There is nothing worse than a 5:30 AM call time for a movie shoot. I left Philadelphia at 3:30 AM on Saturday morning, running on 2 hours of sleep, and headed up to the Big Apple for the filming of Salt. Salt is being produced by Columbia Pictures, and stars Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber, and is based on a book that was written about a CIA operative who may have been a double agent trying to assassinate the President. I was told that Tom Cruise turned down the role of the main character, Edward Salt, so they decided to make it using a woman, and therefore cast Jolie.
I arrived at the Marriott in midtown Manhattan at 5 AM, was cleared again by wardrobe and make-up, and went to the room they use for background holding. I knew it was a big scene they were filming because there were 700 extras, and 40 production assistants, so I was super excited to see what we were going to do. We ate breakfast provided outside in a truck, and then were walked over to 50th and Park Ave., where the scene was being filmed. The movie crew shut down half a mile’s worth of Park Ave, and there was a barrage of police, mourners, and cars to duplicate the funeral procession of the imaginary Vice President. It couldn’t have seemed more authentic, and people were dressed like SWAT officers and snipers everywhere. I was playing a mourner so I was dressed in a suit and looked very professional. One woman on set asked me, “Have you ever been told you look like Brad Pitt?” That was actually one person I have never been compared to, but I thanked her for the compliment, and she joked, “Your better looking than him anyway”.
I was selected out of a huge crowd along with 3 attractive women; to help film the interior scene inside the church with Liev Schreiber and the guy who starred opposite Denzel Washington in American Gangster, and the camera was filming us the entire day. I was five feet behind the stars, and am very hopeful that I made it into the scene. I was also able to meet and network with many of the actors as well as some of the production crew, and passed out many business cards. I was surprised how tall Liev was; he was at least an inch taller than me, and very broad. I introduced myself, and hopefully made an impact with him, since I will probably be on set again next Saturday to complete the scene. Even though filming a scene can be quite tedious and involves a large amount of waiting around, I couldn’t have been more motivated around the choice I have made in pursuing this dream.
After a 15 hour day of shooting, we were finally able to check out, and as I was walking out of the hotel, I ran into Derrick Coleman (former NBA #1 pick, Syracuse Star, and NBA All-Star), and the Syracuse Orangemen Men’s Basketball team who were leaving the hotel to head to the Big East Final at MSG. I talked to Derrick, and some of the coaching staff, and they allowed me to take some pictures, and hang out for a few minutes. Now that work was over, it was time to enjoy the nightlife in NYC.
Here are some pictures from the set:
U look a hot 42 year old mess. What a disaster!
Dear Mr Kade,
In Serves France there is something called the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK). It is a platinum-irridium alloy lump that sits in a vault at the BIPM and serves as THE official kilogram against which all others are compared.
In a like manner, I am suggesting that you – Mr Arthur Kade – be made the official IPD (International Prototype Douche). You can be kept under two nested glass bell jars with gold plating underneath labeled simply “DOUCHE”. You will be kept in a secuire vault in Philliy and rolled out when necessary to resolve disputes.
For example, I might be sitting in a bar watching sports and say “That Terrell Owens is the biggest douche on earth”. A fellow drinker might remark that I am incorrect…that actually Donald Trump is a much larger douche and should hold title.
It is at this point that you will be employed to settle the argument. When wheeled out and placed next to these other douches, it will be possible to quantify them against a standard that is now a known constant and thus applicable across the globe. Owens might be labeled a -3K Douche (or, a minus 3 on the Kade Scale) and Trump a -1K.
All ratings would have to have a minus sign to denote that they are lesser douches than you – it is sinply not possible to have a +3K douche exist. It would imply a douche that is three orders of magnitude greater than you. A person can certainly approach K, but like the speed of light, it cannot be reached. Except by you. Such a thing would violate all known laws of physics and causality. It would literally tear space and time – at least in this universe.
This system would essentially eliminate measurement errors. I used to think that Trump was the largest douche on earth and no bigger one was possible. You changed all that. I imagine that exposure to you and your website will wreak havoc with many people’s rating systems. Thousands of douches will go tumbling down the charts as you assume your place at the top of all of them and cause a mass re-ordering of the system.
Like the Black Swan, you have appeared and made people rethink what is possible. A person with a rating of exactly K were not supposed to exist…yet here you are.
But from this initial chaos will emerge order. Like the metric system, it will be hard to impose on everyone but the K system will make things far easier going forward.
Read Country of Cretins http://www.cretincountry.blogspot.com
No wonder Syracuse failed to cover the spread after leading by 8 at the half…you poisoned the coaching staff, you cunt! You owe me $12,000.
Big black man salt all up in yer face?
There are 127,000 troops currently stationed in Iraq. There are 38,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. 12,000,000 Americans are unemployed. In 2008 140 police officers were killed in the line of duty.
There is nothing worse than a 5:30 AM call time for a movie shoot.
Really?
You’re fucking kidding me.
You are on the set of a movie that stars Angelina Jolie, not to mention that there were probably tons of other hot FEMALE extras, hangers on etc. But what you choose to comment on is “I was surprised how tall Liev was; he was at least an inch taller than me, and very broad.”
Really?
Are you fucking with us? I mean I thought this was funny because you didn’t get that you’re a tool, but now I think you’re just fucking with our heads.
BTW, thanks for posting again we appreciate it, only so many times I can piss myself reading comments from “Salt” and others
Things that are worse than a 5am call time:
1) War
2) Death
3) Disease
4) Crime
5) Poverty
6) The vanity it takes to post a story about how somebody thought you looked like Brad Pitt…but cuter.
Arthur, if you are truly interested in bettering yourself, become aware of the world around you. Pursuing one’s passion is indeed a noble endeavor, but only depending on the passion.
If your passion is to create art, foster community among your peers, and self actualize, then you should never give up the good fight.
But if your passion is to be admired, desired, and adored…get out of the modeling business, get out of the blogosphere, and get out of the country. Witness real suffering. Experience different cultures. Fall in love. Get some perspective.
Then read everything you can get your hands on: literature, philosophy, biology, psychology, history, poetry, physics. Faulkner, Dostoyefsky, Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Kant, Voltaire, Freud, Darwin, Newton, Einstein, Shakespeare, Neruda, Elliot, Hawking, Choamsky, and Marx. Hell, read Stephen King. Read everything. Suck some inspiration from their brains. Become a better writer. And prepare to have your mind blown.
Once you’ve done this, once you’ve a) experienced life and b) played catch-up with the four odd millenia of written human thought that has proceeded you, then start a blog. You’ll be doing it for all the right reasons. And it will be way, way more fascinating and useful to the world at large. People will no longer read about your ‘goings-on’ to get their daily fix of schadenfreude (a tacit admission of guilt if there ever was one). No, they will read what you have to say because what you have to say is unique.
Plus, you will no longer be called a douchebag.
Which is nice.
Arthur, you are living in Carl Sagan’s “Flatland”: a two dimensional world of nightclubs and networking. Come join the third dimension. The view is nice from up here, I promise.
Ya see, if you didn’t seem to have such a naive lack of awareness, I wouldn’t even try inviting you. But your heart is in the right place, and I can only conclude you are simply ignorant. That is not a great sin, but it may be the greatest evil. It is one that I know all too well. You need to know what you don’t know or you can’t know it.
What I find encouraging is your claim to be on a quest for enlightenment.
A warning: you will not find truth in a vacuum. Only dust and fingernails.
Nobody is better than you, but you.
You are such a fucking idiot! Brad Pitt?!?! You looking NOTHINGGGGGGGG, not even a little bit like brad pitt. You’re delusional… And a big lying loserm
Again, seriously?!?!?! Let me address the first issue here….”to help film the interior scene inside the church with Liev Schreiber and the guy who starred opposite Denzel Washington in American Gangster”
First off I HOPE you told Liev how you loved him in American Gangster b/c then he would know what a fraud you are! Russell Crowe stared opposite Denzel Washington in American Gangster. Liev Schreiber stared opposite Denzel Washington in The Manchurian Candidate. You obviously do not know your directors and actors!! Hopefully Ridley Scott will know to pass on you on his film and the fact that you don’t know Liev Schreiber’s filmography suprises me since you like to name drop so much (and seem to be on a first name basis with him). He is an amazing actor and director (check out Everything is Illuminated…maybe that will change your perspective on some things?!) What a joke!!!!!
Secondly……Brad Pitt???? Not even f-ing close! Wow, what ever funny pills you’re taking, maybe you need to pass them out to the rest of us b/c I don’t think we see what you see.
Good luck dude….I think you’re gonna need it!
Brad Pitt?? Yeah, I guess you are similar: both bipedal carbon-based life forms that exhibit bi-lateral symmetry. Maybe you’ll get cast in the gay porn equivalent: Benjamin Buttplug.
Shit head.
http://www.cretincountry.blogspot.com
Artie, I thought you were rich? If you had a 5 a.m. call for extras at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, why didn’t you just stay there the night before? Or at least stay somewhere in NYC. Rooms are only a few hundred dollars. Instead, you had to leave Philly at 3 a.m. to drive your broke-ass to NYC to be an extra?
Do you really consider being one of 700 extras (as you claim) to be “acting”? That isn’t acting, that is just being paid a couple of bucks to be an extra. Anybody in Philly could have been an extra on Rocky VI if they wanted to do so. That isn’t acting, boy. You don’t even know if you will even make it into the movie. Nor do you know if you will even be called up to NYC to finish the scene. There is a reason why they are shooting that scene on weekends only — because the other extras actually have real jobs and don’t consider themselves to be “actors.”
Doesn’t anything ever register with you? Are you that lacking in self-awareness that you can’t understand even basic things? Or are you, and your crew, so coked-up all the time that you can’t grasp reality?
Ha! I find it hilarious that “a concerned citizen” actually felt the need to say things that are worse than a 5am wake up call. Because none of us have ever said something “is the worst” when it’s not – you idiot. It’s a human expression Concerned citizen – why don’t you concern yourself with other matters and go drink yourself into a depressed comma, as clearly you are taking the weight of the world on your shoulders. And Arthur – you know I heart you but you don’t look like Brad Pitt. It’s the nose.
I was playing basketball the other day and a fellow player told me that my game reminds him of Jordan but that I am better
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I don’t think you look like Brad Pitt, but close. I do see why she said that.
If Brad Pitt had a severely retarded gay twin who had every bone in his face broken during a hate crime at a gay bar–that’d be you. All the way.
Peace and love.
Maya,
Kill yourself.
hahhahahahahahaahhha the last two comments made me laugh out loud.
this herb is unbelievable. this would be cool if he were in his early to mid 20’s, but the dude is 30+ , no?
Maya,
I am aware it’s an expression. Arthur isn’t.
I really think he couldn’t rack his brain and think of a single other thing that is worse than a 5am wake up call.
Now fuck off.
Arthur, you are a fucking cock!!!
And Maya,
I can’t drink myself into a depressed “comma”. I’m not an idiot. Quite the opposite. Not sure about you, but time will tell.
Whether Mr. Kade was being facetious vis a vis “There’s nothing worse…” is open to interpretation. What isn’t open to interpretation is Arthur’s preoccupation with his looks, Brad Pitt, nightclubs, adolescent musings on dating, working out, money, glamor, and himself.
Most of my advice, which was written constructively, remains valid.
Again, I urge you to fuck off.
To cut you off, better make that “glamour”.
LOL Who is this douche bag anyway?
Folks, let’s face it, we don’t need another Perez Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Brandon Davis, or Paris Hilton dragging on America’s 21st-century cultural legacy! Well, up to this point, we have all been guilty of aiding and abetting Kade into his new role amongst these societal lesions. That being said, I do believe that most comments on here are directed to dissuade this douche from continuing to spread his pathogen of douchiness through the vector that is arthurkade.com, but it‘s not working!
Now, I know Arthur; I know he is a real person, but I’m starting to believe that all of this negative attention is exactly what he wants. It’s like electrocuting Godzilla– it just makes him stronger. Kade is both the diabolical marketing genius and real-life douche bag that is the culmination of our worst fears. I’d liken Arthur to the ex that won’t stop calling and harassing until the phone is picked up or the door is answered. The ex is pining for attention because attention equals emotional investment. Irrespective of the response, any recognition, whether it be hate, sympathy, love, applause or derisiveness, are all varying degrees of vested interest, and that my friends, is better than non-responsiveness to both the ex and to Arthur. All of the negative attention he’s received thus far has gotten Arthur interviewed, written about, and discussed by an ever growing amount of people.
With this knowledge, I implore all commentators of this blog to cease future replies, responses and visits on and to this website. Arthur is fast become an irritatingly itchy scab on humanity’s knees; and, like any scab, the only way to make him go away without leaving a permanent scar is to stop bothering with him, let him dry up and subsequently fall off the face of the earth.
I urge all of you to stop inviting this vermin into your homes and offices; stop allowing him to leave his vile, odious, and noxious presence to linger in our hearts and minds. Boycott arthurkade.com
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Why go to war and risk dying when you just get up a couple hours early once in a while to let people take your picture around famous celebrities? Huh, Maybe Arty is smarty after all.
This Matt Beauchamp guy has got a really interesting and creative writing style. Is he a professional blogger too Arty?
“I was told that Tom Cruise turned down the role of the main character, Edward Salt, so they decided to make it using a woman, and therefore cast Jolie.”
No, after Tom Cruise dropped out, Angelina Jolie wanted the role and she is so badass that they specifically rewrote the role from a male character to a female character just for her.
You do look like Brad Pitt a little, Well if you raped his face with a Sledge hammer and then set him alight you ugly bent nose bastard !!
Peace Out From The UK
5:30am call???? ah diddums Kade you lead a hard life, you need to downgrade to being a farmer/soldier/nurse etc i.e somebody who WORKS FOR A FUCKING LIVING AND NOT SOME VAPID MEDIAWHORE LIKE YOU!!! your disillusioned bubble world is in danger of getting into reality’s orbit you hook nosed out of touch douchebaggery waste of cum, let us not forget you are a fucking extra in this film so it’s not “real” work not that you would know it if it loosened it’s pants and forced a massive girthed cock into your empty head.
ps re: the comment about you / brad pitt – i hope to fucking christ/allah/budda that you gave the woman’s guide dog a biscuit or at the least a reacharound.
i’ll be back some for some more mirth and barrages of abuse aimed at your planet sized head mongboy
love and hugz from across the pond (uk to you douchey)
So you got a call from central casting and they asked you if you were available for some acting work in a feature film being produced by Columbia Pictures? That’s so rad broheim! In actuality, your chode-ass called central casting, which is a hotline where they have messages about upcoming extra work and you submit for it. This particular message undoubtedly said, “We are looking for anyone and EVERYONE to populate a street in New York full of 700 extras, so it doesn’t matter what you look like, and don’t worry, if you happen to have enormous shoulders, a gnarled tree for a nose, and a face that resembles ‘the penguin’ from batman, don’t worry we’ll just hide you in the way background!” Well played, you super-charged cum-guzzling taint.
The Kadeness isn’t rich, he’s a 40-year old unemployed homeless guy who used to be the “all-star” salesperson at Neiman Marcus, where they hired him because they needed the token gay guy to give fashion forward advice, and the customers bought boatloads of clothes without looking at the price-tag because they were too enamored by his greasy guido hair. He’s making minimum wage on this movie, if that, so of course he can’t afford to stay in a hotel the night before, doing extra work is the only “job” he can get nowadays.
I hate to defend this waste of skin, but in response to KC – Arty is correct in saying that there is an actor in Salt that appeared opposite Denzel Washington in “American Gangster”. He was referring to Chiwetel Ejiofor.