To promote the film Inglourious Basterds (released back in August), Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino went on the Japanese cooking show Bistro SMAP. The Iron Chef-like segment, which is part of the variety show SMAPxSMAP, involves two chef teams competing to cook the best meal for the celebrity guest judges. Though the host speaks Japanese the whole time, there are select subtitles and we get to hear...
Brad Pitt & Quentin Tarantino appeared on last week’s episode of Bistro SMAP, where they chatted with their pop group hosts and talked about Inglorious Basterds. Here are a few clips, with partial English captions provided by AngelinaJolieVIDEO2: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: [Hat tip to Clay & Stears] — Akihabara News – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) Dannychoo.com – [...]...
Quentin Tarantino looks back at his gloriously "groovy" year. The critical and box-office success of "Inglourious Basterds" makes the writer/director one of the entertainers we're thankful for in 2009.
X17 Xclusive - November 21, 2009: Quentin Tarantino must be having too many business lunches. We saw him going to one at Cafe Med in West Hollywood, and he has really packed on the pounds....
The other day TV viewers in Japan got a treat: Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt appearing on the popular variety show Bistro SMAP. SMAP (which stands for "Sports Music Assemble People" in case you were wondering) is a popular -- what? boy band? post-boy band? they all pushing 40 so let's go with "talent group" -- consisting of five members who sing, dance and do comedy skits, which...
Tarantino's talkathon Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a clever melange of violence, suspense, slapstick, wit, movie references both arthouse and grindhouse, talk, talk, more talk, even more talk; seems to me he is more in love than ever with the sound of his own words coming out of the mouths of about a dozen different men and women, in several accents and twice as many acting styles. His...
Tarantino is the latest film star to be showing up on the small screen in Japan. Embarrassing? Or, rather, more embarrassing than Brad Pitt? In the not-too distant past it was quite possible for Hollywood stars to pocket what we can only imagine are swagbags of cash for starring in some pretty goofy Japanese advertisements, safe in the knowledge that no one they knew well would ever get to see them....
First Brad Pitt, now it’s Quentin Tarantino’s turn to appear in ads for Softbank. Unlike Pitt’s CMs, Tarantino will be joining the “cast” of the regular series of “White Family” ads (named after one of the mobile provider’s plans) as a wacky uncle. The video above, courtesy of The Japan Times, shows a preview. Via [...]
The Japan Times offers a preview of the new Winter 2009-2010 Softbank commercials, which feature director Quentin Tarantino joining the famous Softbank “White Family” as a wacky uncle: [hat tip to stears] — AkihabaraNews – Gadgetry from Japan (Subscribe) dannychoo.com – Your portal to Japan (Subscribe)
Santa Barbara International Film Festival honored Quentin Tarantino with the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film. The Award ceramony was hosted in Santa Barbara Calif. at the Coral Casino.
French actress Melanie Laurent, left, director Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt, and French actress Julie Dreyfus pose for photographers during the Japan premiere of their latest film "Inglourious Basterds" in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. See more photos after the jump.[...] Read more!
Almost one year ago, I posted this . Oh, fine, lazy asses, I'll give you the Cliff Notes. I wrote "...I want to be culinarily fertile. I want to leaven a lasagna, birth a moist banana nut bread, souse a Succotash." I still feel that way, even though the memories of this and this still haunt me. So last night, I put on my big girl pants and ventured into the Land of Meatloaf. But instead of...
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