The scene from LOST with Jack and Rose on Oceanic 815, showing Season 1 on the left side and Season 6 on the right. Jack is a long-haired hippie in the one on the right, and the stewardess's outfit (and dialogue) is slightly different. Will the Lost producers explain this?
“Down Under” vs. “Kookaberra”
A judge ruled today that the flute riff from Men At Work's "Down Under" is plagerized from the tune set to an Australian nursery rhyme called "Kookaburra" (also known by its first line: "Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree"). I know "Down Under". I know "Kookaburra". The judge must be high.
Oscar Nominees
I will have my predictions soon, but in the meantime…. Oscar Award Nominations 2010 –
The Lost Supper
This ABC promotional shot for the last season of "Lost" apparently contains some clues. (For example, why is Claire there, but not Desmond?) Click to embiggen to full size:
The Seventh Sense’s Annual* Best-of-the-Decade Awards
BEST TV SHOW: The West Wing. Good dialogue, funny, serious, rich charactors. It suffered and got inconsistent when Sorkin left, but overall, it's run was no longer or shorter than it needed to be. BEST MOVIE: Lord of the Rings Trilogy. No, I'm not a rabid fan, but I think these movies were simply the most entertaining of the oughts. … Read More
The Decade… In Icons
Courtesy of the New York Times Click to embiggen: RELATED: Paul Krugman writes the only interesting decade retrospective that I've read to date. His basic thrust is that the decade, for all it's ups and downs, amounted to a big nothing: [F]rom an economic point of view, I’d suggest that we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a … Read More
Independent Cinema Coming To Winston-Salem
About time, too. I heard it on the local NPR this morning. A new arts cinema is opening — 2 screens, 160 seats, beer, wine, and a whole bunch of movies you’ve probably never heard of — all in downtown Winston-Salem. It's called Aperture Cinema and as the video shows, it's coming together fast…. Their first showings are scheduled for … Read More
Time, Please Define “Mattered”
It's that time of year when Time magazine comes out with its "Person of The Year" accolade, usually to much guffawing and consternation. And to be honest, the Time award thing really has gone downhill since I won it in 2006. So Time chose Ben Bernake this year, which is a fine choice, to the extent that he embodies the … Read More
Glee Get Menzel
Well, they had Chenowith, so…. why not? She'll be portraying the coach of McKinley High's rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline.
How To Be Nicole Scherzinger (The Middle Judge In “The Sing-Off”)
If the singing group is all women, be sure to say they were "sassy but classy". In fact, say it two or three times. Unless, of course they weren't, in which case you tell them that you wished they could have been more "sassy" and/or "classy" Make a reference to the fashion of the era of the song. For example, if … Read More
The Sing-Off
As a Tufts alumni and fan of a cappella, I was eager to see The Sing Off and I wasn't disappointed. But I didn't think it was necessary for the host to mention several times that the competitors were singing without instruments. Even if I didn't know what a cappella meant, I would have figured that out within the first … Read More
The Red Balloon(s)
There's a military experiment taking place tomorrow, and we're the guinea pigs. All of us. At 10 am tomorrow, DARPA, which stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (the U.S. military's research arm) will release ten large red weather balloons at ten different points somewhere in the United States: "They're not going to be out in the middle of nowhere," … Read More
“Don’t Text Your Junk”: James Lipton
The idea of teenagers sexting is disconcerting, but so is this anti-sexting public service announcement starring The Actor's Studio's James Lipton, in which he invokes the phrase "junk"… There's a lot more like this, i.e.: RELATED — MSNBC takes a closer look at sexting today: More than a quarter of young people have been involved in sexting in some form, … Read More
Changing One’s Facebook Info To “Married”…. While AT The Altar
Cute: He also twittered, too. Here's his tweet:
White House Crashers
First balloon boy, now the White House crashers – seems people will do anything to get on reality TV. Can't we just outlaw the practice of trying to make yourself a media sensation? Or better yet, can't we just make reality TV illegal? UPDATE: Some depressing stats and thoughts from the New York Times — Once you throw in the ever-expanding … Read More