Women I Love
Due to production difficulties, Esquire was unable to fulfill the 2005 Calendar that was offered in my recent gift order. They enclosed a deck of Women We Love playing cards as a substitute. They hope the gift recipient (my brother) enjoys the subscription and that I enjoy the cards. They apologized for the inconvenience.These cards are great. These are 52 gorgeous ladies. For the record, the Queen of Hearts is Catherine Zeta-Jones, and the Aces are Britney Spears, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Lopez, and Pamela Anderson.
The Queen of Hearts should be Naomi Watts (9 of Spades,) and the Aces should be Amanda Peet (7 of Diamonds,) Debra Messing (3 of Hearts,) Kellita Smith (6 of Hearts,) and Leslie Mann (2 of Hearts.)
You can view the Women We Love Gallery and order the cards at www.esquire.com .
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"Sideways," the Official Movie of the Chris Moeller blog for 2004, is making most year-end top 10 lists. It's #8 on Roger Ebert's list. Ken Tucker, the former Entertainment Weekly TV critic, put it at the top of his list at New York Magazine.
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I've been a big supporter of St. Louis Rams football coach Mike Martz. As the architect of the Greatest Offensive Show on Turf, he had as much to do with the Super Bowl victory as Dick Vermeil. He turned a 5 win franchise into a 10 win franchise. But it's time for Mike to show his mettle. The NFC has fallen over itself to keep the Rams in the playoff race, yet they've been the worst team in football since the crops came in.
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I saw "Ray" this weekend. The music was phenomenal, Jamie Foxx was astonishing, and it was great to see the usually noble Regina King play a heroin addict. The rest of the movie, though, was painfully conventional.
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The "Anchorman" DVD drops December 28th. That was some funny shit. I'm going to rent it for the maximum five days, and keep it for a minimum of seven.
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Baltimore Orioles' fans are going to love Steve Kline.
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I think Goldie Hawn is a big talent.
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I stole that last one from Larry King's old USA Today column.
posted by CM @ 10:41 PM
4 Comments:
"Painfully conventional" seems like an overstatement for the movie Ray. I enjoyed it for the same reasons you stated but had no problem that it followed the "rules" of most biopic narratives. Since a person's life doesn't normally build to a "climax" the way movies are intended to, I don't ask that of the movies. I found the events of his life sufficiently dramatized but was admittedly there to hear the music in a unique visual context. Other directors may have tried a riskier story structure and dropped the ball by moving the focus from the subject to their own ego. Not all movies aspire to do be the same thing, though most critics reveal their own ideas, preferences and biases.
The woman who played Ray's wife should be in your Esquire deck of cards.
The movie is always about the director, whether we like it or not.
Maybe, but then the directors who make the greatest effort to keep their film "about" the subject should get credit where it's due. This was a great film about music.
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