Will Video for Food (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
My son Grant wakes up first. Every day. Then, after feeding Freddy, he settles down onto the computer. “Dad- did you see the new Google?” He showed me Ernie & Burt on Google, and I did a search to confirm we hadn’t missed the local Jim Henson exhibit (ends Nov. 29). While telling Grant about my [...]
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Making a Short Circuit remake somehow even more unappealing than that already sounds is tough. How can you make people want to see a updated version of a simultaneously idiotic and beloved Ally...
Fitz Blog of Comedy (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Blazing Saddles ***** So many memorable scenes and all the regulars Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, and Harvey Korman. Musician Count Basie has a cameo as himself. Brooks appears in multiple supporting roles, including Governor Le Petomane and a Yiddish-speaking Indian Chief. It exposes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, but in a highly...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Time for your daily AOL /SlashControl fix of deliciously free movies! After Henry Fool and frightening Frogs , I'm going with my second choice for pick numero uno: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas . Is it weird that this was one of my favorite flicks as a kid? My youthful bad taste not withstanding, I have no idea why or how I saw this flick a number of times as a youngin'. It was rated R after...
The Hollywood Gossip (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
On the bad taste scale, South Park and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia vie for the top spot. Few other programs see no taboos when it comes to laughs. Case in pint? Deceased celebrities. Michael Jackson, DJ AM, Patrick Swayze , Farrah Fawcett, David Carradine, Walter Cronkite, Natasha Richardson, Dom DeLuise, Ed McMahon and Billy Mays, all of whom died this year, were resurrected by the Comedy Central...
The Blemish (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
In shockingly shocking news, DJ AM’s death has been ruled an accidental drug overdose of prescription drugs and cocaine. The New York medical examiner’s toxicology report said that the drugs found in AM’s body included OxyContin, Hydrocodone or Vicodin, Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, Benadryl and Levamisole. DJ AM was basically a pharmacy at the time of ...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
I think our original idea behind the Classic Cameos series was to pick one memorable cameo from a movie. However, The Muppet Movie is a long string of cameos, and why should I have to highlight only one? So many people pop up throughout the 1979 film -- my favorites are James Coburn, who owns the El Sleezo nightclub; Carol Kane's very silly "Myth? Yeth?" running gag; Mel Brooks in what's...
headsup: the blog (Free subscription) | 21/09/2009
Summer isn't even technically over, and we're closing the balloting for Stupidest AP Trend Piece of the Year? Yes! And when you see the Grand Champion here , you'll stuff ballot boxes out of sheer delight: We had been told to expect the deaths of the famous to come in threes, [No we weren't. That was a joke. Remember? Jokes'] not in the dozens. [To spare you the trouble of counting, we manage to squeeze...
BitsBlog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
From the New York Daily News, comes word that Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame is dead at 72. Leuchimea, the cause. BitsBlog Tags: new york daily news, Peter, Mary Travers, Music Related posts Winamp (0) I’m Learning a Little Daily (0) Radio Chatter. (0) The Religion of Peace in Action (0) Country Star Porter Wagoner, Age 80, RIP (0)
forces of geek (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Hey people, I’m sure that you’ve noticed the rash of celebrity deaths this summer, didn’t you? Believe it or not, it is quite a list. Some you may know, some you might not, but they were all famous. My Mother told me a long time ago that famous people ALWAYS die in 3’s. It did happen several times this summer, but A LOT. Here’s a “short list” list that an old...
The Blemish (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
Patrick Swayze passed away today at the age of 57. Swayze, who shot to fame with Dirty Dancing and Ghost, was battling pancreatic cancer for the last 20 months. Initially given a dismal prognosis, Swayze persevered, convincing A&E to go on shooting his series, The Beast, while he underwent chemotherapy and took an experimental drug. Alas, ...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Fresh from collecting an Emmy Award last night for Outstanding Children's Program, the cast of "Wizards of Waverly Place" were greeted with rock-star adulation Sunday at the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center. Throngs of screaming, bouncing adolescents (and...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
It was Le Petit Prince’s birthday last night (watch him puke in some bushes !), and just by sheer coincidence, it was also the French episode of Top Chef , starting with Daniel “One of the Baddest Mother[bleep]ers” Boulud asking the cheftestants to feed him something he had never tasted before, using escargot. We saw some tension between Ron and Robin (“that’s my snail,...
The Most Recent Mr. Cranky Reviews (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Attention Hollywood: there are two things you should never make a movie about. Blogging. And Cooking. Why not blogging? Do I even have to answer this? Everybody blogs. Your landlady blogs about her psoriasis. Your nephew blogs about his wet dreams. Your goldfish even blog about their short lifespan and what you do in front of your computer when your roommate is at the laundromat. No one cares. I mean,...
The Superficial (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
The entire Spears clan, including divorced members and their girlfriends, must be in Miami because here's Kevin Federline and Victoria Prince hanging out by their hotel's pool yesterday. I love how Kevin's abandoned his dancer physique to channel Do ...read full story
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