I Am Link

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--- Schnoz Support - The first shot of Steve Carell in Foxcatcher has nosed its way onto the internet (ha ha see what I did there) - I guess he took Nicole Kidman's Oscar to heart. Foxcatcher is that movie with Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo in jockstraps and singlets, you may recall. I suppose other stuff happens, murder and what not, but that's the most  important part.

--- Crowd Surfing - Nick and Joe pick their favorite actorly ensembles of the year for "The Fifties," their mid-year eye-balling. Finally some Frances Ha action!

--- Crouch Another Day - So a sequel to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon really is getting made, and Ziyi Zhang and Michelle Yeoh will both reprise their roles from Ang Lee's awesome wuxia original. Lee is not returning to direct though; renowned stunt coordinator Yuen Wo Ping will sit in the chair. He's no novice, he's directed nearly thirty films already; he also collaborated with Wong Kar-wai on The Grandmaster. Donnie Yen, seen to the right, is also joining the cast.

--- Lady Witch - Rumor is that Elizabeth Olsen is the one who'll play the Scarlet Witch in the Avengers sequel, after Saorsie Ronan turned it down. She's the super-powered sister of Aaron Johnson's Quicksilver (not that Aaron's confirmed yet either). I think Olsen's great, so okay.

--- Bang Bang - Steven Spielberg dropped out of making Bradley Cooper's movie American Sniper last month, but now comes word that Clint Eastwood might be picking the project up. I don't even remember the last Eastwood movie I saw... probably Million Dollar Baby? His films don't do much for me. I definitely would've seen this if it were Spielberg's film. This? Meh notsomuch.

--- Homebound Herzog - Awesome news alert - sixteen of Werner Herzog's movies, many of which have been hard to get your hands on, are getting remastered for release, be it on DVD or VOD or whatever, says DH. I've feel lousy, I've missed everything at FSLC's Herzog retrospective this week. Shame on me.

--- Places People - Along with yesterday's news that Corey Stoll and Tye Sheridan joined the cast of Charlize Theron's Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel, here's word that Christina Hendricks is also in the cast. And apparently Nicholas Hoult's in there somewhere too? What an awesome cast this thing's amassing.

--- Clown Around - In case you missed this the other day, EW actually got Jerry Lewis to open up about his long lost Holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried. It doesn't sound you should plan on seeing it any time soon; reading between the lines it sounds to me that he's so close to the material that releasing it to the world terrifies him, and he couldn't take the criticism, when he's so proud of it. That's just how I'm reading it.
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Oh Here Go Hell Come

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Every so often I'll be scanning down the right-hand column of this here blog and amongst the labels, between Bette Midler and Bill Murray I'll see it. Big Brother. A show I haven't watched or posted about since 2008, when I was so repulsed by the grotesquerie of Dick and his daughter it starts with D I am so happy I can't remember her name you have no idea Danielle dammit that's her name ugh that I gave up the show full-stop. Good riddance, I says! Or said. Because now I see that there's a chance that Will Kirby, aka Evil Dr. Will, could be back in the house and dammit I'm helpless when it comes to him. HELPLESS. I mean, case in point:

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It appears that the forementioned D&D could also be on the show though, and that tempers the pull an awful lot. Plus Will's always paired with that shit-stain Mike Boogie (ugh even typing that moniker pains me) so it's all tempered even further. But then..

Oh Will. Damn you. Damn you. Damn you.

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Simon Pegg Will End Us All...

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... if we insist on continuing to make movies with fast-moving zombies! Says the actor:

"I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can't fly; zombies do not run.It's a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I'll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It's hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all."

And the eternal geek-debate rages on.

Anybody caught any of this "Dead Set" series across the pond which brought upon this rant of Pegg's? It does sound interesting... Big Brother meets Romero... if it happened here, the Chen-Bot would self-destruct and take California into the ocean, no doubt.
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Quote of the Day

I really dislike Big Brother's executive producer Allison Grodner after the bullshit that went down last season on the show - I don't care how she chooses to spin it; they let that asshole Dick get away with verbal and physical abuse for ratings' sake - but I have to give her props for this on-point observation in a new interview over at EW.com:

"EW: Have you considered whether to start giving the houseguests headlines from the outside world, if only to improve some of those excruciating poolside discussions?

ALLISON GRODNER: Since when have Big Brother contestants ever cared about politics? Seriously, I wish they would. That's the genius of Big Brother contestants, because in order to subject yourself to this kind of thing, there is a certain level of narcissism that makes you not give a damn about the outside world. Why aren't they discussing things of political importance? Because honestly, they care about themselves."

I don't know that "genius" is the word I'd use, but she's definitely got a point.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Crap

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Dudes... the new Big Brother cast has been revealed. Sigh. And the show begins... IN LESS THAN A WEEK? What? I mean, I've really not been watching any television lately, but you'd think I'd have seen something somewhere. I mean, I have to figure out if I'm going to watch this season or not, after the abortion last season turned into. I know, I know... I swore some sort or moral high ground after how angered I got by last season, but... cooler, more trashy-reality-show-obsessed heads do sometimes prevail. What to do?!?!? Gah, I'll probably watch the first couple and decide then. If there's anything going as as disgusting as last season, though, I be done! I swear it!
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I Am (A Slacker) Link

Yeah, so my brain kinda went on the fritz yesterday. Anyway. Here's some stuff.

--- Faith No More - The final issue of Brian K. Vaughn's arc in the Buffy: Season 8 comics, dealing with Faith the Vampire Slayer, hits the stores today. Will our girl prove (once again) her worth? Always with the muddied moral compass, Faith! These past couple of issues have been prime stuff, though; I hope all y'all who profess to be Buffy fans have been partaking too.

--- "Why So Serious?" - Why does that tag-line hit my happy button? I think it's that slithering alliteration of "S" sounds... anyway, it's given prominent placement on the new teaser poster for The Dark Knight, seen over at AICN. What do we think? I think I like.

--- Hitchcock By Scorsese Way - I spaced on watching this video yesterday so it'll have to wait until this evening for me, but y'all, if you haven't yet, can see this Martin Scorsese doing Hitchcock movie that's making the rounds right on here. It seems to have inspired mucho geek salivation.

--- Shadow Players - ModFab's got the latest Battlestar Galactica preview, which shows nothing but some talking heads and still gives me a hard-on all the same.

--- Milk Got - Three actors are circling roles in Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic - Josh Brolin as Milk's rival and killer; Emile Hirsch as a young gay activist; and James Franco (seen at left; I seem to be coming around on Franco suddenly) as Milk's boyfriend. Sean Penn's playing Milk. It's been shameful the way I've dodged most of Van Sant's recent work; the last one I saw was Elephant and I scarcely remember it. But this cast, and this subject, is drawing me in, I do believe.

--- Chenbot's Roasting On An Open Fire - Urgh. Big Brother is going to be back on the telly in January because of this blasted strike. Will I be sucked in anew? Or did the abortion of last season finally stake my BB-lovin' heart to dust? Stay tuned!
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Quote of the Day

I didn't watch the Big Brother finale last night - in fact, I'm proud to say it didn't even occur to me that it was happening until this morning and I see the wretched news. Anyway, I'm reading the wee-cap at TWoP just to see how my girl Jen fared and, in response to finding out Eric was America's douchebag Player and that it was he who dumped mustard on her shirt, she had this to say, which sums up the entire disgusting season for me:

"Well, I was wondering who was that childish when it happened... but now I see: it was America."

Exactly. I couldn't have summed up the most repulsive season of a show on network television better. It was America.

I love you, Jen!
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Free At Last!!!

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Sorry if my head hasn't been much in the blog this week, I've been completely absorbed in watching my girl Jen survive her last week amongst reprehensible scum in the Big Brother house. She finally snapped a bit this week in the house - and who can blame her? Oh right, Dick-defending scumbags, that's who! - but managed to leave the house with her head held high and a smile, far more than Big Brother deserved, and to not sit down next to Julie Chen and spit in her face. Because, make no mistakes, I would've fire-bombed the place on my way out.

But Jen's out, and I am done with the show, and I feel like an enormous weight has been lifted. Now I don't give a damn about anyone left in the house and they can stew in their own filth all on their own from here on out. Sayonara, douche-bags! Jen was too good for every last one of y'all.

ETA - Two bits y'all should check out on Big Brother, than I swear I'm done:

-- MSNBC on the manipulative editing of the broadcast show versus what really happens on the live-feeds.

-- The Television Without Pity wee-cap of last night's episode is so wonderfully on point I wish I could go give Miss Alli a big wet slobbery kiss. Choice quote (and there are so many to choose from):

"... a confrontation finally goes down between Jen and Dick when he walks up to where she's peacefully eating and intentionally blows smoke right in her face before sitting down to smugly continue taunting her. (It isn't explained, but the reason he's taunting her is that no sooner did she destroy his cigarettes than the show replaced them, despite the fact that he had been allowed to steal her clothes from her.) Fed up, she tries to knock the cigarette out of his hand, at which point he intentionally burns her with it at least two times that are clearly visible. She continues trying to knock it away, particularly once he starts poking at her with it.

In case you're keeping score in the penalty game, we are now at Unauthorized Turkey Burger: 1; (Hopefully) Unauthorized Intentional Cigarette Burns: 0.

"You're burning me on purpose! You just burned me on purpose," Jen says in disbelief, near tears, obviously thinking this is going to get some kind of a response, since this show has, in the past, thrown a guy out of the house for hurling a chair at no one. Jameka drags Jen away before it gets, I guess, worse? Than one contestant intentionally inflicting cigarette burns on another? Dick has now poured iced tea over her head and burned her with cigarettes, in addition to repeatedly threatening violence, both sexual and not, against her. It would seem to me that once a guy who constantly talks about violence actually crosses over to burning someone with a cigarette, you might remove him? No matter what the effect might be on ratings? I guess I'm just overly conservative.

All Julie Chen says is, "Coming up -- we'll ride along with Amber and Daniele as they're whisked away to New York to play in the CBS game show, Power of 10!" Did she watch what just happened? Am I high? "

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Stop Watching Big Brother

I'm going to venture into spoiler territory for Big Brother 8 here, so if you don't want to know what's happened in the house in the past couple days, since what was shown on Sunday night's episode, don't read this.

Danielle won the veto and used it to take Amber off of the block and put Jen up against Jameka. Danielle holds some ridiculous grudge against Jen ever since Jen called it like she saw it with Danielle cuckolding her boyfriend on National TV, and even though it makes no sense as a game-play - Jen, for some insane reason, had Danielle and her father's back since she had no other options in the house, and would've been an ally to them - Danielle's gunning for Jen to leave because she's a spiteful little witch and a terrible game-player who's been handed lucky break after lucky break all whilst whining like a psycho every single second of the day that she has it sooooooo haaaaaaard.

Anyway, for some reason only known to the wretched inhumanity within Dick's gnarled heart, Dick verbally attacked Jen again last night, seriously crossing the line once more. I don't have the stomach to watch the video, and I'm not going to even link to it, but it's on on YouTube if you feel the need to be made sick (D-Listed also has a link up).

I'm currently not watching the episodes, but am reading up on what's going on in the house (obviously) via TWoP, and this is me, with my tiny voice here, taking the opportunity to ask everyone to stop watching the show, and to write or call CBS and complain that they've allowed this verbal abuse to go on for too long.

Yes, Jen is an adult and could just walk out the door, but why should she have to? Why are the producers forcing her to leave, when Dick should be vilified on-air for the monster that he is? How many threats of violence does he have to make? If he doesn't actually strike anyone, it's okay? This is not okay, and I feel sick knowing it's being allowed to happen.

You can contact CBS via email right here. Just write a brief something, telling them you're sickened by their network's allowance of this sort of behavior. I did, and am going to keep harping on this with every avenue I have available to me. Shame on CBS. I hope that Jen, if she stays, creates a scene on the live show on Thursday night.
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Quote of the Day

At the end of Television Without Pity's "weecap" of last night's episode of Big Brother, Miss Alli lays it out like it is:

"I fucking hate this show. In my entire history of recapping, including the Mike Boogie fiasco and a bunch of episodes of Married By America, I've never thought to myself, "I really wish I weren't covering it, because then I wouldn't have to watch it." Seriously, if I weren't here for you people, I would not watch another episode for the rest of the season, and I'm not just saying that, either. I skipped a few seasons of this show in the middle there, and I didn't really miss it, and I wouldn't miss it again. But like Rod Tidwell, I do what I say I'm going to do, so I'll see you all again soon. I encourage you to stop watching the show and rely solely on us. We'll tell you if anything important happens, which it won't."

I didn't watch last night's episode and I have no intention of watching the show this week. I've watched BB every single season, even season one when nobody was watching, and I have no desire to watch this thing that's morphed into The Dick & Dani Show, and until I hear that things turn on the two of them I am not gonna watch it. Fuck you, CBS, and I hope your ratings plummet.
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Big Brother Blows

Well that was possibly the most insufferable hour of television I've ever witnessed in my life. I'll be sleeping on my decision whether I can even watch the rest of the season now; I may just read the boards at Television Without Pity. Watching Dick strut around like a scabies-riddled peacock is not my idea of entertainment.
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I Am Wednesday's Short Link

--- Speaking of Serenity, Summer Glau (aka River Tam of the Firefly-verse, in geek-speak) gave an interview to iF Magazine about her role in The Sarah Conner Chronicles - that Terminator TV series starring 300's Lena Headey as out titular buff heroine - in which Miss Glau plays the new killing machine out for Conner blood. It's a shame we know (since this series takes place between the first two films) that she doesn't kill anybody important, cuz I wanna be rooting for her.

--- Next Stop, Nick's Used Jockstrap - Nick of recent Big Brother fame is hawking his used bandanas on EBay. No comment.

Also, Eric the Weasel is running around with his willy exposed. Sigh. Make it end.

--- In Remembrance Of Giallo - There's a nice piece up at EW.com remembering director Umberto Lenzi's 1970 giallo Black Belly of the Tarantula - I wish we still got titles that this - which I've already added to my queue; it sounds quite fantastic. Bond girls dropping like flies!

--- The Good Soldier - Trent Reznor was trying to get his Year Zero album turned into a movie; now it seems he wants it to be a TV series. For all y'all who don't know the concept album's, uh, concept, here's what BD says:

"Year Zero is set in a totalitarian future America ruled by a right-wing religious dictatorship. The populace is plagued by mysterious visions, the country's drinking water might be drugged and global catastrophe is near."

Not even to mention the giant hand that comes out of the sky every so often. I'd say this is the perfect vehicle for David Lynch's return to TV, right? Reznor's worked with Lynch before - he scored Lost Highway - so I say some phone calls should be made. Get HBO on this. I shudder with glee at the prospect.
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Big Brother Live Blogging

Hola. I'll be posting live throughout tonight's episode of Big Brother for no real reason except I'm home alone - boyfriend's outta town for work - and I desperately need to bitch at somebody about the show.

For the record I'm an avid Television Without Pity BB8 live-feed board reader so I already know what's going to happen on tonight's episode - The One Where We Find Out Who Wins The Veto While Dick and Danielle Are On The Block Having Been Nominated By Jessica, The LNC/Turd-Herd Princess - but I always find entertainment/horror- ladled-upon-horror watching the way CBS goes out of their way to edit Dick into looking like a human being instead of a repellent shit-stain and make Jen seem like a bitchy airhead when she's actually sweet and the sanest of the entire bunch. Ah, gotta love the magic editors can make happen on reality shows!

Anyway, stay tuned to this space! At 9pm I'll start posting. Hit refresh to see new comments as they're added.

8:59pm - Okay, so my internet access? Just totally shut down. This is what I get for thinking I can live-blog something! It's up for the moment, I think I'm stealing somebody's wi-fi, but thanks the gods for Tivo. There's gonna be a delay between what I see and what y'all are seeing, but what can I do? A little Danielle Gremlin crawled into my computer! Cursed even before I begin!

9:02 - God that look on Dick's face. I wish we lived in a future where you could spit through your TV screen and it would hit the object of one's ire.

9:03 And Dustin's a smug asshole, for the record. And Jessica should be voicing a pink troll in a Saturday morning cartoon.

9:03 What a surprise! Dani's first words of the episode? "I hate."

9:03 Her second words? "ARGH. It's hard it's so hard." She produces more whine than the entire nation of France. Get it? Whine/wine? Sigh, I'm not drunk enough.

9:04 I think Jess just wants to be the only blonde left and that's why she's gunning for Danielle. Yes I think she's that vapid. But I certainly ain't buying this "Dani's a good player" nonsense she's spouting.

9:04 Eric is so completely unbearable. I want to tear those nipple rings right out.

9:05 Dick says "I think every single move I've made in this place has been a mistake." As opposed to every single move he's made since the day he was born. Hell, I lay the blame on whatever douche-bag relative of his came to America first.

9:05 Oh yeah, Dani's one problem in the world is that she "believes" too many people. Not that the only sounds that come out of her mouth cause aircraft to fall from the skies.

9:05 Oh christ it's the Guitar Plucking Of A Father Trying To Do Right music, I might never stop barfing blood.

9:05 Dick needs to keep Jen's name out of his mouth or I might hurt him. Tell us again how you want to rape her ass until she bleeds, O wise man?

9:06 Are you effing kidding me? We're getting a whole scene of what a wonderful father Dick is? Take your vitamins, sweetheart? CBS, you've got to be kidding me!

9:07 My computer went down again! Argh! Even it can't stand Dick's bullshit.

9:07 Fuck you, Jessica. Why is everybody so mean to Jen? Of course CBS never shows her being nice, they just show these catty bitches being mean to her and Jen making silly comments about her clothes so she seems like a twit.

Yah, you'd know annoying wouldn't you, Jessica?

God they're going to make Dick look like he's Father of the fucking Year, aren't they?

Wow they're showing the pot banging incident. Think they'll show him calling Dustin a fucking queen and asking Amber if she burned her daughter with her crack-pipe?

9:08 God Dani is such a bitch. Laughing at her father's antics while she constantly squeals that it has nothing to do with her.

9:15 Okay, we get it, Big Brother blood. How many times do they need to zoom in ominously on it?

9:17 I really want a Jen/Zach final two. Zach won me over with his bunny suit dance last week.

9:18 There are so many nasty jokes running through my head right now with regards to Dani gagging and saying that steak juice was the worst thing she's ever had, but I shall refrain! I am better than that!

9:19 Oh! Unnecessary! Edit out the vomiting please!

9:21 I wish Dick would lay off the "God had more important things to do" schtick because I really hate agreeing with that asshole.

9:25 You know the producers had Dick's last ball magnetized. Save your daughter, you great great man you!

9:30 You'd better believe that I'd be making Dick so freaking uncomfortable if he insisted on calling me princess and asking me to blow him kisses; I would fucking sexually harrass that asshole back to the stone age.

9:32 I am so sick of Dani playing this "I'm not responsible for him" card, it's such bullshit. She laughs at what he says, she benefits from his moves, she is pathetic.

9:34 WORD JAMEKA WORD WORD WORD!!!

9:35 I wish Jen would speak up and say no one has ever said anything about the horrible things he said to me and how he attacked me, but I guess it's smarter for her to stay quiet.

But fuck you, Eric, for calling out Dick's attacks now that it's on you and your friends and nobody stood up and said anything when he was threatening Jen and Kail with rape.

No one understands! It's so unfair! WHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Shut up, Danielle, god!

9:38 UGHHHHH The Plucking of Loving Father-Daughter Chats again!!! Make it end!!!

9:44 As much as I loathe Dick and cant stand the thought of him being around another week, putting Dustin up next to him is phenomenally stupid and it'd almost be worth Dick hanging around another week to see Dustin's really really dumb act of hubris backfire.

Why is Eric not realizing that his vote will go to protect Dick? Gah he's a moron.

And why does he not realize America hates him?

9:46 Jen is so stupidly awesome I can't take it.

9:48 This Jessica's Soliloquy On The Secret Deals Of Men scene in the bathroom is HYSTERICAL. It's like something straight out of a telenovela. "Medic my ass!!!" indeed.

9:53 Oh, all it would take to make you "a complete, total jackass" is you not using the veto, Dick? Is that really all? Are you sure you're not there yet? Huh? Are ya? You're really discrediting yourself here, big fella.

9:56 Oh YAWN. Eric is not working for me. Eric is working for the sheep that only watch the show on the air and fall prey to your editing whims, CBS, and think Dick is a funny card. Eric is working for the producers that coach him what to say in the diary room. Eric is working for a new gold-plated set of nipple rings. Gah.

Well in the real world it's 10:33 so I came in a bit late with my "live" blogging. Well that's how we do it here! Booyah!
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Pics of the Day

Yikes!

Speaking of Big Brother, because the boyfriend's out of town and I normally spend a new episode of the show shrieking at him, I'm going to post with live updates tonight as the episode airs, just for shits'n'giggles. I'm working on my second beer to make it more entertaining for us all. So stay tuned! BB8 is on from 9-10pm tonight on CBS!
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I Am Link

--- What A Croc - AICN has got a review up of Greg McLean's Rogue from its premiere in Australia; the reviewer loses some points from me by dissing Wolf Creek, but his reaction to Rogue is definitely positive. Rogue is still listed as coming out October 12th.

--- My Sky Captain - Over at Cinematical-Indie, blogger Scott Weinberg posted a passionate plea for the world to take notice of the genius Nathan Fillion which I couldn't agree with more. Why is the world so cruel that he's reduced to joining the cast of Desperate Housewives? This man should be a superstar. Superstar!

--- Damien Hirst Approved - LucasFilm registered six different possible titles for the fourth Indiana Jones film (via DH) and, besides the already-rumored title Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods, there is:

Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds
Indiana Jones and the Fourth Corner of the Earth
Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Covenant
Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Gold
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Typing that out just gave me a migraine.

--- Hateful Bigots, The Lot - D-Listed post a stomach- churning YouTube video which compiled all the hateful racist comments made by this season's splendid cast of Big Brother whilst in the house. They really went out of their way this season to choose a bunch of total losers.

<--- Jen is still awesomeness, though.
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And It Has Begun...

So towards the end of last week it happened - I became Big Brother 8 obsessed. There comes a turning point every season - except for the Janelle/Kaysar season, which oddly I didn't get into at all (yet for many fans it's their fave; go figure) - when I jump headlong into the boards where the live-feed watchers tell all that happening and I become fixated on every minute detail of the game. It was last week's damned Head of Household competition that ran over the alloted airtime, leaving us hanging as to who would win... they expected me to wait until Sunday to see who won HOH? Are they bonkers?

Anyway, there's no turning back now. I'm checking the BB chat-sites every fifteen minutes to see what new info reveals itself. Blasted semi-in-real-time game; the twists and turns of opinion are happening right this second and it's difficult, once you work that out, to escape its clutches.

I'm wondering if I have a point now. Besides to say that when I'm not frittering away time posting here I'm engulfed in Big Brother every second. And this may begin to affect my posting; i.e. we might start to see more BB posts over the next few weeks.

And since MNPP might begin to air our overheated BB opinions, let us reveal where we stand...

Dick is the essence of all I hate in the world and if I could press a button that made his face melt off I would push it right now without a second thought. His daughter Danielle is nearly as wretched; just because somebody once bought you a plastic tiara doesn't make you Princess Grace, so go eat some protein and stop screeching in my ears. Eric is an asshole. Dustin is an asshole. Amber is unbearable. Zach is a moron. If Jameka pulled her head out of her ass she could be okay, but I think she's too busy looking for where she put her Bible. Jessica... that voice, I can't get beyond that voice. Kail isn't even worth mentioning. And Jen... Jen is great.

I didn't know what to think of Jen at first, and I'm still convinced she's semi-psychotic, but she's become so much less disagreeable to me than every single person in the house that if she gets voted out I might stop watching because I can't even stand to look at or listen to half of the other people there. Jen became gold to me because of the way she drives Dick insane. She knows enough to realize that she's known these fools for, what, a month? And they are not her friends. And her life outside of the house is waiting for her, and she's just trying to have fun. Everyone behaves as if to vote someone out you have sliced their neck from ear to ear, and Jen is so refreshingly careless while everyone else freaks out every single second that it has made me love her.
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Find Somebody New To Pick On, America

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Seriously, since I typed up my last (and only so far) Big Brother 8 post as a brief tribute to the insanity that is Jen, my like for this girl and this girl's insanity has only deepened. I now, without any qualms of stating this fact, want Jen to win this season. Yes, she's insane, yes she's pathologically self-involved. But so was Will Kirby, and he's my favorite BB player ever.

So I'm growing really tired of "America" voting for America's Player to harrass her. Little Eric (who I do actually like, and he along with "oh yeah, she's still there" Jameka would be my second choices for winning - but anybody else getting the gay-as-hell vibe from Eric? Though it's beyond me to think CBS wouldn't have exploited that fact by now) is getting far too much glee from being told again and again that America hates her, and her tears at the end of last night's episode at being nominated again got to me.

So leave Jen the eff alone, America. Zack and Kail are deserving of your scorn, too, ya know.

You can read a recap of last night's episode by QTA over here, or at TWoP.
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I Love Jen

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I mean, I love to hate Jen. I mean... I am fascinated by Jen. How does a person like this exist on a day-to-day basis? How does a person like this make it to 23-years old without, I dunno, somebody pushing her in front of a train?

I really hope she lasts longer than her having isolated herself from every single person in the house would imply she's going to last. I hope she's there to the final two, and drives every single other person to drown themselves in the jacuzzi. I could watch her find new ways to be completely insane for the rest of time.
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The Chenbot Returns!

Oh happy day! More news on the return of Big Brother this Summer, via ModFab - applications for being a contestant are due tomorrow!

So throw on your hot-pants and break out the camcorder; it's your time, superstar!

My unrepentantly guilty pleasure will surely lead me through another Summer of Sin brain-numbed and fancy-free. True, there will be no wonder of Dr. Will to behold once again, but with Julie Chen around this thing's always good at least for a "What the frick is that insane lady wearing???"
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I Am Link

--- The first installment of Preview-palooza 2007 is up at The Film Experience... head on over to see what came in at #20! And keep checking TFE for more updates!

--- Lotsa interesting movie news today even besides the brain-explosion that is Roman Polanski's Pompeii film; first up, Woody Allen's gestating Barcelona-set picture has gotten a star - Oscar nominee Penelope Cruz, acting in both Spanish and English. Does this mean that only half her performance - the Spanish half - will be amazing? Cuz that seems to be her MO.

--- And speaking of Ms. Cruz, Nat gives Volver some second-viewing love and convinces me to go see the damned thing again. Like I said in his comments, the movie has been stuck in my mind since seeing it well over a month ago, and I can't really say I was expecting such a thing. It's weird how often I keep finding scenes and moments crossing my mind. That scene of Cruz singing haunts me.

--- In other news, Ang Lee seems to have chosen his follow-up to the still-in-production Lust, Caution - a romantic-comedy pic called A Little Game, described at DH thusly:

"... James Schamus is rewriting the romantic comedy, an adaptation of a French play called "A Little Game of Consequence." The story centers on a happily engaged Brooklyn couple who decide to play an experiment on their friends. When a rumor goes around that they have broken up, they play along to find out what their pals really think of their coupling."

The story was once set to star Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz; I have to wonder if Lee will go in a different direction then those two would seem to imply the thing was headed before.

--- Glenn at Stale Popcorn aims straight for my heart today, with posts on both Jackie Brown (here) and Captain Tight-Pants (here). Oh love.

--- But First!!! Big Brother's coming back this Summer, baby! And apparently it's gonna be all mixed-up. Wisely, though, they're keeping host Julie Chen. Wouldn't be the same without her.

--- New Horror Roundtable time! This time we all cop to the dirty secrets of horror-movie moments that get us off. In the literal, erotic sort of way.

I feel like a very lonely gay amongst a bunch of blood-soaked-bosoms responses, but I manage to interject some Patrick Bateman lusting right in the middle of the boob-fest (not that there's anything wrong with that), so yay me! Getting the gay out there.
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