With the Costner news, the only hope is that the movie is actually about Baseball.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2011 9:42:53 am PDT #13655 of 30000
"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
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 9:59:49 am PDT #13656 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
You posted that just for me
I did! And you're welcome.
le nubian - Mar 18, 2011 10:23:40 am PDT #13657 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Liese S. - Mar 18, 2011 9:30:45 pm PDT #13658 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Basically, my biggest problem with that statement is the joke. If he'd just defended casting white, and left it at that, I'd probably have shrugged.
But making a condescending joke about hair color, which is disingenuous (does he really think we don't know you can dye an actor's hair? that anyone was arguing that?) to defer attention from the question about race is pissy to me. It's dismissive and, I feel, ultimately disrespectful.
But. I am a) not actually a reader of the book in question and b) probably disproportionately likely to get my dander up at the moment. So I probably should shut it.
DavidS - Mar 18, 2011 9:48:20 pm PDT #13659 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I haven't read the book, so I'm not sure how white-washy this is. But it sounds like Katniss is darkly complected but not necessarily biracial? "Olive skinned" to me is code for Mediterranean (Greek, Southern Italian).
le nubian - Mar 19, 2011 4:08:53 am PDT #13660 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
There is something there though for so many people to think the character is biracial. In my mind's eye she was a young Sophia Loren, but I readily admit to missing something, because I didn't know two other characters were Black.
le nubian - Mar 19, 2011 5:55:50 am PDT #13661 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tiggy - Mar 19, 2011 6:27:07 am PDT #13662 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
I never inferred bi-racial. of course, i also don't understand people attributing Peeta with being pudgy. the whole time i was reading i had him in mind and while he's not skinny or athletic, he's definitely not pudgy. since they've cast a bit older for Katniss, i'm kind of hoping he's in the running for Peeta, but it will probably end up being Hunter Parrish, who i haven't seen in anything.
Juliebird - Mar 19, 2011 6:33:26 am PDT #13663 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
short video
it could have been longer! RJD2 has so much love to give!
Nice to see The Fall in there, and, thanks to Santa Claus, I can now pop it into my DVD player.
Anne W. - Mar 19, 2011 6:57:40 am PDT #13664 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
i also don't understand people attributing Peeta with being pudgy.
I think it's because he works at a bakery. They made a point, though, of saying that his family rarely got to eat what they baked. I read him as being not as chronically malnourished as most of the seam kids, and well-fed enough to develop a decent amount of strength, but not much more than that.