Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’ cast interviews…
Courtesy of Jake’sTakes
WSJ has an excellent review up:
…From the slap-hammer opening credits, this is a movie in a mood. Imagine walking into the middle of someone else’s family fight. You’re not quite sure why the atmosphere is so fraught with hysteria, but you sense that it’s safer not to ask. …The plot’s dry bones, which in his novel Mr. Lehane seems to have exhumed from the more hardboiled and allegorical B-movies of the ’40s and ’50s, are just that, a skeletal frame over which Scorsese can drape a garment woven from the accumulated knowledge of his lifetime as a movie watcher.
You can see why he wanted to make this film: It’s a story begging for visual layers. From the Hitchcockian back projections against which Teddy and Chuck are framed, to the kind of shadowy elegance found in the work of ’40s producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur (“Cat People,” “I Walked With a Zombie”), Mr. Scorsese is accessing all the macabre thrillers he has in his head. To catalogue them here wouldn’t just be pretentious, it would be impossible…
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Speaker knows: Pelosi finds the villain of the piece…
Dems miss the SELF-imposed August recess deadline on health care reform. Who, who can be to blame!? Not the Dem leadership, not TOTUS, but who? The Shadow Nancy knows, BWAAAAHAAAAAA Muhuuuuhaaaaaaaa!!!
Of course, they’ve been immoral all along,” she added. “They are the villains in this, they have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening and the public has to know.. They have had a good thing going for a long time at the expense of the American people and the health of our country.”…
See AP at HotAir for more.
Courtesy of davesherman74:
This is the opening of The Shadow, played by the legendary Orson Welles. This episode is “The Circle of Death”, which originally aired November 28, 1937. It’s only fitting that this is being played over my 1936 Zenith console radio you see. This was given to me by a friend, and I have restored it to working condition. Hope you enjoy it!
TGIF! Carol Burnett Show: Rebecky…
I love the novel by Du Maurier, the film by Selznick and Hitchcock, and the fabulous parody by the incomparable Carol Burnett…. :0
Courtesy of wickedfan1DINA
Part Two after the break…
Winona confirms Heathers reboot with Slater…
(glad it came out here as Heathers and not Lethal Attraction, ugh!)
Via AA at Glenn’s place..
…Ryder also confirmed a sequel is in the works to her 1988 cult film Heathers…
“Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in the works. I swear to God,” she told the magazine. “But for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman don’t want to talk about it. I’ve been wanting to do a sequel forever. There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character.”…
Update: Witchhunt Inquisitor accidentally catches self: while hoist on petard claims her ‘role’ is to get control of Congress and the Presidency, not to actually object to unConsititional actions…but she did ‘fight the war’…
Oh thank Gawd SOMEONE mentioned this, it is Rep. Pete Hoekstra R-MI –The Note :
Hoekstra, however, said he finds is “very difficult to believe” that intelligence officials would intentionally mislead leaders of the House intelligence committee, as Pelosi is alleging.
He also blasted Pelosi for saying that, since she felt she couldn’t change Bush administration policies, she turned her attention to electing a Democratic congressional majority.
“What I heard her say — and I was quite taken aback by her when she said — was that politics are more important than national security,” Hoekstra said. “That’s a very dangerous precedent.”
Bond said there have been numerous instances where congressional leaders have privately influenced administration policy on intelligence matters, though he declined to offer specfics.
“It’s no excuse to say, ‘I was powerless.’ That’s what oversight is all about,” he said. “There are a whole range of actions, and she did not take them.”
Nora Desmond Nancy Pelosi has gone off the rez…
BWAHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! BWAAAFRAKKINHAAAAAAA!!!!! Oh my side hurts now! BWAAAAAAHAAAAA!!!!!
Pelosi Press Briefing Transcript Courtesy of Legal Insurrection:
QUESTION: Do you wish now that you had done more? Do you wish…
PELOSI: No.
QUESTION: … it had been your own letter?
PELOSI: No, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, the point is, is that we had the conversation. They told us they had legal opinions. As I say in my statement, we now know what they didn’t inform us then, that there were other opinions within the executive branch that concluded that these interrogation techniques were not legal. So no letter or anything else is going to stop them from doing what they’re going to do. My job was to change the majority in Congress and to change — to fight to have a new president, because what was happening was not consistent with our values, certainly not true, and — and something that had to be changed….
(Hear that boys and girls? Her JOB was to change the majority and to fight to have a new TOTUS not to you know TAKE ACTION OF ANY SORT…)
Annual VNSA Book Fair: Feb. 14th & 15th …
This is my favorite part of February, the VNSA Book Fair..I drool over books the way some women do designer shoes and jewels, my hubby is a lucky man eh?!?
But come on, who wouldn’t be excited!! check this out:
Mmmmmm Books.....Like a Doughnut to Homer, MiM feels the call of the books: Members of Teamsters Locals 104 and 752 volunteer their time to move more than 8,000 boxes of books. After a week, the books are ready, organized into 27 major categories.
Moderate in the Middle 