Weekly Roundup: 04/07/08 - A Day Late, A Buck Short, But Supersized!
April 7, 2008Apologies for the day-late Roundup. I was on vacation in Batangas where, I swear to God, I spent half the time on the beach with a shirt and an umbrella over my head, sitting beside my sunbathing girlfriend, and giving mean looks to any douchebag who might stop, stare, and mack on her.
Dude, you were sitting on the beach with an umbrella. Why would any guy be afraid of you?
Well I had a gun, thank you. Jackass.
But to make up for the delay, I’m going for another twelve news bits as opposed to the usual ten. So lace those cowboy boots and yippie-ki-yay your frail, old aunts out of their death beds (?) for another gun-slingin’, dial-up-disregardin’ good time with the Weekly Roundup! Late, but Supersized!
1. Screen legend Charlton Heston passed away over the weekend at the age of 83. Sadly, his last two major appearances on screen were as his gun-loving, crazy, old, farty self in Michael Moore’s 2002 documentary, Bowling For Columbine, and as Professor Walter Finlay in Jean Claude Van Damme’s The Order, which was released on local shores as Jihad Warrior.
And for the obligatory Heston retrospective: One of the first DVDs I ever owned was Ben-Hur, which was a gift to me from my Mom and Dad. It was a double-sided disc with the snapper case which Warner has now discontinued production for. God, I hated the bejesus out of that movie. But he will be missed. I doubt that anyone can quote a more iconic sci-fi movie line than “Take your stinking paws off me, you damn, dirty ape!” If you think you can, then you, sir/ma’am, deserve a cancer to the face.
2. USA Today has some updates from the set of Bond 22, a.k.a. Quantum of Solace. Quite notably, they have a photo of James Bond running up a flight of stairs! zOMFG!
