David Carradine, who isn’t Chinese and only looks vaguely Asian because he squints a lot, is back in the spotlight with his title role in the Kill Bill films and with today’s DVD release of the first season of Kung Fu. I loved Kung Fu when it ran on TV …
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Blogcritics Recognized As Cool-Guy Movie Blog
Toronto Star Internet columnist Peter Howell is coming a bit late to the blog game, but late is way better than never: I was skeptical about Weblogs – “blogs” for short – when I first heard about them, and why I’ve never really followed them that closely. Blogs looked like …
Read More »Raquel Returns
People I’m telling you, when I was growing up in the ’60s and early-’70s there was nothing hotter than the Raquel Welch poster from One Million Years B.C. My parents would have freaked, well actually, my mother would have freaked if I had put it up in my room or …
Read More »Report: Mainstream Media News Losing Audience As Public Fragments
As I was driving my mother-in-law to the airport this afternoon we were having our usual low-intensity disagreements about politics, war, the media, whether or not Diane Rehm and her voice like a 110-year-old tracheotomy victim should remain on the air, and we did agree that while there is a …
Read More »Lisa Marie: Hints But No Allegations
You know that Lisa Marie Presley got a very generous binding offer to shut the hell up about her life with Michael Jackson when the couple divorced. In an Australian TV interview she hints but doesn’t doesn’t reveal anything in particular about their life together: Presley said she felt powerless …
Read More »Touching Evil
USA's Americanized version of a hit Brit detective series. . .
Read More »More Than a One-Night Stand For Hilton
It would appear that night vision sex tapes and intense vacuity are no roadblock to stardom, at least if you’re Paris Hilton: Star magazine broke the report that the blonde is about to step into the strappy mules of former Guess? babes, including Claudia Schiffer, Anna Nicole Smith and Bridget …
Read More »A Stern Look At the Airwaves
Our Sydney Smith has turned away from Howard Stern with these pithy words: I listened to last Friday’s rant, when he projected – wrongly – that his show would be over by the end of this week. I listened to him blame – wrongly – Republicans and Christians for his …
Read More »Short Film Invitational: The “Imagine Cup”
Attention: all you short filmmakers. No, not you Marty, you may be short but your films are long. I’m talking about films of 8 minutes or less. This is for you: The Imagine Cup is a worldwide tournament challenging the globe’s best and brightest students to use technology to enhance …
Read More »Cadillac: Pimped Out But Keeping Quiet About It
Dan Neil has a penetrating view of the divergent image and customer base for the venerable symbol of automotive class. The company is happy to make the sales but takes no responsibility for the “playa” image: As Cadillac heads down the road, what kind of music is on the stereo? …
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