Archive for July, 2007:

I think I should be working for the viral “Buy n Large” site created for Wall-E. »

The other day my blogging brother Ray at The Rec Show featured a pair of Pixar-created videos in support of next year’s feature Wall-E from the Can-Barely-Do-Wrong blockbuster animation studio.
I mean, good gravy. My thoughts and feelings about Ratatouille are still all warm and percolating inside my head and it looks like Pixar’s already teeing [...]

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Updated: the Blogophone game took a turn for the surreal. »

Remember a few weeks ago when I suggested a new bloguverse game/meme/time-waster called Blogophone? The concept was to work like this: 1) I create a message and tag it to a single blogger. 2) That blogger interprets my message and repeats it on their site, changed or not. 3) The second blogger sends the message [...]

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Womb to Tomb – we’re all in this together. »

Yesterday Matt at the ever-delightful Culture kills… wait, I mean cutlery. blog featured a unique take on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon bit in which he linked about 16 celebrities together, mostly by virtue of them having the same birthday. Nicely done!
And because one good blog-turn deserves another – even though I have no [...]

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Mildly amusing movie still juxtaposition #1. »

(still from The Invasion courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. The Eye still found on Bloody-Disgusting.com)

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Today’s lesson: Movie Remake Soundbyte 101, featuring Anne Hathaway. »

Please join me in welcoming to the Institute for Mind-Bludgeoningly Obvious Movie Marketing the actress Anne Hathaway as our guest lecturer today!
Polite applause.
Of course, Ms. Hathaway has really come into her own in the last six years, having parlayed astounding success in saccharine family movies into a rather studied and measured public persona of absolutely [...]

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Barry Williams knows the complexity of ubiquity. »

It doesn’t take some kind of pop culture genius to suggest that it isn’t easy being a child actor and having to grow up under the bright lights of fame. Few of these poor, lost Hollywood-made kids end up resisting the temptations offered by the dangerous cocktail of money, access, and freedom to do what [...]

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Bashing Michael Bay is the right of all sentient bloggers. »

I was pretty much going to leave Michael Bay and his idiotic Transformers movie alone for a while after getting it off my chest yesterday, but now I come across Transformers: The Abridged Script at the wonderfully acerbic The Editing Room blog where movies are boiled down to their most sarcastic essentials and reprinted in [...]

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