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--- I'm of two minds with this "Cate Blanchett joins the cast of Indy 4" news - I love Cate, I do, and think she can probably do anything (and really, seems to be getting the chance with her getting cast in like 87% of every movie made in Hollywood as of late). But then I think of her delicate little frame and I worry she's going to be split in two in some sort of haphazard whip incident. Harrison's aim with that thing may be off these days, what with the probable cataracts and all.

Also, I'd have loved to see Karen Allen again.

--- Spoiler alert! If you don't want to know about some of the content of the faux-movie-trailers between the two halves of Grindhouse, then don't read this article, but I read it and its description of what's too graphic for distributors in Eli Roth's bit is Quote of the Day material:

"Eli Roth's "Thanksgiving" has a scene in which Jordan Ladd is giving oral sex to her boyfriend and halfway through realizes he has been decapitated, a fully nude cheerleader dies in a trampoline-related accident, and an obese man eats a baby."

Can this friggin' thing just be out already? Damn.

--- The man from Mars is through with cars! All the Kiki-haters are up in arms over her apparently having gotten finally officially cast as Blondie front-woman Debbie Harry, but as I've said before I think she's a terrific choice. So there, haters! I respectfully disagree!

--- Woo! Here's a (spoilery?) picture from Paul Thomas Anderson's little-heard-from-so-far upcoming motion picture There Will Be Blood (which if you'll remember was #1 on our 2007 Looking-Forward-To Countdown at TFE). It's spoilery, I guess - Cinematical says so - so approach with caution... I myself haven't even clicked on the link yet, I have to decide if I ought to or not still... evil temptation! [ed. - I clicked! It's so not exciting. Alas.]
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