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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
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12:57 PM
# | | Tuesday, July 27, 2004
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10:44 PM
Speaking of Abbott and Costello, reader Monkeyboy aka Nathan McGinty aka Scott Calonico posted a link in comments to this review of Abbott and Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk as part of Film Threat's Bootleg Files column (more of which can be found in their archives. # | |
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7:35 AM
# | | Saturday, July 24, 2004
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8:08 AM
Unlike your modern Tobey Maguire Spider-Man who seems to always remove his mask willy-nilly, in the Electric Company version of Spider-Man, nobody knows who he is. UPDATE: There's an extended disco version of the Electric Company Spider-Man theme, available here. # | | Friday, July 23, 2004
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2:08 PM
Realize the next time someone quotes the "X number of Israelis dead and Y number of Palestinians dead (Y > X)" statistic that this lad's death is included in the Palestinian count. # | |
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11:56 AM
UPDATE: TvShowsonDVD now has a list of episodes and extras in the set plus an announcement of Volume 3 in February 2005. # | | Thursday, July 22, 2004
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4:22 PM
Whoopi Goldberg is so unfunny that actual humor is destroyed in her presence. She made the Muppets unfunny. She made Bullwinkle unfunny. Why was the original Sunshine Boys a great comedy and the remake unwatchable? Remake had Whoopi. She received the Mark Twain Prize in November 2001 and for two years Mark Twain wasn't funny! It took teams of Literature professors working around the clock to restore the humor and wit in Twain's work. And Pudd'nhead Wilson still isn't as good as it used to be. # | | Thursday, July 15, 2004
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3:23 PM
# | | Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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# | | Friday, July 09, 2004
Posted by Daniel Frank at
8:59 AM
Also my brother, in comments, posts the explanation for the (possible) in-joke of Stan Lee's cameo that I alluded to here: As I recall (but can't find evidence to back up my recollection other than my brother's identical recollection of reading the same piece in either the New Yorker or Esquire), in the first movie, Stan Lee was to have a cameo in the Times Square sequence where, inter alia, he shouts "Look out!" and saves a small child from falling debris. The speaking part was cut out, and Lee only got a half-second or so of screentime. However, the line and action sequence is resuscitated for Lee in Spider-Man 2.I was going to search for the article in question before posting the explanation but haven't had time. All I've found on the web is that a) several comic news sites quoting each other that Lee's cameo in the first movie involved his trying to sell official X-Men sunglasses to Peter Parker and b) that he was supposed to be the "Hey, Spidey stole that guy's pizzas" guy. # | |
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8:54 AM
UPDATE:Or something like this. Note that it happened in Tel Aviv which is occupied terriotory only in the sense that "from the river to the sea" is occupied territory. UPDATE 2:One of the bomb victims was an Israeli Arab who protested the fence. He's changed his mind. Story here. # | | Thursday, July 01, 2004
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12:28 PM
If you care you probably already know but the image of Parker throwing out his costume was a direct swipe/homage to this picture. The science of Octavius's work and origin is laughable (I expected the element he was working with to be called Octavium or Shazamium) but at least they didn't linger on it like The Hulk spending an hour on the science of the Hulk. I can't find the article to prove it but there's a hidden in-joke with Stan Lee's cameo (unless my brother and I are reading too much into it). There's also a nice little nod to Raimi's earlier work. # | |
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7:59 AM
we talked to some folks on the street, and then headed over to Dog Eat Dog[Moore's company]'s listed address. Turned out to be a Mailboxes Etc. But I went inside and asked the chick at the desk if Mike ever came in to check his mail. She said that he sends interns. But, luckily, I had noticed that next door to the Mailboxes, etc, was a florist. So I bought a very special bouquet that just rang out, “Congratulations on making $21million in two days,” while also saying, “Can we get that interview we've been requesting for a year and a half?” I also called Dog Eat Dog and tried to set up an appointment, but the receptionist wouldn't transfer me. You'd think I was trying to get in to see a multimillionaire CEO… oh, wait…Update: And speaking of Michael Moore ducking interviews, a Box Office Mojo article contains this footnote: NOTE: Box Office Mojo asked Michael Moore and company to comment for this story, but they wanted to screen the questions in advance. As policy, Box Office Mojo does not conduct interviews under such circumstances, so there will be no comment from them. # | |
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