Here's a book I never thought would be filmed:
It was already an animated TV special in 1985.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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DavidS - May 17, 2006 7:40:45 am PDT #1765 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Megan E. - May 17, 2006 7:56:31 am PDT #1766 of 10001
JZ - May 17, 2006 8:29:44 am PDT #1767 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Wow...this is Hallie Eisenberg!
Please please please, all the gods of character actresses and offbeat extremely pretty people everywhere, please protect her from the pressure that's sure to come in the next 3-4 years for her to pull a Sarah Gilbert/Jennifer Grey and whittle her cool and interesting nose down to a generic button of boringness.
Hayden - May 17, 2006 8:43:43 am PDT #1768 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sean K - May 17, 2006 8:45:50 am PDT #1769 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ten Things I Hate About Commandments
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
DavidS - May 17, 2006 8:46:13 am PDT #1770 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ten Things I Hate About CommandmentsBwah! "And Samuel L. Jackson as Principal Firebush."
amych - May 17, 2006 8:53:53 am PDT #1771 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
OMG so brilliant!
Hayden - May 17, 2006 8:56:48 am PDT #1772 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Moses, Moses.
Jessica - May 17, 2006 12:10:46 pm PDT #1773 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
To their credit, the director and his screenwriter, Akiva Goldsman (who collaborated with Mr. Howard on "Cinderella Man" and "A Beautiful Mind"), have streamlined Mr. Brown's story and refrained from trying to capture his, um, prose style. "Almost inconceivably, the gun into which she was now staring was clutched in the pale hand of an enormous albino with long white hair." Such language — note the exquisite "almost" and the fastidious tucking of the "which" after the preposition — can only live on the page.
And his plot summary:
Briefly stated: an old man (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is killed after hours in the Louvre, shot in the stomach, almost inconceivably, by a hooded assailant. Meanwhile, Robert Langdon (Mr. Hanks), a professor of religious symbology at Harvard, is delivering a lecture and signing books for fans. He is summoned to the crime scene by Bezu Fache (Jean Reno), a French policemen who seems very grouchy, perhaps because his department has cut back on its shaving cream budget.
[eta: And:]
Ms. Tautou, determined to ensure that her name will never again come up in an Internet search for the word "gamine," affects a look of worried fatigue.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2006 1:58:06 pm PDT #1774 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think Ms. Tautou is going to have to resort to Freddy Kreugeresque measures to break the link between that term and her image on the internet.