Gawker is the country’s leading gossip/snark site. The writers will attack anyone (except Kate Winslet) because they just don’t care. They churn out an extraordinary number of posts per writer per day, something on the order of 1,500 each, because they’ll be staked out and eaten by cockroaches if they don’t.
We’ll get to John Waters in a moment. First, though, it appears as though the recent passing of Congressional earmark king John Murtha (D-Defense Industry) has brought about the collapse of an entire lobbying firm, KSA, which probably not coincidentally employed Murtha’s brother Robert. Another lobbying outfit with strong ties to Murtha, PMA Group—established and owned by a former Murtha staffer—crashed and burned last year while the subject of an FBI corruption investigation. RIP, everybody.
Okay, so, the “Twilight” movie series is one of those rare book-to-film translations in which the films are better than the books, and the films are pretty horrible. The story revolves around Bella, the worst teenage girl role model ever, and her cradle-robbing 100+ year old vampire boyfriend, which is a seriously creepy premise that isn’t half as creepy as the creepiest romantic element of the tale.
Despite that the horrible films aren’t as bad as the more horrible books, and have been quite successful at the box office, the producers are apparently wanting to add a bit of artistic street cred to the franchise, in search of which they’re apparently contacting some directors of the auteur variety, with perhaps the best potential fit being “Drugstore Cowboy” and “Milk” director Gus van Sant, who would probably never be approved by the author of the series, whose name I forget, because his sensibility is somewhat opposed to hers.
The best idea for a new director is proposed in the comments on the post by someone called William Mize, in response to the post author’s hope that in the event Gus van Sant accepts the job, he’ll fully exploit the story’s weirdness potential. Mize says if you’re going for weird you may as well go to the source, that being “Hairspray, “Polyester” and “Pink Flamingoes” director John Waters, who unfortunately couldn’t cast the late Divine in the Bella role, but still has “Hairspray” star Ricki Lake to fall back on.
One of the Davids Lynch or Cronenberg would be our choice.
Are you not embarrassed to know (or reveal your knowledge of) the details of this multi-media blight on the cultural landscape?
Funny about Murtha’s
PACslobbying associates though.The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. At first it was just social reading, but now it’s all day, every day. But I do take care to hydrate.