Randy "Macho Man" Savage has died

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Pro-wrestling legend Randy Savage (born Randall Mario Poffo) is dead. He suffered a heart-attack while driving, lost control of his car, and ultimately died from injuries sustained in the subsequent crash. His wife, traveling with him, survived with only minor injuries.

He was “only” 58 years old, which is comparatively young for most people but, tragically, not so for men in his particular profession; who routinely put their bodies through incredible amounts of punishment in their “prime.” If I remembered offhand what his “greatest” match was, I’d try to find a clip and post it – anybody recall?

UPDATED: By popular consensus, Macho Man vs. Ricky Steamboat at Wrestlemania 3:

Bane looks more-or-less like Bane…

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…in as much as he’s very big, and has black mask.

The obligatory “Dark Knight Rises” viral campaign begins today, with this first teasing look at how Christopher Nolan and Company will try to transform BANE from one of the most singularly boring “Dark Age” villains into someone worth watching a movie about.

That’s Tom hardy under the mask, BTW, so I expect the DEAFENING roars of protest that a prominent Latino/South-American character is being played by a white actor from all the “racially conscious” white people who were OUTRAGED at making Heimdall black to begin any minute now…

…right?

This again

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Below, the new(er) trailer for “Friends With Benefits.” Might as well be right upfront about this: YES, it is in fact kinda funny that Mila Kunis has made a movie with an identical premise to a Natalie Portman movie from a few months ago.



Eh, can’t say it doesn’t look funny. A big plus is Timberlake – guy has turned out to be a crazy-good onscreen talent, especially in comedies.

"We Are The Night" U.S. trailer

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Of the many crimes the “Twilight” phenomenon has committed against genre fiction and the vampire-subgenre in particular, by far the worst is it’s very conscious attempt to suck the decadence and debauchery right out of the whole enterprise. Seriously, think about it: Co-opting a fictional creature that functions almost exclusively as a sex-metaphor as fodder for abstinence propaganda? That’d be genius satire… except Stephenie Meyer isn’t joking.

Fortunately, the “fun part” of the bloodsucker genre proves hard to kill. Below, the U.S. trailer for “We Are The Night,” a German production that just got picked up for a stateside run under the IFC Midnight label…



The basic pitch seems to be: “What if Paris, Kim, Lindsay etc’s ability to ‘survive’ in the fast-lane was that they were a coven of lesbian vampires?” I’ve heard worse ideas, and I like how “big” it looks – i.e. it’s not just the low-end sofcore cheapie they could’ve made – and of course that German filmmakers are unlikely to wimp-out on the good stuff.

This opens stateside in SOME capacity next Friday.

"The Help"

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This is good, because I was just the other day thinking “y’know what we need another of? Movies where enlightened White People teach Black People how to stand up for themselves.”



You’ve gotta love the naked, self-congratulatory (and yet UTTERLY unself-conscious) pandering involved in a setup like this – i.e. how, in this scenario, an early kickoff for the Civil Rights movement is basically a happy side-effect to the REAL important triumph: An upscale white girl learning to stand up to her tradition/marriage-fixated mother.