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sexta-feira, janeiro 31, 2003

 
Capturei no blog da Gil: a belíssima Williams 2003.



E dá-lhe, Pablito!

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Sessão de cinema de hoje, com a Lau:



Sei não, mas acho que Brian De Palma andou vendo muito David Lynch ultimamente... filmaço.

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E a vencedora do desafio de hoje é a Fada!

Submarine (Adorable)

I'd like to be alone
Away from your port of stone
But your lighthouse is calling out
You, coming up for air
Have locked on to my distressed flare
Run aground, all hands going down

You are like a submarine
Gliding under me
And you hounded me out, you hounded me down

Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me like the harbour lights
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me like the harbour lights
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me

I could not lose you
Even if I choose to
Hear your sonar call, under my hull

You are like a submarine
Tracking onto me
And you hounding me out, you're hounding me down

Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me like the harbour lights
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me like the harbour lights
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me

Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me like the harbour lights
Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me


Belíssima música, banda fantástica (que acabou cedo demais, só gravou dois discos) e lembranças maravilhosas de um very special lad...

Amanhã tem mais :)

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Do F1 na Web:

GP BRASIL: Informações sobre ingressos

Faltando 66 dias para o GP do Brasil, apenas três setores do autódromo de Interlagos ainda têm ingressos à venda. Quem quiser assistir o GP terá que correr, pois a procura tem sido grande e os setores B, D, E e K já estão esgotados.

Os preços para os setores restantes são:

Setor A: R$ 315 pelo fim de semana todo e R$ 288 só pelo domingo
Setor M: R$ 595 pelo fim de semana todo e R$ 450 só pelo domingo
Setor G: R$ 218 pelo fim de semana todo.

Os ingressos podem ser adquiridos através do site oficial do GP do Brasil (www.gpbrasil.com.br) ou pelo telemarketing oficial (0-xx-11-3328 3231), que funciona de segunda a sábado das 9:00 às 21:00 horas. Os preços são válidos até 31 de janeiro.

Nos três dias de evento os portões do autódromo serão abertos às 7:00 horas.


e Wanner: os senhores por acaso já compraram os seus?

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Desafio de hoje:

Though your submarine is out of sight
Still you're haunting me like the harbour lights


Anyone?

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Getting Away with It (Electronic)

I've been walking in the rain just to get wet on purpose
I've been forcing myself not to forget just to feel worse
I've been getting away with it all my life (getting away)
However I look it's clear to see
That I love you more than you love me
I hate that mirror, it makes me feel so worthless
I'm an original sinner but when I'm with you couldn't care less
I've been getting away with it all my life
Getting away with it all my life
I thought I gave up falling in love a long long time ago
I guess I like it but I can't tell you, you shouldn't really know
And it's been true all my life
Yes, it's been true all my life
I've been talking to myself just to suggest that I'm selfish
(Getting ahead)
I've been trying to impress that more is less and I'm repressed
(I should do what he said)
Getting away with it...

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quinta-feira, janeiro 30, 2003

 
E a danadinha da Helo acertou de novo!

Amanhã, a letra completa de Getting Away with It, do Electronic, e um novo desafio (vou começar a complicar!).

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Ufa, finalmente. Tive que republicar todos os arquivos pra conseguir visualizar o blog.

Sustinho básico.

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Teeeeesteeeeee

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Maldito calor.

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Gal, olha isso:

According to the Red Book of Westmarch, In Middle-earth, I was Incognito Neekerbreeker

Elven Name Possibilities:

Airealqua.megiliel
Airealqua.megilien
Airealqua.megilwen


Hobbit lass name:

Rosa Headstrong from the North Moors

Dwarven:

Balin Icebrace

Orkish Name

Ghâshurk the Strongclaw


Hahaha. Headstrong? Indeed!

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Ha. Só consigo ver o blog atualizado se puxar os arquivos. Surto total.

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Por que eu não consigo atualizar o blog no meu navegador?

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Trilha sonora de hoje: Heathen Chemistry, Oasis.

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Da coluna do Lucio Ribeiro de hoje:

COLDPLAY A UMA ASSINATURA: SEGUNDO SEMESTRE

Está tudo certo entre o projeto Visa Sounds e a banda Coldplay, para um show em São Paulo (Credicard Hall) e outro no Rio de Janeiro (ATL Hall), em uma data de setembro ou outubro, a ser acertada.
Falta só a banda inglesa campeã de 2002 assinar o contrato da turnê brasileira, viável apenas depois que o grupo de Chris Martin estrelar os festivais europeus.
O Coldplay era atração decantada para vir a Curitiba em março em meio a um elenco que transformaria o festival paranaense em um evento dos sonhos, o melhor de todos os tempos.
Mas a banda que forjou o melhor disco do ano passado deve mesmo vir no Visa Sounds, que está trazendo o estiloso Bryan Ferry em fevereiro, tem confirmado o guitarrista virtuoooooooooso Joe Satriani e arma outra aparição no país da banda teen Silverchair, para maio.


Winnie, prepara o sofá-cama aí... :)

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Desafio de hoje:

I thought I gave up falling in love a long long time ago
I guess I like it but I can't tell you, you shouldn't really know

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E a Helo venceu o desafio de ontem! Aqui vai a letra completa de Motorcycle Emptiness, dos meus adorados Manic Street Preachers:

Culture sucks down words
Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
Organise your safe tribal war
Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto

Each day living out a lie
Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Life lies a slow suicide
Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
From feudal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power

Just like lungs sucking on air
Survivals natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Drive away and it's the same
Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim
Your joys are counterfeit
This happiness corrupt political shit

Living life like a comatose
Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness everlasting nothingness

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quarta-feira, janeiro 29, 2003

 
Vou lançar um desafio aqui no blog: todo dia vou colocar aqui um trechinho de uma música de uma das minhas bandas favoritas... e vocês usam os comments pra tentar adivinhar (a banda e a música), ok?

Desafio de hoje:

"Each day living out a lie, life sold cheaply forever"

Vamos lá? :)

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O assino embaixo de hoje é da Lisa:

País tropical meu cu. Eu quero frio, chuva, céu cinza cheio de nuvens e um frio de 5 graus igual o de Nova York.

Enfim.

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Do blog do Expe:

Quem vai ser o novo guitarrista do Blur?

O Blur está procurando guitarristas para ocupar o cargo deixado vago desde a saída de Graham Coxon, no ano passado. A banda vem fazendo testes com vários candidatos e, recentemente, o vocalista Damon Albarn declarou que um guitarrista de uma banda conhecida do norte da Inglaterra "se encaixaria perfeitamente" no Blur. Foi só a declaração ser publicada e os rumores começaram a voar soltos. O mais comentado entre os prováveis substitutos é o ex- Verve Nick McCabe. Mesmo assim, fala-se muito a respeito de Johnny Marr, eterno guitarrista do Smiths, e de John Squire, ex-Stone Roses. Outros nomes que correm por fora são os de Mark Day, ex-Happy Mondays, Paul Banks, do Shed Seven e Richard McNamara, do Embrace. Por outro lado, o baixista Alex James diz que vão ser necessários dois guitarristas para preencher a vaga. O primeiro single do novo trabalho dos caras, "Out Of Time", deverá ser lançado no fim de abril e o disco, ainda sem nome, deverá sair logo depois.


Putz, Nick McCabe é um senhor guitarrista... e eu também gosto muito do Richard McNamara (aliás, eu amo Embrace). John Squire seria um sonho... Johnny Marr eu acho difícil, já que ele está envolvido no trabalho com a própria banda.

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Helo, abril é definitivamente o melhor mês para se visitar Recife... a cidade ganha ares diferentes por causa do Abril pro Rock, e ao invés de esbarrar com uma Sangalinha da vida na rua, você periga dar de cara com o Stephen Malkmus na Rua do Bom Jesus... hehehe ;)

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Quanto mais perto estamos do Carnaval, pior o meu humor fica.

Ainda bem que existe o RecBeat pra consolar pobres peixes fora d'água como eu, que odeiam praia, calor, música trash e caos. Ainda estou meio pasma sobre a vinda do Groove Armada... mas ora, se o Mudhoney veio em 2001, tudo é possível.

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E ontem eu fui com a Gil no aeroporto (meu lugar preferido nesta cidade: a porta de saída) acertar os últimos detalhes para a F-1. O hotel, como eu previa, saiu mais barato do que a diferença de tarifas da passagem... e eu já estou tendo uns delírios de encher a banheira de espuma quando voltar dos treinos e ficar lá hoooooras, com uma revistinha de automobilismo e o discman.

Ah, viajar. Tem coisa melhor no mundo não :)

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Ídolos


Robert Smith e Ian McCulloch

Sequestrados do blog do Eric :)

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Ameaça

O próximo engraçadinho que chamar o Ewan de gay terá seu link vaporizado da lista aí ao lado!

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Trilha sonora do dia (do Greatest Hits, que eu achei em promoção ontem na Siciliano do shopping)

Ordinary World (Duran Duran)

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue
thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio
still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
and as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
cross the rooftops, run away
left me in the vacuum of my heart
What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away

but I won't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
somehow I have to find
and as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
here today, forgot tomorrow
ooh, here besides the news of holy war and holy need
ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
and as I try to make my way
to the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

every one
is my world, I will learn to survive
any one
is my world, I will learn to survive
any one
is my world
every one
is my world

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terça-feira, janeiro 28, 2003

 
Programa de hoje à tarde, com a Dra. Juliane:



O filme é ridiculamente bobo, mas conseguiu me fazer rir. Muito. E eu estava precisando.

Impagável era a tal coleção de fotos que a Susan Sarandon guardava numa caixa fechada a chave...

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U-hu!

Jude Law é preferido dos fãs para próximo 007

O ator inglês Jude Law ficou em primeiro lugar em uma pesquisa feita entre fãs de cinema para protagonizar o próximo filme do charmoso agente secreto James Bond.
O astro de 30 anos recebeu mais de um quarto da votação da revista Total Film, terminando um pouco à frente do astro escocês Ewan McGregor.

O editor da Total Film, Matt Mueller, disse que Law tem um fator de elegância que o coloca à frente da concorrência.

"Acho que Jude Law tem uma sofisticação de alta classe, elegantíssima, que as pessoas associam a James Bond", disse ele. "Mais do que Ewan McGregor e Christian Bale, que chegaram perto."

O atual 007, Pierce Brosnan, comprometeu-se a fazer um quinto filme, mas disse que poderá estar velho demais para um sexto.

"É preciso estamina para este papel. Quero sair do palco com graça", disse ele no ano passado.

A lista de atores e astros pop que foram vinculados a Bond é imensa, contando com o australiano Russell Crowe, o ator inglês Clive Owen e o cantor britânico Robbie Williams.


(Terra)

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Do Terra:

Assessor diz que Massa deve fechar com Jordan até sexta

André Rossi

São Paulo – O assessor do brasileiro Felipe Massa, Marcio Fonseca, disse nesta terça-feira que as negociações entre o piloto e equipe Jordan estão bem adiantadas, mas um contrato ainda não foi assinado.

"Esperamos resolver nas próximas horas. Não tem nada assinado, mas eu acho que até o final da semana teremos uma definição", disse Fonseca, com exclusividade para o Terra Esportes.

Massa teria conseguido firmar um acordo com a Ford Brasil e a Petrobrás que garantiu US$ 4 milhões para a escuderia, condição básica para o acerto, já que a Jordan vive grave crise financeira.

"Na Fórmula um a coisa é complicada. O acerto está próximo, mas enquanto não tiver nada assinado, não existe confirmação", completou o assessor.

A Jordan, por sua vez, tem pressa na confirmação de seu segundo piloto já que a temporada de testes das equipes já começou e a corrida de estréia da temporada está marcada para o dia nove de março em Melbourne, na Austrália.

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A respeito do bafafá sobre a indicação de Cidade de Deus ao Bafta: quem me conhece sabe que definitivamente eu não sou uma pessoa ufanista... estou torcendo pelo filme porque é uma obra cinematográfica maravilhosa, não pura e simplesmente por ser brasileiro. Se Orfeu, por exemplo, tivesse sido indicado ao Oscar, eu morreria de vergonha ao invés de torcer.

Acho legal que o cinema brasileiro ganhe um prêmio importante, não pelo significado do prêmio - muitas vezes meramente comercial - mas sim pelos incentivos que isto traria a muita gente talentosa que está ralando muito aqui e merece uma chance de trabalhar, mesmo não tendo tido a sorte de nascer em um país onde cultura e arte sejam prioridades.

Break a leg, Dadinho!

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*sigh*



Ewan McGregor em Down With Love

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segunda-feira, janeiro 27, 2003

 
Da BBC:

Bafta Film Awards 2003: The nominations

The main nominations for this year's Bafta film awards, to be held at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London on 23 February.

Best film
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist

Best British film
(Alexander Korda award for the outstanding British film of the year)
Bend it Like Beckham
Dirty Pretty Things
The Hours
The Magdalene Sisters
The Warrior

Best director
(David Lean award for achievement in direction)
Rob Marshall - Chicago
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
Stephen Daldry - The Hours
Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Roman Polanski - The Pianist

Best actor in a leading role
Adrien Brody - The Pianist
Nicolas Cage - Adaptation
Sir Michael Caine - The Quiet American
Daniel Day-Lewis- Gangs of New York
Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt

Best actress in a leading role
Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Salma Hayek - Frida
Nicole Kidman - The Hours
Meryl Streep - The Hours
Renee Zellweger - Chicago

Best actor in a supporting role
Chris Cooper - Adaptation
Ed Harris - The Hours
Alfred Molina -Frida
Paul Newman - Road To Perdition
Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can

Best actress in a supporting role
Toni Collette - About A Boy
Queen Latifah - Chicago
Julianne Moore - The Hours
Meryl Streep - Adaptation
Catherine Zeta Jones - Chicago

Make-up and hair
Chicago
Frida
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Special visual effects
Gangs of New York
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
Minority Report
Spiderman

Best sound
Chicago
Gangs of New York
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist

Editing
City of God
Gangs of New York
The Hours
Chicago
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Costume design
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Frida
Gangs of New York
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers

Production design
Chicago
Gangs of New York
Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
Road to Perdition

Cinematography
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers
The Pianist
Road To Perdition

Best music
(Antony Asquith award for achievement in film music)
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Gangs of New York
The Hours
The Pianist

Best film not in the English language
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too)
City Of God (Cidade de Deus)
Devdas
Hable con ella (Talk To Her)
The Warrior

Original screenplay
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too)
Dirty Pretty Things
Gangs of New York
The Magdelene Sisters
Hable con ella (Talk To Her)

Adapted screenplay
About a Boy
Adaptation
Catch Me If You Can
The Hours
The Pianist

Carl Foreman award for special achievement in first feature film
Simon Bent - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (writer)
Lucy Darwin - Lost In La Mancha (producer)
Asif Kapadia - The Warrior (writer and director)
Duncan Roy - AKA (writer and director)

Best short film
Bouncer
Candy Bar Kid
Good Night
The Most Beautiful Man In The World
My Wrongs 8245-8249 And 117
Rank

Short animation
The Chub Chubs
The Dog Who Was A Cat Inside
Fish Never Sleep
Sap
Wedding Expresso

Duas indicações pra Cidade de Deus! Melhor Filme Estrangeiro era esperado, mas olha "nóis" lá na lista de Melhor Montagem :)

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"Pilgrimage" (Suzanne Vega)

This line is burning
Turning to ash as it hits the air
Every step is a day in the week
It's a Sunday or Monday
A march over months of the year

This life is burning
Turning to ash as it hits the air
Every death is an end in the race
It's a stopping and starting
A march over millions of years

Travel. Arrival
Years of an inch and a step
Toward a source
I'm coming to you
I'll be there in time

This land is burning
Turning to ash as it hits the air
Every line is a place on a map
It's a city or valley
A mark on these miles of fields

Travel. Arrival
Years of an inch and a step
Toward a source
I'm coming to you
I'll be there in time

This line is burning
Turning to ash as it hits the air
Every step is a day in the week
It's a Wednesday or Thursday
A march over months of the year

Travel. Arrival
Years of an inch and a step
Toward a source
I'm coming to you
I'll be there in time

I'm coming to you
I'll be there in time

Take this
Mute mouth
Broken tongue.
Now this
Dark life
Is shot through with light

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domingo, janeiro 26, 2003

 
Mais diálogos brilhantes da cachola perturbada do Mr. Guy Ritchie. O filme é "Jogos, Trapaças e Dois Canos Fumegantes" (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) e poucas vezes eu ri tanto na minha vida num espaço de duas horas.

Eddie: They're armed.
Soap: Armed, armed with what?
Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster... what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!



Plank: Ah! They shot me!
Dog: Well, shoot em back!
(...)
John: Jesus, Plank, couldn't you have got smokeless cartridges? I can't see a bloody thi-- Ah! I've been shot!
Dog: Look, will everyone stop gettin' shot?



Gary: Shotguns? What, like guns that fire shot?
Barry the Baptist: Oh, you must be the brains of the operation. Yes, guns that fire shot.

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Essa semana vai ser punk-rock-hardcore total... seguindo o meu hábito suicida de deixar tudo pra última hora, vou ter que dar conta dos dois trabalhos da pós até a sexta-feira (já combinei com a minha parceira de estudos, a Renata, pra amanhã e quinta), e obviamente isso vem em cima do último módulo do curso de férias e mais os meus dois alunos executivos.

Ainda bem que a sessão de treinamento lá na escola de Setúbal foi semana passada, ou eu estaria em maus lençóis.

Mas como eu sempre dou um jeito de me divertir em meio ao stress, já marquei dose dupla de cinema: quarto round de As Duas Torres na terça, com a Gal e a Juliane; e Femme Fatale, o novo do Brian DePalma, na sexta com a Lau :)

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O fim dos fumódromos

Em 2005 a propaganda de cigarros na F1 vai virar fumaça. E isso pode ser uma boa notícia

Por Lemyr Martins, jornalista, escritor e colaborador de QUATRO RODAS

Richard Sucre, ex-vice presidente de marketing da Philip Morris, explicava que sua organização investe forte no automobilismo porque considera os pilotos caubóis da era moderna e, como tal, é fácil a associação da Fórmula 1 com a terra de Marlboro.

Também a imagem milionária e o espírito de aventura do circo levaram outras multinacionais de tabaco a anunciarem fartamente na F-1 e garantirem às suas escuderias os títulos mundiais nos últimos 30 anos.

Agora, pressionada pelas leis antitabagistas de vários países, a Federação Internacional de Automobilismo, FIA, capitulou e comunicou à Organização Mundial de Saúde que 2005 será a última temporada em que os carros anunciarão cigarros. Daí o pânico na F1.

Onde a McLaren arranjará um parceiro tão fiel como o Marlboro, com quem teve um casamento que chegou às bodas de prata, iniciado com Emerson Fittipaldi em 1974 e só terminado em 1998, após nove títulos mundiais de pilotos?

Muitas equipes tradicionais venderam seu nome ao patrocinador em troca do conforto financeiro. Marlboro-McLaren, agora West-McLaren, Rothmans-Williams ou Winfield-Williams, Mild-Seven-Benetton e, quem diria, a Scuderia Ferrrari-Marlboro. Isso sem falar na Lucky Strike-BAR, a Benson and Hedges-Jordan, Ligier-
Gitanes, Lotus-Camel e outros menos fumados. Todas seguidoras da idéia pioneira de Colin Chapman, o homem que transformou a F-1 num bom veículo para propaganda de tabaco, ao mudar a identidade de suas Lotus 72 para Gold Leaf, cigarros light, em 1970.

É chegada a hora de os homens de marketing da Associação dos Construtores procurarem ouro em outras minas. Mas isso não chega a ser uma grande novidade, pois os times de F-1 já descobriram os mais diferentes financiadores.

A estóica Minardi, impotente para conquistar uma grande multinacional para vender o nome, chegou a ter 26 pequenos patrocinadores numa única temporada. Foi chamada de “anúncios classificados”, por misturar perfume com lingüiça, macarrão com seguro de vida, jeans com lubrificantes e patins, no rodapé do carro.
Os Williams das vacas magras do início da década de 70 anunciavam cerâmica, brinquedos infantis, lâmpadas e tubos de aço.

Embora o tabaco fosse o filão mais generoso, sempre valeu tudo em matéria de patrocínio na F-1. Em 1977, quando a Aids não ameaçava o amor livre e a camisinha era usada apenas na limitação de filhos, John Surtees lançou em seus carros o surpreendente patrocínio dos preservativos Durex. O austríaco Vern Schuppan e o australiano Larry Perkins competiram duas temporadas com Surtees TS11 anticoncepcional.

Mas a F-1 mudou muito desde a novidade da camisinha. Está inflacionada. As equipes de ponta ultrapassam o orçamento anual dos 250 milhões de dólares, esticando cada vez mais a diferença técnica entre as grandes e as escuderias médias. Talvez o fato de os dólares do fumo serem obrigados a abandonar as pistas traga descobertas financeiras mais equilibradas, tornando a F-1 mais competitiva.

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Adaptado do blog da Rafaella:

Homens do róque internacional com quem eu gastaria booooaaas horas.

Vivos
1 - Larry Mullen Jr., do U2
2 - Chris Martin, do Coldplay
3 - Fran Healy, do Travis
4 - Brian Molko, do Placebo
5 - Stuart Murdoch, do Belle and Sebastian

Mortos
1 - Jim Morrison
2 - Michael Hutchence
3 - Kurt Cobain
4 - George Harrison
5 - Frank Sinatra (ok, não é róque, mas imagine aqueles olhos azuis e "My Funny Valentine" no seu pé de ouvido)

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Passei metade da tarde assistindo Excalibur, do John Boorman, e a outra metade lendo a história de Beren e Lúthien em O Silmarillion.

Domingo produtivo ;)


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Segundo a Winnie, eu sou uma pessoa Europa.

;)

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Ingo Hoffmann acaba de vencer (de ponta a ponta!!!) a 31ª edição das Mil Milhas Brasileiras, em Interlagos.

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E ontem eu sequestrei o Silmarillion da Gal (já que eu comprovei a teoria de que uma mulher apaixonada é uma morta que caminha e dei o meu, original em inglês, de presente pro meu ex, mais conhecido como "o falecido").

Estou lendo quatro livros ao mesmo tempo. Depois o pessoal se espanta quando eu tenho surtos do tipo "Se George Bush é a versão moderna de Sauron, Tony Blair seria o Saruman?"

Pois é.


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Roubado descaradamente do blog de um paulistano que eu adoro: o Expe :)



Me chamam de louca quando eu digo que tenho o mar na minha janela mas prefiro concreto e aço. Mas a minha fascinação por grandes cidades é fato. Eu me sinto muito melhor andando na Paulista do que caminhando no calçadão de Boa Viagem. Cada louco com sua loucura, não acham?

E São Paulo sempre me deu presentes sem preço: a bestest friend é paulistana, Interlagos fica em Sampa (só isso já justifica uma visitinha anual), minhas férias de janeiro foram as melhores desde Londres/98...

Daqui a dois meses eu mato as saudades :)

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Saturday afternoon


Cena de Star Wars: episode I

Acabou que a gente marcou tudo de última hora, mas foi uma das melhores tardes do ano, na casa da Gal, mesmo com a tristeza envolvendo a situação, e com uns contratempozinhos que sempre aparecem... mas acho que a gente conseguiu animar o Du, e era isso o que mais importava. De qualquer modo, sempre que a gente se junta, a química (que também existe em amizades) funciona. Gal e sua idéia maluca de assistir a segunda trilogia de Star Wars inteira (o que resultou em todos voltarmos pra casa às três da manhã), Juliane e suas pizzas (foram quatro Appreciattas no decorrer da farra "estelar"), Nanda e Diego com as palhaçadas de costume e a alegria de costume, eu e as minhas tiradas impagáveis (como a idéia de usar a Marcha Imperial de Star Wars pra entrar na igreja no dia do meu fictício casamento), e Du, que mesmo tendo passado por uma semana punk, consegue manter o bom-humor. Como eu disse à Gal e à Nanda ontem, é incrível que há um ano a gente nem se conhecesse. Parece uma eternidade.

Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo, turma.

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sábado, janeiro 25, 2003

 
Feliz Aniversário, São Paulo!


Um dos meus lugares preferidos no mundo... e sem dúvida o meu preferido no Brasil.

(homenagem surrupiada do blog do Eric Draven)

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Objeto de desejo




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sexta-feira, janeiro 24, 2003

 
A minha fantasia de Éowyn para a estréia de ROTK está justificada... hehehe

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Who is your Ideal Lord of the Rings (male) Mate?

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Vi no Intervenções Sonoras, do Luis, que viu no NME:

Ian McCulloch - novo álbum
Sairá a 28 de Abril e vai chamar-se «Slideling».
É o terceiro disco a solo de Big Mac. Foi co-produzido por Cenzo Townsend, que trabalhou com os Bunnymen em «Evergreen», de 1997.
O disco conta com a participação de alguns convidados (Chris Martin e Jonny Buckland dos Coldplay, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Natalie Imbruglia e Courtney Love).

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Olhem só o que a sistah me mandou via email:


Robert Burns Country


E olhem que coisa absurdamente bela:


Address To Edinburgh

1786


Edina! Scotia's darling seat!
All hail thy palaces and tow'rs,
Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet,
Sat Legislation's sov'reign pow'rs:
From marking wildly scatt'red flow'rs,
As on the banks of Ayr I stray'd,
And singing, lone, the lingering hours,
I shelter in they honour'd shade.

Here Wealth still swells the golden tide,
As busy Trade his labours plies;
There Architecture's noble pride
Bids elegance and splendour rise:
Here Justice, from her native skies,
High wields her balance and her rod;
There Learning, with his eagle eyes,
Seeks Science in her coy abode.

Thy sons, Edina, social, kind,
With open arms the stranger hail;
Their views enlarg'd, their liberal mind,
Above the narrow, rural vale:
Attentive still to Sorrow's wail,
Or modest Merit's silent claim;
And never may their sources fail!
And never Envy blot their name!

Thy daughters bright thy walks adorn,
Gay as the gilded summer sky,
Sweet as the dewy, milk-white thorn,
Dear as the raptur'd thrill of joy!
Fair Burnet strikes th' adoring eye,
Heaven's beauties on my fancy shine;
I see the Sire of Love on high,
And own His work indeed divine!

There, watching high the least alarms,
Thy rough, rude fortress gleams afar;
Like some bold veteran, grey in arms,
And mark'd with many a seamy scar:
The pond'rous wall and massy bar,
Grim-rising o'er the rugged rock,
Have oft withstood assailing war,
And oft repell'd th' invader's shock.

With awe-struck thought, and pitying tears,
I view that noble, stately Dome,
Where Scotia's kings of other years,
Fam'd heroes! had their royal home:
Alas, how chang'd the times to come!
Their royal name low in the dust!
Their hapless race wild-wand'ring roam!
Tho' rigid Law cries out 'twas just!

Wild beats my heart to trace your steps,
Whose ancestors, in days of yore,
Thro' hostile ranks and ruin'd gaps
Old Scotia's bloody lion bore:
Ev'n I who sing in rustic lore,
Haply my sires have left their shed,
And fac'd grim Danger's loudest roar,
Bold-following where your fathers led!

Edina! Scotia's darling seat!
All hail thy palaces and tow'rs;
Where once, beneath a Monarch's feet,
Sat Legislation's sovereign pow'rs:
From marking wildly-scatt'red flow'rs,
As on the banks of Ayr I stray'd,
And singing, lone, the ling'ring hours,
I shelter in thy honour'd shade.

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Dei uma mexidinha no template... comentários, please?

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Cinco dias em São Paulo... melhor seria se fossem quinze, mas pelo menos vai dar pra matar esse tédio crônico.

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Galera aí de Sampa: alguém sabe me dizer até quando vai a temporada de "A Vida é Cheia de Som e Fúria" no SESC Consolação? Estou pensando seriamente em ir ver (de novo), se ainda estiver em cartaz em abril, quando eu vou praí pra ver o GP Brasil.

Alguém se habilita a ir comigo? Sistah? Fada?

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Ótimo é ver a cara amarrada do povo na rua porque o dia amanheceu nublado, e mais ótimo ainda é ver a cara de surpresa deles ao me verem rindo de orelha a orelha e ainda cantando (os irmãozinhos Reid são foda, como bem disse o André).

Tolerância zero pra cultura praia-cerveja-corpos-à-milanesa dos trópicos. Manda bala, São Pedro!

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Dá pra ver que a trilha sonora de hoje é o Darklands, não? :)

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Step back and watch the sweet thing
breaking everything she sees
she can take my darkest feeling
tear it up till i'm on me knees
plug into her electric cool
where things bend and break
and shake to the rule
talking fast couldn't tell me something
i would shed my skin for you
talking fast on the edge of nothing
i would break my back for you
don't know why, don't know why
things vaporise and rise to the sky
and we tried so hard
and we looked so good
and we lived our lives in black
but something about you felt like pain
you were my sunny day rain
you were the clouds in the sky
you were the darkest sky
but your lips spoke gold and honey
that's why i'm happy when it rains
i'm happy when it pours

looking at me enjoying something
that feels like feels like pain
to my brain
and if i tell you something
you take me back to nothing
i'm on the edge of something
you take me back
and i'm happy when it rains

(The Jesus and Mary Chain)

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E chove, e relampeja... e ei, isso que eu ouvi foi um trovão?

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quinta-feira, janeiro 23, 2003

 
Meu Deus do céu... isso é pra me fazer chorar, por acaso, Nemo?

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Ô Winnie, a foto do Eddie não abre!

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E ainda tem isso.

Ai.

Who shares your birthday?

1942 Jerry Jeff Walker - Mr Bojangles
1954 Jimmy Nail - actor and singer, 1992 UK No.1 single 'Ain't No Doubt'
1954 Nancy Wilson - vocals, Heart, 1987 UK No.3 single 'Alone'
1959 Flavor Flav - Public Enemy, 1988 UK No.18 single 'Don't Believe The Hype'

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Não, não, nããããão.

the U.K. No.1 on the 16th March 1972 was... Without You by Nilsson

the U.S. No.1 on the 16th March 1972 was... Without You by Nilsson


Achei na sistah, que achou aqui.

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Alguém aí tem um John Cusack pra me emprestar?

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Murphy venceu de novo. Golpe sujo.

A passagem que eu comprei na segunda-feira caiu mais dezenove reais.

Hmpft.

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Céus, estou pasma... vi no Cinema em Cena que o Rutger Hauer está fazendo 59 anos. Como assim, 59???

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Qualquer hora eu surto e faço um template com o mapa da Terra-Média de fundo... ;)


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Move closer, set my mind on fire
Taking over, the world seems so alive
The world seems so alive

She slips into the night, and she is gone
Gone to settle the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her brother started school
Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her

Down in the basement, listening to the rain
Thinking things over. I think it over again
I think it over again

She slips into the night, and she was gone
Gone to settle the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her brother started school
Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her

I'm riding it down, listen to the rain
She'll be here soon, I lie back and drift away
I lie back and drift away.

She slips into the night, and she was gone
Gone to settle the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her brother started school
Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her

I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real
On a stormy night, the rain is coming down
Rain like never before
I've got some records on, some bottles of wine
On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down
And I'm waiting for her


(Ash, "Goldfinger"; 1977)

Grande banda, grande disco...

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E chegou a minha querida quinta-feira... :)

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quarta-feira, janeiro 22, 2003

 
Do Uol:

Oasis regrava "Wonderwall" inspirado por versão de Ryan Adams

da Redação

O grupo inglês Oasis regravou a canção "Wonderwall", o maior sucesso de sua carreira, durante as festa de final de ano, informou o site do semanário inglês New Musical Express (NME) nesta quarta.

Segundo fontes citadas pelo NME, a nova versão da música é totalmente diferente da anterior e traz o guitarrista Noel Gallagher nos vocais, ao invés de seu irmão Liam, o cantor do grupo.

Rumores indicam que a regravação pode ter sido inspirada pelo cantor americano Ryan Adams.

Noel teria se interessado novamente por "Wonderwall" após ouvir uma cover da música em um show de Adams.

A faixa faz parte do segundo CD da banda, "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?", de 1995.

Não foi informado quando a nova versão de "Wonderwall" será lançada pelo Oasis.

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Parece que depois da onda de calor que mandou aqui pra baixo nessas primeiras três semanas do ano, São Pedro resolveu dar uma trégua... e caprichou. Eu vi relâmpagos no céu quando andava para o ponto do ônibus ao sair do trampo.

E está caindo uma chuva fininha. Espero que continue :)

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Mais uma contribuição da Lisa:

Danny Boyle fala sobre Trainspotting 2 (do Omelete)
Por Érico Borgo



Durante uma pré-estréia de Extermínio (28 days later, 2002) nos Estados Unidos, o site Screen Daily conversou com Danny Boyle sobre a continuação de Trainspotting (idem, 1996).

O diretor disse que a seqüência, baseada no romance Porno, de Irvine Welsh, reúne todas as personagens do filme original, 10 anos depois. Ele também garantiu que é essencial que todo o elenco volte à produção, incluindo Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle e Jonny Lee Miller. O problema, segundo Boyle, é que "nenhum deles mudou! Eu preciso que eles pareçam mais velhos, mais acabados, mas parece que todos os atores passaram os últimos anos passando creme facial de vitamina E". Obviamente, não é assim tão difícil envelhecer um ator... o pior seria conseguir reunir todo o grupo novamente, o que, aparentemente, Boyle já conseguiu.

O último filme do diretor, Extermínio, obteve ótima aceitação na Inglaterra e chega aos cinemas brasileiros em 14 de fevereiro. Nós já assistimos e garantimos (alguns de nós, pelo menos...) que, apesar de forte, a produção é interessantíssima e vale a pena ser conferida. Boyle atualmente está trabalhando na adaptação de Porno para as telas ao lado de John Hodge, com quem já trabalhou em Cova rasa (Shallow grave, 1994), Por uma vida menos ordinária (A life less ordinary, 1997) e no roteiro de Trainspotting.

Apesar de tantas novidades sobre o filme, o diretor revelou que seu próximo projeto será Millions, uma comédia ambientada num futuro próximo, no qual o Reino Unido altera sua moeda da tradicional Libra para o Euro. O roteiro é de Frank Cottrell Boyce, de A festa nunca termina (24 Hour Party People, de Michael Winterbottom, 2002).

Ewan McGregor animado com Trainspotting 2

O escocês Ewan McGregor, mais conhecido como o Obi-Wan Kenobi da nova trilogia de Star wars, disse que gostaria de reprisar seu papel em Trainspotting, se o roteiro da continuação for bom.

O astro de Moulin Rouge leu o romance de Irvine Welsh, intitulado Porno, e ficou interessado em retornar ao papel de Mark Renton, que o lançou ao estrelato em 1996.

McGregor e o diretor Danny Boyle recentemente passaram algum tempo juntos discutindo o projeto. Na ocasião, o cineasta entregou o livro ao ator para que ele pudesse conhecer melhor a história. "Depois de ler Porno, eu pensei 'preciso mesmo voltar a viver Renton?' e achei melhor não por acreditar que nós não conseguiríamos fazer algo tão bom quanto o original. Mas depois, pensei que foi muito bacana descobrir onde estavam todos as personagens - Sick Boy, Wee Spud e Begbie - e achei que foi muito divertido ter lido", revelou McGregor. Todavia, mesmo com tanto entusiasmo pelo romance, o ator só vai assinar na linha pontilhada depois de ler o roteiro para o cinema.

O resto do elenco, incluindo Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle e Ewen Bremner, já garantiram que também voltarão ao filme.

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E está chovendo! Yipee!

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Pra alegrar o dia de vocês:

Shiny happy people laughing
Meet me in the crowd
People people
Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow
Gold and silver shine

Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing

Everyone around love them, love them
Put it in your hands
Take it take it
There's no time to cry
Happy happy
Put it in your heart
Where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine

Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing

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Fase Badly Drawn Boy por aqui... a trilha sonora de hoje é About a Boy.

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Não, eu não sinto falta do sol. Na verdade, eu nem gosto de sol. E por essas ironias da vida (Murphy rules, concorda, Gil?), vim parar numa cidade quente como o inferno deve ser e onde o sol insiste em permanecer brilhando 365 dias por ano.

São Paulo e sua garoa non-stop, Londres e seu fog eterno. That's what makes me happy, babe.

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Postzinho mal-humorado pra começar o dia, da série "assino embaixo":

Essa cidade fica minuto a minuto mais insuportavel, a medida em que os carnavais vem se aproximando.
Dah pra sentir no ar.


Do Holden, que se referia a Salvador (que, obviamente, nesse aspecto consegue ser pior do que a manguetown).

Bom, pelo menos choveu ontem de madrugada, e o ar está um pouquinho mais fresco. Respirável, digamos assim, sem que as suas vias internas se sintam numa sauna a vapor.

Humpft.

"How I wish, how I wish I wasn't here".

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terça-feira, janeiro 21, 2003

 


Bono & The Edge na festa do Golden Globe. Roubei do blog da Grazi.

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Tomara que ele continue assim a temporada inteira!

Do Yahoo:

Schumacher bate o carro em seu primeiro treino

BARCELONA (Reuters) - O campeão mundial de Fórmula 1 Michael Schumacher sofreu um acidente na terça-feira em sua primeira volta com a Ferrari desde outubro.

"Ele veio sorrindo e disse 'opa, foi um bom início de temporada"', afirmou sua porta-voz, Sabine Kehm, após o acidente no circuito da Catalunha.

O acidente não foi sério. O carro rodou e atingiu a barreira de pneus, destruindo a asa traseira.

Schumacher venceu 11 das 17 corridas na temporada passada, e vai tentar neste ano o recorde de seis títulos.

Schumacher não pilotava seu carro desde o dia de comemoração da Ferrari na Itália, no fim de semana após a última corrida do campeonato, no Japão. Ele passou as férias na Noruega.

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Do blog da Elo, notícias da F-1:

FIA oferece US$1 mi por denúncia de trapaça com novas regras

Por Alan Baldwin

LONDRES (Reuters) - A Federação Internacional de Automobilismo (FIA) ofereceu uma recompensa de 1 milhão de dólares para qualquer um que forneça evidências de trapaça, assim como pesadas multas para as equipes culpadas.

Um porta-voz da FIA confirmou no sábado que a oferta foi feita para encorajar 'delatores' depois que um pacote de medidas técnicas foi introduzida na categoria.

O presidente da FIA, Max Mosley, anunciou na quarta-feira que a telemetria, que permite que engenheiros mudem as configurações do carro à distância, e que a comunicação via rádio estão proibidos.

Outras medidas para cortar custos e aprimorar a corrida incluem a eliminação, até 2004, dos chamados 'apoios ao piloto', como o controle de tração e de largada.

"Os mecanismos de apoio ao piloto não poderão ser usados a partir de 2004, mas estamos ficando cada vez mais céticos em relação à incapacidade das equipes de desligar todos os controles de partida dos carros e outras ajudas aos pilotos para a temporada de 2003", disse a fonte à Reuters.

"Estamos considerando multas pesadas para qualquer equipe flagrada usando sistemas ilegais. E, além das nossas inspeções técnicas, também estamos considerando uma recompensa de 1 milhão de dólares para qualquer informação que nos leve à convicção de que uma equipe esteja atuando ilegalmente."

"A FIA já deixou claro que pretendemos trabalhar com tolerância zero."

DESLIGADO

Duas das 10 equipes de Fórmula 1 dessa temporada, uma delas a BAR/Honda, já experimentaram em testes desligar os sistemas de controles de tração e largada. O controle de tração reduz o giro em falso das rodas, particularmente numa pista molhada, enquanto o controle de partida permite uma saída rápida e suave do grid de largada com um toque de um botão no volante.

O jornal The Sun e o italiano Gazzetta dello Sport informaram que o britânico Jenson Button testou seu carro esta semana, em Barcelona, sem esses sistemas.

"A BAR desligou os sistemas e foi relativamente fácil. Uma outra equipe também mostrou que é possível desligá-los antes de Melbourne, sem problemas", disse a fonte da FIA.

Os chefes das 10 equipe se reuniram com Mosley e Bernie Ecclestone em Londres, na quarta-feira, e as equipes menores, que também receberam ajuda com dinheiro extra para a próxima temporada, gostaram das novas medidas.

Os chefes-técnicos das equipes se encontraram com o diretor de prova e chefe-técnico da FIA, Charlie Whiting na sexta-feira, para discutir a possibilidade de se banir o controle de saída dos carros já nessa temporada. A Gazzetta revelou que as conversas foram longas e acaloradas, com algumas equipes desejando a permanência dos sistemas nesta temporada e outras forçando um imediato desligamento.

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São oito e meia da manhã e eu já fui dar aula (minha executiva desmarcou quando eu já estava lá, mas what the hell, eu recebo a hora-aula de todo jeito), já fui ao banco, já li o jornal e agora vou voltar pra Morfeulândia... dormi muito mal, vou ver se recupero ;)

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Yay.


Which Oasis album are you?

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Só por "Champagne Supernova", esse CD já vale o preço... :)

(roubei os testezinhos da sistah)

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Eu sabia... :)




click here to find out which Beatle are you!!

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Que letra incrível.

You Were Right (Badly Drawn Boy)

And you,
Were right to bide your time and not buy into my misery
Well the good things are never free
Do the colours of the rainbow look the same to everyone?
And I,
Was rushing round in circles for a reason to believe
Wipe the slime from off your sleeve
You could follow me for weeks
And I'm not going anywhere
Sometimes it's hard to love someone
Till the day that they are gone

And I
Just had a dream the other night
I was married to the Queen
And Madonna lived next door
I think she took a shine to me
And the kids were all grown up
But I had to turn her down
'Cos I was still in love with you

I'm turning Madonna down
I'm calling it my best move
I'll get her tickets to what she needs

I remember doing nothing on the night Sinatra died
And the night Jeff Buckley died
And the night Kurt Cobain died
And the night John Lennon died
I remember I stayed up to watch the news with everyone
And that was a lot of nights
And that was a lot of lives
Who lost the tickets to what they need?

And I
Was busy finding answers while you just got on with real life

Always hoped you'd be my wife
But I never found the time
For the question to arrive
I just disguised it in a song

And songs are never quite the answer
Just a soundtrack to a life
That is over all too soon

Helps to turn the days to night
While I was wrong and you were right

And this was a lesson learned
I'm happy to be your fool
And get you tickets to what you need

I'm turning the lights down low
I'm ready to make my move
I'll get you tickets to what you need

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E o blogger surtou de novo...

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Darling you gotta let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here 'til the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?

Always tease tease tease
You're happy when I'm on my knees
One day is fine, next day is black
So if you want me off your back
Well come on and let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
An' if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know

This indecision's bugging me
If you don't want me, set me free
Exactly who'm I'm supposed to be
Don't you know which clothes even fit me?
Come on and let me know
Should I cool it or should I blow?

Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So you gotta let me know
Should I stay or should I go?

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segunda-feira, janeiro 20, 2003

 
Esta deve ser uma quinta-feira habilmente disfarçada de segunda... diazinho perfeito, yay!

Fui pro aeroporto com a Gil resolver o pacote da F-1 e já estou com a passagem em mãos. Pode parecer idiotice, mas só o fato de estar com o bilhete na bolsa me dá uma alegria danada :)

Aí fomos almoçar no shopping, depois o Expe chegou, e quando eles foram embora eu fiquei no Coffee Shop São Braz (aka templo da perdição) com a Lau. Feirinha básica no shopping: CDs (o From Here to Eternity do Clash e o novo do Badly Drawn Boy), livro (Jogos de Atração, do Bret Easton Ellis) e DVD (O Morro dos Ventos Uivantes, com o Ralph Fiennes e a Juliette Binoche, por módicos 18,90).

*happy mode on*

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Perdemos, mas perdemos bonito... Fale com Ela é um grande filme. Do Terra, a lista completa da premiação para cinema do Golden Globe:

Melhor filme de drama: The Hours

Melhor atriz em drama: Nicole Kidman, por The Hours

Melhor ator em drama: Jack Nicholson, por About Schmidt

Melhor filme musical ou comédia: Chicago

Melhor atriz em musical ou comédia: Renee Zellweger, por Chicago

Melhor ator em musical ou comédia: Richard Gere, por Chicago

Melhor filme estrangeiro: Fale com Ela, Espanha

Melhor atriz coadjuvante: Meryl Streep, por Adaptation

Melhor ator coadjuvante: Chris Cooper, por Adaptation

Melhor diretor: Martin Scorsese, de Gangues de Nova York

Melhor roteiro: Alexander Payne e Jim Taylor, por About Schmidt

Melhor trilha sonora: Elliot Goldenthal, por Frida

Melhor música para trilha sonora: The Hands that Built America, do U2, para Gangues de Nova York

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Martin Scorsese ganhou o Golden Globe por "Gangs de Nova York". (E o meu coração se divide, porque eu adoro o Scorsese, mas Peter Jackson também estava concorrendo)

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Skin Up Pin Up (Mansun feat. 808 State)

Sniffle this, sniff of this, my skin up pin up, oh yeah
Monday to Friday, nobody's seen ya, amphetamine-ah

Oh, if I see you would you stop and say hello
Oh, if I kiss you would you run straight up my nose
Oh, skeletina, say hello

We'll take you all on, again [x3]
We'll take you all on,
My all-consuming, self-inducing

Sniffle this, what of this, my skin up pin up, oh yeah
Pick up a lady, two more in waiting, stops me from aching

Oh, if I see you would you stop and say hello
Oh, if I kiss you would you run straight up my nose
Oh, skeletina, say hello, lo, lo, lo....

We'll take you all on, again [x3]
We'll take you all on
My all-consuming, self-inducing

He's my only passion, oh yeah,
He's my only passion, oh yeah.

We'll take you all on, again [x3]
We'll take you all on, yeah!

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domingo, janeiro 19, 2003

 
O artigo é longo, mas bastante útil pros cinéfilos... é uma espécie de agenda de lançamentos e comentários dos filmes que vêm por aí este ano. Lembrando que as datas se referem aos EUA, e que as grandes produções geralmente chegam ao Brasil uma ou duas semanas depois. Eu coloquei em negrito aqueles que eu estou realmente doente pra ver :)

2003 Film Preview


JAN. 24

DARKNESS FALLS: The name of the town is Darkness Falls. And they wonder why it's targeted by supernatural evil. (Columbia)

POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES: Documentary about the irrepressible leftist philosopher and his post 9-11 stances. (First Run Features)

THE SLAUGHTER RULE: Football and depression in a bleak Montana winter. Ryan Gosling and David Morse play. (Cowboy Pictures)

JAN. 31

AMEN.: The great Greek political filmmaker Costa-Gavras ("Z,' "Missing') is back with the World War II story of a conscience-stricken Nazi officer who tries to get Pope Pius to do something about the Holocaust. (Kino International)

BIKER BOYZ: A western, with hogs as horses, set in the underground world of motorcycle clubs. "Antwone Fisher's' Derek Luke seeks to unseat, literally, biker kingpin Laurence Fishburne. No, Jay Leno is not one of the producers. (DreamWorks)

BLIND SPOT: HITLER'S SECRETARY: Acclaimed German documentary in which Traudl Junge describes her three years of service as one of Adolf Hitler's private secretaries. (Sony Classics)

FINAL DESTINATION 2: For those who didn't get there the first time. Teenagers don't realize they're supposed to be dead -- until they're reminded. (New Line)

GOD IS GREAT AND I'M NOT: "Amelie's' Audrey Tautou, in the first of many film appearances this year, plays a French woman who tries to convert to Judaism for love. (Empire Pictures)

THE GURU: Indian dance teacher Jimi Mistry becomes a spiritual celebrity in New York and falls in love with Heather Graham. With Marisa Tomei. (Universal)

LOST IN LA MANCHA: When iconoclastic director Terry Gilliam ("Brazil,' "Twelve Monkeys') invited a documentary crew onto the set of his Don Quixote movie in Spain, he had no idea the trouble-plagued production would collapse within a week. This is all that was salvaged. (IFC Films)

THE RECRUIT: How the CIA picks and prepares its top operatives is the subject of this suspense thriller starring Al Pacino, Colin Farrell and Bridget Moynahan. (Touchstone)

SMOKERS ONLY: A rollerblading street hustler and a struggling female vocalist get into an obsessive affair in the Buenos Aires underworld. (Strand Releasing)

SUDDENLY NAKED: Award-winning Canadian film about a famous author (Wendy Crewson) who has a fling with a younger man. (Pantheon Releasing)

FEB. 7

DELIVER US FROM EVA: A trio of men try to free themselves of their mate's unattached older sister, the meddlesome Eva (Gabrielle Union). Their vehicle of distraction: cash-strapped ladies' man LL Cool J. (Focus)

HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS: Magazine writer Kate Hudson has 10 days to find a guy, get him smitten and get dumped. Her target, ad agency hottie Matthew McConaughey, has bet that he can make any girl fall in love with him in 10 days. Wonder who's gonna win. (Paramount)

SHANGHAI KNIGHTS: Mismatched good guys Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson team up again, this time in Victorian London. (Touchstone)

FEB. 14

ALL THE REAL GIRLS: Paul, a small-town 22-year-old with no future, finds love and sex with "real' small-town returnee Noel. Paul Schneider, Zooey Deschanel and Patricia Clarkson star for director David Gordon Green ("George Washington'). (Sony Classics)

AMANDALA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR-PART HARMONY: Documentary about the role the genre called freedom music played in the struggle against South African apartheid. Yes, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela appear, but there's so much more ... (Artisan)

DAREDEVIL: Ben Affleck plays the blind Marvel Comics superhero. Jennifer Garner is his lover/nemesis Elektra. Michael Clarke Duncan is big fat bad guy the Kingpin. Mark Steven Johnson is the director. (20th Century Fox)

GERRY: The increasingly quizzical Gus Van Sant's controversial film about two guys named Gerry (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) who get lost in the desert. Minimal dialogue, avant garde cinematics and the usual Van Sant obtuseness have divided festival audiences on this one. (ThinkFilm)

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT: We always figured that adorable "Amelie' girl was secretly psycho. In this French amour fou- de-do, Audrey Tautou plays an art student in delusional love with a married man. (Samuel Goldwyn)

THE JUNGLE BOOK 2: Disney does more damage to Rudyard Kipling's reputation with this quick-buck animated sequel about the Indian boy raised by rain-forest animals. (Disney)

O FANTASMA: Lisbon, Portugal, has a gay youth culture, too. (Picture This!)

FEB. 21

CHAOS: Coline Serreau (the original "Three Men and a Cradle') directed this drama about a French couple's efforts to save young woman from a life of prostitution. (New Yorker)

DARK BLUE: L.A.'s finest get dragged through the wringer again in this tale of pre-Rodney King riot cop corruption written by James Ellroy. Kurt Russell, Brendan Gleeson and Ving Rhames star for director Ron Shelton. (UA)

GODS AND GENERALS: The same bunch responsible for that "Gettysburg' movie a few years back -- with Robert Duvall mercifully replacing space case Martin Sheen as Robert E. Lee -- return with a sprawling adaptation of Jeff Shaara's book about early Civil War military campaigns. (Warner Bros.)

THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE: Alan Parker directs and Nicolas Cage produces the story of a death penalty opponent (Kevin Spacey) who finds himself on Death Row. Reporter Kate Winslet has but a few days to prove him innocent. (Universal)

OLD SCHOOL: Talk about hanging on to your youth. A bunch of 30-something buds, including Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn, look to re-create their college days by building an off-campus frat house. Todd Phillips, who took on college high jinks in "Road Trip,' directs. (DreamWorks)

OPEN HEARTS: Tragedy strikes two different Danish couples. (Newmarket)

POOLHALL JUNKIES: Sounds like "The Color of Money,' only probably not as good. Chazz Palminteri, Rick Schroder and Alison Eastwood star. (Samuel Goldwyn)

SENORITA EXTRAVIADA: Documentary on those young maquiladora women whose raped and dead bodies turn up in Juarez, Mexico. (Balcony Releasing)

TILL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US: Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter star in a supernatural Australian romance. (Paramount Classics)

FEB. 26

THE DANCER UPSTAIRS: Idealistic cop Javier Bardem is trying to catch a guerrilla leader in war-torn Latin America. He also romances his daughter's ballet teacher. Directing debut of John Malkovich is based on Nicholas Shakespeare's novel. (Fox Searchlight)

FEB. 28

CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE: Gangbangers and Taiwan intelligence unite to find a kidnapped girl and stop World War III or something. DMX, Jet Li and Tom Arnold all somehow figure into the mix. (Warner Bros.)

DISCHORD: An alternative rock violinist's sudden disappearance is somehow tied to a murder. (Artistic License)

SPIDER:: David Cronenberg directs Ralph Fiennes, who plays a schizophrenic trying to cope in a London halfway house. With Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne. (Sony Classics)

MARCH 5

L'CHAYIM, COMRADE STALIN: Documentary about the Soviet Union's Jewish autonomous region, said to be the world's first Yiddish homeland. (Cinema Guild)

MARCH 7

BOAT TRIP: Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Roselyn Sanchez, Vivica A. Fox and Roger Moore raise "The Love Boat.' (Artisan)

BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE: Steve Martin plays his millionth uptight guy, a divorced lawyer whose online chatroom babe turns out to be escaped convict Queen Latifah. You're supposed to laugh. (Touchstone)

IRREVERSIBLE: Even unshockable French cineastes had trouble with this latest provocation from Gaspar Noe ("I Stand Alone'). Beginning with a graphic rape/murder, then unfolding backward through the events that led up to the outrage, it stars husband-and-wife acting team Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. (Lions Gate)

LAUREL CANYON: Yes, they mean the street that we Vals know so well. In Lisa ("High Art') Cholodenko's film, the canyon itself is the home of record producer Jane (Frances McDormand), a singer (Alessandro Nivola), Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancee Alex (Kate Beckinsale). Too many people under one Laurel Canyon roof can't be a good thing. (Sony Classics)

PRINCESS BLADE: Rebels challenge a future Japanese monarchy in this sci-fi action thriller. (ADV Films)

RIVERS AND TIDES: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY WORKING WITH TIME: Documentary about the British sculptor's purposely temporary work. (Roxie Releasing)

THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS: In this combination of some of A.M. Homes' short stories, suburban neighbors Glenn Close, Patricia Clarkson, Dermot Mulroney, Joshua Jackson and others deal with issues of loss and letting go. (IFC Films)

TEARS OF THE SUN: Navy SEAL leader Bruce Willis disobeys orders to help a missionary (busy girl Monica Bellucci) rescue some African refugees. Directed by "Training Day's' Antoine Fuqua. (Columbia)

MARCH 12

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM: An Indian family in London tries to raise a soccer-playing daughter in a traditional way, but she wants to chase the ball. Directed by "What's Cooking's' Gurinder Chadha. (Fox Searchlight)

MARCH 14

AGENT CODY BANKS: Muniz, Frankie Muniz, plays the undercover teen CIA agent who can race snowmobiles but can't talk to girls. Obviously, James Bond wasn't his mentor. (MGM)

THE HUNTED: William Friedkin directs Oscar winners Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro in this thriller about a tracker and an FBI agent on the trail of an assassin. (Paramount)

NOWHERE IN AFRICA: Germany's Oscar contender tells the true story of a Jewish family that escaped the Nazis and sat out the war on a farm in Kenya. (Zeitgeist Films)

LE CERCLE ROUGE: Re-release of Jean-Pierre Melville's ultra-stylish French crime classic from 1970. Alain Delon and Yves Montand star. (Rialto)

PROZAC NATION: Long-threatened film version of public embarrassment Elizabeth Wurtzel's novel about being young, self-absorbed and depressed is finally unleashed. Christina Ricci plays the part; Jason Biggs, Anne Heche and Jessica Lange co-star. (Miramax)

MARCH 21

DREAMCATCHER: Guys perform a good deed, get superpowers in return, then have to fight some evil thing in the snowy woods. It's a Stephen King idea, directed by the once-serious Lawrence Kasdan. With Morgan Freeman, Jason Lee and Tom Sizemore, among others. (Warner Bros.)

DYSFUNKTIONAL FAMILY: Comedian Eddie Griffin's concert film features interviews with his equally raunchy Kansas City relatives. (Miramax)

HOUSE OF FOOLS: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's absurdist take on war via the perspective of a love-struck woman. (Paramount Classics)

IDENTITY: Travelers stormed-in at a desert motel realize that one of them is a killer. Is it John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Rebecca De Mornay ... or somebody lesser-known? (Columbia)

PIGLET'S BIG MOVIE: The "Pooh' pig gets his own cartoon feature. (Disney)

SPUN: Crystal meth tweakers Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke and Mena Suvari take some bad trips, dude. (Newmarket)

VIEW FROM THE TOP: Gwyneth Paltrow and Christina Applegate try to be stewardesses. It's supposed to be funny. (Miramax)

WILLARD: Remake of the rat-infested thriller with Crispin Glover and "Mulholland Drive's' Laura Elena Harring. (New Line)

MARCH 28

ASSASSINATION TANGO: Triple-threat Robert Duvall directs, writes and stars in this tale of a hit man who becomes intoxicated with the sensual dance in Argentina. (UA)

BUFFALO SOLDIERS: U.S. personnel stationed in Germany behave mighty badly as the Iron Curtain prepares to fall. The release of this film -- which stars Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris and Anna Paquin -- was apparently held back due to patriotic concerns. (Miramax)

THE CORE: The Earth's inner core has stopped rotating, meaning the atmosphere is in jeopardy ... unless a team of geophysicists on a mission to the center of the Earth can save the day. Aaron Eckhart, Bruce Greenwood and Hilary Swank co-star. (Paramount)

THE GUYS: Screen adaptation of Anne Nelson's two-character play about a fire captain and a journalist working on the eulogies of firefighters killed in the 9-11 attacks. Jim Simpson directs his wife, Sigourney Weaver, and Anthony LaPaglia. (Focus)

HEAD OF STATE: There goes the government! D.C. alderman Mays Giliam (Chris Rock) is tapped to be his party's nominee for president of the United States. Rock also co-wrote and makes his directing debut. (DreamWorks)

ORDINARY SINNER: Three college friends try to solve a gay person's murder in a bigoted small town. (TLA)

STEVIE: "Hoop Dreams' director Steve James makes another deep-dish documentary about a boy he mentored as a Big Brother who has grown into a very troubled young man. (Lions Gate)

MARCH UNSCHEDULED

HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES: Rob Zombie's long-awaited directorial debut. Civilization ends now. (Lions Gate)

MAY: Described as Carrie meets Frankenstein. Civilization ends again. (Lions Gate)

APRIL 4

COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE: Bounty hunters in a disaster-stricken future populate this big-screen version of the popular Japanese anime series. (IDP)

LEVITY: Yes, it's probably an ironic title, what with Billy Bob Thornton playing a convicted killer, released from prison, who is trying to start a new life. Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter and Kirsten Dunst also star. (Sony Classics)

THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST: Finnish film by Aki Kaurismaki about a man who travels to Helsinki, is mugged, loses his memory, and discovers love and a new set of values. (Sony Classics)

MY BABY'S MAMA: Three bachelors (Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Michael Imperioli) discover hilarious things about themselves when their respective girlfriends all get pregnant. (Miramax)

RIPLEY'S GAME: John Malkovich plays Patricia Highsmith's sophisticated sociopath, like Matt Damon and Dennis Hopper before him. (Fine Line)

WHAT A GIRL WANTS: Professional TV kid Amanda Bynes plays an American girl who finds her long-missing father is a snooty British politician (Colin Firth). (Warner Bros.)

APRIL 11

ANGER MANAGEMENT: Before you give Jack Nicholson that "About Schmidt' Oscar, consider that his next movie is with Adam Sandler. Sounds like they'll both be playing to their strengths, though, which would be lack of the title commodity. (Columbia)

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS: Suspenseful study of illegal immigrants trying to make their livings in London's underground economy. Audrey Tautou ("Amelie') stars for director Stephen Frears ("The Grifters,' "My Beautiful Laundrette'). (Miramax)

FELLINI: I'M A BORN LIAR: The ultimate Italian filmmaker profiled with interview footage of the departed maestro and comments from such collaborators as Roberto Benigni, Donald Sutherland and Terence Stamp. (First Look Features)

GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS: James Cameron's high-tech exploration of the actual Titanic wreck will be presented in 3-D in both standard 35mm and IMAX-size formats. Bill Paxton narrates. (Touchstone)

MONDAYS IN THE SUN: The film that beat out Pedro Almodovar's exquisite "Talk to Her' as Spain's official Oscar entry. Javier Bardem stars in this study of unemployed shipyard workers. It had better be good. (Lions Gate)

RAISING VICTOR VARGAS: A teenage goofball from New York's Lower East Side tries to prove he's a ladies man. (Samuel Goldwyn/Fireworks)

SHAOLIN SOCCER: Kung fu aspirants draw together an unusually acrobatic football team in this special-effects stunt comedy, reportedly the most popular Hong Kong film ever made. (Miramax)

XX/XY: A three-way romantic relationship causes complications for its practitioners over a 10-year period. Mark Ruffalo and Kathleen Robertson star. (IFC Films)

APRIL 16

BULLETPROOF MONK: After wandering the globe protecting an ancient scroll, a nameless monk (Chow Yun-Fat) must find a protege (Seann William Scott) to be the scroll's new guardian. But evil forces want that scroll something fierce. (MGM)

CHASING PAPI: Three Latinas discover they've all been dating the same guy. Comeuppance plans lead to wacky misadventures. (20th Century Fox)

THE GOOD THIEF: Nick Nolte plans a casino heist in Nice. Neil Jordan directs. Based on the French classic "Bob Le Flambeur.' (Fox Searchlight)

A MIGHTY WIND: Those "Best in Show' cutups Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy are back with another mockumentary. This one's about three 1960s folk groups reuniting for a memorial concert. The usual ensemble -- director, co-writer, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard -- reunite, too. (Warner Bros.)

APRIL 18

BASIC: Everybody's favorite movie couple -- "Pulp Fiction's' John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson -- are finally back together. But will this story about an investigation into a military disaster be as cool? (Columbia)

DOWN WITH LOVE: "Far From Heaven' remade Douglas Sirk '50s weepies with modern attitude. Now they're doing the same with Doris Day romantic comedies. Before you shrug "but why,' note that it's directed by Peyton Reed, who made the surprisingly good "Bring It On.' And it stars Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. (20th Century Fox)

HOLES: Kid criminals at a dentention camp are put to work digging, well, holes, in which the corrupt camp administrators Jon Voight and Sigourney Weaver obviously hope to find something valuable. (Disney)

HOW TO DEAL: Mandy Moore stars as a teenager who, due to the empirical evidence around her, thinks love sucks. She discovers otherwise. (New Line)

LILYA 4-EVER: Acclaimed Swedish film about an abandoned Russian teenager who, seeking a better life in Scandinavia, is swallowed up by drugs and the sex trade. (Newmarket)

MALIBU'S MOST WANTED: The glitzy community's top rapper is embarrassed by his father's bid for governor -- and, of course, vice versa. (Warner Bros.)

SWEET 16: A poor Scottish youth has trouble avoiding the life of crime that has ruined his parents in this latest expression of social consciousness from British director Ken Loach. (Lions Gate)

THE TRIP: The gay rights struggles of the 1970s are examined via their impact on one couple's relationship. (TLA)

WINGED MIGRATION: Birds, birds and more birds doing what birds do, in this documentary by director Jacques Perrin. (Sony Classics)

APRIL 25

BLUE CAR: A teenage poet (Agnes Bruckner) from a troubled family background is mentored by English teacher David Strathairn. But then things get out of hand in this provocative film-festival favorite. (Miramax)

CITY OF GHOSTS: A scam artist flees to Bangkok in search of his partner in crime. But the city may be too much for even him. With Matt Dillon, James Caan, Gerard Depardieu and Natascha McElhone. Dillon also directs. (UA)

CONFIDENCE: Con artists get in over their heads when they try to swindle an eccentric mob boss. The cool cast includes Dustin Hoffman, Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia, Donal Logue and Luis Guzman. (Lions Gate)

FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY: "American Idol' finalists Guarini and Clarkson make their very own musical romantic comedy. OK, that's the final nail in civilization's coffin. (20th Century Fox)

IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY: Indeed it does. Three generations of Douglases (Kirk, Michael and Cameron, plus Kirk's former wife and Michael's mother, Diana) join one Culkin (Rory) and a Peters (Bernadette) in this tale of fathers, sons and grandchildren. (MGM)

PEOPLE I KNOW: Another film long delayed due to post 9-11 sensitivities, this one reportedly boasts a terrific Al Pacino performance as a New York publicist facing a crisis of conscience. Apparently, he at one point had some hallucination involving the World Trade Center, too. (Miramax) (Já lançado no Brasil como "O Articulador" - vejam a cotação ai ao lado)

APRIL UNSCHEDULED

BETTER LUCK TOMORROW: Acclaimed and controversial film about overachieving and amoral Asian-American youth. (MTV Films)

MAY 2

AND NOW ... LADIES & GENTLEMEN: Love among jazz singers and jewel thieves, starring Jeremy Irons and Patricia Kaas. From French romanticist Claude Lelouch ("A Man and a Woman'). (Paramount Classics)

THE LIZZIE McGUIRE MOVIE: The Disney TV-show girl gets her own, well, movie. And it's in Italy! (Disney)

ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE: The great documentary team of D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus catches up with some of the great figures of '60s soul music. Wilson Pickett, Mary Wilson, Sam Moore, Isaac Hayes and many more appear. (Miramax)

OWNING MAHOWNY: Mild-mannered bank clerk Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a responsible citizen by day and an out- of-control gambler by night. With John Hurt, Minnie Driver and Maury Chaykin. (Sony Classics)

THE SEA: Icelandic family drama. Who's going to take over the old man's fishing business? (Palm Pictures)

X2: Remember when Marvel superheroes couldn't get arrested at the movies? Now we can't get away from 'em. Part 2 of the X-Men franchise, with all the usual suspects (including "Usual Suspects' director Bryan Singer) returning, as well as new villains and mutants. (20th Century Fox)

MAY 9

DADDY DAY CARE: Eddie Murphy loses his job, opens a day-care center. As far as we can tell, it's a comedy, not a documentary about his post-"Pluto Nash' career. (Columbia)

I CAPTURE THE CASTLE: Family tries to survive in a decaying English castle in the 1930s. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

MANIC: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are among the kids trying to cope with mental disorders in a private facility run by Don Cheadle. (IFC Films)

THE SHAPE OF THINGS: A story of love and art set in a college town courtesy of acidic relationship specialist Neil LaBute (and based on his play). With Gretchen Mol, Rachel Weisz, Paul Rudd and Frederick Weller. (Focus)

THE WARRIOR: Directed by award-winning British newcomer Asif Kapadia, this mythic adventure, set in ancient India, charts a soldier's futile struggle to renounce his warlike ways. (Miramax)

MAY 14

IN AMERICA: Semiautobiographical story from Jim ("My Left Foot') Sheridan about an Irish family that emigrates to New York City. With Samantha Morton and Paddy Considine (Fox Searchlight)

MAY 15

THE MATRIX RELOADED: The first of the year's two sequels to the Wachowski brothers' ballistical sci-fi breakthrough. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and Laurence Fishburne are joined by Jada Pinkett Smith and the inevitable Monica Bellucci in their gravity- and time-defying fight against the world-controlling machines. (Warner Bros.)

MAY 16

HAIRY TALE: Kid, kung fu fighter and ape go up against an evil animal experiment laboratory. (Warner Bros.)

POKEMON 5: Wake up, people! It's over. (Dimension)

MAY 23

BRUCE ALMIGHTY: When Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) ticks off God, the almighty (Morgan Freeman) gives Bruce some serious power and challenges him to try to do things better. (Universal).

RESPIRO: A young mother on an island west of Sicily scandalizes the community with her reckless behavior. Inspired by a Lampedusan legend. With Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato and Filippo Pucillo. (Sony Classics)

THE WEDDING PARTY: Remake of "The In-Laws,' with Michael Douglas as the crazy secret agent and Albert Brooks as the wimpy podiatrist. (Warner Bros.)

MAY 30

FINDING NEMO: The latest Pixar computer-animated spectacular involves the misadventures of a father and son fish in waters around Australia. (Disney)

THE ITALIAN JOB: Would you believe Mark Walberg and Charlize Theron as a pair of mastermind thieves making off with gold bullion from a Venice palazzo? F. Gary Gray reconfigures the 1969 Michael Caine film of the same name. Edward Norton, who really didn't want to be in this movie, is. (Paramount)

SPRING UNSCHEDULED

CHI-HWA-SON: A groundbreaking 19th-century painter is studied by Korean master Im Kwon-Taek. (Kino)

A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Documentary about the rebellious 1970s generation of filmmakers: Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin and the like. (IFC Films)

THE EVENT: Film about the death of a New York gay man boasts an impressive indie roll call: Parker Posey, Olympia Dukakis, Sarah Polley, Don McKellar and Jane Leeves. (ThinkFilm)

THE GUESTS: David Zucker ("Airplane!') directs Ashton Kutcher ("Just Married') as a guy whose house-sitting gig at his boss's mansion is jeopardized by a parade of the title commodity. Tara Reid, Andy Richter, Michael Madsen, Carmen Electra and Molly Shannon are on the list. (Dimension)

HOPE SPRINGS: Heartbroken British artist Colin Firth relocates to rural New England, meets Heather Graham and gets followed by Minnie Driver. Kinda makes you wish somebody would break your heart, huh? (Touchstone)

LAWLESS HEART: Acclaimed multinarrative study of love and confusion in contemporary Britain. (First Look)

ROLLING KANSAS: Teen brothers search for the forest of marijuana their late parents planted. In Kansas. (Gold Circle Films)

THE STONE READER: Documentary about a filmmaker's search for the mysteriously missing author of a favorite book. (Jet Films)

TATTOO: German cops search for a serial killer in the ink-on-skin subculture. (Vitagraph)

VERONICA GUERIN: Cate Blanchett plays the courageous Irish journalist who was assassinated for her investigations into organized crime. (Touchstone)

JUNE

CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu are back as the airhead investigators, and they've brought Demi Moore with them. Bill Murray couldn't afford to lose any more brain cells, though; his Bosley has morphed into Bernie Mac. (Columbia) (June 27)

HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE: Old cop Harrison Ford and young cop Josh Hartnett conduct a comedic investigation of a rap group's murder. (Columbia) ( June 13)

THE HULK: Shape-shifting director Ang Lee goes into the Marvel Comics realm. When Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) gets mad, well, he gets big and green. Jennifer Connelly and Nick Nolte co-star. (Universal) (June 20)

LE DIVORCE: Kate Hudson and Naomi Watts are American sisters facing the social mores of French society. Director James Ivory's ensemble includes Glenn Close, Stockard Channing, Matthew Modine and Sam Waterston. (Fox Searchlight)

MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD: Russell Crowe and his "Beautiful Mind' figment Paul Bettany headline this adaptation of Patrick O'Brian's Napoleonic-era naval adventure directed by Peter Weir. (20th Century Fox) (June 6)

THE RUGRATS MEET THE WILD THORNBERRYS: ... and presumably they all play a championship round of "Blue's Clues.' Bruce Willis voices the Rugrats' dog Spike. (Paramount) (June 13)

SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS: The studio that brought you "Shrek' looks for another animated hit with the voices of Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer and Joseph Fiennes. (DreamWorks) (June 27)

2 FAST, 2 FURIOUS: No Vin Diesel this time, but Paul Walker is back, and John Singleton is in the director's chair. Gentlemen, start your engines. (Universal) (June 6)

WHEN HARRY MET LLOYD: DUMB & DUMBERER: "Dumb & Dumber' prequel, without Jim Carrey or the Farrelly brothers, which sounds really dumb. (New Line) (June 13)

JULY

BAD BOYS II: Who in the world was really waiting for the reteaming of Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and director Michael Bay for the sequel to a middling cop comedy? Besides their accountants, we mean. (Columbia) (July 18)

LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE: "Speed' director Jan De Bont guides our jet-skiing, horseback-riding, motorcycling heroine across the globe in search of the Cradle of Life. Angelina Jolie is back for the video-game-inspired mayhem. (Paramount) (July 25)

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: Another comic book adaptation. Victorian adventurers Allan Quartermain (Sean Connery), Dr. Jekyll (Jason Flemyng), Capt. Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah) and the like team up to battle evil. (20th Century Fox) (July 11)

LEGALLY BLONDE 2: RED, WHITE AND BLONDE: Like, Reese Witherspoon is back and she's, like, going to Washington to take on animal cruelty. (MGM) (July 2)

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Disney swears this is an actual, rip-roaring seagoing adventure, not another attempt to turn a theme park attraction into a movie in the grand tradition of "The Country Bears.' Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom buckle-and-swash. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer supplies the ammunition. (Disney) (July 9)

SEABISCUIT: "Pleasantville' director Gary Ross and star Tobey Maguire reunite to tell the story of an awfully famous racehorse. With Chris Cooper and Jeff Bridges. (Universal) (July 25)

TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES: This time, the Arnoldbot has to battle an even more sophisticated bad Terminator than the last one; and this one's a girl who can beat him up! Minus the participation of franchise creator James Cameron, it will be interesting to see if this ultra-costly sequel packs anything like the same psychotronic punch as the first two films. (Warner Bros.) (July 2)

WONDERLAND: Not content with playing Jim Morrison, Val Kilmer gets his mojo rising again as John Holmes in this biofilm about the late porn star. "Friend' Lisa Kudrow plays the great man's wife. (Lions Gate)

AUGUST

AMERICAN WEDDING: Those crazy high-schoolers of two "American Pie' films aren't in high school anymore. (Universal) (Aug. 1)

THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS: Fish-out-of-water ad man Cuba Gooding Jr. must create a gospel choir in a small Southern town in order to collect an inheritance. Didn't we just see this with Gooding wearing a fur parka and piloting a snow-dog theme? Beyonce Knowles co-stars. (Paramount)

GIGLI: The movie where Ben met Jennifer. It's got Al Pacino and Christopher Walken, too, but who's gonna be watching them for clues? (Columbia) (Aug. 1)

MOLLY GUNN: Because we !ital!really needed another Brittany Murphy movie. In this one, she's the freewheeling daughter of a late rock legend. When her inheritence is stolen, poor Molly has to get a -- gasp! -- job! (MGM)

SUMMER UNSCHEDULED

J.M. BARRIE'S NEVERLAND: Director Marc Forster ("Monster's Ball') charts the author's creation of his classic book "Peter Pan' at the turn of the last century. Cast includes Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie and Dustin Hoffman. (Miramax)

SEPTEMBER

ANYTHING ELSE: Director/writer and, once again, star Woody Allen has a title ... but, natch, no description of his latest. He does, however, have a cast that includes Stockard Channing, Jason Biggs, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Christina Ricci and jazz lady Diana Krall. (DreamWorks)

OCTOBER

INTOLERABLE CRUELTY: O lawyer, where art thou? George Clooney and the Coen brothers reunite with Clooney playing an L.A. divorce attorney who falls for a hardheaded woman (Catherine Zeta-Jones) pursuing financial independence through serial matrimony. (Universal) (Oct. 10)

KILL BILL: Quentin Tarantino finally returns to directing with this bloody tale of a former assassin who returns to get the boss who betrayed her. Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox and Daryl Hannah defy laws both manmade and natural in this Hong Kong-inspired romp. (Miramax) (Oct. 10)

MYSTIC RIVER: Clint Eastwood does not appear in his latest directing effort. But with a classy cast that includes Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Hardin and Laura Linney, this Boston-based murder mystery should get along fine without him. (Warner Bros.) (Oct. 3)

OUT OF TIME: Denzel Washington is back in thriller mode for his "Devil in a Blue Dress' director Carl Franklin. Washington plays a Florida police chief looking to solve a double homicide in which he is also a suspect. (MGM) (Oct. 3)

NOVEMBER

BARBERSHOP 2: Director Tim Story is back, as are, presumably, as many of the denizens of Calvin's shop as they can round up. (MGM) (Nov. 21)

DR. SEUSS' THE CAT IN THE HAT: Mike Myers wears the red and white chapeau for director Bo Welch and "Grinch' producer Brian Grazer. (Universal) (Nov. 21)

THE HAUNTED MANSION: Scariest thing about this Eddie Murphy comedy: What's Disney going to do when they run out of theme-park attractions to turn into movies? (Disney) (Nov. 26)

LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION: Bugs and company interact with real people again. But what makes this sound more promising than that Michael Jordan thing they did is that director Joe Dante ("Gremlins') is about as close to a live-action cartoon himself as flesh and blood can get. (Warner Bros.) (Nov. 14)

LOVE ACTUALLY: Ten short romantic comedies wrapped into one, with a plucky British ensemble along for the ride. Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson and Colin Firth star for director Richard Curtis. (Universal) (Nov. 7)

THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS: The wrap-up. Depending, of course, on how much money this one makes. (Warner Bros.) (Nov. 7)

MONA LISA SMILE: Julia Roberts does the inspiring Ivy League teacher thing for a gaggle of '50s brahminettes played by Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (Columbia) (11/21)

DECEMBER

THE LAST SAMURAI: Tom Cruise plays an American officer hired by Japan's emperor to help modernize the nation's army in the 1870s. But then the Yank discovers the beauty in the Samurai way of doing things. (Warner Bros.) (Dec. 5)

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING: Well, that's the end of that. Unless it makes as much money as the other two. (New Line)

FALL UNSCHEDULED

BIG FISH: Tim Burton directs a collection of tall tales a father tells his son. With Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange and Billy Crudup. (Columbia)

THE CLEARING: The kidnapping and ransom of Wayne (Robert Redford) by Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe) threatens his marriage to Eileen (Helen Mirren). (Fox Searchlight)

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND: A man goes through surgery to erase the memories of his girlfriend. Who would do such a thing? Jim Carrey would. Who would !ital!write such a thing? "Adaptation's' Charlie Kaufman, of course. (Focus)

THE HUMAN STAIN: Robert Benton directs Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman in Phillip Roth's story about the unlikely relationship between a disgraced academic and an abused cleaning woman. (Miramax)

21 GRAMS: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu follows his "Amores Peros' with a psychological relationship triangle between a woman (Naomi Watts), her married lover (Sean Penn) and an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro). The title refers to the the amount of weight the human body loses at death. (Focus)

UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN: Diane Lane is la dolce expatriata in this film version of Frances Mayes' best seller about moving to Italy. (Touchstone)

UNTITLED SYLVIA PLATH: Another literary suicide, nearly as famous as "The Hours' ' Virginia Woolf. This time it's Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath, real-life mom Blythe Danner as her mum and Daniel Craig as Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. (Focus)

HOLIDAY

THE ALAMO: Lest we forget ... this remake of the Texas war saga stars Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric and Dennis Quaid. (Touchstone)

BAD SANTA: Billy Bob Thornton in the role he was born to play. Directed by Terry Zwigoff ("Ghost World') and produced by the Coen brothers. (Dimension)

COLD MOUNTAIN: Adaptation of Charles Frazier's best-selling Civil War novel stars Jude Law as the wounded rebel and Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger as the two women he's trying to get home to. Directed, in Romania of all places, by "The English Patient's' Anthony Minghella. (Miramax) (Dec. 25)

PETER PAN: In director P.J. Hogan's Neverland, young Peter is actually played by -- get this! -- a !ital!boy. Jeremy Sumpter is Pan, Jason Isaacs is Hook. (Universal) (Dec. 25)

UNSCHEDULED

BEYOND BORDERS: Romance between a wealthy American and a renegade doctor who ministers in war-torn nations. With Angelina Jolie, Linus Roache and Clive Owen. (Paramount)

THE COMPANY: Robert Altman's probe of the Joffrey Ballet features former dancer Neve Campbell and a lot of people who probably can't dance too well but can hold their own acting. (Sony Classics)

THE DREAMERS: In turmoil-torn 1968 Paris, a trio of cineastes are drawn together through their passion for film. Bernardo Bertolucci directs Michael Pitt, Eva Green and Louis Garrel. (Fox Searchlight)

ENVY: Ben Stiller and Jack Black play a couple of pals whose friendship teeters when one of their get-rich-quick schemes takes off. The scheme: a spray that disintegrates dog doo. Hey, every house should have one. Barry Levinson directs. (DreamWorks)

UNTITLED ERROL MORRIS DOCUMENTARY: The acclaimed creator of "The Thin Blue Line' looks at the 20th century through the eyes of former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara. (Sony Classics)

HERO: Chinese art-house hero Zhang Yimou ("Raise the Red Lantern') attempts an Ang Lee with this historical martial-arts spectacular starring the cream of Hong Kong and Mainland stars: Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung. (Miramax)

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: A very popular "Oprah' book becomes a film. A former member of the Shah of Iran's inner circle (Ben Kingsley) buys a house at auction, but the house's owner (Jennifer Connelly) fights to get it back. (DreamWorks)

JERSEY GIRL: The film Ben and Jen made after they fell in love. They, um, fall in love in this one. Written and directed by the Kevin Smith of "Dogma' and "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back' fame. (Miramax)

MAGDALENE SISTERS: Scotsman Peter Mullan's controversial expose of Ireland's notorious indentured laundry system for "fallen' women has wowed 'em at film festivals and really upset the Vatican. (Miramax)

SAVED: A dark comedy with a religious bent featuring a wheelchair-dependent Macaulay Culkin, a pregnant Jena Malone and a skateboarding Patrick Fugit. (UA)

THE STATEMENT: Michael Caine stars -- for director Norman Jewison -- as a former Nazi executioner trying to escape his past in modern-day France. (Sony Classics)

SWIMMING POOL: First English-language film from France's Francois Ozon ("8 Women') is a thriller concerning a British mystery author stirring up trouble while visiting her publisher in the south of France. With Charles Dance and Charlotte Rampling. (Focus)

TIMELINE: A time-traveling adventure to 14th-century feudal France based on the novel by Michael Crichton. With Paul Walker and Frances O'Connor. (Paramount)

28 DAYS LATER: A fast-moving virus that sends those infected into a murderous rage levels Britain. Cillian Murphy and Christopher Eccleston star for "Trainspotting' director Danny Boyle. (Fox Searchlight)

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