January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
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“Gone are the designer brands, the six-inch heels and the glamour: Hannah, Marnie...”
– I’m all excited about Girls, the Lena Dunham-Judd Apatow collaboration.
November 2011
10 posts
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“Bella’s life-threatening pregnancy and desperate resolve to keep the baby...”
– Twilight Fades to Black
How I love pissing people off.
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October 2011
7 posts
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“This is Liam Hemsworth, and this is the expression he makes through 90 percent...”
– Fug the Fromage
I laughed all the way through this, only to remember at the end that Blue Feel Guy is going to be Gale Hawthorne. Which would make anyone instantly team Peeta, except Peeta Mellark is played by Josh Hutcherson. I’m quite sure I’ll sit through the whole franchise wishing Jennifer...
September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
16 posts
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“Forever is fantastic, emotionally honest, gripping and really good at showing us...”
– I’ve just finished reading Forever.
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Cha Cha and the bad girls
Annette Charles died yesterday. She was sixty-three. The name may not tell you much, but you will recognize this quote: “The best dancer in St. Bernadette… with the worst reputation”. Cha Cha Di Gregorio is gone, children. She will wave her skirt no more.
I’m not about to go off on one, here, but every time one of the old cast of Grease (the Randal Kleiser one, accept no...
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“Though slaves could not marry legally, they were allowed to do so by custom with...”
– Putting an Antebellum Myth to Rest
July 2011
19 posts
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For Amy →
Russell Brand knows a thing or two about addiction. And he knew Amy Winehouse well.
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The drugs don't work
Sometime in the mid-Eighties, Keith Richards ruined it all for us. For someone with twenty-plus years of drug abuse behind him (and more to come), Keef looked remarkably healthy. Somehow, the post-rock generation were left with the impression that drugs, while very, very bad, would not kill you after all.
Sure, there were exceptions over the years. Andrew Wood. Shannon Hoon. Layne Staley. For...
