May 19th, 2006
You can pretend that you don’t find this story intensely satisfying, but you’ll only be fooling yourself.
0 commentsMay 17th, 2006
Thanks to Galley friend J.E. for passing along this terrific link to yet another spoof trailer entitled Ten Things I Hate About Commandments.
0 commentsOliver Stone's 9/11 (cont.)
May 17th, 2006
The first trailer for World Trade Center is up and it’s pretty good. If anything, the only flaw is that it looks a tad too conventional. Still, I can’t imagine he will lapse into movie-of-the week territory. Check out that final shot as the camera pulls all the way out, Contact-style.
This could be the big movie of the summer.
0 commentsWhere Are They Now?
May 17th, 2006
Forget the stuff up top in this story about Jodie Foster giving the commencement speech at Penn. (Although the camera bit is lame–that’s the same schtick she used when she gave the Yale commenement a decade ago.)
The real gold is at the bottom:
Comedian
Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master’s degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates.
What a country!
0 commentsWes Anderson, Pitchman
May 16th, 2006
Seth Stevenson has the grade on Wes Anderson’s Am-Ex spot.
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May 16th, 2006
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Double Down for your Health
May 16th, 2006
A recent study by the University of Nevada indicates that exposure to second-hand smoke in casinos can damage one’s DNA and ultimately lead to heart disease or cancer. No argument there. It’s a good thing these scientists didn’t do research on the harmful effects of the Sports Book, or what a friend of mine calls the “Cancer Room.” But there has also been an increase in nonsmoking areas within a number of casinos. And I am also certain that playing table games (definitely not slots) can help prevent Alzheimer’s Disease: If keeping your mind active is a key weapon in the fight against this terrible illness, how much more active can it get, trying to keep track of the point and odds on your 6 and 8, 5 and 9, and pressing it? Or when to hit on a 16 and stand on a 12? The mental gymnastics can be quite rigorous–which, I guess, makes me Bela Karolyi. You can practice your mental gymnastics with a bit of Free Poker. No smoke in the online card rooms unless you want it there!
0 commentsMore Wii
May 12th, 2006
Gamespot has informed speculation about the Wii price point–they guess it at $199. But check out their chart showing the inflation adjusted launch prices of Nintendo consoles through the years.
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