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I  hinted at the change coming and here it is.  While http://tvdork.wordpress.com has served me well in recent months I wanted full wordpress customization.  Out of this need came http://www.mediaobsessed.com. I will continue to post as tvdork over at MediaObsessed.  I consider it simply an evolution of this blog and its content.  Hopefully you’ll follow me over to the new site.

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That’s my advice to Renee Zellweger. Curious as to why I’m telling Ms. Zellweger to say no? Rumour has it, and by rumour I mean intern fabricated story in a British tabloid, that Zellweger is thinking of reprising her role as Bridget Jones in a third film. The rumour isn’t surprising since Helen Fielding resumed her Bridget column for a brief time last year. The column is of course being turned into a book(that I will line up for like a 10 yr old does for Harry Potter) so a movie doesn’t seem to far behind. But the last movie was HORRIBLE. Not that the book was much inspiration but Bridget Jones is one of those stories that never should have had a sequel. The original film was pitch perfect as was Zellweger as Jones. The subsequent offering left a bad taste in my mouth.

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I just wanted to apologize to anyone who reads this blog for the lack of posting in the past few weeks.  I’ve been trying to write as much and possible but sometimes other things (ie school and job) get in the way.  I love this blog more than words can say and if there is anyone out there who reads this on a regular basis I’d just like to say thanks.  I mean my mom doesn’t even read this on a regular basis.  She still calls the computer ‘that box thing that gets me Lost episodes’.  Oh how she loves her Lost.

I’ve got a bunch of movie reviews to write (The Queen, Little Children, Shut Up and Sing and Death of a President).  Plus I need to write a love song to Weeds because somehow that show took something great and turned it into something too good for audiences.  It really is the most enjoyable and rewarding tv show on the air.  I’ve also become a big Battlestar Galactica fan in recent weeks which is why it now occupies a spot in my header.  As does Gilmore Girls though.  I may have stopped posting about it and frankly watching it, but the show will always have a place in my tv heart.

Until (sometime) tomorrow, byes.

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How did I not know this?  Apparently the show airs on the Travel Channel and is called Joan Cusack’s Local Flavor. The concept is that Cusack (and sometimes her family) travels all over Europe to learn how to cook from local merchants. Sounds like an awesome gig doesn’t it?

I wish we got this show in Canada. I’ve been a fan of Cusack ever since I saw her cameos in the classic John Hughes movies of the 80s.(The scene where she drinks from the water fountain in Sixteen Candles still cracks me up.) But honestly, who can forget her classic turn in Working Girl, ‘coffee, tea me?’ Never gets old.

If you have access to the Travel Channel give this show a shot. From the clips that I watched online on the official website it seems like a fun and informative cooking/lifestyle show.

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It’s hard to describe what I just saw go down at TIFF.  Michael Moore appeared doing a Q and A with Larry Charles.  Everything was going fine until Moore showed clips from his upcoming DVD, 2004: A Slacker Uprising.  The clips came on….and the audio was distorted to hell.  The audience was cringing.  After the clip Moore walked back out on stage and addressed the issue.  He was PISSED, as was Charles who had his WORLD PREMIERE of Borat shut down 25 minutes into the screening the night before because the projector BLEW UP.

So the fest tries to fix the issue, about 20 minutes later they go to show another clip from slacker uprising and the sound is even worse.  Moore shuts it down, it goes to black and Moore and Charles walk back onto the stage completely dejected.  You could cut the tension with a knife.

So then they save the show by going off book in some hysterical segments.  Moore comparing American football to rugby, Moore talking about his first ever pedicure, Moore breaking his confidentiality agreement with Time Magazine and announcing that he was selected with Mel Gibson to be Time’s men of the year in 2004 as long as both Gibson and Moore would agree to a photo op together.  Moore flies to LA but Mel at the last minute drops out because he’s scared shitless.  Time went on to put Bush on the cover.

So the convo goes on and every time Moore is hitting a comedic high the programmer for the Elgin theatre comes out and interrupts him.  At one point Moore gets pissed and yells at the guy for interupting. The guy cowers away with his hands behind his back.  Moore goes on to bring the house down with his analogy of American football and how it’s a prime example of why America is screwed.  All for one and one for all.  I can’t describe it, but the audience was in TEARS.

So it finally gets to the point where Moore is going to debut the first 3 segments from Sicko.  The film is just being edited right now.  The audio decides to work and the audience goes insane.  The 3 clips are hysterical, the highlight being a Norwegian prison that lets a murderer who killed 2 people with a chainsaw do time by using a chainsaw in the forest.

Eventually Moore had to cancel the rest of the clips because Borat was rescheduled for a 12am screening and people had been outside in the rain for hours waiting.  Moore was obviously pissed, as was Charles who was so terrified of further technical issues he had producer Jay Roach inspecting the audio equipment in full view of the audience.

I’ll post more about the event later, I just wanted to get this out before it hit the net.

By far my most memorable Tiff experience, more memorable than even working the festival in the past.

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