Now Is Good: Dakota Fanning's Last Rights  Oof, what a clunker
this one promises to be. Here's the trailer for Oliver Parker's
A Walk to Remember Here on Earth Now Is Good, the sopping wet
saga about a 17-year-old girl living with chronic leukemia,
desperately trying to "do everything as fast as [she] can"
before the end.  The trailer's subtle about it, but ridding
herself of that pesky hymen is young Tessa's Bucket List item
number one. Barf. Isn't Dakota Fanning nine and wasn't her last
film I Am Sam? This is a child and children are not sexual.
Though I guess since losing one's virginity is just about the
least sexual sexual act one can do (make? Have?), Dakota
Fanning's sexual appeal is irrelevant. Still, I can't imagine
any sort of chemistry existing betwixt her and newcomer Jeremy
Irvine over there, no matter how good he was in War Horse.
Also, I am always baffled when casting directors make the
decision to go with American actresses for a British role (I'm
lookin' at you m'Lady Hathaway). There are li