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Sunday, February 22, 2009


Damn all those Obama voters for voting for Proposition 8.

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Director is the "Big Cheese" with an exception or two.

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So Vampira makes the montage and Harvey Korman doesn't?

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Funny Jerry or Serious Jerry?

UPDATE: Classy speech then he made a funny face. Nice.

UPDATE 2: Rethinking Jerry's speech, he should have done the bit where he can't pronounce Jean Hersholt.

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More coin tricks, less Bill Maher...

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They got Cuba Gooding, Jr.? Who canceled?

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I'd like to brush up Beyonce's tails if you know what I mean.

UPDATE I mean I'd like to have sex with her...

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The Coke commercial about the Coke recycling effort...When Coke was in glass bottles, didn't they get cleaned and reused? (That was the impression I got from One, Two, Three anyway.

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They should have ended the comedy montage/yearbook like they ended Pineapple Express: "Hey, remember when you came in with some DVDs?" "Remember when you stapled the dollar on my face?"

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Only one technical award?

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A short film by Judd Apatow? I hope it's about a loveable shlub and a hot girl.

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Aw, c'mon, do the Milton Berle "MAKE-UP" bit...

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Suburbs are a prison? You know what's more like a prison? A prison.

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Jack Black keeps in character about Wall-E (since he allegedly bet on it).

I like to pretend that the apocalypse in Wall-E was due to the mercury poisoning from people dropping their fluorescent bulbs.

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Penelope Cruz wins. Screw you, Nate Silver.

Update: Maybe if the intros didn't take 90 minutes, Ms. Cruz could have more than 45 seconds.

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If they do the montage and five former winners each lengthily introducing a nominee for the non-acting awards, we're going to be here for ten hours.

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No Jack Nicholson on the front row?

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No crazy cartoony montage?

I smell Bruce Villanch jokes...

This is different from Billy Crystal's "Best Movie" opening medley, how?

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When the production designer says he's inspired by Busby Berkley, we're in trouble...

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009


Speaking of copyright, this clip of Batman guest-starring Lurch is indicative of problems with getting the show on DVD. To use that clip, Fox will probably need to pay
  1. The Charles Addams estate
  2. Whoever owns the Adams Family TV show (MGM, judging from the DVD sets)
  3. The composer or owner of the Adams Family show song (which may or may not be the same as 2)

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You'll recollect (or maybe not) my post about The Dragon Lives Again, a "Bruce-ploitation" film where Bruce Lee goes to Hell and fights or teams upo with various fictional characters whose use was probably not sanctioned by the owners of said characters.

Here's a clip of "Bruce Lee" teaming up with Popeye. And here's the credit sequence to the movie where the film-makers also put a thumb in the eye of ASCAP.

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Monday, September 22, 2008


Per this gossip column, Fox's lawsuit over Watchman may be intended as a bargaining chip to get the long-delayed release of the Batman TV show on DVD.

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Friday, September 12, 2008


Charles Krauthammer, who (per Wikipedia) coined the phrase "Bush Doctrine", says Charles Gibson's question was ambiguous (there are at least four possible definitions) and the definition Gibson used hasn't been used in foreign policy circles since 2005. Article here.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008


I was looking for the "June Moon" episode of Campbell Playhouse (Orson Welles's Mercury Theater show after it got a sponsor) starring Jack Benny. I found this great site featuring all the episodes of Mercury Theater and Campbell Playhouse. Notice that Welles got a sponsor two months after the War of the Worlds.

The coolest thing on the site is this MP3 of Orson Welles meeting H.G. Welles in 1940. The meeting took place in San Antonio, of all places.

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This Slate article describes Walter from The Big Lebowski as a neo-con. The article marshals a mess o' characteristics that Walter shares with neo-cons but leaves out the important one: Jooooooo.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008


Watch sausage being made as camcorders pick up Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Comicon here and here.

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Coming to a theater near you (probably in January): Baby Geniuses III!!!!

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008


If someone were writing a paper about the crap amateur athletes had to put up with in the mid-20th century, a great source would be old episodes of I've Got a Secret. Every time they had an Olympic athlete on, after his appearance, the host would bring the show to a dead stop to explain to the audience that, in order to keep his standing as an amateur, said athlete will not be keeping the eighty dollars he just won. Instead he would be donating the money. To whom? The Amateur Athletics Association (that is, the people who decide whether keeping eighty bucks from a game show appearance is OK).

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Speaking of mid-60's spy shows, I Spy season sets are $12.99 a piece at Best Buy. A bargain at twice the price.

I mocked Robert Culp for referring to himself and Bill Cosby as "Culp and Cosby". However, in the first season, he wrote an episode called "The Loser". In this episode,
  1. His character is only around for a few seconds in the first 20 minutes.
  2. Cosby's character gets a love interest
  3. Cosby gets to do some acting because the girl is a drug addict.
This would be the equivalent of William Shatner writing "Amok Time".

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When Don Adams died, I obsessed over a Bob Hope special he did in 1966 called "Murder in NBC" starring a mess o' comedy stars. This special has been posted in its entirety on the YouTube. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

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Three months later...

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