Some more quotage:
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Last night Burton showed some footage at the Disney 3-D panel at San Diego Comic-Con. (Johnny Depp also dropped by, supposedly whispered "Hey, happy to be here" in the microphone, and left.)
Burton explained that the new film doesn't exactly follow Carroll's book, and instead takes the characters and various scenes from the novel and molds them into an updated story, according to the Daily Mail.
"It's all based on [the book]," he said. "This material's seen a lot of film versions of it--we tried to take all the elements of it and weaved it into a story that had some motion to it and emotion to it, and not just a series of events."
So it's Hook with Helena Bonham Carter instead of Dustin Hoffman?
Harry Potter and HBP in 15 minutes...
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Cleo...as awesome as ever.
I did a table reading (with costume elements) of her LOTR recap at a restaurant for a friend's birthday.
The 'I don't DO things like this' crew I foisted it on were in hysterics by the end of the first page. There was much flailing and a couple of tables over asked us to speak up. It was a beautiful moment and it was all down to Cleo's genius.
I had to stop reading it last night because roomie was trying to sleep and I couldn't help laughing out loud.
Back from Amoeba where I traded in some CDs for DVDs.
Got the just-out Coraline, and used copies of the Abominable Dr. Phibes and Battle Royale.
