Go ahead. I dare you.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

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I'll go first:

The Wilson brothers: visionary geniuses or lucky Hollywood hacks? Discuss.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

The one blonde haired fellow has an oddly flat nose. It always startles me, but I find it endearing as hell. I don't know who's who in the Wilson family, but I know that the blonde one seems to do a lot of movies with Ben Stiller, and not to get off the subject, but Ben Stiller really should be married to me and not that Marcia Brady girl. Yuck.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

Tell me about it. I love Ben Stiller. I'll fight you for him?

(Sorry, totally off the subject, but I had to get that in there.)

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

Well, it could be said that the Wilson brothers are lucky that they made friends with Wes Anderson back in college.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

*shrug* I like the Wilson brothers. More and more of late. I think Owen's freaky nose is cute. I always wonder how it got broken (those two million times that it must have). But Luke Wilson is an enigma...he only looks good without hair. The rules of people with big jaws on otherwise normal heads dictates the need for hair for balance. And yet he defies that norm. Idiocy aside, I really loved the royal Tenenbaums and the scene where Luke Wilson slits his wrists and the music literally stops. Ouch. For the record, I think Luke is more talented (as an actor) than Owen (who is more talented as a writer). Question? Did the spelling of Tenenbaum change in the final movie from Tanenbaum? Almost sure it did.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

I don't know if I'm willing to fight for Ben, knowing that he's putting it in Marcia and all. Normally, I'm a lovah, not a fightah, unless we're talking about Andy Garcia or Marc Maron or something.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

Andy Garcia? Oh, you can so have him.

Dylan McDermott is MINE, though.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

ooh, please no Tenenbaum spoilers! Haven't seen it yet, but will be going soon...

This girl I know named Jenna used to "hang out" with Owen (i.e. recreational sex only) when he lived in Austin, and she had some interesting things to say about about his prowess. Well, mostly uninteresting things, if you catch my drift. They call him "O-Weenie", which is stuck in my head and now I can't think of anything else when I see him on TV or see a trailer. I think Luke is the better-looking...

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

oops. Sorry PG. Don't worry. There are still plenty of good parts I didn't stupidly reveal. :P

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

I find neither of them attractive, but I'm glad someone pointed out they've known Wes Anderson for a while. Otherwise I'd still be scratching my head, wondering where they came from.

Ok, I'll give Luke Wilson a tiny bit of credit for the only humourous bit in Rushmore (a dreadfully dull movie, imho):

These are O.R. scrubs. Oh. Are they?

That was the only thing I laughed at in that movie. Not even Bill Murray could save it.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

"Rushmore" dreadfully dull? ack!! How? no no!

I really think it was one of the greatest films of that year. Does that make me odd? Plus, it was filmed at St. John's, where Wes went to secondary school - how can you not love that?

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

Everyone I know always goes on about how great Rushmore was, and I really just didn't think it was anything special. One person referred to it as an intellectual comedy. Nope, don't see it.

Maybe I should watch it again, in case my bleah feelings were just hormonal or something.

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2002

Well, I see Robyn's here with me, but I guess it's the one film that I just don't 'get'. It seems to be loved by most and as hard as I've tried, it does nothing for me. And I love movies! I love 'getting' movies.

Sniff. I'm sorry!

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

Well, I'm a big fan of the Wilsons/Anderson and I don't really care for Bottle Rocket, so there you go. (Although, I've only seen it once and I was half asleep, but still.)

But RT is by far one of the best movies I've seen ever. It's just brilliant, and I clearly am not since I can't think of a better way to describe it.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

That's exactly the way I feel about Rushmore, so I'm looking forward to seeing RT (as it were).

I think the reason I like Rushmore (and I say this at the risk of sounding as astute as Carson Daly) is that there's a lot of humanity in that film, and a little bit of magical realism. Not magical realism like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - but in Rushmore, there's a touch of something that makes all the characters seem extra human while still being slightly ethereal.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

Heh.

O R they?

Funniest. joke. ever. I still say it at least twice a week in response to anything containing the word "are."

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

Rushmore felt extremely real to me. It was the most true to my high school experience high school film I've ever seen, in a lot of ways.

-- Anonymous, January 16, 2002

I'm renting Rushmore this weekend on DVD just so I can see all the extra stuff mentioned here.

Someone else ask a question now....

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

The Holy Roman Empire was neither . . .

Okay, I'll bite: do you like to read right before you go to sleep? And if so, what kind of book?

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

I must read at least a few pages right before sleeping, and currently I'm reading the Harry Potter books (on Book 3 now). Larry McMurtry books are good for me right before sleep, too, because it doesn't hurt my heart to put them down.

If I like a book too much it gets ugly, because I Will Not go to sleep until my eyes actually rebel against staying open.

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

Robyn, I am the same way. Master V laughs me because I'll get in bed and read until my eyes cross, and then I'll just close the offending eye so I'm not seeing double anymore. When he hears the book drop, he turns off the light.

And I must read before bed. I don't know any other way.

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

yep - I mostly read before bed than any other time except on weekends in the afternoon when I'm bored to death ....

right now, I'm reading Birds of America by Lorrie Moore- I'm on a very sad story though and last night through the tears, I had to close the book with maah bookmark and stumble across the room to the lightswitch and collapse into bed; tearstains on cheeks still there...ugh. I guess not a good idea to read saaaad books before bed like that, but I do so too often.

not good to read hilarious books either though cause I'll laugh till I cry and then wake mom up (I read laaate; like 4am-5am)

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

I usually read Scientific American or Smithsonian before bed. I appear to have let my Smithsonian subscription elapse. That's not a bad thing because lately I've been re-reading The Lord of the Rings and no magazines. The January issue of Scientific American is unread, and the December issue is open at the angiogenesis article. I think I'm going to skip that article.

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002

I haven't read before bed in forever. Damn you internet!

-- Anonymous, January 18, 2002