Remember the white dress I wore all through that film [Star Wars]? George [Lucas] came up to me the first day of filming, took one look at the dress and said: “You can’t wear a bra under that dress.””OK, I’ll bite,” I said. “Why?” And he said: “Because… there’s no underwear in space.”Excerpts from Carrie Fisher’s new autobiography, Wishful Drinking.
Our friends at Answers.com asked us to take a closer look at the birth year of director Steven Spielberg. Who2 says 1946, but many sources online say 1947. Spielberg himself often led people to believe he was born in 1947. (Even the great Roger Ebert wrote a 50th birthday tribute to the director in 1997.) So which year is correct?
Thirty years after he became a fugitive to avoid a prison sentence for having sex with a teenager, Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss the case.
It’s the second-biggest traffic-driver of the year on Who2: The annual Victoria’s Secret TV extravaganza. (The biggest traffic-driver is Black History Month, which — thank heavens — at least salvages our reputation as a thoughtful site.)
Heh! Dig this old trailer for the original Star Wars — “the story of a boy, a girl, and a universe.”
Woody Allen was born as Allen Stewart Konigsberg on this day in 1935. (Just a few weeks after Luciano Pavarotti!)
It will be announced today, says The Washington Post.[Update: Now confirmed.]Clinton will be the third woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, after Madeleine Albright (1997-2001) and Condoleezza Rice (2005-present).
How concrete feels after you jet-pack across a 1053-foot-deep gorge.
Minnesota Public Radio has an enlightening display of challenged ballots from the Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate recount.Included is a Coleman voter who also wrote in “Bachmen” (or “Bad men”?) and a Franken voter who wrote in “Lizard People.”(Lizardy hat tip: Swampland.)
A gallery.(Nick Nolte was in there? Really?)Hugh Jackman is this year’s winner. He may need the distraction from the reviews for Australia.
Headline of the day.
Delware Governor Ruth Ann Minner has named Ted Kaufman to fill the Senate seat of Joe Biden.Kaufman is a longtime aide to Biden. He’ll serve until 2010, when a special election will determine who will hold the seat for the remaining four years of Biden’s term.
Ridley [Scott] is now officially attached to direct this collaboration between Universal and the games manufacturer Hasbro – Hasbro! Jesus wept! – and according to the Hollywood Reporter is planning to give it “a futuristic sheen along the lines of his iconic Blade Runner”. Really? Really?
Sasha and Malia Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C., the Obama family has announced.
Ms. Kurkova has not spoken publicly about how she came to have a smooth navel, and all her agent will say is “she’s not an alien.”The BBC has the scoop.
You know it’s a big story when the Daily News and the Daily Mail are both on the case.”It disappears in photos, so we keep a collection of belly button shots in different positions, and Photoshop them on to her whenever she’s doing a bikini picture.”
As the first African-American First Family, will they be criticized if they choose a black church, or if they don’t? If they choose a white pastor, or if they don’t?Tough choice.[ Update: And if they choose nothing at all? That gets reported, too. ]
Join us now for a fascinating little side-trip into the world of Czech names.The object of our curiosity is former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. We have her birth name as Körbel, but many other sources have it as Körbelová or Korbelová. What gives?
Nifty interview with Sol Sender, the guy who designed the campaign logo for Barack Obama. Dude is a little dry, but it’s good to learn how these things happen.
“Ted was the big guy with the good hands, the man you wanted on your side. And Bobby was an absolute terrier, flinging himself around the lawn — and into the rose bushes — with abandon. ‘The games were tough if Bobby was playing… For Bobby, it was the Super Bowl. His tenacity — he played very hard.'”And Jack played quarterback for both sides.