Wow...this is Hallie Eisenberg!
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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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.
Ten Things I Hate About Commandments
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Ten Things I Hate About CommandmentsBwah! "And Samuel L. Jackson as Principal Firebush."
OMG so brilliant!
Moses, Moses.
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.
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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.
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.