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Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell

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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Cashmere - Jan 30, 2007 7:44:46 am PST #7278 of 10001

Now tagless for your comfort.

I'm pretty sure they were actual pagent girls. I watched a documentary on HBO or something when the Jon Benet case was huge and that's what they really look like. It is fucking creepy.

sj - Jan 30, 2007 7:52:26 am PST #7279 of 10001

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I read somewhere after I saw the movie that they were real pageant girls. I think they filmed the scenes with the other girls at an actual pageant.

DebetEsse - Jan 30, 2007 7:53:58 am PST #7280 of 10001

Woe to the fucking wicked.

They nearly had to have been real pagent girls, given the way they looked in swimsuits, if nothing else.

Aims - Jan 30, 2007 7:55:06 am PST #7281 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

It was the airbrushing and spray tanning taht clinched it for me that they were real pageant girls.

sj - Jan 30, 2007 7:58:15 am PST #7282 of 10001

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

According to wikipedia:

All the girls acting as participants in the beauty pageant, except Abigail Breslin, were veterans of real beauty pageants. They looked the same and performed the same acts as they had in their real-life pageants.

Theodosia - Jan 30, 2007 8:03:29 am PST #7283 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"

The movie just makes me smile thinking of it, months later. That's some staying power.

lisah - Jan 30, 2007 8:05:07 am PST #7284 of 10001

Punishingly Intricate

It was the airbrushing and spray tanning taht clinched it for me that they were real pageant girls.

Well, clearly the film makers had done their research.

All the girls acting as participants in the beauty pageant, except Abigail Breslin, were veterans of real beauty pageants. They looked the same and performed the same acts as they had in their real-life pageants

wow. I wonder what they thought of the finished film.

Megan E. - Jan 30, 2007 8:08:11 am PST #7285 of 10001

Helen Mirren is in the movie version of Inkheart. I haven't read the book but her character sounds cool.

I loved the book and didn't know they were making a movie! Thanks sumi.

Vonnie K - Jan 30, 2007 8:27:28 am PST #7286 of 10001

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Helen Mirren is in the movie version of Inkheart.

I like the actors involved in that project -- Paul Bettany and Andy Serkis and Brendon Fraser. Neat. Haven't read the book, but the synopsis sounds interesting indeed.

Plus, Iain Softley made two of my favourite flicks in the 90's -- the Beatles RPF "Backbeat" and a gorgeous adaptation of "The Wings of the Dove." Colour me cautiously hopeful.

I love that Mirren mentions "Excalibur" in that interview. I love that movie, all the way down to its chewy, epic, cheesy center.

evil jimi - Jan 30, 2007 2:20:11 pm PST #7287 of 10001

Lurching from one disaster to the next.

Jim Carrey as we've never seen him before: [link]

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