Posted on Feb 07, 2010 under Musings |
Even though I pretty much picked every Oscar win completely wrong, I’m going to go ahead and shoot out some predictions for this year’s Academy Awards.
Best Picture–The Hurt Locker
Best Actor–Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
Best Actress–Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Best Supporting Actor–Christopher Waltz in Inglorious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress–Mo’Nique in Precious
Best Director–Katheryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Animated Film–The Princess and the Frog
Best Documentary–Food, Inc.
Best Song–Almost There from The Princess and the Frog
Best Score–James Horner for Avatar
Best Screen Play–Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker
Best Adapted Screen Play–Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious
Posted on Feb 01, 2010 under Musings |
I’m an idiot! It was not page 197, it was page 106, thanks to CC for pointing out my error. Ironically, I had just gotten to that part of the book last night and the first thought I had was “Well crap! I just put up a post that makes me look even more ignorant than usual”. “Low self esteem? No. Why do ask?” Oh well, life goes on right?
Posted on Jan 31, 2010 under Musings |
I don’t know how many of you are fans of the show Castle staring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, but I am a big fan. One of the interesting tie ins of the show is the book Heat Wave, “written” by Filion’s character on the show. Here’s where it gets interesting to me, the book is supposedly the same one that the TV character was working on in the first season. It came out in stores about the same time the second season started and all of the characters talk about it in the early episodes. Here comes the big joke. Several characters mention an extremely steamy sex scene on page 197. Now I did not buy the book (I’m not that big a fan), but I recently was able to get it out of the library (I had been 46 out of 89 hold requests). Being curious, and a guy, I flipped to the afore mentioned page and guess what, the book ends on page 196 with the characters heading for the lead character’s apartment to spend the night together. Denied!!!! I think that is the greatest and funniest fake out ever done with a piece of tie in merchandise. Kudos to you ABC!
