Official Hugh Jackman Appreciation Thread.

[Mister Sinister]

http://www.corriere.fantascienza.com/imgbank/CINEMA/wolverine.jpg

I was surprised we don't have a thread devoted to the X-Men's principal character, so here it is.

First pic of Hugh Jackman on set.

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/4629/397128843692eed304o0as.jpg

[Jan Irisi]

There was one a long long long time ago, but it faded away to oblivion.

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Well, now we have a shiny new one :D

If only there were more pictures to put in it......

[Jan Irisi]

Is it wrong of me that I keep looking very hard in the background to see if there is anything else there? (If only Hugh would step to his left a bit, so we can see the doorway behind him.....)

[Mister Sinister]

Don't you mean his right?

[Jan Irisi]

Either way...or he could just duck down for a sec, right? Those two guys on the left of the picture are looking at something or someone, so...what is it?????

(jeez, I'm in a weird mood today)

[Almighty Pejo]

Is it wrong of me that I keep looking very hard in the background to see if there is anything else there? (If only Hugh would step to his left a bit, so we can see the doorway behind him.....)I did the same thing. There's something in that open window on the left hand side, second story. It's probably a curtain, but...it's still something!

[Jan Irisi]

*grabs magnifying glass....examines.....hmmmmm*

[The Geek Vault]

I bet its the beast. I have a question how do they do the claws? Is that cgi or like how do they do that?

[Jan Irisi]

Wolverine's claws? It's a mix of both. Depends on the situation. When they actually come out they are CG. But in other scenes, he uses the prosthetic claws.

[Mister Sinister]

9/10 times they're prosthetic.

[Jan Irisi]

Yeah. When they are coming out or going in. During fights, they are probably "safety claws" so no one gets hurt. Although he did gash himself up pertty badly during X1 filming. (cut his forehead and his knee)

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Sometimes, like in the mansion attack scene, they use both like this picture shows
http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/film-stage-tv/images/x-men-2/fox5.jpg

They use stubby claws so that no one gets hurt during the fight scenes and then they just extend them with CGI afterwards. The prosthetics are moulded to the shape of hughs hand for example: http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/film-stage-tv/images/x-men-2/slide03.jpg
on the end of those claws in hughs palm there is a bar that they are attatched to so all he has to do is clench them in a fist and they just stay there.


EDIT: Speaking of hugh getting hurt, i found this before on IMDB in the trivia for x men 1:
Hugh Jackman got his testicles caught in his harness after a 6 foot jump off the set's Statue of Liberty

ouch :eek:

[Beastbone]

DO YOU GUYS SEE THAT FREAKY FACE IN THE UPPER WINDOW!!!!!!!?????\

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'm really terrified.

:eek:

(It's not Beast or anything, just weirdness.)

[Jan Irisi]

Sometimes, like in the mansion attack scene, they use both like this picture shows
http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/film-stage-tv/images/x-men-2/fox5.jpg

They use stubby claws so that no one gets hurt during the fight scenes and then they just extend them with CGI afterwards. The prosthetics are moulded to the shape of hughs hand for example: http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/film-stage-tv/images/x-men-2/slide03.jpg
on the end of those claws in hughs palm there is a bar that they are attatched to so all he has to do is clench them in a fist and they just stay there.


EDIT: Speaking of hugh getting hurt, i found this before on IMDB in the trivia for x men 1:
Hugh Jackman got his testicles caught in his harness after a 6 foot jump off the set's Statue of Liberty

ouch :eek:


Yup...*cringe*

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You mean the window on the bottom row second from the right, above the kid with a cap? In that window i can see a guy with a really long white moustache :o

[Beastbone]

You mean the window on the bottom row second from the right, above the kid with a cap? In that window i can see a guy with a really long white moustache :o

that's the one!

Zoinks! :confused:

[The Storm]

Oh yeah I can see it now.

[Jan Irisi]

Dammit, that's where my eyes immediately go now..........

[Ratcrawler]

I wonder if he'll actually be an instructor in this movie. Of art, perhaps...

[Electrix]

Maybe they changed his hair so it doesnt look too like Beasts?

[Lightning Strykez!]

Is Hugh wearing a wig? And if so, is there anybody NOT wearing a wig? LOL (Of course besides Patrick!). :D

[Electrix]

Does Ian?

I dont think Aaron or Shawn wear one.

[JustABill]

THE X3 SET IS HAUNTED. :eek:

[narrows101]

I posted this under "Setpic of Hugh Jackman" since they were discussing his hair but I'll put it here also.

If you go to this link

http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.aspx

the first five pictures (with Billy Crystal and singing with Aretha Franklin) showed the length of Hugh's hair on June 5 when he hosted the Tony Awards. FYI - the last picture on that page - in the gold pants - is from last year's awards, when he pulled Sarah Jessica Parker from the audience when he was performing as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. Hugh is nominated for an Emmy Award for hosting the 2004 Tony Awards Show, and I bet he will be at the Emmys on September 18 in his Wolverine hair - Halle Berry has already been announced as a presenter (she's nominated also for something).

[GNR]

http://www.corriere.fantascienza.com/imgbank/CINEMA/wolverine.jpg

I was surprised we don't have a thread devoted to the X-Men's principal character, so here it is.

First pic of Hugh Jackman on set.




Who says he's the "principal" character?

[TNC9852002]

I'd say he's definitely been one of the two main protagonists on the X-Men's side of view leading the audience around the stories...him and Xavier anyway. With X2 having a plot tying in with Wolverine, it especially warranted him the spotlight in many of the scenes most particularly any of them dealing with Stryker...It's not as overwhelming as people think..

Heh..I feel like watching X1/X2 now...I've got the day off...I might as well!.. :p

-TNC

[GNR]

OK sure,definitely in the movies.I thought we were talkin' beyond the films,duhhhhh.

[TNC9852002]

Iceman didn't really pinpoint it...Seeing how the thread is labeled, "..Hugh Jackman/Wolverine thread" and we are in an X-Men MOVIE fourm, I assumed that the movies came first in discussion, so that's what I was referring to.. :(

-TNC

[Mister Sinister]

Who says he's the "principal" character?
Of the X-Men, he's the most famous.

[Ratcrawler]

Back to my question, ya think he'll teach anything? Self defense? Stealing motorcycles? Hogging camera time?

[JustABill]

I like the ironic idea of him teaching art.

[GNR]

I think Wolvie should be teaching squat.If anything have him out in the field chopping wood or doing work in that barn area with horses.It would suit his character more.

[Jan Irisi]

Maybe he could teach Sex Ed or something like that. Should be a real eye opening class..............

[TNC9852002]

I would assume that if there ever was a shop class at the mansion....
:p

-TNC

[Jan Irisi]

Home Economics?

*envisions Logan making a cake or sewing a hem.....quivers*

[Ratcrawler]

Sex ed...

Storm: *on desk* Ride me, Logan! Ride me like Seabiscuit!

Logan: If ya fellas feel like yer about to finish too early, give the old happy sack a slow yank. Should buy ya all a couple of minutes.

*Doug Ramsey wipes fog from glasses*


Art class...

Logan: Well, Petey, I'm afraid the uneven shading undermines the structural integrity of the cylinders thus creating a vast faux pas in yer attempts at fusing classical romance and post modern expressionism. Do ya understand what I'm getting at?

*Piotr armors up, squishes Logan into a little ball and chucks out the art studio's window*

Piotr: Da, tovarisch.


And finally, Self Defense...

Logan: Today, we're gonna learn how to kill an opponent by applying quick force to different pressure points on the body. And as a visual aid, Multiple Man has offered to let me use his duplicates as victims.

Jamie: I did?

Logan: Think fast!

*SNIKT! Logan chops off Multiple's head*

Rhane: Mr. Logan? I think that was the REAL Multiple Man.

Logan:... Uh, class dismissed.

Students: Hooray!

[JustABill]

^lol@last One.

[Ratcrawler]

I forgot Home Ec class...

*Wolverine sits back in recliner while Kitty brings him beer, Jubilee lights his cigar, Wolfsbane fetches his slippers and Amara brings him her fresh baked apple pie*

Logan: Alright, you all pass at Man-pleasing 101. All except Siryn. The reception on this TV's awful.

*Siryn is seen through the window falling from the roof with an antenna in her hands, screaming*

[Celestial]

Divination: How to read tea-leaves, horoscopes and interpret your dreams.

[Jan Irisi]

The fic writer part of me has always wanted him to be coerced into teaching phys ed class. I always envisioned him grabbing a bunch of worn out volley balls and telling the kids to play dodge ball. Then he grabs a chair and props his legs up and watches the mayhem. The game starts innocently enough, but eventually it all falls apart and the kids start using their various powers to get the upper hand. We have poor Jamie Maddrox as a student, getting hit in the head...boom....many clones appear, each one picks up a ball and they attack the person who hit him....pure bedlam.

Bottom line...Xavier rolls in, observes the damage to the gymnasium, and contemplates a less destructive way to utilize Logan in his school.

[Tekaybe]

On the whole "longer hair" thing, I repeat what I said in the topic on that pic - I recon it's not a wig but extentions to his own hair, because quite frankly there is just too much hair there to all be his own :)

[narrows101]

Here's what his hair looked like on June 6 when he hosted the Tony Awards - don't know how long it can grow in two months.


http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/miscellaneous/images/tonys05-3.jpg

[Crimson Warrior]

Narrows101, I just see an red x

[Tekaybe]

If anyone wants to see the Tonys - or at least the bits with him in, the videos are up at - http://hjackman.com/shtml/tv/TONY/clip.shtml then you get to compare length of hair AND get to see him shaking his booty at the same time!! How good as your days just gotten ;)

[narrows101]

Narrows101, I just see an red x

I see the picture!

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i see nothing at all.....



except wolverine shaking his booty at the tony awards :eek:

[Celestial]

Here's what his hair looked like on June 6 when he hosted the Tony Awards - don't know how long it can grow in two months.

It's not showing because that site doesn't allow hotlinking. You need find yourself a picture hosting service (like photobucket, uploadit) and copy the picture to that. You can then link to your own copy.

There's a good explanation of why hotlinking to other people's sites is a bad idea here (http://www.maestroawards.com/EN_art_07.shtml).

It's a common mistake, which is why I put this here rather than a PM.

[Tekaybe]

i see nothing at all.....



except wolverine shaking his booty at the tony awards :eek:

Good innit ;) thought there'd be a few on here that hadn't come across those videos yet lol - Just don't watch not the boy next door from last years tony's if you want to stand any chance of not laughing in the cinema when you go see X3... and I appologise to any that already saw it lol.

But yeah he can really "boogie" lol. And what an ass to wiggle ;)

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Oh i saw it....it saw it all.....and i couldnt stop laughing!!

I wanna see wolverine do that stuff in his uniform damnit LMAO

[narrows101]

Hugh loved to say on talk shows, when talking about being on Broadway in The Boy from Oz, that a lot of Wolverine fans would go and he said they "expect slicing and dicing and they get sequins and maracas!" There was one part of the play (which I saw four times - the man just drips charisma) where he interacts with the audience as Peter Allen, and one time the person he was interacting with said something about Wolverine. "Peter Allen" responded something like "I hear the guy that plays Wolverine is really good-looking!" He was fabulous interacting with the audience with ad-libs! He told some great BFO stories on talk shows about thing that happened during the show.

[Tekaybe]

I am so insanely jealous! I didn't even get to see it once, because I live in the UK and certainly don't have money to blow on going to see BFO :( I hope they film the whole of the one off one that he's doing in Sydney Opera House (next year I think) because its just not fair that so many of his devoted fans won't get the chance to see that!

[danoyse]

Oh, I saw "The Boy From Oz" 5 times. The last time I went, Elvis Costello was in the audience and he got him to come up onstage and play a song with the band at the beginning of Act 2.

So I pretty much hear "Pump it Up" every time an X-Men movie shows up on cable. Not to mention the dance that went with it. There are no words!! :-)

[narrows101]

Not to mention the last show on Sept. 12, 2004 when "Peter Allen" pulled Barbara Walters out of the audience, sat her on a chair on the stage, and then called to the audience "Matt Damon where are you????" Hugh as "Peter" and Matt Damon then gave Barbara Walters a lap dance! When Barbara left the stage, "Peter" gave a lap dance to Matt - that was something to see (pictures are roaming around the web somewhere).

If anyone is interested in reading some of the reviews of The Boy from Oz and how great Hugh was in it, on the BFO message board (all of them of course are now huge X-Men fans where before they had never heard of them) they are going down memory lane and posting some of the reviews when Hugh was doing the show.
http://oz-forum.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/526606226/m/7341052501/r/2791082501#2791082501

[danoyse]

There was one part of the play (which I saw four times - the man just drips charisma) where he interacts with the audience as Peter Allen, and one time the person he was interacting with said something about Wolverine. "Peter Allen" responded something like "I hear the guy that plays Wolverine is really good-looking!"

That happened when I saw it too! A guy and his girlfriend walked in late, so he stopped the show and asked why they were late. He even sat down on the stage so they could have time to read their Playbills.

Later he checked in again to see if they were caught up, and the guy said something about X-Men. The audience went nuts, and Hugh finally said (as Peter Allen), "There's a CUTE guy in that!"

The audience went even crazier, so he said "Right? With the hair and the leather?" and made this 'don't get me started' gesture. It was so funny.

He wouldn't leave the guy alone all night, it was awesome. He made him get up and dance during Act 2, then ripped the guy's horrible dancing--he stopped the band and yelled "WHAT THE H*LL WAS THAT??"

So he told the guy to never do that again, and gave him dancing lessons. He went back to the guy one more time before the finale, imitated that bad dance, and said "NEVER do that again!"

I miss that show!

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I am soo jealous that you saw Boy from Oz!! Just reading these stories makes me really upset that i couldnt see it and ive heard a lot more funny stories about hughs ad-lib on stage :)

[Jan Irisi]

It was really remarkable what he did in that show. I gained new respect for him after seeing him in it, and following the show through it's closing. He alone carried the weight of that show on his shoulders, and it was a herculean effort. A true professional, and what is perhaps most important of all, it shows that he truly loves what he does, and is not in showbiz simply for the multimillion dollar checks.

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I completely agree. He is so hardworking, he deserves every penny he gets, i mean, not missing a single performance? And he did what, around 390 shows? Thats insane!

[Jan Irisi]

I completely agree. He is so hardworking, he deserves every penny he gets, i mean, not missing a single performance? And he did what, around 390 shows? Thats insane!


How rare that is these days too. He had stress fractures and still went out and danced....how many other actors would have done that?

[narrows101]

From theater critic Rex Reed:

Loving Hugh Jackman
by Rex Reed
October 29, 2003
New York Observer

The new theater season has exploded, and here I am again, out on a limb with a saw in my hand. If nothing else happens for the rest of the year, after The Boy from Oz I think I have already overdosed on the dazzle factor. Yes, it’s about the brief kilowatt glow radiated by the life, career and untimely death of Australian Wunderkind Peter Allen. But that’s just a peg on which to hang a star. Bottom line: The Boy from Oz is a sensational one-man show-business phenomenon called Hugh Jackman, and all those headlines asking the question "Can he save it from the bad reviews?" are a waste of newsprint. The answers are all the same: You bet your ass he can. He is doing it nightly. Frankly, I have never seen any male performer do it with so much passion, talent, energy, charisma and panache in all the years I’ve been attending Broadway musicals. Women have knocked my argyles off many times. Lots of them. But never a real live guy-type person with a hairy chest and a smile as wide as Shubert Alley. Especially one who sings like a mixture of John Raitt and Billy Joel, dances like Gene Kelly, acts with smashing conviction, looks like a camera-ready eight-by-10 and brings an entire theater to its feet, screaming and stomping, just by unbuttoning his pants. Men, women, boys of every persuasion, grannyboppers, prom queens, skateboarders, probably cocker spaniels—to love Hugh Jackman, you have to get in line.

And Dominick Dunne of VANITY FAIR, November 2004:

I went to the Imperial Theater for the closing matinee of "The Boy From Oz," starring the great Hugh Jackman, in possibly the most dazzling male performance in a musical in the history of Broadway. The show, which is the story of Peter Allen, the late Australian songwriter and performer, had gotten bad notices when it opened a year ago, but once the public discovered Jackman, it quickly turned into a hit. He did eight shows a week and never missed a performance in a role in which is almost never offstage. The final performance was a show-business lovefest, the likes of which I had never seen in a lifetime of theater-going. It was my fourth time at the show, and it was obvious that almost everyone in the audience had seen it at least once before. A woman a few seats away from me said she was seeing it for the 36th time, and another woman, in a special seat way down in front, was seeing it for the 200th time. The cheering started as soon as the curtain rose; I lost track of the standing ovations Jackman received in the course of the performance. This guy dominates the stage the way Ethel Merman used to, and he clearly loves his audience as they love him. At one point he charmed a reluctant Barbara Walters to come onto the stage with him, in spite of her protests. He also summoned Matt Damon, who, though he waved his hands wildly in the spotlight turned on him in order to indicate that he didn't want to go up on the stage, eventually did. Then the two men started to do a lap dance on Barbara Walters, and both of Jackman's guest celebrities, pros that they are, really got into it. It was a high moment. Nobody wanted the show to end, and the curtain calls went on forever. People were crying and hugging the person next to them. It was a fabulous afternoon. I couldn't go backstage, as I had on my previous visits, because I had to go home and change into black-tie to go to Bobby Short's 80th birthday party in the Rainbow Room. Two superstars in one day - that's why I love New York.'...

[danoyse]

I'm totally jaded with Broadway, I've been going to shows since I was 5 (which was back in the 80s!), and I've seen plenty of 'stars' on stage, but Hugh was just unbelievably fantastic in "The Boy From Oz."

He had more than 20 songs in the show, he was onstage for nearly every scene--plus the ad-libbing which reached historical proportions by the end of the run. And he stuck around to sign autographs at the stagedoor afterwards. It was awesome.

Another thing I was really impressed with--the last time I saw the show, we were across the street from the stage door (we weren't waiting, we were just heading for the car), but we saw Hugh walk out, and while he was signing autographs, these guys up the street who CLEARLY had not seen the show that night, climbed up on a scaffolding and yelled "WOLVERINE!!!"

Plenty of actors (and rightfully so) would not have appreciated that, but Hugh cheered over this mob of people right back at them, and again when his car drove past them. We were cracking up, it was so funny.

[GNR]

Who ever thought that a joyful and charasmatic broadway actor would play the gritty,mean Wolverine???If you told me that 6 years ago,I would have lost it.But then again,I didn't know X1 was coming out until the last 5 months before it's release.You guys should have seen the look on my face when I first saw that teaser poster of the "X" in my theaters hallway.I just stood there in awe as rich memories of my youth were all of a sudden unleashed.I was a changed man from that moment on.......*sob*

[narrows101]

It's not showing because that site doesn't allow hotlinking. You need find yourself a picture hosting service (like photobucket, uploadit) and copy the picture to that. You can then link to your own copy.

There's a good explanation of why hotlinking to other people's sites is a bad idea here (http://www.maestroawards.com/EN_art_07.shtml).

It's a common mistake, which is why I put this here rather than a PM.

Thanks for that info - I'm not that computer-savvy and had no clue! I'm trying again - this is a picture of Hugh hosting the 2005 Tony Awards on June 5 - notice the hair.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/123de9f2.jpg

This is a picture of him from I think March, right after he finished filming The Fountain. It was in Star Magazine - this picture is cropped - on the left side was a picture of him all buffed up with longish hair holding his son coming out of the water onto a beach. They were showing the contrast as to what he looked like then and how he lost weight and shaved his head for the movie.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/6cae903b.jpg

Hope they show up!!!

[Celestial]

Thanks for that info - I'm not that computer-savvy and had no clue! I'm trying again - this is a picture of Hugh hosting the 2005 Tony Awards on June 5 - notice the hair.

Hope they show up!!!
They show up fine. It really has to be a wig for X3 but it looks very real.

[narrows101]

They show up fine. It really has to be a wig for X3 but it looks very real.

I think it's either a wig or extensions - I'm not sure how fast men's hair grows but from the picture on June 5 and the start of shooting on Aug 2 I don't think it could have grown into Wolverine length. But it may have been long enough by August for extensions. He had extensions in Van Helsing.

[Mister Sinister]

Wolverine has been confirmed for the Ultimate Spider-Man game.

[narrows101]

I wonder who besides Halle attended this - from the Sunday Herald Sun (Australia):

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16557407%255E27258,00.html

Superdad's aria for Ava
By FIONA BYRNE
11sep05

HOLLYWOOD heartthrob Hugh Jackman went from superstar to superdad in Canada this week.

Jackman, who is in Vancouver filming the third instalment of the lucrative X-Men franchise, and wife Deborra-Lee Furness hosted a star-studded baby shower for their new daughter Ava.


The couple adopted Ava days after she was born in Texas in July.

The A-list gathering included Jackman's X-Men co-star Halle Berry, Australian actor Patrick Ward and prominent director Michael Rymer.

Besotted dad Jackman showed a bit of the talent that saw him collect a Tony Award last year for his performance in the Broadway production of The Boy From Oz, by serenading his tiny daughter with a heartfelt rendition of I Still Call Australia Home.

And he wore his heart openly on his sleeve singing the tender tune My Little Girl for the assembled guests while cradling Ava in his arms.

Insiders say there was not a dry eye among the close-knit gathering.

The couple's six-year-old son Oscar also won hearts at the soiree.

The family is expected to spend the next few months in Canada while Jackman completes filming X-Men 3. The performer is expected to spend at least two months in Australia next year so he can star in what will surely be the hottest theatre ticket in town -- an arena-style production of The Boy From Oz.

[Tekaybe]

Awwww!!! That's so sweet ... <melts>

[narrows101]

Here's another rave review from Variety when he was in Boy from Oz - this was right after it opened in October 2003. I think he's going to be bouncing back and forth between stage and movies in the future - it will be interesting to see when "Wolverine" starts filming - he's doing an arena production of Boy from Oz in Melbourne, Australia next year which will probably be about two months (don't know the dates yet).

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117895301?categoryid=13&cs=1

I have gone to the theater for 60-some years. And yes, I was there for Brando in '47 in "Streetcar." I was there for Merman in the legendary gypsy run-through of "Gypsy." But nothing prepared me for Hugh Jackman.

"The Boy From Oz" -- about songwriter and singer Peter Allen -- is not close to being a wonderful musical. It's not even all that good. But it mattereth not, because Jackman is visible pretty much all the time. And what a blessing that he chose at this point in his movie career to come back to the stage. And please let him do it again.

For now what we must all do is get our asses to the Imperial Theater on West 45th Street -- there, now you know everything -- and just watch him.

What Jackman does inside that structure is only this: He can sing with anyone you ever heard on the legitimate stage, he can hoof like crazy, he is funny and most surprising of all, maybe, is that he is vulnerable and sad. Plus courteous, kind, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.

Star of the next decade?

Not even close.

Movies and theater?

Let us pray...

[Mister Sinister]

Head on over to www.ultimatespidermangame.com for the first look at Wolverine.

[ctvampslayer]

Hugh just won the Emmy.

[spark627]

congrats hugh! he looked yummy, he was a great tony host and was amazing in the boy from oz

[JP]

Congrats.

[The Guardian]

COOL, CONGRATS HUGH!!!:wolverine

[GNR]

Wolvie is gonna get tonnes action,from what we hear so far.He's probably going to be involved in alot of fight scenes and less involved in the story as he has been in the last 2.Heck,he already has a scene with Gauntlet,Omega Red,and Multiple Man.Plus,he gets pulled out of a car by Storm which sounds cool.

Amazing Idea I had for that scene:

Storm leaves the car to do something.While Wolvie is sitting in the car alone,we either see the car get squashed or thrown by (....).Storm then rushes to save Wolvie.

[Quing]

His hair is actually longer than I thought it would be, but still too short to pull off the Wolverine 'do. So extensions it is.

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/7104/1909jackmannarrowweb200x3274ap.jpghttp://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2402/r588721614974xv.jpg
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/7869/hughwide8jb.jpg

[Seen]

I always thought his hair was entirely natural. Guess not. He should've kept the Wolverine hairstyle, though. He looks comical almost with that hairdo.

[Retroman]

From the LA News Daily:

Emmy quotes
Evan Henerson and Valerie Kuklenski, Staff writers

09/19/2005 12:00:00 AM

Hugh Jackman, on his Emmy-winning job hosting the Tonys

Asked where he would place his Emmy, Hugh Jackman replied, "in storage" before amending his remarks and noting that, since he was currently on location in Vancouver shooting "X-Men 3," the statue would go there, where "my boy will look at it for about an hour and then paint it or throw it in the pool or something." Source: http://www2.dailynews.com/news/ci_3041441

[Lightning Strykez!]

It's a full wig he's wearing for the X-films, not extensions.

[narrows101]

I always thought his hair was entirely natural. Guess not. He should've kept the Wolverine hairstyle, though. He looks comical almost with that hairdo.

His head was shaved completely in February when he filmed "The Fountain" so I say this looks pretty good for 6 mos.

Hugh usually doesn't have his hair this short in the front (unless he's filming a movie where it's called for), so I'd say it's still growing in.

Here's a closer shot.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/ba3b0375.jpg

[narrows101]

Parade Magazine, 9/25/05

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/d1cd1e55.jpg

[GNR]

That article pretty much sums it up.I think Hugh has done well for himself ever since he's broken into Hollywood.Sure he's had some misfires,but who doesn't?

[Tekaybe]

Thats a damn good wig then! (and what a lovely colour tie for the Emmys - I love purple)

[narrows101]

Thats a damn good wig then! (and what a lovely colour tie for the Emmys - I love purple)

He was asked if there was any significance to that tie at one of the post-Emmy interviews and his answer was "I'm such a man - my wife picked it out and said I would look good in it so I wore it."

[danoyse]

I thought it was funny during one of post show interviews when he said he and his wife were going to party because they didn't have the kids that night--"We're like teenagers on crack!"

That cracked me up--I was on vacation last month with my friends and their small kids, I understood exactly what he meant. :-)

[narrows101]

This is the interview when he made his "teenagers on crack" comment (with wife Deb):

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/59aa9f18.jpg

This is the interview where he made the "my wife picked out my tie" comment - this was in the press room.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/76230316.jpg

Both images courtesy of http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/screen-caps/index4.html

I also like it when answering questions, he called the men reporters "mate" and the women reporters "dahling" (he called women fans at the stage door of BFO that too).

[curiousgirl]

I had done for other sites these list (with the nice help of Narrows101) and had thought, that someone here may be interested in it too. Not bad, or?

2005 won: Emmy for for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (hosting the Tony´s 2004)

2004 won: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical - for The Boy From Oz
2004 won: TDF-Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer on Broadway - for The Boy From Oz
2004 won: Drama Desk Award for Best Actor - for The Boy From Oz
2004 won: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor - for The Boy From Oz
2004 won: Drama League Distinguished Peformance Award (they only award one per year to cover men, women whether in drama or musical, lead or feature)
2004 nomination: Movie Actor - Drama/Action Adventure for Van Helsing
2004 nomination: Movie Chemistry - Teen Choice Award for Van Helsing
2004 nomination: Best Fight - MTV Movie Award for X2
2004 nomination: Best Actor - Empire Award for X2

2003 nomination: Choice Movie Actor - Drama/Action Adventure - Teen Choice Award for X2

2002 nomination: Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy - Golden Globe for Kate & Leopold

2001 nomination: Favorite Male Newcomer - Blockbuster Entertainment Award for X-Men
2001 nomination: Most Promising Actor - CFCA Award
2001 nomination: Breakthrough Male Performance - MTV Award for X-Men
2001 won: Best Actor - Saturn Awards (sci-fi) for X-Men

2000 won: Best Male Actor - AFCC Award for Erskineville Kings

1999 nomination: Best Actor in a Leading Role - AFI Award for Erskineville Kings
1999 won: Australian Star of the Year - Australian Movie Convention
1999 nomination: Australian Showbusiness Ambassador - Mo Award 1999

1998 nomination: Best Male Actor in a Musical - Olivier Award for Oklahoma!
1998 won: Best Male Actor in a Musical - Variety Club Award for Sunset Boulevard
1998 won: Male Musical Theatre Performer of the Year - MO Award '97 for Sunset Boulevard

1997 won: Male Musical Theatre Performer of the Year - MO Award '96 for Sunset Boulevard (shared with Michael Corm)

1995 nomination: Best Actor in a Musical - MO Award for Beauty & the Beast

1994 won: Most Outstanding Graduate - WAAPA: Leslie Anderson Award 1994
1994 Graduate of the WAAPA, Perth in Drama (3years)

199x Actor´s Center (the Journey), Sydney (1year)

199x Graduate of the University of Technology, Sydney, jornalism major

[Tekaybe]

He was asked if there was any significance to that tie at one of the post-Emmy interviews and his answer was "I'm such a man - my wife picked it out and said I would look good in it so I wore it."

My God she really does have fantastic taste then ;)

[Tekaybe]

Oh and curious - you missed one - what about the Kid's Choice award, cant remember if it was this year or last, and I can't quite remember what the actual name of it was, but he won an award for being the best belcher :) Does that count...? ;)

[curiousgirl]

Oh and curious - you missed one - what about the Kid's Choice award, cant remember if it was this year or last, and I can't quite remember what the actual name of it was, but he won an award for being the best belcher :) Does that count...? ;)
Burping Award? Umpf, I had not forgotten this 'award' :)
I had the idea for this list after a big argument in my circle of friends. Someone called him something like a dump action actor. He is a 'cultured' person (no, in this case it was not my husband, he has seen Erskineville Kings too and would not use this kind of words) and had only seen X-men and Van Helsing. Found him to much.... like Wolverine in the Comics, what is funny, because a few of the 'true' (brrrr) fans, call HJ call him to much ...(?word) soft = the opposite?
Like many others, also 'cultured' are often prejudging, or? Don´t be irritated, I a the only not 'cultured' here, surronded from 'them'. It is a little joke.
And after starting the list, I got the idea and permission to post it in a fan site (in near future) so they can inform themselfes.

[narrows101]

Burping Award? Umpf, I had not forgotten this 'award'

Oh I forgot about that one! Hugh won the "burping award" at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in March 2004. Yes, burping - he beat out I think three other actors. He said in an interview with Bob Costas promoting Van Helsing last year that his son Oscar was very proud of that award! Here's a picture of Cameron Diaz giving him his award.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/f30e1a8f.jpg

[Equinox]

Hugh is a great guy :D :up:

[Tekaybe]

Well said Equinox! Couldn't have put it better myself!

[N_z0]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/01868bcf.jpg

Yaypers! Cameron!!! :D

[narrows101]

Yaypers! Cameron!!! http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

You like that one? Here's two more courtesy of www.jackmanslanding.com (http://www.jackmanslanding.com/) (Cameron Diaz was the host of the show along with Mike Myers):

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/b1e2fb6d.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/d03068ae.jpg

[N_z0]

:D

cameron seems to always be the presenter for these burp/belch awards. What are they trying to do--do another Cameron/Justin coupling but with Jackman instead?!? :eek: :p

[narrows101]

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

cameron seems to always be the presenter for these burp/belch awards. What are they trying to do--do another Cameron/Justin coupling but with Jackman instead?!? http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/tongue.gif

I think Cameron and co-host Mike Myers hosted last year because Shrek 2 was coming out. I'm sure Hugh was there because Van Helsing was also coming out in a few months (the awards are in March/April). Ben Stiller hosted this year, probably because Meet the Fockers was out.

[Downhere]

Wow, is that the Nick award...that thing is really big! Where would one put something that tacky? lol.

[narrows101]

Wow, is that the Nick award...that thing is really big! Where would one put something that tacky? lol.

No, that was the Nickelodeon logo for the show, which Hugh pulled off the wall (he also did a "schtick" on the show). The Nick award is a few pictures up - where Hugh is kneeling down and it looks likes Cameron is touching his face - she has the award in her hand.

[Retroman]

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4834/fm5993529hughjackmathew9at.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1762/fm5993562hughjackmathew5pl.jpg
Hugh Jackman and Steven Cojocaru *Exclusive Coverage* 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Entertainment Tonight Backstage The Shrine Los Angeles, California United States September 18, 2005

Images courtesy of Brunopress

[JustABill]

Cojo is gaining weight. Hugh looks good though.

[Retroman]

Cojo is gaining weight. Hugh looks good though.
Is Cojo a woman or a man?

[JustABill]

Cojo is a man. He has a very effeminate sounding voice though. He does all sorta fashion stuff. He's a pretty fun looking guy though and seems nice. (But by far someone I would not date, he's way too girly seeming. If I wanted to date a girl, well I'd look for a girl. Lol.)

But yeah. Cojo is a dude.

[Retroman]

Cojo is a man. He has a very effeminate sounding voice though. He does all sorta fashion stuff. He's a pretty fun looking guy though and seems nice. (But by far someone I would not date, he's way too girly seeming. If I wanted to date a girl, well I'd look for a girl. Lol.)

But yeah. Cojo is a dude.
Thanks for clearing that up. I wasn't sure about that. lol

[narrows101]

Cojo is gaining weight. Hugh looks good though.

Cojo has health problems. Something with his kidney.

http://et.tv.yahoo.com/celebrities/etsid535220012332/

Cojo's Race For a Kidney

August 23, 2005
Send your messages of hope and well wishes to Cojo RIGHT HERE (http://et.tv.yahoo.com/celebrities/mailbox/submit/cojo)!



From his battle with kidney disease to a failed transplant -- he's bravely shared every step of his journey. Now, in his only television interview, our STEVEN COJOCARU (http://et.tv.yahoo.com/about/bios/stevencojocaru/) opens up about his continuing search for a donor and reveals how he keeps a positive outlook through his trying time.

"I have been through every emotion you probably could go through," he admits. "I mean, to the point my brain is overloaded and one day I just got to my knees ... and I looked above and I said, 'Enough with the character building, I'm deep now okay. Could we back off? My brain hurts, it's about to explode. I don't want to be deep. I want to glide through life again.'"

The private war Cojo has been waging involves being at the final stages of kidney failure, going through a desperate search to find a donor, finally finding a match, undergoing invasive transplant surgery -- all to find out he has to do it again.

Soon after his surgery in January, Cojo found out he was suffering from Polyoma, a rare disease that infected his transplanted kidney. Less than two months ago the fashion guru underwent yet another surgery to remove the kidney.

"Up until the last second I said, 'Are you a hundred percent sure?' And they said 'yes,'" he says of hearing news that the kidney had to be taken out. "It was very difficult. I'm not going to lie to you. It was absolutely crushing -- crushing on a lot of levels."

He says it was more than disappointing, especially since it was his friend ABBY who donated her kidney to him. "Somebody gave up an organ for me," he says. "She gave me a kidney and to think that she has just one kidney now -- and to think that this went wrong kills me."

For more on Cojo, watch tonight's ET -- and to see him back doing what he does best, watch the MTV VMAs on August 28.

Cojo praises his friend, saying that all she cared about was that he was going to be okay, which he says is the bottom line. "That was the goal, day one and that will always be the goal," he says. "So that was reassuring, but it's a hard thing to live with."

While he continues his mission to find a new donor, he's sustained by dialysis treatments, a 7-hour procedure that happens while he sleeps.

"There's moments where I wake up and I see it and I get very depressed," he says of the dialysis machine. "Because I forget about it in my sleep and I forget about it in my dreams -- and then I look down. I think that's the hardest part, that's when I get the most emotional."

But Cojo continues to look to the future, hoping to send a loud message, all the while proving his biting humor hasn't waned through this nearly year-long ordeal.

"I think something like 3,000 people die every year waiting for an organ," he says. "I want to shake people up and say that kidney transplants and any kind of transplants are the new hot hip thing -- they're the new cashmere, that's what I want everyone to know."

[JustABill]

Oh wow. I didn't know that. Hope that all pans out for him.

[Retroman]

Thats a touching story. :( Hope he gets a donor with a good kidney.
Thanks for sharing it narrows. :up:

[curiousgirl]

This pic from Hugh Jackman as one of three timeperiods / character variations in 'The Fountain' is to seen in the new Empire. Thought it could interest Wolvie fans

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/terrestrial/HJinTheFountain01.jpg

[narrows101]

This pic from Hugh Jackman as one of three timeperiods / character variations in 'The Fountain' is to seen in the new Empire. Thought it could interest Wolvie fans

The rest of the pictures that have been released can be seen here:

http://www.jackmanslanding.com/gallery/film-stage-tv/fountain.html

This movie has no release date yet but it's supposedly at the end of the year or beginning of 2006. This movie is directed by Darren Aronofsky who did "Requiem for a Dream" and "Pi" and is a critical darling and has been mentioned as "the next Stanley Kubrick." He has been quoted that Hugh is amazing in this role - Hugh got the part after Aronofsky saw him on Broadway. This movie was supposed be done about four years ago with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in the lead roles but then Pitt bailed to do "Troy" and it's been a long road to get this movie done. Hugh stars with Rachel Weisz of "The Mummy", "Constantine", and "The Constant Gardner." Aronofsky and Rachel were at Comic Con to discuss this movie (Hugh was in London filming a Woody Allen movie and he introduced the movie by video - he even said something like "and here it is, X-Men 3!" Then he looked away and says "What? Oh sorry, I mean The Fountain!" It got a huge reaction from the crowd). This movie promises to be amazing from all the set reports and Comic Con reports we have received so far. Hugh plays the same character in three time periods (past, present and future). Most of the pictures released are from the "past" - there are a few from "the present" and they are really keeping "the future" a big secret since no pictures have been released on that. This movie is just as secretive as X-3!!! I wish it would get a release date already!

[curiousgirl]

I know.

That was not, what I have meant. The Wolvie fan comment was, because a few of the Wolverine fans (=X-Men fans) had said, he would be to ... civilized (sp.?).

My opinion is, they have not let him that 'intesive angry' because of age-certification (term? how old someone must be, to be allowed to see the movie). The same reason, why they had dampend his scream in X-Men 2, to not loose this PG 13 'certificate'.

[Retroman]

So...after annoucements of movies with Ben Stiller - Jim Carrey, Nicolas Cage-Will Smith, Chris Rock-Eddie Murphy we've got Jackman ánd Bale directed by Nolan??!! :eek: *faints*
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/batman_begins/christian_bale/batman3.jpghttp://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/x2__x_men_united/hugh_jackman/xmen.jpg

Bale & Jackman to Battle in The Prestige
Source: The Hollywood Reporter September 30, 2005

Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are in talks to star in Touchstone Pictures' The Prestige, which will serve as Batman Begins helmer Christopher Nolan's next directorial outing, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Bale and Jackman will play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London who battle each other for trade secrets. The rivalry is so intense that it turns them into murderers. The title refers to the residue left after a magician's successful trick.

The script is based on Christopher Priest's 1996 novel of the same name and was adapted by Nolan's brother, Jonathan. He wrote the short story on which Christopher's Nolan's breakout movie, Memento, was based on.

The movie will shoot in January with a budget around the $40 million range. Touchstone will distribute domestically, while Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute internationally.

"Prestige" reteams Nolan with Batman Begins star Bale, who is currently shooting Rescue Dawn in Thailand for Werner Herzog. Jackman is shooting X-Men 3 and next appears in Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain.

Source: SHH, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

[Electrix]

Seems cool http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/icon14.gif

[_BB_]

:eek: Darkclaw!!

Anywho..That sounds like a really strange movie...

[narrows101]

Since the movie is based on a book, here's an amazon.com review of it. Also, Jude Law was rumored to star in this movie in 2003.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0312147058/ref=dp_proddesc_0/104-1998295-2956701?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155

Amazon.com
The Washington Post called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants." Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award, The Prestige is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who's ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the "It's alive!" scene in Frankenstein (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/title=Frankenstein/104-1998295-2956701) will relish the "special effects" by none other than Nikola Tesla (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subject=Nikola%2c%20Tesla/104-1998295-2956701).

[narrows101]

Happy Birthday Hugh! 37 on October 12. http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/icon14.gif

And another piece of movie news - he's going to do his first movie musical. From Variety at:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117930250?categoryid=1035&cs=1

Mouse sings Jackman tune

Tony winner does song and dance for 'Now'

By Michael Fleming

Walt Disney Pictures has acquired rights to the Cecelia Ahern novel "If You Could See Me Now" and will turn it into a tuner vehicle for Hugh Jackman.

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce with Jackman and John Palermo.

The novel, from the 23-year-old daughter of Ireland's prime minister Bertie Ahern, is the first property acquired by the studio following an ambitious deal made by studio toppers Nina Jacobson and Dick Cook earlier this year to craft musicals that will utilize the singing and dancing skills Jackman displayed in his Tony-winning turn in "The Boy From Oz."

Jackman and Palermo will partner in each project with Zadan and Meron, who exec produced "Chicago" and will produce "Hairspray" for New Line.

Jackman would play the imaginary friend of a lonely 6-year-old who has been left behind by his mother and is being raised by his aunt. The twist: The aunt can suddenly see the imaginary friend, and a romance blossoms between them.

Hyperion will publish the book early next year.

"We've been combing material for a great idea that's translatable to a musical, and Hugh really responded to this book," Palermo said. "Our goal with these films is to help reinvent the movie musical."

Palermo said they've been inundated with tuner pitches and have requested outlines of several concepts. They made the novel their first significant buy and will move quickly to put a screenwriter on it. Once a satisfactory script is in place, they'll secure a songwriter to add the music. Disney execs Karen Glass and Doug Short, and Zadan/Meron exec veep Travis Knox will shepherd each pic under the deal.

Jackman, who has completed the Darren Aronofsky-directed "The Fountain," is reprising his Wolverine role in "X3" for release Memorial Day weekend by 20th Century Fox. He'll follow by joining Christian Bale in the Christopher Nolan-directed drama "The Prestige" for Disney and Warner Bros. Jackman and Palermo are also producing a Wolverine spinoff film that is being written by David Benioff, under the first-look deal their Seed Prods. established at Fox.

[Mary]

37? I thought it was 36...well, happy birthday Hugh.

[GNR]

I love Wolverine in the films and even though he's been soaking up the spotlight,how can we not love Wolvie ripping up people left and right?

[narrows101]

37? I thought it was 36...well, happy birthday Hugh.

Born October 12, 1968
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Youngest of five children

[Downhere]

Amazing how time flies. I remember during X-Men they said Hugh was 32...now he's almost 40. Wow.

[_BB_]

Happy Birthday hugh ^_^

[TheDevil]

Amazing how time flies. I remember during X-Men they said Hugh was 32...now he's almost 40. Wow.

Actually that was X2 he was 33 if I'm not mistaken and was 30 during X1...

He actually looks much older than his age. I don't think he's aging well at all. I personally thought he was well into his 40's and look older than Pitt, Keanu, and Cruise who are all in their 40's

[Retroman]

Jackman's life story should filmed and called 'Nice Guys DON'T come last'

[narrows101]

Actually that was X2 he was 33 if I'm not mistaken and was 30 during X1...

He actually looks much older than his age. I don't think he's aging well at all. I personally thought he was well into his 40's and look older than Pitt, Keanu, and Cruise who are all in their 40's

Looks pretty darn good to me!

Giving Matt Damon a lap dance as Peter Allen at the final performance of The Boy from Oz - Sept. 12, 2004:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/f619bbb0.jpg

Hosting 2005 Tonys - June, 2005:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/123de9f2.jpg

With his Emmy Award - Sept. 2005:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/456d186d.jpg

[Retroman]

Giving Matt Damon a lap dance! :eek:

[Jan Irisi]

narrows, just ignore her. She posted that to bait people into getting into a heated debate with her. It's her MO.

[_BB_]

Jackman's life story should filmed and called 'Nice Guys DON'T come last'

I'm liking that lol

Hugh looks great for his age. Id love to see brad pitt or tom cruise even try get up on broadway and do over 390 straight performances

I wish i could have seen the Boy From Oz, then again, id just love to go and watch any broadway musical. You people always get the good stuff...

*goes into a corner and cries*

[narrows101]

Giving Matt Damon a lap dance! :eek:

Here's more - Barbara Walters and Matt - that last show was really something special - you have no idea how much scalpers were getting for it:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/150a0c93.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/47dcf0ed.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/691bcd0e.jpg

[Retroman]

^^^^ Oh - My -god.......

[narrows101]

^^^^ Oh - My -god.......

Believe me, all the gals in the first row that night (who probably all took out a second mortgage to pay for the tickets, that's how expensive they were) ate it up. There are tons of pictures like these on various sites and message boards. Barbara Walters even talked about her lap dance and showed a few stills of it (the first one being one of them) on her show "The View" - she couldn't stop gushing enough about Hugh. What a performer! There was actually someone in the audience that night that saw the show 200 times!

How about dancing with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes at the 2004 Tony Awards (the show he won the Emmy for)?

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/3e04797b.jpg

Or dragging Sarah Jessica Parker onstage (in a variation of the Barbara Walters lapdance) performing as Peter Allen during the 2004 Tonys? I should say that when Hugh won his Tony Award that night, he received a 30 second standing ovation and deserved every second of it.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/57e20dcf.jpg

[N_z0]

Good for Hugh (pun intended :D )

[Retroman]

Lol.Thanks for the info Narrows. I knew that Hugh won a Tony but i had no idea he made such a big impact on the audiences and critics.

[narrows101]

This is my favorite article about Hugh's performance - and it's one of many:

>>Loving Hugh Jackman
by Rex Reed
October 29, 2003
New York Observer

The new theater season has exploded, and here I am again, out on a limb with a saw in my hand. If nothing else happens for the rest of the year, after The Boy from Oz I think I have already overdosed on the dazzle factor. Yes, it’s about the brief kilowatt glow radiated by the life, career and untimely death of Australian Wunderkind Peter Allen. But that’s just a peg on which to hang a star. Bottom line: The Boy from Oz is a sensational one-man show-business phenomenon called Hugh Jackman, and all those headlines asking the question "Can he save it from the bad reviews?" are a waste of newsprint. The answers are all the same: You bet your ass he can. He is doing it nightly. Frankly, I have never seen any male performer do it with so much passion, talent, energy, charisma and panache in all the years I’ve been attending Broadway musicals. Women have knocked my argyles off many times. Lots of them. But never a real live guy-type person with a hairy chest and a smile as wide as Shubert Alley. Especially one who sings like a mixture of John Raitt and Billy Joel, dances like Gene Kelly, acts with smashing conviction, looks like a camera-ready eight-by-10 and brings an entire theater to its feet, screaming and stomping, just by unbuttoning his pants. Men, women, boys of every persuasion, grannyboppers, prom queens, skateboarders, probably cocker spaniels—to love Hugh Jackman, you have to get in line.<<

And, from the NY Observer about the closing performance of Boy From Oz:

>>Farewell, Hugh and Caroline: Closing-Night Hysteria and Tears

by John Heilpern

If you want to understand the nature of public hysteria, go to the last performance of a successful Broadway show. These emotional, fond farewells—expressions of love and communion—are unique to New York.

In London, nobody bothers much about closing nights. In London, nobody bothers much about anything. But here, where enthusiasm is innate, people want to see their favorite show one last time. In their sentiment, they want to give thanks and say, "I was there!"

You should have been there for Hugh Jackman’s final performance in The Boy From Oz. Never seen anything like it. His first entrance is immediately after the overture, when he comes on in darkness to sit at a piano. Lights up! But, of course, the packed house has seen the show before and knows every move. They can see him strolling onstage in the shadows.

It’s him! It’s him! It’s Hugh! Hysteria. Everyone’s on their feet cheering and screaming. The lights go up. He starts to sing. More hysteria!

They stopped the show before it began. He just stood there grinning from ear to ear. Well, wouldn’t you?

A good friend of mine, who was happy to pay 700 smackeroos for her tickets, was seeing the show for the eighth time. I’m embarrassed to know her, actually. But that’s nothing. She told me the Japanese couple seated in front of her were seeing the show for the 100th time. But that’s nothing, either. Midway through the show, Mr. Jackman introduced a lady to the audience who’s seen it 200 times. The spotlight found her in one of the best seats, and she stood up proudly to take a well-deserved bow.

As I joined in the hearty applause for her, I did a quick, mean little calculation: At $100 dollars a ticket, she’d spent $20,000 going to see The Boy from Oz four times a week for a year.

Don’t tell me people don’t love the theater.

The whole farewell performance was fun and touching and camp—rather like Peter Allen, or the somewhat maligned production itself. I see my review was displayed in the foyer, blown up and reprinted in full. But then, it was the only rave review the show got, more or less. Why did those eunuchs called critics dislike The Boy from Oz so much? It was as if they were trying their best to gun it down. But what’s the use of wondering? This I know: They called it wrong! The show became a hit.

True, it wasn’t Threepenny Opera. It wasn’t meant to be. True, it had a bona fide superstar in Hugh Jackman, who gave the best performance in a razzmatazz Broadway musical many of us have seen. But no performer can go it alone. Mr. Jackman needed the kindling wood that ignites the fire—the show itself, all the other fine artists, the popular songs of Peter Allen, the life story simply told.

The sour critics—sophisticates, all—missed the essential point. They should have listened to the audience. The best seat for a musical isn’t always a seat. If you stand at the back of the house, as I did for the farewell Boy from Oz, you experience a show differently, and it tells you something. You can actually feel an entire audience responding to what’s happening onstage, as if a tidal wave of emotion, or love, is rolling back and forth through the auditorium. If you want to know how a show is really doing, don’t listen to critics. Listen to the audience instead.

But what could beat Mr. Jackman’s own farewell at the end of the show? It came at the start of his last song, sung for the last time:

Once before I go—

The collective groan from the house was so palpable we laughed.

"Don’t go!" came the response. "We love you!" "Stay!" "We love you, Hugh!"

"And I love you, darlin’," Hugh replied in his Aussie accent. He’s a good sort. The band was still playing the opening chords. He began the last song again:

Once before I go

I want you to know—

That I would do it all again.

Hysteria! The song was tailor-made for the occasion. Then the curtain descended. And all stood and cheered and cheered and cheered to the rafters. And life was good.

But some farewells sadden you—and ineffably so with the last performance of the musical I believe to be a lovely, fantastic achievement, Caroline, or Change. The extraordinary Tony Kushner–Jeanine Tesori piece was the polar opposite of The Boy from Oz, of course. In many innovative ways, it was the anti–Broadway musical.<<

[danoyse]

Lol.Thanks for the info Narrows. I knew that Hugh won a Tony but i had no idea he made such a big impact on the audiences and critics.


He really did. The show opened to so-so reviews (they loved him, hated nearly everything else), and it didn't look like it was going to do all that well. But the audience response was so terrific that suddenly it was really difficult to get tickets to (somehow, I managed to see it 5 times) and it became a hit. He's the first performer I've ever seen get a standing ovation during a show.

It also set the fundraising records for the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS charity drive all of the shows do twice a year. After the curtain calls, the actors give a little speech about BC/EFA, then hold auctions or sell autographed posters to raise money, and collect money at the doors.

They were doing the BC/EFA auction the 2nd time I saw the show...Hugh did the intro, then Michael Mulheren did the auction. They auctioned off 2 black t-shirts he wore during the show for $3000 apiece, than the towel he wore around his neck during the show. Michael even tried to take some of Hugh's chest hair off with the towel, held it up and said "Look! Traceable DNA!" A woman screamed "$5000!" and the towel was sold. (btw, Hugh looked so embarrassed at this point his face was redder than the shirt he was wearing)

It was crazy...they raised $11,000 in ten minutes. When I saw "Hairspray" they got $600 for a signed hairspray can.

[Tekaybe]

now he's almost 40. Wow.

Not that there's anything wrong with being nearly 40 - nor does it make him any less sexy! He's gonna be the next Sean Connery - gonna just get better with age ;)

[gap5ewl]

Here's more - Barbara Walters and Matt - that last show was really something special - you have no idea how much scalpers were getting for it:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/150a0c93.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/47dcf0ed.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/691bcd0e.jpg


..................speechless. in the words of yoda "disturbing this is."

[Mary]

Lol.Thanks for the info Narrows. I knew that Hugh won a Tony but i had no idea he made such a big impact on the audiences and critics.Yeah, i heard that with the sucess of The Boy From Oz, they were thinking about a World Tour.

[Lightning Strykez!]

narrows, just ignore her. She posted that to bait people into getting into a heated debate with her. It's her MO.

Yeah, kinda like going to a thread devoted to Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman's proposed "Storm/Logan" romance and saying that Halle has the body of a 12 year-old boy.

Oh, and that Famke looks like a man. :rolleyes:

Don't fall for it Narrows. :o

[Lightning Strykez!]

Anyway, so someone explain to me WHY Hugh's character was giving Matt Damon a lap dance to begin with? :confused: Was he playing a gay character?

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Hugh was playing Peter Allen whos wife, Liza Minnelli claimed she had no idea he was gay after their divorce hehe. He was a completely flamboyant, entertaining person :)

Every night i think Hugh would bring up a random person from the audience and completely ad lib a few minutes with them. Matt was there on the last night i believe.

http://www.theboyfromoz.com/ - just for people who have no idea about it


I wish that it was released on dvd or something, im desperate to see it but for the moment i have to put up with watching the odd clips from the tony awards where he made his entrance onto the stage sitting on a camel lmao

[Spider-X]

Anyway, so someone explain to me WHY Hugh's character was giving Matt Damon a lap dance to begin with? :confused: Was he playing a gay character?

in the broadway show "The Boy From Oz" Hugh Jackman plays Peter Allen...who just happens to be gay and have had AIDS and, i believe, died from it.

[Downhere]

Amazing actor Hugh Jackman is. He goes from a flamboyant gay man to a ruff masculine X-Man.

[narrows101]

in the broadway show "The Boy From Oz" Hugh Jackman plays Peter Allen...who just happens to be gay and have had AIDS and, i believe, died from it.

Yes all of the above is correct about Peter Allen. The Boy from Oz was about Peter's life from childhood to when he met Judy Garland and married her daughter Liza Minnelli, to when he died of AIDS in 1992, interspersed with some of his concert performances, so the interaction with the audience every night was Peter during one of his concerts. People who knew Peter were amazed how Hugh captured Peter - he had down all his moves, mannerisms, etc. His picture was plastered on the side of buses in NY with the tag line "a Broadway legend in the making" - and they weren't kidding. He's known as a "triple threat" - actor, singer, dancer.

And yes, it's totally amazing how he goes from playing a character like Peter to playing macho guys like Wolverine and Van Helsing. That's acting.

[danoyse]

Anyway, so someone explain to me WHY Hugh's character was giving Matt Damon a lap dance to begin with? :confused: Was he playing a gay character?

OK, the scene in the show (and no, Matt Damon was not part of the cast), is the opening of Act 2, where "Peter" is performing in a nightclub called Reno Sweeney, where the real Peter Allen played many times. The song was called "Bi-Coastal", and Hugh/Peter played with the band and sang the song while dancing all over the piano.

However, when the song was over...he would start goofing with the audience, as part of the act, and in full Peter-mode. He picked someone in the audience to dance--usually the annoyed looking husband of the woman who cheered like a lunatic through the entire song, and occassionally continued to pick on him for the rest of the show.

He would also go after the people sitting in the box seats, or go back to the person who showed up late during Act 1. It was awesome.

I wasn't at the last show with Matt Damon. Didn't he also give Barbara Walters a lap dance too? The last time I went, Elvis Costello was in the audience and he got him to come up on stage and play "Pump it Up" with the band. It was so cool.

And yes, he was playing a gay character. It's FINE. Actually the show was more fun after Peter finally came out of the closet. And my usual reaction to anyone who started the eye-rolling 'I won't watch Wolvering playing a gay guy' (not that anyone's done that here so far) is: Don't like it? Fine, go to 42nd St and see The Lion King with the rest of the babies.

My one memory of the real Peter Allen was this flop B'way show he did not long before he died called "Legs Diamond," which was mentioned in the show. I didn't know any of the music going into Boy From Oz, but I was pretty surprised at how many of the songs I knew and didn't know he had written. I bought the CD that night, I love it.

[narrows101]

I wasn't at the last show with Matt Damon. Didn't he also give Barbara Walters a lap dance too?

Yes - I posted a picture of Matt and Hugh/Peter giving Barbara Walters the lap dance a few posts up. I also mentioned that Barbara talked about the whole thing and how it happened the next day on "The View" and showed stills from her "lap dance" and couldn't gush about Hugh enough. I am SURE once X-3 comes out Hugh and/or some of the other cast will be on "The View" and that's one of the things you can be sure Barbara will bring up. Also, at the end of the lap dance when Matt Damon went back into the audience, "Peter" said something like "are you mad at me?" and Matt said "I'll see you after the show" and "Peter" fell to the grown pretending to be in a dead faint. BTW - Hugh and Matt have the same agent, who was also in the audience.

Hugh did something like this at EVERY show, always picking on someone that caught his eye. If someone came in late, after the first song he sometimes pointed them out and usually said a line like "you didn't miss much, only me naked" which always brought hoots and howls. On the Boy from Oz website, there usually was someone that posted on the message board that was at the show every night so you always got a blow-by-blow of what happened at the show the previous day. It was amazing what this man did. He sang 21 or 22 songs eight shows a week, was on stage 98% of the time for over 2 hours, and never missed a performance over a year. When he went on vacation, the show did not go on, that's how he just captivated everyone.

[Mary]

He's the best hehe

[Ballistic Liz]

It was his 37 birthday yesterday, can't beleive no one said, happy B-Day Hugh! here... I saw it on the news while flipping channels, weird.

[Downhere]

Yeah, Happy B-day Hugh!

[Tekaybe]

He did get a few happy birthdays in various other threads - the one about him winning the Emmy in nonspoilers eg :)

[narrows101]

It was his 37 birthday yesterday, can't beleive no one said, happy B-Day Hugh! here... I saw it on the news while flipping channels, weird.

I posted it above, late on Oct. 11 around 9:00 ET the night before to get a head start! It's on the previous page.

He was also the "birthday highlight" on Entertainment Tonight: "Which Aussie majored in journalism in college?" The choices were Hugh, Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe. It's interesting that only Hugh was born in Australia - Nicole was born in Hawaii and Russell was born in New Zealand. Also, Hugh's parents are British - they moved to Australia the year before Hugh was born. BTW - Nicole is a good friend of Hugh - she was the presenter when he won his Tony Award in 2004. I'm dying to see the two of them work together - they are working together in "Happy Feet" - but that's an animated movie opening on Nov. 17, 2006 and they are doing voice work. They play singing penguins and Elijah Wood is their son who can't sing. I want to see them in a real movie together.

[Ballistic Liz]

Happy Feet? Sweet! *LOL*

And Hugh singing, now that's gonna be interesting.

[Hunter Rider]

It was his 37 birthday yesterday, can't beleive no one said, happy B-Day Hugh! here... I saw it on the news while flipping channels, weird.

He carries his age well:up:

[narrows101]

Happy Feet? Sweet! *LOL*

And Hugh singing, now that's gonna be interesting.

I can't wait until "the masses" - i.e., people who haven't seen Hugh on stage or when he hosted the Tony Awards and heard him sing - get to hear Hugh's beautiful singing voice. "Happy Feet" sounds like it will be the first, but now he has the new Disney musical "If You Could See Me Now" in development, but that's probably a few years away. He wasn't the toast of Broadway for nothing.

If anyone is interested, there's some audio of Hugh singing in a few places:

Boy from Oz:

http://hjackman.com/shtml/stage/BFO/song.shtml

Oklahoma:

http://hjackman.com/shtml/stage/OK/song.shtml

There's a whole bunch of cool Hugh stuff (audio, videos - including X-Men stuff - etc.) at this link:

http://hjackman.com/main.shtml

[Jan Irisi]

Oh God, his duet with Shuler Hensley from Oklahoma..."Poor Jud is daid..." That is one great song. Both of them are so incredible.

*looks for Oklahoma CD*

[narrows101]

Oh God, his duet with Shuler Hensley from Oklahoma..."Poor Jud is daid..." That is one great song. Both of them are so incredible.

*looks for Oklahoma CD*

All the songs Oklahoma were great - I personally love "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" (when the play opens, and when he starts singing the song offstage and just appears in his cowboy outfit - yowza!) "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" and of course the title song.

BTW - Shuler Henlsey was "Frankenstein" in Van Helsing, and he is also starring in the new "Tarzan" musical on Broadway this spring - I think he plays a gorilla!

[Jan Irisi]

All the songs Oklahoma were great - I personally love "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" (when the play opens, and when he starts singing the song offstage and just appears in his cowboy outfit - yowza!) "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" and of course the title song.

BTW - Shuler Henlsey was "Frankenstein" in Van Helsing, and he is also starring in the new "Tarzan" musical on Broadway this spring - I think he plays a gorilla!


*panics...looks harder for Oklahoma CD*

Shuler? A gorilla? Interesting. That is one big burly dude.

[narrows101]

*panics...looks harder for Oklahoma CD*

Shuler? A gorilla? Interesting. That is one big burly dude.

He's in an off-Broadway plan now an will be doing rehearsals for Tarzan during that. He's also in the new Zorro movie.

http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/95329.html

It's an especially busy time for the father of two — Skyler, five, and Grayson, 15 months — who is set to begin rehearsals for the new musical Tarzan during the Trailer Park run. Hensley has been cast as the gorilla Kerchak in the Disney musical, which will begin previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre March 24, 2006. The much-in-demand actor will also be seen in two upcoming films: "The Legend of Zorro," opposite Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; and "Opa!," which co-stars Matthew Modine.

Playbill.com: You've also been cast in Tarzan. What role will you be playing in that?
SH: As it stands, the role of Kerchak, the silver back gorilla/unwanting father of Tarzan.

Tarzan Announcement:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94127.html

[curiousgirl]

Only to complete this ot: Shuler was also together with HJ (but not in an 'joint' scene) the farmer in 'Someone like You'.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/terrestrial/517.jpg

That´s ( I think) also a pic not all will recognise him in the first moment, or?
It´s from Erskineville Kings, one of my favorite movies I had ever seen. The only drama with him, what is till today released.

[Jan Irisi]

Yup, that's him as "Wace". He was fantastic in that film.

[narrows101]

The picture above is from his Australian movie "Erskineville Kings" - I wish that movie was released in the U.S. - if you ask me, it was an Oscar-worthy performance. Here's hoping "The Fountain" will show that side of his acting ability and match or better that performance since most people here only know him as an action star or Broadway star.

[LMason]

You look at the pictures of him as Wolverine and then have to laugh at the producers of Bond saying he's "too fey". But then his other roles, with the exception of the "x-Men" films and "Erskineville Kings" do little to suggest otherwise. I guess he needs some mean looking facial hair.

[curiousgirl]

You look at the pictures of him as Wolverine and then have to laugh at the producers of Bond saying he's "too fey". But then his other roles, with the exception of the "x-Men" films and "Erskineville Kings" do little to suggest otherwise. I guess he needs some mean looking facial hair.

Some posts back I had posted a pic of the upcomming 'The Fountain'. In the part, that plays in the past ( 3 different times ) he has a real 'nice' appereance :eek:

BTW: can someone explain me the term 'fey'? I can´t find it in my dicctionary.

[LMason]

In the way it's being used to describe Jackman, it means "gay".

[curiousgirl]

This pic from Hugh Jackman as one of three timeperiods / character variations in 'The Fountain' is to seen in the new Empire. Thought it could interest Wolvie fans

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y200/terrestrial/HJinTheFountain01.jpg

So, I have found it. Enough facial .... ???

[curiousgirl]

In the way it's being used to describe Jackman, it means "gay".

Oh, thank you very much. Wow, they are really stupid.

[Jan Irisi]

In the way it's being used to describe Jackman, it means "gay".


And Roger Moore was certainly an manly man, wasn't he? :rolleyes:

Honestly, they must be blind.

[_BB_]

Why is it that every celebrity is being called gay nowadays? Its so pathetic, whats the big deal?

[LMason]

Isn't every actor who makes it higher up the foodchain labeled gay (as if it's some derogatory term)?

But on the Bond side of things, I don't think Hugh has the cold suaveness to play that character. He's just too warm and cuddly.

[curiousgirl]

It seems so ( that with the well known actors).


But i think he could play it. In Erskineville Kings chapter 11-13 he was all, but really not 'warm + cuddly'. And in the pic I can not see anything 'warm + cuddly', or what do you think?

[Mary]

You have to be really good to play James Bond...But Hugh surprised everybody playing a gay, so i think he can play James and surprise us.

[LMason]

Nah, like I said, I've seen "Erskineville Kings". I actually yelled that to him when I was hanging at the stage door at "Boy From Oz". Everyone was yelling "Wolverine!" so I just yelled out "I loved you in Erskineville Kings" and he yelled back "Oh, thanks doll!" I will have that moment forever - heehee

But back to the point. One thing about Bond for me is that I never really knew the actors from other roles before they took that part, so they were just Bond. There is no baggage from their filmography. Even with Daniel Craig, who was just named. I've seen a ton of his films and yet the only one I can remember him specifically for is "Layer Cake" (any guesses as to why I checked out that movie? ha!) And his performance in "Layer Cake" could have served as his audition for Bond (many critics alluded to that). I just don't see it with Jackman. Of course, he's proven himself to be versatile, and yet, part of Bond's mystique is his detachment. Hugh/his characters seem just the opposite. I think that's one of the reasons "Van Helsing" didn't work for me at all. He was supposed to be this detached man, and yet, I didn't buy that for a second.

[narrows101]

But on the Bond side of things, I don't think Hugh has the cold suaveness to play that character. He's just too warm and cuddly.

He is very warm and cuddly in real life if you've seen him in person reacting with people (especially at the stage door), but that has nothing to do with acting! That's his personality, this is acting. IMO he could definitely play Bond, but he doesn't *need* the role - he has bigger fish to fry. Curiousgirl is right - he was unbelievable in Erskineville Kings - it doesn't even look like him. I wish that movie had been released in the U.S. so people could really see his acting chops - hopefully The Fountain will do that.

[_BB_]

Hugh is a very versatile actor, he could do james bond but i dont think that it would be the right move for him and he made a good decision IMO to not take the role.

[narrows101]

Here's another picture from Erskineville Kings:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/1733d340.jpg

and another from The Fountain (where's that darn release date!!):

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/8cd8ead1.jpg

[Mary]

I can't wait to see The Fountain!!!

[_BB_]

that first picture...he looks to me a bit like...colin farrell O_O

[Mary]

that first picture...he looks to me a bit like...colin farrell O_OAre you sure? I disagree.

[_BB_]

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/1733d340.jpg


http://www.cinema24horas.com/biografias/colin_farrell/colin_farrell01.jpg

To me, that looks very similar, what with the goatee and the hair...its probably just me being weird though.

Im not a farrell fan btw ;)

[Mary]

http://www.cinema24horas.com/biografias/colin_farrell/colin_farrell01.jpg

To me, that looks very similar, what with the goatee and the hair...its probably just me being weird though.

Im not a farrell fan btw ;)I have to agree now, they really look similar.:up:

[danoyse]

*panics...looks harder for Oklahoma CD*

You know that's out on DVD as well. :O

I think they're both on Amazon.

[narrows101]

*panics...looks harder for Oklahoma CD*

Meet Curly McClain from Oklahoma!. This is the play he was appearing in at the West End in London when he auditioned for X-Men.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/bfb14946.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/1bf846b7.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/0b5bc4ae.jpg

[Mary]

Hot! heheh

[yikes]

I've come out of hiding again :D

I saw BFO 8 times including the last 4 shows. (And that's considered LOW.) The first time I met him, I got him to sign my Wolverine pin from the first X-Men movie (what I had to do to get that pin is another story.) It was quite funny to see one woman attempt to give him a Wolverine bobblehead and he said "I'm sorry darling but I have 5 of those already. I'm at the point of giving those away!"


And he is BEYOND handsome in person. It's practically disturbing. And his wife is very nice and beautiful in person.

Giving Matt Damon a lap dance!

GREATEST. MOMENT. EVER. Definitely the most surreal yet sexiest thing I ever saw. I was sitting in the row right next to where he came off the stage. He was like "Ok, what the HELL did I just do?!"

Ahh, I miss the show, Hugh and the rest of the cast, who were really appreciative of the fans especially through the first weeks of the show.

[Jan Irisi]

You know that's out on DVD as well. :O

I think they're both on Amazon.

Yeah, I know. I just haven't gotten it yet. (with two kids, we end up getting a lot of...well...kid type DVDs)

I found my CD. *big stupid grin*

[newavengers12]

Which villian you guys think they'll use in Logans run???

[GNR]

That's not the actual title of the Wolverine movie.


I'm hoping Sabretooth and someone else like a Dr. Cornelius,or someone similar to that.

[newavengers12]

And wnat bout omega red? they can itroduce him in x3 to use it at full scalle in the " wolvie movie"

[newavengers12]

I'd really like to se a fight between Wolverine and Sabertooth like it was on the comics, remember, Sabertooth owe Wolverine from the first movie knock out, he HAD to get the pay back.

[danoyse]

Which villian you guys think they'll use in Logans run???


Actually, "Logan's Run" is a remake of a movie from the 70s. It's doesn't have anything to do with X-Men. (except that Bryan Singer is directing it)

As far as the Wolverine movie...I'd love to see them bring back Sabertooth. They have some cool storylines in the comics. Depends if it's going to take place before the current movie series or after.

[narrows101]

"Logan's Run" was also a television series starring Gregory Harrison that aired on CBS from September 1977-January 1978 (14 episodes). The movie "Logan's Run" premiered in 1976 and starred Michael York.

[Ballistic Liz]

"Logan's Run" was also a television series starring Gregory Harrison that aired on CBS from September 1977-January 1978 (14 episodes). The movie "Logan's Run" premiered in 1976 and starred Michael York.

It was originally a book to? The oldest year... like older than the 70's. *LOL*

Funny thing is there was a lame straight to video "Wolverine" movie a few years ago... HOW dare they use that name! Blasmphy!:mad: *no I can't spell*

[narrows101]

This is what Hugh's doing next summer - notice how it says X-Men is being filmed in the US!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=67436

Hugh Jackman brings The Boy from Oz home

Sunday Oct 16 18:34 AEST
After more than a year of speculation, Hugh Jackman has confirmed he will star in an Australian arena tour of the Boy From Oz.

The A-list Hollywood actor has a number of film commitments to complete and will return to the Australian stage by mid-2006.

"The Boy From Oz is a celebration of not only a great Australian, but of what it means to be Australian and I look forward to celebrating Peter Allen's life in a thrilling tour with a great Australian cast," Jackman said.

Critics lauded Jackman's portrayal of Allen - the flamboyant and energetic boy from Tenterfield in north-western NSW, who helped define the disco era in the 1970s and `80s, before succumbing to AIDS in 1992 - in the Broadway production.

Producers of the hit Broadway musical have been planning to bring the production back to Australia for some time.

"Hugh's got an incredibly busy movie career now and trying to find a window in between his movie commitments has taken us a little time," producer Ben Gannon told AAP from London.

"He fell in love with performing live and fell in love with Peter Allen (the character) and he was always talking about doing it again. It was just a question of how it was going to fit in with everything else."

The first ever Boy From Oz production was held in Sydney in March 1998 and went on to become the most successful new Australian musical ever staged.

Dancing with the Stars judge Todd McKenney was in the lead role then with Jackman taking on the Broadway lead in October 2003.

That production ended in September last year and there has been much speculation about Jackman possibly taking the musical to London's West End, Las Vegas or Los Angeles.

"They may happen in time," Gannon said.

"It's certainly been talked about as something that could well happen in the future and I think Hugh would be interested but he really wanted to perform in Australia."

Jackman, who is currently in the United States filming X-Men 3, last performed on the Australian stage eight years ago, playing screenwriter Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.

Since then he has focused on his film career with roles in Hollywood films X-Men, Swordfish and Van Helsing.

Jackman's portrayal of Peter Allen showed his versatility as a performer, winning him a Tony Award and an Emmy.

The upcoming Australian tour will be held in large venues in capital cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, where Jackman studied to be an actor.

The production is likely to be held in July or August next year and Gannon said the Boy From Oz was one of the most gruelling productions around.

Gannon added that the production would cost more than $10 million to stage.

"We are doing a complete reconception of the show for large-scale venues," Gannon said.

"It's going to be the same story and the same music but we are going to scale it up very considerably with a large cast and big orchestra."

[_BB_]

*cries* I wanna see the damn show *cries some more*

[narrows101]

*cries* I wanna see the damn show *cries some more*

I see you live in England? Maybe in time...

>>That production ended in September last year and there has been much speculation about Jackman possibly taking the musical to London's West End, Las Vegas or Los Angeles.

"They may happen in time," Gannon said.<<<

[Ballistic Liz]

In Hollywood Canada doesn't exisit. :(

[curiousgirl]

For all australian fans of Hugh or the fans, who wants to fly to Australia next summer:
Since today there is a possibility to pre-order tickets for the arena show of Booy from Oz.
The link to the preorder site is very very slowly for the moment (probably to many hits?)
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/

direct link to his show
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=BOYFROM06

and in addiotion for Sydney

https://ticketing.ticketmaster.com.au/BFO/boyFromOZEOI.asp

They have opened a new website for this arena show

http://www.theboyfromoz.com.au/
This site includes music and a clip from BfO

[narrows101]

For all australian fans of Hugh or the fans, who wants to fly to Australia next summer:

Unfortunately, I don't think my wallet (airfare plus hotel, meals, etc. from the East Coast) or my body (24 hours flying time from the East Coast plus major jet lag and time differences) could take it.

I don't know how Hugh does it! He was on the Ellen DeGeneres show promoting Van Helsing and she asked him the same question on how he does it flying back and fourth to Australia - he said (jokingly) "four sleeping pills." He also said they give you pajamas (I am sure he is talking about first class!).

This is an arena production, not an intimate Broadway theater, so I'm sure it will be very different, and I'm sure he will get goosebumps when he sings "I Still Call Australia Home" in his homeland. One of the possible venues is the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, and that holds 15,000 people!

[danoyse]

Wow...the homepage for official site has some great video from the Broadway version.

Don't think I'll be able to make that trip (although I did fly to London to see "Rent" a few years ago), but I hope they film it this time around. :-)

[narrows101]

Wow...the homepage for official site has some great video from the Broadway version.

Yeah, if anyone wants to hear Hugh singing some of the songs and wiggling his butt (and a cute butt it is!) go to the website and watch the video in the piano:

http://www.theboyfromoz.com.au/index.asp

[Neto Magnus]

hey, I just realized something...

If Wolverine's skull is encased with adamantium, then how can Xavier read his mind? Huh? http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/confused/giveup.gif

I mean, Magneto wears a dorky helmet and Xavier can't read his mind.

[Ballistic Liz]

hey, I just realized something...

If Wolverine's skull is encased with adamantium, then how can Xavier read his mind? Huh? http://i.imdb.com/Photos/CMSIcons/emoticons/confused/giveup.gif

I mean, Magneto wears a dorky helmet and Xavier can't read his mind.

Magneto movie helmet = totally made up for the movie... never in the comics to my knowlage. Supposedly there more to it than just the mental, some type of interferance componants.

Jug's helmet help's due to magical quaitlies.

Wolverine... there is nothing special about the metal in his skull other than it's really hard.

[Tekaybe]

Magneto's dorky helmet was in the comics: http://oneshot.anifics.com/xmen/magneto.jpg

[danoyse]

Wasn't it the Weapon X training that made it difficult for the Professor to read Wolverine's mind?

[Neto Magnus]

Xavier can read Logan's mind but refuses to tell him what he wants to know. Xavier's a sneaky snake, he's trying to 'convince' Logan into staying with the X-Men.

[Neto Magnus]

Magneto movie helmet = totally made up for the movie... never in the comics to my knowlage. Supposedly there more to it than just the mental, some type of interferance componants.

Jug's helmet help's due to magical quaitlies.

Wolverine... there is nothing special about the metal in his skull other than it's really hard.

it may have been made up for the movies but it makes total sense. It gives Mags a logical reason to wear a helmet. But Logan also has somewhat of a helmet too, so why could Xavier read his mind but not Mag's?

I don't remember hearing about Juggernut's helmet being magical, I thought just he was.

[narrows101]

Charity auction for Hugh's next movie, The Prestige, with Christian Bale. Spend three hours on the set! Current bid is $700 and it expires Nov. 8.

https://auction01.charitybuzz.com/secure/viewItemDetail.do?auction_item_id=3

>>Description: Talented actor and producer, this steamy Australian is sure to make you hop to it! Hugh Jackman starred in many films including X-Men, Van Helsing, Someone Like You and more and will continue to impress with his latest film, Prestige. His combination of talent and sexiness ensures success every time. Tour the exciting and mystical set of Prestige with one of the great actors in Hollywood. Go to L.A. and watch with a friend between the months of January and April, for three hours, as Hugh Jackman and his talented costar, Christian Bale, play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London. Don't miss this amazing opportunity!

Donated by: Hugh Jackman
Terms: Must be used January-April 2006 for two people<<

[Salemdog]

Magneto movie helmet = totally made up for the movie... never in the comics to my knowlage. Supposedly there more to it than just the mental, some type of interferance componants.

Jug's helmet help's due to magical quaitlies.

Wolverine... there is nothing special about the metal in his skull other than it's really hard.

Sorry..Mag's helmet has always been part of the comic. The main reason was Xavier and his ilk.

Jug's helmet was the same reason. Xavier was half brother and the helmet was to prevent, like Magneto, psionic attacks from him or others with similiar abilities.

Wolvie's had nothing to do with skull but more to his genetic makeup and/or training over the years. From immediate introduction any psychic had problems dealing with him. He was literally able to force them out of his head and knew when someone was trying to get in there. Both Xavier and Grey said reading his mind or trying to get into his head was near impossible. During a training session Xavier actually lost track of him in the mansion. And due to his training and experience it was near impossible for a psychic to fight him. I believe it was Psylocke who tried and as Wolverine told her you can't predict someone who's actions are not thought out but intinctive by years of fighting. (All from the comics)

[Salemdog]

Wasn't it the Weapon X training that made it difficult for the Professor to read Wolverine's mind?

I do believe partly. Also some felt it was just his natural strong will and animal ferocity. At one time, can't remember which one, but one said they didn't like trying cause they didn't like what they saw or felt. Especially when he was raging. Jean distinctly said he made her uncomfortable in the early days.

[narrows101]

Charity auction for Hugh's next movie, The Prestige, with Christian Bale. Spend three hours on the set! Current bid is $700 and it expires Nov. 8.

Hold your hats - this auction is up to $4,500. And the auction for the tickets for the Red Carpet premiere for X-3 is up to $960.

[narrows101]

And the auction for the tickets for the Red Carpet premiere for X-3 is up to $960.

Another update - it's now $4,000 plus the the auction has been updated to include an after-party.

https://www01.charityfolks.com/cfauctions/auction_bid.asp?AuctionID=1937&catname=FilmAid%20International

[MoPlaYa]

I wish I had that kind of Skrilla!! :o

[Tekaybe]

Seen the latest prices? $6,500 and $6000! not bad huh ! What I wouldn't do for that :(

[narrows101]

The auction has closed and it went for $6,010.

[MoPlaYa]

some one is very lucky!!!! :marv:

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I wish i had money to burn like that :o

[Tekaybe]

<cries>

[narrows101]

Anyone have any clue what's going on with the Wolverine movie? Hugh's filming "The Prestige" from January-April (I think it ends in April since that's what the charity auction win-a-day-on-the-set said) and then he's doing an arena version of The Boy from Oz in Australian capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth) in either July or August (no dates yet or details on how long that will be). I noticed boxofficemojo.com just put up the release date for the Fantastic Four sequel as July 4, 2007. Doesn't look like we will get a Wolverine movie until 2008 between Fox having FF for 2007 (would they do two?) and Hugh's availability but this is all guesses on my part. Anyone know?

[Endeavor]

^It's in the script stage.

[N_z0]

There was an interview with the Wolverine writer (can't remember his name) in last month's Details. I'll scan it if anyone wants it.

[Downhere]

I'd like to read that interview. With the wolverine movie it's most likely not going to be as special effects heavy as the X-flims so I'd assume they could get a way with a short production schedule for it and still release it for summer 2007.

[narrows101]

Thanks for the info about the "script stage" about the "Wolverine" movie - which is what I thought. It's just that some I think thought the filming would be "right after" X-3 was finished filming since that's what was being reported - I figured it would be a while. And I think the "Wolverine" writer is David Benioff - I would also like to read that interview in Details!

Here's more Hugh:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/3980e92b.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/5809749f.jpg

Hallowe'en Party Benefit "Light Up A Life"
Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness
Oct 22, 2005

Courtesy:
Getty Images Entertainment
By: Peter Kramer

There's a few more (including with Jerry Seinfeld) here:
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/so...0%7c0&p=7&tag=1

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:eek: why is he so hairy?? Surely he hasnt finished filming yet...

[narrows101]

http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/smilies/eek.gif why is he so hairy?? Surely he hasnt finished filming yet...

I put this in the Photo Album thread but I'll put it here too. Some remarked in that thread that he also looked "tired."

>>>This event was held in NY, so he must have had a few days off from filming and I guess he just didn't shave. That may also be why he looks tired - besides flying cross-country, I'm sure having a new baby and five-year-old doesn't help, plus I think they are shopping for a place to live in NY.

http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/calendar.php

• The 17th Annual "Light Up A Life" event to Benefit the Phyllis and David Komansky Center for Children's Health of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hosted by Honorary Chairs Jessica & Jerry Seinfeld, Honorary Grandparent Chairs Phyllis & David Komansky, Founding Chair, Kathleen Burns, Event Chairs Heather J. Sargent and Catherine Shepard, Grandparent Chairs, Charlotte Ford, Barbara & Harry Gould, and Anne & James Sitrick, and Pediatrician-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medial Center, Gerald M. Loughlin, M.D. At Toys "R" Us Times Square (Broadway between 44th & 45th Streets), from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. To purchase tickets (Individual tickets are $50/child and $175/adult. Ticket packages range from $500 to $5,000) please call (212) 821-0967. The proceeds from the ticket purchases will be used to benefit four pediatric programs at the Komansky Center for Children's Health of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell: The Children's Emergency Medical Fund, The Clown Care Program, The Division of Child Protection, and The Pediatric Emergency Department.

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Oh okay. Ill go check out the photo thread awell then ;)

[GreatWhiteWhale]

Anyone have any clue what's going on with the Wolverine movie? Hugh's filming "The Prestige" from January-April (I think it ends in April since that's what the charity auction win-a-day-on-the-set said) and then he's doing an arena version of The Boy from Oz in Australian capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth) in either July or August (no dates yet or details on how long that will be). I noticed boxofficemojo.com just put up the release date for the Fantastic Four sequel as July 4, 2007. Doesn't look like we will get a Wolverine movie until 2008 between Fox having FF for 2007 (would they do two?) and Hugh's availability but this is all guesses on my part. Anyone know?

Well Spider-Man 3 is also coming out around then so there may be a slew of Marvel Movies in 2007/2008/2009 (Looking at Marvel's Paramount Studio films and stuff like Iron Man, Magneto, Silver Surfer etc which have been liscensed off, I think)

I suspect Wolverine will be late 2007, and not on the epic scale of X-Men, Spider-Man or Fantastic 4, but something more like Ghost Rider or Daredevil, although that's not to say it won't be as good as the previous X-men and Spider-man films, just that I don't think Marvel see it as it's own cashcow franchise, just a further fleshing out of the X-Men one. And it will probably have a budget more in line with Ghost Rider, but the film-makers may be top-notch, or at least competent ;) )

[Tekaybe]

Anyone else read The Prestige (the novel) yet? I couldn't put it down - spent yesterday totally glued to my bed reading it - been trying to figure out which character Hugh & Christian would play - I have my suspicions, wondered what others thought?

[narrows101]

Anyone else read The Prestige (the novel) yet? I couldn't put it down - spent yesterday totally glued to my bed reading it - been trying to figure out which character Hugh & Christian would play - I have my suspicions, wondered what others thought?

The Prestige is out of print in the US but the paperback is coming out on Nov. 29. None of my local libraries have the book, and at the library where I work they have one copy and I am fourth on the waiting list for it!

Hugh is Rupert Angier and Christian is Alfred Borden.

Website of the author - click on The Prestige links:

http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk (http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/)

[Retroman]

Narrows (our Jackman expert) could you (or someone else) please tell me what happened to that Bill Bixby biopic Hugh was supposed to star in??

[narrows101]

Narrows (our Jackman expert) could you (or someone else) please tell me what happened to that Bill Bixby biopic Hugh was supposed to star in??

Good question - I have no idea. Must be one of those "back burner" things like so many ideas and movies in Hollywood.

On The Prestige, Michael Caine has been added to the cast:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11753 (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11753)

Then he returns to the U.S. to join Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in The Prestige, playing a retired magician who teaches tricks to Jackman's character, who has developed a bitter rivalry with another magician (Bale).

[Retroman]

Good question - I have no idea. Must be one of those "back burner" things like so many ideas and movies in Hollywood.

On The Prestige, Michael Caine has been added to the cast:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11753 (http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11753)

Then he returns to the U.S. to join Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale in The Prestige, playing a retired magician who teaches tricks to Jackman's character, who has developed a bitter rivalry with another magician (Bale).
Shame if thats the case because i personally think it would be a very interesting movie. I think even Bryan Singer was interested in making it.

On the Prestige - CAN'T WAIT! :up:

[Jan Irisi]

Shame if thats the case because i personally think it would be a very interesting movie. I think even Bryan Singer was interested in making it.

On the Prestige - CAN'T WAIT! :up:

I think the whole Bixby biopic thing never really got past the "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we can do this?" stage. It may come into more development later on down the road, but I have a feeling that both Singer and Jackman may find themselves too busy to fit it in for a while.

[OobeDoobBenubi]

Nolan is going to become Bryan Singer with Casting Cast Members who has worked with him in the Past. The Prestige prooves it. I am sure Morgaon Freeman will be Casted next as like a Father Figure to one of the Main Guys

[narrows101]

Nolan is going to become Bryan Singer with Casting Cast Members who has worked with him in the Past. The Prestige prooves it. I am sure Morgaon Freeman will be Casted next as like a Father Figure to one of the Main Guys

Truthfully though, directors do that all the time. How many times has DiCaprio worked with Scorsese or Hanks with Ron Howard????? There are tons of examples of this.

[GreatWhiteWhale]

Yeah, I think Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are secretly seperated conjoint twins.

And Sam Raimi has to cast Bruce Campbell in every single freaking movie he makes, I think it's like an unwritten rule between the two of them or something.

[Angry Sentinel]

Yeah, I think Johnny Depp and Tim Burton are secretly seperated conjoint twins.

And Sam Raimi has to cast Bruce Campbell in every single freaking movie he makes, I think it's like an unwritten rule between the two of them or something. Did anyone else ever notice how the main offenders (directors) of this seem to choose a "signature" person that personifies the style of the director. It's always the type of director whose film style and story-telling is very unique(you can recognize it's one of their movies almost immediately)... Tim Burton, Sam Raimi. Spike Lee, Martin Scorcese...etc, and the person they chose, seems to have the same type of "character" or "heart"!

I think it's interesting(even if it does seem lame sometimes)!

[GreatWhiteWhale]

I think its mostly about trust and loyalty formed between director/actor.

I suppose after a couple of pictures a director knows exactly what they envision for a movie, and it's easy to translate that vision to actors they've already worked with.

Further they know the strenths and limits of those actors so they know what they can get out of them to benefit the story.

(In the case of Raimi, Sam just likes pimping Bruce because Bruce was pretty much his meal ticket to the big time)

[narrows101]

Wolverine a real-life hero
Actor takes time out from filming X-Men 3 to help local fundraiser

David Spaner
The Province

Friday, October 28, 2005

CREDIT: Arlen Redekop, The Province
Hugh Jackman (far right) poses with wife Deborah (far left), exhibition organizer Susan Standfield (centre right) and Nasusui Anna, 13, from Kenya.

The real-life Hugh Jackman is more super than any comic-book hero he might play on screen.

At least that's the view of three Kenyans visiting Vancouver because the actor, who's in town shooting X-Men 3, and his wife, Deborah Lee, paid their way here for the opening last night of an art exhibition that's raising funds for orphanages in their homeland.

"He [Jackman] is very good. He's very natural and very kind," said Grace Seneiya, who operates the SHERP orphanage in Maralal, Kenya.

Jackman, who attended the crowded opening at Auto One (1755 West 3rd Ave.), said, "Having the kids here and Grace, who started the orphanage, is such a beautiful completion to the whole thing."

Like the X-Men movies Jackman appears in as Wolverine, this fund-raising project is an ensemble affair, his co-stars including Deborah Lee Jackman, the visitors from Kenya (Seneiya and 13-year-olds Nasusui Anna and Joseph Raleti) and exhibition organizer Susan Standfield.

The exhibit, called moja! moja!, was the brainchild of lifelong Vancouver resident Standfield, the founder of the Children's Photographic Gallery of Kenya. The project involves the orphans becoming her business partners, taking photographs in Kenya that 30 artists here have transformed into paintings, the sales of which will be divided among the SHERP orphanage, the artists and Standfield.

The grassroots nature of the project appealed to the Jackmans.

"Every time we go on vacation, we like to donate to something locally, and this seemed like a great cause," says Deborah Lee Jackman. "While we were in Vancouver we thought, 'What a great opportunity.' Sue's doing something fantastic for those people in Kenya. This woman [Grace] runs this orphanage with no money, and they have to walk for miles to find water. When she takes the kids to the hospital she has to walk 400 kilometres."

So, funds raised from the art exhibition, which runs through Nov. 26 at Auto One, will buy a car for the SHERP orphanage.

"Aid and charities as they exist serve a purpose but they're never going to change the lives of people," says Hugh Jackman. "What needs to happen is self-sustaining initiatives. And this is one of those."

A few years ago, Standfield gave up lucrative work in TV production. "It was almost like the more money I made, the unhappier I got," she says.

She developed CPGKenya (http://www.cpgkenya.com (http://www.cpgkenya.com/)) as a win-win project for everyone involved.

"I designed the business to help people," she says. "There are so many wonderful ideas for the world to grab on to and this is just one of them. It's an honour to be stewarding a project like this."

As for Jackman's other Vancouver project, X-Men 3, the Australian actor tells The Province: "It's going really well. It's a great cast of people who know each other and know what they're doing, and so we've all got in there together and we're basically having a blast.

"I love it here. It kind of reminds me of Sydney. It's a similar attitude to life people have here. It's a very outdoors, balanced lifestyle. People work hard but they know how to live here."

The Kenyan visitors are impressed, too.

"We went to their [the Jackmans] house for dinner and we looked at his [X-Men 2] movie," says Seneiya. "It's wonderful. We watched the second one twice. We want to get the first one, too."

dspaner@png.canwest.com
© The Vancouver Province 2005
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y287/rosie4976/67065-20649.jpg

Courtesy:

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=32be3c53-f004-4d13-ba5a-f940807c1acd

[BigMac]

Classy

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Thats great :up:

[narrows101]

Hugh and Deb do stuff like this all the time.

[wolverine&rogue]

Hugh is class personified!

[blades_shades]

http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/ImageFolio31_files/gallery/Events/Hugh_Jackman/jackman1.jpg


Not sure if this is somewhere in one of these forums but here it is again if it is.

[narrows101]

Not sure if this is somewhere in one of these forums but here it is again if it is.

Here's the article that goes with this - when you click on Hugh's picture at the end it brings you to more pictures.

http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=2043

Exclusive Pics: Hugh Jackman Attends Vancouver Benefit
Art exhibit in support of Kenya's SHERP Orphanage
October 31st 2005 04:20am | Posted by: Editor-in-Chief (hnr@hollywoodnorthreport.com)

Last Wednesday evening (Oct. 26), actor Hugh Jackman – currently filming X-Men 3 in British Columbia – took time out to attend a benefit for orphaned African children at AutoONE Lease Inc. (http://www.autoone.ca/) in Vancouver.

The benefit was in support of "Moja! Moja!", an exhibition and art sale in which BC artists in partnership with the SHERP (Samburu Handicap Education Rehabilitation Program) Orphanage of Maralal, Kenya, have come together to raise much-needed funds to assist the orphanage


The innovative show features interdisciplinary art that has incorporated the photographs taken by the children of the SHERP Orphanage. Several of BC's most distinguished contemporary artists are involved in the benefit, including Lisa Birke, George Vergette, Angela Grossman, Mark Mizgala and Christian Nicolay.

Susan Standfield, a Vancouver-born broadcaster who founded the Children's Photographic Gallery of Kenya (CPGKenya), partnered with Julie Lee of Arthouse, who in turn organized the exhibition and international art sale to raise the funds for SHERP, one of three orphanages with which CPGKenya collaborates.

HNR's own photographer, Paul Duchart, spent some time at the benefit, and had an opportunity to hang with Hugh Jackman during this important event.

"Hugh purchased a piece of art and spoke with its artist," Paul recounts. "They were also selling orange t-shirts [Hugh holds one in our gallery of shots] for $100 with photos that the children took. All the proceeds are going to CPGKenya project. The goal for CPGKenya is to be able to invest $50,000 CDN per year as a fee paid to the orphanages for their services, with the long term goal of building the Children's Photographic Gallery in Nairobi, Kenya, which will act not only as a gallery, but a job training facility."

"It was not announced," Paul continues, "but the PR company told me Hugh paid for the small group of children from the SHERP orphanage to come and visit BC/Whistler. They said he [Hugh] wanted to stay off the radar for the evening, so a select group of media attended. He was most gracious and accomodating to all that approached him, and enjoyed the evening with his wife, Deborah Lee."

In HNR's gallery of photos (accessible by clicking on the picture at the bottom of this page), Hugh is seen with the founder of the Children's Photographic Gallery of Kenya (gold sash) Susan Standfield, an orphan, and Hugh's wife, Deborah.

CPGKenya is a for-profit business that generates revenue for Kenyan orphanages through the sales of photo-based products made with art supplied by Kenyan orphans. All revenue is split in a fair-trade partnership. The organization aims to educate others about the business model, transfer job skills to the children, and bring foreign investment into Kenya.

We encourage you to take a moment to visit their site at www.cpgkenya.com (http://www.cpgkenya.com/).

You can also call 604-726-7826 for further information.

The exhibit is available for viewing at AutoOne, 1755 West 3rd Avenue (at Burrard) in Vancouver, between 6:00 and 9:30PM, Oct. 27 to Nov. 26, 2005.

Click the image below for more pictures from the event!

[narrows101]

Here's another article about the Vancouver event:

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment/2005/11/01/pf-1287332.html

24 seconds with Hugh Jackman

By Darren Parkman

One of the stars of the hugely successful X-men movies is becoming downright comfortable in Vancouver these days.
Hugh Jackman, back here shooting the sequel X-men 3 was out on the town recently, lending his support to a Vancouver artist's exhibition benefiting African children. 24 hours' Darren Parkman was on hand to chat with the charitable Aussie.....

24 hours: A lot of fans are looking forward to the next X-men flick. How is filming going?

Jackman: I've worked all over the world and I have to say the film crews here in Vancouver are phenomenal. Things are going great. It's a great city to make a movie in.

24 hours: You've spent a lot of time here in the past few years. Is this becoming your home away from home?

Jackman: It really is. Vancouver reminds me of my home town, Sydney, Australia. It's family-friendly, the food is great, and it's easy to get around. What more do you want?

24 hours: You're a passionate supporter of a new fundraising effort involving Vancouver artists. Tell us about the Children's Photographic Gallery of Kenya.

Jackman: It's a great idea where local artists create works by interpreting photos actually taken by orphans in Kenya. This is a self-sustaining business. These kids are not asking for a handout. They are working for their money.

24 hours: Any plans to visit Africa yourself?

Jackman: I can't wait to get there and visit their orphanage myself. It's a great cause.

Here's another picture:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a199/narrows101/af9692fb.jpg

[narrows101]

I don't know why my pictures are suddenly disappearing. Anyway, Hugh's Woody Allen movie now has a name - it's called "Scoop". So next year - The Fountain whenever, X3 in May, Scoop in summer, animated movies in November, possibly Prestige in the winter.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4406120.stm

Woody Allen titles London movie

Director Woody Allen's second film to be shot in London, due for release in summer 2006, will be called Scoop.


The film had been known as Woody Allen Summer Project. Trade website Screen Daily said it was "a light comedy about sex, love, suspense and murder".

Like his previous London-set film Match Point, screened at Cannes in May, Scoop stars Scarlett Johansson.

The American actress plays a journalism student who investigates a series of murders while studying in the capital.

Hugh Jackman and Ian McShane co-star, as do actors James Nesbitt and Colin Salmon - both of whom can also be seen in Match Point.

Allen appears himself as a man posing as Johansson's father.

'Mistakes'

"It so happens that in this next film there is a very good part for me to play and I'm going to play it," the director said in May.

Having stayed behind the camera on Match Point and his previous film Melinda and Melinda, it marks his first screen role since 2003's Anything Else.

In an interview published in the latest edition of Vanity Fair magazine, Allen said he has learned little with age as he approaches his 70th birthday on 1 December. "I've gained no insight, no mellowing," he said. "I would make the same mistakes again."

[narrows101]

Source: http://www.canmag.com/blog/scoops.php

hugh jackman
October 21, 2005

Oh, one other random thing I wanted to add...I met Hugh Jackman and his wife a couple weeks ago at his brother-in-law's 40th birthday. He has the cutest 2 month old daughter! Hugh Jackman seems like a great guy. He has 2 stunt doubles (his brother in law and another guy--I forget his name) He's apparantly always lifting weights right before he shoots...guess he wants to look "pumped up" or whatever

[narrows101]

Remember that charity auction where the bidding is for two people spending three hours on the set of The Prestige with Hugh? You will never guess what the bid is up to - and there are three days left.

$9,500.

BTW - I am in the middle of reading the book the movie will be based on - this is going to be fabulous IMO.

https://auction01.charitybuzz.com/secure/viewItemDetail.do?auction_item_id=3

Description: Talented actor and producer, this steamy Australian is sure to make you hop to it! Hugh Jackman starred in many films including X-Men, Van Helsing, Someone Like You and more and will continue to impress with his latest film, Prestige. His combination of talent and sexiness ensures success every time. Tour the exciting and mystical set of Prestige with one of the great actors in Hollywood. Go to L.A. and watch with a friend between the months of January and April, for three hours, as Hugh Jackman and his talented costar, Christian Bale, play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London. Don't miss this amazing opportunity!

Donated by: Hugh Jackman

Terms: Must be used January-April 2006 for two people

[The Riddler]

i wish wolverine would get a suit like in the comics.

[Downhere]

Yellow Spandex?

[TNC9852002]

The suit Wolverine had in X2 seemed to be quite a recognizable collaboration of his classic comic outfits:

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/9564/hugh21rf.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/1543/hugh10mn.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/990/hugh35kz.jpg
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/5046/hugh150ec.jpg

-TNC

[Downhere]

^ I agree.