The Wonderful Nook

SUPER CAGE — (By way of Deadline) Nicolas Cage is opening up about his cameo in The Flash the place he was featured donning the costume of Superman.

As it’s possible you’ll bear in mind, Cage examined because the Man of Metal for what would’ve been a Tim Burton-directed characteristic that was finally scrapped. With The Flash being concerning the multiverse, in one other timeline, Cage does sport the pink cape and blue swimsuit however he stated that what he filmed was not what appeared on-screen.

“Once I went to the image, it was me preventing a large spider. I didn’t do this. That was not what I did,” he advised Yahoo Leisure in an interview. “I don’t assume it was [created by] AI. I do know Tim is upset about AI, as I’m. It was CGI, OK, in order that they may de-age me, and I’m preventing a spider. I didn’t do any of that, so I don’t know what occurred there. … However I get the place Tim’s coming from. I do know what he means. I might be very sad if individuals have been taking my artwork … and appropriating them. I get it. I imply, I’m with him in that regard. AI is a nightmare to me. It’s inhumane. You may’t get extra inhumane than synthetic intelligence.”

He continued, “However I don’t assume it [was] AI [in The Flash]. I simply assume that they did one thing with it, and once more, it’s out of my management. I actually went to shoot a scene for possibly an hour within the swimsuit, wanting on the destruction of a universe and making an attempt to convey the sentiments of loss and unhappiness and terror in my eyes. That’s all I did.”

Cage stated he was on the set of the Andy Muschietti-directed movie that starred Ezra Miller giving props to the director.

“They did put lots of time into constructing the swimsuit … and I feel [Andy] is a terrific director, he is a superb man and a terrific director, and I liked his two It films,” he stated. “What I used to be presupposed to do was actually simply be standing in an alternate dimension, if you’ll, and witnessing the destruction of the universe. Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the tip of a universe, and you’ll think about with that brief period of time that I had, what that will imply by way of what I can convey. I had no dialogue [so had to] convey with my eyes the emotion. In order that’s what I did. I used to be on set for possibly three hours.”

BEATLES NOW & THEN — Thursday the ultimate Beatles observe was dropped, “Now And Then.” Everybody and their mom appear to have an opinion on this observe, however let’s set the report straight first earlier than I supply mine. The tune was written in 1978 and has been within the Beatles-queue for some 45 years.  It was initially labored on by McCartney, Harrison, Starr and Jeff Lynne, the place it was deemed not appropriate for launch. These classes did produce “Free As A Chicken” and “Actual Love,” which I immediately liked.

Harrison handed and McCartney and Starr enlisted the help of director Peter Jackson, who had labored on the massively-re-worked Get Again movie. With the help of Jackson’s MAL know-how, they have been capable of extract Lennon’s voice and construct the manufacturing round it.

It’s a terrific tune, however the “new” manufacturing, particularly the final half, I feel is buried in strings and a few over -production. I do know the lads needed to get it proper, however Lennon’s somber, plaintive tune in some way will get misplaced I really feel. The tune positively has echoes of the primary solo-Lennon solo album, which I nonetheless adore all these many years later.

And, as I stated beforehand, I like Ed Ruscha, however his art work will not be significantly important right here.

It’s attention-grabbing that they’re selling this because the final Beatles report. Name me snarky, however I feel there’s extra. Face it, there’ll by no means be one other Beatles. They have been it for me and nobody else has come shut.

As Ron Sheffield stated in Rolling Stone: “As Sean Ono Lennon says ‘it’s the final tune that my dad and Paul and George and Ringo will get to make collectively.’ However the entire level is that there is no such thing as a finish to the Beatles story, any greater than there’s any finish to their music. The facility of ‘Now and Then’ exhibits precisely why the Beatles have by no means belonged to the previous—and why this music sounds so defiantly, passionately, unmistakably alive at the moment.”

SHORT TAKES — Simply watched an interview with Rock & Rock Corridor of Fame inductee Chaka Khan on the Right now Present and so they spent fairly a little bit of time speaking about her new perfume … however they didn’t present it. Was {that a} massive missed op or what? Very odd … Huey Lewis and The Information jukebox-musical coming within the spring to be titled The Coronary heart of Rock and Roll in March 2024 … The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has introduced it should characteristic performances by & Juliet, Again to the Future, How To Dance In Ohio, Shucked, and Spamalot, together with a particular look by Gutenberg!’s Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, and a efficiency by Cher. This 12 months’s broadcast, which has been prolonged by half-hour, will start at 8:30 on November 23 …

Micky Dolenz was in Athens, Georgia yesterday at Wuxtry Information internet hosting an in-store for his new EP Dolenz Sings R.E.M. on 7a Information.

And, Thursday evening he met with R.E.M. –

Invoice Berry; Peter Buck; and Michael Stipe. There on the in-store:  Mayor Kelly Girtz; 7a’s Glenn Gretlund, Jodi Ritzen, Henry Diltz and Gary Strobl … HAPPY BDAY Dan Zelinski!

NAMES IN THE NEWS — Toby Mamis; Roy Trakin; Bob Merlis; Barbara Pepe; Mary Wilson; Tom & Lisa Cuddy; Kent Kotal; Glenn Gretlund; Jodi Ritzen; Henry Diltz; & Laura Denmark; Mike Greenblatt; Joel Diamond; Brad Belfour; Melinda Newman; Lee Valentine Smith; and BELLA!

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Originally posted 2023-11-04 04:05:34.