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Billy Bob Thorton Film Festival
So, anyone else have Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" running thru their head now?
Anyway, Mrs. Not Bob and I caught a couple of flicks in the last week or so. Coincidentally, the former Mister Angelina Jolie was in both of them.
"Bad Santa" is funny. Billy Bob makes an excellent drunken lout. That Lauren Graham chick from "Gilmore Girls" is in it (her character has a Santa fetish). I'd depose her.
Do not bring your children. Notwithstanding the fact that every review I have seen said this multiple times (Billy Bob even said it on "The Best Damn Sports Show), a few morons did so when Mrs. Not Bob and I saw it the other night.
"Love Actually" is also funny. Billy Bob has a small role as a lecherous American president with a bad rug (though Mrs. Not Bob said that he looked pretty good cleaned up). Some of the story lines are better than others -- they could have dropped the porn doubles and the guy who goes to America -- but it was overall a pretty good collection. Not all of them are terribly happy, either, but that's l'amour, right?
The Mister Darcy fan club (hi, dtb!) will be thrilled to see Colin Firth in action, while slave will be disappointed that Keira Whatshername isn't onscreen more often. (Apropos of nothing, she has a wonderfully expressive face, and a delightful smile -- if only she ate a cheeseburger every now and then.)
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