The Beverly Center Will Drink Your Milkshake!

nickm — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:55:00 EDT

Here's something no one's talking about: those pesky high gas prices. But while other, more "reputable" news sources are ignoring this pressing issue, we here at Defamer have decided to tackle it head on. So, what's a guy gotta do to pay less at the pump? Well, we tried invading an oil-rich country and that didn't work out. We could always drill in Alaska, but that would anger the extremely powerful Eskimo voting block. So the latest solution to come down the pike is to focus on the oil we have right here in our backyard. And since this is Los Angeles, our backyard includes that place Weezer sings about... Beverly Hills.

It's no secret that the B-Hills has some oil rigs. There's that flower-covered monstrosity on Olympic—the one that's giving all the students cancer at Beverly Hills High—but the one you may not know about is right smack dab in the middle of the mall where you look at puppies and buy Louis Vuitton handbags—The Beverly Center!

According to the folks at Bloomberg, "The Beverly Center's kidney-bean shape was designed to accommodate drilling.... Pumping operations are hidden behind a wall between Macy's and Bloomingdale's."

And the mall's general manager, Jeff Brown says, "There are oil wells all over the place. Drive down the street, you see hotel, beautiful house, oil well. Here, I don't know if shoppers know there's one or not. They probably don't.''

But we do now, Jeff. So next time you're at the Beverly Center and you see a poor mountaineer a-shootin' at some food, don't call mall security, just wait for that Texas tea to come up from the ground a-bubblin' crude. Or just get a cookie at Mrs. Fields. It's really up to you.

Oil in Beverly Hills `Humming' Where Britney Shops [Bloomberg]

Overthinking 'Blood': What Did Daniel Plainview Tell Eli?

Mark Graham — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:55:31 EST

Remember a few years back when a not-quite-audible stolen whisper between Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation got the entire cinematic world buzzing? Well, while taking in our third viewing of There Will Be Blood the other evening, we noticed a scene in which something very similar occurs. Just moments after Daniel Plainview's now legendary "I have abandoned my boy!" outburst at the Church Of The Third Revelation (the scene that will likely go down as having locked up Daniel Day-Lewis' second Oscar for Best Actor), there is a brief exchange that takes place between him and Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) just after Plainview has been violently baptized. In the clip (see above), not only can no dialogue between the actors be heard, but Paul Thomas Anderson's shooting script does not specifically indicate what the characters are saying to each other at this moment. Yet, as the clip clearly demonstrates, there is a relatively heated (if one-sided) conversation between the two. We have a few theories on what went down but, at this point, we would rather open it up for you to discuss. Leave your comments after the jump!

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The Beverly Center Will Drink Your Milkshake!

Overthinking 'Blood': What Did Daniel Plainview Tell Eli?