Friday - February 03, 2006

Hollywood Hissy-Fit

Y’all know that back home where I come from, we call what all happens when a doofus acts like an ol’ jackass a “hissy-fit”. I ain’t right sure where that word done come from but I reckon it sure describes some of them Hollywood actor people. Yessiree, Bob.

Now I know fer sure they’s a whole lot smarter than me ‘cause they’ns knows all them fancy words like “chickenshit” and “bullshit”. Whooo-eeeee! My mammy would warsh out my mouf with lye soap if’n I used fancy words like that. I sure wish I was as smart as Alec Baldwin. I’m just glad I’m not a smartass like Alec Baldwin.

Come to think of it, why in hell is he still in the country? I thought he done left America to all us dumb redneck hicks five years ago ....

Alec Baldwin Rips Democrats for Failing to Filibuster Alito
By Jim Roberts
Feb 3, 2006
(THE NATIONAL LEDGER)

The Hollywood left is a fun bunch.  As if actor Alec Baldwin didn’t have enough to worry about with the new court documents filed by ex-wife Kim Basinger, Baldwin is now dishing political advice to Dems on the way they bungled the filibuster of new Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The actor ripped into Senate Dems with a profanity laced tirade.

The problem is there are too many “chicken-blank” Democrats in the Senate,” the agitated actor told the New York Daily News. “We have a bunch of budding Zell Millers down there,” he complained, referring to the Georgia Democrat who backed President Bush in the 2004 election. Turning his ire towards Miller, Baldwin explained: “I loathe and despise him on a daily basis.” I’m guessing Zell Miller wears that as a badge of honor.

Newsmax reports that Baldwin’s profanity-laced outburst followed comments Tuesday by National Organization for Women chief Kim Gandy, who exploded in over “right wing” claims that Alito is no extremist. “That is such b - - lsh - t!” the foul-mouthed feminist fumed to radio host Steve Malzberg. Actress Meryl Streep did better at containing her Alito rage, lamenting to the News: “I’m so demoralized.”

Is this irony? The reason Democrats struggle with nationwide elections is that they try to appease these left-wing fringe types. Now they are the first ones to whine when some Democrats realize that pandering to the Alec Baldwin’s of the world is what put them into the minority.

   Monday - January 23, 2006

West Wing Clipped

We don’t watch TV at manor Christian, but I’ve heard that “The West Wing” has been a fairly popular show until late.  Apparently, the show has now officially run its course.

NBC Cancels ‘West Wing’ After 7 Seasons
PASADENA, Calif.

The new president on “The West Wing” will be a real short-timer: NBC announced Sunday it was pulling the plug on the Emmy-winning political drama after seven seasons in May.

NBC, struggling to regain its footing after the worst season in its history, also outlined several midseason schedule changes _ including the moves of popular dramas “Law & Order” and “Las Vegas.”

But the part of the story I found most hillarious was this:

Although this season’s story line with a presidential campaign involving a Democrat played by Jimmy Smits and Republican portrayed by Alan Alda has been strong critically, ratings have sunk with its move to Sunday nights.

Anyone in Hollywood who thought Alan Alda was the best choice to play a Republican needs to have his ass handed to him. 

   Monday - October 17, 2005

Suspicious Suicide?

Now that’s something you don’t see every day ... someone committing suicide by cutting their throat - sort of Seppuku, American style. At least that’s what the police think happened to Charles Rocket of Saturday Night Live fame ...

Ex-’SNL’ Comedian’s Death Ruled a Suicide
FARMINGTON, Conn (AP)

Actor and comedian Charles Rocket, who had roles in a variety of movies and TV series and briefly gained notoriety for uttering an obscenity on “Saturday Night Live,” committed suicide, the state medical examiner ruled. Rocket, 56, whose real name was Charles Claverie, was found dead in a field near his home in Canterbury on Oct 7. His throat had been cut, the medical examiner said.

“An investigation determined there was no criminal aspect to this case,” State Police Sgt. J. Paul Vance said Monday. Rocket was a cast member on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” during the season. The profanity incident happened during a spoof of the “Who Shot J.R.?” plot line on “Dallas,” which created a nationwide sensation at the time.

“Dallas” star Charlene Tilton was the “SNL” guest host that week. Rocket, who came on stage in a wheelchair, uttered the profanity after he was asked what it was like to have been shot. The incident sparked complaints from viewers and prompted NBC to issue an apology. Rocket was later dismissed along with other cast members and writers on the show amid weak ratings at the time.

He went on to appear in numerous TV shows, including “Moonlighting” and “Max Headroom,” and provided voices for cartoon series. His movie credits included “Earth Girls are Easy,” “Dumb and Dumber” and “Dances With Wolves,” according to the Internet Movie Database.

Before his time on “Saturday Night Live,” Rocket was an anchorman at television stations in Colorado and Rhode Island and played an influential role in the Providence, R.I., arts scene decades ago, friends said. “I just think he was one of the nicest and funniest people I ever met,” said Chip Young, who co-wrote a column on Rocket in a Providence paper. “He had so many friends and influenced so many people.”

   Saturday - October 15, 2005

That’s Entertainment?

   Thursday - October 13, 2005

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day (and maybe of all time)

YO! ADRIENNE!

Marlon Brando screamed, “I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER!”

Sylverster Stallone screamed, “I COULDA BEEN AN ACTOR!”

Stallone Squares Up For Rocky VI
(DAILY MAIL - UK)

His last bout was with his protègèturned-rival Tommy Gunn in Rocky V. Now, more than 15 years on - and 30 years since first putting on his boxing gloves - Rocky Balboa is making another comeback. Hollywood sources confirmed last night that Sylvester Stallone has agreed to star in the sixth instalment of the Rocky saga. Filming starts in Los Angeles in December and Stallone, who will turn 60 next year, is also lined up to direct.

A spokesman from the star’s agent Paul Bloch said: ‘There is a script, but it has yet to get the green light.’ This is industry-speak for Stallone being in advanced talks, but having yet to officially announce his commitment to the project. In Rocky VI, a lonely, poverty-stricken Balboa comes out of retirement and looks to keep his hand in with a few low-profile fights. But his return to the ring causes a media frenzy and a promoter comes up with the idea that he should fight the heavyweight champion, Mason ‘The Line’ Dixon.

Stallone is understood to have been back in the gym in preparation for the role. Although the film is to be made in Los Angeles, it is unclear whether it will be set in Rocky’s hometown of Philadelphia. The supporting cast has not been announced. Rocky will signal something of a renaissance for 59-year- old Stallone, who will turn 60 during filming, and comes as he attempts to revive his other career-defining role, Rambo.

The fourth film in that series is currently in pre-production and will also be produced by Stallone. The actor became one of Hollywood’s highest-paid leading men as the monosyllabic Rocky. For the first film, in 1976, he was paid just £15,000. But for each sequel he got a huge pay rise - and for Rocky V he earned £10million. His last role was a cameo in last year’s Sky Kids 3. Previously, he had failed to set the box office alight with D-Tox, Driven and the remake of Get Carter.

   Monday - September 26, 2005

Real Atmosphere Of Fear

Dan Rather recently gave a speech to broadcasters wherein he described a ”climate of fear” in newsrooms across the country. The Blathering Boob said reporters are being pressured by politicians and the news is suffering ....

Dan Rather Complains of ‘Climate of Fear’
(NEWSMAX)

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather said there is a “climate of fear” in newsrooms that is worse than he’s ever seen in his four-decade career. Rather declared that in the years since the then-White House correspondent tangled with President Nixon during the Watergate affair, politicians “of every persuasion” have gotten better at applying pressure on the corporations that own the broadcast networks.

Addressing the Fordham University School of Law on Monday, he called the current atmosphere a “new journalism order.” He said this pressure – along with “dumbed-down, tarted-up” news coverage, 24-hour cable news competition and the chase for ratings – “creates a bigger atmosphere of fear in newsrooms.”

Actor (and global political expert) Tim Robbins also says there is a climate of fear in the media and a ”chill wind is blowing” from the White House to suppress dissent. With his boundless political wisdom, Robbins explains that the US is becoming a fascist state ....

‘A Chill Wind is Blowing in This Nation...’
(COMMON DREAMS)

In the 19 months since 9-11, we have seen our democracy compromised by fear and hatred. Basic inalienable rights, due process, the sanctity of the home have been quickly compromised in a climate of fear. A unified American public has grown bitterly divided, and a world population that had profound sympathy and support for us has grown contemptuous and distrustful, viewing us as we once viewed the Soviet Union, as a rogue state.

This past weekend, Susan and I and the three kids went to Florida for a family reunion of sorts. Amidst the alcohol and the dancing, sugar-rushing children, there was, of course, talk of the war. And the most frightening thing about the weekend was the amount of times we were thanked for speaking out against the war because that individual speaking thought it unsafe to do so in their own community, in their own life. Keep talking, they said; I haven’t been able to open my mouth.

A relative tells me that a history teacher tells his 11-year-old son, my nephew, that Susan Sarandon is endangering the troops by her opposition to the war. Another teacher in a different school asks our niece if we are coming to the school play. They’re not welcome here, said the molder of young minds.

For the record, I want to make it clear to these two brain-damaged specimens what a fascist, government-controlled “climate of fear” really is. It is the majority of the Muslim nations in the Middle East where disagreeing with the powers that be will get you instantly killed. It is North Korea where disagreement with “Dear Leader” will get you years in a miserable concentration camp, worked to death and left to starve. It is Communist China where the government would never allow Blathering Dan even a second in their broadcast booths nor would Professor Robbins be allowed to dissent in the tone he takes above. Both would be summarily shot. That is a real “climate of fear” ....

China Sets New Rules On Internet News
BEIJING (Reuters)

China set new regulations on Internet news content on Sunday, widening a campaign of controls it has imposed on other Web sites, such as discussion groups. “The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest,” the official Xinhua news agency said in announcing the new rules, which took effect immediately.

The news agency did not detail the rules, but said Internet news sites must “be directed toward serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests.” Established news media needed permission to run a news Web site, it said. New operators had to register themselves with government information offices.

China has a dedicated band of cyber police who patrol the Internet with the aim of regulating content. Postings that criticize the government or address sensitive topics are quickly removed. Registration was a feature of rules imposed earlier this year aimed at not-for-profit Internet activities, such as personal Web sites and blogs.

Since March, university on-line discussion groups have been restricted to students, removing a once popular outlet for Chinese keen to publicize their views on sensitive issues. Student users and site managers must register using their real names. The biggest Chinese Web portals include those operated by Sina Corp. (http://www.sina.com.cn) and Sohu.com Inc. (sohu.com). Both carry news. Access to many foreign news Web sites is routinely blocked.

   Friday - September 23, 2005

For Real?

Tyra Banks Proves Breasts Are Real on TV
Talk about keeping it real: Tyra Banks underwent a televised sonogram on her new talk show to prove that her breasts aren’t fake.

“I’m tired of this rumor. It’s something that’s followed me forever,” the supermodel said Tuesday on “The Tyra Banks Show.”

After Banks asked the men in the audience to leave, Dr. Garth Fisher from ABC’s “Extreme Makeover” performed a touch test and then the sonogram. He concluded: “Tyra Banks has natural breasts; there are no implants.”

“By no means am I saying a breast implant is a bad thing, but it’s not a choice that I made,” the 31-year-old model said. “But it’s something that a lot of the public ... think that I have, and that’s so frustrating for me.”

Banks, who models for Victoria’s Secret, also displayed how her push- up bra exaggerated her body. However, Banks said she’s not totally real.

“I got fake hair, y’all. I got fake eyelashes.”

The hour-long show was, as Banks declared, “all about breasts!” It also featured lessons on proper fitting and an appearance from a slimmed-down Anna Nicole Smith.

Well, that’s something, I guess

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   Wednesday - August 24, 2005

The Greatest Movie Line Ever!

And that’s no joke. It came from an old Bob Hope movie (back when Hollywood actors still had functioning brains). This film clip is absolutely precious and needs to be stored in your archive of film clips. It’s a QuickTime MOV file (so all you Mac users can view it as well as Windows users) and it’s only 1.4 MB so even at dial-up speeds it shouldn’t take long to grab. Right-click on the picture below and select “Save Target As” if you’re using Internet Exploder or right-click and select “Save Link As” if you’re using FireFox. Trust me! You won’t regret it! Pass it around to all your friends. And let’s all give a big BMEWS thank you to TJ for sending this to me.

The Setup: The gentlemen on the right is a scientist and he is describing ”zombies” and how they act. When he finishes his description, Bob makes the inevitable comparison ....

FYI: This clip was sent to me in Windows Media format (WMV) but since we have such a diverse audience here I ran it through a digital media tool I use called Cleaner XL to convert it to a more common format. This software allows me to convert video between Windows Media, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Quicktime, RealPlayer formats and even creates streaming media formats for web presentation. It’s expensive but if you’re doing any work with digital video, especially for the web, I highly recommend it.

   Sunday - August 07, 2005

Pirates In My Neighborhood?

DANG! I got a real live movie pirate right here in my neighborhood - at least he’s a few miles north of me .... and I didn’t even know it. The pirate in question, is a 19-year-old teenager who has been making “cam-jobs” of first run movies. These “cammers”, as they are called, secretly film movies with hidden cameras and upload them to the internet “warez” groups. This kid, however, is probably going to jail .... for filming (at least what I heard) are two really lousy movies ....

(AP) --A Missouri teenager is the latest to be indicted by a San Jose federal grand jury in a string of prosecutions involving members of a secretive computer-piracy group. Curtis Salisbury, 19, of St. Charles, Mo., was charged Wednesday with using a video recorder to make copies of newly released movies and uploading them to a computer network for distribution. He is the first person to be prosecuted under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which was signed by President Bush in April.

Salisbury is charged with conspiracy and copyright infringement for copying two movies, ``The Perfect Man’’ and ``Bewitched.’’ The films were then distributed through ``warez’’ sites on the Internet—secretive, member-only sites where illegal copies of software and pirated entertainment are available for download. He is also accused of downloading ``Madagascar’’ and computer programs sold by Sony and Adobe Systems. He is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Patricia V. Trumbull in San Jose Aug. 19 at 1:30 p.m.

The maximum penalty faced by Salisbury if convicted is five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for counts of conspiracy and violating the copyright act, and three years and $250,000 for a count of unauthorized recording of movies. Warez is a source of illegally copied computer programs and, more recently, first-run movies and DVDs. It was targeted by the FBI in a two-year undercover Operation Copycat investigation and a larger investigation called Operation Site Down.

In the argot of warez members—pronounced ``wares’’ and derived from the word software—Salisbury is accused of being a ``cammer.’’ Cammers are specialized warez members who record first-run movies with concealed camcorders and then place them on Internet servers after removing data that could be traced. Cammers are entitled to three movie downloads from the illegal sites for every uploaded movie. The indictment states that Salisbury also discussed payment with an unnamed individual.

   Monday - July 25, 2005

Mad As Hell

This is it! I’ve had it with this beeyatch. Once was enough but not again. NO, DAMMIT! I mean it! Jane Fonda is starting a cross-country tour on a frikkin’ bus that runs on vegetable oil to protest the Iraq war. NO! DAMMIT! Please, Dear God! Stop this madwoman!

(MYWAY NEWS)—SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.

“I can’t go into any detail except to say that it’s going to be pretty exciting,” she said. Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on “vegetable oil.” She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.

They plan to return to the Santa Fe area, where she was promoting her book, “My Life So Far” on Saturday. Prompted by a question from the audience, Fonda said war veterans that she has met on a nationwide book tour have encouraged her to break her silence on the Iraq war.

“I’ve decided I’m coming out,” she said. Hundreds of people in the audience cheered loudly when Fonda announced her intentions to join the anti-Iraq war movement. “I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam,” she said. “I carry a lot of baggage from that.”

Fonda incited controversy in July 1972 when she was photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun while on a tour of the country to drum up support to end the war.

   Monday - June 27, 2005

SCOTUS KILLS GROKSTER

The Supremes rounded out their day of infamy with a final ruling, saying that internet file-sharing services can be held responsible for what their users do. MGM, which brought the case is now dancing with glee and already sending the lawyers after Grokster. Look for other big Hollywood studios to pile on ....

WASHINGTON - Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting warnings that the lawsuits will stunt growth of cool tech gadgets such as the next iPod.

The unanimous decision sends the case back to lower court, which had ruled in favor of file-sharing services
Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc. on the grounds that the companies couldn’t be sued. The justices said there was enough evidence of unlawful intent for the case to go to trial.

File-sharing services shouldn’t get a free pass on bad behavior, justices said.

“We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties,” Justice David H. Souter wrote for the court.

   Thursday - June 16, 2005

It’s All About The Money, Part II

Well, hell! I want my cut, dangit! Joining the “Runaway Bride” in the “book/movie deal club” is Deep Throat and his family ....

Deep Throat Family Cuts Publishing, Film Pacts
Tom Hanks to Develop Movie About Secret Watergate Source
By Bob Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 16, 2005

Deep Throat has a book deal and a movie deal, and he could end up being played by Tom Hanks.

The family of 91-year-old W. Mark Felt, who revealed his role as The Washington Post’s key Watergate source two weeks ago, has chosen PublicAffairs Books to publish a combination of autobiography and biography, publisher and CEO Peter Osnos said last night. Osnos said that Universal Pictures has optioned Felt’s life story and the book for a movie to be developed by Hanks’s production company, Playtone.

He said the book will blend Felt’s own writing about his life, including his out-of-print 1979 memoir, “The FBI Pyramid: From the Inside,” and some unpublished material, with contributions from Felt’s family and from lawyer John D. O’Connor, who has been advising the Felts. O’Connor wrote the Vanity Fair article that named Felt as Deep Throat after the secret had been kept for 33 years.

The additional material from Felt, Osnos said, includes discussion of how he decided to provide guidance to Post reporter Bob Woodward, and why.

The book is to be published next spring. Its working title is “A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being ‘Deep Throat’ and the Struggle for Honor in Washington.”

   Tuesday - June 14, 2005

Al Franken-stein

It came alive at midnight, in the castle high on the hill at the edge of town. The mad scientist threw the switch marked “Air America” and slowly the figure under the sheet started to move, slowly at first. One arm moved out from under the sheet, grasped Igor and threw him against the wall. Igor cringed in fear as the mad doctor slowly but silently undid the restraints on the monster he had created. The hideous creature began to rise from the table and in the glare of lightning flashes the bolts on his neck flashed in the darkness and from this grotesque face the mouth suddenly opened and a gravelly, growling voice screamed loud enough to wake the dead many miles away the chilling mantra “BUSH LIED! BUSH LIED! BUSH LIED!” over and over again in chorus with the deep rumblings of thunder across the valley as the storm reached its peak ....

And in the village below the castle, the stalwart men in Ye Olde Conservative Inn put down their drinking cups, grabbed their pitchforks and flaming torches and with a steadfast resolve began marching up the road to confront the evil that was being brought down upon them once again. This time it must end, they thought .... this time it must end ....

Franken in Talkers Meltdown

Air America star Al Franken had a meltdown Friday night while accepting the Freedom of Speech Award at Talkers Magazine’s New Media Seminar, before being forced to leave the stage by the event’s sponsor.

The liberal yakker launched into a 20-minute tirade against his conservative colleagues, taking shots at Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Bill Bennett, according to WWRL host Steve Malzberg, who witnessed the ugly outburst.

“It was the most bizarre thing I’ve seen in a long time,” Malzberg told NewsMax. “Franken was as obnoxious and arrogant as could be.”

After blasting the top talent in his industry, Franken took on the war in Iraq - dissecting a report on a visit to the troops by fellow talk host Rusty Humphries.

As the Air America host droned on, the audience grew restless, with some shouting for Franken to “hurry up.”

But according to the New York Post’s John Mainelli, Franken wouldn’t budge. “It’s freedom of speech ... I have about two pages left,” he shot back.

Finally, Talkers publisher Michael Harrison gave Franken the hook, beseeching the volatile host: “We honored you, now honor us. Don’t kill our party.”

Before he departed, however, Franken lept into his own peroration about visiting the troops - appearing to sob as he detailed their injuries.

   Monday - June 13, 2005

Ho-Hum

Michael Jackson: Not Guilty.

Feel free to leave all the comments you wish but be sure to wash your hands before leaving ....

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