“Sucker Punch” star Oscar Isaac is set to play the male lead in Walden Media’s drama “Still I Rise,” which will be released stateside by 20th Century Fox.
Inspired by America’s current education crisis, pic stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis as two frustrated mothers who team up to transform an inner-city public school.
Isaac will play Michael Raymond, a sexy, ukulele-playing teacher who helps inspire, challenge and romance Gyllenhaal’s character throughout the film.
And to prove ukers have always been sex-symbols in the movies here’s Gordon McRae Jack Smith pitching woo at Doris Day (thanks to Jenny for the video and Andi for the correction).
The world’s best ukulele blog, Ralph Shaw’s Ukulele Entertainer is becoming a book. You can preorder that and Ralph’s next CD on his website (I have done).
New releases from All Young Girls Are Machine Guns and Rocky and Balls.
Neil Innes does a session for NPR.
Highly dubious but very entertaining: Eddie Vedder sings the Samsung ringtone.
It’s an unwritten rule that all ukulele-playing dolls must be creepy. This one is no exception but you have to admire the attention to detail on the ukuleles.
Someone has been harvesting keywords (the stuff people search for on the net) and setting up ‘Ukulele Hunt’ related sites (that have nothing to do with me). This one and this one are expected. This one is just depressing.
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