Unexpected gifts are nice, particularly when they just seem to happen without a lot of forced impetus. Case in point, thanks largely to "The Golden Compass" tanking New Line Cinema is suddenly all humble and eager to make nice with Peter Jackson, meaning that a Jackson-produced (and potentially Sam Raimi directed?) movie of "The Hobbit" is finally a go deal:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117977891.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Meanwhile, thanks largely to my studious recordkeeping in the matters of trivial cash bets made about popular culture over the years, Jodie Foster recently made me about forty-two dollars and change wealthier a few days ago:
http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/12/jodiefoster
God bless us, everyone.
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