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Archive for the 'Movies & TV' Category

Check out the Cullen family

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Here they are, the first cast pictures for the upcoming film version of Twilight! Yes, the Cullens are indeed beautiful creatures.
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Awe-freakin-some

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

‘Bout TIME our man Sayid is back on his game! After all those weeks of moping and being all dewy-eyed over Shannon–get over it! You’re a killer! Be true to your school!
Very happy with tonight’s episode. So much to take in and digest.
But mainly happy to see Sayid being used properly [...]

While I’m on a roll . . .

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Thought I’d post my favorite Super Bowl ad from this year:

A public apology to my mother

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

It’s possible that at the end of watching Lost just now, when it was during the previews for next week, the phone rang. And it’s possible that I shouted into the phone, “Hold on! Previews!” And that the voice on the other end would not hold on, but insisted on saying, “I [...]

The guy in the rocking chair

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Dudes, wasn’t that Jack’s dad?
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And now for something completely different

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

For those of you who don’t care even a little bit about what’s going on at Sundance–and even for those of you who do–here’s a little something to entertain you.
And this really immature thing that made me laugh very hard.
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Here’s the stuff I don’t normally tell you about

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Some random tidbits from this week at Sundance:
–People do not observe proper sneezing and coughing etiquette (FYI: we always sneeze or cough into our sleeve, not our open hand, so we don’t spread the joy onto every single thing we touch), and so you can feel the disease spread throughout the jam-packed theaters and [...]

Acting and writing

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Memo to self: Remember to tell everyone about that long conversation you had yesterday with that ridiculously handsome and modest actor on the shuttle about the comparisons between acting and writing, and how we’re all responsible for our own careers, and how we both know people in our own professions who seem to think [...]

A couple of total wow movies

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Today was a very good day in my particular Sundance world, with two truly excellent films I hope you’ll all keep an eye out for. (Yes, I end sentences with prepositions. All the time. It’s what I’m made of.)
The first is Sunshine Cleaning, starring Amy Adams (yay, Enchanted!) and Emily Blunt yay, [...]

The Frenchman who walked between the twin towers (and then made mad passionate love)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Tonight we saw the coolest caper film, and it was actually a documentary. It’s called Man on Wire, and it’s about Phillipe Petit, this guy who pulled off the most outlandish stunt imaginable, walking on a tightrope suspended between the two World Trade Center buildings back in 1974. The guy not only survived, [...]