Dish #57 - A Bite in the Buttocks.

The Dish: Hey James Cameron, you didn't think you could make a "cool" movie like Avatar, earn billions of dollars, walk around actually believing you were the "King of the World" and actually get away with it, right? Well, here's to popping that little sci-fi/fantasy bubble!

The Third Law: Newton coined it a long time ago: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." Or as I like to interpret it: Karma's a bitch. Emil Malak, a restaurant owner from Vancouver, has filed a lawsuit against Mr. Cameron and his posse (Lightstorm Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and others) for allegedly using his copyrighted movie material Terra Incognita which Malak wrote many years ago (possibly in 1998) as the base for Avatar.

Too Close for Comfort: Malak claims his script is just too strikingly similar to Cameron's movie. Malak says his story is based on a central bio-life containing the indigenous tribe's memories, humans are the bad guys coming to mine precious rocks and some of his characters have flat noses, yellow eyes and tails. (He didn't mention they were blue though, lol.)

The Best Part: Emil Malak (most likely suggested by his lawyer) has created a website to garner supporters (http://www.journeystl.info/). The website is shabby and contains "relevant" and questionnable information about Malak's work, character comparisons and even letters that Malak had written to James Cameron's office in 1998. My favourite is the cover letter which looks like a page out of an old telephone pad.

Money, Money, Money: It's all really stupid. Mr. Malak has no chance of winning his case. The Cameron party is defending that their script was conceived two years before Malak's...and they have a lot more dough to fight it out until the end.

The Final Word: Take it for it's worth. At least this is more entertaining that watching Kathryn Bigelow get angry at reporters for questionning her ability and right to make violently disturbing movies because she is a women.

Dish #56 - The Gina in Me.

Update: I just went and generated my "Jersey Shore" nickname online. Lemme introduce y'all to my new name: Shirley "S-Pow" Tam. I pressed it again and it generated Shirley "The Tan-tric" Tam. And again: Shirley "The Appointment" Tam. And again...kidding...no I'm not...I need a better source of entertainment...ah someone stop me!

Dish #55 - Recovery, Douchebag & The Situation.

The Dish: Woah! I think I might have done it - excepting the totally unexpected breakdown I had yesterday evening on my way home (via the subway) when I had to slather some gloss on my dying lips. Just happened once ok? But other than that, I have been free of lip product for an entire 24 hours. I went to bed without applying anything and woke up this morning with surprisingly unchapped lips. I would run around the office to parade my happiness but such celebration might be a little premature.

What a Douchebag: Ok so I am a sucker for bad reality tv shows - like really terrible cheap reality TV shows. No I do not watch Jersey Shore but I might as well. ("The Situation" is just a little too much for me. Saying "The Situation" makes me feel like a little elementary school girl who needs to giggle everytime someone mentions the words "boys" and "cooties" separately or consecutively in the same sentence.) Anyway, I do, however, watch The Bachelor, not every episode religiously but definitely religiously the finale episode. I knew Jake would pick Vienna but who really cares? It's just so damn entertaining to see them cry and make a fool of themselves. The best part is when Tenley asks Jake what he means by the "magical physical spark" that's missing between them and Jake is just unable to put it into words...unable I'm sure because he is on national television. Let me wildly take a guess and assume it was something about the "magical physical sex appeal spark whatever you wanna call it" he had with Vienna, who looks like Dory from Finding Nemo by the way. Proof below:

Food Stuff: Definitely updating The Life Cooking Project tonight. (I know! I'm so behind on posts!) There's just been too much Olympics going on for the past two weeks.

P.S.
"The Situation": Now you know why I laugh every time? In case you didn't know, "The Situation" is his nickname due to the unsettlingly disturbing or alarmingly amazing appearance (depending on whether you're a cup's half empty or full kind of person) of his rock hard abs that he thinks can seriously cause a - no doubt very chaotic - situation when he goes out in public half naked, or fully naked, or whatever. Yah, someone please call 9-1-1. We need this guido arrested for public indecency.