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[prog]

Yay, Gigli scores a zero on the tomatometer, as of this writing. First one of those I've seen in a while. Not sure why I so very much wanted this movie to fail; probably something to do with all the T ads. So many T ads. Those posters cleverly placing the title inline with the female lead's celebrated aft protuberances. Well, so be it.

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Already disappointed by Maher's blog. He's apparently just writing down monologue-style jokes about news items as he thinks of them, so each graf keeps to a strict setup/zinger format, one after the other, on and on. It doesn't really work in print, which has very different rules of comic timing.

His grammar's a little fudgy, too, which suggests that he doesn't normally write this frequently, and ironically this makes his blog a little more interesting: here's a smart, opinionated, more-or-less famous guy who has found a channel for daily spoutations because weblogs are neat, to which I say hear hear. But, still, I have to hold out hope that he'll get the hang of it in time. (Or give up entirely.)

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Booty calls

[xymotik.livejournal.com]

That picture of her shapely ass was reportedly downsized from the original photo by orders of Ms. Lopez herself. There's a photo of the original curvature from a page where a scholar refutes another academic's argument about the cultural meaning of J.Lo's butt.

Check my list of interests.

From the refrain of "Baby Got Back" by Sir-Mix-A-Lot: "LA face with an Oakland Booty." I can vouch for the particular nature of the East and West Oakland booty.
In Sir Mix-a-Lot's own words, "I'm hooked and I can't stop staring."

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what annoyed me about the T ads was that the producers didn't feel, apparently, that you needed to know anything about the movie, whether it was a comedy or a dark comedy or a drama, the setting, the atmosphere, what it was about, not so much as a one-sentence tagline. Knowing that it was Affleck and J. Lo was supposed to be enough to make you want to see it. Bah.

[prog.livejournal.com]

According to the reviews, the movie didn't know which of these it was, either. Apparently it was originally a dark comedy with a bitter ending, but after the highly publicized romance of the two leads, they hurriedly re-filmed key scenes and re-edited all the others, so now it's a confusing mess. I got the impression these modifications included Lopez's lesbian character "hopping the fence" for Affleck's (whereupon she utters one of the most jaw-droppingly ridiculous seduction lines ever recorded on film, which every review I read couldn't resist quoting). So, really, this just seems like a really, really bad movie. Heh heh heh.