4 December 2008 – 5:14 pm +0800
The wonderful Sammi Cheng, singing “Forever Beauty” from the film Love On A Diet (check out her fat suit!):
4 December 2008 – 4:37 pm +0800
I got emailed this hilarious ad:
And it reminded me of the dirtiest ad Disney has ever put on TV (and also one of their best):
22 November 2008 – 9:34 am +0800
Herself is 23 years young tomorrow (but today, her time).
And, rocky as things have been and are, I still love her.
What ever happens, I shall always wish her well.
Happy Birthday, my love.
22 November 2008 – 9:23 am +0800
It is with a curious sense of schadenfreude that I make this post.
Just last night I was chatting online, when my interlocutor, amidst several dubious claims, said that America had not won in Iraq. She made the mistake of defining “victory” objectively in a way that was ridiculous — she said that [...]
21 November 2008 – 1:08 pm +0800
Here’s the poster I’m seeing everywhere for Jim Carrey’s new (irritating-looking) vehicle, Yes Man:
Every time I see it, I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve seen it before.
And recently.
Like this past summer.
As part of the promotional materials for Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, there was this poster for one of his character’s previous Oscar-baiting [...]
20 November 2008 – 3:38 pm +0800
Thanks to all of the various people who’ve ordered things from Amazon through the links on this site, I got a credit, and ordered a gift for myself.
It wasn’t supposed to arrive till tomorrow, but I got it today!
I’m going to have some fun this weekend. (I almost want to [...]
20 November 2008 – 2:17 pm +0800
This is the movie Vincent Price made right after The House on Haunted Hill, it seems, and you can sort of see why he agreed to be in it. It’s another gimmicky story, set mostly in one location, that seems like it should be having fun bringing the audience in on the joke.
Except that [...]
20 November 2008 – 12:18 pm +0800
More private theatrical melodrama sapped me of all energy for anything fun. But now, one way or another, the melodrama is over.
Look for posting to resume, starting later this afternoon.
7 November 2008 – 8:02 am +0800
A thought occurred to me this morning.
It has taken about sixty years for our political culture to catch up to our pop culture, more or less.
We have just now elected our first President who is not famous for any actual accomplishments, but is simply famous for being famous.
I, for one, welcome President-elect Zsa Zsa Gabor.
5 November 2008 – 11:28 am +0800
Damn.
He was only 66.
Jurassic Park was the best of his novels that I read, and The Andromeda Strain was probably the best movie adapted from one of his books.
5 November 2008 – 7:12 am +0800
This is a silent movie (of course, given the year), and as such will be of limited interest to most people. However, it is worth seeing at least once.
The main reason to see it is John Barrymore’s performance as the two titular characters. While saying that he pulls off Hyde without [...]
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4 November 2008 – 8:38 am +0800
A comment from Quint’s A Movie A Day review of Flying Tigers:
Many years ago I had a friend who was a combat pilot in Vietnam. He would tell the story about his old fight commander (let’s call him Frank), who had been one of the pilot the military loaned to Republic for the production of [...]
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