note to self

the two things i whispered to my friend during “tinker tailor solider spy”

1) (after Edith from “Downton Abbey” has a brief cameo in which she shamelessly flirts with Benedict Cumberbatch) “God, she’s just always throwing herself at dudes, huh?”

2) (after sad teacher cruelly rejects a gift from a loser student about two hours into the movie) “That’s the first thing that’s happened so far that I’ve understood.”

Me: C’mon. If you were Angelina, would you talk to Stacy Keibler?

My mom: Yes!

Me: What would you say to her?

My mom: “Hi! How are you? Nice hair!”

Banter from E!’s Oscar Nominations Telecast

• “If I seem excited, well, I usually am… but I’m super excited today…” - Ashlan Gorse
• “You know… even when [Clooney] plays a jerk, he’s so likable.” - Chris Gore / ”So true, so true.” - Ashlan
• “I just think the cast of that is lucky it isn’t called ‘Tyler Perry’s The Help’ because he would have played all the parts.” - Chris / “So true.” - Ashlan
• “Is there any way they’re not going to say ‘The Artist’ as a best film nominee?” - Ashlan
• “[Gosling] didn’t show up at the Golden Globes…” - Marc Malkin / “I know. I was so sad.” - Ashlan
• “I mean, [Gosling/Mendes] is a hot couple. I want to see them on a carpet.” - Marc / “I wanna see them do a lot of things on the carpet.” - Ashlan
• “[DiCaprio] made J.Edgar look… actually attractive.” - Chris

George Clooney, Matt Damon and Daniel Craig each separately answered the same questionnaire for Vanity Fair. This is how each actor responded to the question: “What talent would you most like to have?”

Clooney: “Musical - I’d like to play an instrument.”

Damon: “To be able to play the music I hear in my head. I wish I could play every musical instrument, and I wish I was fluent in that language.”

Craig: “Opposable toes.”

A source adds that Blake “hit her head on a lamp as [she sat down in the booth] and put a napkin jokingly on her head.”