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News Stories I'm not Breaking
Been too long since the last McAdamsYeah, so it's pretty funny to have made myself one of the last footnotes on the election of 2006 by accurately reporting Donald Rumsfeld's departure about twelve hours earlier than the major networks - according to the Wall Street Journal. Frankly, I don't know how to top that.
There are some news stories that I won't be breaking over the weekend, as I'll be away ( with my baby) before my new job starts next week. Karl Rove will not shrink to 4 and 1/2 inches big to match the size of his reputation. Chelsea Clinton and George P Bush will not be engaged this weekend. Speaking of engagements - it seems that rumors of the break up of McGosling are false, so I will not be meeting with Rachel this weekend.
I know we think something big happened this week, but trust me. We're still in Iraq for a while, we still have millions upon millions of "undocumented workers" in our country.
And just on a personal note. Reihan told you who he was recently. Right now the most salient aspect of my identity is this: I'm the luckiest guy on the planet. Beyond that I'm an Aspiring Dandy (west coast), a reactionary Catholic, an American, a nationalist conservative, and a sympathizer with all secessionists (from Vermont to Dixie) and no, that doesn't contradict my nationalism. While I'm not irritable, I am a huge Johnny Drama fan (thanks for the link Reihan). I've yawped "Victory!" Tarvald-style when I broke the Rumsfeld scoop.
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WSJ: Open The Borders 'Round McAdams?
I like the sable-made hair. Actually it is not the Wall Street Journal calling for McAdams to open up her career, it is Hollywood. I have doubts that McAdams' next film where she plays the "other woman" will be as restrained and beautiful as David Lean's minor 1945 masterpiece Brief Encounter.(One of the most frustrating things is that I cannot find my Criterion Collection edition of this film anywhere.) And in fact, perhaps I'll be happy that it is not. Oh right, I promised the WSJ article:
Minutes after auditioning Rachel McAdams for "Wedding Crashers," director David Dobkin told the studio executive who had recommended her that she had to be hired. "She plays like a Stradivarius, man," said Mr. Dobkin, who cast her in the 2005 comedy as the young socialite who sets a toxic bachelor straight.
These days, the director might have trouble getting Ms. McAdams to even consider showing up for an audition. Though she has only six major studio films under her belt, the 29-year-old Canadian actress has become a red-hot property. But she is also baffling some in ego-driven Hollywood for rejecting many of the high-profile, well-paying parts that young actresses are expected to jump at. - Kate Kelly
But can we talk about how amazing her sable-made hair in the above photo? I prefer this darker look to the one chosen for her next film.
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McAdams Now Blonde
My Other Woman TooWe've seen Rachel McAdams before, and I sometimes see her when I fall asleep at my desk during the day (nights spent writing). But we've never seen her like this.We've seen her as a blonde- but not a platinum blonde. . She apparently went this way for the upcoming film "Marriage", a tale of adultery and murder set in the 1940's. She is the "other woman" in the tale. One wonders if McAdams has "steamy" in her range. My bones are shaking. You can count on SwD for reports on McAdams, the state of my young liver and the forces of blackest Reaction.
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The Last McAdams Update?
Oh Rachel!Is this some kind of payback for doubting the free market? Peter Suderman relays that Rachel McAdams appeared topless in a film before she became famous. At first, he was right - this sounds distressing and disappointing - particularly since I've heaped lots of praise on her for eschewing the Vanity Fair cover. In some ways I've built the first 3 months of my writing life up by softening my deeply reactionary politics with an all too human adoration of an untouchable and idiosyncratically chosen ideal. How much of this was a conceit is hard to say. I certainly didn't obsess to the point of doing basic research on imdb and a search for screenshots from this film.
What bothered me about the Vanity Fair shoot was the gratuitous nature of it. It was sensational and was meant to be vaguely orgiastic and lesbian in tone. If this movie has a topless shot in the vein of Swordfish- then it may be time to re-evaluate McAdams. (Though some part of me says it may be time to re-evaluate my principals. Maybe this is what has to be done to break in, maybe it's not so different from contriving endearing characteristics in your writing persona to get ahead).
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More McAdams, and How National Review (uknowingly) Got Me into the Conservative Movement
Rachel McAdams, Movie Star, Subject of one of my articles - and now constant hit-generator for this site. I wasn't the only one that thought it was a classy move to ditch Vanity Fair's nude shoot. K-Lo from N.R. agrees with me. Incidentally, K-Lo is responsible for my first job in conservatism. She posted notice of an internship at Sentinel Books last year on the Corner. I happened to look at the Corner that day and by the end of the week I was hired. I then proceeded to offer opinions my boss wasn't asking for - and in the hours that my co-workers could not spare to teach me to do the thing it would take them just 3 minutes to do, I started this blog. It's the Circle of Life.
Anyway- just a few quick stories from my internship. I was stationed at a desk a quarter of a mile away from my fellows at Penguin's imprint Sentinel. That was nice in a way. I spent some time talking to an editor from the Viking imprint, Ray Roberts who admired my icon of St. Michael. He had edited William F. Buckley in the past. He was a wise man. One day Stephen Moore, formerly of the Club for Growth, came in. He came equipped with an aide. He talked about the President being very concerned with personal loyalty. "Duh" I thought. We got all kinds of submissions - often that had nothing to do with the imprint's mission.
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McAdams update
Gingham Patterned Blouse, Not NudityEver since I wrote that piece in AFFBrainwash about Rachel McAdams I get an unbelievable amount of search engine hits related to her. I feel in some way compelled to update my readers on her, even if my obsession with her was exaggerated for effect. As you can see- we have a new category.
My friend called me two days ago to ask me if I had seen the cover of Vanity Fair. But why would my film buff friend be asking me about Vanity Fair anyway? Well - I'll let those with Google and prurient interests discover the cover photo with Fashion/Sex icon Tom Ford cavorting with nude Scarlett Johansson and Kiera Knightly. (Somehow this is the perfect cover on any magazine in which James Wolcott writes). The story goes that Rachel McAdams was invited to be on the cover of this Hollywood issue. When she discovered it was to be nude - she refused. Also, she promptly uneployed the publicist that arranged this. A classy move. And of course, in my ladyfriend's mind this further confirms the acceptability of Rachel McAdams and the perfidy of Scarlett.
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Rachel McAdams and the Perils of Chick Flix
Rachel McAdams is my new ScarJo, and retroactively my Old ScarJo for that matter.So here is a sample of my latest puff piece.
In The Shawshank Redemption, the falsely imprisoned Andy obtains posters of movie stars -- Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch. Everyone understands why these images are comforting. We know intuitively how they speak to the male imagination in a way that is equal parts innocent and puerile. The scholastic philosophers knew well that the eye desires beauty, just as the ear desires sonority and the mind desires truth. And Rita Hayworth was hella-blazing! These images nurture a male fantasy life in which the woman he longs for is so transcendently Perfect with a capital-P, she inspires automatic devotion, her beauty demands great chivalric deeds, her very loveliness transports him into a plain of existence in which he, too, has been made perfect. She would never, like a real woman, ever become bored or boring -- she would never nag or be subject to irrationality (however temporary) or a bad hair day. - Yours truly, at AFF's Brainwash.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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