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April 2010

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And Jar Jar Binks spent Star Wars 2 and 3 housesitting for his cousin...

That leaves just one more question. What’s up with Boba Fett’s lameass death in “Return of the Jedi,” when an errant swinging stick shorts out his jetpack and sends him hurtling into the Sarlacc Pit on Tatooine.

"I came up with my theory, that Boba Fett was sick that day," Logan explained. "As we all know, if you have a cold, you’re coughing. And the moisture in the helmet would have [fogged up the visor], so it would’ve been hard to see."

Apr 30, 2010
#george lucas destroyer of dreams
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#glamour
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Apr 30, 2010
#holy mackeral did i grow up in the roaring 20's?
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Apr 30, 2010
#and let me tell you about the day the first time i saw a push button phone
Roger Ebert Said It

In a time of instability and danger, Hollywood throwing all its eggs in the basket of a headache inducing, distracting gimmick dug out of the Smell-o-Rama 50’s closet is terrifying to watch.  They should make a movie about that!  

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#fraud of the century
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#magnus militia #semper fi
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Apr 29, 2010
#american idol #siobhan magnus #magnus militia #siobhan for president #whyisthishappening!?nonono
American Idol's Tween Overlords Must Be Stopped: A Discussion theawl.com
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Five Reasons Not to See Iron Man 2. entertainmentinferno.com
Apr 28, 2010
#statingtheobvious
Apr 28, 2010
Report from the idoldome

• The cougar vote is breaking hard for Lee. Bad news for Casey.

• Simon came into the stands at commercial breaks to sign autographs instead of going outside to smoke. Totally unprecedented. Getting nostalgic? Getting soft? Wanting to keep fans close as he begins his greatest journey?

• Post show interviews. I asked Siobhan and crystal how they felt about the tweenage monsters who won’t give the girls a chance and have cut down their friends. Can’t reveal the answers until tomorrow but pretty sure they thought I was a raving lunatic. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn

Apr 27, 2010
A Sex And the City Trailer Prompts a Cry for Helpentertainmentinferno.com
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Apr 26, 20101 note
The Happiest Words In Media

No response yet from rival Nikki Finke, who has been claiming



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#nikki finke #people who make you think the intenet shoud be shut down
Writing MASH


We broke the show down into two acts and a tag. Each act would have five scenes. Brief transition scenes didn’t count. But go back through some episodes. Five main scenes in the first act and five in the second. As best we could we would try to advance both of our stories in the same scenes. But each story is different and we tried to avoid being predictable.

Usually, we wrapped up the heavy story last. That’s the one you cared most about.

The tag would callback something from the body of the show, generally drawing from the funny story.

And then we had a rather major restriction: We could only shoot outside at the Malibu ranch for one day each episode. So no more than 8 pages (approximately a third of the show). And that was in the summer when there was the most light. By September and October we could devote 6 pages to exteriors. And once Daylight Savings was over that was it for the ranch for the season. All exteriors were shot on the stage. So if we wanted to do a show where the camp is overrun by oxen we better schedule it for very early in the summer. Those 20th guards never let oxen onto the lot without proper ID.

If possible we tried to do at least one O.R. scene a show. We wanted to constantly remind the audience that above all else this was a show about war.

From Ken Levine.  

Apr 26, 2010
#mash
Apr 26, 2010
Doesn't It?

It seems too charmingly quirky when Dave Eggers says he only checks his e-mail twice a day — in his car outside of a carpet store. “I did have Internet access  [at home] for four months once,” he said.

Too charmingly quirky?  Is there such a thing?

Apr 25, 2010
#email is for little people #eggers
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Apr 25, 2010
#matt giraud #american idol #hits
EXCUSES

16 year old Los Angeleno Abby Sunderland was going to rewrite the world’s opinion of LA teens by becoming the youngest person ever to sail around the world.  She has given up halfway.

It would be foolish and irresponsible for me to keep going with my equipment not working well. I’m about 10-14 days from Cape Town right now and though my auto pilot is working for now, we’re all holding our breath and hoping it will last. 

I gave it my best shot and made it almost half way around the world. I will definitely keep going, and whether or not I will make any more stops after this I don’t know yet. I admit I was pretty upset at first, but there is no point in getting upset. Whats done is done and there is nothing I can do about it. 

I know that some people will look on my trip as a failure because of this, and there really isn’t anything that I can do about that. When you’re surrounded by critics it can be hard to remember your own goals and expectations, you start to judge yourself by what other people are saying.

And thus do stereotypes fester and live forever. 

But before you sneer, where’s your 16 year old circumnavigator Cobble Hill?  

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But today Figes, a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, admitted “full responsibility” for the posts, saying he had been under “intense pressure”. He added: “I have made some foolish errors and apologise wholeheartedly to all concerned.”

Rival historian Robert Service, whose work on the history of communism Figes described as “awful” in the Amazon posts, said he and his wife had been through hell. “I am pleased and mightily relieved that this contaminant slime has been exposed to the light and begun to be scrubbed clean,” said Service, who is professor of Russian history at St Antony’s College Oxford. “I have been made acutely aware that a solitary malpractitioner, if he has an abundance of money and malice, can intimidate all and sundry – and that includes both scholars and journalists.”

In the world of Stalin historians, I’ve idolized Orlando Figes as the giant.  The Whisperers is as good a portrait of life under tyranny as you’re going to find.  So good that one imagined its author would be living in a world far above needing to leave nasty comments on colleagues’ Amazon pages.  But perhaps I was naive to think such a world exists, even for celebrated historians of the Stalin era.  

Let’s just pray Sebag-Montefiore doesn’t get dragged into this quagmire.  

Apr 24, 2010
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