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A book essay at the Atlantic about Becoming Cary Grant is well written and entertainingly clever:
Gorgeousness requires the soul of an old lady.
And, of course, it’s about my favorite actor ever.

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USA Today reports that Blockbuster signs deal to be exclusive renter for Weinsteins. The agreement gives Blockbuster a four-year exclusive on rentals of films by the Weinsteins. (Thereby giving Blockbuster a leg up on Netflix.)
“Their concentration of stores and online footprint is too appealing not to be part of,” said Harvey Weinstein.
Like Blockbuster wouldn’t carry [...]

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Hiding and Seeking is a deeply moving independent documentary about one man’s attempt to help his adult sons gain respect for the “other”. Menachem Daum travels to Jerusalem to visit his sons and their families, and to talk about xenophobia, racism, and religious intolerance. It’s eye-opening. Eventually he, his wife, and the sons travel to [...]

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Go read Annie Proulx’s Blood on the red carpet:
Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest-homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with [...]

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Doc Smartypants, Larry, and I saw Juman…er, Zathura last night. There were some definite good things about it: We saw it for free. The astronaut was cute. The special effects were great. I want to live in a house like that in the worst way. But in the end I found it a disappointing movie.

Scary [...]

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John Scalzi over at Whatever has a book out, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, which includes a canon of 50 science fiction films. He posts several times about the book (the link is to the first post), and in one he mentions the meme of taking the list and bolding the films you’ve seen. [...]

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WhooHoo! Check this out at Slate: A Whitewashed Earthsea - How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books. By Ursula K. Le Guin.
Discovered via Bookslut.

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Or is that tragedy? As a friend of mine put it, everything is recognizable except the plot.
And the script is bad.
And most of the acting is bad.
And most of the special effects are cheesy.
Read the books.

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While wiling away the hours at work googling “Pete Peters Fred Astair”, I came across what seems to be a gem of a site: Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, a Classic Screen Team at Reel Classics.

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