Be Kind Rewind !!!
Below are stills from a sweet and wonderful movie called "Be Kind Rewind", filmed entirely on-location in Passaic, New Jersey throughout the summer of 2007...
MELONIE DIAZ, MOS DEF AND JACK BLACK CELEBRATE THEIR FIRST "SALE"
EXTERIOR SHOT OF THE "BE KIND REWIND" VIDEO SHOP
ALL THE PRINCIPAL CAST-MEMBERS SHOWN COLLABORATING
MELONIE DIAZ, AS "ALMA", MEETS "JERRY" FOR THE FIRST TIME
JACK BLACK AND MOS DEF IMPERSONATE "THE GHOSTBUSTERS"
MOS DEF LOOKS FOR A MOUSTACHE ON MELONIE DIAZ IN THIS KISSING SCENE
MELONIE DIAZ FILMS JACK BLACK DOING A "ROBOCOP" PARODY
SIGOURNEY WEAVER AND DANNY GLOVER SHARE A SCENE IN THE SHOP
MIA FARROW AND DANNY GLOVER IMITATE "DRIVING MISS DAISY"
MOS DEF AND JACK BLACK MAKE "LOW BUDGET" HISTORY
A Film by Michel Gondry....
Terminal cancer patient reunited with long lost daughter...
who turns out to be hospice nurse !!!
A remarkable twist of fate reunited a dying cancer patient with the daughter he hadn't seen in 41 years at the Bronx hospice where she is a nurse.
Victor Peraza arrived at Calvary Hospital 10 days ago, to the only available bed - on nurse Wanda Rodriguez' unit.
The new patient bore the same name as Rodriguez' father, who left her family when she was an infant.
"I got nervous, very anxious, and I said, 'Oh my God that's my father's name ... what chance is there it's my dad?'" Rodriguez recounted yesterday.
It turned out that patient and nurse are indeed father and daughter.
"It was a miracle," Peraza said, as his newfound child patted his arm and stroked his head. "She's right here beside me."
He noted theirs is the most bittersweet of reunions.
"When you have on one hand dealing with a terminal affliction and on the other you have happiness, you meet someone you always wanted to meet, it's a hard pill to swallow," said Peraza, who lay in his bed, in a beige hospital gown, nodding off from painkillers from time to time.
"I want to jump for joy for her presence, that she accepts me."
For her whole life, a tearful Rodriguez said, "I always dreamed of saying 'Daddy' to someone ... I never got to pick out a Father's Day card."
Her parents married young, had two daughters, and split up. She never saw Peraza again. Her mother, Esther, raised her and her older sister Gina in the Bronx, working for the Postal Service. Peraza moved to Queens. He worked in banking.
Last Wednesday night, Peraza was transferred from Mount Sinai Hospital in Queens to the hospice.
After she heard his name, Rodriguez entered his room to welcome him to the hospital, and couldn't stop herself from asking him if he had any children.
"I said, 'I have Gina and Wanda, they're grown now,'" Peraza recalled.
"When he said my name I lost it," said Rodriguez, choking up. Then she told him, "I'm Wanda, I'm your daughter."
"She looked in my eyes and I said, 'That's my daughter Wanda,' and I think I let some tears out," said Peraza. "After a couple of hours, a couple of days, it started to sink in, and I got emotional."
So did Rodriguez.
"He begged me to forgive him," she said. "He said he wasn't a good father. I held his hand and embraced him and kissed him, and he started to sing This Magic Moment.
"I forgive him because I've wanted to meet him all these years. I don't know how long he has left."
Peraza thought he would die alone, but now he has his children and grandchildren with him. Rodriguez' three kids made him cards crayoned with "I love you."
He said he is proud Rodriguez became a nurse.
She comes a few hours before her shift starts to take care of him, bringing the rice and beans, fried plantains and chocolate egg creams he loves.
"It's a miracle, it's God, it's fate, it's hope," Peraza said as his daughter beamed.
courtesy: NY DAILY NEWS poshaughnessy@nydailynews.com
In a summer rife with dull movies....
INCEPTION was awesome !!!
Leonardo DiCaprio as "Cobb"
Ken Watanabe as "Saito" (center), deliberates with Cobb and Eames over whether he should insert the inception team into his business rival's head
Leonardo DiCaprio, as "Cobb", decides whether-or-not to trust his "totem"
Inside the ruins of Cobb's "collapsing" dreamscape
Ellen Page, as "Ariadne", explores the concept of "dreams within dreams" with Cobb
Ariadne, upon discovering she's inside Cobb's dream, begins to alter its dimensions
Tom Hardy, as "Eames", listens to Cobb's speech on "totems"
Michael Caine, as "Professor Miles", warns Cobb not to dream himself into "limbo"
Joseph Gordon Levitt, as "Arthur", awakes inside Cobb's dream
Dileep Roa, as "Yusuf" (left), with fellow "dream team" members, wake up in someone else's dream
Ken Watanabe, as the wealthy businessman "Saito", agrees to use Cobb's team
Arthur has to awaken his fellow team members before it's too late....
Quick thinking NYPD Officer James Atkins saved his sergeant's life
by defying her orders !!!
Police Officer James Atkins disobeyed a direct order from his sergeant - and it saved her life.
Sgt. Grevirlene Kersellius, 42, was recovering from a brain aneurysm at Roosevelt Hospital on Tuesday, her prognosis good, because Atkins insisted on rushing her to the hospital when she complained of a bad headache.
"Thank you for not listening to me," the tearful 19-year NYPD veteran told Atkins.
"She looked bad and I made the decision to take her straight to the hospital," said Atkins, 41. "When I found out what it was I was like, 'Wow!'"
She and Atkins, with 20 years on the job, are assigned to Transit District 3 in Harlem.
They were racing to a call of a man with a gun June 20, lights and siren blaring, when Kersellius felt excruciating pain in the front of her head and the back of her neck.
"It was like I had a ton on my head and I couldn't hold it up," recalled the mother of three boys.
They reached 96th St., and Atkins bolted from the driver's seat into the station looking for the gunman.
Kersellius said she mustered all her strength to follow her partner to make sure he was okay.
That's when Atkins noticed she was in distress.
She told Atkins she wasn't feeling well and ordered him to take her back to their office.
"Sarge, I'm taking you to the hospital," he said. She insisted on going to the office, but he was even more insistent.
"He was driving and holding me up, saying, 'Stay with me, Sarge!'"
Atkins rushed Kersellius to St. Luke's Hospital, where a CAT scan showed bleeding at the base of her brain.
She was quickly transferred to Roosevelt Hospital, where Dr. Rafael Ortiz, a neuroendovascular surgeon, performed a five-hour operation to insert platinum coils to prevent further bleeding.
Atkins' insubordination proved vital.
"One-third of people with this die, and one third have a bad neurological outcome," Ortiz said.
"The chance of a good outcome is better if the patient comes in right away."
Ortiz said Kersellius' progress has been good.
After a few more days of monitoring in the hospital, she'll go to rehab.
Kersellius learned a valuable lesson, one she is encouraging others to follow: Don't take a bad headache lightly.
"Don't hesitate to go to the emergency room," she implored.
And of Atkins, she started to call him an angel, then paused.
"I call him my savior," Kersellius said.
poshaughnessy@nydailynews.com
James Cameron's new movie...
"AVATAR" took my breath away !!!
ZOE SALDANA AS THE NA'VI "NEYTIRI" IN JAMES CAMERON'S "AVATAR" (2009)
DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON IN REHEARSAL WITH "AVATAR" CAST MEMBERS
SAM WORTHINGTON AS "JAKE SULLY"
GIOVANNI RIBISI AS "PARKER SELFRIDGE" AND SIGOURNEY WEAVER AS "DR. GRACE AUGUSTINE"
"JAKE SULLY" AND "COLONEL QUARITCH" STUDY THE NA'VI'S SECRET BASE
STEPHEN LANG AS "COLONEL MILES QUARITCH"
"JAKE SULLY" AWAKES IN HIS TEN-FOOT-TALL "NA'VI" AVATAR
"NEYTIRI" AND "JAKE" AMONGST THE "NA'VI" PEOPLE
DIRECTOR JAMES CAMERON, IN THE EDITING ROOM AT I.L.M.
THE FORESTS OF PANDORA
"COLONEL QUARITCH" NAVIGATES THROUGH THE ARMADA
SAM WORTHINGTON, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ AS "TRUDY CHACON" AND JOEL DAVID MOORE AS "DR. NORM SPELLMAN"
SIGOURNEY WEAVER, IN HER AVATAR, ASKS THE "NAVI" TO LET HER SPEAK
"JAKE SULLY" BECOMES A FULL-FLEDGED "NAVI" WARRIOR
"NEYTIRI" IS ABOUT TO TEACH "JAKE" HOW TO FLY
"JAKE" ATTEMPTS TO MOUNT A WINGED REPTILE
"COLONEL QUARITCH" PREPARES TO FIGHT
THE "FLOATING MOUNTAINS" OVER PANDORA
While some have stayed home...
Others have distinguished themselves.
THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS TO ME, RIGHT NOW, IS EARTHQUAKE RELIEF FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAITI.... MANY COURAGEOUS PERSONS, FROM ALL OF THE PROFESSIONS AND FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, ARE DISTINGUISHING THEMSELVES IN HAITI.... INCLUDING JOURNALISTS !!!
ACTOR/ACTIVIST SEAN PENN, ON THE U.S. MILITARY RELIEF EFFORT IN HAITI :
"It's an extraordinary thing to see an army having an agenda of peace. And they do it with such incredible intentions. ... I would like to tell all my lefty friends out there, these guys are doing an amazing job and they're doing it with the greatest intentions in heart and in conjunction with all of the other organizations..." (Sean Penn on Larry King LIVE, 01/31/10, via satellite from Haiti)
Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department Search and Rescue Team, shown here clearing away earthquake debris in downtown Port-au-Prince (01/17/10).
The Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier, USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), arriving for the first time, off Haitian coastal waters (01/18/10).
A pair of CH-53E Super Stallions from the Ironhorse of U.S. Marine Heavy Helicopter Sqadron HMH-461, USS Bataan, returning for more food and water supplies... to be flown "in country" to even more remote parts of Haiti's earthquake stricken capital (01/16/10).
A medical response team, composed of both Navy and civilian doctors, aboard the USS Carl Vinson (01/20/10).
The Military Sea Lift Command Hospital Ship, USNS Comfort, arriving off the coast of Haiti (01/20/10).
Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr., Joint Task Force Haiti, tending to an earthquake survivor, aboard the USNS Comfort (01/21/10).
CNN correspondent, Anderson Cooper, carries an injured boy to safety, amidst rioting and looting on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (01/18/10).
ANDERSON COOPER, RELATING EVENTS FOR THE VIEWING AUDIENCE
CNN medical correspondent (and practicing neuro-surgeon), Dr. Sanjay Gupta, at a makeshift field clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
CNN medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, was the only qualified neuro-surgeon in Haiti by the time the U.S. Navy arrived with disaster relief. The Navy asked for his expertise in the operating room aboard the USS Carl Vinson... and he gave it.
From left : U.S. Navy surgeon, Cmdr. Jerry Berman, Dr. Henri R. Ford (Chief of Surgery, Los Angeles Pediatric Hospital) and Dr. Sanjay Gupta performing neuro-surgery aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) on January 18 (2010).
In Port-au-Prince, Haitian native and U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate, Seaman Dominique Pierre uses his skills as a Creole interpreter for the Navy's disaster relief team (01/19/10).
Sailors from the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) leave much-needed bottled water at the airport staging area, for earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince (01/18/10).
In Grand Goave, Haiti, U.S. Navy Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Isabel Pericon assists in clearing away debris with fellow sailors from the USS Bataan (01/29/10).
Pallets of food, water and supplies sit on the flight line at Port-au-Prince's only operational airport (01/17/10).
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