Sorry -- it's Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
This could be very good or very very bad.
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
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sj - Feb 28, 2006 9:31:23 am PST #701 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
DavidS - Feb 28, 2006 9:57:12 am PST #702 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This could be very good or very very bad.
I'm pretty sure it's going to be bad, but they both have the requisite perversity.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 28, 2006 10:27:43 am PST #703 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
So Heathcliff and Catherine will be punctuating their slow-motion run across the moors by pulling out handguns and firing at one another? Sweet!
erikaj - Feb 28, 2006 11:02:58 am PST #704 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, dear lord. I love them both, but...I'ma pass.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 28, 2006 11:31:55 am PST #705 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
They should just go ahead and get Pitt instead and call it MR. AND MRS. 'CLIFF
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2006 11:34:25 am PST #706 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who was looking for Elvis? Seems he hasn't quite left the building:
Former New York Times and NPR film critic Elvis Mitchell, who reportedly quit the newspaper in order to head the East coast office of Columbia Pictures with producer Deborah Schindler, never took the Columbia job, according to Richard Prince, who writes a column for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education's website. (The institute focuses on training black journalists; Mitchell is black.) "Mitchell's job with Columbia Pictures had been taken as a done deal," Prince observed. He quoted NPR spokesman Chad Campbell as saying that the public radio network recently rehired Mitchell to report on the entertainment industry and review films for Weekend Edition. "He never actually took the job with Columbia so there is no conflict of interest," Campbell was quoted as saying.
Nutty - Feb 28, 2006 12:00:22 pm PST #707 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I am always looking for Elvis. I had heard he was on the other side of the profit margin, but I am glad to discover that was a gross exaggeration. More snark! more!
Vonnie K - Feb 28, 2006 2:48:04 pm PST #708 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I was the Elvis-seeker. Good to see he's still in the public sector.
From the new Wuthering Heights news-bit:
Yorkshire blockbuster of Wuthering Heights.
A... Yorkshire...blockbuster? Never quite heard it put that way.
Heathcliff and Cathy, two of the literary world's greatest romantic figures.
Sure, if you consider batshit crazy as romantic.
I can see Jolie as Cathy, but Depp is way too fey and not rough enough for Heathcliff.
DavidS - Feb 28, 2006 2:49:50 pm PST #709 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sure, if you consider batshit crazy as romantic.
Most people do, actually. If they're pretty and batshit crazy.
Vonnie K - Feb 28, 2006 3:00:16 pm PST #710 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Most people do, actually. If they're pretty and batshit crazy.
I guess that's true. I am actually a fan of fucked-up relationship sagas (S6 Buffy & Spike, Scotty and Madeleine from Vertigo, etc.) but "romantic" ain't why I like them. Plus, instead of getting me to revel in their glorious dysfunction or some such, Cathy and Heathcliff just made me roll my eyes a lot, alternating with a violent urge to whack them on their stupid heads with frying pan.