Tuesday, August 31, 2010


Mihai Eminescu

TRECUT-AU ANII ...

Trecut-au anii ca nouri lungi pe şesuri
Şi niciodată n-or să vie iară,
Căci nu mă-ncîntă azi cum mă mişcară
Poveşti şi doine, ghicitori ,eresuri,

Ce fruntea-mi de copil o-nseninară,
Abia-nţelese, pline de-nţelesuri -
Cu-a tale umbre azi în van mă-mpresuri,
O, ceas al tainei, asfinţit de sară.

Să smulg un sunet din trecutul vieţii,
Să fac, o, suflet ca din nou să tremuri
Cu mîna mea în van pe liră lunec ;

Pierdut e totu-n zarea tinereţii
Şi mută-i gura dulce-a altor vremuri,
Iar timpul creşte-n urma mea...mă-ntunec !


SONO PASSATI GLI ANNI...

Sono passati gli anni come lunghe nuvole sui campi
E mai tornerano ancora,
Che non m'incantano piu come mi avevano comosso,
Storie e canzoni, indovinelli, superstizioni,

Che la mia fronte di bambino avevano rasserenato,
Appena intesi, pieni di sensi -
Con le tue ombre oggi in vano mi avvolgi
O, ora del mistero, crepuscolo di sera.

Per suscitare un suono del passato,
Che faccia, o, anima, che tu ancora trema
La mia mano in vano sto scivolando sulla lira.

Perso e tutto all'orizzonte della gioventu
Zitta e la dolce voce di altre volte,
E il tempo aumenta dietro a me...m'oscuro !



HAVE PAST THE YEARS...

Have past the years like long clouds on plain
And they'll never come again,
For they don't enchant me as they did
Stories, songs, riddles, superstitions,

Which my child forehead had enlighted,
Hardly understood, full of senses -
With your shadows vainly wrap me
O, hour of the mystery, dusk of evening.

To tear out a sound from the past,
To make you, o, my soul,to thrill again
My hand on my lyre in vain I slip ;

Lost is all at the horizon of my youth
Silent is the sweet mouth of other years,
And time are increasing behind me...I'm getting dark !




JUDI DENCH IS HOLLYWOOD SPY'S BEST BRITISH ACTRESS. NEW POLL: YOUR FAVOURITE BRITISH GENTS PART TWO

Your Favourite British Actress (part one) poll is over and I must say you were a very respectful and profound voters giving the most votes to the best among them, her royal majesty Judi Dench (30%).
Welsh beauty Catherine Zeta Jones took second place (23%), leaving sensual Rachel Weisz (17%) in the third spot.
Now before you start reading my story on the winner, you must first leave your computers and courteously bow in front of her royal majesty, queen Judi Dench. Did it? OK, we can continue :) For some reason, I've never considered Elizabeth II as the English queen but our dear Judi :) She really is royal in every respect. I first fell in love with her watching the amazing and heartwarming sitcom "As Time Goes By" (1992-2005) the most intelligent TV series from BBC about a woman who, at her mature age, meets the love from her youth and they start their romance again as two older people. Amazing show, I'm happy I was able to grow up watching it. Another BBC series I loved her in was the witty, charming and star-studded "Cranford". We all loved her versatile roles in "James Bond", "Nine", "Notes on a Scandal", "Mrs Henderson Presents", "The Chronicles of Riddick", "Ladies in Lavander", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Iris", "Chocolate", "Tea With Mussolini", "Shakespeare in Love", "Mrs. Brown"... The fact that she has just one Oscar (for the 8 minute role in "Shakespeare in Love") just speaks about the nonsensical criteria of the American Film Academy. But she does have 10 BAFTAs like a true British Dame!
Before "Mrs. Brown" she wasn't overly noticed in cinemas, but she got that legendary role because she told the producer Harvey Weinstein that she had his name tattooed on her bum. It wasn't a real one, she had her make-up lady design something that she just showed him. He had never forgotten that situation :)

Now let us go to our new poll: the second part of YOUR FAVOURITE BRITISH GENTS. The dashing gentlemen competing in this round, our dear cinema knights from Great Britain are: James McAvoy (ATONEMENT, CHRONICLES OF NARNIA), Michael Fassbender (CENTURION, 300, FISH TANK), Gerard Butler (300, ATILA, REIGN OF FIRE), Rufus Sewell (TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, HELEN OF TROY), Jason Isaacs (HARRY POTTER, PETER PAN) , Jason Statham (CELLULAR, TRANSPORTER, LONDON), Damian Lewis (BAND OF BROTHERS, LIFE, COLDITZ), Stephen Moyer (TRUE BLOOD, PRINCE VALIANT). You can vote for them as much as you like in the next two weeks :)

"THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY" NEW WW2 $200 MILLION EPIC. DARREN ARONOFSKY MIGHT DIRECT "WOLVERINE 2". RYAN REYNOLDS AND BRADLEY COOPER AS COP PARTNERS

Here's a movie for the guys: Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper will star together in an untitled action-comedy penned by Sheldon Turner ("Up in the Air"), in which the story follows two friends, who are also San Francisco cops, whose fathers were once partners on the police force. The older generation is forced out of retirement to help their sons crack a case, with typically antagonistic results. I'm guessing they will also find some cool Bruce Willis type of actors to play their fathers :) It could be fun.

Warner Bros. will make a $200 million WW2 epic "The Battle of Midway" from the creator of "The Pacific". As a turning point in WW2 the battle of Midway took place six months after the demoralizing surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. When it was over, the supremacy of the Imperial Japanese Navy was lost along with four of its aircraft carriers and 1 heavy cruiser. The Japanese never recovered.

Darren Aronofsky, the hubby of our dear Rachel Weisz, is a potential new director for "Wolverine 2". The project has changed a lot of directors so far, but as you know Aronofsky already had a project with the main star Hugh Jackman, back when they made "The Fountain" together.

Monday, August 30, 2010


THE BEST DRESSED ACTRESSES AT LAST EVENING'S EMMY 2010 AWARDS

So, Emmy awards are over, I must admit I'm not a huge fan, since the nominees are always more or less the same and they almost never award the best ones, so let's go straight to the red carpet. I didn't like the red carpet this year either, there was just too much black colour and formless dresses, but here are the few lovely ones: I'm not totally sure who she is but Maria Menounos was the queen of the evening if you ask me. Rose Bourne was also refreshing in her profoundly designed white gown, while Toni Collette, who should've won the award but didn't, looked creative and cute as always in her patterned frock. Jenna Fischer is also someone I've never heard off but her non-pretentious red dress really looked lovely on her.
Claire Danes was lovely although a bit plane in her strapless crystal encrusted Armani, while January Jones had a great Versaci dress but unfortunately also some bad shoes and bad hair. Her colleague from "Mad Men" Elisabeth Moss looked refined even though she also had a bad hairdo. Kim Kardashian was smashing in her Cleopatra dress. I also liked Nina Dobrev and Jewel in their Zuhair Murad gowns.
Now, the only award I did like was the best supporting drama actor which went to amazing Aaron Paul whom I like a lot, and the cutest and the most adorable couple were off course Emily Blunt and her hubby John Krasinski. So, whom did you like best last evening?

Grigore Vieru

CASA

Oamenii la noi
Primăvara
Scot din malul Prutului
Lut pentru casă :
Îi scot pe străbunii noştri
Prefăcuţi în lut.
Pe urmă,
Frămîntă, dureros, lutul
Pînă cînd
Le sîngeră picioarele.
Apoi
Femeile pictează pe horn
Cocoşi şi flori stilizate,
Bărbaţii sparg podul
Să treacă lumina electrică,
Bătrînii se încălzesc
Cu spatele la sobă,
Copiii zgîrie obrazul pereţilor
Şi fac pipi pe faţa casei.
Iar lutul
Scade tot mai mult,
Şi gropile acele, pe sub pămînt,
Înaintează tot mai mult
Către sat.
Şi vine o primăvară
Cînd lumea se aude săpînd

Chiar sub casa ta.
Atunci copiii tăi
Scot din casa cea mare covorul
Şi se mută la margine de sat
Unde-şi fac o
Casă nouă.


LA CASA

La gente delle nostre parti
Di primavera
Cavano fuori dalla riva del Prut
Argilla per costruire una casa :
Cavano fuori i nostri antenati
Cambiati in argilla.
Poi,
Rimestano, dolorosamente, l'argilla
Fino quando
I loro piedi sanguinano.
Poi
Le donne dipingono il camino
di galli e fiori stilizzati,
Gli uomini rompono l'attico
Per istallare la luce elettrica,
I vecchi si riscaldano
Con le spalle alla stufa,
I bambini graffiano i pareti
E fanno pipi sulla fronte della casa.
E l'argilla
Diminuisce sempre di piu,
E quei buchi, sotto la terra,
Procedono sempre di piu
Verso il villaggio.
E arriva una primavera
Quando la gente si sente scavando

Proprio sotto la tua casa.
Allora i tuoi figli
Tirano fuori dalla casa grande il tappeto
E si spostano al margine del villaggio
Dove edificano una
Nuova casa.


THE HOUSE

People of our sides
In the spring
Take out from the bank of the Prut
Clay for building a house :
They take out our ancestors
Turned into clay.
Then
They temper, painfully, the clay
Until
Their feet bleed.
Then
Women paint on the chimney
Stylized fowls and flowers,
Men break the attic
To set up electric light,
Old are heating
With their back against the stove,
Children scratch the walls
And pee on front of the house.
And the clay
Lower more and more
And those holes, under the earth,
Advance more and more
Toward the village.
And one spring comes
When people is heard digging

Just under your house.
Then your children
Take out from the big house the carpet
And move to the edge of the village
Where they make a
New house.


STEPHEN MOYER MIGHT BE DR.DOOM IN "FANTASTIC 4" REBOOT. PROMO PIC FOR NEW "DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES". NICOLE SCHERZINGER JOINS "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER"

Here's a fresh new "Fantastic Four" reboot update: it seems that 20th Century Fox wants more and more popular Stephen Moyer ("True Blood") to take the role of Doctor Doom. If he accepts the role of the villain, Doctor Doom the master of the mystic art, Stephen Moyer might join Jonathan Rhys Meyers or Adrien Brody who are auditioning for the role of Mr. Fantastic and Alice Eve and Amber Heard, one of whom might become Sue Storm aka The Invisible Woman. There are also rumors that Bruce Willis might give his voice to the CGI The Thing.

After they've officially cast Jeremy Renner beside Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible IV", Paramount might hire lovely Kristin Kreuk ("Smallville") as a young female operative in the film. Jeremy Renner who will play a partner of Cruises' Ethan Hunt might continue the action film franchise as the new lead character later on if the studio decides to kick Cruise out of the franchise in the future.

As I've promised recently the first promo picture for the upcoming 7th season of "Desperate Housewives" is here and as I also promised the Wisteria Lane has gone Wild West: the focus in the picture is on Vanessa Williams, the new gangsta-lady in the block who will mess things up for Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman. Judging from the promo pic I guess we can expect some big duels and no-rules battles in our favourite TV neighborhood.

In another TV news I bring you the promo poster for the new season of popular "House M.D." with Hugh Laurie who is now lovesick and there's also a charming little update on "How I Meet Your Mother": the cast will have a super-gorgeous addition in the new season since sexy music star Nicole Scherzinger will be a new guest star but her role will be quite significant and not at all minor.

woman shirts fashion style shirt Tips for Washing, Ironing and Storing a Women’s shirts fashion



Tips for Washing, Ironing & Storing a Women’s Blouse
Whilst the classic white shirt may be a timeless wardrobe staple it will only remain that way with a little Tender Loving Care.




If you have followed fashion advice on key wardrobe basics and invested in a blouse or shirt with a good quality cotton weave, then your investment needs to be protected by maintaining its look and shape.


Along with a few pointers from The Textile Services Association, here is some helpful advice on how to care for your shirt:
How to Wash a White Shirt



Tips for Washing, Ironing & Storing a Women’s Blouse
Whilst the classic white shirt may be a timeless wardrobe staple it will only remain that way with a little Tender Loving Care.




If you have followed fashion advice on key wardrobe basics and invested in a blouse or shirt with a good quality cotton weave, then your investment needs to be protected by maintaining its look and shape.

Along with a few pointers from The Textile Services Association, here is some helpful advice on how to care for your shirt:
How to Wash a White Shirt

* According to Davis, Fort and Richa in the article “A Crisp White Shirt is a Fashion Classic” from Cleveland.com, “in general it is better to wash your white shirts than to have them dry-cleaned”
* Keep your shirt looking ultra-bright by using a specially formulated detergent for whites.
* Generally a machine wash at 40c is perfect for cotton, but make sure you check the manufacturers label for washing instructions. With the latest trend in detailing and embellishments, there may be specific requirements.
* Never mix whites with colored items. Keep them separate.
* Brighten up a dull looking shirt by using specially formulated fabric bleach such as Ecover’s Laundry Bleach. The same applies to white bras which look very sorry for themselves. Do not use normal bleach as it will yellow the shirt.
* A stain removing product (such as Vanish or Shout) is an essential tool when trying to remove dirt and grime from collars and cuffs, or make up which has accidentally rubbed onto the collar. Use a toothbrush to apply the stain remover but do not rub too hard so as not to damage the fabric.
* Should you suffer from excessive underarm staining from deodorants or perspiration marks then consider sewing in some garment guard patches, available from Amazon.
* Drying your shirt on a hanger will minimize creasing.
* Secure buttons for longer by making sure your unfastening the shirt before placing it in the washing machine.
How to Iron a White Shirt

Finally, as a white shirt needs to be worn crisp and wrinkle free, if you loath ironing then spend a little more and invest in a non-iron shirt instead. By giving it a little TLC, keeping your shirt in pristine condition will prevent it from becoming unintentionally off-white, and allow you to continue to wear this versatile piece of women’s clothing for years to come.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Lipstick and Lip Liner...style lipstick


Lipstick adds the final touch to any makeup application. Lining the lips creates subtle definition and perfects the shape of the lips.
Instructions

1)Consider your lipstick color and finish. You’ll do well with colors that match the natural shade of your lips, opting for darker tones that complement your overall coloring. Matte lipsticks offer a muted finish complementary to workday makeup, while satin and gloss finishes offer appealing evening looks.


2 ) Apply all other makeup before putting on lipstick and lip liner.

3 ) Begin by dabbing on a very small amount of lip balm or petroleum jelly to give your lips a little moisture.

4 )Draw a thin line along the edge of your lips with a lip liner whose color is one shade darker than your lipstick. Start at the center of the upper lip and work outward. Hug the very outer edges to open up thin lips, and line well within the edges to downplay excessively full lips.

5 ) Apply lipstick from the tube or by using a firm, small lipstick brush. Coat the lips evenly. Pay special attention to staying within the lips’ edges.

6 ) Blot to remove any excess color and to even out the texture.

7 )Remember to touch lips up after a meal, as lipstick easily transfers onto coffee cups, water bottles and soda cans.


Tips & Warnings
For longer-lasting lip color, shade both lips with lip liner after defining them. As lipstick fades throughout the day, the liner offers a hint of color before you have a chance to reapply.

Balance heavy eye makeup with a soft lip color. Wear a rich and boldly colored lipstick to complement soft eye makeup.

Give the illusion of a thicker top lip by lining its outermost edges and foregoing liner on the bottom lip.
Chill lip liner for easier sharpening.


Forego lipstick if you have a cold sore. Opt instead for a camphor-based lip balm to aid in healing.

Cioran

Cei care vorbesc nu au secrete. Şi noi vorbim cu toţii. Ne trădăm, ne dăm în vileag inima ; fiecare se înverşunează să distrugă toate misterele, începînd cu ale sale.
Viaţa nu-i decît această nerăbdare de a decădea, de a prostitua singurătăţile virginale ale sufletului.

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Coloro che parlano non hanno segreti. E noi tutti parliamo. Tradiamo noi stessi, ci riveliamo il cuore ; ciascuno si accanisce di distruggere tutti i misteri, cominciando con i suoi.
La vita non e che questa impazienza di decadere, di prostituire le solitudini virginali dell'anima.

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Those who speak have no secret. And we all talk. We betray us, expose our heart ; each hurry up to destroy all misteryes, starting with his.
Life isn't but the impatience to decay, to prostitute the virginal solitudes of the soul.

NEW ANIMATED FILMS FROM DREAMWORKS: "IMAGINARY ENEMIES" AND "BOO U". A CUTE NEW POSTER 4 DISNEY'S "TANGLED"

OK, my dear creatures, since Sunday is usually a day with no film news, let's do a relaxing post on some cute new animated projects which are being planned over in Tinseltown: Seth Rogen, who has already given his voice in "Kung Fu Panda" and "Monsters vs Aliens" will voice the lead character in Dreamworks' film with a super charming tittle "Boo U", according to "Heat Vision". Similar to famous "Casper", the story in "Boo U" will follow a ghost who isn't very good at his job so he must go back to school to become better at it :)) This 3D animated project will be directed by Tony Leondis ("Igor").

And take a look at the charming new French poster for Disney's "Tangled", a film which starts when the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider (voice of Zachary Levi) is taken hostage by Rapunzel (voice of Mandy Moore), a feisty teen with 70 feet of golden hair who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years. After that the unlikely duo sets off on a hilarious, hair-raising escapade filled with adventure, heart, humor and hair-lots of hair.

DreamWorks Animation will also make a very innovative film "Imaginary Enemies", which will be told from the point of view of the imaginary friends who had long been used as scapegoats by unscrupulous children looking for someone else to blame for their misdeeds. Eventually fed up, those imaginary people come looking for some payback when the kids are grown up. Mike Mitchell from "Shrek Ever After" might direct this one as well.

Saturday, August 28, 2010


Nichita Stănescu

MEDITAŢIE DE SEARĂ

Vîntul a-nceput deodată
şi copacii au rămas suspendaţi.
M-am oprit. Şi-mi deschei cămaşa,
privind cerul nopţii,
cu gestul soldatului grec
după Salamina.
Dac-aş face un salt, aş pluti în aer.
Îmi plimb numai privirea
pe cerul nopţii...
Cîndva voi şti mai mult despre el.
Şirul de bărbaţi care vor purta numele meu
se termină undeva, dincolo de stele.
Întind mîna şi ating trunchiul copacului.
Ne surîdem aşa, ca şi cum
ne-am spune unul altuia
că-ntr-adevăr trăim
şi nu vom muri definitiv,
niciodată.


MEDITAZIONE DI SERA

Il vento e cominciato all'improvviso
e gli alberi sono rimasti sospesi.
Mi sono fermato. E sbottono la camicia,
guardando il cielo notturno,
col gesto del soldato greco
dopo Salamina.
Se farei un salto, volerei nell'aria.
Giro soltanto il mio sguardo
sul cielo della notte...
Una volta sapro piu su di lui.
La fila degli uomini che porterano il mio nome
finisce da qualche parte oltre le stelle.
Stendo la mano e tocco il tronco dell'albero.
Ci sorridiamo come se
dicessimo uno all'altro
che davvero viviamo
e non moriremo definitivamente
mai.


EVENING MEDITATION

The wind suddenly began
and the trees have remained suspended.
I stopped. And unbutton my shirt,
looking at the night sky
with the Greek soldier's gesture
after Salaminas.
If I should jump, I should soar in the air.
I only move my eyes
on the night sky...
Once I'll know more about it.
The row of men who wear my name
ends somewhere beyound the stars.
I reach my hand and touch the trunk of the tree.
We smile as
we should tell each other
that we are actually living
and we shall not definitely die
ever.

BRAD PITT IN "RED DEAD REDEMPTION". JOHN CUSACK IS EDGAR A. POE IN "THE RAVEN". SPIELBERG'S "TERRA NOVA" GETS 1ST ACTORS. "THE 3 MUSKETEERS" PICS

According to "Show Biz Spy" (they are obviously a member of my guild), Brad Pitt will star in "Red Dead Redemption", a big screen adaptation of the popular video game. If this is true, Brad Pitt will take the role of renegade cowboy outlaw John Marston who is forced to hunt down members of his old gang in this Wild West epic with a few modern touches.

Steven Spielberg's ambitious and expensive new TV show "Terra Nova" has got first actors: young Allison Miller and hunky Jason O'Mara. Premiering next year "Terra Nova" will center on humans from the year 2149 who are forced to find a way to save the human race so they go on an expedition through a rip in the time-space continuum that can send them back to prehistoric Earth.

As you know Paul W.S. Anderson is currently shooting 3D adaptation of "The Three Musketeers", and yesterday the first pics from the set have been revealed showing young Logan Lerman with a strange hairdo and Mads Mikkelsen in his dashing costume. The stellar cast also includes Christoph Waltz, Orlando Bloom, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Matthew Macfadyen and Milla Jovovich whom we've already seen in the costume of Milady De Winter.

John Cusack will play Edgar Allan Poe in the thriller "The Raven", based on the author's classic poem and directed by James McTeigue. The film follows the last five mysterious days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, when he gets wrapped up in a serial killer investigation. Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner and Ewan McGregor were mentioned before in connection with this project, but I don't know whether any of them is still in the cast.

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Friday, August 27, 2010

3 MESMERIZING NEW TV SPOTS FOR THE EPIC TALE "LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE"

A number of fresh new TV spots has been just released for something that promises to be the most magical and the most spellbinding film this year, Zack Snyder's animated epic tale "Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole". Check out these videos which reveal some new scenes we haven't seen in the previous trailers for this cinematic treat which many people think equals last year's "Avatar" in visual magnificence and splendor.

With the stunning voice cast including Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Neill ... the film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones. While Soren dreams of someday joining his heroes, his older brother, Kludd, scoffs at the notion, and yearns to hunt, fly and steal his father's favor from his younger sibling. But Kludd's jealousy has terrible consequences, causing both owlets to fall from their treetop home and right into the talons of the Pure Ones. Now it is up to Soren to make a daring escape with the help of other brave young owls. Together they soar across the sea and through the mist to find the Great Tree, home of the legendary Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Soren's only hope of defeating the Pure Ones and saving the owl kingdoms.

Thursday, August 26, 2010


Marin Sorescu

FLUIERUL

Un fluier ţipă deodată
În spatele unui trecător
Al cărui trup se umple de rumeguş
Ca un copac, cînd simte
În marginea pădurii
Gaterul.

Totuşi să nu-ntorc capul - îşi spune omul -
Poate e pentru altcineva.
În orice caz, să mai am un răgaz
De cîţiva paşi.

Fluierul se-aude strident
În spatele tuturor trecătorilor
Care se fac vineţi, galbeni, verzi, roşii
Şi merg înainte ţepeni,
Fără a întoarce capul.
Poate e pentru altcineva -
Gîndeşte fiecare -
Ce-am făcut eu decît
Un război, două războaie ?
Mîine am nuntă,
Poimîine-mi naşte soţia,
Răspoimîine-mi îngrop părinţii -
Am atîtea treburi pe cap,
Nu poate fi pentru mine.

Un copil
Şi-a cumpărat un fluier,
Şi-a ieşit să-l încerce
Pe bulevard,
Fluierînd ştrengăreşte la urechea oamenilor.


IL FISCHIETTO

Un fischietto strilla ad un tratto
Alle spalle di un viandante
Di cui corpo si empie di segatura
Come un albero, quando sente
Alla margine della foresta
La sega.

Tuttavia non tornero la testa - pensa l'uomo -
Forse c'e per qualcun altro.
In ogni caso, devo ottenere una sospensione
Di qualche passo.

Il fischietto si ode stridulo
Alle spalle di tutti i viandanti
Che diventano lividi, azzurri, gialli, verdi, rossi,
E vadono avanti rigidi,
Senza girare la testa,
Forse c'e per qualcun altro -
Pensa ciascuno -
Che cosa ho fatto io
Se non una guerra, o due ?
Domani mi sposo,
Dopodomani partorisce la mia moglie,
Dopo dopodomani bisogna seppellire i miei genitori -
Ho tante cose da fare
Non puo esserci per me.

Un monello
Ha comprato un fischietto
E ando a provarlo
Nel boulevard
Fischiando all'orecchio della gente.



THE WHISTLE

An whistle is shrieking
Behind a passer-by
Whose body fills with sawdust
Like a tree, that feels
At the edge of the forest
The saw.

However I'll don't turn my head - thinks the man -
Maybe it's for someone else.
Anyway, I must obtain a reprive
Of a few steps.

The whistle is shrill
Behaind all the passers-by
Who become bluish, yellow, green, red,
And go away stiff,
Without turning their head.
Maybe it's for somebody else -
Thinks each of them,
What have I done
But one war, or two ?
Tomorrow it's my wedding,
The day after tomorrow my wife gives birth,
The day after after tomorrow I have to burry my parents -
I have a lot of things to do
It can't be for me.

A prankish child
Has bought a whistle
And he went to try it
In the boulevard
Sprightly whistling at the ear of the people.

ANGELINA JOLIE'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT IN SERBIA AND BOSNIA. FANS WANT RYAN PHILLIPE AS "IRON FIST". PAUL VERHOVEN GOING EXOTIC IN "THE HIDDEN FORCE"

Angelina Jolie has been traveling around Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia last week, because she is planning to make a movie set in the time of the collapse of Yugoslavia, in the early 90's. She will mark her directorial debut with this film for which she also wrote the story herself. The film will focus on a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the war has on their relationship. Rade Serbedzija ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows") will play the father of the Serbian man. Here in ex Yugoslavia, we don't really like when foreigners make subjective and ignorant films about us, so let's hope Angelina will keep politics out of her project.

For today's superhero update, I have some news on "Iron Fist" film. According to "MovieWeb", Marvel has hired "xXx" screenwriter Rich Wilkes to write the "Iron Fist" comic book movie adaptation. The comic book centers on Danny Rand, a martial arts expert who after killing a dragon gains a mystical power that turns his fists into indestructible weapons. I'm guessing actors will fight for this role. I've noticed that comic book fans around the net are cheering for seriously underused Ryan Phillipe to get this role.
Paul Verhoeven ("Starship Troopers", "Robocop") will go exotic in his new project. He will adapt "The Hidden Force" a book by Louis Couperus which is set in the year 1900 on the island of Java. Set in the exotic Dutch East Indies the story will follow a colonial official who is undone by his willful application of reason to a culture that is steeped in the mystical and irrational.

Even though his daisies aren't blooming, Tom Cruise will do "Mission Impossible IV" and currently a bunch of young actors is apparently auditioning for one of the roles beside him. On the list to join him as his partners in the 4th installment are Anthony Mackie ("The Hurt Locker"), Kevin Zegers ("Air Bud") and Christopher Egan ("Letters to Juliet").