Published on June 6, 2008 by Vu Le
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and this is quite true. The Sex and the City movie was nothing fresh and spectacular, but more of a return to old ways in a grander, more glamorous, two-and-a-half-hour scale. At the risk of being insulting, the film was basically a rehashing of similar venues and scenarios already explored in the series. But this formula isn’t entirely bad per se as dedicated fans will love the nostalgia and new viewers will enjoy the seemingly fresh stories. They all win. So who said old tricks were bad?
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Published on June 2, 2008 by Vu Le
So yeah…I’m back! After a prolonged Writers’ Strikesque hiatus, I’m back on the blogroll, pissed off and feeling the shame of being surplus summer labor. So excuse the stone-cold tone of this post…
Thursday, the glamorous red-carpet of the Cannes Film Festival was stained with controversy about Sharon Stone’s comment about red-China’s recent earthquake, “”Then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice, that the bad things happen to you?”
Hearing that, I COULDN’T HELP BUT WONDER (in my Carrie Bradshaw state induced by the Sex and the City movie fervor)…what if this crude, 50-year-old, full-frontal bearing, somewhat washed-up celebrity was right?
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