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That's right; if you read books from the twenties you can tell that mass consumerism was an issue then as well, and people were concerned about it. See everyone from Sinclair Lewis to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Thorne Smith. After 9/11 the President told everyone to go forth and spend. Alan Greenspan declared that the new debt vehicles were perfectly safe. Dick Cheney said that conservation was no...
Alfred Nobel father of the Nobel Prize in literature invented dynamite. And this past week, the top member of the jury in that competition lit a few fuses and set off some charges. Horace Engdahl said American writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture" and that drags down the quality of their writing. He added that the "ignorance" of American writers is "restraining."
Keira Knightley "enjoys" swearing. The 23-year-old star - who claims she doesn't drink, take drugs or smoke - revealed she picked up her only bad habit from her mother, playwright Sharman McDonald.
I am too tired and allergy-ish today to write a real post, but I promise y’all that I have been jotting down ideas on a post-it note (a flourescent pink one at that!). In the meantime, I am stealing and idea from one of my favoritest bloggers of all time, Flurrious. Flurrious took the list [...]
If you would have told me several years ago that David Fincher would direct a bona fide "Christmas movie," I would have thought you were straight-up mad. And I had my initial doubts that he would be able to do much with F. Scott Fitzgerald's odd tale "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," about a man (Brad Pitt) who ages in reverse through the Twentieth Century. Judging from everything I've seen, however,...
Ever wonder what Brad Pitt looks like as an old man? For his new role in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Brad plays Benjamin, a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards. The film, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in New Orleans, the film charts Benjamin’s journey [...]
Back in 1976 the young Robert De Niro, at the height of his powers, appeared in a restrained classic movie about moviemaking, The Last Tycoon. Based on the final, unfinished novel by one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald – a man with a strong Hollywood track record of his own – it revolved around a workaholic Hollywood hotshot producer and his efforts to...
A new trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is online. It stars Brad Pitt as a man who is born old and gradually begins aging backwards. It's an adaptation of F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel. The trailer looks interesting. Definitely one I'll be checking out....Visit Filmstalker for the full story. Restricted feeds to protect content.
There's a new trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button that's playing in front of Eagle Eye this weekend. We already featured a TV spot earlier today, but this looks so much better. I don't know what it is this week, but we've seen so many amazing trailers, and this is yet another one for you to feast your eyes upon. This trailer finally has some dialogue in addition to amazing...
Paramount debuted a new full length TV spot for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button way back during the Olympics that just now made its way online. If you thought the first teaser trailer for Benjamin Button was breathtaking, then just wait until you see this. It presents the film in a whole new light - we finally get some dialogue, and we finally get to see the humorous undertones...
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." ---F. Scott Fitzgerald in “The Rich Boy,” 1926 The Swiss clockmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre is coming out with a watch with a touchscreen face. You press between...