deadline.com–the bible of hollywood has a good conversation going at the moment about this wave of hollywood’s lack of stars, iconic roles and disasterous awards shows.
we should create a sub-heading for this post entitled: ‘would the last star in hollywood please turn out the lights.’ but we’d like to ask the question, in the 21st century in which we suffer from oversaturation and too much information, is it really possible to break through the clutter for more than a couple of seconds? could we really create a tom cruise in 2012? and how would you do it?
is the u.s. media + the economist pushing mitt romney because he’s the weakest candidate and liberals secretly want him to win the nomination. is this true? rush limbaugh thinks so. can the republicans pull a different winner out of the bag? ron paul? gallop has posted a bogus poll today saying conservative voters in the republican party find mitt to be the most ‘acceptable’ candidate. what the hell does that mean? whatever happened to polling people and asking them whose the best candidate? it’s a shame that michelle bachmann didn’t hang in there. but i guess she sorta ran out of money.
on these blog pages we’ve asked numerous times, why the hell isn’t the u.s. media scrutinizing mitt romney? where are the hardball questions? romney has repeatedly skipped conservative forums so he doesn’t get hounded about his moderate record.
but we want the press to hound romney like they hounded herman cain (unlike how they did not hound john edwards).
the full GOP/republican party new hampshire debate is archived here. and should be posted shortly after the official debate ends. you can also go to www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com to find the november 8 debate as well
the first question is, ‘what would dickens think?’ just when you thought debtors prisons were so 18th century, they seem to be back and with a vengence in illinois–land of lincoln and home of barack and michelle obama. read more on the wsj.
zachery quinto who took over for leonard nimoy to play the iconic role of spock in the star trek reboots directed and produced by j.j. (the hack) abrams has declared himself gay-gay-gay. how will this affect the next star trek film which still does not have a releae date–although it was supposed to be released in movie theatres in 2012?
well we know that the overwhelming majority of trekkies are male geeks. science nerds in particular. what would these dudes think if it came out that fox mulder was played by a homosexual and all those longing looks at dana scully were actually directed towards a.d. skinner?
last sunday germany’s pirate party, launched in 2006, entered their first state parliament with almost 9% of the vote and with 15 seats. in a state that has 149 seats–this means the pirates have 10% of the the votes in parliament an impressive sum.
this is not a joke party, contrary to what the english speaking media has been writing (since most can only read german with the help of google and yahoo babelfish).
pirates celebrate win in berlin
the pirate party was launched in sweden from the ashes of the filesharing website the pirate bay. a few years back the swedish version of the party picked up its first seat in the european parliament but failed to enter the swedish government.
the germany version of the party focuses on issues close to the heart of libertarians such as data protection and privacy. over the years, they have expanded their platform to include the push for universal access to the internet (aka, free wifi–which exists in sweden), a minimum wage (which germany does not presently have –except in some industries such as construction) as well as education reforms for public schools.
lars von trier, the self-proclaimed provocateur spoke yesterday in berlin at the babylon theatre about his career and his future projects. in regards to his being banned from cannes he said ‘you know at cannes, they give out this one prize every year–the palm d’or but persona non grata is very rare.’
here’s a HD version of Melancholia, the latest film from lars von trier. in this manic depressive science fiction drama, the planet Melancholia is on a crash course to earth. lars von trier who was declared persona non grata by the cannes film festival earlier this summer speaks today in berlin at the babylon theatre.
