After Project Greenlight I'm okay with liking Matt.

Some cool movie things off cable recently...

1. September is Michael Powell month on TCM. Set your Tivos folks - 9 movies will be shown. Will they show Black Narcisssus, I Know Where I'm Going, Peeping Tom, Colonel Blimp? I guess I should check the actual schedule.

2. Really enjoyed the Midnight Movies documentary I snagged recently off either IFC or Sundance. Long 20 minute overviews of the key films in the development of Midnight Movie culture: El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, Rocky Horror and Eraserhead.

3. Also really enjoyed the Joan Crawford documentary off TCM they showed recently (though I think they did it in 2002). She had such a fascinating career that spanned from the silents all the way to working with Spielberg on Night Gallery. There's really no other actor who had major works in ever decade of the Hollywood Studio Era from the 20 all the way through to the Sixties. And she's so cute in those flapper movies.

4. Also the new Logo cable channel has been showing a lot of cool movies and TV shows, so seek it out.

but it's nowhere near impossible to fake it, if they feel the need.

I think the Regency era prized plump arms and rounded shoulders, as well. I think the ideal was willowy, without being too thin or gaunt--which was the effect the long-line dresses and corsets were trying to achieve.

I could be wrong though. Mayhap Susan would be able to confirm.

I hadn't even realised that this was part of the period look. I imagine more formless, and waisted much higher. Also, being a little closer to her, you know, actual body.

I did find that Gwyneth Paltrow looked positively ill in Empire dresses -- she was all collarbone and a hanged neck -- whereas several rounder folks looked quite fine in same. Well, we can disagree on that.

But you don't find it obvious when small breasts are pretended to be larger? I mean, people do pretend it, all the time, and sometimes I can take it in the fun it's intended. But most of the time, it just looks like somebody trying too hard (often painfully).

I am to understand that a large proportion of the general public cannot tell an implanted breast when they see one, but I sure can.

the Joan Crawford documentary off TCM they showed recently (though I think they did it in 2002).

I saw this rerun last night! The weird part was that Joan Crawford didn't look like my mind's eye picture of Joan Crawford till 1946, when she was already in her 40s. She looked quite different when she was young (and suffered some really egregious hairdos later in life).

How irritating -- they say Comingsoon.net has PotC2 pics, but comingsoon doesn't seem to know about it.

you don't find it obvious when small breasts are pretended to be larger?

Not when it's done well, no. I've been surprised before, and I'm sure it'll happen again. I'm not even an expert in how my own breasts look, much less the rest of the gender. Hell, I'm still impressed by these.

I may live in LA, but I'm still a island girl, I guess.

Which is relevant in what way to being able to fake it for the P&P movie, should they care to?

Because you can create boobs in photoshop better than you can for an entire film. Those poster C+s don't look like these: [link]

And those look bigger than she does in the Arthur movie.

My point, however, I think is better served by an instance in which the filmmakers really cared -- or is the tale that Lohan's breasts were reduced in every frame of Herbie an urban legend?

Matt Damon's accent sounds pretty good. Damn. Why can't I dislike him like I want to?

Because he's cute and snarky and has hella dimples and kicked all kinds of ass in the Bourne movies. Mmmm, lickable.

And no matter what, you can see yourself as that forever, despite the changes you(or nature) have given your appearance.

As Stephen King pointed out very effectively in Christine.

She looked quite different when she was young (and suffered some really egregious hairdos later in life).

Plus, she and the gorgeous Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., were one of the first celebrity supercouples. (Maybe even the second, after Douglas, Sr., and Mary Pickford.)