The next Coen Brothers Production is a remake of English comedy classic The Ladykillers, with Tom Hanks in the Alec Guinness role. Sounds dodgy? If the trailer on the official site is anything to go by, it could be good.
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March 2004
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Pale with Shock
Rather upsetting the rest of the World’s view of US justice, a very famous, very rich American is convicted of several crimes. I bet Michael Jackson is thinking about OJ Simpson’s escape and Martha Stewart’s predicament and wishing he’d not “developed” that “skin condition”. I think we can see the way her appeal will pan […]
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Metaphor Stew
Judith‘s sharp editrix eye was caught by a couple of mixed metaphors in the media this week. Rob Lowe, a star of NBC TV’s West Wing said of one of his fellow actors in the show, Allison Janney: “She just tees the ball up and hits it out of the park every single time.” . […]
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Wallflowers
After something of a break for this recurring feature, it’s time for another “crazy Israeli” item.
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Jesus Heist
Mel Gibson is fast becoming a regular at PooterGeek. Forbes magazine estimates that he could walk away with around 40% of $650m collected at the box office for his Passion. That doesn’t include the merchandising income from such tie-in delights as replicas of the nails used in the crucifixion. Apparently we shouldn’t consider this tasteless […]
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Call the Analogy Police!
Pamela Wade of the New Zealand Herald compares Peter Jackson’s winning 11 Oscars to her buying the perfect teapot. Perhaps there are special kinds of irony in New Zealand, rhetorical variants that could only have emerged and developed in such extreme isolation from major landmasses of culture—linguistic marsupials, if you will. Or perhaps she’s crap.
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Body and Blood
Through some strange synchronicity, both Adam and Claire sent me links to reviews of Mel Gibson’s Passion. Both reviews mention the movie’s anti-Semitism of course, but they also warn of the mind-boggling level of gore. Here’s the one from Claire. I can’t find a URL for the source of the text Adam sent, but it […]
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Porn To Innovate
The argument that technology is driven by pornography is not a new one, but this old post from geek ‘Blog Slashdot makes it well.
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Thank You
Thanks to the readers who emailed words of comfort (and gentle mockery). I am a bit better now. Because I spent hours and hours wrapped up in bed I was able to get in early to work and stay until late today. Just goes to show: if you really want to be a macho workaholic, […]
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Boys and Education
This is interesting. I feel sorry for boys who have to deal with the current system of school exams in Britain. I certainly would have performed poorly under it. Counting coursework in exam scores is a cheats’ charter. Plodding and “sharing answers” are rewarded. Originality and competitiveness are penalized.
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