February 2011
24 posts
From the emailed description of a commercial audition I have tomorrow:
“…desperate confused man in a psychologically formidable abyss..Not knowing yet how much will be done on set vs. CGI … be prepared for heights, ledges, fire and the probability of being wired … Attire: Business dress - but loose fitting and not the expensive stuff. This could be a very physical...
January 2011
35 posts
Thanks, Tim, I got it.
Presenters Tom Hanks and his Toy Story 3 costar Tim Allen also criticized Gervais, with Hanks saying: “We recall when Ricky Gervais was a slightly chubby but very kind comedian,” to which Allen added: “Neither of which he is now.”
-Hollywood Reporter
Spin-Off
Charles Krauthammer coined the term “BDS” for Bush Derangement Syndrome, a debilitating mental condition that transforms otherwise perceptive, intelligent people into drooling, raving lunatics when talking or writing about President Bush.
For the next few weeks, watch for a spin-off: Rove Derangement Syndrome, as otherwise intelligent people absolutely crack-up while discussing the...
Pulling It Off
peterfeld:
OK everyone, a closer look at jamesurbaniak’s Twitter feed makes clear he is mocking the conservatives over the “applause scandal” by pretending to be more extreme than they are. Colbert can pull this off, and Billionaires For Bush were funny back in the day, but it’s not my favorite form of satire, as I relearned last week when the person who posted something hateful about 9-year-old...
My Yiddishe Barracuda
“Some have keyed on the use of the expression ‘blood libel’ as inapt…This is simply the latest round of an ongoing pogrom against conservative thinkers.” -Washington Times editorial
No, they’re not trying to be funny. Maybe we can find her a homeland somewhere.
Shorter Palin: Saying violent rhetoric incites...
“But, especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.”
Professor Was Against Agenda-Driven Academic...
“This is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind,” said [Prof. Alan] Gribben, speaking from his office at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he’s spent most of the past 20 years heading the English department. “Race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.”
-Publishers Weekly,...
Conspiracy alert: They've gotten to Erickson!
As much as it pains some of my liberal friends (and some Republican friends too), I am a huge Sarah Palin fan and can’t wait to see her mop the floor with Barack Obama. -Erick Erickson, 12/12/10
…as much as I love Sarah Palin, I am adamantly convinced that she cannot win given the ridiculous smears and hate thrown her way by Democrats and, frankly, by a lot of Republicans. She has been...
