Billy Bob Thornton extemporises on his love for Felicity Kendal and The Good Life. #empireread #dec2001

Daniel Clowes himself previews the Ghost World movie with what looks like specially created artwork. ##empireread #dec2001

The fifteen blank pages in the middle of the magazine are also unexpected. #empireread #dec2001

Bold choice to put nothing on the cover. #empireread #dec2001

Empire heralds the casting of Eric Bana as Bruce Banner. #empireread #dec2001

It’s aus.social/@p_terg

Jackie Chan was due to star as a window cleaner of the World Trade Centre who sees terrorists in the building and fights back. Was due to start filming Dec2001.
Looks like someone thought enough time has passed and dusted off the script.

Many make the switch like that. Many deactivate or delete the app..

It’s so good over here. Many of my tweeps are here. Some at Mastodon as well (I’m there at aus.social/@p_terg) but not too often.

I have both Twitter and this open so I spend about the same time on each nowadays.

China WTO Dec2001 🤯 US manufacturing

Deficits normally aren’t terrible.
Now HUGE prob

NOT sustainable to run deficits > nominalGDP growth (if 128% Debt/nomGDP)

Effects
• high int exp (rivals NatSec outlays)
• global bond mkt requires higher rates (auctions, trades)
• high int rates quash growth

Noted. #empireread #dec2001

He’s less dismissive of Monroe this time too. #empireread #dec2001

We get the same anecdote about giving Poitier a hand up the ladder but this time it becomes a rant about how badly he was treated by the Academy. #empireread #dec2001

Tony Curtis is reviewed again seven years later to support the DVD release of Some Like It Hot. There are less slurs but he still doesn’t sound like someone you’d want to spend time with. #empireread #dec2001

Arguably distributors still aren’t helping by foregrounding international cinema of a particular type whilst ignoring genre pictures (with the exception of Bollywood). #empireread #dec2001

This film was not made. #empireread #dec2001

This is the article I remember. The Jennifer Lopez vehicle would have been a game changer at that point in her career. #empireread #dec2001

The Spielberg idolatry continues and God speaks to his subjects. #empireread #dec2001