April 2009
105 posts
'Housewife' Bensimon: Lawsuit is 'Unsettling' →
“I’m really upset by the entire process,” Kelly reveals to “Extra” exclusively. “My beautiful girls and I are being exposed to a horrible situation. I just think it’s unsettling—I support all my friends and my friends have been really amazing with me.” The former model stressed that her concern over the case is entirely about her children....
Someone needs to invent some sort of “MomTube” YouTube sanitizer whereby I can email my mom just a video clip of a naughty raccoon eating some poor cat’s kibble without all the meta flotsam that presently prevents me from doing so for fear that she’ll get recruited into a prison chain-letter gang or be seduced by Somali pirates.
Incidentally, when I Googled...
March 2009
121 posts
“The spot is a subtle tribute to the genius of Serge Gainsbourg and to the...”
– Marco Bragaglia, in reference to directing this. [thanks, s]
Party like it's 1989
Those Dorota-centric webisodes are swell and all but what I’d really like to see are lavishly overproduced flashbacks to her decadent heyday as Ceauşescu’s favorite burlesque dancer. I wanna see her snort defector’s ashes and casually use abortion as her preferred form of birth control.
Dicknic, lightning. →
'Beverly Hills' teens →
“If Gossip Girl is about youth in New York,” she elaborated, “I want to [make 90210] about youth in L.A. and Beverly Hills.”
I’ve yet to watch an episode. (Meanwhile I’ve seen every episode of this.)
There are nine million bicycles in Beijing.
“WWE superstar John Cena has a freakishly square head, the ’roided-out physique...”
– Nathan Rabin hits the nail on the jarhead.
If you’re an actor on a CW series and your look is vaguely ethnic—or maybe you exude just a whiff of gender dysphoria—your character’s hobbies will most likely include journalism/documentary filmmaking.
Slap Chop, indeed →
WatchVideogum: Make Your Own Where the Wild Things Are Trailer. Really more of an “insert novelty music here” exercise; nevertheless, here’s mine.
Perhaps a weird impression to come away with from the trailer for what is ostensibly a children’s movie but Where the Wild Things Are evokes everything I liked about Vanilla Sky and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
BSG at the UN: Wow, That Actually Worked! →
When one of the UN’s representatives talked about how part of their mandate was to safeguard the human rights of everyone, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, and station, Olmos got a little heated. “You never should’ve invited me here,” he said, before blasting the UN for continuing to use race as a term of separation, of division among peoples. His voice rose,...
How we got the “Command” symbol →
It’s difficult to come up with a small icon that means “command”, and we didn’t think of anything right away. Our bitmap artist Susan Kare had a comprehensive international symbol dictionary and she leafed through it, looking for an appropriate symbol that was distinctive, attractive and had at least something to do with the concept of a menu command. Finally she came across a floral symbol that...
Problems With NBC's 'Parks & Recreation' →
The show could use a genuinely likable male lead. The lack of quality male characters was evident in both the Dial Test and Focus Groups. While Leslie, Ann and April are good characters, all the men in the show were seen as “sleazy” in one way or another. Because there are no “datable” men in the cast, there is little “romantic tension” or “interesting relationship potential” in the show.
Et...
Reactions to being emailed that NYT article about...
R: I'm gonna eat a huge meal before reading this so I have a lot to throw up.
S: I was going to print it out and shove it up my p____ like a tampon instead.
Battlestar Galactica: Ronald D. Moore finale Q&A →
I have the flu and I think I may just turn my phones and computers off for the rest of the weekend. The steady rain of invitations to do fun stuff that I’m having to decline is demoralizing my immune system. Give my love to the sun and extend my regrets to dessert and drinks.
So said we all
Probably the most sweeping finale since Six Feet Under.
Observed: The strip clubs in Caprica City were lit like the inside of a Cylon baseship.