Catching up on the catching up. Happy Thanksgiving.
This nude photo taken by photographer David Bailey of Roman Polanski and his deceased wife Sharon Tate is evidently worth a lot more than it was a few months ago, now that the Polish filmmaker has been in prison for almost two months on a 38-year-old unlawful sex case. Vultures at an upcoming auction are hoping that it could fetch more than $10,000. The photo was taken in 1969 just four months before she was murdered by the Manson family. We hope the auctioneers who make a profit off the sale enjoy their caviar dinner.
Excellent Aussie actor Guy Pearce (“The Hurt Locker,” “Memento”) has joined the cast of Roger Donaldson’s vigilante thriller “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps” which stars Nicolas Cage as a man who goes to a vigilante group for help after his wife (it-girl of the minute-moment, January Jones) is attacked.
Ken Loach is already shooting his next picture “Route Irish” (pictured here). It’s an Iraq War film and takes its title from the infamously dangerous road that links Baghdad’s international ‘Green Zone’ with the city’s airport. Loach is working with Chris Menges (“The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada”), a cinematographer he hasn’t worked with in 20 years.
Loach’s 2009 comedy, “Looking For Eric” will hit U.S. theaters sometime in 2010. We enjoyed it quite a bit when we saw it at Cannes, and while admittedly, it is a little on the feel-good side at times, it’s mostly genuinely celebratory and funny, though perhaps a bit tonally erratic at times.