I remember seeing this movie years ago when I was a kid and needless to say at that time it really freaked me out. This movie is very entertaining but not for the young.
This classic Clint Eastwood movie teams him with Don Siegel (Dirty Harry) for another fruitful exploration of the male psyche. Eastwood, wounded in the Civil War, wakes up in a hospital filled with beautiful women. This paradise quickly turns dangerous, as Eastwood's lust backfires on him. A great, fun movie that explores sexual politics while cranking up the action and suspense. Eastwood at his best!
Based on a true story, this new film by writer-director Nora Ephron is her adaptation of two best selling books. One book is My Life In France by Julia Childs and the other is Julie & Julia by Julie Powell. Based on two true stories, 'Julie & Julia' intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Meryl Streep once again gives an amazing performance, this time as Julia Childs, known on television as "The French Chef" even though she wasn't French.
The film is slated to hit theaters on August 7, 2009.
I actually met her about a year before her death when she visited the Buffet at Bellagio in Las Vegas. There are more photos of Streep and Adams after the video.
Those words were uttered by Reverend Al Sharpton in a first season episode of "Boston Legal". He was making that statement in relation to a case in which a young black girl was turned down for the role of "Annie". I thought at the time that I watched the show that it was a ridiculous statement because everyone knows that Spiderman is a young white All-American boy.
Or so I thought. I found this trailer on Joost.Com that comes by way of Marvel, the creators and owners of Spiderman. Is this a video of a black Spiderman? Of course not. What it is, is a Japanese Spiderman TV show that comes across as a mix of Spiderman, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Godzilla, and Transformers. Talk about originality (or lack thereof)!
At least the trailer is funny enough to watch for a couple of minutes. Take a look:
This version of the famous web-slinging hero was part of a deal that Marvel made with Toei, namely that for a four-year period, Toei could use Marvel's characters in any way they saw fit. So in 1978, a Spider-Man tokusatsu series was produced for Japanese television by Toei Company Ltd. While Spider-Man's costume was certainly based on the original, the storyline had nothing to do with the Marvel character. The series had a major impact on other Japanese live-action shows, and in particular the Super Sentai series which would later be adapted for American viewers as the Power Rangers, by popularizing the use of piloted giant robots to destroy giant monsters.
So now, it seems to me that if there could be a Japanese Spiderman 30 years ago, certainly we could create a black Spiderman now. If Marvel can place Barack Obama in an issue of Spiderman, certainly they could create an alternate Spiderman in which the character of Spiderman is an African-American. What are your thoughts on this?
If you are interested in watching full length episodes, Marvel.Com is posting one new episode each week at their website. You can go there by clicking here.
To get you started, here is episode one in it's entirety:
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