The Entertation Index: October 5
Breathed, Berkeley — From the “where are they now” files, the L.A. Times has caught up with the elusive creator of Bloom County. No joke here, it’s just kinda cool and I thought it might be worth sharing with you guys — there are a lot of Bloom County fans out there who, like me, loved his work know very little about Breathed. So here you go.
Link: Berkely Breathed Drawn Back to Bloom County but Looking Forward (LA Times)
Fox, Megan — Megan Fox couldn’t afford to dress glamorously in high school. Thank God we finally learned something else about this girl, she’s so mysterious. I’ve been hoping she’d tell the press some things about herself.
Link: Megan Fox Was a Cheap Dresser in High School (Hindustan Times)
Heart — Ann and Nancy Wilson have collaborated on a combination lullaby album and children’s book, releasing this month. The album is to focus on soothing songs for young children, while the book will address why dad’s not around.
Link: Rockin’ Heart Sisters Deliver Bedtime CD, Kids’ Book (USA Today)
Girls, Fly — The new CW reality program Fly Girls will focus on the exploits of five flight attendants as they travel around the country. CW programming director Kristen Vadas describes it as a show about “real, down-to-earth young women who happen to have landed in an exceptionally glamorous, high-flying career filled with exotic locations and handsome strangers.” In other news, I would like for CW programming director Kristen Vadas to re-write my resume for me.
Link: CW Orders New “Fly Girls” Flight Attendant Docu-Reality Series (Reality TV World)
Korine, Harmony – The director of disturbing indie gems Kids and Gummo — both real feel-good flicks — has unveiled his latest piece of purposefully disturbing celluloid, which features people in masks performing mock sexual acts on tree branches, drinking wine and humping trash. The film, appropriately enough, is called Trash Humpers, and the idea was born of a notion Korine claims he had as a child, when he would notice mounds of back-alley litter and his “imagining what it would be like to hump them.” America, don’t ever let anyone tell you your dreams won’t come true. Each of us, in our own ways, should each be following those dreams. So get out there and hump your own trash today, friends.
Link: Harmony Korine’s Found Footage Film (IFC)
Louvre, the – Staff members of renowned French art gallery the Louvre are bristling at plans to open a McDonald’s restaurant in the museum next month. Featured prominently will be the 1937 oil-on-canvas Mayor McCheese in Repose, 1845′s Still Life With McRib, and 1688′s classic The Ascension of Chipotle BBQ Chicken Snack Wrap.
Link: McDonald’s Restaurants to Open at the Louvre (Telegraph)
Othello — Audiences have been so seemingly displeased by a current production of Shakespeare’s Othello starring Philip Seymour Hoffman that many have actually left during the intermission during recent performances. One critic, from website NYULocal.com, is quoted as saying that he “[hadn't] seen a theatrical exodus that large since sitting through a community theater production of ‘Clue: The Musical’ in northern Michigan.” No word yet on whether….wait, there’s a Clue musical? How can I get tickets to that?
Link: Audience Walking Out of Peter Sellars’ Othello Early (NY Post)
