A troubling atmosphere clouds sites where passionate movie fans gather and butt heads. Everybody looks bad when battling factions scorn and belittle one another’s tastes. But don’t most normal people enjoy all sorts of movies? Let’s try to remember not everybody who likes Fargo is a certified film scholar and fans of the Twilight series aren’t...
What to do what the Jedi Mind Trick fails? Plan B from Outer Space. Peter Hall at Movies.com reports on a sweet revenge scheme that’s worthy of Rachel Maddow’s Best New Thing in the World. George Lucas’ rich neighbors don’t want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he’s done in years. According to...
BuzzFeed rallied dozens of Ryan Gosling fans today to protest in front of People Magazine headquarters for picking Bradley Cooper as the sexiest man alive. (Stephen Colbert recalls that Nick Nolte was People Magazine’s 1992 Sexiest Man Alive. A sobering reminder.) Scenes from the protest after the cut. ...
Say what you will about celebrities in the news for their involvement with worthy causes but anyone who casts aspersions at the work Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are doing in New Orleans should see a doctor to find out if their toxic cynicism is treatable with medication. Round of applause for future Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winner, Brad Pitt. ...
George Clooney curries favor among us because, among other things, he seems to have things in perspective, as is illustrated in this excerpt from People (UK), via ONTD: But he hates the way some big names take themselves seriously. “The problem with famous people is that they actually start to think of themselves in a special way,” he says. “They think,...
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