Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Dana Milbank WashPost Tuesday, December 1, 2009 First, the good news: President Obama will not be wearing a flight suit when he addresses the cadets at West Point on Tuesday night. Nor will he wear a bomber jacket with the presidential seal on the chest, nor even, the White House promises, a windbreaker with the word ARMY in big letters. "You can count on no military garb," assures Dan...
An American Lion (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have never liked the idea of a President using our troops in uniform as props to sell something. I didn’t like it when Ronald Reagan did it, I didn’t like it when Bill Clinton did it, I didn’t like it when George W. Bush did it (and he did do it way too much for even my taste) and I sure as heck don’t like it when President Obama does it at West Point tomorrow to sell his...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Although he is still only 33, Tiger Woods has gone through enough to know more than most about the ages of Man. At birth, his father described him as the Chosen One, a person who in time would be bigger than Buddha and have as much influence as Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. When he was 2, Woods putted on The Bob Hope Show on US television.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
France's first lady has agreed to be in a Woody Allen film. She's such an obvious choice, we should have predicted it Why on earth didn't we predict it long ago? France's first lady, Carla Bruni, has revealed that Woody Allen has asked her to be in one of his films, despite her complete lack of acting experience. And she has said yes. Bruni – of course! She is a quintessential Minor Woody Allen...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Remember the Bob Hope movies where he played a bumbling spy or guy next door? Somehow the plot of The Spy Next Door starring Jackie Chan as Bob Ho, an undercover CIA superspy, reminds me of those Bob Hope movies. And yes, this is a movie for kids. The latest Jackie Chan movie centers on Bob who [...]
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I had the great privilege of attending the US premiere of The Road , opening today in LA and NY, as part of the AFI Festival earlier this month. I also had the pleasure of sitting across the aisle from one of the film's stars, gorgeous Oscar- winner Charlize Theron, but that's another story/entry. A powerful film adapted from Cormac McCarthy's powerful apocalyptic novel, The Road is a stylistic polar...
The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
David E. Sanger / New York Times: U.S. Strategy on Afghanistan Will Contain Many Messages WASHINGTON—In declaring Tuesday that he would “finish the job” in Afghanistan, President Obama used a phrase clearly meant to imply that even as he deploys an additional 30,000 or so troops, he has finally figured out how to bring the eight-year-long conflict to an end. [...] Telegraph : Bob...
TAG Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
With Thanksgiving upon us, time for an early Holiday linkfest, starting with Samarai Jack traveling to the Big Screen: STAR TREK director J.J. Abrams will be joining former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert to produce a feature film version of the hit Cartoon Network animated series SAMURAI JACK. The $20 million film will use a combination of traditional cell animation and stereoscopic 3-D ... Creative...
Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Los Angeles version of 25th Worldwide SketchCrawl had light attendance because it was also the same day as CTN Animation Expo in Burbank, where usual Sketchcrawlers went instead. A group of us was at the lobby area of the conference center that held the Expo to sketch animators and artists who were there. I saw a classic animation table on display, and a costume model who was dressed as a pirate....
24 FRAMES PER SECOND (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
I was born in 1981, roughly the same time that video was becoming popular. I missed the revolution though, the sudden availability to movie fans (albeit often in rather compromised form, thanks to 'pan and scan') of their enduring favourite movies (and, yes, an endless cavalcade of crap too). Generations prior to mine will remember a time when the only way to see movies again was on TV, and before...
drew3000 (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This new tactic of making site visitors wait 15 to 30 seconds to skip a pop-up ad will not increase revenue as much as it does bounce rates. # You've got two hopes; no hope and Bob hope. # Tunsian blogger arrested for alleged cartooning http://bit.ly/3VE4Lx # "Uptimization" is possibly the most ridiculous marketing word to push an [...]
H O C K E Y D I N O (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There are comedians that I think are not funny. Yet because of certain roles or events, they are forever deemed funny. For example I don't think Eddie Murphy is funny. I think he's a good actor, and I've enjoyed his movies, but I don't find him really funny. His stand up special was pretty funny about 20 years ago, but what have you done for me lately? I do not think Robin Williams is funny. I did...
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Cosby and Obama By Paul Shlichta Throughout this past dreary year, while doggedly fighting against POTUS Obama, I have fended off accusations of racism with my standard ten-word refutation: "I would be delighted if Bill Cosby had become president." Dr. Cosby has a far more impressive record than Obama. He earned his doctorate, an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, with legitimate...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 1939 the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Edgar Bergen for creating a funny puppet. Some people may have thought that was silly. They also may have found it silly that a strange little "cartoon" called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned itself an honorary Oscar. The legendary Bob Hope was given a fistful of honorary Oscars over the course of his amazing career ... and I don't remember...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In 1939 the Academy gave an honorary Oscar to Edgar Bergen for creating a funny puppet. Some people may have thought that was silly. They also may have found it silly that a strange little "cartoon" called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs earned itself an honorary Oscar. The legendary Bob Hope was given a fistful of honorary Oscars over the course of his amazing career ... and I don't remember...
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