In a wide-ranging interview with one of his fansites, Steven Spielberg talks Indy 4 and other projects in his possible short-term future, including his long-rumored Lincoln biopic (with Liam Neeson, and based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s recent Team of Rivals) and a new hard sci-fi project entitled Interstellar.
Month: July 2006
Voyage of Discovery.
“‘This is the cleanest orbiter than anyone ever remembers seeing,” Griffin said in a post-landing news conference. He added that with Discovery’s successful completion of all its on-orbit tasks, it had finished ‘as good a mission as we have ever flown.'” Congrats to the crew of Discovery on a safe and successful landing.
What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language?
“‘What about Kofi Annan?’ Bush asked Blair. ‘I don’t like the sequence of it. His attitude is basically cease-fire and everything else happens.’” Dubya and Tony Blair get caught (apparently) off-guard and on tape discussing the escalating crisis in the Middle East. “Bush said that he feels ‘like telling Kofi to get on the phone with [Syrian President Bashar] Assad and make something happen. We’re not blaming Israel, and we’re not blaming the Lebanese government.’” (A lot of news sources seem to be fronting Dubya’s use of the S-word — “See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over.” — but, really, who gives a shit about his language?) “Bush also told Blair that he would be sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region soon. ‘She’s going,’ Bush said. ‘I think Condi’s going to go pretty soon.’” Update: Watch it online, just to get a sense of how boorish and out-of-his-depth our president seems on the world stage. (Exhibit B: Dubya’s ill-fated and cringeworth back-rub attempt.)
Fountain-Header.
AICN publishes this impressive poster for The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky’s long-awaited big-think sci-fi piece with Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Gullette, and Ellen Burstyn.
Jack’s Dates with Dubya.
Can Congress solve the Abramoff-Dubya riddle where Judicial Watch failed? Let’s hope so. The House Government Reform Committee subpoenas Casino Jack’s former law firm for information regarding his White House visits.
A Reed in the Wind.
“‘There’s confusion among the Christian conservatives,’ Mr. Towery, the pollster, said. ‘I’m not going to say Cagle’s taking the base, but he’s picking away at it.’” In related news, the NYT surveys the ailing political fortunes of Abramoff accomplice Ralph Reed, now fighting for his political life in a GOP primary for Georgia Lieutenant Governor that takes place this Tuesday. “Mr. Reed’s critics seized on the scandal as proof that he had deployed his Christian supporters for profit. ‘Ralph Reed sold out our values,’ Mr. Cagle’s advertisements say, calling him ‘hypocritical and immoral’ and accusing him of ‘manipulating Christians for casinos.’” Yep, sounds about right.
If I could sleep forever…
Gael Garcia Bernal spends both his waking and dreaming hours trying to court next-door neighbor Charlotte Gainsbourg in this spiffy trailer for The Science of Sleep, the new film from Michel Gondry, director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.
Smart Kid.
My thoughts exactly.
Abracadabra.
“Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first act is called ‘The Pledge’: The magician shows you something ordinary, but of course, it probably isn’t.” The full trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige (previewed the other day in ET-vision) is now online, and worth checking out.
Dot Dot Dot.
“Blinky: The most cunning and most dangerous: Fast and trying to corner you with direction changes. When he’s after you run quick and run twisty through lots of corners to shake (as with all others, cornering successive turn is most likely to lose the ghost)…Blinky owns and patrols the top right hand corner of the maze.” Having trouble with Ghosts in the Machine? DYFL points the way to a handy primer on how to excel at Pac-Man.