Zoe In Ocean Drive Magazine

... to come her way. “We filmed the performance capture for Avatar in Los Angeles for seven months,” she explains. “And then Jim went to New Zealand for four months—that’s when I did Star Trek.” Roundly agreed to be the best film of summer 2009, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek not only reignited the franchise, but also sparked a surprising plot twist between Zachary Quinto’s Spock and Saldana’s Uhura. “That ...

Zoe In Ocean Drive Magazine

... to come her way. “We filmed the performance capture for Avatar in Los Angeles for seven months,” she explains. “And then Jim went to New Zealand for four months—that’s when I did Star Trek.” Roundly agreed to be the best film of summer 2009, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek not only reignited the franchise, but also sparked a surprising plot twist between Zachary Quinto’s Spock and Saldana’s Uhura. “That ...

Gillllyyy... did you wish everyone a Merry Christmas?

... 2002, will be led by Wiig's Gilly, an ever-smiling Annie-lookalike who delights in violent mischief. The special will feature new sketches with Gilly and highlights of classic holiday "SNL" sketches. Wiig, roundly considered a standout performer on the NBC sketch comedy show, has built Gilly into a popular character. In a phone interview Monday, she said part of the fun of Gilly hosting is in her...

Time is all around, except inside my clock

... display in a pet store and wondering what he should get Sark for Christmas. 'tis the season, after all. Cy is playing dropbears in Grant Park . Ragnar has just found this out. She is being roundly scolded by the older cat while she purrs. Loudly. With great cheer. Adrian Vela is trying to stop himself from killing someone. He has the man pinned in an alley , the smell of urine strong...

...do hot on the heels of the furore surrounding comments made by Kate Moss, who drew public opprobrium for declaring in an interview, 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels'. The model was roundly given a bucketful for appearing to advocate dieting over healthy eating, particularly as her comments were picked up by pro-anorexia websites. Yet here is the blatantly hypocritical - and for me deeply...

News Clips

...it makes it harder for them to make peace with their neighbors. I think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous," he added. The U.S. administration has roundly criticized the decision to expand the settlement, a point of bitter contention for Palestinians who wish to make the Old City of Jerusalem as well as other sites holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians as...

Top Fifty Films of the 00s -- Number Thirteen

..., Hidden Dragon on a purely technical level. The crystalline elegance of Peter Pau's cinematography, the perfectly calibrated editing of Tim Squyres, the propulsive score by Tan Dun, and unquestionably the roundly celebrated action choreography by Wo Ping Yuen all contribute mightily to the film's impact. Yet, consistently wondrous as all these elements are, there are plenty of lesser films out ...

I'm a doctor... no, really, I am.

...I've got that has a screen big enough to handle the 1080p videos I filmed in Iceland. I have never connected it to the internet. And I hate - absolutely hate - the Mighty Mouse. It's been roundly lambasted somewhere on the internet, and I agree with them completely. I use my two-year-old laptop for day to day activities, even though since upgrading to Kubuntu 9.04 with its shiny and flashy KDE 4...

Media references to fanfic, the week ending 11/28/09

... all-star team of brooding, effete bloodsuckers tearing through almost every conceivable media: along with The Vampire Diaries , True Blood and The Vampire's Assistant , books, television and cinema are all pretty roundly spoken for, to say nothing of the amount of magazine covers the stars get. And in the grandstands, an army of teenage girls, fanfiction in hand, screaming for more. In the ...

Bah Humbug, Thank God, Dammit, and Awwww

...also perpetuates the bitter cripple stereotype that so often undermines my social discourse with the rest of the world. It's an ugly, no-win situation that fills me with guilt, but if I don't roundly rebuff these psychological predations, then I'm left sans dignity and filled with a helpless sense of shame. So, I'm staying here with Roomie this Christmas. We've already ordered a handful of gifts ...