The Ten Murphys of Murphymass!

It's Murphymass. Let's celebrate all the Murphys we know! These are the ten Murphys of Murphymass!!



1. Brittany. The best of all possible Murphys. She's in heaven now.



2-3. Alex & Sean. One was a robotic cop, the other a correctional officer. Neither of them existed, but were rather portrayed by professional "actors" who just pretended to be Alex & Sean. When this ugly truth was exposed, people were appalled and turned on them.



4. Bleeding Gums. One of the boringest of all Simpsons characters. And that's saying a lot considering how mediocre the once-excellent show has turned in recent years. Although the last season (#21) has so far been an improvement on the 20th. No thanks to Bleeding Gums!



5. Cillian. Slightly famous person who has, again, been employed as a professional "actor". The difference to Alex & Sean though is that in this case he himself is the actual Murphy, and the persons whose lives he acts out on screen are only pretend. There is no such thing as a scarecrow.



6. Brown. Unlike most people on this list, her FIRST name is Murphy. Totally crazy.



7. Can't remember her name. She's a model that popped up in Google Image search. But she deserves a spot on this Murphymass list as much as anyone.



8. Eddie. Of course! The star of Meet Dave.



9. Michael. Semi-known although mostly unknown for Robert Altman's classic Tanner '88 and its not-quite-as-good-but-still-worthwhile follow-up Tanner on Tanner.



10. Oakes. Obviously we couldn't leave the fourteenth Governor of Arizona Territory off this list. Learn all about his fascinating life on Wikipedia!

Next Murphymass: 10 different Murphys!* MERRY MURPHYMASS EVRYBUDY

*Or the same. Or none at all.

4 Years 2 Day!

Four years! 4! Not me, but an acquaintance of mine. It seems like just a year ago we celebrated the last Asian Birthday. And now there's a new Asian Birthday. They call it... Asian Birthday 2009! Surprise video!! (Warning: Ninjas! Nikes!!)

Aronofsky on RoboCop IV

Here's something: Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (also co-screenwriter of the submarine thriller Below, which I watched a while ago but probably haven't gotten around to reviewing in a DVD 2008 post yet) will direct a new RoboCop movie.

The original film, released in 1987, was directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, who both went on to do pretty much nothing of interest. (Okay, so Neumeier wrote the Starship Troopers adaptation, also directed by Verhoeven, but that's pretty much it.) The sequels were written by Freaky Frank Miller, which is fitting considering I re-watched all the movies recently and realized that the first one seems very influenced by Miller's 1986 Batman graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns (and some other stuff, like Judge Dredd. Here's a picture of the Judge and a friend:

). Nevertheless, the first sequel sucked hard, and the next one even harder, and Miller swore off Hollywood until Robert Rodriguez tricked him into making Sin City. Sin City is, of course, most famous as a film Carla Gugino appeared in. My next SUPERBLOG!! post will be about Carla Gugino.

Yeah, that's what I had to say about RoboCop. The image at the top is from the comics adaptation of Miller's original screenplay. It's not very good either, but at least it's better than the movies.