The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
One of the trademarked mantras bleated daily (along with "America's the biggest..." and "America's the greatest...") is "When Americans put their minds to something there's...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Okay, okay. In response to this post , my in-box is full of angry brickbats from readers who liked the made-for-tv Shining movie. Apparently, King hated the Kubrick version -- which I think was one of the few Kubrick movies that wasn't overrated! -- and he, and quite a few King fans, think the miniseries was a more faithful adaptation of the book. Noted. Perhaps my curmudgeonly attitude is attributable...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
What an awful, awful idea. I had to look up something about The Shining and found out they made a remake with Steven Weber (the goofy ladies' man from Wings) in the Jack Nicholson role and Rebecca De Mornay in the Shelley Duvall part. Melvin Van Peeples picks up the torch from Scatman Crothers. It's like one of those fake movies Bill Murray previews at the beginning of Scrooged. Like this one: The...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Starring Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Ewan McGregor, Benecio Del Toro, Terry O'Quinn, Titus Welliver, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Brad Dourif, Esai Morales, Alan Ruck, Anthony Michael Hall, Martin Sheen, Billy Zane, Demi Moore, Ally Walker, Kelly Preston, Robert Patrick, Clancy Brown, Don Rickles, Michael Ironside, Miguel Ferrer, Paul Gleason, James Remar, William...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
CNN's in fourth place. No surprise there. Because by playing the other guy's game, you lose. It's the failure of many a formerly conscientious endeavor...
Zada News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Stephen King’s Desperation (2006)-Very weak screen adaptation. [1] View company contact information for Desperation on IMDbPro. [2] Tak inhabits or possesses people or animals and, through the possessed ones, Tak wreaks havoc, seemingly just to exact revenge for having been buried, or just because this spirit is mean-spirited. [3] The old movie theater and jail within desperation were [...]
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
There were a lot of dirty tricks on TV this week. Jo Reynolds (Daphne Zuniga) cajoled poor Riley into posing topless on Melrose Place. House and Foreman conducted an autopsy on a living person. Gossip Girl's Chuck kissed a guy because of Blair's deception. CSI: Miami's Eric Delko tricked us all by slinking off into the night with barely any explanation. Welcome to this week's Top Moments: Dirty Tricks...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Has it ever occurred to the millions of emotionally charged opponents to the health care initiative that this entire kerfuffle might actually be a...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Americans like their approximations of reality. We have Las Vegas, which forsook its original cultural identity for amusement park approximations of Paris, New York and...
Omniorthogonal (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
For awhile now I've been saying that economists should be paying attention to open-source and other commons-based models of production. How often does a radically new way to organize production come along, after all? It seems like academic economists should be studying the hell out of it. There are some books by Yochai Benkler and Steven Weber but they barely scratch the surface. I was making this...
Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I begin to have deep distrust for the world as it is portrayed by our trusted sources of information. I am feeling the effects of exposure to the 24 hour sell-a-thon that is become America. And the intensity of the sell speaks to the desperation of the seller, who knows the store will go under at [...]
One Utah (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Posting for posterity of record. Steven Weber: GOP Pisses Off World; Wins Prize!. Welcome to the new world order where isolationism is as fusty a notion as fairness and balance. Actions on the local level reverberate so globally that even the pissy little nyah-nyah-nyahing which the right wing Republicons persist in using as their chief mode of [...]
Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
When Norway's Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Barack Obama, they hit America's right-wing zealots with egg in the face. Here's how Steven Weber put it at Huffpo : As the predictable mobs of crypto-racist/sexually repressed obstructionists coagulate around the recipient, the Norwegian Nobel committee has acted unilaterally and struck a blow for the rest of humanity. The big tent Republicon...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
And therefore, I will be supporting the same policies which led directly to the currant fiscal crisis and everything else related to Ronald Reagan's...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
While the Republicans have proven themselves to be an effective combination of arrogance, cowardice, ignorance and greed, a zealous tribe which adheres to arcane...
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