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…after being out for most of the day on Sunday. Apparently there was some caving on both sides. I’m gonna hang on to those HD rabbit ears I wasted too much time and money on Sunday acquiring and setting up, because this is sure to be but the first of many similar disputes we’ll see … more…
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
…Crazy Interrupting French Lady Follies. Discuss.
…that Steve Martin has already Godwin’d the Oscars with his Meryl Streep-loves-Nazis joke. Open thread for the first hour or so of the Oscars…
…boxers by Hanes and a t-shirt by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Consider this your Oscars red carpet open thread. 7:30PM: It just occurred to me that until women’s eveningwear is as subdued as a man’s tuxedo, women will never be allowed to talk about just their work on the red carpet. Conversely, until men start … more…
Take a look back at an old trailer… I don’t think I’ve ever seen this Disney movie… or if I have, I have no memory of it whatsoever. The thing is, maybe, that I was a little kid in the dark ages before home video. I would have had to see this in a theater … more…
It’s back to the future, I guess: I’m picking up ABC over the air now — not a sentence I would ever have expected to utter in the second decade of the 21st century — so I’ll be able to watch the Oscars tonight (no thanks to the whiny ass babies at ABC and Cablevision). … more…
This is what I see when I tune to channel 7 on my expensive Cablevision cable TV service: Fuck Cablevision. Fuck ABC. (Oh, and can I just note that ABC and Disney — which told me it didn’t like my “tone” when I complained about how it treats film critics — are the same company?) … more…
As I explained here and here, Cablevision — the only cable provider in the Bronx, where I live, and the company I pay a ridiculous amount of money to each month for TV and Internet access — and ABC have been engaging in juvenile dick measuring, and now whatever talks they’ve been having have broken … more…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
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