Thanks to NANTZ of Vinnie Vidi Vici blog

for posting this video.

Oscar winning short film, The New Tenants.

Actually I just loved the smiles on these two guys.

Vincent D'Onofrio's Dance Moves

TIME_WARP from Jazzy Babe on Vimeo.

just for the fun of it

Video by Jazzy Babe

Vincent D'Onofrio on Good Things,Utah

yesterday, Friday 12 March 2010

The women spoilt the interview by talking about themselves. Why? It seems they're using his appearance to get more publicity for themselves.

Personally I think they could have sat back and let the Guest have centre-stage which is the reason you have a guest in the first place to learn more about his projects.

He hasn't ruled out doing another television show,

just one that is a little more family-time friendly.

Rant Update: None of the interviewers mentioned that The New Tenants, a film he appeared in won an Oscar for Best Short, Live Action. This interview was after the Oscars.

I am currently reading a book called

"Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskin.

It is the story of Miramax Sundance and the Rise of Independent Films.

Vincent D'Onofrio is to portray Harvey Weinstein

in the film of the book which is filming now.

On page 69, an exempt from the book

"Finesse was never part of Harvey's arsenal. He tore phones out of walls and hurled them. He slammed doors and overturned tables. Almost anything within reach could become a weapon -ashtrays, books and tapes, ..."

While I was reading this particular page

I remember a scene in LO:Criminal Intent

where the character Goren yells at his mentor Cage and another scene when Goren with a sweep of his arm sends the contents of his desktop clattering to the floor. I remember thinking how explosive those scenes were and how the 'practice' run will benefit D'onofrio's portrayal of the Harvey Weinstein role.

At the 2010 Oscars, a movie called The New Tenants

won Best Short Film, Live Action.

Vincent played a character in it called Jan.

Photo courtesy of thereelvincentdonofrio.com

Another Christmas Wallpaper

Courtesy of http://thevalentinecat.blogspot.com/

NUMBER CRUNCHING - LO:CRIMINAL INTENT

There was a HUGE meeting of the powers that be in

Los Angeles between NBC and all its affiliates.

For more insider info head over to BASRIC's blog

Twitter Chatter

SpoilerTV

USA Network is finalizing a deal to bring Law & Order: CI back for a ninth season, but there’s a catch. Actually there are a few catches. Here’s what I’m hearing…

* Julianne Nicholson is out. The actress, who recently gave birth to her second child, has opted not to return. Saffron Burrows (My Own Worst Enemy) has emerged as the frontrunner to replace her.

* Burrows would be partnered with Jeff Goldblum, although his deal is also not 100 percent done.

* Where does that leave Vincent D’Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe? The CI vets are in talks to return in some capacity.

http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/2009/09/law-and-order-criminal-intent-casting.html

Danny DeVito

 

 Danny_DeVitoOn Broadway & 75th loading in at The Beacon Theter. New York. Haven't been on stage since Madison Ave was a two way street.

Dinner at five. I love NY. Eat anything you like. Everywhere is great take out food. What should I eat. Backstage is wild. Holy shitballs!

4 hours ago

On stage in new York Beacon Theater far out audience is hot

Ten years ago I stayed at the Beacon Hotel which adjoined the Beacon Theatre unfortunately there wasn't a show on at the time.

The Narrows Screening

Thanks to the ImageShack

A new favourite Youtube video from flowrpowrera
posted 26 March, 2009

and I'm not the only one that enjoys this vid.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent



The new Criminal Intent 2009 series started in the US last week with a D'onofrio/Erbe episode and this week Goldblum/Nicholson episode was shown. I was able to view both episodes and enjoyed both teams in action.

Australia will be able to view the new series as it starts on Channel 10 next week...yay... usually we don't see this show until 6/8 months after the US season starts so the fast-tracking is marvelous.

Attention all CI-philes

Mark your calendars!

All-new episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent arrive (US) Sunday, April 19,
starring all of your favorite detectives, as well as a new addition to the Major Case Squad. Jeff Goldblum joins the cast of CI as Det. Zack Nichols. Tune in Sunday, April 19, to see how well Det. Wheeler takes to her new partner.

Official Links:
http://www.usanetwork.com/series/criminalintent/
Facebook: http://bit.ly/13IBTu
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/USA_Network

Law & Order: Criminal Intent / So Many Questions (promo) - The best video clips are right here

and if you haven't already recognised the main actor,
Vincent D'onofrio
you may have also seen him as this character

Farmer John/The Bug from Men In Black

Extended Version by paparazzi

Thanks PopTv.com

Hysterics in the House

A trojan or 3 in my computer.

A whole week without the Internet.

Breathe Breathe

I could play around offline as much as I liked but once I hopped online, my computer crashed. Dropped it into a IT shop to get fixed on Tuesday and finally picked it up on Friday, the virus was so strong the techie had to format the drive.

Luckily I had purchase a portable harddrive at a local computer fair and was able to transfer most of my files and photos to it but I am a little hesitant to transfer saved files back to my newly formatted puter. my son spent the next 6 hours installing some of the programs again (including his games... where he swears no trojans were lurking...huh). I have installed a 'real beaut' Trojan 'hunter and demolisher' to liquidate any more nasties.

Or maybe I should get this 'big fella' to hunt
those nasties down.


Thanks to Eliza for the pic.

I'm in the middle of packing for my trip.

Christmas is over for another year,

there is discarded Christmas wrapping everywhere,

the ironing stack is growing,

the washing on outside on the Hills Hoist

















(Stock photo- Hills Hoist with a Tawny Frogmouth Owl)

The sun is shining,

it is 29C in the shade,

a cloudless sky,

a little wind blowing.

Perfect summer weather,

the Cricket is on the telly

































Australia vs South Africa playing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia.

Darcy is curled up near the portable DVD after a night of watching
the great Vincent D'onofrio playing his character
Detective Robert Goren
of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Here is an photo taken during the night
Obviously Darcy has had a little too much Christmas cheer.


Hours later ...

still there.

Thanks to joibehrend on the Vincent D'onofrio INDB board for the info

Vincent was on Good Things Utah today (12/12) with his sister, cooking, if you can believe it. You can go to the KTVX News' website and they have a video clip. Just click on Good Things Utah when you get to the site and there will be a photo of Vincent next to link for video of the segment. Enjoy!

Here is the link. Thanks joibehrend.
http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/gtu/featured_on/story/Vincent-DOno frio/RuOZIpVlR0KNciBxKo6aBg.cspx
He talks about his movies, LOCI, family etc.- 9+minutes.
The page takes a while to load.

Ripped from the Headlines

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

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.

Five Minutes Mr Welles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-4PPr3r_r0

Vincent D'Onofrio at NaFF'08

Nashville Film Festival
Vincent D'Onofrio talks about working with Stanley Kubrick and Robert Altman during the "Actor Turned Filmmaker" Panel.Law and Order: Criminal Intent’s star Vincent D’Onofrio is center stage in the seminar “Actor Turned Filmmaker

VDO on the TODAY SHOW 6 December 2007

“Law and Order” on the Plaza

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=&vid=825902d9-ac37-48df-b35e-0a55a5799cfd

VDO interview with Al Norton of Bostonnow.com

Al Norton TV Editor www.bostonnow.com
Vincent D'Onofrio first burst onto the scene with his role in 1987's Full Metal Jacket and has been wowing critics and fans with his work from then on. Since 2001 he has played Detective Bobby Gorin on Law And Order: Criminal Intent. Recently Boston Now talked with him about the series, his career, and this Thursday's powerful new episode.

BostonNOW: Untethered is a very different kind of episode for Law And Order: Criminal Intent. What was your reaction when you got the script?

Vincent D'Onofrio: We had been talking about it for a long time. There was a show on 60 Minutes about something very similar and I had talked to Warren (Leight, the show runner) about it, conversations about how we might be able to do something like that, with me going into an institution of some kind undercover. Warren came up with the story about bringing my brother into it and turning it into a Criminal Intent. When I read the script it was great. It was great from the first draft, actually.

BN: Because there are multiple scenes where it's just you on camera, was preparation for this different than usual for you as an actor?

VD: It's very similar to the episode we did at the start of the season that featured Kate's (Co-star Kathryn Erbe) past a bit, an emotional journey for her. She was able to apply her acting style in a more specific way to it. This episode of mine gave me the same chance to really just do what I do, that I don't get to do a lot on the show, because there's no room for it. We mainly do crime stories and you can't be too indulgent with crime stories; everything is about plot points and it's very important to hit certain things at certain times.

BN: You've got 43 minutes to tell the story and solve the case.

VD: Exactly. But something that requires a more emotional base, you can always approach it with an easier flow ... I did ask them to schedule the last three days so that all the stuff when I was tied down to the slab happened at the end, so I could go deep, acting-wise.

BN: In those scenes where you were strapped down, did you get up and move around between takes?

VD: Most of those shots of me on the slab, they would just let the camera roll and then cut it into what you see on the show. They would roll and I would improvise. In one, 10-minute length, I would give them different stages of me being on the slab, but in an improvisational kind of way.

BN: You and Tony Goldwyn (who plays D'Onofrio's brother on the episode) have a great chemistry on the show. Was that something that happened right away?

VD: Tony and I met on an airplane and I asked him if he would come and be my brother on the show. We love him here. He's going to direct an episode, too. I just love the guy. There are some actors you just work with really well ... He makes my acting better.

BN: Law And Order Criminal Intent started back in 2001, and now that you're in your seventh season, with over 100 episodes, are you happy with where the show has gone, both overall and specific to Gorin?

VD: I think the writing on the show these days is strong. The first couple of years when we were figuring out what the show was, it was a lot of fun to just see if what we were doing was going to work at all, but since then Warren Leight has put out some of the best scripts we've done. I like it.

BN: When I interviewed Kathryn Erbe earlier this fall, she said the change in schedule from doing every episode to every other, "saved her life." Do you feel the same way?

VD: I agree with her. It was absolutely life saving. We were working way too much and they were kind enough to do something about it. It's worked out terrific.

BN: In the Law And Order universe there is no character the fans are more passionate about than Gorin. Do you get that fans coming up to you.

VD: Every day, everywhere I go. I don't mean that to sound egotistical.

BN: Does that ever get old?

VD: No, it doesn't. It actually helps me stay on the show. When you do theater, at the end of the show you get applause. When you do film and television you never get that, so it's like getting that applause, which is nice.

BN: Living and working in NY, what's the reaction you get from the NYPD?

VD: It's great. They just treat us so well. It's hard to describe but it comes down to everyone - regular guys walking the beat to Chief Scagnelli - they are all absolute gentlemen. They like the fact that it's about the NYPD, it's their life.

BN: Can you feel a difference in the support now that the show has moved to the USA network?

VD: I think one of the things that has helped this season is USA's attitude towards the show, how they are treating us, the way they are considering it a "new" show for them. I think its helped morale a lot, actually. The whole way they are doing it is fun ... You just get a good feeling from them, and that's nice to have.

BN: Criminal Intent is pretty intense. Does doing that kind of thing 11 episodes a year affect the other choices you make for work?

VD: I have better opportunity now to do what I like to do most, which is supporting parts in films. That's what I really like to do most of all and now people are able to board me in because I have 8 to 10 days off every eight days

BN: Why the preference for supporting roles?

VD: I don't know, it's just always been my thing. I like creating characters. It's always been that way.

BN: I would think it might give you a little more freedom and a little less pressure.

VD: Maybe. I like creating stuff. I don't like repeating things and when you're a character actor you don't repeat a lot, which kind of suits my personality more.

BN: Having played such an incredible assortment of characters over the years, are there some that stand out to you, where what you were going for ended up perfect?

VD: Oh no, I don't think anything I've done is perfect. I'd like to change all of them, actually.

BN: Do you spend a lot of time thinking about roles you've done and things you'd change?

VD: You do when you're young but you get over that fairly quickly. You learn from directors and other actors to get over that - it's in the can and that's all you can do. Probably the first five or six years of your career you dwell on everything you've just done, or done previous, and then after a while you understand that as long as you don't feel guilty, as long as you put 100 percent effort into it, that whatever it turned out to be is what it was.

BN: You did a Miami Vice episode way back in 1984, when the show was at its pop culture zenith. Was it crazy to be a part of such a huge thing?

VD: I guess. They were kind of like icons at the time. I hadn't really thought about that before. I had already done Full Metal Jacket, I had already worked with Stanly Kubrick. So I pretty much had the experience working in the upper echelon. I knew what I was doing and what show I was on, and I definitely appreciated it.

BN: Can you give me any scoop on what lays ahead for Criminal Intent?

VD: I can't; it wouldn't be fair to the writers ... You can't forget that we are a crime show and while I'm on the show I'm going to play a detective who solves crimes, mostly homicides. That will continue but with Warren as our show runner, we tested the waters a bit this year with the emotional stuff and it's worked well for us, and I think we'll go in that direction even more so.

Don't miss Law And Order: Criminal Intent Thursday at 10 p.m. on USA.

Published on December 3, 2007