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Thursday, August 07, 2003

Memorable Quotes from Pumping Iron           Arnold Schwarzenegger: Franco is pretty smart, but Franco's a child, and when it comes to the day of the contest, I am his father. He comes to me for advices. So it's not that hard for me to give him the wrong advices.   Arnold Schwarzenegger: Milk are for babies, when you get older you drink beer.   Not fair, that was 1977. For some of Arnold’s more recent quotes, read Chatterbox at Slate. Or, if you wanna be totally unfair, go still earlier, to Arnold’s 1970 collaboration with Arnold Stang, “the two Arnold’s” (“Schwarzeneggar” became “Strong”, a stage name, Strong and Stang, get it? - not quite Sturm und Drang, but close enough for a Hercules movie without Steve Reeves ).   Memorable Quotes from Hercules in New York   Hercules: Ha, ha, ha. You have struck Hercules. Hercules: Hercules hides from no man! Hercules: Hercules has no need of money! Hercules: Bucks? Doe? What is all this zoological talk about male and female animals? Mercury: You could do great harm. Hercules: Ahm To Oom?   Do not despair, nowadays he has the cream of the crock writing his lines and overdubbing his regrettable Austrian regressions.                                                                                                                              8:32:59 PM    comment []

A Jabez stone looks like this. Stephen Vincent Benét was having a little biblical fun when he named the farmer character in The Devil and Daniel Webster. You can buy a Jabez stone with this little prayer on it:   Prayer of Jabez Now Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, "Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may cause not pain."   1 Chronicles 4:10   The classic screen version of The Devil And Daniel Webster is the 1941 version with Edward Arnold as Daniel Webster and Walter Huston as Mr. Scratch. However, an unreleased version was made in 2001 featuring Anthony Hopkins as Daniel Webster and Alec Baldwin as Jabez Stone. Jennifer Love Hewitt plays the Devil and Dan Ackroyd is in it too. It isn’t quite unreleased – it did play at least one film festival and IMDb say it releases today in Russia!   The 2001 film was initially touted as the directorial debut of Alec Baldwin, but Yahoo Movies reports this little bit of trivia:   Michael Fleming of "Variety" reports that Alec Baldwin has removed his name from the project as director, but there's no word yet about what name (possibly "Alan Smithee") will eventually be listed instead.   The same report makes it seem that quality might be a factor inhibiting the film from general release:   Release Date: TBA 2003/2004 Distributor: Currently seeking distribution in the USA. Distributor Note: (12/10/02) LoveHewitt.com reports that Splendid Pictures, which is attempting to find a distributor in the U.S., has a first-look deal with Universal Pictures, so that company is one strong possibility.   Hopkins fans awaiting his performance as Daniel Webster are probably best advised to exhale, unless they’re lucky enough to be in Russia today. 5:16:04 PM    comment []

Word is that The Devil is appealing the Jabez Stone case, hiring the prestigious Baker Botts legal team to plead his case - right after they complete their defense of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which is being sued for $1 trillion by the families of 9/11 victims.   The Honorable James A. Baker III is certainly qualified handle the Stone appeal, having recently pled the plaintiff’s case at the Supreme Court in Bush v Gore and officially represented Enron Corporation. His resume also includes a stint as Secretary of State during the Iran-Contra affair and Secretary of the Treasury during a period in which the US dollar was devalued to 30% of its previous value, effectively tripling the price of oil. 1:39:26 AM    comment []

Only the LA Times (even while Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arianna Huffington throw their hats into California’s Third-World gubernatorial race) fronts this interesting story:   Bush Order Raises Rights Concerns   An executive order signed by President Bush more than two months ago is raising concerns that U.S. oil companies may have been handed blanket immunity from lawsuits and criminal prosecution in connection with the sale of Iraqi oil. The Bush administration said Wednesday that the immunity wouldn't be nearly so broad. But lawyers for various advocacy organizations said the two-page executive order seemed to completely shield oil companies from liability — even if it could be proved that they had committed human rights violations, bribed officials or caused great environmental damage in the course of their Iraqi-related business. 12:47:13 AM    comment []