Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
David Yates will be the director of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix adaptation. Cutting it rather close, aren’t they?
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh optioned Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones. It may seem like an odd choice for the Lord of the Rings director, but it does recall 1994’s Heavenly Creatures, his largest-budgeted feature before LOTR.
HoYay, a term that’s short for “Homoeroticism Yay!” makes the mainstream press. The term originated on Television Without Pity‘s Angel boards, and has spread far and wide across fandom, most notably Smallville, Lost and any program that regularly features sweaty, half-naked men having more UST with each other than the female leads.
Livejournal research (erm, my friendsfriends list) uncovers the reaction of the terms originator, Deeablo. Her entry describing the origin of the term reveals this hilarious graphic from the early days of Angel
Not as bizarre as the Star Wars window blinds, but Lightsaber Pendants? For $200 a pop? Really? Ladies, can you honestly see yourself wearing these? Because I honestly can’t see dropping almost enough money to score an iPod on something nonfunctional that screams “I’m a huge geek.” People are going to know that the minute I open my mouth.
Because nothing brings geeks together like sitting in a dark room: Big Screen Clone Wars at Celebration III.
By winning a Golden Globe, Natalie Portman has gained another distinction: she got fugged. She’s sporting the least-offensive outfit featured so far, though: face it, no one is gonna beat Diane Kruger.
Buffy may be over, but Marti Noxon has unfinished business with James Marsters. She needs to take his shirt off one last time.
That said, Point Pleasant (Warning: obnoxious Flash) looks like it could be interesting. Pity it debuts verses Alias, which most of the people they’re marketing it towards will be watching.
Just keep James out of it. Maybe they can digitally superempose him over Keanu Reeves in Constantine instead.
SE Luke somewhere in my closet aside, I am decidedly not a collector. But I think I might attend the Unproduced Toys panel, if only to get the story behind that Lounge Lizard Leia doll. It’s put on by some guy named Vic Wertz. Heard of him?
Well, Natalie Portman did us all proud by snagging herself a Golden Globe award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. Her honor was received for the movie Closer.
Sadly, Liam Neeson went home empty-handed. But I think we can all be comforted by the fact that he looked really good in his tuxedo!
It was actually a Star Wars kinda night in which all the male actors got good marks for their tuxedo choices. Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson were also in attendance as presenters.
Has anyone found any pictures of the four Star Wars actors together?
Really want to impress the other geeks in line for Episode 3? Shell out $20,000 and get yourself a JL421 Badonkadonk. And naturally, you can buy it via Amazon.
Apparently the sequel to “Pirates of the Caribbean” will be called “Dead Man’s Chest” rather than “Treasure of the Lost Abyss.”
The Orlando Bloom Files has an interesting report from someone who recently attended a POTC discussion panel and screening in Hollywood. Casting and minor spoilers.
