Jeebus. I can’t even visit Google News without seeing 20 new stories about SuperBowl ads. Apparently, they will all be cutesy and focus on the frugality of buying the products mentioned. Enough already. Let’s just watch the f-in SuperBowl and see for ourselves what ads are there, whether they are any fun to watch, and whether the ads make any difference in our purchasing decisions.
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Last week (was it really only a week ago?), the latest in the Underworld franchise was released, sans Kate Beckinsale. Now, there is talk of making a third Tomb Raider film without Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. Rumors are swirling that Megan Fox will be the new Lara Croft.
These two women gained worldwide fame since the release of their action films, and now they have moved to more artistic endeavors.
Jolie has been ever-present at awards shows the past couple years, with her roles in A Mighty Heart and The Changeling.
Beckinsale has been very open lately about the fact that she made the Underworld movies and the abyssmal Van Helsing simply to make money to support her daughter. I am glad for Beckinsale that she can return to the types of movies that make her proud, not rich. My husband, of course, isn’t sure why anyone would bother seeing an Underworld movie with Beckinsale. (He is not alone, as one writer likened her decision to hatred of men.)
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I like a mix of mythology-centric episodes and stand-alones on Supernatural. Stand-alones make a nice break between heavy mytharc episodes. Yet all three episodes after winter hiatus have been lighthearted stand-alones. Does that mean we will have mytharc, mytharc, mytharc next?
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The Screen Actor’s Guild, under the leadership of interim national executive director David White, will return to the negotiating table with the studios next month. So, perhaps the actors will get a new contract and we won’t have to worry about a strike for a few more years.
The LA Times provides some good commentary on the change in leadership and the coming negotiations.
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Fox is taking over where Disney left off, purchasing rights to the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
I know that a lot of people thought the Narnia movies were not so good, but I love them. They are great for kids, and they retained the spirit I remember from the books.
Fox 2000 Launches ‘Dawn Treader’
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I was watching Juno over the weekend, and I was struck by the moment when Juno’s father says to her “I thought you were the kind of girl who knew when to say when” when he learns his little girl is pregnant. The look of sheer and utter disappointment on his face is one of the truest moments I have seen on film in a long time. Who knew the psychiatrist from one of the many flavors of Law & Order had such strong acting chops?
Another father-daughter relationship that brought me to tears–like bawling in the theater for half the movie tears–was that in Crazy/Beautiful. Yes, the movie most known for making Kirsten Dunst look totally fug and really not much else.
Since my parents split, I have been pretty well estranged from my father. We email and occasionally chat on the phone (very occasionally), but we just aren’t close like we were when I was growing up. I actually had a moment where I wrote some kinda bad poetry about it after a Tori Amos concert. Something about the father I only thought I had–perhaps the pre-concert refreshments also contributed to the need to write a poem. I’m alternately glad and sad that I accidentally washed the piece of paper I scribbled it on; I’d like to know if it was decent or not, but it is probably for the best that it lives only in my memory, much like “The Other Woman,” a song I wrote right after listening to Heart’s Bad Animals album for the first time. All I remember about it is the line, “That cold, cruel other woman.”
I think the estrangement between fathers and daughters is an unfortunate and unavoidable consequence of getting older. Relations are good when you are young, daddy is your first love, and both of you can be free and open with each other. But then puberty begins to hit, and girls pull away. Society also frowns upon too close relationships between fathers and daughters. Fathers must channel their feelings for their daughters into a fierce protectiveness about all suitors. It seems to get worse as girls grow up and move out. Many women actually begin to see their mothers as trusted advisers, not just hassling fiends, as they live on their own and confront the same issues their mothers have confronted with managing a home and raising children. But there just isn’t that much to draw a father and daughter closer other than the need for familial ties that comes with aging.
How about you? Do you ladies have close relationships with dear old dad? Do you dads feel close to your daughters?
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I haven’t really known what to think about this whole “Joaquin Phoenix is leaving film to pursue a career in hip hop” thing. I’ve kind of followed it, but not with a lot of passion.
The latest rumor is that it is all a hoax.
Read more about it: M.C. Hoax?
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The House did not approve the digital TV switchover delay, so it may happen on schedule, after all.
House fails to pass DTV delay bill
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Welcome to the January 28, 2009 edition of Visions of Winchesters: The Supernatural Variety.
No spoilers were submitted this week, so the whole post is safe for even the most spoiler-phobic among us.
RIP Kim Manners
Eclipse Magazine presents their thoughts on Kim Manners’ passing at Television: Supernatural Fandom Mourns the Loss of Executive Producer/Director Kim Manners
Alice Jester shares her thoughts on Manners’ life and death at In Memoriam: Kim Manners, Supernatural Executive Producer and Director
Past Episode
Amy Vernon presents Supernatural: How can you not love an episode titled ?Criss Angel is a Douche?? posted at The TV Tyrant, saying, “Why I like SPN.”
Alice Jester provides her reaction at TV Review: Criss Angel is a Douchebag
Upcoming Episode
Daemon’s TV gives us a lot of episode stills in their post SUPERNATURAL “After School Special” (Season 4 Episode 13)
Joost has a clip at After School Special
News
Goon wrote a review of My Bloody Valentine 3-D Movie Review
Cynthia posted Jared Padalecki Goes All Out on Friday the 13th at SF Universe
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According to the New York Times, Ben Silverman is hopeful for a fourth season of our beloved Friday Night Lights.
FNL Fans, Have Hope
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January 30, 2009 9:50 pm | 
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