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I’m guessing that Mel’s deal with ABC/Disney to produce a miniseries on the Holocaust is going to fall through…. NEXT DAY FOLLOW-UP:  Yup, I called it. The ABC television network has pulled a miniseries about the Holocaust it was developing with Mel Gibson’s production company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, quoting an unidentified representative for the network. Gibson … Read More

I was never a big Mel Gibson fan to begin with.  I got tired of his macho films, from Braveheart to The Patriot, and his latest snuff film ("The Passion of the Christ") sent me over the edge. It looks like Hollywood may be having its own doubts about Mel, following his drunken anti-Semitic rage: A stunned Hollywood debated the … Read More

Yesterday’s mystery house was the Brady Bunch house. And keeping with the Brady theme, here is a clip from the show.  In his biography, Barry Williams (who played Greg) says that he played this scene (where the station wagon pulls into the driveway), like, totally baked, man.  And it shows.  He just grins a lot, and almost trips over a … Read More

Look, kids.  You can get married twenty times for all I care — it’s still only gonna last a year.

…your first reaction to reading that Haley Joel Osment [the kid in "The Sixth Sense"] was in a one-car automobile accident is "He’s old enough to drive?!?"

Zuiilin English is a popular Japanese TV show that combines aerobics with English lessons.  You’ll really want to see this.  It’s so good, I’m going to "bump" this post to the top.  Enjoy:

And I’m such a sucker for this….

Ezra Klein gets a little obssessed with the headbutting video. What’s more, take a look (as you did the JFK assassination video) at Materazzi’s head. What I would expect–after a frontal assault on his chest–is for his body to move backwards and for his extremities to compensate (momentum conservation for you science folks) by lurching forwards. What’s more, you’d expect … Read More

I thought it was an "open secret" that she was gay.  But I see nothing about that in the obits, and I’m not going to say anything. Except, you know, I already did.

The English language is always evolving, and I dig the English language (in fact, I use it all the time). So that’s why I’m always interested in seeing what new words have made it into the dictionary. A century ago, in 1806, these "new words" (among others) were added to Webster’s Dictionary: Americanize verb: to render Americancaddy noun: a small … Read More