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Chris Rock: Kill the Messanger is unwatchable

God, I hate to say this because I think Chris Rock is as good of a stand up comedian as there is today. His new special is unwatchable, and that has nothing to do with the material. The HBO special is the amalgamation of three performances – one each in New York, London, and South …

Tom Cruise is crazy, but he can act

I watched A Few Good Men again the other day. Tom Cruise has made a ton of money with huge blockbusters where his only job was to be pretty and he’s likely about as sane as Sarah Palin, but when given the chance he’s done some amazing things. He was better than Paul Newman in the Color …

Religulous – Finally, a reason not to wait for DVD

Back in 1988, I went to see the Last Temptation of Christ at the Biograph Theater in Chicago. There were lots of angry protesters and I was lucky enough to get a “Go directly to Hell card” from one of them. The movie was actually sold out and I still haven’t seen it, so the …

OK, I’ll rag on Manny a little

After Saturday’s 3-for-4 performance, Ramirez is now hitting .404 with 16 homers, 13 doubles and 49 RBIs in just 47 games since being traded to Los Angeles. In that time he leads the Majors in batting average, on-base percentage (.490) and slugging percentage (.760) and ranks among the leaders in homers. Never before has a …

Finally, the perfect Emmy Award!

I’ve talked about this before – I watch award shows – I despise award shows – etc etc but finally the Emmy’s have come up with the ultimate puff category: Outstanding Host For A Reality Competition Program And the nominees are: Ryan Seacrest – American Idol Tom Bergeron – Dancing With The Stars Howie Mandel -Deal …

More Great Manny Material Being Written Every Day

Curt Shilling just trashed him, but the Manny train continues to keep a rolling. No one understands him, no one deny’s that he is a hitting savant. Here’s an entertaining article called the Genius of Manny Ramirez and he’s not really being very ironic. Good quotes from Bill James and a variety of pitchers on the …

Jumping on the David Foster Wallace bandwagon

As a point of honesty, I had never read a single word written by David Foster Wallace before he killed himself, I just have a thing for talented, successful people with issues. Especially, given that I’m definitely not successful, probably not that talented (if I could sleep one night out of three and had any interest in editing …

The Future of the American Idea

When the 9-11 anniversary passed, I was going to write something to the effect of get over it, but I was too cowardly, because much like when Gilbert Gottfried got shot down with a “too soon” back at a roast of Hugh Hefner, people still go insane over this topic as if they’re entire family …

The truth about romantic comedies

You know the formula – Boy meets girl, Boy loses girl, Boy gets girl back. The third act usually only happens in the movies. Holly: I mean, you know why she’s marrying him, don’t you? Robbie: The money thing? Security? A nice house? I guess that’s important to some people. Holly: No, it’s not important …