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Dec. 11th, 2005 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaOkay, I have officially had too much caffeine. I'm not all psychotic like I was when I came home from Derailed, but I can't think straight, and I'm trying to paper, and that is not good. Also, the house is too HOT. I can't decide if I want to wash my hair now, which is a total ordeal (what? I have a lot of hair) or do it tomorrow, but if I do it now I have more time tomorrow and I get to put off paper-writing another hour. Sigh.
Multi-fandom movie awards news: the Broadcast Film Critics Association's nominees. They actually have Young Actor and Young Actress categories, which means that the Potter and Narnia kids get some love. Also, at Oscarwatch: the AFI Top Ten and the New York Film Critics Online Awards (the most interesting one there, to me: Fernando Meirelles nabbing Best Director for The Constant Gardener). What you're really watching for are the names that come up over and over again, the patterns that emerge--that's how you play the Oscar pools when the time comes.
Narnia-heavy linkspam:
So after some hassle from Entertainment Weekly about them suspending my subscription for lack of $5.77 but not bothering to tell me about it (and I still don't understand why I owed them that), I have managed to lay hands on the new issue, in which we learn that Tilda Swinton would blast the Marilyn Manson cover of "Personal Jesus" on the battlefield to get into character. Forget the companion "inspired-by" soundtrack; I really want to know what else she, and possibly the kids, listened to on set.
Oh, and apparently you can get White Witch action figures at the Disney Store. I'm waiting for the inevitable 11-inch-or-taller dolls/figures that someone will put out. The Galadriels need a friend, y'all.
Online-only EW article: "Lions and witches and lots of cash, oh my! Surpassing all expectations, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe blasted into theaters this weekend, premiering with a phenomenal $67.1 million, according to studio estimates. That tally is higher than the opening weekends of the first two Lord of the Rings films, which debuted with $47.2 million and $62 million in 2001 and 2002. In fact, Narnia logged the second-biggest December opening ever, behind only The Return of the King's $72.6 million. Without a doubt, a new blockbuster fantasy franchise has now been born." Second place, Syriana; third, Goblet of Fire.
Skandar Keynes really is the Heir to the Chainsaw of Natural Selection. May he use it well.
Here's an interview with all four kids. I think I remember it from several weeks ago, but it's still fun. Particularly when they talk about what they got Keynes for his birthday, poor kid.
Oh, how the Best Actress of Her Generation has fallen. Here's her former handmaiden, and here's Natalie Portman herself. Do please vote for her costumes, won't you?
And since I've mentioned Christmas gift baskets lately: He does like Hickory Farms.
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Date: 2005-12-12 12:46 am (UTC)Nevermind that Narnia looks like it's fantastic or that Oscarwatch has begun, you linked one of my favorite webcomics. Yay!
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Date: 2005-12-12 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 12:59 am (UTC)Yes! That would be awesome.
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Date: 2005-12-12 01:08 am (UTC)PS. Not to guilt-trip you or anything, but I am reaaaaally looking forward to reading Movies in 15 Minutes.
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Date: 2005-12-12 01:30 am (UTC)Hickory Farms has a kiosk at my local mall, and the people who work there are freakin' scary with the free samples. It's all very "TAKE THIS SAUSAGE OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES!"
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Date: 2005-12-12 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 01:59 am (UTC)If you wrote a m15m of LW&W I would read it online and still buy the book so I could treasure it forever. And read it again without having to turn on my computer.
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:06 am (UTC)oh, dear Cleo, you own my soul.
*frolics in linkspam*
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 02:53 am (UTC)Damn, I loved the Witch. Wanted to slap those kids around a bit (they get points for realizing they had been snots to Edmund, and a bonus point for Peter looking like a young Heath Ledger), but a good villain should be a worthy enemy. That bitch was worthy like whoa. Also, I swear that one dark centaur that seemed like an Aslan general was a dead ringer for The Rock.
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Date: 2005-12-12 03:39 am (UTC)Also, I know you saw the outfit already, but did you see that Tilda Swinton got featured in go fug yourself (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2005/12/the_lion_the_wi.html) for it?
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Date: 2005-12-12 04:03 am (UTC)Ha. That's awesome. I love that song.
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Date: 2005-12-12 04:39 am (UTC)(I have Toy Biz 11" Galadriel, Barbie Galadriel, and 8" bust Galadriel.)
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:12 am (UTC)I feel your pain, cleo, I feel your pain-- I had to get mine thinned out if I wanted it longer than chin length and now it takes forever to wash and dry!
Also, much love for the PA link-- I love those guys.
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Date: 2005-12-12 07:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-12 08:50 am (UTC)Barbie Galadriel...must be interesting. I'm trying to picture Cate Blanchett with a 2" waist and a 50" bust. Or, you know, whatever the dimensions are. And of course her heel-implants would be readily visible since Galadriel doesn't own shoes...
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Date: 2005-12-12 12:29 pm (UTC)(Barbie Galadriel is one of the newer, flatter-chested Barbies. Also, she has little white slippers. Strange.)
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Date: 2005-12-12 02:38 pm (UTC)*cheers for Kiera quietly*
Oh, and I can totally see Ms. Swinton rockin' out a bit to Personal Jesus while donning the mane outfit. Teh kewl. Also, there's a kickass Rammstien remix of that song that is completely awesome. As awesome as Hickory Farms.
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Date: 2005-12-12 10:51 pm (UTC)I also had a problem with EW. In fact, they owe me $20. I'm such a procrastinator, that I'll probably never do anything about it though lol.
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Date: 2005-12-12 10:55 pm (UTC)And oh, I would pay so much money to check out Tilda Swinton's iPod. If she has one.
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:21 am (UTC)It's available online at Amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0575076879/qid%3D1134433239/026-2350335-5986051). Just tell 'em I sent you, I'm sure there's a nice discount in it for you.
Or something.
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Date: 2005-12-13 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-13 04:27 am (UTC)^^
Your PoA in 15 was amazingly hysterical. Which I'm sure you know after about 3000 comments on it. xD
PS: Yay for Narnia, and ahahaha! Yes! I see you keep up with PA too... ^__^
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Date: 2005-12-13 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-13 06:17 am (UTC)Barbie Galadriel has SHOES? Blasphemy.
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:18 am (UTC)*is loser*
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:47 am (UTC)I am a happy Trixie.
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:48 am (UTC)Sunil gave me the White-Witch-Fight-Song version ;)
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:50 am (UTC)I am your only Trixie! ;)
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-13 06:55 am (UTC)Well, ok then. In that case, I'm flattered!
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Date: 2005-12-13 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-13 03:45 pm (UTC)(That means "yes" to both questions. ;) )
Anybody else want it?
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