Monthly Archives: July 2007
Everybody Loves Blaming…
It’s just been announced that on July 9th, Paramount Pictures exceeded $1-billion in domestic ticket sales for the first six-months of 2007. This is the earliest they, or any major studio has ever achieved that feat. By this weekend they’ll … Continue reading
Those who do not learn from History…
Variety is reporting that only weeks after being fired, former NBC Entertainment President, Kevin Reilly, has been hired by Fox to do the same job for them instead. For the second time. On the upside, part of Mr. Reilly’s duties … Continue reading
Apparently, Oscar was right?
Oscar Wilde once said, “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” And this view is reinforced in a sickening trend that’s developing in the media, of which both those who perpetrate it, and those … Continue reading
I think I need Chocolate…
Did you ever have one of those days where, before you’d even finished properly waking up you received some news that made you debate whether you should just open a vein now, thus avoiding any need to endure the remainder … Continue reading
This has to be a joke??
Hot, or at least luke-warm, on the designer heels of Ms. Jolie’s repulsive efforts to neuter the very press on which her entire notoriety was built and depends comes news that the faded, lip-syncher Victoria Beckham is doing the same … Continue reading
CNN tosses down the Gauntlet…
After months of indulgent dawdling in “Beta” and endless cosmetic ‘tweaks’, CNN finally bowed their new online news service yesterday, and so far the reviews are good. The paid version, “Pipeline’ was a resplendent failure, so the suits at Time … Continue reading
A case of ‘Life imitating Bart’…
After 20 years of good-humored silence, 7-Eleven have decided to join in on the joke and will be redecorating twelve of their stores as Kwik-E-Marts, as part of the promotional campaign for the Simpsons movie that opens on July 27th. … Continue reading
