[Hybrid-Angel]

Jesus, sounds like the bloddy critics are attack hard. I just like to chew up everything.

Thanks for the articles, Jo ..or should i say Scare Queen.

Whats with the name change?

[Hybrid-Angel]

Colin Blasts Alexander reviews (Courtesy fo tara)

Witchhunts, blowjobs and lawsuits The always colourful Colin Farrell blasts reviews of Alexander and calls it ... An Oliver Stone 'witchhunt' By BRUCE KIRKLAND -- Toronto Sun Colin Farrell feels the pain. This time it's personal. This time, with harsh and in some cases savage reviews tearing up Oliver Stone's epic Alexander, the 28-year-old Irish actor is reeling. "It's been f---ing hammered!" Farrell tells the Sun yesterday on a brief Toronto visit to promote the opening of the $150-million (US) extravaganza in which he plays the ancient Macedonian king, Alexander the Great. In keeping with the mood of critics, the fates deliver a miserable bloody day of blustery cold and snowflurries, Toronto's first real lash of winter. "I don't usually read them," he says of reviews, "but I read them this time because I love the film so much and I have so much invested in it emotionally -- and I'm worried more for Oliver than for me because he's highly sensitive, as tough as he is. "(Yet) this is an important thing in my life," a disappointed Farrell says, peppering the conversation with the f-word in a variety of situations, some angry, some bemused, some just because he needs a shot of spice, like pepper on a plate of pasta. "A lot of my life has gone into it," Farrell says of filming Alexander in England, Morocco and Thailand. "My son (14-month-old James, whose mother is Farrell's now ex-girlfriend, model Kim Bordenave) was born during it, and a lot of my son is there in my performance, whatever my performance is. So it certainly affects me. I can't abstract myself from it at all. I can't be subjective. Having said that, I do think a lot of it is personal, with respect to Oliver." While some critics offered "intelligent" if negative reviews, others just trashed Stone, Farrell says. "He's a f---ing easy target and they love to have a go at him because he's extreme and he takes gambles. In a world that celebrates sameness, he is an (expletive) original and I think that is undervalued. "Look, I'm fine with a bad review. God knows I've gotten plenty in my time and I've got plenty left in me. I'm fine. This is par for the course. But I just wish they (some critics) didn't go in with respect to Oliver's work with daggers in their pockets. "I say that with very little bitterness. I just wish they would take time ... (he frowns) ... there is an element of witchhunt to it." During the interview, and unlike many Hollywood stars, Farrell does not try to court favour for himself. This is consistent with the way he was during a group interview the Sun attended in LA. recently. There is no swagger in his step or a sense of superiority in his voice. Charming and often funny -- he happily takes a bribe of a half-bottle of wine to quaff during the interview in place of the cigarettes he usually smokes non-stop -- Farrell comes across as a man hanging onto his humanity. "I know I'm doing it for the right reasons," the Dublin-born Farrell says of acting, even while his career spirals into celebrity stardom. He says he came back to Toronto (where he has shot two films) to work the new movie, not to massage his fame, and certainly not to carry on in the "bad boy" style he is known for. "It's 3,000 miles to L.A. and my son, and 3,000 miles to Dublin and my family and friends," he says. "I'm not 3,000 miles away from everything I know and love to get a cheap and easy blowjob in a f---ing nightclub (here). I got a couple of them anyway even before I started acting (he mischievously pauses for a laugh). "I'm here because I like the work! The work intrigues me. It annoys me. It (screws) with my head and it's like a dog that I'm never going to catch. I do want to stroke it once and see how bad it smells. But every time I get close to the dog, he's gone again." Farrell's choice of metaphor, like his profane language, is colourful, real, provocative. And he provides his own translation. "It's the journey that's the destination!" Alexander lawsuits? Bring it on! Bring on the Greek's lawsuits over Alexander and the title character's sexual proclivities, Colin Farrell says. "It would be a very comical case," Farrell told the Sun yesterday in Toronto. A group of Greek lawyers has threatened lawsuits because they take offence to the suggestion in Oliver Stone's film that Alexander the Great's best friend, Hephaistion, was his male lover. Alexander also marries a woman. "I think they are bringing themselves down," Farrell says of the lawyers. "I think they are diminishing the history and the glory of their own people, which was a society back then that did not have the (sexual) labeling that we have created today. I think they are diminishing the richness of their own culture." But, if the Greeks have proof that Alexander was heterosexual, "I'm all for it," Farrell says. "Bring it on! Don't just sue Oliver and Warner Bros. Sue me as well because I'm fascinated to see how they would prove this." However, Farrell says the evidence of bisexuality is overwhelming, even if he feels uncomfortable with using a modern word such as bisexual. "Of course, of course, there's no doubt!" Farrell ready to go back Down Under Contrary to some reports, Colin Farrell is eager to get back to Australia, where he was once arrested and interrogated for four hours on suspicion of attempted murder. Asked yesterday if he was worried about returning Down Under, Farrell told the Sun: "No! Not at all! I want to go back." The 1994 incident occurred when Sydney police arrested him because he matched a police sketch of a suspect who had brutally beaten and then tried to burn alive another man after a gay encounter went awry. The victim barely survived but his description -- including the man's Irish accent and his first name, Colin -- left the innocent Farrell in the hot seat. "You know," Farrell admits, explaining that he was worried that he was actually guilty, "I was going to go: 'I f---ing did it! Because I have blackouts! Put me away!' " As it turned out, his travelling companion at the time had a daily journal which turned into Farrell's alibi because it proved he didn't do it. "It was a (expletive) nightmare," Farrell said of being fingered by mistake. But the nightmare is long over. "As soon as I walked out of that office (the interrogation room), I was purged. And way too much time has passed."

Okay all i heard was Colin wanting to come back to Oz......can't breathe..

[Hybrid-Angel]

Q. Alexander was a leader. If you were a politician or a leader like that, what would be your slogan? A. F--- me!

*Salutes*... YES, SIR!

[LostinKP]

Oh wait lol it's another interview you posted, I thought it was the same one, my bad.

[Hybrid-Angel]

COLIN'S COMING TO SYDNEY!!!!!!!

Make way for the mad Irishman. Sexy Colin Farrell is coming to Australia to promote his new film Alexander. ~ from The Sydney Morning Herald. The film, centred on the life of Alexander the Great, opens in the US this week and is due to hit Australian screens in January. Farrell will attend a red carpet premiere in Sydney on January 14, alongside director Oliver Stone. A spokeswoman for Roadshow Film Distributors in Sydney confirmed Farrell's visit to S last week and said: "We're extremely happy they're coming out here." The two-day visit will include a glittering film opening in Sydney, with some of Australia's biggest A-list stars expected to attend. Despite Farrell's partying reputation, there are no plans yet for a big after-party, but the actor is expected to enjoy Sydney's nightlife while he's here. Stone's inclusion on the Australian promotional tour is also likely to cause a flurry of excitement among film fans - after all, Stone is responsible for films including Platoon and Wall Street. It's not the first time Farrell has been to Australia. He lived in Sydney a decade ago, but his experiences last time around were a long way removed from A-list soirees. British newspapers have reported he was mistakenly arrested on suspicion of murder during his time in Australia in 1994, but was released without charge when police realised they had picked up the wrong person. But the incident was apparently a traumatic one for the actor - he flew back home to Ireland the day after he was released. A decade on, the Aussie welcome is likely to be a whole lot warmer: Farrell is rapidly becoming one of Hollywood's hottest stars and is already being tipped for an Oscar nomination for his role in Alexander. The Australian premiere for Alexander will take place the week before the film is released generally. Stone's epic movie, which also stars Angelina Jolie, is due for release on January 20

....Oh my god!!.....can't .......beathe!!!

[LostinKP]

I wanna migrate to Australia now!

TODAY'S PAPER Entertainment PROFILE: COLIN FARRELL The bad-boy cliché is more costume than content. For Alexander, this young conqueror did his homework By LIAM LACEY Friday, November 26, 2004 - Page R9 E-mail this Article E-mail this Article Print this Article Print this Article Advertisement Follow This Topic Have the news stories that matter most sent to your inbox daily. Follow the news… on Movie Reviews on Music Reviews Create your own alert GlobeEdge INSIDER Edition Subscribe Colin Farrell looks like a lean, nervous black fox, dressed in black jeans and shirt to match his thick, coal-coloured hair, beard and flashing dark eyes. His morning voice, thick with a Dublin accent filtered through a chain-smoker's tarry growl, sounds black as well. The surname, it strikes you, sounds like "feral," but he's sounding quite tame this morning, mildly complaining of feeling tired. He spent almost a year making the film Alexander, the Oliver Stone epic about Alexander the Great, which opened Wednesday (to largely negative reviews). Since that shoot, continuing the fast-paced ride he's been on for the past five years, he's wrapped production on Ask the Dust with Salma Hayek, for Chinatown writer Robert Towne, and The New Land, the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, with director Terrence Malick. Now he has a few days off and next week he'll be in New York, as the special guest star on Saturday Night Live. "I think that's probably the thing that makes me the most nervous of anything I've done." We're sitting at a long table in a boardroom at Toronto's Windsor Arms Hotel, like the last two executives of a spectacularly unsuccessful corporation. I joke that we should probably start with reading the agenda. "It's hidden," he growls back. He is smoking, drinking coffee -- black, of course. The cliché is that Colin's "a bad boy" movie star, but it seems more about the costume than the content. He's never struck a paparazzo or a policeman. He speaks respectfully of everyone with whom he has worked and his interviews are always good-natured. His lurid tabloid reputation seems to derive from his candid accounts of letting off steam -- drinking, smoking and sleeping with women. None of these activities are unusual in a single man of 28, but nowadays, on the advice of publicists, he has tried to tone down the personal stuff, and his use of the f-word. These days in interviews he talks about his one-year-old son James, with model Kim Bordenave. Also he talks about that great climbing wall of experience that actors solemnly refer to as "the work." If Farrell's brashness ever harmed his career, it's not noticeable. Since his breakthrough role as a rebellious Texan soldier in Joel Schumacher's Tigerland (he worked with the same director in Phone Booth and Veronica Guerin), he's been cast by Steven Spielberg and Stone, starred opposite Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie and his idol, Al Pacino. Nothing before, he says, came close to the commitment involved with Alexander. The Discovery Network made an entire film about Farrell's preparation for the part, called Becoming Alexander, as he learned to be a soldier, a general, a king and eventually a demigod. Before production, Farrell started reading Alexander's letters and speeches and took bareback riding lessons. In Morocco, Stone's favourite military adviser, Captain Dale Dye, put Farrell and about 300 other actors through three weeks of basic training. So how do you play a man like Alexander, often called the most influential secular figure in history? About 2,300 years ago, while still in his 20s, he ruled 90 per cent of Western civilization's known world, and through his conquests spread Greek culture from Macedonia to Egypt to India. His imperial ambition was the model for everyone from Caesar to Napoleon. At the beginning, says Farrell, he approached the role "cautiously, but with a certain amount of aggression. As you keep working and getting immersed in it, it thickens and grows deeper and your real life falls into the background. . . . Regardless of what happens with the movie, this kind of experience just doesn't get much bigger -- not only the battles and the travel and the drama, but the sheer extremity of the character and what he achieved." There's something improbable about Farrell, son of a famous Irish soccer player, a teenaged hellion and drama-school dropout, taking on the role of king of the world. When did it click with him that acting was something he could do well and love? He shakes his head: "It hasn't clicked that it's something that I'm good at . . . I took a three-day acting workshop once when I was 16, and I liked it. I wasn't good at it, but it annoyed me because I wasn't and I wanted to get it. You're never competing against the critics or Hollywood or fellow actors. You're just trying to better yourself. I thought I had potential for something." He rejects the idea of acting as some kind of personal catharsis. He quotes Joe Dowling, founder of the Gaiety School of Acting, where Farrell briefly trained. "He said if any of us were in acting for therapy to leave the class immediately. It's about mirroring life and playing dress-up, the thing we used to do as kids before we grew up. I'm still a big old child. "But I'll be damned if it doesn't alter your life. A lot of what I've done hardly qualifies as psychologically stretching, but at no time have I been able to leave it at work. If I could make that choice consciously I would. "The simple task of trying to represent another existence raises hard questions in you. Never was that more prevalent for me than in this film. I found it torturous." Hephaestion was the man Alexander loved, and for the rest of their lives their relationship remained as intimate as it is now irrecoverable: Alexander was only defeated once, the Cynic philosophers said long after his death, and that was by Hephaestion's thighs. -- From Alexander the Great, a biography by Robin Lane Fox

This is a rather good article but only if if didn't misspelled The New World for the New Land.

[LostinKP]

Are Angelina Jolie and Colin Farrell an item? November 26, 2004, 12:50:53 Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie and Colin Farrell flirted with each other on an American chat show - fuelling speculation they are dating. The stunning actress and the Hollywood heartthrob, who star in epic 'Alexander' together, held hands and gazed into each other's eyes during an appearance on 'The View'. Colin said: "Each time I meet up with Angelina I feel like I have known her for a really long time." Rumours were rife the pair were enjoying a romance after they were spotted spending a lot of time together on the set of 'Alexander'. However, they denied reports, insisting their relationship was purely platonic. ** Angelina Jolie Article Continues Below ** ** The Angelina Jolie article continues now ** Colin, 28, recently spoke of his fondness for Angelina, who plays his mother in the movie. He said at the time: "Once you get over the irony of her playing my mother, it was pretty great acting with her. She's such a brilliant actor, such a powerhouse, and she's such a sexy woman. She created a definitive character as Olympias, and put such an incredible and individual seal on it. It was amazing for me to look in her eyes and see the way she looked and held herself. She was so regal, so it made it very easy for me."

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/15742004.htm

[Hybrid-Angel]

With both Colin and Angies flirtous and sexual charmisa i'm not surpirsed they paired together. I'd say something smallish went on behind scenes with those two.

Uk Magazine interview

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[Hybrid-Angel]

Another interview

Tv & Satelite week magazine

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[LostinKP]

Well i do like Angie and Colin together though.

Thanks for the articles btw.

[Hybrid-Angel]

Now he has a few days off and next week he'll be in New York, as the special guest star on Saturday Night Live. "I think that's probably the thing that makes me the most nervous of anything I've done."

Well i can't wait to see that!

Colin on Kelly and Regis (Courtesy of Colin's soul)

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[LostinKP]

lol He's been wearing that cap a lot lately huh.

[LostinKP]

Star Mag

[Hybrid-Angel]

i know, i like the hat.

Under-taker suit.

[S.A.S.H.A.]

Thanks for the mag scan.

Sasha