Posted 8:10 AM by Gene

On a happier note, today is August 1. What's so special about August 1? Today is Week 9. Week 9 of what? Week 9 (we think) of PEOPLE WARNER selling "Get Smart" on a Steen billboard overlooking I-95. PEOPLE WARNER seems to love its TENTPOLES; recently we noted how it had lovingly left an ad for some basketball movie in a garage weeks after it had left the theaters. Maybe "No-Does-Not-Rhyme-With" Bewkes and his other overpaid TWXSTERS zoom up and down I-95 (don't know why; maybe to hector Congresspoops over DRM) to exclaim, "WHAT A DEEP BENCH OF TENTPOLES WE HAVE!" Or maybe somebody wants to stick it to all the TWXSTERS who've been laid off. Or maybe Steen hasn't a clue what's it's doing. We imagine PEOPLE WARNER plastering hundreds of billboards this way, and not giving any more of a damn than it does for its filmic excretions. Whatever the case that "Get Smart" billboard is a comfort to us, reminding us that in this life there are verities, and one of them is billboards.

Who knows? Maybe it's selling the DVD.

We wonder what Otto Fingerbanger would think. He probably wouldn't.