RIP: JOHN HUGHES DEAD AT 59...

What a shocker. It was a sudden death, of a heart attack while he was taking a walk in NYC. He was 59. The writer/director/producer will be remembered for his unique ability to speak to kids, tweens, teens and young adults with movies that became instant pop culture classics with such seminal films like Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Though the busy filmmaker's career had gone quiet in recent years, his films shaped the 1980s and 1990s and early 2000s in a way few in Hollywood can claim. He leaves behind a rich legacy.

NIKKI FINKE

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

The Breakfast Club
“I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.”
“The next time I have to come in here, I’m crackin’ skulls!”
“Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we’ll all get up, it’ll be anarchy.”
“Face it. You’re a neo maxi zoom dweebie, what would you be doing if you weren’t out making yourself a better citizen?”

Pretty in Pink
“His name is Blane? Oh! That’s a major appliance, that’s not a name!”
“You said you couldn’t be with someone who didn’t believe in you. Well I believed in you. I just didn’t believe in myself. I love you. Always.”

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you’d have a diamond.”
“Not that I condone fascism, or any ‘ism’ for that matter. Ism’s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: ‘I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.’ Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus, I’d still have to bum rides off of people. “

Sixteen Candles
“By night’s end, I predict me and her will interface.”
“I loathe the bus. There has to be a more dignified mode of transportation.”
“Relax, would you? We have seventy dollars and a pair of girls underpants. We’re safe as kittens.”

Vacation
“I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh?”
“I think you’re all fucked in the head. We’re ten hours from the fucking fun park and you want to bail out. Well I’ll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It’s a quest. It’s a quest for fun. I’m gonna have fun and you’re gonna have fun. We’re all gonna have so much fucking fun we’ll need plastic surgeory to remove our god damn smiles. You’ll be whistling ‘Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah’ out of you’re assholes! I gotta be crazy! I’m on a pilgrimage to see a moose. Praise Marty Moose! Holy Shit!”

"OUR MOVIE ABOUT RHODES IS GOING TO ADVERTISE MALTA!!!!!!"

http://www.enet.gr/?i=issue.el.home&date=2009-08-06&s=shmeio-synanthshs

Prestigious daily indie newspaper "ELEFTHEROTYPIA" (see link above) had a double interview of myself and novelist Michael Kokkinaris by journalist and columnist Giannis Triantafyllou and our trials and tribulations with corrupted political and culture establishment in Greece and local authorities in the island of Rhodes to bring the novel to the big screen under the working title "ANIMA". So we moved to Tunisia for the exteriors and forget about the Rhodes.

Local judges and authorities in Rhodes took away from Anthony Quinn's estate the land that they have given to the screen legend-a disgrace! "GUNS OF NAVARONE" helped built the tourism industry at the island but local politicos have no memory, no ethical standards, no dignity. (AND JUSTICE FOR NOBODY!)

"ANIMA" , our Knights of Saint John VS the Ottoman Empire feature, is a cross between "300" and "TROY" and its whirlwind action/adventure/fantasy plot unfolds at the end of the 14th century and early 15th century...The historical facts, the military tactics are real, the love story fictional.

HELLO COMPETENCE!

GOODBYE NEPOTISM, HELLO COMPETENCE: New Big-Time Critics For 'At The Movies'
I and many other Hollywood journalists were sufficiently outraged when, one year ago, Disney/ABC's movie criticism show once hosted by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, and then Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, was put into the unworthy hands of Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, both of whose primary claim to fame was nepotism. Fortunately for viewers, At the Movies now has jettisoned the two lightweights for two heavyweights again starting September 7th: The New York Times' A.O. "Tony" Scott (photo, left) and The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips (photo, right). "We are thrilled that A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips will be lending their well-respected and influential voices to At the Movies," Daytime president Brian Frons said in a statement. "They are regarded by millions of people as authorities in film criticism and will take the series back to its roots of one-on-one film debate that was established when the show first began with Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel." My question: Which of them is going to plug every Disney pic? Or will they take turns?

NIKKI FINKE

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/goodbye-nepotism-hello-competence-new-big-time-critics-for-at-the-movies/

WHILE YOU PAY HUGE PRICES AT YOUR LOCAL GAS STATION, SOMEONE IS GETTING PAID $100M USD FROM TAXPAYERS' MONEY!

A CITIGROUP AFFILIATE (PHILBRO) CONNECTICUTT MIRACLE:

A little back of the envelope math:His "commission" est 10% = 100M.


Profits must be 1B.


est "arbitrage profit" = $1 per barrel traded , possibly a lot less.


ergo volume traded = 1B barrels, possibly a lot more.


total barrels output per day Saudi+Iran+US = 22,740,000 barrels.


So, he traded AT LEAST 100% of the TOTAL output for these three major oil producing countries every day for the equivalent of 44 days.That moves the market. It creates speculative "demand' and raises prices.Bona fide arbitrage does not result in such such massive volumes of trade by one person.


Remember - he's only ONE guy that we know about.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/citigroups-oil-traders-10_b_251512.html

JP MORGAN CHASE, MORGAN STANLEY, CITIGROUP ANCHORED SUPERTANKERS FOR NINE MONTHS OFF THE COAST TO SPECULATE ON HIGHER OIL PRICES AND HELP RAISE PRICES AT YOUR LOCAL GAS STATION...
The leniency extended toward Citigroup permitting it to engage in commodity trading was subsequently extended to FHC's including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, all of whom are playing the oil/commodities game and not to be outdone, also have fully loaded vessels at sea (JP Morgan having recently chartered the VLCC Supertanker Front Queen, loaded with 2 million barrels of heating oil for a duration of nine months to sit at anchor off the coast of Malta. The commodity speculation doesn't stop with oil, but these bank's traders along with the likes of Goldman Sachs (now a Bank Holding Company) take huge trading positions on all manner of commodities for which they are clearly neither producer nor consumer, but only speculators. Given recent experience and its enormous cost can the Fed and the Treasury truly say that these rote speculative activities -- "pose little risk to the safety and soundness of the depository institution."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/the-public-option-in-bank_b_252161.html
President Obama has repeated his call for a public option in health care, in order to create some competition for the insurance companies and keep them honest. We the people need to call for a public option in banking, in order to create some competition for the private banks and keep them honest. In Wall Street's latest affront to the public trust, the nine mega-banks graced with $125 billion in taxpayer bailout money under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) were reported last week to be paying out billions of dollars in bonuses to their executives. At least 4,793 bankers and traders received more than $1 million each in bonus payments, although it was one of Wall Street's worst years on record. After months of investigating banker compensation, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on July 30 (...)
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