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ure, the Golden Globes are a dinner and a show, but the real parties don’t start until after the final statue is awarded. And Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, partyers had plenty of destinations, a few steps or a crowded elevator ride away.
For starters, the Weinstein Co.’s bash, in a secluded spot on the hotel’s southeast corner, was bursting with star power. Harvey Weinstein served sushi and Champagne in honor of “Inglourious Basterds” and his other heavily nominated films, but the A-list names were the real buffet:
Kate Hudson lounged at the busiest table, gabbing with Fergie and hubby Josh Duhamel. Behind her, Rob Marshall chatted with Daniel Day-Lewis, next to Tom Ford, interacting with his directorial debut muse Julianne Moore.
Quentin Tarantino took up residence one booth over, while his “Basterds” actor Eli Roth shared a California roll with Diane Kruger. Nearby, her main squeeze, Joshua Jackson, spoke with “Up in the Air” star Anna Kendrick about Christoph Waltz’s “Inglorious” supporting actor win. (Source)
Moments after the last Golden Globe was handed out and the final acceptance speech was made, an army of famous faces spilled out into the Beverly Hilton lobby, selecting their partying options for the evening. One of the most popular was the annual Weinstein Company bash, where the guest of honor was a brand-new “little basterd.”
“Everyone knew from the beginning that there was something special about that performance,” recalled “Inglourious Basterds” star Omar Doom, speaking with us moments before Christoph Waltz walked into the party holding his Best Supporting Actor statue. “I knew [he'd win] from the table read. Everyone, all the actors in ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ had a small murmur afterwards, going, ‘Oh my God! He was so amazing! He was so scary!’ And all he was doing was reading it off the pages.”
“It was my first time at the Golden Globe Awards, and I can see why everyone’s drunk,” laughed another “Basterds” star, Eli Roth. “They don’t really feed you — it’s just champagne. Everyone’s drinking it all night. It’s incredible. You look around, and there’s Fergie and Mariah Carey and Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman.”
As the Weinstein Company spent a rainy evening celebrating not only “Basterds,” but also “Nine” and “A Single Man,” stars like Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan, Fergie, Julianne Moore and The Edge partied — and reflected on a fun evening.
“I thought Ricky Gervais was cool. I liked Sandra Bullock; it’s nice that she won,” said Mickey Rourke, who won a Globe for “The Wrestler” last year. “But I was hoping ‘The Hurt Locker’ was gonna win everything — I really like that movie a lot, especially that kind of movie directed from a woman’s point of view. It’s very powerful.
“He was pretty funny,” Rourke said of Globes host Gervais. “I think it’s nice that he had a drink or two.”
“I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger come up to Quentin and tell him how much he loved the film. [So did] Matt Damon and Tom Hanks — so did Zoe Saldana and Gabourey Sidibe. It was pretty awesome,” Roth marveled of the “Basterds” love. “I was watching two icons [Schwarzenegger and Tarantino] have a conversation, and I’m like, ‘I’m the dude with the bat!’ and I shook his hand. We [took some pictures], and that was that.”
“I have to say, you meet a lot of famous people in this business, and you get used to it. But I’d never seen Paul McCartney up close,” added “A Single Man” star Colin Firth. “Just being in the same room — it was quite something.”
As much fun as everyone had while the booze flowed and the music pumped, however, the stars were quick to put things in perspective.
“These are in support of Haiti,” Roth explained, pointing to a ribbon pinned on his outfit, as well as on many other stars’ clothes. “We’re all thinking about what’s going on over there. They handed them out on the way in, and everyone’s wearing them tonight. Here we are on the red carpet, drinking champagne, and those people don’t have water or food. How can you not think about them? Obviously, all of us — in between this — are watching YouTube and looking on Twitter and CNN, reading reports and donating where we can,” Roth added of being a part of this year’s awards season. “Doing this is bittersweet — it’s wonderful to do it, it’s a nice break — but it’s hard to enjoy it knowing what’s going on in the rest of the world. They gave [these ribbons] out as a unified symbol of that. Although we are doing this and enjoying ourselves and having a fun night, we are thinking about everyone in Haiti.”
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that rap-mogul RZA (“Digi Snacks”) will script a new film, which director Eli Roth (Hostel) will direct. A member of the Wu-tang hip hop conglomerate, RZA has had much exposure to film including “Coffee and Cigarettes,” “Derailed,” and “American Gangster.” Plot details are being kept quiet on the feature, which is titled The Man with the Iron Fist, but RZA states:
“Tarantino is my teacher…I’ve watched hundreds of movies with him and spent hundreds of hours learning craft from him. I’m a disciple of Tarantino” (LA Times).
Announced details on this upcoming movie are stating it will have grindhouse elements, kung-fu stylings and likely some horror tones inside. Overall, it’s (already) features an A-List crew: RZA (writer), Eli Roth (director) and Quentin Tarantino (producer).
Mediaite.com has posted an excerpt from the forthcoming book “All the Gory Details” by Eli Roth.
The nineties, while fun and wild at times, were spent in film school, then working on various film sets from 5:30 in the morning until 11:00 at night getting coffee or standing out in the freezing cold asking drug addicts in Tompkins Square Park to kindly keep their voice down. In short, they sucked, by 1999 I had moved to Los Angeles and finally got my first directing break, co-writing, directing, producing and voicing a series of animated shorts with my friend Noah Belson called “Chowdaheads.” The shorts were to air on WCW Wrestling’s #1 rated show “Monday Nitro,” but the weekend before they were scheduled to air the CEO got fired, and the shorts were put on hold. I had put every waking minute of my life into these shorts, and now they were just sitting on a shelf because of a regime change. I was told to “sit tight” and “hang in there,” but by the end of 1999 it was clear nothing was going to happen with them. It was time to move on.
Then, in January of 2000, the phone rang. On the other end was an unmistakable Midwestern twang I instantly recognized.
“Eli, man? David Lynch. How ya doin’, bud?”
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Moviemaker and actor Eli Roth is making light of his near-death experience on holiday in Mexico, insisting deadly sea urchins had every right to sting him after he clambered onto their rock. The “Inglourious Basterds” star was left scrambling for life a mile (1.6 kilometres) from shore when a kayaking adventure in Careyes went wrong and he was pulled towards a sink hole. Roth managed to swim to a rock, only to find it was covered with poisonous urchins. He was stung 200 times.
Speaking out for the first time since his New Year’s nightmare, Roth told WENN, “I had no idea sea urchins were such a nefarious villain. I guess there’s a reason they call them the Deadly Koosh Ball of the Sea. Or at least that’s what I call them.”
But he insists he only has himself to blame for the big sting: “To be fair, the sea urchins were just defending themselves. I guess you would too if this giant creature climbed over you to get on top of a rock. The crabs were actually quite funny. They really looked shocked when I climbed on their rock, like, ‘What the hell is this furry thing doing here?’ They started scampering around, clearing a space for me as I screamed for help.”
The actor/director admits the pain was never ending because waves kept washing him off the rock and towards the sink hole – prompting him to scramble back, through the killer sea creatures.
He adds, “My feet were so stung up, swollen, and bleeding, that I couldn’t stand up. And the rock was a jagged, rough surface, like the moon, with no real place to stand. The fisherman who rescued me couldn’t get close enough to the rock where I had climbed up, so I had to crab-walk around the rock, moving about a foot at a time, until I could get around to an open space. The crabs looked confused when I first appeared there, but, when I started crab walking, they went nuts. The whole rock was moving. I was so scared they’d attack me and I’d lose my balance and fall and hit my head. Plus now, I was bleeding.”
Roth finally made it to shore and was treated by a local doctor, who saved his life. And the Hostel director admits his sea scare could have been even worse:
“Two days later four baby sharks were seen around the rock where I was stranded. And where there are babies…”
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The “Inglourious Basterds” star — and winner of Jew/Not a Jew — was kayaking a mile from shore when he got pulled under by a whirlpool. Eli tells TMZ he tried climbing on a rock that was covered in sea urchins, with nobody in sight, but then a huge wave engulfed him … he tried gaining his balance on the rocks and stepped on the urchins, which unleashed scores of spikes into his body.
Eli screamed for help. A nearby fisherman saved him. The doctor couldn’t anesthetize his foot because of swelling, so the doc held up a needle and tweezers and said, “Be brave.”
And get this. When Eli got to shore, writhing in pain, a dude in a nearby boat came over — drink in hand — and asked Eli to meet his kid. Eli said, “Um, really, I just almost died out there.” The dude persisted, and his son — a 20-year-old who had too much to drink — came over for a schmoozefest. Eli held out his bloody hand and the meet and greet was over.
The Bear Jew was stung 200 times — pins in the bottom of his feet and palms. Eli is in pain but said to be ok. (Source)
While vacationing in Mexico, Eli managed to find himself in the midst of a crisis – kayak sank, leaving him stranded in Mexico surrounded by sea urchin’s. Via his official Twitter account, Eli let fans know what happened:
“It’s kind of weird to put into 140 characters, but in a nutshell I was in an ocean kayak in open water that suddenly sank. It had a hole. I was about a mile from the shore, behind a huge rocky island. I had to swim to the island and got pulled under the water and nearly hit it. I scrambled up and got about 200 sea urchin pins in the bottom of my feet and my palms. The rock was covered in crabs. It was like a scene out of Starship Troopers. I screamed for help until a fisherman saved me. This was in Mexico. I do not speak much Spanish. The doctor couldn’t anesthetize my foot because it would swell too much. She held up a needle and tweezers and simply said ‘Be brave.’
My vacation from there pretty much turned into Hostel 3. The doctor couldn’t get them all in 90 mins, so a friend continued for 6 hours. So now I’m hobbling around. I still have sea urchin spikes in my feet & palms. I can’t get them out and have to wait for them to dissolve. It was honestly the most painful experience I’ve ever had in my life. I just had to grit my teeth and bear it while they picked them out.
I started the year nearly melting and finished it nearly drowning. Plus I had been kayaking so I was exhausted when it sank. I’ve just been resting, taking antibiotics, soaking my feet. My hands are healing up but my feet are in rough shape. The best part was when I googled “sea urchins” and it said that they are poisonous, but if you get 1 spike, you’ll be fine. I had over 200.
Luckily, the crabs were scared of this Bear Jew on their rock and they’d back away. But then a wave would come and displace everyone. My feet and hands were such a mess I couldn’t walk – I had to crab-walk on my butt around the rock to find an opening where I could jump in. Two days later 4 baby sharks were spotted near where I was stranded. And where there are babies… I actually thought to myself “Oh my God – I’m going to get eaten to death by crabs! And I won’t even be around to tell @HarveyLevinTMZ!
I got back to shore and this rich tourist was trying to introduce me to his family. I was like ‘Um, pardon me, I almost just died…’ I’m standing there, dripping and bleeding, and he’s drunk and is like ‘Hey, meet my son!’ The son extends his hand. The son is also drunk. I actually said ‘I’m sorry, I can’t shake your hand, I don’t really have any skin there right now. Which way’s the hospital?’”
Wishing Eli a speedy recovery and no more accidents for the rest of 2010!
Pretty-Scary.net is inviting viewers to votes for the “Scary Stud of 2009″. Among the nominees is Eli – so cast your votes.
It’s time to vote for Scary Stud of 2009! Stroll down memory lane with our funny, sexy, charming scary studs of 2009 and let us know which one you think deserves the crown.
Nominees: Dani Filth, Billy Garberina, Robert Patrick, Eli Roth, Corin Nemec, Mike J. Nelson, Tom Atkins, and Scott Norton.
Voting ends January 31, 2010
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Eli Roth is calling for an Inglourious Basterds prequel – because he’s already shot a scene with Cloris Leachman that he hopes will be included. The actor/director reveals Quentin Tarantino left a lot on the cutting room floor after wrapping the first film – and Roth feels sure it’s good enough to be included in another movie.
He says, “We have three scenes that we shot in Boston that take place before the war, and Quentin says if he does the prequel, he’s going to use them. They’re not going to be DVD extras. There’s a great scene with me and Cloris Leachman. I go and get her to sign the (his trademark) bat. It’s me and the little old Jewish ladies of the neighbourhood.”
And Roth isn’t the only ‘basterd’ keen to make another movie.
He tells Eonline.com, “Everybody would drop whatever they’re doing to go back to work with Quentin. All the time, (co-star) Brad (Pitt) says, ‘Prequel, prequel!’ All the ‘basterds’ would jump on it in a second.”
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