Saturday, July 14, 2007

links for 2007-07-14

• How to make sexy buttons with CSS
  They're buttons! And they're sexy!
  (tags: css webdesign buttons)
• Playbill News: "Hairspray" Star Efron Will Be "Footloose" in Film Remake
  Plans are afoot to remake Footloose as "a full-blown musical" (perhaps a screen adaptation of the 1998 Broadway version?). Hmm...will our children be playing Six Degrees of Zac Efron?
  (tags: musicals movies)
• Opening Night: Xanadu Video Feature
  Xanadu on Broadway, with scrumptious Cheyenne Jackson? Can. Not. Wait.
  (tags: xanadu musicals broadway)
• Jim Hill : As "Tarzan" swings off Broadway, is Beyoncé getting ready to play Aida in Disney's next big movie musical?
  Disney is reported in talks with Beyonce to star in a movie adaptation of Aida.
  (tags: movies musicals broadway)

Cruising coming to DVD

As noted by Nightcharm, the 1980 William Friedkin travesty Cruising is going to be released on high-definition DVD this September, uncut (ahem) with restored unseen footage. (N.B.—that last link, in addition to featuring a lengthy consideration of the film and its attendant controversies, also features some naughty pictures of nekkid fellas.)

In the dawn-tinted Parthenon of awful gay movies, Cruising stands alone. It doesn’t merely backfire; it backfires brilliantly. ...

Cruising was certainly a shocker in its day. The 1980 thriller is set in the night-world of New York’s orgiastic backrooms, peepshows and open-air fuck-fests that ran 24/7 in the bushes of Central Park. A then hot and nasty Al Pacino goes undercover to attract a serial killer, decoying himself as a hungry bottom in wife-beaters and low-slung jeans. The killer, meanwhile, a lanky, long-torsoed lad whose face is always concealed, is shown tricking and then killing his bound-up S&M partners — a sort of buyer’s remorse we usually associate with the black widow spider — ever whispering in his victim’s ear the moronic catchphrase “You made me do that.”

Saturday, May 19, 2007

links for 2007-05-19

• YouTube - 100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers
  Count along with me...
  (tags: movies)

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Boy, finally

After about a million years (well, 12), the movie adaptation of Matthew Rettenmund's witty, sexy novel Boy Culture will open in March. Here's the official website and, naturally, Rettenmund's got a blog.

Derek Magyar, who geeks may remember as Kelby on Star Trek: Enterprise, is a great choice to play X, and Patrick Bauchau also as Gregory. Looking forward to this one.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

links for 2007-02-04

• Ultrasparky: My Time of Night
  It's Sparky after darky. (Nighttime in the city is my favorite too.)
  (tags: weblogcommunity)
• Super Bowl Ads: 2007 - IFILM
  iFilm posts (and previews) the commercials of the 2007 Super Bowl.
  (tags: superbowl advertising)
• On the Scene: Julie Andrews at the Spelling Bee
  When Julie Andrews (promoting Kids Night on Broadway) is called on stage at The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, what word do you suppose she was given to spell? Yep.
  (tags: broadway video)
• AMC Theatres: Best Picture Showcase
  Oh, this is most excellent. See all five Best Picture nominees for $30, including popcorn and all the soda pop you can drink. Who wants to come with me?
  (tags: movies oscars)

Monday, May 8, 2006

Imaginary prequel posters

• Woot : Winners' Gallery: Imaginary Prequel Posters
  Some nice ones here. I especially like "Extremely Low Barometric Pressure" and the prequel for "The Italian Job".
  (tags: movie poster parody)

Friday, July 3, 1998

Independence Day weekend notes

"Every moment, big or small, is of moment, after all. Seize the moment! Skies may fall any moment." — Into the Woods, Sondheim (natch!)

Looking for something? Old entries moved to the archive.

Looking for a quotable? Here's a nifty site to find wit and wisdom: Aphorisms Galore!

I guess when you're trying to take over the world, you try to make sure you have decent maps? Well, Microsoft is giving it a go, with what they claim is the world's largest image database. (The St. Louis maps are awfully outdated too, but real-time might be just a tad too scary.)

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss could either be really cute or mind-jammingly dumb. We shall see. Cute boys, though.

It's satire...for now. The Vatican may be rethinking its philosophy in hopes of gaining more lucrative market share. [or so sez The Onion]

I finally saw The Truman Show Wednesday night and really liked it. I probably would have liked it even more if I hadn't read so much of the advance press. Early reports revealed just a bit too much about the nuances of the production. Anyhow, The Atlantic Online has a clever take on the ersatz "protest" website that the studio put up to front it. [Atlantic Unbound]

OK, this is just weird: A social disease education site with a coffeehouse metaphor? Um...ick.

Allegations of on-set misconduct have grabbed the spotlight from what sounds like it might be a fairly credible Stephen King movie, Apt Pupil. But, quelle surprise, the whole affair may not hold much water. [LA New Times]

The boys' suits say that although they'd been promised their roles wouldn't involve nudity, once they entered the set, Singer and other crew members "commanded blaringly and screamingly" that they strip. The youths were then forced to stand naked for more than four hours as the cameras rolled and an "obviously homosexual" set photographer snapped pictures of them in "indecent positions," their lawsuits allege.

This one's for you, Jeff: Who needs the Drudge Report? When it comes to salacious gossip, no one tops (ahem!) Billy Masters. In the latest romp through the Hollywood gutter, he avers that E! talk hunk Steve Kmetko and Greg Lou(openly)ganis are gettin' serious.

Collectors, take note: After 45 years, TV Guide covers are a hot property. [New York Times]