Saturday, October 25, 2008

Two things

Interesting article on directors Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) and David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer, The Ten) dealing with writing/directing/casting foul-mouthed comedy movies in the wake of the Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad) output:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/movies/26itzk.html


And check out this excruciatingly tense, awkward and completely laugh-less conversation between Tom Selleck and Rosie O'Donnell about the NRA when he comes on her show as a guest back in '99 post-Columbine. Amazing television:

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Ridiculous

I don't dislike or disagree with Bill O'Reilly 100% of the time, but this is an example of the aspects of his show/conduct that I just can't stand:

Fox news video embedded links don't work on this blog, so click the link below to view the video.

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3129030&referralPlaylistId=playlist