Day 14- Baron Davis is a Clipper?!

First off, the Weird Al concert was INCREDIBLE. He had like 30 costume changes, performed all of his hits, made the silliest faces and was fucking weird. During one song he kept taking items of clothing (t-shirts etc) and finished with...well, I'll let you see.

FUCKING WEIRD RIGHT? I loved it. He even played songs that weren't ever released. You know the song, "I'm in Love with a Stripper?" Well he dressed up as Gilligan and sang, "I'm In Love with the Skipper." FUNNY AS SHIT RIGHT? He had clips from Gilligan's Island playing behind him.

The concert was sold out and the people there were pretty weird, but that made it all the better. Some of the other Weird Al highlights:
1- Seeing Weird Al in a Michael Jackson fat suit (circa his music video) singing "FAT."
2- Watching a Weird Al groupie and his wife (who were both groomed creepily like Weird Al himself) mouth the words to every song, every song intro, and act out this random part where Weird Al and 2 bandmates did a choreographed dance while chanting gibberish.
3- Seeing Weird Al dress up as Amish/Jedi/Billy Joe Armstrong/Kurt Cobain
4- Watching him roll in on a segue to "White and Nerdy."
5- Watching Weird Al sing THE ENTIRE 12 minute long song, "Albuquerque" for his encore.
He stopped 3/4 of the way, "lost his place" and then started over. He was kidding. It was fantastic.

All in all, as a life-long Weird Al fan (My first 2 CD's ever were Beatles' "Hard Days Night" and Weird Al's "TV Album.") this was truly a memorable night, and one of the highlights of my young adult life.

And now, the long awaited next installment of ACTORS WHO ARE THE SAME. Today, Terrence Stamp and Malcolm McDowell.








Terrence Stamp was born in England, and since playing the menacingly evil General Zod in Superman II, has continued to play old, sinister yet brilliant villains or at least intimidating old man. While he worked in the 60s, in the late 90s and 2000s he began to have a career resurgence playing the part of the creepy villain/wise trainer. In Star Wars Episode I--Supreme Chancellor Valorum. In "My Boss's Daughter"-Tara Reid's menacing father. In Disney's "Haunted Mansion"-the eccentric Ramsley. On Tv Sci-Fi, "Smallville" he is the voice of Clark's kryptonian father who guides him, Jor-El. In Elektra--he is the wise trainer. This summer you can see him as a creepster in "Wanted" (a kick ass movie if I ever saw one) and a villain in "Get Smart."

Malcolm McDowell was also born in England and plays creepy, sadistic and brilliant villains. Beginning with "A Clockwork Orange," Malcolm McDowell has had a steady career playing evil. He didnt do much notable work (a lot of voice over stuff--even doing a voice in SUPERMAN: The Animated Series. I guess old evil British guys can always get work in some reincarnation for Superman) until a career resurgence in the late 90s, early 2000s. "Just Visiting" was Terrence Stamp's "My Boss's Daughter." He mostly works television and voice overs now, but he plays villains on the HBO's (woo woo) "Entourage" and the sci-fi show, "Heroes."

These two actors also have an uncanny resemblance. There you have it folks. Two actors who can basically do the same parts and might as well be interchangeable. Both great. Both villains. Both the same.

Until tomorrow-

Day 13- Willis still LOVES ANIMALS

Sandra Bullock is a movie star. There is no question about it. However, can anyone name a good movie she's been in? Think about it long and hard. A good "Sandra Bullock movie?"

There are only 3 movies that maybe come to mind, and all of them have exceptions. Sandra Bullock was in "Crash," and that was a good movie, but "Crash" was not a Sandra Bullock movie--after all, she was only in like three scenes, and shared the screen with Brendan Fraser. "Speed" was a decent action movie, but let's face it, the star of that movie was the bus. "Miss Congeniality" was the only Sandra Bullock movie that I fairly enjoyed. It was a cute idea, and had a charming Michael Caine, but it wasn't THAT great. And can any film that features William Shatner in a main role (playing a part other than himself) be considered a great film?

I'm looking at her imdb page and there is not a single movie other than the ones I named that is good. While You Were Sleeping? More like, "Wrote this screenplay While I was Taking a Dump." In Love and War? More like in Love and BORE (Yes, I am Gene Shalit). Speed 2? Hope Floats? Forces of Nature? 28 Days? Two Weeks Notice? You know what all these movies have in common--I SAW THEM ON AIRPLANES. All of her movies are shitty, B movies that pair Sandra up with some attractive guy with nice hair (Bill Pullman, Harry Connick Jr, Benjamin Bratt, Hugh Grant (who by the way has gotten more charming with age)) and has her "free spirit" change that nice haired actor for the better.

Why is she so popular? She has never really made a good movie! She sits there on her tower, doing shit like "The Lake House" and "Premonition" and never gets called out for it. I dont understand where she gets off. Or why Hollywood keeps having her open movies. It doesnt make sense. Meg Ryan used to be popular when she made good movies. Then she started making shitty movies (Against the Ropes, In the Cut, Kate and Leopold) and had terrible plastic surgery so now shes not headlining movies. Good. She needs to prove she can choose good projects before she can start getting top billing again. I want the same treatment for Sandra. Its only fair.

In other news, in the "actors who are not on the same plane sharing the same agent":
OMAR GOODING AND ANNE MEARA.

Omar Gooding is Cuba's brother. He appeared on the show "Wild and Crazy Kids," "Hanging with Mr. Cooper," and "Smart Guy." Most recently he was on ESPNs, "Playmakers" and the short lived series, "Barbershop" based on the movies. I really liked Smart Guy by the way. I liked the theme song (OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD: I got a slice of da life, and that's the TJ Henderson, super intelligent, a fine young gentleman, a ten year old wiz kid, BUSTIN high school, he's a tenacious little shorty with a dozen IQ, he's got a way with the ladies and hes keeping it real, our favorite little study buddy he knows the drill. Daddy says he's a kid, on the ball very clever, daddy says he's brainy, gifted, Whatever (BEST PART) YOUR BROTHER IS SMART. He's a SMART GUY. Do do do do do do do) I also liked the stories and Omar's character, Mo Tibbs. He was very funny.

Anne Meara is Ben Stiller's mother. She has been a comedian for like 50 years, and use to be in the comedy team "Stiller and Meara" with her then husband, Jerry Stiller (or Mr. Costanza). Shes mostly done guest appearances on TV shows since. Like "King of Queens," "Will and Grace" and "Sex and the City." She has also appeared on select episodes of the Israeli Sesame Street, "Rechov Sumsum" which was quality (Moishe Oofnik, you're a crazy son of a bitch.)



I guess neither of them are that famous, or work that often, its just funny because Omar is young and black and was a child actor, and Anne Meara is an old Jewish lady whos been around for like 60 years. Thats not to say agents shouldnt have diversified clients, its just that these two people are like opposite sides of the spectrum in terms of the parts they play and the shows they're on. I guess its not THAT ridiculous. I think I just wanted to talk about Omar Gooding.

I'm off to see Weird Al at a concert tonight. The concert is at a venue an hour away and I'm REALLY excited. I know a lot of people are like "I listened to Weird Al when I was a kid, but now he's not that funny." Bullshit. He's hilarious and his music has only gotten better. I defy you to listen to songs like "A Complicated Song" (his Avril Lavigne parody) or "Hardware Store" (an original song in which he layers 14 harmonies and lists like 200 items you would buy in a hardware store really fast for like 3 minutes without breathing) and not laugh and be in a state of shock and awe.

Until Tomorrow--

Day 12: I'm Really Looking Forward to "Wanted"

When people ask me what my favorite movie is, I always have to say "Airplane." It is the funniest comedy of all time and it is the movie that made me fall in love with "comedy" as a genre when I was but a young boy. I loved (and still love) the parody and silliness in every frame of the movie. The gags in the movie are not all juvenile. Most of them were clever, intelligent, and required full audience attention. They were gags that you could say, "rewarded the audience" who was paying attention. Sometimes they were four/five gags in each scene. Growing up, I wanted to be the writer for this type of parody and had hope that I could be the one to bring back the genre.

Then much to my surprise, in 2000 "Scary Movie" from the Wayans Bros came out, revitalizing the parody genre. It was good. Clever, funny and fresh. It wasnt on the status of "Airplane" or any Zucker Bros. movie by any means, but it was funny. Scary Movie 2 was also ok. Then, everything went downhill. Scary Movie 3 (although directed by David Zucker) was simply not funny but made tons of money. Scary Movie 4 was also not funny at all but made shit loads of cash. And then, the worst of the worst came out. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (writers for all 4 Scary Movies) came out with Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans and now DISASTER Movie. Movies nowadays are ripe for parody. There are so many ways to make fun of these genres, but the only gags that Friedberg and Seltzer include in their movies are people getting hit in the face/smashed by something oversized/gender reversal/people getting hit in the crotch. Now, if done sparingly, a good hit in the crotch can be very funny. But when EVERYTHING is someone getting hit by something--wheres the funny? Whatever happened to subtle comedy?

In the new Disaster Movie trailer, there are 6 clips. The first--A guy dressed up in an Iron Man Halloween costume getting smashed by a cow. Second- Hannah Montana getting crushed by a meteor, Third- The Hulk's shorts getting ripped off. Fourth--The princess from Enchanted getting hit by a bus. Fifth- Hancock flying up from a park bench, hitting his head on a pole. Last- a cross dressed Sarah Jessica Parker getting kicked in the face by Juno ala Dont Mess With the Zohan.

What is funny about ANY of these gags? NOTHING. One rule in comedy, is you cant make fun of something that doesnt take itself seriously. You cant parody Airplane, because it is already a parody of other things. Hancock is a parody of other superheroes, so making fun of it is redundant. Enchanted makes fun of Disney princesses. She almost gets hit by a bus in that movie. Having her get hit by a bus in this movie is stupid. Another thing is that Airplane and all of those movies were funny because they have serious actors in it. Leslie Nielsen was a serious actor before he made Airplane. Peter Graves was a serious actor. When you cast straight up comedians/shitty actors in parts, they probably wont be as funny.

I guess I'm just frustrated at the lack of creativity with Friedberg and Seltzer. They have been given the keys to a Hollywood franchise where they can really be funny and cutting edge and instead all they can do is do people getting hit on the head by things. Fuck You Friedberg and Seltzer. You're not funny and you're shitting on great opportunities for comedy.

PS-Some of my favorite comedy parody movies (in no particular order)
1. Airplane
2. Naked Gun (1+2)
3. Top Secret
4. Wrongfully Accused
5. Kentucky Fried Movie

ANYWHOZELBEES--SEE OH ARE WHY (Cory) brought this up a long time ago, but doesnt Luigi's life suck? His whole job is to be a plumber and put himself in life threatening positions to save his brother's girlfriend. This guy's self esteem must be really really low.

Short post I know, but Until tomorrow--

Day Eleven: All Dogs Go To Heaven (4: Itchy's Revenge)

With "Jumper" coming out on DVD last week, I will use this post to discuss my thoughts when I first saw the movie (in theatres, with Wild Willis). I first saw this movie for 2 reasons. 1) Special effects and 2) Rachel Bilson. I was not disappointed with the special effects, nor was I disappointed with Rachel Bilson (although I wish the obligatory sex scene had been longer).

However, every other part of the movie was terrible. Plot? Didnt make sense. Characters? Thin as ice. Hayden Christensen in it? Check. I'm not going to go in detail about any of this because this is not a movie review website and I'm not Rotten Tomatoes. However, I am going to point out a couple instances where this movie just shows how dumb and illogical it is, and how stupid it thinks the audience is.

You know the part in "Thank You For Smoking" when Aaron Eckhart is talking to Rob Lowe about how they can get people to smoke cigs in space if its an oxygen environment? Rob Lowe says, "But thats an easy fix. Just one line of dialogue, "Thank god we invented the...you know...whatever device." THE ENTIRE MOVIE WAS LITTERED with shit like this.

There is a part in Jumper towards the end when Hayden is on the run. He is looking for Rachel Bilson and goes to the bar where she works. He asks the bar tender: WHERE IS RACHEL BILSON! The bartender says something along the lines of "Oh. You're old friend from high school just came over here and asked where you were. I told him where you lived. I think Rachel went there to look for you too."

The old friend from high school was Samuel L. Jackson who has a white head of hair, black goatee, carries a long electrical cane and is dressed in a series of turtlenecks, collarless shirts and trench coats. WHY ON EARTH would this bartender believe him when he says he is the 26 year old Hayden's HIGH SCHOOL buddy. Samuel L. Jackson looks like a freak. (Look at the picture. Would you believe THIS GUY was friends with Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen?) Why would she tell Samuel where he LIVED? That was just a plot device to come up with an excuse for how Samuel L tracked Rachel Bilson down and it was lame, and stupid and illogical and DIDNT WORK ON ME.

The next stupid thing in the movie is the whole plot involving Hayden's mom, played by Diane Lane. Diane Lane is the head of a secret organization who's job it is to kill Jumpers. When she finds out that Hayden is a Jumper when he is a young boy, she leaves the family because she does not want to have to turn her son in...to herself. She then starts a new life, even having a daughter with someone else. Now while its obvious why Diane Lane is in this movie ($) its not obvious why she would rather keep her job than her son. That does not make any sense at all. This woman's whole job is to KILL jumpers and when she finds out her son is one, she decides that rather than kill her son...she'll abandon him. Really? She doesnt have a change of heart about professions? Doesnt think, "hey, my son is a jumper and he's not that bad, maybe I shouldnt be KILLING PEOPLE LIKE HIM!"

At the end of the movie, she tells him to run--she'll give him a head start. What a nice mom.

Anyway, this movie was just a great premise that never went anywhere, despite the fact that Hayden Christensen went EVERYWHERE. Not even Billy Elliot could save it.


Also--it appears Marc Gasol, Pau Gasol's brother is going to be joining Memphis next year. If you dont remember, to get Pau Gasol, the Lakers traded Memphis the rights to Marc Gasol who they had drafted the year earlier. Is that how deals are made in the NBA now? Hypothetical conversation between Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak and Chris Wallace, the Memphis GM:

Mitch: Alright, so we're almost done making this deal.
Chris: Yep.
Mitch: Run it back by me.
Chris: We give you our best player, Pau Gasol, for your two worst players, Kwame Brown and Javaris Crittenton. Plus some draft picks. Plus the rights to Aaron McKie
Mitch: Who no longer plays in the NBA and is a volunteer asst. coach for the 76ers.
Chris: Correct. AND--Pau Gasol's brother.
Mitch: Good. Now are you sure you want just his brother? I can throw in his Aunt Miriam. She makes a great Spanish chili.
Chris: No, just the brother.
Mitch: Deal.

What if family members could always be included in deals? Hypothetical convo between the Miami Heat and LA Clippers:

Heat: Alright I want Elton Brand.
Clippers: Well we want Dwayne Wade
Heat: Well how about if we give you Elton Brand's nephew and a refrigerator
Clippers: How about just the refrigerator and Udonis Haslem's first born?
Heat: Does he play basketball?
Clippers: No, but my wife is barren.
Heat: I'm sorry.
Clippers: It's ok. Its her fault.
Heat: Where were we?
Clippers: We want Dwayne Wade, your #2 draft pick and the rights to Tim Hardaway.
Heat: Tim Hardaway retired 10 years ago. I dont even know where he lives
Clippers: GIVE US TIM HARDAWAY
Heat: Fine! You got Tim Hardaway, our number 2 pick, Udonis Haslem's first born and we get Elton Brand's nephew.
Clippers: His nephew is a really funny. He makes me laugh, like all the time. Sometimes he says things like, "white people be crazy when they do this!" AND I DO DO THIS.
Heat: That's great. I love laughter.
Clippers: I'm so glad we're friends.
Heat: Me too. Promise me we'll be friends forever.
Clippers: LONGER THAN FOREVER
Heat: Infinity and BEYOND
Clippers: Buzz LIGHTYEAR!
Heat: You got it!
Clippers: I got it cause we saw that together? Remember, for Alonzo Mourning's 4th post-kidney transplant after party?
Heat: That party was sick!
Clippers: I think that's when I got AIDS.
Heat: Thats a shame.
Clippers: Well I'm ok now. It was like the "temporary aids."
Heat: I've never heard of that.
Clippers: It's totally real.
Heat: I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is.


On a completely separate note, it's finally nice to see some honesty from today's NBA players: When asked the question, "Would you be willing to take less money to go to a contender?" Ron Artest responded, "Oh, never. Not in a million years. Actually not in 10 million years." When asked, "Really?" Artest responded, "Make that 3 million years." Way to go with the truth RON RON.

Until tomorrow--

DAY 10- The Slaying of the First Born

Yesterday I was in my iCar listening to my iPod on iShuffle and the song, "Happy Working Song" from the film, "Enchanted" came on. My sister had put it on my iPod and it is a cute song. It's Amy Adams singing happily about cleaning up the apartment. It has a nice orchestral arrangement with flutes, violins and other sprightly instruments. It has lyrics like "come little friends while we all come together and sing a happy song. "A nice listening experience. The next song that came on was "Uncle Fucka" from "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." A similarly jaunty, orchestral piece, but with lyrics like "you're a cock sucking ass licking uncle fucker." Talk about juxtaposition.

When this film came out in 1999, it didn't do THAT well at the box office (it was made for $20 mil, it made around $50 mil so I guess it was an underwhelming hit) because people were kind of over South Park. It was daring and rebellious and filthy when it came out in 1997 (or when I was in 4th grade) but in 1999, people didn't think it could make the successful jump to big screen. And kids who watched it on TV couldn't get a ticket to a rated R movie.

Who would have guessed that a) South Park the show would still be big, if not HUGE ten years later in 2008 and b) that the South Park movie would stand the test of time and still be as funny and awesome as it was when it first came out. No one.

I think you can attribute South Park's awesome longevity to three things. First, South Park is not stagnant. The show takes a few days to produce an episode and so can keep up to date on current events. Second, Trey Parker is brilliant and doesn't give a shit about anyone. He gets smarter every year, makes fun of celebrities (Bono--YEA YEA YEA YEA YEA YEA...), politicians (why should I choose between a douche bag and turd sandwich?), political correctness (people that annoy you--n_ggers), the Internet (how are we going to know what is going on without it!), trends (guitar queer-o) etc. and does not resort to "Cartman gets anal-probed" episodes anymore. Plus he realized that people are over the shock of hearing children curse and so pushing the envelope in terms of raunchiness isn't going to keep him on the air forever. Third, Cartman and Randy Marsh are fucking brilliant characters. Cartman is the encapsulation of all that is evil, manipulative and not right with the world, and so everything he does can be seen as what the writers think are wrong. But at the same time, you love Cartman and so you never get sick of him doing awful things. Randy is the encapsulation of everything that is dumb and American, and the writers can keep using him to act stupidly, and thoughtlessly be a "proud American" no matter what that entails. We love Randy because we love watching people making fun of us and "holding up a mirror on society" so to speak. Am I comparing South Park to Moliere? Yes, and I don't think its that big of a stretch.

In terms of the movie, because of the plot (making fun of Canada never gets old), its hilarity (Kyle's mom's a bitch and she's just a dirty bitch!) and the fact that it is a musical (and a great one at that), new audiences and sets of kids keep discovering it every year. South Park right now probably its biggest audience of all time. It has the college/post college kids who grew up on it, it has the middle schoolers/younger kids who watch it on syndication, and it has the adults who are finally appreciating its satirical prowess. Plus, it has finally gotten over the stigma that it is bad for children. Right now there are kids going, "when are they going to make a South Park movie?" And there is one! Plus, the movie was a re-watchability factor off the charts. I guarantee that if you watch it now, you will still very much enjoy it and see new things.

So, GO FORWARD South Park. Continue to make us laugh and expose society's hypocrisies. I'll be watching.

PS. Trey Parker and Matt Stone definitely have George Carlin to thank for paving the way for their type of comedy. George's raunchiness, use of language, knack for exposing hypocrisy and stupidity, and hatred for bullshit in all of its forms was unique and revolutionary. Without him, shows like South Park would not accepted in society today. RIP George.One more thing--Hollywood right now has a movie coming out called "The Six Wives of Henry LeFay" and a TV show coming out called, "The Six Ex-Wives of Henry Tate." Isn't Hollywood stupid?

Until Tomorrow-

Day 9- I'm So EXCITED! I'm So EXCITED! I'm So....SCARRED!

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Day 8- Nothing Rhymes with Eight

Its a little bit early (or late depending on your time zone) to be discussing the Academy Awards, but I am going to talk about them anyway. That is, I am going to talk about what happens after a certain trend related to the Oscars.

Since the "superhero boom" of 2001 that started when "Spider-Man" had the biggest weekend opening of all time to date. $114 million. (And for bonus points who knows the current all time biggest weekend opening of all time? If you said "Maid in Manhattan" then you are woefully misguided. Its Spider Man 3, with $151 million!) This phenomenon had studios green lighting even superhero movies left and right. Some good (Batman Begins-YAY!) and some not so good (Daredevil-BOO!)

There has also been a trend in the academy as of late, to nominate actors for Oscars for performances in more "indie" roles. A lot of these actors were lesser known/unemployed before and so, when they are finally recognized for great work they want a large payday. What movie roles give actors large paydays? ACTION MOVIES. What type of action movies are Hollywood making these days? SUPER HERO movies. My theory is also made true by this statement of principles:
1. If Indie actors want money and big roles.
2. And Superhero movies want indie actors and have money and big roles
3. Therefore Superhero movies will give indie actors big roles and money.

Don't quite follow? Well the proof is in the pudding.

After her big Oscar win for "A Beautiful Mind" in 2001, actress Jennifer Connelly (who's biggest film to date before that was David Bowie's "Labyrinth") chose to make Ang Lee's "The Hulk" her next big picture in 2003. (PS. I saw the new Hulk this weekend and I was pleasantly surprised. It was very good. During the fight scenes I definitely felt like punching someone/destroying something/screaming loudly.)
Charlize Theron followed her Oscar win for "Monster" with "Aeon Flux" (also the next big picture for Oscar nominee (for "Hotel Rwanda") Sophie Okondeo).
Holly Hunter followed her nomination for "Thirteen" by doing voice over work for "The Incredibles."
Morgan Freeman followed his long overdue Oscar win for "Million Dollar Baby" with a small role (for which he got a large paycheck) in "Batman Begins."
Phillip Seymour Hoffman followed "Capote" with "Mission Impossible III" (not a comic book movie, but a big time movie villlian nonetheless and a provider of one of the most kick ass trailer monologues ever ("Do you have a wife...or a girlfriend? Cause I'm gonna find her. And I'm gonna hurt her. Then I'm gonna KILL YOU RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER!!!")
Judi Dench followed her Oscar win for "Shakespeare in Love" with her role as "Catwoman."

JK! That was Halle Berry who after her win for "Monster's Ball" did X2 and then Catwoman silly billy.
Thomas Hayden Church followed his much lauded role in "Sideways" with his role as The Sandman in "Spider Man 3."
Heath Ledger followed his Oscar nom for "Brokeback Mountain" with his upcoming role as the Joker in "The Dark Knight."(Insert dead Heath Ledger joke here).
Cate Blanchett folllowed "Notes on a Scandal" with Indiana Jones 4.

AAAANND If I were to extend the Phillip Seymour Hoffman category, I could put Alan Arkin who followed his win for "Little Miss Sunshine" with "Get Smart" and Helen Mirren who followed her win for "The Queen" with "National Pleasure 2: Book of Secretions." (Thanks Wayne's World!)

Do you see what I'm getting at? So moral of the story is, if you want to get a part in a new superhero movie, getting an Oscar nomination makes it a whole lot easier. So don't be surprised if you hear that Hal Holbrook is playing "Thor!"











Now I am going to introduce a section of the blog I'm going to call, "Actors Who Made the Right Choice." The first actor (or actress in this case) who made the right choice is......

MARA WILSON
You may remember this adorable young actress from her roles in "Mrs. Doubtfire" as the adorable "Nattie."(Some of my favorite Natty lines: "We're his goddamn kids too," "But we're in the middle of Charlotte's Web" and "DADDY!") In her heyday, this precocious doodlebug even gave the Full House Olsen Twins a run for their money. She was super-cute in Mrs. Doubtfire, uber-cute in "Miracle on 34th Street" and not as cute, but still engaging as the magical, literary tour de force "Matilda." After "Matilda," she made two more movies, "A Simple Wish" and "Thomas the Magic Railroad" and then disappeared. There was no comeback at age 18, no guest starring role on "Judging Amy" or "Law and Order," no DUIs. She stepped away from the camera and that was it. And boy is she better off for it. Not only did she cement her status as one of the cutest child actresses of the early 90s but she is always going to be remembered for her cuteness and delicate acting and that's it. Mara Wilson (if she continues to stay off the radar and does not pursue acting after college) will be frozen in time in the minds of our generation as just a wonderful, adorable, child actress who, while in her prime, was at the top of her game. No afterthought. For all of these reasons, in my mind, Mara Wilson is an actress who made the right choice.

Until Tomorrow--