by Aaron Colter
Here’s an easy way to make your July better – download this music, put it into a special playlist called “Happy Summertime,” go outside, listen, repeat. Really though, if you’re at work, get sick. If you’re at home, make yourself a cold drink and find some greenery. Get some speakers and some friends, or some headphones and good book, and get the fuck outside! This music will heighten the sunlight.
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by Daniel Robert Epstein
“The little things make Saw III”
– Darren Lynn Bousman
After years of interviewing Saw II and Saw III director Darren Lynn Bousman, finally we get to do it for SuicideGirls. I have been a fan of all the Saw films since I saw the first one in preparation for my interview with co-writer/director James Wan. I had no inkling that this gory little horror flick would change the face of American horror and put us into this torture porn cycle that we are still in three years later.
The Saw films have always gotten a lot of shit from the online press but it is hard to argue with a franchise that has grossed nearly $400 million worldwide. Bousman is the director of the two Saw sequels and Saw III is truly the one that ties them all together. With Tobin Bell’s Jigsaw and Shawnee Smith’s Amanda now front and center, the audience gets to really feel the precarious mental state of the serial killers and maybe even can sympathize with them. With Jigsaw on his last legs due to cancer, Amanda has taken over the task of testing their captives and pushing them to their limits. I got a chance to talk with Bousman about the new unrated Saw III DVD.
Read our exclusive interview with Darren Lynn Bousman on SuicideGirls.com.
By Nicole Powers
“Every once in a while I feel like I have to stir it up.”
– David Hyde Pierce
As Dr. Niles Crane on the popular NBC sitcom Frasier, which ran from 1993 to 2004, David Hyde Pierce was a paragon of gentility. However in his latest project, the independent movie The Perfect Host, he gets to embrace a far darker side of his psyche.
At first Warwick Wilson (played by Pierce) appears to be the epitome of civility and the consummate dinner party host. But when an unexpected guest arrives — John Taylor (played by Clayne Crawford), a bank robber in desperate need of a place to lay low — the evening’s events take a surprising course. Without giving too much away, by the time desert arrives, it’s impossible to tell who could — or should — die.
SuicideGirls caught up with Pierce by phone to chat about The Perfect Host and his other post-Frasier projects. The topic of dogs also rather unexpectedly, but nonetheless fortuitously, interrupted our conversation.
Read our exclusive interview with David Hyde Pierce on SuicideGirls.com.
by A.J. Focht
After fourteen years, the Harry Potter series is coming to an end. The first book was published in 1997, and with the release of the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the journey comes to a close. Deathly Hallows premiered in London on July 7, and then in New York City on July 11. The internet has all but blown up since as fans avidly await the world wide release on July 15. The film is currently holding a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, and shows no signs of falling. The video game by the same name and the official film soundtrack were released on July 12, 2011.
Harry Potter might be the biggest news of the week, but it wasn’t the only news. Yesterday, the first teaser poster for the Dark Knight was revealed. But that was only the second most exciting news surrounding the Caped Crusader in the past 7 days, as it was announced that Adam West will have a cameo in the upcoming film.
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by Daniel Robert Epstein
“I’m such a filthy bastard.”
– Bob Saget
Since the two shows starring Bob Saget, Full House and America’s Funniest Home Videos, ended nearly ten years ago it has been a long hard road to make America realize that he is one of the sickest and funniest comedians around today. Certainly directing the cult classic Dirty Work and his brief appearance in Half Baked as the cocksucking cocaine addict helped that cause. But it was really his very dirty version of the aristocrats joke in the documentary The Aristocrats and his self parodying appearance on Entourage that has led to him directing the March of the Penguins parody, Farce of the Penguins.
Farce of the Penguins is a hysterically dirty and funny DVD original movie made up of stock footage of penguins with narration by Samuel L. Jackson. Voices of the penguins are done by Saget, Lewis Black, Tracy Morgan, Christina Applegate, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Jodie Sweetin and many more.
Read our exclusive interview with Bob Saget on SuicideGirls.com.
By Keanan Duffty
In 2002 I had reached out to Bill Zysblat. Bill is David Bowie’s longtime business manager. His office, which houses the RZO organization is on 57th Street in Manhattan. I was interested in designing some clothes for David. “Great,” said Bill, “but he’s on tour so let’s revisit after the current dates come to a close in 2003.”
Several years later I reconnected with Zysblat. In the time since our first conversation my fashion business had changed. My label had blossomed and I struck a deal with the American mass retailer Target, a 1400 plus chain based in Minneapolis and reaching across America coast to coast.
“Come up to the office,” said Bill. “You should meet with David and see if there is synergy.” The RZO organization – that would be the place where I would first encounter the guy who had influenced my whole career.
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by Daniel Robert Epstein
“I really was Robert Paulsen”
– Meat Loaf
2006 was a illustrious year in music for many reasons, but certainly the release of Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell III was one of them. Meat Loaf and his longtime Bat Out Of Hell collaborator, Jim Steinman, were able to heal their wounds long enough to finish their trilogy.
Meat Loaf has been a cult figure since the release of his first albums in the early 1970s, but it was his role as Eddie the biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show that cemented his legendary status. Meat Loaf has had only middling hits in-between his Bat Out Of Hell albums, but he is still creating music and still picking amazing roles in Fight Club and Dario Argento’s most recent episode of Masters of Horror, Pelts.
Read our exclusive interview with Meat Loaf on SuicideGirls.com.
