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[cleolinda]

Oh My God, So Sick: Week 2. And this time, it's personal my own damn fault, because I forgot to take my Sudafed last night, and when I woke up, I was sicker than ever--congestion, both nasal and chest...al; coughing; sore throat; aches, chills, fever, what-have-you. (Yes, I'm on antibiotics. And Advil. And prescription cough syrup. And...) I spent about an hour and a half with my teeth chattering so hard I couldn't stop--I stood in a hot shower for fifteen minutes, Al Gore be damned, just to get warm. And now I'm warm, but I still have chills, which kind of blows my mind a little. So if I slip into nonsensicality, bear with me.

sonneta: Comics Anti-Feminism Bingo.

From psammead: BBC reporter starts screaming at Scientologist; Scientologists squeal with glee. This is big enough that they actually had a segment on it on Today this morning, and I have to say, Sweeney's behavior (his explanation here) was unprofessional, out of line, and totally awesome.

Nudists seek to attract younger members. I bet they do.

RIAA renews efforts to take down college students music pirates. No, I'm serious, they really are going after college students.

Prince kissed by girl, mutters darkly. I just love this headline.

Sea lion joins California schoolchildren's walk-a-thon.

Dads' Parenting Style Influences Childhood Obesity. "The researchers found that fathers with permissive (no limits on their children) or disengaged parenting styles were more likely to have overweight or obese children, while fathers with a consistent (clear limits, following through with instructions, etc.) style were less likely to have children with a higher body mass index (BMI)." Yay! Something else I can blame on my terrible father!

What do you MEAN I'm not going to die?

"My poems are not written so much as excreted."

Alan Moore gets married, may be Victorian superhero.

trailer_spot: Kingdom, Silk, Grönholm Method, Waitress, Harry Potter, Fantastic Four, Pirates, Ratatouille, Shrek.

J.K. Rowling Updates Diary Regarding Spoilers; Potter author pleads: Don't spoil plot.

Alfonso Cuaron Talks 'Harry Potter.'

Directors Asked How They Would Bring the Magic to the Final "Potter" Films.

Rob Zombie ("Halloween"): "I'd probably be very violent with a lot of nudity. That's what it needs. Harry should say 'f---' a lot. That would spice it up."

David Fincher ("Zodiac"): "Could I make it darker than Alfonso's? I don't know. [Should Harry die?] As all good teenagers must."

Christopher McQuarrie's 'Stanford Prison Experiment' Gets Picked Up. Side note: my psychology teacher told us about this in high school, and she later showed us a video that somehow incidentally involved Dr. Philip Zimbardo, and she was absolutely right: he really did look like Satan.

Andy "She's the Man" Fickman Tapped to Direct Fame Remake?

Disney continues tweaking first black Disney Princess.

Scans of Johnny Depp's EW cover story. I'm surprised my mother hasn't already bought this magazine and, like, taped everything up in her locker.

Orlando Bloom: 'Even the Writers Can't Explain 'Pirates 3.' Aw, hell. I really wanted people to like this one. And how weird is that--that I'm not worried about me liking it, but about other people liking it so I won't feel so weird? Upside: It makes things easier for me.

Nicolas Cage is Al Capone.

Ewan McGregor plays Iago for minimum wage.

Jessica Biel Wants Respect As an Actress. " 'Parts that I really want aren't going to me," the 25-year-old actress says in Elle magazine's June issue, on newsstands Tuesday. 'Like The Other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. I don't want to say that there's nothing I love that I can have. But there's still the occasional script that the director doesn't want to see you for. They want that top tier of girls.' " 1. Normally this is the kind of thing I'd mock mercilessly, but I've been on Team Biel since The Illusionist. 2. She is way too smart, or at least reads as way too smart onscreen, to play Mary Boleyn in that. One of the actual good things about that book, as I have said before, is that Philippa Gregory manages to make Mary (a first-person narrator!) incredibly hapless and naive at times while still telegraphing information to us that completely escapes her. I've come to like Scarlett Johansson, but she? Can play dumb.

A really interesting profile of Keira Knightley.

I thought somewhere in the next room someone will ask her about her weight and, in another interview, more journalists will either attack or fawn, and it will be hour after exhausting hour of unreality. Maybe that's where she gets her steeliness from - it's honed in these tedious hours of strangers asking you about everything from your body, to the food you put into it, to your sexual relationships, to your parents.

Then when she gets home to central London, five or so men will be at the front of her house and they'll photograph her living the life she has just spent the day discussing with strangers.

Pushing the button in the lift and escaping to the relative lack of artifice that is Sloane Square, I preferred to think of her cooking for her friends in her flat, freezing chicken stock, getting drunk on good red wine and having a laugh at how weird life is.

Bello Replacing Weisz In Mummy 3... as the Evie character. Initially I thought that they'd just write Weisz out and bring in a new character, but now I'm actually kind of upset. I mean, I like Maria Bello and all--I just really hate recasting. Unless it involves Katie Holmes.

(Speaking of which: Warner Bros. Puts Up Teaser Page for The Dark Knight.c)

Apparently Cate Blanchett's looking so haggard because she's playing a cancer victim in something? God, I hope so. I wonder if it's the same movie with Jack Nicholson as a cancer victim. God, I hope not. But what are the odds?

Danny Trejo Says Weinsteins Have Greenlit 'Machete', originally seen as a fake trailer in Grindhouse.

Peter Iliff Says He's Writing 'Point Break 2.' Why?

Comments

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

Bello Replacing Weisz In Mummy 3...

Bitch. No. I cannot accept this.

Orlando Bloom: 'Even the Writers Can't Explain 'Pirates 3.'

Dammit. I had high hopes for the third. My theory went along the lines of "Amount of Geoffrey Rush directly proportional to quality of pirate movie."

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I've said it before: Geoffrey Rush is the Bringer of All Good Things.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

And teeth. (http://www.secret-obsession.com/caps/displayimage.php?album=17&pos=190) Oh God, I was going to just post that picture but I can't look at it that long. I must link to save people's eyes.

[eruvadhril.livejournal.com]

He is indeed.

[bitchola.livejournal.com]

Replacing people never works out. They did that with the Princess Diaries 2 (and pretty much replaced every single character, actually) and then had a PD 1 and 2 marathon on tv, and it took me a while to even realize that PD 2 was a continuation of the first movie, and not a different movie with a similar theme.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

I can't remember who got replaced in the Princess Diaries movies. Didn't most of the main characters stick around?

[bitchola.livejournal.com]

Oops, not the Princess Diaries. The Prince and Me. Sorry 'bout that (kinda the same concept, though).

Either way, if the star doesn't think the movie is going to be good and won't even agree to be in it, that doesn't sound like a movie worth seeing.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Well, with the The Prince and Me sequel, it was made for TV, and Julia Stiles is way too awesome to be in an ABC Family movie.
But yes, it was dumb.

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

Orlando Bloom: 'Even the Writers Can't Explain 'Pirates 3.'

Looking over the article, I don't really see it as saying "The movie sucks and makes no sense", but as saying "The plot is pretty epic and complex".

[meandstuff.livejournal.com]

I agree. And having listened to the writers' (and only) commentary on Dead Man's Chest only two days ago, it sounds like a lot of the more confusing elements in that film are being further investigated, if not resolved, in the next. I'm relatively hopeful that the writers know what they've been doing over the course of the two sequels.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

i LOVE your icon. Where'd it come from?

pirates + puffs = *squee!*

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

fandom_puffs

[theatre-angel.livejournal.com]

That Knightley article should really be sent all over the Internet, it's beautiful in that really understated, gritty kind of way. Almost as much as Rob Zombie directing a Potter film would be. Almost.

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

Wait, what the hell was wrong with the story in Dead Man's Chest? People had trouble following the storyline? I have a big giant HUH?! as the only response to that.

[ninepointfivemm.livejournal.com]

WORD.

What part of "Jack Sparrow runs away madly at the thought of eternal servitude for a big, ugly octopus with a Scottish accent" is hard to understand?

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Well, I did have a bit of trouble with that movie, in that the plot was really quite intricate and I was too distracted by the pretty to get some of it. I got all of it on the second go, though.

[megmatthews20.livejournal.com]

Ewan McGregor in another play?!?!

*runs away to steal a boat to float to England*

I should get there by December, right? If only to see the most beautiful man ever!

Chiwetel just adds to the awesomeness.

cheers

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

CHIWETELASOTHELLOOMGSQUEEE

*ahem*

Yes, I, too, am very excited about this production.

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

I hope you get well soon, Cleo! Sounds like they've got you on just about everything.

I can sort of understand what Jessica Beil is trying to say there. I think it's not so much, "Woe is me, I am too pretty to be taken seriously!" as "There are only four young actresses that get cast in top tier films." And I think she's spot on. If a movie is supposed to require a young actress who can act, I think Hollywood only considers the following young ladies: Keira Knightly, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, and Kirsten Dunst. Those four ladies probably all get the same scripts!

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

The other thing is that Jessica Biel is a little behind the other ladies, in that at least the three Americans in that list have been working in films for many years, some since before puberty. Jessica got her start on Seventh Heaven and then bitched because she wasn't getting the same film opportunities that other WB starlets were, because her character (Mary) was too goody-goody. They then made Mary act out and eventually move away (letting Jessica leave and only do guest spots), but it doesn't seem like playing the "bad girl" gave her more credibility.

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

Heavens, hope you feel better soon!

Of course Ewan is taking minimum wage to play Iago. Iago is the best role in all of Shakespeare. I would love to see that!

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

I agree!

ewan as a shakespeare villan...squee!

[wearejustducky.livejournal.com]

I am just disturbingly excited to hear about Machete. I don't know what this says about me, except that I love Danny Trejo.

Though, now that I think about it, the trailer I would most love to see turned into a movie is the Rob Zombie Werewolf Women of the SS one. That was a classic.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel better soon!

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Machete movie? I might actually see that.
Whereas, you know, I haven't seen "Grindhouse" and I don't want to.
Quentin Tarantino now officialy gets on my nerves.

Re: "The Mummy 3"
To paraphrase "The Right Stuff":
No Rachel? No bucks from me.

The RIAA must die.
'Nuff said.

I went to see "Spider-Man 3" and it did not suck.
It could have been better, and I could have done without the singing.
"Spider-Man 2" is better, in my opinion.
But it was still fun and had a whole lot of Spidey-Angst.
I liked it.

[edda.livejournal.com]

Sometimes your linkspam is BETTER THAN BACON, missy. Today is one of those times.

Also this in particular:

I'm surprised my mother hasn't already bought this magazine and, like, taped everything up in her locker.

made me giggle.

[karintheswede]

Alan Moore's beard is unlike any other beard ever. OMGSQUEE

[karintheswede]

Oh, and did you see this?

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964927.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Peter Jackson and Steven Spielberg in talks to make Tintin.

[token-girl.livejournal.com]

It's about a young woman being followed around by five men who could be anyone and you have no way of telling who they are - if they're legitimate photographers or if they're rapists. It's terrifying - it's totally terrifying

Especially if, like my work mate's young single daughter, you live in the same building where apparently it's completely legal to stalk and harass young women. She has to steel herself to go in and out because they're really aggressive. Any pervert who doesn't like society's basic restrictions on being a creep just has to pick up a camera and claim there's a celeb in the vicinity. It's horrible for everyone.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine wrote some articles for a local magazine, years ago, about the Cult of Scamtology. It was scary stuff to read, and scarier for him to investigate and write up. Evil, evil folks there, at least the ones who are in on the scam.

Something to cheer you up, perhaps: I now have my M15M book, and I must say that it's the only thing in the last few days to put a smile on my face. Bless you and thank you.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

This is why I have no problem with John Sweeney flipping his shit on them--I hate that he gave them ammunition, but if anyone deserved a good screaming, it's them.

(Aww, yay! Glad you're enjoying it. : )

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed I am. I finished it last night actually. Matrix, Titanic and the LotR trilogy all busted my gut, and I got plenty of chuckles out of the rest. Also: I have newfound respect for white mice.

[ilanka.livejournal.com]

Not sure how you like to have links submitted for linkspam, but I find this article rather disturbing. Title: "Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement" and talks about his attempts to make thinking about infringement a crime, punishable with jailtime, large fines, and forfeiture of your property. I'm all for protecting one's own intellectual property when it IS being infringed upon, but pre-crime crosses my line....

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

[elbales]

*head explodes*

I am now boiling mad. Thank you for posting this link.

[detective13.livejournal.com]

Get Well Soon, cleolinda! *hugs gently*

[patchie04.livejournal.com]

Is it strange that I didn't really find POTC2 confusing at all? And I saw it in a drive-in, which has distractions galore.

[pottersues.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon! Those hot showers should help a lot.

I was wondering if you could plug something for me? I'm having an activity where one would send in their First Harry Potter Mary-Sue (http://pottersues.livejournal.com/412012.html), with a little blurb about why they remember it. I would love to have a lot of participants.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Aww, anything for pottersues. : )

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

My first Sue . . . I think that was Ebony, or Enoby, or whatever the hell her name was.

[pottersues.livejournal.com]

*beams* You just made my day! :D

[lauramcvey.livejournal.com]

Bello Replacing Weisz In Mummy 3

WHAT. NO.

Hmm. You have a cold, I have a cold, my dad has a cold . . . isn't cold season supposed to be in winter?
Speaking of spoilers, did you hear about Esnips? Basically, a website's been selling books (or possibly giving them away, I'm not sure) for download, and a lot of the authors whose books up there didn't give them permission. There's actually a file there with the title "Deathly Hallows".