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apocalypsosHomosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in his newly published book. Because why would evil express itself in society through war, genocide, bigotry, suffering and the like when it could do it through gay people in love? (As for comparing abortion to the Holocaust ... uh, NO. Neither is pretty, but neither is comparable without offending one side or the other, either.)
Jennifer Love Hewitt Lands Psychic Gig for CBS -- What gets me is the working title for the show: Ghost Whisperer. Yeah, let's not do that, okay? Medium isn't perfect, but up against that show with that cast, it'd be easy to argue it was.
Plummer Joins Reeves, Bullock in 'Il Mare' -- The Warner Bros. project revolves around a lonely doctor (Bullock) and a frustrated architect (Reeves) who live in the same house, only two years apart. They fall in love via letters they exchange through a mailbox that mysteriously links the two of them. Okay, it's yet another sign Hollywood's run out of ideas when they boost a plot idea from a made-for-TV movie from about five years ago featuring Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Ben Affleck is going to play George Reeves in a movie about the 'Superman' actor's life -- Oh, good God, that means he'll be in a Superman costume. There's not enough headdesk in the world for that one.
Severed Penis Retrieved from Toilet, Reattached -- "Note to self -- don't tell this story to women at bars ..."
Also, apparently the remake of The Longest Yard doesn't suck. You know what I need to do before I see the remake? See the original. That might be a good idea. Mmm-hmm.
If anyone actually gives a damn (which I know none of us do, but what the hell), TWoP recapped the Dr. Phil special featuring Jonathan and Victoria. That link goes straight to the part about them, by the way.
And spotted on IMDb ... Noting that the animated feature Shrek 2 has been attacked on the one hand by conservative family-values groups for presenting "subtle" messages concerning cross-dressing and transgender acceptance and on the other hand by transgender advocates who object to being parodied, a University of Toronto professor notes that the scenes are aimed at parents and go way above the heads of the kids. "If the kids don't get it, it doesn't really matter," film studies professor Charles Keil told the Canadian Press. Keil's comments came after the Traditional Values Coalition issued a warning to parents that while the movie "is billed as harmless entertainment," it actually "contains subtle sexual messages" directed at kids. Keil replied that the overall message of the Shrek movies is tolerance and that the group's "argument that borders on the paranoid is really misconstruing the general aim of this entertainment." Dear conservative family-values groups -- for all the worrying you do about other people not being straight, you certainly don't seem to give a shit about how straight your own priorities are. Sheesh.
Jennifer Love Hewitt Lands Psychic Gig for CBS -- What gets me is the working title for the show: Ghost Whisperer. Yeah, let's not do that, okay? Medium isn't perfect, but up against that show with that cast, it'd be easy to argue it was.
Plummer Joins Reeves, Bullock in 'Il Mare' -- The Warner Bros. project revolves around a lonely doctor (Bullock) and a frustrated architect (Reeves) who live in the same house, only two years apart. They fall in love via letters they exchange through a mailbox that mysteriously links the two of them. Okay, it's yet another sign Hollywood's run out of ideas when they boost a plot idea from a made-for-TV movie from about five years ago featuring Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Ben Affleck is going to play George Reeves in a movie about the 'Superman' actor's life -- Oh, good God, that means he'll be in a Superman costume. There's not enough headdesk in the world for that one.
Severed Penis Retrieved from Toilet, Reattached -- "Note to self -- don't tell this story to women at bars ..."
Also, apparently the remake of The Longest Yard doesn't suck. You know what I need to do before I see the remake? See the original. That might be a good idea. Mmm-hmm.
If anyone actually gives a damn (which I know none of us do, but what the hell), TWoP recapped the Dr. Phil special featuring Jonathan and Victoria. That link goes straight to the part about them, by the way.
And spotted on IMDb ... Noting that the animated feature Shrek 2 has been attacked on the one hand by conservative family-values groups for presenting "subtle" messages concerning cross-dressing and transgender acceptance and on the other hand by transgender advocates who object to being parodied, a University of Toronto professor notes that the scenes are aimed at parents and go way above the heads of the kids. "If the kids don't get it, it doesn't really matter," film studies professor Charles Keil told the Canadian Press. Keil's comments came after the Traditional Values Coalition issued a warning to parents that while the movie "is billed as harmless entertainment," it actually "contains subtle sexual messages" directed at kids. Keil replied that the overall message of the Shrek movies is tolerance and that the group's "argument that borders on the paranoid is really misconstruing the general aim of this entertainment." Dear conservative family-values groups -- for all the worrying you do about other people not being straight, you certainly don't seem to give a shit about how straight your own priorities are. Sheesh.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:07 pm (UTC)That boy better start eating some sandwiches, then. Reeves was kind of flabby. The only way this can't suck is if the guys who wrote Ed Wood and People Vs. Larry Flynt do it. They cornered the market on forgotten/obscure celebrities doing weird shit. Auto Focus was like one of their scripts only without the humor.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:09 pm (UTC)God, I hope not. I know it'd be more honest if he gained a little weight, and the guy's a bit of a dope, but at least he's got a nice body to look at. (He'd still come second to Matt Damon for me, though. Because, you know, Matt at least has some talent.)
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:13 pm (UTC)Actually, that made for tv movie was a rip-off of an earlier film, starring pre-accident Christopher Reeves. Can't cough up the title, though.
Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in his newly published book. Because why would evil express itself in society through war,
Frankly, that statement has convinced me that modern Catholicism is part of a 'new ideology of evil'. Thanks for removing the blinders for me, pope.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:15 pm (UTC)You mean Somewhere in Time? 'Cause that wasn't so much trading-letters-through-time-and-a-mysterious-postal-method as it was a straight time travel story. But the Campbell Scott/Jennifer Jason Leigh movie was literally the same story as the Keanu Reeves/Sandra Bullock plot, except replace "two years" with "one hundred years".
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:21 pm (UTC)And that Campbell Scott/Jennifer Jason Leigh Hallmark Hall of Fame is the best Civil War/reincarnation/time-travelling-letters/magic postal box movie ever.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:26 pm (UTC)Also, heh. The biggest reason I'm pissy about the Reeves/Bullock version is because the Scott/Leigh version was so freakin' cute. And Campbell Scott is cuter and a better actor than Keanu Reeves every day of the week and twice on Thursday. But then again, he comes from good acting stock. :)
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Date: 2005-02-23 04:24 pm (UTC)A real bitch would point out that abortion is unlike the Holocaust in that it does not enjoy the complicity of the Catholic Church in any way. I'll just point out how it's very interesting that so many religious fundamentalists seem to think love=evil and hate=good.
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Date: 2005-02-23 04:37 pm (UTC)These same conservative family-values groups probably have no compaints with their kids watching Looney Tunes. I mean, its not like Bugs never dressed up as a female or anything. ;)
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:08 pm (UTC)..... You know, I would like to be able to say that I'm a Christian without wincing.
Being agnostic seems to be the new Canadian. If someone asks me if I'm Christian, I say I'm agnostic. XD
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:54 pm (UTC)Nothing like realizing that one is seven feet tall and buletproof. And made of metal. rar.
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:54 pm (UTC)... Has CBS also contracted Jennifer Love Hewitt's breasts? Or are they still in negotiations?
And what did Christopher Plummer ever do to deserve such a fate?
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:59 pm (UTC)I know. I'm taking it as a sign that if that immobile pile of senility can write a book and get it published, then what the hell is my excuse? (Granted, he's the Pope, but still.)
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Date: 2005-02-23 07:43 pm (UTC)gosh, and here i thought human rights were aligned with both the family and man. my mistake.
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Date: 2005-02-23 08:16 pm (UTC)I think it's very strange that he's bringing up the Holocaust. The Catholic Church isn't exactly renowned for railing against it. It's also wierd because gays and political rivals were the first to be thrown into the camps, so comparing abortion to killing people you're condemning in a different part of the book... it's just wierd. Bizarro Pope.
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Date: 2005-02-24 12:17 am (UTC)I thought MAGIC! was more evil then CROSSDRESSING!
I suppose of the Shrek 2 crossdresser did magic, Satan would eat the Pope on live tv.
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Date: 2005-02-24 12:20 am (UTC)Salesman: We have the popular 'everybody poops", or the less popular 'nobody poops but you'.
Peter:Well, you see, we're catholic. . .
Salesman: Ah, then you'll want 'you're a naughty, naughty boy, and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you'.
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