Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica

For any of you sci-fi TV fans out there :D. Especially if you watch the show :D

-American military sci-fi fiction series, part of the Battlestar Galactica series
-Developed by Ronald D. Moore as a revamped version of the 1978 series, which was created by Glen A. Larson
-The series first aired as a 3 hour miniseries in Dec. 2003 on the Sci-Fi Channel and ran for 4 seasons, ending on March 20, 2009

-The show features Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos.
-The basic story of the show is set in a distant star system, where humans live on a series of planets called the Twelve Colonies. In the past, they were at war with a cybernetic version of themselves called Cylons. With the help of a human named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, devastating the populations. The ones aboard civilian ships survived, the only military ship that survived is the Battlestar Galactica ship. That ship is under management by Commander William "Bill" Adama(Olmos), and President Laura Roslin(McDonnell). They take the small crew of the Galactica and lead it's fleet of survivors to a refuge known as Earth.

Did you Know?
-In his cabin, Commander Adama has a shaving mirror made by IKEA
-The original version had Viper weapons firing red lasers and the Cylons firing blue lasers. This one has both ships firing actual bullets
-The rank structure for the Battlestar Galactica goes like this:
  -Admiral
  -Commander
  -Colonel
  -Major
  -Captain
  -Lieutenant
  -Lt. Jr. grade
  -Ensign
  -Enlisted: Master Chief Petty Officer, Chief Petty Officer, Petty Officer Galactica. This closely resembles the ranking system of the Marines. This also reflects the fact that there are Marines on board this ship.
-In the beginning of season 3, Jamie Bamber did actually gain the weight for the role. Instead a body double was used for some of the close up shots of his rounded stomach and Bamber wore a jowl forming brace in his mouth.
-To give her better understanding of a rape victim, Tricia Helfer watched the film Two Women to prepare for her role as Gina, the captive Cylon
-The name 'Adama', the last name of William, Lee and Zak, means "ground" or "Earth"
-In order to look like Lee Adama's father, Edward James Olmos, whose eye color is normally brown,  had to wear contact lenses with blue irises so he could look more like Bamber, who has blue eyes
-Kerry Norton, who plays the character Layne Ishay(Doc Cottle's medical assistant) is the real life wife of Jamie Bamber(Lee "Apollo" Adama). When Bamber had to put on an incredibly accurate American accent, Norton was able to use her own British accent for the character

History
-Unlike most sci-fi shows, this show has no aliens, the bad guys are man made robots. The survivors are led by President Laura Roslin and Commander William Adama.
-The stories deal with the apocalyptic fallout and the war with the humans robotic selves and also show the concept of hate, violence, and religion with the idea of a "God" whose angelic agents help out on behalf of the main characters.
-The final episodes show a character named Kara Thrace leading the surviving humans and Cylons to a new planet, which is said to be Earth, where the colonists land in Africa. Adama names the new planet Earth as a tribute to the "real" Earth of legend. The idea of Earth they had was a devastated wasteland that was uninhabitable by nuclear fallout.

Characters

Edward James Olmos: Commander William Adama
-Commanding officer of the Battlestar Galactica

If you look close at his eyes, they are blue. The reason for that is because William Adama is the father of the character Lee Adama. Since Jamie Bamber has blue eyes, Olmos had to wear special contacts with blue irises to match Bamber's blue eyes. Normally Olmos' eyes are a deep brown

Mary McDonnell: President Laura Roslin
-Senior survivor of the former colonial government, was the Secretary of Education before the colonies were destroyed

Katee Sackhoff: Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Galactica Viper pilot

Jamie Bamber: Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama
-Son of William Adama

James Callis: Dr. Gaius Baltar
-Intelligent Caprican scientist

Tricia Helfer: #6, a Cylon

Grace Park: #8, a Cylon, aka a Galactica Raptor pilot

References to modern society
-This show is considered to be a look at the war on terror, with religious fundamentalists(Cylons), sleeper cells, prison torture scandals, etc
-The show has also handled the issue of terrorist sleeper cells with stories involving the fear of Cylon suicide attacks

Episodes

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Hot Man Wednesday- Callum Blue

Callum Blue

Name: Daniel Callum Blue
DOB: August 19, 1977
Where: London, England
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1999-present

-English born actor of film and TV.
-Best known for his roles on the Showtime TV show The Tudors, Dead Like Me, and as the role of Zod in the American series Smallville. He also played Alex on the British series The Secret Diaries of a Call Girl, opposite Billie Piper.

Filmography

Film
-The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement: Andrew Jacoby

-Dead Like Me: Life After Death: Mason.
  -The character Mason was a young man who died in 1966 in London by trying to drill a hole into the top of his head chasing the ultimate high. So if you watch the show, you'll see sometimes wearing something with the Union Jack(British flag) on it, whether it be gloves or boxers sticking out of his pants. And on the Halloween episode, he makes a reference to The Who and The Stones. He makes a bet with a kid that he can win all his candy off him if the kid answers his question: "Who was the only member of The Rolling Stones to croak to death from drowning?" and the kid says "Keith Moon" and he gets angry and tells the kid to go away after telling him it was Brian Jones.

-Columbiana: Richard

TV
-Dead Like Me: Mason

-Grey's Anatomy: Viper(2005, episode 1)

-The Tudors: Anthony Knivert(2007, 10 episodes)

-Smallville: Major/General Zod

-Sanctuary: William Forsythe

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Random Thought: This Actor is Sexy!!

Jamie Bamber

IDK why, but he has the most beautiful blue eyes EVER!! And to think I seen him on Law and Order: UK, which my dad started watching one night out of boredom, lol

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Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes

-1999 film directed by Kelly Makin.
-Hugh Grant stars as an English auctioneer named Michael Felgate who becomes involved in his soon to be father in law's Mafia world. Several of the actors in the movie are featured as cast members on The Sopranos

Did You Know?
-When Vincent Pastore showed up late one day, Caan asked angrily why. Pastore realized another film he was doing ran late, and when Caan realized he was doing 2 films at once, he backed off.
-The theme music is recycled from the 1990s British TV show Jeeves and Wooster
-In the movie, James Caan nicknamed Hugh Grant "Whippy", after the Whippet, an English breed of dog that is small and shivers a lot.
-More than half of the cast also appears on the Sopranos.

Plot
-Michael Felgate(Hugh Grant) is a British auctioneer who proposes to his girlfriend Gina Vitale(Jeanne Tripplehorn), and he is shocked when she turns him down. Gina later explains that her father Frank(James Caan) and most of her cousins and uncles are gangsters involved in a Mafia family. She is worried that he'll become involved, and he does. He manages to get involved in a money laundering scheme that has the FBI looking his way.

-When one of the money laundering scams at Michael's auction house goes awry, Gina's cousin Johnny(John Ventimiglia) confronts and assaults Michael. Gina fires a warning shot into the ceiling which ricochets and kills Johnny. When his father Vito finds out, he tells Frank he will kill Gina unless Frank kills Michael during his wedding speech. Unable to carry this out, Frank confesses what Vito has ordered him to do and Michael and the two of them turn to the FBI for help. They set up an operation in which Michael's murder is faked at the wedding reception. He is given a recording device and is given the job of trying to record Vito into admitting his activity on tape before he is "killed".

-Michael's plan fails, and when Vito realizes that his murder is a fake, he orders Vinnie(Joe Viterelli) to kill Michael. Vinnie shoots Gina in what looks like an accident. Vito is arrested for ordering the murder of Michael. As Frank and Michael mourn Gina's "death" in the back of the ambulance, her death was faked. Vinnie and Gina were involved in the FBI sting. The film's title comes from Michael being forced to impersonate a gangster, who Frank kindly nicknames "Kansas City Little Mickey Blue Eyes." And towards the end of the film, Frank is trying to show Michael the ropes of being a gangster, which is hard for Michael, because he has an English accent and Frank is showing him how to say things like "Forget about it."

Cast

• Hugh Grant as Michael Felgate
• James Caan as Frank Vitale
• Jeanne Tripplehorn as Gina Vitale
• Burt Young as Vito Graziosi
• James Fox as Philip Cromwell
• Joe Viterelli as Vinnie D'Agostino
• Gerry Becker as FBI Agent Bob Connell
• Maddie Corman as Carol
• Tony Darrow as Angelo
• Paul Lazar as Ritchie Vitale
• Vincent Pastore as Al
• Frank Pellegrino as Sante
• Scott Thompson as FBI Agent Lewis
• John Ventimiglia as Johnny Graziosi
• Margaret Devine as Helen, Michael's assistant

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Hot Man Monday: Slash

Slash

Name: Saul Hudson
DOB: July 23, 1965
Where: Hampstead, London, England
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock
Occupations: musician, songwriter, record producer, film producer
Instrument: guitar, bass, banjo
Years Active: 1981-present
Website: http://www.slashonline.com/


Velvet Revolver




-Saul Hudson, best known by his stage name Slash, is a British-American musician and songwriter.
-Best known as the lead guitarist for hard rock band Guns N Roses
-Formed the side project Slash's Snake Pit and also cofounded the group Velvet Revolver
-On Rolling Stone Magazine's List of 100 Greatest Guitarists, he ranks #65

Early Life
-His mother, Ola Hudson, was an African American costume designer whose clientele included David Bowie, and his father Anthony Hudson was an English artist who created album covers for people like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell.
-According to Slash "As a musician, I've always been amused that I'm both British and black; particularly because so many American musicians seem to aspire to be British while so many British musicians...went to such great lengths to be black."
-During the early part of his life, he was raised by his father and paternal grandparents in Staffordshire.
-In 1979, Slash decided to form a band with his friend Steven Adler. He learned to play guitar, and his grandmother gave him a flamenco guitar so he began taking classes on how to play. But he decided to switch guitars after hearing "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones
-His teacher, Robert Wolin, would play popular rock songs for his students, by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Cream.

Career
-In 1981, he started a band called Road Crew- named after the Motorhead song (We Are) The Road Crew. He placed an ad for a bassist, and later got a call from Duff McKagan. He disbanded the group and joined up with another, called Hollywood Rose, which had Axl Rose as singer and Izzy Stradlin as guitarist.
-This group then renamed themselves Guns N Roses. They played at nightclubs such as the Whiskey a Go-Go, The Roxy, The Troubadour. Throughout 1985 and 1986, they opened for larger bands. During this time, they wrote "Welcome to the Jungle" "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City"
-Because of their rebellious, rowdy behavior, they earned the nickname "Most Dangerous Band in the World." Later in 1986, Slash went through drug addiction
-In July 1987, they released their Appetite for Destruction album, which became one of the bests selling albums in U.S. history. In 1989, during a show as an opening act for The Rolling Stones, Axl Rose threatened to leave the band if the band did not stop it's drug abuse. And during that concert, Izzy Stradlin remembers having a talk with Mick Jagger because the night the concert was to happen, Izzy was wearing cowboy boots and Mick offered to lend him a pair of his tennis shoes.
-In May 1991, the band went on a year-and-a-half tour to promote their Use Your Illusion album.
-In 1988, he and Guns N Roses appeared in the movie The Dead Pool. His character appears at a musician's funeral and shoots a harpoon.
-In a 1994 episode of the horror TV series Tales from the Crypt, he played a radio DJ named Hank

Personal Life
-On Oct. 10, 1992, he married model Renee Suran in Marina Del Ray, California. They divorced in 1997.
-On Oct. 15, 2001, he married Perla Ferrar in Hawaii. they have 2 sons, London Emilio and Cash Anthony.
-Slash, the son of an English father and African American mother, did not acquire American citizenship until 1996. He was considered a British national since his London birth.
-In 2001, at age 35, he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a form of congestive heart failure caused by many years of drug and alcohol abuse. His doctors said he had between 6 days and 6 weeks to live, but he went through physical therapy and implantation of a defibrillator. He has been clean and sober since 2006, which he credits to his wife Perla.

IMDb

Trademarks
-Long, curly hair covering his face and top hat
-Sunglasses
-Almost always has a cigarette hanging from his mouth

Trivia
-Has dual citizenship to the U.S. and Britain
-Youngest member of Guns N Roses
-Auditioned for the band Poison

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Naveen Andrews

Naveen Andrews

Name: Naveen William Sidney Andrews
DOB: January 17, 1969
Where: Lambeth, London, England
Occupation: Actor
Years Active: 1991-present

-Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor.
-Best known roles: Kip in The English Patient, Sayid Jarrah on the TV show Lost
-Also appeared on an episode of Law and Order:SVU, titled "Shadow". He played a Special Frauds agent named Det. Ashok "Ash" Ramsay

Playing a Special Frauds agent named Ash Ramsay

Playing Sayid Jarrah on Lost

Playing Kip, an Indian in the British Army in The English Patient

Early Life
-Born to Nirmala, a psychologist and Stanley Andrews, a business man. Both are Malayali Nasrani immigrants from Kerala, India.
-Was brought up in Wandsworth, South London and had what he described to be a "very repressive" upbringing.
-At age 16, he fell in love with his math teacher, Geraldine Feakins, 7 years later, they had a son, Jaisal, born in 1992

Career
-Auditioned for drama school and was accepted at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Ewan McGregor and David Thewlis.
-His studying paid off when he won a role in London Kills Me(1991). In 1996, he played Kip in The English Patient and also Sayid Jarrah on the TV show Lost in 2004.

Playing Jodie Foster's British-Indian doctor fiancee in The Brave One

Personal Life
-Was in a relationship with Barbara Hershey; they lived together in L.A and separated in 2005; during that time, he had another son, Naveen Joshua with another woman, Elena Eustache.
-He has openly spoke about his alcoholism and 2 year addiction to heroin in the mid 1990s.
-Plays guitar and sings. Became a naturalized U.S. citizen on May 27, 2010.

Naveen Andrews and Barbara Hershey

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