Thursday specials:
PRAY FOR AURALIA AND ME
I’d appreciate your prayers. It’s not a crisis, but in the story of my life, it’s a big deal. For the next four days, I will be putting the finishing touches on my novel Auralia’s Colors and sending it in to the publisher. By “finishing touches,” I mean I’ll be making the last changes before the editors mark it up and send me things that they think need changing. So there’s still a long way to go. But this is quite a landmark for me, and suddenly I have the urge to start over at Page One and rewrite the whole bloody thing. (I started writing this book in 1996. Auralia is 10 years old this summer.) Please pray for peace and quiet at Overstreet Headquarters, for clear-thinking, imagination, and a sense of contentment with what I turn in. Maybe this is what parents feel like when they finally send their kid to college: We did what we could, we probably could have done better, but there she goes, out on her own…
MY BAD.
I don’t like posting rumors. For some reason, I posted the one about David Duchovny playing The Hulk. Turns out it was a false report. Sorry. I’m usually more careful. Please, Duchovny fans, really, stop crying.
MAN IN TIGHTS
Excited about Bryan Singer’s Superman film? Take a look at these pics. More excited now?
BENICIO
Excited about Benicio Del Toro playing Che Guevara? Take a look at this pic. More excited now?
WHIT’S UP?
What’s Whit Stillman, director of The Last Days of Disco, Barcelona, and Metropolitan, been up to? He’s been writing.
GONDRY TALKS
Michel Gondry has directed Dave Chappelle’s hip-hop concert movie.
ANOTHER MOVIE ABOUT MISSIONARIES AND CULTURE CLASHES
Peter T. Chattaway notes the upcoming film from the maker of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. This one’s about shamans and missionaries.
Still appears that the actor playing Superman just does not fit casting. I can’t look at this guy and think he’s Superman. It’s always, “Who is this guy in Superman’s tights?” Truly awful.
Kevin Spacey looks good as Lex Luthor though. I have high hopes in Bryan Singer.
Have to disagree about Spacey – he just looks like his “Dr Evil” cameo in Austin Powers 3.
Metropolitan on DVD! On Criterion DVD! [does the dance of joy]. Now where’s The Last Days of Disco?
“Excited about Bryan Singer’s Superman film?”
Very. I think Routh looks great. Remember, this film is a sequel to the first 2 Richard Donner films (Singer has totally, & rightly, ignored the final 2). I think the design I’ve seen so far works beautifully with the earlier films.
As far as comic book movies go, I’ll definitely see Superman before I see X3!
Remember, this film is a sequel to the first 2 Richard Donner films . . .
You mean, it’s a sequel to the Richard Donner-directed version of Superman 2 that was never finished, rather htan the Richard Lester-directed version that was finished?