Word: keanu
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Then, too, they've screwed around with Klaatu, played now by Keanu Reeves, stripping him of all Christ-like attributes and turning him into a zombie-like figure, awash in ambiguity; once he gets to meet a few humans he see that they're really not such bad sorts after all. The guy was never a ton of fun, but formerly he was at least a figure of moral weight and - especially rare in popular entertainments - a believably brainy one, a kind of public intellectual before that egregious term was invented. Now he's pretty much a drip...
...Madonna and Martha Stewart love it, as do Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Keanu Reeves and "Junk Bond King" Michael Milken, who organized a Scrabble tournament in the early 1990s at the white-collar prison where he was serving time for securities fraud. Even Queen Elizabeth II is a fan, perhaps in part because her first son was born the very same year that "Scrabble" became a trademark. (That coincidence did not go unnoticed in Britain. An artist commemorated the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed...
...Producer of 13 Best Picture Oscar winners, including Platoon and The Last Emperor, John Daly helped boost the careers of directors such as Oliver Stone and Roberet Altman, as well as actors Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves and Julia Roberts. Daly, who began his career in his hometown of London, created Hemdale, an independent film company, with Blow-Up star David Hemmings. Together they produced more than 100 films that earned upwards of $1.5 billion. Daly...
Mike Huckabee may be the only politician in American history who can turn painful childhood showers with Lava soap into a core statement of his political identity. He is most assuredly the only Republican ever to reference the Keanu Reeves movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in a convention speech. And he is definitely the only one who can pull off rewriting the lyrics to "Cocaine," Eric Clapton's hit homage to drug abuse, into a campaign theme song called "McCain...
Bill and Ted star--the one who's not Keanu Reeves--hired to write remake of Ramones flick...