Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:46 PM

Damn all those Obama voters for voting for Proposition 8.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:20 PM

Director is the "Big Cheese" with an exception or two.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:19 PM

So Vampira makes the montage and Harvey Korman doesn't?
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:43 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:35 PM

Boom Goes the Dynamite.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:18 PM

More coin tricks, less Bill Maher...
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:04 PM

They got Cuba Gooding, Jr.? Who canceled?
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:56 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:51 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:47 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:40 PM

Only one technical award?
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:31 PM

A short film by Judd Apatow? I hope it's about a loveable shlub and a hot girl.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:24 PM

Aw, c'mon, do the Milton Berle "MAKE-UP" bit...
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:23 PM

Suburbs are a prison? You know what's more like a prison? A prison.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:03 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:47 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:44 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:43 PM

No Jack Nicholson on the front row?
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:31 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:27 PM

When the production designer says he's inspired by Busby Berkley, we're in trouble...
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 4:16 AM

Dagwood Splits the Atom!
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 4:06 AM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 3:57 AM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:40 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 11:19 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:27 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:17 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:59 PM

Watch sausage being made as camcorders pick up Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Comicon here and here.
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:35 PM

Coming to a theater near you (probably in January): Baby Geniuses III!!!!
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:23 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:14 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:11 PM

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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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:09 PM

A humorous parody of Boing Boing
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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:07 PM

Three months later...
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