Focus Features has announced the next Coen brothers film will be released domestically on September 12th. It's called Burn After Reading and described as a "dark spy-comedy" written by the Coens. Actors include George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. Malkovich plays an ousted CIA official whose memoir accidently falls into the hands of two bumbling D.C. gym employees intent on exploiting their find. I'm guessing Clooney and Pitt are the gym rats. Back to comedy for the Coens... not sure that's a good thing after say, Intolerable Cruelty .
Another account of memoir fabrication! This time a white woman named Margaret Seltzer made up a foster family, gave herself mixed racial heritage (half-white, half-Native American, and a life on the gang-ridden streets of South Central LA. She recounts all of this in a well-reviewed memoir called Love and Consequences published just last week Seltzer's older sister was the first to squeal, calling Margaret's publisher to tell them the truth. I'd like to know the story behind that sisterly bond - not that what sis did wasn't called for, it's just a bold move against one's own sister.
This is the second frabicated memoir in the news this week...
LA Times' web scout David Sarno writes a good piece about YouTube and the good and the bad of online videos. Recent discussion on Culture Lust regarding parents videotaping their children gets some Sarno attention.
Here's a list of the 30 fastest growing careers, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Funny, they left off arts bloggers. Clearly the list is bunk.
The baby from Nirvana's Nevermind album is now 17 years old !
And, finally, here's a list of the worst nude scenes of all time. Apparently McDreamy wasn't always so dreamy.
