After interviewer Michael Parkinson commented on his birthname being Michael Douglas:
| “Michael Keaton” wrote: |
| Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name. One of them is doing quite well from what I understand, the other is making cheap porn movies … like ‘Basic Instinct.’ |
Unfortunately, due to a bug in my scripts, I accidentally linked the votes not to films, but to reviews, so multiple reviews for the same films could have different ratings for the film depending on which review you used to rate the film through. I had to reset all the votes, and I fixed the bug. My apologies for the trouble. If anything shows up that doesn’t look right, then let me know, please.
On my way to the swimming pool today, I was wondering about something; pretty much all of Europe harbours some resentment towards Germany for what happened in the first and second world wars. I know that much of south-east Asia harbours resentments towards Japan for what happened in the second world war, and pretty much anywhere where countries have inflicted violence on other countries there’s resentment. Now, the U.S. will have to endure a lot of flak for what happened in Iraq, and it’ll be for a looooong while to come. But what I’m curious about is if the Japanese harbour resentment towards the U.S. for destroying two of their cities with atomics. It was an unprecedented scale of devastation that was never seen before, and has never been seen since. Now, history is written by the victor (which is proving less and less true as technology advances), and everyone has sort of forgiven the U.S. for it, since it put a rather abrupt end to the fighting on the Pacific front. While we (the rest of the world) have forgiven them for such massive slaughter, have the Japanese? I can’t imagine. I find it hard to believe that the rest of the world is and was okay with it, but I find it even harder to imagine the Japanese feeling that way.
I just got a 22 inch wide-screen at work. Holy hell, that’s cool.
For the few of you out there who haven’t seen this yet, I’ve been watching this over the last couple of days, and I keep being amazed by this. While his singing isn’t perfect by Opera standards, what breaks my heart is that he’s still so uncomfortable and insecure even after that amazing performance, in which not only the audience, but also the pretty female judge instantly falls in love with him.