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Friday, October 30, 2009

Posted by Daniel Frank at 11:19 AM

Two Monster Mash items on the youtube:

Boris Karloff does a cover of the song on Shindig (and does it in a Shatner-esque recite-the-lyrics-rather-than-sing): Click here.

Vincent Price does a cover. Skip to 2:04 to avoid the "Man is the greatest monster of all" intro: Click here.

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Posted by Daniel Frank at 3:14 PM

Tivo Catching Up

Thursday's SNL Weekend Update did a Bush-bashing claptor joke which laid an egg.
Advertising for the Flash Forward website, the announcer says "Don't forget the kangaroo. It might be important." Of course, it's important! As Anton Chekhov once said, "If you featurea kangaroo in a downtown city street in episode 1, You need to explain it by episode 12

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 3:11 PM

So I'm buying a copy of the new Dan Brown book at the Barnes and Noble and the first thing the cashier asks is "Do you need a gift receipt?" Do I look like a literary snob? I couldn't possibly be buying this for myself?

OK, it was a gift. I own the other two books in the series but that was because a friend was having a moving sale and I wanted an excuse to give him money. I'm experimenting with not reading the books or seeing the movies and seeing how much I absorb regarding plot, etc.

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

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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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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

The Charles Addams estate
Whoever owns the Adams Family TV show (MGM, judging from the DVD sets)
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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