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03 Mar 2009 23:45

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Culture: “Slumdog” is slummin’ among best-picture winners

  • 31st “Slumdog Millionaire’s” rank on the list of the Oscar best-picture winners (out of 82 flicks) source
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03 Mar 2009 21:03

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Culture: Yo, NBC, you should’ve made Justin Timberlake the host!

Jimmy Fallon gave deer in headlights a bad name. Timberlake, on the other hand, ruled. source
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02 Mar 2009 23:10

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Culture: David Foster Wallace’s failed struggle with the written word

  • What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.
  • Author David Foster Wallace • From a 2001 short story. Wallace died last year after committing suicide. His unfinished third novel, “The Pale King,” will come out next year, but an excerpt is available at The New Yorker Web site. On a side note, this linked article would require 800 ShortFormBlog posts to do justice; it’s freaking huge. • source
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01 Mar 2009 22:50

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Culture, World: Iran: Mickey Rourke offends us. Apologize. Now.

  • The country wants an apology from Hollywood. The movies “300” and “The Wrestler,” specifically, greatly ticked off the country – “300” for its depiction of Persians and “The Wrestler” for a scene where Rourke rips up an Iranian flag while fighting a Arab stereotype. Personally, we want an apology from the makers of “300” for inflicting the “We Are Sparta” internet meme onto the world. It’s annoying. Apologize. Now. source
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01 Mar 2009 11:28

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Culture: So, “Watchmen” comes out this week. It could be hawt.

  • We’re killing the comic-book movie, we’re ending it. This movie is the last comic-book movie, for good or bad.
  • Zack Snyder • Director of the “Watchmen” film adaptation, which is hotly anticipated but rife with controversy. It took years for the film to actually make it to the big screen. Will it be a hit? We’ll find out Friday, when it hits theaters. • source
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28 Feb 2009 20:41

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Culture: And that’s … the REST … of the story: Paul Harvey’s dead

  • 90 age of the freakin’-old-as-dirt radio broadcaster. He’s old. source
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28 Feb 2009 11:28

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Culture: In case you’re wondering, Jimmy Fallon has a giant pickle

  • The Letterman people sent this pickle to my office in 1993. Now I’m passing it on to you. Whenever you leave, which won’t be for a long time, make sure you pass it on to the next sap.
  • Conan O’Brien • In a letter to Jimmy Fallon that came with a giant three-foot plastic pickle, which has been handed down to generations of “Late Night” hosts. Fallon succeeds O’Brien on Monday. • source
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28 Feb 2009 10:02

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Culture: British kids’ TV has a new disabled host. Parents aren’t happy.

  • 25 formal complaints about Cerrie Burnell, who’s missing a hand source
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28 Feb 2009 09:48

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Culture: The Jonas Brothers are popping into theaters, pissing us off

  • I hope the fans we surprise at the movie theaters we visit have as much fun as I know we are going to have.
  • Joe Jonas • On the band’s current trend of showing up at random movie theaters this weekend. They have a new movie out, “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience,” which we have no desire to see because we’re neither preteen nor female. • source
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27 Feb 2009 14:46

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Culture: The ultimate hype man, Ed McMahon, is in the hospital

  • He’s like 85. It sounds pretty bad. McMahon, that guy who said “Here’s Johnny” about 20,000 times in his life, has been in the hospital for more than three weeks with pneumonia and other medical problems. “Ed’s a big, strong, hearty guy and his family and I are hopeful and optimistic about his prognosis,” said his publicist, Howard Bragman. Still, three weeks is a long time. Pull through, Ed! source
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