New Bonds?
 

I don't think a 25 year old is right for the role of Bond.

Isn't there a 20 year old (maybe 21?) actress playing the role of an attorney on The Practice or some show like that also? WTF? Doogie Lawyer?

New Bonds?
 

Dude, I loved Gmili! Perfect blend of strength/courage/humor for James Bond! Now that's a brave casting choice!!! Bravo to MGM for thinking outside the box.

str(I would have thought they'd go for Viggo, if anyone)8

New Bonds?
 

No, no NO! If I ran the world, Clive Owen would be the pick. He's perfect. Rhys-Meyers is way too young and too pretty.

But I would settle for anyone (except maybe Hugh Grant) who promised to make a real movie out of "Casino Royale." I won't start the rant I ranted many times on the Stalin Board about this.

New Bonds?
 

I love Clive Owen, but shouldn't Bond look like he stepped from the pages of GQ on his way to save the world?

Mr. Personality
 

You assume that I will spend the hour of 9 to 10 sitting on the couch doing nothing but watching TV. In fact, at the same time I will be paying bills, or straightening up, or reviewing documents, or skimming the newspaper. I am the queen of multitasking.

Though I did read a book last week--A Painted House.

New Bonds?
 

Absolutely. We need to line these guys up in a tux and see who can measure up. (It will take someone with better technological ability than I have.) Colin Firth? Ralph Fiennes?

Though I second whoever suggested Viggo. And if it's going to be that muttering one-trick pony Hugh Grant, I say just mercy-kill the whole series instead.

New Bonds?
 

GQ, maybe. Tiger Beat, no. So that rules out Rhys-Meyers. And don't let Manfred's avatar fool you. Owen cleans up pretty nicely.

Besides, the Bond films are increasingly going in a direction that the original books had gone --- where Bond gets the absolute crap beaten out of him, and just barely survives. The whole Roger Moore savoir faire-above-all thing wasn't very true to the character. The books have a lot more scenes like Brosnan getting tortured in North Korea for a year.

BTW, that Gimli thing had me going. But then I pictured Bond saying some of Sallah's lines in the Indiana Jones movies.

New Bonds?
 

Actually, John Rhys Davies cuts a fairly decent figure in a tux in Victor/Victoria. Not quite spy like, but good enough to pull off booking agent in 1930s Paris.

Paging St. Patrick
 

Yes. He looks like a bag of shit. Unlike Cechmanek and Belfour, who are playing great and ruining my beauty sleep.

Who is the avatar? Damaso Garcia? John Mayberry? Fred McGriff - I know nothing about baseball, just a few random Jays, and I know it's not Joe Carter or Paul Molitor (the only other ones I know).

A Dog with 9 Lives
 

Dog Survives Car Crash, Gunshot, Freezer

CLEARLAKE, Calif. - A dog named Dosha may have as many lives as a cat. _

She was hit by a car, shot in the head and kept in a freezer for two hours, but she survived and is now doing well under a veterinarian's care.

Local animal groups and the Humane Society of the United States have begun fund-raising efforts to pay for her care.

Last Tuesday, Dosha was hit by a car. A Clearlake police officer reported to the scene and no one could tell him who owned the dog.

Officer Bob MacDonald shot the dog, apparently to save her the pain of her injuries. Dosha, presumed dead, was taken to Animal Control, where she was put in a freezer.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...p/not_dead_dog

Paging St. Patrick
 

I'm thinking georg bell. although the name damaso garcia sure brings back memories of childhood. In there with Lloyd Moseby and Dave Steib.

Too much crap in the vestibule?
 

"Over a million New Yorkers used to life in luxury apartments may be taking out their own trash, fixing their own leaks and hailing their own cabs if doormen and handymen strike, as threatened, this week. "

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...eut/index.html

Paging St. Patrick
 

ahh memories. And what about Kelly Gruber? I guess I know more Jays than I thought. I think you are right - but isn't it "Jorge Bell", although the Toronto media called him "George".

New Bonds? - More like Connery or More like Moore?
 

I don't think so. What about Connery when he was Bond? I don't think he could be classified as a GQ pretty-boy. He was more rugged and athletic than any of the other Bonds. Bond shouldn't go through an entire movie with nary a hair out of place. Remember, the character of Bond is basically a killer. Killers don't have manicures.

Of the three who tested, Owen is the one who most clearly fits the mold. Roger Moore? Ugh. Though probably the most commercially successful era of the franchise, (until the latest incarnation, anyway) it definitely was the least true to the character, in my mind. Much more about gagetry than about being a tough, resourceful guy. Bond should be, above all, tough and resourceful, not to mention worldly, thus eliminating someone who is too young.

Fametracker's Least Watchable Summer Movies of 2003
 

... can be found here. At first, I thought some of these listings were satirical, but apparently they are all real movies sure to suck ass in theatres this summer.

My favorite:

"2. Gigli*

Release Date: August 1

The Plot: Ben Affleck plays a conflicted hitman who becomes even more conflicted when a lesbian hitwoman (Jennifer Lopez) is dispatched to take over from him but then he and she fall in love together.

The Pitch: Originally notable as the film in which the now professionally betrothed Affleck and Lopez first met; now notable as the film that's rumoured to be so bad that the gnomish cheerleaders at Ain't It Cool News called it "unreleasable."

Why It's Inessential: Well, it's kind of essentially inessential, if it's really as bad as it is rumoured to be, which is Shanghai Surprise-level bad. The only way the schadenfreude could be more delicious is if the citizenry of the United States rose up, kidnapped Lopez and Affleck, put them in a rocket together, and shot them into space. In any case, Gigli, or whatever it ends up being called, is destined to be only the second best "I made a lesbian fall in love with me" movie of Affleck's career. So what could possibly be more inessential than that?...

*current title as of press time"