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Friday, March 16, 2001
As part of my new AgencyPro database service, I summarize the trades everyday on the hompage. Anyway, as you might expect, I stopped doing it straight pretty quickly, and I think they're getting pretty funny. So, I'm going to post a couple and see if I'm the only one laughing at my jokes.WHAT'S NEWS TODAY...Friday, 3/16/2001.
VARIETY reports SAG will not begin negotiations on a new contract until May... which promises to make the next two months just that much more fun for all of us. Benicio Del Toro, Geoffrey Rush, and Chloe Sevigny will star in Walter Salles' new film for Intermeida. Jay Roach has landed an overall deal with Fox 2000. Universal paid a "whole lotta money" for a Christmas comedy pitch by unknown writers Thomas Lennon and Robert Garant for The Donners to produce... must be something in the water over in the Valley this month. And The Canton Co. will buy a spec about Enrico Caruso from writer Stefano Gallini.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER says that with TRAFFIC and CROUCHING TIGER topping 100 million in B.O., a new record of 22 films reaching that mark was set in 2000. Mel Gibson's Icon prods. has teamed up with an Australian agency to form a company to mine and develop local talent. And, on a Friday morning note, with all these ERIN BROCKIVICH Oscar ads in the trades every morning, has anyone else noticed that Albert Finney looks more like William Shatner with each passing day?
AIN'T IT COOL NEWS has a teaser trailer for EVOLUTION and a report from a test screening of RUN RONNIE RUN.
That is all.
posted by LT2 12:27 PM ET | discuss | link
Thursday, March 15, 2001
I had lunch today with a very thin, very attractive woman who claims that once, on a five hundred dollar dare, she ate 36 Big Macs in 24 hours.
posted by LT2 8:43 PM ET | discuss | link
Alright Kiddies, I need your help. After searching the web for reality shows I'm perfectly suited for (I found, but later rejected the idea of THE MOLE), I have finally found something for which I am uniquely qualified. So I'm looking for any and all ideas for this damn video that I have to do (all these freakin' shows want videos... I mean what is this, television!?!?). So if you've got an idea, run on over to the chat board and lemme hear it.
posted by LT2 11:54 AM ET | discuss | link
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
My first cousin Dina was on tonight's episode of Dharma and Greg. (Luckily, my Dad called me before it aired, as I've never watched the show before.) Not only did she have a speaking part, but she even had the last line of the episode, the punchline. Pretty cool. I didn't record the episode (Dark Angel was already recording) but I've added her to my TiVo Wishlist so I can catch it again on the rerun. (As well as anything else she might be in in the future.)
posted by MES 12:11 AM ET | discuss | link
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Wow, this roller coaster sounds awesome! "The blast is so fast and powerful, I'm surprised Stan hasn't toned it down for the general public. This is really on the cutting edge of what's ... I don't want to say 'tolerable,' but that's what I mean."And it's coming to King's Dominion.
posted by MES 11:25 PM ET | discuss | link
Monday, March 12, 2001
Tonight's MSNBC Investigates is about my favorite plane crash: the Sioux City crash from 1989 (United 232).
posted by MES 7:18 PM ET | discuss | link
Also, speaking of Vietnam, there was an article in the Travel section of yesterday's Post about a 73-year old man who revisited Vietnam with his kids for the first time in 30 years. (It was his first time in the North in 46 years.) It's a nice article, but one part really struck me as funny. His 32-year old daughter, "expressed shock at the open-air markets typical in Asia." Okay, I can understand that. Her cause for concern? "They're using the same cutting board and knife for meat and for vegetables".Yeah, and I think I saw a woman cutting up newspapers with the same pair of scissors she was using to cut off frogs' heads while they're still alive! That's terrible!
posted by MES 4:46 PM ET | discuss | link
Despite a typo in the very first word, here's a good article from the New York Times about the Internet Cafe industry in Vietnam. Apparently, prices in Hanoi have continued to fall in the six months since we were there. (When we were there it was 300 dong per minute, or about $1.29 an hour.) The article also raises, but doesn't really answer, the question of how these places can make money, considering the costs of the computers.
posted by MES 4:38 PM ET | discuss | link
Good episode of FEAR last night. The team suffered fifty percent casualties. One girl didn't even try. She simply saw her color pop up on the screen and said "nope, I'm out" grabbed her stuff and walked out. It was a tough one though. It was an old hotel very evocative of THE SHINING. They were even sending them to a men's room in the baement, where I'm sure the film literate among them were seeing Delbert Grady and his Vodka with Advocat behind every shadow.
posted by LT2 3:30 PM ET | discuss | link
In observing Krispy Kreme's IPO last week which opened at about 10 and finally arrived somewhere in the neighborhood of 77, I'm left to wonder if this is a sensible valuation of the stock, or was this event an internet start-up IPO hangover. Does anyone out there think that, as good as they are, Krispy Kreme donuts deserve to be valued as high (or substantially higher) as say, Intel, or Cisco, or even Microsoft? I mean come on people. It's a freakin' donut!
posted by LT2 2:54 PM ET | discuss | link
Sunday, March 11, 2001
Hey, I saw this guy on the Orange Line last Saturday and complained about him to the train operator when I got off the train. I wonder if I was one of the two "official complaints." No, I was not the one who confronted the guy and caused a scene, and yes I know enough to know that this is not a Constitutional issue. I was merely complaining about the violation of Metro's rules against "noise". I don't see any difference between this guy singing and someone else playing a radio without headphones. (Although I will admit that I doubt I'd have been nearly as annoyed if the music had not been religious in nature.)
posted by MES 11:52 AM ET | discuss | link
