Comments on: Newstastic or Craptastic…its Newsies!

By: Oedipa Wheeler

Oedipa Wheeler — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:56:53 +0000

Thanks Tengu!

& Kerri, I’ll have to expand my Bale repertoire & watch Empire of the Sun. Thanks for the recommend!

By: Tengu

Tengu — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:58:23 +0000

Great writeup Oedipa! Welcome to the asylum for the interwebz known as Normality Restored.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:40:39 +0000

Later on the kid who played one of the dumber Newsies was featured in one of the Mighty Ducks movies, shot in MN. My sister was used as an unpaid extra for quite a few days (though didn’t make any scenes) and met him, and when Newsies was brought up he glossed right over it like it never happened. I have a feeling most of the cast did this. If you want to hear Bale singing post puberty, I recommend Empire of the Sun, which is actually worth watching.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:16:37 +0000

I was ten years old when this movie came out and I knew to stay away from it. I’m happy to say I’ve still never seen it and don’t think the funny factor could lure me in. Wasn’t Doogie Howser’s little buddy in it? That guy bugs me, and I think it would only be magnified in a setting like this and with these accents and singing.

But anyway, I get the impression that these eloquently written sour grapes might well be alleviated by a personal artistic catharsis. There are artists that get all the satisfaction they need from the work they do, even if they’re not lighting up KCRW or melting faces at Sundance and Cannes. I guess what I’m saying is I find things like this funny too, but more in a “Haha look at that jackass!” way than in a “Look at the successful guy fail, he’s no better than me!” way.

I like the article though. What the fuck is an echelon?

By: Oedipa Wheeler

Oedipa Wheeler — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:22:01 +0000

ha…nice stoker… “don’t be afraid and don’t delay!”

By: Ernesto Vazquez-Belen

Ernesto Vazquez-Belen — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:39:53 +0000

Oedipa from Oedipa Maas in “The Crying of Lot 49.” I don’t remember where the second name comes from, though.

By: Stoker

Stoker — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:51:43 +0000

“Open the gates and seize the day” Patrick Bateman.

By: Oedipa Wheeler

Oedipa Wheeler — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:31:34 +0000

Bonus points for whoever can tell me which two books I pulled my moniker from…