Back in April 2006, when controversy erupted over a South Park episode featuring an image of Mohammed (kinda sorta), the old Irish Trojan’s Blog was all over it (and got a bunch of Instalanches and Malkin-lanches, as I recall). Now, almost exactly four years later, history is repeating itself, but alas, I haven’t had the time to follow it closely,… Read more »
Congratulations to Jeff Freeze, a resident of Burns Harbor, Indiana, and a blog reader since 2005, who won the 6th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool tonight — and set an all-time record in the process, with 74 out of a possible 80 points. Freeze got only six categories wrong, all worth one point apiece: Best Film Editing, Costume Design,… Read more »
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Conan O’Brien joined Twitter on Wednesday, and has racked up 379,609 followers over the course of three days. His biographical information states: “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” Thus far, he’s posted a grand total of three tweets, one per day, each one riffing on the idea that he’s pathetically… Read more »
The blogosphere and twittersphere are buzzing about this Seattle Times column criticizing NBC’s endlessly tape-delayed Olympics coverage, and its complete tone-deafness about the issue. (See also this lengthy Deadspin post, featuring one angry viewer complaint after another.) I gotta say, I find that, in this instant-information age, the Olympics are rapidly being fundamentally transformed from something I watch on TV… Read more »
Today is the day that I agree with Sarah Palin on something. Family Guy is an un-funny piece of crap.
So a few weeks ago, I spoke of Swordfish, the most breathtaking film of 2001, and put forward the idea that making John Travolta a villain is never a bad idea. Which I am very right back. Last week, a new movie called From Paris with Love was released, and it stars Travolta, and while he’s not a bad guy,… Read more »
My favorite ad of the night: Here’s the story of how the ad came together, including this nugget: to film the ad, Leno “enter[ed] the Ed Sullivan Theater during the taping of Letterman’s show [last Tuesday], when there’s often commotion from fans on Broadway, but Leno wore a disguise: ‘A hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses and a fake moustache,’ says Burnett…. Read more »
In case you missed it Friday night, here are Conan O’Brien’s closing remarks on his final Tonight Show: They then concluded the show with in an entirely wacky and bizarre (and therefore appropriate?) fashion, with Will Ferrell singing “Free Bird” — and repeatedly making out with his real-life pregnant wife — and Conan playing backup guitar. Gawker has all the… Read more »
Heh. Tonight: our last dance with CoCo.
