Bad pink: Keyboard for blondes
A keyboard for blondes with a key that says “Oops!” and a “Somewhat useless key”… Joan… thanks… augh… this hurts my eyes.
The Wrestler
Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson (Rourke) is a pro wrestler who has spent decades slicing himself open in choreographed fights while adoring crowds roar. When a heart attack forces him to retire and reconsider his life, he strikes up a romance with an aging stripper and does his best to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Yet […]
Rebecca Casati is the best
Hey, you English speaking learners of German – read the best German lifestyle journalist around, Rebecca Casati. Just the intro to her interview of Mickey Rourke in today’s Süddeutsche Zeitung is so nice: “Er stemmt sich aus der Couch, bis er seine beeindruckende Bärenstatur erreicht hat. Langsam fährt einem eine Art Hand entgegen. Die Finger […]
How big is the Gulf between us?
Margaret Atwood is protesting the censorship of a book by Geraldine Bedell by the Emirates and will not attend the Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature (26th February to 1st March 2009). The book in question: Geraldine Bedell’s The Gulf Between Us has been turned down for potential offence to “cultural sensitivities” due to its […]
Slumdog Millionaire
The Island Weekly is going to see “Slumdog Millionaire” at the Cinema on 18 March, 8pm (20 Uhr). This film by Danny Boyle, director of Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, is about Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who gets lucky. It’s bound to win the Oscar for top film […]
Lucy does it
Lucy got her own dessous shop going on 14 February. Online, by appointment only. Small beginnings, big dreams. Go, girl! Hope you get lots of customers interested in your fine funky fashion! For more, look here: www.tantalize.de
The International
Saw this with my Morphosys group last night: An INTERPOL agent (Clive Owen of the kissable chin) teams up with a New York District Attorney (Naomi Watts of the perfect hair) to bring down a corrupt bank in Tom Tykwer’s The International. The film’s centerpiece is a shoot-out at the Guggenheim Museum that D.H. Schleicher […]
