Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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Rock idol David Bowie has landed a new movie role, playing the inventor and electrical genius Nikola Tesla.
Bowie, 58, will star alongside Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine in forthcoming film The Prestige, according to movie industry magazine Variety.
SWEET! Was that book popular? I liked it, but I didn't think anyone else had read it.
Neat casting.
FWIW, The Prestige (book) predates Clarke's more recent work.
FWIW, The Prestige (book) predates Clarke's more recent work.
Ah. Well, I can't say the world doesn't need more duelling magicians. The more the merrier.
Story about Daniel Radcliffe and his older girlfriend (apparently): [link]
If David Bowie is playing him (please not with a fake Serbian accent), then it will be Tesla in his Long Island days, yes? Just prior to WWI. (I think Bowie is in his late 50s.)
Personally, I think the fight over AC vs. DC might have been more interesting, but that all went down when he was like 40.
Hee! She's a friend of my sister! It's entirely untrue, by the way.
It's entirely untrue, by the way.
::sobs::
I liked that one.
Personally, I think the fight over AC vs. DC might have been more interesting, but that all went down when he was like 40.
They can fictionalize that part. In fact, they can fictionalize it to the point where Tesla and Edison go at each other with live electric wires (AC and DC, of course).
I love the fact that Edison used to electrocute dogs on stage to demonstrate the evils of AC. (Of course, I am using an unusual definition of "love" here.)
::sobs::
I liked that one.
Well, that's what my sister tells me. But "they're just friends" can be interpreted in any number of ways, can't it? Apparently, not to gossip or anything (hah!), he did fancy her quite a bit and she had to gently point out that she didn't fancy him quite as much.
You do know that the UK has a different age of consent, right? They're not doing anything illegal over there.
The resources I was able to find indicated that 16 + 23 = jailtime in Britain if the parents press the issue. But if the relationship isn't, no worries.