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Août 29, 2003

Le prochain Gigli, sauce scientologie? Une lectrice, qui se souvient de la petite discussion sur Beck et la scientologie sur ce site, m'envoie une info intéressante mais élusive qui circule dans un groupe de discussion sur le chanteur de Los Angeles. Beck aurait déclaré au journal italien Corriere Della Sera (l'article n'est malheureusement ni sur le site brouillon du journal, ni indexé par Lexis Nexis) qu'il va jouer à l'automne dans un film, "une sorte de Alice au Pays des Merveilles" qui prend place dans les années 70. La réalisatrice est une amie à lui, et c'est son premier film.

L'interview se serait déroulé avant un récent concert en Italie. Quelqu'un a t-il cet article? Beck ne mentionne aucun projet de film sur son blogue ou à d'autres médias. The next Gigli, with a scientology flavour? A reader, who remembers a little discussion on this site about Beck and scientology, sends an interesting but elusive info mentioned in a newsgroup about the Los Angeles singer. Beck allegedly told Italien newspaper Corriere Della Sera (the story is not on the paper's terrible site and CDS is not indexed by Lexis Nexis) that he's going to play in a movie this fall, "a kind of Alice in Wonderland" taking place in the 70s. The director a female friend of his and it's her first film.

The mysterious interview took place before a concert in Italy. Does anyone have this article? No mention of a movie on his blog or in other media.

La lectrice soupconne la réalisatrice d'être sa petite-amie, l'actrice Marissa Ribisi, qui a écrit des scénarios et a une page perso de scientologue . Elle craint un nouveau "Gigli au parfum Battlefield Earth" (NDLR: allusion à un film avec Ben Affleck et Jennifer Lopez, fiancés à la ville, qui a été un four retentissant et à un navet basé sur un roman de Ron L. Hubbard, le fondateur de l'église de sciento, avec John Travolta en tête d'affiche.) Qui sait? J'irai bien voir Beck sautiller dans un costume du Lièvre de mars.
A noter: Beck annonce un prochain album avec beaucoup de grosses guitares. / The reader suspects the "girl" director to be his girlfriend, actress and screenwriter Marissa Ribisi who also has a Scientology home page. She fears "something awful...like Gigli, but with a little Battlefield Earth thrown in." Who knows? I'd love to see Beck jump around in a March hare costume.
Note: Beck says he's working on a new album with "very loud guitars."

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Août 26, 2003

Le Canada au chevet d'Hollywood: 50 moyens de sauver les films par le Toronto Star (Via Fimoculous) Extraits: / Canada by Hollywood's bedside: 50 ways to save the movies, by the Toronto Star (Via Fimoculous) Excerpts:

20. Force Bill Murray to make more movies

22. Let the cute puppy die.

28. Now that gay marriage is legal and all, have Frodo marry his adoring sidekick Sam atop Mt. Doom, in the final instalment of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. All this heavy breathing is driving us crazy.

29. Institute a "Kevin Spacey Clause" for Oscar recipients. If winners unleash more than four dogs subsequent to their awards, they must return them. On TV, during the awards.

32. Why restrict the use of those nutty, end-credit outtakes to comedies? There must have been wacky moments on the set of Schindler's List, too.

47. All sequels should be called "Again." As in Spider-Man Again. Then Spider-Man Again And Again. Then Spider-Man Again And Again And Again. And so on.

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Août 25, 2003

Traversée des Etats-Unis: Bonnie est en train de traverser les Etats-Unis en train, de Los Angeles à New York. Elle a apparemment le même téléphone portable-appareil photo que moi, un Sony Ericsson pas cher et relativement bon, et alimente son moblogue sur Buzznet. / Cool trip across America: Bonnie is travelling across the United States by train, from Los Angeles to New York. It seems like she as the same phonecam than I do, so a relatively cheap, good Sony Ericsson, and she's feeding her Buzznet moblog with pictures.

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Août 24, 2003

Oups: la version française du post de dimanche a disparu... désolée. En voulant traduire j'ai effacé le texte en français, avec le lien à Navire et à Doxa, qui m'a ajoutée dans sa blogoliste à la suite de cette histoire. En gros, je renvoyais à ma réponse laissée dans les commentaires de Navire.

Thrown out of the boat part II, in English this time: Sorry, didn't take time to translate the post below (well, the ghost-post that I just erased by mistake), but this is a Franco-French mini-controversy that's only interesting to readers of French and American blogs.

In a nutshell: I found this pretty new bilingual political blog, thanks to Francophile and Francophone Hollywood novelist Roger Simon. It is very well done, and even though I don't agree with each and every one of the author's opinions, I linked to it and mentioned it to people who might be interested in checking it out. A prominent blogger from Paris, Navire, got pissed off and publicly declared that he was erasing me from his links, because of my endorsement of this new blog. And also because I was getting on his nerves in general (which is a good enough reason, hee hee!). Some nice people jumped in and commented on this drastic action, which was indeed quite typically French: you shut up people you disagree with, or loudly claim that they shouldn't be given an audience.

This new blog, Blogorrhée, is quite moderate, but he's also a proud supporter of Merde in France, a very controversial blog by a francophone American who has been living in Paris for something like 15 years: I actually met the guy, exchanged personal e-mails with him, and really like him. Much of his public writing is shocking if not nauseating to me, but MIF is... thought-provoking, to say the least. I wish he could sometimes pause before hitting the "trash France" button, and instead explain how he has managed to stay and work in France for all these years, given the stuff he writes, and given the freedom he has to move elsewhere. His story is certainly much more interesting than what most of us perceive: French readers call him a xenophobe, etc., and in a way, he asks for it.

But while some French critics and disappointed "Americans in Paris" vote with their feet and leave France, the guy is still there despite all, and has mastered the language like a four-star chef. I don't get it, and I'd be very interested in understanding his mind one day, so I keep reading him. I'm not an intellectual. I have a hard time articulating my thoughts on politics: I love reading people who are very good at it.

The most intriguing thing about MIF is that usually foreign expatriates who chose to live abroad are often violent critics of their own home country. Like this Frenchman from Chicago Boyz, or any American in Eastern Europe, who would usually give me goose bumps with their very brutal trashing of America. I would usually jump in on Matt's side, trying to point out some good things about the U.S., just to put a small dike in the flood of anti-Americanism. Anyway, MIF is doing the contrary: living willfully in a country that feeds the angry posts on his blog daily. I'm revolted every day by so many things in America, and still, I don't think I could feed a blog remotely as critical of the U.S. as MIF is of France, because at the same time I marvel at so many things here on a daily basis.

I was just telling Matt tonight: The guy I interviewed about Segway HT the other day changed his Swiss-German last name into a simpler name of his own choice. In France, it is far more difficult to change your last name. You can't even name your child anything you want! I met this guy of Hungarian origins who was called Attila (a very common name in Hungary), but was forced to change his name to Alexandre by the mayor of his French village, who found Attila "too violent." Well, I like the American way better: You are a free individual, and the state doesn't tell you that you can't call your twins Starsky and Hutch (which some French couple tried to do, a few years ago, and were denied).

Tonight, we were driving back home from the beach on the freeway, surrounded by SUVs with fat drivers behind the wheel, and I was telling Matt: "I prefer the French way, where people don't spend their life working to pay for a new, overblown car and other things they don't need in general. I like a country where people don't give a shit about the car they are seen in, and are able to joke about death at the coffee machine without pretending it doesn't exist." Then they head for the local cafe/brasserie, where the food wakes up all your senses, mmm!!

To make a long post short: The French blogger who kicked me out has every right to do so, and I love the fact that he's as free as I am to do whatever he wants to with his blog. But my attitude is, link to good blogs, even if you disagree with them, and let people choose for themselves.

Thanks Amy, for the incredible message of support in French, MediaTIC and Roger for joining in so kindly.
+ for the views of a moderate and happy American in Lyon, read Damelon!