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Summer Crossing was Capote’s first novel and he started writing it just before World War II was finished in 1943 when he was only 19 years of age. Capote ultimately threw it into the trash after a few minor revisions during subsequent years because he was dissatisfied with his effort.

As his financials became much improved with the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote moved out of his Brooklyn apartment and gave instruction to the housesitter that whatever he felt behind was meant to be destroyed. Yet, the housesitter dusted off hand-written pages of Summer Crossing and the supplemental notes and kept them for 50 years. Everyone including the publisher thought the famous author’s book was lost forever. After the housesitter passed away, his family tried to auction off the manuscript but couldn’t because of the high asking price and a copyright technicality. Eventually, the novel published by Random House in 2005.

I hadn’t read the book but did read a plot summary from Wikipedia. It seems that the story is a bit like François Truffaut’s 1962 movie ‘Jules et Jim’ which was based on Henri-Pierre Roché’s 1953 semi-autobiographical novel that contains a love triangle and a tragic ending.

Summer Crossing also has a Jewish angle and a remote reference to The Holocaust. The story now is being turned into a movie and will be directed by one of Hollywood’s most famous actresses – Scarlett Johansson who is herself part-Jewish as so eloquently pointed out by the ever-observant Mel Gibson. The production is scheduled to begin in 2014 as announced in Cannes 2013 recently.

No word on whether Johansson will star in the movie or not.

Truman Capote and movies adapted from his work always have interesting co-relations. Audrey Hepburn’s iconic role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was based on the book by Capote of the same name. The movie was nominated in 1961 for a number of Academy Awards including one for Hepburn as Best Actress. However, it was Henry Mancini’s musical score and Johnny Mercer’s lyrics for ‘Moon River’ that won two soundtrack Oscars. As for Capote, it was his other book, the much darker ‘In Cold Blood’ that gained him the most fame.

In 2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman played the author in the autobiographic ‘Capote’ and won an Oscar Best Actor. ‘Capote’ traces the life of the author during the writing of his book ‘In Cold Blood’ about the real-life story of two brutal murderers who killed Herb Clutter, a successful farmer, his wife and two children in the family home in Holcomb, Kansas during a robbery that gone terribly wrong in November 1959. The two mass murderers were later caught, tried, convicted and executed in 1965. Capote spent years researching the subject and interviewing the two convicts in prison.

Although based on facts, ‘In Cold Blood’ was considered a non-fiction novel as some important facts related to the case was altered by Capote in the re-telling as he himself admitted.

Fiction or not, ‘In Cold Blood’ was adapted into a movie and starring Robert Blake as Perry Smith, one of the killers in 1967. Of course, Blake himself was a murder suspect in his own high-profile case in Los Angeles in which he was accused of shooting his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley in his car parked just outside a restaurant in Studio City in 2001.

Blake was found not guilty in March 2005 and cleared of all charges including the murder and two failed attempts at hiring two separate stunntmen to do away with his wife. However, later that year, Blake was found to be liable for the death of Bakley in a civil trial brought on by Bakley’s three children. The jury ordered Blake to pay $30 million which was cut in half on appeal in 2008.

Ray Van Eng is an award-winning Photographer, Screenwriter and Movie & TV Producer. One of his videos was on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan, New York, NY. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.

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Miss World Canada 2013 ‘Beauty with a Purpose’ pageant. The crowning and announcement of Camille Munro as the 2013 Miss World Canada and Tamara Jemuovic and Anastasia Lin as first and second runner-ups respectively at the River Rock Show Theatre in Richmond BC, Canada on May 09, 2013.

With contestants coming from all across Canada, the beauty pageant has been based in the Vancouver area for the last few years and doubled as a fundraising occasion for Variety, the Children Charity.

There were an evening gowns catwalk, international costumes display and bikini swimwear competition that proved to be a popular attraction over the years. Talent performances were provided by the girls themselves which included Nicole Johnston (acrobatics), Melissa Francis (opera, O Mio Babbino Caro with the audience clapping before the famous aria from Giacomo Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi was even finished) and Anastasia Lin (piano music).

Mr. World Canada 2012 Frankie Cena made a special appearance and sang as well which gained him thunderous applauses. The evening’s program was hosted by SportsCentre’s Bryan Mudryk and TV fashion personality Natalie Langston. There were some hiccups when announcing the winners which lead to a recall, but eventually got it right the second time.

After an emotional but upbeat farewell walk and speech, Tara Teng, last year’s winner relinquished her reign and crowned her successor.

Representing Canada, Camille Munro will compete at the Miss World 2013 in Bogor, Indonesia later this year in September.

Congratulations, Camille Munroe!!


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Iron Man 3 [Photo: Marvel/Disney]

It is May and regardless of what the weatherman says, officially it is the start of the summer season for the Hollywood studios that distribute movies. Friday (May 3rd) was the North American opening of the summer blockbuster Iron Man 3.

What a blockbuster it already is, as of Monday (May 6), the movie has grossed $679 Million internationally. The movie debuts in China on May 1 and broke the all-time one day Chinese boxoffice record by earning $21.5 Million. The previous record was ‘The Avengers’ at $18 Million for that country.

The Iron Man 3 is a Disney/Marvel production starring Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, a comic book hero created by Stan Lee, Larry Lieber and others with a screenplay by Drew Pearce and director Shane Black. The rest of the cast includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jon Favreau, Rebecca Hall etc.

Since Iron Man 3 also had a Chinese partner, Beijing’s DMG Entertainment, it was classified as a joint-production which should provide an easier entrance to the world’s second biggest movie market but still not officially a co-production which would enjoy certain screening and profit-sharing privileges for the American producers in China.

According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR) reporting from Hong Kong, the Chinese version included four extra minutes not seen anywhere in the world. The additional screening time is used for product placement for such Chinese consumer goods as Gu Li Duo milk-drinks and TCL cell phones. The localized Chinese version also contains cameos from top Chinese actor Wang Xueqi and actress Fan Bingbing with scenes shot inside China.

Iron Man creator Stan Lee was eyeing the Chinese market.

In Beijing last year, Stan Lee said he was working on a Chinese comic strip hero (similar to Iron Man) for the Chinese and international market. Imagine that, Stan Lee is 90 years old and still has China in his mind. You can’t be global and leave China out these days. He was in Vancouver recently attending a cosplay event. I planned to go and if possible talk to him but just didn’t have the time.

Many moviegoers are still unaware of the ever closer ties that Hollywood is forging with China which will ultimately change how movies are made and what everyone will be watching in the future.

Robert Downey Jr. went to Beijing to promote the launching of Iron Man 3 in China and he declared, “I am interested in all things Chinese.” The Hollywood mega-star doesn’t have a Twitter account in the U.S. yet he has an equivalent one in China called Sina Weibo and that’s where he tweeted that he also ‘live(s) a very Chinese life in America.’ I don’t exactly know what that means, although he was said to be into Chinese medicine and martial arts that kind of stuff.

Here is an interesting point though. For the Chinese audience, the villain’s name Mandarin (played by Sir Ben Kingsley) has been changed to Man Daren, in an attempt to soften the negative Chinese reference. It will be interesting to see how the Chinese audience reacts to this. On the other hand, I wonder if an American audience would feel offended if a Chinese movie had an evil character called Uncle Sam or Yankee Doodle? Just a thought.

Can Iron Man 3 hit the $1 Billion mark worldwide when all is said and done? That just might be within reach for this high-voltage summer tentpole.

Ray Van Eng is an award-winning Photographer, Screenwriter and Movie & TV Producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan, New York, NY. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.

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Art World Expo 2013 – Naked BodyPaint Competition at Telus World of Science in Vancouver BC, Canada on May 3, 2013. A night of art, bodypaint, almost naked models, music and more. Organized by MAB Ventures Inc. Bodypaint competition hosted by celebrity hostess Reiko Mackenzie. BodyPaint Competition Winner – Natacha Trottier, hair and makeup artists with model Willow Kativa. The event is organized by MAB Ventures Inc.

The Telus World of Science is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to engaging British Columbians in science and inspiring future science and technology leadership in BC. Formerly known as Science World or Expo Centre, the unique structure with a geodesic dome is a legacy building of Expo 86, the Vancouver’s 1986 world exposition on transportation and communication.



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On Surrey Vaisakhi Day 2013 on April 20, 201, Sikhs around the lower mainland and elsewhere came to worship at the Gurdwara Sahib Dasmesh Darbar temple. Tens of thousands of South Asians then took part in the parade and enjoyed the free food and entertainment along the route that stretched several kilometers. The event is the oldest and one of the largest Vaisakhi Day programs outside India.

You don’t have to be South Asian to appreciate the all-you-can-eat free foods and drinks. There are plenty of Indian foods such as bottled water, Coke, Pepsis, fruit juices and other sodas. The hot sweetly-spiced Indian milk tea remains the favorite beverage however. Community performers and song-and-dance groups including the Punjabi group, Kohinoor Folk Arts Club have all gathered to provide entertainment.

As evident in the video above, the money offerings at the Gurdwara Sahib temple consist of more American dollars than Canadian ones (many in $1 dollar denomination). Way more. Does that suggest there were U.S citizens coming to Canada to attend this celebration? And as the Canadian $1 and $2 have become out of fashion in everyday use, the U.S. $1 becomes a popular and ‘cheaper’ replacement in cash donations, is that possible? Whatever the reason, the spirit of giving and generosity towards anyone were very much alive on Vaisakhi Day. That’s the way it is meant to be.

Ray Van Eng is an award-winning Photographer/Videographer, Screenwriter and Movie & TV Producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan, New York, NY. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.

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Cherry Blossom Japan Fair Festival Saurka Days in Vancouver. The 2103 event takes place at the VanDusen Botanical Garden (5151 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC) April 06 & 07, 2013 from 10AM – 5PM. The World Umbrella Dance as choreographed by Shiamak Davar takes place on April 13, 2013 at the Vancouver Art Gallery at 12:45PM.

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Shooting in Berlin right now is George Clooney’ latest production Monuments Men.

The screenplay is co-written by Clooney and his long-time producer Grant Heslov and based on the non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel.

The movie is about a special group of allied soldiers and cultural workers whose mission is to recover hundreds of thousands of artworks stolen by the Germans during WWII before Hitler ordered them destroyed.

Set in 1942, Monuments Men has an all-star cast that includes George Clooney, Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Jean Jean Dujardin, Daniel Craig, John Goodman, Bill Murray etc. The WWII period drama will come out in Dec 2013 which could become a serious Oscar contender for Oscar 2014.

The movie is said to be inspired by true events which usually means that some facts maybe altered for dramatic effects. And experts are pointing out historical inaccuracies in the story e.g. there is no evidence that Hitler ordered the artwork destroyed when he realized that he was losing the war.

Many priceless artworks were stolen by the Nazis which Hitler wanted to build a museum in Linz, Germany, his birthplace to host some of the stolen treasures. That didn’t pan out and the evil Fuhrer committed suicide just before the Russia army stormed Berlin which ended the war.

Hitler himself was a failed artist as he had been rejected entry to the Vienna Academy of Art, one time in 1908 when he wasn’t even allowed to take part in the exam. In later years when he came into political power, he saw himself as a connoisseur of fine arts and certainly regarded his looted artworks as his prized treasures.

As the monuments men discovered, many of the stolen artworks were found in caves and mines which guarded against allied bombings during the war and provided an ideal environment that is not too wet and not too dry for the treasures.

As it turned out, some of today’s tourist hotspots including the Neuschwanstein Castle in Schwangau, Germany was one of the places that hid thousands of stolen paintings and artifacts during the war.

Ironic as it may seem, the enemy is within and not from the German troops. One of the monuments men’s major tasks is to protect the cultural treasures of a city that are in the battlefield. These included museums, churches and other monuments form being damaged. As the Allied force kept advancing in the battlefield, the bombings became more indiscreet without adequate knowledge of the surrounding that they were destroying. In saving these cultural objects during the war, very often the group’s major concern was to avoid being killed by friendly fires.

Recently, seven paintings that were hanging in the Louvre are being returned to their rightful owners, the Jewish families who fled Europe during WWII some 70 years earlier. To be fair, not just the Nazis stole artworks, the Russian army and even American soldiers participated in looting. Not all stolen artworks are recovered. Some are still missing and some artworks’ ownership is unknown and they continue to hang in galleries around the world until someone can prove that the artwork belongs to them.

Edsel described the work of the Monuments Men as “the greatest treasure hunt in history — one that continues to this day.”

By 1951, the Monuments Men had processed and returned more than 5 million stolen objects. Yet, hundreds of thousands of works remained missing. Edsel further added that “no similar effort has been made by the U.S. in any subsequent conflict,” citing the American invasion of Iraq as an example where looters took a tremendous amounts of treasures dating back 5,000 years or more at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad.

Ray Van Eng is an award-winning Photographer/Videographer, Screenwriter and Movie & TV Producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan, New York, NY. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.

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Angelina Jolie is picked by producer Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Man) to star as ‘Cleopatra’ with Ang Lee possibly directing the remake of the 20th Century Fox classic starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as the Egyptian queen and her warrior-lover Antony in ancient Rome.



The new movie is being developed for Sony Pictures and based on Pulitzer Prize winning author Stacy Schiff’s book ‘Cleopatra: A Life’ (2010). The first draft of the screenplay was written by Brian Helgeland which was then rewritten by Eric Roth in late 2011.

Before Ang Lee, a slew of big-name directors including James Cameron, Paul Greengrass and David Fincher was attached but all later departed.

Here’s how producer Scott Rudin described the new movie –

“It is a completely revisionist Cleopatra, a much more grown-up sophisticated version. She’s not a sex kitten, she’s a politician, strategist, warrior. In the Joseph Mankiewicz movie, Elizabeth Taylor is a seductress, but the histories of Cleopatra have been written by men. This is the first to be written by a woman. It felt like such a blow-the-doors-off-the-hinges idea of how to tell it, impossible to resist. We’re pretty close. A lot of directors want to do it, but there is only a handful we’ll make it with.”

Jolie actually wrote Ang Lee and asked him to direct this remake of the 1960s epic ‘Cleopatra’ which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lee is said to be very interested and felt that it would be right as his next project. He is yet to read the script.

Jolie is perfect for this role as well. Still the movie would be very risky. A similar production is Oliver Stone’s 2004 epic ‘Alexander’ which Jolie also starred. That one lost money because of the huge budget ($115mil) with a worldwide ticket sales of only $167mil which is far from being able to break even.

If Angie plays ‘Cleopatra’ who should play her lover Mark Anthony, the original role that made Richard Burton famous?

Personally, I hope it won’t be Brad Pitt. It would be too familiar. Have to find an actor who can match Jolie’s star power and fill Richard Burton’s shoes too. Perhaps Leo DiCaprio would fit the bill. Maybe James Franco? His ‘Oz the Great and Powerful 3D’ movie is busting box office right now. Ben Affleck, may be? Neither Johnny Depp nor Colin Farrell would be right in my view.

While we wait for the new ‘Cleopatra’ movie starring Angelina Jolie, a 4-hour TV miniseries on the Egyptian queen is also being planned by Lifetime TV right now. No word on casting yet. The original ‘Cleopatra’ with Liz Taylor & Richard Burton was almost 4-hours long. Recently, the History channel showed this theatrical version.

Because of ‘Cleopatra’, Liz Taylor became well-known as the first actress in Hollywood being paid $1 Million to act in a movie. She actually earned much more than that as you will learn later.

The time was 1959, Elizabeth Taylor was taking a bath one day and her phone rang. Her husband Eddie Fisher answered and it was producer Walter Wanger who really wanted Liz to play the Egyptian Queen. Liz was annoyed and told Eddie to ask for $1 Mil thinking that it would discourage Wanger. Yet the Fox executive immediately agreed. Big mistake!

‘Cleopatra’ almost bankrupts a studio, 20th century Fox.

The original ‘Cleopatra’ was one of the most disastrous movies Hollywood had ever seen. Weather delays and labor problems drove the budget up from the originally intended $5 Mil to $44 Mil (or more than $300 Mil in today’s currency). Elizabeth Taylor became so sick that production had to be shut down and eventually moved from London to Rome. Entire sets at England’s Pinewood Studios were scrapped. 20th Century Fox lost so much money that it almost went bankrupt. While filmmakers always hope for a good chemistry between lead actors, in Cleopatra’s case, director Joseph L. Mankiewicz got way more than he bargained for.

When Liz Taylor & Richard Burton met, passion exploded!

When the director yelled ‘Cut’, Liz and Dick were still making out. Both were married but not to each other. The Pope got so upset that he issued a disapproving message saying that Taylor was guilty of “erotic vagrancy.” I looked up that term in a dictionary which loosely translated into sexual loitering. An accurate description I suppose.

Liz Taylor ultimately made $7 Mil. How!?

Besides a salary of one million, Liz Taylor also earned 10% of the gross (that’s right off the top from the box-office). She also stipulated that the movie be shot in the large format Todd-AO system which she owned the right to as the inventor of that system was her late husband Michael Todd who died in a plane crash in 1958. So the royalty went to Liz. Ultimately, she earned $7 mil & that’s all 1960s money.

To raise cash for the production of ‘Cleopatra’, 20th Century Fox sold off about 180 acres of the studio backlot in L.A. to developer Alcoa. The area later became known as Century City which was conceived as ‘a city within a city’.



Though it was a box-office success in 1963, Cleopatra remained a money-loser for a long while. It was not until 1975 when ABC paid $5Mil to broadcast it on TV that the movie recouped most of its expenses. Eventually all movies make money as the production and marketing cost are very much fixed once the picture is released while revenues keep coming in.

With Angelina Jolie firmly in place (and rightfully so in my view) and possibility of having the meticulous and artistic Ang Lee as director, this new ‘Cleopatra’ still has many hurdles to overcome. Casting, budget, international appeal etc. Hopefully we shall see all these resolved one by one and won’t be a repeat of the fiasco that the Taylor-Burton version is well-known for.

Ray Van Eng is an award-winning Photographer/Videographer, Screenwriter and Movie & TV Producer. One of his videos is currently on view at the Hava Nagila Exhibit, Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan, New York, NY. from Sep 2012 to May 2013.

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Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg may be adversaries in the 2013 Oscar race, but they have one thing in common. They both admire the work of the late great filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

Ang Lee, when asked about whether he would make another 3D movie again, the Oscar-winning Life of Pi director said he’d love to remake ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’

In the meantime, Steven Spielberg is working on a pet project that Kubrick had worked on in the 1960s but was forced to abandon it because no studio was interested in financing it due to scope of the movie even with such stars such as Oskar Werner and Audrey Hepburn playing the leading roles.

Kubrick spent years in developing the biopic on the French conqueror’s life and amassed a tremendous amount of research material and indicated that he ‘expect to make the best movie ever made’. Now Spielberg will likely try to carry on the torch and fulfill that vision.

Will that be a movie or TV mini-series?

That is a question Steven Spielberg has faced before. When ‘Lincoln’ screenwriter Tony Kushner first delivered his script to Steven Spielberg it was 500 pages long which translated to a little over 8 hours of screen-time. Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, the two ‘Lincoln’ producers wondered if they should turn it into a min-series. At the end, they decided to use the latter part of Kushner’s script and make that into a movie.

This time around with Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’, it is the other way around. Spielberg is developing the movie screenplay that Kubrick has written in the 1970s as a TV mini-series. The Oscar-winning Schneider List director is no stranger to the television media of course, having directed, produced and executive-produced dozens of TV movies and miniseries such as Taken (starring Joel Gretsch, Ryan Hurst and Dakota Fanning and filmed in Vancouver BC), Band of Brothers (with Tom Hank writing, directing and producing) etc.

As for how serious is Ang Lee in remaking ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, there is no word on that. However, I hope he was just joking and won’t mess with such as a classic and iconic work. There really isn’t much to gain to even emulate the immense success of Kubrick’s ground-breaking sci-fi film.

On the other hand, Ang Lee indicated that he is also interested in remaking ‘Cleopatra’ especially after Angelina Jolie (who will play the Egyptian Queen) had urged him to come onboard to direct.

Let the future unfold for that movie instead, Mr. Lee, please.

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Word on the street is that Ben Affleck is deciding if he should direct a crime movie with Mat Damon starring as Boston Irish-American gangster Whitey Bulger.

The 83-year old mobster was on the FBI Top 10 Most Wanted List and had been on the run since 1994. He was finally captured in 2011 in Santa Monica, CA. Should the Argo Oscar Best Picture producer decided to direct this movie, he would be in contention with Johnny Depp who is scheduled to shoot a movie also based on Bulger’s life later this year.

Matt Damon or Johnny Depp – who would make a better Irish gangster?

Matt Damon plays mostly good guys while Jonny Depp has John Dillinger (Public Enemies) and Donnie Brasco (the Joe Pistone undercover story) on his resume. In terms of acting experience, Depp has an edge here, but Damon would have a fresh new role to play as a bad guy and that may have an appeal for the audience.

Depp’s new crime tale is called ‘Black Mass’ and is being directed by Barry Levinson who helmed Donnie Brasco. The Privates of the Caribbean star’s new movie is based on a 2001 New York Times bestseller book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance between the FBI and the Irish Mob.

Both Affleck and Damon were born and raised in Boston (the same with Whitey Bulger) and Ben had said that if he and Damon were to work on a movie again, this gangster movie would just seemed right. “It’s where my heart is”, Affleck said. The movie is being scripted by Terence Winter, best known as a writer/creator of the HBO TV series ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and writer for ‘The Sopranos’.

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