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Hat tip: Spout Blog!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Favorite Hanukkah Moments with Jon & Stephen
It puts a smile on my pupik! Happy 1st day of Hanukkah!!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
How Do You Spell Channukkahh?
The Leevees Hanukkah Rocks! album is fantastic! It's great to have some Hanukkah songs beyond Dreidl and Oh, Chanukkah.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Robert cut his hair!
Perez has the scoop! It's funny that this is "mayjah" news, as Perez says, but the man with the famous hair, Robert Pattinson has cut it! (And, we presume, someone washed it.) Robert famously was not allowed to cut his tresses by the studio so that he would keep the Edward look during the press & premiere tour. He also (I hope joked) that he hadn't washed it for 6 weeks. Looking good and short & sassy! So, filming for New Moon is in 12 weeks. Time enough to grow it back?
Friday, December 19, 2008
A Star Wars Christmas
It aired only ONCE in 1978, and George Lucas may pretend it doesn't exist, but it DID. Chewbacca's family celebrates Life Day, and Princess Leia sings. Merry Christmas and a Happy Life Day to you!
Hat tip: The Movie Blog
I keep showing it to people so they can hold Star Wars in a new light and stop whining about how bad the prequels were (they are not as good as the Original Trilogy, but I dont hate them) and once they are forced to sit through this gem, everything else just looks like a masterpiece.
This copy even has the original commercials that aired with the show, so there is a little bit of nostalgia when ads for Alice, 60 Minutes, and All in the Family come on.
I have always contested that every true Star Wars fan should have to sit through this thing at least once. So this is my public service offering to you.
A Valkyrie Xmas
Hat tip: Spout Blog
I don’t quite understand the inspiration behind the concept, but someone decided to superimpose the heads of the cast from Valkyrie onto little bodies in elf costumes dancing to a disco version of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” (courtesy of JibJab’s Elf Yourself program). Tom Cruise with an eyepatch flailing his arms about like a Nazi Tony Manero is just about the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.
Just what are these guys so excited about? The holidays? The death of Hitler (though not thanks to them)? Or could it be they’re celebrating the fact that the reviews of Valkyrie aren’t as dreadful as many expected? Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the actual movie doesn’t feature any scenes as great as this one.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Majel Roddenberry, voice of Star Trek computer has died
From E! Online:
Majel Barrett Roddenberry might have rated a Federation command. As it was, she helped rule the Star Trek universe.
Roddenberry, the actress whose best-known role was the wife and, later, widow of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, died today at her Bel Air, Calif., home, Roddenberry.com said. The reported cause of death was leukemia.
Billed through much of her acting career as Majel Barrett, the dark-haired Roddenberry played Dr. McCoy's blonde, beehived assistant, Nurse Chapel, on the original 1966-69 Trek series. She also supplied the voice of the USS Enterprise's computer—a service she continued to provide through the franchise's various offshoots, including J.J. Abrams' upcoming big-screen reboot, Star Trek.
I Love You, Man Trailer
I cannot wait for this movie. I adore Paul Rudd, and he is back starring with Jason Segal in the bromance I Love You, Man about a man's search for someone to be his best man. They were very funny together in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Here's the trailer!
Tarantino's Nazis - Do you have what it takes?
Caroline Winter reports from Berlin for The Daily Beast on all the Germans lining up to be blown up and brutally killed in Quentin Taratino's Inglorious Basterds.
What does it take to become a Quentin Tarantino Nazi? First, it helps if you're naturally blond. And as 6,000 Germans who came out for the September casting call found out, a nasty sneer doesn’t hurt, either.
Both Jens and Jan are over 6 feet and have boyish good looks. They’re 100 percent German and look it—that is to say, they blend into the German male landscape. The problem is that both have dark hair and, more important, they’re just not sinister enough to play Germans. After having their portraits taken, both were turned down by an apologetic casting agent. “She told us that we look too friendly,” said Kage, laughing. “They wanted people who the audience would like seeing killed.”
But why, you might ask, would anyone want to play a Nazi extra? The measly five-euros-per-hour stipend isn’t much of an incentive. The Tarantino Nazi wannabes I met were all liberal Berliners who don't usually act in movies and who have no fondness whatsoever for the Third Reich. In fact, some claimed that the main attraction in this case is the fact that they will be gruesomely killed, Tarantino-style, by Jewish-Americans.
“Sure, you’re a Nazi—but you know that, in the end, you're going to get your head hacked off,” said a friend of Kage’s who managed to get cast and thus spoke with me anonymously. “That was definitely part of why I wanted to do this.”
Read the whole article here.
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