eye candy

[malsperanza]

I wonder just how many marketing executives at WB lost their jobs when someone finally noticed that they had scheduled the release of the biggest kids' movie of the year on the same day as the new HP book. So much for weekend box office.

So, in solidarity with the struggling commercial film industry, while the rest of the world is standing in line to buy (gasp) a book, I am looking forward to an evening watching Jack Sparrow and Saruman Johnny Depp & friends eat candy.

Here's a gem from today's NY Times review by A.O. Scott:

"There has already been some debate about possible real-life models for Wonka. ... Mr. Depp, in a recent interview, has dropped the name of the Vogue editor Anna Wintour. To me, the lilting, curiously accented voice sounded like an unholy mash-up of Mr. Rogers and Truman Capote..."

Anna Wintour in drag! Yes! *pumps fist*

Comments

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

I know some who are doing both- I'm tempted to be one of them, in fact. Just the pictures of Johnny in that outfit make me squee.

I'm picking up my book at 82nd & B'way- drop by if you've a mind!

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

I wonder just how many marketing executives at WB lost their jobs when someone finally noticed that they had scheduled the release of the biggest kids' movie of the year on the same day as the new HP book. So much for weekend box office.

I read an article about this via one of the feeds at Yahoo! News last week, and the majority of the article was dedicated to some entertainment exec insisting that the book and the movie appeal to audiences for completely different reasons, and that he can't imagine how the reading of a book would stop people from taking two hours out to go to a movie, and that truly, there was no competition at all.

Uh huh. It will be interesting to see if he's right. I know I'm perfectly happy putting off seeing the movie until the week of the 25th (when my son and I will be with my sister and her kids, who want to see it also) because I'm going to reading this weekend.