Quick linkspam, much of it sad:

Harold Pinter, Whose Silences Redefined Drama, Dies at 78.

Eartha Kitt, a Seductive Legend of Stage and Screen, Dies at 81.

'Sopranos' actor 'Johnny Cakes' dead in suicide.

Fox Owns Rights to ‘Watchmen’ Says Judge; WATCHMEN RULING: Where Was Larry? I'm hoping this means that this is just a massive shakedown ( ( Read more... )

Disney Dumps Narnia.
The plan was to get the film in production soon, to be released in May of 2010. But without a company and deep pockets to finance the fantasy, there's a decent chance that this will all go up in smoke. The key cast were attached to the third installment, but there's no telling if they'll wait around for a new bank. However, ( Read more... )

Tired, so without further ado: ( Read more... )

I think seasonal affective disorder is starting to set in--it's funny, because I go through this every year (by definition, actually), so you'd think I'd have the warning signs down to a science by now. For some reason I'd gotten it down to "January and February are increasingly bad," but I hadn't ever really noticed December. Maybe because ( Read more... )

So... in case you missed it, the previous entry was about a crowd of 3000 fans rioting outside a San Francisco mall over wristbands to a Robert Pattinson event tonight. (Number of fans expected: 200-500.) Well, it would have been tonight, except that the mall canceled it after the police showed up. (I told my mother this story, and her response was ( Read more... )

HOLY SHIT, Y'ALL. celticangel76 just sent me this link: Crowd Forces Cancellation of "Twilight" Movie Event in San Francisco. A planned meet-and-greet for the star of teenaged vampire movie is cancelled after hundreds of fans stormed the entrance to the Stonestown Galleria Mall ( Read more... )

Lots of work done today! No whammies! no whammies! crashes! And yet, there is still more to do. And once again, I hunger. I hope there's some of that ravioli downstairs.

Let's get the pre-trailer bedazzlement Twi-spam out of the way so you can skip it if you want.

ETA: ~*THE TRAILER IS HERE*~

Widget, you suck.

( WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS, FOR REAL) ( Read more... )

... because I feel like I really need to get this off my chest.

So.

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One final thought on The Seeker, if only because I finally thought of a way to summarize my problem with the movie: It's not the presence of changes that made the movie bad. It's that the kind of changes they made indicate that they're not good filmmakers in the first place, or (at the very least) not the right filmmakers for the project. Someone ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've got a lot to get through today. Onward:

The good news: After a week of intense work, I finished typing up several dozen pages of handwritten notes from August and September, leaving me now with 62 pages (22,000+ words) of Hot! Disorganized! Note-Taking Action! And! AND! ( I'm sure I'll probably despair again at some point in the process... )