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Last night's SNL seemed to suffer from the same kind of power anxiety that happened last season when so many news reports circled around the "fairness" on their political bits. Remember… when they just got scared and softened everything… until Hillary really was dead and they put in a final...
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It’s pretty tough to focus on Lakeview Terrace , My Best Friend’s Girl , Igor , and the oddly under-screened Ghost Town with so much of substance going on around us. It’s even hard to stay focused on what is now a desperate effort to reconceptualize the “independent” film business… which really means...
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I'm assuming that some social networking thing thinks its my birthday... and I thank everyone who is sending virtual cards... but it's a month early for me to be adding a number to the ever-growing "how old are you?".
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Michael Cieply's report on the latest salvos in the Watchmen mess contains only one item of real interest... unless you have no interest in the simple legal reality that "you shoulda known" is no defense of an abuse of contractual rights. "Fox, moreover, was paid $320,000 by one of...
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The very talented Mathieu Kassovitz has pretty muhc burned his last bridge in Hollywood by attacking Fox for the handling of his Vin Diesel starrer, Babylon A.D. . Complain about Fox as you like, there is no studio that wants a director who publicly attacks the work... or actors, for that matter. Only...
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I know the awards season has begun because I find myself being enraged by a parade of people (some of whom I really like), institutions, and general (often intentional) absurdity. Unlike some, I will never take out these moments of anger on the movies themselves or the people in them or who made them...
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I don't know how I fell about the press release I got today that Variety would release its "10 Actors to Watch" list at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony. Who is trying to leverage who? Anyway... here is the list I wouldn't be surprised to see... Dominic Cooper - Mamma Mia! and The...
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You know... John Horn gathers critics who seem to be anti-PC as regards Tropic Thunder . Fine. Our own Len Klady is crowing, "It's impossible to make a great p.c. comedy - it's antithetical to what makes us laugh and would neuter most of what's truly laudable about Tropic Thunder."...
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Imagine my surprise this morning when MSNBC sent me an alert that California had outlawed abortion. But they hadn't. And MSNBC hadn't sent me an e-mail. It turned out to be the third such fake News Alert this morning. And being that I get news alerts from a number of media outlets every day....
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I am spending more time watching the Olympics this year than I have in many years. I love the multiple channels and HD of it all. But with the central story for America this year happening in prime time on the East Coast, the West Coast/Mountain Time Zone are getting SCREWED! There is not a single general...
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You know, I find politically correct protesting to be foolish. On the other hand, if I had a relationship with someone with "intellectual disabilities," I would want to smack Ben Stiller upside the head after seeing Tropic Thunder too. (I wouldn't mind punching him in the arm really hard...
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This is so not something I want to be doing in any way... Yet another note this morning... "LexG's postings have driven me from participating in the discussion like I used to, the all caps space hogging and thread hijacking has just left a bad taste for the entire Hot Blog experience as of late...
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... but Movable Type has been having outages from some sort of major infrastructure damage over the weekend... so erratic posting follows... sorry...
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You know, I love it when a commenter has a stroke of genius... or in some cases, just a stroke. But seriously, folks... The idea of the BAT HAIKU came up and, heck, why not give it a try? Nolan up to Bat So much more than a comic But a comic still The Joker is cool Makes The Batman just a mouse Dent's...