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Al Gore's Owning a Houseboat Would Be Like Ghandi Owning a Burger King

“I’ll start acting as if it’s a crisis when the people who are telling me it’s a crisis start acting as if it’s a crisis.” -- Glenn Reynolds Via Steve Gill via Dirty Harry's Place. Here's the alternative point of view from Nashville is Talking (yeah, I didn't realize they were still online, either): The solar panels for Al Gore's new boat (Bio-Solar One) will be installed at Hurricane Marina tomorrow. It's just a hunch, but I bet you won't find a single one of the following conserva...

8.1.08: Circus Juventas @ Highland Park in St. Paul

Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of the traditional circus. Sad clowns, stupid human tricks, animals in tutus—it’s the sort of entertainment I imagine...

John Mayer, Eric Roberts, and Milo Ventimiglia testify. Official testimony included.

"Actors Eric Roberts and Milo Ventimiglia and musician John Mayer were scheduled to address the hearing to regulate aggressive tabloid photographers. Roberts attended with his daughter, actress Emma Roberts. "You can't imagine what it's like until it happens to you," Eric Roberts said before the hearing. "It's never OK." He told reporters his daughter keeps a low profile and hasn't been too bothered by paparazzi." John Mayer's official testimony.... "I am one of the most media-friendly celebriti...

Nicole Kidman takes a jab at Angelina Jolie thus igniting The Baby War of '08 (The Superficial)

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have quietly thumbed their noses at celebs brokering baby photo deals . Probably not a smart move because I'm pretty sure Angelina Jolie could take Nicole in a fight. In fact, in the sake of research, I'm going to imagine such a battle right now. "Pow! BAM! Ziff! Use the battering ram, Nicole!" While I'm performing my journalistic duties, scope... Source : The Superficial (subscribe) Explore : Actors and Actresses, Angelina Jolie, Celebrity, Keith Urban, Rock and P...

ESA's mediocre game pack raises $2.6 million for charity

Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360, Business The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today its pack of odious unremarkable games sold to sponsor children's charities has raked in an astounding $2.6 million. The ESA Foundation, the philanthropic branch of the industry's lobbing group, will divide the cash among five charities (which we've listed after the break). The charity pack included software donated by Disney, THQ, Ubisoft, Sony Pictures, Microsoft and Pixar. It was sold by 17 r...

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat [videorecording] / Universal Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures, Imagine Entertainment present ...

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An actress with style

Most of the actresses under the age of 30 working in movies these days are girly girls like Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson — they’re great to look at but don’t have the emotional heft of a woman with real wit and personality. It is a rather sad exercise to compare these Hollywood girls of the ’00s to the young female stars of earlier eras. Can you imagine Jessica Alba going toe to toe with Lauren Bacall or even Veronica Lake? One of the exceptions to this rule is the 29-year-old Mag...

Heartache: Gas Prices Force Stay at Home Moms into Life of Stripping

An "investigative report" surveys women [with an N = 1] concluding that higher gas prices are leading normally chaste stay-at-home mom types into a life of sordid vice! I just love these kinds of stories purporting to show the human side of the high price of gas. Accompanied by a video in which the anchor gives a strong sexual content warning, of course. I imagine the pitch the reporter makes to the editorial director as something straight out of Anchorman. Be assured, I link it solely for the ...

The new "That's Beijing" and the art of stench management

Beijing residents may know that a few weeks ago there was something of a rough spell for local English language magazines. The local version of entertainment magazine Time Out was shut down at least temporarily for mysterious reasons. Also, the publishers of That's Beijing yanked the trademark away from True Run Media, who had actually managed the mag for several years, forcing True Run to issue under a new title, "The Beijinger". Imagethief has seen the most recent issue of The Beijinger and ca...

Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers

With apologies for last week's missing Monday. I was in the woods. New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: Susann Cokal on Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner: Kushner "evinces an intimate knowledge of her novel’s world and characters. Her style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images.... These are potent moments, and they make the novel a dreamy, sweet-tart meditation on a vanished way of life and a failed attempt to make the world over in America’s image. Out of tropical rot, ...