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So it’s $128 million for Iron Man 2 over its first weekend in North America: that’s down more than $5 million from the Sunday estimates, but it’s still good enough to trump Iron Man’s $98 million opening two years ago. (IM2 dropped 52 percent in the U.K. over its second weekend there, but still easily … more…
In light of the reappearance of Betty White on the pop culture scene, and as a sort of hipster icon no less — we talked about this last week — it seems like the right followup to ask: Did you watch Betty White on Saturday Night Live this past weekend? Her opening monologue: Reviews are … more…
An editorial this week in The New York Times commented on Amazon.com’s current fight with the state of North Carolina, which is battling the retailer over the issue of collecting state sales tax. Right now, the law is that only if an online retailer has a physical presence in a state — such as offices … more…
It was bad enough when politicians and pundits hellbent on turning the United States into some sort of Orwellian nightmare of vanished civil liberties, all in the name of keeping us “safe,” invoked the right-wing wet dream that is Jack Bauer and 24. From high-tech toys that spy on anybody to the right to torture … more…
I’ve been a bit mystified by all the Betty White love that’s been going around recently, but I hadn’t given it too much thought because Internet memes like this one come and go and often remain inexplicable even after you try to analyze them. But because I hadn’t been paying too much attention to the … more…
As of this writing, 8 movies will open wide in North America in the month of May. Which means that even if you’re an active moviegoer and see a movie each week, you’ve still gotta pick and choose (and it’s even worse if you’re in a city on the arthouse circuit, but let’s not make … more…
It’s May sweeps time, the weeks during which the American TV networks set their ad rates for the coming year. Which means that our favorite shows are jammed packs with as much excitement and as many twists as possible, in order to entice as many people as possible to watch: the higher the networks can … more…
I was pretty surprised when, one night last week, Keith Olbermann ran some unedited, unbleeped Senate testimony about the recent Wall Street disaster that featured evidence from Goldman Sachs internal emails proving that they knew that at least one fund they were selling was not only toxic, it was “a shitty deal.” Senator Carl Levin, … more…
Perhaps you’re hanging out at your local geek hot spot for Free Comic Book Day. Could be you’re dancing around a maypole to honor May Day. Maybe you’re marching to commemorate International Workers’ Day. You might be lighting a bonfire to celebrate Beltaine. You might be keeping one of the other numerous special days that … more…
Have you read any of Stephen King’s series The Dark Tower? No? Imagine if Clint Eastwood and James Joyce collaborated on a trippy fantasy about the mystical quest of a gunslinger. It’s weird and fascinating and has inspired a cultish following (and I really need to read more of the series [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] … more…
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