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Star Wars Deleted Scene

Just to show you how much George Lucas can't direct. The man doesn't know what he wants, and that's a requisite of being a director. He literally stands there after each take and says, "That was good. Let's do it again." No explanation, no guiding the actors. He just waits until he sees what he likes, even if it takes sixty takes to get there. I loved American Graffiti, but for a director of "such note" Lucas is an amateur.

The Da Vinci Code in Brief

We could hash this out at length, but instead I'm just going to post two great quotes I read tonight before passing out after another 15-hour day of catering. Joshua Taylor put it succinctly, "The book that everyone owns and no one has read becomes the movie that everyone is excited about and can’t tell you why."

And Joe Utichi explains, "Perhaps an interesting side-piece to those already fanatical about the book, but ultimately a lifeless adaptation that reveals the flaws of its source. So Dark, the Con of Dan Brown."

Opposites - Richard Wilbur

From a book of his children's poems:

12
What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.


13
What is the opposite of doe?
The answer's buck, as you should know.
A buck is dough, you say? Well, well,
Clearly you don't know how to spell.
Moreover, get this through your head:
The current slang for dough is bread.


16
What is the opposite of actor?
The answer's very simple: tractor.
I said that just because it rhymes,
As lazy poets do at times.

However, to be more exact,
An actor's one who likes to act
King Lear in some unlikely plot,
Pretending to be what he's not.

The opposite of actor, friend,
Is someone who does not pretend,
But is himself, like you and me.
I'm Romeo. Who might you be?