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We forget that it’s a job. We go see people in movies or in concert or we stay at home and watch them on TV and they make us laugh or they make us cry or they make us dance and when they’re good they make it look so effortless… but it’s a job.
It looks like there’s a bit of a thaw happening between the striking WGA writers and the studios, and so maybe the Oscar ceremony, slated for February 24th, will be the usual shindig, and not a dull press conference thingie like the awful Golden Globes “event” was a few weeks ago. If that’s the case, … more…
Ellen Page, nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Juno, has never been nominated for an Oscar before, but she won an Empire Award (UK) for Best Female Newcomer for her performance in 2005’s Hard Candy. (Click the DVD for a quote from her character.) (Buy Hard Candy at Amazon.) (Read my review of … more…
So it turns out that Coltan, the metal mentioned on last night’s Sarah Connor Chronicles as a vital component in Terminator construction, is a real metal, one used in cell phones and other wireless devices, and has of course caused lots of bloody conflict: (Technorati tags: Congo’s Bloody Coltan)
(previous: “The Turk”) Shows like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles have gotta be a producer’s dream, and an actor’s nightmare. Oh, you don’t like the way you’re being treated on the set, Actor Boy? Not getting enough lines? Asking for more money? Well, hey, look: We’ll just strip your Terminator character down to his metal … more…
See it: • Elizabeth: The Golden Age [buy it]. From my review: Torture! Intrigue! Sex! Treachery! Holy war! Cate Blanchett in royal drag! Clive Owen in pirate drag! We are highly amused. If 10th-grade history was as much fun as this, no one would ever cut class. Seriously, though: Why don’t they teach us history … more…
…that my enjoyment of the return of unscripted Daily Shows and Colbert Reports has been somewhat diminished by the fact that the shows have been, you know, clearly scripted. Fortunately, news is trickling out that the writers’ strike may be approaching an ending. I’m sure that I shall eventually learn how to feel better about … more…
Johnny Depp, nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has been nominated twice before, including for Best Actor in 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. (Click the DVD for a quote from his character.) (Buy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse … more…
Speaking of Life on Mars, the TV show, I was Googling around the other day and came across this music-video-from-before-we-called-them-music-videos for the Bowie song that gave the show its title: (Technorati tags: David Bowie, Life on Mars)
Also, still obsessed with ‘Life on Mars’ and John Simm, still hatin’ Hollywood fatcats…
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