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Mind you, now that I think about it, other than Claudia, Little Timmy Valentine from Vampire Junction, and, er, whatshertoes in the first Anita Blake novel, I can't think of many other examples of vampire children.
I think a child vampire turned the guy who turned Genieve in Kim Newman's novel.
I'm amazed how many people don't know how to pronounce Elegy.
What do they say? Eee-legy?
the hard G is most common but I've also heard the long E and for some reason, "Ellery."
Even after a huge amount of buildup Tropic Thunder managed to deliver big with the funny. I was surprised to find myself the only one laughing at the Apocalypse Now refence in a theatre with nearly 200 people. They seemed to enjoy the surprise guest star most of all.
wow. A little kid just walked by the Bottle Shock standee and said, "don't like him!" His Mom, understandably confused asked, "don't like who, honey?" "Snape." That kid's got a good eye. Here's how Rickman looks on the standee.
Tropic Thunder was great fun. Loved RDJ (OF COURSE) and was happily surprised by Matthew McConaughey.
Also saw Death Race. Not great but we weren't looking for great or even, well, good. Loud, illogical, and too much herky-jerky camera flash but many good crashes. Despite Jason Statham's incredibly impressive physique, I have to give the edge in lust-ability to Ian McShane. Rowr.
I've been hearing even the most rabid Statham fans should skip Death Race 'cause it's just so awful.
Willie Waffle gave it half a waffle (out of four.) I won't say I trust his judgement completely, but I'll take him over Roger Ebert any day.
One day I'm going to watch all the Statham movies, regardless of quality.
Finally saw TDK. Count me in the camp that loved Heath and Gary's...well, the performances in general all worked for me. It gut-punched when it was supposed to, mostly, although it did feel a bit long--I bought the Joker's first capture as some sort of end, so I had a restart feeling there. And a very sad one.