Use Of ‘N-Word’ May End Porn Star’s Career WARNING: Adult language and situations.
WORTH REPEATING: Red Meat For Rotting Vegetables
THE NEW REPUBLIC: But in the case of his trip to South Philly, Giuliani’s choice showed more than a willingness to pander to a guy he not so long ago might have rebuked. It also brought up another common knock against the man who foisted Bernie Kerik on the nation: He’s a lousy judge of character. On the surface, Giuliani’s camp likely saw Vento as an example of the outer-borough sort he once wooed as mayor. Before he put up his English-only sign, Vento’s most prominent political statement came in outfitting Geno’s staffers in t-shirts calling for Mumia Abu-Jamaal’s […]
CINEMA: We Had To Kill Wes Anderson, To Save Him
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (2007, directed by Wes Anderson, 91 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Wes Anderson is back with yet another elegantly arch Technicolor rendering of luxurious kitsch and melancholy mopery, winsome 60’s folk-rock and immaculate, intelligently-designed preciousness. Fans of Anderson’s trademark sad-eyed whimsy can rejoice, The Darjeeling Limited doesn’t stray much from the stylistic imprint he has single-mindedly pursued since his second film, the Prep School fantasy Rushmore. The rest of us can begin to ponder how much longer we have to give event status to the claustrophobic creations of this unadventurous auteur. Undeniably, Anderson has made […]
IDIOCRACY: Stanford Prison Experiments In Fast Food
Caller: “Strip Search Her.” McDonalds Store Manager: “Sure Thing, Officer.” By Andrew Wolfson awolfson@courier-journal.com The Courier-Journal She was a high school senior who had just turned 18 — a churchgoing former Girl Scout who hadn’t received a single admonition in her four months working at the McDonald’s in Mount Washington. But when a man who called himself “Officer Scott” called the store on April 9, 2004, and said an employee had been accused of stealing a purse, Louise Ogborn became the suspect. “He gave me a description of the girl, and Louise was the one who fit it to the […]
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE: Another Time
WIKIPEDIA: Who Is Pearls Before Swine?
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
RICH MAN’S ASSPANTS: BRANSON LITERALLY HOISTS SELF BY HIS OWN PETARD The billionaire entrepreneur and serial self-publicist had decided to descend 407ft from the top of the Palms Casino Hotel, Las Vegas, to promote Virgin America, a new airline offering domestic flights in the U.S. It all started so well. Strapped in a harness and attached to a cable, the 57-year-old tycoon beamed confidently before taking a running jump from the roof. As he descended rapidly, he pulled airline tickets out of his pocket and scattered them to the ground as part of the bungee-cum-abseiling stunt. But instead of gliding […]
BREAKING: Former Vice President Al Gore Wins Nobel
WASHINGTON POST: Former Vice President Al Gore Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today along with a United Nations panel that monitors climate change for their work educating the world about global warming and advocating for political action to stop it.The Norwegian Nobel Committee characterized Gore as “the single individual” responsible for convincing world governments that climate change was real, caused by human activity, and posed a threat to society. MORE
COMING ATTRACTION: Live & Direct From The First Annual Wes Anderson Press Conference
Wes Anderson is comin’ to town! We’ll be live-blogging from the Wes Anderson press conference/audience-with-the-pope-of-cool scheduled to start at 3:30 pm today in room REDACTED of the REDACTED.
Iran Not Totally Straight, But Definitely Less Gay
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s president was misrepresented by Western media when he was quoted saying there were no gays in Iran, and actually meant there were not so many as in the United States, a presidential aide said on Wednesday.
NPR 4 THE DEAF: The Eternal Sunshine Of Mark Ruffalo’s Mind
FRESH AIR In Reservation Road, Mark Ruffalo plays a divorced lawyer who accidentally kills a child and then speeds away. Based on a novel by the same name, the film is directed by Terry George (Hotel Rwanda). Ruffalo has appeared in Zodiac, 13 Going on 30 and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 Rethinking the environmental movement. We talk with MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER and TED NORDHAUS authors of the new book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. The duo sparked a lively debate after the release of their essay The Death […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
CURIOSITY KILLS: BEWARE THE LEAD MONKEY Marvel Enterprises says it has halted shipments of Curious George products made in China. And it says it will issue a recall if testing backs up claims by a nonprofit group that says it found a product had an illegally high amount of lead. The allegation was made by the California-based Center for Environmental Health. It says tests on a Curious George doll revealed 10 times the new legal maximum of lead. C-E-H says that it bought the toy at a Toys “R” Us. Marvel spokesman David Collins says his firm will order a […]
PAPERBOY: ‘I Got Yer Subprime Right HERE!’ Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right — these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. Hey, we know how it is — so many words to read, so little time to surf for free porn. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you, freeing up […]
RADIOHEAD: A Kind Of Hush All Over The World
BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER At 2:39 a.m. Philadelphia time, an e-mail went out to the world — or more accurately, a select group of Golden Ticket holders — announcing that the digital ghost of an album was born. The new Radiohead album, to be exact. Though e-mail is largely silent, this particular one would make a big noise. This particular e-mail bore a link to a Web site where the beneficiary was directed to click and download this brave, new Radiohead album, In Rainbows, sans cover art or album credits. Just a bare skeleton of MP3s to hang […]