Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
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Gives people complaining about being old who are at least a decade younger than him the stinkeye.
Feh. Being old is a novel experience for me. I need the practice with my cane-shaking.
People born in 1984 can buy booze in the US. People born in 1987 can buy smokes. How did this HAPPEN?
There's a half-plus-seven rule?
Wait, how old is Timberlake?
There's a half-plus-seven rule?
Luckily Orlando Bloom squeaks in just under the wire for me.
There's a half-plus-seven rule?
I think it's from the Muslim faith. I heard about it first in Malcolm X's autobiography, anyhow. (Betty qualified.) The idea is that the woman should be half the man's age, plus seven years, though I suspect gris is applying it more loosely.
Just yesterday I was worrying that I was now old enough that I'd soon be making friends with people whose parents were younger than I was.
I know not of these rules, nor care I for them.
Just yesterday I was worrying that I was now old enough that I'd soon be making friends with people whose parents were younger than I was.
Oh. That will be painful.
I've already experienced hanging with people with parents younger than my sister, and that disturbed me enough.
I think I've got five years before I run a realistic risk of that, however.
Nope...Haven't seen the Professional yet.
Nope...Haven't seen the Professional yet.
You should. Because everyone ought to do so. When you rent it, make sure you get the version titled "Leon" instead, for the extra-disturbing extra 20 minutes.
more to do with the disturbing psychology of being a sex symbol at the age of twelve,
Which may also go a long way to explain Brooke Shields, Michael Jackson, and Donny Osmond, but that's another discussion.
On-topic, thanks to Hec for recommending Aventurera. Excellent film noir, and, since it wasn't Hollywood, I couldn't rely on the conventions to figure out what would happen next. Which means I was caught completely off guard by the big plot twist.
And on NP -- I think Natalie Portman was a tremendously interesting actress at 12 or 14, but her adult performances haven't lived up to The Professional or Beautiful Girls yet.
This is my feeling too, but I haven't seen Closer or Garden State, so I'm mainly judging off the SW movies, which are probably not her best adult work. I'm really curious about V for Vendetta, though.
I think Natalie Portman was a tremendously interesting actress at 12 or 14, but her adult performances haven't lived up to The Professional or Beautiful Girls yet.
I really liked her in Closer and Garden State. They weren't mind-blowing performances, but she inhabited her characters in a very natural, relaxed way. (And played them differently enough that I don't assume I know anything about how she acts in real life.)
Her performance in SW is an anomaly, which is why it's so irritating. (Also irritating is the rumour that Lucas cut out a subplot where Padme forms the beginnings of the Rebel Alliance. Way to give your female lead zero agency, George! )