wow-something to think about AND look forward to

(i don't like john wayne but i sure as heck LOVE those coen bros)

Coen brothers to remake John Wayne's 'True Grit'
from AFP

Virtuoso film directors Joel and Ethan Coen will remake the classic 1960s western "True Grit," which earned American screen icon John Wayne an Academy Award, Hollywood media reported Monday.

Variety said the directors of "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski" were putting their own spin on the novel by Charles Portis telling the tale from the point of view of the stubborn 14-year-old girl at the heart of the story.

The 1968 novel, as well as the film directed by Henry Hathaway the following year, focused on Wayne's character, the irascible and aging US Marshall Rooster Cogburn whom the girl hires to track down her father's killers.

The Coen brothers wrote the screenplay, and the film reunites them with Scott Rudin, who produced their Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men."............

clean coal clean!!!

i love those coen bros!
Famed brothers Coen take on 'clean' coal in TV spoof
Stephen C. Webster
Beware the "greenwash."

That's the underlying message of famed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen's latest side-project: A television commercial lampooning the myth of "clean" coal through the visual metaphor of an air freshener that spews black smoke.

"Is regular clean enough for your family?," asks a phony salesman as thick, noxious fumes permeate the air. "Get clean coal clean."

Watch the video, released on behalf of the Reality Coalition:...............

i guess i'll have to read the book now

i have it on my desk at work. i got it as a 'mistake' from my book club. i forgot to reply to that month's book selection so they auto sent it. i hadn't even read what the selections were. i had never heard of it anyway, so i would have said NOT to send it. i'll read it now. if it's good enough for the coens it's good enough for ME
Coens to adapt Chabon bestseller
The Coen brothers are to adapt author Michael Chabon's bestseller The Yiddish Policeman's Union for the big screen.
Joel and Ethan Coen will write and direct the Alaskan murder mystery, set in a fictional Jewish settlement, after Columbia Pictures acquired the rights.
The Coens' current film No Country for Old Men, which earned the brothers a Bafta for best director at the weekend, is nominated for eight Academy Awards. ...............