In a country of over a billion people, there is apparently not a single little girl who is a capable of singing at the opening ceremony ... oh wait, there is. But wouldn't you know it, she's just not pretty enough. The solution? Why, replace her with a prettier little girl, and have her mime to the real little singer's voice! Genius! After all, all ( Read more... )

I mentioned to a good friend that I hadn't written any poetry for some time, and she remarked, "yes, and then some of your stuff is just fangirl poems" -- by which she meant my fanfiction poetry. Writing fanfiction as a whole, she felt, was "pretty embarrassing ( Read more... )

Hot on the heels of the frighteningly plastic-looking "300", which hasn't opened here yet, Gerard Butler will apparently grace our screens in such titillating titles as Watchmen and Escape From New York. The former is based on yet another comic book, and the latter is a completely unnecessary remake of an old Kurt Russel movie. And that's not to ( Read more... )

Aha, I finally found the old Michael Crawford quote about "Music of the Night"!
"Music of the Night" doesn't have to be sensuous. It can be that he is saying: "Just listen to the music of the night", how wonderful it is and how I want you to be here with me in this night. It can be done just as a fearsome creature who is hypnotising her. That is ( Read more... )