RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
One of the gossip columnists in the NY Post, Liz Smith, went to the premiere of the new Bill Maher film, “Religulous.” I haven’t seen the film, so fairness restrains me from saying that I get the sense it’s juvenile, boorish, condescending and dumb. Anyhow, it is directed by one Larry Charles, and Liz [...]
Popdose (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
30 Rock - Season Two (Universal, 2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon) I know a lot of you aren’t watching this show, and I understand — I skipped out on it for most of its first season. I had two reasons for this: One, I stopped watching Saturday Night Live after Will Ferrell left, thrust into a deep [...]
Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol As Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) says in the new classic The Big Lebowski, "Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax." Sandy Koufax (pictured left) did not play baseball for the Dodgers...
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Film: DVD: Written by: The Brothers Wachowski, based on the series by Tatsuo YoshidaDirected by: The Brothers WachowskiStarring: Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Matthew Fox, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon Features: "Spritle in the Big Leagues" set tour "Speed Racer: Supercharged!" cars featurette Released by: Warner BrothersRegion: 1Rating: PGAnamorphic: Yes My Advice: Rent it. Speed Racer (Hirsch) is...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Spirit by the dumbbells.
PRNewsChannel.com (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Employees contribute to the 2008 Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk® held in St. Petersburg and their boss John Goodman of The Goodman Group nearly doubles it.
Empire News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Mogul will voice Princess' mother
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
In an interview with the Dallas Morning News last month, John Goodman, the “Father of Health Savings Accounts” and architect of Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) health care plan, claimed that the term “uninsured” is misleading because Americans have ER access. Goodman then suggested that the Census Bureau should “cease and desist from describing any American” [...]
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Studio executives in America have green-lit a live action film of the hit cartoon series Family Guy. Casting has begun, with Roseanne's John Goodman cast as the blundering Peter Griffin, whilst his wife, Lois will be played by the X Files's Gillia...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Officials of Mervyns LLC, the Hayward-based parent of the Mervyns department store chain, said Sept. 19 they have presented a preliminary strategic plan to a committee of creditors.
Howling Point (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Sure the Bartlett administration was fictional. Who cares - Martin Sheen (and John Goodman) played the best U.S. president(s) in the last thirty years. Maureen Dowd has a nice bit in the N.Y. Times with President Bartlett giving some advice to Presidential Wannabe Obama, leading up to this unfortunately fictional tongue-lashing: BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, [...]
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
With Speed Racer , writer/director/producers Andy and Larry Wachowski have taken a fairly popular animated television series from my childhood and turned it into a long, sometimes thrilling, more often boring, occasional eye popping mess. The Wachowski Brothers try to create a live action cartoon but forget that even live action cartoons need interesting stories and dialogue.
CARPE DIEM (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
From John Goodman's Health Policy blog : HealthFair operates a fleet of mobile screening "Health Coaches" (see photo above) that it parks at destinations around the country. The firm claims to have performed over 1 million preventive screening tests since its founding in 1999. Their big sellers are preventive screens to assess the risk of heart attack, stroke and aneurism. The 7-test package includes...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
We are in the second Gilded Age, and conservative market policies fail the public interest.
High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
You might be surprised to learn that a cinematic adaptation of the classic “Speed Racer” cartoon has been in the works at Warner Brothers since 1992. Countless names have been attached to the project...
