I am looking forward to seeing "Troy",,,I love epic movies..
Posted on 05/05/2004 3:47:37 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:22:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Our 14 yr. old son is, as we speak, making frosting for a cake he baked for me, and for my husband whose birthday was last Thursday. We decided we'd have a shared celebration. I just got back, about an hour and a half ago, from a Girl Scout Town Encampment. I'm an advisor for our daughter's Senior Troop. We had a great time, even though our daughter came home late yesterday afternoon to attend a friend's birthday party, and I hung out with the other girls in the troop.
The town Girl Scout Committee created a "Survivor" program with teams of girls which included all age ranges from Daisies up to Seniors and the teams had to create solutions to problems created for them. Incorporated into the events were things the younger girls needed to learn and the older girls already knew, like knot tying, washing dishes using the dunk bags, etc. I was very proud of our girls because one of the Brownie leaders complimented them for their patience and helpfulness with the little ones.
I'm and tired, but content, and in a few minutes am gonna have yellow cake with Double Dutch Chocolate frosting. What more could a Mom ask for on Mother's Day? (other than the dishes being washed, which they are)
And a Happy Mother's Day to you, too!
How does one learn anything new ..."in a view they recognize as their own"? That statements entirely illogical. Somebody make a note to get Algore on the thorazine shuffle.
I've been avoiding the news as much as possible. It is possible that if I hear some clod scream for Rumsfeld's resignation (again!) I might have to drive to DC and scratch some eyes out. pfft! pfffftt!!
Thanks for the tribute to military moms lodwick, they have the toughest job of all.
Instead, it will be "a unique network aimed at people in their 20s - of, by and for that generation," he said. "We'll have real-life stories, news and information about their world and what is going on in it."
AKA, gloom and doom. Unless algore and his 'oh so smart' cohorts come up with an interactive video game feature that allows the 'young adults' to destroy the big meanies that make "their world" so awful, it won't last a month.
And gosh, I hate to break it to algore but that age demographic is becoming more and more conservative. Maybe they'll get rating from college campuses when the kids design a drinking game around something like, oh, when algore says "lockbox" or GWB was "selected", that sort of fun.
New York Daily News:
Ellen Barkin and Ron Perelman have kissed and made up.
The Republican conventioneers could be in for a bizarre welcome when they get here in August.
Veteran protester Aron Kaye has used cream pies to express his low opinion of ex-CIA chief William Colby, Ed Koch, G. Gordon Liddy and William F. Buckley, among others.
"There should be a plague of pies upon the Republican Convention," he tells Webster Hall curator Baird Jones. "[President] Bush should get an apple pie in his face, because he has been stuffing his kooky brand of patriotism down our throats. [Mayor] Bloomberg needs a cheese pie because he thinks he is such a big cheese. And John Ashcroft needs a juicy fruit pie because he is so anti-gay."
Meanwhile, New York magazine reports that Parsons MFA student Joshua Kinberg is launching a "Boobs Against Bush" Web site, which will collect photos of women with messages like "More cleavage, less tax cuts" on their breasts. [Huh?]
We can also look forward to the Missile D-- Chicks, "who wear leotards and tin-foil phalluses and sing songs like 'Shop! In the name of war!'"
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Wolfowitz might want to consider a restraining order and a box of tissues:
Al Franken went off on Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz at a fund-raiser that investment banker Steven Rattner and wife Maureen White threw for Michael Tomasky's American Prospect magazine the other night. Guests were surprised to see wiseguy Franken tear up as he recalled that Wolfowitz didn't know how many soldiers had died in Iraq when he recently testified at a Congressional hearing...
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PageSix:
SCARLETT Johansson has come clean about her dirty encounter with hunky Benicio Del Toro. The 19-year-old Hollywood cutie admits that, as rumored, she and Del Toro - who at 37 is old enough to be her dad - did get hot and heavy in the elevator of the Chateau Marmont hotel after the Oscars ceremony. "We were making out or having sex or something, which I think is very unsanitary," she tells Elle magazine. [Scarlett no doubt will be one of algore's viewers]
Movie review:
Want to know if a movie is a bomb before you plunk down your 10 bucks? Watch for it on Oprah. If Oprah promotes it, it's a stinker. The latest stinker is Troy.
There is a funny side, the director thinks it parallels war in Iraq.
The invasion of Iraq occurred just as shooting for the film got underway in Malta.
"I couldn't believe it," 60-year-old Petersen told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "I thought, it's as if nothing has changed in 3,000 years. People are still using deceit to engage in wars of vengeance."
While stressing that he "did not make this film with the intention of making an anti-American statement", Petersen said the parallels between the Trojan war and the Iraq war became more apparent daily during the filming.
"Just as King Agamemnon waged what was essentially a war of conquest on the ruse of trying to rescue the beautiful Helen from the hands of the Trojans, President George W. Bush concealed his true motives for the invasion of Iraq."
Now for some words of wisdom from that brainiac Brad:
Pitt, 40, who plays Achilles in the epic, said he could identify with the mythical character's passions, both in love and on the battlefield.
"He was a passionate guy," Pitt told a Berlin news conference. "I partly identified with him. I mean, I'd go into battle to defend my principles." Fer sure dude!
Review time!
Though "inspired" by "The Iliad" by Homer, the film makes no mention of Greek gods, distorting the entire Greek myth, the paper said.
While giving kudos to actor Peter O'Toole as ageing King Priam, the newspaper scathingly says the dialogue is "corny" and, "The battles tend to look like those body pileups in rugby matches, and the drama remains stubbornly unfocused and remote."
The legendary war circa 1200 B.C. ignites when Paris (played by Orlando Bloom) prince of Troy steals away Helen (Diane Kruger), the much younger wife of Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson) from the brutish king of Sparta. Pitt plays Achilles, receiving an arrow to his heel at the climax of the movie.
"The film's more intimate scenes between generals in conflict or families in peril bog down with strained, even corny dialogue and static action," The Hollywood Reporter said. source
Liz Smith gushes over Troy.
Hopefully that will keep you entertained as you sip some wine. See you soon!
She doesn't know which? What ARE they teaching them in schools these days?
Oh, come on!! Did she ever see Russell Crowe in Gladiator?
It has been the pits back here with the Dem's going bonkers over the abuse photos.
On at least two weekend shows, the pundits were all excited about how well Teresa is doing on the campaign trail and stating what an asset she is and that she will not be a cookie cutter first lady...well, what short memories they all have...They also loved Kitty D., Tipper G., Judy Dean-they were all supposed to be assets and non-Lauras etc but guess what-none of them made it to the White House.
On your way home, you must stop in the airport gift shop and take a look at the Enquirer. There is a great photo of Chels and Hil and Ian, comparing Chels and Ian's hair to Chica toys and showing a side by side back shot of Hillary and Chels and how "similar" their figures are. I tried to scan and post here but way too many pixels, hee hee.
I am looking forward to seeing "Troy",,,I love epic movies..
Thanks so much for the gossip. I can imagine a side-by-side shot of Chels & Hill's derrieres would require a lot of pixels. Beaucoups, a whole heck of a lot.
The one and only story on whatever news we can catch over here is those freakin' prisoners. We watched at least a half hour today of Brit Defence Sec'y before Parliament, followed by Bush at the Pentagon, followed by much serious headshaking and tut-tutting over this horrendous scandal. Yeah, it's another Bataan March, isn't it?
It's almost 7 p.m., so as soon as my spousal unit finds his way back to this internet place, we'll look for a restaurant. Oh, hooray, he just walked in and is recommending a Chinese place. Well, then, see yins later.
Russell is too much man for Lizzie.
Just a friendly warning from that bad-ass FKerry:
LOUISVILLE, KY. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, "They're going to have to go through me." [We're all quaking in our boots gay boy!]
The Massachusetts senator also sought to dispel the notion he was aloof, asking one television interviewer: "Have you had a beer with me yet? I like to have fun as much as the next person, and go out and hack around and have a good time." [But really, I'm just one o' the guys!]
Worth an estimated $500 million, born in Mozambique and fluent in five languages, Mrs. Kerry can be controversial and blunt, disclosing her Botox injections, her prenuptial agreement with Kerry and the fact he was in the bathroom when he got word of his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire. [Driving the porcelain bus after learning the news.]
"If they want to attack her, they're going to have to go through me. I'll be the first to defend anything she does. ... She doesn't pull her punches," Kerry said in one television interview when asked if Republicans were targeting his wife. [Yawn.]
"I think that they're foolhardy to do it, personally, because I think that she's so down to earth and so straightforward," Kerry said. "I think people who meet her love her." link
Filmmaker Alex Kerry's new movie, "The Last Full Measure," deals with the relationship between a young girl and her father, a just-returned Vietnam veteran, "and his acclimation back into this somewhat complicated WASPy family." [What a bold, fresh, innovating idea!!]
But she rejects the notion that her career has benefited because Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is her dad.
"Whatever," she tells W magazine about the suggestion that David Mamet hired her as an actress in two of his movies because he's a family friend.
"I don't think David would be casting me if I was going to mess up his movie. And I think there's something to be said for putting people in your films that you know well and trust." Link
Hey mountaineer, put the fear of (whatever it is they worship) in the French and flash this Alex Kerry pic around France. Tell them she's coming to take over their fashion industry if her daddy is elected president. hehe
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