Lianne Spiderbaby plagiarized my review of Turn Me On, Dammit! (final update)
I’ve posted the Lianne Spiderbaby piece that Bleeding Cool asked for from me and then scrubbed. And now I’m done with this. I hope…
Gawker
of course, sometimes women “journalists” just carry water for horrible media institutions
Oh, CNN. You adorable rape apologists, you.
watch it: “The Full McBain Movie Hidden Throughout Simpsons Epsiodes”
Doh! It’s not embeddable. But it’s worth clicking over to Gawker.tv to have a look at it. Then come back here and start planning the sequel…
dodging the Egypt Internet crackdown; the Oscar race is already over; is Amazon going all out with unlimited streaming?; more: leftover links
Plus: Kelsey Grammer’s marriage ruined by Fox News; Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize; why so few women writers at Wikipedia and major magazines?; more…
Martin Freeman is not Bilbo; Apple takes over Twitter; ‘The Dark Tower’ is a go; more: leftover links
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…
when a boy becomes a Jedi
It seems that a missing scene from *Return of the Jedi* was screened for fans at Celebration, the big *Star Wars* convention this past weekend…
don’t blame Tom Cruise for ‘Knight and Day’; Hollywood still loves Comic Con; more: leftover links
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…
question of the day: Is Brittany Murphy a tragic symbol of what Hollywood does to women?
I’ve been racking my brain for the last 12 hours, since I heard about the death of actress Brittany Murphy, for the best way to talk about her death, or, indeed, whether I should even mention her at all. Is there anything here worth talking about beyond the — let’s be honest — generic sorrow … more…
best Michael Jackson comment ever
I just can’t stop talking about the hype surrounding the Michael Jackson movie, This Is It. And why should I? It’s too fun. I found the best blog comment yet. It was not, alas, posted here, but at Gawker, in response to a posting entitled “Michael Jackson Is Still a Gigantic Celebrity the World Over—Except … more…
question of the day: What if we *really* had to pick the Oscar nominees right now?
As Gawker’s Richard Rushfield reminds us, “September Is the Month to Make Bad Oscar Predictions”:: Over the next weeks Hollywood gets its first look at many of the Oscar heavyweights at the Toronto, Venice and Telluride film festivals. But that doesn’t hold back the pundits from weighing in today on who owns this race. In … more…
