
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
yachts, a jet, a castle (wants better one though), over 50 cars, over a million dollars' worth of comic books, multiple "haunted" mansions in New Orleans, two Bahamanian islands, $276,000 on a dinosaur skull, shrunken heads (maybe human?), $500k Lamborghini once owned by the Shah of Iran, two King Cobras and a pet octopus.
Why Nic Cage is still great
"There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson and Pacino, usually. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air. No one else can project inner trembling so effectively.... He always seems so earnest. However improbable his character, he never winks at the audience. He is committed to the character with every atom and plays him as if he were him." --Roger Ebert1) During Hurricane Katrina he donated $1 million to the Red Cross to aid victims, and $2 million to the human-rights group Amnesty International.
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