Honestly, I thought most of you would be dead by now. Wasn’t the H1N1 flu supposed to be a world-breaker? Weren’t we supposed to be reliving the Spanish Influenza of 1917? The pandemic from hell? What happened?
Oh well, I guess it’s for the best. I likely wouldn’t have made it myself (I’ve had a bitch of a persistent cough ever since Sundance three years ago. What the fuck is up with that bullshit? Anyway, it would have left me susceptible to H1N1 like mad), and that means I wouldn’t have lived to see Soderbergh putting together his next movie, Contagion. A multi-storyline plague outbreak film (think Traffic meets The Hot Zone), Contagion could be Soderbergh’s most commercial, biggest mainstream movie since the Ocean’s films. It already has Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard and Jude ‘Box Office Poison’ Law, and now it’s adding Gwyneth Paltrow.
There’s no word on what Paltrow will be playing (or for that matter what anyone will be playing), but the only role I’m ruling out is that of the virus itself. Unless she plays the voice over for the virus, where we learn that it doesn’t want to wipe out humanity, it’s just looking to take care of its ten billion offspring/clones of itself.
via Deadline Hollywood
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Three years of a persistant cough means you need to see a doctor, man. If you already have, you need to see another.
I'm serious.
Yeah, for your own good, Dev – that's not normal. Get to the Doc ASAP.
Get Phillip Seymour Hoffman in there and we've got ourselves a Talented Mr. Ripley reunion! Man, do you remember that movie? So great.
I'd like to echo johnncinco and second his(?) advice to go see a doctor. This is exactly how my aunt found out she had TB. That is, of course, unless you WANT to end up like a character in a Tolstoyevski novel…
Well, you've got the hair, the beard, all you needed was the cough… you are Che Guevara reincarnated…
Please just go see a doctor about this cough, devincf. For your sake. And for our sake. Let's nip this bug in the bud.
sounds to me like he's got a case of Avatartar buildup
You don't need to see a doctor Devin. Just smoke some cigarettes; it will suffocate the bacteria in your throat.
"What's in the bahhhhhks?"
"Tolstoyevski?"
Tolstoyevski wrote Crime and Peace. They made a great film of it starring Charlton Burton.
I think that the media was sensationalizing H1N1, but it's certainly nothing to dismiss. Most doctors that discussed the outbreak never said that it would *definitely* be the "virus from Hell", but why blame professionals for making the public aware about new developments? Seriously, it's disgusting how many negligent people don't even spare one minute to wash their hands, which only spreads disease.
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