And now, to dinner

[cleolinda]

And somehow, I've managed to get behind on the linkspam again. (I'm behind on most of everything, actually, comments and emails included. Fnarr.)

From rachie203: "My friend is running on a race to raise money for Neurofibromatosis research. As someone who experiences this she has had to go through a number of surgeries to have tumors removed, and she's definitely not the only one. It's a great cause and I'd love to see the some good money raised. Her personal fundraising page can be found at http://www.firstgiving.com/abbygannon, and the main event site can be found at http://run4nf.org/."

Actor Ron Silver Dead At 62; Broadway theaters to dim lights for Ron Silver.

Natasha Richardson Update: Conflicting Reports. Still no reliable updates since this afternoon, by the way.

Neil Gaiman on The Colbert Report. THRILL! As Colbert drops some extreme Tolkien science. I am talking Tom Bombadil from memory here, people.

More professional badfic that's been making the rounds. TEXT NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR LIFE OR BRAINS.

Via dduane: Be care of shippery.

Book-Hot-Or-Not: More On The Sexual Politics Of Author Photos [Special Topics In Literary Attractiveness].

Despite Rough Childhood, 'Very Hungry' Author Eric Carle Is Now Very Happy.

Sci Fi Channel Changes Its Name To A Typo [Syfy Channel] and NOBODY is happy about it.

Two Full Hours Of Confusing Time-Warpy 'Lost' Finale.

'Moonlight' vamp rises again.

'Flight of the Conchords' music recap: 'Bret's Day' and 'I Told You I Was Freekie.'

Will there be a familiar face in George Lucas' Star Wars TV show?

Johnny Depp's Guest Appearance on Spongebob.

How Not To Do A TV Series Finale [Kyle XY Recap].

TCM to explore Hollywood history in 10-part series.

Images: Exclusive: New Images from 'The Hurt Locker'; 'Where the Wild Things Are' Poster: These Wild Things Are Really Huge (and Wild); Another new image from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek has surfaced; New Image from ‘Nine’ Arrives; An Early Look At Characters From Disney's 'Princess and the Frog'; First Look at Olga Kurylenko in 'Centurion'; Exclusive: Poster Premiere for Rupert Wyatt's 'The Escapist'; Exclusive: 'Rudo Y Cursi' Poster Premiere; This 'Orphan' is Almost TOO Symmetrical.

Trailers and clips: Video From Denzel And Oldman's End Of The World Picture [The Book Of Eli] (related: First pictures of Gary Oldman on the set of potentially awesome movie); EXCLUSIVE: Step Into The Shower With Amanda Crew In This ‘Haunting In Connecticut’ Clip; Extended 'Grey Gardens' Trailer; Must Watch: Sam Mendes' 'Away We Go' Trailer; New 'Angels & Demons' Featurette Online; Chan-wook Park’s Vampire Feature ‘Thirst’ has a Korean Trailer; Jasper Morello: stunning steampunk short animated film.

Surprise! 'Transformers 3' Already in the Works; UPDATE: Michael Bay Says ‘No Way’ To ‘Transformers 3’ 2011 Release.

International ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ Posters Hit The ‘Net With Logan, Sabretooth & Gambit; Exclusive Video: Deadpool Speaks!; Ryan Reynolds On ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ Movie Role: ‘I Don’t Consider Myself Playing Deadpool.’

Check out two new images from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; New Half-Blood Prince promos of Draco, teen Tom Riddle & Ginny.

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson Says ‘Jonny Quest’ May Go In ‘Different Direction’ To Cast Zac Efron; Zac Efron Talks Jonny Quest Movie.

'Sunshine Cleaning' Cleans Up At Weekend Box Office.

Did 'Watchmen' Fail? And Why?; from _stormthesea: Dr. Manhattan, the cocktail; from stellanoxx: A remake in 2012? What?; Blu-ray Review: Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter; Who Watches WALL*E?; Quote of the day: "And when we made 300, we were thinking, nobody's gonna want to see this movie. Middle America is gonna be, like, 'A history lesson from a bunch of guys in leather bikinis? Really? You're high.' "

Twilight: The Musical is up (I haven't watched it yet; I've been a bit swamped); Twilight Anime?; Rpattz GQ Outtakes; Kristen talks about Cliff Diving AKA Bells trying to kill herself; 'Twilight' Star Kristen Stewart Talks 'New Moon,' Future Sequels; Twilight Fans Show up at Kristen's house. Personally, I would start demanding hazard pay. Meanwhile, The Wolf Pack; Catherine Hardwicke Launches Website; Blame Twilight for A TAMPON VAMPIRE? WHAT?

Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Talk Tintin with Top Hats.

Coen Brothers Remaking John Wayne’s ‘True Grit’… Sort Of.

SXSW Review: 'Drag Me to Hell'; SXSW Review: 'Women in Trouble.'

Bad Robot Producing World's Biggest Diamond Heist Movie.

Exclusive: Colin Hanks Assists 'The Great Buck Howard.'

Branagh Has His Eye on 'Night of the Demon.'

Ray Stevenson confirms that the script for 'Rome: The Movie' is being written.

Exclusive: Filmmaker Cary Fukunaga on 'Sin Nombre.'

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Outrageous ‘Bruno’ Makes ‘Borat’ Look Tame; Live from SXSW: 'Bruno' Footage Is 20 Minutes of Comedic Bliss; Another ‘Bruno’ trick fools Alabama Guard. *facepalm*

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Raimi ‘Can’t Imagine’ Doing ‘Spider-Man 4’ Without Kirsten Dunst, Only Working On Fourth Film.

Hold me like you did by the lake on Asgard, or, Natalie Portman possibly joining 'Thor' in some capacity.

And it's all downhill from there:

Russell Brand’s ‘Arthur’ Remake Will Honor Boozy Original With New York Setting, Burt Bacharach Tunes.

'Bodyguard' Remake with Rihanna and Channing Tatum?

‘MacGyver’ Movie Coming, Will Be Filmed With Rotary Dial Phone, Paper Clip & Dental Floss.

Jonah Hill Developing ‘21 Jump Street’ Movie.

The Totally Awesome Movie For Dyslexic Michael Bay Fanatics [Found Footage].

"Dragonball" Dominates Asian Box Office; Dragonball Devolution ("Cheese and rice, my nads got scorched!").

Comments

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

EW TAMPON VAMPIRE EW EW EW WHY GOD WHY DO NOT WANT!

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

...a Bodyguard remake. Now they're just fucking with us.

[msilverstar]

Russell Brand makes me laugh, he just tickles me. I would so love to watch him seduce Liza Minelli, wouldn't that be perversely funny?

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, kyle_xy had a collective aneurysm the second the finale was over. For those of us upset over not knowing how it ends, the writers did an interview at ABC Family. (http://community.abcfamily.go.com/blogs/kyle-xy/writerco-producer-julie-plec-answers-questions-about-kyle-xy-finale)

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Ray Stevenson confirms that the script for 'Rome: The Movie' is being written.

I just literally squealed when I saw this headline. FUCK YES BRING ON THE ROME MOVIE! ♥ ♥ ♥

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

*screams and gibbers of delight*

I'm just incoherent with glee. Which is bad as I'm at work.

(I know, I know, wrong Rome in the icon but it's all I've got.)

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

RE the Watchmen remake, I call bullshit- but that's a practical joke that would do You-Know-Who proud.

[girlthethird.livejournal.com]

I agree. It sounds far too much like something someone would write as the worst possible Watchmen adaptation.

[jezabel.livejournal.com]

It says the link to the Twilight musical is bad? But... D: This viewing is necessary to my life.

[sun-star-n-moon.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1PZZJdSn0

[viorica8957.livejournal.com]

A TAMPON VAMPIRE? WHAT?

You've never read Memnoch the Devil, have you.

Ray Stevenson confirms that the script for "Rome: The Movie" is being written.

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

You know, I did--it's not actually the idea of vampires and menstrual blood that freaks me out so much as a vampire coming at me with tampons on his face. DON'T BITE ME WITH YOUR TAMPONS, TAMPIRE.

[marumae.livejournal.com]

Meh I stopped watching "Kyle XY" mid season 2 when A) it started going against Heroes (BIG mistake moving it from summer time, I'm glad ABC Family was proud of it but really...) and when they started pushing the KYLE/JESSE ARE SOOOOULLLEMATES 8D angle too hard.

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

God, that Neil Gaiman interview was a riot. He was the perfect foil of quiet sarcasm to Colbert. I want him to be on that show regularly. :D Also kudos to Colbert for showing his true Tolkienist colours.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Sci Fi Channel Changes Its Name To A Typo [Syfy Channel] and NOBODY is happy about it.

Please tell me this is an April Fool's joke come early.

Damn, it's not. (http://www.syfy.com/press.html)

Way to go SciFi, just when I thought you couldn't ruin yourself anymore, you do.


We saw the trailer for Angels & Demons when we went to see Watchmen. I might be persuaded to see it in the theater.

Rome:The Movie?
Huh. Interesting.

Unless they can get Johnny Depp for the 21 Jump Street movie, I ain't interested. Same with Richard Dean Anderson for the Macgyver movie.

And, ENOUGH WITH THE REMAKES! Cripes.

[manekikoneko.livejournal.com]

My favorite comment on the "SyFy" rebranding was John Scalizi's: that if the name of your company refers to a sexually transmitted disease in any language (as this does, in Polish), people will know, and you should consider that.

[sun-star-n-moon.livejournal.com]

Oh my!! So many things in this lineup of linkspam!!

1) Oh man....Colbert did drop some serious Tolkien knowlege. I mean...holy crap. I've read LotR dozens of times and I couldnt do that from memory.

2.) Vampire Tampons....that is Loltastic on so many levels.

3.) YAY! Rome Movie! *Happy squee*

4.) The twlight musical is okay. It had a few moments, but it failed to be as epic as I thought it might be. Maybe I was just distracted by Bella's horrible wig. However, I have yet to see Edward.

Honestly...I got more lols out of this:
(ZOMG! Vampire Baseball!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKz0gkcgAo

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

... I just saw a comment from Gliff Productions that Bella's hair isn't a wig. Oh... dear.

[ppyajunebug.livejournal.com]

I just read the review of that romance novel and CAN'T. STOP. LAUGHING. Which is worse because the blind guy is on American Idol and I'm pretty sure my roommate thinks I'm laughing at him.

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

Two Full Hours Of Confusing Time-Warpy 'Lost' Finale.

I hope that part in the brackets regarding that one character's demise is not as spoilerific as it sounds....

[mogumogu.livejournal.com]

Neil Gaiman made some fun facial expressions and quirks during the interview.

And Prince Naveen looks AWFUL. I hope that's just his "Princess Artwork" look and that he looks nicer in the film.

That tampon vampire ad looks like that vampire just got foiled by a very thoughtful Slayer.
Vampire: RAR!
Slayer: *Slayer SKILLZ*
VampireL *Bite* Huh? Why don't my teeth work?

[elvensapphire.livejournal.com]

Gaiman and Stephen were such EPIC WIN.

The end of Kyle XY, on the other hand, was epic fail. As is this whole Syfy thing.

I'd totally forgotten George Lucas was going to do a live-action Star Wars series. I haven't watched Clone Wars, but a live series might be fun just for the geekiness.

LOL. Oh Johnny. <3

[dreamingreader.livejournal.com]

...Syfy. Yeah, okay, I admit that it kind of appeals to me visually. It has...balance. And the little logo for it when you click on the link is cute.

Yep, I just called the SciFi channel cute. I am clearly a bad fan.

[barrelgoddess.livejournal.com]

Also, soooooooooooo much love for Neil on Colbert. That interview was so awesome/funny/adorable. ♥

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

I read that memo about remaking Watchmen for 2012. When I read the proposed leading cast, I was ready to call bullsh*** on the whole thing.

Then again. Hollywood has been smoking some daring amounts of crack lately.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

I bought an Ozymandias action figure for $9.99 at a local comic book shop. I recommend him highly if you're looking for a quick shelf addition...he is fierce.

[derangeddarling.livejournal.com]

zomg Rome movie ftw!

so excited!!

[elbales]

More professional badfic that's been making the rounds. TEXT NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR LIFE OR BRAINS.

MY EYES
I NEED BLEACH

Gah. I mean, I can't stop laughing, but my God that's horrible.

[eldritchdragon.livejournal.com]

I vote that Peter Jackson is made to wear a bowler hat and clutch an umbrella AT ALL TIMES. No, actually, I take that back. They are both too adorable to ever be allowed to be accoutremented in anything else.

[arden-ranger.livejournal.com]

I know! He's so cute in that hat, I just want to pinch his cheeks.

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

Well, honestly. The whole Skiffy thing is truly unfortunate, what with the wrestling and the name change. Syfy sounds more like a quick and catchy way of saying syphilis rather than representing a TV channel... er, that would be "catchy" as in easily remembered rather than sexually transmittable.

[diddakoi.livejournal.com]

Syfy? Really? Now you just sound exactly the same but with the added bonus of LOOKING LIKE A TOOL.