Chris Martin at Evening Standard Film Awards

[aniskywalker]

The shoes are great! And Chris in jeans? I don't know, cargos are better ;)

And about his tooth - it looks as always - it's Chris and ready!

[karenc]

Thanks Mich for the links and pics :D

 

I was reading that article from The Sun on the way home today, it did make me chuckle :laugh4:

[svenky]

 

[BerrymanGirl1]

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

Chris is sung Frankenstein

 

EYE, eye! It's COLDPLAY's CHRIS MARTIN doing his very best impression of bug-eyed Igor from classic Seventies movie Young Frankenstein.

 

Lab fab ... Marty Feldman in film

 

Quite Frankly ... Chris Martin in Igor pose

 

 

 

The hooded singer, 32 - whose band had hits with The Scientist and Fix You - looked like a double of comedy star MARTY FELDMAN in the bizarre get-up.

 

Chris - married to Hollywood star GWYNETH PALTROW - was at the British Film Awards in London to present a gong for the best documentary to director SACHA GERVASI for his movie Anvil!

 

The rock star resumes his band's world tour in Argentina this month - as frontman, not Feldman!

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2846961/Chris-Martin-looks-like-Igor-from-Young-Frankenstein.html#ixzz0f78PnHnz

 

:laugh3::laugh3:

[backstreetchix97]

The shoes are great! And Chris in jeans? I don't know, cargos are better ;)

And about his tooth - it looks as always - it's Chris and ready!

 

Heheh, yeah I don't know if they'd work on him either...but I think Hugh Laurie from House looks good with em and people always say they look alike so it's nice to imagine :D

[Christa42]

"you don't know how lovely you are"

 

Chris is gorgeous

 

nuff said

[Cobalt]

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

Chris is sung Frankenstein

 

EYE, eye! It's COLDPLAY's CHRIS MARTIN doing his very best impression of bug-eyed Igor from classic Seventies movie Young Frankenstein.

 

Lab fab ... Marty Feldman in film

 

Quite Frankly ... Chris Martin in Igor pose

 

 

 

The hooded singer, 32 - whose band had hits with The Scientist and Fix You - looked like a double of comedy star MARTY FELDMAN in the bizarre get-up.

 

Chris - married to Hollywood star GWYNETH PALTROW - was at the British Film Awards in London to present a gong for the best documentary to director SACHA GERVASI for his movie Anvil!

 

The rock star resumes his band's world tour in Argentina this month - as frontman, not Feldman!

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2846961/Chris-Martin-looks-like-Igor-from-Young-Frankenstein.html#ixzz0f78PnHnz

 

I was thinking he wasn't looking too flash too and this made me laugh :embarrassed:

[ViVA Child]

and whats on that tie? cockadoodles?

 

dont be rediculous

 

......its cows

[Pris]

 

http://www.purepeople.com/media/steve-coogan-et-chris-martin-a_m361168

:facepalm:

Wth is up with that outfit? :wtf: He looks short wearing that, and he's anything but short! :freak: Plus, what are those pants made of? It looks like the fabric exercise clothes are made of :thinking: I'm not even gonna comment on the jacket, the sneakers or that scarf he refuses to take off..... I'm starting to think he sleeps in all of those and only changes shirts and pants ocassionally :tongue:

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

Chris is sung Frankenstein

 

EYE, eye! It's COLDPLAY's CHRIS MARTIN doing his very best impression of bug-eyed Igor from classic Seventies movie Young Frankenstein.

 

Lab fab ... Marty Feldman in film

 

Quite Frankly ... Chris Martin in Igor pose

 

 

 

The hooded singer, 32 - whose band had hits with The Scientist and Fix You - looked like a double of comedy star MARTY FELDMAN in the bizarre get-up.

 

Chris - married to Hollywood star GWYNETH PALTROW - was at the British Film Awards in London to present a gong for the best documentary to director SACHA GERVASI for his movie Anvil!

 

The rock star resumes his band's world tour in Argentina this month - as frontman, not Feldman!

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2846961/Chris-Martin-looks-like-Igor-from-Young-Frankenstein.html#ixzz0f78PnHnz

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[jknc]

He could wear a feed sack for all I care.

The man is gorgeous.

Look at those eyes!!!!!!!

(faints on the floor)

[aniskywalker]

Yeah :)

[AnnaElisabeth]

What Dianna said! :dead:

[Dancin4eva212]

I love all the pictures!

[kspillers2]

......Maybe those shots were taken in some sort of vestibule or something and it was unheated ?.......or maybe he just like to disappear into a little cocoon when the event isn't all about him...?

[alternativejunkie0012]

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

 

Chris is sung Frankenstein

 

EYE, eye! It's COLDPLAY's CHRIS MARTIN doing his very best impression of bug-eyed Igor from classic Seventies movie Young Frankenstein.

 

Lab fab ... Marty Feldman in film

 

Quite Frankly ... Chris Martin in Igor pose

 

 

 

The hooded singer, 32 - whose band had hits with The Scientist and Fix You - looked like a double of comedy star MARTY FELDMAN in the bizarre get-up.

 

Chris - married to Hollywood star GWYNETH PALTROW - was at the British Film Awards in London to present a gong for the best documentary to director SACHA GERVASI for his movie Anvil!

 

The rock star resumes his band's world tour in Argentina this month - as frontman, not Feldman!

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/2846961/Chris-Martin-looks-like-Igor-from-Young-Frankenstein.html#ixzz0f78PnHnz

 

Yeah your def right about this .....weird get up for Chris he better start chaging his style of wardrobe.

[Pink]

He could wear a feed sack for all I care.

The man is gorgeous.

Look at those eyes!!!!!!!

(faints on the floor)

 

 

Oh, yes, good lord, those eyes.

[Mimixxx]

Anvil is the headbanger's fairytale

 

You don't normally get the likes of Chris Martin giving out gongs for the year's best documentary. But when the Coldplay frontman handed over that statuette at the Evening Standard Film Awards on Monday, it was a special case.

 

Let's rock! Steve Lips' Kudlow, of Canadian heavy metal band Anvil

 

The winning film, Anvil! The Story of Anvil — which follows the fortunes of the titular Canadian heavy metal band — is not just a hilarious, real-life Spinal Tap. It's also a hymn to the heroic optimism of the group, who have pursued their dreams of rock stardom through four decades of steadily mounting public indifference. Perversely, this indie sleeper-hit movie, apparently a study of failure, has given Anvil the success they have so long craved.

 

“I think I had unreasonably high expectations for the film, and it's exceeded them,” beams its puckish, London-born director Sacha Gervasi. The 42-year-old, a successful screenwriter in LA, funded the entire project himself, having worked as a roadie for Anvil as a schoolboy fan. He spent the best part of 2005-2007 filming the band, amassing 320 hours of footage for what would turn out to be an 80-minute feature.

 

(During this period, he also fathered a daughter during a brief fling with Geri Halliwell). Anvil! debuted at Sundance to wild acclaim in 2008 but was not picked up by a distributor. So Gervasi took it to “every single festival in the world”, and invited Anvil to play after each screening.

 

The crowds loved it, and especially rocking out with the men whose emotional journey they'd just seen on screen. Neil Young, David Byrne, Chrissie Hynde and a certain Mr Martin started recommending the film to their fans. Momentum gathered. Now Anvil are headlining their first US tour for 25 years and are recognised everywhere they go. “In a way, the fans are writing the end of the film with the band,” says Gervasi. “I realised that this was not just about heavy metal at the premiere in April, at the Egyptian theatre in Hollywood, when I saw Dustin Hoffman headbanging to a song called 666. Afterwards, he came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, That's the most human thing I've ever seen on film'. Because it's about people. The response has been phenomenal. And now, this award. It's fantastic.”

 

Living the dream: by making Anvil!, The Story of Anvil, Sacha Gervasi got to make a love letter to his 15-year-old self

 

Gervasi first came across Anvil in the early Eighties when he was 15 and “the only headbanger at Westminster school”. The Canadians sang loud, fast, drum-driven songs such as the masturbatory ode Five Knuckle Shuffle and the paean to fat girls, Butter Bust Jerky. Lead singer Steve “Lips” Kudlow wore a bondage harness and played his guitar with a dildo. Drummer Robb Reiner, who formed the band with Lips when they were 14, was acknowledged by metalheads as the best in the business. Gervasi was smitten.

 

“The aggression, grandiosity and theatricality of heavy metal speaks very directly to the adolescent boy struggling with puberty, even though it's clearly uncool,” says Gervasi. He wangled an invitation to the band after a gig, invited them to tea with his concert pianist mother, and — pretending that he was staying with his father, an economics lecturer, in New York — signed on as a roadie for their north American tour. He even had his first sexual experience with a groupie in Anvil's tour bus in the parking lot of the Quebec Hockey Arena.

 

Gamble pays off: Coldplay's Chris Martin presents Gervasi with the Best Documentary award at the Evening Standard Film Awards

 

“They gave me their cast-offs sometimes. But actually, a lot of the time they shielded me from the heavier stuff that was going on,” says Gervasi. “When my mum found out what I'd done, she freaked out and got my dad to come to this roadside gig in Albany, New York, and give Lips and Robb the third degree. But he could tell they were basically good people and said, As long as there are no drugs, you can stay'.” When they parted, Gervasi had some interesting material for a “what I did in my holidays” essay, and Anvil seemed poised for success after playing the 1984 Super Rock Festival in Japan alongside Whitesnake and Bon Jovi.

 

Two decades on, in 2005, Gervasi had meandered down several byways of what he describes as his “untraditional career path”. Born on Abbey Road into a fiercely cosmopolitan family of high-achieving academics and writers, he was obsessed from his teens with film and music. He quit as drummer of the band Bush shortly before they achieved huge Stateside success. He was an assistant to the poet Ted Hughes and flirted at various times with law, journalism and drug addiction (indeed, he exudes the relish for life common to those who've become clean).

 

In 1995, he won a Bafta scholarship to UCLA film school. Since then, he's made a career in Hollywood as a writer and script-doctor — despite turning down the chance to adapt Harry Potter for the screen. “I thought it was uncommercial. My agent calculated that as a $30 million mistake.” But in 2004, having written The Terminal for Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, he thought about Anvil again, and found they were still rocking. Sort of.

 

Despite the thickening of their midriffs and the thinning of their poodle perms, the band had cranked out 12 albums, but Lips was delivering school meals and Robb working in construction to make ends meet. The sex and drugs were long gone, though they were still passionate to the point of delusion about rock'n'roll.

 

“They were middle-aged Jewish men with wives and families, persisting with this dream after most rational people would have given up,” says Gervasi. He was fired up again by Lips's friendship and enthusiasm. He'd been looking for something to direct himself, without studio interference, and remembered the advice of his idol Bruce Robinson — creator of Withnail and I — to choose something personal. So when he learned that Anvil had signed on for a European tour with an untried female manager called Tiziana who barely spoke English, Gervasi hastily assembled a film crew.

 

On the first night on location, his cameraman Christopher Soos locked Gervasi into a hotel room and demanded to know whether Lips and Robb were actors. They were too good to be true. The goofy, boundlessly enthusiastic Lips could be one of Paul Whitehouse's creations. Asked to explain Anvil's lack of success, he replies: “I can tell you in one word. No, two. Three words. We don't have good management.” Robb, the handsome, solemn drummer, paints portentous landscapes and at least one picture of an unflushed toilet.

 

As to the tour, it's hard to say which night is the worst. Is it when Anvil play to 17 people or when a bar owner in Poland tries to pay them in goulash? Gervasi likens Tiziana's tour-management skills to “a demented monkey throwing darts at a map of Europe”. They miss trains, end up spending all their meagre earnings on petrol to get from one far-flung, empty gig to another. One time, band and film crew got lost in a Romanian forest and camped out overnight, only realising at sunrise that they were near a 500-ft drop. As a friend, Gervasi felt sorry for the band; as a director, “I was just thinking: YESSSSS!”

 

He was honest with the band, telling them that the audience had to be able to laugh at them to begin with, before being won over. “They know they are funny. There's always been a fusion between heavy metal and comedy: even when I was a kid I knew it was a circus,” says Gervasi. “But there was no point just making gags about how silly and sad they were, because there'd be no

emotional journey and no film.”

 

Indeed, it's almost impossible not to be moved when Robb reveals that his father, who survived Auschwitz, bought him his first drumkit and bankrolled Anvil's first album. Or when Lips's sister stumps up the money for their 13th.

Or when the two men squabble and tearfully make up. Or when Anvil play to a 20,000 crowd in Tokyo at the end.

 

The documentary has been an exercise in wish fulfilment. Anvil's profile is higher than ever. Their 13th album, This Is Thirteen, is selling well and a 14th, Juggernaut of Justice, is on the way. And Gervasi? Usually a gun for hire, he got to make a personal film, a love-letter to his 15-year-old self, in which “I had control over my own creativity. No one could say to me, Does it have to be a heavy metal band? Can't it be Whoopi Goldberg?'” Hell, he even got to fulfil his old rock-star dreams, by playing drums alongside Reiner during that Tokyo concert.

 

He is still in demand as a writer — his drama, Henry's Crime, is currently shooting with Anvil fan Keanu Reeves, and he recently tweaked “the year's biggest effects movie: it involves robots”. But his next project as writer and director will be a biopic of the dwarf actor Hervé Villechaize, who shot himself in 1993.

 

Gervasi's personal connection to the story dates back to his time as a journalist. “I loved him because he played Nick Nack in The Man With the Golden Gun, then Tattoo in Fantasy Island,” he says. “He was this iconic figure and I secured an interview with him. He pulled a knife on me when I finished my questions, saying I'm not done yet'.

 

“So I ended up spending four, five days with him, and him spilling his whole life story to me. Six days after I flew back to London he committed suicide. I was his suicide note. What I thought was going to be a great dinner-party story turned out to be one of the most profound experiences of my life. One of the first scripts I wrote was based on my meeting with Villechaize. I think that was the script Spielberg read, that convinced him to hire me. So you see, these stories are all connected.” Of course. They're not about headbangers or suicidal small actors. They're about people.

 

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-23805421-anvil-is-the-headbangers-fairytale.do

[Keddie]

He could wear a feed sack for all I care.

The man is gorgeous.

Look at those eyes!!!!!!!

(faints on the floor)

Amen to that sista!:thumbsup:

:dead:

[SueDeNimes]

You don't normally get the likes of Chris Martin giving out gongs for the year's best documentary. But when the Coldplay frontman handed over that statuette at the Evening Standard Film Awards on Monday, it was a special case.

 

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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-23805421-anvil-is-the-headbangers-fairytale.do

Thank you for posting this article, Mich.

It is beautiful.