"Don't know
how you do
the voodoo
that you do
so well
it's a spell
hell
makes me wanna
shoop shoop shoop..."
"I have so many [man-crushes]! Like Zach Galifianakis. In fact, my wife always says that I have the biggest crush on him. He’s a comic who usually has this big beard, but he’s so freakin’ funny... I like depth. Anyone can just jump in the sack with Colin Farrell, but you spend your life with Zach Galifianakis."
Previously
Pic of the Day - Paul Rudd in Rolling Stone
"I didn't say I was different or better.
I'm not. Hell, I sympathize; I sympathize completely.
Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier
to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life.
It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it.
It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it.
Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work. "
Daniel Craig, being his cool self,
Hello to the couple of thousand extra visitors I've gotten in the past 24 hours after being linked to by Out.com.
Oh this a site after my own heart - NotBestPicture.com, which is "a website dedicated to the abolishment of bad best picture winners."
Anyway, there's a highly positive review from Sundance of his new pic, Snow Angels, over at AICN. Says Quint:
"Depressing, hopeful, cynical, happy, sad, tragic and everything in between. SNOW ANGELS is complex and incredibly emotional, filled to the brim with outstanding career-best performances by all involved."
It's really turned into Hitchcock Day here in The Pants for some reason, hasn't it? Well, every day is Hitchcock Day, really, we're just living in his world now.
"He is eloquent about his bisexuality and tells of affairs with Patricia Neal, Arthur Laurents, Shelley Winters, Leonard Bernstein and Ava Gardner and his involvement with Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, and Tyrone Power."
"I thought you knew!
I want to go through life jumping
into fountains naked.
Good night!"
It's an old story, that Alfred Hitchcock refused to ever meet Steven Spielberg, but now we've finally got a reason why! Bruce Dern, who acted in Hitchcock's films Marnie and Family Plot, as well as a couple episodes of Hitchock's show, has the answer. From the New York Post:"In his memoir, "Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have," due in May from Wiley, actor Bruce Dern writes that he tried and tried to convince the director of Psycho and The Birds to say hello to Spielberg, who had just triumphed with Jaws. "I said, 'You're his idol. He just to sit at your feet for five minutes and chat with you...
He said, 'Isn't that the boy who made the fish movie? . . . I could never sit down and talk to him... because I look at him and feel like such a whore,' " Dern relates.
Completely puzzled, Dern, who appeared in two Hitchcock flicks, finally pinned the director down: "I said, 'Why do you feel Spielberg makes you a whore?' Hitch said, 'Because I'm the voice of the Jaws ride [at Universal Studios]. They paid me a million dollars. And I took it and I did it. I'm such a whore. I can't sit down and talk to the boy who did the fish movie . . . I couldn't even touch his hand."
--- From The Horror Blog (via Fangoria) I find this bit of info about one of my most anticipated flicks of 2007, The Mist:"When the film version was finally announced with The Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont attached, most fans of the novella were relieved, and it looked like the whole thing would go off without a hitch. Until now. According to The Mist star Thomas Jane in a talk with Fangoria:
“If you’ve read the novella, you understand the potential of the film, and Darabont has surpassed that. The script is missing the last 10 pages because he won’t divulge them to anybody—he’s changing the ending."
--- Also testing my faith is Neil Marshall, who directed the best horror movie of 2006, The Descent, with his new project, called Doomsday, which is described at Cinematical thusly:"The post-apocalyptic pic, also being written by Marshall, concerns a lethal virus that has spread throughout a major country and wiped out most of the populace. To contain the virus, authorities enforce a brutal quarantine by walling-off the infected parts of the country.
This puts an end to the threat, until it resurfaces years later in another major city, forcing an elite team of specialists, led by Eden Sinclair (played by Mitra), to enter the quarantine area on a desperate mission to find a cure. Hoskins will play cop Bill Nelson, who nominates Mitra's character for the perilous mission and monitors her progress while giving, one would assume, nuggets of wisdom and aide along the way."
--- Oh I promised myself I wouldn't talk about the Daniel Radcliffe Equus thing any more, but more pictures have appeared and I really have to take a shower or go to therapy or something now.
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I'm a cop no you're a cop no I'm a bad guy no you're a bad guy no he's a good guy no he's a bad guy no I'm a good cop no you're a bad cop no I'm a cop guy no I'm a guy cop no I'm a guy guy no I'm a cop cop bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang ha ha I lived bang no you didn't rat.
I could've been sandwiched between reruns of The King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond but we got really terrific actors to fill in our sitcommy plot, but imagine this: Ray Romano as a Passive-Aggressive Daddy and Jerry Stiller as the Perverted Grandpa and Kevin James as a Suicidal Gay and Courtney Thorne-Smith as a Frazzled Mommy and Erik von Detten as an Angry Teen and Ashley Olsen circa 1995 in a fat-suit as a Deluded Would-Be Little Girl Pageant Queen, but then stick it all a blender and dollop liberally with actual talent which none of these people possess and then make everybody dance so you feel good.
Hello I am Helen Mirren but instead of flashing my tits I'm wearing tweed and hairpins so you know I am The Queen and I sit and think and chat icily with that twerp Tony Blair who waffles with his anarchist wife but then some newsreel footage interrupts us and Diana's dead and they want Elton John at the funeral and there are piles of flowers and mean little girls who aren't really mean after all and We Royals run off to the country and I hike in a field of Corgis and then this dead deer teaches me a really important lesson so we go home.
Ooh I got a gun let's go shoot a tourist in the face I don't like to wear panties under my schoolgirl uniform NO I CAN'T HEAR YOU but i take some drugs and get dissed by creepy boys now i go to a party across the border bring the whiny white brats with I'LL WEAR THE RED DRESS we dance and rip the heads off chickens and outrun the police and get abandoned in the desert but those nasty British tourists are gonna steal the bus from my dying peeing wife and my eye wrinkles are acting circles around me but I cry on the telephone cuz that bitch housekeeper left my kids under a branch so I take all my clothes off for the police officer but he isn't interested NO I CAN'T HEAR YOU but my daddy does love me.
So now that I've finally caught up with the rest of the movie-appreciating public and seen the first two Godfather films (speaking of - I don't get the talk about Part II being the definitive case-in-point where a sequel can surpass the original film; I liked Part I more), I just wanna know: is it imperative that I watch Part III?
"So, picture Billy Bob Thornton's BAD SANTA character in his youth. Cynical, mean... and just a horrible person, but somehow still likable. Billy Crudup plays Henry, who has a huge chip on his shoulder, hardly any friends, but a lot of talent as a children's book author. A foul-mouthed children's book author that bases his characters on pornos, including his most popular character, Marty the Beaver...
Crudup is great in this. In fact, everybody is great in this, but the film rests on Crudup's shoulders. If [he] wasn't likable and just a mean asshole, then the film would have been intolerable. But you see his heart and the romance that happens feels not only real, but needed. You like watching Crudup tell little girls who worship his character that Beaver means vagina and Santa Claus doesn't exist. It's very funny and wrong, but you also don't miss that side of him when he comes to discover his humanity again."
"Name a horror movie that has yet to receive an official DVD release in North America which you think is deserving of one."
but one of the most popular answers is a flick I shamefully must admit to having never seen. Do I have to return my horror-geek badge now? Luckily there's word that it is getting a release this year, so I can right this abhorrent wrong soon.
"I now forgive Calvin Klein for previously hiring Justin Bieber as a model. I literally stopped buying the brand at that. I will reconsider now."--- MNPP commenter Dan approves, as do we all, of CK's use of Aaron Taylor-Johnson as their latest underwear model. Our baby boy is looking good!
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