Anya ,'Storyteller'
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Cook does make for a hilarious impersonation by Ike Barinholtz on MADtv.
For me the irritation is a combination of singsong vocal delivery, ADHD rambling material, the accounts of stolen jokes, and the smugness that rolls off him in waves in recent years. Oh, and the movie Waiting. Though I did like him when I first saw his act back in the 90s.
Hee--LotRLOLCat!
Huh. Anthony Minghella is directing a film adaptation of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
Precious Ramotswe has no blue steel pistol, just two desks, two chairs, a telephone and an old typewriter. Her tiny white van is incapable of high-speed chases and fiery stunts. Then there is Mma Ramotswe herself. (Mma is a local honorific.) Film sleuths usually exude chiseled sexiness and a noir persona. But as Mr. McCall Smith puts it, Precious Ramotswe is “the fat lady detective”: rounded, not chiseled; softhearted, not dark.
Would anyone watch a film about a “traditionally built” (as she puts it) shamus whose main preoccupation is contemplating her cases under an acacia tree?
They would if Halle Berry is cast in the role! t /studio executuve
A Mighty Heart worked for me. Angela can act, also.
We watched the documentary Fuck the other day. I'd have given it five stars if I didn't feel they had abused Miss Manners slightly. It was funny but I still don't think it's OK.
Another lesson in don't drink and Amazon: I just bought The Forbidden Zone and The Prince of Pennsylvania.
Wes Anderson will be releasing Hotel Chevalier, a 13-minute short film prequel to The Darjeeling Limited.
Hotel Chevalier stars Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, and will be available free from the iTunes store.
I just bought The Forbidden Zone
Woo hoo!
I saw a midnight screening a few years back & Richard Elfman was there doing a Q&A and it was Danny's birthday and we (okay, Richard) called him from the theatre and shouted Happy Birthday at him and my fangirl heart nearly gave out from oversqueeage.
The director of Die Hard has been sentenced to four months in prison.
A federal judge on Monday sentenced John McTiernan, the director of action movies including “Die Hard” and “Predator,” to four months in prison for lying to an F.B.I. agent about hiring the private investigator Anthony Pellicano to wiretap the producer of one of his films.
Mr. McTiernan, wearing brown cowboy boots and a blue blazer, did not speak when given the chance by the judge. His new lawyers argued that on the night he received the call from the F.B.I. agent, he was jet-lagged from a location-scouting trip to Thailand, had contracted typhoid and had stopped taking his antidepressant medication.
He was on the moon! With Steve!