Archived News
5/13 - Graham Baker instead of Larry clark has directed "Another Day In Paradise", and the release date is set for Fall/Winter 1998. This could be wrong, I'll let you know more when I find out.
5/18 - This
news was told to me by Brandon Joseph. He works as a freelance
boom mic operator on different films in California. He has worked
with Vinnie before while doing post-production on
"Alaska". Thank you very much Brandon for this
information! Here it is :
The most recent rumor is that
Vinnie and about 10 other
almost-20-yr-old actors are being looked at by an up-and-coming
writer/director named Adam Sattler.
Adam wrote a screenplay called "When I Fall" about a
high school student
who loses it and takes a house full of classmates hostage for one
day
and one night. The film has not yet been picked up, but there are
a
number of studios looking to buy it. Kevin Smith's View Askew
Productions ("Clerks", "Mallrats",
"Chasing Amy" and "Dogma") has been rumored
to
be looking at buying the film. The year 2000 is the date tossed
around
for the shoot.
Rumor has it that there are about 7 main characters and Sattler
wants
the lead to go to Vinnie.
Please keep in mind this is just
a rumor! I'll let you know if I receive anymore information!
5/25 - Here
is some more info I found on "The Hairy
Bird" oops! I mean "Strike!". I
pasted this news directly from the source of where I found
it...Here it is :
"Strike!" is a comedy about a closely-knit group of friends set at a traditional New England all-girls boarding school in 1963. But at its core, "Strike!" is also the story of young women who recognize their own value and potential when their all-female sanctuary becomes threatened by the specter of men. The film was written and directed by Sarah Kernochan, an established screenwriter making her feature directorial debut.
For Odie (Gaby Hoffmann), a pretty but moody teenager, being sent to Miss Godard's Prep School for Girls midway through the year is a little bit like being sent to prison. Miss Godard's has all kinds of rules, and a lot is expected of the girls there. But Odie soon discovers that the girls at Miss Godard's also have a lot of fun, and most important, the school is something of a haven where girls can behave, well, just like girls since there are no boys in sight.
After a tour of the campus guided by Abby (Rachael Leigh Cook), an uptight, brown-nosing "monitor" on the Self-Government Committee, Odie just wants to hug her horse and cry. But things start looking up when Odie meets her new roommates, Verena (Kirsten Dunst) and Tinka (Monica Keena). Verena is a schemer who likes to break the rules. Tinka is a smart-mouthed beauty (and would-be slut). Both are impressed with Odie's worldliness and her collection of R&B records, a sound they'd never heard before. Odie is quickly allowed into the girls inner circle, which includes Momo (Merrit Wever), a science whiz who wants to attend MIT, and Tweety (Heather Matarazzo), whose exuberant personality is saddled with an eating disorder for which she abuses syrup of ipecac.
On a trip into town, Odie and the other girls are in a soda shop when theyare accosted by a group of local boys who call themselves the Flat Critters. The boys are mostly concerned with fetishizing roadkill, although their leader, Snake (Vincent Kartheiser), is completely taken with Tinka. Tinka dismisses him.
Back at school, Verena and the other girls decide to allow Odie into their secret society, the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Ravioli). The D.A.R. meets in a secret attic where they eat cold ravioli right out of the can and vow to help each other achieve their dreams for the future. Momo wants to be a biologist; Tweety, a psychiatrist. Verena wants to start her own magazine (Moi) and Tinka would like to appear on its cover as a fabulously famous actress / painter / folk-singer / slut. Odie's most personal ambition, which she shares with the group, is to become an ex-virgin. At this particular meeting they plot how best to bring down Mr. Dewey, the lecherous history Teacher. Verena comes up with a plan.
But Verena is also somewhat appalled by Odie's desire to lose her virginity. Not because Verena is a prude, but because the whole point of the D.A.R. is to try to figure out how to avoid what at the end of their teenage years seems inevitable: becoming married with "three kids and two cars and a Colonial and a Collie." But in the spirit of friendship Verena and the other girls conspire to help Odie arrange a "randy-vous" in New York with Dennis (Matthew Lawrence), the boyfriend she left behind.
While Verena's schemes are clever, they don't turn out the way she and the D.A.R. had hoped. The attempt to plant porno magazines on Mr. Dewey backfires, and the steely headmistress Miss McVane (Lynn Redgrave) suspects Verena and doles out punishment and a grave warning of dismissal. And as for the forged note that would have let Odie get to NewYork for a tryst with her beloved Dennis, well, Miss McVane is a little too smart for that. But what is perfectly clear is just how much concern and affection Miss McVane has for her girls, even when they misbehave. In fact, Miss McVane knows all too well that mischief is a sign that something deeper is going on. Although the girls bridle at the rules, it is clear, too, that they respect their headmistress a great deal.
One night, when Tweety visits the attic in search of ravioli, she overhears a loud and argumentative meeting between Miss McVane and the school's board of trustees, the president of which happens to be uptight Abby's uptight mother. What she learns -- and shares immediately with the other members of the D.A.R. -- is that Miss Godard's is in dire financial straights and that the only way the school will survive is by merging with St. Ambrose -- an all boys' school in New Hampshire. To Miss McVane's horror, it seems clear that Miss Godard's is going coed.
Some girls react with sadness and anger. Some are overjoyed. But the worst thing about the news is that it divides the D.A.R. Verena, the leader, is convinced that the move to coeducation must be stopped. "Just imagine," she says. "You'll have to wash your hair every night. You'll have to sleep on rollers 'til your scalp bleeds. You'll have to get up at six every morning for the comb-out. Your lungs will be lined with hairspray. And then you'll need all that equipment to push up the tits -- and spray the pits -- and blitz the zitz. Then you stagger into class and you look perfect but you're exhausted. You're too tired to think. But that's OK because the teachers won't call on you anyway." In short, Verena will not allow herself or her classmates to become slaves to the proverbial "hairy bird."
Verena and Momo vow to stop the school's plans, and concoct a scheme that might just work. The choir from St. Ambrose is to visit Miss Godard's for a dance and recital. With a little homemade liquor, Tweety's ipecac and a handpicked St. Ambrose patsy, Verena and Momo have all they need to turn the occasion into a complete fiasco that will make all parties see how terrible it would be to merge the two schools.
The patsy is Bradley Stoner Frost IV ("Frosty") (Thomas Guiry), the wealthy grandson of a St. Ambrose trustee. The plan is to get Frosty caught in a compromising position in uptight Abby's bed. Problem is, Verena finds herself, of all things, attracted to Frosty, who as it turns out hates St. Ambrose but, because of his grandfather, has been unable to get himself expelled no matter what he tries.
In the meantime, the liquor being surreptitiously served at the dance is having its effect, and with all the boys on campus, Dennis has been smuggled in for Odie. It is their big night, their one chance, and the secret hiding place of the D.A.R. has been turned into a temple of seduction. This being 1963, boys and girls have learned how to be careful, and Dennis has thoughtfully come prepared with a new form of contraception -- for Odie to try to figure out how to use.
Putting the finishing touch on the evening, as the boys stagger in for their recital, Momo and Tinka hand out a "cure" for the boys' drunkenness, and Tweety reacts with horror when she sees that it is her beloved ipecac. Between its graphic effects the empty liquor bottles Verena has planted on the St. Ambrose bus and the discovery of Frosty, the merger between St. Ambrose and Miss Godard's seems most certainly doomed.
Alas, this is not the case. Verena is expelled, of course, and so is Frosty. But the merger will go on as planned, and the announcement is made in the chapel at Miss Godard's on the last day of classes. But the girls make a last stand: in a scene that is prescient to the campus demonstrations that will sweep the nation later in the decade, the girls of Miss Godard's unite and demand a voice in the merger.
Vincent Kartheiser plays Snake, who as leader of the Townie group of boys the Flatcritters finds the girls at Miss McVane's irresistible. Kartheiser calls Snake "a little bit of an outcast, a poet, and a romantic."
Vincent Kartheiser will soon be seen in Sony Pictures' "Masterminds" directed by Roger Christian. Co-starring Patrick Stewart, this action-comedy adventure tells the story of the Shady Glen Prep School where the sons and daughters of our nations power elite go to get an education.
Last year, Kartheiser starred in Castle Rock's "Alaska." Kartheiser has also appeared on the screen in feature films such as "Indian in the Cupboard," "Little Big League," "Untamed Heart" and "Heaven Sent." His theatre credits include "The History of Henry IV and V," "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," "Pippi Longstocking" and "Raggedy Ann and Andy."
Vincent currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is finishing up high school. His plans are to attend university next year and continue perfecting his work in the art of acting. In his spare time, Vincent rock-climbs and fences.
I found this information at :
http://www.redeemable.com/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/search.html
5/26 - I confirmed that it was just a rumor that Graham Baker directed "Another Day In Paradise". Larry Clark did indeed direct it and it should be released in fall of this year.
6/19 - Melanie Griffith will be in "Another Day In Paradise", she confirmed this in a recent interview for Entertainment Tonight...And I would like to thank Robin very much for informing us of this on the Message Board, THANK YOU ROBIN! And on the subject...I would also like to thank Kaleena Carpenter very much for pointing out my mistake about Vinnie's character in "The Indian In The Cupboard", THANK YOU KALEENA!
Heaven Sent News:
Here is some news I found on "Heaven Sent"...
Released in: 1995
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Director: Craig L. Clyde
Plot: A young man (Vincent Kartheiser) dies before his time and is given a second chance at life by a helpful angel (David Bowe) in this comedy drama. The teen, Eddie, was well on the road to becoming a delinquent. He died when he was hit by a car after fleeing a convenience store where he had just stolen a snack. Howard, a novice angel, arranges for Eddie's resurrection, and while the youth learns to redeem himself, Howard, disguised as a social worker, stays close by.
I have heard from a few people that the movie itself is rather boring and cheesy, but Vinnie's acting is so good it basically carries the whole movie.
6/20 - I thought you guys might want to read some reviews of the book "Another Day In Paradise"...
"An ex-con's gritty, spellbinding first novel about a fourteen-year-old meth-shooting petty thief who graduates to big-time burglary and heroin abuse with the help of a Nam vet. Little Bobbie's on-the-job training sends him looting across the country, meeting a wild menagerie of junkie survivors--preaching gunrunners, Nazi bikers, and break-in brokers. Along the way, several friends, and many inconvenient extras are savagely blown away, yet nothing can keep Bobbie from perfecting his outlaw life, a rush only interrupted by a few stints in "gladiator school"--i.e., juvenile prison. An unforgettable plunge into the brutal alternate universe of hard-core outlaws." --Details
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From Kirkus Reviews ,
11/01/97
A gutsy, fresh, and fierce drug novel, something like walking
over broken glass barefoot, by first-novelist and former addict
Little. Most of the story, set during the late '60s and early
'70s in the Midwest and California, has an autobiographical tang.
Bobbie, the 14-year-old Irish hero, has been on the street since
he was 11, and hasn't much hope of living to 20. As Bobbie
matures into a copper-bottomed Huck Finn on heroin, pursuing a
life of crime and bloodshed, one fears that the novel's big
rainbow buzz will fade and Bobbie head for rehab. But since 12-
step programs haven't yet been invented, all stays hopped up and
oblivion-bound till the end. Before the drug takes charge of him,
Bobbie is braced--even empowered--by the heroin. But after a year
of this, no amount of the stuff can return him to well-being. The
good days, he realizes, are gone forever, and the need to support
his habit with various crimes, petty and big-time, only
intensifies. And so little Bobbie takes up with a professional
burglar named Mel, twice his age, who recruits him as a worthy
sidekick for drug errands usually run around midnight. Bobbie,
near the same time, falls in love with Rosie, a star-crossed 17-
year-old, also a druggie. Little's strongest suit is to suggest
Bobbie's masked fear of exposing his love and friendship for
Rosie and Mel: A pro, after all, is supposed to show no feeling.
Little keeps Bobbie's emotions capped but pulsating at every step
of the way. Little, who runs an AIDS assistance organization in
Los Angeles, writes like a bad dream on wheels, unique in the
electric authenticity that he brings to every sentence. The
stages of addiction have seldom been so vividly drawn.
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Synopsis
An original, high-action novel by an author who's been there and
back, "Another Day in Paradise" echoes "Pulp
Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs" in its story of a
14-year-old heroin junkie's coming-of-age crime odyssey. Soon to
be a major motion picture directed by Larry Clark 5-city author
tour.
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7/10 - In the April 1998 issue of Interview magazine there is a small interview with Natasha Gregson Wagner (who will be playing 'Rosie' opposite of Vinnie's character 'Bobbie' in the upcoming movie "Another Day In Paradise"). In the interview this is what she said about her character 'Rosie' : "And in the film I'm making now ("A.D.I.P") I play a junkie prostitute who's wild and sexual, and that's where her power is. It's interesting to experiment with that stuff when you don't have to pay the consequences." she also says she is 27 years old! I'll keep ya updated when I get more info...
7/27 - Here is more info of 'ADIP'. I got the info from Movieline Feb 1998.
Sex 98 - Another Day In Paradise
MOVIE: Another Day In Paradise
SEX OBJECTS: Vincent Kartheiser,Natasha Gregson Wagner
TYPE OF SEX: Druggy, unhealthy
LOWDOWN: Larry Clark, famed photographer and director of 'Kids', sets this tale of lost souls in his favorite locale, Tulsa. Desperate junkie teens Vincent Kartheiser and his girl, Natasha Gregson Wagner, team up with older junkie James Woods and his junkie girlfriend, Melanie Griffith, and together they do junk and scam themselves into further desperation. Early in the film there's a remarkably raw sequence in which Wagner, after sexually acquitting herself with a skill well beyond her years, tells Kartheiser that she learned part of her oral skills with the personal guidance of her father, and part with similar help from her mother. Any notion that she could have survived that tutelage undarkened is erased when she proceeds to beg Kartheiser to dominate and hurt her, which he does to their great mutual ecstasy.