While we're on the subject of The Big Lebowski, here is an awesome set of TBL livejournal icons. [link]
Also, for whose wanting to give the movie a second shot, TBL is best watched in 1) a group and 2) with some amount of alcohol in the system.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
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Vonnie K - Nov 06, 2006 9:50:13 am PST #5536 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Hayden - Nov 06, 2006 9:50:28 am PST #5537 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I think we clearly all need Wonder Woman statues to keep Borat at bay.
Jessica - Nov 06, 2006 9:52:33 am PST #5538 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Some of Borat’s most famous segments do just that, such as when the comic, who is Jewish, cajoles patrons in a country-western bar to sing “Throw the Jew down the well” to expose covert anti-Semitism. But what exactly is he trying to unmask when he ridicules women?
Er, just at a guess...sexism? Which I realize isn't anywhere near as hilariously funny as anti-semitism, but hey, you take what you can get...
IAmNotReallyASpring - Nov 06, 2006 9:53:22 am PST #5539 of 10001
I think Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel
Wonder Woman statues
I first read that as Wonder Woman statutes and thought 'You Americans have laws for everything'
Fred Pete - Nov 06, 2006 10:31:19 am PST #5540 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
We're strange, but I don't think we're that strange.
Vonnie K - Nov 06, 2006 10:40:12 am PST #5541 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
TCM is running "A Foreign Affair", ( [link] ) at 11 PM tonight, a lesser-known Billy Wilder and one of my all-time favourites. Jean Arthur has this scene where she talks about an old lover who betrayed her for a political gain that completely shatters my heart (man, she was amazing in this film), and her romantic rival is played by Marlene Dietrich, who is 1) awesome, and 2) sings a couple of great musical numbers -- composed specifically for her by Frederick Hollander, if I recall. The only thing that kind of puts the damper on the film is that I was never convinced the male lead was all that -- certainly not interesting enough to make these two fabulous women fall for him anyway.
Ash - Nov 06, 2006 10:44:47 am PST #5542 of 10001
TBL is definitely better with alcohol. I know someone who started drinking white russians because she liked that movie.
I can take it or leave it, but John Turturro is always strangely fascinating.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 06, 2006 10:53:05 am PST #5543 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I know someone who started drinking white russians because she liked that movie.
You make a hell of a caucasian, Jackie.
Theodosia - Nov 06, 2006 11:47:27 am PST #5544 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Anybody up for a Big Lebowski viewing party at my place?
Hayden - Nov 06, 2006 11:50:48 am PST #5545 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'll bring the rug.