Tom, how do you like Iceland?, Johnny Knoxville Íslands, "The Dudes" í heimspressunni og "That´s a recipe for a super-duper country, as far as I am concerned.

Það virðist svo vera að sem íslendingur sperri maður ætíð eyrun og jafnvel líka augun, ef maður heyrir eða sér minnst á Ísland einhversstaðar, í útlöndum það er að segja.Það heyrir því undir borgaralega skyldu mína að láta samborgara mína vita af þeirri umfjöllun sem er um Ísland og íslenska fjölmiðlamenn Globe and Mail nú í dag, og undanfarna daga.

Blaðamaður blaðsins, Simon Houpt, er staddur í Cannes, og bloggar þaðan um það sem fyrir skynfæri hans ber. Svo virðist sem íslenskur fjölmiðlamaður hafi vakið athygli hans í strandbænum, þó vissulega megi deila um hvers eðlis sú athygli er.Þetta mátti lesa á bloggsíðunni í gær eða fyrradag (og má enn að sjálfsögðu):

"... The question is pretty funny, but I think my favourite was probably one from an Icelandic journalist. "Tom," he said, "why do you love Iceland?" Hanks looked at him like he had no idea what he was talking about, but he gamely played along. "Why do I love Iceland? We only have a few minutes here but I'm just going to start," he said. " How sensational the people are, let's start with that. Its location is ideal. Summertimes are beautiful, there's a lot of great camping that goes on. And you can get a really great and relatively inexpensive cup of coffee in Iceland. That's the recipe for a super-duper country, as far as I'm concerned." "

Vissulega nokkuð sérstök spurning, en verðum við ekki að færa Tom Hanks, upp í "Íslandsvin 1. klassa" fyrir frábært svar?

Í dag máti svo lesa meira um íslensku fjölmiðlamennina, en þá var vísað í bloggið af forsíðu vefmiðilsins, með fyrirsögninni: "Iceland´s Johny Knoxville strikes again".

"... I snagged a seat in the front row, between a Norwegian and Icelandic journalist. They told me they'd never heard of Dreamgirls, which suggests Paramount may have trouble with international distribution. While we were waiting for the presentation to being, I asked the Icelandic reporter if he knew his compatriot who asked Tom Hanks on the first day what he loved about Iceland. I was especially curious, since the reporter had struck again today during the Fast Food Nation press conference, asking Ethan Hawke if he might come to Iceland if he was promised red carpets and transportation via Renaults (the official car of the Cannes festival). ""Oh yea, call me," Hawke had gamely replied, holding his pinky and thumb extended, up to the side of his head, in the international symbol for 'call me.' So who was this crazily chauvanistic Icelandic reporter? "He's our Johnny Knoxville," replied the fellow next to me, rolling his eyes. "He gets his credentials by piggybacking on a newspaper, it's the New York Times of Iceland." Apparently, the Icelandic Johnny Knoxville — Auddi Blondal is his name — has his own show in which he punks celebrities. (Allen Funt, what have you wrought?) The show's title is loosely translated as "the dudes." (It sounds funnier in an Icelandic accent.) As the lights dimmed in the auditorium for the presentation — and the film looks and sounds great — the journalist leaned over and whispered, "Give me your e-mail address. I'll send you some information about the Icelandic Film Festival. It's getting bigger and bigger every year. Tarantino was there last year." I would have taken him up on it, but he bolted for the door after the first Dreamgirls song. I don't think he likes R&B."

Bloggið má finna hér.

Svo er nú það, og segi ég borgarlegri skyldu minni, að uppfræða íslendinga um umfjöllun um þá erlendis, lokið í bili.