2 O’clock in the a.m. and I’m chatting with Josh on twitter. It seems that since he has no photo and a weird username some girl has mistaken him for a real celebrity, and we can’t stop giggling about it.

I see my friends and co-workers tweets go by, the occasional from Simon Pegg, Nathan Fillion, Stephen Fry (and other random celebrities I don’t know but who have great tweets), and then all of the sudden I see it – trending: Christian Slater.

Of course my first reaction was to think, “Great! Christian is trending because of his newest project, it’s about time he trended!” but then something else caught my eye. The name trending right below Slaters was John Barry, the inspired composer behind the 007 themes as well as Born Free who passed on yesterday (I believe). That’s when I started to think, “Well, maybe it’s not such good news?”

I clicked my handy dandy Google shortcut and started to type Christian’s name into the box, but the automatic suggestion was, “Christian Slater Dead” — how do you not freak out when you see something like that?

Let me say that much like all other celebrities, I don’t know Christian Slater. I don’t know his family, his friends, I’ve met him once and gotten an autograph… in the 90s. No, this isn’t a post about how I’m an old lady, lol. But I don’t know him, so when I hit submit and saw that the top news story was that of his demise, I shouldn’t have freaked out but I did.

I’ve been a fan of his since I can remember, the first film I could quote with a sarcastic twinge to my voice was Heathers, so Christian (much like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp) was an iconic part of my child and teen-hood. The news of his death was tragic, it was horrible, it was… obviously not true.

Being the Faith that I am I did a little digging after my momentary heart failure, and I found such little clues like only a date of death on Wikipedia (no clean up snippet saying that this is an article on someone who’s recently died) along with several misspellings, and that the only ‘official’ news was hearsay on a blog. None of the major news outlets were publishing such a potentially massive story. (Eventually his publicist killed the rumour, too.)

And there was a good reason for that — it was a hoax. Why the hell the internet thinks it’s hilarious to tell people that celebrities die in fatal snow boarding accidents 10 at a time is beyond me, but now they aren’t even trying. If someone like me can figure it out in 5 seconds, with my 2 month old chimp I.Q.? Anyone can. If you’re going to take the time to make something this horrible up, at least do some leg work first. And you might want to get a spellchecker.

Tagged with: Christian Slater Death Hoax • Christian Slater is Alive • Christian Slater is Dead • Hoaxes • Twitter

Posted by Faith on at 1:35 pm

As you’ve likely heard by now, Disney is helping itself to yet another one of Walt’s masterpieces in order to make a little money, but for once it doesn’t seem like such a bad deal. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was a huge, even iconic part of Fantasia which has been turned into a live action film starring Jay Baruchel and Nick Cage (love both), and the trailers actually look pretty decent, as does this poster:

I don’t know what I think yet, but I know I want to see it. You?

Tagged with: Jay Baruchel

Posted by Faith on at 12:03 am

I don’t have a lot of time, but I couldn’t let this go by without saying something. One of my absolute favorite stars (not of the 80s, of always) Corey Haim passed today – he wasn’t even 40.

Goodbye Corey, I can safely say most of us love and adore you, and will miss you – in fact, we already do. We hope you’re in paradise right now with a career and several stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, because you deserve it buddy. Corey Feldman can eat a dick.

Posted by Faith on at 10:44 pm

I haven’t been in the entertainment industry for years, and to be honest I never got passed being an extra walking around in the background of stupid, B-list films like The Sandlot. I left that life a long time ago to try my hand at at making something out of nothing on the web, and now I work as customer support for a web hosting company as well as run several websites for politicians and those running for office, as well as actors and musicians. It doesn’t pay as well, but work is work and I don’t regret the choice I made – much! Lol.

I’ve still got quite a few friends in the business, some working and some not, and some who are just on the rise (you know when you meet someone, and you just know they’re going to be a big deal?). Well I just found out about a website I’ve never heard of before called ActorCast, the tag line for which is “ActorCast – are you on it?“, and I think that my friend Katie Harden (singer, stage performer, actress, model, jack of all trades) would really be able to benefit from their services.

See there’s a service called Cast It, and the founders of Cast It created ActorCast where from about $10 a year for a basic membership an actor has the ability to put their profile and auditions in front of the eyes of some of the industries most influential casting directors, producers and directors. In fact ActorCast is linked directly to Cast It Systems, so this is something I can really see helping her career. Cast It is so influential, apparently even the New York Times noticed and did a write up on them! I’ve never used them, so I have no idea if it’s effective, but I did just recommend them to my friend.

Tagged with: Acting

Posted by Faith on at 1:12 pm