** (2 stars out of 5) Daniel Craig. I liked this one better than most James Bond movies. To borrow from Led Zepplin, “Good guys, bad guys, you know I’ve had my share. Then a woman made off with a brown eyed Bond, but I still don’t seem to care.”
Have you ever see the Twilight Zone episode where the really friendly aliens visit earth? People love them, until someone translates one of their books, “How to Serve Man.” It seemed to make perfect sense as the aliens were so attentive and helpful to humans. But it turns out “How to Serve Man” is… a cookbook.
PENGUIN Group Australia turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has cost it dearly. The publishing company was forced to pulp and reprint 7000 copies of the Pasta Bible last week after a recipe called for “salt and freshly ground black people” — instead of pepper — to be added to the spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.
**** (4 stars out of 5) Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg. Based on the novel (autobiographical) by Jim Carroll (1949-2009). Jim Carroll is a promising young basketball player at a Catholic high school in 1960’s New York City. So much promise, so many, too many drugs.
***** (5 stars out of 5) Romanian movie about two young college girls, one helping her friend terminate a pregnancy. It’s 1980’s Soviet Bloc repression, abortions are illegal, and it’s not the wonderful world “pro-life” advocates would have you believe their actions will create. One of the best movies of the decade.
Tim Burton works on almost as many film projects that don’t get made, as the number of his films which are released. And that’s a lot. One of the more interesting was the adaption of Richard Brautigan’s “Hawkline Monster,” about two sisters who hire a couple of aging cowboys to take care of a monster living in their basement. Starring Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson.
1000 monkeys running loose on 3 acres. Fun for the entire family. What, they’re no longer in business?
**** (4 stars out of 5) Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin. Music by Michael Penn. Life, and what you have to do to get by. “Since 1963?” “It’s a business lie. It’s different than a life lie.”
Windows Mobile has added a new feature, the ability to receive messages from the future. Some smartphone users have been getting messages from the year 2016 since New Years Day. No word yet on any hot stock tips.
“I got a text from my girlfriend from the year 2016 … ,” wrote another. “Apparently in the future I still haven’t cleaned out the hallway closet.”
Letterheady has a collection of company and personal letterheads, ranging the boundaries between zen simplicity and the intricately ornate. I really appreciate that someone named their company “Robot Salesmen, Ltd.” Limited, presumably, due to the lack of any robot inventory back in the day when this letterhead was in use. All the better.
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