You know, Scarlett Johansson would make a perfect Mary Miles Minter: [link]
Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.
Spike ,'Showtime'
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P.M. Marc - Sep 08, 2006 8:00:44 am PDT #4075 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
DavidS - Sep 08, 2006 9:16:54 am PDT #4076 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Robin, I was interested in seeing Hollywoodland until I saw the trailer and it looked a lot like the Bettie Page movie. Just kind of small and an HBO production and maybe a little thin. Caroline Dhavernas is in it though, dressed fifties! (There's a nice portrait of her in costume in the current Kirsten Dunst issue of Interview.) Also Diane Lane looks scrumptious and I'd like to see Robin Tunney in fifties drag too. I guess I've talked myself into it.
Going through the Crime Library I was reading the Fatty Arbuckle case. He got his start with this act:
In 1904, the young Arbuckle sang for Sid Grauman at the Unique Theater in San Jose. He was what was called an “illustrated singer.” As described in David Yallop’s The Day the Laughter Stopped, an illustrated singer was one who sang “while gorgeously-colored slides with the lyrics were projected on a screen . . . thereby ‘illustrating’ the song.”
It's like vidding in the Vaudeville era. Definitely belongs in the Encyclopedia of Lost Pop Culture. Reminded me that Jerry Lewis' first act was comic lip-syncing.
Fred Pete - Sep 08, 2006 10:06:25 am PDT #4077 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
The case has all of the elements of the unreal world of Hollywood.
They don't even mention that the director had changed his name and abandoned his family.
Strega - Sep 08, 2006 2:59:32 pm PDT #4078 of 10001
Sean K - Sep 08, 2006 3:09:31 pm PDT #4079 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
That trailer just gave me chills. I think this is going to be the best Bond movie yet.
Scrappy - Sep 08, 2006 3:57:08 pm PDT #4080 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Looks good!
DawnK - Sep 08, 2006 3:58:37 pm PDT #4081 of 10001
giraffe mode
ooOOOooo He looks so Bond-ian cool and dangerous.
Laura - Sep 08, 2006 4:04:36 pm PDT #4082 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Nice. Very pretty trailer.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2006 4:05:58 pm PDT #4083 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vulnera-Bond! And it's not the same trailer that ran during Nip/Tuck (it's much longer, and has more dialogue and less parkours).
You know, for a guy who was getting guff for his will-o-the-wispiness, he looks like rougher trade than Clive Owen has been.
Also, buff.
Lest I forget, Judi Dench is HOTT.
Sean K - Sep 08, 2006 4:28:25 pm PDT #4084 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Lest I forget, Judi Dench is HOTT.
OMG YES!