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Full Name: Kathryn Ann Sackhoff
Birth date: April 8, 1980 (29yo)
Height: 5′ 6 1/2″ (169cm)
Eye Color: Hazel
Requested by: Jessie and JN

Why is she featured?
A better question would be, why did it take me so long to write about her? One part is because I don’t think anything I write would do her justice, the other part is of course laziness. I think you should be more worried I knew most of the stuff below without looking them up.

Is she a lesbian?
Good question. It’s one that I’m sure alot of enquiring minds would like to know. She appears to be with her boyfriend Scott at the moment, so most likely no.

What’s her story?
If you’re just going by her filmography, it’s really nothing to be excited about. Katee started off doing Lifetime TV movie, Fifteen and Pregnant, then a relatively unknown TV series, The Education of Max Bickford and later moved on to do crappy movies such as Halloween: Resurrection, White Noise 2, and The Last Sentinel (Awful, bloody film from what I’ve heard). So what’s with all the fascination and admiration? All because of one torture soul in the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica – Kara “Starbuck” Thrace.

To be honest, I didn’t really like her when I first saw the BSG mini-series, she was too much of a man for me (in later interviews she did admit to base the character on her brother), and at first glance she wasn’t very attractive. However, four episodes and a mesmerizing lip quivering near tears scene later, I was in love. I guess I should thank her injured knee that she decided to quit her Olympic swimming dream and got into acting. After 4 impressive years in BSG, most had hoped David Eick’s (one of BSG’s producers) new show Bionic Woman would be a new home to showcast Sackhoff’s performance. And it did, a little too well I would say. BW’s story was a frakking joke and combined with a weak lead actress, Michelle Ryan, it never stood a chance. If the network ever wish to revive the show though, they should just give the lead to Katee, who all the critics agree was the better Bionic Woman.

Besides her obvious acting chops, Katee’s down to earth personality is what really makes her rise above all other celebrities. Her impulsiveness, potty-mouth, road rage, Harley Davidson motocycle, wine addiction (I kid) just makes you want to fear befriend her. She also has two cute dogs named Meatball and Nelly B (named after Katee’s character in Max Bickford).

What’s her current project?
Still waiting for Lost & Found to be picked up, but currently filming season 8 of 24 as an analyst (boooring! She better be shooting guns and doing field work like Chloe).

— Random Quotes —

Pretty much anything that Katee says in an interview is comedy gold, especially with Cort & Fatboy. I think you should just listen to them all.

On her upbringing: “People are shocked to learn that I grew up in a small town, and I love to be in the dirt. And I love to camp, and I love to fish. I love to gut my own fish”

On her sex scene: “[Jamie Bamber's] wife actually told him not to do his O face, you know, like the oh oh OH face. And I was like, oh my god, what does my O face look like? So I actually practiced in the mirror. What does my O face look like, you never actually see it. It was interesting.”

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First Impression: Well here’s a random review. I’m indifferent towards Zac Efron (didn’t watch High School Musical) and do find him cute but too pretty for his own good. Wait, so why did I watch this? I was reading the Television Without Pity review and they said the B-plot (about Zac’s nerd best friend Ned) was pretty sweet.

Afterthoughts: The main plot was just as I’d imagined, lots of incest jokes and many gratuitous “sexy” Zac Efron scenes, but I expected all of that anyway so let’s just focus on why I really watched the movie…Ned’s seduction of Zac’s principal Jane. I will never be as huge a nerd as Ned, so his quirkiness is hard to relate and somewhat over-the-top, but what a comedic gem it was when Ned finally had his dinner date with Jane, oh man it was so worth suffering the rest of the film. I do have a bone to pick though, and that was using Cat Power’s song “The Greatest” in that cheesy divorce courtroom scene. I learned of the song through a BSG vid with Starbuck and Kat, so I will never be able to associate that song with any romantic notion whatsoever.

First Impression: The only reason why I went to this particular First Weekend Club screening is because there would be a cast Q&A afterward. I decided to drag Abha into this as well because there was nothing good in the Norm theatre.

Afterthoughts: This was a fairly pointless story that felt more like a showcase for the cast’s talent. The dialogue was riddled with cliches and the plot highly predictable and contrived. I do agree with the 24hrs/Metro reviews that the cast did a great job despite the material they were given. The soundtrack was really good as well, and along with the last Canadian film I saw (Walk All Over Me), it seems Canadian film makers knows their music. We (well not me) got to ask Karen LeBlanc (lead actress) some questions at the end, and she mentioned this is her first feature film, which was a pleasant surprise. She’ll go far in her acting career, if she knows how to choose her films correctly…

First Impression: I wanted to watch it when it came out, but as usual, I was too lazy to go. Went along with Abha to watch at UBC Norm. I just hoped it was nothing like Ocean Eleven, all “witty” banter with no heist action.

Afterthoughts: The first thing that came to mind while watching the movie, was how much fun the whole cast had in making this movie. Brad Pitt obviously enjoyed his role as the clueless airhead personal trainer. There were quite a few laughs in the movie, especially in midst of violence and gore. I’ve only seen another Coen brothers’ movie, No Country for Old Men, but I could definitely recognize the same twisted humour in both films. (tiny spoiler coming) There was this particular um device that Clooney’s character made, and I must have a really dirty mind because I knew exactly what it was before he moved the chair. Overall a pretty original comedy with great acting. Really loved Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.

First Impression: I was just browsing the Festival Cinema website one day to see what indie movies are worth watching and came upon a special Vancouver Sun hosted Sunday Morning screening for this movie. Free breakfast was a nice incentive too.

Afterthoughts: I think this is the first movie I’ve ever seen where most of the people in theatre ended up in tears and sniffles. The story of the boy, son of a Nazi officer, and his new friend, a Jewish boy living in concentration camp was certainly both endearing and tragic. I’m no expert in history so I don’t know how accurate the movie was (it was based on a fictional novel). I was fairly surprised at how lively and carefree (and ignorant) life was for the non-Jews in Germany, at least how it was portrayed in the beginning of the movie before the boy’s family had to move right smack next to a Jewish camp. I loved how the minor characters in the movie were well fleshed out, like the violent but probably secretly Jewish Nazi Jr. officer and the doctor-turned-potato peeling servant, which made the situation ever more conflicting. There were some reviews that said the movie proposed such an impossible premise that they couldn’t enjoy the film at all. However, I’m glad I was able to hear otherwise from other audiences who actually knew of people that lived through the dark period. The exact scenario was certainly a little far-fetched, but it was a great supposition with heartbreaking performance from the ensemble cast.