I'm told this question is in Trivial Pursuit Book Lovers' Edition: "What baseball announcer had his off-the-cuff remarks set in verse by Tom Peyer and Hart Seely in O Holy Cow?" So... Kneel before Peyer. And before Seely, too. I guess.
The two blistering images above and below are from a site run by a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan so preposterous that he's archiving a zillion original posters from the movies they ran. This is a Louvre, a Fort Knox, an Alexandrian Library, a Costco of great art & cheap marketing!
The Indestructible Man, the original Night Of The Living Dead, Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels, the noiracious D.O.A., and dozens of other full-length, public domain movies you can stream or download for free at Internet Archive. [Via]
Did you know about this? Why didn't you tell me? Scroll down to the calendar and click on past pages-of-the-day; many sequences add up to complete stories. There's also a substantial gallery, and don't miss Alex Toth Annotated, in which this great artist shares his memories of older pieces.
I guess their man Mel Gibson said nice things about my man Michael Moore after some big awards ceremony last night. You might ask, so what? And I might answer, so we get to watch some heads explode in slow-mo at the big right-wing message board:
Mel Gibson is COMPLETELY HOLLYWOOD.It goes on for pages, and it's still building. Don't let me give you the idea that they all hate Mel; like any good message board community, they mostly hate each other. Good reading.
He praised Fahrenheit 9/11. He praises Michael Moore and his hate rhetoric propaganda film. There's something wrong there. He's a poser, folks.
Mel has been bashing our troops for a long time. Get a revelation people.
See, folks, he liked Fahrenheit 9/11. Says it all. And he is not religious like he claims. I could understand a rational reason in being against the war but to praise Michael Moore and the film and attack the President's reason shows what kind of person Mel Gibson is. HE IS NO CONSERVATIVE AND HAS NEVER BEEN.
Well, he fought hard for a Christian film and I'm happy about that. However, his political opionions [sic] suck and so does he. I'm boycotting him.
From Finland & The Newseum's awesome Today's Front Pages, 346 front pages from 43 countries.
God's Guide To The Hot Parts--the web ministry that tells moviegoers in smutty detail what smut to expect--hasn't posted a new review in a couple of weeks. As The Hot Parts Guy reminds us (and reminds us and reminds us), he lives in some depressing Texas shithole (I'm paraphrasing) that doesn't get too many new releases. That means he has to go to all the way to fucking Fort Worth, probably on some God damned bus that smells like piss (still paraphrasing) to catch the latest Hollywood filth, and that takes fucking money. But let's hear about it in his words: the situation apparently stresses him so much that he wrote a SPECIAL NOTICE and an IMPORTANT NOTICE and posted them both on the same page. While these bulletins lack the benefit of his most confident themes--say, "homosexual suggestions" or "general approval of stripping"--I feel they make up for it with distinctively urgent prose:
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SPECIAL NOTICE: There are MANY new and recent releases each week that we cannot analyze for you all because of lack of donations/funding. (See IMPORTANT NOTICE below.) This ministry has credibly proven what Harvard University recently published a full four years before they did and in His name by His Word! Can you not see how valuable this service is to your little ones through you? Of all the exofamilial influences in a child's life ("child" includes at-home teens), the only entity that more deeply and intimatedly saturates your child than the entertainment industry is air. PLEASE, give most serious consideration to helping us help you with your generous, timely and consistent donations. We have no other source of funding other than YOU and family money. We cannot do it without YOU.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Which films are analyzed is determined entirely by the amount of donations. Due to inadequate donations, some analyses may not be completed until after the intended period. As a cost reduction measure, if a new release film does not show at our local theater it will not be analyzed. Time/Travel to theaters in neighboring towns (Fort Worth, etc.) is now out of the financial question until donations increase massively in both amount and number. Consistently.
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Looks bad, huh? Well, late last week, just as I was losing faith, The Hot Parts Guy dropped this bombshell:
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For January 8 through January 14
No new releases playing locally. But good news! A hefty donation makes it possible to attempt three viewings in Fort Worth:
Darkness (PG-13, 1h 42m) White Noise (PG-13, 1h 41m) Beyond the Sea (PG-13, 1h 58m)
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I hope he saw the movies this weekend; I expected a post by now, and I keep checking back, but... nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Where are you, Hot Parts Guy?
What are the hot parts in the Bobby Darin movie?
To Be Continued...
Tom And Jerry Online. Impressive (if insufficiently violent) fansite.
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WASHINGTON (Associated Press) — Newt Gingrich is taking steps toward a potential presidential bid in 2008 with a book criticizing President Bush’s policies on Iraq and a tour of early campaign states.[Story]
The former House speaker who led Republicans to power a decade ago said he soon will visit Iowa and New Hampshire to promote his book, try to influence public policy and keep his political options alive.
“Anything seems possible,” including a White House race, Gingrich told The Associated Press.
