9:32 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Chismes|Entertainment|Events|Movies|Spain · 1 Comment
3 Feb 2009This past Sunday Penelope Cruz picked up a Goya award (see above video), her country’s version of the Oscars for her performance in Woody Allen’s Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona. While most people are pleased to just be nominated, la Pe told Liz Smith she wants more than that:
I congratulate Penélope again on her nomination. I ask, because it’s the tiresome but necessary question, if it really matters to her if she wins. “Hmmm … what can I say? It’s not a lie that it is an honor to be nominated, and if I don’t win, I won’t be any less honored, but … look, ask anyone who is nominated. No matter what you think you feel about awards, when you’re there, sitting in that seat, with those people, all dressed up — of course you want to win!”
At least she’s honest! I personally don’t think she’ll win (though I thought her performance was fabulous)…too much stiff competition in that category.
P.S. What is up with the intro to that video?
Via / wowowow.com
4:04 pm By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment · 2 Comments
2 Feb 2009So, rather than watch the Super Bowl, I ate food and slept. In spite of my attempts to avoid, however, I still wound up being forced to deal with the prerequisite oohs and aaaahs over the commercials. I’m not a big fan of commercials period–but Super Bowl ads are often especially problematic to me because they are well aware that they are appealing to the most base instinct of the macho drunk male getting it on with his macho drunk male friends (I read somewhere that more partner abuse happens during Super Bowl than any other time of the year).
That said–I’m not completely incapable of finding humor in commercials. The following was one of the more amusing (and less problematic) ones. Although I have yet to understand why a shot to the groin is still considered so dang funny.
Which commercials did you like?
9:18 am By Maegan La Mala · Entertainment|Events|Movies · Comments Off
22 Jan 2009
Here’s a quick and dirty list of the nominees for the 2009 Oscars. Check it out!
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)
Best animated feature film of the year
“Bolt” (Walt Disney)
“Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation)
“WALL-E” (Walt Disney)
3:55 pm By Maegan La Mala · crime|Entertainment|mexico|Movies · 2 Comments
21 Jan 2009
Mexican super director Guillermo Del Toro, auteur of such hits as Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth, might be a proud member of Los Tres Amigos crew of south of the border filmmakers, but his sentiments about returning to his native land are mixed. Del Toro, who lives between New Zealand and Los Angeles, says he’s basically an involuntary exile, as he fears for his safety in Mexico. Reports The New York Daily News:
“Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro says he is unlikely to make another film in Mexico because his father’s kidnapping 10 years ago left him fearing for his safety, a newspaper has reported.Del Toro’s father was eventually released, but the family says it later received death threats.
Del Toro, who is best known for directing the “HellBoy” movies and “Pan’s Labyrinth,” said he doesn’t feel safe directing films here because his daily routine becomes public.
“Not all of the people who participated in the kidnapping were captured,” El Universal newspaper on Thursday quoted him as saying.
He described his situation as a “forced exile” and said it saddens him to think he may never film again on Mexican streets.
4:05 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Celebrities|Entertainment|Movies|Spain|World · Comments Off
13 Jan 2009Actor Will Smith was in Spain and stopped by a ridiculous show called El Hormiguero to promote his new movie, which I have no idea what it’s called in English, but is apparently titled “7 Almas” in Spanish. In the video above you’ll see Smith follow the conversation of the host via simultaneous translation, answer a couple questions in Spanish, cry about the Obama victory, and sing a flamenco song en español. Too much weird content for me here folks! I have to admit I pretty much despise him in his natural state, but since he’s so good-natured in Spanish he seems almost…ALMOST palatable.
Via / TV y Espectaculos
12:09 pm By la Macha · Entertainment|Music · 1 Comment
31 Dec 200812:01 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro|Family|Games|society|Tech · Comments Off
30 Dec 2008
Last week Mala told us that some experts think that Nintendo’s Wii could be dangerous for your health. Also dangerous for one’s health is domestic violence, and the Wii was at the center of at least one heated incident in which two people were arrested. GameTab reports
Blom and his 24 year-old girlfriend, Randi Young, were both arrested for misdemeanor “domestic-related” assault charges. An altercation broke out over Christmas presents. Police arrived at the Blom residence on Christmas Day to discover the couple bruised and battered.“Heath Blom wanted a remote-controlled airplane for Christmas, and not the Wii,” said Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn. Blom’s grandmother gave him a Nintendo Wii, which he scoffed at, causing his girlfriend to call him names “for not liking the Wii.”
According to Young, “He [Heath Blom] said he hated it. It hurt her [his grandmother's] feelings… When he didn’t get the plane, he got really upset. He acted like a 10-year-old kid.”
A fight ensued with Blom supposedly dragging Young down two flights of stairs — by her hair. Blom claims Young punched him in the eye three times.
Turns out it wasn’t Wii’s fault. The guy was just an ungrateful bastard, and violent to boot.
Via / GameTab
3:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Entertainment · 2 Comments
18 Dec 2008I’m a little bit late on posting this, but it’s important nevertheless. Fred Armisen is just about one of the most irritating a-holes I have ever witnessed. He is a biracial (German and Japanese) man who presents as white who plays every ethnic character in the Saturday Night Line up, including Barack Obama, Prince, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And now, he just put forth this little beauty in which he mocks New York Governor David Paterson:
Paterson rightfully calls out the show by centering the lived experiences of the disabled community and how representations of disability as bumbling and fumbling has consequences:
“I can take a joke,” he told the New York Daily News. “But only 37% of disabled people are working and I’m afraid that that kind of third-grade humor certainly adds to this atmosphere.
“Let’s just say I don’t think it helped,” he said.
7:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Entertainment · Comments Off
24 Nov 2008Today I have managed to almost, but not quite, destroy my finger. Long story short, I very cleverly managed to jam the point of my knife into finger and then yank upwards–so I have a lovely cut and some bruising. Since it hurts to type at that moment (I have to keep my hurt finger up in the air, and type with seven fingers instead of eight), I’m gonna keep it light tonight…here’s my very favorite George Lopez skit:
It was only a matter of time, pero someone took the time to create Super Obama World, a Mario Brothers lookalike game where Obama jumps on lipstick wearing pigs and gets super stylish power by eating apple pie.
I tried playing it for a little while pero was bored quickly.
Tell me what you think. Play Super Obama world.
Via / Boing Boing
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