Very interesting article today in the NY Times: Questions have arisen about McCain’s birth at a military base in the Panama Canal. Does he actually meet the constitutional requirement to be a natural born citizen?
“He was posted there on orders from the United States government,” Mr. Graham said of Mr. McCain’s father. “If that becomes a problem, we need to tell every military family that your kid can’t be president if they take an overseas assignment.”
Slate.com has put together a great list of the worst performance / movies by Academy Award winning actors.
But, for my money this has to be the worst career move ever for an oscar winner!
So, some pictures of Bush’s (or the White House’s) home theater have been showing up on line. Apparently they are in the upcoming Architectural Digest.
So, as you may know North Korea’s brutal dictator just happens to be a movie buff. So much so he resorted to kidnapping two major S. Korean stars in the 1970′s to start his own personal film industry in the North. He’s said to have a library of over 20,000 movies!
Forget shuttle diplomacy – we need movie diplomacy. Bush should invite KJI over to the White House to show off this very sweet home theater.
Think about what a “movie weekend summit” could accomplish:
It would probably be best to stay away from Team America: World Police, though.
This is easily one of my favorite jokes of all time:
This Magyver clip above is a high-quality tv tie-in (wouldn’t you buy on if you saw it?)It make me think of the worst one that I’ve ever seen. We were at at Disney Store with my parents who were buying every Cars toy in sight for my 2 year old son. At the checkout stand they were pushing the Ratatouille toys. They were literally offering the toy below for $1.50. This was a really big package with an MSRP of $25.00. I wouldn’t even touch it for that price! Who wants their kid playing with a rat?
So imagine you’re the guy in charge of product tie-ins for Disney / Pixar. The guys come in to talk about the three movies that they’re considering, and ask for your input:
What do you say?
Apparenly a movie store in Quebec doesn’t have a very friendly customer retention policy. They brought the hammer down on a couple with multiple late discs and fines to the tune of warrant out for theft.
“Oh my God. I think it’s ridiculous. Give me the late charges. I’d rather pay the late charges,” said Pawl. “We were three weeks late bringing back these DVDs.”
A Chateauguay police officer said it really doesn’t make any difference that this incident involved late DVDs.
“It’s a product (with) a monetary value to it,” said Tony Sciullo. “All complaints, we have to take them down,” he said of the store’s complaint.
One of the longer jobs I had before college was a clerk at Blockbuster in Tulsa. Here are some things that I remember about the job:
photo credit: bradleygee
A group of Iranian inventors apparently entered this design into a contest held by designboom.com.
It seems like a great idea, if you love the flavor of exhaust. I realize that the heat flow doesn’t directly touch the burger, but unless the “grill” area is under complete seal I can’t imagine that thing not tasting like 87 octane.
Perhaps though I’m being too harsh. There could be some advantages for:
The possibilities are endless!
This one really never made any sense to me, why did all of the networks decide it was in their best interest to start most of their new shows in competition with each other all in the fall?It looks like NBC is the first to break away with the pack:
… if it succeeds — and leads other broadcast networks to shift from their focus on a mass introduction of new shows — it could alter an American cultural cycle that extends all the way back to the days of radio, when families gathered around the Philco every September, as the school year began, to sample the new entertainment choices.
Reading this article in Slate today reminded me of my History of Yugoslavia class that I took at OU (the syllabus is still online!). We watched excerpts of a Serbian movie about the Battle of Kosovo (I’m pretty sure it was called Boj na Kosovu).
I remembered at the time thinking that the story, or more specifically how the story was remembered by the people, was similar to the Alamo story.
Having grown up in Texas, you can’t understate the importance of the Alamo story to the self-identity of most Texans. You can see grown men getting teared up walking around the Alamo in San Antonio. There is a lot of self-identity tied up in that history
Most current day commentators credit the story of the Battle of Kosovo (and the accompanying epic poems and films) as a touchstone of both Serbian nationalism and Serbian opposition to the indepedence of Kosovo. It’s often referred to as “The Myth of Kosovo.”
It’s easy to look at Kosovo and say that its clearly the will of the people to be independent, and disregard the opposition. Situations invariably become more complicated when identity and history enter into the equation… imagine Texas giving San Antonio back to Mexico!
ABC News.com has an interview with Nader Talebzadeh, an Iranian filmmaker whose film about the life of Jesus recently won an award at an Italian film festival.
LS: What are the key differences between Jesus through Islam’s eyes and Jesus through the traditional Christian perspective?
NT: We are talking about the same beautiful man, the same beautiful prophet, the same divine person sent from heaven. In the Koran, it emphasizes maybe three main points: about the birth, about the fact that he was not the son of God, and then, that he was not crucified. The rest is [the same] Jesus … the sermons, and the miracles, and the political situation.
