Apparently, this isn’t a hoax:
Paul Haggis (“Crash”) has publically ditched his 30+ year membership in the controversial Church of Scientology for both personal and political reasons: He resented the church telling his wife to sever ties with her family, and he’s furious at the church’s support for Proposition 8:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33484589/ns/entertainment/
Web personality “That Dude in The Shades” has, quite graciously, featured me in his ongoing series “The Internet Hall of Fame.” The induction/interview is embedded here:
A friend from YouTube points me to an image that effectively ends a rather passively-undertaken “search” the origins of which date back to about 1995 or so. Some folks have the Loch Ness Monster, some folks have evidence of Extra-Terrestrials; I’ve got, well…
P.S. Anyone on the convetion circuit who knows who these two are?
Yeah… if one of them is actually a guy, I don’t wanna know. Okay? 😉
Review of “Paranormal Activity,” now up at The Escapist:
http://static.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.1.swf
EDIT: Here’s this week’s “Intermission,” as well:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/6687-YouTube-Killed-the-Video-Star
Embedded below, the opening cinematic to “New Super Mario Bros. Wii.” Not precisely the epic air-raid/nostalgia-fest that the “Mario Galaxy” prologue was, but cute all the same. Depicted on the pile of giant presents in the background are this installments round of power-ups, including the classic Fire-Flower, the re-designed incarnation of Galaxy’s Ice-Flower, the Propeller-Helmet and, yes… that would be a Penguin Suit. However, the REAL bigsuperhappyfun confirmation comes at exactly 0:17…
I’ve been waiting since 2003 to be able to say this…
THE KOOPALINGS LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One can rest assured that, in the modern Hollywood, the town is currently FULL of producers and executives who’s job it is to “option” material with their fingers hovering over the metaphorical “button” in regards to various other ‘offbeat’ youth-oriented/Gen-X-beloved literature should “Where The Wild Things Are” become a decent-sized success.
Naturally, this right here will NEVER happen, but… if I were to walk into a theater at some point in the next year and see some approximation of the following imaginary teaser poster up on the wall, I imagine I might pass out right there on the spot…
EDIT: Just to be clear, I know it would be a bad idea, I’m just pointing out that I’d be immediately fascinated to see how it played out.
This week’s “MovieBob Intermission” column is about Roman Polanski. Because it’s kind of obligatory at this point…
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/moviebob/6659-Might-as-Well-Get-to-the-Polanski-Thing
You really, really, REALLY need to go see this.
http://static.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.1.swf
Is it too much to ask that a moratorium be called on invoking Michael Vick EVERY FUCKING TIME a celebrity who is NOT Michael Vick get’s into legal trouble?
You hear this shit all the time now: “If you {{insert felony recently committed by famous person}} you get a slap on the wrist… BUT IF YOU KILL A DOG!!!…” the implication, of course, being that what Vick did was so unimportant as to make his 18 month punishment an instant laugh line. There’s also a sick undercurrent of cultural pandering frequently involved, as though dog-murder is one of those things “you wouldn’t understand.”
Chris Rock – who’s usually above crap like this – was the most recent offender in this regard, with the comparison in question being (who else?) Roman Polanski. Now, granted, he’s probably mostly joking, but still. Honestly, are there NO better martyrs to “unfair” incarceration than this guy?
Jack shit came out this week, so here’s some DVDs instead 😉
http://static.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.1.swf
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