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Hugh Grant Drops The Stammer To Strike A Blow At The Paparazzi

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Just in case you forgot, Mickey Rourke reminds you that he is a pretty vile (oh yeah I said it) human being. Calls “most actresses” the c-word k-word. (FilmDrunk)

Speaking of actresses, someone did a lot of research to determine what we already knew. Ladies don’t get as much work, screen time and dialogue as their male counterparts. “In a survey of the top 100-grossing movies of 2009…researchers found that 32.8% of the 4,342 speaking characters were female and 67.2% were male, a percentage identical to that of the top-grossing movies of 2008.” I’ll be interested to see how 2011 breaks down. (LA Times)

Someone else did oodles of research to determine which SNL character had the most repeated appearances. Here’s the top 25. You’ll be surprised and underwhelmed by number one and filled with…what is this…nostalgia?…for Mike Myers. (Vulture)

Someone made a list for the book/TV obsessed like me. Here is a good and at times stellar list of TV Charactes and their literary counterparts. Ron Swanson and Hemingway? OKAY! (Flavorwire)

Speaking of “literature,” I’ve read some interesting pieces this week in defense of “Twilight.” Not that I agree with them, I’m just continually surprised by the very intelligent women defending the franchise. This piece seems to argue that some dislike “Twilight” because they aren’t ready for the jelly of female-driven fantasy. (Time) This one, by the wonderful Jill Pantozzi, expresses puzzlement over the level vitriol “Twilight” inspires. (Nerdy Bird) For me, personally, I think it’s dangerous to underestimate the influence this book has on young women. To say it’s just a silly book or that no girl is really taking the Bella/Edward relationship to heart is to ignore that fact that YOU CAN NOW BUY BELLA’S WEDDING DRESS FOR $799. And many girls will. I hope your headboard is made of stronger stuff, ladies. (CinemaBlend)

My schadenfreude only extends so far. I’m not one for rejoicing when people are out of work. But I can take a moment to savor the delicious just desserts served up to a foreclosure law firm which went out of business this week. Some of the injudicious legal crew thought it would be hilarious to dress up as homeless victims of foreclosure for Halloween this year. Charming. (Buffalo News)
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Someone made a list of TV/Film computer nerds with nary a Hacker or a Sneaker? FOR SHAME! (Den Of Geek)

There was some discussion yesterday in the comments that leads me to believe many of you are highly conscientious consumers. Here’s a handy tool that allows you to see how the companies you buy from lobbied Congress. (Boing Boing)

Some of his classmates have been bullying one of Jerry Sandusky’s victims. So much so that he has dropped out of his school. Color me appalled. (ABL)

I’m going to drown my sorrows in this Ryan Gosling pancake. YOU HEARD ME. Too sexy for this plate. (That’s Nerdalicious)

Speaking of too sexy, I am digging the hell out of these classic comic hero redesigns. Rogue was always a favorite of mine. (Unreality)

If drowning my sorrows in pancakes won’t do, maybe I’ll try this hyper scary HR Giger bar in Switzerland. (Laughing Squid)
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A new Serge Gainsbourg tribute album has been released with many familiar names including Johnny Depp and his wife Vanessa Paradis. “She does the heavy lifting singing-wise, while he mostly murmurs sensual come-ons.” SOLD! (Cover Me Songs)

You may not care at all about the paparazzi, the British press, the wire-tapping scandal or the rights of certain individuals to privacy. That’s fine. Skip on down to ze video! I, on the other had, found this statement from Hugh Grant very illuminating. There’s the usual “I did not bang a 21-year-old German girl” nonsense in there, but mostly he talks about the mother of his child and the persecution she endured at the hands of a relentless, shady, at threatening press. (Leveson Inquiry)

In which someone has spliced together all the Total Recall commentary bits where Schwarzenegger literally transcribes the action on the screen. It’s like DVD commentary for the visually impaired.









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Comments

I have a new vocation. I will not rest until I too am being referred to as a "Pancake Artist", or, better yet, "Artiste". "Cookie Wrangler" is getting old and "Pie Wizard" is too much pressure.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 22, 2011 1:27 PM

The Culps are my friggin' favorite; off to the YouTubes!

Posted by: Patty O'Green at November 22, 2011 1:51 PM

Yeah, "vile" is probably appropriate for Rourke.

Posted by: Jerry Kenney at November 22, 2011 1:52 PM

H.R. Giger bar is Gigertastic!

Posted by: MM at November 22, 2011 1:54 PM

Story Time:

Little Julien has his last soccer game of the season on Sunday. I was standing on the sidelines chatting to some parents and their 3-year-old was not doing what she was asked to do: Sit up in a lawn chair, so it wouldn’t fall over. It was a perfectly reasonable request, but she wasn’t listening.

The mother turned to the grandmother and said, “Do you have a tapper?”

The grandmother said, “Yes,” and pulled a 12 inch wooden ruler out of her bag. Then she tapped it on the arm of the chair as a threat and repeated the request for the 3 year old to sit up. She did, although she showed absolutely no fear.

I think I said, “Seriously?” when the ruler came out of the bag. So, the mother explained to me that, at home, each child (7 and 3) had their own tapper which he/she HAD DECORATED FOR THEMSELVES, and which hung on the wall as a warning. The 7 year old’s tapper is bigger, because he’s bigger, but she doesn’t really need to use it anymore because if she threatens to take away his Legos, he will obey her. I think somewhere in there she also clarified that the 3 year old would be getting a bigger tapper in the fullness of time and growth spurts.

I responded with, “So, it’s like that Cosby routine where he says, ‘Go get me something to beat you with?’”. She laughed and laughed, and said, "Yes," and reiterated that each child had decorated the stick they were to be hit with.

I added one final, “So, let me get this straight. You carry a weapon in your purse at all times?”.

“Yes”.

There was nothing more to say.

And then I planned how to tell Mr. Julien when we got home, and how to put it in a written form suitable for sharing.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 22, 2011 2:21 PM

What, Depp -- no daughter to duet with?

Posted by: Stevil at November 22, 2011 2:21 PM

It would be kind of awesome if Hugh Grant, who has himself behaved in a skeezy manner in public, was the thin end of the wedge on bringing down the tabloids. His statement was harrowing and I can't imagine coping with a sustained campaign like that, nevermind being a non-public figure with a newborn baby and that kind of assault on your privacy.

Posted by: Mrs. Skipper at November 22, 2011 2:36 PM

Mrs. Julien, scary story!!

That bar is seriously cool.
And fuck you so hard, Mickey Rourke. I loved you in The Wrestler so thanks for ruining that.
Sobering stats on LA Times. :(

Posted by: severine at November 22, 2011 2:51 PM

God, I love that header pic of Hugh Grant. But when his movie stutter gets rolling I just want to punch him.

YOU DON'T STUTTER IN REAL LIFE! JUST FUCKING TALK NORMALLY YOU TEA-SIPPING JAGOFF!

Posted by: scorzi at November 22, 2011 2:54 PM

Unlike Hemmingway, Ron Swanson is not a misogynist. He is a feminist. And awesome.

Posted by: captainfireypants at November 22, 2011 2:54 PM

*Hemingway.

Posted by: captainfireypants at November 22, 2011 2:55 PM

I understand by her outrage and use of caps that this is apparently not the case, but I've always thought that what Mrs. Julien is talking about was pretty standard parenting fare. I know parents who carry wooden spoons in their purses for just such an occasion. I live in south Alabama, though, so I may be wrong. We can be pretty fucked up down here sometimes.

Posted by: hiphope at November 22, 2011 3:02 PM

Stunned disbelief mostly.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 22, 2011 3:10 PM

Mickey Rourke is a douche with a capital Q.

And that goes double for that woman who carries her whoopin' stick in her purse.

Posted by: Captain Tuttle at November 22, 2011 3:13 PM

If drowning my sorrows in pancakes won’t do, maybe I’ll try this hyper scary HR Giger bar in Switzerland.


I hope it's called the Spinal Tap.

Posted by: Lauren at November 22, 2011 3:53 PM

I grew up with "Go cut me a switch!" being the final utterance of those adults who would never strike me with anything, ever. But I still cut those switches....
As a parent, I do not strike or threaten to strike my children and generally find that those who do have very poorly behaved children. Sorry, but true. Having a stick to beat your children with is awful. Having them decorate it is barbaric.

Posted by: Agogagogo at November 22, 2011 4:11 PM

"What, Depp -- no daughter to duet with?"

Stevil, That. Was. Funny.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 22, 2011 4:13 PM


Oh, gross. Bella's dress looks like something a Telenovela heroine would've worn in 1982. To her first wedding, which of course wouldn't be to the love of her life but to the eeeevilly handsome Ernesto, who conned her into marrying him by telling her that her real love, Esteban, had slept with her deadly enemy Maria Escorpiona (but she really just drugged him and then told everyone they Did the Deed) and got her pregnant but the baby is really Ernesto's, but anyway Maria Santa (the heroine) would have worn this plus a veil made with pink and white taffeta and full crimped hair and some seriously huge pink earrings.

My point is: That shit is fug.

Posted by: figgy at November 22, 2011 5:23 PM

"My point is: That shit is fug."

Agreed. But not as fug as the see-through corsets they're selling as wedding couture these days. F**k You Pnina Torne.

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 22, 2011 6:01 PM

I'm just so happy that sleeves are back. I guess the British royal family is good for something after all.

My favourite Pnina Torne thing is that the women trying them on always describe them as "elegant or classy" when really the dresses put the slut in Cinderella. "I need something a show girl would find over-the-top. Something that SCREAMS I have more money than taste, but mostly that I have more money. Something slitty, something slutty, something with crystals on my butt-y."

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 22, 2011 6:46 PM

"Something slitty, something slutty, something with crystals on my butt-y."

{CLUTCHES PEARLS}

Mrs. Julien! I think that legitimately qualifies as vulgar. (My mother's favorite word for anything she disapproves of.)

Posted by: MM at November 22, 2011 6:55 PM

It's a lift from Will and Grace, but I took out the word that rhymes with slitty.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 22, 2011 7:09 PM

It's so true. The second a bride tells the consultant she wants something "classy", Mr. PaddyDog says "get ready for the parade of street corner attire."

Posted by: PaddyDog at November 22, 2011 7:41 PM

Shitty? Clitty? Titty? The mind, it reels...

Posted by: MM at November 22, 2011 7:49 PM

"Supplemental Witness Statement of Hugh Grant"

There's a collection of words I never thought I'd read.

And yeah, I haven't noticed that children whose parents hit them are particularly well-behaved. The spanking (or whatever people want to call it) seems to be what some parents do to convince themselves they're actually competent at parenting. They are, almost without exception, wrong about that. These people's belief that hitting their kids is some kind of magical force that results in well-behaved children is amusing to me. Because I'm mean. I should find it sad, I guess, but mostly I just think it's funny. What's really funny is that these people often don't pay attention to their kids until the kid does something annoying enough to inspire the spanking threat. Which makes no fucking sense. But try telling that to one of these dipshits and they'll go off about how kids are coddled and the answer to all our social ills is to go back to spanking, in tones that imply that they think they're some kind of kid whisperer whose children always toe the line, despite copious evidence to the contrary. Trying to tell stupid people that they're stupid is pointless.

Posted by: Slash at November 22, 2011 8:02 PM

Check out the Watson family evidence today at the Leverson inquiry with respect to to persecution they endured from articles written in Marie Claire and the Glasgow Herald.

Apparently you can't defame the dead, so the family couldn't do anything legally about their murdered daughter being accused of being a bully.

They lost their daughter and then they lost their son. :(

Posted by: noo at November 22, 2011 11:30 PM

I've never seen Total Recall. And, now, I don't ever have to.

Posted by: Jelinas at November 23, 2011 1:29 AM

The Giger Bar is across the road from the HR Giger Museum and is a fantastic place to sip a beer and watch people as they walk in (and often turn around and walk right out). One of my favorite places in Switzerland!

Posted by: brite at November 23, 2011 4:53 AM

It's a lift from Will and Grace, but I took out the word that rhymes with slitty.

Is it "biddy," as in "something to rile the biddies who feel the need to call women who dress inappropriately sluts and prostitutes"?

Horrible taste? Obviously. Likely over-the-top exhibitionism? Yes. But leave the slut-shaming out of it.

Posted by: Jast at November 23, 2011 8:59 AM

Would you prefer the term whorewear? How about prostitogs?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2011 10:33 AM

I'm sure you have a whole host of sexually-derisive punjoratives on hand. Brava?

Posted by: Jast at November 23, 2011 10:53 AM

Stop trying to make me think, Jast! It's a long weekend and I have pies to eat.

FINE! I'll think about it, but before I start, can "punjorative" be my new pajibanym?

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 23, 2011 11:15 AM