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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 10:58 AM

The Marx Brothers --- in color!!!!1! (via Evanier).

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Sunday, February 25, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:16 PM

Departed wins!!! Brad Grey is now shooting his TV set.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:08 PM

Spread out!!!

UPDATE: Scorsese wins! More gangster pics!!!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:06 PM

Minor note: You can tell Bruce Vilanch isn't writing "ad-libs" in the sidelines or else there would have been a joke comparing Jack Nicholson to Britney Spears.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:49 PM

Red Buttons made the In Memoriam film. But he never got a dinner.

I was surprised James Doohan made the cut...

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:30 PM

Hey! Melissa Etheridge said "Democrat". According to today's Doonesbury and today's Candorville, she's like McCarthy!!!!!1!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:04 PM

GM cut out the part of the commercial where the robot jumps off the bridge, probably because of concern about suicidal robots.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:48 PM

Gore wins. Which means six more weeks of winter in LA.

Also La Fonatine blames Katrina on global warming.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:35 PM

Snakes on a Plane!!!!1! Woo!!!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 7:13 PM

"How about those kids with their cell phones and their YouTubes?"

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:55 PM

"You bet, Chris! More fun!"

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:36 PM

Al Gore's here? No wonder we've been getting Gore Effect temperatures.

UPDATE: OK, the music cutoff thing was funny.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:22 PM

Another Nikki Finke Oscar prediction that didn't happen: According to her, we weren't going to see the Supporting Acting Oscars until the last third of the show.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:13 PM

A sound effects montage and no love for the Wilhelm scream?

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:05 PM

In these magical days of the Interwebs, you can find the winner of Best Live-Action Short on the YouTube. Also the nice Jewish boy brings his mother to the Oscars.

UPDATE Oops, that was a trailer. It has a site but the site's already overloaded.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:49 PM

Tech awards gets thirty seconds? Prepare yourselves for thirty musical numbers and seventy montages. UPDATE If all the musical numbers are like the Black-Ferrell number, I wouldn't mind so much. Why aren't they hosting?

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:43 PM

Good double-take by Steve Carrell (Earlier I was wondering if Nancy Wall (the lovely Mrs. Carrell) was not here or was just asked to step aside while ABC interviewed Carrell. Now I know it was the latter).

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:40 PM

Back to the "billion viewers" claim, I see.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:31 PM

Don La Fontaine (one of the "In a world" guys) is announcing!

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:19 PM

A crawler during the interview with Cate Blanchett said she'd be playing Bob Dylan. Photographic proof.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:14 PM

I hearby predict that a humorous comparison will be made between Britney being bald and the Oscar statuette being bald.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 2:08 PM

The Rob Lowe Snow White production of 1989 which was literally the reason they stopped doing these numbers. I forgot Merv was in it too.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 8:26 PM

The beauty of the Internet: You can fact-check a Drew Friedman cartoon and find this:

Appel also quotes a personal conversation in which Nabokov mused: 'Dennis the Menace doesn’t look like his father. Could he be illegitimate?". When he ponders writing a letter about it to The Herald Tribune, "he is dissuaded by Vera who remarks that the paper had not printed his earlier letter about plot inconsistencies in Rex Morgan."

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 10:36 AM

Sorry. I'm a little behind on this:

Joe Rogan (who we remember here for calling out Dennis O'Leary for stealing from Bill Hicks) gets into an onstage fight with Carlos Mencia after calling Mencia a joke thief. Video here (and, yes, the "who's gonna build your border wall" joke isn't the best gag to build one's case on). He loses his agent over it here (which portrays it as a "You can't fire me; I quit!" scenario).

Coincidentally, Radar did an article on known joke-thieves.

Warning: All of the above has lots of swears.

I will say that I once heard the booker of a club tell a bunch of young comics "Don't steal. I don't book thieves...unless they put asses in the seats."

The story I heard about Robin Williams has David Letterman walking into the Comedy Store in the middle of a Williams set and asking somebody "Is he up to the L's yet?"

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Posted by Daniel Frank at 10:52 AM

Tina Fey at the WGA Awards:

I hear Aaron Sorkin is in Los Angeles wearing the same dress - but longer, and not funny.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:36 AM

As long as I'm linking to funny book reviews, here's something I'll probably be swiping:

[I]t's not even "not funny" in the way that Christmas cracker jokes aren't funny. It's not funny in the way that chairs and rocks aren't funny.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:33 AM

Is he strong? Listen, bub, he's got radioactive...ewwwwwww!*

*Scroll down to review of SPIDER-MAN: REIGN #3.

UPDATE: The scene in question.

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