Well, unfortunately for my exploding film-critic career, I haven't seen any bad movies lately. Borat, The Departed, and Stranger than Fiction…not a clunker in the bunch. I'm not saying I couldn't drag myself to Santa Clause 3 or A Good Year, but I don't feel that would be beneficial to my near-constant pregnancy nausea. I have seen lots of trailers, though. Let's make sexytime with trailers.
This is the type of movie that certain female friends of mine THINK I will go see with them but they are wrong. As a matter of fact I could hear my friend Stephanie whispering next to me to her fiancé about how she would just have to go see this one with Megan, ha ha, because he certainly would not be caught dead seeing it. Why does being a female mean you have to like crappy movies? I'm not saying I don't like lots of chick flicks, but they are GOOD chick flicks, you know, like Beaches and Shakespeare in Love. Anyway, I hated this movie from the minute I saw Cameron Diaz cutely slipping in the snow in her stilettos and being BAD by eating chocolate and bread. Jack Black should be ashamed of himself. Nausea check: 3/5
Eddie, Eddie, Eddie. You're not 21 and hot anymore, are you. I'll stay home and watch Coming to America, because you have turned into the Soul Glo dad according to these trailers. Beyoncé looks damn good though. Nausea check: 2/5
The whole football team dies in a plane crash, and Matthew McConaughey comes to the rescue and leads a bunch of stragglers to victory, or something. Far too heartwarming. I hate heartwarming. And football. I once threw Rudy out a window in college. Nausea check: 5/5
My husband doesn't understand why they would call a movie "MEL GIBSON'S (fill in the blank)" and neither do I. I thought we all hated him now. Well, this movie won't help because it's about a bunch of tribal people with sticks stuck through their noses, and their ears, and sticking out of their chins, and foreheads, and chests. And then they all run at each other and fight, which really freaked me out because it seems to me all they would have to do is brush against each other to inflict injury with all those things impaled in them. I don't even like it when my husband leaves a toothpick in his mouth and walks around. Nausea check: 5/5
~ Megan T "One's mind must not be so open that one's brain falls out." --Richard Dawkins
PAUL KRUGMAN: The Great Revulsion (The New York Times)
The election wasn't just the end of the road for Mr. Bush's reign of error. It was also the end of the 12-year Republican dominance of Congress. The Democrats will now hold a majority in the House that is about as big as the Republicans ever achieved during that era of dominance.
Richard A. Viguerie: Top 10 Thank-You Notes for Nancy Pelosi to Send This Thanksgiving (prnewswire.com)
Nancy Pelosi, who stands to be Speaker of the House when the new Congress is sworn into office, is a smart politician, and one of the smartest things she and other Democratic leaders did this year was to step aside as much as possible and let the Bush Republicans and their backers self-destruct. She must be overflowing with gratitude to countless Bushies, so to make the transition a bit easier for her, I have come up with the Top 10 thank-you notes she should put in the mail this Thanksgiving ...
Peter Byrne: Wired World (bohemian.com)
Last week, Indymedia journalist Brad Will was shot dead in the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico, during a demonstration against economic and political oppression. Will's death was remarkable because he was an American and he cared enough about freedom and democracy to be present in Oaxaca.
Do manners really maketh the woman? (guardian.co.uk)
Has the world gone to hell in a handbasket? Are 21st-century people little better than club-wielding barbarians? You would certainly think so from the avalanche of books on etiquette filling up our bookshops. In a rare fit of self-improvement, Lucy Mangan spent a week trying to live by their rules.
JACKIE McGLONE: Hear my voice (living.scotsman.com)
SUE TOWNSEND is curled up on a velvety easy chair in her book-lined sitting room, her bare feet tucked beneath her. She shades her right eye with her hand as we talk, although her gaze is always steady. I ask if the light is troubling her and whether I should close the venetian blinds. "No, no," she replies. She needs to have the light behind me so that she can at least see the blurry outline of the person she's talking to.
ROGER EBERT: Stranger Than Fiction (3 1/2 stars)
What a thoughtful film this is, and how thought-stirring. Marc Forster's "Stranger Than Fiction" comes advertised as a romance, a comedy, a fantasy, and it is a little of all three, but it's really a fable, a "moral tale" like Eric Rohmer tells.
Sacha Baron Cohen was born and raised an orthodox Jew. He lived for a while in a Kibbutz in Rivivim, Israel. He went to Cambridge and studied American Civil Rights. In 1992 he won a silver medal in GaGa Ball championships. In 1995, Cohen went on Channel 4's "the Word" with a character known as "Borat"…a crazy creepy Kazakhstani reporter. Cohen shot to fame with his character "Ali G"…a finger poppin wacky rasta wanna be rapper….in 2000 the character appeared in a Madonna video…a feature movie was made called "Ali G Indahouse". Cohen also created a character known as "Bruno" the gay Austrian fashion reporter. Cohen is engaged to actress Isla Fisher who is from Muscat, Oman.
But he had to make a full length movie of Borat….88 minutes of the outrageous character invading the environs of intellectuals, fundamentalists, racists and rubes and attempting to interview and interact with everyone resulting in ridiculous, ribald and racy antics.
"Borat" the movie has been hailed as the "Comedy event of the Year"….I experienced it as an overblown, under achieving and idiotic series of scenes that could well have been an HBO weekly event like "Da Ali G Show!
This would have been the weekly series episodes (as shown in the movie):
Episode # 1….."Borat's Hometown" We open with scenes from Borat's Kazakhstani village (filmed in Romania) and his prostitute sister, fat ugly wife, the town rapist and other odd residents….Borat is a local reporter and he is on his way to America to interview people about their local customs.
Episode # 2….."Borat flies to New York" along with his obese producer Azamat and chases men down 5th avenue trying to kiss them on the lips. He settles into his cheap hotel with Azamat and late one night he sees Pamela Anderson starring in "Baywatch" and wants to go to California…to marry her.
Episode # 3….."Borat and Azamat hit the road" in an Ice Cream wagon with a big black bear. Getting out of New York is hilarious and full of hi-jinx.
Episode # 4….."Borat and Dinner Etiquette" A dinner has been set up for Borat by "Miss Manners in the house of a local rich socialite and her stiff friends….Borat must be graphically shown how to flush a toilet and wipe his ass after bringing a turd to the table in a plastic bag. He has also invited a large black local prostitute named Luenell to dinner but they both get booted.
Episode # 5….."Cowboy Borat" Borat is asked to sing "his" National Anthem at a real Rodeo. All the gathered redneck cowboys and cowgirls clap as he puts down jews and gypsies in the words….when he starts talking about "May George Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq" the crowd boos and chases him out of the stadium.
Episode # 6….."Jew Nightmare" Borat and Azamat find a room for the night in an old Jewish couples home. Unfortunately, Borat was raised to think that Jews were devils and thieves and fears that the food they are offering will poison them and that if they fall asleep, they will be killed….they hide in the closet and then flee into the darkness.
Episode # 7….."Hirsute Ass Wrestling" Borat and Azamat get into a fight in their hotel room. It turns into a truly disgusting hairy nude flabby asshole in the face ball nosing rolling and wrestling romp ending up in the lobby and a convention room and both naked men getting arrested and separated.
Episode # 8….."Born again Borat"….a sad, destitute and dejected Borat ends up at a Pentecostal prayer rally with crazy Christians careening around with hands waving while the preacher keeps feeding the fire with his screaming sermon. Borat comes up and confesses his sins and the congregation accepts him…and he now knows what is his true calling….he must go to Hollywood, find Pamela Anderson and make her his bride.
Episode # 9….."Bagging Pamela Anderson" After reaching Hollywood, Borat prepares to go to a book signing with his wedding preparations…a traditional white bag to stuff his new wife in. As he gets to the front table and meets Pamela, he tells her that she must marry him. He then proceeds to put the bag over her head and cram her inside…she gets away and the chase is on…cops and Pamela and Borat all the way into the parking lot…and jail.
Episode # 10…."True Love" After being relesed from the clink, Borat heads back to the little blue gingerbread house where Luenell lives…..he proposes…she accepts and they go back to borat's village in Kazakhstan…and live happily ever after!
Sacha Cohen's movie had the police called in over 91 times because all the scenes were shot without any of the people knowing what the fuck was going on. In fact, that is the sole reason this film is so outrageous….all these people are unsuspecting victims of Cohen's character Borat. This brings some amazing reactions ….there should be a disclaimer at the closing credits…."no people were harmed in the filming of this movie"
There are many more riotous scenes in this movie…the Black ghetto rappers, the drunk college kids, the black bear…on and on and on….scene after scene…in the theater I saw this movie (Jack London 11) the gaffs drew laughs and groans and painful roars….I still don't understand how this film made it's way into the major movie houses.
Purple Gene gives "Borat" 7 sick dark dangling penises out of 10 for breaking every comedic and censorship taboo ever.
The kid went to the UCLA game at the Rose Bowl with a school group - he had a great time.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race 10', then a FRESH'Cold Case', followed by a FRESH'Without A Trace'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Brothers And Sisters'.
The CW offers a RERUN'Smallville', followed by a FRESH'7th Heaven', then a FRESH'America's Next Top Model'.
Faux has a RERUN'Nanny 911', followed by a FRESH'Simpsons', then a FRESH'American Dad', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy', then a FRESH'War At Home'.
MY has the movie 'Desperately Seeking Susan', followed by the movie 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.
A&E has 'Flip This House', another 'Flip This House', 'The First 48', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Undefeated', followed by the movie 'Cool Hand Luke', then the movie 'Man Without A Star'.
BBC -
[1:30 pm] The Saint - The Helpful Pirate;
[2:30 pm] The Saint - The Angel's Eye;
[3:30 pm] The Avengers - The Joker;
[4:30 pm] The Avengers - Who's Who?;
[5:30 pm] The Avengers - Death's Door;
[6:30 pm] Casino Royale;
[9:00 pm] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4;
[10:00 pm] No Angels - Episode 2;
[11:00 pm] Mile High - Episode 24;
[12:00 am] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 4;
[1:00 am] No Angels - Episode 2;
[2:00 am] Mile High - Episode 24;
[3:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 8;
[3:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 10;
[4:00 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 14;
[4:30 am] Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Episode 2;
[5:00 am] Creature Comforts - Episode 6;
[5:30 am] Creature Comforts - Episode 7;
[6:00 am] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Coming To America', followed by the movie 'Friday', 'Mind Of Mencia', and another 'Mind Of Mencia'.
History has 'Death Road', 'Engineering An Empire', another 'Engineering An Empire', and yet another 'Engineering An Empire'.
IFC -
[06:00 AM] Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale;
[07:35 AM] The Brothers McMullen;
[09:15 AM] Caro Diario;
[11:00 AM] Secrets & Lies;
[01:20 PM] The Brothers McMullen;
[03:00 PM] Caro Diario;
[04:45 PM] Secrets & Lies;
[07:05 PM] The Hudsucker Proxy;
[09:00 PM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?;
[10:50 PM] Greg the Bunny: The Blues She Is My Friend;
[11:00 PM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #7;
[11:30 PM] The Business: Episode 7;
[12:00 AM] O Brother, Where Art Thou?;
[01:50 AM] Greg the Bunny: The Blues She Is My Friend;
[02:00 AM] The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman #7;
[02:30 AM] The Business: Episode 7;
[03:00 AM] The Hudsucker Proxy;
[04:55 AM] Frazetta: Painting with Fire. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Cabin Fever', followed by the movie 'Shallow Ground'.
Sundance -
[07:00 AM] I Am Cuba;
[09:15 AM] Dallas 362;
[11:00 AM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple;
[11:45 AM] Small Town Secrets;
[12:00 PM] Assisted Living;
[01:15 PM] Spin;
[01:30 PM] Summer of the Serpent;
[02:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 5;
[02:30 PM] The Hill: Episode 2: Less Feeling Please... More Doing;
[03:00 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: Hideous Truth;
[03:30 PM] Bruce and Me;
[05:00 PM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 1: Eddie Vedder + Laird Hamilton;
[05:45 PM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 2: Mikhail Baryshnikov + Alice Waters;
[06:30 PM] Iconoclasts 2: Episode 3: Quentin Tarantino + Fiona Apple;
[07:15 PM] Ellie Parker;
[09:00 PM] House of Boateng: Episode 5;
[09:30 PM] Kath & Kim - Season 2: Hideous Truth;
[10:00 PM] Dallas 362;
[11:45 PM] Spin;
[12:00 AM] Bad Guy;
[01:45 AM] See The Sea;
[02:40 AM] Pink Flamingos;
[04:30 AM] Ellie Parker. (ALL TIMES EST)
Volunteers Jan Edward, left, and Harry Harrington erect crosses honoring those who have fallen in Iraq, at the Arlington West Memorial, which is organized by Veterans for Peace, in Santa Monica, Calif. on Veteran's Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006.
Photo by Ann Johansson
Organized religion fuels anti-gay discrimination and other forms of bias, pop star Elton John said in an interview published Saturday.
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."
"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
John also criticized religious leaders for failing to do anything about conflicts around the world.
Actors Jack Nicholson and Sean Penn watch the Los Angeles Lakers' NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles, Friday, Nov. 10, 2006.
Photo by Chris Carlson
Oscar-nominated actress Annette Bening was honoured with a star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame," marking the occasion with a tribute to husband Warren Beatty.
Bening, given Oscar nods for "The Grifters", "American Beauty" and "Being Julia", became the 2,324th celebrity to see her name set into a star on the stretch of pavement on Hollywood Boulevard.
The 48-year-old actress said she was grateful for the support of actor-director husband Beatty, who stood by her side at the morning ceremony, throughout her successful career.
CBS will air the four remaining original episodes of the canceled Ray Liotta crime drama "Smith" on its Innertube broadband outlet.
The network streamed the show's first three episodes for a week each after their initial broadcasts. Those will be rerun, allowing viewers to see all seven episodes in their entirety. The show's writers will provide a synopsis on CBS.com of how producers planned to resolve the serialized drama.
Also, the show's producer, Warner Bros. Television, is making all episodes of the show, which delves into the world of high-stakes robberies, available via digital download this month, along with AOL, Amazon and Apple's iTunes Store.
"Spider-Man" star Tobey Maguire's fiance Jennifer Meyer has given birth to a baby girl, the Hollywood couple's first child, US magazine reported on Saturday.
The baby was born on Thursday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the magazine said on its Web site. No other details were given about the couple who have been together since 2003.
Casino mogul Steve Wynn lost US$139 million but got to keep one of his favourite paintings when he accidentally poked a hole in a Picasso last month. Now it will cost Wynn $85,000 to repair the damage to the art work, if not his pride.
"Forget the money," he told The Associated Press during a telephone interview Thursday from the Chinese enclave of Macau. "You hate like hell to damage a painting like Le Reve."
Wynn was showing the 1932 work by Pablo Picasso to several high-profile guests in his Las Vegas office when he accidentally poked a hole in the canvas with his elbow.
Wynn called it, "the world's clumsiest and goofiest thing to do," and said he was glad he was responsible and not one of his guests. He said no one but him said a word.
Forget the small-town belief in letting bygones be bygones. Andy Griffith, the actor who portrayed the sheriff of the fictional town of Mayberry, N.C., has sued a Wisconsin resident who unsuccessfully bid for the Grant County post after legally changing his name to Andrew Jackson Griffith in May.
The lawsuit, filed Nov. 3 in U.S. District Court in Madison, alleges that William Harold Fenrick, 42, violated trademark and copyright laws as well as the privacy of actor Andy Samuel Griffith when he used his new name - Andy Griffith - to promote his candidacy for sheriff in southwestern Wisconsin.
The lawsuit says the former Fenrick changed his name for the "sole purpose of taking advantage of Griffith's notoriety in an attempt to gain votes" and asks the court to order Fenrick to go back to his original name.
Japanese Princess Aiko, daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, wearing traditional ceremonial attire, is accompanied by her mother after the Chakko-no-Gi ceremony at their residence, Togu Palace in Tokyo, November 11, 2006. Princess Aiko, who will turn 5-years-old in December, had her first rite of passage as a member of the Japanese royal family.
Photo by Yoshikazu Tsuno
Missouri Democrats aren't often in a position to thank Rush Limbaugh for much of anything.
But Wednesday, Democrats were showering the conservative radio commentator with gratitude for his hand in Claire McCaskill's narrow win over Jim Talent in Missouri's U.S. Senate race.
"We have Rush Limbaugh to thank for a lot of things," McCaskill campaign manager Richard Martin said.
"All it did was to remind people - moderates - how ridiculous Rush Limbaugh is and how far to the right he is and how far out of the mainstream he is," Martin said.
People look at a chocolate scuplture in Obidos village 80 Km North of Lisbon during the Chocolate Festival November 10, 2006.
Photo by Jose Manuel Ribeiro
The National Gallery plans to buy one of the 19th century's best-known American paintings, "The Gross Clinic" by Thomas Eakins, for a record $68 million.
The sale price sets a record for a pre-World War II work of art created in the United States, according to a statement released Saturday by the painting's owner, Thomas Jefferson University.
The National Gallery of Art will share the work with Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, the statement said. Alice Walton founded the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which is scheduled to open in 2009 in Bentonville, Ark.
A whale's tail made of cans is seen as part of the 14th annual 'Canstruction' design competition and food drive in New York, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006. The exhibit, which features 41 objects built from cans, will be open to the public through Nov. 22, 2006. Cities across North America will be sponsoring similar food drives to create more than 600 structures and donate more than two million pounds of food.
Photo by Seth Wenig
Researchers in Timbuktu are fighting to preserve tens of thousands of ancient texts which they say prove Africa had a written history at least as old as the European Renaissance.
Private and public libraries in the fabled Saharan town in Mali have already collected 150,000 brittle manuscripts, some of them from the 13th century, and local historians believe many more lie buried under the sand.
The texts were stashed under mud homes and in desert caves by proud Malian families whose successive generations feared they would be stolen by Moroccan invaders, European explorers and then French colonialists.
Written in ornate calligraphy, some were used to teach astrology or mathematics, while others tell tales of social and business life in Timbuktu during its "Golden Age," when it was a seat of learning in the 16th century.
Volunteers erect crosses honoring those who have fallen in Iraq, at the Arlington West Memorial, which is organized by Veterans for Peace, in Santa Monica, Calif., on Veteran's Day, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2006.
Photo by Ann Johansson
Joe Jagger, father of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger died of pneumonia Saturday, a spokesman for the singer said. He was 93.
Jagger, a former schoolteacher, was admitted to a hospital in Kingston, Surrey, outside London, more than a week ago after falling in his home, the spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
The spokesman said the Jagger family would not make any further comment. He gave no details of Joe Jagger's funeral, saying only that it would be private.
Mick Jagger's mother, Eva, died in 2000. She and Joe Jagger had two children, Mick and Chris.
A penguin called Elvis wears a new pair of blue shoes at the Antarctic Centre's Penguin Encounter display in Christchurch, November 7, 2006. Elvis and 16 other penguins who arrived at the International Antarctic Centre in September have been given specially designed shoes after several penguins developed sore feet in their new home, according to Antarctic Centre director Richard Benton. Picture taken November 7, 2006.
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