Showing posts with label Quentin Tarantino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quentin Tarantino. Show all posts

What does Hollywood Love?


Claudia Schiffer at the Cannes film festivalImage via WikipediaHumans are animals of a kind. No one can predict what will enter in whose head. Each one has got own unique hobby. There are some who collect coins. There are some who collect old and new and all kinds of stamps. Yet there are some who are autograph-savvy. The collection-mania has been spread the world over. Knowingly or unknowingly we keep the idea fresh in our head and follow it too.
But collecting coins, stamps and signatures are all hobbies and obsessions of the Mama's boy and straightforward. Then what's out of the way? Ask Hollywood stars.
Angelina Jolie - Angelina has a vast collection of knives. And not just any knives, the knives in her possession are all antique pieces.

Tom Hanks - He is interested in keeping what? Typewriters. Tom has a worldwide collection of them. And he has to pay huge sums to get them up to him from any part of the world. And he does do it anyhow without thinking much of what he will have to pay.
Quentin Tarantino - Tarantino has a passion for old board games. This collection mainly features board games that were once related to TV shows.
Nicole Kidman - And at last we have someone as said above, who has a passion for collecting coins. Yes, and it's Nicole Kidman. Kidman has a collection of coins. But these are all pretty rare and ancient Judean.
Demi Moore - Ms. Moore has an assembly of dolls. Wow. A good-looking lass will keep what else - good-looking dolls. And these are no ordinary dolls. They are fairly pricey.
Briteney Spears - The Pop Queen too has developed a hobby of her own. And that too befits her. Like Ms. Moore, Ms. Spears too collects and keeps dolls. But she has also antique dolls in her possession. Along with this she also has porcelain items that are as delicate as their mistress.
Johhny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean Star Johhny Depp has an inside obsession. He likes to buy skeletons and that too of former mail servers - the pigeons.
And now this is about the King of Pop - Michael Jackson. What do you think he collects? Well, no marks for guessing that the King of Pop has a collection of harps - Egyptian harps. But knowing that MJ had a penchant for horse carriages too would flabbergast one and all.
But German model Claudia Schiffer should top this list. This lass is in love with insects. Yes, you read it right - insects. Claudia loves to hang dried bugs on the walls. Can you believe it?

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PCM Movie Review: Inglorious Basterds


There was no holding back when it comes to Quentin Tarantino's new film, Inglorious Basterds. The movie was set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, where a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which then is targeted by the soldiers.

Basterds is bold, brutal, and humorous. This movie obviously portrayed how Tarantino thought WWII should have ended, so if you were expecting an accurate historical depiction, don't. The movie's ending suggests that the power of films should have been a factor in ending the war. With the addition of "The Bastards" being jewish soldiers, you felt the taste of sweet revenege as the movie ended. The film had rich music with definable characters. Brad Pitt was out in full force as Lt. Aldo, who obviously enjoyed his work, and Christoph Waltz sent a shiver down my spin as the heartless Col. Landa. Tarantino presents Hitler and Goebbels as jokes who didn't deserve to be feared. From the mispelled words, to the film that's obviously in a genre of its own, Tarantino blatantly says, love me or hate me.