I love this reenactment of a scene from "Casino" with Robert DeNiro and Elmo playing Joe Pesci's volatile character. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWXmJv3sMJI]
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Created by aspiring director Sandy Collora, a concept designer in Hollywood, on a budget $30,000 this Batman short was shown at the 2003 Comic-Con to much excitement. What followed afterwards was yet another cautionary tale of Hollywood and the lawyers stomping on and crushing someone's nuts. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjp0I_okX0w]
This person's comment about Collora's film made me laugh.
I always thought the only good thing about Dead End was that it showed that Batman could appear onscreen in an outfit that looked a lot like what he wears in the comics. That's why I get so mad that Nolan insists on dressing Batman up like the Gimp in Pulp Fiction.
Read more here.
The American mythos that you can get whatever you want if you try hard enough is put to the test in this "musical docu-tragi-comedy" about one man's journey to win the heart and vajayjay of our secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice. From the trailer, which features some awesome cameos, Courting Condi looks hysterical.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwErHTP6ekk]
Here's another funny ass clip:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uhOPUn79zk]
Will there be a sequel, maybe titled Pining for Palin?
1. Juxtaposition of Obama and McCain supporters. 2. Rednecks for Obama. Seriously.
3. Are you hot or not? Probably not. Except for your mom. Hi-ho!
4. Apple invites media to notebook event on the 14th of October. Looks like MRod will be blogging from a new Apple laptop by the end of October!
5. I'm definitely going to Banksy's new "pet store."
7. Zipper pond.
9. Bill Clinton and Halle Berry's respective Esquire covers juxtaposed. I prefer Halle's.
10. Halo 3: Recon announced. Sticky plasma grenade goodness!
11. Good advice about music being played while you're having sex.
12. MI6 spy's cover slips off during TV interview. Spy FAIL.
This is an excellent trailer remix of Toy Story 2 and The Dark Knight. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QFWBFIEuig]
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I always love the noir style direction of Cowboy Bebop and the ending was sad but sweet. Bang. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s6jJ3_a9yo]
This is taken from i09's 12 coolest deaths in science-fiction history.
1. Leo DiCaprio avoids the reality TV cameras of The Hills. 2. What awaits at the bottom of the Dow Jones Industrial Average trend? DRAGONS.
3. Giant distorted working iPod.
4. New York Magazine "diary" of a single college girl in the City has to be fake.
5. YouTube ups the size limit of uploads from 100 MB to 1 GB. Awesome, now I can watch Chronicles of Riddick in just four parts instead of twelve. [Thanks Nick!]
6. Visual comparison of failed $700 billion bailout with other federal funding.
7. McCain campaign owns the URL voteforthemilf.com. Hah.
8. Great pizza ad.
9. Photo stitching with the iPhone.
10. Where's the freakin' press conference? "Since she was selected, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has held more press conferences with American reporters than she has."
11. This cupcake looks so dang delicious that when I first saw it I said that I wanted to make sweet love to it. Except I expressed this sentiment much more crudely.
And lastly:
Inspired by Matt Damon's astute comparison of Palin's vice presidency with a bad Disney movie, College Humor created this amusing trailer of such a movie: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgsNAHrkQA]
It's sort of like a combination of Dave and Mystery, Alaska. The only difference is that those were fictional movies. Sarah Palin is for reals.
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The New York Times Lynn Hirschberg interviews actors in this series called Screen Test. The interviews are a bit self-indulgent to say the least, but I really love the lighting of the interviews and most of the interviews have one or two gem response by the actor.
[Thanks Nick!]
Fear Factor host and comic Joe Rogan recounts on his blog witnessing a guy's first date with a girl who unbeknown to the guy was an actress performer in the porn industry. And he took photos of the happy couple.
The kid’s eyes are locked on the screen. He’s got this look in his eyes is like he really believes that his brain must be malfunctioning. Like he just can’t comprehend what he’s watching. Like as if he didn’t even know she was a porn star. His jaw drops.
After about 30 seconds of this kid standing in front of the screen, frozen in the hypnotic spell of ass, mouth, ass, mouth, ass, mouth… he turns to her asks her a question, and I hear her say, “I was gonna tell you.”
I never thought I would ever say this but God Bless Joe Rogan.
Read rest of the hysterical story here.
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Do you ever wonder what all those different credits on a TV show or whatnot mean? I do. Now I know. Most of that is all bullshit, as Ken Levine explains:
Only producers were entitled to Emmys if their show won Best Comedy. And along with the prestige (chicks dig dem producers), the titles helped establish pay grades.
So everyone wanted in on that action. (And by everyone I mean ME.)
The show runners were promoted to the made-up title of Executive Producer and Story Editors became Producers.
Then writing staffs grew. More bogus titles were needed. That led to Co-Executive Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Producer, Executive Story Editor, Executive Script Consultant.
And then there were the punch-up guys, writers who helped out once or twice a week, usually on re-write nights. The spiffy title of Creative Consultant was dreamed up for them. But even they started getting into the act. There are now Consulting Producers. Soon there will be Consulting Executive Producers, Consulting Supervising Producers, Consulting Co-Supervising Co-Executive Story Producers.
But fluffers never get proper credit. It's a goddamn travesty I tell you.
[Thanks Moye!]
Variety is reporting that Columbia studio has hired two producers from the US The Office to write the script for what would be Ghostbusters 3!
Progress had been slow because of the likely wage demands of the original cast, Variety reported.But the recruitment of Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, nominated for Emmy awards for their work on The Office, to write the script is being seen as a sign that the film will finally be made.
I don't know how well it'll translate today, but I'm excited about this development.
[Thanks Rolando!]
A Saks finance manager, 51-year-old Ava John and her 32-year-old niece were "arrested and charged with stealing at least $680,000 from the company in a false invoicing scheme." The best part about these stories is typically what the thieves blew their money on. Anyway, this reminds me of a recent New Yorker article by John Colapinto that looks at the history and current high-tech strategies (Target has an actual crime laboratory inside their office headquarters) of retail loss prevention or the prevention of "shrink," that is "the erosion of profits--some forty billion dollars in 2006...resulting from shoplifting, employee theft, and organized retail crime (professional thieves who steal goods in large volume for resale)." Interestingly Colapinto states that "the biggest theft problem faced by retailers is internal."
Shoplifting accounts for almost thirty-two percent of shrink; employee, or internal, theft accounts for almost forty-seven per cent.
And these two movies below are my two all time fave con movies, and they are classier than a tuxedo t-shirt, too. If you're gonna steal, do it with class and style:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfflhAHbT0]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LWG-ul0rJE]
Hayao Miyazaki--creator of Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle which are two of my favorite animated films--in a recent interview about his new hit Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea explains why he favors the traditional pencil over computers:
I think animation is something that needs the pencil, needs man's drawing hand, and that is why I decided to do this work in this way. Currently computer graphics are of course used a great deal and, as I've said before, this use can at times be excessive. I will continue to use my pencil as long as I can.
Not to argue with a master, but Pixar has demonstrably proven that animation doesn't need the pencil, but Miyazaki's drawings are unquestionably infused with something magical that no computer could produce on its own. Tools aside, Pixar and Miyazaki share a commonality in that what makes their films so successful is ultimately great and compelling stories for all ages.
[Thanks Moye!]
Batman discusses the time Superman went ballistic.
