Let's talk about cheerfuller things today

[cleolinda]

Made some more Secret Life of Dolls icons. I'm to the point where I can't really imagine anyone wanting to use them (you're free to, obviously), but I still like making them. They're like tiny little movies! If movies had lots of text and still photographs! Uh.

Also, it has been brought to my attention that Sideshow does, in fact, make a Faramir. And a Boromir. And an Aragorn and a Legolas. We must never speak of this again.

(Oh, you have got to be kidding me. It's like Playgirl for dolls.)

(Buy $169K dollhouse, get real home 'free.' I swear to you, I looked over at The Shelf and blurted out, "I DO NOT EVEN WANT TO HEAR IT.")

BREAKING NEWS: WHAT IS THIS SHIT? I mean, it's a lovely doll. IT'S JUST NOT TIA DALMA.

You know how many good movie trailers just came out? I'm putting them above the cut, that's how many.

Trailers and clips: 'Revolutionary Road' Trailer Online; New 'Day the Earth Stood Still' Footage Sunday; Witness Meryl Streep's Reign of Terror in 'Doubt' Trailer; Must Watch: Tom Tykwer's 'The International' Trailer With Clive Owen! ('International' Trailer Creates Little 'Interest' [See, Because It's About a Bank]; The 'International' Trailer Uses a Scene From 'Ghost Rider'!); Clint Eastwood's 'Changeling' Trailer With Angelina Jolie; First Look: Gilliam's 'Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' Featurette; 'Two Lover's trailer; Exclusive Clip: 'Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway'; Get Bloody Musical with the Trailer for 'Repo! The Genetic Opera'; 'Feast 2' Trailer Is A Pretty Little Massacre.

Okay, I didn't say that they were all good.

(Also, nerves_patterns says thanks for your help with her project--it seems to have gone really well.)

More linkspam:

Update from yesterday: David Foster Wallace, 46, Writer, Dies; Remembering David Foster Wallace.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden over at Making Light seems to have had a minor heart attack.

Mom accused of stealing daughter's identity to attend highschool and become a cheerleader.

Guitar Hero: World Tour full setlist confirmed; The swank Rock Band 2 premium drum set.

Ukulele covers of Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive" from Portal.

LHC-Themed T-Shirts Commemorate the Non-Destruction of Earth ("Particle physics gives me a hadron").

Queen's Personal Poet Hates His Job.

Was baseball born in England?

EPIC FETCH.

Just How In Trouble Is 'Dollhouse'?

Amazingly, Annoying Kathy Griffin Wins Another Emmy: "Well, well, well! Here we go again, f—ers. Here we go again!"

The Sienna Miller's only fansite doesn't want to be Sienna Miller's fansite anymore.

Mortensen's Tea Causes Airport Security Problems.

Boyle Leads Toronto Film Festival Prizes; Toronto Winners: 'Slumdog Millionaire' Wins People's Choice; Telluride Interview: 'Slumdog Millionaire' Director Danny Boyle; Toronto: 'Rachel' is a revelation; Toronto 2008: 'Rachel Getting Married' and 'Orson Welles.'

Images: The Presumed Oscar-Winning Poster of 'The Soloist'; 'Zack and Miri' Made a Poster so Filthy They Later Made This One to Replace the Initial, Filthy Poster; Jackson and Mac in New Poster for 'Soul Men'; First Look: Wacky Ben Affleck in Mike Judge's Extract; EXCLUSIVE: ‘W.’ Photo Reveals Bush’s Wild Side.

Also, one of the most magnificent sequences of words I have seen in a long time, which is: She-Ra Screencaps: Season 1, Vol 2-Disc 1.

trailer_spot: International, Doubt, Four Christmases, Two Lovers, Changeling.

An Early Dark Knight DVD, Or Just A Twitter Joker?

'Nottingham' to begin filming in February. Wait, Christian Bale is Robin Hood? I can't remember if we knew this already or not.

James Bond Theme Goes Double O-Coke Zero ("the musical stylings of Jack White of the White Stripes, giving us an instrumental taste of the new James Bond theme"); David Arnold Audio Interview: Scoring 'Quantum of Solace.'

Feed Your Watchmen Action Figure Addiction on the Cheap.

Neville photo from HBP (whoa... Neville's getting kind of... mansome there); David Thewlis to Return as Remus Lupin for 'Deathly Hallows'; Shots from the Broadway preview of 'Equus,' in case you were wondering how the horse thing works; Dan Radcliffe Talks 'Equus,' Theater, and Acting in New Interview; Radcliffe readies for Broadway’s ‘test of nerve.’

Twilight: You too can get hammered on Forbidden Fruit; from shocolate: Rupert Grint a fan of the "Twilight" Books? Not... exactly:

After [he replied] to the text message, we found out that Rupert recently lost a bet to actor Robert Pattinson, who was once part of the Harry Potter cast in a previous film, and insisted that Rupert read the bestselling book. Rupert is now "stuck reading 'Twilight' " and that Rob was just texting him to see how far along he was getting.

Rupert admitted he had only read the first five chapters of the bestselling book and we just informed him that there were three more books in the series. "No, really, are you serious? I thought there was just this one book?" Only now realizing he has to read three more, Rupert took his phone out and sent another message to Rob. By the looks of things, we can bet it wasn't a very pleasant message.

Park Chan-wook's Vampire Film 'Thirst' Gets Extra US Funding. You want to know a little secret? If there's only 'Twilight' news, not news for 'True Blood' or a movie like 'Thirst,' I don't use the 'vampires' tag.

Finally, A Good Reason To Go And See Star Trek. The 'Transformers 2' trailer? That would be a reason not to see 'Star Trek' for me, really.

Become a Jedi Knight in One Easy Lesson.

Brendan Fraser: I Could Have Been J.J. Abrams' Superman!

An Early Peek at the 'Iron Man' DVD Goodies; Favreau Reveals 'Iron Man 2' Secrets!

Coens Start 'A Serious Man' with Serious Unknowns; 'Burn After Reading': A hot No. 1; The Dangers Of Hitting Brad Pitt In The Face, By John Malkovich.

Kurt Loder Reviews Al Pacino And Robert De Niro’s ‘Righteous Kill’; Think You Want To Spend 30 Minutes Chatting With DeNiro And Pacino? You Don’t. Seriously. You Don’t.

Ray Winstone to replace De Niro in 'Darkness'?

Anthony Mackie Racing Forward With Jesse Owens Biopic.

Jim Sheridan Adapting 'I, Claudius.'

'Where the Wild Things Are' gets long-awaited release date.

Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges 'Stare at Goats.'

Winslet To Play Jong's Sex Fantasist?

Fivesome Joins 'All's Faire in Love' (Christina Ricci, Owen Benjamin, Nadine Velazquez, Bill Engvall and Cedric the Entertainer).

Colin Firth & Ben Barnes 'Easy Virtue' Interview.

WB Digs Rocker's 'Karma.'

Joseph Gordon Levitt Says No to 'Akira.'

New Movie To Redeem 'Seven Samurai' For SF Fans ['Doomsday Protocol'].

Wait a Minute - 'The Thing' Remake is Actually a Prequel?!

Producer Eyes "True" 'Terror Train' Remake. Even though there's already one remake ('Train') in the works. Because we need two of them. Yes.

'Sigmund and the Sea Monsters'? Sure, Let's Make That a Movie.

AV Club Feature: Commentary Tracks Of The Damned: 'Postal.'

'Dragonball' cost $100M to make? How?

Comments

[alohachary1851.livejournal.com]

LOLOSAURUS RUPERT. Good to know that he and RPattz chat it up.

[latenightcuppa.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor Rupert. I love how blatant RPattz is about his disdain for the Twilight series at this point.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I absolutely love that RPattz's demands for the lost bet were "you have to read this shit, man"

[mermaidkween.livejournal.com]

Yaaay, Doubt! Also, yaaaaay, Repo! (BTW, that's the same Repo! trailer that's been available for a couple of months. Sadly, not new.)
Two very different things, I realize.

[laurelin-kit.livejournal.com]

TIA DALMA DOESN'T BATHE.

[floatingpencil.livejournal.com]

The thing about the mother going to school to be a cheerleader made me laugh. That episode of Buffy was great!

[golden-d.livejournal.com]

That was definitely my first thought, too!

[christwise.livejournal.com]

I saw Equus yesterday. It was amazing except that I wan in constant fear for the horses' lives. Those shoe/hoof thingies look PERILOUS.

Radcakes was incredible.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

(Oh, you have got to be kidding me. It's like Playgirl for dolls.)

EOWYN: GET HIM OVER HERE OR I WILL RIDE YOUR ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSH.

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Rupert Grint bit made my day.

[sound-of-bells.livejournal.com]

RPattz only gets better and better.

Doubt looks incredible.

[sideofzen.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Did the Revolutionary Road trailer get yanked?

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Man, I love Terry Gilliam. That movie looks like it's going to be amazing.

I think I need to find uke tabs to Still Alive now. :D

[incogra.livejournal.com]

SHE-RA. Yessssssss.

Also, I always knew I like that Rupert fella. (And the actor who plays Neville wins the Well Done, Puberty award for the HP cast.)

[yesaffirmative.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I'll have to see how that kid who plays one of Drago's henchidiots (I can't remember whether he's Crabbe or Goyle) is doing. Last I remember though, he was well ahead in that Most Improved by Puberty competition.

[mina-mina-mina.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who kind of wishes that the Bond theme just stays the way it is? Because it's gooood, but I cannot imagine it with vocals at all.

And the trailers for Doubt, Changeling and the Parnassus featurette are amazing.

[minlette.livejournal.com]

I fell over dead at the Leonidas doll. And Neville doesn't even remotely look school-age anymore, does he?

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

Christian Bale as Robin Hood? Heh. I just did an ideal cast for the RH stories I'm working on, and cast him as Robin without hearing about this.

I really, really want Dollhouse to succeed, but . . . I'm kind of doubtful it will.

[http://users.livejournal.com/bellereve_/]

Oh, Rpatz. He will make sure we have LULZ for the rest of the Interwebs.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Okay, I totally thought at first that the "Mom accused, etc." headline was "Man," and I was like, "...."

me too!

[sevenmarie.livejournal.com]

and it wasn't until i read the comments talking about buffy that i scrolled back up and re-read it! i was sitting here like "what did he dress in drag?" ya im not smart sometimes! lulz

[sweetle.livejournal.com]

I remember Neville's older brother being in an episode of Torchwood last season, and he was totally hot. So I am not surprised to see him growing up well too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/bellereve_/]

Yeah, he was really hot. I was so glad Tosh got to bang him.

[madelrocio7.livejournal.com]

Aww, come on, you HAVE to get them the dollhouse.

[marginaliana]

LOL Rupert Grint. IL that he and RPatz are sending each other bitchy texts.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

I can see it now...

Rupert: u assmnky there r 3 books?
RPatz: lol at u

[kittenkatt.livejournal.com]

Never speak (http://swftoys.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/review-sideshow-12-faramir/) of it (http://eyeofthecollector-thelordoftherings.blogspot.com/2008/04/sideshow-faramir-12-figure.html) again?!?! But... (http://www.nextag.com/Sideshow/rings-love/brand-html) but... (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Sideshow-Toys-LORD-OF-THE-RINGS-Exclusive-FARAMIR-1-6th_W0QQitemZ160282384749QQihZ006QQcategoryZ20913QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em122) but..b. (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Sideshow-LOTR-Faramir-Son-Of-Denethor-12-Figure-ROTK_W0QQitemZ280265533774QQihZ018QQcategoryZ86935QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em122)

Always the White Lady shafted, never the Evenstar. Woe.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Okay that Ren Faire movie with Christina Ricci and all? They were asking faire workers at my local faire to be extras in that. All anyone knew about it was that you had to show up during the week in full garb.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Samurai 7 is brilliant. I'm personally a huge fan of the Magnificent Seven tv series too, so Seven Samurai sort of lends itself to adaptation, though any great work can be BADLY adapted.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Is now a good time to mention that I secretly adore Battle Beyond The Stars? Oh, the cheesy-insanity!

(I haven't finished the Samurai 7 anime series yet; my girlfriend picked up the boxed set recently so we're churning our way through. It's mostly good, with an occasional foray into third-string animation quality.)

[batmaz.livejournal.com]

This icon was my favourite part of the Secret Life of Dolls. I think they're going to make themselves a permanent fixture whether you like them or not, shouting over from the Shelf.

[tabbyclaw.livejournal.com]

I don't get the mass worship of Kathy Griffin because "SHE TELLS TEH TRUTH ABOUT CELEBRITIES." Every single celebrity-based media outlet on the planet is centered around slinging crap at the famous, and the National Enquirer doesn't shriek while doing so.