Friday, March 12, 2010
"BALLET: The preferred dance of preteen girls, gay dudes & rich white people." -Jimmy Fallon
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrity. Show all posts
Somehow, I Totally Missed The Michael Cera Boat...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
...but i finally, more than a year late, watched juno last night. and i only saw superbad for the first time, two weeks ago. michael cera is a genius at underacting. gems they are.
HEY! Charleston, Mississippi, 1955 Called, They Want Their Civil Rights Back.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Just one more reason to love the great Morgan Freeman: the actor donated $17,000 to his local high school in Charleston, Mississippi, so that the high school students could finally hold their first integrated prom. (seriously? an integrated prom in 2009? that's so 1955. looks like the south sure is "rising again." i guess they still can't read down in those parts either, or maybe 'apartheid' is just too big of a word. as far as progress goes, maybe the folks in mississippi have some kind of conversion, like cats & dogs do for aging. one human year = fifty mississippian years.)
Freeman's offer, which was first made in 1997, was finally taken up by the school eleven years later, thanks in part to Freeman's participation in a documentary film by Paul Saltzman, who documented Freeman's pitch to the school board, community reactions, and student interviews which showed reactions to the idea of an integrated prom and discussions of the racism that is still present in their town. Not everyone was thrilled with the idea of an integrated dance; several students retaliated by holding a "Whites-Only" prom, which the filmmakers were not invited to cover. (something tells me that the only reason these troglodytes are 'integrating' is because there school can't afford to exist. i doubt $17,000 is being spent on a prom. principal bonus, maybe?)
The documentary, "Prom Night In Mississippi," is premiering this week at Sundance. Freeman, who was outraged ("It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard") that children in his town were still dealing with segregated dances, hopes that the prom, and the film, will break down the separate dance system and the mentality that fuels it. "The kids are not going to want to go backwards," Freeman says, "They've got their toe in the water, and the water's warm." (movie clip, here.)
tuesday can't come fast enough for me.
[via jezebel]
To Anyone Who Has Ever Asked Me Which Guilty Pleasure Blogs I Read/Watch/Piss My Pants Enjoying,
Thursday, January 08, 2009
On Strength... [Potent Quoatbles]
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." --arnold schwarzenegger
[via bedtime]
I Was Just Thinking...
Thursday, December 18, 2008
...i bet robin leach doesn't have shit to talk about these days. unless he's spending a whole lot of time in the united arab emirates.
Douche On Douche [The Douche Off]
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
the only possible way for spencer pratt to be any more of a douche, would be for spencer pratt to take advice from the grand douche himself, mr. tom cruise. video in which tom offers...
Total Finale Live [R.I.P. TRL]
Monday, November 17, 2008
i briefly mentioned the news of mtv's trl being cancelled a few weeks ago, but now it's official. the 3 hour finale aired yesterday, and it was quite nostalgic. i didn't realize, until i watched it last night, how much i used to watch that show. when they showed all of their 'best of' clips and moments of the past 10 years, i realized, i had already seen them all. i am a product of the mtv/trl generation and i am not embarassed to say it. and although i haven't watched trl (save, for the last week) in a few years, i'm going to miss knowing that it's there. (which also makes me wonder, when high school kids in jersey cut school, where are the going to go now?)
and with that, ladies and gentlemen, music videos are officially dead on the original mtv...
Listen Senator...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
...you don't show up for me, and America doesn't show up for you. See how that works?" --David Letterman on John McCain
Oh, Canada! Alaska? [Potent Quotables]
Friday, October 31, 2008
Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York. Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada." -Tucker Carlson
Please, Louise, Get Me Off'a My Knees...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
who is it, exactly, that decides when it's a good time to remake a movie? i'm guessing that every production company employs an overpaid executive to conduct research and in turn prepare a timeline on the relative necessity of destroying cinematic classics. i.e. friday the 13th, texas chainsaw massacre, tron et al. and now, footloose!?!? and the best part? ren mccormack will be played by... wait for it... zac motherfucking efron. apparently his pathetic singing and dancing in 'lame school music 17: left back, again' really blew away producers. i hope that kevin bacon and kenny loggins feel as disgraced as i do.
[via defamer]
Don't be Stupid: A Blatant Generalization.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
that show, "the hills," is stupid. and i'm going to go out on a rickety limb here, and make the blatant generalization that if you watch "the hills," you too, are stupid.
i compare that show to tom cruise. look at tom cruise, he's not sure who he really is. sometimes he's an actor. other times he's an alien worshipping scientologist. or brooke shields' psychiatrist. or a maniacal father. or an flds-like husband. he just can't decide. similarly, "the hills," is sometimes a reality show. sometimes a real world reunion show. or an episode of sweet valley high. or jerry springer. or on it's best days, a mildly amusing after school special. in short, IT SUCKS.
and probably the two most obnoxious fuckers on the show would be these two idiots, spencer and heidi. who i've had the unfortunate experience of seeing on the late night talk show circuit. last time spencer was on letterman, i remember thinking to myself, "is there anything that this guy could do to make me hate him any more than i already do?" i was sure there wasn't.
then he wore a shirt that said, "palin for vp: god, guns, glory," while carrying a six-pack of budweiser and a rifle, and walking with his tone deaf tramp of a girlfriend who had a shirt on that said, "read my lipstick: vote mccain-palin."
these are prime examples of people that i'm afraid of come november fourth. KILL.ME.NOW.
[bestweekever via defamer]
We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing...
Saturday, October 25, 2008
"...Money and jobs are flying out of this country as our currency becomes worthless and we're talking about the fact that McCain is a veteran. If someone busted into your house and robbed you would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we've got a way bigger military and we're angrier. People will get hurt and we'll pay the bill for the bullets. I'm telling you, unless we wake up, we're gonna lose this frickin' thing..."
[adam mckay via huffpo]
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