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Jake Gyllenhaal's Source Code: BUMP THREAD for Amanda's Bowie Info (2011)
Brown Eyes:
^Wow, well that's quite the tabloid-esque piece.
Angie certainly has her side of the story and has written at least one book about some of this (it came out in the mid-1990s, so way prior to Duncan's current career).
One of the funnier parts of that is the statement that "By the mid-Seventies, the marriage was a sham"... I think it was a kind of marriage of convenience from the very beginning. It is one very slanted side of the story.
I've read recent interviews with Duncan where he talks about really having seen everything through the craziest years of the 70s. The mid and late 70s were definitely Bowie's worst drug years and Angie wasn't really in any condition to be a responsible parent either. So, it's really a good thing that Duncan had a reliable nanny (it's just the practical thing in a situation like that anyway, and is probably the case for most celebrity kids). But, he says that by the 80s and after the actual divorce from Angie, Bowie tried really hard to be a good parent. After the 70s, it seems to me that Bowie was quite level headed about raising Duncan as well as possible in the context of a rock and rolll lifestyle (touring all the time, etc.). And, yeah, like I said he was shrouded in quite a bit of mystery for a long time since Bowie tried to shield him from the media. It's particularly interesting to hear Duncan's side of things and realize that he has his own voice in this. Both he and David really are quite level-headed these days. They did manage to come through the craziest years pretty well, and I get the sense that they have a pretty good relationship.
Honestly, as wild as the 70s were... I think Duncan is very lucky to have some memories of that phase in his Dad's career. It was all so important.
Here's an interesting bit of trivia... This Ziggy Stardust photoshoot with Mick Rock was done in Duncan's nursery room at Bowie's famous, early residence called Haddon Hall. One of the photos was used as the back cover art for a re-issue of the Space Oddity album. No wonder sci-fi metaphors are so prominent for Duncan these days.
Front-Ranger:
If she was born in 1949, it seems to me that she would be 61, not 59. This article definitely needed some fact checking.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: atz75 on April 10, 2011, 02:43:59 pm ---^Wow, well that's quite the tabloid-esque piece.
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Well, it's the Daily Mail, after all!
--- Quote from: atz75 on April 10, 2011, 02:43:59 pm ---Here's an interesting bit of trivia... This Ziggy Stardust photoshoot with Mick Rock was done in Duncan's nursery room at Bowie's famous, early residence called Haddon Hall. One of the photos was used as the back cover art for a re-issue of the Space Oddity album. No wonder sci-fi metaphors are so prominent for Duncan these days.
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Dad
Lovely--thanks, Amanda!
--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on April 10, 2011, 05:33:33 pm ---If she was born in 1949, it seems to me that she would be 61, not 59. This article definitely needed some fact checking.
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As bad as it is, Lee (again, Well, it's the Daily Mail ) the article was written nearly two years ago--hence the seeming discrepancy.
serious crayons:
Angie
(Jagger-Richards, 1973)
Angie, Angie
When will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried
Angie, You're beautiful
But ain't it time we said goodbye
Angie, I still love you
Remember all those nights we cried?
All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear
Angie, Angie
Where will it lead us from here?
Angie, don't you weep
All your kisses still taste sweet
I hate that sadness in your eyes
But Angie, Angie
Ain't it time we said goodbye?
With no loving in our souls
And no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, I still love you, baby
Everywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on baby dry your eyes
But Angie, Ain't it...
Ain't it good to be alive?
Angie, Angie
You can't say we never tried
serious crayons:
I saw the movie last night and thought it was pretty good.
So if Angie Bowie sees Moon as a metaphor for her son's feelings of abandonment, then in Source Code Vera Farmiga's and Jeffrey Wright's characters -- the military scientists who keep relentlessly sending Jake onto the doomed train, giving him little information about his situation or his fate, harshly circumscribing his personal freedom -- must represent his parents.
But wait, Vera Farmiga's character is much more sympathetic. Maybe Duncan Jones switched the parents' genders just to mix things up a bit, or maybe he has warmer feelings toward Angie than we thought, or ...
Or maybe it's just a cigar. ???
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