question of the day: What movie are you most looking forward to in Autumn 2011?
Okay, this is it. Summer is over. Back to school. Back to work. Put on a sweater and get serious.
Year: 2011
London photo of the day: fireworks over the Thames
As part of the Thames Festival, there was a lovely display of fireworks over the river earlier this evening.
press release of the week: DreamWorks Animation’s Jennifer Yuh Nelson Becomes Highest-Grossing Female Director Of Worldwide Box Office Film
It’s shame that Kung Fu Panda 2 isn’t really much of an expression of Jennifer Yu Nelson-ness and is very much an expression of Big Corporate Cartoon Franchise-ness.
celeb news of the week: Steven Soderbergh does some second-unit shooting on ‘The Hunger Games’ (but he hopes you won’t notice it)
Since when do big-name celebrity hotshots take on a job that is usually thankless and typically invisible? When they’re nice guys helping out a pal.
London photo of the day: Molly the cat
Molly the cat, whom I have cat-sat a few times. Sometimes she consents to be petted.
Saturday cute: ‘Jaws’ meets ‘Peanuts’
What if, instead of Steven Spielberg adapting Jaws for the big screen, Charles Schulz adapted Jaws for the newspaper comic strip?
question of the weekend: How are you dealing with — or avoiding — the 9/11 anniversary?
In a way I’m glad I’m not in New York this week: the 9/11 remembrances and retrospectives have been painful enough on this side of the Atlantic, and I can only imagine that the looking-back is even more intense in the city where some of the events of that day happened.
London photo of the day: Harriette the blue macaw
I met Harriette the blue macaw in the pet shop in Central Croydon.
Friday night fortune cookie: Bertie Wooster says…
“One simply cannot wander around London asking people to pretend to be Gussie Finknottle.”
cute animal video: cats! in! space!
Or on one of those planes that do the parabolic loop and let you experience zero-gee for 30 seconds, at least.
