--- Code Breaker Boy - This has been around since the start of the weekend so y'all have probably already watched it but here's the trailer for Duncan Jones' Source Code, that movie where Jake goes all Groundhog Day on a train. Moon was good enough - and Jake is enough period, especially the way that suit's fitting him - that I'm willing to overlook the slight generic nature of action beats filling this the trailer.--- Eff Day - My guard's been down. I've been so happy with Fringe this season that I haven't been paying attention to how it's been doing in the ratings, and now I see this story, that FOX is moving it to Friday night's so-called "death slot" and I'm freaking out. Freaking out. Somebody tell me it'll all be okay! I can't lose Fringe! It's the best show on TV! Somebody fix this!
--- Just So You Know - Jim Carrey rules.
--- Now Kiss - Andrew Garfield hugs it out with Community star Donald Glover over Peter Parker shenanigans. Andy got the role after Donald had made an online plea for it, you might recall. They should've given DG some role in the film, says me.--- Experience the Payne - Daniel Clowes is adapting his most recent book Wilson for Alexander Payne to perhaps direct. I haven't read Wilson but when I was in Portland earlier this year I actually saw Clowes speak at the big bookstore there - I'm spacing on the name - and he was very funny. Also the lead singer of The Decemberists was sitting only a couple of rows away from me. The end.
--- My Theory - I don't remember if I've written this down before but it's a conversation I have with the boyfriend every time I see Olivia Wilde on a trailer for something - which has been a frequent occurrence lately what with Tron:Legacy and Cowboys & Aliens - but I can't for the life of me figure out why I'm supposed to know who she is. Why is she suddenly everywhere and I know her name? And it feels like she's been being sold as this Entity that I'm suppose to love beforehand for ages now, and every time I'm like, Olivia who? Is she the chick from G4? No, that's Olivia Munn. Who the hell is Olivia Wilde then? And no one knows and yet they know her name and it boggles me.
So from there I think of Melissa George's character in Mulholland Drive. You all remember her, right? She's the girl that Justin Theroux's forced to cast in his film by the unseen forces of dwarfs in velvet rooms and strange threatening ginger cowboys. She gets to become a star and ruins Naomi Watts' life and steals away her girl and is just awful awful awful. I think that Olivia Wilde is the real life version of that character. She has been forced upon us by dwarfs in velvet rooms and strange threatening ginger cowboys and they're convincing us she's not some totem they've put in place and I won't have it! I won't! I reject you Olivia Wilde!All this is my way of linking over to Craig's latest Take Three post at The Film Experience which is about Melissa George and three of her finest performances, including one of the best write ups of her work in Mulholland Drive I've ever read. As well as her really terrific work in Triangle, which is a movie more people need to find. Great stuff.
--- Red Bob - Here are some pictures of Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried on the set of Andrew Niccol's latest movie, now being called Now I guess. Used to be called I'm.Mortal which I would just stare at blankly for five minutes before even attempting to try and pronounce. Iiiiiiemmmmimarrrrtell?--- Baby Girl BJ - Lindsay Lohan's out of the Linda Lovelace movie, and Malin Akerman, always and forever Juna from The Comeback, is in. Also she kissed Roger Clark of NY1 on the air the other day and so that's scarred my brain as well. Christ I am especially rambling today, right? Too early for all these words. Brain broken.
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Oh no, not you too. I can't believe so many people are freaking out about "Fringe" on Fridays. Nobody watches TV the night it's actually on anyway! Fridays could be a blessing. "Dollhouse" lasted two seasons on Fridays with seven total viewers. (Plus, if you told me "Fringe" was lasting one season beyond this one and no further, I think I'd be fine. Series like these tend to go off the rails if they last too long.)
I'd be okay with Fringe lasting one more season too, Joe, BUT WILL IT MAKE IT ONE MORE? I didn't even realize it had low ratings, so this is too sudden. I thought it did okay. I knew it wasn't lighting the world on fire or anything but I didn't think it was going to be tossed into the dungheap! DUNGHEAP! DUNGHEAP!
Your cool-headedness cannot squelch my Chicken Little, dude.
I think Fox have accepted at this point that Fringe is getting no more new viewers but I think this has been great for the show. They've stopped making the less interesting procedural-type episodes designed for the casual viewer and really let their freak flag fly.
I just hope they let the programme makers know if it's being renewed or not. It feels like it's building up to some apocalyptic craziness and if it's ending I want it to be done properly.
Olivia Wilde was/is Thirteen on House.
Fringe got the X-Files slot! There's hope! And now I can finally watch it when it actually airs!
I think Olivia Wilde's vicious rise to non-obscurity began when she did House or something. Or maybe it was because Megan Fox said she's hot, and she blew her off. I don't know, it's been a long time since my E! days.
Sigh.
Olivia Wilde first became famous when she was cast as the other girl in The O.C.'s infamous "Marissa takes a lesbian vacation" storyline.
From there, she became one of those "Maxim famous" girls, like Megan Fox started out as. Then she got cast on House.
I hate being the one who has to tell you these things.
But did all of those things really happen, or have we all just been implanted with the memories of them by the dwarfs and ginger cowboys? HMMM?
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