August 21st, 2006
Read this and tell me you don’t love her even more.
I stand by my earlier claim that 20 years from now, Mean Girls will be remembered not as a LiLo vehicle, but as the film that launched McAdams’s career.
0 commentsTrailer City
August 21st, 2006
Like Galley Friend S.B., I love Jason Statham, who’s one of the more unlikely action stars of recent years. And I think that Crank looks pretty fun, if not quite as crazy-ambitious as the trailer for the two Transporter movies.
You can practically here Amy Smart thinking to herself, “I take my clothes off for Tom Green and THIS is what I get?”
0 commentsThe '80s
August 21st, 2006
Galley Friend Michael Brandon McClellan has written a stirring ode to the ’80s which, as an essay, is worth reading on its own. But it’s actually just the wind-up to his asking: What is the Greatest ’80s Movie?
Note, he’s not asking for the greatest movie of the ’80s, but for the best and most representative film of the decade. He lists a number of excellent contenders. I would narrow the field to five nominees, each for a different reason:
The Empire Strikes Back
Rocky IV
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Top Gun
Big
Discuss.
0 commentsReality vs. The Simpsons
August 21st, 2006
This clip of a Japanese gameshow is either the funniest or most disturbing thing you’ll see this week.
Bonus points for anyone who can translate the tongue-twister they’re trying to say.
0 commentsBaby Fish Mouth!
August 16th, 2006
This past Monday, actor Bruno Kirby died from complications related to leukemia. He was 57. Kirby will always be remembered for his supporting roles in such films as When Harry Met Sally, City Slickers, and The Freshman. And you wanted to wring his neck as Lt. Hauk in Good Morning, Vietnam. Of course Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu) got his big break playing the young Peter Clemenza (originally played by Richard Castellano) in The Godfather Part II. In The Godfather Companion, Peter Biskind explains how Kirby landed the role–or almost didn’t:
Kirby never read for the role, probably because the part was in Sicilian, which he couldn’t speak. “All the Italians in show business” showed up at the office where Coppola was casting, says Kirby…. He was a young man at the time and came with his father, Bruce Kirby, also an actor. Coppola and Kirby Sr. started to speak in Italian. Coppola asked him if his son spoke Italian. “My father, who was from the ‘Say Yes’ school of acting, said ‘Yes,’ even though I didn’t speak a word. Francis started to speak to me, and he couldn’t understand anything I said. ‘I thought he spoke Italian,’ Francis said. My father answered, ‘Street Italian, a word here, a word there,’ and asked if Francis had a part for me. Francis said, ‘I got lots of parts. Don’t worry about it.’ It was a terrible interview; I thought it was all over.” But it wasn’t. Kirby had played Richard Castellano’s son on a TV series called “The Super,” where he’d had the opportunity to study his mannerisms. This, he thinks, is what got him the role.
0 commentsTrailer City
August 11th, 2006
I’m sure it’ll be a letdown, but the trailer for Hollywoodland looks pretty good. You could learn to love Ben Affleck again if you tried.
And how about 10th and Wolf? You knew it was only a matter of time before Val Kilmer and Tommy Lee worked together.
0 commentsAugust 10th, 2006
Forget the Cristal. Stop passing the Courvoisier. Former Ohio State tailback Maurice Clarett has chosen to endorse Grey Goose vodka. And what looks like a lint remover. And yes, what resembles an AK-47 with a modified stock. Can you say sniper? (If there are any gun enthusiasts out there, feel free to correct or clarify.)
BSG Season 3
August 10th, 2006
There’s a trailer for the new season of Battlestar Galactica. It’s pretty good.
I mean, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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