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09:29 pm February 14th, 2007




			Occupation: Girl - Okay, let's see if LJ will let me post Please close the door and switch on the fun without fail.

cleolinda


	Okay, let's see if LJ will let me post
	So I ate heaps of better-than-Hershey chocolate (Ghirardelli! Ferrero Rocher! Lindt!) and watched my Marie Antoinette DVD today. Best Valentine's in years, y'all. Thoughts: Kirsten Dunst has vampire teeth and scary man hands. And I still like her anyway. Anyone who can read her fuggings at Go Fug Yourself and get a kick out of them is okay by me. Also, her father is German, which I learned from watching the making-of featurette, making her oddly apt to play an Austrian princess. Marianne Faithfull (Empress Maria Teresa) can go her one better by actually being descended from 800 years of Austrian nobles through her mother, Baroness Erisso. And yet all I can ever think of when I hear her name is Mars barrrrrr!, which makes it all the more unfortunate that the story isn't even true. I love Rose Byrne in this movie. "I do believe that's me sucking on your toes over there... Here's Jefferson getting a tour of the Royal Bush!" Trufax: Mary Nighy (the Princesse de Lamballe, i.e., Marie Antoinette's friend who isn't Rose Byrne) is Bill "Become a pop star and get your drugs for free!" Nighy's daughter. I would have said "Davy Jones," but I figured that went without saying. "Cribs with Louis XVI": "This my Hall of Mirrors. It's a hall... of mirrors... where I can check myself. Before I wreck myself." Bonus points for the obnoxious MTV-style editing and Jason Schwartzman's incessant use of the phrase "100% real" ("I like to come in here and look at my 100% real paintings... through my 100% real crystals"). A+ Cribs parody, would lol again. My favorite costumes, in order of appearance (click for full size. Oh, please, you knew it was coming): 1. It's stripy, it's candy-colored, it's girly and frillicious. Also it has a fan and a hat. 2. The fabric is fantastic, although it makes her look a bit like part of the wallpaper. Which may have been the intended effect (omgsodeep!). 3. You see this peach dress for about four seconds, and I didn't even remember it until I was going through screencaps. And yet it is to die for. 4. Deceptively simple--a polonaise? When you see the shoulder in closeup, you realize that it's actually a very fine teal stripe. 5. I don't actually like this dress much. Yellow's not really my thing--but look at baby doll rock that hat! Look at that! 6. The other actresses get a number of fab dresses themselves, which makes Milena Canonero's achievements all the more impressive--it's not just Kirsten Dunst who gets 60+ costume changes, and none of the others' gowns are substandard. Rose Byrne get a fantastic dress with gold lace undersleeves at the opera, but for some reason, I still like this red one from the birthday party the best. I think it's the coordinating roses. 7. Here's Mary Nighy in an unexpectedly fabulous dress from the later, simpler period in the movie. Between the Grecian hairstyle and the high buttons on the overdress, you can see Regency-era fashion starting to percolate. 8. From the same scene: you see this one for like a minute total, but it's this fantastic double-button front with sheer striped sleeves. If I actually looked good in this, I would wear it every day. Or at least the days I wasn't wearing the blue dress with the red belt. 9. Because the blue dress with the red belt is fabulous. Even though fashion's constructions are such that Marie Antoinette's dreamy race to her bedroom becomes more of an impassioned shuffle. 10. The striped garden dress is fantastic in a very casual way, but here's the thing: look at the stripes up close. They're this wonderful range of pastels. I would totally wear this dress every third day. Al Franken to run for Minn. Senate seat. Archaeologists find Akhenaten-era tomb. New ice cream named for Stephen Colbert. Wedding Bells Loom for Other Howard Stern. I never thought I'd see the day when Radio Guy Howard Stern would be "the other Howard Stern." Why it's not a good idea to email Brian Eno. Harry Potter news: New Photo of Grieving Harry from Order of the Phoenix; First Look at Aberforth in The Hog's Head from OotP; Jason Isaacs on Playing Lucius Malfoy: "Unalloyed Nazi Evil." Shot of Keith Richards in POTC3. Also, Oscar Watch: Why Pirates Will Win Best Visual Effects. Because duh? It's just a hunch on my part. Roger Ebert Says Rumor Mill Has Sunshine Upsetting Best Picture. Dammit, I was leaning towards The Departed stealing it from Babel on the strength of a Scorsese pity push, but now I'm tempted to play LMS in the pool for the sheer I TOLD YOU SO factor if it does win. King and Abrams in Talks for Dark Tower: "The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed an earlier IGN story that said Stephen King and J.J. Abrams are in talks to bring King's 'Dark Tower' book series to the screen." And apparently Abrams is off Star Trek as well. McAvoy Noses Into Penelope. " 'It's kind of strange,' McAvoy said in an interview while promoting his new film, the romantic comedy Starter for 10. 'In a magical-realistic fable-fairy tale, I play an alcoholic gambling addict who falls in love with a woman [Christina Ricci] who has a pig's nose.' " I'm just glad Mr. Tumnus is working, y'all. Lost: Lost Video Backstories Online; 'Lost': Are only fools enslaved by a recording played backwards? ("The good geeks at SciFi2U posted this video of last week's (season three spoilers for overseas folks) >>brainwashing/sleep deprivation scene.... played backwards. In it, a woman's voice (possibly Ms. Klugh's? I want her back!) repeats 'Only fools are enslaved by time and space.'<< ") Nicolas Cage Calls Out 'EW' For Its Snobbishness Over Works Of Art Featuring Hogs And Flaming Skulls. Bridge to Terabithia not a complete travesty? The M. Night Shyamalan script that no one wants to buy. Irony: it's actually pretty good.

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	From: sualocin	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

>.> & now I really want MA.

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	From: live_in_morocco	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:16 am (UTC)		(Link)

i just added this to my netflix queue and i am squeeing with fangirl anticipation at the jason schwartzman.

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	From: meandstuff	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:26 am (UTC)		(Link)

That Colbert ice-cream actually sounds delicious! Evidently, not just a funny name and a celebrity endorsement.

P.S: Happy V-Day, Cleo!

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	From: callmesyd	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:04 am (UTC)		(Link)

Seriously. I saw that earlier today and am going to buy, like, a CRATE of it if they have any at the store this weekend.

MMMMMM, LIBERTY!

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	From: meandstuff	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:43 am (UTC)		(Link)

It's the truthiest flavour of them all!

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	From: sapphires13	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:33 am (UTC)		(Link)

Excuse me while I go absolutely INSANE over talk of The Dark Tower being brought to the screen. *screams and jumps up and down with joy* There we go.
Personally, I would prefer a miniseries, on HBO (so that it won't get niced up for a network audience). If they did make it into a film, there's no way it could all fit into one. A trilogy would be the best bet.

Also, the Colbert ice cream sounds like it would be sooo yummy, and I don't even watch the show. But we probably won't get it here, because the grocery stores here are seriously lacking in some of the better flavours.

And that thing about emailing Brian Eno is hilarious. I was just talking about him the other day. I was playing a song or whatever and mentioned that it had a long intro. My friend said she hated long intros. I said "Well this is produced by an English bastard who loves synthesizers and long intros". I'm mean XD

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	From: mustang_bex1126	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:26 am (UTC)		(Link)
	The Dark Tower

Have you SEEN the comic book?

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	From: khaman	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:42 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: The Dark Tower

It is a goddamn thing of beauty, IMO.

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	From: mustang_bex1126	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:05 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: The Dark Tower

My friend brought it to work, and I was careful not to salivate on it... Mind you, I live in a pit (Reno, Nevada of all places) and you can't really get it here.

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	From: sapphires13	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:07 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: The Dark Tower

Not yet because I live in the middle of nowhere and have no money *weeps*

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	From: 3hours	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:41 am (UTC)		(Link)

King and Abrams in Talks for Dark Tower: "The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed an earlier IGN story that said Stephen King and J.J. Abrams are in talks to bring King's 'Dark Tower' book series to the screen."

:O :O :O

so when will we get the stand, eh?

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	From: sennical	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

Doesn't The Stand have a miniseries already? Although I hear it's of debatable quality.

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	From: annlarimer	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:40 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The Stand is by far the best King miniseries. Apart from the sadly miscast Molly Ringwald, the cast is stellar. It also features the line, "Why would anybody want to burn down Des Moines?," which was obviously written by someone who's never been there.

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	From: londonsparrow	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

(McAvoy love right here!)

Um, I love it when LJ people's interests and my own coincide, for I have been obsessing over Marie Antoinette the entire day, though I won't be getting the DVD until the weekend. I reeeeally want to see the Cribs thing now!
And listing the dresses we would wear: we girls are all the same, aren't we?

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	From: agentsculder	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:45 am (UTC)		(Link)

OMG Stpehen Colbert ice cream? Those are two very awesome things that belong together. I MUST get some. Like NOW. Although, it would be even better if it had little chocolate bears in it.

I think I am going to have to add MA to my Netflix queue. Those costumes really are beautiful. It had better win Best Costumes at the Oscars. Otherwise, I fear for your television.

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	From: cleolinda	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:52 am (UTC)		(Link)

Heeeeeeeeeeee, chocolate bears.

I'm actually not worried about the Best Costume Oscar, because if MA loses, it's not like everyone won't know how bullshit that was. This is not one of those movies where it's going to need the win to be remembered, even if it's just remembered as the prettiest pretty that ever frilled.

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	From: callmesyd	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:37 am (UTC)		(Link)

I see your chocolate bears and raise you eagle-shaped waffle cone bits - FOR FREEDOM.

That would truly make it the best ice cream ever.

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	From: jwaneeta	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:50 am (UTC)		(Link)

3. I don't think having to invent technology to get the result should really be counted. If that were the case, give them a scientific Oscar.

:D

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	From: dives	Date: February 15th, 2007 04:52 am (UTC)		(Link)

OH EM GEE RICHARD E. GRANT IS IN PENELOPE I HAVE TO SEE IT.

REG is legend, yo.

I remember when it got out that apparently all the magick CGI scenes in the Bridge to Terabithia trailer were just at the end of the film, and Disney people were like "It's kind of misleading, yeah..." giving impression that the movie not being chock full of effects = clearly craptacular. I feel like nowadays things can only get made and get good press in Hollywood if they suck.

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	From: edda	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'm just glad Mr. Tumnus is working, y'all.

I continue to giggle. And to find his fuzzy self hot.

Also, I would like some Americone Dream now.

And finally, a joke I'm almost totally sure I made up on my own: What do you get when you cross a reanimated corpse with a romantic holiday?

Valenstein.

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	From: queenofattolia	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:27 am (UTC)		(Link)

Hm. Re the Shyamalan script: lots of people have said it's a direct cop from Stephen King, but that wouldn't be unusual for Shyamalan. The Village was a direct steal from an old Twilight Zone episode.

And James McAvoy -- I wish to God someone would cast him as Eugenides in a film version of The Queen of Attolia (unless it's being made by Walden Media, in which case please don't touch him with a ten-foot pole).

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	From: sennical	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:05 am (UTC)		(Link)

The Village was a direct steal from an old Twilight Zone episode.

And a kids' book by Margaret Peterson Haddix called Running Out of Time that no one but me has ever read.

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	From: evilbearhunter	Date: February 15th, 2007 02:47 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I read that book! It was awesome!

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	From: cleolinda	Date: February 15th, 2007 03:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

My aunt and my cousin have! My aunt turned to my cousin about halfway through the movie and said, "Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out like Running Out of Time...?"

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	From: lowc	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

James McAvoy as Gen? It's been years since I've read Thief or The Queen of Attolia, but that would be such perfect casting that you gave me shivers even thinking about it! I need this to happen.

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	From: nohara_megami	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:32 am (UTC)		(Link)

That new ice cream sounds yum. I nearly fainted when I saw Vermonty Python for the first time, so I am glad I got a heads up here just in case it really did happen this time with Colbert XD

And that new pic of Harry from OoTP made me think of how much I am going to cry my eyes out at the end of that movie. I better start buying tissues to get ready....

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	From: sianmink	Date: February 15th, 2007 05:47 am (UTC)		(Link)

The Lindt Madagascar 65% mild dark is HOMG LUV. if you haven't, GET.

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	From: bardintraining	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

I think I actually have dress # 10 in an itty-wee party dress format that I wore with those lace-and-plastic-seed-pearl-edged socks when I was six. It's hanging in my closet. I loved that dress. Loved it.
Better than the god-awful matching crushed red velvet smocks with linen bibs my mum made me and my sister wear at Christmas. Oh, the Full House of it all!

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	From: yarha	Date: February 15th, 2007 02:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Dutch archaeologists have discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Akhenaten's seal bearer

Ar-ar! Ar! Ar-ar!

That gets Pharaoh's Seal of Approval. ;)

Yarha, Wondering if the Tomb was, You Know, Sealed

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	From: t4_flirt	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:23 pm (UTC)		(Link)

So I ate heaps of better-than-Hershey chocolate (Ghirardelli! Ferrero Rocher! Lindt!) and watched my Marie Antoinette DVD today. Best Valentine's in years, y'all.

Lucky you. My Vday was so-so. We got snowed in(like 15" of snow total, not to mention drifts as high as 5 feet...), my 1 yr old has decided to come down with a cold, and my 'suprise' Vday dinner has to be rescheduled to sometime next week b/c of all the snow.

On the other hand, my hubby did get me this kick-ass stationery featuring Claude Monet paintings. That makes me happy.

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	From: keehnidea	Date: February 15th, 2007 06:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Ooh, thanks for that link to the Akhenaten thing. I love everything to do with Egypt. And that ice cream looks delicious.

Anyways, one main reason I'm commenting is because I found this website that I think you might find interesting. It's called The Daemon Page and it's kind of interesting. And there's a forum too. Put it up in your linkspam if you'd like. ^^

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	From: alastor8	Date: February 15th, 2007 08:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

OMG I really want to see Penelope! The trailer is up at the MTV website.

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From: morgan_c_hoax	Date: February 15th, 2007 08:47 pm (UTC)		(Link)

NO, JJ ABRAMS. YOU LEAVE THE DARK TOWER SERIES ALONE! >:O

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	From: modpixie	Date: February 15th, 2007 09:08 pm (UTC)		(Link)

a european publisher put out a complete, unexpurgiated M-A script as a coffee table-ish book. sofia's notes on this scene specified that her dress was supposed to match the wallpaper.

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	From: modpixie	Date: February 15th, 2007 09:09 pm (UTC)		(Link)

damn, forgot to use the right icon.

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	From: cleolinda	Date: February 15th, 2007 09:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I are smart, yay! Also, I want that book now.

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	From: modpixie	Date: February 16th, 2007 02:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	caveat emptor

just so you're aware, the book is just the shooting script (albeit with the three deleted scenes intact -- in addition to the two included on the DVD, there's also the initial closing scene as sofia envisioned it) and big, sumptuous pictures. that's it. there's no introduction, shooting diaries, etc. at least faber & faber's published film scripts are occasionally more substantial. i would have wanted antonia fraser's essay on the adaptation of MA that ran in vanity fair included, but that's just me. YMMV, of course.

don't know if you've seen this or not...

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	From: cleolinda	Date: February 16th, 2007 03:47 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: caveat emptor

Is that entry locked? It won't let me see it.

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	From: havocs_roman	Date: February 15th, 2007 10:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Yellow isn't at all my colour, either, but that, er, yellow dress is to die for. I would wear it daily. It would have to be peeled off me (TMI, much...?).

As a fervent HP/Jason Isaacs fan, sometimes my fandom irks me. JI's been playing Lucius for five years. And in five years, all he's done is 1) describe Lucius as a wizarding nazi (...such an original PoV!); 2) give funny, unassuming interviews. Honestly. I love him, too. His HP interviews all sound the same. They're just more of the (funny, unassuming) same. Those people over at TLC orgasming over his (OMG, new and illuminated!!) take on the series tire me. *haughty sniff*

... but I suppose they're not as bad as the TLC-ers accusing the very Jewish Mr. Isaacs of having no clue about the facts of the Holocaust.

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	From: stagemanager	Date: February 17th, 2007 06:36 am (UTC)		(Link)

I just wanted to drop in and say Thanks! for all the linkspam. You're one of my main sources of news these days.

I don't say much, but I lurk here a lot. When's the next book out?

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