In no particular order...

[cleolinda]

Smashup 2006 Update: Sister Girl, while sore and headachy, seems to be fine. We did hear from Sgt. Campus Guy, however, that they put Mr. Magoo's [real] name into the system to look for his expired license, and he wasn't even in there. They're now not even sure he ever had a license. The car can't be fixed until Wendy the Insurance Investigator gets over to the lot tomorrow to look at it, but she's going tomorrow, I think. I'm not entirely sure how they're going to fix it, but I'm assuming it's going to involve a door transplant, a hood graft and maybe an oil transfusion. Maybe they can get Rocky in there to assist.

Paramount ditches Tom Cruise. My favorite part about this story is that they don't even try to make up some "creative differences" excuse or let him say that he's leaving amicably or whatever. No, they bust right out with "His recent conduct has not been acceptable."

And then they go sign a deal with the South Park boys.

Clive Owen and his Raleigh beard on the cover of GQ. Plus, more pics from The Golden Age. Also, I went to the main page for the movie on that site, and the dated news entries seem to indicate... well, she ain't no Virgin Queen, is all I'm saying. But then, I guess we knew that from the first installment.

New pics from Marie Antoinette. The Vogue scans: so pretty. In fact, I'm gonna lay my bets down now: Marie Antoinette for Best Costumes 2007. Hell, it would win Most Costumes hands down.

(I want to live in a world where I can wear this dress so bad.)

Better pictures of the first six Lost action figures.

Live rattlesnakes released during SOAP showing. I'm hearing, however, that it was really more like one snake, and it was Arizona, so it was more like our friend the chipmunk just wanting to get out of the heat and catch a species-appropriate movie.

Speaking of which, Snakes on a Plane may not be a nature documentary. "Some of the animation was quite impressive, but their actual behaviour - leaping at people's faces and hanging on - was totally wrong. The posturing was a bit silly, too. Snakes very rarely hiss with their mouths open unless they are threatened. The highlight was seeing a giant Burmese python bare its teeth and growl like a rottweiler. They haven't got any muscles in their lips! They couldn't bare their teeth if they tried."

Survivor to divide teams by race; nation shocked that show is apparently still on air. Whee! It's the Happy Fun Segregation Hour!

To freshmen, Google was always a verb. Or, How to Feel Old in 475 Words.

Brendan Fraser to star in Inkheart. I haven't read these books, but I hear they're good...?


"Harry Potter V: K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Yeah, this one's a little gross. I really don't need a press release about how Loving and Tender Harry's first kiss is. I'll take it on faith, thanks.

Trailer for Little Children, with Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, and Patrick Wilson; brought to you by Todd Field, screenwriter/director of In the Bedroom, "That Guy Who Played the Piano in Eyes Wide Shut," and voice of Ol' Drippy on Aqua Teen Hunger Force. (Yes, I am available to write trailer scripts, thanks for asking.)

(What, you think "IN A WOOOORLD" writes itself?)

Have y'all been following the saga of Aldo Kelrast over on Mary Worth and/or the Comics Curmudgeon? Because it's like some unholy combination of The Gift of Fear and The Golden Girls or something. Unholy and awesome.

Hey! I didn't know they had a Weird US TV show! Hey! It comes on tomorrow morning, too!

Okay, this one's a little complicated, so put your reading glasses on. Forbes posted an article (which, as I understand it, is no longer there) about how men shouldn't marry career women. (Gawker's take: "Shocker: Forbes Recommends Trophy Wives.") Someone on JournalFen grabbed the text before it went down, but the short version is, career women make bad wives because they're too busy to wipe your ass on a daily basis and also, their actually leaving the house makes it more likely that they'll find someone who is not, in fact, a total dicksmack. I wish I was kidding, but I'm kind of not. The Forbes forums go up in flames. Forbes takes the article down (HA ha!), but the board posts remain. Best response, female (long format): Pwnt in nine easy steps. Best response, male (short format): "I like it when guys like you say things like this in public. It makes it easier for guys like me to get laid. Thanks, man, for taking one for the team." For the win!

ETA: wakuchan says it's been reposted--this time with a rebuttal.

Comments

[phoenixforhire.livejournal.com]

DOWN WITH H/CHO. UP with H/G! :D

Cho's a whiney bitch, anyway. And I don't want to visualize the two of them k-i-s-s-i-n-g...ing.

[phoenixforhire.livejournal.com]

*whiny

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

"Suddenly you have new slang, new rituals--people doing things like making fire in ways that haven't been done on Survivor.

I must confess, I am devastatingly curious as to how people of Asian descent make fire! I suspect it has something to do with transistors, or a sense of family honor and conformity.

[nitedula.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[wakuchan.livejournal.com]

The Forbes article was reposted by forbes too here - http://www.forbes.com/home/2006/08/23/Marriage-Careers-Divorce_cx_mn_land.html

Stole the link from a friend's LJ, just heard about it now. Ugh.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like the counterpoint article. Was that up with the original version? (I have a feeling it wasn't...)

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

You could totally wear Marie Antoinette's dress where I live! Ashland, Oregon. Everyone walks around in the most bizarre get-ups; in fact, I feel strange when I dress like a normal person.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

My heart goes out to a certain small and extremely lawsuit-happy Hollywood person. If he'd just come out of the closet he's not in, he'd prolly return to sanity overnight...

LOST figures: Where's Boone? I love my Dead Gay Boone!

SOAP: You mean the behaviour of the snakes isn't accurate? Gasp! First EIGHT-LEGGED FREAKS burns me, now this?!! *g*

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

*shudder* Kirsten Dunst. I want to see that movie but I can't bring myself to watch Kirsten Dunst in any way, shape or form.

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

Kirsten Dunst has a really annoying habit of making movies I like.

[katiekins.livejournal.com]

Brendan Fraser to star in Inkheart. I haven't read these books, but I hear they're good...?

Wow, Brendan must be a huge Cornelia Funke fan, 'cause he did the audio books of Inkheart, Inkspell, AND Dragonrider. This is the first I've heard about the movie, though, so thanks! And the series is awesome, but then I'm partial to YA fantasy lit. :)

[dietcokebreak.livejournal.com]

Inkheart is excellent. Fraser will be very good.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

"The highlight was seeing a giant Burmese python bare its teeth and growl like a rottweiler. They haven't got any muscles in their lips! They couldn't bare their teeth if they tried."

That, and SNAKES DON'T HAVE TEETH. I was SO stoked when I saw the massive snake over the glass, because I LOVE pythons and boas and couldn't stop laughing for a full five minutes when I saw it had TEETH.

[ceasethestorm.livejournal.com]

They do indeed have teeth, but certainly not to that comical extent.

Then again, I'm sure the whole movie is a herpetologist's worst nightmare.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Pwnt in nine easy steps.

Boy does that woman ROCK like a rocking thing.

In re: that dress

[rorqual.livejournal.com]

On the one had, I'm glad I don't live in a world where wedging myself into a dress four inches smaller than my natural waist size is required in order for me to be a decent woman...on the other hand, pretty! Plus, the team of maidservants required to put that sort of getup on me would be a total bonus; they could hold my oxygen mask, smelling salts, and dance card.

Re: Clive Owen GQ, To Freshmen...

[dives.livejournal.com]

I've never been a big fan of Clive Owen, but damn.

I feel like my entire age group is woefully ignorant after reading that Yahoo! article. I mean, Rodney King. It's not ancient history. :-/

Re: Clive Owen GQ, To Freshmen...

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but if you were under a certain age, you tend to be unaware of the wider world outside your friends, your family, your school. Parents don't tend to make their kids sit down and watch the news (hell, so many adults don't watch the news or read the papers) so kids just don't know, and if they do, they don't understand it.
I remember I was in like 5th grade when Desert Storm happened, and being irritated by the fact that all these news updates interrupted the shows I watched at my sitter's house before school.

[wildcatlizzie.livejournal.com]

Do you know how glad I am that I was not at Desert Ridge that night? I can do snakes, really. But there's just something about being in a dark theatre with one of the deadliest snakes that's a bit freaky.

[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

"Some of the animation was quite impressive, but their actual behaviour - leaping at people's faces and hanging on - was totally wrong."

As my sister would say, in a voice dripping with sarcasm, "So that's where the movie loses credibility for ya? Not that there are snakes on a plane, but that the behavior was totally wrong..."

[cabell.livejournal.com]

As a sociologist, I'd just like to note that virtually all the research in the original article was cited out of context, frequently in ways that were probably directly cautioned against by the researchers themselves. Furthermore, the one spot in the article where he actually acknowledges that correlation /= causation is about the beneficial effects of marriage on health, which research has repeatedly demonstrated are NOT solely a selection effect; there is in fact causation there. And it's a much stronger effect for men than for women (and men who are widowed then have way higher mortality).

[cheapblackpens.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. You might be interested in this defense on Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2148274/?nav=ais

[nuit-belle.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, it looks like it's a love scene with Raleigh and Bess, one of Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting. Although I would love to see some Elizabeth/Raleigh in The Golden Age. I can't wait for it to come out.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's riiiiight, I'd forgotten about the other Bess. The way I read that was, "Well, if they're sleeping together, I guess a nickname isn't that forward..."

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Okay, the allegation that Kids Today don't remember a time without googling is nuts. Google debuted in 1998. They were born in 1988. So they were ten. I remember the Berlin wall coming down, and the Soviet Union imploding when I was ten. I was really annoyed that after I'd spent a year of Geography learning how the Soviet system worked, it was all gone.

[fiveforsilver]

Some of it is, of course, hyperbole. I read the one for my graduating class - 2003 - and, well, most of it was surprisingly accurate, but some of it was silly. I remember when my parents had a rotary dial phone (heck, my grandma still has one), for example.

And even though Google hasn't been around for 10 years, it became ubiquitous so quickly, doesn't it feel like it's been around longer? There are enough people who thing that "the internet" consists entirely of the web as it is...

...And for me at least, my life before I was 10 years old is pretty sketchy.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Jesus, I'm not-quite-20 and the article made me feel old.

[pseudoblu.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very very much for linking to that costume site. It's got so much neat stuff!

[divabat.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the Survivor people realize that the Asian group is most likely to contain tons of diversity anyway, that Asian cultures differ, and that trying to use a "culture effects things" hypothesis on them won't work? Or do they all assume that all Asians are East Asian? (even East Asians differ!)

recipe for disaster.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Can't you just see it?

Movie producer: "I know! Let's throw some Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese in together. They're all basically they same - they'll get along GREAT."

[firefly-ca.livejournal.com]

Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, and Patrick Wilson

o_O

So what you're telling me is that this is going to be the sexiest movie ever made, then?

*watches trailer*

Yes. Yes, you are.

[meandstuff.livejournal.com]

Ha, that is exactly what I thought when I first read that article about the Harry/Cho kiss. Why are they even filming it?

[edda.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. Now I want to track down Michael Noer and beat him to death with the dildo his wife must surely use to cheer herself up while he's hammering out sexist bullshit like that article. Oh, wait, that implies that someone would marry him. Doucheturkey.

The first point-for-point comment you linked to was good, but there's a more nuanced and rather well-written one further down as well. The only thing that all the heavy "Marry a career gal! She'll make you happy!" rebuttal makes me cautious about is the implied "Because a full-time housewife is just a drag!" notion. Of course anyone with a brain will pick a woman who's a good person and who fits well into his life (and he into hers) no matter what she does or doesn't do; but I'd like to point out that there's equally nothing wrong with being a full-time homemaker. Just to balance.

I'm sending these links to my mom. She'll have a cow laughing. After I finishe imagining Michael Noer sulking at the smackdown he received and consoling himself by beating off to Bill O'Reilly.

[sawcat.livejournal.com]

raliegh beard....

wonder if there's any of Samantha Morton in her Mary costume yet. Also wonder if they'll bring Essex in, or if he'll be excluded from this "historical" movie

[syneblue.livejournal.com]

When I read the Forbes article, my jaw literally dropped. I haven't seen so much bullshit strung together since the last time Brother Jeb came to my campus. What really killed me was how he wrote feminist in quotations: "feminist" Like it's not a real word or something.
Obviously he is insane, but who the flaming hell allowed this to be published. I mean..it..so..AUGHRAAAAAAA!
*turns green, grown three feet and stomps off calling for blood (and balls)*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Turns out Noer himself is the executive editor--*that's* who let it be published.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

I'm into YA fantasy in a big way, and I thought Inkheart was skullcrushingly boring. But that's apparently just me.

I love how the Survivor article lists the contestants' names, ages, occupations, and cities, but not their races.

[fiveforsilver]

Well, I read quite a bit of YA fantasy - but apparently not enough, since I've never even heard of Inkheart...