watch it: “Today Now! Interviews The 5-Year-Old Screenwriter Of ‘Fast Five’”
Once again The Onion demonstrates just how indistinguishable reality is from satire these days…
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why celebs love Scientology; Netflix in deal for original programming; the real problem of ‘Mars Needs Moms’; more: leftover links
Plus: why Republicans want to destroy NPR; Hereafter (with its tsunami scene) pulled from Japanese theaters; promo fail for Limitless viral video; more…
wtf: 10-year-old film critic represents the best that the American press has to offer
Imagine you were last year’s winner of the San Diego Press Club 2010 Excellence in Journalism Award. Or imagine you’re next year’s winner. The most positive thing you could possibly take from having such an award bestowed upon you is that you are at least as professional as a fucking fourth-grader.
watch it: “TIME Announces New Version of Magazine Aimed at Adults”
The Onion does it again: makes me want to cry…
wtf: Justin Bieber is better than all of us
I thought this was a headline from The Onion: ‘Justin Bieber to Play Himself in 3D Movie’…
watch it: “Girl Raised From Birth By Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody”
“Like Wolf Blitzer, Molly is fiercely protective of Dr. Sanjay Gupta”: Girl Raised From Birth By Wolf Blitzer Taken Into Protective Custody God bless The Onion.
question of the day: Have we finally entered the post-satire world?
I woke up this morning to the news that BP has requested that the hilarilous Twitter feed for “BP Public Relations” label itself a parody. It seemed, to my eyes, to be so obviously a parody that no one could mistake it for the real thing, but BP felt otherwise. Via MediaBistro: Twitter VP communications … more…
question of the day: What’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?
Hilarious headline in the Onion this week: Ridley Scott Trades Russell Crowe To Tim Burton For Johnny Depp And though I hate to quote an entire story, this one is so short: HOLLYWOOD, CA—Directors Ridley Scott and Tim Burton traded their favorite actors Wednesday, closing a deal in which Scott received Johnny Depp and Burton … more…
watch it: “Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier”
Oh, The Onion, you always crack me up: Denmark Introduces Harrowing New Tourism Ads Directed By Lars Von Trier
Zachary Quinto gives up Spock? a Weird Al movie? save ‘Mad Men’s Sal, and 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…
