Vanity Fair Says Lucas is Dead Wrong

This little article by Vanity Fair's Julian Sancton caught my eye. And my ire at first, I must admit.

Maybe she's right, but I don't think she is. I believe Lucas will be right, if not on everything, within the next 20 years. Although I think both Lucas and Sancton miss the point of the movie experience altogether. I believe the big screen, great sound and the reaction of the entertained, appreciative audience is what keeps people going out to movies. I think it always has been. family night, first dates, insomniac hang-outs; these are ageless traditions.

And I think that with all his accomplishments, she can let the Howard the Duck thing go anytime.
Yeah it sucked, move on.

Love is Stupid

Not that I care what celebrities do in their personal lives (even less when they tell us how to live ours) but this Rhianna chick is just S-T-U-P-I-D if this report is to be believed.

Remember, this is what he did to her not that long ago-as in a few weeks:


If she thinks she is going to have a "fairy tale" (other than being treated like Cinderella life with this punk she supposedly "loves," then she is a complete moron and I'm sorry, but she'll get what she deserves. Not physically, of course, God forbid.

UPDATE: Chris Brown plead "Not guilty" to the charge of felony assault and criminal threats. He didn't choose "no contest," but "Not guilty." He wants or expects people to believe he didn't do this? What a punk! He's actually going to try and defend his actions and then try and avoid any responsibility and consequences. Wow.

As a friend of mine said not to long ago,
"These people are crazy!"

Just in Case You Forgot

When will they meet again? It could happen at any time...

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Round 3

Ledger Wins the Oscar

It had to happen. Like I said earlier, if Heath Ledger didn't win a posthumous Oscar for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, Hollywood was gonna burn.

It was destiny.

Chris Jericho Attacked, Understandably Freaks Out

These people need to be arrested and beaten. I mean more than just the simple pie-face and punch that these idiots received. I've seen Chris Jericho in person (and don't just mean at a wrestling show) and he is a decent, stand-up guy. He does care about the fans. As I work for an independent wrestling company up here in Canada, and we had Jericho come into town as he and his band, Fozzy had a concert here. He went out of his way to accommodate everyone he could, and then some. Some of these fans are just simply nuts. You should see the lengths they go through just to get an autograph or picture.

Yeah, some wrestlers are dicks (I've seen that too)Jericho is not one of them. I see this stuff all the time. These people clearly deserved what they got, female or no female. It was self-defense, pure and simple. If he gets any legal troubles for this, it would be a travesty and a joke.

The Joker

It had to happen. Since the Joker is now my second favorite comic book villain behind Electro (don't ask me why, I just find him cool) I had to post a tribute of some sort to Batman's arch-nemesis; and yes it is because of Heath Ledger's recent resurrection of the character. What can I say, it was brilliant. And, by now, you know I'm not the only one.

But since I'm a Spiderman guy mostly, I haven't paid all that much attention to other superheros. Although, like anybody else, I do know the basics on most of them. Certainly the major ones. So of course I know the history of the Caped Crusader and most of his enemies like most people, but I just lack the knowledge of the character to do so.

But I ran across this column by someone with the user name, Achilles over at RetroJunk.com, a cool little site that is chalked full of memories from my pre-teen years-especially the commercial clips.

I enjoyed it and learned a few things. This guy clearly did his research and his intricate knowledge shines through.

Phantom of the Paradise

When I was a kid, around 10 or 11, I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we stayed up til around 2 A.M. just to watch this movie that was coming on called Phantom of the Paradise. All we knew was that it was (probably) about some guy with a cool, silver helmet that wore a lot of mascara.

To make a long story short, we were a little confused at the end, not totally understanding the adult-theme premise. But we thought it was one of the coolest movies ever! By the way, this buddy of mine, Todd, who I haven't seen for 30 years-last I heard he was in Calgary; is the same guy I saw my earliest, coolest movies with-all on VHS of course. Conan the Barbarian, The Warriors and This flick come to mind. This guy even had Planet of the Apes dolls. How cool is that?

Anywho, I thought nothing of my (what I thought was) normal appreciation for the movie since.
I even liked the soundtrack-nothing wrong with that.

So skip ahead 30 years and I'm at a friends house just shootin' the shite, and the subject of Phantom came up. My buddy asks me, "You know the only two cities where that did well; where it made a lot of money?"
"Where," I said.
"Winnipeg and Paris, France"

So naturally being from Winnipeg, I thought, "Hmm." But basically just thought it was a cool coincidence, and maybe he didn't know what he was talking about.

That is until I see this. Read it. If nothing else it's just a good little article on some strange occurrence in the realm of entertainment. Or it could be a source of pride that not only am I just one of 450,000 or so people that actually like this movie (cause it's cool) but that this so-called "phenomenon" happened in my hometown.

I'm good either way.