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| by PatrickWilsonFans A new fan site is born! "Patrick Wilson Fans" is an off-shoot/upgrade to the existing "UnOfficial Fan Site". It is a website for the fans of stage and screen actor, Patrick Wilson. The UnOfficial Site has been linked as an archive for this new fan site. BACKGROUND: The administrator of the Patrick Wilson UnOfficial Fan Club Site had not been in contact with her site since Fall of 2005. She did not respond to e-mail contacts or queries posted on the messageboard. No moderators had been appointed so the main site could not be updated and topics could not be added to the messageboard. We contacted the hosts of the main page & messageboard. Both were reluctant to reassign rights although it was obvious that the site had been abandoned. Consequently, using Google Pages to create a main site and SuddenLaunch to create a new messageboard, we developed a new playground for Patrick's fans. It is the spirit of the original site but now a vibrant, usable resource. The first UnOfficial Site now will serve as an archive for "Patrick Wilson Fans." and links have been placed to facilitate navigation between them. CHECK US OUT! Please visit "Patrick Wilson Fans". The main site contains biographical information, film & stage credits, CD/Audio Work, Videography, and photo galleries. The message forum is designed for us to discuss Patrick and his projects as well as chat about off-topic items, too. Visit us at http://patrickwilsonfans.googlepages.com/home NOTE: This site is best viewed using Internet Explorer 6.O or Mozilla's Firefox 1.0 or higher. We look forward to see you there! Comment on this... |
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| by Anonymous Creative Artists Agency has moved it's offices. http://www.caa.com/ Patrick Wilson c/o Tony Lipp Creative Artists Agency 2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067 Comment on this... |
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| by Anonymous The Lair: www.patrickwilson.org The UnOffical Fan Site: http://patrickwilsonufc.tripod.com/ (The messageboard is very current, other sections have not been updated in a while) Yahoo Group: http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/PatrickWilson/ Directions for joining are at the bottom of the Home Page IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933940/ Comment on this... |
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| by Anonymous More press for Evening! This blurb is from Cindy Adams' gossip column in the New York Post: "THIRTY years ago "Julia" won Vanessa Redgrave an Oscar and gave future Oscar winner Meryl Streep one of her first roles. But they never shared screen time. Now Focus Features' "Evening," opening June 29, brings this duo together and their co-scene is more delicious, more emotional than De Niro and Pacino in "Heat." Also in the movie - Glenn Close, Eileen Atkins, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Wilson plus Vanessa and Meryl's daughters Natasha Richardson and Mamie Gummer. Natasha and Mamie have no scenes together but, maybe, in another 30 years?" [url]http://www.nypost.com/seven/04272007/gossip/cindy/spread_the_news___n_y__fotogs_huma n_cindy_cindy_adams.htm?page=0[/url] Comment on this... |
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| by Anonymous The Trailer is HERE for "Evening"! Special preview of trailer at Amazon.com [url]http://www.amazon.com/Evening/dp/B00005JPQF/ref=sr_1_55/104-5757033-7971910?ie=UT F8&s=dvd&qid=1176914977&sr=1-55[/url] and scroll down to see the stills! Comment on this... |
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| by Anonymous Tribeca is supposed to list it's screening schedule tomorrow (3/28/07) and then we can see when Patrick's film "Purple Violets" will be shown. Hopefully they will have a Q&A for the premiere screening with Ed Burns, Patrick, Selma and Debra! [url]http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/filguide.html[/url] Comment on this... | ||||
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| by Anonymous mandyc, a poster on the IMDB page, has seen "Evening" a second time and shares her reactions to the edited version they were shown. [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765447/board/nest/69990222?d=69990222#69990222[/url] Comment on this... | ||||
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| by Anonymous Here's another great interview where Patrick talks about looking for characters with an edge (and not just "Prince Charmings".) [url]http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/features-3/1172247 92376850.xml&coll=7[/url] Dark sides, flaws: That's what Patrick Wilson is looking for Friday, February 23, 2007By James Sanfordjsanford@kalamazoogazette.com 388-8553 In ``Little Children,'' Patrick Wilson plays Brad, a dissatisfied stay-at-home dad who finished law school a couple of years ago, but isn't enthusiastic about taking the bar exam. He doesn't know what he wants to do with his life, but he does know he's tired of having to live off the money brought home by his wife (Jennifer Connelly), a documentary filmmaker. It's not a heroic role by any stretch of the imagination. But that's just fine with Wilson. ``I like flawed people, people who are looking for something,'' the 33-year-old actor said in a phone interview from New York last September. ``I don't like complacent guys; they have to be 3-D.'' That explains why Wilson accepted the role of a vaguely creepy photographer who flirts with a teenager (Ellen Page) he meets on the Internet in last year's intense thriller ``Hard Candy,'' and played Joe Pitt, the married Mormon who fights his sexual confusion in HBO's 2003 miniseries ``Angels in America.'' With the exception of clean-cut attorney Paul Bratter in last year's revival of ``Barefoot in the Park,'' Wilson's stage roles have also had a certain edge. He earned a Drama Desk nomination playing the cocaine-craving young hero of the 1999 Off Broadway musical adaptation of ``Bright Lights Big City,'' and he received a Tony nomination as Jerry Lukowski, the laid-off steel mill worker who tries to make money by stripping in the Broadway hit ``The Full Monty.'' Even when he was a drama major doing musicals as a college student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University in the mid-1990s, Wilson said he was ``always looking for the most complicated, darkest roles. Conflict is interesting.'' Wilson said he'll play a Prince Charming type if he has to, ``but he has to have a dark side.'' Although Brad has hints of darkness, he is also a loving father who adores his 3-year-old son, Aaron (Ty Simpkins). Acting with children is often said to be notoriously difficult, but Wilson said he, co-star Kate Winslet and director Todd Field found ways to make it work. ``We went on a couple of play dates with the kids and their moms, to really get to know them,'' he said. ``A lot of the scenes with myself and Ty, who played my son, really evolved out of playing with each other. We'd sort of have a storyline or at least an idea of `What do we want? What's important about this scene?''' The process required Wilson to develop an unusual sort of expertise in order to keep up with his scene partner: Ty's knowledge of Thomas the Tank Engine ``was so vast that I actually had to research Thomas,'' Wilson said. ``I had to find out that (rival engine) Percy had to have a thick British accent.'' As for the film's more mature content -- including some feverish love scenes with Winslet, who plays the unhappy housewife who falls in love with Brad -- Wilson said Field made a point of making sure the actors were completely comfortable. ``You sort of hear these stories that there are 30 people standing around, watching you get naked, but that's not like this movie was at all,'' he said. ``We all knew how important these scenes were, and when you know that, it's easier to focus on (the scene itself) instead of on, `Can you take your shirt off now?''' Comment on this... |
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| by Anonymous [url]http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/02/Floridian/Not_just_another_pret.shtml[/url] Patrick Wilson built a solid film reputation in 2006 playing men who don't live up to appearances, hiding serious personal flaws behind flawless faces. Things come too easily to the handsome cads of Little Children, at Channelside 9 in Tampa, and Hard Candy, available on DVD, with complex possibilities that Wilson nailed. Playing an adulterer nicknamed the Prom King and a pedophile were perhaps surprising choices to Wilson's family and friends in the Tampa Bay area, where he grew up, by all accounts well-adjusted. His parents, John and Mary K. Wilson, are high-profile television and musical personalities here, his brothers Mark and Paul also media types. Patrick Wilson's bracing performances widened his Hollywood value, proving he's more than a supple singing voice, as in The Phantom of the Opera, or a brave face in The Alamo. Robert Redford did similarly interesting work at about the same stage of his film career with Downhill Racer 1969 and Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970). Wilson, 33, politely shrugged off the comparison. "It's an old acting school mantra, I guess," he said during a telephone interview from his Southern California home. "Leading men love to try to be character (actors), and the character men want to be leading men." Progression from dashing leading man to complex character actor only comes with age or canny choices. Wilson consciously sped up the process on stage and television, as well as the big screen. Early stage roles in cheery musicals and period pieces gave way to a breakthrough turn in 1998's Bright Lights, Big City, based on Jay McInerney's novel of urban hedonism. That was the first indication that Wilson wouldn't settle for window dressing roles. "My mother came up to see the show," he said. "In the first two minutes I'm center stage snorting fake cocaine and singing about it. That's hard to do, seeing your son doing something like that. "From then on, she knew I wasn't going to do typical Prince Charming roles. I don't think (my parents) would want it any other way, to be honest. "There have been roles, let's say, that my brothers liked more than my parents. I'm not just trying to set out to please people. I've never been interested in characters who are as simple as they seem." His role as sexually conflicted Joe Pitt in the miniseries Angels in America earned an Emmy nomination and respect for his versatility after Tony-nominated roles in The Full Monty and Oklahoma! almost pegged him exclusively as a musical theater actor. "Had my first foray into TV not been Angels in America, I think I would have to work a lot harder to get the roles I get," Wilson said. "I was given a great role that made people say: 'Okay, he can do that. Now can he do this?' "It's much harder for the actor who's hired as just the pretty face. Even if he's got something going on, it's hard to convince people, especially casting directors." Playing the developmentally arrested Brad Adamson in Little Children was especially tricky. Wilson's emotional shifts are almost imperceptible beneath the character's bland exterior. Kate Winslet got the Oscar nomination playing Brad's summer temptation, but Wilson deserves credit. "I was playing this guy who's lost and doesn't really know what he's lost from," Wilson said. "It's hard when you're playing a character who is so passive for so much of the movie. We had to capitalize on the moments when Brad's aggressive. There's only one or two." His portrayal of Brad's suburban dissatisfaction was even more impressive after Wilson spoke about his own domestic bliss. He is approaching the second anniversary of marriage to actor Dagmara Dominczyk, the same time son Kalin will celebrate his first birthday. He has that figurative happy house and picket fence. "For some, like the people in Little Children, it's, like, how did I get here? Isn't my life sort of over now? You keep going and going until you find yourself settled down. "My life doesn't feel like settling down, and that's what's great about it." Comment on this... |
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