let's clear this up

I just have to talk about this because it is infuriating to me that someone would believe that a grown man would claim to have invented the internet when he obviously did not. So I did some research:


The comment made by Al Gore was this (in a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer):

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet.”



What he meant was that he was in Congress at the time of the invention of the Internet and he pushed the people to create it. The actual inventor of the internet was a man named Vincent Cerf. He is called “the Father of the Internet.” He is now the senior Vice President of MCI Worldcom. Vincent Cerf made this quote to back up Al Gore and his influence in the invention of the Internet: “The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President [AL GORE] in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator.”

There are countless men who actually were involved in the mechanical development of the internet who have backed up Al Gore’s statement. The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."

Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that Gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?"

Therefore, clearly, it is ignorant to claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet because this WAS NOT what he claimed and WAS NOT what he meant.

Also, those who claim that Al Gore invented the Internet got their information from campaign statements made by President George W. Bush when he was up against Al Gore for the Presidential office. George W. Bush was expected to maintain a campaign based on honesty and integrity, but instead launched a full-scale attack on Al Gore using commercials and radio time claiming that Al Gore lied to the American people by claiming that he invented the Internet. Honestly, I am more ashamed of George W. Bush for making these claims than I am in Al Gore for making an ACCURATE statement about how he used his political position while in the United States Congress. Before George W. Bush stooped to the level he did, no one questioned the integrity of the remark made by Al Gore.

the future

I want to make a difference, I want to be able to help someone at some point. I want to be able to lead someone away from bad decisions that I have made. I want to be someone to be looked up to and respected, to be admired. I don't want to require a disclaimer. "Here she is, but let me warn you, she does this to people she loves..." I want to make a difference in someone's life. In anyone's life who I come in contact with. I want people to be better for having known me. I want to be able to respect and admire myself, to be someone worth loving.

But sometimes I wonder...

if I've said or done the wrong thing too many times

to be usable.

This is where my heart is tonight.

anyone else ever been there? if you have, don't feel alone tonight.

And I'm sorry. To all the people who need to hear it from me. There are quite a few of you.

naked kid shot with taser gun

PLEASE check out this news story! Compliments of my friend Tina's friend's brother or something like that. Whatever, just check it out!!

harry potter is all grown up!

Yep, Harry Potter!!
Augh!

These pictures are for his upcoming production, Equus.

And they really kinda freak me out.

the hair

See?? Jonathan Brandis much??

SAG Awards Part 2

They are adorable!


I've never liked her before, but I really do now! And she is just the cutest pregnant girl!


And yet again, Lucas, CUT YOUR HAIR!

SAG Awards

SAG Awards were wonderful tonight, lots of fun stuff happened, lots of great actors won! But my FAVORITE part of the night was when Julie Andrews won for Lifetime Achievement. She is just classic. I LOVE her.

postsecrets this week

The Postsecrets are good this week.

the dark knight

For those of you who loved Batman Begins like I did will be happy to find out they have begun production on a new one!!

The Dark Knight is about the Joker.

Christian Bale is back and Heath Ledger will be playing the Joker!

Katie Holmes will not be back because she has baby Suri and Tom Cruise and Scientology and that takes up all her time right now. (Scheduling conflicts)

Anyway, it's set to release in 2008 and I can't wait!!

ALSO, Christian Bale (Batman), Michael Caine (Alred) and Gary Oldman (Gordon) are all under contract for 3 films, so we can expect another one after this one!!!

YAY!

robots

That girl on the left is a robot.

That's crazy!!!

scary

I find it just plain weird that she married him...

And WAY weirder that he left his wife for her...



That girl is like 3 years younger than me!

the police

The Police - back together for a tour!!
80 dates in North America & the UK!!

This is a very good thing.

jack bauer

Jack Bauer is so hardcore.

Is everyone caught up on their 24???


(That totally rhymed unintentionally)

GREYS ANATOMY

OH MY GOSH.

Christina & Burke
George & Callie
oh my gosh oh my gosh.

I can't even talk about it yet, I'm freaking out.

And the preview for next week...

I'm just going to die.

get started...

The Lifetime channel has evidently purchased rights to show reruns of Grey's Anatomy episodes. They started a couple of Sundays ago! So if you haven't ever watched it and want to get started, they will be showing them every Sunday night in order.

Sunday nights at 11pm

Tivo!! DVR!! Do whatever, just start watching!!!

They are on Episode 4 which will be airing this Sunday, January 28.

we're having a debate

Which one is hotter?

From One Tree Hill in case you didn't know

some quizzes if you're bored

Your Life Is Worth...

$763,500

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

I wonder if that's good or bad...

You Are a Life Blogger!

Your blog is the story of your life - a living diary. If it happens, you blog it. And make it as entertaining as possible.

What Kind of Blogger Are You?

You've Experienced 60% of Life

You have a good deal of life experience, about as much as someone in their late 20s. You've seen and done enough to be quite wise, but you still have a lot of life to look forward to.

How Much Life Experience Do You Have?

You Are 40% Normal

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

How Normal Are You?

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Yankee

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I would have more but I have to go to bed.

Goodnight.

lucas scott!

CUT YOUR HAIR!!!!

It does NOT look good.

Dr. Burke update

Update on Isaiah Washington

Oscar Nominees!!

BEST PICTURE
Babel
The Departed
The Queen
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Kate Winslet, Little Children
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Peter O'Toole, Venus
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth
Peter Morgan, The Queen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Notes on a Scandal
The Departed
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Little Children
Children of Men

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
After the Wedding (Denmark)
Days of Glory (Indigines) (Algeria)
Lives of Others (Germany)
Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico)
Water (Canada)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

BEST ART DIRECTION
Dreamgirls
The Good Shepherd
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Prestige

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Black Dahlia
Children of Men
The Illusionist
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Curse of the Golden Flower
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Marie Antoinette
The Queen

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
The Blood of Yingzhou District
Recycled Life
Rehearsing a Dream
Two Hands

BEST FILM EDITING
Babel
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
The Departed
United 93

BEST MAKEUP
Apocalypto
Click
Pan's Labyrinth

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German, Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal, Philip Glass
Pan's Labyrinth, Javier Navarrete
The Queen, Alexandre Desplat

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth, Music and lyric by Melissa Etheridge
"Listen" from Dreamgirls, Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler; lyric by Anne Preven
"Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls, Music by Henry Krieger; lyric by Siedah Garrett
"Our Town" from Cars, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Patience" from Dreamgirls, Music by Henry Krieger; lyric by Willie Reale

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Danish Poet
Lifted
The Little Matchgirl
Maestro
No Time for Nuts

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)
Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Helmer & Son
The Saviour
West Bank Story

BEST SOUND EDITING
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

BEST SOUND MIXING
Apocalypto
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Flags of Our Fathers
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Poseidon
Superman Returns

HONORARY ACADEMY AWARD
Ennio Morricone

Dancing With the Stars 2007

I don't watch Dancing With the Stars, but lots of other people do, so FYI, 4 of the celebrities have been announced for the new season of Dancing With the Stars which airs March 19th.

Billy Ray Cyrus of Achy Breaky Heart fame



Ian Ziering of 90210



Joey Fatone of N*Sync



Laila Ali (Muhammad's Daughter)

love her

She looks beautiful!!

burj dubai

If you haven't heard about this, it's just insane. Currently under construction in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is the Burj Dubai tower. Upon its completion in 2008, it will be the tallest building in the world. It's final height is being kept secret, but it is rumored to be over 3000 feet tall. Here are some pictures just to give you an idea:

Burj Dubai (when completed)



Burj Dubai vs. Empire State Building



Progress as of January 2007



Is it strange that the only thing this really makes me think of is the Tower of Babel?

New Blog Things

I've added more links to blogs and sites that I like and I think you will too!! haha

Check them out, seriously. They're awesome. Although I don't endorse them in any way or take responsibility if they post something dirty. But in general, they're really great!

Elizabeth Taylor

"I treat the happiness I have now with great respect, great appreciation, because I know how fragile and precarious it is - how easily it can go. I am more aware that happiness is a composite total, that it is not some sort of sweet, safe heaven. To mean anything, it must include unhappiness."
-Elizabeth Taylor

I hate politics, but...

I hate politics. I guess I more just hate what politics does to people. I cannot even count how many silly conversations I have sat in on and just listened to people bicker about Republican vs. Democrat. When it really comes down to it, I think it is absurd for some people to claim to just 100% be one party or the other. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle or at least agree with a majority of the issues of one party or another.

The candidates for the 2008 election are beginning to announce their desire to run or make their statements. I have never really focused my attention on politics, choosing rather to just deal with what the majority of my fellow Americans decide is best. It's a dangerous stance to take and I'm making an effort to be more involved in learning about issues and candidates this time.

My problem is that I have a hard time voting one way or another for a party. I vote for the candidate. Part of the problem as well is that I firmly agree with many Replublican values and I firmly agree with many Democrat values. My friend, Peter, introduced me to a new plan that I think everyone should at least learn about if they are of age to vote in 2008.

Unity 08 is making an effort to provide a different type of ballot than has ever been offered before. They would like to offer a bi-partisan ticket. A Republican President and Democrat Vice President or vice versa. Personally, I think that would be amazing and would much better represent my political views and opinions.

My political views are still in development and I am making an effort to learn more about the issues that are important to me. I encourage everybody to do the same thing.

Dr. Burke continued

Wow, seriously...he just shouldn't talk at all.

ABC issued a statement on the whole thing:

"We have a long standing policy to create and maintain respectful workplaces for all our employees. We dealt with the original situation in October, and thought the issue resolved. Therefore, we are greatly dismayed that Mr. Washington chose to use such inappropriate language at the Golden Globes, that he himself deemed "unfortunate" in his previous public apology. We take this situation very seriously, and his actions are unacceptable and are being addressed."


I don't really like him anymore. And looks like he might get fired...???? McDreamy & George are way better anyway.

dr. burke...i'm disappointed in you

"At this point in time, we need to learn we should not say hateful words to one another."
-Ellen Degeneres




And T.R. Knight is just adorable!

monica

I love her, do NOT get me wrong, but...

She does NOT look good. She was so beautiful!



She kinda looks like a weird robot now.

one tree hill

...is back tonight!! 9pm on the CW! Aaahhhhhh!

i laughed a lot today

I believe we all have a little 13 year old boy that lives inside of us.

Clean words that sound dirty (this is what I did today as I worked):

minstrel
sternum
rectify
I'm coming!
mail professional
hard
cocky
seamen
down under
masticate
farse
pianist
pus
hard drive
floppy disk
tube snake
tube sock
wenus

Then Josh found this:

And Erin said this: "You know that grocery store called Pubix?"

And Erin also said that when she was in 7th grade, she had to write down all the states and instead of Virginia, she wrote Vagina and her teacher thought she was a perv.

Awesome.

Yes we all work in an office setting surrounded by adults. And I'm probably supposed to be an adult. Didn't work out for me today...

lunch

I am sitting at work eating a piece of bread for lunch because this...

is NASTY!!!

Golden Globe Award Winners 2007!!

Picture - Drama
Babel

Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Dreamgirls

Animated Film
Cars

Actor In A Leading Role - Drama
Forest Whitaker in The Last King Of Scotland

Actor In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

Actress In A Leading Role - Drama
Helen Mirren in The Queen

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada

Actor In A Supporting Role
Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls

Actress In A Supporting Role
Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls

Director
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Screenplay
The Queen

Original Score
The Painted Veil

Original Song
"The Song Of The Heart"
From Happy Feet
Music and Lyric by Prince

Foreign Film
Letters From Iwo Jima
From The United States Of America

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Warren Beatty

Television Series - Drama
Grey's Anatomy

Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Ugly Betty

Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Elizabeth I

Actor In A Leading Role - Drama Series
Hugh Laurie in House, M. D.

Actor In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock

Actor In A Leading Role - Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Bill Nighy in Gideon's Daughter

Actress In A Leading Role - Drama Series
Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy Series
America Ferrera in Ugly Betty

Actress In A Leading Role - Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Helen Mirren in Elizabeth I

Actor In A Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Jeremy Irons in Elizabeth I

Actress In A Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter

A Walk to Remember

If any of you have ever read A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, then read on. If you have not read it, then either go read it right now or don't read any further below.

If you have read it, then I'm sure you've gotten in some kind of debate about whether or not Jamie Sullivan lived or died in the end of the book. I believe she lived. But I found on Nicholas Spark's website that he is asked that question and I liked his answer! (I think he agrees with me.)




Did Jamie live or die at the end of the novel?

As I mentioned in the notes, this is the most frequently asked question I receive through the mail. As far as I can tell, about 70% of the people think Jamie passed away, another 30% believe she lived, and when asking the question, they offer "proof" for their reasoning.

Who once said that good books inspire debate?

There are a number of things that I have to explain before I get into the answer so you can understand my reasoning. Part of it goes back to Message in a Bottle. (For those who skipped the section on Background information for Message in a Bottle, you may want to go back before you read on for a fuller understanding). In a nutshell, while many readers loved the ending of that novel, a great many were furious with me for it. Really furious. This was on my mind while writing the novel, and part of me thought that if I killed off another major character, my readers would never forgive me.

Nonetheless, when I started the novel, I knew that Jamie was going to die. Every page, every scene, every chapter was written with that idea and it continued to proceed that way right up until the end of the novel, when the time came to write those words.

And strangely, I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't.

Why? Because by that time, I'd grown to love Jamie Sullivan. I marveled at her strength and faith, and I was proud of everything for which she stood. And I didn't want her to die.

So I found myself in a dilemma.

Also, keep in mind that the story was also inspired by my sister, who was very much alive as I neared the end of the novel. Since it was inspired by her, I began to think, and she was alive. . .

I remember leaning back in my chair and absently scratching my chin, wondering what to do. Because of the story, because of all that I had written with her death in mind, because she was growing weaker and weaker throughout the story, it would have been dishonest (and frankly, very manipulative), to have Jamie suddenly cured. I could imagine some readers reaching the end and thinking, If that was the case, why the big build-up with her sickness? Others might close the book and think the entire novel was believable up until that point. I didn't want either of those impressions of the novel.

So what was I to do? I didn't want her to die, and couldn't write those words. Yet, I plainly couldn't let her live, either. I opted for the only solution, the solution that best described the exact feeling I had with regard to my sister at that point: namely, that I hoped she would live.

That's the ending, folks. I wanted readers to finish with the hope that Jamie lived.

As to whether she actually lived or died, it's ambiguous and purposely meant to be that way. If you wanted Jamie to live, she lived. If you knew that Jamie would die, she died.

As for me, (and I'm not the final say -- I wrote the characters, but reader's know them just as well as I do), I thought there was a good chance that Jamie lived.

At least, I hoped so.


What did the last sentence mean?

Either the miracle was that Jamie lived (if that was the ending you imagined) or that Landon had experienced the miracle of first love and it had redeemed him (if you imagined that Jamie died.)

Dear John,

Synopsis: (Taken from NicholasSparks.com)

"An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. "Dear John," the letter read...and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life."

This book...oh my gosh...I just loved it. It just resonated with me for some reason and I ended the book just weeping. I cried for half an hour after I finished it because it just made me think about my year. It is SO worth reading if you like that kind of book. It is no classic literary masterpiece or anything. (My favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas) But it is just a quick, wonderful read. His books just make me feel good. I just read them and even if they make me cry, I just love them. They are beautiful and they always make me want my life to be better. It was great.

Final Say: Read it. Especially if you've read his others. He completely redeemed himself from the last one.

Golden Globe Nominees 2007

Golden Globe Awards are tonight at 8pm on NBC!! Here are the nominees:

Picture - Drama
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen

Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You For Smoking

Animated Film
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

Actor In A Leading Role - Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
Peter O'Toole in Venus
Will Smith in The Pursuit Of Happyness
Forest Whitaker in The Last King Of Scotland

Actor In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
Johnny Depp in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Aaron Eckhart in Thank You For Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor in Kinky Boots
Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction

Actress In A Leading Role - Drama
Penelope Cruz in Volver
Judi Dench in Notes On A Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby
Helen Mirren in The Queen
Kate Winslet in Little Children

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
Annette Bening in Running With Scissors
Toni Collette in Little Miss Sunshine
Beyoncé Knowles in Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada
Renée Zellweger in Miss Potter

Actor In A Supporting Role
Ben Affleck in Hollywoodland
Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson in The Departed
Brad Pitt in Babel
Mark Wahlberg in The Departed

Actress In A Supporting Role
Adriana Barraza in Babel
Cate Blanchett in Notes On A Scandal
Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi in Babel

Director
Clint Eastwood for Flags Of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Screenplay
Babel
The Departed
Little Children
Notes On A Scandal
The Queen

Original Score
Babel
The DaVinci Code
The Fountain
Nomad
The Painted Veil

Original Song
"A Father's Way"
From The Pursuit Of Happyness
Music by Chris Bruce, Seal Lyric by Seal
"Listen"
From Dreamgirls
Music and Lyric by Scott Cutler, Beyoncé Knowles, Henry Krieger, Anne Preven
"Never Gonna Break My Faith"
From Bobby
Music and Lyric by Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy, Andrea Remanda
"The Song Of The Heart"
From Happy Feet
Music and Lyric by Prince
"Try Not To Remember"
From Home Of The Brave
Music and Lyric by Sheryl Crow

Foreign Film
Apocalypto
From The United States Of America
Letters From Iwo Jima
From The United States Of America
The Lives Of Others
From Germany
Pan's Labyrinth
From Mexico
Volver
From Spain

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Warren Beatty

Television Series - Drama
Big Love
Grey's Anatomy
Heroes
Lost
24

Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Ugly Betty
Weeds

Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Bleak House
Broken Trail
Elizabeth I
Mrs. Harris
Prime Suspect: The Final Act

Actor In A Leading Role - Drama Series
Patrick Dempsey in Grey's Anatomy
Michael C. Hall in Dexter
Hugh Laurie in House, M. D.
Bill Paxton in Big Love
Kiefer Sutherland in 24

Actor In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock
Zach Braff in Scrubs
Steve Carell in The Office
Jason Lee in My Name Is Earl
Tony Shalhoub in Monk

Actor In A Leading Role - Mini-Series Or Television Movie
André Braugher in Thief
Robert Duvall in Broken Trail
Michael Ealy in Sleeper Cell
Chiwetel Ejiofor in Tsunami: The Aftermath
Ben Kingsley in Mrs. Harris
Bill Nighy in Gideon's Daughter
Matthew Perry in The Ron Clark Story

Actress In A Leading Role - Drama Series
Patricia Arquette in Medium
Edie Falco in The Sopranos
Evangeline Lilly in Lost
Ellen Pompeo in Grey's Anatomy
Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer

Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy Series
Marcia Cross in Desperate Housewives
America Ferrera in Ugly Betty
Felicity Huffman in Desperate Housewives
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in The New Adventures Of Old Christine
Mary-Louise Parker in Weeds

Actress In A Leading Role - Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Gillian Anderson in Bleak House
Annette Bening in Mrs. Harris
Helen Mirren in Elizabeth I
Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect: The Final Act
Sophie Okonedo in Tsunami: The Aftermath

Actor In A Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Thomas Haden Church in Broken Trail
Jeremy Irons in Elizabeth I
Justin Kirk in Weeds
Masi Oka in Heroes
Jeremy Piven in Entourage

Actress In A Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series Or Television Movie
Emily Blunt in Gideon's Daughter
Toni Collette in Tsunami: The Aftermath
Katherine Heigl in Grey's Anatomy
Sarah Paulson in Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
Elizabeth Perkins in Weeds

Decision

I cried for the first real time since February of last year.

I made a decision tonight.

It's time to move on.

You will no longer define who I am.

Goodnight.

Alpha Dog

Synopsis: Johnny Truelove is a 19 year old drug dealer in California. Through a bad drug deal, Jake Mazursky ends up owing him about $1,200. After Jake breaks in and trashes Johnny's house, Johnny and his friends go to find Jake, but see his brother Zach walking down the road. They catch him and beat him up and then take him home with them to hold him for ransom. He is aware of what is going on, but is having fun partying with Johnny's friends. It is based on the true story of Jesse James Hollywood who was the youngest person ever to be on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

I actually loved the movie. I have been reading about the case and the making of the movie for about a month now and was just excited to see how the Writer/Director Nick Cassavetes put it all together. I think Justin Timberlake is actually a really good actor. I saw him in Edison Force and thought he was great, so I was excited to see what he would do in a completely different kind of role. And he was great. Ben Foster who plays Jake Mazursky was pretty out there, but he was playing someone who was supposed to be a little crazy and on drugs pretty much constantly. So if you've ever been around people who are on a drug that makes them like that, he really wasn't too far off from what it would've been like. Sharon Stone's fatsuit in the end was pretty distracting because it looked ridiculous. But if you can get past those things, it was just great. What is interesting to me is that the movie was taken straight from the case files of Jesse James Hollywood's attorney. So the movie is as accurate as it could be. In an interview with Nick Cassavetes, he says that it is between 90 to 95% accurate. He said obviously the actual details of what was said between everyone couldn't be completely accurate. But the storyline and what happened in what sequence of events and who was there and what they saw was taken from the witnesses accounts of the events. I think that's pretty much fascinating.

Final Say: If you can get past the drugs, sex, violence & language, it's worth seeing if you're interested in the story at all. But go into it knowing that it is a true story.


Here are some interesting sites with information about the real guy:

Really Detailed Account of how the movie was made
FBI Press Release about capture of Jesse James Hollywood
Unsolved Mysteries information
Jesse James Hollywood - Wikipedia


And heres is some pictures of him & the other real people in the movie:


Jesse James Hollywood at 19


Jesse James Hollywood after capture in 2005


Nick Markowitz


Jeff and Susan Markowitz


Ryan Hoyt (actually killed Nick Markowitz)

Grey's Anatomy

Is fantastic. Did you watch it tonight??

(This picture isn't from tonight, but dang what a good episode)

China

There are more people who speak English in China than people who speak English in America.

Think about THAT!

2007 movies

As of today (this is subject to change), these are the movies I am most excited about in 2007...

Alpha Dog


The Bourne Ultimatum


Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix


The Hottest State


Spiderman 3


That's all I've got right now...more later.

Oh and Ian, Boogeyman 2 comes out this year, too. Weren't you the one that liked the first one?