Worst Film Accent?
 

doesn't a fax of Soze's face come to the cop just as Virgil left, and the face looks a lot like Virgil's?

Worst Film Accent?
 

I actually wouldn't have spoiler-ed it--hell, I don't even think we should have to spoiler same-day tennis matches for people once the results've been posted on the NYT website--but str8 said he hadn't seen it, and as this movie had just popped into his head I thought he might be reconsidering to see what the fuss was about.

And Thurgreed's still wrong. My perfect little belt bag the size of a credit card is hardly a huge-ass shiny nylon fannypack. And my guess is that he dances like Lionel Richie or Whitney Houston--that is, he can't, and certainly shouldn't in public.

Worst Film Accent?
 

Indeed it does, though I don't remember Verbal being called Mr. Soze by "Kobayashi"... Since I have the 10th Anniversary DVD Special Edition in my collection at home, I will be happy to break it out this weekend and watch it and the special features for the answers we seek... I'd invite everybody over for a few cold ones and fire up the grill, but, well...

Worst Film Accent?
 

Those Tudor girls did have some pretty wicked catfights, didn't they?

Do We Know This NYer?
 

From Salon's Match Made in Heaven, Match Made in Hell Dating column

"The summer I was studying for the bar exam, I was swamped with work and my sister's wedding, but I had time for a little light dating. I went on about a half-dozen dates with a very nice guy from my law school class. We had a fine time at the occasional party or dinner or concert, but there wasn't much in the physical chemistry department. Still, I liked him, so by the end of the summer I found myself inviting him up to my apartment after dinner. We were on the couch finally doing some real kissing, when he started to run his hand up under my sundress. At last.

Suddenly he stops, his hand on my ass, and in a startled tone says, "Your underwear doesn't cover your butt!"

"No," I said, "it's a thong."

"What's a thong?" came the shocked reply.

I had never met a guy, pushing 30, in the 1990s, in New York City, who had never encountered a thong, much less never heard of one. Had this man never so much as seen a Victoria's Secret catalog? I tried to salvage the evening, but it was too late. There was no way I was going to be able to have great sex with a guy who considered a simple thong as shocking as a full-body crotchless latex catsuit."

Do We Know This NYer?
 

I know her.

It is true. Her underwear does not cover her butt.

But it is not a thong. She just wears really undersized non-thong panties from GAP Kids.

In addition, there is nothing shocking to any New Yorker about full-body-crotchless latex catsuits. This is what we all traipse about the office in on fridays to make it extra-casual at the end of the work week. It also makes accessing genitals relatively hassle-free during those long conference calls where all you want to do is furiously masturbate.
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Do We Know This NYer?
 

I always feared long conference calls with NY attorneys. I thought you were mad. Now I'll have a better understanding of em behavior/demeanor. Come to think of it, they do always seem to chill out after 2 or 3 minutes.

Last Comic Standing
 

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Okay, I understand that comics are supposed to be nasty and misanthropic, but damn these people are incredibly unlikable. I think I would quit rather than spend 10 minutes alone with them.

I's a little hard to figure out who is really in the alliance. It looked to be just Dave, Rich, and Corey (who I really cannot stand), and now it also looks as if it is also the black woman whose name I cannot remember (Tess, maybe?) and Ralphie.

As for the competion, how is it possible that Corey beat Tere, no less smoked her so badly? Corey is not funny and her style and routine could have been taped from any comedy central standup in the last 15 years, with tweaks to the cultural references. At least Tere's stuff was interesting.

Worst Film Accent?
 

You wish you could dance on the ceiling.

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Do We Know This NYer?
 

What disturbs me about this is that I have never had a conference call with New York attorneys where they didn't gather up five or six of them in a room to talk with me. So this is what you're all doing and why there are five or six in the room but only one ever talks?

Do We Know This NYer?
 

It's either circle-jerk or the bread game. It's always a chick who talks, right?

Last Comic Standing
 

Agreed. Corey's material was predictable and her presentation mundane and unremarkable. Tere at least had me in suspense. I actually thought she had blanked there for a while and was gong to upchuck her neuroses onstage.

Last Comic Standing
 

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I rarely like female comics, and last night was no exception. I agree that there was nothing terribly original or interesting about Corey, but I thought she won hands-down. Mainly because Tere is flat-out terrible. She was not funny in Los Angeles. I missed the Vegas show, but I doubt she was funny there. Most gimicky comics suck ("look at me, I'm weird and angst-ridden!"), but spikey-haired chick sucks more than most. There are funnier working comics in every city (and I use that term loosely) in America. Corey is nothing special as a comedien, and she is probably a bitch, but she was funnier that Tere.

I was, however, surprised by the margin of victory. Dave only got 70-some percent of the vote last week, and I thought he kicked Sean's ass to a greater degree than Corey kicked spike's.

Pack your bags!
 

Let's all go to Vancouver eh?

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 2 — Vancouver was awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics on Wednesday, taking the games back to Canada for the first time since 1988. THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC Committee selected the British Columbia city over bids from Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Salzburg was eliminated in the first round of the secret ballot, setting up a final vote between Vancouver and Pyeongchang.
The vote totals were not immediately announced.
The words that Canada had waited to hear came from IOC president Jacques Rogge, who opened a white envelope and declared that Vancouver had won the rights to the games.
Vancouver, the scenic Pacific coastal city whose bid is paired with the ski resort of Whistler, had been considered the front-runner for most of the campaign.
Canada hasn’t had the Olympics since Calgary hosted the 1988 Winter Games. Austria’s last Olympics was the 1976 Innsbruck Games. South Korea staged the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, but no winter games have ever been held in an Asian country other than Japan.
The 2010 result could have major implications in the race for a bigger prize - the 2012 Summer Olympics.
A marquee field featuring New York, Paris, London, Madrid and Moscow, among others, is already in the race for 2012.
Awarding the 2010 games to North America leaves Europe in a strong position for 2012 - at the expense of New York.

Last Comic Standing
 

I think that going second may have given an advantage to Corey, who certainly wasn't that much funnier than Tere. The audience had her most recently in mind when they voted, and they were probably more likely to remember what she said. The person being eliminated has to be absolutely on his or her game and be memorable for a few mintues. The person going second just has to make the audience laugh enough to forget the first contestant.