Like Who Really Cares?

What is it with celebrities giving interviews to discuss their sex lives? Who cares? I am so tired about hearing about the Desperate Housewives cast and their sex lives. It was bad enough to hear about Teri Hatcher and how she was molested as a child but did she have to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair in skimpy clothing? The final straw was reading about Eva Longoria talking to Allure Magazine about her sex life with her boy toy. If you want to know about her sex life that's your prorogative, buy the magazine but the public have to be inundated with news reports about the article as well?

Let's get back to the articles of old where you would see a celebrity in a pictorial for Life Magazine, with or without their beloved, where you do not have to hear the minutiae of their sex lives. Does that mean that today's celebrity or people in general today have nothing else to talk about besides what they are doing behind closed doors? If that is so, we must do something to change it!

I suggest a consumer revolt. If you know a celebrity is talking about their sex life in an article, don't buy it (if you must read it - look at it in a library) and write a letter to the editor asking them to refrain from publishing such drivel. Maybe that will keep the Melanie Griffiths and the Eva Longorias from opening their mouths on the subject.

Just my opinion!

Favourite Movies?

I am in awe of people who can name their favourite movies. Sure, I have some films that I enjoy and can watch again and again - but how does a person answer the question, "what movies would you take with you if you went to a deserted island?" Apparently I must be fickle as I don't know if I could name 10 movies that I like that much. I don't remember movies necessarily that well. I mean, I might remember a scene but a whole movie/plot not likely. Plus, I think, and hope, that my tastes are constantly evolving (however, I can still watch those Chris Farley movies over and over again or Grumpy/Grumpier Old Men and laugh at them - ohhhh how embarassing to admit!!) I can also watch the James Bond series over and over again (favourite: Goldfinger - how can you not love the name Pussy Galore?).

So rather than name movies themselves, I will name some actors that I like and who usually are in excellent product:

1. Paul Newman
2. Robert Redford
3. James Garner (I know so far they are old guys)
4. Warren Beatty
5. Clive Owen (he's new and YUMMY!)
6. George Clooney ("ditto")
7. Jack Nicholson
8. Meg Ryan
9. Catherine Deneuve
10. Jean Harlow (now she's been dead a really long time)

See, even coming up with names was difficult for me. I had trouble naming actresses I like. Why is that? Is it because there aren't enough good roles for women in film? That could be another blog topic.

So, tell me who you are crazy about or movies you like and if I haven't seen them, maybe I'll check them out.

Is George Lucas Right?

Recently, George Lucas was quoted as saying that the block buster is dead.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/397167p-336664c.html

Is he right? Lucas says that the studios can no longer afford to make $200 million movies like Star Wars and to expect them to do well at the box office. He uses King Kong as an example, because it did not live up to the hype, but surely we all can agree that it and other blockbusters will make up whatever losses at the box office with cable and dvd sales, not to mention sales from the rest of the world market.

Apparently, Steven Spielberg or Tom Cruise do not agree. If you have missed it, Tom Cruise has already begun to publicize his latest cinematic endeavour Mission Impossible III which naturally I would have to boycott if it were not for the fact that 2006 Best Actor Oscar winner, Philip Seymour Hoffman will be co-starring in the flick. There are also stories of a Raiders of the Lost Ark sequel surfacing again - surely we can have one more flick with Harrison Ford using that whip!

Like Lucas, I welcome the return to small, independent films but what do you think? This is my first blog, of what I hope will be many more, so feel free to suggest other topics and or movies that you think are to die for.