Now, don’t overdo it!
After seeing the Dark Knight last night, DH and I were talking about how Morgan Freeman seems to be ageless — he’s in his seventies, but doesn’t really show it at all, and has been playing a full range of characters and ages his whole career. But he has apparently just been taken to the hospital after a pretty wicked one-car accident.
He’s a great actor, with both a stunning presence and and incredible voice. I do hope he’s ok. (First Heath Ledger dies, then Christian Bale gets arrested [for beating on his mama, no less!], and now Freeman. If I believed in that sort of stuff, I’d wonder about the dark cloud hanging over the cast of that movie…)
UPDATE: “[H]e’ll be OK and is looking forward to a full recovery.” Whew.
This is clearly going to get some people really stirred up…
religulous
(via Buck)
Well, today just got completely away from me, all day long. I had only one goal for the day, which never did get done, but I did spin my wheels aplenty. And I feel like I’m the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen The Dark Knight yet — the reviews are universally enthusiastic, though, so I think I may have to ignore my usual aversion to the movie theater (there’s no beer, no couch, I can’t show up barefoot and in my pajamas, their popcorn isn’t as good as mine, they refuse to stop the movie when I have to go to the bathroom, and there’s no dog on my lap — to say nothing of that annoying chatty woman in the row behind me, or the kid who won’t stop kicking the back of my seat!). The last flick I saw on the big screen was, I think, Brokeback Mountain (hey! another Ledger film! what’s going on here?!?). Movies that have a big enough buzz to make me too impatient to wait for them to show up in my Netflix queue are few and far between, but it looks like Batman might just do the trick…
Back to my usual rants, links and photos tomorrow, hopefully…
Mongol looks like it could be a gorgeous movie.
- This is not good news for the beef industry. The Bush administration wants to stop all this crazy testing for mad cow disease! They’re afraid the consumer might be freaked out by too much information. Seriously. But you’re not still eating that hormone-laden, untested, corn-fed, antibiotic-charged, E. coli-tainted beef from the big cattle companies anyway, are you? Me neither (via Ice Station Tango).
- Oy. Tennessee’s addled legislature has apparently decided to illustrate the principle of entropy. Sigh.
- For anyone bothered by the suggestion that their hard-earned contributions to the Obama campaign might end up being used to pay off the debts of a woman who’s worth tens of millions of dollars, relax — it doesn’t work that way.
- Like many of this year’s Congressional Republicans, Liddy Dole is in deep trouble in North Carolina. Oh, well.
- Jenna Bush got married yesterday, and guess who performed the ceremony?The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Houston officiated at the ceremony. Mr. Caldwell, a longtime religious adviser to Mr. Bush, has endorsed Senator Barack Obama.
Of course, Jenna might be supporting Barack Obama as well. - What is Half in Ten? Well, this is the way the Station Agent puts it:John Edwards moves his campaign against poverty forward by creating Half in Ten. The idea is to cut poverty in half in ten years, which is a truly ambitious goal considering Bush is trying to double poverty within the next five or six hours.
- And finally, via A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago, I found the trailer to Hamlet 2, which is due to hit theaters at the end of August. It could be hilarious or it be so over-the-top that it misses the mark, but the bit here made me laugh.
The trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie is out (thanks to OW for the headsup!). Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opens worldwide on May 22nd. The cast features the return of Karen Allen’s Marion Ravenwood, along with Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, and a very busy John Hurt. You can watch the trailer here (I recommend opting for one of superior, higher resolution versions linked at the bottom of the post).
