Mr. Incredible in Fallujah: “Must… save… defenseless… kittens.”
“Paramount’s “Alfie,” a remake of a romantic comedy about a roguish womanizer starring Jude Law, opened to a dismal $6.5 million in more than 2,000 theaters, far below expectations… Wayne Llewellyn, the president of distribution at Paramount, said that the conservative ethos reflected in last week’s election results might have hurt the film.
“‘It could be the mood of the country right now,’ he said. ‘It seems to be the result of the election. Maybe they didn’t want to see a guy that slept around.'”
Disney and Pixar Score Again as ‘The Incredibles’ Opens Big, Sharon Waxman, The New York Times, Nov. 8, 2004.
Related: Weekend box office report
Month: November 2004
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God Is My Second Unit A.D.
Amazing Grace: Mel Gibson sees the light at the Catholics in Media Associates Awards Ceremony, Nov. 7, 2004
Election Night at MCCXXIII: Women are from red states, men are from blue.
Which might explain what’s happening next to the TV on the left.
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Digital Divide, 2004
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Got to Admit, It’s Getting Better
“They are cheap, easily concealed, small enough to hoist on a shoulder and can shoot a passenger jet out of the sky. And now, it appears, terrorists may have access to another 4,000 of them…”
More missiles for terrorists?, USA Today, Nov. 7, 2004
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Atlas Shrugged
We’re all tired. You earned your week off, Frank.
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Brooks in Paradise
David Brooks lectures his liberal colleagues among the “commentariat” today for fostering simplistic narratives about the slim majority that voted Republican last Tuesday. As Brooks explains, things are more nuanced: “there is an immense diversity of opinion within regions, towns and families,” he says, and “the values divide is a complex layering of conflicting views.”
So that means that grossly simplified socioeconomic stereotypes are not accurate or useful, and are, in fact, sloppy social analysis used by lazy journalists looking to make a buck? Talk about lowering the scales from our eyes! Thanks for disabusing us of our unsophisticated illusions, Mr. Brooks. Gee, I wonder where we ever got them in the first place…
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Team Zissou Meets the PLO
Yasser Arafat, world’s biggest Wes Anderson fan, prepares for the Life Aquatic marketing juggernaut.
[With apologies to Radosh who, unbeknownst to me, got there first.]
That time the Italian guy said something nasty to that black guy and then the black guy said something nasty back to the Italian guy and Colin was all like, “We just tell it like we see it, people.”
