BlogNosh 02/14/08
Jeff Wells is turning into Chris Matthews. Plus: Joan Didion, Hitchcock home design, and sex toys in Texas.
- Above: an ambitious aspiring film editor bought a fixer-upper and Hitchcockified the bathroom. More images here. Via BoingBoing.
- Jeff Wells finds a way to justify talking about “what a gutless dithering douchebag pussy John Edwards has turned out to be” on his movie blog by pulling a Chris Matthews, accusing the former presidential candidate of “acting like the softer, squishier, less decisive brother of Gregory Peck’s character in The Big Country.”
- UnitedHollywood links to a PDF version of an essay from Joan Didion’s After Henry, about the 1988 writers strike. “Agree or disagree with how this strike has been waged, she puts her finger on realities that sound eerily familiar, 20 years later — and on some key differences as well.”
- Just in time for Valentine’s day, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a Texas statute restricting sales of sex toys. Jette Kernion finds the movie angle at Slackerwood.
- I think this is what qualifies as “comedy” from Vanity Fair. Go easy on them–at least they’re trying.
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You mean, just in time for SXSW!
I could tell that Vanity Fair thing would be stupid from the Javier Bardem joke in the intro. As if he wasn’t well-established in Oscar-land. More appropriate, if not actually funnier, would be substituting it with that young actress from Atonement, which I choose not to attempt to spell, let alone pronounce.
As for the video, aside from its being compiled by someone I doubt even saw many of the films it referenced, it wouldn’t have been so awful without the fake applause, or the cheap, irrelevant Britney inclusion.