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06 Aug 2009 20:17

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Culture: RIP John Hughes, the guy responsible for every good ’80s film

  • I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn’t interest me. I’m not interested in psychotics. I’m interested in the person you don’t expect to have a story. I like Mr. Everyman.
  • Director and scribe John Hughes • On his body of work, which includes such mainstream masterpieces as “The Breakfast Club,” “Home Alone” (which he wrote but didn’t direct), “Sixteen Candles,” “Weird Science” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” amongst many others. All unbelievably mainstream, all incredibly memorable. Hughes died today of a heart attack. Bro was 59. Your childhood died with him, didn’t it Mr. Everyman? • source

05 Aug 2009 09:51

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Culture: We saw this Paula Abdul “Idol” story last night, but we didn’t care

  • What I want to say most, is how much I appreciate the undying support and enormous love that you have showered upon me.
  • “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul • On her Twitter account last night, revealing to the world that she was leaving American Idol. As her banter between Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson has been downright essential to the show’s success, fans are obviously freaking out over this news. MTV’s going through the seven stages, themselves. • source

04 Aug 2009 11:06

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Culture: “Canadian Bacon 2”: Michael Moore drops the documentaries?

  • I have been working on two screenplays over the last couple of years. One’s a comedy, one’s a mystery, and I really want to do this.
  • Michael Moore • Discussing his post-“Capitalism: A Love Story” plans recently. Does that sound like the kind of guy who will be directing documentaries for the rest of his life? We think not. (By the way, in case you’ve never seen it, we highly recommend his only fiction movie thus far, “Canadian Bacon.”) • source

02 Aug 2009 18:48

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Culture: The starting price for Warhol’s Michael Jackson portrait: $800,000

A portrait of the late Michael Jackson by the late Andy Warhol is being auctioned off Aug. 18. Because if you can profit off of one dead artist, profit off of two, right? source

02 Aug 2009 11:25

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Culture, World: Kevin Costner: Nearly crushed by a falling stage in Alberta

It sounds like a Kevin Costner movie plot: His band was scheduled to be on the stage next. Instead, one person was killed and 15 were hurt in the stage collapse. source

01 Aug 2009 13:08

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Culture: Remember SNL alum Chris Kattan? Now he’s gone Bollywood

The guy known for the stupid characters that don’t talk on “Saturday Night Live” is on IFC playing an actor who gambles his career on Bollywood. source

01 Aug 2009 11:34

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Culture: Fred Willard, that icon of cheese, has work again – on YouTube!

  • Willard, known his killer roles in Christopher Guest mock-docs, isn’t above doing ad work, and honestly we wouldn’t have it any other way, considering how awesome these FedEx infomercial parodies are.source
 

31 Jul 2009 19:32

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Culture: On Judd Apatow’s “Funny People”: Dude needs to cut his stuff

  • Sandler’s George Simmons is a guy who, when fate offers him the chance to be a good person, chooses to be funny instead. Judd Apatow’s problem is just the opposite; he could be the funniest director in Hollywood if he stopped being such a good guy.
  • Slate columnist Dana Stevens • In a review of “Funny People” where she argues that while the film is good, director Judd Apatow has problems with the way he’s approached Hollywood in the wake of his success – the number of producer credits (on films of varying quality), the way he brings an all-inclusive feel to his productions – which are fairly clear in the film. Apatow doesn’t want to cut from the flick, so he didn’t, creating a good but overlong movie in need of editing (especially in the last half hour). The overall reviews lean that way too. It has a 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, lower than his previous directorial efforts. • source

31 Jul 2009 11:43

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Culture: The divorce entrance is just as good as the wedding entrance

  • As we noted before, Chris Brown is a lucky bastard. People are actually watching his music – virally – with zero worry about the Rihanna incident. This parody of the phenomenon isn’t as amazing as the original but it’s still worth writing home about.source

30 Jul 2009 16:36

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Culture: Good news: The Lorax is set to get the supremo 3D treatment in 2012

  • There are a lot of lame movies out there. Yes, even some 3D ones. But it looks like Universal got something right – they’re making an adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. It’s set to hit screens on the Doc’s birthday, March 2, 2012. How cool (and wholesome) is THAT!? source