Posted 5:49 PM by Gene

Something called On Chesil Beach ("Set in the UK during the early 1960s, a woman [SIC] along with her friend wants to lose their [SIC] virginity to beat repression. Their plans end badly as many complications arise from their bold and scandalous plans." What's the diff between this and a JUDD APATOW except someone can get on his high horse and this isn't a comedy?); OUIJA; a REMAKE of something called Overboard; OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL....

P's tomorrow -- as in...



PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-U!

Posted 5:39 PM by Gene

TRANSLATION: This gag is sheer posturing. Unless BANEHEAD can prove he is not a conventional politician -- and he cannot -- we'll just have a repeat of the last four years with lip-service to fiscal sanity added -- or worse, Realtor Denny's money orgy. Abe Lincoln saw nothing against revolution. When do the people finally revolt against their lame-brained set-in-cement masters?

While NPR has long bristled at accusations of liberal bias, a recent study by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found that 61 percent of NPR's audience describes itself as progressive, while only 15 percent described themselves as tea party supporters. The difference between parties was smaller but still pronounced: 40 percent of NPR listeners described themselves as Democrats, while only 14 percent called themselves Republicans.

Keach does not tell us when NPNTR has "bristled" or how, but we can see it pulling that Chevron joke. The best for NPNTR to do is meekly admit it's liberal, and say it will do better. Anything else is searing dishonesty.

Posted 11:31 PM by Gene

I wonder how many knee-jerk liberals are saying tonight, "Rangers? Aren't they owned by that EVIL CHRISTIAN NAZI...oh wait. He sold them."

Posted 5:08 PM by Gene

A JOE NAMATH BIOPIC (does he wear the pantyhose?); NATIONAL TREASURE 3 (does it finally go bankrupt?); something called New Year's Eve, a SPINOFF of Valentine's Day; NICK FURY: AGENT OF S.H.I.E.L.D., ANOTHER MARVEL COMIC-BOOK MOVEE....

O next -- as in OH, BROTHER!

Posted 11:35 AM by Gene

This is Tucker, but we need not be reminded the voters won't even have the GOP on a leash -- they'll have it by the scruff of its neck.

And they're prepared to choke it.

Posted 11:02 AM by Gene

It pleases me to see the first-person shooters that dominate the videogame biz are full of bugs, which suggests their sales decline isn't a short-term thing. If bugs are intrinsic to the games why bother buying them? Or does one seek a vicarious thrill first-person-shooting the bugs?

I really do wish though it were possible to write on such a topic without hinting that despite it all videogames can cure cancer. Or to put it another way, if this typing is the norm videogame cri-TICS are displacing rock mu-SICK cri-TICKS on the bad-writing pedestal with their pretension.

Posted 9:53 AM by Gene

Did you have to tell us, Ms. Travers? That auteur David Zucker is back. As the saying goes be careful what you wish for.

Posted 9:30 AM by Gene

NPNTR's OMBUDSPOOP SPEAKS: She says this "public relations nightmare provides the basis that earned public radio's reputation for quality." Okay, we're editing, and clumsily, but that's how the Starbucks of the Air feels, and deep down inside they're proud of it.

Given how Juan landed on a very soft featherbed we're not feeling especially sorry for him either.

Posted 9:24 AM by Gene

If the two-sided loudmouth Bob Gibbs ever quits we nominate JONNY for his replacement; he could be the most tone-deaf hack in the job since RON ZIEGLER. There are many reasons to detest SLIME but being insufficiently prostrate before M----MS is not one of them. How did liberals get to be BFFs with M----MS -- at the expense of Jews?

Posted 8:36 PM by Gene

Three years later, Chevron proves once again "every last penny the oil companies spend on advertising in general and image advertising in particular is money wasted."

Posted 5:30 PM by Gene

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD; MADAGASCAR 3; MADEA'S BIG HAPPY FAMILY; MAJOR MATT MASON, based on A MATTEL TOY; Maleficent, an ESPNCORP LIVE-ACTION REMAKE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY; MAMMA MIA 2!!!!!!!!!!; MARVIN THE MARTIAN!!!!!!!!!!; Mary, Mother of Christ (from the same biz as JESUS HENRY CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!), another attempt to lure the poor, uneducated and easily commanded into the popcorn restaurants; Mass Effect, A VIDEOGAME ADAPTATION; MAX STEEL, based on ANOTHER MATTEL TOY; something called Maximum Ride, "a fantasy film about six teenagers who have been genetically altered to become part birds" (as in for the?); MEN IN BLACK 3; MICRONAUTS, ANOTHER MOVEE BASED ON TOYS; MISS SAIGON; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE IV!!!!!!!!!!; another Moby Dick, which "will be shot in the style of recent grachic [SIC] novel adaptations and will not be told from Ishmael�s [SIC] narration"; something called Motorcade, which "details how terrorists take over the President�s [SIC] limousine entourage as he travels through Los Angeles" (which party?); MRS. FRIMBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH; LORD SCHLOCKINTOSH'S THREATENED REMAKE OF MY FAIR LADY; something called My Mother's Curse, in which "Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand [SECOND BILLING?!?!?] play son and mother taking a cross-country road trip" (given Babs shouldn't that be My Mother Curses?); something called My Week with Marilyn, A BIOPIC ABOUT THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL, starring MICHELLE WILLIAMS AS MARILYN MONROE (?!?!?) and KENNETH BRANAGH AS SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER (?!?!?)....

N is next -- as in NO! NO!! NOT AGAIN!!!!!

Posted 2:46 PM by Gene

Last week in my continuing listing of future movee genius from HSX.com I mentioned "LUKE SPIELBERG'S THREATENED GERSHWIN BIOPIC." This could easily be the worst since Night and Day -- and Jack Warner had an excuse. The world saver starts with three big gaping holes: Al Jolson; Gertrude Lawrence; and the Astaires. (We might add a fourth gaping hole in Oscar Levant.) Who's going to sing all those wonderful songs? Here's a prediction: no one. LUKE will make an entirely DRAMATIC MOVIE. How can He do that? Easily: by devoting the first forty-five minutes to Gershwin's scuffling boyhood and the last forty-five minutes to his brain tumor. (Can you imagine the waves of saccharin from ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD?) We doubt He'll work in his sex life as the family might complain. We suspect Luke will avoid the trap LEGENDARY SCORSESE's set for Himself by avoiding the brand names in his life; hence we have a further hunch He'll cast Seymour Harvey What's-His-Name as Ira. There's a pairing: Spock and Capote. Perhaps He can devote a half-hour to George scribbling notes and Ira typing lyrics -- anything to make up for the lack of true talent to perform those ravishing tunes, unless of course He wants to take a risk and bring in Alanis Morissette and Elvis Costello. At its worst we're talking Ken Russell doing Norman Rockwell. This will be a travesty to end all travesties -- and thus the raves are a foregone conclusion.

P. S. I would note there appears to be nothing on the Web since SUPERNIKKI!!!!!'s breathless ad, so this project might be as much make-believe as on film.

Posted 2:02 PM by Gene

[L]istening to Limbaugh in my car today, carrying on about Obama with less than two weeks to the midterms -- and I'm someone who's heard him a lot and knows what a screamer he is -- I wonder how he can carry on like the kid you knew up the block who could stand there and holler dumbness until his face got red as a radish (oh, My God, is that where "redneck" comes from?!) and today, riding with my car windows down, I thought, "This guy is gonna split a gut so bad I better put my car windows up even if I'm in LA and he's broadcasting from Florida."

So THAT's how you came up with All in the Family!

Posted 1:56 PM by Gene

A LEGENDARY WELCH DREAM HEADLINE:

Nokia reports rise in profits, announces 1,800 job cuts

Posted 1:31 PM by Gene

Now in the sixth day of war with Cablevision, FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gets back at some competition!

Posted 11:28 AM by Gene

In continuing news of stupid:

The Providence Journal to Post Excerpts Only on Web Site

That should definitely drive print sales in Portland, Oregon!

Posted 11:25 AM by Gene

Official says President Mubarak to seek new term

He needs to?

Or rather, he needs to?

Posted 11:10 AM by Gene

I've got a GREAT patriotic idea! THE BIG C should run a contest: "GUESS WHEN THE DOW HITS A NEW ALL-TIME HIGH!" Have Boom-Boom as its front man! Plug the contest all day, every day! That alone should help the Wall Street Casino daydream to record highs!

Posted 10:20 AM by Gene

President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state has earned more than $8 million in salary and bonuses since January 2009 as an executive at a Wall Street bank that received a federal bailout.

Thomas R. Nides, a six-figure fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 presidential run, disclosed his compensation from Morgan Stanley in a recent filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Exceptionally well-qualified!

Why are such stories limited to the CONSERVATIVE GHETTO?

Posted 10:03 AM by Gene

A eulogy for EINSTEIN's work of GENIUS on a GENIUS:

At one point in the film, Sean Parker, the inventor of Napster, says of the supposed Facebook revolution he helped to promote that once people lived on farms, then in cities, but now they will live on the Internet -- which means living where there really is no such thing as the truth. I'd be sorry to think that that is the case, but it may be so. Yet I wonder if it means that, 50 or 100 years hence, Mr. Zuckerberg will have taken his place in the national pantheon alongside such old-time capitalist heroes as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, or if his invention of yet another form of the artificial life that our age mass-produces will have been forgotten along with his (by then) ancient technology? I don't know the answer to this question, but if The Social Network has anything to do with how he is remembered, it seems unlikely by that time that anyone will care about Mark Zuckerberg one way or the other.

Posted 9:37 AM by Gene

YAHOO!!!!! asks the burning question, how did KIM become a "star"? -- and even before we can utter "WE know" most of the commenters prove intelligent life may not exist in Sunnyvale.

Posted 9:32 AM by Gene

Speaking of National Public NewsTalk Radio, why should it be such a shock that it fired someone for saying a politically incorrect thing?

Can't wait for the OMBUDSPOOP's excuses.

Posted 9:13 AM by Gene

TRANSLATION: It was okay for us to ignore the Tea Party until it became a force of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. This is why NPR issued the EDICT.

Posted 9:02 AM by Gene

Con-SER-va-tives are having conniptions because MITCH continues to be so busy with his true first calling to obliterate campaign finance reform that he hasn't given any thought to repealing Obamacare. The situation is safe for now it says here but this is yet another reminder that when it comes to saving the taxpayers money the GOP isn't serious.

Posted 8:54 AM by Gene

Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.

Well don't forget, G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE is an international company.

(Via Seeking Alpha)

Posted 8:42 AM by Gene

SIDSWEEK's Russian edition shuts down, and Sid comes out swingin' (while patting himself on the back):

“If you ask me what could irritate the authorities about the Russian NEWSWEEK’s [SIC!] coverage, I will tell you: everything,” says Mikhail Zygar, NEWSWEEK RUSSIA’s [SIC!] news editor.

1. Couldn't some of your American readers say the same thing? 2. You have the money, Sid. Why didn't you finance a replacement? Oh, you don't have that much money?

Posted 8:33 AM by Gene

The debate on whether the persistently high unemployment rate is due to structural or cyclical factors has risen to the surface--including within the Federal Open Market Committee. As the Federal Reserve regional presidents assess whether to opt for additional monetary stimulus at the November FOMC meeting, some are considering the possibility that policies to boost aggregate demand may miss the boat.

You mean we're throwing all that money at the Wall Street Casino for nothing?

Posted 12:08 AM by Gene

Somebody must typetypetypetypetype that men and women started thinking differently in the convenient year of 1964 so we can insert an annoying in-with-the-in-crowd reference to that media darling THE SECOND GREATEST POP-CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY, knowing full well -- or more likely not knowing at all -- the NINETEENTH AMENDMENT was ratified in 1920, and the GOP pitched Warren Harding to the women because he was handsome, and they fell for it. (Never mind he ultimately proved a first-rank cad.) These epochal differences happened before, and SECOND GREATEST wasn't even on the air in 1920. There wasn't even commercial radio then. For God's sake can't some people think before they type? No, or they wouldn't be in the business.

Posted 11:52 PM by Gene

Bob Guccione -- we were about to call him the DONALD of PR0N, but in the end he was just another gold-chained sleazemaster, without even the benefit of Hef's fake-lounge-lizard ways -- has died. RIP.

P. S. on 10/21/2010 at 10:35 a. m. Given what the parrots are doing maybe we should have stuck with our first hunch.

Posted 6:58 PM by Gene

A greeting-card impresario (or as we must call him these days, an "entrepreneur") is leading a group that wants to buy The Boston Glob.

We looked hard for an apt illustration but anyone can make a greeting card these days.

(Via Paper of Re-CORD.com via Seeking Alpha)

Posted 4:56 PM by Gene

Something called LOL, a REMAKE of a French film; DC COMICS PICTURES' THREATENED LEGO MOVIE; something from JUDD APATOW called Let's Do This (about "[t]wo men who work for a motivational company go[ing] on a road trip for their job" -- scintillating!); MICHAEL DOUGLAS IN A LIBERACE BIOPIC (?!?!?); LITTLE FOCKERS; LUKE SPIELBERG'S THREATENED LINCOLN MOVIE; something called Lunch Lady (which "centers on an unassuming cafeteria worker who lives a double life as a private investigator" -- credible!)....

And speaking of rhymes with credible, tomorrow is the M's -- Mmmmmmmmmmm! Tasteless!

Posted 1:58 PM by Gene

Soros Donates $1 Million to Media Matters

1. Oh -- so now it's OFFICIAL. 2. That should pay for some of LIARLIAR BROCK's salary.

(Via the usual Romy, who we'd guess is quite surprised)

Posted 1:53 PM by Gene

Bargain hunters swoop in

The DUPES are back, or the BIG C viewers are back -- one and the same.

The indexes' gains came the day after stocks posted their biggest loss in two months, suggesting investors thought Tuesday's slide was overdone.

Who ever said mental illness was illegal?

Posted 1:44 PM by Gene

There's still a lot we don't fully understand about the Tea Partiers and the political independents who have lost faith in Obama. But one thing we should all be pretty clear on by now is that they hate, hate, hate anything that smacks of elitism. The spectacle of affluent 18-to-34-year-olds blanketing the Mall to snicker at jokes about wingnut ignoramuses and Bible thumpers will, I fear, have the effect of a red cape waved before a bull.

TRANSLATION: ED MURROW and ERIC SEVAREID will stage history's first CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED political rally.

(Via JENNIFER!)

Posted 10:24 AM by Gene

Meanwhile, the so-called "metered model" will allow readers who are referred from third-party sites such as blogs, social media networks and search engines access to specific content "without triggering the gate, which will preserve NYTimes.com's significant reach and advertising inventory," according to Robinson. (Emphasis added)

Pinch's wall has a mighty big hole in it.

(Via I Want Media)

Posted 9:51 AM by Gene

We were about to say, "TINA!!!!!, did you have to bring Bob Dornan back?", but him calling NEWT! an insufferable prig and Realtor Denny a "wet paper bag" was worth it.

Posted 9:41 AM by Gene

China Pledges Rare Earth Supply, Signals Export Rise

The Fentonville Politburo members must have screamed.

Posted 9:36 AM by Gene

One problem with news hackery is that so many of the typists stick with just one task through their careers they have worse than no new insights, they have thousands of recyclable old ones. This piece by a Human Events columnist points that up; fake pro wrestling tops fake FOX!!!!!!!!!!!News. Many people use cable only for sports. This should be obvious to the ad-blurbists but their chief purpose is making lots of PR noise to drown out their overweening ignorance.

Posted 8:49 AM by Gene

We did not know what to say about Tom Bosley yesterday but Sheldon Harnick (through our favorite Branson East columnist Mike) came up with a perfect quote:

"I wrote him a note not too long ago, but it came back. I didn't know where he was. Now I do. He's in that great acting studio in the sky."

Posted 8:13 AM by Gene

Source: Hurd romanced Sun exec while HP's CEO

This would seem a little less than Kosher.

Posted 6:54 PM by Gene

USAOKAY!!!!!, the rag that runs more show-biz advertising than any other, has just announced A NEW INVESTIGATIVE TEAM!!!!!

Headquartered where? At a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum?

Posted 6:08 PM by Gene

What happened to STEVEDOM today shows that many Wall Street Casino dealers believe in multiple happy endings. Perhaps The Lord God's Kingdom can only go ever upward, but we should behold their perspicacity and verisimilitude with the same disbelief the dealers had when the Tech Boom they willed ended.

YOU'LL WISH YOU'D OWNED APPLE WHEN IT CROSSES $400!!!!!!!!!! (Let's-get-on-our-knees-and...WISH overemphasis added)

By which time Its market cap will be $365,424,000,000, or $33,844,000,000 more than today's market cap of XOM. But why $400? Why not, say, $1,100 -- what STEVEDOM WILL sell for WHEN It crosses ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!

Aside from fraud, the Wall Street Casino's biggest business is BS.

Posted 5:58 PM by Gene

We will not read Eleah-NOAH for the simple reason that, like too many colyumnists, she's been writing since 1884 -- but gleaning just the URL one may not need a colyumn with this subject matter. After all, wasn't JIMMAH renominated? And he faced Teddy.

B. C.

Posted 5:41 PM by Gene

KICK-ASS 2; A REMAKE OF KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (?!?!?); ANTHONY HOPKINS IN KING LEAR [We can see the ads: "SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST SLASHER MOVIE!"]; KUNG FU PANDA: THE KABOOM OF DOOM....

How many disparaging adjectives can you think up beginning with the letter L? Lamebrained? Lousy? Lunkheaded? That's next.

Posted 5:36 PM by Gene

The weird goings on in Pennsylvania show how utterly the hacks' polls have dominated this election. We have always resented how the hacks can play tricks with our votes, and they have many different ways, from sampling errors to loaded questions. We must keep in mind that though polls have played tricks with our last two big elections our pols have played tricks with us first, prompting the sometime sampling errors and loaded questions.

Posted 5:29 PM by Gene

Speaking of hustle, we can't explain this sudden mea culpa for NFL head butts. Was it really some TV "analyst"? And why now, when the history of football is littered with butted heads? And will it do that much good given that some of the butts may be purely accidental? Certainly better something than nothing, to be sure, if it can prevent even one awful injury.

Posted 5:28 PM by Gene

Pete Rose says he finally gets what former baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti meant when he talked about reconfiguring his life.

TRANSLATION: Charlie Hustle's really hustling for the Hall this time.

Posted 2:58 PM by Gene

PILLHEAD SAYS "THE PRESIDENT LOOKS 'DEMONIC'"!!!!!!!!!!



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!

Two can play THAT game -- PILLHEAD!

Posted 10:34 AM by Gene

Oh great: A Robin Williams theme park in Branson East!

(Via Vulture)

Posted 10:30 AM by Gene

From the same kind of people who brought us the High-Tech Bubble, another fairy tale that may not have a happy ending.

We will not say the "investors" must have been smoking something because they've been on a Pollyanna high for quite a while.

(Via Seeking Alpha)

Posted 9:18 AM by Gene

TRANSLATION: UHMERIKUN INSTEETOOTS UV HYER LURNING use TOOIHSHUN AND TAX MUNEE to start BRANDING CAMPAYNS to lure more TOOIHSHUN AND TAX MUNEE to their SKOOLS, to finance more BRANDING CAMPAYNS, to....

And of course most of the SKOOLS end up BRANDING their own behinds.

Posted 5:58 PM by Gene

The press is not a Fourth Estate, a co-equal of the three branches of government, and it is due no lordly entitlements.

If anyone should know better it's a me-DIA cri-TIC.

Posted 5:34 PM by Gene

A movie about Jackie Kennedy (which will probably do as well as the movie on RFK); JAMES BOND 23; JEEPERS CREEPERS 3: CATHEDRAL; TWO VERSIONS OF JEKYLL AND HYDE; something called JESUS HENRY CHRIST!!!!!!!!!! (from the same biz that hides under a desk at the very thought of a M----M); JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN; JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION 2; a JONNY QUEST movee; a SEQUEL to the REMAKE of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH; JURASSIC PARK IV; DC COMICS PICTURES' THREATENED JUSTICE LEAGUE; A JUSTIN BIEBER 3D MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....



KILL THE FILM BIZ!!!!! (K is next.)

P. S. on 10/20/2010 at 5:23 p. m. The Johnsons appeared in our last roundup; evidently they've taken a long vacation.

Posted 3:15 PM by Gene

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww SHUCKS! Now TINA!!!!! and SIDSWEEK will have to go broke separately.

(Via the usual Romy)

Posted 3:06 PM by Gene

Top Facebook apps found to breach privacy

You've GOT to be KIDDING!!!!!

Posted 10:20 AM by Gene

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index rose 3 points to 16 in October to bring the gauge to the same level as June. Economists polled by MarketWatch expected the gauge to remain stuck at 13....

The housing market index hasn’t been above 50 since April 2006.

DOW 500 QUINTAGIGAHYPERMEGASUPERTRILLION OCTAZILLION!!!!!

Posted 10:10 AM by Gene

At Power Balladz, press notes [sic] state, "you can celebrate the best music of the '70s, '80s and '90s and liberate the rock star inside of you. The formula is simple: start with some blood-pumping arena rock songs by Motley Crue, Poison, Guns 'N' Roses, Journey and other kick-ass arena bands, add some talented rock singers, give them a full band, lots of lights, a fog machine, a video projection screen, plenty of leather and long hair, and you've got a concert, indeed an extravaganza. And while the Power Balladz band knows how to rock, the show takes an unexpected turn when the high school sweetheart of one of the musicians stumbles into the show after ten years apart, raising the question — will he be man enough to finally score the girl of his dreams?"

This Branson East theme park's closing?

P. S. Hey Andrew! Clever of you to copy from your own press release!

Posted 9:18 AM by Gene

WE HAVE A GIGANTIC AUDIENCE -- A GIGANTIC AUDIENCE, NO MATTER WHAT IS SAID ABOUT IT!!!!! [GIGANTIC overemphasis added]

While forcing ourselves to skim this I Want Media link we noticed a URL on the bottom of the screen: something like "meter-svc.nytimes.com". Please, Your Lordship Pinch, deny us junk like this!

Posted 8:54 AM by Gene

Uh, buddy, if we're innocent of playing the letch to our students via Facebook shouldn't we have worn a slightly different T-shirt?

Posted 8:41 AM by Gene

1. If we know all this super stuff why don't we just take the two out, or is this yet another tall tale concocted from intelligence fairy dust? 2. Yes, we'd believe the Pakistanis would protect them, assuming this is true.

Posted 12:43 AM by Gene

For God's sake, Econowiz, how long can we go on pretending Sharia is just a nice sweet little code of ethics? That Germany's chancellor got the word suggests not that much longer.

We wonder -- would The Econowiz still be going gangbusters if all those CEOs read it?

Posted 12:35 AM by Gene

As He and the Dolans tighten the noose around Their subscribers SLIME boasts of all the "original" programs He and the rest of the biz offer on basic cable. 1,462 PROGRAMS!!!!! may sound impressive to Amy but divide that by 52 and you have enough programs for one broadcast network -- and that includes a LOT of reality shows, whatever that talk of "CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED." And speaking of under-informed (we expect news hacks to be WELL-INFORMED?!?): "A season is likely to be 12 or 13 episodes long, not an EXHAUSTING!!!!! 22 weeks." (Exhausting overemphasis added.) Which aside from unintentionally noting most basic-cable shows are audience cheaters ignores that the broadcast networks once ran 39-week seasons -- followed by 13-week summer replacements. And let us remember many of these shows are not additive to the grand TV total -- they're subtractive. Even our pliable Amy admits, "The cable networks themselves usually don't reap...multimillion-dollar syndication deals, because their shows are worn out by the time they're ready. Cable plays them over and over again, unlike the networks, which often only air them twice." We repeat: We highly doubt the combined broadcast and cable networks put out more than the three networks did in, say, 1955 -- or in the golden age of radio.

SLIME, if You're going to run such half-witted stuff as this couldn't You put the JOURNALS behind a wall the way You did the TIMES -- completely, utterly and impenetrably?

(Via the annoying AHTSJournal)

Posted 11:02 PM by Gene

For once ADAM!!!!! has abandoned going with the most insipid show-biz flattery possible to commission a very troubling report on New York's hospitals. First the article says that city isn't as rich as everyone says it is. Second it implies the MEDS element in EDS-'n'-MEDS will need a lot of GUVMENT support one way or another, meaning any idea that EDS-'n'-MEDS will lead us to fiscal salvation is just more GUVMENT-financed hooey.

Posted 6:42 PM by Gene

I AM LEGEND 2; A REMAKE of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE; I, FRANKENSTEIN; ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT; INDIANA JONES 5; INSIDE MAN 2; IRON MAN 3....

J is next -- AS IN:

Posted 11:05 AM by Gene

December 31, 2006:

I would say the Gophers should learn from their experience, but this being HYER EHDYUKAYSHUN it is highly unlikely anyone will learn anything.

Yep, Minnesota fired another football CEO. RAH RAH!

(Via ASSPress)

Posted 10:30 AM by Gene

Another hack auditions as HONORARY PRESIDENT MIKE's press secretary, oblivious to the fact we're wise to his profession's ANNENBERG and LUCE gags and its MODERATE gag. He further seems oblivious to a MEGALOMANIACAL ZILLIONAIRE running in a Tea Party world. We would further say the only chance HONORARY gets to be prez is by SPENDING, and the more He spends the fewer votes He gets -- just as He proved with His most recent coronation. Good luck in the general!



A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD (POLITICAL DIVISION) TO ADAM!