1941

I have worked on my new drawing since the past week and finally entered into the final phase. I choose this movie called “1941” to draw because that was a pretty cool one.

A head set

I went to Yamada Denki and got a head set today so I finally be able to chat with my friends in San Francisco. I can not wait to talk with them!

Videos that i bought today

"The Dream Team"
"Blame It on the Bellboy"
"Taking Care of Business"
"Romeo and Juliet" (for assignment)

"Taking Care of Business(ファイロファックス/トラブル手帳で大逆転)" is one of Jim Belushi’s works. I really like the way he acts because he reminds me of his dead brother, John. The co-starring star, Charles Grodin also has done a great job in the movie. I am a fun of him even though he was nominated as “Worst Supporting Actor” for his role in a Ceavy Chase movie called “Neil Simon’s Seems Like Old Times” in early eighties.

Book Review 2-2

Mr. Scrooge is an old, white haired man. What he believes is money and what he does is making more and more money. He doesn’t love anyone in this entire world, even his family. As Christmas season comes, three ghosts appeared and showed Scrooge his past days and positive future as visions to let him know how wrong his life was. Finally, Mr. Scrooge made a big change to his life and became a better person who treats everyone kindly.

This book remains me Bill Murray because he had played Mr. Scrooge in a movie named “Scrooged”. In the movie, Bill plays a selfish TV executive producer who struggles in the ratings. He doesn’t feel to celebrate Christmas as an ordinary person because he thinks work harder and making more money are most important things in his life. He even refuses his younger brother’s invitation to Christmas party in. One day, Bill met his ex-girlfriend accidentally. The ex-girlfriend, who was played by Karen Allen, works at a volunteer group and was very disappointed him because Bill became a man who only cares money. At the end, the two understood each other with the help of three ghosts.
As you see, there is a big difference between “The Christmas Carol” and “Scrooged”. if you have read the book, I think you would better to watch “Scrooged” too because many famous stars were appearing in the movie, such as Robert Mitchum.
Bill Murray and Carol Kane in "Scrooged".

Movie Review 2-1 (15)

I am so glad that I finally gained a chance to write a post about one of my favorite called “Toy Story”. I have watched this movie thousand times since the first day I watched it.
This movie is one of epics in entire CG animation movies history. I remember this movie was released in middle of nineties and had surprised many people by its amazing computer graphics at that time. In fact, computer graphics are not out of common for people because “Jurassic Park”, which was hitting in the theaters before “Toy Story”, had already made people know how wonderful CG is. However, this “Toy Story” is totally different to “Jurassic Park” because its every single scene was made by CG and there is no real person appeared in the movie. Nowadays, a lot of animation films took this style over from “Toy Story”.
Well, the voices over casts in this film are also great. Tom Hunks, who gained his fame by appearing in “Saturday Night Live”, played Woody the leading character of film and Tim Allen, the one of most famous comedians in United States, took charge of Buzz Lightyear (the partner of Woody) ‘s voice. At that time, Tim Allen was really popular because of his hit TV situation comedy named “Home Improvement”, so I guess that people headed to theater for him. To tell the truth, I like this movie because I am a huge fan of “Home Improvement”, also. Speaking of Tom Hunks, well, I don’t know about him so much so I am not able to introduce him to you. If you are interested in him or his acting, I think you would better to check “Forest Gump” or “The Big”.


Casts of "Home Improvement".

Now back on topic of Tim Allen. As many people know, he was a stand-up comedian while he was relatively young. His famous comedy show, “Men are Pigs” changed his life and made him a national icon in early nineties. Then he started to own his TV show named “Home Improvement” as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor. Soon the TV show became extremely popular and it was broadcasted until 1998. Tim Allen is also known as Tim “The Cocaine Man” Taylor because of his criminal record for selling cocaine when he was a young man. In late nineties, he was arrested for speeding and drink-driving … again.


"Gee, life is messy, isn’t it?"

Juppun wa jubun

Well, I would love to introduce about one of my favorite TV show in this ten minutes. It called “Home Improvement”. For some people, it is pretty famous because it was a big hit in united states a couple years ago. The show was about one car guy named Tim Taylor who played by the well-known, Tim Allen. People in the show also call him “The Tool Man” because he own a local TV show, “The Tool Time”. He is full of humors and makes many people laughter in the show. His wife, Jill, is a middle-aged college student who is tying to be a therapist and has three boys as her and his children. Usually, their cordially life are very peaceful, but they also get very chaotic sometime.

SNL

Guess what? I finally bought the DVD of my favorite TV show called “Saturday Night Live”. These DVDs include the complete first season of show and a lot of special features. Unfortunately they contain no English subtitles, but a nice teacher who always carrying his favorite beard told me a helpful website so I can find all of scripts of the show. Thank you so much, Mister!
Speaking of “SNL”, the second DVD will be released in December this winter and its front cover seems … very creepy:

Portrait of Conehead family.