I need to get this off my chest before I go on to write about your new movie, The Wolfman. Yes I liked the movie and highly recommend it; but I still want to smack you upside the head.

I love you baby, but who the fuck do you think you are?

You are playing a 19th Century, British-born but upper-class New York City raised SHAKESPEARIAN ACTOR and when you open your mouth you gave us Pennsylvania? Hay que tener cojones to pull such an arrogant stunt. And no, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF LON CHANEY DID THE ORIGINAL IN AN AMERICAN ACCENT. He still sounded mildly waspy, which is what you failed to at least nail.

I can't even ...

How in the hell do you go into a role like that without asking yourself WWRJD? If the answer to "What Would Raul Julia Do?" is that he wouldn't be caught dead playing a 19th century Shakespearian actor with nary a Britishy accent, then ¡cojones! that's exactly what you have to do.

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The quick verdict? Bloody worth it. A rant and an review are forthcoming. Suffice it to say I screamed like a little girl. Yeah ... don't judge me.

#wolfman from:blogdiva - Twitter Search

The opening credits are literally "there will be blood" gory #wolfman
Friday, February 12, 2010 11:53 PM

I want to go on record as being bothered by Benicio's choice of not having a British-ish accent #wolfman
Friday, February 12, 2010 11:58 PM

ooh! Victorian scholars are going to flip over the choice of casting of Laurence's mother. Well played #wolfman
Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:03 AM

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The Wolfman is opening in theaters this week in the United States and El Papi Chulo to end all papi chulos, Benicio del Toro, has been in full force promoting the movie. This video is from 20minutos, in Spain.

So y'all know he's not just that gruffy voice and killer bedroom eyes, he's got producer credits for this little cinematic beast. From Benicio Del Toro - Wolfman Inspired By Del Toro's Memorabilia Collection - Contactmusic News:

We went to Universal with the idea. That is how you do stuff. You go to the studio."
And Del Toro is convinced his hairy appearance when he went to meet movie bosses persuaded them he was the right man for the lead role.
He adds, "I was in the middle of getting ready to do the Che movie. So I looked pretty much like a Wolfman! I looked either like The Wolfman or a smaller version of (Star Wars character) Chewbacca."

In this video, El Papi Chulo talks about approaching Universal with the Wolfman idea, watching old horror classics in Puerto Rican TV and identifying with the misunderstood monsters more so than their killers.

Awww!

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Why doesn't it shock me that PETA goes out of their way to deceptively leech Benicio del Toro's celebrity status for their own screwed up extremist agenda? This is what Primera Hora is reporting in Puerto Rico.

Here's what happened: Last week PETA released a letter that was allegedly penned by Benicio del Toro and address to the governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuño. In the letter Benicio supposedly urges the governor to block the company Bioculture from building a primate farm in Guayama. The letter goes on to say that he would even join the mayor of Guayama in any civil disobedience efforts that would help stop the project.

Oh boy.

Primera Hora has his father, Gustavo del Toro, go on record to do damage control. He explained PETA's announcement of the letter came as a surprise to them. PETA not only failed to present this letter to Benicio as a petition that he co-signed, they also lied about Benicio's penning the letter in the first place. Even worse is the fact that the "letter" makes it look like Del Toro is willing to do any civil disobedience actions to stop the construction. Last but not least, the timing of this letter was suspect. The original letter Benicio signed was dated September 2nd. His father says that had he been asked two signed any statement two weeks ago (when Fortuño threw the island's economic crisis into a tailspin by laying off 17,000 workers), he would not have signed the petition.

Even though I am for the ethical treatment of animals, I am absolutely opposed to the work of PETA. It's not just for their twisted janseist mission that says even cockroaches have rights, but for the mysoginistic and exploitative PR tactics that it uses to line it's coffers. I rarely use the word "hate" for advocacy organization but PETA's shameless famewhoring puts them up there with extremists like Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin and Beck.

'Tis why I was gearing up for an ambiguous smackdown of Benicio del Toro. Ambiguous because well ... you know how bad my enchule for that papi is. Yet I couldn't believe he would fall for PETA's shameless PR stunts. I find the idea of a monkey farm distasteful and, heck, even the name of a company like "Bioculture" is all sorts of wrong. But, ñeta, Benicio's brother is a pediatric oncologist. I find it hard to believe he is completely opposed to vivisection.

Sure enough, Benicio fell for PETA stunts. This from a man who says he's not from Hollywood and by inference not prone to falling for the trappings of celebrities. Yet he's done what every other celebrity that's gone to bat for them done, even overlooking the fact that they euthanizes more the 20,000 puppies and kittens and all sorts of animals a yearas the "humane" way to care for them.

Which makes for a great "teachable" moment: PETA has turned misogyny, pornography and "star fucking" into a dubious art form. Do celebrities really want to be attached to that? The people behind PETA are extremists who've mastered the art of leeching social capital from celebrities for their 15 minutes of publicity. Do celebrities really need t flock to them like flies to excrement?

The answer, of course, is NO.

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This is the kind of prejudiced bullshit that makes me want to take out my machete and go all Filiberto Ojeda on people's ass:

MTV Movies Blog » Benicio Del Toro In Talks for ‘Lunar Park’ — To Play Bret Easton Ellis?
“Benicio would actually be playing Bret Easton Ellis,” the author said of his new, unlikely doppelganger. “It’s a strange bit of casting.”

According to Easton Ellis,it was their physical differences that attracted the
“Traffic” star to the role. “I think he’s interested just because he’s rarely offered Anglo parts. I think that’s one of the reasons it was very exciting [to him],” explained the writer, whose latest novel-turned-movie, “The Informers,” is in theaters now.

“I don’t even think he read the book; I just think he read the script and said ‘Oh, this is an Anglo writer and you’re not casting a white dude? You’ve come to me?’ And I think that rarely happens for him. I think he’s offered a lot of Spanish characters and ethnic types, and I think it’s very rare for him to get offered Anglo parts.”

Seriously people, SERIOURLY! And we're supposed to believe that Hollywood is a bastion of liberal values? That Hollywood is supposed to be a place where prejudice and racism are the exception, not the rule?

No wonder my favorite Public Enemy song is Burn Hollywood burn.
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Salma Hayek confirmada para "Notas de un secuestro" del Gabo - Noticias - Cine - www.aztecaespectaculos.com

Gabriel García Márquez ha participado activamente en la elección del elenco. “La semana pasada, Gabriel recibió el guión completo y ahora estamos a la espera de sus comentarios para terminar de elegir al elenco," comentó Constantini hace unos días durante una entrevista.

Y aunque aún falta completar el elenco, Salma ya es de las confirmadas, así como el novio de su mejor amiga Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Benicio del Toro, Victoria Abril y Pablo Pedro Ibarra.

There is still no confirmation at IMBD.com that the adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez' "Notas de un secuetro" is going to happen. Still, it would be not just totally hot but epic if this movie had this cast. So let's keep our fingers crossed.
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