Dispatches from 'X-Men' universe May 26, 2006
He began his career in 2002's "Tadpole," a coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy, Stanford's character, who falls in love with his stepmother ... " 'Tadpole' was shot for something like $150,000, $200,000, something crazy," Stanford recalls ... "We shot with something like hand-held Fisher-Price cameras in 14 days. The only thing similar [about "X-Men" and "Tadpole"] was that I was working with a caliber of actor with which I was just terrified. From Sigourney Weaver to like, Ian McKellen.... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Mean machine Mar 20, 2006
Filmmaker Gary Winick chose the unknown actor to star opposite Bebe Neuwirth and Sigourney Weaver in the 2002 film Tadpole. Tadpole was an auspicious debut that earned Stanford a featured role in five episodes of Third Watch and the coveted role of Pyro in X2. (Winnipeg Sun)
Rewind: Onscreen And Off, What's Age Got To Do With It? Oct 26, 2005
MTV.com - Movies - News - Rewind: Onscreen And Off, What's Age Got To Do With It. n," two young Mexican lads share, uh, experiences with a lusty older woman (Ana L?pez Mercado). Usually, however, the younger man is just not to be taken seriously. In "Something's Gotta Give" (2003), Keanu Reeves plays Dr. Julian Mercer, a man in relentless pursuit of elder playwright Erica Barry (Diane Keaton). Julian is handsome, successful, thoughtful, attentive everything, it seems, that a woman could want.... (MTV -- News)
Suburban Sigourney Feb 13, 2005
Bouncing between studio productions and independent fare, her recent credits include "Tadpole," "The Guys," "Holes" and "The Village." She recently wrapped "Snow Cake," a British independent drama co-starring Alan Rickman. "I enjoy the roles I'm getting now more than I ever enjoyed the more normal roles I played," she says. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
[external] Winning The War Of Independents Nov 6, 2004
"I remember Sigourney Weaver making a point of asking me how much her makeup person made" after her movie Tadpole was sold to The Walt Disney Co.'s (nyse: - - ) Miramax, InDigEnt co-founder Gary Winick told me. Another veteran actress, Mary Kay Place (also in Lonesome Jim), mused that she's "used to working for less." She says she doesn't mind doing a film like Jim for scale, because in traditional productions "I get offered the same part a lot." She willingly agrees to play the role of a mother... (Yahoo Finance -- Broadcasting & Cable TV)
Toronto Star Aug 11, 2004
The Assassination Of Richard Nixon: Niels Mueller, the writer of Tadpole, makes his directing debut with a truth-based drama set in the scandalous 1970s, starring Sean Penn as a disgruntled furniture salesman who plans to kill the 37th President of the United States. Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle and Jack Thomson also star. (Google News -- Entertainment)
Sigourney Takes 'Village' Role Jul 30, 2004
In 2002, Weaver played Eve, a woman whose 16-year-old stepson falls in love with her, in "Tadpole.". In 2003, she portrayed a New Yorker who helps a fire captain construct eulogies for his fallen men in "The Guys," a film that fed off the Sept. 11 tragedy. (CBS News)
'The Village' Jul 30, 2004
Shyamalan's reputation attracted several other top people, including Adrien Brody (The Pianist), who plays a mentally unstable man-child, and Sigourney Weaver (Holes, Tadpole), who plays Lucius' mother. And as always, Shyamalan has a cameo, in this case reflected in a pane of glass. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Simon Houpt Jun 5, 2004
"Every low-budget film that you see when they're on the train -- and there are a lot of them -- they're all stolen shots," said Gary Winick, the director of 13 Going on 30, who stole onto a subway with Sigourney Weaver and a couple of digital cameras for his 2002 indie feature Tadpole. "You just learn to stay away from the train operator.". (Globe and Mail -- ColumnistsTP)
Still game for Ripley Oct 18, 2003
She can point to the two Ghostbusters films, as well as Galaxy Quest, Heartbreakers and the recent Tadpole as proof of that, while in 1989, the year she was nominated for Gorillas in the Mist, she picked up a best-supporting-actress Oscar nomination for her role as a bitchy boss in the comedy Working Girl. Weaver failed to win either of them (The Times (subscription)
