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Thursday, November 8, 2018

The Writer's Life 11/8 - Suffering for Art

From a fun article at foxnews.com, edited by yours truly, here's what four famous actors did in certain movie roles:
Emma Stone had to wear a corset in The Favourite, which will soon be released. She said: "After a month, all my organs shifted - it was gross and if you don't have to, don't do it!"
Ashton Kutcher adopted a fruitarian diet while preparing for his role in Jobs (2013), the bio of Apple's founder. The choice to eat only fruits, seeds and nuts, and no animal products landed him in the hospital two days before shooting began. He said: "I was like doubled over in pain, and my pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was completely terrifying,.."
Dissatisfied with the cuts makeup artists applied to his face for the WWII film Fury (2014), Shia LaBeouf sliced his face with a knife and kept opening the wound throughout filming. He also had a tooth pulled for the role. Here's Hollywood's bad boy:


Even crazier than the above: Christian Bale shed 60 pounds for his part as someone suffering insomnia in The Machinist (2004). Of the experience, he said: "When you’re so skinny that you can hardly walk up a flight of stairs … you’re, like, this being of pure thought. It’s like you’ve abandoned your body. That’s the most Zen-like state I’ve ever been in my life. Two hours sleep, reading a book for 10 hours straight without stopping … unbelievable. You couldn’t rile me up. No rollercoaster of emotions... As soon as you start putting the food back in your stomach, the rollercoaster comes back.”


A Florida cop reached a speed of 142 MPH during a high speed, parked on the side of the road. The vehicle's heat ignited the grass, and the flames quickly spread to the car. Here's a pic:


My thanks to Ira, who bought two large books: A collection of the front page of the NY Times from 1920-1986, concentrating on the most famous stories in that span, and an almanac; and to the gentleman who purchased a thriller in Russian; and to Andy F-Bomb and Marie, who each donated a bag of very marketable books. Mountain Man, aka Steve, stopped for a visit for the first time in a long while. Despite his contempt for politicians, he voted on Tuesday.

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