Rob came over last night. My intention was to watch one of the movies that arrived from Netflix: Diabolik or A Death at a Funeral. Instead, we watched Ultimate Fighting. And then Rob put on CBS and we watched more Ultimate Fighting. Kimbo Slice was the headliner. His challenger was this big galoot with a huge cauliflower ear that looked a bit like a testicle. It was in the third round, right when I said, “I think Kimbo is beat,” that Kimbo swung hard and hit the guy right in the cauliflower ear. The darn thing popped! The commentators screamed as the ear burst open and pieces of flesh and blood sprayed across the ring. Kimbo punched and jabbed a few times and the big galoot stumbled backwards and the ref stopped the fight. The big galoot was not happy that the ref stopped the fight and so he PUNCHED the ref! During the after-fight interview, Kimbo said had they not stopped the fight he would have kept going after the ear. Yeah, I have a feeling that CBS will be holding matches like this more often.

My favorite movie theater sends out a quarterly magazine listing all the art house movies that they will feature. You won’t guess what movie was in their list of upcoming releases! BRIDESHEAD REVISITED! I honestly can’t believe it. I never thought it would get remade. Charles Ryder is being portrayed by Matthew Goode who played the brother in the movie Match Point. He seems to be a perfect choice. Ben Whishaw is Lord Sebastian Flyte. He is the right age but he doesn’t quite look like Sebastian to me. It’s going to be hard not seeing Anthony Andrews as Sebastian. Watching the trailer, the movie seems a bit dark and Lady Marchmain’s role seems beefed up while Julia seems to have been injected into earlier scenes where she doesn’t belong. I didn’t see Anthony Blanche in the trailer, I hope his character wasn’t cut.

I will be the first person in line when Brideshead Revisted Revisited is released.

Here’s the trailer via Youtube:

And here’s some scenes from the original: