Octopodial Chrome

I’ve yet to see her in any films, but Emmy Rossum appears to be a true beauty. I first noticed this in a photo comparing her outfit to an Austrian empress; my suspicion was confirmed in a photo of her at a screening or somesuch event. A truly attractive girl, and if she graces the movie camera quite so well as she does the still, then she’ll certainly go places.

Time, in an article about the lying-in-state of Pope John Paul II, writes the traditional pageantry, mystery and power of Vatican rituals has[sic] awed the faithful for centuries. Not has; have. The subject is plural: pageantry, mystery and power. We live in a sad age indeed.