Stuff.

[camrogers]

At first glance: cheesy. In aggregate: brilliant. Gives Me Hope.

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Completely artificial French popstar Josh Gosfield. Gibson says she looks the way he always imagined Molly Millions. Now that he mentions it, same here pretty much. I never, ever, ever imagined her as Liv Tyler. Or Haydn Christiansen as Case. Was hoping this latest attempt at filming Neuromancer had been stillborn like the others. Looks like not. Might pretend it was. For the rest of my life.

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Russian kid killed by exploding chewing gum. After dipping it in explosive.

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Of interest to the web-savvy and those who admire them: 10 Web Trends to Watch in 2010.

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First audiences rave about Avatar. Fingers crossed. What I find telling is the one viewer toward the end who comments that he'll probably like it less once he has time to think about it, but loves it now. Which is what happened with Episode One. Test audiences - high on the sense of having been taken to the bosom of their idol and ambushed by camera crews - raved, only to find enthusiasm withering by the time they hit the car park.

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For a long time I've been interested in the historical truth behind the life of Jesus Christ, but never got around to properly reading Josephus or any other historian who was in the area at the time. Nonetheless, this article intrigued me and I'll get around to reading it when I've got the time.

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Josephus only mentions as an aside a person who might be the Yeshua ben Yosef we think of as Jesus Christ. He only mentions him three times. And the scholarship is pretty conclusive (outside of Xtian scholars) that at least two, and possibly all three, of those are later additions (an unkind person would say "forgeries"). No-one else contemporary mentions Yeshua.

Read Josephus. But don't read him for this.

[kalinichta.livejournal.com]

At first glance: cheesy. In aggregate: brilliant. Gives Me Hope.

I read about four pages of it this morning and was crying like a girl.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Test audiences - high on the sense of having been taken to the bosom of their idol and ambushed by camera crews - raved, only to find enthusiasm withering by the time they hit the car park.

The difference? Cameron is a director's director. His bad movies are few and far between. Even Titanic is a solid, enjoyable movie. I could live without ever having to see it again (maybe if Jack and Rose are cut down substantially) but it was not awful -- THAT song aside.

That said, he has not made that many movies.

Re: Neuromancer cast

[yamakasi.livejournal.com]

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