HBO is throwing another VIP season premiere event in Denver this time for season two of Ballers andit means you could be rubbing elbows with some of your favorite former Broncos or other Denverpro sports athletes.
Former Denver Broncos guard Mark Schlereth (a regular character on the show) will be on hand, along with former Broncos Ed McCaffrey and Tyler Polumbus. Who knows, maybe you can talk Schlerethinto re-enacting one of your favorite scenes from season one. Or not.
The party goes down on Wednesday, July 13 at 7 p.m. at Lime, 500 16th Street in the Denver Pavilions, andThe Denver Post is giving away 30 pairs of tickets (plus some Ballers swag). Heres how to enter:
FIRST: Comment on this post with your favorite Denver Broncos player of all time.Now you have one entry.
SECOND: Copy and paste the text within the quotation marks and tweet it to be entered a second time: Ientered toschmoozewith @markschlereth at the exclusive #Ballers premiere and you can too: http://dpo.st/BallersS2#BALLERSPREMIEREDEN
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Tuesday on CNNs Situation Room, while commenting on President Barack Obamas speech at the memorial service for the fallen officers in Dallas, TX, network anchor Don Lemon said its time as a nation we stop pretending that racism doesnt exist, that bias doesnt exist in this culture.
Lemon said,So many people as he said, easily fall back into the way things were, into our comfortablerhetoric. I think that wont make a difference. Not that I really care what people say on social media. If you go on social media and you look at the comments immediately after the president, the people who dislike this president, the words will just bounce off and hate him more, even though what he said today makes complete sense. His message was no different from George W. Bushs message, no different than Police Chief Browns message, they were all on the same message. So if this is bouncing off of you and not resonating with you, then you need to check yourself and look from within. Imagine George Bush saying the words that Barack Obama said and vis versa. And if the police chiefs words bounced off of you as someone who may be on the more liberal side of things, you need to check yourself as well. It is time to stop pretending that racism doesnt, that bias exist in this culture.
He continued, Im going to share a very personal story as I was out this weekend with friends. We were discussing the Dallas shooting at a bar/restaurant. It was two African-Americans, me and someone else. There were others with us in the immediate vicinity. And as we were talking, my friend is talking about it and my friend is a black guy, and the guy looked at him and said,How does that make you feel as a n****r? And everybody just got quiet and looked at him like, Is this 2016? Is this really happening? I swear on a stack of Bibles, on my life, that this happened just this weekend in a place that you would not think it could happenin a place where there are intelligent people. There are very liberal people in the sense of the types of people they engage with. So we have to stop pretending that these things dont happen, that people dont have implicit bias that you dont hear words and racism and prejudice in your own family, and with people you love and its not within you. Its in all of us. The president said none of us is innocent, no institution is immune. So we should come from that place.
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The new trailer for Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreichs new movie, Rules Dont Apply, is here!
In the period film, its Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist.
Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress.
Hughes behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
Rules Dont Apply will hits theaters on November 23rd.
Vice Principals: A Conversation With Danny McBride and Walton Goggins (HBO)
The actor on why he decided to say goodbye to Eastbound & Down and take on a new challenge with Vice Principals, an HBO comedy 10 years in the making.
Danny McBride and Jody Hill started writing Vice Principals ten years ago. Before Pineapple Express. Before Tropic Thunder. Before anyone had even heard the name Kenny Powers. The limited TV series, which premieres on HBO Sunday, began as a follow-up to the pairs cult classic The Foot Fist Way. But then McBride accidentally became a movie star.
Based on McBrides experience of returning to his Virginia hometown to be a substitute teacher after his first, failed attempt to make it in Hollywood, the script for Vice Principals had been set aside in favor of Eastbound & Down, the HBO comedy that made McBride a bankable comedy star and turned his character Kenny Powers into a household nameat least in certain weed-smoke-filled houses.
A decade later, after four seasons of Eastbound & Down and dozens of big-screen roles for McBride, he and Hill returned to the Vice Principals script and reimagined it on a larger scale. We decided to open it up into an 18-episode series, make it crazier, explore detours that we wouldnt have been able to do in a feature, McBride tells The Daily Beast by phone the morning after a late night at the shows Los Angeles premiere.
Whats appealing about TV to me is the idea that you dont have to be confined to a story that takes place in two hours, McBride says. But at the same time, he does not like the idea of keeping a show going forever and ever just for the sake of it, favoring a sense of finality over longevity.
I want to know that its going somewhere, he says. So with Eastbound we always had the idea that it was a contained story. That show was originally only meant to have three seasons, but HBO ended up convincing McBrides team to produce a fourth, a decision about which he still appears to have misgivings.
With Vice Principals, he says he deliberately wanted to tell one unique story, which is why all 18 episodes were written before a single scene was shot. While McBride says he has no intention of continuing the series after it meets its natural end point, he laughs as he admits he once said the same thing about Eastbound & Down.
Not being tied down to one television series gives him time for even more ambitious projects. McBride has a role in Ridley Scotts upcoming Alien: Covenant and he and Hill finally shot their second feature this past year. The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter, due in theaters next year, is a father-and-son story starring Josh Brolin that McBride describes as a comedic Revenant. Plus, hes not ruling out the possibility that he could play the voice of KITT in a film remake of Knight Rider that is rumored to star Chris Pratt in the David Hasselhoff role. While no one has specifically offered him the chance to play the talking car yet, McBride says sure, if it was cool, he would do it.
In his new show, McBride plays Neal Gamby, a divorced father who takes his job as one of two vice principals at a South Carolina high school deadly seriously. But for the show to work, they needed the perfect person to play, as McBride says, one of the funniest, craziest, [most] layered characters they had even written: Gambys rival-slash-partner-in-crime Lee Russell. We really needed the right kind of actor, McBride says, someone who has the comedic chops, but also dramatic abilities.
They zeroed in on Walton Goggins, best known for playing outlaw preacher Boyd Crowder on six seasons of Justified. Walton is one of those dangerous actors that I just like, McBride says. Every time Ive seen him on screen I wonder what hes going to say or what hes going to do...We got down on our hands and knees and begged him to join us.
If McBrides character in the show is a righteous, sad-sack disciplinarian, Goggins Lee Russell is even more insidious and unnerving. Neal Gamby might let his true feelings about someone slip out in an expletive-laced tirade, but Russell will stay all smiles and Southern pleasantries on the surface with a violent rage seething underneath. When the two men engage in an epic act of vandalism in one early episode, it is Goggins character who takes the lead.
Another important casting choice was the beloved principal both men desperately want to replace. That character, played by none other than Bill Murray, appears briefly in the pilot before retiring to take care of his sick wife. How exactly did McBride convince Murray to make a rare television cameo? It turns out that a chance meeting on an airplane from Charleston, South Carolina, where the series is shot, back to Los Angeles helped seal the deal.
McBride had recently co-starred in the film Rock the Kasbah with Murray and he had heard that the comedy legend was particularly fond of the city of Charleston. We knew we wanted somebody special for the role, he said of the outgoing principal part, so he spent the flight talking up Charleston with Murray. When McBride finally got a script to Murray a couple of weeks later, he heard back that the actor would be honored to play Principal Whats-his-name.
While Eastbound & Down was all about ego and celebrity with Kenny Powers at his core a self-centered person who was really just out for himself, out for his own glory and his own fame McBride does not believe his newest character is a selfish person at all. The type of stuff he does, he thinks hes doing whats best, that its for the greater good, he says. Neal Gamby may be fundamentally misguided, but hes not an egomaniac like Kenny Powers.
When McBride played a version of himself in 2013s apocalyptic comedy This Is the End, there was more than a hint of egomania in the way he interacted with former co-stars and supposed friends like James Franco and Seth Rogen. Things came to a head late in that film when McBride became the leader of a cannibalistic cult who kept Channing Tatum as his s*x slave on a leash.
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But McBride insists hes nothing like the emotionally-disturbed characters he tends to portray. I just find it more interesting to create these stories around characters that youre not used to seeing, he says. Trying to take somebody thats so different from you or I and figuring out how to make an audience see the world through their eyes. By contrast, he says he would find it boring to tell stories about normal, well-behaved people, adding, I think the worlds more complicated than that.
Not too long ago, Goggins appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and referred to McBride as the Woody Allen for flyover America, which can make his misguided characters seem like comedic avatars of the stereotypical Donald Trump voter. Reiterating that Vice Principals began its life a decade ago, McBride says it was certainly not his intention to reflect the current political climate with his show. But, he adds, the fact that this story about this crazy power struggle is happening in an election year is just lucky.
With his history of violence and rejection of political correctness, Kenny Powers seems like exactly the type of former sports star who Trump would love to have speak on his behalf at the GOP convention this month. But presented with the proposition, McBride says Powers would never endorse someone like Trump and prefer to mount his own campaign instead. I think hed want to challenge Trump, he says.
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Savannahs growing attraction as a filming destination was again evident on Thursday as local efforts to accommodate that increased demand continue.
Throughout the day, a section of West Jones Street from Tattnall Street to Whitaker Street was closed for the filming of an Amazon television series, Z: The Beginning of Everything.
The television series starring Christina Ricci is about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, an icon of the flamboyant Jazz Age in the 1920s and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
After exterior scenes were shot in Savannah for the pilot episode last summer, the production returned to town after being picked up for a full season, said Beth Nelson, interim Savannah Film Office director.
Most of the filming took place at the intersection of Jones and Barnard, which had been covered in mulch Thursday morning for the period piece. The interior shots are being filmed in New York where more soundstages are available, Nelson said.
We just need the stages, then they would stay, she said.
After Thursdays shoot, the production is scheduled to again film in Savannah around Monterey Square on June 24.
Meanwhile, efforts are underway to attract more local productions and get them to stay longer.
More facilities are operating locally to meet the needs of the film industry, including the 140,000-square-foot Savannah Film Factory on Fahm Street that features three soundstages, production office space and mill space for building sets. The Savannah College of Art and Design also operates a 22,000-square-foot facility with three soundstages, green rooms and multi-purpose recording booth.
In addition, more training opportunities are being made available to ensure the city has the workforce to accommodate the increased business.
Savannah Technical College recently developed and received approval at the local and state board level for film and television production certificate programs, while the Georgia Film Academy is working with Savannah Tech to bring their programs to Savannah this summer, according to officials with the Savannah Economic Development Authority.
SEDA officials are also trying to get Savannah, Chatham County and Tybee Island to help support a regional film office that would be responsible for marketing efforts directed at the film industry, while local governments would continue handling the permitting process.
Under an agreement going before the Savannah City Council next week, the city would contribute $205,000 each year toward the regional office. That amount would be in addition to $1.8 million in yearly funding provided by SEDA, which includes $1.3 million for tax rebates meant to help attract filmmakers through at least 2018.
In a pitch to the Chatham County Commission at a budget workshop Thursday, SEDA President Trip Tollison said making the office regional would assist local governments in attracting productions, both large and small.
Tollison proposed that Chatham County contribute $100,000 in its upcoming budget to the effort. He said h**l make the same pitch to Tybee Island officials for a $25,000-$50,000 contribution.
We need a countywide film office to service the productions that are coming day in and day out, he said. The city of Savannah right now is doing that, and they simply cant handle the work load.
County Manager Lee Smith said the request came after Chatham officials prepared the fiscal-year budget that begins next month, and the spending plan will need to be examined to see if they can afford the expense.
Over the past week, it"s become public knowledge that Julian Edelman just might be the biggest Tom Brady fan alive.
During a radio interview on Tuesday, former Patriots receiver Wes Welker was asked about the relationship between Edelman and Brady. Specifically, Welker was asked if Edelman looks up to Brady.
"Uh, yeah," Welker told CBS Sports Radio WBZ in Boston. "I mean, it"s a little too obvious. ... I think it"s been noticed."
Welker, Edelman and Brady were all teammates for four years in New England, so Welker probably knows what he"s talking about.
If you follow Edelman on Instagram, you"ve probably noticed that he loves to associate with Brady, even if Brady"s not necessarily associating with him. After Brady tried to lure Kevin Durant to the Celtics, Edelman went on Instagram a day later and posted a picture of himself in a Celtics jersey.
Also, we probably shouldn"t forget about Edelman"s branding. The wide receiver used a "JE11" logo, which he just happened to release shortly after Brady came out with his TB12 logo.
"It"s like going and getting Advil, and then there"s like the Walgreen"s prescription next to it," Welker said of the Brady"s brand vs. Edelman"s brand.
That brings us to Rob Gronkowski.
After Brady was photographed with Justin Timberlake at UFC 200, Edelman went on Instagram the next day and Photoshopped himself into the picture.
Yes, that"s a nice photoshop job, but it also proves Welker"s point that "Brand Edelman" is tied to "Brand Brady," even if Brady isn"t quite aware of that.
Gronk has clearly noticed what"s going on between Edelman and Brady though, so he decided to leave a colorful comment on Edelman"s photo.
Gronk left a colorful comment on Julian Edelman"s Instagram page. Instagram/edelman11
Roasted!
If you can"t read it, Gronk"s comment says, "How many TDs would I have if I **** Brady like you?"
Those asterisks were put there by Gronk, so we"ll let you figure what they mean.
Anyway, if Edelman wants more passes than Gronk this year, he might want to start sucking up to Jimmy Garoppolo, because Brady"s going to be spending the first four weeks of the season on the sideline.
Edelman should start by Photoshopping himself into the picture below. He might want to make try and look like Lex Luthor though, because Garoppolo is dressed as Clark Kent.
