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Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer to Premiere on Entertainment Tonight on 2/14

According to a post on the celebrity gossip blog, OhNoTheyDidnt, we may finally be getting that Indiana Jones trailer we've all been waiting for.

Cinematical says that we can expect the trailer to hit theaters this day as well, but no word on what film the trailer will be attached to.

Admittedly, I've been "dreaming" about what the teaser trailer would look like. I don't want a lot in the teaser. Yeah, it's true. I want it to be more iconic and less showy.

Hopefully, soon, we'll know what Spielberg has in mind for the trailer. Personally, I would have liked to have seen a trailer this Christmas. They're really pushing it if you ask me.

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Transformers - The Ride?

Cinema Blend is reporting that there are rumors circulating a possible Transformers theme park ride in the works. According to the article, the ride, if the rumors are true, would be similar to that of The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man at Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure. While the article states that it is not to be a roller coaster or flight simulator, it later says that it is to be a dark ride with "lighting, animation (and) sound." Sounds a lot like Spider-Man to me.

Apparently the ride will "take place" after Transformers 2, but there's no word as to where the ride will go. While Paramount does have their own theme park chain, a ride like this would be better suited at Disney or Universal and, in fact, it seems that they are in talks with Disney on how to best bring the Transformers to life.

I find this amusing because, while I was watching Transformers in the theatre, I couldn't help but think, "This would be a GREAT ride."

And low and behold. I'm going to start charging people for reading my mind.

Jimmy Fallon Getta Married. Married? Yes! Married!

It's all downhill from here, girls.

When Jimmy Fallon, the cute, quirky SNL bachelor we all knew and loved, gets married, it's all over. Apparently now, everyone's doing it. Doing what? Getting married! Don't make me quote Sixteen Candles again, people.

I had the most atrocious crush on Fallon back in the day. Went to see his show at Indiana U. Good times.

Now he's went and grown up and gotten married.

Are all of you people hell bent on getting married? CALM THE FUCK DOWN PEOPLE!!

For those looking for details instead of incessant whining, Fallon married his long-time girlfriend, Nancy Juvonen. They got married in the Caribbean. For those wondering, there were no pirates. As far as anyone knows, anyway. If I was going to get married in the Caribbean, I'd at least want a decent pirate ship as part of the deal.

Fine, Fallon. Go ahead. Grow up and get respectable.

Someone's gotta stay here and fight off Captain Hook anyway. Hmph.

Dear Hannah Montana, My Dad Is Dead. Please Send Concert Tickets.

Upon first reading this news story, I was instantly shocked. Let's face it: Anyway you cut it, telling people your father died in Iraq (who, it seems, was non-existent) is messed up and quite despicable. The fact that the lie was made to win, of all things, concert tickets, makes it even worse.

Of course, the other side to this is something that, as a writer, I've always been cognizant of when entering contests of this nature: sympathy will always out quality.

Now, before you lash me, let me state: I haven't read the essay. It could be fabulous. And it's not to say that an essay that was truthfully written about such a scenario wouldn't be quality. Obviously that isn't the case. What I'm saying is simply, when judging a contest, many times sympathy or even guilt will easily overshadow the true purpose of the contest: to find the best essay, writer, what have you. No doubt, the girl and her mother realized this. Otherwise, the essay would have consisted of how the girl simply wanted to go to the concert or how she was an upstanding young girl. Yeah, yeah.

Contest organizers are threatening to take away the girl's tickets. On the one hand, I can't blame them. On the other, is this acknowledgement that they didn't award the girl the tickets based on the actual essay, but more on the fact that her father had supposedly perished in Iraq? I can only assume that's part of the reason why no further decision has been made to take back the concert tickets. I'm aware that there's many sides to this and it goes back to the whole James Frey, "is it still worthy if it isn't true" bit that revolves around anytime a supposed biography or personal reflection is found not to be true.

In the end, no matter what happens, you can't for one second believe that the mother wasn't aware of the consequences of being discovered. They might have won sympathy for the essay, but I doubt the sympathy will go much further than that.

The sad part in all of this is that the girl was only 6 years old. Oh boy.

Update: Look as if they decided to take away the tickets.

Bette Davis Gets a U.S. Postage Stamp

Bette Davis was a cool chick, but I wouldn't have wanted to cross her.

Of course, now I can at least peel her off and stick her in the corner. Of a letter anyway. Yup. She's got her own postage stamp. Bette has now entered the cool brigade with Superman, Elvis, Mickey Mouse and Marilyn Monroe.

Bette had an interesting look on life. Honest to the point of pissing off those around her. Chances are, most goody-two shoe, everything is coming up roses people wouldn't have gotten along with her. If you don't believe me, just take a look at some of her wisdom:

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."

"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."

"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."

And my personal favorite:

"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies."

Yes. I definitely think we need more bitches on postage stamps. Hopefully, I'll have my own one day.

Of course, apparently, I'm more of a Mae West than a Bette. Not surprised. I fucking love her.

 

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