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Spring Ahead, Fall Down Drunk... Message from Stuff Party Candidate... Charlton Heston: 1923-2008... New Logo.... Short News Items... Disney Section.... Sad Scar-Jo News... Sci-Fi Remakes... Grace Park (SYGW 2007 Sci-Fi Hottie of the Year)... It's Alive Remake... Indiana Jones Month... Amy Winehouse (Elvis Would Be So Proud)... Speed Racer... No Woman of the Year?... Akira Kurosawa on IFC... Scarlett and Jessica Off the Market... Meatcakes... Obligatory Lacey Chabert Career Story... George Romero... Armin Shimerman... Harvey Korman/Sydney Pollack... Bo Diddley/Top 10 Guitar Songs... Movies, Movies, Movies... Monsters Are Such Interesting People... Quotes of the Year Nominees... Well Blow Us Down: Popeye... Help, Superman!... Summer, Summer, Summer... Wilder About Billy
SPRING AHEAD, FALL DOWN DRUNK
The first quarter of 2008 is over and not a moment too soon.
All January
to March News
has been archived for posterity. As spring arrives, we find
ourselves fascinated with Walt Disney, as many of you may have realized
by checking our daily updates. John B.'s decision to review the VHS
copies of Pinocchio,
Fantasia
and Bambi
laying around the house soon turned into a quest to track down every
animated feature Walt Disney made in his lifetime, and then some.
Unfortunately, thanks to a wrong-headed policy of the Disney company
today, some films are difficult to find without paying for them, and
times are tough. So we are still looking for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
and Sleeping Beauty,
among others. Wish The Disney People would keep all their classics
available at all times, but they like to do this stupid
"limited release" thing where they take films off the market for seven
years. D'uh! In seven years we might all be dead!
God forbid, but you know, there always talking about global
warming and those meteors and asteroids in space that are on a
collision course with Earth, so we're just not that comfortable waiting
the seven years. Sorry to depress you but we tell it straight
here at Stuff You Gotta Watch. Welcome to
Spring, and try not to hurt yourself.
A MESSAGE FROM THE
STUFF PARTY CANDIDATE
Greetings, My Fellow Americans! As you know, I
dropped out
of the Presidential Race some time ago owing to miscalculations on my
part ("Higher Taxes, Lower Expectations" being an especially poor
campaign slogan.) But now, I hear the Democrat and Republican
candidates are starting to consider running mates. Hey,
Senator Obama! Consider me. Think of it!
What
better way to represent the wonderful diversity of this land than an
African-American and a guy with bandages all over his face?
Hey,
Senator McCain! What about me? Think of
it! A war hero
and a guy with bandages all over his face! What sympathy and respect
we'll get! Hey, Senator Clinton! What better...
um...
Think of... umm... yeah, I got nothin', Ms. Clinton. Sorry.
Call
me if you think of an angle. Anyway, I'm available, not just
to
run as Vice-President, but for parties and stuff. I do
balloon
animals and can juggle up to three rubber balls. I'll be
waiting
at the phone, even at 3 AM in the morning. Thank you all and
God
Bless The Good Old US of A!
MOSES RETURNS TO THE PROMISED LAND
Charlton Heston 1923-2008
Movie icon Charlton Heston has passed away.
Some of his best known roles were often larger than life
figures: Moses in The
Ten Commandments, the title role in Ben-Hur,
painter Michaelangelo in The
Agony and the Ecstasy, and the last hope for humanity in
both Planet of the Apes
and The Omega Man.
Some of his other popular films include
Touch of Evil, The Greatest Show on Earth,
Julius Caesar
and Soylent Green,
and television fans may remember him from the prime time soap operas Dynasty and The Colbys.
Truly a screen legend, Heston was 84.
LOGO ON THE GA-GOGO
Since we've gotten our own domain, it bothered us that the
official domain name was "the stuff you gotta watch dot com" while the
name of the site is "Stuff You Gotta Watch". So we made a new
logo for the top of our main page. For those of you that
liked
the old logo, we may use it elsewhere. For those of you who
don't like the new logo, tough noogies. We think it's hip.
We think it's now. We think the other kids will
think we're
cool and stop demanding our lunch money in the schoolyard.
Anyway, new logo. Learn to love it. And
the actual
name of our site is whatever you want it to be. It's
your
world,
we only write reviews in it.
KIBBLES AND BITS - Short News Items
Legendary rock and roll songwriter Bob Dylan has won a
Pulitzer
Prize for his life's work. When asked what he thought of the
honor, Bob said... well, we don't know what he said, but we assume he
mumbled something incomprehensible and walked away mysteriously......
It warms our hearts to find
out that Hollywood is finally once again making a movie out of a
classic novel
rather than a comic book. In the works from Screen Gems
is a
new big screen version of Jane Austen's Emma.
Wait... what?.... oh, it's going to be a "hip-hop
reimagining" of
the novel. Because we always needed one of those.
Can't
wait for the sequel: 50
Cent and Sensibility... Stuff You Gotta Watch
has tracked down a used version of Snow
White and the Seven Dwarves
on VHS. It should be arriving in our massive headquarters in
NYC
(one office, usually shared with a cat) soon, so we can finally add a
review of this classic to our Animation section.... that's the news....
stay tuned for your local weather, followed by the best of Saved By The Bell: The College
Years, already in progress.
SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT, STRAIGHT ON TIL MORNING
Seven new Disney reviews were recently added to our
brand new Walt
Disney section. First there is Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first full-length
feature, and still as good as ever. Second is Fun and Fancy Free,
a package film from the 1940s, an era in which Walt was just sort of
throwing anything up on the screen to see if it would stick.
The
third is Aladdin,
possibly the funniest Disney film ever, although we get the feeling old
Walt might have said "Hmm... it's too busy." Then we've got The Rescuers,
a little gem from 1977s, and Sleeping Beauty,
a huge, shiny and slightly gaudy gem from 1959.
Clearly on a roll, we then reviewed The
Great Mouse Detective and Oliver
& Company. Speaking of Disney
films, wasn't it just a year or two ago that they were supposed to be
going back to traditional 2D hand drawn animation? Now the
word
is they are instead going to go 3D. Count Floyd may approve, but 3D was
a gimmick, still is a gimmick and always will be a gimmick.
As
was sound and color before it!
SCARLETT
READY FOR THE HOME
(Or: "Maybe She Should Star in a Logan's Run Remake")
Today is the saddest day in Hollywood history.
Scarlett
Johansson, all of 23, was slated to star in Napoleon
& Betsy,
the story of a young woman (we presume her name was Betsy) who falls in
love the with exiled but lovable Napoleon Bonaparte on the Isle of
Lucy... er... Elba. But it was decided that Miss Scarlett
was... was...
it's so hard to say... too old! There! We've said
it. So now, it is
rumored she is being replaced in the film by Harry Potter actress Emma
Watson, who, as of this writing, has been 18 for, oh, fifteen minutes
or so. This news is disturbing in two ways. First, the
thought that
Hollywood now thinks Scarlett Johansson is now too
old to play a young
woman!? Secondly, Emma Watson, that cute little
bushy-haired moppet
from Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone,
is already an adult!?
Move
over, Scarlett - now we feel old too.
THAT'S ALL I CAN STANDS!
Greetings, Earthlings.
Science and Technology
editor General Krankor here.
And boy am I livid! I said
nothing when
your Hollywood people remade Planet
of the Apes into a Mark "Marky
Mark" Wahlberg vehicle. I sat silently when I heard the news that The
Day The Earth Stood Still was being remade with
Keannu Reeves. I bit my
tongue when I learned that in the remake, Klaatu was visiting us not to
tell us to cool it with our weapons of war, but to warn us about global
warming. But I can remain silent no longer. According to Ain't It Cool
News, The Incredible Shrinking Man
is being redone as an Eddie Murphy
vehicle! First of all, didn't they already remake this with Lily
Tomlin? And secondly... arggh! Stop remaking the greatest
science
fiction films ever! I'm serious! If you don't, I will come
visit and my
message won't be about switching to flourescent lightbulbs! Krankor
out!
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF PARK GO I
Just a short, painless note to mention that not only has this
current season of Battlestar Galactica
been a little boring (still
good, but not terribly exciting), but also has suffered greatly from a
shortage of The Stuff You Gotta Watch
2007 Sci-Fi Hottie of the Year
Grace Park, aka Boomer, aka Sharon, aka a bunch of other names. It is
in the U.S.
Constitution that we have the right to petition the government for a
redress of grievances. Well, if not enough Grace Park is a grievance,
we want redress! Or something to that effect!
IT'S OFFICIAL: NOTHING LEFT TO REMAKE
Your News Anchor, Pookie
We've just seen a trailer for an upcoming horror
movie. The film is titled It's
Alive,
and if that sounds familiar to some of you, it's because it was
originally made in the 1970s. The story of a killer baby, it
lead
to two sequels, It Lives Again
and Island of the Alive.
One of the cheesiest films of that particular decade, the original It's Alive is mentioned lovingly
in the article "Getting Trashed at the Movies"
in our Ready
for the Closeup
section. Why this particular film has been remade, we don't
know
nor do we care. Of course, we suspect that this new version will also
spawn sequels, but we're betting that they will just be called It's Alive 2 and It's Alive 3.
MAY IS INDIANA JONES MONTH (Or: Concept Now, Half-Hearted Execution to Come!)
May 5It has just come to our attention that there is a new Indiana Jones movie coming out this month titled Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Last year our Harry Potter Month was so successful (well, we liked it) that we thought it was time to honor Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. Right now all we have are reviews of the first three films, starting wth Raiders of the Lost Ark, followed by Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade. And in truth, that's probably all we will do except for a possible review of the new one when it comes out.
ELVIS WOULD BE SO PROUD
Rehab Tramp Beat Reporter,
Kukla - May 9
How much does anyone want to bet that "Amy
Winehouse
Released on Bail" becomes a standard headline every few weeks?
Winehouse, a talented singer, is destroying her own career,
as
well as her life, with drug abuse and subsequent violent behavior.
She's already
lost the opportunity to record the
latest Bond theme due to her erratic behavior, and Winehouse is the
first singer in ages who has
the brassy chops to needed to put over a Bond theme.
But she's in horrible shape, as one look at any recent photo
will
attest to. For God's sake, her hair is falling out!
Is
there nobody in her circle of friends or entourage who will
help
her out? Or are they just going to sit around watch her
eventually die? We're not even going to make fun of her - the
situation is just too sad.
OHNOSPEEDWECRASHEDANDBURNEDBIGTIME!
Your News Anchor, Pookie -May 11
The numbers are in for the big-budget
blockbuster of the week, Speed Racer,
and they are not good, falling
well below already lowered expectations. Just goes to show that maybe
making movies out of old Japanese cartoons that we
knew were complete crap even when we were kids is perhaps not a good
idea. True, the Scooby Doo movies did pretty well and those
cartoons were crap too, but Scooby
Doo has never been off the air, so at least it had name
recognition among kids. I haven't seen a Speed Racer cartoon
since I was a wee cub. Oh, maybe it plays on some obscure
cable channel somewhere, but that's the point, isn't
it? Meanwhile, Ironman
raked in big bucks for a second week,
proving what I always say: I don't know what the hell I'm talking
about. Next week, the second Narnia film comes
out, and the
week after, Indiana
Jones returns. Remember when summers only
had one or two big-budget blockbusters, and they were usually
unintentional. No? Shut up! l'm not old!
STATS DON'T LIE, RUGS DO
Babewatch Correspondent Mickey "Kitty" Galore, May 15
A yearly tradition at Stuff You Gotta Watch
is in danger of falling by the wayside. In 2006, we named
actress Sarah
Michelle Gellar our Woman of the Year for the number of hits
that lead visitors to this site. In 2007, actress Lacey
Chabert
won the honor. But so far in 2008, not only is there no clear
frontrunner in our Woman of the Year race, there is hardly anybody in
the race at all. As we peruse the stats from our new stats
service, it seems like searches for hot young babes are out this year
at SYGW. Which boggles our minds, since, as the poet once
said,
man's reach must exceed his search for hot young babes, or what is an
Internet for? This year, we may have to choose our Woman of
the
Year by hand, which actually sounds like fun. Yeah, I may
have
been fixed, but a guy can dream, can't he?
ATTENTION, KUROSAWA FANS!
One of my favorite things about The Independent Film Channel
is
their weekly Samurai Saturday film. Each Saturday,
at 8 AM
EST, IFC shows a classic Japanese film. It is thanks to Samurai
Saturday that I was inspired to devote three separate sections of this
site to Japanese
Cinema, including an entire section covering classic blind
hero Zatoichi.
On June 7th, IFC will be
offering the very first film directed by Akira Kurosawa, Sanshiro Sugata,
the story of the origins of Judo. A week later, IFC will
air the government-ordered sequel Sanshiro
Sugata Part 2.
Two very early Kurosawa films, made during World War II, and
quite a ways before Mr. Kurosawa went completely ga-ga for actor Toshiro Mifune.
I haven't seen either film and am looking forward to nearly completing the Kurosawa
section of Stuff You Gotta Watch.
(I would be two films shy of total completion.) So if you are
a
Kurosawa fan and haven't seen these films, I've alerted you.
And
for you Disney
fans, we are working on getting a copy of Beauty
and the Beast. - JB
AND
ALL OVER THE WORLD, MEN EVERYWHERE MUTTER OBSCENITIES TO THEMSELVES
From the very beginnings of this site, we've always had a
perverse (that's perverse, not perverted!) fondness for Scarlett
Johansson and Jessica Alba. They were at first figures of fun, but
after a while, we realized that, despite our lingering doubts about
their talent to publicity ratios, these two gals (is that sexist?
Who cares?) were among the hardest working hotties in this
bidnis
we call show, and there were so many other less-talented and
more
fame-hungry actresses in Hollywood we could poke fun at. So
we
granted reprieves to "Scar-Jo" and "Jalba the Hot". And how
did
they reward us? Well, Scarlett is now engaged and Jessica is
reportedly married. We could mention the names of their significant
others but, honestly, we were so emotionally distraught over the news,
we never got past the headlines. Still, we wish them eternal
happiness and successful careers. Scarlet and Jessica, that
is.
Their significant others can go straight to
bloody hell,
lucky bastards....
BUT SERIOUSLY, WHO DOESN'T LOVE MEATCAKES?
We recently uploaded a review of the 1939 animated film Gulliver's
Travels. As we often do, we simply
used an old review in the same category as a template (in
this case, Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time)
and edited all the information to fit the new review. But
sometimes we forget to edit some things out, such as when we had, for
at least half a year, the cast of Mean
Girls starring in Heathers.
So if some of you read our review of Gulliver's
Travels
and couldn't quite remember Gulliver (or anybody) in the film
yelling "I got the mad love for the meatcakes!", you are not
mistaken. We forgot to edit out that particular quote from
the
Kim Possible review. That has been rectified. Still, it's a great quote
and its inclusion would benefit just about any movie. Can you imagine
if in Citizen Kane,
Charles Foster Kane's dying words were not "Rosebud" but "I got the mad
love for the meatcakes!"? Would have made a whole different film.
OBLIGATORY LACEY CHABERT
CAREER
STORY
(aka "Crazy, Sexy Eyes!")
We're not sure if some of you are as behind our ongoing
attempt to revive actress Lacey Chabert's sagging career as we think
you should be. So we are here to help with a trailer for a
movie Lacey filmed this year, one that as of yet has no release date.
We don't even know if it will out in theaters or, as with
most
movies starring this woman these days, it will go straight to
DVD.
It's called The Lost,
and from the looks of it, it has
everything you would want in a movie - torture, insanity and Armand
Assante. And, of course, the beautiful and talented Lacey
Chabert, who has crazy, sexy eyes in the trailer! And she's
in an
insane asylum! And she smokes! And gets electroshock therapy!
All it needs is some zombies and Morgan Freeman, and
you'd have what could be the greatest
movie ever! Alas, we probably kid ourselves. This actually
looks like the kind of slipshod production where they
might give
an actress a special credit and then spell her first name
wrong. Which they do with Lacey at the
end of the trailer. It's sad. But she does have crazy, sexy eyes!
WHEN THERE'S NO MORE ROOM IN HELL, GEORGE ROMERO WILL STILL BE MAKING ZOMBIE MOVIES
Hey, kids! Count Floyd here. I haven't
been around
because there's been so little 3D news lately, but I have a little
editorial about a movie now available for rental. It's called Diary of the Dead and it's yet
another George Romero sequel to his classic Night
of the Living Dead. Now, we here at Stuff You Gotta Watch
haven't seen it yet, but we will. But from what we know, it
seems
like Romero has finally run his whole zombie franchise into the ground.
The film was out in theaters, in limited release, for about
five
minutes. Now it is out on DVD. When a Romero Zombie
movie
can't get a proper release in theaters, it may be time for old George
to come up with something else. I mean, he did other good
movies
in the past, such as Martin
and The Crazies,
right? Why is it always zombies with this guy? Doesn't he any
other ideas? Sure, George Lucas keeps regurgitating Star Wars
time and again, but he's an idiot child. Romero is smarter
than
that. Come on, George, come up with something different!
We
know you can do it! I'm Count Floyd. Now back to our movie, Minnesota Fats and the Kingdom of the
Brain-Eating Prairie Dogs! Owoooooo!
IT'S THE PRINCIPAL OF THE THING
So here I am (on the right, with beard), standing next to
actor
Armin Shimerman (on the left, without), known to many as Principal
Snyder from Buffy the Vampire Slayer,
known to many more as Quark the Ferengi from Star
Trek,
and known to his friends and family as Armin. How I
came to
meet this friendly and forgiving science fiction and fantasy icon is a
story unto itself, a story as timeless as Dickens' A Christmas Carol, as
surprising as O'Henry's The Gift of
the Magi and as insightful as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
Okay, it's a story with none of those qualities, but it's my
site
and I can say what I want. So read all about it in the
article "How
To Insult a Ferengi on $40 a Day" in our Ready for the Closeup
section. You'll be glad you did. Or not. And that
"on the
right, on the left thing" just means who is standing where in the
picture. It doesn't mean where we stand politically.
We're
not going to be new Hannity and Colmes or anything like that.
(But that would be cool, wouldn't it?) - JB
FRIDAY FUN PAYS TRIBUTE TO HARVEY KORMAN
For this week's Friday
Fun
video, we were all set to present Bob and Ray when we heard of
the
passing of Harvey Korman, famed second banana to Carol Burnett, and
part of the Mel Brooks Stock Company. So this week, instead
of
Bob and Ray, we present "The
Dentist Sketch" from The
Carol Burnett Show.
Notice that Mr. Korman does not do anything in the sketch but
sit
in a chair. But his genuine attempts at supressing his own
laughter (he was always helpless when working with Tim Conway) made
this sketch and many others twice as much fun as they would have been.
Join us next week for Bob and Ray. Adios, Harvey -
you will
be missed.
R.I.P. DIRECTOR SYDNEY POLLACK 1934-2008
IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW BO... YOU DON'T KNOW DIDDLEY
In honor of the passing of guitar legend Bo Diddley, we present the top
ten "Guitar Songs" as chosen by Rolling
Stone magazine. Unfortunately, there's not one Bo Diddley
song on the list, but then again, what does Rolling Stone
know anyway? By the way, ever notice how many rockers from
the
sixties are now dead, while fifties rockers Chuck Berry, Little
Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino and (until just recently) Bo
Diddley are still around? If ever rock and roll had a
"greatest
generation", those guys from the fifties were it. Anyway, bye
bye, Bo.
TOP TEN GUITAR SONGS AS
CHOSEN BY ROLLING STONE
1. Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)
2. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
3. Crossroads (Cream)
4. You Really Got Me (The Kinks)
5. Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones)
6. Eruption (Van Halen)
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles)
8. Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
9. Statesboro Blues (The Allman Brothers)
10. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
MOVIES, MOVIES, MOVIES
June 10th
While we haven't had a chance to update the site this week because of
personal business (happy personal business, thankfully), that doesn't
mean we haven't been watching movies. In the works are
thoughts
on To Kill a Mockingbird, Hang 'Em High
and The Nutty Professor
(Jerry Lewis version). Webmaster John B. may be going to see Hancock, aka This Summer's Will
Smith Movie, and if so, will probably post a review in our Contemporary Film
section. Next Saturday, IFC plays another early Kurosawa flick (Sanshiro Sugata Part 2) and of
course we will add a review of that in our Akira Kurosawa section.
Now if we could only track down a copy of Beauty and the
Beast to
complete our Walt
Disney section!
MONSTERS ARE SUCH INTERESTING PEOPLE
Hey, friends - The Grim Reaper here. My friends at Stuff You Gotta Watch
have been a little busy lately, so they've had to put off some things
they wanted to do this week and intend to return to the site in full
next week. Little do they know I have other plans for...
well, be
that as it may... the point is, I have uncovered some previously
written but never uploaded reviews for the Infamous Monsters section.
So this supposed classic movie website finally has reviews of
Frankenstein, Bride of
Frankenstein, The
Wolf Man, King
Kong and The Son
of Kong. While perusing through the
archives, I also saw a long discarded review of
Disney's Ice Princess.
I don't what that's about... seems a little girly... I'm just
sayin'... anyway, the boys are unavailable for comment on that one so... anyway... got
things to do... people to see... bye.
R.I.P. TIM RUSSERT
QUOTE
OF THE YEAR ENTRIES
June 14
Producer Robert Halmi was (dis)honored with our 2007 Quote of the Year Award
and Heather
Ex-McCartney Mills is
already in the running for the 2008 Award. But now we have
two very strong contenders who just may pushy Stumpy McAlimony out of
the contest this year. Robert Iger, Chief Executive over at
Disney, recently
said this: "I love classic Mickey, but he needs to evolve to be
relevant to new generations of kids." "Evolve", of course, is
probably a polite way of saying "be bastardized", and we can
easily imagine an anime
Mickey with
samurai sword and futuristic jet pack.
But we may already have a winner for our 2008 Quote of the Year, from the mouth of executive marketing Vice President of Warner Brothers Lisa Gregorian: "You want a dark, Goth version of Tweety Bird? Have at it." We admit this quote is taken out of context (she was talking about a proposed section on a WB site where visitors can "re-imagine" classic cartoon characters) but it does sum up so many things that are wrong with Hollywood today. Yet a third contender is a line from Jeffrey Conrad, head designer for the American Greetings, who is working on an updating of their character Strawberry Shortcake (because if there is one thing the wolrd needs, it's a new Strawberry Shortcake). When talking about how the new TV series will be more nutritionally correct (our phrase, not his), Conrad unleashed this classic: "We're downplaying characters that were part of Strawberry's world but who didn't immediately shout out fruit."
"When I was a kid, I would only color in coloring books that starred cartoon characters. Any other kind of coloring book was a lie, created by monsters who hated kids." --- Cartoonist John K, whose fun, informative, graphics-heavy blog All Kinds of Stuff, devoted to the art of animation, tipped this site off to the quotes above. If you like cartoons and the art of drawing, check out All Kinds of Stuff!
WELL BLOW US DOWN!
June 22
Warner Brothers has released the second volume of black and
white
Popeye cartoons on DVD, which means we can finally continue our Popeye
section. First up is Popeye 1938,
a transitional year for the series. Bluto disappears for a
while
while Poopdeck Pappy and Eugene the Jeep make their debuts and Olive
Oyl gets a new voice. Wotta year! Then we have Popeye 1939,
Popeye 1940
and Aladdin
and His Wonderful Lamp. So open up a can of spinach
and relive the
adventures of the one-eyed sailor in our Popeye in Black and White
section.
HELP, SUPERMAN!
June 25
Inspired by Max and Dave Fleischer's amazing Popeye cartoons, we were
all set to open up a brand new section devoted to the Fleischer's (and
later Famous Studio's) Superman cartoons from the 1940s. But,
sadly, the disc that was advertised on a well-known video mail rental
site was not the video that we actually received. We expected
17
fully-restored Superman cartoons and got 10 fair to crappy looking
ones. And so our Superman section will remain a dream until
we
get access to the restored versions. Curse you, Lex Luthor
(we
know you're behind this!)
R.I.P. GEORGE CARLIN 1937-2008
"I'm a visionary, I'm ahead of my time. Trouble is I'm only about an hour and a half ahead."
FRIDAY FUN: Summer, Summer, Summer!
June 26
In our part of the world, summer has just begun, and Friday Fun
now changes from tributing sketch comedy to a summer long celebration
of... summer! Summer is the beach. Summer is movie
blockbusters. Summer is Brian, Carl, Dennis, Al and Mike (aka
The
Beach Boys). To start your summer off right (or if you are on
the
other side of the world, your winter), check out a vintage commercial
from the 1960s advertising the now defunct Palisades Amusement Park in
Palisades, New Jersey. Then take a ride on the wooden coaster
at
the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, Washington. Summer has
arrived and it can be found at Friday Fun. (Pictured: Summer Glau,
our top candidate so far for the 2008 Sci-Fi Hottie of the Year.)
WILDER ABOUT BILLY
After adding reviews of Stalag 17 and The Lost Weekend
to this site in recent days, we thought it proper to honor director
Billy Wilder by adding him to our pantheon of Great Directors,
alongside guys like Marty Scorsese, Alfred Hitchock and John Ford.
So we did. It's as simple as that. So join us in
celebrating the work of Billy Wilder by visiting (wait for it...) our Billy Wilder Section.
Dedicated to Billy Wilder. Natch. Oh, and now each
section devoted to a director has it's own section title. Billy's
is: "Out There in the Dark: The Billy Wilder Section."
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