Day: December 25, 2024

It goes without saying that Chris Nolan‘s forthcoming The Odyssey will have to surpass (a) Mario Camerini and Kirk Douglas‘s Ulysses (’54), a cheeseball fantasy-adventure based on Homer’s epic poem, and (b) Andrei Konchalovsky‘s 1997 two-part miniseries that starred Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts, Geraldine Chaplin, Jeroen Krabbe, Christopher Lee and Vanessa Williams.

Making a better adaptation than the Camerini-Douglas version will not be difficult.

I’m not very knowledgable about the Kazakhstan plane crash, but it may have been caused by a bird strike. I’m reading that one engine was lost, but the landing area was fairly flat and wide open so couldn’t the (now dead) pilot have attempted some kind of half-assed bellyflop landing? Why couldn’t he ease into a landing…why did he have to crash into the ground at a sharp angle and cause a fireball explosion?

15 years ago a bird strike caused the loss of both engines when a commuter flight took off off from LaGuardia, and yet somehow pilot “Sully” Sullenberger (aka Tom Hanks) managed to skillfully land the plane in the Hudson river with no loss of life.

What am I missing?

…on talk shows and inside sound stages and even restaurants and department stores as long as they have truly nice, attractive, well-pedicured feet.

Unfortunately that holds true for only a relatively small percentage of specimens. I’m sorry but I’ve been eyeballing women’s feet for decades and that’s just how it is.

Men are not allowed to stroll around barefoot anywhere except for beaches and pool areas, and sometimes even that’s a really bad idea. It goes without saying that mandals and flip-flops are totally verboten.