The book - as I understand it - is very disturbing and has a lot of references to pedophilia, but I don't think it had to do with Oskar.
I agree with Matt's take.
Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the --
Jayne ,'Serenity'
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le nubian - Jun 14, 2009 6:56:15 am PDT #2443 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Juliebird - Jun 14, 2009 5:18:07 pm PDT #2444 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Caught the end Queen of the Damned waiting for True Blood to start, and the blonde vamp withe the curly hair has me stumped as to where I know him from. I swear I looked him up years ago and was surprised to find out who he was, but looking again none of the names on IMDB are standing out.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 14, 2009 7:17:12 pm PDT #2445 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
The guy who played Armand?
I never really recognized him, but I may have been distracted by the movie hiring Claudia Black and then doing absolutely nothing with her.
Juliebird - Jun 15, 2009 12:58:56 am PDT #2446 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
hiring Claudia Black and then doing absolutely nothing with her.
For serious.
Armand = Jothee from Farscape. I feel so much better now.
billytea - Jun 15, 2009 1:48:21 am PDT #2447 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Armand = Jothee from Farscape. I feel so much better now.
Wait, which Jothee? The regular series Jothee or the Peacekeeper War Jothee?
Juliebird - Jun 15, 2009 2:06:30 am PDT #2448 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Regular series, I do believe.
billytea - Jun 15, 2009 2:24:00 am PDT #2449 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Regular series, I do believe.
That's Matthew Newton then. Son of Bert Newton, Australian TV icon, and from his appearances on Thank God You're Here, a seriously funny individual.
Fred Pete - Jun 15, 2009 5:53:36 am PDT #2450 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Just finished a silent that recently premiered on TCM -- The White Sister. Lillian Gish plays one of two daughters of an Italian nobleman. Daddy dies, the other sister cheats her out of her inheritance -- but her soldier fiance (Ronald Colman) promises to marry her after he returns from overseas duty. He's reported as dead, so she becomes a nun -- but he was really only captured, and he returns to try to convince her to renounce her vows. And Evil Sister warns the local priest that relations between the two are highly improper.
So far, we have a pretty decent melodrama. But then things get wild. The local volcano (did I mention this all takes place on the slopes of Vesuvius?) starts to erupt. Soldier runs into town to warn people. Evil Sister is badly injured when her carriage tips over, so she crawls her way to the church and starts confessing to the nun (thinking she's the priest). And then the dam bursts....
The first two hours (give or take a few minutes) is actually pretty absorbing. And Colman looks very good. It's just that the last 20 minutes or so gets so ridiculous.
tommyrot - Jun 15, 2009 10:49:19 am PDT #2451 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Jun 15, 2009 10:53:05 am PDT #2452 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's a giant Hollywood conspiracy to DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU LOVED ABOUT YOUR CHILDHOOD, tommyrot. Land of the Lost was only the first step.