Sunday, August 24, 2008
RFB hiatus blogging four
You should know the drill by now--if you have a good suggestion, leave 'em in the comments.
Heidi Montag is mocking me
No, I don't really know who she is either. But her forthcoming music video apparently has an '80s theme, and that means she's digging in my mine.
Twenty-four happiness
This picture is out of focus (obviously), but it's me and my nephew. He can be kind of a brat sometimes, but whadaya expect? He's six years old and I love him.
This is him "holding court" at his sixth birthday party.
There are movies (like Monster Squad) I'm waiting for him to be old enough to watch...but that has a werewolf and he's scared of werewolves, so it might take a while.
This is him with my dragon puppet, who I named Jim (an old girlfriend gave him to me just around the time Henson died).
About this picture...is he not Harry Potter?
Saturday, August 23, 2008
My Dirty Friends Comeback
Since I've been lagging the last couple of days (not counting George's suggestions), today I'm going to make up for lost time. I have a triple hat-trick for you: Three trios.
2000:
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu, AKA Charlie's Angels.
I've said this before: The 2000 movie may not have been, shall we say, mindblowingly
original. In fact I've come to think of it as "Noise in Babesland."
But it is something of a guilty pleasure (also a great film to watch on the exercise bike).
The sequel, meanwhile, made the first look like Goldfinger.
Updates:
Cameron Diaz's last film, What Happens in Vegas, stopped in theaters only briefly before heading for DVD. But spare her no tears, she's presently Hollywood's highest-paid actress (Reese Witherspoon was number two, Jennifer Aniston third).
New fact about Barrymore (since we've done her separately): She recently revealed that she has the worst taste in karaoke.
Lucy Liu, a prominent Barack Obama supporter, is seen here at a recent fundraising gala with actress Nia Long (of Boyz N the Hood and other films).
She voiced a character in the hit animated summer movie Kung Fu Panda, which I haven't seen.
Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku and Gabrielle Union, better known as the cheerleading captain, the newest member of her squad, and their rival in Bring It On.
They're just excellent. So is the movie, which has more weight than expected.
Updates: Kirsten Dunst is waiting to hear about Spider-Man 4.
Eliza Dushku recently upset animal lovers when she revealed she has a penchant to hunt. She will appear in Joss Whedon's creepy-sounding new series as a brainwashed woman.
Gabrielle Union, statuesque as she is, badly needs a successful film. She was (briefly) onscreen this summer in Eddie Murphy's high-profile miss Meet Dave. She's done better on television, with a guest star part on Ugly Betty, which I don't watch but know is a popular show.
Incidentally, Union was also a physical role model for a character in my current work-in-progress.
Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox, better known as the girl Friends.
Aniston has more to offer as an actress than sex appeal and beauty, check out The Iron Giant, in which only her voice appears. But Lisa Kudrow seems to me to have made the most adventurous choices (Happy Endings) as an actress.
Her HBO sitcom The Comeback didn't get a second season, but I think it could easily be revived as a special, and should. Her role in it-- as an actress trying to revive her career--easily lends itself to plugging into whatever the "hot" trend of a current TV season is.
An example of this is seen in an extra bit made for the DVD release, where we see her backstage at Dancing With the Stars.
Courteney Cox remains kind of the Rodney Dangerfield of the girl Friends, to me. Aniston and Kudrow both won Emmys, but I don't think Cox was even nominated. I believe she deserves better.
I liked her post-Friends series Dirt, which made it to a second season (more than either The Comeback or Studio 60 can say) but was then cancelled. In my opinion it was a casualty of the writers' strike.
She also has the distinction of appearing in the greatest horror film series of the '90s, Scream (although the end of 2 and all of 3 bring the average down a bit).
Updates:
It is a testament to Aniston and her publicists that she has managed to cast herself--a sexy, successful, beautiful and highly-paid young woman--in the press as a victim time and again.
Granted, "Brangelina" helped with that a little.
Lisa Kudrow joins Courtney Love in being recently sued, and will be seen next in the film Kabluey, which is getting good advance notices.
Courteney Cox seems to be focusing on motherhood for the moment, but is also moving behind the camera as a director.
2000:
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu, AKA Charlie's Angels.
I've said this before: The 2000 movie may not have been, shall we say, mindblowingly
original. In fact I've come to think of it as "Noise in Babesland."But it is something of a guilty pleasure (also a great film to watch on the exercise bike).
The sequel, meanwhile, made the first look like Goldfinger.
I don't know who the schlep in the jeans jacket is, but I do know what he's thinking: Yes!
Updates:
Cameron Diaz's last film, What Happens in Vegas, stopped in theaters only briefly before heading for DVD. But spare her no tears, she's presently Hollywood's highest-paid actress (Reese Witherspoon was number two, Jennifer Aniston third).
New fact about Barrymore (since we've done her separately): She recently revealed that she has the worst taste in karaoke.
Lucy Liu, a prominent Barack Obama supporter, is seen here at a recent fundraising gala with actress Nia Long (of Boyz N the Hood and other films).
She voiced a character in the hit animated summer movie Kung Fu Panda, which I haven't seen.
Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku and Gabrielle Union, better known as the cheerleading captain, the newest member of her squad, and their rival in Bring It On.
They're just excellent. So is the movie, which has more weight than expected.
Updates: Kirsten Dunst is waiting to hear about Spider-Man 4.
Eliza Dushku recently upset animal lovers when she revealed she has a penchant to hunt. She will appear in Joss Whedon's creepy-sounding new series as a brainwashed woman.
Gabrielle Union, statuesque as she is, badly needs a successful film. She was (briefly) onscreen this summer in Eddie Murphy's high-profile miss Meet Dave. She's done better on television, with a guest star part on Ugly Betty, which I don't watch but know is a popular show.
Incidentally, Union was also a physical role model for a character in my current work-in-progress.
Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox, better known as the girl Friends.
Aniston has more to offer as an actress than sex appeal and beauty, check out The Iron Giant, in which only her voice appears. But Lisa Kudrow seems to me to have made the most adventurous choices (Happy Endings) as an actress.
Her HBO sitcom The Comeback didn't get a second season, but I think it could easily be revived as a special, and should. Her role in it-- as an actress trying to revive her career--easily lends itself to plugging into whatever the "hot" trend of a current TV season is.
An example of this is seen in an extra bit made for the DVD release, where we see her backstage at Dancing With the Stars.
Courteney Cox remains kind of the Rodney Dangerfield of the girl Friends, to me. Aniston and Kudrow both won Emmys, but I don't think Cox was even nominated. I believe she deserves better.
I liked her post-Friends series Dirt, which made it to a second season (more than either The Comeback or Studio 60 can say) but was then cancelled. In my opinion it was a casualty of the writers' strike.
She also has the distinction of appearing in the greatest horror film series of the '90s, Scream (although the end of 2 and all of 3 bring the average down a bit).
Updates:
It is a testament to Aniston and her publicists that she has managed to cast herself--a sexy, successful, beautiful and highly-paid young woman--in the press as a victim time and again.
Granted, "Brangelina" helped with that a little.
Lisa Kudrow joins Courtney Love in being recently sued, and will be seen next in the film Kabluey, which is getting good advance notices.
Courteney Cox seems to be focusing on motherhood for the moment, but is also moving behind the camera as a director.
Twenty-three happiness
Mickey Mouse might be in the public domain.
I doubt anything will come of this, knowing the holy passion with which Disney protects its copywrights--but the idea that it even might tickles me.
I doubt anything will come of this, knowing the holy passion with which Disney protects its copywrights--but the idea that it even might tickles me.
Oh my.
Got a note from Jason Grose suggesting that I might want to find footage of the women's high jump at the Olympics, and specifically one Blanka Vlasic, Croatian.
Quite right. She's got kind of a Billie Piper/Amber Benson thing going on.
Quite right. She's got kind of a Billie Piper/Amber Benson thing going on.
Friday, August 22, 2008
This is turning into more trouble and less fun than it should be
So no, I didn't come up with anything for 1999 either.
Twenty-two happiness
Two things today. First, Obama and the likelyhood that he'll become president. Yeah, I'm looking at him with hope in my eyes, but with the eight years my country has had (to say nothing of me personally), I need a little hope.
If his running mate is Joe Biden, as most "sources are indicating," well, I like that more than I don't like it.
Second (and on the totally flip side of the coin), I'm repeating this one, because I truly think it's a great trailer and because the old embed stopped working.
I want to say more about how I became so hooked into the "Saw" world, but I'm not sure what.
If his running mate is Joe Biden, as most "sources are indicating," well, I like that more than I don't like it.
Second (and on the totally flip side of the coin), I'm repeating this one, because I truly think it's a great trailer and because the old embed stopped working.
I want to say more about how I became so hooked into the "Saw" world, but I'm not sure what.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
It's the women of 1998 after all, by George!
(Inspired by comment to previous post)
Updates:
Franka Potente appeared on The Shield and in the Bourne films, none of which I've seen.
Natasha Henstridge is on Eli Stone, which I think I've watched once.
Denise Richards is shaming her children by forcing them to appear on a "reality" show with her.
Matt Dillon is trying to get Richards and Neve Campbell for a remake of Little Darlings.
(OK, I made that one up.)
Neve Campbell is appearing in a mini-series for the BBC and waiting to hear about Scream 4.
Gwyneth Paltrow has enraged the always calm-thinking and logical PETA.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford & Cate Blanchett is to be released on DVD in October. No, I haven't seen that, either.
Updates:
Franka Potente appeared on The Shield and in the Bourne films, none of which I've seen.
Natasha Henstridge is on Eli Stone, which I think I've watched once.
Denise Richards is shaming her children by forcing them to appear on a "reality" show with her.
Matt Dillon is trying to get Richards and Neve Campbell for a remake of Little Darlings.
(OK, I made that one up.)
Neve Campbell is appearing in a mini-series for the BBC and waiting to hear about Scream 4.
Gwyneth Paltrow has enraged the always calm-thinking and logical PETA.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starring Harrison Ford & Cate Blanchett is to be released on DVD in October. No, I haven't seen that, either.
I couldn't think of anything for 1998.
I tried, but I've given up. 1998 just was not a very sexy year, at least as far as film, music, etc celebrities were concerned. Sorry. Maybe 1999 was better...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
1997: Spice Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Helen Hunt.
I like Helen Hunt, and it's not just because I've been highly warm for her form.
However, leave us not kid ourselves...
Hunt's first feature film as a director was released this year, unfortunately, it was not well-received (I haven't seen it).
The Spice Girls.
They’ll run me out of Seattle on a rail for saying this, but I'm kinda glad "grunge" was supplanted on the pop scene by the likes of the Girls. They were attractive, yes, but one or two of their records also threw down.
This was my favorite. I'll stand up for it as a good song...even the part that's a total rip-off of Wham's "Everything She Wants."
As you may have heard, the girls recently concluded a ridiculously successful reunion tour. Most of them have had babies, with the exception of Sporty Spice, who for some reason can't find the right fella.
In a related story:
David Beckham has reportedly been texting burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese.
The soccer star - who has three sons with former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham - is said to be so impressed by 35-year-old Dita's "raunchy routine" he got her number so he could express his gratitude.
Maybe he likes being reminded of what a woman's body looks like.
Twenty happiness
Ah, the golden age of English synth pop. Here's a great Thompson Twins record.
As you'll probably notice if you love this music as much as I do, this is a 2007 remix...
...and a brilliant one.
I'm especially happy that the remixer ("mickyd," ireland) retained the solo--one of my favorites ever.
As you'll probably notice if you love this music as much as I do, this is a 2007 remix...
...and a brilliant one.
I'm especially happy that the remixer ("mickyd," ireland) retained the solo--one of my favorites ever.
any excuse to post an image of Milla
But put this in the category of "dreams do come true."
(BTW, if you haven't seen the third Resident Evil movie and think you may, you probably shouldn't read this. Then again, if you haven't, it won't make much sense anyhow.)
Director (and husband to Milla) Paul W.S. Anderson on the possibilities of a third sequel:
Last year there were, I think, eight 'threequels' got released. Rush Hour 3, Pirates 3, Spider-Man 3...but there was eight of them. Shrek 3. Six out of the eight, the third movie did worse business than the second movie. There were only two where the third movie did better than the second movie. That was Bourne Ultimatum and Resident Evil. So, you know, it is quite an achievement for a franchise to keep growing like that, and we all feel that the audience is excited to see another one clearly. We would like, if we could put it together, we would do it.
io9: Right, but hypothetically how would you go about using all of those Alices?
Anderson: I'm not going to tell you that. [laughs]... but we would.
io9: You would?
Anderson: We would, yes. Absolutely.
That's really nice
As you may remember, last February Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law agreed to step in to replace Heath Ledger in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.”
The fantasy Ledger was filming at the time of his death involves his character being transported into multiple dimensons; each of the men is taking his part in a separate one.
Today:
The fantasy Ledger was filming at the time of his death involves his character being transported into multiple dimensons; each of the men is taking his part in a separate one.
Today:
When the three actors learned that Ledger's will had not been updated to include his daughter, the generous trio decided to donate all the money they earned from the film to little Matilda!
I know it's incredibly transparent of me, but all of a sudden I find myself wanting to see the new GI Joe movie.
Hey, I'm the '80s man, of course I played with the action figures. Scarlett was big when I was 14. Now, she's even bigger...and played by Rachel Nichols, last seen (at least by me) as one of Charlie's hot-ass office staff in Charlie Wilson's War...
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