ATL 12/17/07

Yes, that's me gettin' jiggy for the Junior/Senior Prom (I was the Junior going with Senior Laura) and yes, that's brown velvet.There are numerous articles out there about why you should or shouldn't drink at company Christmas parties; you be the judge.
MOVIE/ART/LOCAL/WEB/WEB NEWS

MOVIE NEWS - The Golden Globe Nominations are out, and I'm astonished to find that I'm familiar with every single film nominated in the foreign film category:

4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (Romania)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (France, United States)
The Kite Runner (United States) - huh?
Lust, Caution (Taiwan)
Persepolis (France)

While we've only seen "Diving Bell" and already missed seeing "Lust" in the theater, I'm definitely going to drag pumpkin to the other 3...

Other notables (for me, anyway):

Eastern Promises - Best Drama
Jodie Foster – The Brave One - Best Actress, Drama
Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises - Best Actor, Drama
Hairspray - Best Comedy or Musical
Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray - Best Actress, Comedy or Musical
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd - Best Actor, Comedy or Musical
Julia Roberts – Charlie Wilson's War - Best Supporting Actress
John Travolta – Hairspray - Best Supporting Actor
The Simpsons Movie - Best Animated
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly - Best Director

...and in the local film category, an Anti-Bush/Pro-Vegetarian Horror Spoof I saw at the Atlanta Film Festival last April is now out on DVD...that's right...it's finally your chance to see... "Blood Car"!

This weekend's new release is "Sweeney Todd" - Johnny Depp is "Running with Scissorhands", again.

ART NEWS - "The Wiz" is easing on down the road to the Rialto, Dec 19-30.

LOCAL NEWS -The 14th Street Bridge Project is about to get all up in my face! Because of the "good" (read "drought-stricken") weather, the project is ahead of schedule and Techwood Drive will be closing early! No 16th/14th/10th Street exit off the connector! (That's what the Midtown folks are reporting, although my DOT contact - "Deepthroat of Transportation" - tells me it may be otherwise...)

New Civil Rights Museum - The ajc reports a new design for a Civil Rights Museum would cost an estimate $125 million to build. They asked folks to vote on whether they thought it was "worth" that much money, but they didn't put it into much of a context. Allow me...

The New World of Coke set Coca-Cola back $97 million.

The High Museum's Renzo Piano expansion cost $163 million (including the new dorms, restaurant, and admin offices).

Bernie Marcus funded $250 million of the cost to build the Georgia Aquarium and there were still additional, corporate sponsors.

NATIONAL NEWS -After going on and on and on for 5 years, Celine Dion gave the final performance of her show at Caesar's Palace on Saturday night. Finally, my life can go on.

FRENCH NEWS -Didn't make it to the newspaper's headlines; the link to Le Monde was hijacked by a flash ad for "Sweeney Todd" (before you could click to continue to the news site.

WEB NEWS -All those boxes to unwrap over Christmas...then...what to do with the boxes?

Cardboard can be cool...

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