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Post by hutchshottie on Jul 19, 2006 13:01:03 GMT -5
FOR ALL THE BRITS!!!!!!!!!!!!(who have cable and sky)
The Conan show with Owen will show on CNBC at 10.45pm I shall be there with remote in hand and video on standby!!!
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Saria121
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Post by Saria121 on Jul 19, 2006 17:45:32 GMT -5
they said they couldn't sit like that because they have something hanging between their legs. ;D... Now I always found that answer satisfying...so I do not know about the comfortable part...but Owen does not seem to have any problems sitting like that...not that I want to make any assumptions here... I hadn't even thought of the obstruction between men's legs that would be so large as to prevent them from crossing their legs our way. Hmmmm.... Wilsonettes with men: maybe you could ask your guy about this? (Now you see how bored I am at the moment). I know it's not the place to talk about that, but I found this : So Owen is not the only one sitting like this! lol
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Post by booboo on Jul 22, 2006 5:46:34 GMT -5
For any of you peeps who didn't manage to get to see the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and would like a copy, you can download a good quality version here...needs bit torrent greylodge.org/gpc/?page_id=40 go to the right side of the page, panel Jon Stewart show 13/07/06. I shall endeavour to cover as much Aussie TV stuff as possible that's happening down here and will attempt to upload to YouTube. This should be interesting as I've never done this before. Any monkey can do it right? I'm sure Nana will catch a few things up her way too. Here's a nice interview www.radioalice.com/people/jayn.asp
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Post by Remi on Jul 26, 2006 18:17:02 GMT -5
Owen may be on "The Girls Next Door" this Sunday July 30 @ 9:00pm ET/PT. Here's an excerpt from an article I found. Full Article
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Post by Remi on Jul 28, 2006 6:10:31 GMT -5
I think Owen is going to be on 60 Minutes on NineMSN - an Australian channel, on Sunday. NineMSN websiteI would love to see this!
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booboo
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Post by booboo on Jul 28, 2006 15:55:01 GMT -5
Don't worry, I'll be recording it. You'll get to see it eventually even if I have to send out DVD's. Okay I have recorded this. So there is a copy in existence. It's huge...how do other people get their so small? 425mb!! Anybody got any ideas. I tried Zipping it and got it to 310mb, which is not really great either.
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airria
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Post by airria on Jul 31, 2006 2:05:40 GMT -5
How long is it? 310mb are normal for a hour. 1min~7mb. you can just cut out the interview part, or ist the interview 60 minutes? Is it .avi? Mpeg2,3,4? There is a program called "Virtual Dub" minimizes the the size, but it looses quality...
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Post by ocw on Jul 31, 2006 7:00:49 GMT -5
Here is the transcript from the 60 minutes site.
Ever wondered what those superstars get up to when they're not busy being superstars?
Well, you're about to find out when reporter Ben Fordham takes Owen Wilson on a good old-fashioned Aussie boys' night out.
For the uninitiated, he's the slow-talkin' Texan with the broken nose, who's made a career playing everyone's best mate. He's also made a fortune for the Hollywood moguls — The Wedding Crashers, for instance, raked in $400 million at the box office.
For the initiated, Owen Wilson really is "so hot right now". And, as Ben discovered, he plays a very mean game of pool.
STORY
BEN FORDHAM: Good to see you. What do you drink?
OWEN WILSON: Um, maybe I'll have a ... how are you?
BEN FORDHAM: This is Samantha.
OWEN WILSON: Nice to meet you.
BEN FORDHAM: He's the well-mannered boy from Texas whose old-fashioned charm has made him a superstar.
OWEN WILSON: Look at this girl. Hi.
BEN FORDHAM: This is Crystal. You really got the jump on me.
BEN FORDHAM: Mate, I've done my research. I'm getting ready for you.
OWEN WILSON: A chilled shot of tequila, please — we'll pretend we're in Texas — with no salt and a lime. Cheers.
BEN FORDHAM: Cheers.
OWEN WILSON: That went down pretty easy, didn't it?
BEN FORDHAM: Owen Wilson is the toast of Hollywood, the new king of comedy. But today he's just another bloke at the bar, a chilled out character who could be a long lost friend. Mate, this is actually my first celebrity interview for 60 Minutes.
OWEN WILSON: It's like amateur night in Dixie. Rookie here.
BEN FORDHAM: You're the master of ad-libbing. You like to make things up on the run. I have a whole list of questions. Should I stick with the questions or should I just rip it up and we just make it up as we go?
OWEN WILSON: Rip it up. Now that just set the tone for the whole evening.
BEN FORDHAM: Questions gone. Someone said it's hard to keep a straight face when working with you.
OWEN WILSON: Yeah. Well, you seem to be doing a good job.
BEN FORDHAM: I was trying there for a minute. But do people expect you to be funny?
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, sometimes. I remember meeting somebody and they were kind of like, "You're not very funny." I don't know if they expected me to be like the monkey and the organ grinder and get out there singing for my supper.
BEN FORDHAM: Not that Owen has to sing for his supper these days. He's the golden-haired boy whose last three films have made more than $1 billion. It's a long way from his first effort, Bottle Rocket, that crashed at the box office 10 years ago. He wrote it with a college buddy and, as the story goes, only got in front of a camera because he couldn't find anyone else to play the part.
BEN FORDHAM: If the movie thing didn't turn out, you were seriously considering a future in the armed forces?
OWEN WILSON: Right after Bottle Rocket kind of seemed to tank, I did sort of, I looked into maybe going into the military.
BEN FORDHAM: Would you have gone to war?
OWEN WILSON: Gone to war? Yeah, if they send you. You know, what choice do you have? I wouldn't be a draft dodger.
BEN FORDHAM: As it turned out, Owen was actually better prepared to be a soldier than an actor. In the 10th grade he was expelled from school for cheating on a test and marched off to military college.
OWEN WILSON: Private First Class Wilson, yeah. And that was because they had to give me one stripe when I graduated. So until then it was Private Wilson.
BEN FORDHAM: Do you mind if I call you Private Wilson?
OWEN WILSON: Private First Class Wilson. It was like a strict military school. It was intense. We had to ask permission to eat.
BEN FORDHAM: So you were therefore a bit of a troubled child?
OWEN WILSON: Well, it wasn't like I was like a juvenile delinquent. It was more like Tom Sawyer-type trouble.
BEN FORDHAM: I love how you try to romanticise it.
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, yeah.
BEN FORDHAM: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn.
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, Mark Twain.
BEN FORDHAM: If Owen's Tom Sawyer, then this bloke is his Huck Finn, his best mate. It was Ben Stiller who noticed Owen in Bottle Rocket and gave him a shot at the big time in The Cable Guy. It was the start of a winning partnership. Meet the Parents, Starsky and Hutch, and the cult hit Zoolander.
OWEN WILSON: We were actually talking about doing a sequel to Zoolander. Zoo 2or Twolander. Which do you like better — Zoo 2or Twolander?
BEN FORDHAM: Zoo 2? Zoo 2?
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, that does have a nice ring to it.
BEN FORDHAM: Do you ever clash on what is funny and what is not?
OWEN WILSON: I know Ben and I met in New York when we first got to be friends and we were brainstorming about a script and we had a little pocket cassette recorder that we'd walk around the city recording our ideas and our little bon mots that would come up. I was listening to the tape back and I noticed that Ben sometimes in the middle of me talking would just shut the tape off and decide he wasn't going to waste tape on this idea and so you would hear me say, "Oh Benny, do you know what would be really funny?", and Ben would be, like "What?", and then you would hear the tape just shut off.
BEN FORDHAM: Last year, Owen proved he didn't need his buddy Ben to make people laugh. Wedding Crashers was more than a box office smash. It revolutionised the romantic comedy. For starters, this was a chick flick blokes actually wanted to see. It's more of the same in his new film You, Me and Dupree. Owen plays a good buddy who's a bad houseguest.
BEN FORDHAM: You took your clothes off for this film. How do you feel about taking your clothes off in front of the cameras and a cast of thousands?
OWEN WILSON: I've got nothing to hide.
BEN FORDHAM: But it's not your backside, is it?
OWEN WILSON: Well, did you like the way it looked? If you like the way it looked, then, yes, it was my backside.
BEN FORDHAM: Was it your backside?
OWEN WILSON: If you have a problem, then you need to take it up with the butt double.
BEN FORDHAM: I heard that you had a butt double. What is wrong with the butt?
OWEN WILSON: There's another scene where I'm running into the house and it was me naked from the backside and that didn't make the movie. First I was kind of, that's good. I don't have to worry about my mother seeing the movie. As then as it sunk in, I was like, well what's the matter, why didn't it make it in?
BEN FORDHAM: Do you have to talk to your mum about these things?
OWEN WILSON: I do because my mother is very kind of modest so she would be a little bit alarmed. Like this movie, she might be better off going to see Cars for a second time.
BEN FORDHAM: Owen pleased his mum and millions of kids in Cars,, lending his Texan drawl to Lightning McQueen. Playing a racing car appealed to his competitive streak.
OWEN WILSON: Let's go for that and a case of beer. Done. And it's payable immediately, no tears.
BEN FORDHAM: That would be your shot.
It's no surprise this smooth operator is a hit with the ladies.
OWEN WILSON: Do you guys really work here, or do you feel guys you brought them?
BEN FORDHAM: They love that dry sense of humour, the shy smile and that crooked nose. Can you settle this once and for all — how did you break it?
OWEN WILSON: In grade school, messing around. We were playing like tackle man with the ball after school. And then in college playing flag football.
BEN FORDHAM: You must be the only guy in Hollywood who hasn't taken a visit to the plastic surgeon.
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, yeah.
BEN FORDHAM: No plans to?
OWEN WILSON: At this point, I think I've missed my opportunity.
BEN FORDHAM: Do you like talking about your personal life?
OWEN WILSON: Yeah. I do. I love it.
BEN FORDHAM: Really?
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, yeah.
BEN FORDHAM: Have you broken any hearts in Australia?
OWEN WILSON: I feel like I've had my heart broken here, yeah.
BEN FORDHAM: Really?
OWEN WILSON: Yeah, yeah.
BEN FORDHAM: Do you want to talk about it?
OWEN WILSON: It's too painful.
BEN FORDHAM: These days he takes home a lazy $10 million a movie. Are you right? I'm okay. I'm quite happy to teach you if you want some lessons. You're doing it. But with five bucks and a few beers on the line, the laid-back Texan becomes a real hustler.
OWEN WILSON: Make sure you get a shot of his face.
BEN FORDHAM: But behind the endless one-liners and the anything-goes attitude is a gifted writer and film-maker.
ETHAN HAWKE: For best original screenplay the nominees are — Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson for The Royal Tenenbaums.
BEN FORDHAM: In 2002, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award. He's even had a crack at a more serious role, opposite Gene Hackman.
OWEN WILSON: My mother liked me in the war movie I did, Behind Enemy Lines. I think she likes to see me in a more sort of a heroic way. I'll notice when I go home the posters that she chooses to put up in the house. Some movies don't make the refrigerator and other movies do.
BEN FORDHAM: Isn't that cool that they still get very proud?
OWEN WILSON: Yeah. My dad gets real sort of geared up. In Dallas, like, the society columnist will sometimes have little titbits about me and my brothers and we're like, "How does this guy get this stuff?", and I think it's my dad feeds him.
BEN FORDHAM: He leaks.
OWEN WILSON: Yeah. My dad is like Deep Throat.
Where are you from? Where are you from?
TOURISTS: Chile.
BEN FORDHAM: What do you think of this guy?
TOURISTS: He's cute.
OWEN WILSON: Right now he's writing and producing and taking a back seat. There's just too much work around for Owen Wilson, the untrained actor, whose gamble certainly paid off.
BEN FORDHAM: Well done.
OWEN WILSON: Thank you.
BEN FORDHAM: Good game. Congratulations.
OWEN WILSON: I'll take this — now you know the hotel I'm staying. You can send the case of beer there.
BEN FORDHAM: What does the future hold for Owen Wilson?
I'm going to go to Melbourne tomorrow.
BEN FORDHAM: Big future. Longer term. Long-term. Twenty years from now, where is Owen Wilson going to be? Still making funny movies or will he be a big-time dramatic actor, that war hero your mother always wanted you to be?
OWEN WILSON: Twenty years from now, gosh, I don't know. I'll be 57. That's a tough one. Where do you think you'll be 20 years from now? Still interviewing?
BEN FORDHAM: And that's the plan for this accidental megastar. There is no plan. To the victor go the spoils. This is how you carry a case of beer in Australia, alright? It's got to be on the shoulder. I present it to you but it has to be on the shoulder. No, not like that. Okay, hold on. Mate, that's it.
OWEN WILSON: Watch my tail lights fade.
Sorry it's so big.
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Post by Remi on Jul 31, 2006 7:45:29 GMT -5
Thanks OCW! In print, that seemed kinda weird at times. And I thought the interviewer was gonna throw the "questions" out? I'd love to see the actual show!
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LukesGirl
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Post by LukesGirl on Jul 31, 2006 12:19:54 GMT -5
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Post by Gage51 on Jul 31, 2006 13:33:41 GMT -5
Thanks ocw! Beth
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Post by Remi on Jul 31, 2006 14:19:36 GMT -5
Awesome! Thanks Lukesgirl! Owen, a little tipsy and tired.... a really nice combination!
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Post by texasgal on Jul 31, 2006 16:35:15 GMT -5
Wow! Thank you, OCW for your terrific transcription!
And thank you, LukesGirl, for the link to the video!
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Post by Nana on Jul 31, 2006 19:03:22 GMT -5
I just loved that interview. I waited for it all week and it paid off. Really laid back.
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Post by britgirl on Aug 1, 2006 10:57:57 GMT -5
Thanks for the transcription ocw and thanks for the link LukesGirl.
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