Fans want to keep 'Eragon' at home
Looks as if people want to rent the DVD of “Blood Diamond,” but they want to own DVD copies of “Eragon.” Ah, the power of home-schooling – and a wholesome theme of dragon slaying.
Movies & More archive for March 2007
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2007
Bored? Click here to find relief
Just as some day college and NBA basketball styles are going to change, making today’s long-short look appear as funny as zoot suits, the way we use language goes out of date, too. Click out the following Web site, which is called – appropriately enough…
SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2007
Limericks can be political, too
Our overall winner of the 2007 limericks contest, Mike Andrews, simply didn’t get his fill – even after sending in 101 entries. Here are four that he wrote recently regarding the recent revelations that three Avista executives earned, respectively, $800,000, $300,000 and $300,000 more in…
THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2007
I'd put Lily Tomlin at the top of the list
You still want to see the video of David O. Russell going ape crazy on Lily Tomlin during the filming of “I Heart Huckabees”? Just go to YouTube and type in the director’s name. The link that I posted originally got flagged. But there are…
This Kosovar understands waiting
One of the Kosovar filmmakers whom I met at Sundance in January just sent me an e-mail:“Hi Dan,How are you? I just searched my name in Google ‘fitim shala cameraman’ and I found your Web site. Then I had a quick look to your writings.…
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2007
Hollywood promotion is for Twinkies
Hollywood advertising is sometimes as ridiculous as the plot that producers come up with. The latest example?I’m holding in my hands a press packet sent out to hype the forthcoming film “Disturbia.” The movie, an update of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic “Rear Window,” involves Shia…
THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2007
Leonidas would have loved Arkansas
Been a bit out of touch. Meaning that, for family reasons, I spent several days in southwestern Arkansas. Nashville, Ark., in fact, which is near Hope, Bill Clinton’s birthplace, not that far from Hot Springs, which is where Clinton grew up.And it’s only a couple…
SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007
Dig your heads a bit deeper in the sand
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FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2007
Cd'A Film Fest opener is a big hit
The word from Coeur d’Alene tonight was success. The opening-night film of the inaugural Coeur d’Alene Film Festival, “Lonely Hearts,” which played at Regal’s Riverstone Cinemas, was sold out.And the 300-to-400 (a rough estimate) people who showed up, many at the last moment (they were…
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