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imatgrrl (& Others) of IMDb Criminal Intent board. Updated 23Sept08.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275140/board/flat/111439175
Weeping Willow (6:10) lonleygirl15
Masquerade (6:6)-JonBenet Ramsey
Siren Call (6:3) Christie Brinkley’s husband Peter Cook
Cruise to Nowhere(5:19) -George Allen Smith
Slither(5:11)-Charles Sobhraj
In the Wee Small Hours(5:6-7) - Natalie Halloway
Prisoner (5:3)-Bobbi Parker
Sex Club (4:14)-Jeri & Jack Ryan
Stress Position (4:13) Guantanamo Bay
Gone (4:11)-Bobby Fischer
Magnificant (4:7)-Andrea Yeats
Eosphoros (4:5)-Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Want(4:3)- Jeffery Dahmer
D.A.W.(3:20)-Harold Shipman
Ill-Bred (3:18) Tommy Burns
Conscience (3:17)-Terri Schiavo
The Saint (3:16)- Mark William Hoffman
Pas de Deux (3:13)-Brian Douglas Wells
Pravda(3:5)-Jayson Blaire
Gemini(3:2)- The Unibomber
A Person of Interest( 2:23)-the anthrax investigation
Blink(2:20)-John Chang & students from M.I.T.
Cold Comfort(2:17)-Ted Williams
Monster (2:15) Robert Chambers the "Preppy Killer" AND the false confessions in the Central Park jogger rape case.
Malignant (2:6) Robert Ray Courtney
Antithesis (2:3) Charles Sobhraj
Dead (2:1)-The Tri-State Crematory
Tuxedo Hill (1:22) Enron
Faith (1:21)-Anthony Godby Johnson
The Third Horseman (1:11) James Kopp
Enemy Within (1:10)-Edmond Safra
The Good Doctor (1:9) Robert Bierenbaum
The Pardoner’s Tale (1:8) Marc Rich & Pincus Green
Poison(1:7)-The Tylenol Murders
The Extra-Man(1:6)-David Hampton

Rampaging Roy & HG Nelson

Scientific Latin Name
Roy and H.G.
A.K.A - Rampaging and Immortal
A.K.A - Sicko and The Perv
A.K.A - The Big Fella and The Ferret

Habitat
Roy and H.G. keep a very low profile. They have never been spotted by snoopers in the wild. They have never appeared in those "who have you seen columns" anywhere. They blend in. It is a lean and nosy act rooting around with the snout always close to the ground looking for clues and sporting facts. The natural habitat is on the lurk near empty rain water tanks wondering about the drought. In TABs especially during the hours when they are shut. At footy grounds across the nation where you can sit in your car and watch and tonk the horn when points are scored. They like a pie night, a fund raiser for an injured jockey, an Olympic orientation session especially when the key note speaker is Kevin Gosper or Dick Pound.

Food Groups
Roy and H.G. love a well made pie with chips for lunch. Steak or a rack of lamb on a pumpkin mash for main with creme brulee for desert will always get the appreciative nod. Lamingtons and Kitchener buns are welcomed at morning tea and pavlova is never a stranger on very special occasions.
Evolutionary Influences
So many people have influenced Roy and H.G. over the years. They are on record as saying that Grassy Granall, Graham Perch, Chris Garver, Holly Valance, Spike Cheney, Cher, Fractious Bruce Woodis, Matthew Parkinson, Andrew "Joey" Johns, Matthew Welsh, Tamsyn Lewis. Mark Big Dukes Viduka, John "Stinkfist" Hopoate, Liam Pickering, Stomper Staines, Greg Norman, Scott Dooley, King Wally Otto, The Bra Boys, Edmund Capon, Nat Young, Heidi Klum, Backdoor Benny Elias, Mickey Dora, Barry "Decktha" Hall, Kouta, Frogseyes Gartner, Wendell "hullo" Sailor, Dannii Minogue, Jason Crump, Warren 'the croc' Negus, Late Mail Dale and Paul Mac Namee have been enormous influences on their career. But that leaves out hundreds of influential people. The list is endless they have learnt something from everyone they have bumped into in the Holden ute.
Distinguishing Features
Fitness is their go. They like to be on top of their game 24/7 just on the off chance that the test side needs someone to fill a hole. They would hate to let Australia down in the national selectors called.
Predators
The Dull... oh and currently Andre Rieu and Doctor Meredith Gray is guarunteed to gives them the shits.

VDO talking about his movies.

Good Luck. The Movie inspired by real events, is a story of Bernard Lemley (Gregory Hines), a dental technician in Seattle who is fed up with his job. He has been harboring a wild dream-to win a raft race across the ferocious rapids of Oregon’s Rogue River. Even wilder, he decides he wants his partner to be Tony "Ole" Olezeniak (Vince D’Onofrio), an ex-football superstar who lost his sight in an accident. Bernard Lemley is paraplegic.Good Luck is a rollicking and spirited film about two men and a journey called life.

There was a sneak preview of the film at the Olympic Village in Atlanta, during the Paralympic Games. The film was sponsored by AT&T, Kodak and the Atlanta Governors’ Council. They paid for an outdoor screen and a DTS audio system because there are no theaters which house more than two or three wheelchairs at a time. Over1,000 athletes, judges and staff members saw the film. Later they said "it was one of the most important films Hollywood has produced about people with disabilities because it is the first time they are portrayed not as victims, but in a truly positive and uplifting light."

CC: How do you prepare yourself to play the role of a person that is blind?

VD: First you need to find out how the character you are playing became blind? Was he born blind or was it an accident of some kind? Because their physical behavior and their physiological behavior is different if they were born without sight than if they have lost their sight in an accident. I read a bit about blindness and I went to visit the Braille Institute. I spoke with some people there and I watched a few educational tapes. These tapes were designed to help family members learn how to understand the psychological impact of being blind. Those were helpful. Once I thought what the psychological behavior was going to be like I knew how I would play the role. My character was depressed for a long time. He had lost his career and his wife had left him. The character of the story is not a heavy drama, so there is only so much you can put into it without making the movie too heavy because you want to keep it in the comedic genre. So you can’t go too heavy with it for this particular film. You need to figure out what you can use. Then the actual technique of it as an actor to perform it as if you were sight impaired or without sight. My character had no sight at all. To do this you need a concentration technique called the Stanislavsky system of acting which turned into the Straussberg Studio of method acting. I don’t follow it all but it was a part of my schooling at the American Stanislavsky Theatre. You formulate your own technique through a blend of all the others you learn. The technique I would use to portray a sight impaired person, your eyes still have to move. The muscles around the eyes, unless you have been injured, still work. So there is eye movement, you blink. So the way to do that is you sit in a dark room with a straight backed chair and you create an object that is familiar to you. Something that is easy to create. Something that you can put right in front of your minds’ eye, floating right in front of you. Less than two feet in front of you. Then you create this. In my case I used an eight ball. It was easy for me to create. So I pictured it and became comfortable viewing the eight ball with my eyes closed. Then you open your eyes and move your head around and move your eyes around but you are never seeing anything but what you are concentrating on, in my case the eight ball. This is how I play blind in plays and theatre.

CC: Has anyone discussed the concept of having a blind person play the part of the blind character, instead of a sighted actor portraying a blind person

VD: There have been people who have mentioned this but not actually discussed it with me. Therehave been blind people inthe audience who have listened to it and have loved the film. But nobodyhas ever brought it up. I am conscious of it though, that these problems exist for actors with a disability. They don’t get to play disabled roles very often. My opinion is that the producers are having to take into consideration that if they are going to hire someone to do the things Greg and I were doing, white water rafting, wheelchair antics, and things that could be dangerous, the financier the bond companies and the banks would not like the fact that their moneywould be at risk. The insurance companies would never go for it. I do think that in a story with less antics in it would be fine to use a person with a disability. I can’t understand why they don’t use them every time. If they can act. They should not use somebody just because they are disabled, the person with a disability has to be able to act as well. Like any actor, they should be used if they are right for the part.

CC: What movie are you producing?

VD: A movie called the Velocity of Gary. It is about the New York street. It is a three character piece and it’s about their relationships as they live on the street. I produced a film about a year and a half ago with Director, Dan Ireland, called The Whole Wide World. He and I will do another one in September.

CC: You also played the villain in the movie Men in Black.

VD: Yes that was a great part. Barry gave me the control of my character and he let me do some things that weren’t in the script. This is why I have stayed a character actor all these years. Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it’s really hard to have full control of your character. When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave. I prefer that. They are much more fun.

World Youth Day Sydney 2008

In July World Youth Day with Pope Benedict in attendance was held in Sydney, I was not able to attend many of the events but on the Saturday before the Papal Mass I journeyed down to Sydney by train. I alighted from the train at Central Station and on walking down to Paddys Market in Ultimo I was surrounded by the throngs of Pilgrims that were walking from Sydney Harbour Bridge to Randwick Racecourse where the Papal Mass was going to be held. There were people as far as you could see..the mass of people ebbed and flowed around me..

I ended up doing a mini walk going from Central--Paddys Market--Darling Harbour--Observation Hill--onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge (where the Pilgrims were sent over in waves to save conjestion)--under the Harbour Bridge--pass the Overseas Terminal(cruise ships)--around the Ferry Wharves--to the Sydney Opera House--into The Royal Botanical Gardens--pass Mitchell Library(NSW State Library)-- down Macquarie Street passed Sydney Eye Hospital and the New South Wales Parliment House--Hyde Park Barracks with St Marys Cathedral in the background --and then through Hyde Park -- unfortunately I wasn't able to go into the Cathedral as they had it all blocked off-- bought a Tshirt with a graphic of the walk I had just completed at WYD shop (amazing as I had just been following my favourite route)then down to Pitt Street Mall (original Free Hugs site) to watch a talented group of Breakdancers and then a Monorail ride back to Paddy's Market and then a light rail ride up to Central Station for my journey back home. Phew. All up my wanderings took about 3 1/2 hours so I was glad to sit back and enjoy the trip back up the Coast.

Martin Clunes --Men Down Under Interview

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s107898.htm

Transcript- 6/3/2000 -Aussie Men Behaving Badly

KERRY O'BRIEN: It may be politically incorrect, but despite, or perhaps because of that, the British comedy series 'Men Behaving Badly' has been a huge success.Its stars are two beer-swilling mates with few redeeming features. So I'm not sure how we should react to the fact that the men behind those characters have come to Australia for a three-part documentary study of our own males.Tracy Bowden went along to find out what they've discovered.
TRACY BOWDEN: Neil Morrissey and Martin Clunes are on a quest. The stars of the British comedy series 'Men Behaving Badly' have turned to documentary making. They're here to capture the essence of the Australian male. A documentary on Australian men. One has to ask why?
MARTIN CLUNES, ACTOR/FILM MAKER: Why? God, I've never been asked that before.
Uh, better make something up. Well, there's a lot of ignorance in England about Australia, in general. The men thing is kind of an excuse to shoe-horn us into it.
NEIL MORRISSEY, ACTOR/FILM MAKER: Trying to break down stereotypes. You know, the sort of exported stereotype of the ocker with the corks around his hat who eats kangaroo for lunch. You know, we're just sort of trying to demonstrate that there's a bit more to Australia than that.
TRACY BOWDEN: And what better way to illustrate that than with Sydney's Mardi Gras.
The British film crew has trailed their troop of divas all the way through from rehearsals.
NEIL MORRISSEY: That's one of the biggest contradictions, isn't it, with the big macho crocodile wrestling.
MARTIN CLUNES: Plus, it's the second biggest gay community in the world after San Francisco.
TRACY BOWDEN: Does this fall into the category of 'Men Behaving Badly'?
NEIL MORRISSEY: No, these are men behaving with extreme decorum.
TRACY BOWDEN: Some might argue that playing the politically incorrect Tony and Gary perfectly qualifies these lads for their job down-under.
EXCERPT, 'MEN BEHAVING BADLY', MARTIN CLUNES AS GARY: I'm going to miss these wide-ranging, philosophical chats.
NEIL MORRISSEY AS TONY: Me, too. Right, top five girls singers' arses, what have you got?
MARTIN CLUNES AS GARY: OK.
TOGETHER: Kylie, obviously.
TRACY BOWDEN: So, did you go looking for the yobbo and did you find him?
MARTIN CLUNES: We just went looking for all of Australian men, all different types and we found all of them.
NEIL MORRISSEY: Yeah, we found some of the people who were a bit yobbish. I suppose, you could even say, just from having seen the tapes, the Mayor of Alice Springs, in some ways, is slightly yobbish.
MARTIN CLUNES: I'd like to apologise to you personally.
NEIL MORRISSEY: Then the guys down, these absolutely hairy -- can I say 'arsed' on the ABC?
MARTIN CLUNES: I think you just have.
NEIL MORRISSEY: Hairy-arsed miners down in Mt Isa, a mile underground, some of the nicest, gentlest, sweetest blokes you'll meet.
MARTIN CLUNES: We discovered that there are no useful generalisations, there is no one Australian male. The Australian man is as varied as the country is, really.
NEIL MORRISSEY: Yeah.
TRACY BOWDEN: Are they funny?
MARTIN CLUNES: Oh yeah, very funny.
NEIL MORRISSEY: And we found quite a few thirsty Australians, too.
TRACY BOWDEN: So Tony and Gary would have been happy to have a beer with these guys?
NEIL MORRISSEY: Definitely. We found a little bit of them. There are people who feel that they are a bit Tony and Gary, which is slightly sad.
MARTIN CLUNES: But there's support groups.
NEIL MORRISSEY: There's therapy in this country.
EXCERPT, 'MEN BEHAVING BADLY', NEIL MORRISSEY AS TONY SINGS: Just what you mean to me, Oh my child, you look so butch.You're going to take away my energy, with all your jive talking.
TRACY BOWDEN: Why do you think 'Men Behaving Badly' has been so popular?
MARTIN CLUNES: I don't know, I can't speak for Australia, really. In England, I think it was timing as much as the content of the program, the sort of social revolutions, or whatever, that go on.I think there'd been a backlash to the feminist sort of berating men for all the problems of the world.
NEIL MORRISSEY: And the PC element.
TRACY BOWDEN: So the sensitive 'New Age guy was just a ruse, it's not what men are really like?
NEIL MORRISSEY: No, I don't think it was a ruse. I just think that these elements have always been within men. It's whether or not it's your public face to show these things or not.
TRACY BOWDEN: The Mardi Gras was the final shoot for the documentary 'Men Down Under'.Now the lads are heading home to compile their expose.
TRACY BOWDEN: Do you think that you've achieved what you set out to when you pitched this and said "Give us, you know"?
MARTIN CLUNES: Sure, yeah, yeah.
NEIL MORRISSEY: Definitely, and some.
MARTIN CLUNES: We managed to get right around Australia at somebody else's expense.it's been a huge success.
KERRY O'BRIEN: It's nice to get confirmation that there's more than one stereotypical Aussie male.
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