October 06, 2006

Spotlight on Adam Beach

Adam Beach is a film fest Rising StarAt Patricia Barry's home in Beverly Hills, built by Charlie Chaplin, entertainment lawyer Steve Breimer hosted the fete introducing Adam Beach, a member of the Saulteaux tribe who is one of the young stars of "Flags of Our Fathers," a soon-to-be-released Clint Eastwood-Steven Spielberg movie about the Marines at Iwo Jima.

Beach will be one of the upcoming festival's Rising Star Award winners.

Past recipients of the award include Terrence Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Beach, who is based in Ottawa, is best known for his work in "Smoke Signals," which won a Sundance Audience Award, and for starring opposite Nicolas Cage in the film "Windtalkers."

In "Flags of Our Fathers," Beach plays a Pima Indian who is troubled by his experiences in battle.

"The film is very poetic. It deals with a tough issue, with showing one of the worst periods of war. Iwo Jima was very, very horrific, and to be able to show it in a way that's memorable and emotional but not drawing on it being too heavy, I think a lot of people are going to really respect the people who fought the war to create the world we have today," Beach said in a phone interview.

"It makes you want to phone your grandfather and your dad and say thank you, thank you for being there for me," Beach said from the party Thursday night.
Comment:  Flags of Our Fathers debuts October 20. Let the hype begin!

11 comments:

Not a Sioux said...

I saw an ad for this on TV. Even though much of it looked exactly like one of realistic those WW2 videogames (due to the dwindling difference between movie graphics and videogame graphics), it did look very good.

Anonymous said...

I only have one thing to say about Adam Beach; he's yummy!

writerfella said...

Writerfella here --
Yummy? But then, it comes down to what Adam Beach would say about his 'anonymous' admirer.
You'd get his autograph but he'd beg off for any kind of date. Know this: he'd be shorter than you are and then you'd have to speak Canadian to get to first base. Even then, you likely would be addressing his widow's peak and he therefore wouldn't hear a word of it.
Just kidding, of course...
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'

Rob said...

From what I've seen and heard, Beach is quite the ladies' man. In other words, he's quite flirtatious. I don't think many women would have trouble getting to first base with him.

Anonymous said...

Oh oh, it sounds like writerfella is a little jealous of Adam Beach. Aaaaye

writerfella said...

Writerfella here --
Jealous? Of a young man that writerfella almost played his father? Having never seen SQUANTO -- A WARRIOR'S STORY, I am unsure who finally did get the part. Beach is 28, writerfella is 65. Talk about intergenerational friction! (I cheat.)
By the bye, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS happens to be the first half of a pair of films, the other being LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, which still is in production and reportedly is a chronicle of the events leading to the Battle of Iwo Jima as seen from the Japanese side.
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'

writerfella said...

Writerfella here --
POSTSCRIPTUM: oops, Adam Beach IS 33. A recent full page photo and article in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY on Adam Beach listed him as 28. I imagine Beach didn't mind...
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'

Anonymous said...

Aha! I knew it, you are jealous. Hey writerfella I think you're yummy too.


All the Best

writerfella said...

Writerfella here --
If you're not Aztec, Mayan, or Anasazi, then I'll take that as a condiment, um, er, uh, compliment.
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'

Not a Sioux said...

But what about the Toltecs????

writerfella said...

Writerfella here --
Or the Xatopecs?
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'