Tribeca Film Festival

Wish I could be there, but a new job keeps me from going to NYC. I'll have to live vicariously through some friends who saw this one Saturday... (also Tue 4/28, 4pm - Wed 4/29 & Sat 5/2, 6pm)

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This year's Fest includes 24 full-length comedies.
How do you like your laughs? Regular, or Dark?

COMEDY: (20)

City Island - USA, 2009
Easy Virtue - U.K., 2008
The Good Guy - USA, 2009
Guy & Madeline on a Park Bench - US
Here and There - 2009
In the Loop - U.K., 2008
Masquerades - 2008
A Matter of Size - Israel, 2009
Midgets Vs. Mascots - USA, 2008
My Last Five Girlfriends - U.K.
My Life in Ruins - 2009
North - Norway, 2008
Rudo y Cursi - 2008
Serious Moonlight USA
Stay Cool - USA, 2009
The Swimsuit Issue - Sweden, 2008
TiMER - USA, 2009
Vegas: Based on a True Story - USA
Whatever Works - USA, 2009
Wonderful World - USA, 2008

DARK COMEDY: (4)

Black Dynamite - USA, 2008
Don McKay - USA, 2009
Hysterical Psycho - USA, 2009
Original - Denmark, 2008

link: Tribeca Film Festival Guide

Lie To Me Today

Giving this new 'Lie To Me' show a test-run.

Jennifer Beals guest-stars as 'Zoe Landau', assistant U.S. attorney and the ex-wife of Dr. Cal (Tim Roth) the world's leading deception expert who studies involuntary body language to discover not only if someone is lying, but why.

Hm. JB is 5'11" in heels, and Roth is 5' 7".
This being American 'heightist' tv, want to bet they won't stand them side-by-side much?



{1 min} 'Lie to Me' airs Wed at 8 pm ET on Fox.
* I'm catching earlier eps on: FOX online TV.

House Payment

_{pic credit to www.whitemountainwheels.com}Beals (left) on 'The Book of Eli' set, Carrizozo, NM.*
Jennifer Beals once said she took some acting jobs 'to pay the mortgage'. Well, this post-apocalyptic movie where she plays a mom who's btw also a blind sex-slave?... smells like another 'house payment' movie to me. But then again, the script can't be worse than her last one, Sunday's TLW finale, can it?

Wait, maybe it could be worse. The script was by a rookie, who reviews video games & comics for a living. It got greenlit just because comic book movies are 'in' right now.

The rewrite? By A.Peckham, who's never had a successful film.
The directors? Have a rep for lousy female roles, ala 'American Pimp'
The premiere? Jan 2010, a January release = no faith in the movie
The verdict?... Only Denzel as the lead gives it a chance.


*near 'futuristic' old lava in Valley of Fires{4-min} park.

Slightly Spoiled

*Yes, I modified the photo to fit... my view of the show
Let us recap the S6 spoilers so far:

Kit will have that Prison Break guy swooning in drag.
Molly, Phyllis, and Jodi will appear in two eps each.
Eliz Berkley (boo!) and Alex Hedison (yeah!) will appear.
Papi returns from limbo, Lenore (Alice's Mom) does not.

Plus an 'online spin-off' starring an unknown cast mem?
Color me underwhelmed...

Who's got a babybump?...

*using bad 'shop to scare TWoPers since early '08

Mitchellplus reported back from the L convention that 'Helena' Rachel Shelley said that LuH was not pregnant... but nobody asked about JB. Perhaps they should have... but tis just a rumor so far.
So follow the Hitchhikers advice: 'Don't Panic'!

{credit for orig. photolink: bendrix731, thanks}

JB and AH go 'V'!

The Vagina Monologues took a road trip to New Orleans and some of TLW stars took part.

Jennifer Beals and Alexandra Hedison
in photo from the event, modified for Mama B. ;-)
*original photo credit to tibette.com

Since I know how annoying it is to try to locate an older post a few days past on TWoP... here're a few links to make it easier to find these again later. Thanks guys!

Link to tipper63's TWoP post about the event.

*credit for link below to eagle-eyed gotmilf, thanks!
Link to elizalou's blog with 'V to the Tenth' details.

jabkelly's youtube link to JB's 'moan' scene.
(via handheld at the event) Thanks jab!

*fyi: link below is R-rated

Real reason for Bette's tears

Bette's 510 fashion...

Lez Alert!
...Bette in RED FLANNEL*!

* The real reason she's crying in episode 510!

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Jenny & Niki in 510

the tent scene
*fyi: link below is R-rated material


This extended 'love scene' actually reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock.

He was once told he couldn't do a five minute love scene, that it would be 'too long' and he couldn't get away with it - audiences would find it too lengthy and squirm in their seats. Plus the studio execs and the 'standards board' would never go for it, etc.
His reply? 'I can if there's a bomb under the bed.'

That's exactly what this does... we've got the menace of Adele sitting in wait, plus everyone can guess that the camera = trouble.

So even people who don't find the scene hot still stay interested.

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Speaking of unexpected videos, here's another:

Jennifer Beals from the 1991 film "Blood and Concrete."
one girl in a million (3 minute video)

* What's up with...
the closed-lip liplock followed by roasting chicken?