Tuesday

Well, I've been trying to get a list published on the Listverse website.  Have you guys ever visited that site: http://listverse.com/  It's pretty cool.  The list I'm trying to get submitted (and, um... paid for) is a list I called 'Authors Hollywood Won't Touch,'  which is a compilation of writers, either commercially or critically successful, whose works have stayed off Hollywood's radar: 
John Sandford, Richard Laymon, Willa Cather, J.D. Salinger, John Saul, R.L. Stine, Anne Perry, Tim O'Brien, Thomas Pynchon, and Sue Grafton.  Okay list?  I think so, but here's the next list I'm thinking of submitting:

10 Actors Who, Surprisingly, Have Been Nominated For and Oscar and 10 Actors Who, Surprisingly, Haven't  

Yes
10. Linda Blair 
9. Sylvester Stallone
8. Elliott Gould
7. Pat Morita
6. Jennifer Tilly
5. Gary Busey 
4. Casey Affleck
3.Michael Clarke Duncan
2. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
1. Dudley Moore

No
10. Ewan McGregor   (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Trainspotting, Beginners, The Impossible, Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, The Ghost Writer)
9. Richard Gere  (Arbitrage, The Hoax, Chicago, Primal Fear, Unfaithful)  
8. Joseph Gordon-Levitt  (The 500 Days of Summer, 50/50, Looper, The Lookout)
7. Kevin Bacon  (Murder in the First, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Stir of Echoes, Frost-Nixon, Sleepers)
6. Matthew McConaughey   (The Lincoln Lawyer, Magic Mike, Killer Joe, Bernie, A Time to Kill, Dazed and Confused, Frailty)
5. Donald Sutherland   (MASH, Klute, Backdraft, Pride & Prejudice, Without Limits, JFK, Eye of the Needle, A Dry White Season)  
4. Sam Rockwell  (Joshua, Moon, Matchstick Men, Snow Angels, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) 
3. Jeff Daniels   (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, The Squid and the Whale, Pleasantville, Gettysburg)  
2. Steve Buscemi   (Ghost World, Fargo, Reservoir Dogs, Trees Lounge) 
1. Alan Rickman   (Snow Cake, Die Hard, Love Actually, Sweeney Todd, Sense and Sensibility) 


Not sure what to think of Fox's The Following.  The pilot was definitely freaky - with Kevin Bacon as a former FBI profiler impelled been into action when a serial killer escapes from federal prison - featuring some twists and a tense, propulsive performance by Bacon.  A lot of gore though, perhaps too much.  I'll probably watch next week's episode because I think it's going to prove watchable and clever, but I am overly tired of stories about brilliant serial killers. and a scene where a killer is shown to have murdered and cut out the eyes of dogs - is simply sick and unnecessary.   Oh, yeah, and Natalie Zea is very easy on the eye.