The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
It's five minutes into The Wrestler before it dawns on me that I've seen Randy 'the Ram' Robinson somewhere before. He's a pro-wrestler with a torso that looks as if it's been inflated with an air pump and a head of flowing platinum blond locks straight out of Spinal Tap. He's also Mickey Rourke, although it takes another five minutes before I accept that this must be true. Even then, this realisation...
C-Dawg's World (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
#10 Killing Zoe (1994) #9 Little Shop of Horrors (1986) #8 Pulp Fiction (1994) #7 Rushmore (1998) #6 Boogie Nights (1997) #5 Trainspotting (1996) #4 Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) #3 Footloose (1984) #2 Purple Rain (1984) #1 This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Honorable Mention: Judgement Night (1993), Little Voice (1998), Top Gun (1986), Saturday Night Fever (1977), The Lost Boys (1987), Natural Born Killers...
Empire News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
We have some new images from Ben Stiller’s return to the his watchman position in Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian. This time around, Larry must find his artefact friends Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson) who have ...
Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
How does Black Friday work then and what are the buyers need strategy? Good questions so here are some answers. The way Black Friday works is to start the holiday shopping season with some sort of Gusto, like retailers turn the day after Thanksgiving into another national holiday. We have found some in-depth insights into “Black [...]
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
A few of you have pointed out a recent list of the "Great Mustaches of Rock." Sure, it names some classics: John Oates, Jim Croce, Floyd from The Muppet Show. But where the heck is Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap?...
Unit1 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
New York City readers: Love Rock Bandand music games? Then you’ll want to be at the Wired Store when it opens later this week. On Friday evening, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos will join Wired’s me on stage for Games: The Future of Music, a talk about the rise of music games, where they’ve been, where they’re going. We’ll [...]
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
An executive with the device maker reveals that a subpoena was issued by the US Department of Justice concerning unapproved use of its Infuse Bone Graft product, Dow Jones reports. The disclosure comes on the same day Medtronic reported soft spinal-product sales in its recently concluded fiscal second quarter, due in part to flat Infuse [...]
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Part 1 of 6 Part of the 'Ricky Gervais meets..." series, the comedian interviews his heroes. Here we see Christopher Guest, who is best known for his brilliant fake documentary This Is Spinal Tap.
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
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Game|Life (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
New York City readers: Love Rock Band and music games? Then you'll want to be at the Wired Store when it opens later this week. On Friday evening, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos will join Wired's me on stage for Games:...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
By Steve Rosenbloom | Originally posted: November 17, 2008Next stop for stand-up philosopher Lovie Smith: Unemployment lineIt's Monday, and I have all the answers ...Is Bob Babich still employed by the Bears? Why'Lovie Smith, same questions.There have been times where Smith has embarrassed himself as head coach of the Bears -- Adam Archuleta, hel-lo; Mark Anderson starting ahead of Alex Brown, yeesh...
Paul Kinlan's Development Blog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
@Stubbs nice homage (don’t think that is how you spell it) to spinal tap # @jonpauldavies the yo gaba gabas looked ace. Been drawing Edward, Neville and Percy the tank engines today # Powered by Twitter Tools.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
North Carolina: The Senate's Revolving Door Iowa went through a stretch in the 1970's as the revolving door of the U.S. Senate. With a combination of defeats (Miller, Clark, Culver, Jepsen) and retirements (Hickenlooper, Hughes), no Iowa senator was re-elected from 1966 to 1986. Nowadays, Iowa is a [...]
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Chicago Sun-Times pop music critic Jim DeRogatis takes a look back to the promising music scene in Chicago in the mid-90s: The curse of alternative nostalgia: What the heck happened to the Class of '93? For those of you too...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
We have some news to share this morning about an upcoming Canadian Vampire Rock comedy called Suck. We get the following scoop from the Yahoo Caves of Undeath! Malcolm McDowell, Jessica Pare and Dave Foley have joined a slew of rock stars in the cast of the Canadian vampire horror-comedy “Suck.” The indie film about rock [...]
