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Post Oscar Nonsense

February 25, 2008 – 10:08 am

The Academy Awards. This was the first Oscar telecast I’d seen in a while. I attribute that to the fact that for the first time in the past four years, I don’t live in the heart of Hollywood. For much of the world, Oscar time means glitz and glamor and movie stars (oh my). For [...]

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Handicapping the Oscars

February 24, 2008 – 1:35 pm

You got a last minute Oscar ballot to fill out? Are you minutes away from dashing out the door to attend an Oscar party of the type I used to throw until I just got so tired of the ceremony I just couldn’t take it anymore? Here’s your salvation, Courtesy of Charles Reece over at [...]

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‘The Ruins’ Arrives April 4

February 22, 2008 – 9:05 am

Last year, Scott Smith’s long-awaited follow-up to A Simple Plan arrived in bookstores and proceeded to cleave readers down the middle. What I mean by that, of course, is that some people loved it, some people hated it, although judging from the caliber of some of the negative reviews on Amazon.com it might have been [...]

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CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay

February 20, 2008 – 11:28 am

Having just suffered through the embarrassing Transformers, I thought this was especially funny. From The Onion. “‘There is no way this would have been possible five years ago,’ Krajcsik said, later admitting that CGI technology is still decades away from making an Academy Award win for Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner look plausible.”

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‘Chicago 10′ and Activism Through Art

February 20, 2008 – 8:43 am

I generally don’t follow through on press release style emails, but I got one last night that happened to catch my eye, only because it sounds like the sort of event I’d love to attend. I can’t, because it’s happening tonight and I’m not in Los Angeles. And anyway, I’m supposed to fight a duel [...]

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‘Twilight’ Sharpens Its Fangs

February 19, 2008 – 9:57 am

The first of Stephenie Meyer’s young-adult vampire series, Twilight, continues to gather cast members on its march to the big screen. Variety reports that Peter Facinelli is now on board, cast as Carlisle, the patriarch of the Cullen Clan. Also on board is Kristen Stewart as Isabella Swan (fresh off this weekend’s Jumper) and Robert [...]

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Putting the Strike Into Perspective

February 11, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Interesting article over at Variety that turns the telescope of hindsight back on the past few months. As the strike wraps up (it’s not over yet, folks!) and we wander among the rubble there will be a lot of articles like this, asking whether it was worth it. Answer? Yes.

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Shutter

February 6, 2008 – 9:47 am

Compare these two trailers. The first is from Thailand. The second is, of course, from the U. S. of Remake. I’m not going to go on a rant about how Hollywood is dead or the ferrets have taken over the Executive Offices of Paramount or what-have-you. That’s a tired dog. And I don’t entirely agree. [...]

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Jerry O’Connell: Scientologist

January 24, 2008 – 4:00 pm

The floodgates have opened in the wake of the Tom Cruise Scientology video. Everyone with a camera has put together a parody. This is my favorite. Jerry O’Connell as Tom Cruise: Scientologist. I love the parable of the rabbit and the elephant. And it’s a WGA spot, too! Extra relevant for the Sixsquare-verse.
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RIP Heath Ledger. Let’s eat.

January 22, 2008 – 4:23 pm

So, Heath Ledger is dead. That just sucks. I mean I wasn’t a huge fan, or anything, but he’s a bit young. Sure it was drugs and there’s a part of me that pretty much wants to say, “Idiot,” and move on, but the drug thing can happen to anybody. It does, frequently. But I [...]

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