I am SO excited. I just bought tickets to see Wicked: The Musical on my birthday! If you haven’t heard of it, it’s the story of the Wicked Witch of the West. My parents saw it in San Francisco and loved it, and it’s gotten fabulous reviews. I can’t wait!
Archive for May, 2005
Brooke Shields has responded to Tom Cruise’s stupid and downright weird comment that she should have just "taken some vitamins" to treat her post-partum depression.
She said, "His comments are dangerous. He should stick to saving the world from aliens."
Hee.
W. Mark Felt, an ex-FBI official, has admitted to being "Deep Throat", the anonymous source that gave Bob Woodward so much information on Richard Nixon and the White House’s involvement in Watergate.
That’s wicked cool. I have been fascinated by the Deep Throat mystery ever since I saw All the Presiden’t Men. Now THIS guy is a patriot.
I am happy to announce that my gallery is finally up and running. I have some tweaks to do, the first of which being that the horizontally-oriented pictures for some reason aren’t displaying big enough, but they are fine for now. They also are not in chronological order, because Typepad is kind of dumb and their album system is complicated like that, but I will fix it eventually. Right now it is organized alphabetically by destination - I know, I know, I’m working on it. GOSH!
But the pictures are up, so please, visit the gallery and see what the hell we were up to for five weeks!
I’m sure most of you have probably seen/heard this before, but Tom Cruise just did an interview on Access Hollywoood in which he blasts Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants for her post-partum depression.
According to Tom, Brooke should have just "taken some vitamins". Ahem.
I’m so glad that TOM CRUISE has decided to enlighten us with his medical wisdom, because, really, who else do we have to give us advice on such things? Except maybe, you know, DOCTORS.
This gave me a good, deep belly laugh this morning, so I thought I would share with y’all.
The part that really got me was the "smoking hot in LOTR, problematic in the real world".
I think I have to start referring to more people as "problematic".
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over
and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the
propaganda."— George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
No, sir, see, in your line of work you should be doing things A LITTLE MORE IMPORTANT than CATAPULTIING THE FUCKING PROPAGANDA!! ARHRHGRHARGHARGAHGRHHH!!!!!
GOD I hate him!
Looks like Mark Morford is with me on the Star Wars thing.
Here are his thirteen things to be grateful for now that the franchise is over.
12) Raise your hand if you love the concept of prequels. Ten years of crappy CGI and 10 years of lumpy stiff acting and 28 years of waiting and you watch "Sith" where only the last 30 minutes really finds any sort of cinematic footing, and after all that screaming and all the cheeseball animation and all the slaughtered Jedis and the stilted, lifeless dialogue and heavy Vader wheezing and Yoda’s irritating speech impediment, where do we finally end up at the end of Episode III? That’s right: 1977. And who the hell wants to be back there?
That was pretty much how I felt during the entire two and a half hours watching Revenge of the Sith. Worst. Movie. Ever. I can’t even tell you how horrible this film was. I hated it with the fire of a thousand suns. The acting sucked. The dialogue was the most laughable and unlistenable crap ever. I can’t tell you how many times Hawk and I just bust out laughing in the middle of what was supposed to be a dramatic scene.
Anakin’s transformation into Darth Vader was totally unbelievable. One second he is handing Palpatine over to Mace Windu, the next second he’s kneeling in front of him, pledging his allegiance to the dark side. I don’t buy it. And Padme somehow became a simpering weakling as opposed to the kick-ass take charge kind of gal she was in Episode I. Also, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen have absolutely NO chemistry, and were certainly not helped along by George Lucas’ pitiful romantic dialogue:
ANAKIN: You are so beautiful!
PADME: It’s only because I’m so in love . . .
ANAKIN: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
"I love you". "I love you more". "No, I love YOU more". Gimme a fucking break.
There are plot holes abounding. For example, remember in Return of the Jedi when Luke asks Leia if she remembers their mother, and she says yes, that she remembers her being very beautiful and very sad? Well, Padme DIES GIVING BIRTH to them, so unless Leia remembers the two minutes between when she was born and her mother dying, she’s full of crap. Or George Lucas is. I vote the latter.
Ewan MacGregor was the only good thing about the film (well, that and Hayden Christensen’s bare chest). He was the only one who didn’t look like he was reading his lines off a teleprompter. Ian McDermid was pretty good too, but the scene where he transforms into Darth Sidius had a few too many weird facial contortions and guttural screams. The fight scenes were OK, but nothing different than the last two films (except for the one scene with Obi Wan and General Grievous with the four light sabers - that was cool!)
Anyway. I hated it. I know it’s been getting good reviews, from both critics and audiences. For the life of me, I don’t understand why, but if you saw it and liked it, enlighten me.
