I Am Link

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--- Fish Bait - A full cast-list for the Piranha 3D sequel, awesomely titled Piranha 3DD, is up at STYD - making us happy is the presence of Kaboom hot-ass Chris Zylka. He is well-known and well-loved for taking off his clothes and looking very swell doing so, so I hope they take full advantage of this fact in glorious 3D.

--- Foster Contempt - I don't give a flying fuck about Jodie Foster's new movie The Beaver or Mel Gibson's supposed career-best performance in it, he can go fuck himself forever and get out of my face. And Jodie's pissing me off with her defense of him, which is making me feel conflicted because she's in two movies coming up that I am very much looking forward to - Roman Polanski's adaptation of the play God of Carnage with Kate Winslet, and Neil Blomkamp's follow-up to District 9, Elysium. Regarding the latter, there's a little bit of info on it in this interview with Jodie at the LAT, where she talks a bunch about that Mel bullshit which I started this paragraph off with. Bringing it full circle.

--- Summer of Anna - Mark at The Critical Condition wrote up some thoughts on female representation and Anna Faris that the trailer for her new movie, which we linked to this morning, got him thinking about. I guess there's a big article about her in the most recent issue of The New Yorker? I have to get my hands upon it now!

--- See Tight - BD has got the subtitled trailer for Sleep Tight, the next movie from [REC] co-creator Jaume Balagueró.

--- Get Loud - Did anybody watch the 70s doc An American Family on PBS this weekend? I caught a couple hours of it and found it completely engrossing. FourFour's Rich has got the gay son Lance Loud on his mind and wrote up some thoughts. Loved this:

"I watch him in action, being his big, floppy, gay self and I'm amazed at his courage. My views on gay representation have changed considerably over the years -- I used to think that we needed as many traditionally masculine gay guys in the spotlight to show society that we aren't all freaks...and then I thought about it, and came to the conclusion of: fuck that. Obviously, everyone should be who they are, but there's not a greater need for one type of gay over others. Why bend to expectations? At times, nothing is more confrontational than a faggot. In a way, exhibiting that without reservation requires so much courage, it's butch."

--- Don't Hate The Playa - Two more Tributes have been cast in The Hunger Games movie, but they're the Tributes from District 3 that don't even get names. The boy will be played by one Ian Nelson (no credits on IMDb yet) and the girl will be played by one Kalia Prescott (she did stunts for the still unreleased Red Dawn remake and was an uncredited classmate of Max's in Where the Wild Things Are!). Anyway I don't think they play a very big part in the goings-on, from what I foggily recall.

--- And finally, here's Michael Chabon talking about The Phantom Tollbooth. Perfect lunchtime reading!
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