Beastie Boys “Massaging” ‘Hot Sauce’ Tracks for Fall Release
Nine months ago, the Beastie Boys shocked fans with news they’d be putting their studio work and festival dates on hold so Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA) could fight salivary gland cancer. Yauch is continuing treatments and feeling “pretty good,” Mike Diamond tells Rolling Stone, and the New York trio hope to have Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 1 in stores this fall.
“We’ve been letting it age,” Mike D says, comparing the album to a fine wine. “The writing is the growing of the grapes, and we’ve already macerated, and at this point, it’s been living in a barrel and being stored in bottles in the cellar, and hopefully by September, we will uncork.”
But before the Beasties are ready to let their fans soak in their first full album of new, non-instrumental material since 2004’s To the Five Boroughs, they’re doing “some tinkering.” “It will be messed with,” Mike D says, noting the “massaging” will mostly come into mixing and mastering.
The title of the album will stay the same, including the implication that there will eventually be a Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2, even if the sequel is “set aside for much later.” The pastoral cover art, featuring Ad-Rock, Mike D and MCA (carrying a cat) crossing a bridge from the city to the woods, “could be changed.” And the songs ó 17 at last count ó “might be shuffled.” “Maybe 16 of the songs will survive, and one will get cut, or get a substitution,” Mike D says.
“Hopefully it’s gone from being a very good wine with a lot of promise to being a fully refined and fully developed wine for consumption. The finest French Burgundies only get better in time, and only show their real selves and real complexity with a great deal of time, so we can only hope that time will tell [for Hot Sauce].”
Of course, the proposed fall release is still contingent on Yauch’s health. “We make plans and change those plans based on what Adam’s got to do,” Mike D says. “Our real priority is for him to heal.”
In the meantime, Mike D has big plans for this weekend, when he’ll team up with Andrew W.K. to host a massive, kid-friendly guitar jam as part of the Tribeca Film Festival and the Church Street School’s street fair. Andrew W.K. will hold up flash cards announcing the chords for songs like Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water,” the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours,” and the crowd will attempt to play along. “My hope is that there are tons of kids with guitars, some with amps and some not, and it’ll be like School of Rock meets Glenn Branca, like organized cacophony,” Mike D laughs. “It could be a disaster!”
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Jimmy Fallon Has Been Taped To Host The Emmys
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon will host the the 62nd Primetime Emmys when they come to NBC on Aug. 29. The awards show will air live coast-to-coast from 5 to 8 p.m. PT., 8-11 p.m. ET.
ìJimmy was the natural choice as one of the most promising and likable young entertainers who will now have the chance to display his many talents on televisionís biggest night,î said Paul Telegdy, NBCís executive vice president of alternative programming, in a statement. ìHis proven skills as a comedian and host ó as well as his openness to new ideas ó will fully engage audiences and ultimately deliver a lively Emmy telecast.î
Added Fallon, ìHosting the Emmys has been a dream of mine ever since they told me I was doing it.î
This yearís show will be executive produced by Don Mischer Prods. Nominations for the awards will be announced Thursday, July 8 at 5:40 a.m. (PT) from the headquarters for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood, Calif.
‘Zoolander’ sequel to be axed?
Ben Stiller has sparked rumours his Zoolander sequel is set to be shelved – after hinting film studio bosses are refusing to finance the follow-up.
Stiller, who starred in and directed the hit 2001 movie, recently announced plans to bring the comedy back to the big screen for a second installment, eyeing a 2012 release.
But now the actor has suggested the film, in which he plays title character Derek Zoolander, is struggling to secure financing from executives at Paramount.
The news comes just days after director Adam McKay revealed that plans to revive Will Ferrell’s 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy for a sequel had been scrapped after Paramount bosses refused to fund the project.
In a cryptic message on his Twitter.com page, Stiller writes, “Ron Burgundy and Derek Zoolander looking to appear in sequels. Both men destitute, without means or intellect to fund their own comebacks.”
Happy Star Wars Day!
Today is known around the world as Star Wars Day. Why? Because it’s the only day of the year when we can utter one of the geekiest phrases ever: “May the Fourth be with you!” (Get it?)
Repeat that sentence as much as you like, along with any other quote from the Star Wars universe. Celebrate the franchise again May 25, because that’s the day it officially opened in theaters.
Revolutionary technology restores ‘Zhivago’ to glory
In following Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), both of which earned best-picture Oscars as well as Academy Awards for director David Lean, Doctor Zhivago was called soap-operatic and plodding. But the 1965 film weathered those attacks to become a classic.
The 45th anniversary edition, out Tuesday on DVD ($25) and Blu-ray Disc ($36), offers a reason to revisit Zhivago. The restoration improves on the 2002 DVD by preserving the lighting and color palette intended by Lean and cinematographer Freddie Young.
Lean’s trademark spectacle shots, shot in Finland, Spain and Canada, are sharper. Shadows that foretell the revolution are more ominous. And Julie Christie’s Lara is even more luminous.
Colors had faded as the film aged. By correcting that, “you notice subtleties which were not apparent previously, such as when Zhivago (Omar Sharif) encounters Lara at the library in Varykino,” says Ned Price, vice president of Warner Bros.’ mastering. “You will notice that the light subtly changed to warmth. It happens a number of times when he sees her. And when they are saying goodbye in the hospital where she is ironing and you see the sun go behind them and there is this beautiful yellow wash that slowly occurs. Those color transitions were much more apparent.”
Much of the original negative was too fragile when making the earlier DVD, so a duplicate was used. This time, technology allowed the delicate negative to be scanned at a higher resolution.
The sprocket holes for the negative, used for making 70-millimeter blowup prints, were worn, which prevented traditional digital scanning. Restorers used a modified flatbed scanner to get a stable image, Price says.
Digital scanning was done at 8K resolution, 16 times that of HDTV. “This restoration not only resulted in a Blu-ray Disc release but also, finally, a new film negative that will go into our vault and has a life expectancy of over 300 years,” Price says.
New to both the DVD and Blu-ray is Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration with filmmakers including Gary Ross (Seabiscuit), Taylor Hackford (Ray) and Martin Campbell (Casino Royale).
They touch on the historical context of the film, a Russian epic released at the height of the Cold War, and the novel Doctor Zhivago, written by Boris Pasternak.
The hit score by Maurice Jarre earned the film one of its five Oscars; it was nominated for 10, including best picture. The American Film Institute put Zhivago at No. 39 on its Top 100 list in 1998. The film was dropped from the 2007 list but is No. 7 on the AFI’s list of cinematic love stories.
Rita Tushingham, who played the younger Tonya, said that during production, “people absolutely thought (the film) was something special.”
This restoration “enriches the film,” she says. “People who love the film will want to have (the new) version.”
Sisters find new voice with Court Yard Hounds
NEW YORK ñ After a triumphant comeback that included another best-selling album, a Grammy sweep and a worldwide tour, the Dixie Chicks went on hiatus ó a break welcomed by the trio, who were approaching burnout.
“I needed that year,” Martie Maguire, the group’s fiddle player, recalls of their decision to step away from the limelight in 2006. “We were exhausted.”
For sisters Maguire and Emily Robison, they had personal matters to attend to: Maguire was trying to have another baby through in-vitro fertilization (she had a third child in 2008 after enduring a miscarriage), while Robison and her singer-songwriter husband, Charles Robison, decided to end their marriage after nine years and three children.
It was enough upheaval to distract them from music, but after awhile, both started getting antsy and were ready to make music.
Except lead singer Natalie Maines wasn’t ready. And her reluctance made the sisters worry about the future of the Dixie Chicks ó and their own musical careers.
“After a year I started getting scared. I started feeling, ‘Wow. I’m not really in control of my future,'” says the 40-year-old Maguire. “Because no matter what anybody says ó what we should have done or we could have really pushed Natalie to do ó we always felt like it had to be an organic want to go do music.”
In the end, they found the solution: a new duo, the Court Yard Hounds, using songs Robison recorded after her breakup as foundation for their new material. Their self-titled debut is out this week, and even though Maines is rejoining the fold for a Dixie Chicks tour this summer, the sisters’ heart is with their new endeavor.
“There’s new ground we can find as to where we’ve been and what we have yet to feel and experience,” says Robison, sitting on a couch in a hotel suite as Maguire listens in agreement. “I can kind of enjoy and experience the music all new right now, and we’re pushing ourselves in ways that we’ve never pushed ourselves.”
For Robison, 37, that includes taking most of the lead vocal duties on the album, though Maguire makes her voice heard on “Gracefully.” Robison wasn’t eager to sing lead; she wasn’t eager really to sing at all. When she first started writing songs, she had Maines in mind, and tried to use the material as something that might lure Maines back into the studio.
The group’s last album was 2006’s “Taking the Long Way,” which won the Grammy for best album, marking their return after being disowned by the country music establishment for making critical statements about President George W. Bush while overseas.
“I spent a good year and a half trying to get Natalie to do what my vision was. We even went in to cut a song that was supposed to be for a movie and it didn’t work out,” she said. “(I was) just trying to inspire her and then I realized, ‘You know what, you can’t force it … ultimately we have to respect each other’s wishes to do that,’ so there really wasn’t another choice for me but to look elsewhere.”
She called Maguire for suggestions on another singer. But Maguire didn’t want Robinson to let someone else sing her story.
“I felt really uncomfortable hearing the honesty in the songs and then having someone else claim it as theirs and try to own it,” she explains. “I guess I just kind of felt like she was the only one who could sing those songs.”
Maguire, who had been recording an album of fiddle tunes for children, acknowledges she saw an opportunity for herself.
“I figured I’d at least get a shot to audition for the band,” she says, as the pair dissolve into laughter (as they often did during the interview).
That sisterly camaraderie is the gel that bonds the group; the pair finish each other’s thoughts and are on the same page, which was apparent when they went into the studio to record, says Jim Scott, who produced the Court Yard Hounds’ debut.
“Because they’re family, they can talk about just about anything,” says Scott, who has worked with Sting, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dixie Chicks. “It was never a battle about a choice of a part or a harmony or a performance. … The dynamic was easy.”
It’s somewhat of a different musical dynamic from the Dixie Chicks; though there are hints of the best-selling trio. The Court Yard Hounds’ music is more subdued, with Robison delivering a performance that relies more on emotion than sheer vocal strength. Scott says initially, there was concern whether Robison could pull it off.
“I don’t think she really fully believed it, and she may not really fully believe it now, but she’s an incredible singer. … The only fear that we had, and that she had, was, ‘Am I going to be able to pull it off, and be compared with Natalie?'” he said. “With a little practice, she got great, fast.”
Now that they have their own sound together, they’ll also have to start recalling their sound as part of the Chicks: The band starts a summer tour June 8 with the Eagles (and Keith Urban on some dates). They’ll also spend part of the summer touring as the Court Yard Hounds, including dates at Lillith Fair.
The pair say they are looking forward to working with Maines.
“It feels like a class reunion in a way. I do miss Natalie and I do miss the camaraderie of that dynamic as well,” Robison says. “I think it’s allowing us to enjoy when we are together more, because the pressure’s off.”
“I saw some glimpses of the old energy and excitement in her, and I was happy,” adds Maguire.
That might even lead to another Chicks album. But even if that happens, the sisters don’t consider the Court Yard Hounds a hiatus project, but their group outside the Chicks.
“I think as we make more and more records, (we’ll) just find our own identity,” says Maguire of the new duo. “It takes time.”
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Boss Brass founder Rob McConnell dies at 75
Canadian jazz great Rob McConnell, a trombonist and band leader of the Boss Brass, has died. He was 75.
McConnell passed away in a Toronto hospital Saturday after a long battle with cancer.
McConnell was a valve trombonist, arranger and composer and worked with many small jazz groups in Canada.
His leadership of the Boss Brass, a 16-piece band he formed in 1968, catapulted McConnell and Canadian jazz onto the world stage.
Flugelhorn and trumpet player Guido Basso played with Boss Brass from 1968 until McConnell grew too ill to participate last year.
“It was the only Canadian jazz band that could cross the border and play the living daylights out of U.S. musicians,” he told CBC News.
Basso paid tribute to McConnell’s ability as a composer and arranger.
“He heard things the rest of us didn’t,” he said. “It was the way he was able to take a song that you and I know well and reharmonize it get the ultimate beauty out of the melody,” he said.
McConnell was also a “fabulous” player of “superb jazz at its highest level,” he added.
They last played together during a Boss Brass reunion during the Toronto Jazz Festival in 2009.
On stage, McConnell was a comedian and storyteller, and his jazz arrangements often included a humorous note.
He added a saxophone section and extra trumpet to the Boss Brass in the 1970s, bringing the group to 22 members.
Multiple Grammys
They were one of Canada’s most popular jazz ensembles and performed live at U.S. festivals as well as recording Juno Award winners Big Band Jazz (1978), Present Perfect (1981) and All in Good Time (1984).
McConnell recorded more than 30 albums throughout his career and earned multiple Grammys, as well as Canadian Jazz Awards.
McConnell was raised in Toronto and learned slide trombone in high school. He began his career in 1954 in Edmonton with the band of saxophonist Don Thompson.
He worked in Toronto with Alex Lazaroff’s Rhythm Rockets and Bobby Gimby before moving to New York in 1964 to play with Maynard Ferguson’s big band.
In addition to playing with Boss Brass, he was also part of small jazz groups with guitarist Ed Bickert other Canadian jazz talents such as Guido Basso, Ian McDougall, and Rick Wilkins.
“Rob was a world-class arranger and trombonist,” Toronto guitarist David Occhipinti said in tribute to McConnell.
“Being from Toronto, I had the good pleasure of hearing him play on many occasions and was always grateful to be able to hear a musician of such integrity and quality so close to home. His beautiful writing and playing will be missed!”
He was named officer of the Order of Canada in 1998.
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I hope it can all be fixed!!
Grand Ole Opry House hit by severe flooding
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ñ Country stars were heartbroken to learn Monday that the mecca of their music, The Grand Ole Opry House, was hit by floodwaters that washed over the city and are concerned about how much damage was done to the landmark.
The stage is of particular concern. At the center is a circle made of floorboards cut from the old stage at the Opry’s former home of Ryman Auditorium. It’s considered by many to be the heart of country music.
“As a country singer, there is only one place you dream of playing in your lifetime, and that is the Grand Ole Opry House,” singer Blake Shelton said in an e-mail. “Standing on center stage in the 6-foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.”
Grand Ole Opry member Dierks Bentley canceled a couple of shows over the weekend for the first time in his career to take care of flooding at his house, which paled in comparison, he said.
“We’ve all been affected by it,” Bentley said of the flooding. “There’s devastation all over the city. But to see the Grand Ole Opry affected, that just really hit home for me, even more than having water in my house.”
Bentley, whose hits include “Sideways” and “I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes,” said the destruction at the Grand Ole Opry House was topic No. 1 for country music players Monday. It’s unclear how much water inundated the entertainment complex. Pictures put out with a news release show water at least 3 feet high and this week’s scheduled shows have been moved to alternate venues.
Shelton, who’s hits include “She Wouldn’t Be Gone,” and this year’s “Hillbilly Bone,” a duet with Trace Atkins, is scheduled to play there May 13.
“The Opry House is hallowed ground,” Shelton said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. “We all need to help to make sure it lasts. I am devastated to hear that it is affected by this disaster.”
The Opry House is part of the large Gaylord Opryland Hotel complex that took on water when the Cumberland River rose more than 12 feet above flood stage due to record rains that have inundated middle and western Tennessee. An aerial view showed the area surrounded by water.
“My first job in music was at Opryland USA,” singer John Rich said in an e-mail. “To see it under water is a heartbreaking thing. I am sure the country music community will pull together and help overcome this disaster. I am ready to roll up my sleeves as soon as I get the call.”
The flood hits as the Opry was poised for an 85th birthday celebration. Tuesday night’s Opry show will be at War Memorial Auditorium and weekend shows will be moved to the Ryman Auditorium. Both are former homes to the Opry.
The Grand Ole Opry has been held at the Opry House in east Nashville since 1974, with an annual winter sojourn to the Ryman each February since 1999.
The Opry puts on 150 shows a year and the House hosts other concerts and performances.
This is the second time the Opry has been forced from the complex. Flooding on the Cumberland in 1975 also pushed the show to Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium.
“While we ourselves are shaken by the impact of the flooding of the Opry House and throughout the area, it is important that Nashville’s most treasured tradition continues with this week’s shows,” Grand Ole Opry vice president Pete Fisher said in the release.
It’s unclear how long shows will have to be moved to other venues and it did not give details on how much water is in the Opry House. Pictures of the stage door show water above the door knob and a shot of the facade showed water several feet high as well.
The nearby hotel had 10 feet of water inside early Monday and flood waters had yet to reach their crest early Monday evening. City officials said earlier in the day the hotel would be closed for weeks up to several months. The hotel’s website said reservations would not be accepted for several weeks.
Based on his own experience with the flood damage at his home, Bentley wasn’t optimistic about the Opry’s stage: “At my house, if water touches anything, it’s ruined. That wood, hell, maybe it’s got enough magic on it that it can survive the worst. I think everything in there is toast.”
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Dixie Chick sisters unleash the Hounds
Court Yard Hounds’ Martie Maguire and Emily Robison also of Dixie Chicks fame.
Dixie Chicks bandmates and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire kept their musical side project, Court Yard Hounds, a secret from everyone.
Even their fellow Dixie Chick ó the country-pop trioís lead singer Natalie Maines, who is still taking a break since the group went on hiatus in 2007 after sweeping that yearís Grammys.
ìWe kept it under wraps for a while,î said Maguire, 40, seated beside Robison, 37, in Toronto recently. ìWe didnít tell anybody ícause it was at my house. We thought, ëWe can kind of do this in secret,í and see how it goes and take little baby steps. (Natalieís) dad (musician Lloyd Maines) played on it and at that stage they were still demos.î
Ultimately, they both say, Tuesdayís release of Court Yard Houndsí self-titled debut just allowed Maines to continue her sabbatical.
ìI think it took a lot of the pressure off,î said Robison. ìIt was just a good way for us to be able to fulfill our want to be creative and not put pressure on her and still keep the Dixie Chicks intact.î
Thereís even a Dixie Chicks greatest hits compilation, Playlist, coming out June 1. And Maines, for the record, got the hear the Court Yard Hounds album over New Yearís and her favourite song is the duet with Jakob Dylan, See You in the Spring.
ìWhat (Natalieís) not ready to do is the whole cycle,î said Maguire, who is married to Mainesí sisterís husbandís brother and lives in Austin, Texas, with their six-year-old twin girls and 21-year-month girl. ìWe donít know what to sing about right now. We donít know what to write about. We had such a big last album and it really made a statement for us and it was very cathartic.î
The Dixie Chicks found themselves embroiled in a fight with the Conservative right after Maines made some remarks against then-President George Bush during a London concert on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The resulting backlash was reflected in the groupís 2006 song Not Ready to Make Nice off their album, Taking the Long Way.
The impetus for Court Yard Hounds came because Robisonís creative juices were cathartically flowing following a 2008 divorce from country singer Charlie Robison. The couple has three children ó boy-girl twins, aged five, and a seven-year-old son.
ìWe were bored; we wanted to be creative,î said Robison, who lives in San Antonio. ìSo I was writing. (Martie) was working on a fiddle album (of instrumentals) at the time but I started sending her some songs that I was writing and she threatened me with my life if I gave them away. So we then started talking about doing something together.î
That something turned out to be an album of singer-songwriter-style, pop, folk and country-tinged tunes not unlike something Shawn Colvin or Sheryl Cow might offer up.
Amongst the songs about the end of Robisonís marriage are tunes about new love, so itís no surprise Robisonís boyfriend, Martin Strayer, co-wrote many of the songs with her and is in the band.
Robison also sings lead vocals on all but one song, which could have been a scary prospect for the multi-instrumentalist who had previously only been used to singing harmonies with Maguire.
ìI think that was another fun part of this album was just taking steps into the unknown,î said Robison. ìThings we hadnít done. I mean weíve been harmony singers our whole lives and so blending has been the name of the game and so to get out of that and try and find your own voice has been my challenge.î
Robison continues, ìPeople have asked us, ëAre you intimidated to follow up the success with the Chicks?í and itís so not about that.
ìTo me, itís kind of like a clean slate to just be able to go do something else and to be able to have fun ícause weíre never going to be able to top what weíve done in the past.î
Tour plans
Court Yard Hounds ó sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, whose day job is as two-thirds of the Dixie Chicks opposite Natalie Maines ó have a summer tour of wineries and festivals which kicks off June 18 in Telluride, Colo., and includes dates on Lilith Fair.
But they will also be part of the Dixie Chicksí stadium tour with the Eagles, which kicks off June 8 at Rogers Centre in Toronto. The only other Canadian date is June 22 at Canads Inns Stadium in Winnipeg. Keith Urban is also on some of the U.S. stops.
ìThat was kind of a no-brainer,î said Maguire of touring with the Eagles. ìWeíre really excited. We couldnít say no to this opportunity, really. Stadiums. The Eagles. Keith Urban. This is great.î
What Maguire wasnít sure of was whether there might be some onstage collaborations.
ìThey havenít asked. Weíve done that before. On the Vote for Change tour, we came out and sang Wide Open Spaces and Take It Easy and theyíre really, really open about collaborating. I donít know if this is going to be the show to do it.î
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Rourke talked into ëIron Man 2í
LOS ANGELES ó Not so long ago, Mickey Rourkeís career belonged on a scrap heap. Now heís starring in an Iron Man movie. Remind you of anyone?
So who better to spar with the similarly resurrected Robert Downey Jr. than Rourke, the 57-year-old hell-raiser whose resurgence was solidified by an Academy Award nomination for 2008ís The Wrestler?
Turns out, they even crossed paths ìback in the day,î Rourke reveals. ìI knew Robert a little bit … and he really is a changed man ó in every way. From the choices that he makes to what heís putting in his body.î
Downey, not surprisingly, was key in convincing Rourke to accept the role of Ivan Vanko, Tony Starkís Russian cybernetic nemesis in Iron Man 2, which opens everywhere Friday.
The two actors happened to be on the same awards circuit in early 2009 ó Downey was Oscar-nominated for Tropic Thunder ó as sequel casting was underway.
ì(Robert) was lobbying him, every time they sat together, to try to get him to join the movie,î director Jon Favreau says.
Or as Downey, turning to Rourke during a news conference, remembers, ìI really worked you like a rib, didnít I? It was embarrassing. I was literally begging you in public.î
Fortunately for the filmmakers, Rourke had enjoyed the 2008 original ó particularly Downeyís performance as an arms manufacturer-turned-weaponized superhero.
ìI think it was a smart move for whoever was pulling for Robert (to play Stark) because usually they would have gone for a role like this with a younger, cleaner image kind of guy. It would have been like watching cardboard. Robert brought something to it and transcended the material. It wasnít like watching,î Rourke pauses, considering his words, ìwhatever. Spider-Man.î
And there are perks to big-budget movies, after all. ìI had come off working on a film where there was no budget. I didnít even have a chair to sit in. I remember, the first day (on Iron Man 2), I asked for a cappuccino and they said, ëWhat kind would you like?í î
Not so glamorous? Two months of training so he could not only wield two bullwhips simultaneously but maneuver in a 40-pound suit.
The resulting character ó known as Whiplash ó looks like Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises crossed with the Terminator. But Rourke, a well-known animal lover, also got his wish to humanize Vanko by giving him a cockatoo.
ìI wanted him to have a pet. Everybody likes to make the Russian guy a really terrible bad guy. And I thought maybe he has his own point of view. I thought it was important to show heís not a one-dimensional bad guy.î
That Rourke not only has creative clout, but is in demand at all, is remarkable, he realizes.
After a decade of being almost unemployable, heís now fielding offers and shooting movies back-to-back-to-back.
ìI had 14 years off, so I enjoy (working). Iím really fortunate that I got a second chance after the big mess I made.î
Already heís wrapped the drama Passion Play with Megan Fox and heís currently shooting the myth-based adventure The Immortals in Montreal. Later this year, he intends to reunite for a movie with Tony Scott (Domino).
But can he avoiding repeating the behavior that derailed his career two decades ago, after such memorable films as 91/2 Weeks, Angel Heart and The Pope of Greenwich Village? He sounds optimistic.
ìThe mistake I made before is I would wait so long to find a movie I was excited about and then I would get broke and have to take a movie to pay my bills. And if you take a movie to pay your bills, then youíre doing something you donít want to be in. And thatís where the trouble would start,î he says, alluding to his bad-tempered reputation. ìSo itís important for me to not have to go to work to pay for my lifestyle.î