Today's salient entertainment news:
So the winner of the Brokeback Mountain shirts auction (Jack's shirt tucked inside Ennis' shirt) went for $101,100.51. That's about what I expected it to reach.
NPR.org laments Naomi Watts non-nomination for Best Actress in King Kong:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5232473
They make a good point: past Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Judi Dench never had the added complexity of acting opposite animatronic and digital effects.
What is it with all these wonderful classic television actors leaving us? First Al Lewis, then Don Knotts, and now Dennis Weaver (Gentle Ben, Gunsmoke)? Dennis Weaver grew up across the street from my Grandma Watson and they played together all the time. That was such a cool factoid I mulled over while growing up on Gentle Ben.
Remember the explicit online game for Running Scared I posted about a few weeks ago? I hope everyone got an opportunity to see it for themselves, because now its gone! After numerous religious right protests, and in light of Running Scared's low-box office this past week (despite good reviews), it has been removed completely. That sucks!
And finally, the most wonderful man to listen to in the world, Christopher Lee, has a few choice words to divulge amid all this new-Bond controversy:
Christopher Lee has hailed Irishman Pierce Brosnan as the best actor to ever play suave superspy James Bond. Lee, who played Bond villain Scaramanga in 1973 installment The Man With The Golden Gun and recently defended the casting of new 007 Daniel Craig, insists Brosnan depicted Bond exactly as author Ian Fleming intended. He says, "In my opinion - and I think I know as much, if not more about Bond than anyone, particularly about the characters on whom Ian told me Bond was based, Pierce Brosnan was by far the best and closest to the character."