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I just wanted to give a Happy 30th Birthday wish to Uncle Grambo. As an old(er) soul, I can honestly say that I’m sure your 30s will be fantastic. Isn’t that what everyone who has entered his or her 4th decade of living says? I’m glad that most people are much more calm, cool andContinue reading “HAPPY BIRTHDAYS ALL AROUND”

A couple things that absolutely required my attention before we part ways for the weekend: I figured I might as well go forth with some box office predictions. The big question this week is if Collateral will make enough to take over #1 from The Village. The latter film is in more theaters, but IContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE HERE-COMES-THE-WEEKEND EDITION”

This has been a weird week. As I mentioned on Monday, last weekend I was Mr. Movie. Between theaters and home from Thursday through Sunday, I watched nine films, four in a little marathon at the AMC on 42nd. (Time of the Wolf, Exodus, Man Bites Dog, Underworld, Wonderland, Napoleon Dynamite, The Notebook, Zatoichi andContinue reading “SO MUCH NOTHING, I COULDN’T EVEN THINK OF A HEADLINE”

Seriously, shutting me up and shortening my rants is far easier than it seems. Really. Hey, stop laughing. But it’s true. I don’t think anything more needs to be said about what needs to be done with the James Bond series because the Tagline boys, with the help of their friend Pete, have worked itContinue reading “BOND REDUX: SAYING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS SO I DON’T HAVE TO”

And from me, that actually is saying something. “Bush Misspeak Cites U.S. Readiness to Harm U.S.” (Reuters via the delectable Wonkette) Oh, more detail? Here: “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” Yes, IContinue reading “NO COMMENT NECESSARY”

I suppose after the success of The Who’s Tommy:The Musical on Broadway however long ago, this was inevitable: Fulfilling Roger Waters desire to put another brick in “The Wall,” Miramax Films’ Harvey and Bob Weinstein are teaming with music mogul Tommy Mottola to develop, produce and back a Broadway musical based on the Pink FloydContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE TOY JUMPING OFF THE WALL TO FACE OFF WITH HERBIE IS BETTER NEWS THAN WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HONG KONG”

Yesterday I snuck a plug for Da Ali G Show into a post that was otherwise about Comedy Central. This past Sunday’s episode was hysterical from beginning to end, and thanks to all those clever (and more technically proficient than I) bloggers out there, the capper of the episode (Borat singing in a country-western barContinue reading “TODAY IS THE DAY I HIGHLIGHT BRILLIANT COMEDIANS, WHICH MEANS SOME OF YOU WILL FIND OFFENSE”

Just as I thought there was no interesting news this morning, I get a lovely little IM that makes me want to shout, “All hail the Peabs! His blog lay dormant for what seemed like an eternity, but now he’s back with a vegeance to bovs all over your respective tees. If you aren’t familiarContinue reading “THE RETURN OF THE SHMEARS!”

Color me shocked, but I didn’t even know there was an audition special for Ultimate Film Fanatic. Lo and behold, this past weekend while I was looking through my little DiVo guide trying to find a showing of the SouthEast regionals, I happed upon it. The 20 minute (they couldn’t fill a full half-hour?) infomercialContinue reading “IFC UFF WEEK 4: WHEN THE AUDITION SPECIAL SHOWS MORE PROMISE THAN THE ACTUAL SHOW, WE HAVE A PROBLEM”

I’m not sure how it’s possible, but The Daily Show keeps getting better! Every night I watch it and I want to write something about it immediately, but that would turn this blog into not just not-a-TCM fansite but also not-a-Daily Show fansite. Last night, Stewart’s interview was a Republican representative who was on theContinue reading “COMEDY CENTRAL STARTS SHOWING ITS PLANS TO RULE THE WORLD: THE DAILY, CHAPPELLE, CARELL AND SOME NON-CC ALI G TO KEEP ME BALANCED”