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NewsGush: Sweet Baby Moses!

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October 12, 2009 – 10:47 am

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Chuck Heston and his Biblical Beard are old friends of STS, so hallelujahs have been ringing out around the office this morning as Fox announced it wants to bring Holy Moses back to the big screen.

Variety is reporting that Queen & Country man Peter Chernin is developing a script that may spring to semi-animated, 300-style life and detail the top 10 deadliest adventures of the noted prophet, so expect some tip top renderings of Jews being saved from evil pharaohs, seas parting and general miraculousness to be dripping with gore this time round.

Fresh from re-adapting Moby Dick, Adam Cooper and Bill Collage will be helping Chernin out as an as-yet-unconfirmed lead..erm..leads his people to the promised land. Can anyone replace the wild-eyed, gun-totin’ Chuck? Who would you like to see don the robes this time round?

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Acting Masterclass Part 1:Take It On The Chin

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May 27, 2009 – 1:32 pm

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When you imagine the classic leading man, names like Paul Newman, Cary Grant, or Dirk Bogarde Spring to mind. These guys were intense, clean cut and dependable. Their thrusting chins and fast paced dialogue powering plenty of two fisted detective tales and epics with casts of thousands. If there is a deep down manly essence that sums up classic era Hollywood, then it probably smells like Clark Gable. If you look really closely though, you’ll notice a dissenter in the ranks; Errol Flynn. This borderline Nazi sheep’s bollock-biter (Honestly!-prairie oysters, wiki it!) from Queensland had one crucial advantage over his fellows that eventually gave rise to the phrase ‘In like Flynn’. What could it be? What was John Wayne missing that let our Errol slip between the sheets of a thousand starlets? Answer: The ‘tache.

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