A sad, constant bid for attention

[Hank Chinaski]

Forest Whitaker is playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/



Idi




Forest

I know he really gets into the roles, like for Ghost Dog he learned some marital arts- but this is spooky---

• "I spent so much time while I was in Uganda trying to understand the customs, the eating, the mosques. I don't know if there was any place I didn't try to visit ... or people I didn't try to talk to," Whitaker told UPI in New York. "I slowly started to simulate it. It was like a food which became a part of my system, in my blood."

Understand the eating? I wonder how far he took that research.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If you're lucky, though, you could work from home and wear a muumuu.

I'm currently munching on playdoh. Does lipbalm count as food?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If you're lucky, though, you could work from home and wear a muumuu.

I know people, well, a person, who thinks that muumuus are work attire -- for the office.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Is a total fucking joke.

Maybe you could get one of these to do your job:

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I'm currently munching on playdoh. Does lipbalm count as food?

I know that purple is a fruit.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I am finding it hard to stop eating. I'm hungry all the time. I'm going to balloon into that fat kid on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I think you mean Augustus, but the "balloon" imagery brings Violet to mind

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[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I think you mean Augustus, but the "balloon" imagery brings Violet to mind

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Is the Johnny Depp version good?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is the Johnny Depp version good?

yes. I didn't want to like it, but it was darker and closer to the novel than the earlier one.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
when Penske had me over for dinner he served Mouton Cadet- $7 a bottle- it really foreshadowed the quality of food he served too.

Don't do dinner with him. Just have him send you a salmon.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I think you mean Augustus, but the "balloon" imagery brings Violet to mind

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Ah right. The future me is like an elegant combination of the two.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
yes. I didn't want to like it, but it was darker and closer to the novel than the earlier one.

2. And they do a better job with the Oompah-Loompah songs, by actually using the words from the book.

The stuff about his sadistic father was a little too much, though. Creepy, and a serious departure from the book.

[Paisley]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Is the Johnny Depp version good?

I just TiVo'd it. (HBO I think?) I really enjoyed it. Very weird. I missed the songs from the original though.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
yes. I didn't want to like it, but it was darker and closer to the novel than the earlier one.

I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't. It was closer to the book, but it was missing the absolute best moment in the original, which was when Charlie gave back the everlasting gobstopper. I still get teary-eyed at that scene and I was pissed that this version denied me my maudlin moment.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't. It was closer to the book, but it was missing the absolute best moment in the original, which was when Charlie gave back the everlasting gobstopper. I still get teary-eyed at that scene and I was pissed that this version denied me my maudlin moment.

[spoiler] I was disappointed that Wonka didn't turn into an accusatory lunatic at the end as the final test to make sure that Charlie was indeed the right kid.

TM

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
surgery? what surgery

If she is talking about here, I assume she is getting tits installed or something.