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trailers

New favorite trailers of the moment: Blind Date, The Blind Side (noticing a theme yet?), The Boys are Back, Whip It, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Where the Wild Things Are, and, of course, New Moon (I don't think the trailer is that good, but who am I kidding, I'll be at the midnight screening with my girlfriends by my side).

The trailers for The Blind Side and The Boys are Back give me goosebumps and almost make me tear up every time I watch them. Good sign? Bad sign?

I'm also a little intrigued by The Box. I'm curious to see what reviews say closer to the release date.

As for Peter and Vandy, I'm curious if this will be different than (500) Days of Summer. It doesn't seem to have the wit of Summer, but who knows ...

And this featurette for The Fantastic Mr. Fox is delightful. Wes Anderson meets Roald Dahl. Why didn't anyone think of that before?

a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing ...

Enjoy!

FAME! (the music video)

In EW.com's informal poll, 68 percent of PopWatch readers voted that the film should be no more than 30 percent actual dialogue. Thank you, informal poll, for restoring some of my faith in the movie-going public and/or those that read EW.com.

Mandi Bierly at EW.com (yes, I still know my favorite critics/columnist by name - it's lame, I know) has been blogging about her waning desire to see Fame. Basically, the more they release trailers and music videos without showing anything new, the less excited Mandi and I are about Fame's impending release. Don't get me wrong -- I'll be there opening weekend with bells on. But I am more trepidatious than I was two months ago about this particular remake.

That being said, a small part of me did squeee when a dancer jumped up onto one of the cars in the street (check out the trailer).

in honor of Kelsey's mother who often says "Nevermind"

Margaret and Helen

My boss MK introduced my office to Margaret and Helen a few weeks ago. I subscribed to them on my Google reader and read through a great deal of their blog and laughed and laughed and laughed.

Politics aside, the fiestiness of these women is endearing and hysterical. Margaret doesn't like Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann, but most of all she doesn't like stupid (her definition, of course) and she's willing to call out almost anyone she thinks is acting stupid.

Margaret, who writes less often than Helen, posted this in July after Walter Cronkite died: "Helen, dear, we can certainly agree on one thing for sure. Walter Cronkite was a very sexy man. I tell you, he was the Anderson Cooper of his day. He could melt my butter each and every evening. He could toast my bread on both sides. He could float my boat, row it out to sea, and wait for it to return with the tide any day of the week. Although, I’m not quite sure what that means, I do know that Walter Cronkite was a real man. And, my dear Helen, that’s the way it is…"

My co-workers and I were almost literally on the floor laughing about that one. I thought one of us might literally bust a gut.

But then Margaret and Helen were silent for 3 weeks.

And then they posted again and I was again reminded of their brilliant humor when I saw this picture again after an absence of almost a month.

When I am 80 years old, I hope that I can still get in my hoveround and take a cruise with my best girlfriends. "I mean it. Really."

Why I love Congressman Anthony Weiner aka A Public Option

Finally someone who doesn't mince words and speaks to the heart of the matter. I love this man:

Rep. Anthony Weiner on MSNBC's Morning Joe

listening to Joe Scarborough talk makes my ears bleed, but that's beside the point because he barely speaks in this interview. Either because he A) is just "so dumbfounded by [his] question" or B) he doesn't have a (expletive deleted) answer because private healthcare companies provide absolutely nothing to our society.

and then there was that time that Rep. Weiner took on Ms. Bartiromo on MSNBC