Video: New "Adam Resurrected" Clip

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Credits: EuroNews.net


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Thanks Michelle for the new layout. I hope you guys like it.

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In Character: Jeff Goldblum

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Video: New Documentary Talks About "AR"

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Michelle over at JeffGoldblumOnline.net has just been rewarded the Celebrity Site of the Day for April 5th, 2009!!!

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R.I.P. Natasha Richardson

*Natasha starred with Jeff in "The Favor, The Watch, and The Very Big Fish".


Source: EOnline.com.


The New York City medical examiner has made a ruling on what exactly killed Natasha Richardson.

Following an autopsy this morning, the agency determined that the Tony Award-winning actress succumbed to an "epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head." The death was ruled an accident, said medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.

Resulting from head trauma, an epidural hematoma is a buildup of blood in the skull that exerts pressure on the brain and can trigger coma or, in Richardson's case, death.

A private service is being planned by the Greenwich Village Funeral Home.

The 45-year-old stage and screen star died Wednesday, two days after what was described as a minor fall during ski lessons on a beginner slope.

Richardson was lucid following the tumble Monday at the Mont Tremblant resort near Montreal. "She did not show any visible sign of injury, but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor," a spokeswoman for the resort told E! News.

But, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, paramedics were turned back after being informed they were not needed.

"They never saw the patient, so they turned around," said Yves Coderre, director of operations at Ambulances Radisson, the emergency services company for the resort.

Coderre said another ambulance was later called to the five-star hotel where the actress had returned with her two sons after her fall. But by then, even though she was still conscious, Richardson's condition had worsened fast, most likely from bleeding in her brain, said the medic.

"When you have a head trauma you can bleed, it can deteriorate in a few hours or a few days," he said. "People don't realize it can be very serious. We warn them they can die and sometimes they start to laugh. They don't take it seriously."

In any case, by the time she was hospitalized, Richardson slipped into unconsciousness and was later declared brain dead before doctors could take decisive action to stem the bleeding.

Husband Liam Neeson rushed to her bedside and had her flown to New York City Tuesday afternoon. Family members, including mother Vanessa Redgrave, sister Joely Richardson and aunt Lynn Redgrave, gathered to spend their final hours with Richardson.

She was removed from life support yesterday afternoon and the family announced her death late in the evening.

Broadway theater marquees will be dimmed in Richardson's memory tonight at exactly 8 p.m.


This wonderful actress will be greatly missed.

"AR" at 2009 AFI Dallas Film Festival

"Adam Resurrected" will be showing at the 2009 AFI Dallas Film Festival (March 26 - April 2).


Sunday, March 29th 3:00pm
AMC NorthPark 15 - Th 2

Monday, March 30th 7:45pm
AMC NorthPark 15 - Th 7

Affiliate URL Change #2

Congratulations to Michelle of Jeff Goldblum Online!!! She's also gotten a new domain.

Be sure to visit her at: JeffGoldblumOnline.net!!! You can also access it through: jeffgolbdlumonline.fansites.me!!! You can access her gallery though: jeffgoldblumonline.fansites.me/gallery!




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Affiliate URL Change

Ida over at Sweet Chaos has an all new domain name - Goldblum.net!!!

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Photos: USA Network & Vanity Fair Celebrate The Launch Of Character Project - Pt. 3

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Photos: USA Network & Vanity Fair Celebrate The Launch Of Character Project - Pt. 2

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Photos: Candids - Jeff Goldblum Out with a Friend

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Photos: USA Network & Vanity Fair Celebrate The Launch Of Character Project

Law & Order: Criminal Intent With Jeff Goldblum Sets New Season Dates

Brian Scott Lipton
Mar 12, 2009
TheaterMania.com

The new season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which will mark the return to television of Tony Award nominee Jeff Goldblum, will begin on the USA Network on April 19, with NBC set to begin a Monday-night run of the series on June 8.

Goldblum received a Tony Award nomination for The Pillowman, and also appeared on Broadway in The Moony Shapiro Songbook and Two Gentleman of Verona. He appeared last year in the London production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow with Kevin Spacey. His many film and television credits include The Big Chill, The Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and Raines.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent also stars Vincent D'Onoforio, Kathryn Erbe, Julianne Nicholson, and Eric Bogosian.

Video: The Making of Adam Resurrected 1-3

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I also posted these on the side bar under "Spotlight".

Jeff Goldblum in "The Baster"

March 11, 2009

HollywoodReporter.com

Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of "The Baster," Mandate's romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman.

Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, the story follows a man (Bateman) whose female best friend (Aniston) plans to become pregnant with artificial insemination, but he replaces the preferred sample with his own. Seven years later, she returns to New York with her son, and he is forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father.

Goldblum will get to exercise his comedy chops by playing Bateman's business partner and confidant, whose idea of working out is walking slowly on the treadmill while eating a candy bar.

Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger are producing.

Goldblum is coming off a powerful dramatic turn in "Adam Resurrected," the Holocaust drama from Paul Schrader. He will finish a stint on "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" before shooting "Baster," which is set for a spring shoot in New York.

Goldblum is repped by Gersh and Industry Entertainment.
Jeff Goldblum heats up 'Baster' film
Actor will star opposite Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman

Reuters.com
By Borys Kit

March 10, 2009, 11:00 PM ET
Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of "The Baster," Mandate's romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman.

Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, the story follows a man (Bateman) whose female best friend (Aniston) plans to become pregnant with artificial insemination, but he replaces the preferred sample with his own. Seven years later, she returns to New York with her son, and he is forced to live with the secret that he is the child's real father.

Goldblum will get to exercise his comedy chops by playing Bateman's business partner and confidant, whose idea of working out is walking slowly on the treadmill while eating a candy bar.

Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger are producing.

Goldblum is coming off a powerful dramatic turn in "Adam Resurrected," the Holocaust drama from Paul Schrader. He will finish a stint on "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" before shooting "Baster," which is set for a spring shoot in New York.

Goldblum is repped by Gersh and Industry Entertainment.

FilmNewsBriefs.com

Jeff Goldblum has joined the cast of “The Baster,” Mandate’s romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. Directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, the story follows a man (Bateman) whose female best friend (Aniston) plans to become pregnant with artificial insemination, but he replaces the preferred sample with his own. Seven years later, she returns to New York with her son, and he is forced to live with the secret that he is the child’s real father. Goldblum will get to exercise his comedy chops by playing Bateman’s business partner and confidant, whose idea of working out is walking slowly on the treadmill while eating a candy bar.

Adam Resurrected at Hartford Jewish Film Festival

JCCEvents
Sneak Preview: Adam Resurrected
Date: April 20, 2009
Time: 7:30 pm
Source
HJFF

West Hartford, CT - Exclusive Connecticut premier. On Monday evening, April 20, at 7:30 PM, the Mandell JCC's Herbert Gilman Theater is proud to screen the feature film Adam Resurrected in advance of its U.S.A. release. This powerful Paul Schrader movie stars Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe and is based on Yoram Kaniuk's acclaimed novel. The film recently had its European festival premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival and has received stellar reviews. Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal said; "A FEARLESS FILM. Jeff Goldblum is nothing short of dazzling."



Adam Resurrected follows former Berlin magician and circus impresario Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), an enthralling, enigmatic patient at a remote Israeli rehabilitation outpost for Holocaust survivors. Entertainer, clairvoyant, sophisticate and lothario, Stein veers from brilliance to eroticism, horror and madness, with flashbacks to the physical and psychological demoralization he endured under Commandant Klein (Willem Dafoe) in the Stellring death camp. Stein appears to have everyone stymied and overawed, but an unusual new patient seems to have the magnetic power to break him free of the grip of his relentless torment.

The Mandell JCC, through our Hartford Jewish Film Festival, is proud to present this film to coincide with Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sponsorship opportunities are available by calling David Jacobs, 860-236-4571 or djacobs@mandelljcc.org.



Your $18 admission to this exclusive premier event will support the 2010 Hartford Jewish Film Festival. Tickets are available on line: click here to purchase tickets, or call for information and tickets: 860-236-4571.

"AR" Review Excerpt

This is an excerpt from this article:

It is only consistent that - just in such a unusual and problematic debate about the Holocaust and especially its aftermath - a German-Israeli co production came off which deviates from the existing patterns. The casting, for example, was pleasantly untypical. The sadistic camp commandant is played by American actor Willem Dafoe, and non Jewish, German actors play Holocaust victims. Headmost Joachim Krol must be named here, who sets a highlight with his performance. However, he is trumped by an exceptionally gifted Jeff Goldblum, who bestows on Adam Stein - the most complex role in his career so far - an enormous depth with his big presence and diversified play.

He accomplishes this especially in the numerous scenes where the audience frowns without fail, since they aren't instantly classified. You are unsure about whether you are urged to be deeply upset or have to laugh bitterly. When Stein plays a dog for the commandant and hackles with a brainless and exploitable gaze at his feet, the audience gets the feeling that the situation appears absolutely funny - despite its dark context. This is also the case when we detect it as a wrong-headed reflection of the sex games with the head nurse. Many of the scenes in "AR" appear cruel and comical at the same time - they are grotesque: an overreaching account of reality, repulsive in a perfidious way and amusing at the same time.

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From Anke:
All reviews considered I must say that "AR" - and especially Jeff - received excellent critics in Germany. :) I actually didn't read one single bad or mixed critic.

Thank you Anke!

Jeff Goldblum & Mena Suvari to Host USA's Character Project

Photography buffs Mena Suvari and Jeff Goldblum will help launch USA's "Character Project" by co-hosting a book party for "American Character: A Photographic Journey." It'll be held March 12 at the Stephen Weiss Studio and will feature 11 "Photographers Perspectives" on the "Character of America," which is a USA initiative. (Goldblum stars in USA's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent.")

Credits: NY Post

Video: L&O: CI Season Premiere

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Interview: This Story Changed My Life

Adam Resurrected - An interview with actor Jeff Goldblum
This story changed my life
Nordkurier.de

Versatile Jeff Goldblum (56) is deeply familiar with the work on stage as well as in front of the camera. The 6 feet 4 giant brings weightlessness to comedies and a unique intensity to dramas, he bears attractions („Independence Day“, „Jurassic Park“) as well as ambitious independent productions ("Igby goes down"). In Paul Schrader's "AR" Goldblum pulls out all the stops of his talent. Worthy of an Oscar, he plays a Jewish entertainer who is kept like a dog by a concentration camp commandant (Willem Dafoe).

Mr Goldblum, how did you deal with the script?
I concerned myself for over a year with the book. First I presented it to my students that I teach for many years. I have a backyard with a room for acting. I learned my text and the students took the other parts. This brought about different impressions. However, I had the most effective experience with the script when I read it to my sister, a wonderful painter from LA. How I experience a play myself depends a lot from the reactions of the audience. Through my sister I could suddenly feel the story, which was very touching. She's very smart and taught me to appreciate the intelligence of the story. Paul Schrader was fascinated by her central approach, "the story of a man who was once a dog and meets a dog who was once a boy." The book is intelligent, beautiful, surprising, contradictory and provocative.

How did you experience the encounter with Yoram Kaniuk, the author of the book?
The book "AR" was written in 1968 and published in 1971, about the same year as "Tin Drum", "Slaughterhouse 5" and "Catch 22". It had this dark view back on war and it was discussed fiercely in Israel in the beginning. Today it's admired. Yoram Kaniuk told me about the history of the plot. Charlie Chaplin read the book, called him and yelled that he had to play this part. Orson Welles wanted to film the book and play the part. Yoram Kaniuk was very generous to me and said that he is happy that I play Adam. Meanwhile he saw the movie more than a dozen times and he loves it. Thank God we managed to meet his expectations. He's a very special contemporary.

How does it feel to be in the same league as Chaplin and Welles?
Very flattering, of course. I would have loved to see their versions. But I'm also happy that it fell into my little hands. I hope that all people can learn something from the story. As for me, it changed my life. This work was a unique opportunity. I didn't only explore the boundaries of my acting ability, it was also emotionally and psychologically the most challenging role for me, personally enlightening and full of soul. I learned as much as I could about the historic circumstances. I talked to survivors in LA and went to Israel for the first time in my life. I came to Germany for one month to complete the biography of my character. I was thinking where the cabaret could have been in which he performed. I visited the train station from which he and his family probably were deported. I went to Sachsenhausen and Majdanek. These were overwhelming experiences.

Was there - despite the extensive preparation - enough room for improvisation?
It was a wonderful script, everything was there. But I also started to create my own ideas. Some of my ideas were brought in, some were dismissed. Paul Schrader tends to improvise, he likes to be inspired by the moment. A lot of things evolved that way. The rope trick I do was not in the script. When I come to my daughter's grave by the end of the movie, I fall on my knees, start to eat the flowers and cry. Paul said, that's good. But take a handful of dirt in the next take and put it in your mouth. I liked the idea a lot, after all this scene marks the moment when I finally lose my mind. I said yes, give me something that looks like dirt. Paul said no, eat the dirt. I didn't really know. Then he took the dirt himself and ate it. I said okay, let's go.

Are there Holocaust victims in your own family?
Not that I am aware of. Actually I don't know much about my family tree. I have a Russian and an Austrian grandfather. My father, a doctor in Pittsburgh, volunteered in WWII and came to Europe. He had a brother I never got to know. On pictures he looks a lot like me. Chuck Goldblum was exactly as tall as me, a talented basketball player. He was a pilot in WWII, he was shot down and never found. That's all I know.

Don't you think, while working with Germans, that they probably are the children and grandchildren of the people who did all these awful things or let them happen?No, that's not what I think. This movie is the first mutual film production of Israel and Germany about this subject. The atmosphere was great on the set, it was defined by a corporate feeling and infective passion.

Is it rue that you stay in character during shooting breaks? How can one picture that?
No, I don't do that. No one has to call me my character's name. Of course, in such a challenging role I'm always engaged in the question how I can give my best in the next scene. That's why it's likely that I work on it during a break. And when my blood is stirred, I tend to be obsessed, that's true. Sometimes chracters develop their own inner life and take me on. But that's no formulistic, mechanic "I stay in the role now." A lot of times I let everything off and take a deep breath to be able to absorb the role again with a maximum of interest, curiosity and delight in playing.

How was the teamwork with the boy?
Oh, Tudor Rapiteanu was fantastic. We discovered him in Romania where we shot. He's very smart, he came in second in a national competition. He's a born actor, absolutely fearless.

Can you actually peer with one eye?
I read it in the script and I knew that some people can do special tricks with their eyes. I asked Paul if I really have to learn this. But that wasn't necessary, it was done with a special effect. That relieved me. I offered him to do other things that I saw nobody else can do. I can wiggle with my ears alternately, for example [he demonstrates it]. But he didn't want that, I don't know why.

Thanks Anke for translating!

Photos: Jeff Filming L&O: CI - March 4, 2009 in NYC

Finally we spot Jeff somewhere!!! I've been very busy these days, thus I haven't been updating the site much. But I'm still here.
Remember to tune in to L&O: CI on April 19th!!!
Thanks Michelle! :)