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Plus: more stuff about Charlie Sheen that’s too depressingly indicative of the times to ignore…
Plus: Kevin Smith was lying about how cool it was to direct Bruce Willis in Cop Out; CBS now stealing ideas from German TV; Joan Rivers gets kicked off Fox for bitching about Sarah Palin; more…
Plus: the shocking number of British actors who have not been in a Harry Potter movie; is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being persecuted?; we don’t need no stinkin’ objectivity in journalism; and more.
And so the brownshirt phase of the end of America begins in earnest.
Funny and smart and poignant and real and universal. It’s one of the best movies about family I’ve ever seen…
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
BBC News Magazine this week ran a thoughtful, if mystified essay on the popularity of those YouTube Hitler rants (perhaps to coincide with this month’s 65th anniversary of Hitler’s death and the end of the Nazi regime). You know the ones: they borrow a scene from the amazing but serious-as-a-heart-attack German film Downfall, about Hitler’s … 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…
Remember Heavy Metal Parking Lot? Harry Potter Parking Lot? Well, someone made Sarah Palin Parking Lot: People have no idea why they like Sarah Palin. People have no idea what policies they support and which policies they don’t, and they don’t even seem to realize it. And some of them just make shit up. And … more…
Forget the political as personal. The political is entertainment-a-licious in 2009. Variety recently pondered the media future of soon-to-be ex-governor of Alaska Sarah Palin: In the days since she announced her resignation as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin’s decision has remained a source of mystery, speculation and debate. But there’s little doubt that she’ll have a … more…
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