Things are strange and uneven in northern novato today; like being underwater. It's hard to quantify the feelings in the halls. Ani keeps calling it surreal which gets pretty close to the feeling. But maybe it's more unreal than surreal. This is different from any other layoff that I've been involved in because this is an full-on shut down. It's a very, very odd feeling.

And it doesn't help that Channel 2 is outside the interviewing people as they go out for lunch!

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Grim and ghastly, this is my first peak at the upcoming film. It gives us a sense of what the thing is going to look like and it's a swell image to boot. The use of color is particularly striking. The very subtle, sickly pale green in the wallpaper really pushes the red forward, while the rest of the image--including Depp's face--has a bluish cast, which not only pulls everything back into the shadows but also gives everything a cold, matalic feel. All this underscored by the battling horizantal, vertical and diagonal lines. The whole thing captures the feel of story: Sweeney's calculated madness, danger, revenge and violence.

Also learned the answer to who is going to play Judge Turpin: Alan Rickman. Yes, I can see that.

I still have to wonder if Depp's voice is strong enough to handle this role.

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