Today's mixed bag:
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy in the long-running Vampire Slayer TV series and star of the coming The Grudge, wants to follow Pierce Brosnan as the next 007.
The star says: "I don't see why Bond shouldn't be played by an actress. Everybody else seems to be talked up for the role but so far no female has been considered!"
Go Sarah.
In other news, MSN is helpfully trying to help out poor Men who have this terrible, terrible problem:
Do I intimidate women?
I’m very successful in my career and earn a high salary. Since I’m 43 and never married, I have been able to buy many luxuries for myself unlike many of my colleagues who are married with children. I have a beautiful loft in a posh downtown neighborhood, wear a leather coat in the winter, vacation at spas and top resorts around the world, and my business card says “President.”
However, despite all this, I am usually quite lonely and would love to meet the right woman. When I go on dates, I rarely get a second, and my friends have told me that it’s because I intimidate women. I have dated a range of women from CEOs to secretaries but have not found someone secure enough to pursue me. How can I find a woman who is comfortable with what I’ve achieved?
NOT. Luckily, Amanda puts `em straight.
Speaking of keeping things straight, check out marriagerights.com for some fun facts (and some really, really good TV spots) about putting the marriage rights issue into perspective. The deeper I drudge into the politics of gay marriage, the more pissed off I get. The spots take awhile to download: I recommend "Threats" and "Permission" (the Sex Toy one is apparently not work safe...).
Thursday, October 21, 2004
And Notes of All Sorts
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2 comments so far. What are your thoughts?
If Gellar gets to be the next Bond, I hope to God they keep the character the same cold, sexist asshole he's been in the past. A lot of modern folks seem to love the Bond glitz but forget that fundamentally, he was a ruthless bastard who was smooth enough to get away with a lot of unpleasant behavior, in the same way that people forget that Sherlock Holmes was a cocaine addict who was rude to people and needed Watson to run human-empathy interference most of the time.
The "are you intimidating" thing was hilarious. Only thing I'd add is that, while there's certainly a difference between being honest and exploding your whole life onto the table in front of you on the first date (and on the flip-side, there's a difference between lying about yourself and simply being tactful about how much personal information you share), the guys who wouldn't date you because you're a successful executive are the guys who, if you did trick them into dating you, would end up being awful anyway.
If you have to lie your way into somebody's heart, that's probably not a heart you wanna visit in the first place.
Posted by Patrick Weekes
Yea, you'd piss off too many fans by making her "Bond," but you could do a "Girl-Bond" spin-off.
But, yea, even then she'd be more the Charlie's Angels idea of womanhood: "real" women are all looking for a good man to settle down with, and only work for a man, and all look damn hot while she does it. I'd rather watch Girlfight.
Posted by Kameron Hurley
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