“Rare is the movie that challenges your beliefs. Rarer still is the movie that tells you you’re a fat moron, and that you should be ashamed of yourself. “
- Reihan Salam, reviewing IDIOCRACY for Slate.com

Jagshemash! Who here has been snookered by Borat into thinking that Kazekhstan has “incredible natural resources, hard working labor, and some of the cleanest prostitutes in whole of central Asia?” Who is glad that modernization of the country has produced the following result: “Women can now travel inside of bus. Homosexuals no longer have to [...]

“Borat” Refused Admission To The White House
Since when are fictional characters not allowed in the White House?
Mark Cuban Says “Only A Moron Would Buy YouTube”
Cuban runs HDNET, the company he founded a few years back when there were 8 HDTVs in US homes. So you’d think he would know something about investing in something with [...]

Jon Favreau is making an movie of IRON MAN, the marvel comics character. Apparently co-starring in DAREDEVIL wasn’t enough for him and he wants to direct one instead. Iron Man, reports the Hollywood Reporter, will be made flesh and alloy by Robert Downey Jr.
This is genius.
Tony Stark, billionaire industrialist and brilliant inventor of the Iron [...]

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Just a hat tip to online readers of Austin360.com, a section of the Austin American Statesman which syndicates this blog here. I tip my hat to you, and remind you that every time you click on an ad I get one step closer to not having to spend the rest of [...]

The Charlie Sheen juggernaut is busy right now. When the team of lawyers and agents is done, it is likely that Charlie Sheen will be the highest paid comedy star in television. According to sources quoted in the Hollywood Reporter, $350,000 bones per episode will go to the TERMINAL VELOCITY star. Oh sorry, that was [...]

A lock of hair snipped directly from Ludwig Von Beethoven’s cranky head will be exhibited in San Jose in late October at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. The event is mounted in cooperation with the San Jose Jewish Film Festival.
How does a 179-year-old lock of hair know the way to San Jose?
The [...]

From a Hollywood Reporter Email bulletin:
Univision shareholders approve sale
Spanish-language media company Univision Communications Inc. got shareholder approval for its sale to a group of private equity firms Wednesday. At a special meeting the company won approval from more than 80% of voting shareholders for the deal that would take Univision private. The deal is expected [...]

Clive Thompson writes in wired.com about an interesting problem in the game design community - the stratified player community. People who buy games tend to be in two categories - hardcore gamers who can devote entire weekends and evenings to play (also known as jobless) and people who can only put in an hour here or [...]

“HDTV is changing our view of who’s beautiful and who’s not because the picture is up to six times clearer than regular TV; it’s like seeing these people in real-life. And some of them don’t look very good.” That’s Phillip “Swanni” Swann, president of TVPredictions.com, a web site about the Hi Def industry and culture. [...]