Wow, did I not think of a title?

[cleolinda]

Okay, first of all, OUR LONG INTERNATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER: JKR/WB vs RDR Books Trial: RDR Books Withdraws Appeal.

Second of all: Holy shit, Edward Dollen really does look like David Boreanaz.

Third: For people wondering about what the hell's up with the Bella doll, this is the outfit she's wearing. You only see the peasant blouse in the hotel scene because she's got the jacket zipped up after that. And the doll's actually wearing the brown jacket from another scene (this one. Look at the cuffs). Look, I don't actually care what she's wearing--padawansguide and I just geek out over costumes like whoa on her site sometimes, so I'm used to scrutinizing tiny details like a nutbar. People were just asking, is all.

Fourth: An email conversation I just had with my mother, who is apparently way more invested in the situation than I had dreamed:

Twilight doll pictures have come in. Stand back, they're creepy (see attachments).

He looks more like the person playing the part than she does.

Yeah... Bella has a severe lack of bitchface. And their hair colors are switched for reasons I cannot fathom. I'm sure Robert Tonner will be getting hundreds of angry emails to that effect by the end of the day. You think I'm kidding, and I'm not even.

You’re probably right about the calls – I even wanted to make one about Bella. Bella doesn’t even look like the actress. I’m sure they will be a big disappointment to those fans who live and breathe Twilight………………..

So... there's that.

And for folks a little lost with the whole Secret Life of Dolls thing, there's some background and a chronological list of entries over here (after a little housekeeping to get the list up to date).

Linkspam!

Ship carrying 122 adrift in Antarctic.

Towering fraud: newspaper steals Empire State Building.

Knut The Polar Bear Falls Victim to Child Star Syndrome [Clips].

Mattel wins permanent injunction vs MGA in Bratz case.

Men's Mid-Life Crises Now The Fault Of Feminism.

Author, 9, reveals how to pick up girls; 9-Year-Old Dating Expert Not Exactly A Ladies Man.

Loneliest Lil' Food Critic to Become a Kid Power Film.

Via John Scalzi: Aspiring writers: Don't do this.

Victorian watch cock necklace. Wait, a what?

Music review: The Killers.

Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma.'

Kings of Leon star reveals anorexia battle.

Voltaire Releases First Music Video.

MTV Closing Rhapsody Office; John Norris A Victim Of MTV Layoffs? Aw, I always liked him. Even though his highlights scare me now.

'Ellen' Guest Goes Into Labor, Welcomes First Baby of the Apocalypse.

Stephen Colbert Interviews Barbara Walters Using Soft Focus Lens… On Himself.

Ben Stein Wins Roger Ebert's Disdain.

Nora Roberts’ 'Tribute' Comes to Lifetime. Will it be as good as 'Carolina Moon'? Because it will be appointment TV if so.

James Franco is BlackBook Bold; Isla Fisher does Australian FHM magazine; Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in Rome.

National Board calls 'Slumdog' year's best film; Oscar 'Knight'? Batman's hopes look stronger; Grammys Right Oscar Wrongs, Nominate 'Dark Knight' and 'There Will Be Blood'; Sundance Announces Out-of-Competition Sections; 1988 Best Supporting Actor: Want a do-over?

Images: New Stills from 'The International', starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts; New 'Friday The 13th' Poster; 'Dare' movie stills; Taste Eastwood’s ‘Gran Torino’ Rage… 35 Times (" 'Clint Eastwood is tastefully racist in Gran Torino.' Put that shit on the poster").

Trailers and clips: ET's Sneak Peek at the New 'Terminator Salvation' Trailer; 'Che' Poster, Trailer, Revolutionary.

PopWatch Previewer: 'Little Ashes,' 'Che,' and 'Race to Witch Mountain.'

Go Fug Yourself: Twilight on Ice; Robert Pattinson interview video ("Do you want to come home with me? Please don't answer that, I'm just saying it to be nice"); Robert Pattinson Knows How To Deal With Stalkers ("I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year.... I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back"); more videos; Whatever Happened to 'Twilight,' Anyway? ("The one industry observer still paying attention points us today to the IMDB STARmeter, that infallible bellwether of influence and status where the young, cheap cast of Twilight has retained control of the entire top 10 "); How 'Twilight' turned us on to AA Bondy's 'Vampyre' blues.

My Chemical Romance Song ‘Integral’ To ‘Watchmen’ Ending, Says Frontman Gerard Way.

Rowling creates yet more magic in 'Bard' (review); Report and Photos from JK Rowling's Beedle the Bard Release Party in Scotland; New Rowling book goes straight to No. 1.

Viggo Mortensen On 'Good', 'The Road', and 'The Hobbit.'

More Creatures In 'Dawn Treader'; Additional 'Caspian' Extras Available in Regions 2 and 4.

Holiday Movie Junk: 'I Am Legend' Ultimate Collector's Edition.

Zanuck Defends 3-D 'Alice in Wonderland.'

'Creature From The Black Lagoon' Will Be Based On Pure Science.

Mickey Rourke And Darren Aronofsky: Party People, By Kurt Loder.

Mark Romanek Finally Nabs a New Gig--Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go.' That should be one to look out for...

How Some Dude's Flickr Photo Wound Up in 'Iron Man'; Could your Flickr photos make it big in Hollywood?

Q&A: Alexander On 'Punisher' Rumors; Film review: 'Punisher: War Zone': "The third time for the Marvel anti-hero is definitely not the charm."

Will Signourney Weaver Appear In The ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequel? She’s Got Ideas.

Russell Brand Eyes Remake Of Dudley Moore’s ‘Arthur.’

Exclusive: Oz Star Eamonn Walker Plays Howlin' Wolf in 'Cadillac Records.'

Ask 'Marley and Me' Stars a Question For Unscripted; Ask 'Bedtime Stories' Stars a Question for Unscripted.

George Lucas on Indiana Jones and Star Wars.

Forget Shia — There's Only One Heir To Indy's Fedora ['The Librarian'].

Stoller Talks Black's Gulliver. Wait. Gulliver's Travels? With Jack Black? I don't know that I like the sound of this.

Universal Pushing For Remake Of John Carpenter’s ‘They Live.’

Fox is Remaking 'Romancing the Stone.' OUT! OUT! GTFO, KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Dragonball Gets a New Title; I still find myself unable to care.

Paris Hilton Wants To Be Tinkerbell [Don't Clap].

Comments

[dachelle.livejournal.com]

I'm...unsure about the Russell/Arthur thing. In a way I can see it, but I don't know if Russell, much as I love him, is a good leading man. He's kind of like comic seasoning for films, if you will. Too much of him might spoil the movie broth. Still, if they do make it, I will have to go see it on opening day. Obviously.

THE ROMANCING THE STONE REMAKE IS THE MOST WRONG IDEA IN WRONGVILLE.

[niiicko.livejournal.com]

"THE ROMANCING THE STONE REMAKE IS THE MOST WRONG IDEA IN WRONGVILLE"

You said it. x_x

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Wow. AWESOME miscasts on Tribute. Totally. What?

P.S. JUST SAY NO TO RE-ROMANCING THE STONE

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

The hair! The hair! The doll's hair is really freaking me out.

[thursdays-girl.livejournal.com]

I pegged him for looking suspiciously like Michael Buble:

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Yay for costume obsession!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

\o/

[lyrangalia]

GFY's description of Twilight on Ice is brilliant.

(subtext: "You must not love me BUT I LOVE YOU but stay away BUT NOT TOO FAR AWAY let me stare at you NO I MUSTN'T but I will LET ME TOE-LOOP MY FEELINGS don't look at me EXCEPT DO I am dangerous TIME TO SPARKLE").

YES.

[poinsley.livejournal.com]

I've wondered about Kings of Leon. I saw them in concert 5 years ago and I felt like I was as wide as two of them together (and I'm a normal size)!

[nanet.livejournal.com]

He mentioned that it was when he was a teenager - they're all pretty beefed up now, relatively speaking. They have the skinniest chicken legs I've ever seen, though. Their mom takes in all their pants for them to make them tight like Olivia Newton John in Grease. Sigh, I love them.

[scarolinagrl.livejournal.com]

Overall, I'm pretty mellow and have been quiet about all of the recent remakes...

but "Romancing the Stone" is just sacred. DO NOT TOUCH IT! DO NOT!!!

Somewhere in a box in my house is a dusty copy of the paperback book version of the movie. yes. I am not ashamed.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

Somewhere in a box in my house is a dusty copy of the paperback book version of the movie. yes. I am not ashamed.

Ditto for me. The highlight of my college graduation trip to Europe was watching this on the plane to London from Manila; having the projector throw a fit, and living in mortal fear that we would land before the movie ended...

Thankfully the movie ended well before the pilot started the descent, which was a very good thing.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

Speaking of dolls, have there been any updates on what's happening in the world of Barbie and Ken?

Also -- your description of Carolina Moon? Awesome. I kind of want to find it and watch it now. (I have heard Nora's actually a pretty good writer. But I think all Lifetime movies are just doomed to failure.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, exactly. La Nora actually has a history of being deeply awesome. (http://cleoland.pbwiki.com/Nora+Roberts)

[bgmaster.livejournal.com]

No more Lexicongate? Say it ain't so!

Had you already mentally retired from it after the verdict, or does this bring a better sense of closure? I'd be glad to shut up the little sick voice in the back of my head that would have had to keep following it forever and ever, personally.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Over on Fandom Lounge/Fandom Wank, I officially announced in the comments at some point that I was handing over the reins to whoever wanted to post about it. I think the last time I posted was the verdict, and I let someone else handle the appeal announcement, because it had literally been a full year.

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

Oh cool costume site! Thanks for the link!

[snowwhite2421.livejournal.com]

I would like to amend the headline and add "Aspiring SCREEN writers, don't do this either."

I get so much crap, every day, from people saying "hey, I know you guys don't accept unsolicited material, but you'll LOVE THIS" blah blah blah.

They don't understand that it is actually a legal process set up to protect them. Copyright and all that jazz.

And I'm putting that on my list of "if I ever speak to Sparkleson, what will I ask?" questions : "did you seriously go out to dinner with a stalker, or were you just messing around?"

twilight/angel

[sevenmarie.livejournal.com]

Second of all: Holy shit, Edward Dollen really does look like David Boreanaz.
that the 1st thing i said when i saw it!

ALSO! i have a theory on why in breaking dawn Bella is SOOO protective of the vampire baby! there's this one episode of the show angel where Cordelia gets knocked up by some dude and is like 8.995 months preggers OVERNIGHT! so at first shes all like GET IT OUTTA ME! but then she like beats up Westley because he's trying to hurt "her baby". and it turns out that the demon spawn baby puts some sort of mind control thing on her.

maybe its like that with the vampire babies in breaking dawn? like that dude even said that his mom was super protective of him and apparently his sister's moms carried them to term too! its like the baby MAKES THEM!

Re: twilight/angel

[meleth.livejournal.com]

If only Bella could have given birth to Gina Torres. That would have made everything so much more awesome.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yes, George Lucas, you do need a good MacGuffin. And also to keep your hands out of the script.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Victorian watch cock necklace Okay, that name is just...quite odd. But the necklace is lovely! *grabby hands*

WHY WOULD THEY REMAKE ROMANCING THE STONE?!?!?! Whyyyy?

Edward Dolleanaz is still making me giggle.

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

PS: Costume obsessing should be a legit hobby (or possibly profession).

[waltzingalong.livejournal.com]

Edward Dollen really does look like David Boreanaz.

Haha, someone beat me to the punch! I'm glad someone else noticed because I seriously thought I was looking at dolls for the wrong media for a minute.

[inane-notions.livejournal.com]

Wait. So these guys "steal" the Empire State Building and put down fake names that don't involve Carmen Sandiego? Unacceptable.

Also, Dragonball: Evolution? Are Goku's transformations now the ill effects of radiation? No, I bet that's how Piccolo turns yellowgreen.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Aw, Robert, bless your heart. The tour of terror seems to have worn out your soul. Like I said, I bet he wakes up every day and remembers the promise of a day full of fangirls and thong signings and reaches of the bottle of gin. Poor kid.

That hair is starting to look like it could reach out and bitch slap someone though. KEEP PROTECTING HIM, YOU FIESTY FOLLICLES!

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

Also, regarding the mid-life crises article: What in great fuckitude?

"Recast as nurturers, some of these guys are finding themselves almost indignantly nostalgic for that time, not so long ago, when husbands got to be babied by their wives—and never had to empty the Diaper Genie."

Oh yes. So sorry to have emasculated you by not subsuming our entire identities to caring for you. Please forgive us for being so selfish.

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

Okay, first of all, OUR LONG INTERNATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER: JKR/WB vs RDR Books Trial: RDR Books Withdraws Appeal.


THANK YOU JEBUS!

[wearejustducky.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that Ishiguro book made me cry. I think it could make a good movie in the Children of Men mode.

Only, you know, without the apocalyptic internecine violence. If only I could figure out a way to shoehorn Clive Owen in there....

[arden-ranger.livejournal.com]

OK, look. The remakes have to stop.

Just because something made a bazillion dollars in the Eighties does not mean it's going to do it again. Romancing the Stone was awesome when it came out. It is still one of my favorite fun movies. But it's Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner that made it awesome more then the story itself.

Besides, anytime they've said "remake" so far, it's actually meant "a sucky reimagining of the original which may or may not use more then just the title".

There are a dozen books I can think of off the top of my head that would make amazing movies. GOOD movies. And that's just me! Srsly Hollywood - BACK THE HELL OFF MY OLD MOVIES!

[katharhino.livejournal.com]

Preach it.

Just because a movie exists, doesn't mean you should remake it. In fact it usually means you should NOT remake it.

I can think of maybe one exception.

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

OMGOMGOMGOMG!! Does this mean Edward gets a spin off where he gets to have undead-emo-avenger offspring with one of the Denali sisters?! OMGOMGOMGOMG!!

Oh man, I could laugh at this for weeks.

On a side note... George Lucas should retire already. I would like to hold some esteem for the man when he goes.

[starlady42.livejournal.com]

"I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year.... I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with her. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back"

NO, RPATTZ. NO. NOW THEY WILL ALL STALK YOU THINKING THAT YOU WILL BUY THEM DINNER AND PRATTLE ON ABOUT YOUR LIFE. BAD RPATTZ.

[celticwitch99.livejournal.com]

Srsly.

[ppyajunebug.livejournal.com]

MCR + Watchmen?? NO THANK YOU.

Ugh, I really dislike them. In general.