fuuuuuuuuck. i shoulda known with all the Hitch postings on my dash yesterday that he had died. RIP Christopher Hitchens. i often did not share your views but was always damn glad you were there to write or speak about them because they were always articulate and well-argued.
this squabble seems like good (read: free) publicity for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The New Yorker — win-win all around. well played, sirs, well played.
i mean if this were real, Scott Rudin would probably be all Les Grossman in David Denby’s face. besides, who ‘leaked’ this email correspondence anyway?
3pm est…nm, shit just got real.
and AAPL’s already down 5% after hrs. FFFFFUUUUUU—
listening to the Donmar Warehouse’s production (2007-08) of Othello. so fab.
Othello - Chiwetel Ejiofor
Iago - Ewan McGregor
Desdemona - Kelly Reilly
Cassio - Tom Hiddleston
Roderigo - Edward Bennett
Emilia - Michelle Fairley
directed by Michael Grandage
some highlights:
Apple now offers something called Final Cut Pro X (pronounced “10”). But don’t be misled by the name. It’s a new program, written from scratch…
The bottom line: The rewritten Final Cut is much, much easier to use than the old one, and its immediacy keeps your creative flow going.
But not everyone will fall in love. Switching to the new Final Cut from the old one is like coming home from college to discover that your parents remodeled your bedroom…
The biggest disappointment is that Final Cut X can’t open old Final Cut projects. They’re now orphaned, stuck forever in the old program.
Maggie Cheung and Chris Doyle on the desert set of Hero. from ASC, excerpted from Doyle’s journal written during the making of the film.
eff the booers at the screening.
Lens Cap Pouch Tutorial
totally making this over the summer. yea you can always stick your lens cap in your pocket, but i have a fear of it falling out (and me not knowing) or sitting on it. but of course, no velcro please.
my new side tumblr. </shameless plug>
On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.
In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.
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