I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA!

WEIRD SEARCH REQUESTS

"cinema mumia wallpaper"

What? I know a couple of documentaries were made about the "radical chic"'s favourite guilty cop-killer, Mumia Abu-Jamal, but, while I remember something about a re-enactment with actual actors being shot ("being shot" in the film sense, I mean) at the corner of 13th and Locust in Philadelphia mentioned on Maureen Faulkner's site a couple of years back (before the Arnold Beverly hoax, I think), no actual film seems to have come out of that, unless it was only released outside of North America (probably in France, because, just like Germans love David Hasselhoff, the French love Mumia).

So, anyhow, I followed the link to a Brazilian search page, and, as it turns out, what the guy was probably looking for was just "wallpaper", in the Windows sense, of The Mummy, the 1999 remake directed by Steven Sommers starring Brendan Fraser and Arnold Vosloo, which is known as "A M�mia" in Portuguese, apparently. While there's plenty wrong with lionizing Mumia, there ain't nothing wrong with liking The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, both of which I have on DVD. (Yeah, I know I'm one of the minority of people that liked the sequel, even if you know Ebert's problem with the errors in London geography with the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge and Saint Paul's Cathedral being visible in the same shot, not to mention his problem with the error of the shadows. I liked the car chase with the double decker bus with early HMV ads visible inside the bus.)

posted by Steve Brandon @ 6:31 PM