Bridget McCain is the luckiest girl on earth. She was born with a cleft palate in Bangladesh and Cindy McCain came in and swooped her up and now she lives in Phoenix in the McCain family compound. According to Meghan McCain’s Twitter (which I follow and read), she even has a boyfriend.
If I were Bridget McCain, I would wake up every morning, look in the mirror and think “LIFE HELLA RULES. FUCK THAT THIRD WORLD NATION NOISE! I’M A MCCAIN, BEEOTCH”
View →Whoever had the brilliant idea to take a time machine and put it into a hot tub is for other people.
More and more I sense that we’re going to start seeing a lot less space launches and cures for fucked up diseases and even less celebrating mankinds reaching new heights, replacing each pinnacle of human accomplishment with another lofty peak of endeavor.
No, no, we’re actually going to go the other way now: creating massive artifacts of dumb and stupid. And we’re going to celebrate that. First Snakes On A Plane. Then Sarah Palin. And now Hot Tub Time Machine.
Yes, you heard the title right. This is literally a movie about a group of guys who go back in time to visit their younger selves via their time traveling jacuzzi. It walks a fine line between stupid brilliant and just stupid really fucking stupid, but it stars John Cusack, Craig Robinson, Chevy Chase, Rob Corddy, Lizzy Caplan, Lindsy Fonseca, and Crispin Hellion Glover, so it’s at least worth the viewing, right?
by Marco Sparks
You can find a fan made poster for the movie at Videogum, and more about the film here.
View → tages / Crispin Glover / Clark Duke / Hot Tub Time Machine / Snakes On A Plane / Craig Robinson / Lizzy Caplan / Lindsy Fonseca / John Cusack / Rob Corddy / Chevy Chase / Sex Drive / The heights of human achievement / Albert EinsteinOf all the incoming updates on new and sometimes weird, sometimes very cool things coming out of Nerd Prom, AKA Comic-Con, one of the newest and weirdest for me is the revelation that Eliza Dushku and Rick Fox are now dating.
Eliza Dushku, 28, is best known for her role as Faith the vampire slayer on Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer and it’s spinoff, Angel, as well as the lead role in the short lived Tru Calling, and is currently starring in Dollhouse, also created by Joss Whedon, which will return for a second season this fall. Rick Fox, 40, is an (aspiring) actor and former basketball player, best known (by me) as the guy who was married to and may have cheated on Vanessa Williams.
And they’re dating.
Dushku was appearing at panel at Comic-Con called Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture along with Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana and Elizabeth Mitchell.
The panel sounds interesting. And Eliza had this to say about the evolution and her casting in it: “I asked [Joss Whedon] to make me the most kick-ass, multi-dimensional character he’s ever written. He delivered.” But Eliza Dushku and Rick Fox? That’s just so weird.
by Marco Sparks
You can find more about the Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture panel here and more about “Epitath One,” the as yet unaired season finale of Dollhouse season 1 here, both at IO9.
And the pictures of Eliza and Rick are from Just Jared.
And I’m talking about you specifically, Robert Pattinson.
Unless you’re on a one man crusade to raise awareness for the homeless.
Though I do find the Pattinson phenomenon interesting. Just because he seems like such a trainwreck. I kind of want to see him take it up a notch and become the male equivalent of Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears from back in their heydays. Though I guess the male equivalent of them was, what, Pete Doherty?
But I especially thought of this after seeing this “news item” over at IMDB about Pattinson literally, seriously forgetting where he left his car in Los Angeles. I mean, the plot for Dude, Where’s My Car? was stupid enough, but to actually forget…
You know what? Nevermind. I’m not even going to play that game. Instead, I’ll just leave you with a pic of the gang from Twilight promoting their sequel, New Moon, at Comic-con…
…oh, and this quote from Pattinson: “I don’t even remember where I left my car. It’s probably been towed away by now. It’s upsetting because it was the first car I ever bought. It made me feel like a man, buying a car.”
Exactly.
by Marco Sparks
You can find the teaser trailer for New Moon here and can probably find pictures of Robert Pattinson just about anywhere online.
View → tages / Twilight / New Moon / Robert Pattinson / Dirty / Sweaty / Gross / Homeless / Hobo Chic / Dude Where's My Car? / Los Angeles / IMDB
Popeater left me a message. He said “Call me as soon you get this. I need to ask you an important question.”
This is what he wanted to ask.
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View →Who’s Whos of the 80s are for Other People.
I had no idea this video exists. Above I give you a video I just found out about myself five minutes, for “Liberian Girl,” the ninth and final single from the recently deceased Michael Jackson’s 1989 album, Bad.
It’s got to be nice to have that many celebrity friends you can call on to come appear in your video. I mean, it works for Jamie Foxx, but not quite in the same way, you know?
Also, remember the halcyon days when an album could be so huge and good that there’d be nine fucking singles?
by Marco Sparks.
You can also find the video for “Liberian Girl” here.
View → tages / Michael Jackson / RIP / Jamie Foxx / Celebrity get togethers / Steven Spielberg / Quincy Jones / Bad / Music video
I don’t know how I feel about this new Guy Ritchie-directed Sherlock Holmes movie, starring Robert Downey, Jr. as the deerstalker cap-wearing sleuth created by Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jude Law as his sidekick, Dr. Watson, along with Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, the female match for Holmes.
For starters, Downey and McAdams are winners. Downey’s had a hard road to travel down to come back to all this newfound success, but he’s earned and we like him. The same with McAdams, who’ll soon be starring in the adaptation of The Time Traveler’s Wife, a book that I love (even if the movie doesn’t look that great).
But Guy Ritchie? Ehhh.
And Jude Law? Aren’t both of these guys’ careers in serious downturns?
Also, Sienna Miller’s career has smelled and looked a lot like cancer rot for years now, but I still blame that on Jude Law. Actually, I still ponder who he could cheat on her. And I wish that real people like you and me could get away with naughty shit just by citing “sex addiction” and then spending a few weeks in rehab.
Plus, it seems like the dichotomy of the Holmes/Watson relationship is off a tick here, with Holmes being the touch guy, the shirtless brawler, the sleazy womanizer, etc. Does that mean that Law’s Watson is the prissy tea drinker sitting at home all by himself?
Granted, the deerstalker cap and the look of Holmes as we know it wasn’t in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. All of that was added by the artist who illustated the stories, and thus made it synonymous with the character, much the same as a lot of the things we associate with Superman, like the kryptonite, the flying, etc. all came out of his initial radio appearances. So maybe a little chance on an update of a 122 year old character isn’t so bad?
We’ll see, won’t we?
by Marco Sparks
You can find more about the new movie here and the trailer here.
View → tages / Sherlock Holmes / Other People / Robert Downey Jr. / Rachel McAdams / Jude Law / Sienna Miller / Madonna / Guy Ritchie / Superman / The Time Traveler's Wife
Love Happens to Other People.
Today I saw the trailer for the new Aaron Eckhart/Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy, Love Happens. The plot is something along the lines of Eckhart being a widowed self help author who meets Aniston, who’s a florist, and they, you know, come together. There’s some ups, some downs, but eventually two become one between America’s favorite Friend and Robert Redford 2.0 with that thing in his chin.
Aaron Eckhart: Always likable. Against your will likeable. Part of the reason that Erin Brockovich was better than it had any right to be. So likable that you were rooting you sometimes found yourself rooting for Two Face in The Dark Knight. So unbelievably likable that I can probably still watch Your Friends & Neighbors mutliple times.
Jennifer Aniston: Well, I’m glad to see she still does movies sometimes in addition to always appearing in places where we can gossip about who she’s dating now. That said, John Mayer? You may deserve what you get there. You used to be a meaty contender for America’s Sweetheart and it leaves me quite dismayed that the only movie roles that come your way are as some guy’s girlfriend.
Dan Fogler: I don’t like him.
Judy Greer: Likable in everything, but not quite to the extent of Mr. Eckhart. She did, after all, do Jawbreaker, and that should’ve lead to some jail time maybe.
Martin Sheen: I’m sorry to see President Bartlett having to keep slumming like this.
Final thought: Let’s declare a moritorium on viewing any movie that actually has a Goo Goo Dolls song used in it’s trailer, please?
by Marco Sparks.
You can find more about Love Happens here.
View → tages / Love Happens / Jennifer Aniston / Aaron Eckhart / Marco Sparks / Martin Sheen / The West Wing / President Bartlet / Goo Goo Dolls / Friends / America's Sweetheart / Your Friends & Neighbors / The Dark Knight / Robert Redford / Dan Fogler / Judy Greer / Jawbreaker
Women’s Liberty is for other people.
Hell is your attempt to get me to buy overpriced tea by attempting to tag into my political philosophy.
by Maria Diaz
(original source: amberlrhea)
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