Tuesday 4 September 2007

WEEKLY NEWSREEL



Good evening Mr. & Mrs. Catholic and all you other Christians at sea. Sorry about the pants thing, but if Britney and Lindsay can do it, why not us? Maybe our first story has a clue. Now off to press

DATELINE: VENICE - GO AHEAD AND CALL IT LIKE YOU SEE IT, BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS ALREADY SEEN IT

Making the rounds at The Venice Film Festival, IMDB News overheard actress Keira Knightley commenting on the recent behavior of other young female starlets. "I'm not going to get blind drunk and then stumble out and fall over an puke up in front of people. I'm not saying I don't do that in private, but I try not to. The whole celebrity thing is not magic. They're real people proving they're s**ttier than everybody else because they don't even wear knickers." Perhaps Ms. Knightley once heard someone quote The Catechism where it states that "modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden." That probably goes double if it's supposed to be hidden by knickers. And while the Catechism doesn't explicitly address puking up in front of people while drunk, it does point out that modesty is considered an integral part of temperance, so we're pretty sure it's covered in there somewhere.

DATELINE: ISLA NUBLAR - FILM FRANCHISE NEARS EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT

Speaking of things that might potentially cause your gorge to rise. Contradicting rumors continue to fly over the expected plot line of Jurassic Park IV. Bloody-Disgusting.Com reports that the producers may be backing off of a story which features Laura Dern's character from the original movie running afoul of a government agency training dinosaurs to carry weapons. While this story would almost certainly highlight the Catechism's teaching that "the dominion granted by the Creator over the... animal resources of the universe cannot be separated from respect for moral obligations" as the beasts inevitably turn the weapons on their masters, let's face it, this just sounds like a bad Sci-Fi Channel movie waiting to happen. On the other hand, if Michael Bay was to film a live action remake of Dino-Riders...

DATELINE: LOS ANGELES - ADVANCE TO ABSURDITY, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200

And since we brought up sequels and remakes, we may as well mention this. MovieWeb tells us that director Ridley Scott is considering a film adaptation of the board game Monopoly. Seriously. For real. Look, we don't have any reason to lie to you. Well, you may have noticed the Catechism asserts that "we believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance. God creates freely out of nothing." Apparently now, so does Ridley Scott.

What else is there to say after you learn the guy who made Bladerunner is adapting Monopoly? Not a thing. Just remember as we close another Newsreel that today's gossip is tomorrow's bible study. And as the great Les Nessman always said, "Good evening, and may the good news be yours."

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