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During a TCA panel for "Shrinking" attended by /Film's Vanessa Armstrong, Lawrence revealed what Harrison Ford said about Segel's big scene in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." In a text that Segel now apparently has hanging on his wall, Ford said something along the lines of "nice nude body." Of course, those weren't his exact words, but it was specific as Lawrence and Segel were initially willing to get, beyond saying Ford had actually said something else. When questioned again about the specific nomenclature Ford used — inquiring minds want to know! — a few descriptors were thrown about, with Segel seeming to admit that the text said "nice penis."
Since the text in question was sent from Harrison Ford to Jason Segel, we'll probably never know what words were used. And because Ford was on a family vacation, he was not present at the panel to confirm. At least Segel will always have a reminder of the actor's text hanging on his wall. Wouldn't you frame that too?
Lawrence also talked about starting out with Michael J. Fox (in "Spin City") when he was 25, saying the actor was "kind, lovely, and hyper-talented." He discussed how amazing it is to "repeat that experience with an icon from all of my life," calling it "an absolute treat," and describing Ford as "equally generous" and "kind to everybody." When doing reshoots in Lawrence's backyard, he said that the actor was having such a great time that he jokingly asked if they could shoot all of his scenes there. Sounds like the set of "Shrinking" was a fun place to work!
"Shrinking" premieres on Apple TV+ on January 27.
As “Avatar: The Way of Water” continues to shatter box office records with nearly $2 billion worldwide, director James Cameron is pulling back the curtain on how the blockbuster sequel was made.
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Cameron said filming scenes with both humans and Na’vi was “hideously difficult,” referencing Jack Champion’s character Spider, who spends the majority of the film tagging along with the natives of Pandora. In order to shoot Spider’s scenes, Champion had to do his entire performance twice, once as a reference for his co-stars, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Sigourney Weaver, and another to actually film the actor in live-action.
“The beauty was, we got to do it twice,” Cameron said of Champion’s performance. “So [cinematographer] Russ [Carpenter] would light the scene, so everything that we did with Jack photographically, we did previously with him in terms of capture.”
Cameron explained, “Jack did his entire performance twice, once for all the other actors like Sigourney and Britain [Dalton] and Sam, so that he was there kind of off camera. And he was like 13 at the time. And then later when we shot, he was 15, so he changed in size and vocal range a bit, but we capped him and then we had these capture scenes.”
After making a pivotal decision at the end of “Way of Water,” Champion will star in the third installment of the “Avatar” franchise, as well, set to premiere in December 2024. Cameron has already teased what’s to come in “Avatar 3,” revealing that the next film will explore “different cultures from those I have already shown. The fire will be represented by the ‘Ash People.’ I want to show the Na’vi from another angle because, so far, I have only shown their good sides.”
“Avatar: The Way of Water” is now playing in theaters nationwide.
Witnesses describe horrifying scene of Ukraine helicopter crash
CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the scene of a helicopter crash near a kindergarten and residential block in the Ukrainian city of Brovary in the Kyiv region that killed 14 people, including all nine on board, and injured 28.
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Lisa Marie Presley's Death: 911 Call Reveals Distressing Scene Before Cardiac Arrest Yahoo EntertainmentChicago’s storied music history, from the home of the blues to a modern-day hip-hop launching pad, and everything in between, is headed for the national spotlight in a new edition of NPR’s World Café “Sense of Place” series, debuting on Jan. 18. (In Chicago, listeners can tune in to “Sense of Place: Chicago” online at worldcafe.org.)
Since 2011, the radio series (produced by the NPR affiliate WXPN out of Philadelphia) has set out to spotlight the music impact of cities across the world. Episodes include exclusive interviews, field recording and studio sessions with bit names and buzzy up-and-comers who have helped shape local music scenes.
“Chicago is a huge, major city but it has a very different flavor and vibe than New York or Los Angeles, and I think we were all interested in exploring that,” says World Café host Raina Douris. “Chicago has had this very strong underground punk and rock scene. It was a big part of blues and jazz, and house music. There’s all these deep roots in Chicago and it felt like we could go back 10 more times and still not get everything.”
Douris, contributing host (and Chicago native) Stephen Kallao, and a team of producers spent a week in the city last October gathering the soundbites and recorded performances that make up much of the 13-part series, which also features interviews pulled from WXPN’s archives.
Steve Albini guest stars on the Jan. 20 episode of NPR’s World Cafe “Sense of Place” series.
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Each episode of the 13-part series centers on a specific music genre, from the Jan. 18 pop-music focus featuring an interview with Chicago (and a performance recorded last fall for the show), to the final episode on Feb. 3, which offers up the story of the birthplace of gospel music, Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, and “quintessential Chicago albums” from “Sound Opinions” hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot.
“Chicago has had this very strong underground punk and rock scene. It was a big part of blues and jazz, and house music. There’s all these deep roots in Chicago and it felt like we could go back 10 more times and still not get everything.” — World Cafe host Raina Douris
In between will be episodes featuring ‘90s mainstays Liz Phair (Jan. 19) and Billy Corgan (Jan. 24), the influential producer and engineer Steve Albini (Jan. 20) and his Electrical Audio studios, gospel legend Mavis Staples (Jan. 26), indie pioneers Wilco (Jan. 31), blues icon Buddy Guy (Feb. 2), Latinx quintet Dos Santos (Jan. 23), new artists Kaina and Dehd (Jan. 25), DIY muse Eli Schmitt and hip-hop maven Pinqy Ring (Jan. 27) and visits to the Chicago Music Exchange (Jan. 30) and Martin Atkins’ Museum of Post Punk and Industrial Music (Jan. 20).
There was one thing that came up in all the interviews, says Douris, beyond the commonality of the location that ties all the artists together: it was a constant idea of giving back.
“Steve Albini is a great example. He stayed in Chicago, he stuck around and made this his place. He said many times in our piece, he’s a technician, he wants to help make records, and he’s there to give back to this community of musicians. That kept coming up over and over again with everybody that I talked to,” says Douris. “A lot of people said because it’s not L.A., because it’s not New York, the sense of cutthroat competition isn’t as strong [here] and it’s much more collaborative and the community is stronger.”
Rather than going after some of the more mainstream names in Chicago’s hip-hop scene, the “Sense of Place” team opted for Pinqy Ring, the indie artist behind works like “Little Hearts,” who was once a hip-hop cultural ambassador for the U.S. and a two-time recipient of Chicago’s Individual Artist Program grant.
Hip-hop artist Pinqy Ring is photographed in her Logan Square home studio in 2020. She talks about Chicago’s hip-hop scene on the Jan. 27 episode of “Sense of Place.”
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“One of our objectives is to talk to people that maybe aren’t already on the mainstream radar in the same way, that can give us a little more insight into what working and living is like in Chicago,” says Douris who recorded the session while going on a walk with the rapper and teacher in Humboldt Park and visiting her alma mater, Lane Tech.
With Latin-fused psych rock band Dos Santos, Douris says she also discovered how influential Chicago’s diversity can be to developing a distinct sound.
“They’re a group of guys from all over; some were born and raised in Chicago, some in Central or South America. One of them who was raised in Panama said that it wasn’t until Chicago that he started playing Latin music. [The] diversity in the city has influenced a lot of the sounds,” says Douris.
But it was her chat with 20-year-old Eli Schmitt that really stuck with her, Douris says. The Radio DePaul host, creator of the “New Now” YouTube series and indie concert booker (who often holds shows in his own apartment) is propelling the local Gen Z DIY scene.
“Where I felt like I was the luckiest to be in the room was in Eli’s apartment; it really feels like the beginning of a scene,” recalls Douris. “He said to me, ‘You can have all these friends on Instagram but it’s not real unless you see each other in real life,’ and I thought it was so powerful. I love that he’s nurturing this in-person DIY indie rock scene in Chicago and carries the spirit on. You can feel the through lines of all that music history and that it’s still very much alive.”
NOTE: Chicago NPR fans can tune in to “Sense of Place: Chicago” online at worldcafe.org on the dates listed above.
