It’s not “yo-ho, yo-ho, a pirate’s life for me” – vicious Godsmack-backed trailer for the new Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl film here. Formats: Real, Windows, QuickTime. Rockin’ – the movie is out July 9.
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Babe vs. Babe
Gisele vs. Milla: Gisele wins the modeling war, although $7.5 million for the year is mighty fine loser’s compensation for Milla. Forbes dismisses Milla’s acting and singing talents. I don’t know much about the acting, but I liked her first solo album with “Gentlemen Who Fell” quite a bit. Amazon …
Read More »When Harry Met Hulky
Frank Rich finds that the American public’s attention span, sense of quality and critical independence are longer and stronger than the entertainment industry gives it credit for: Here’s what’s wrong with kids in the digital age. They live in front of their TV and PC screens. They steal music online. …
Read More »Farewell to Marcellus Washburn
Buddy Hackett was discovered dead yesterday in his southern California beach home: the comic actor and stand-up was in his late seventies (accounts vary as to his exact age). He was a fixture at Vegas, particularly during its glory show biz years, and an instantly identifiable face in guest appearances …
Read More »“I think that’s the largest one … “
I understand the seriousness of this for the satellite and cable companies, and the for-profit element removes most of my sympathy, but, um… A man who schemed to steal satellite television signals now has something much bigger than a cable bill to pay — a whopping $180 million restitution order …
Read More »Keep it To Yourself
The moral of this story is if you get hold of a prerelease copy of a film, keep it to yourself. If you make that unfinished copy available, and people respond negatively to it, you will be hunted down like a dog: Kerry Gonzalez, a 24-year-old New Jersey insurance underwriter, …
Read More »Is That a Tattoo or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Allow me to first say I hate tattoos, on anyone, but especially on women, the body being God’s temple and all of that. But I also don’t expect you to share my opinion – sometimes I think I am the only one left, even my sweet older daughter has a …
Read More »Digital Copyright History
A short, sweet summary of the digital copyright issues we are always babbling about, from Robert MacMillan in the Washington Post: Buying an album or watching a film used to mean going to the music store or the movies, renting a video, maybe checking out the Columbia House catalog. Those …
Read More »Monk
Tony Shaloub's "defective detective" returns for a second season.
Read More »Hollywood Is a Small Town
And you can wear out your welcome very quickly. After twenty more episodes of Punk’d, his celebrity-Candid Camera show on MTV, no one in Hollywood will trust him, everyone will eye him nervously thinking they are about to get publicly douched, and he could easily become persona non grata: MTV …
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