Chewbacca MTV Award 1997

Met a dog looks like Chewbacca tonight, so we started a topic about Star Wars around the dessert table. And I just can't help to mention this very part of MTV award in 1997. Too bad the video footage I can find is not including Mike Myers' translation.

Death Of A President - Gabriel Range (2006)

Movie official website / exclusive interview

"Death Of A President" is a very interesting fiction about Mr. George W. Bush's death in October 19, 2007. Directed by Gabriel Range, a British filmmaker famous for his Political-mockumentary. The film won The International Critics' Award in Toronto International Film Festival 2006.

Aucun des intervenants n'a eu un droit de regard sur ce film.
Ce film est un fiction. Il se deroule dans le futur.

地海戰記 Tales From Earthsea - Goro Miyazaki

Biography (from imdb)
Graduated from Shinshu University, Faculty of Agriculture, Goro Miyazaki started his career as a construction consultant, and he designed parks or public institutions. Because his father, Hayao Miyazaki, is a world-famous filmmaker, he always had complex feeling towards his father. He decided not to work for anything related to animation, to avid to be compared with Hayao. However, the turning point came to his life in 1990s, which was the new project of construction of Studio Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. He was in charge of the whole design of the museum, and became the first Managing Director. While Hayao was filming "Hauru no ugoku shiro", Toshio Suzuki, the producer, decided to let Goro direct the next Ghibli movie since he was impressed by Goro's talent of making decisions quickly and properly, and his ability to draw pictures. Therefore he directed "Gedo Senki", which is the first step of his career in the animated movie industry.
Written by: Ayumi Sasaki

Eat in Paris - Pho 14

Restaurant: Pho 14
Address: 129, avenue de Choisy 75013 Paris, France ( Metro: Tolbiac )
Tel: 01 45 83 61 15
Rate: 6.5 Euro
Type: Vietnam
Seat: up to 50 seats

note:
Positive: Best Pho soup in Paris. Restaurant with its own charm. Clean enough.
Negative: Be ware of waiter's thumb in soup when serving. Bad service.

ANATOMY OF A HANGING

The executioner should calculate a specific length of rope that will ensure a forceful plunge from the gallows. The person should fall between 4 and 10 feet; leg weights may also be attached to compensate for a shorter gallows platform.

Assuming the rope is properly placed, the person's C-2 (and probably C-1) vertebra will instantly fracture. Simultaneously, his trachea, carotid artery and jugular veins will be crushed, ceasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain.

Death is expected to be “reasonably instantaneous,” according to Dr. Byron Bailey of the Medical University of South Carolina. Brain activity will halt completely within three to four minutes.

The heart may continue beating as its fibers contract for 10-12 minutes after the person's brain activity has stopped.

Any jerking or twitching of the body afterward is involuntary nerve and muscle activity, and does not mean the person is still alive. Hoods are often placed over a person's head so as not to show such movement on the face.

Originally published on December 30, 2006 New York Daily News