At a campaign rally in Manassas, Virginia, yesterday, Donald Trump hoisted a young boy into the air so that he could ask a darling little question: “What will the wall be made out of?”
On a flight from Brisbane back to Sydney, the Australian cast of The Lion King celebrated their season launch with a Kanye-West-like breach of airplane etiquette: They sang "Circle of Life" in its entirety toward the tail-end of the boarding process.
The lions of Pride Rock reigned supreme again this week — even golden lion-human Brad Pitt couldn't dethrone them. And Pitt was almsot defeated by a dolphin as well. What do the animals have against Brad Pitt??
The Lion King is number one at the box office, so it must be, right? Meanwhile in the future, a disease movie holds on, a dark thriller does OK, and Sarah Jessica Parker stalls out.
Who is designing toys these days? Pedophiles? People who want to crush the souls of children? Is this China's doing? Because if so, they are very sneaky in breaking the American spirit. Toys, in most forms, should not aggressively hump.
After leaping over a fence at D.C.'s National Zoo, a small deer evaded capture by two hungry lions, drawing elated cheers and joyous tears from hundreds of onlookers. And then, they read the tale's horrible conclusion in today's Washington Post.
If it's not bombs, bees and/or anthrax threatening to engulf MGM in a dense apocalyptic deathcloud, then there's always the Specter of Ownership Past to give the denizens of Constellation Drive a good mortal scare. But only if they're willing to suspend their disbelief long enough to imagine Kirk Kerkorian shuffling…
In response to Vanity Fair's earlier item about the play by an old friend of novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, about how novelist Jonathan Safran Foer suddenly got very rich and famous while his old friend did not, Foer says, "his play is hilarious and great. I hope it's bigger than The Lion King." [VF, Earlier]
