Ok so I stole this from another blog. Whaddya gonna do? Report me?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Dreams Sometimes Do Come True
Do you know of my love of The Ausiello Report? Well, you do now. You also know that I think Jessica Walter is a dagdum genius and while I'm scratching my head over Aunt Becky as the new Cindy Walsh, a part of my sweet little Full House heart is praying that John Stamos will somehow become involved now.
Jessica Walter by Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com
It isn't Kelly Bishop, but this will do rather nicely: Sources confirm to me exclusively that Arrested Development's grande dame, Jessica Walter, has been cast as hard-drinkin', faded, '70s-movie-star Tabitha Mills on the CW's fast-tracked-for-fall 90210 update.
To recap: Tabitha is the grandmother of the show's central teens, siblings
I don't know about you, by my excitement about this show just swelled tenfold.
This Just In: Dirt's Ryan Eggold has snagged the role of Ryan "the teacher."
Related:
• Hilary Duff Out, Degrassi Teen In at New 90210
• Exclusive: Lori Loughlin Is 90210's New Cindy Walsh
Monday, April 28, 2008
Run, Don't Walk
Marty, where are you when I need you?!
Lil Mama's debut album YVP free this week on AOL Free CD Listening Party. Listen HERE.
Oh, I'm sorry. Have you forgotten how much you love Lil Mama? Shhh, it's ok, my babies- JC is here.
Click here for Lip Gloss.
And here for Girlfriend, that Avril Lavigne song. Everything made instantly better with a Lil Mama.
Lil Mama's debut album YVP free this week on AOL Free CD Listening Party. Listen HERE.
Oh, I'm sorry. Have you forgotten how much you love Lil Mama? Shhh, it's ok, my babies- JC is here.Click here for Lip Gloss.
And here for Girlfriend, that Avril Lavigne song. Everything made instantly better with a Lil Mama.
Friday, April 25, 2008
A Little Validation for Your Feelings
This sums up how I felt about the trailer for "Wanted" pretty perfectly.
People talk ad nauseam about the damage of the paparazzi, the invasion of privacy, "think about the children!" and "there's a war in Iraq too!"- all that. My personal beef can best be summed up by Scarlet Johansson from a magazine interview I read years ago, and this is purely from memory so I apologize for any inaccuracy, which was that she was mostly sorry that the mystery surrounding Hollywood had pretty much dissipated. And it's true- we attribute so much glamour to old Hollywood, Hayworth and Hepburn and Grant, but how much of that is the power of black and white and some soft lighting? The truth is these stars didn't give us much beyond what they granted us on screen. And the result? When we saw Garbo in Grand Hotel, we believed who she purported to be. We got in lost in Hepburn and Tracy's repartee on screen but what if we had watched, knowing full well because of a dogged press that they were having an affair? Something great would've been lost. It would be difficult to separate the couple on screen from the illicit romance they shared in real life.
So, yes, it's hard to buy Angelina Jolie the actress these days. And this character especially seems to be phoned in more than her most- indeed the badass assassin is mostly an anagram of her previous roles. Scramble the backgrounds and we're right back to Lara Croft and Jane Smith, with a little bit of that chick from Hackers thrown in for good measure. It's a shame too because it really isn't her fault. And James McAvoy is seriously cute even if this looks more like a job for Shia.
Angelina Jolie Is Very Believable As Angelina Jolie
(Courtesy of The Hater blog on AV Club)
posted by: Amelie Gillette
posted by: Amelie Gillette
April 23, 2008 - 11:37am
In the trailer for Wanted, the following things take place:
You can continue reading Amelie's take here as well as watch the trailer for yourself. Personally, I'm just going to sit here and continue to feel relieved that I'm not the only one who's started seeing Angie as incapable of playing anything but herself. Even the other day, I happened to catch Original Sin on Lifetime or Oxygen, one of those (and depressing in of itself), and I thought "Oh, look Angelina's in Cuba!"--Someone uses a gun that bends like a bendy straw
--Bullets swerve in mid-air
--A passenger is scooped into a speeding car, instead of struck by it.
--The "fraternity" of the world's most secret assassins meets in a gigantic, decidedly non-secret castle.
--A guy is literally cut into a million, perfectly cubed pieces when he bursts through a glass window
But despite all of these things, the most unbelievable, highly ridiculous, patently absurd thing about Wanted is that Angelina Jolie is supposed to be playing an assassin, and not Angelina Jolie.
People talk ad nauseam about the damage of the paparazzi, the invasion of privacy, "think about the children!" and "there's a war in Iraq too!"- all that. My personal beef can best be summed up by Scarlet Johansson from a magazine interview I read years ago, and this is purely from memory so I apologize for any inaccuracy, which was that she was mostly sorry that the mystery surrounding Hollywood had pretty much dissipated. And it's true- we attribute so much glamour to old Hollywood, Hayworth and Hepburn and Grant, but how much of that is the power of black and white and some soft lighting? The truth is these stars didn't give us much beyond what they granted us on screen. And the result? When we saw Garbo in Grand Hotel, we believed who she purported to be. We got in lost in Hepburn and Tracy's repartee on screen but what if we had watched, knowing full well because of a dogged press that they were having an affair? Something great would've been lost. It would be difficult to separate the couple on screen from the illicit romance they shared in real life.
So, yes, it's hard to buy Angelina Jolie the actress these days. And this character especially seems to be phoned in more than her most- indeed the badass assassin is mostly an anagram of her previous roles. Scramble the backgrounds and we're right back to Lara Croft and Jane Smith, with a little bit of that chick from Hackers thrown in for good measure. It's a shame too because it really isn't her fault. And James McAvoy is seriously cute even if this looks more like a job for Shia.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
What To Read, What to Write and How to Do Both
Occasionally, having a Creative Writing degree has its benefits. Since it doesn't guarantee you employment and costs thousands upon thousands of dollars to acquire, we cannot take said benefits for granted.
My classes at school (and don't bother looking for the Creative Writing major if you actually click on that link to find out my alma mater. Because it doesn't exist. I'm one of those wily students who figured out the joys of the Interdisciplinary Studies program) gave me the following:
- A short story by Brady Udall that's only one page, a handout for a class, and I loved it so much that I framed the thing and hung it up in my bedroom. I loved it so much that it survived my 3,000 mile move across the country. I still read it occasionally and get goosebumps. It's called "The Wig" and if you've taken a writing class, you've probably seen it as proof that you can get a lot across in only 300 words. Then you spend the next hour trying to write a whole short story in a page, cursing Brady Udall, until you're so frustrated you contemplate throwing the damn thing in the trash. If you're smart though, you keep it hanging around.
- Two short stories I wrote for homework that I've kept with me for almost six years. They'll be whole novels someday, you watch (whether or not you'll read them is another matter)
- Really good books to read. Because you can't really learn to write until you fully appreciate how to steal. Possibly, the best gem is the Best American Series or, as I like to call it, the gift that keeps on giving... They come out every year and I highly recommend both Short Stories and Essays, which pulls the best stories from the country's leading magazines in the given year.
My classes at school (and don't bother looking for the Creative Writing major if you actually click on that link to find out my alma mater. Because it doesn't exist. I'm one of those wily students who figured out the joys of the Interdisciplinary Studies program) gave me the following:
- A short story by Brady Udall that's only one page, a handout for a class, and I loved it so much that I framed the thing and hung it up in my bedroom. I loved it so much that it survived my 3,000 mile move across the country. I still read it occasionally and get goosebumps. It's called "The Wig" and if you've taken a writing class, you've probably seen it as proof that you can get a lot across in only 300 words. Then you spend the next hour trying to write a whole short story in a page, cursing Brady Udall, until you're so frustrated you contemplate throwing the damn thing in the trash. If you're smart though, you keep it hanging around.
- Two short stories I wrote for homework that I've kept with me for almost six years. They'll be whole novels someday, you watch (whether or not you'll read them is another matter)
- Really good books to read. Because you can't really learn to write until you fully appreciate how to steal. Possibly, the best gem is the Best American Series or, as I like to call it, the gift that keeps on giving... They come out every year and I highly recommend both Short Stories and Essays, which pulls the best stories from the country's leading magazines in the given year.
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