Drosophila

I rented Laurel Canyon from Netflix last week.

I rented it to have further time to gaze upon the beauty that is Christian Bale.

The movie is about the relationship between an aging record producer and her extremely uptight son.

To illustrate that her son and his fiance are smart and uptight, the writer decided to have Christian Bale be a doctor, and in the case of the fiance, played by Kate Beckinsale, an MD/PhD student!

There are many examples of Kate's being "smart" in the film, such as when she beats Christian Bale at Scrabble and how she looks orgasmically at some Drosophila codons and then chrystal structures as she writes her dissertation.

She may be the smartest girl in her class, but when asked in what she is getting her PhD, she responded with:

"Gene-aw-mics."

If she's so damn smart, why can't she pronounce "Genomics?"

And more importantly, if she is studying the Drosophila gene-awm, why does she say "Dros-oh-FEEL-a?"

Yeah.

Also, Natalie Portman is going to be in "V for Vendetta," and she's apparently British. I am already horrified. I am even more horrified that there were petri dishes in the preview.

OK.

I'm not working tomorrow.

Have great weekends!

YEAH!