It was the airbrushing and spray tanning taht clinched it for me that they were real pageant girls.
Xander: Am I right, Giles? Giles: I'm almost certain you're not. Though, to be fair, I haven't been
listening.
'Sleeper'
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Aims - Jan 30, 2007 7:55:06 am PST #7281 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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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§ ita § - Jan 30, 2007 2:21:14 pm PST #7288 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a good look for him.
Polter-Cow - Jan 30, 2007 2:39:29 pm PST #7289 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I saw the trailer for that movie. It looks pretty cool.
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2007 3:00:18 pm PST #7290 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. Just watched Near Dark. Why do we have to have happy endings? Or, really, why don't I get to decide what happy is?