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Remind me again why they needed to remake The Great Gatsby. Was the original just too poignant? Was the acting too damn good? Or was it because it lacked a hip-hop, dance and alt rock soundtrack?



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xxxholic:
It seems as though every other movie released is a remake. It's annoying.
chris_sick:
Which original?

The silent one? The one with Paul Rudd (surely a keeper)? The one with Alan Ladd?

If you're a talented actor, or writer, or director, or whatever, why wouldn't you want to try your hand at adapting one of your favorite pieces of fiction? If you're one of the above and someone with pallets of money and studio backing to do so and something resembling talent and taste approached you to take part in it, why would possibly say no?
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Writing about advertising guru George Parkers preferred pronominal profanities got me thinking about my own. I have to say Im partial to wanker in the British colloquial sense of the word, which has little to do with a persons propensity for actual genital manipulation, though it can be used to describe socially masturbatory behavior.

The reason I love this word so much is that...
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99percent:
Thanks for the leads on the advertising story nicole, heres an update...


let's review where I am at in the game here.

Does @beatsbyDre support union efforts in the shops that make his headphones and is his reluctance to use his powerful political voice within overseas marketing an indication of support for the anti-LGBT extremist forces in Africa related to the introduction of North American youth gang violence culture into that continent's political spectrum?

My emergency phone is broken. I have to buy out my full 3 year term because the electrical port malfunctioned before the expiry date but beyond the warranty. Why should I support domestic IT if the pricing on local phones is so unfair?

I am acting in an on-air advisory role for a local wrestling promotion. A competing promotion is using non-union labour from an unlabelled smoking/bong/bath salts supply shop and I might be killed on this one.

Advice?
99percent:
Nicole, thanks for the heads up.

Let me return the favour by sending you an item from a story I am currently on...

I'm working on the continuance of this story for Nicole Powers, Editor-In-Chief of SuicideGirls.com

Any leads?



The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States.
American intelligence officers are poring over every detail of Gareth Williams's work and personal life to see if the circumstances of his death endangered U.S. national security.
The Daily Mail can reveal that the 31-year-old codebreaker flew to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's listening post and the largest intelligence agency in the world, up to four times a year. He returned from his last trip to America only a few weeks before he was found dead.
Questions also remain over why his body lay undiscovered for up to a fortnight at his400,000 flat in a Victorian townhouse in Pimlico, central London, half a mile from MI6 headquarters.
Mr Williams worked at the Government's listening post, GCHQ in Cheltenham, but had been on secondment to MI6 for the past year and was due to return to GCHQ next Friday.
The body of the keen cyclist was found in a sports holdall in the bath on Monday afternoon.
But yesterday his former landlady in Cheltenham insisted he had not been off work, intensifying the mystery surrounding his death.
Security sources could not explain why some one holding such a sensitive post was able to go 'missing' for such a long time before police were called.
Officers were last night examining the hard drive of a laptop computer found
in the flat.
Landlady Jenny Elliott said: 'He definitely wasn't on annual leave as the security services woman who came to see me after they found his body told me that he wasn't on holiday.
'Why did no one notice? It's disgraceful the police weren't alerted earlier that he was missing. His murder is devastating and I just hope the person who did it is caught.
Mrs Elliott, 71, who rented Mr Williams a self-contained flat attached to her home in Cheltenham, said he would often travel to America for weeks at a time three or four times a year either with a male colleague or on his own.

National Security Agency: The largest intelligence agency in the world, bases at Fort Meade, Maryland. It is understood that Gareth Williams visited the facility up to four times a year
His uncle, who lives in Anglesey, North Wales, where Mr Williams grew up, said: 'He'd been making the trips for a couple of years.
'I only found this out very recently and I do not know where in America he was staying or who he was working for out there, but I do know it was in relation to his job.
'His last trip was this summer. He returned from the States just a couple of weeks or so before he died.'
A U.S. intelligence source said there was 'no panic' yet within the National
Security Agency and people who knew Mr Williams were still to be questioned.
The source said: 'The strong implication is that his death is not connected
to his intelligence work, though this could change at any time. They are understandably concerned about what has happened and are keeping a close eye on developments.'
Mr Williams's devastated parents Ian and Ellen have faced speculation over their son's private life.
It has been reported that Mr Williams, who lived alone and did not have a partner,
was a gay cross dresser and may have been killed by a gay lover.


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George Parker is a man who loves profanity* almost as much as he hates the corporate fucktards and douchenozzles that stifle creativity in the advertising industry (Parkers preferred pronominal profanities, not my own). In his popular piss and vinegar blog AdScam and his three books Madscam, The Ubiquitous Persuaders, and his latest, Confessions of a Mad Man the renowned British-born adman rails...
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zebrah:
wow thats the coolest
rourke:
How fun!
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drocculari:
I'd love to go, and if I had my air car, I could probably make it.
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pyromethious:
I suppose that's a good enough reason to be quite for a while ;-)
strega:
Love your blogs.
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In May of this year Dita Von Teese will embark on an 18-month major North American tour that is the culmination of her 20-year career as a burlesque artist. In line with her passion for presenting the art in its purest form, her Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray! shows will feature a diverse cast of authentic characters alongside four of Ditas most dazzling sets.

SuicideGirls caught...
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As a beloved (and much missed) former Newswire editor, Wil Wheaton needs little by way of introduction within the SuicideGirls community. A revered Star Trek: Next Generation alumni, after his role on the show came to an end, Wheaton turned to writing, carving a significant niche for himself as a geeks geek in the early blogosphere. He was also one of the first power...
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Presently analysing events of tonight at #OccupyLSX. Who needs sleep! Its 3:26 AM GMT on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, and John Cooper, Occupy Londons chief legal advisor is awake, on Twitter, and on the case following the movements eviction from their marquee St Pauls Cathedral base.

The eminent barrister and Queen's Counsel has worked tirelessly to keep the protesters in situ since the occupation began...
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"Omfgomfgomfgomfgomfg you have no idea how amazing you are!!!!!" was the exact turn of phrase used by my Twitter friend @EisMC2 when I told her I'd just interviewed Little Brother author Cory Doctorow and had returned with a signed copy of the book for her. Indeed it was @EisMC2 and her fianc @JackalAnon who first turned me on to Doctorow's epic updated spin on George...
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