New Steve Jobs movie starring Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet, shooting in Berkeley

BERKELEYSIDE
Berkeley, CA independent news site
January 22, 2015 1:10 pm by Tracey Taylor



A new movie about Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender (as Jobs), Seth Rogen (as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak), Kate Winslet and Katherine Waterston, is coming to Berkeley on Friday for some location shooting.

Filming will take place in and around La Méditerranée restaurant at 2936 College Ave., and will be concentrated during nighttime hours — Friday, Jan. 23, from 6 p.m. through Saturday, Jan. 24, at 6 a.m. — to mitigate the impact on the neighborhood, according to an email put out by District 8 Councilwoman Lori Droste.

The new movie, not to be confused with the 2013 movie Jobs, featuring Ashton Kutcher, is dripping with A-list credentials. As well as the starry actor line-up, the film is being directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionnaire), according to IMDB, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network, The Newsroom), based on the biography of Jobs written by bestselling author Walter Isaacson.

The new movie about Steve Jobs is based on the biography of the Apple co-founder by Walter Isaacson. Photo: Creative Commons

The film, which centers on the launch of three key Apple products in the 1980s and 1990s, is said to have been inspired by a 2013 article in The Atlantic headlined “The Definitive Story of Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Phone Phreaking.”

The movie is shooting in locations around the Bay Area, including San Francisco, Cupertino, and at the site of Jobs’ Los Altos childhood home in whose garage it is said Apple had its genesis.

Producers have been casting extras for the movie and were looking in particular for “men between the ages of 18 to 40s with long hair and facial hair to match the 1980s to 1990s time periods.” Women should have “natural hair colors, and no chunky highlights or modern hair styles,” the call-out, published on Project Casting, said.

For the Berkeley shoot, the film requires “café patrons and pedestrians … all ethnicities, some with cars manufactured in ‘83 or earlier.” The listing also noted that only union actors would be able to take part, due to the small number of extras needed.

There will also be smoking “as a sign of the times.” According to the listing, “Smoking will be permitted indoors/outdoors as a sign of the times on this day; must be willing to work around smoke. If willing to smoke, please note in submission, tobacco-free alternatives will be provided.”


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Cary Grant, the one and only By Laurie Bennett March 21, 2013 at 6:05am (MUCKETY)

The New York Times has proclaimed Justin Timberlake the new Cary Grant, which must make George Clooney the old Cary Grant.

The premise for the Times verdict is Timberlake’s suave new look, a tailored contrast to his earlier boy-band bagginess.

Grant, Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite actor, set a standard, sartorial and otherwise, for later generations of actors.

The comparison is made with so many handsome, witty leading men that it has become a cliche.

Hugh Grant (no relation) runs a close second to Clooney as the chosen successor. The Daily Mail pointed out: “Both were born in England, have similar Byronic sex appeal, look good in suits, and excel at playing well-heeled characters.”

Others who have been promoted as the next Archibald Alexander Leach include Bruce Willis (when he had hair), Pierce Brosnan (before he serenaded Meryl), Mark Wahlberg, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ashton Kutcher and Ewan McGregor. (The McGregor analogy makes no sense whatsoever. He obviously is the next Christopher Plummer.)

Vanity Fair noted this trend almost a decade ago, identifying Frankie Muniz, TV’s Malcolm in the middle, as the most inexplicable nominee. When told that a critic had described him as “the Cary Grant of kid stars,” Muniz replied, “That’s cool… but I don’t know who Cary Grant is.”

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The Manly Man Awards 2011 (Crave On-Line)

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The Manly Man Awards 2011

Finally, awards for the manly men out there.

By Paul Tamburro

January 01, 2012

We are here today to celebrate those who have helped make the year 2011 truly special: the heroes, the villains, the assholes and the asshats, all are to be given their just rewards/desserts in this, the first EVER CraveOnline Manly Man Awards. These are the people, things and moments that defined your year. So make yourself comfortable, rest your Macbook on your post-Christmas bloated midriff and join us as we remember the f***ed up year that was Two-Thousand and Eleven.

The Most Overrated Arse Award
Winner: Pippa Middleton

Pippa Middleton is an attractive woman, but the furore surrounding her backside following the royal wedding leads me to believe that the entire Western media is run by one solitary 13-year-old boy, who happened to hit puberty at the exact moment Princess Kate’s sister sauntered towards the church entrance. Sure, she’s got a nice bum in the “if she was waiting in the same subway as me I’d probably try to catch a cheeky glimpse of it” kind of way, but nothing that would require me to sit down and miss my next train.

The Biggest Douche in the Universe Award
Winner: Paul Christoforo

Paul Christoforo was (was being the operative word) the PR guy for Ocean Marketing and responsible for the distribution and customer support for the Avenger controller. Various infamous emails later with frustrated customer Dave and Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik and Christoforo found himself banned from PAX, bombarded with hate mail on his “@oceanmarketting” Twitter account (later changed to the somehow even more poorly spelt “@oceanstratagy”) and on the steady road to becoming an overnight meme sensation.

With his poor grasp of the English language, ridiculous intimidation methods (“I know the Mayor of Boston!”) and awful people skills, Christoforo is now appearing on this wwebsite as on the internet, but for all the wrong reasons.

The Motivational Speech of the Year Award
Winner: Thumbs Up For Rock and Roll!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIvk1cSyG8
WE TOO CAN LEARN HOW TO RIDE A BIKE.


 The It Was Kind of Funny at First, But Then People Died Award
Winner: Planking

Back towards the beginning of this year various photos started popping up on Facebook of people lying down in odd places. Then before you knew it this strange practise had received a title, “planking”, and everyone from your granny to multi-millionaire footballers were doing it. It was when plankers started dying in order to pull off these “stunts” that we all felt a little ashamed of ourselves for laughing in the first place.

The A Little Disappointing Award
Winner: Scarlett Johansson

Before 2011 I would’ve quite happily put all my worldly possessions on eBay and sold my Mother to a wealthy Dubai hotel owner in order to spend 5 minutes gazing into ScarJo’s perfect face.

Unfortunately, since the scandal surrounding her leaked nude photos, it seems as though the former Mrs Ryan Reynolds has tried her very best to appear as physically unappealing as possible, veering so far into androgyny that it’s difficult to tell whether she’s a Hollywood A-lister or a cosplayer. Add to this a cringe-inducing D&G perfume commercial and 2011 is the year that Scarlett broke my heart.

The Remember This Guy? Award
Winner: Ted Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPFvLUWkzs
On January 3^rd 2011 Ted Williams found himself thrust into the spotlight after a video of him talking in a voice that sounded like it was smothered in warm honey went viral. Next thing he appeared on a whole host of talk shows before his brief fame became too much to handle and he checked into rehab. Where is he now? Uhh...

The Useless Tweeter Award
Winner: Ricky Gervais

While I like Ricky Gervais he has always struck me as the kind of guy who would be really annoying if you met him in real life. After he joined Twitter this year it seems my preconceptions were correct as a cursory glance of his feed reveals an endless stream of self-promotion, “funny” Twitpics of his face and, if you scroll back a few months ago, repeated use of the word ‘mong’. It’s like reading the internal monologue of your drunk uncle at a wedding.

The Gee, Thanks Charlie Sheen Award
Winner: Ashton Kutcher

We had almost forgotten that Ashton Kutcher existed: his terrible movies; his overwhelming pretentiousness; his hat. But then Charlie Sheen had to go and have a meltdown, essentially reigniting Kutcher’s career from being typecast as a dough-eyed man child in mediocre romantic comedies to portraying a dough-eyed man child in a mediocre sitcom. As news of his and Demi Moore’s “Kaballah meeting” to fix their ailing marriage made headlines, those sane among us wanted nothing more than for Charlie Sheen to put his Warlock days behind him, apologise to Chuck Lorre and send Kutcher hurtling back into the D-list.

And The Manly Man of the Year Award goes to...
Winner: Sean Bean

Earlier this year Game of Thrones star Sean Bean (who is 52-years-old) was with Playboy bunny girlfriend April Summers (who is 22-years-old) in the smoking area of Camden’s Hill Bar and Brasserie. After a guy began making suggestive and disrespectful comments towards Summers, Bean confronted him and forced him to leave.

Later on the guy returned, this time becoming involved in an altercation with Bean that led to the actor being stabbed in the arm with broken glass. After the incident Bean refused medical attention, instead opting to buy another drink for himself and his model girlfriend.

Sean Bean, you are our Manliest Man of 2011.


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