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The Comedian

“I tell lies. Not proper lies, just little lies. I started telling them - jokes I should call them - when I was very young. I’ve always had a sense of humour but people haven’t always shared it.” ~ Solange

Heads It Is

The Apartment

Soooo, first night in heaven. You go out strong, obvs. You hit the bars. You party down. You black-out. You wake up in a huge white bed with infinity-thread count sheets and Her. Oh, look. There’s Kurt Cobain!

Times From The Behind

by Hao Cui, from: flOw

• Jennifer Aniston in 30 Rock: According to one inside source, the former Friends star and John Mayer fame-rung will portray “a bald, hairy-chested, foulmouthed, dirty-dancing movie mogul.” Yay!!!

• Silk Stalking mail thief David Duchovny enters rehabilitation center for… being David Duchovny? Like, srsly? Quel Surprise?

• Oh, Solange. You are so hired. Welcome to the internetz, bitch.

• You know how when you see someone yawn, you have to yawn? When we see this headline we want to kill ourselves. It’s like the yawning thing, but with a twist.

• Rachel Weisz: “I had two weeks to learn to play piano, violin, accordion, and break-dance, to juggle, do karate, play Ping-Pong, banjo, unicycle, and even skateboard.”

• MTV Cribs (Season 15) | Ep. 9 | Emmy Rossum: “This is where it all goes down.” Whatever you say, Emmy. (extras!!!)

• Re: Vicky Christina Barcelona: What Molly Young said.

• WWE signs Freddie Prinze Jr. For a sacrifice?

• London from above, at night: If you look real close, you can see Amy Winehouse down there not brushing her teeth.

• Trail Blazer Bulletproof Backpack: Looks and feels just like a normal backpack, that is, until you get gun and knife violenced!

• Just so you know, Bunny’s new favorite artist is Sako Kojima.

• Tab Cola: Just right for beautiful people.

• RC Cola: Right for me and right for you.

• We’re only happy when it Wains.

• Trip Girl #169: Kelli Aguiar (nsfw)

• John Ashbery: Poemp3s

• AC/DC: FUCK/YES

• Water on Mars

Fall...

It’s no superhero supersaturated summer! Thank (supernatural being).

Spanglish

Need a fresh reason to loathe Gwyneth Paltrow’s shidiculously perfect existence? Here’s a tasty morsel of what will air on PBS this September as Spain…On the Road Again. Rounding out the random are New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and sultry Spanish sultress (and, more importantly, not Penelope Cruz, for once) Claudia Bassols. One more time, Claudia Bassols. (via habituallychic)

Recruitment

Whoops. You missed one, Leland.

Naughty Little Doggie

From Radar’s delightful and utterly ridiculous Secrets of a Hipster Hooker:

Last year Kelly met a new client, an aging punk rock pioneer who was staying at the London NYC hotel. Kelly was a fan of his music, but wasn’t aware of who he was until after their session. (He had booked under his real name; she knew him only by his stage name.) “He wanted me to force-feed him dog food,” she says disgustedly. “I mean, that was just too much for me.”

It Goes With The Opera

1987, Fatal Attraction, Glenn Close’s character makes Michael Douglas’ character a spaghetti dinner in her white on white on white New York City apartment. Opera blares from the stereo as he uncorks a bottle of wine. He wears a blue button-down shirt and a navy-blue cardigan, with the sleeves rolled up. Clearly, he is living the good life.

Later that same year, 1987, Wall Street, Daryl Hannah’s character makes Charlie Sheen’s character a spaghetti and sushi dinner in his newly renovated, faux-demolished New York City apartment. Opera blares from the stereo as he uncorks a bottle of wine. He wears a white button-down shirt and an argyle cardigan, with the sleeves rolled up. Clearly, he is living the good life.

A Screening

We own five. See you there.

Shanked It

“This slight-looking but weighty film has ambitions that are intense pleasures and failures that are almost majestic. Beautifully cast and acted, smartly written, done with excruciating care and glowing Roger Deakins cinematography, it’s a film that, in some ways, suffers from its own seriousness, the very passion and guts that make it special.”
~ Michael Wilmington

“Ed Solomon, who wrote and directed, has stolen two hours from the lives of everyone who sees the film, and weeks from the careers of these valuable actors… When this film premiered to thunderous silence at Sundance 2003, Solomon said he had been working on the screenplay for 20 years. Not long enough.” ~ Roger Ebert

Exactly

SPECIAL FEATURES

• DIRECTOR-APPROVED DOUBLE-DISC SET SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson and director of photography Robert Yeoman
• Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
• Commentary by director/co-writer Anderson and co-writer/actor Owen Wilson
• The Making of “Bottle Rocket”: an original documentary by filmmaker Barry Braverman featuring Anderson, James L. Brooks, James Caan, Temple Nash Jr., Kumar Pallana, Polly Platt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Musgrave, Richard Sakai, David and Sandy Wasco, Andrew and Luke and Owen Wilson, and Robert Yeoman
• The original thirteen-minute black-and-white Bottle Rocket short film from 1992
• Eleven deleted scenes
• Anamorphic screen test, storyboards, location photos, and behind-the-scenes photographs by Laura Wilson
• Murita Cycles, a 1978 short film by Braverman
• The Shafrazi Lectures, no. 1: Bottle Rocket

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by executive producer James L. Brooks, an appreciation by Martin Scorsese, and original artwork by Ian Dingman

• Available on 11/25/2008

(via criterion)