Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 2:53 pm
This Wenn image shows the Olsens at the Giambattista Valli show in Paris this week. Mary-Kate is the one on the right, and she’s the one that makes headlines, this time with her glasses.
These sunglasses, seemingly split between clear and tinted are on every frickin’ photo site and most gossip sites, which really makes us fear that we’re going to see those split glasses everywhere as soon as someone stocks them at a cheap price.
We thought we’d let you know, since we’re going to have to buy some to keep up our stylish gossip queen facades.
Not to mention, we can finally read in the sunlight with these shits.
Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Oh, Illena Douglas, you minx. We love your quirky characters and we even enjoyed your Speechless video during the writers’ strike, but this takes the cake.
Illena printed up some nice, clearly legible signs for the TMZ paparazzi and even ended up making Tom Arnold look like a dick for trying to joke about it.
Not that it’s hard to make Tom Arnold look like a dick.
Illena’s signs read: “TMZ causes cancer, stop filming celebrities and start filming poverty,” and “Children are starving and you are filming Tom Arnold.”
Although TMZ doesn’t have a comeback for starving children, they do claim to “film homeless people all the time.”
We know that we are as guilty of everything TMZ is, but we like to think of it as a pirate radio sort of situation. Out there, TMZ is like Clear Channel, buying up everything it can and directing the public’s interest while we’re over here in our corner of the internet using an antenna we made out of a bent coat hanger.
If Illena or any of you want to talk world poverty and hunger, we can articulate pretty damn well why we do what we do.
But that conversation is a downer. It’s much more fun to mock TMZ and their army of bottom-feeding videographers (who will never work in real journalism).
Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Pretend for a moment that you don’t have a TV, you don’t have internet and you certainly don’t spend time reading sites like us that would be interested in this tomfoolery.
Try to hold the idea in your head that you have been living up in the Rocky Mountains off the carcasses of deer that you have killed. You have painstakingly worked your ass off everyday, and you’ve finally found whatever you were looking for and decide to return to society.
You get to a friend’s house, tell them about living in the mountains for awhile, and they turn on the newest American Idol results show, like any television-centric family.
We think that’s the best way to fully enjoy the absurdity from American Idol this week where everyone treated Alaina with kid gloves after she broke out in tears and admitted that she couldn’t sing.
The clear absurdity here is that American Idol tells people they aren’t good enough, then makes them sing the song America hated all over again. Alaina’s cracking is shameful, sure, but she was provoked by the Fox ratings gods in the name of the American Public.
This is what is done in our name these days (about 7 years ago, we went to war in our name, so we guess things are sorta better), and that’s the most absurd aspect.
Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 12:02 pm
David Gordon Green, the director of the next big Apatow R-Rated comedy hit, this summer’s Pineapple Express, has scored major points in getting Huey Lewis to write and perform the theme song to the flick.
Pineapple Express is about Seth Rogan and James Franco who get caught up in a series of violent crimes because some of Franco’s specialty brand pot is found at the scene of a murder.
The red band trailer we posted earlier made us want to get high and watch the flick immediately, and the new addition of a Huey Lewis theme song makes this film even more tantalizing.
“Huey Lewis just finished our theme song for us. It is called Pineapple Express, cleverly. Our only input was, we told him we wanted it to sound like his 80s work that we loved so much. And we wanted to have the plot in it. And we wanted to have him say the title as many times as he could. There is a lot of alto sax. It is kind of like that “other” “Back to the Future” Huey Lewis song. Not “Power of Love” but “Back in Time”. Yeah.”
All we know about the song thus far is that it’s chorus is: “We got trouble, we got to get out of here. I’ve got you, you’ve got me. We are as high as we can be. That’s all right. How did we get into this mess? Pineapple Express!”
Awesome.
Let’s buy some Huey Lewis off iTunes. ‘Cause it don’t take money and it don’t take fame, but you need a credit card to ride every train these days…
Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 11:50 am
Holy Sweet God!
There is nothing about this movie that we are not going apeshit for, and we’re some cynical bastards.
First of all, Robert Downey Jr. rocks as Tony Stark, and even with more dialogue in this trailer, his wit pops. If all the other characters get small supporting asides like Gwenyth Paltrow – lines that feed into Tony Stark – then we can’t picture having any dialogue complaints.
If the Transformers-esque transitions in this trailer merge with the inside-the-helmet cam also in this trailer, we can’t see disliking the visual effects.
And if Iron Man fights jets. And tanks. And bigger machine men, possibly also made out of iron and possibly made for war…
Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 11:37 am
How about that?
Earlier today we talked about the success of the online viral campaign for Warners’ The Dark Knight.
Previous to the death of Heath Ledger, The Joker was the main prankster behind the viral ads. At various given times, the Joker sent the players on a nation-wide scavenger hunt, assembled hundreds dressed like the Joker for a live game that eventually ended with the players finding a fake Joker corpse (fake both in life and in the storyline).
Now, Warners has been talking up the second phase of the Dark Knight ad campaign, featuring Aaron Eckhart’s Two-Face. It looks like the campaign begins today.
On one of the viral sites, IBelieveInHarveyDent.com, a fake site for Gotham Politician Harvey Dent (who becomes Two-Face after the Joker splashes him with acid) is now asking for e-mails and phone numbers from fans for what has to be the newest viral campaign.
We’re guessing that before this is over, we’ll get a real pretty image of Two-Face.
Writing by Dave on Friday, 29 February, 2008 at 11:31 am
Will.i.am and a whole bunch of celebrities, including – oddly – Friday Night Lights cast members, musicians and Jessica Alba all get desaturated and get to sing an Obama chant.
Can you imagine standing on an all-white set while the director tells you to chant Oh-Bah-Ma over and over again.
How can you not feel like an idiot? Especially when telling people to “Vote” for Obama is either very early or very late in most states.
Let us know: Is this Presidential race worth a look already? By us? There’s certainly enough Bad and Ugly about it…