Odds, Ends
NBC DENIES PAYING $1M FOR PARIS HILTON POST-JAIL INTERVIEW
Instead Hilton will be paid in booze and eye-shadow.
PRESIDENT ON 24 NEXT SEASON MAY BE A WOMAN
Speculation is that they’re reflecting a possible Hillary Clinton presidency, but wait for the casting. If they pick Angela Bassett and put a gap in her teeth… well, you know what I’m saying.
SPICE GIRLS ANNOUNCE THEY WILL MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING A REUNION
I am releasing a statement next week saying I won’t be interested.
APPLE INC. IS NOW THIRD LARGEST MUSIC RETAILER
Ahead of Amazon but behind Best Buy and Wal-Mart, proving that the way to get ahead in music nowadays is have music be your side gig.
JIMMY KIMMEL’S APPENDIX REMOVED
Operation, strangely, started half an hour after all the other appendectomies; and while successful it couldn’t attract the a-list doctors.
WAYNE BRADY TO HOST KARAOKE GAME SHOW
It’s the perfect storm of geek!
WOODY ALLEN TO DIRECT OPERA IN LOS ANGELES
Nothing in that sentence matches anything else in that sentence.
June 23rd, 2007 at 5:05 am
How can you look at that (too tiny) picture of Ginger Spice with her trademark Union Jack micro-mini and black knickers and NOT be interested?
Unrelated, but how ’bout that EVAN ALMIGHTY? The TV ad buy for this film stopped abruptly about a month ago. It was SO abrupt I noticed the absence, which rarely happens. Most expensive comedy ever ($210M). I wonder if IT’S A MAD(x4) WORLD was more expensive adjusted for inflation.
–Skot
June 24th, 2007 at 1:26 am
Funny you should bring up Evan Almighty - I wrote about this very movie elsewhere on these virtual pages.
http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/10/14/23-million-per-laugh/
The only time I’ve ever written an angry letter to the Times involved IAMMMMMMadWorld. The Cinerama Dome here in Hollywood was celebrating an anniversary and they were showing a lot of the movies that made it great, such as The Ten Commandments, 2001 and the aforementioned elephantine comedy. I bought my ticket, sat down to enjoy the peripheral-vision-spanning hilarity of Stanley Kramer’s triumph. After about a minute I realized that the print they were showing was not only not in Cinerama, it was a televsion print.
It was a 4:3 aspect ratio TV version! So not only were both sides of the frame lopped off because they wouldn ‘t fit on TV, the tops and bottoms of the frame were lopped off because that’s how you project full-frame film nowadays. Jimmy Durante’s scenes, he was reduced to the famous nose and nothing else.
My letter got published, which says a lot about this town.