RIP: Sammi Kane Kraft 1992 – 2012

I thought this was a pretty sad story, that I thought that this is worth an obit on here! Sammi Kane Kraft, who is most famous for playing the role of Amanda Whurlitzer in the “Bad News Bears” remake starring, Bill Bob Thornton. The role of Amanda Whurlitzer was originally played by Tatum O’ Neal in the original, 1976, film. Sammi Kane was hired for the role because, as a real life baseball player herself, she threw an impressive 75 mph fastball while as a pitcher, during a casting call. While acting for the film, Billy Bob Thornton, wasn’t just her coach for the movie, he was also her coach behind the scenes, as he gave her a few acting tips for the role as well.

Sammi Kane was killed in a car wreck in Los Angeles, but she wasn’t the driver. It was drunk driving related, and the driver, Molly Kate Adams, was arrested. Before Sammi Kane’s death, she just enrolled herself at Santa Montica College. She was also a musician, guitarist, and singer/songwriter who would regularly play out at small venues. Sammi Kane’s role in “Bad News Bears” remake, was her only big movie role. She was 20 years old.

Read the full story, here.

Kev

The Brock’s Horror Film Pick #11: Halloween 1 – 2 (Rob Zombie directed)

The two Rob Zombie “Halloween” remakes got mixed reviews, the 2nd one was most hated than the 1st, but I personally enjoyed them both. I loved Rob Zombie’s unique way of film making and storytelling. Tyler Mane is a good choice for the new, Michael Myers. I thought both of these films were brilliant, and I plan to re-watch them both pretty soon. I have both on DVD. What people don’t understand is that Rob Zombie likes to focus on the badguy more than the goodguy, so his focus is entirely on Michael Myers throughout both of these films. I don’t care if other people loved or hated the films, I go by own opinion alone. These were excellent flicks! I think ROb Zombie is one of the best horror film directors out there, he really knows his stuff.

Kev

My bodybuilding dreams and goals…

Some people ask me what my goals are in bodybuilding and what I want to achieve. I used to not want to get as big as I possible can. I used to just want to get a small physique and become in decent shape, but I changed my mind. I DO, want to get big as possible. I want to take my bodybuilding dreams to the next level and try to look like a real bodybuilder. Bodybuilding is awesome. It’s an amazing feeling changing your life like this. I love getting feedback on my physique everywhere I go, and I love being at the center of people’s attention about my physique. It’s a great feeling, and that’s what pushing me to get bigger. The feedback from people is my motivation.

While I’m very proud of my physique, I still have work to do on a few body parts. I still need some improvements on the chest, need bigger chest pectorals. I also need to improve my calves (the muscles on the lower legs). I’m pretty happy with the rest of me though. The chest is the hardest part to improve but I’m trying. I just train the chest real hard once a week, so I can give it plenty of resting and healing. Not sure if my chest is better now, I plan to take new pics soon to see. I do various exercises for the chest each week. Something different. One week, I do a bunch of push ups. The next week I do free weight stuff like dumbbell presses. I don’t do bench pressing too much, I think it’s overrated. I just want to see how else I could get a bigger chest other than the bench press.

I don’t do bodybuilding just to get attention from people, I do it for me. To look better, and to live a healthy lifestyle. Not trying to sound like an ego maniac, but I still believe I’m the only true bodybuilder in my hometown of Greenwich. I go to the Y on a regular basis and most of the physiques that people have at the gym aren’t really that good. I haven’t seen much guys with true bodybuilder physiques, yet. A lot of people are pretty flabby and mostly skinny. I haven’t really seen any huge guys with monster arms yet. Sure, there might be a few guys with decent medium sized physiques, but not a pro bodybuilder physique.

My goal is to look like an actual bodybuilder, like my heroes, Stallone and Schwarzenegger. People say it’s impossible, but I can prove I can get there. I’ll get there in a couple of years or more, watch me. Like I said before, I may have started late on bodybuilding but it’s a good time to start. I’ll get bigger and leaner when I reach Stallone and Schwarzenegger’s age.

I know what I’m doing and doing an okay job so far, with no trainers or anything.

Kev

Report: Beyonce drops out of Eastwood’s “A Star Is Born” musical… who will replace her?

Pop star, Beyonce, has been slated to star in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming music, “A Star Is Born”, but she dropped out due to a busy schedule. The filming does not even have a start date yet.

More on the story, here.

Who should replace her? I’d say who cares! This project should be cancelled altogether. I can’t see Clint doing a musical. Although, it wouldn’t surprise me, if he’ll try to get Rihanna or Jennifer Hudson to replace her. *yawn*

Kev

Cool Video: “Hitchcock” trailer is here, and surprisingly looks very good too!

I was skeptical of this, but after seeing this trailer, the film looks promising. Anthony Hopkins looks great as Hitchcock, that guy can play anything that throws at him. I’ll be there for this one, I think. The film is about the making of “Psycho”, it’s not really a straight up biopic.

Kev

 

RIP Christopher Reeve who died 8 years ago today…

Back when Christopher Reeve passed away in 2004, I was devastated. I was heartbroken and it kind of killed me too. Chris, was a huge inspiration to me. A lifelong childhood hero. It’s a real shame what happened to him. The horse accident and being paralyzed for life for it. So sad. RIP to his wife Dana too. Hopefully the upcoming, “Man of Steel” movie will be dedicated to them. I’m sure it will be.

I first heard about Chris Reeve’s death when I was on vacation at the Martha’s Vineyard that year. I was truly shocked and sad that day. “Superman: The Movie” and “Superman II” will always be the greatest Superman flicks ever made. Warner Bros., can reboot the series all they want to, but Chris Reeve can’t be replaced.

Kev

Thought: The recent news on Hulk Hogan… doesn’t surprise me…

Isn’t it kind of funny that Hulk Hogan’s sex tape has been leaked and all of a sudden, Linda Hogan (Hulk’s ex-wife) has been arrested for DUI at the same time?

The story going around that Hulk Hogan’s longtime friend and radio interviewer, Bubba the Love Sponge (most famous for having a radioshow interviewing professional wrestlers), supposedly leaked a sex tape with Hogan in it, banging Bubba’s wife. On Howard Stern, Hogan claims that Bubba gave him the blessing to bang his wife. Turns out that Bubba videotaped it all, and leaked it to the web for the world to see.

Of course, typical Hulk cries about it, and takes legal action.

For those who think Hogan disgraced himself with the sex tape, don’t get the wrong idea. Hogan disgraced himself and destroyed his reputation for years, goes way back in his wrestling career. The douche has always been a fuckin’ trainwreck, ya know? The guy is an egomaniac, and a liar. He will do anything to defend himself just to make himself look good publicly after he misbehaves behind the scenes. He really believes he is “Hulkamaniac”, and he will do whatever it takes, to save his legacy and character. He hurt many people in the past and lied to a lot of people. Especially, when he lied about burying the hatchet with Macho Man Randy Savage before his death. It was a lie. Randy Savage always hated Hulk. Plus, Hulk is known to destroying and hurting other wrestlers like Bret Hart, Ultimate Warrior, Iron Sheik, Honky Tonk Man, etc. The list goes on.

Hogan’s a piece of shit. Always has been. I used to like Hulk Hogan back in the 80’s and during the 90’s WCW era when he was in the nWo. Hogan used to be cool, but now he’s a washed up loser.

Like I said plenty of times in this blog, if you don’t want nude photos or sex tapes leaked to the public where the whole world can see, then you shouldn’t have done that stuff at all. This was Hogan’s fault, clearly, and like always, he plays the innocent victim. Hulk is a lunatic and it’s just sad that he’s still going in wrestling working for TNA. A lot of legendary wrestlers have retired and moved on, but of course, Hulk keeps going. He thinks wrestling is all for himself. He’s a douche, a mess. To hell with Hulk.

Kev

Why a musician being in a romantic relationship with another musician is kind of risky…

Some of you have been seeing me not liking the idea of a musician dating another musician. Why would I prefer not to date another musician? These things have been happening quite a bit around the scene. I’ve been seeing local musicians getting into romantic relationships with other female musicians around the scene, even as far as getting married to them and stuff. Musician & musician relationships usually never work out, and never last that long anyway. Why? For a few simple reasons: 1) It’s all ego 2) She could be using you and for more publicity of her own music 3) Both of them are usually busy all the time with life and music. The list goes on, ya know? On top of that, they can really hurt you and destroy you bad. This is why I kind of prefer to date someone who doesn’t play an instrument or knows nothing about songwriting at all. I think musician couples are pretty whacky anyway but who knows though, sometimes those kind of relationships do work out for them, but rarely. This is just my opinion, so no offense to anyone about this.

Kev

The Brock’s Horror Film Pick #10: The Descent

This is a 2005 British horror film written and directed by, Neil Marshall. It’s about a group of young British women who go on an adventure to explore the deep caves. Exploring the caves start off good and fun for them for a while, but of course, they discover something mysterious and unusual. Creatures living in that cave.

This was actually one of the great horror film in the 2000’s years. I never used to be interested in this film ’cause I was skeptical of it. Then I finally rented the DVD from Netflix, and I’m like, “Holy shit, that film was impressive”. The story has a good plot, it was well acted by the women. It was filmed and directed pretty good too. Plus, it’s kind of scary as hell! Even though it’s still kind of an action movie more than horror, it is still real good. It was unpredictable and you never knew what was going to happen next.

Great flick. Definitely check it out.

Kev

 

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