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[ukade2327]

43 minutes ago, nefilim said:

@ukade2327 Prime Psycho Asylum ... is one allowed to post something or is it for Mod's to start threads ?

I'm fairly sure its OK to start something  new if not we can always edit it 

[nefilim]

Margot Robbie didn't realize that I, Tonya was based on real events

... even I knew that. Oh, dear ...

 

One of the biggest scandals to rock the Olympic world was when Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and her bodyguard Shawn Eckhard plotted to remove Nancy Kerrigan from the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. What followed was a widely publicized attack on Kerrigan that left her with a bruised, but not broken, leg which made Kerrigan unable to compete in the championship. Nonetheless, Nancy Kerrigan was still selected for the 1994 Olympic team. After being apprehended, Gillooly implicated his ex-wife in the plot and Harding was stripped her of her 1994 U.S. Championship title as well as being banned for life from participating in any USFSA-run events as either a skater or a coach.

It was a defining event for millions of people, but not for Margot Robbie, who plays Tonya Harding in the upcoming I, TONYA, as she told Vanity Fair that at first she believed that Steven Rogers' script was entirely fictional.

I think I was about four years old when the incident took place. I was in Australia and totally unaware of the whole incident and the crazy controversy. To be honest, when I read the script, I didn’t know who Tonya Harding was, and I didn’t realize it was a true story. I thought it was entirely fictionalized and our writer Steve was so creative to come up with the quirky characters and absurd incidents.

Obviously, Margot Robbie quickly learned just who Tonya Harding was during her research for the role, which also included training for months in order to elevate her skating skills. "I played ice hockey at one point, but this was a whole new world of pain," said Robbie. I, TONYA director Craig Gillespie has said that he hopes that the film will humanize Harding, whose story is "much more tragic and complicated than what the media portrayed in its narrative." Working on the film also made Margot Robbie appreciate Tonya Harding's athletic talents.

"I don’t think I ever really appreciated [her talent] until we were figuring out how we were going to shoot the triple axel in the film,” Robbie said. The film’s director and producers assumed they could just hire a skate double to complete the stunt—even though Harding was the first American woman to perform a triple axel in competition. (After all, hadn’t the sport progressed significantly in the 23 years since the incident?) Then they were told that only six women in history had completed that complicated jump in competition—and none could double for Harding. (The filmmakers ultimately had to use visual effects to complete the scene.)

I, TONYA doesn't have a release date yet, but it debuted today at the Toronto International Film Festival.

[nefilim]

R.I.P.

Harry Dean Stanton

I really admired this man. Truly great actor. Never seemed to make number of himself. But films like Paris-Texas. Alien. Repo Man. Etc.. Would not be same without him.

[Scary Hair]

@nefilim

I know what you mean? .

He always shone in a movie and made the movie better for him being in it ??

[ukade2327]

Very sad to hear this news , only watched him recently in Twin Peaks .......a great actor who truly made the movie characters his .......?

[nefilim]

a man robbed a bank in Finland. first teller thought it was a joke but when robber lifted a plastic bag with something
heavy and bliking lights to the table she realised it was real. he also had a gun. she gave the robber €10000 and robber
left. police arrived and saw the bomb and cleared few blocks to each direction. when they finally started to examine
the parcel they found out it was couple of blinking lights wrapped around pizza doe. lol. and when they caught the
man he had only water pistol. money was never recoverd. he was very sorry for all the trouble and harm he had caused.

true story. he got one year in jail.

@ukade2327 @45Caliber @atomicblonde @MrsXena

Edited October 3, 2017 by nefilim

[nefilim]

Cult Italian Director Umberto Lenzi Has Passed Away.

 

R.I.P.

 

[Scary Hair]

MP GOLD Members do you know that thire is a Raffle to win a Sealed Zavvi Thor Steelbook 

Tickes are $5 each ALL Proceeds are to MP AND SHIPPING IS COVERED AS WELL 

 

 

 

[extantsrevenge]

A Happy New Year to all members, hope it will be a good one for everyone with lot of fun on MP and nice new Steelbooks and Premium releases.

 

Have a good New Year's Eve

 

[Gary]

Thanks, and ditto!

 

I hope that everyone has a safe a happy new year, followed by a year where goals are exceeded and you experience many happy surprises. 

[Sicksol]

Last week we had wind chills at 15 below zero. Today it was 60 and tonight we have a winter storm warning. That's New York for ya

[MrsXena]

R.I.P. Dolores O’Riordan

 

Great voice, touching songs.

[ukade2327]

Absolutely ,..................Such Sad news ............Been listening to  The Cranberries at work today ...........☹️

[nefilim]

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Cannot see/enter into my profile page ?

 

Anyone ?

 

Thanks.

[ukade2327]

10 minutes ago, nefilim said:

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Cannot see/enter into my profile page ?

 

Anyone ?

 

Thanks.

@DodgyDave @45Caliber @Masterblaster   this ones for the top floor ....by the looks of it ....if you know what to do

[nefilim]

@ukade2327 @Scary Hair

 

...also not able to send or receive PM.

 

Cheers,

 

K/N

[Scary Hair]

12 minutes ago, nefilim said:

@ukade2327 @Scary Hair

 

...also not able to send or receive PM.

 

Cheers,

 

K/N

 

Hi Nef ?.

 

Bere with us on this one as I don't know exactly what is going on . @ukade2327 has already tagged who can and will help ?.

 

Ann ??

 

[nefilim]

4 minutes ago, Scary Hair said:

 

Hi Nef .

 

Bere with us on this one as I don't know exactly what is going on . @ukade2327 has already tagged who can and will help .

 

Ann

 

 

Sure.

[nefilim]

  R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin

[DodgyDave]

2 hours ago, nefilim said:

  R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin

Who ?

[nefilim]

29 minutes ago, DodgyDave said:

Who ?

 

Sci-fi writer, I'd say wellknown - but as you did not not her ... ?

 

Edited January 24, 2018 by nefilim

[DodgyDave]

No. 

I do read fantasy books when I’m on holiday. It’s the only time I get the time to read. 

But I’ve not read any of “her” books. ?

[ukade2327]

R.I.P .............

Mark E Smith  , singer and front man of 80's seminal Manchester Post Punk band , The Fall , has passed away today  aged 60 ..........

[nefilim]

2 minutes ago, ukade2327 said:

R.I.P .............

Mark E Smith  , singer and front man of 80's seminal Manchester Post Punk band , The Fall , has passed away today  aged 60 ..........

 

... RIP. 

Never was huge fan, but never denied the influece he had/will have on future music makers.

 

[ukade2327]

43 minutes ago, nefilim said:

 

... RIP. 

Never was huge fan, but never denied the influece he had/will have on future music makers.

 

 

Me neither far too quirky  for me ,  I only ever listened to them on the John Peel show , he always had them in session ,   ,... still a bit of a shock and a sad loss ...