Undeniable eloquence and straight talk reveal an unparalled mastery of Foreign Policy.

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.

New Kaufman film. Synecdoche, New York

New Charlie Kaufman film, his directorial debut and it is (as his work always is) indisputably intriguing.
Watch the trailer here
If you are not familiar with Kaufman, he wrote the following :
Being John Malkovich
Adaptation
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ghostbusters 3

More rumblings on a possible Ghostbusters 3 film. As you may or may not know, the writers have apparently been chosen, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky of the US version of The Office are going to give the script a go. Harold Ramis and Dan Akyroyd have both said they've been interested in possibly filming a third film to complete the series. Of course nobody mentions the one black Ghostbuster, Ernie Hudson aka Winston Zeddemore, but one would have to assume he wouldn't mind rocking the tan jump suit one more time. You know they didn't even put him on the front or back cover of the VHS for Ghostbusters 2. Do Ramis, Akyroyd and Reitman hate black people or was the omission due to something else, you be the judge. With that said, the one main piece of the puzzle that was unknown until today was the status of the man who seemed to be the most apprehensive, Peter Venkman himself, Billy Murray. During a Q&A at Fantastic Fest Murray was asked about his interest in doing another film and for the first time expressed excitement about the idea saying he'd heard that some writers from The Office were working on it and he'd "definitely be into doing another Ghostbusters movie." Lets hope they don't nuke the fridge on this one like Indy 4. Fingers crossed.

Tony Stark you will rue the day you stepped on my sneakers and didnt apologize.

If you read the graphic and vivid disappointment on my face you'd know that my powers have yet to manifest and therefore I am not currently labeled a 'superhero' by society or the media. Nor am I a billionaire with the technological know-how or appropriate connections to fight crime without certain genetic benefits or mutations. I don't have a last name that will ever be used as a fashionable first name ala Parker or Kent and despite the fact that I seek out accidents involving radioactive material it has yet to yield any positive effects. With all that said, the sticker to my right displaying the fact that 'I am a Superhero' is but a mere rouse, however the blog in which is it appropriately linked to is, about as close as a blog can get to being a Superhero. I don't know what that means but...its true nonetheless.

Look at Colbert's face and try not to laugh.
Glorious stuff.

Sarah, you Palin comparasion.

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

The fact that some Americans, lets not even touch on the majority, think this woman is qualified makes me want to twist my head around until it pops off, grab my spine like a balloon string and float skyward to spend the rest of my days living within the clouds with the cloud people.

Go to this link and vote and if you're voting yes, I would love to hear your logic behind that decision.

One the Road to be adapted by Walter Salles

Just came across this news, very interesting to me for a few reasons. The first being my surprise that it took Hollywood this long to get a green light on this adaptation and the second being that once it was, they gave a lesser known Brazilian director the reigns. Walter Salles directed The Motorcycle Diaries, a precise and expanding film that follows the early days of Ernesto 'che' Guevara on a motorcycle trip which leads him to find his true calling. This was also an adaption from a book of the same name and stayed very true to it from top to bottom, was executed with grace and respect and created a serene open air atmposhere that sculpted the tonality of the film flawlessly. The man knows what he's doing, however, On the Road is one of those books with such a cult following spanning many different generations and will, no doubt make for an extremely difficult transfer of essence to the screen without making some sacrifices and changes. It always a gamble to take classic novels and transpose them to create a visual component that comes from one minds interpretation of the work. However, in my opinion you could not ask for a better director to attempt the feat of capturing On the Road on the silver screen, I mean lets face it...this man knows road trips like Sarah Palin knows ice hockey. (Shouldn't she know foreign policy? Nah, Hockeys enough.)
Now the question of the casting, I remember reading about an On the Road film being made about 5 years ago with Brad Pitt to play Dean Moriarty; which obviously never happened. Still seemed like a solid choice for the cult hero. Really no matter who they do end up casting, its a risky move to attempt this film, but hey, The Spirit, Watchmen and Fahrenheit 451 are all being released within the next 2 years so...well see how they, and On the Road fare.