Mid-week Linkdump

[yendi]

1. 88 Lines About 44 Fangirls. By the brilliant slipjig.

2. For an older parody of the same song, here's 88 Lines About 42 Presidents, from the good folks at Brunching Shuttlecocks (a site I still miss).

3. For the KOL addicts who want yet another HTML-based game using similar mechanics, there's Twilight Heroes. I like what I've seen so far, but it's in serious beta, both in terms of content/balance and server stability.

4. Wallace Shawn joins The L Word! Inconceivable!

5. Joss Whedon on the strike. Evanier also has news (not optimistic stuff, either). Also, if you're wondering how many episodes of your favorite shows are in the can (and can thus air regardless of the state of the strike), check out this list.

6. David Wright won a Gold Glove! Woohoo! I expected folks to keep giving the award undeservedly to Scott Rolen, or possibly (and deservedly) to Ryan Zimmerman. But Wright, for all his errors, also showed a ton of range and made some amazing plays. I think his flash is what put him over the top.

7. Jesus Fucking Christ. They really are remaking High Noon. Maybe they can follow it up with a new Casablanca, and then complete the trilogy by giving us Will Smith in Citizen Kane.

8. *boggle* The FBI actually tried to use Falafel sales to track terrorists.

9. Either someone has replaced Philip Pullman with a pod person, or he's realized that he can make a lot more money if he pretends not to have stood for any of the things he's promoted over the last ten years.

10. Finally, Amazon's got some more DVD sales to go with the TV Stock-Up Sale from yesterday. There's a Season 1 sale with a bunch of good sets at $15.99 a pop (including Dead Like Me, Stargate Atlantis, and The Young Riders). And there's a sale on MTV DVDs that includes some good stuff (Daria, Beavis and Butthead) amidst the heaping piles of suck (The Hills, etc). On the movie side, there's the 100 DVDs under $10 sale (with stuff like Children of Men, Serenity, To Kill a Mockingbird, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Weird Science in the mix), and the Real Recent Sale, with 40-50% off a bunch of films (The Devil Wears Prada, The Illusionist, Borat, and the not-so-recent special edition of I Heart Huckabees).

Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

The entertainment industry being what it is, High Noon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244536/) and Casablanca (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084994/) are both old news. I dunno; once they colorized The Maltese Falcon, I went sort of numb.

[yendi]

In general, Hollywood's ongoing attempt to slash and burn its own legacy is something I'm more than aware of, but I still like to occasionally hope that intelligent people will prevail.

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

I'd say Philip Pullman's hedging probably has a lot to do with the promotion of the upcoming movie...

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

They caught me! I'm a falafel eater. In fact, I have two boxes of falafel mix in my pantry at this very moment!!!!

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Naw, they'll do a new Citizen Kane with someone more appropriate, and make him a multi-media mogol rather than a newspaper man. Say Samuel Jackson or Anthony Hopkins.....

Of course, they could also do it with Jack Black and make it more of a comedy.... or maybe gender switch and put Oprah Winfrey or Angeline Jolie in the lead part :-)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Take care with yendi's heart. He doesn't deserve a heart attack from that thought.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

#3 I tried out Twilight, and I wasn't impressed. On the tech side I got numerous time outs and glitches.

#9 I'm so ignoring the trumped up controversy over His Dark Materials.

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

Maybe they can follow it up with a new Casablanca, and then complete the trilogy by giving us Will Smith in Citizen Kane.

That comment alone killed my brain and not in a good way.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

7. Wasn't there already make a High Noon remake with Tom Skeritt?

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

"8. *boggle* The FBI actually tried to use Falafel sales to track terrorists. "
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Idiots. Good luck with that since those and other Near Eastern snack foods
have become so popular here that every sub/wrap shop sells them, not to mention the do it yourself "Near East" brand boxes in every supermarket.
Maybe they'll try Hummus Tahini and Pita bread next.

Fascist *and* stupid.

I love Indian, Indonesian, Thai, Chinese, Near Eastern foods but i'm not any of those ethnic groups. And even if i were, how would that translate to anything meaningful in terms of politics?

Totally over the top story but the bad news is that the genius who thought that up is becoming head of security for Verizon? Arrgghh!



Hollywood wouldn't surprise me anymore if they redid Gone with the Wind
with ex SNL "stars".
Trying to redo Citizen Kane would have been unthinkable only a few decades ago but not now (grumble)

[jerel.livejournal.com]

If you eat food from a certain culture, you're part of that culture, which of course has only one set of political views. So if you eat falafel, you must be Middle Eastern, and therefore a terrorist. Didn't you get the memo?

[kradical.livejournal.com]

While I'm pleased in general at Wright getting kudos, the Gold Glove is quite possibly the most meaningless award in professional sports.

[yendi]

Surely you've heard of Lady Bing?

[kradical.livejournal.com]

7. Jesus Fucking Christ. They really are remaking High Noon. Maybe they can follow it up with a new Casablanca, and then complete the trilogy by giving us Will Smith in Citizen Kane.

I'm so glad there wasn't an Internet in 1940, 'cause then we'd be listening to people bitch about them remaking The Front Page -- only they recast Hildy Johnson as a woman! Hollywood has officially run out of ideas!

Oh yeah, people forget that the Bogart version of The Maltese Falcon was a remake, too. People probably got their knickers in a twist over the pointlessness of that one, too....

[yendi]

Honestly, I can't imagine getting upset about the original Maltese Falcon remake, for much the same reason now that I don't get upset about remakes of films like Black Christmas or Bedtime Story or even Father of the Bride; these are films with good hooks that either don't deliver, or don't deliver as well as they should. That makes them (as well as the original Maltese Falcon and Ben Hur) perfect examples of films that could thrive from remakes. Hell, I'm even okay with a great film being genuinely re-imagined -- The Distinguished Gentleman might have sucked, but at least it didn't try to be a straight remake of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

It's when the remakes try to redo perfection (or something close to it), or simply insult fans of the original (Heartbreak Kid?) that I'm annoyed.

[caerwynx.livejournal.com]

9. Either someone has replaced Philip Pullman with a pod person, or he's realized that he can make a lot more money if he pretends not to have stood for any of the things he's promoted over the last ten years.

Wow. Yeah. Uh, I don't quite know what to make of that. His agent at the keyboard?

in re #8

[jerel.livejournal.com]

Well, then a camp associated with a Milwaukee JCC is going to be on the watch list. Due to a mistake from the kitchen, we ended up with a metric fuckton of falafel for Israel Day.

And the next morning, we found a bunch of them crushed out near the CIT cabin--almost like a bunch of mischievous high school seniors had amused themselves by throwing falafel at each other.