Month: September 2008

trailer break: ‘Hounddog’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Yes, this is the movie with the controversial scene in which a young girl played by Dakota Fanning is raped. Hounddog opens limited September 19.

coincidence?

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I don’t know if it’s deliberate on the part of the nice folks at Tor Books or not, but d’ya see that Blogads ad for Paul of Dune down in the righthand column? In my other life as a writer and editor of non-movie-related stuff, I copyedited that book. Not that you’d see any particularly … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Miracle at St. Anna,’ ‘Ghost Town,’ ‘The Duchess,’ ‘Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,’ ‘Blindness,’ ‘Appaloosa,’ ‘Towelhead’

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Even though my movie schedule doesn’t look any more jammed than usual, I’m trying to cram stuff in to accommodate my planned absence from press screenings for a week and half starting in the middle of next week. I swear, it’s almost not worth planning even half a vacation, partly a working vacation, for all … more…

trailer break: ‘Ghost Town’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Oh man, there is nothing worse for a writer than discovering that one of your ideas had been done by someone else. Cuz this was my idea, that the ghost of a dead lover would come back to finish up business with the still-alive beloved. My … more…

watch it: that Tina Fey-does-Sarah Palin SNL sketch

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I swear, everywhere I went yesterday, the only thing everyone was talking about was Tina Fey’s postironic smackdown of Sarah Palin. (I call it postironic because it’s virtually indistinguishable from Sarah Palin simply being Sarah Palin, which in itself would be laughable if she weren’t on the verge of being President Palin, which is simply … more…