasis in the next three or four months. Hilary Shor (Children of Men) is producing Elliot's script which, in turn, was inspired by a John Richardson-penned article in Premiere Magazine.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 2007 -
ROSE IN INTERVIEW MAGAZINEHere are some pictures of Rose from when she was in Interview Magazine.
GRINDHOUSE WORSE THAN R RATED?
Read this article to find out some more about GrindHouse! Is it worse than R Rated?
Grindhouse, the new double-feature from directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, has been getting tons of buzz. But now, it's not all for the right reasons: Page Six is reporting that the movie is likely to get an NC-17 rating unless it gets some significant editing. Hardly surprising, since the two movies ¡ª Planet Terror and Death Proof ¡ª are an homage to 1970s theaters known for showing films featuring uncensored violence and sex. According to the New York Post article:
The Weinstein Company, which is releasing the picture April 6 through its Dimension Films arm, needs an R rating for the flick to get into mainstream theaters. But, "some of it is so graphic and outrageous for a major Hollywood studio, there's no question it's headed for an NC-17 without big cuts," says a Page Six operative, who got a sneak peek at the most over-the-top footage.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007 -
ALYSSA OUT AND ABOUTHere is Alyssa walking around in her daily life. I love seeing the girls out and about!
ROSE IS THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Read this article about Rose and what she is doing. I hope that everything goes well for her!
Rose McGowan¡¯s star looks set to rise ¨C I think people thought it might¡¯ve happened around the time of ¡°The Doom Generation¡± and ¡°Scream¡± but considering she then accepted a role on then deteriorating TV series ¡°Charmed¡±, it was abundantly clear her star had stalled somewhere around ¡®good jobs¡¯ road and ¡®will work for food¡¯ avenue ¨C thanks to her role in Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez¡¯s ¡°Grind House¡± (in fact, I think a few folks from that film are going to experience a career resurgence ¨C namely, Michael Biehn, who needs a hit like John Travolta needs a career counsellor). For starters, McGowan just scored the lead role in the new film from ¡°Priscilla, Queen of the Desert¡± helmer Stephan Elliot.
According to Variety, McGowan has signed to play the tragic B-movie staple Susan Cabot in ¡°Black Oasis¡±. Based on a Premiere magazine article by John H. Richardson, the movie tells the story of Cabot's rise on the B-circuit (she was a favorite of director Roger Corman) and her death at the hands of son Timothy, who bludgeoned her with a weightlifting bar when she was 59.
Sounds like it could be a good vehicle for McGowan ¨C who, looking at her filmography, hasn¡¯t done anything good film-wise in about a decade. Sure, she had a small role in the passable noir pic ¡°The Black Dahlia¡±, but other than that, she¡¯s been slumming it in the likes of ¡°Monkeybone¡±, ¡°The Last Stop¡± and ¡°Ready to Rumble¡±. Her last major film was the 1999 comedy ¡°Jawbreaker¡± opposite Julie Benz and Rebecca Gayheart. Though, she did give a good ¡®performance¡¯ at the recent ¡®Scream¡¯ Awards.
Hit and Run partners Hilary Shor and Tony Smith are producing ¡°Oasis¡±. "This is a story in the 'stranger than fiction' style of 'Hollywood Babylon,' and a little-known chapter in the seedy underbelly of that era," Shor said.
Shooting begins this fall.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007 -
ROSE ON ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINETake a look at this! Rose is on the cover of the entertainment magazine!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2007 -
ROSE AT SAKS 5TH AVETake a look at these pictures of Rose from when she was at SAKS 5th Ave, at the Presentation of Zac Posen's Fall 2007 Collection!
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2007 -
ROSE ON MAXIMRose McGowan on becoming an actor: ¡°I had no intention of being an actor, but I got it. The caricature of the dumb actress is something I fight against. Acting involves stamina, but it does not use my brain.¡±
Rose McGowan on manscaping: ¡°I don¡¯t like cheesballs who are manscaped to a tee. I respond better to actors from earlier eras.¡±
