Kirsten Dunst @ MindSay

I just heard rumors that 5 million ppl checked into rehab, including Eva Mendes. But the big news is that Kirsten Dunst is going:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN0741119120080207

So many actors, never know what is up with them. I just heard that Britney was on meth, but couldn't confirm it but then I heard it somewhere else. I guess that is the new rumor. Just spent like 20 mins. on TMZ.com but they had no reports of Kirsten...it's because she went to Utah I guess (same center that Lindsay Lohan went to - maybe she heard the guys were hot there or something - that's how LL found her boyfriend but he's already been dumped).

Opinion first: when a writer of film maker chooses a real life individual they should not change the facts of their life. Certainly they can elect to focus on only a portion of the person’s life, but they can not eliminate spouses, change the age at which  things happened, introduce characters who were not born yet or who have already died. If they want to play loose with history don’t adopt the actual person as the focus of the movie.

 

Hence Marie Antoinette by the little Coppola is not only historically bad, it is slow, empty and a tableau of lovely images. And we can thank the set designers costumers lighting crew and DP  for that.  I’d also like to point out that Kirsten Dunst or her body double has major saddle bags.

   

Facts Next: it is ant invasion time and every morning I have to battle them at the entrance from the lower deck to the kitchen --- it is daily because I won’t use chemicals toxic to humans or cats, just toxic to ants and it doesn’t last very long.

 

The pond is progressing nicely. The two waterfalls are built and Jim has grouted the rock wall so the water goes where he wants it to go. Maybe by the middle of next  week we can start adding plantings.

 

I moved moss and sedums and Monday I will experiment with the yogurt moss mixture I read about in Martha Stewart’s Living. Wish me luck.

 

Oh more fact and opinion….My neighbors own two cats who are never let inside and since there are coyotes in the preserve a half block away the cats have taken to hovering in a corner of their back stairs and crying all day. Just more grist for the “can’t stand ‘em - why did they move in mill.?”

 

I mean it is spring and all the other neighbors have come out of hibernation and I have yet to see them use their cement and bark back yard- despite a huge grill  sitting out there on a cement pad. They could be living in anywhere Oregon and instead they have to fuck up the street with their crowded little house and vehicles and ABSOLUTELY NO LANDSCAPING. Sorry for being so adamant. I wish my Alabama friend with the gun would come and scare the shit out of them. Oops not really.  ( and if she reads this I strongly suggest she start a blog)

 

And I have become a big fan of the sopranos. As it gets ready to end I am finally watching season one. It’s terrific and I have a major crush on Dr Melfi.

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About two weeks ago, I attended this writer's night thing that this guy I knew was trying to put together. I figured that it would be a good chance to get feedback and interact with other writers, so I wouldn't loose touch with the world. I've been wanting to talk about this for awhile, because this seems like the latest thing in L.A.  The writers there wouldn't shut up about how TV is becoming more interesting and better than movies. What bugs me about TV is that a show can be full of interesting jokes. Throughout the season there can be interesting character development, but after 5 or 6 years one can get very tired of the show.  Whereas a movie is made up of moments that amount to one and a half to two hours (usually) and you can go home with a smile on your face thinking of the brief glimpse you caught of someone else's world.  There is no next week's show to get mad if you miss it.  Hopefully, there will be no second-rate sequel.  It seems ideal.

For me, TV is meaningless and stupid.  The writers can often get stuck or create very tacky plots and sub-plots.  You are forced to watch commercials that want you to buy meaningless junk. Even if you have Tivo, you still have to fast-forward through them.

Anyway, I got very upset at the idea that someone actually thought TV could be better than the movies.  Writers for TV usually have to write very fast as there are so many episodes and looming deadlines. Whereas, movies are usually thought out better, because they take about one-three years to develop a script depending on the circumstances. I'm sure the very best TV shows hold up much better than say the very worst movies, but that is just very disappointing.

So tonight, I went to a grocery store where stars are spotted pretty often. I was on my way home from a movie.  I had been to this store before, but had never spotted anyone famous or nearly famous. Then again, I am not very good at spotting celebrities unless there is someone on the loudspeak saying "George Clooney is on aisle 7." Anyway, I did see a very interesting looking blonde transvestite. It could have been a woman I guess, but this was Sunset Blvd., folks.  So in line while I was buying feminine products, the cashier (male) acted nervous. I tried to find a female cashier, but what the heck, it was the shortest line.

The cashier actually acted embarrassed. Which was weird, considering that if he was a cashier for any period of time, he must have seen stranger things than this. Then, the guy in back of me bought Grapefruit flavored condoms. Yes, I am not making this up.  The cashier actually got excited about this and showed the lady cashier next to him and said, "ooh look at these."

This was not a sex shop. It was a regular grocery store.

On the drive out, I passed a gold BMW. A chick with the windows rolled down, laughing with a guy. Short, blonde hair. Jean Seberg-ish looking. At first she reminded me of a girl I knew named Sara. Then I went back to the Jean Seberg impression. Then the laugh. Kirsten Dunst.

I went to see Elizabethtown yesterday, the new Cameron Crowe movie. I have enjoyed most all of his movies, except that piece of garbage Vanilla Sky. And critics seem to loathe his new movie, so much so that when he showed it at a recent film festival (I can't recall the name of it), that he chopped the movie about 40 minutes shorter in a hope to make the movie more audience friendly. I, for one, thought the movie was great, and so did my girlfriend. It was actually refreshing to see Orlando Bloom in something with a present day setting. I was beginning to think he was a one trick pony. Kirsten Dunst has now earned the nickname "the braless wonder" with me. Since she never seems to wear a bra and almost every movie she is in she has a hard nipple scene. She had a few in this one, and I am sure anyone who has seen either Spider-Man can tell you she has a few in there too. It's not that I am looking for it, but they are just out there for all to see. Anyhow, back to the movie, I thought that Alec Baldwin was underused as Phil. He was absolutely hilarious in this movie. See Orlando works for a company that is probably like Nike. A very big shoe company, and Orlando has spent 8 years of his life developing this new shoe. It's supposed to change the whole companies image. Well to make a long story short, they find out that the shoe has been recalled. All of them...and he has cost the company 972 million dollars which Phil rounds off to a billion (if you see the movie you will get that). Phil is the owner of the company, anyhow he gets fired. Then he finds out that his father died while visiting Kentucky. So his mother and sister want him to go to Kentucky to pick up the body and fly back with it. Well on his way there he meets "the braless wonder". He basically gets back in touch with his roots and comes to realize that he was so immersed in work to even have known his father in the years before he died. He was supposed to go on these yearly trips to Kentucky with his father every year, but every year he kept putting it off. So of course if I haven't spoiled the whole movie for you, he takes a road trip back home across the United States with his Dad's ashes beside him. He then proceeds to sprinkle his ashes across different landmarks he comes across. Well now that I have rambled on forever the basic point I am making is that this movie was a heartfelt, honest movie. I mean too often we let the relationships between people we love lapse because we are too busy with things we think are more important. But I ask what is more important than family and friends? We only get one shot at this crazy life, so I just think we should try and be nice to the people in our lives while they are still here. You never know when they will be taken from you.