Perhaps we should reconsider France’s egotistical image…
HAIRCUT!
Pizza Hut ploy: Crust stuffed with cheeseburgers, chicken nuggets
In the latest edition of Pizza Hut’s crust-stuffing mania, the Middle Eastern arm of the chain has added cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets to their pizza crusts. It’s called the Crown Crust pizza because of its shape, which kind of looks like a crown — if your crown were covered in junk food. Would you eat it?
Image: Pizza Hut Middle East
Eh hem……
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
……Now I will go hide under my bed for a while…..
Jean-Pierre Léaud in Stolen Kisses (Referencing him in The 400 Blows and Antoine and Colette) :D
10 Screenwriting tips by Billy Wilder
- The audience is fickle.
- Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go.
- Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
- Know where you’re going.
- The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
- If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
- A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.
- In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they’re seeing.
- The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.
- The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then—that’s it. Don’t hang around.
I hate to be ~that person~ but are you guys fucking morons are do you not understand that “room” was not the issue. have ever heard of a little thing called WEIGHT. the damn thing was not strong enough to hold them both. which is, oh I don’t know, SHOWN TO YOU when he tries to get on and the damn thing starts to sink. fucking hell.
I’m just glad someone said it. I don’t like Titanic, but this criticism is really facile…..Also, all but maybe one of the above examples would have almost certainly resulted in the door capsizing
what was the door made of? what was the thickness? what was the weight of both persons? these questions must be answered before either party can be declared correct.
You know, I could probably look most of these up and find a reasonable answer to your questions, but then I remember that we are talking about Titanic, a film that conjures up a palpable indifference in me, and determined that I have already wasted more time defending this film than I would ever have cared to…
I hate to be ~that person~ but are you guys fucking morons are do you not understand that “room” was not the issue. have ever heard of a little thing called WEIGHT. the damn thing was not strong enough to hold them both. which is, oh I don’t know, SHOWN TO YOU when he tries to get on and the damn thing starts to sink. fucking hell.
I’m just glad someone said it. I don’t like Titanic, but this criticism is really facile…..Also, all but maybe one of the above examples would have almost certainly resulted in the door capsizing
Hugo Award Nominations
(Clears throat)
Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form
- Doctor Who, ”The Doctor’s Wife”, written by Neil Gaiman; directed by Richard Clark (BBC Wales)
- “The Drink Tank’s Hugo Acceptance Speech”, Christopher J Garcia and James Bacon (Renovation)
- Doctor Who, ”The Girl Who Waited”, written by Tom MacRae; directed by Nick Hurran (BBC Wales)
- Doctor Who, ”A Good Man Goes to War”, written by Steven Moffat; directed by Peter Hoar (BBC Wales)
- Community, ”Remedial Chaos Theory”, written by Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna; directed by Jeff Melman (NBC)
………….I WONDER WHICH OF MY FRIENDS WILL PISS THEMSELVES WITH JOY FIRST!!!!!
Found here: http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/04/07/hugo-awards-nominations-announced/
Rules not just for gaming, but for life.
‘We do have a number of songs written,’ he said. ‘We have a whole outline.’
This is exactly how much information about a Dr. Horrible sequel it takes to skyrocket an article to the third-most-popular thing on our site, right under the homepage.
So, yeah, this.
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6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.
Read more. [Image: AP]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0sevcgD2Z1qcokc4o1_400.jpg)
6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck
1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
3. Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
4. If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
5. Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
6. If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.
Read more. [Image: AP]
STILL NOT THE STUPIDEST THING I’VE SEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THIS!
(Source: jiji-is-a-bunny)
Every Sperm is Sacred {Monty Python’s Meaning of Life} (by Exequian)
Again, can never not reblog Monty Python.
From the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Winner, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life…..YOU CAN JUST SEE THE PRESTIGE RADIATE OFF IT!
Japan Earthquake Anniversary: Where did your donation go? (And how you can still help)
CLEARLY ANYTHING THE US DOES IN THE WORLD IS FOR OIL!!!
….Sorry, I saw someone make that argument about Kony2012 and it just sort of set me off.
