| Poem for Tuesday |
[Jan. 24th, 2006|12:08 am] |
( A Winter Without Snow )
No one told me that Hoodwinked was Rashomon with Little Red Riding Hood! Although I agree with everyone who said the animation was amateurish, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. So did my kids. We all laughed a lot, as did pretty much everyone in the packed theater (county schools were closed today for teacher's administrative stuff); the ages ranged from three year olds through teenagers and then a bunch of parents and a handful of elderly couples. I love Glenn Close and I like Anne Hathaway, so I was probably predisposed to like characters with their voices, but I wasn't particularly expecting kick-ass female characters in a kids' cartoon...with the exception of Mulan they've almost all been disappointments. This one rocked! No love interests, no making decisions to make oneself more palatable to men...Granny bucked social expectations and got her granddaughter to do so as well. Plus there were Star Wars jokes. What a delightful surprise!
Trek news today was both Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn asserting their opinions that there will be another Star Trek movie starring the Next Generation cast, with Stewart saying he hoped Shatner would be in it as well because he likes Shatner. There was also something about a new Trek video game for the Nintendo DS, which interests me not at all but maybe I can track down a review copy for my kids. Pocket Books sent me Orion's Hounds but I haven't read the first two Titan novels and given how much I loathe the DS9 "relaunch" novels, I can't imagine I want to read the current Pocket stable's take on Riker in command.
Right now I am watching The American Experience on John and Abigail Adams, which is fascinating -- I was always under the impression that they had a very happy marriage and didn't realize he was away so much and it bothered her so much. It's nice to know that they were both friendly with Thomas Jefferson, not just collegial, though it's a shame Adams' ambitions and politics came between them for so long, but at least it had a happy ending and Adams was thinking of Jefferson with his last breath. I really am a sucker for historical reenactments in these documentaries! Makes me think of this historical reenactment of Sunday:
( Blacksmiths Guild of the Potomac )
And I have finished my usual TV-watching activity of the past several months. I don't swear that every entry is complete, but I have finally finished tagging my entire journal back to its beginning in 2002, with most entries indexed though not in as much detail in my memories. (Like, I didn't differentiate among genres of movies in the memories, but when I discovered that -60 is as far back as one can go with tags before hitting the day view, I split the movies into categories.) Now I wish ljArchive let one import tags with entries!
Does anyone know a program that will let you import images in bulk to be printed on standard size pages? I think Pagemaker can do that, but the version I have is something like 6.5 and I'm not sure whether it will mess up my Photoshop if I try to install it. I want to print my Tarot cards but can't seem to figure out an easy way to line them up for printing and cutting! |
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| TV News! |
[Jan. 24th, 2006|02:39 pm] |
Hot on the heels of NBC's announcement that The West Wing will not return in the fall, CBS and Warner Bros. announce that they plan to merge UPN and The WB! They're creating a new network, The CW. Presumably this means both current networks will lose at least half the shows they air now. This could affect Smallville, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, Gilmore Girls...I'm betting it means that Smackdown! is gone from prime time broadcast at the very least, since the WWE's deal with Paramount is up anyway.
And it probably means a new Star Trek show has less chance than ever of being developed in the near future, since the new network intends to keep current UPN and WB target audiences...namely, young women. UPN was launched on the strength of Voyager and canned Enterprise when Dawn Ostroff -- who will be head of programming at The CW -- decided to target female viewers instead of the fickle young male demographic. Apparently she believes women don't watch SF; she must not look at Sci-Fi and USA's audience numbers. Hmmph. |
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