my most favourite book of all time — it is really that good — is now a movie! natalie babbit’s tuck everlasting was taken into the loving arms of disney and will appear in october 2002 as a gem on the silver screen. i can’t wait! i think i have officially regressed six years in maturity, but it’s all worth it.

my only qualm with what i know of the film adaptation so far is jonathan jackson in the role of jesse tuck; i never pictured him as a thin, sickly-looking fellow. however, i do think i will enjoy alexis bledel as winnie, although i have never seen a full episode of gilmore girls. she’s such a cutie — i can hardly believe she’s older than i.

i can’t wait! i can’t wait! i can’t wait!

now that’s 24 years of regression. that makes me -5 years old. very well then. all for a good cause, i say.

in other movie news… i don’t understand the whole mass hysteria over sam mendes’ road to perdition. actually, i do understand it: multiple-oscar recipient, tom hanks, and oscar-winning director of the remarkable american beauty, sam mendes. but just because sam mendes + kevin spacey = fresh new film

doesn’t mean we can necessarily substitute tom hanks as the acting variable of the movie equation and find ourselves with the same results. in fact, i think we’ll find the opposite. although tom hanks did well in films like forrest gump, i think the world is ready to see a darker side to him (unlike the typecasting we’ve always seen), which, by the looks of his touching “good ganster” role in road to perdition, the world still must await.

who knows? i’ll probably get bored and just watch the bloody film. mmm… jude law.