Ten Things I Hate About Commandments
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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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.
§ ita § - May 17, 2006 1:58:59 pm PDT #1775 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sue - May 17, 2006 2:08:16 pm PDT #1776 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Michelle Williams! JRM!
!!! & !!!
Jessica - May 17, 2006 5:46:22 pm PDT #1777 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So, instead of seeing The DaVinci Code tonight (there was another last-minute press screening), E and I saw a fabulous little documentary called Wordplay about crossword puzzles, and more specifically, about Will Shortz, the NYTimes crossword puzzle, and the annual Crossword Puzzle Championship convention.
Crossword puzzle geeks? Soooooo much like Buffistas. This competition's been an annual thing for 25 years, and the way the people there talked about it made me so glad the F2F is this weekend, because otherwise I'd just be aching for one.
Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart make guest appearances (as famous people who do the crossword every day), as does Ken Burns, who is every bit as ridiculously pretentious as you'd imagine. But in a charming way, mostly because he's totally earned it. (Doesn't make his extended metaphor soliloquy about boxes any less silly, but it makes it an affectionate eyeroll rather than a scornful one.)
Adorable movie. Comes out in June sometime.