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September 12, 2008 at 2:58 pm
· Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture, Television, internet ·Tagged (, :, Better Off Dead, Ghostbusters, god damn it not again, I, Judd Apatow
Word on the street (said street being a newspaper writer’s interwebs blog) is that in yet another attempt by Hollywood to rape my psyche and ruin all of my fondest memories of growing up, a third Ghostbusters is in the works. In an email from Harold Ramis:
yes, columbia is developing a script for GB3 with my year one writing partners, gene stupnitsky and lee eisenberg. judd apatow is co-producing year one and has made several other films for sony, so of course the studio is hoping to tap into some of the same acting talent. aykroyd, ivan reitman and i are consulting at this point, and according to dan, bill murray is willing to be involved on some level. he did record his dialogue for the new ghostbusters video game, as did danny and i, and ernie hudson. the concept is that the old ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. not much else to say at this point. everyone is confident a decent script can be written and i guess we’ll take it from there.
best,
harold
Because this is exactly how I wanted to start my weekend. Drunk by 11 and news of a new Ghostbusters flick. Wait, that is exactly how I wanted to start my weekend. Seriously, though, why can’t Hollywood leave the 80s alone? All of my fondest and sadly nostalgic memories of the 80s are based on the movies and TV shows I watched growing up (and also Atari). As much as I love (both emotionally and physically) the Ghostbusters movies, I can’t force myself to believe that this one will be any good. Look at the drastic drop in quality from the first to the second movie – how can a third movie twenty years later be anything but a letdown? Especially with the premise of the original ghostbusters mentoring new, Apatownian ones (the potential for ghost masturbation, ghost pregnancy and ghost drug use is right off the PKE meter), helping them to provide every frat boy idiot on the planet with new cliche jokes and bar conversation topics that predominantly involve word-for-word recitation of scenes from the movie. That being said, I will probably go see it. If for no other reason than the Better Off Dead sequel hasn’t been made. Yet.
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July 30, 2008 at 2:36 pm
· Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Obama, Pop Culture, politics ·Tagged Alaska, Dame Judy Dench, Danielle Day-Lewis, Fergie pees her pants, Nicole Kidman, Obama, Senator, Ted Stevens
Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens (Rep) has been indicted for lying about accepting gifts (read: bribes) from an oil company. He is accused of receiving more than a quarter of a million dollars in kickbacks including “a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing and electrical wiring. He also is accused of accepting from VECO a gas grill, furniture and tools, and of failing to report swapping an old Ford for a new Land Rover for his daughter Lily.” Stevens denies the allegations siting the fact that the gas requirements of the Land Rover would quickly balance the cost of the gifts from VECO.
In an effort to clear his name of the ambiguous nature his “Hopeful Future” campaign bestowed upon him, Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has announced that, if elected, he will order review of executive orders that might “trample on liberty.” When asked who would be his attorney general to carryout the broadly nebulous and vague goal typical for his platform, Obama responded with a shockingly detailed answer of “I don’t know.”
Pop singer Stacy Ann Ferguson (Fergie to the hip crowd) is “thrilled” to be playing “basically a prostitute on the beach” in Rob Marhsall’s production of Nine. She hopes to learn from some of the “great actors” also in the film, such as Danielle Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman and even Dame Judy Dench, in hopes of expanding her performing ability beyond singing trite pop songs and peeing her pants.
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July 8, 2008 at 2:02 pm
· Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture, internet ·Tagged baby, Camlia Alves, Matthew McConaughey, NIH, surf's up, wtf, Yahoo!, yeti
Cowabunga, dudes! Actor/amateur surfer Matthew McConaughey’s Brazilian model girlfriend, Camila Alves, gave birth to a boy yesterday. Early reports out of NIH have scientists baffled that the man-child was not only able to convince a woman to sleep with him, but was able to procreate. The baby boy will be raised out of wedlock as the beach yeti, or “sandsquatch” tends to be a solitary creature, seeking company solely for mating purposes. Also, the mother is “like, totally an ugly hodad. I was bein’ wingman for my bra, and like, totally had seven beers and we horked some wicked seaweed. I was totally maxed out, man.”
In related news, Yahoo! has a news affiliate that is apparently run by twelve year old girls (you’d know this if you took the time to click on the links I painstakingly post for you ungrateful bastards). As near as I can tell, omg! focuses on celebrity gossip, but word on the streets* is that it will be making a move to world news-type reporting. Execs from CNN are looking over their collective shoulder at this new up-and-comer.
*Forever 21 discount racks
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April 23, 2008 at 3:32 pm
· Filed under Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture, internet, politics ·Tagged Clone Wars, Eff you George Lucas, George Lucas, Hayden Christensen, I hate you for making Vader a bitch, movie trailer, Star Wars
Well, the title pretty much says it all (yay interwebs!), so check it out here. Although, I must say that after the last three cinematic abortions that were brutally ripped from the CGI womb of George Lucas with a rusty reel-to-reel projector, this looks like it might be surprisingly entertaining. At least with the cartoonish, Final Fantasy style computer animation, I won’t have to deal with another three hours of Hayden Panettierre Christensen’s womanish, whiny, bitch antic ladened portrayal of one of the greatest villians of all time. And no, I’m still not over that whole fiasco. I swear to God, Buddha, Methuselah and by the mighty hammer of Thor that if you ruin Indiana Jones (I’m already blaming you for the title, you fat slob) I will come at your pedophile ranch like the Death Star at Alderaan.
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