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Woody Allen Defends Polanski, Earth is Round

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , , , on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

With exhausted effort, I bring you, ladies and gentlemen, Woody Allen’s defense of Polanski – as given in an interview at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. “It’s something that happened many years ago…. He has suffered,” Allen told French radio station RTL. “He’s an artist, he’s a nice person, he did something wrong and he [...]

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Tweet-Sized Thoughts on Media-Related Things: p1

Posted in Film, Rants, Television/Media, Tweet-Sized Thoughts, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In honor of my recent inability to write anything of length, I felt I had to post something for my own sake. So I think I will take a cue from my friend Britt Julious and her Sunday column idea…Though with this blog, it will just be a collection of my recent tweets on Twitter [...]

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“Remain Silent No Longer”: Rage Against the Polanski

Posted in Film, Rants, Television/Media, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »

I’ve written a lot about Roman Polanski since he was arrested – after 30+ years – for raping a 13-year-old girl back in the 70s. So now that he chose to speak out for the first time this weekend, it just seems right to “Rage Against the Polanski” once again. Because after all, “Polanski” has [...]

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Sunday Brief: On Sweets, ‘Marie Antoinette’

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Is Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette partially responsible for the recent “cupcake backlash” and the macaron trend storming in? Regardless, finding pictures of Marie Antoinette-clad Kirsten Dunst surrounded by expensive French sweets has been a casual fascination of mine for quite a few years now…Is that strange?

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Tina Fey: Victim of ‘Superior’ Feminism

Posted in Rants, Television/Media, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Writers: Do you ever get that feeling when you read something truly spectacular – whether it be a novel, a poem, or a commentary – and think, “Damn! I wish I wrote that…” Most likely you do, and I refer to this as “Writer’s Envy.” (Surely I am not the first to dub it this, [...]

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Jane Velez-Mitchell: ‘Wearing a Bikini on Spring Break is Asking for Rape.’

Posted in Rants, Television/Media, tagged , , , , , on March 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Listen. I didn’t ask for HLN to be on when I turned on my television after work today. And I didn’t want Jane Velez-Mitchell’s awful show, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, to be on either, mishandling the topic of rape. The “issue” at hand was the number of young women who have been raped in Daytona [...]

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Still One of my Favorite Moments from Oscars ’10

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , , , on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just a photo-of-the-day sort of post. I promise, a real post is coming soon. (For anyone who’s waiting for it, that is!)

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“Live” Blog: Oscars 2010 Commentary!

Posted in Film, Rants, Television/Media, tagged , , , , on March 7, 2010 | 16 Comments »

5:24: So, this is a “live” blog with quotation marks around it because I don’t really have somewhere important to be tonight for the Oscars. It’s not like I’m on the red carpet, or at the Vanity Fair party later. But, tune in if you are interested in hearing my running commentary (ranging anywhere, I’m [...]

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A Brief on ‘Ghost Writer’

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , on February 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »

What’s more disturbing? a) The fact that Polanski can release a movie despite being under “house arrest” for his legal problems (gross understatement); b) …Pierce Brosnan in a major role? Or, c) Kim Cattrall faking a British accent

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Valentine’s Day & Hollywood, Sittin’ in a Tree

Posted in Film, Rants, tagged , , , , , on February 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Let me preface this by saying I’ve never really cared about Valentine’s Day. Sure, I want to do something for the holiday, but I don’t make a big hoopla about it. Honestly, most of my excitement for a Valentine’s Day celebration goes towards the molten chocolate cake I’ll order for dessert. (No offense to the [...]

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