Daily Archives: March 17, 2008

Happy Birthday, Brittany Daniel

It’s a happy birthday to erstwhile Sweet Valley High star (so I’m told) Brittany Daniel, who turns 32 today, and probably celebrates by sharing a laugh with her twin sister over some sort of naughty bait-and-switch shenanigans the pair engaged in years earlier. Daniel has that hot pro-volleyball chick look going on, and has also shown evidence of nice comedic timing in small screen sitcom guest stints and in movies like Joe Dirt and Club Dread, though the heaving bare bosom of Jordan Ladd in the latter film clouds my memory of citeable specifics. But, umm… nice belt, by the way. Seems practical.

Shutter Hides From Critics

It used to be only gory horror flicks or willfully stupid, stoner-friendly comedies (think Grandma’s Boy), but studios now play shell games with even their downmarket genre fare, refusing to screen for critics movies that they think they can bypass traditional press and reach audiences with via direct-marketing napalm campaigns. The latest example of the trend? 20th Century Fox’s PG-13 paranormal horror flick Shutter, starring erstwhile Dawson’s Creek pin-up Joshua Jackson, which opens this Friday, March 21. It’s their product and totally their prerogative to follow this tack, naturally, but I always do feel there should be reportage on this fact, for the image it projects, rightly or wrongly.