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Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
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Thanks to Reader Anne S. for tipping me to the new Film Four ad — in which Ewan McGregor is wearing a tomato costume! Looks pretty cute in it, too, although I think the hat on mine is cuter.
And another one, in which the berry gets kicked in the berries. God help me for laughing at that, but: hee.
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
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Oh how I love Judi Dench!
Good God, is that DAME JUDI DENCH as a lobster? I think my brain just broke…
I was distracted by Willem Dafoe in a racing outfit and want to see more of that costume, myself.
Yes, I know I’m sick, but the man has cheekbones you could cut glass on.
I was just going to say HEEEEEE!! Dame Dench as a lobstah!
can’t we get film 4 here? that is an AWESOME commercial!
“But that’s the mystery of you.” You tell him, Dame Judy! I love the whole thing: Ewan, Lobstah Dench, Rhys Ifans, Mackenzie Crook, everybody.
Hee. “Bastid!” If laughing at Ewan getting kicked in the tomatonads is wrong, I’m clearly in big trouble.
If Ewan as tomato chasing a small boy who just kicked him in the berries is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
And is there anything Judi Dench can do that isn’t instantly classic?
“Dame Judi,” I meant to say. I can’t comment here without losing my mind, or at least any proofreading ability I ever had. And no: there’s nothing Dame Judi does that isn’t immediately a classic of its kind. I especially like the little triumphant “Aaaah!” she gives, accompanied by lobster victory arms, early in the clip.
Is that Gael Garcia Bernal as the World’s Worst Car Flyer Distributor?
(In view of the title of this entry, I suppose that I’ve been mispronouncing the name of the site all these years: I’ll practice saying “To-may-to Nation” all day.)
Priceless. Also, given the videos YouTube recommends after you watch these, Ewan McGregor has been in some WEIRD, weird commercials. In Japan. WTF, Ewan? Ha.
Heh. “Spirit claws!” “Jazz claws!”
That made me forget the fact that I can feel my heartbeat in my nose for a quick second there. Thank you.