So I went to see Batman Begins. Sombody forgot to tell these guys they were making a summer, action-adventure, comic book, super hero movie.
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Rutger Hauer, Morgan Freeman were all excellent. No wink-wink at the camera crap.
Katie Holmes was ok but forgettable.
Go see it! It was fun!
The Hills Have Eyes
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Ted Levine and Vinessa Shaw are set to star in "The Hills Have Eyes," a remake of the 1977 Wes Craven horror.
The Fox Searchlight project is headed for a shoot in Morocco this month. The film will be directed by Frenchman Alexandre Aja, whose thriller "High Tension" just opened in North America; Craven will serve as a producer.
The story follows a vacationing family that makes a wrong turn in the desert and is terrorized by a cannibalistic clan.
Levine and Quinlan play the heads of the hapless family, Shaw plays one of their daughters and Stanford her husband.
Fox Searchlight picked up the project after it was shelved by Dimension Films, which already had set it up with Aja directing from a script he co-wrote with Gregory Levasseur.
Levine is a series regular on USA Network's "Monk" and recently completed shooting "Memoirs of a Geisha." Quinlan's recent credits include the A&E movie "The Riverman" and the Lifetime TV movie "Perfect Match."
After "The Hills Have Eyes," Stanford will segue into 20th Century Fox's "X-Men 3," in which he will reprise his role as Pyro in the franchise. Shaw most recently starred in "Melinda and Melinda." Her credits include "40 Days and 40 Nights" and "Eyes Wide Shut."
The Fox Searchlight project is headed for a shoot in Morocco this month. The film will be directed by Frenchman Alexandre Aja, whose thriller "High Tension" just opened in North America; Craven will serve as a producer.
The story follows a vacationing family that makes a wrong turn in the desert and is terrorized by a cannibalistic clan.
Levine and Quinlan play the heads of the hapless family, Shaw plays one of their daughters and Stanford her husband.
Fox Searchlight picked up the project after it was shelved by Dimension Films, which already had set it up with Aja directing from a script he co-wrote with Gregory Levasseur.
Levine is a series regular on USA Network's "Monk" and recently completed shooting "Memoirs of a Geisha." Quinlan's recent credits include the A&E movie "The Riverman" and the Lifetime TV movie "Perfect Match."
After "The Hills Have Eyes," Stanford will segue into 20th Century Fox's "X-Men 3," in which he will reprise his role as Pyro in the franchise. Shaw most recently starred in "Melinda and Melinda." Her credits include "40 Days and 40 Nights" and "Eyes Wide Shut."
Old Farmer's Advice:
* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
* You cannot unsay a cruel word.
* Every path has a few puddles.
* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
* The best sermons are lived, not preached.
* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
* Don't judge folks by their relatives.
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.
* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,
watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
* Always drink upstream from the herd.
* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad
judgment.
* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it
back in.
* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around.
* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the
rest to God.
* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
* You cannot unsay a cruel word.
* Every path has a few puddles.
* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
* The best sermons are lived, not preached.
* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
* Don't judge folks by their relatives.
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll enjoy it a second time.
* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,
watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
* Always drink upstream from the herd.
* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad
judgment.
* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it
back in.
* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin'
somebody else's dog around.
* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the
rest to God.
I stumbled on this quote today:
"You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school,
marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor."
--President Bill Clinton
marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor."
--President Bill Clinton
Books on MP3
So I went to the library last week in search of another pile of books on CD to amuse me during my commute from hell?
I scored the following goodness:
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
I just finished The Hobbit with the kids. They loved it and now want to hear them all. The problem is they are all due tomorrow. So today I am ingesting them all into my MP3 server. The next stereo I buy for the car will be able to play MP3's.
The Hobbit was on 13 CDs. I am amazed that more books on tape/CD are not done on MP3. It could be delivered on 1 disk in stead of 13. All 4 books will fit on one DVD. So cool.
All would fit on one iPod.
Hmmmmmm....
I scored the following goodness:
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
I just finished The Hobbit with the kids. They loved it and now want to hear them all. The problem is they are all due tomorrow. So today I am ingesting them all into my MP3 server. The next stereo I buy for the car will be able to play MP3's.
The Hobbit was on 13 CDs. I am amazed that more books on tape/CD are not done on MP3. It could be delivered on 1 disk in stead of 13. All 4 books will fit on one DVD. So cool.
All would fit on one iPod.
Hmmmmmm....
I am so sore right now.
BR and I finished off the deck today. We were swinging hammers out there in the heat today. It was like 90 degrees. Sweat was dripping off our noses. It came out very nice. We are such a team. We finished it off and then she cut my hair.
I have sat on the sofa for the last 2 hours watching The 4400 as my joints froze up.
Thank the makers we have the hot tub...
I have sat on the sofa for the last 2 hours watching The 4400 as my joints froze up.
Thank the makers we have the hot tub...
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