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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hits theaters in about a month, and it looks like the filmmakers want to keep on track to release Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix November of ‘06 (oddly, IMDB lists the movie’s release date as sometime in ‘07).
AICN posted some casting news today - this woman as the bitch-witch Dolores Umbridge. In an interview, Imelda Staunton said she would begin filming in January.
Neat-o!
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You scored as CPO Galen Tyrol. You never wanted to be a glamourous Viper pilot. You are happy knowing that without you to fix their birds, they cannot fly. You fell in love with the wrong girl, but is that so wrong? Maybe, but you don’t really care.
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Apparently I have two sets of new neighbors, as this guy I didn’t recognize went up the stairs the other day, leading his pooch. Okay, I did a double take at that. Pooch? Why the eff is there a fuckin’ dog in the building?
Unless HW got a lot more friendly about their dog policy, they’re still a “no dog” landlord. I’m certainly not going to tell on this guy, don’t much care for my landlord, I just wonder how he’s thinking to get away with it. Ain’t like we don’t have maintenance guys making fairly regular stops here trying to fix the security door or what else.
Good luck, neighbor.
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Speaking of canines, I moved out of the Colony, coincidently, the same year they ended their acceptance of pets — no new tenents would be permitted to have cats or dogs. The incident in mind occured about a year before I moved out (summer ‘00). I was watching tv in the living room. The sliding glass door was open and both cats were sitting in front of the screen door watching people walk past our porch. Another college kid with a big ugly dog walked past. BUD saw cats. BUD attacked. His owner restrained BUD before it could break through the screen door, but I was just looking at Guy and Tippy in amazement - they didn’t break and run. They backed up a bit, stood their ground, and just hissed until BUD was dragged away and his owner called a hurried apology over his shoulder.
Guard Cats!
If there’s one thing that makes traffic worse in Hunt Valley — well, Phoenix/Jacksonville, too — it’s the effin’ rain. Why does it have to rain on Friday? Why?
There’s this bi-weekly contest at work. The way it works is the employee who takes a certain number of phone orders who has the highest sales average “wins” a cash bonus ($25) in his or her next paycheck.
Saturday night, A. was in the lead. When the contest ended on Sunday, I was the winner. I’ll make no qualms about it - I needed to take nine phone orders when I came in on Sunday to meet the minimum required to be elgible. I took ten. Fortunatly for me, people order big on Sunday, and when you’ve only got forty-one orders total, several plus-$60 totals really hike your average.
So, I ended that Sunday night proud of my hard fought victory.
Well, until A.’s boyfriend - Steve the store manager - DQed me on some BS technicality … seems “someone” was using other employees’ ID numbers to ring up orders on Sunday (doing this could lower one’s sales average). Since guess who had the highest average, guess who got the blame? It’s horseshit, my average after Sunday night still creamed anyone’s post-Saturday average. (Steve also raised the minimum orders for drivers from forty — I had forty-one — to fifty). So I got DQed for that contest, and DQed for the next.
Whatever, Steve wants to get laid and the best way to do that is make sure A. gets her twenty-five bucks. You’d think he’d at least get Greg to make the ruling to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Alternate Title: The Guy Ritchie Aesthetic
One of my not-so-un-recent Netflix picks was a movie with a preview for this. Preview looked good so I stuck the film to the top of my queue. It’s a movie about a bunch of British gangsters involved in the drug trade. Let’s talk about what this movie has going for it - namely, the cast. Led by the new James Bond and current temporary Baltimorean Daniel Craig, the cast also boasts Star Trek’s Colm Meaney, George Harris, Sienna Miller and Michael Gambon.
Okay, well, that’s about all of the good. Oh, well, Sienna Miller in various stages of undress. Always excellent.
Now, let’s talk about what the movie lacks. First, it’s directed by Mathew Vaughn, who I’ve never heard of. He’s clearly trying to go for the Guy Ritchie aesthetic, in my opinion, but the script is a jumbled mess and that doesn’t flow and is difficult (if not impossible) to follow. The surprise ending is pointless, but maybe that was the point. He’s going for the whole “artsy” thing but in doing so completely ruining what might otherwise have been a decent crime flick.
Long story short - Sienna Miller nearly darn naked? Excellent. Still doesn’t give me back those two hours of my life, nosir.
If you asked me to define the Guy Ritchie aesthetic, I think I would be hard pressed to do so. There’s a certain Altman quality to it, a smoothness of script, and of course a bunch of folks with difficult to understand accents. Oh, also? Guns. Lots of guns.
Me? I’ve got the overwhelming urge to watch “Snatch”, argueably the best caper film set in England made in the last five years. And hey, if you’re going to watch a film with a Guy Ritchie aesthetic, you might as well watch one by the man himself, right?
Except, not this one.