'Serenity'
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Bon, Kate, thanks! But I kid. I kid because I love!
Omar on the stand is just brilliant
Y'all've said it and it's absolutely true. One of the highest points of a series full of high points. Another oblique Wire reference: when Bunk and Omar meet to talk in Season Three, the stage direction is almost identical to the way that Steve McQueen and his dad interact at the climax of Peckinpah's Junior Bonner.
I'm gonna have to take your word. Don't really speak Western, bunk.(Which I understand is weird in a wanna-be crime writer, but you know I'm weird, so, big surprise. I don't know if women crime writers feel that same love, though.)
Mike Myers will star as the Who's drummer Keith Moon in an untitled feature being mobilized by Spitfire Pictures. Roger Daltrey is producing with Spitfire's Nigel Sinclair. Bill Gerber also is producing.
Daltrey and Sinclair have worked on the Moon project on and off for about 10 years, but the film will be on a fast track and a director will be set shortly.
Myers last appeared onscreen in "The Cat in the Hat."
Hmm, so apparently an angry mob didn't proceed directly from the theater to tar and feather him after viewing it...
Junior Bonner's not so much a Western as a quiet little character study about an aging rodeo star.
Mike Myers will star as the Who's drummer Keith Moon in an untitled feature being mobilized by Spitfire Pictures. Roger Daltrey is producing with Spitfire's Nigel Sinclair. Bill Gerber also is producing.
Oh fuck. That was so Jason Schartzmann's gig.
In a disturbing revelation, Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park told SCI FI Wire that his lovable, expressive dog Gromit was initially supposed to be a cat. "He was going to be a cat at first, and then when I was molding him, I found out it was simply easier to make a dog," said Park, who created the Academy Award-winning stop-motion-animated duo of a cheese-loving Englishman and his brilliant dog. "They became a couple, like an elderly husband and wife, and Gromit is the long-suffering wife, always rolling his eyes."
Even more disturbing, when Park decided to make Gromit a dog, he first gave him a voice. "I had Gromit with a Scooby-Doo kind of voice, a bit gravelly," Park said. "In the drawings he always had a mouth."
That Shining trailer was excellent. Very clever.
NYT article on the Shining Trailer: [link]
I know Mirrormask is in obscenely limited release right now, but anyone who can go see it should -- it's absolutely enchanting and becautiful and wonderful and OMG the library scene made me want to stand up in the theatre and cheer. The girl playing the main character is excellent too -- if Gaiman ever gets High Cost of Living off the ground, she'd make a fantastic Death.