Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Entertaining

-- Here's a nice appreciation of the different direction that tough guy movie star Steve McQueen took later in his life.

-- The Rolling Stones continue to mark the 50th anniversary of their lives together as a band by touring. They announced a nine-city, six-week tour. Make whichever age-related joke you wish; either that's all the tour the fellows can still manage or at their ages, they don't dare plan too far ahead. Keith Richards, of course, will outlive us all. Including the cockroaches that are supposed to survive a nuclear holocaust. And including the nuclear holocaust.

-- Some of the detractors of Sylvester Stallone's recent Expendables movies have suggested that the action hero he represents and the 1980s action movies his new ones are meant to evoke are dinosaurs. This writer argues that onscreen dinosaurs played a hand in their extinction.

-- Golf suddenly becomes much more interesting, thanks to Bubba Watson's hovercart.

-- Pixar hopes it can follow the Toy Story rather than Cars lead with a sequel to Finding Nemo called Finding Dory. There could be a problem, however. Nemo was released in 2003, meaning a dozen years have elapsed since Marlin and Dory teamed up to find wayward Nemo, captured by a scuba diver and placed in an office aquarium. Some blue tang fish like Dory have been known to live as long as 20 years in aquariums or other artificial habitats, but their lifespan in the wild is thought to be considerably shorter, even though actual averages are unknown. So Dory might be alive in 2015. Clown fish like Nemo and Marlin, on the other hand, average three to six years in aquariums and somewhat less in the wild. This means that, unless we're talking about Nemo's grandson (or, if you take the shorter lifespan, his great-great grandson), there may not be anyone around to go looking for her (ETA: Ah. According to this story, the new movie will be set a year after Finding Nemo. No piscine Methusalehs required).

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