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- From: Instyle UK
Terminator Salvation Premiere, LA | InStyle UK
Terminator Salvation Premiere, LA
Thursday May 14, 2009
Benjamin McKenzie
We may see plenty of the Bilson and the Barton out and about, but it makes a refreshing change to see one of the lovely Orange County boys on the red carpet. Looking a world away from on-screen bad boy Ryan Atwood, Benjamin McKenzie made a rare public outing to check out the latest film in the Terminator franchise, which is directed by McG - who coincidentally is the same man behind The OC.
- From Twitter
Twitter / mrbobbybones: OffSpring performs live Tu ...
OffSpring performs live Tue morning at 8:00am. Ben Mckenzie ( The O.C.) from that show on NBC called SOUTHLAND will be on 8:30 Wed morning
Twitter / lauren.: on my way to dinner i was ...
on my way to dinner i was in an elevator with ryan from the oc - random star spotting there.
Twitter / Anna: Just saw Ben Mckenzie at o ...
Just saw Ben Mckenzie at one of our opening nights.
- AOL - What to Watch?
What to Watch May 18-24 - Inside TV Blog
THURSDAY, MAY 21
'Southland' (10PM, NBC) 1st season finale
The cop drama's been given a second-season greenlight, so it's worth it to get further invested as the season wraps with the murder of a gang member. Cooper, Brown, Dewey and Sherman ('O.C.' star Benjamin McKenzie, who's won us over again with his latest TV role) find the body of a Marta's Avenue gang member in the trunk of a car outside Dodger Stadium, which is going to keep them wrapped up with an investigation, while Salinger continues to fret over his increasingly strained relationship with his daughter. And with Bryant (Shawn Hatosy) worried about his ability to keep teen witness Janilla safe, he convinces Lydia (the already Emmy-worthy Regina King) to let her crash at her house.
- Another article on Ben from another Singapore (online) paper.
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- Christopher Mcquarrie mentions Stanford Prison Experiment in this interview.
Christopher McQuarrie, the Proud Warrior of Valkyrie - ComingSoon.net
CS: You're currently attached to direct a story that every college sociology freshman learns, Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. This is another fascinating, iconic historical event, dealing with issues of authority, power, and obeying orders. What specifically attracted you to it?
McQuarrie: I got involved in it through a friend of mine, Tim Talbott, who's a writer, oddly enough wrote for "South Park." He was attached to this project and asked me to come on as a producer. I knew very little about it going in. Like most historical subjects I just have the kernel of the idea. I went from developing it with him to writing it with him, and finally they asked me to direct it. I was about to go off and do that movie when "Valkyrie" happened. A few years later I'm able to think about getting back to it.
CS: Again there's the issue of relevancy. Are you going to draw parallels to things like Abu Ghraib or do you think the audience can find those contemporary connections themselves?
McQuarrie: I'll put it to you this way: A guy with a smock that barely covers his crotch and a bag over his head… do I have to draw a parallel? I don't think so. (laughs) You literally don't have to make one allusion to it for people to say, "Oh my God, this is Abu Ghraib." What's amazing is that Zimbardo actually went and testified on behalf of one of the guards at Abu Ghraib and basically described how you can't put human beings in this situation. In these conditions they will behave in one of three ways. They will become one of three types that the guards in the prison experiment were. I don't care who you are, and I say it about myself: put me in those conditions I would become one of those three people, and I'm just terrified to know which of those three I would be. That's really what the movie says, it forces us to ask ourselves, "Who would you have been in this experiment?" You would have been somebody, you wouldn't have been yourself anymore. What's really unfortunate is there is no one in the experiment you can look to and say, "I hope I handle it like him."
__________________ Icon:Hayat If you pursue the pop-culture thing and indulge yourself in it, go to all the events and get yourself on the cover of Us Weekly every week, that fame is fleeting,It's not a road you can navigate for a long time. People get tired of you and you burn out.
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