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Five Guys In a Limo

I have a strange relationship with the late Mr LaFontaine. On the one hand I thought he was probably hilarious and funny given those brilliant glimpses into his real life via that sort of thing and this, but on the other I wished every kind of curse on him for what [...]

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Telegraph - What’s worse: fake Austen or real Big Brother? By Michael Deacon

If today’s audiences are as obsessed with costume dramas as television commissioners are, it’s with good reason. As a subject for television, the past is often a lot more palatable than the present. In their sentimentality and staginess, [...]

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The Sunday Times - There’s a lot to be said for ageing disgracefully … just look at Mick Jagger, still swinging at 65 after a lifetime of hedonism, by India Knight

Mick Jagger turned 65 yesterday – thrust-out chest, strut, skinny jeans and all. In theory these defiantly virile rock dinosaurs, of whom Jagger is [...]

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We’re at the Seattle Center to see Batman at Imax!

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When Wall-E came out (Bubblehead hated it “viscerally“? When did he trade his soul in for a high-density, negative-energy-gravitationally-fielded lump of coal?) I went to the Cinerama with a group of Peter’s coworkers on opening night. It’s a lovely old theater just blocks away from their office and it’s always full of happy, shiny, applauding [...]

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In advance of the series finale tomorrow night (the last normal episode till 2010?!) (at least this means it’s time to start checking for BBC Video releases):

Telegraph - Dr Who profile: Britain’s favourite alien

The CV is especially entertaining.

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Two more reviews. The first grudging:

Wheat & Weeds - Hello, Wall-E

The second teary-eyed:

Lileks - Bleat

Tying the two together, in Lilek’s post:

As for the ecological message: a few people got undie-bundies over it, but for heaven’s sake it’s a parable. Any civilization capable of interstellar travel isn’t going to be done in by [...]

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So I’m heading downtown later to go see WALL-E with Peter and most of his office at the Cinerama. So I wanted to call to ask about how best to avoid the downtown-movie-theater lines (love ‘em, but not at dinner time), and on their webpage is:

Investor, philanthropist and Seattle native Paul G. Allen [...]

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From Ezra Levant’s blog, a webcast interview with a Toronto comedian who hosted an open mic night in Vancouver has now got a BCHRT complaint against him for hurting the feelings of some Lesbians (NSFW, but not exactly offensive either, and I think it’s worth hearing from the man and the people who are clearly [...]

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This seems an appropriate first article to come back to:

The Sunday Times - Bollywood calls in Rambo for strike on US cinema

SYLVESTER STALLONE, the star of the Rocky and Rambo films, is to become the first well-known Hollywood actor to star in a Bollywood movie. Stallone’s fellow action hero Arnold [...]

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So this afternoon I had my eyes checked, and in between getting myself a bubble tea and that, I had some time and went to the library for the first time in forever (my reading habits are all screwed up). I wandered amongst the cookbooks, but there was nothing new, the travel books, but there [...]

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Fox 411 - ‘Get Smart’ Misses by That Much

But it’s also been considerably dumbed down. There is a coarseness to the material that should make director Peter Segal and his two screenwriters a little embarrassed. In order to pitch the new “Get Smart” to idiot 12-year-olds, they let one person denounce another as [...]

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Times Online - Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

You insult our religion? Then you can’t film your movie in our churches! So there!

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• Well, the new Narnia is a very good movie. Then there’s the stuff (cough the bits where it starts to drag /cough) they made up out of whole cloth. Why do they have to do that? The full hour of battle scenes afterwards wasn’t enough?

• Reepicheep: I admit. I teared up a little at [...]

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The Times - The good, the bad and the Russians Russians are the latest to feel stung by being cast as Hollywood villains

When members of the Russian Communist Party complain that in his new movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford is dogged by an evil KGB agent played [...]

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