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Using a movie star host instead of the same 3 comedians over again is a nice change of pace. Jackman does look like he’s nervous. The opening is somewhat amusing but Hathaway looks like two eyes on a stick. Jackman’s
Using a movie star host instead of the same 3 comedians over again is a nice change of pace. Jackman does look like he’s nervous. The opening is somewhat amusing but Hathaway looks like two eyes on a stick. Jackman’s
No more red carpet. I was beginning to feel like Al Pacino at the end of “Scent of a Woman”
.. a before Picture on a episode of Nip/Tuck. I’ve always liked the guy. But Plastic surgery isn’t what’ll win him an Oscar/
All that adulation and obsequiousness and none of it directed at him. He’s got to be jonesing for that “You’re my idol, Mr. President!” stares about now. We’ll see how many saviOr comments get tossed out bu the faithful in
Thank God the sycophantic red carpet conversations are over. Triple Ugh! The one with Brad and Angelina was entertaining just by watching her eyes when the guy started off saying how she is a savior and inspiration to the world.
Bot the popularity of Twitter.com is really taking off. On the red carpet show they keep talking about “Tweets”, which are Twitter posts people are making on their Twitter mini-blogs. Nope, Tweet isn’t some new Hollywood drug slang, though from
As a child, I noticed something about adults that kind of bothered me. If you said one wrong thing to some people you could set them off. Even something innocent or harmless. I remember when I was 11 my stepmom
If you read part one of this essay, you know I hate clichés and stereotypes. They’re the products of hack writers, lazy minds, and innate bigotry. Part one was about how Hollywood looks at “conservative America.” That is, anything to
As a writer and consumer of entertainment, I really hate clichés and stereotypes. They’re only useful for misdirection, making readers believe the story is going a certain way so you can fool them. But Hollywood keeps trotting out the following
The world economy is a mess. Things are in flux. These are scary times. But part of that comes with change. If you think things are scary now, imagine how people felt when World War I or World War II
In 1961, John F Kennedy’s FCC chairman Newton N. Minow gave a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters which is still cited today. You’ll understand why when you read the money quote: When television is good, nothing–not the theater,
At the dawn of mankind our ancient ancestors huddled around campfires and told stories to entertain each other. But the smarter ones realized there was a way to make the stories more effective for the audience. And that was the
So spake Oscar Levant. Comedian Fred Allen had another great quote: “You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood and stuff it in a gnat’s navel and still have room for three caraway seeds and an agent’s heart.” Hollywood is
