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Telegraph - Joan Collins: the day I said no to James Bond On the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth, Joan Collins offers a lament for the Fleming way of life, and for film roles that weren’t meant to be…

One:

I had my own flirtation with the Bond casting cartel - twice, as a matter […]

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Jay Leno and David Letterman #3, 1983

Jay Leno is a baby. His voice is so high-pitched! Letterman, on the other hand, he may look younger, but you know he isn’t. Not really.

I like the “friends” comment. They were so very young. Except Letterman. Not really. And I like how newly-married Jay sounds. You can tell […]

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First of all, this is way off-base:

“The first hour of Jon Favreau’s new film is right up there with the best movies of the genre. Too bad the second half sounds like a Ralph Nader lecture on America’s responsibility for all the world’s wars.”

Because obviously the movie’s an indictment of Google: Private industry […]

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Telegraph - Sex and the City ditches New York for London

To the shock of the show’s American fans, the hugely-awaited new movie version of the show is to premiere not in New York - but in London.

I don’t think even Adam Gadahn would stoop so low. Or at least in the eyes of […]

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The Times - ‘Don’t insult me, I can tell fiction from reality’, by Theo Wells, aged 14

To me, Grand Theft Auto is about freedom, not violence. As the name of the series suggests, the best way to spend time in this virtual, “no-consequence”, world is to steal yourself a nice car and drive […]

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I don’t usually blog about Madonna, certainly not twice in one week, but I thought this was rather insightful on a larger scale:

Fox 411 - Madonna Film: Kabbalah Propaganda

Condescending? Yes. Unknowing? Oh, you’d best believe it. Naïve? Eminently. The pièce de résistance came after the screening, when one audience member […]

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Me, on Sunday - Don’t Tell Q

The driver was delivering the iconic Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he lost control around one of the lake’s narrow curves. Augh, he was only delivering it! It didn’t go out in […]

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You’d think that she’d know by now that to duet with someone who can sing would only make people notice she sounds like Madonna.

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BBC - Bond car plunges into Lake Garda

A stunt driver has crashed the car used by movie secret agent James Bond into Italy’s Lake Garda during filming of 007’s latest movie, Quantum of Solace.

Augh!

The driver was delivering the iconic Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he […]

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The Times - Death to Harry Potter plagiarists! Those who copy and cannibalise good stuff to make rubbish are the real villains, by Natalie Haynes

The real crooks are those who plagiarise and cannibalise good stuff to make rubbish. J.K.Rowling is in court this week, trying to block the publication of a Harry Potter lexicon, […]

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Times Online - Charlton Heston, Oscar-winning star of Ben Hur, dies

sigh

And:

Telegraph - Obituaries - Charlton Heston

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Linked to by LGF:

I’m told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4 M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office. […]

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Fox News - Paul McCartney Ordered to Pay Heather Mills $48.7 Million to Settle Divorce

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A lot of you will have seen this, it’s one of Peter’s absolutely favourite videos on the internet, ever:

Dramatic Chipmunk

And then last night, he found this:

Dramatic Lemur

SFW, and if you watch either of these without your audio on, we can’t ever be friends.

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BBC - Final Potter film split in half

The announcement comes after producer David Heyman admitted it was impossible to cram Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ 608 pages into a single movie. “You cannot remove elements of this book,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

SOMEONE’S FINALLY SEEN SENSE.

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